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€33 Jerufalem's mifery lamented. LAMENTATIONS. Jeremiah's complaint.

the earth the beauty of Ifrael, and, re membered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

when their foul was poured out into their mothers' bofom.

13 What thing fhall I take to witness for 2 The LORD hath fwallowed up all the thee? What thing thall I liken to thee, O habitations of jacob, and hath not pitied: daughter of Jerufalem? What thall I equal he hath thrown down in his wrath the to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virftrong holds of the daughter of Judah;gin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

great like the fea. Who can heal thee? 14 Thy prophets have feen vain and foolish things for thee; and they have not 3 He hath cut off in bis fierce anger difcovered thine iniquity, to turn away all the horn of Ifrael: he hath drawn back thy captivity; but have leen for thee talle his right hand from before the enemy, burdens and caufes of banishment. and he burned againft Jacob like a flaming 15 All that pafs by clap their hands at fire, which devoureth round about. thee; they hifs and wag their head at the He hath bent his bow like an ene-daughter of Jerufalem, Jaying Is this my: he flood with his right hand as an the city that men call The perfection of adverfary, and flew all that were pleaf- beauty, The joy of the whole earth? ant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

5 The LORD was as an enemy; he hath fwallowed up Ifrael, he hath fwallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his ftrong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and la

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16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hits and gnath the teeth: they fay, We have fwallowed her up certainly this is the day that we looked for, we have found, we have seen it.

17 The LORD hath done that which he had devited, he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of 6 And he hath violently taken away old; he hath thrown down, and hath his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: not pitied; and he hath cauled thine enhe hath destroyed his places of the af-emy to rejoice over thee, he hath fet up fembly; the LORD hath caufed the fol- the horn of thine adverfaries. emn feafts and fabbaths to be forgotten 18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, in Zion, and hath defpifed in the indigna-O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears tion of his anger the king and the prieft. run down like a river day and night: 7 The LORD hath caff off his altar, he give thy felf no reft; let not the apple of hath abhorred his fanctuary, he hath giv-thine eye ceafe. en up into the hand of the enemy the 19 Anfe, cry out in the night; in the walls of her palaces; they have made a beginning of the watches pour out thine noife in the houfe of the LORD, as in the heart like water before the face of the day of a folemn feat. LORD; lift up thy hand toward him for 8 The LORD hath purpofed to deftroy the life of thy young children, that faint the wall of the daughter of Zion; he for hunger in the top of every street. bath ftretched out a line, he hath not 20 Behold, O LORD, and conlider to withdrawn his hand from destroying ;|whom thou haft done this. Shall the wotherefore he made the rampart and the men eat their fruit, andchildren of a span wall to lament; they languifhed together, long? Shall the pricft and the prophet be 9 Her gates are funk into the ground; flain in the fanctuary of the LORD? he hath deftroyed and broken her bars; 21 The young and the old lie on the her king and her princes are among the ground in the ftreets; my virgins and my Gentiles: the law is no more; her proph-young men are fallen by the fword; thou ets also find no vifion from the LORD.

haft flain them in the day of thine anger; thou haft killed, and not pitied.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion fit upon the ground, and keep filence; 2: Thou haft called as in a folemn day they have caft up duft upon their heads; my terrors round about, fo that in the they have girded themfelves with fack-day of the LORD's anger none escaped cloth; the virgins of Jerufalem hang nor remained, thofe that I have fwaddown their heads to the ground. dled and brought up hath mine enemy confumed.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the deftruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the fucklings fwoon in the Atreets of the city.

12 They fay to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? When they fwooned as the wounded in the ftreets of the city,

CHAP. III.

The faithful bewail their calamities. I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day,

The faithful bewail

their calamities. 659 34 To cruth under his feet all the pri oners of the earth,

Chap. iii. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compaffed me with gall and travail.. 6 He hath fet me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out; he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Alfo when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hath inclofed my ways with hewn ftone, he hath made my paths crooked. 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in fecret places.

11 He hath turned afide my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me defolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and fet me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caufed the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I was a derifion to all my people; and their fong all the day.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath alfo broken my teeth with gravel ftones, he hath covered me with

alhes.

17 And thou haft removed my foul far off from peace; I forgat profperity.

18 And I faid, My ftrength and my hope is perished from the LORD;

19 Remembering mine affliction and my mifery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My foul hath them till in remem brance, and is humbled in me.

21 This I recal to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not confumed, because his compaffions fail not.

23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, faith my foul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the foul that feeketh him. 26 It is good that a man thould both hope and quietly wait for the falvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

23 He fitteth alone and keepeth filence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the duft; if fo be there may be hope.

30 He givethis cheek to him that fmi teth him; he is filled full with reproach. St For the LORD will not caft off for

ever.

32 But though he caufe grief, yet will he have compaffion according to the mul, titude of his mercies.

35 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

85 To turn afide the right of a man before the face of the Moft High,

36 To fubvert a man in his caufe, the LORD approveth not.

37 Who is he that faith, and it cometh to pass, when the LORD commandeth it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain,a man for the punishment of his fins? 40 Let us fearch and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have tranfgreffed and have rebelled: thou haft not pardoned.

43 Thou haft covered with anger, and perfecuted us: thou haft flain, thou haft not pitied..

44 Thou haft covered thy felf with a cloud, that our prayer should not pafs through.

45 Thou haft made us as the offscouring and refufe in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a fnare is come upon us, defolation and deftruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the deftruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down,and ceafeth not without any intermiffion,

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart becanfe of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chafed me fore, like a bird, without caufe.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and caft a ftone upon me

54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I faid, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon

56 Thou haft heard my voice. hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou drew eft near in the day that I called upon thee: thou faidft, Fear not. 58 O LORD, thou haft pleaded the caufes of my foul; thou haft redeemed my life. 59 O LORD, thou haft feen my wrong: judge thou my caufe.

60 Thou haft feen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

6 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against

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640 Zion's pitiful eftate.

LAMENTATIONS.

64 Render unto them a recompenfe, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them forrow of heart, thy curfe unto them.

66 Perfecute and deftroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV

1 Zion's piriful state bewaited. '18 She confefferb ber fins. 21 Edom threatened. HOW is the gold become dim! bow is the moft fine gold changed! the ftones of the fanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

2 The precious fons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter !

3 Even the fea monsters draw out the breaft, they give fuck to their young ones; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the oftriches in the wilderness.

4 The tongue of the fucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirit; the young children afk bread, and no man breaketh unto them.

Her complaint to God.

15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they faid among the heathen, They shall no more fojourn there.

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them; they refpected not the perfons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not fave as. 18 They hunt our fteps, that we cannot go in our ftreets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19 Our perfecutors are fwifter than the eagles of the heaven: they purfued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our noftrils, the anointed of the LORD was taken in their pits,of whom we faid, Under his fhadow we thall live among the heathen.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwelleft in the land of Uz; the cup alfo fhall pass through unto thee: 5 They that did feed delicately are def-thou fhalt be drunken, and shalt make olate in the treets: they that were brought thy felf naked. up in fcarlet embrace dunghills.

22 The punishment of thine iniquity

6 For the punishment of the iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he of the daughter of my people is greater will no more carry thee away into captivthan the punishment of the fin of Sodom,ity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughthat was overthrown as in a moment, and ter of Edom; he will discover thy fins. no hands ftayed on her.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than fnow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of fapphire :

8 Their vifage is blacker than a coal they are not known in the freets; their

CHAP. V.

A pitiful complaint of Zion, in prayer to God. REMEMBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: confider, and behold our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to firan1kin cleaveth to their bones; it is wither-gers, our houses to aliens. ed, it is become like a flick.

9 They that be fain with the fword are better than they that be flain with hunger: for thefe pine away, ftricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have fodden their own children: they were their meat in the deftru&tion of the daughter of my people.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is fold unto us.

5 Our necks are under perfecution: we labour, and have no reft.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Affyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have finned,and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us, there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the fword of the wil

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adverfary and the ene-derness. my should have entered into the gates of Jerufalem.

15 For the fins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests that have thed the blood of the jull in the midst of her,

10 Our skin was black like an oven becaufe of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not hon

14 They have wandered as blind men in the treets. they have polluted them-oured. felves with blood, fo that men could not touch their garments.

15 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Ezekiel's wifion of the cherubims

Chap. 1.

14 The elders have ceafed from thel gate, the young men from their mufick. 15 The joy of our heart is cealed; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head, woe unto us, that we have finned 1

17 For this our heart is faint; for thefe things our eyes are dim.

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19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore doft thou forget us for ever, and forfake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is defolate, the foxes walk upon it. I thou art very wroth against us.

22 But thou haft utterly rejected us;

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL.

CHAP. I.

they went; and they turned not when His they went.

1 The time of Ezekiel's prophecy. wifion of four cherubims, 15 of four 13 As for the likeness of the living wheels, 26 and of the glory of God. creatures, their appearance was like NOW it came to pafs in the thirtieth burning coals of fire, and like the apyear, in the fourth month, in the fifth pearance of lamps: it went up and down day of the month, as I was among the among the living creatures; and the fire captives by the river of Chebar, that the was bright, and out of the fire went forth heavens were opened, and I faw vifions lightning.

of God.

1 And the living creatures ran and 2 In the fifth day of the month, which returned as the appearance of a flash of was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's lightning. captivity,

15 Now as I beheld the living crea

3 The word of the LORD came ex-tures, behold one wheel upon the earth by prefsly unto Ezekiel the priest, the fon of the living creatures, with his four faces. Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the 16 The appearance of the wheels and river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD their work was like unto the colour of a was there upon him. beryl: and they four had one likeness: and 4¶And I looked, and, behold, a whirl-their appearance and their work was as wind came out of the north, a great it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a 17 When they went, they went upon brightness was about it, and out of the their four fides: and they turned not midit thereof as the colour of amber,out when they went. of the midst of the fire.

5 Alfo out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

7 And their feet were traight feet; and the fole of their feet was like the fole of a calf's foot and they fparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

18 As for their rings they were fo high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Whitherfoever the fpirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; jand the wheels were lifted up over against them for the fpirit of the living 8 And they bad the hands of a man un-creature was in the wheels. der their wings on their four fides; and 21 When thofe went, thefe went; and they four had their faces and their wings. when thofe ftood, thefe ftood; and when 9 Their wings were joined one to anoth-thofe were lifted up from the earth, the er; they turned not when they went; wheels were lifted up over against them: they went every one straight forward. for the fpirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right fide: and they four had the face of an ox on the left fide; they four alfo had the face of an eagle.

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11 Thus were their faces and their wings were stretched upward: two rings of every one avere joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

12 And they went every one ftraight forward: whither the fpirit was to go,

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22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, ftretched forth over their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their wings ftraight, the one toward the other; every one had two, which covered on this fide, and every one had two, which covered on that fide, their bodies.

24 And when they went, I heardthe noise of their wings, like the noise of great wa

ters,

62 Ezekiel's commiffion.

EZEKIEL.

He eateth the roll. ters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice 10 And he spread it before me : and it of speech, as the noife of an hoft: when was written within and without: and they flood, they let down their wings. there was written therein lamentations, 25 And there was a voice from the fir-and mourning, and woe. mament that was over their heads, when they ftood, and had let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a fapphire ftone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

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CHAP. III.

Ezekiel eateth the roll. 15 Ged Bew. eth him the rule of prophecy, 22 and butteth and openesh the prophet's mouth.

MOREOVER, he faid unto me, fon of man, eat that thou findeft; eat this roll, and go fpeak unto the houfe of Ifrael. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caufed me to eat that roll.

27 And I law as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his 3 And he faid unto me, Son of man, loins even upward, and from the ap-caufe thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowpearance of his loins even downward, Iels with this roll that I give thee. Then faw as it were the appearance of fire, and did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as it had brightnefs round about. honey for fweetnefs.

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4 And he faid unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the houfe of Ifrael, and fpeak with my words unto them.

5 For thou art not fent to a people of aftrange fpeech, and of an hard language, but to the houfe of Ifrael :

6 Not to many people of a strange fpeech, and of an hard language, whole

ly, had I fent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

1 Ezekiel's commiffion. 6 His inftructions.words thou canst not understand. Sure9 The roll of bis beavy prophecy. AND he said unto me, Son of man, ftand upon thy feet and I will speak unto thee.

7 But the houfe of Ifrael will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearkes unto me: for all the houfe of Ifrael are impudent and hardhearted.

2 And the fpirit entered into me when he fpake unto me, and fet me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong 3 And he faid unto me, Son of man, I against their faces, and thy forehead fend thee to the children of Ifrael, to a re-frong against their foreheads. bellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have tranfgreff ed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and ftiff-hearted: I do fend thee unto them; and thou shalt fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord GOD.

5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious houfe,) yet thall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, fon of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou doft dwell among fcorpions be not afraid of their words, nor be difmayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

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9 As an adamant, harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be difmayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious houfe.

10 Moreover, he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I fhall fpeak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and, fpeak unto them, and tell them, Thus faith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

12 Then the fpirit took me up and I heard behind me a voice of a great ruhing, Jaying, Bieffed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

13 1 beard alfo the noife of the wings 7 And thou shalt fpeak my words unto of the living creatures that touched one them, whether they will hear, or wheth-another, and the noise of the wheels er they will forbear; for they are most over against them, and a noise of a great rebellious. rufhing.

8 But thou, fon of man, hear what I fay unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious houfe: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

9¶ And when I looked, behold, an hand was fent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

14 So the fpirit lifted me up, and tock me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my fpirit; but the hand of the LORD was ftrong upon me.

15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I fat where they fat, and remained

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