Jeremiah, in The Douay Old Testament (1609–1610)

The prophecy of Jeremias (Jeremiah). This is Jeremiah as it stands in the second tome of the Douay Old Testament (Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1610), the English College of Douai’s Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate, in its original spelling. The page gives the edition’s Argument of the book, every chapter with its printed summary, the verse text and the marginal notes and the Annotations.

THE ARGVMENT OF THE BOOKES OF IEREMIE.

IEREMIE the ſonne of Helcias, Prieſt and Prophete, being ſanctified [Margin: The ſumme of Ieremies life.] in his mothers wombe, begane to prophecie as yet a childe, in Iuda; in the thirtenth yeare of the reigne of king Ioſias; continued the reſt of his time, which was nintene yeares more; and the eleuen yeares of Ioakim [Margin: 4. Reg. 23. 24.] (wherin are counted the three monethes of Ioachaz, and other three of Iechonias, otherwiſe called Ioachin) and eleuen yeares of Sedecias; in al fourtie one yeares; before he went into Aegypt. Where he alſo prophecied, [Margin: ⟨illegible⟩ha. 44. v. 8.] and finally was ſtoned to death by the people, in the citie of Taphnis. His [Margin: He wrote two Bookes & one Epiſtle. The contents of his bookes.] whole worke conteyneth two diſtinct Bookes, beſides an Epiſtle, which foloweth after the Prophecie of Baruch. The former booke is called his Prophecie, the other his Lamentations. S. Ierom comprehendeth the ſumme of al briefly, ſaying: Ieremie connecteth a nuttie (or watching) rodde, [Margin: Epiſt. ad Paulin.] and a potte boyling hote, from the face of the north, the leopard ſpoyled of his coloures; and the fourefold Alphabet in diuers meeters. Signifiing, that God wil correct his people with a rodde, in his hote furie, from the north, to witte, by the king of Babylon, for their pertinacitie in ſundrie kindes of ſinnes. Al which the Prophet lamenteth with his doleful verſe of diuers meeter. The Prophecie may be diuided into fiue partes. [Margin: His propheci⟨illegible⟩ diuided into fiue partes.] Firſt he sheweth the conditions and qualities of himſelfe, with the maner [Margin: eb. 1.] of his miſſion: then Gods great clemencie in recalling the people from ſinne, denouncing dangers imminent for their obſtinacie: in the twelue firſt chapters. Secondly, in the eight chapters folowing by diuers Metaphorical, and [Margin: 13.] other figuratiue deſcriptions, he declareth the ingratitude, & other ſinnes of the people, threatning punishment, for which they perſecute him. Thirdly, [Margin: 21.] in other eight chapters, he reprehendeth the inhabitantes of Ieruſalem, eſpecially the King, euil Prieſtes, and falſeprophetes, ſome being already caried into captiuitie: for which free preaching, he is againe perſecuted. Fourtly [Margin: 29.] in the next eleuen chapters, he mixteth conſolations & threates, eſpecially the deſtruction of Ieruſalem, captiuitie of king and people, and their releaſe after ſeuentie yeares. Fiftly in the other thirtene chapters, he prophecieth the deſtruction [Margin: 40.] of the Iewes, that goe into Aegypt: and of ſundrie nations for their idolatrie, and for their crueltie againſt the Iewes. In euerie part interpoſeth manie prophecies of Chriſt, and his Church: beſides the myſtycal ſenſe included in the hiſtorical.

THE PROPHECIE OF IEREMIE.

Chapter 1

CHAP. I. Ieremie prophecied in the times of Ioſias, Ioakim, and Sedecias Kinges of Iuda: 5. being ſanctified in his mothers wombe, is ſent in his tender age to prophecie, 11. the deſtruction of Ieruſalem. 17. God geuing him corege [Margin: The firſt part. Gods clemencie inuiteth to repentance, & his iuſtice puniſheth obſtinate ſinners.] againſt his perſecutors.

1 THE wordes of Ieremie the ſonne of [*] Helcias, of the prieſtes that were in Anathoth, in the land of Beniamin.

2 The word of our Lord which was made to him in the daies of Ioſias the ſonne of Amon king of Iuda, in the thirteenth yeare of his kingdome.

3 And the word was made in the daies of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda, vnto the end of the eleuenth yeare of Sedecias the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda, [::] euen vnto the tranſmigration of Ieruſalem▪ in the fifth moneth.

4 And the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

5 Before I formed thee in the wombe, I knewe thee: and [::] before thou cameſt forth of the matrice, I ſanctified thee, and a prophete in the Gentiles I gaue thee.

6 And I ſayd; A a a, ô Lord God: Behold, I can not ſpeake, becauſe I am a childe.

7 And our Lord ſaid vnto me: Say not: I am a childe: for to al thinges, to which I shal ſend thee, thou shalt goe: and al thinges whatſoeuer I shal command thee, thou shalt ſpeake.

8 Be not afraide of their face: becauſe I am with thee to deliuer thee, ſaith our Lord.

9 And our Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and our Lord ſaied to me: Beholde I haue geuen my wordes in thy mouth:

10 Behold I haue appointed thee this day ouer [::] the Gentiles, and ouer kingdomes, that thou maiſt pluck vp, and deſtroy, and waſte, and diſſipate, and build, and plant.

11 And the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying: What ſeeſt thou Ieremie? And I ſaid: I ſee a rodde [*] watching.

12 And our Lord ſayed to me: wel haſt thou ſeene; becauſe I [::] wil watch vpon my word to doe it.

13 And the word of our Lord was made to me the ſecond time, ſaying: What ſeeſt thou? And I ſaid: I ſee a pot boyling hote, and the face thereof from the face of the North.

14 And our Lord ſaied vnto me: From the North shal euil be opened vpon al the inhabitantes of the land.

15 Becauſe loe I wil cal together al the kinredes of the kingdomes of the North, ſaith our Lord: and they shal come, and shal ſette euerie one his throne in the entring of the gates of Ieruſalem, and vpon al the walles therof round about, and vpon al the cities of Iuda.

16 And I wil ſpeake my iudgements with them, touching al the wickednes of them, that haue forſaken me, and haue offered to ſtrange goddes, and haue adored the worke of their owne handes.

17 Thou therefore girde thy loynes, and riſe, and ſpeake to them al thinges that I command thee. Be not afraied of their face: for I wil make thee not to feare their countenance.

18 For I haue geuen thee this day to be as a fenced citie, and as an yron pillar, and as a braſen walle ouer al the land of the kinges of Iuda, to the princes thereof, & to the prieſtes, and to the people of the land.

19 And they shal fight againſt thee, and shal [::] not preuaile: becauſe I am with thee, ſaith our Lord, to deliuer thee.

Marginal notes to Chapter 1

• 1 [*] 4. Reg. 22. ⟨illegible⟩. 8.
• 3 [::] He prophecied alſo inbaniſhment (ch. 44.) in Aegypt.
• 5 [::] Ieremie had fiue ſpecial prerogatiues: He was ſanctified in his mothers wombe; a Prieſt▪ a Prophet; a perpetual virgin; & a Martyr.
• 9 Iſa. 51. v. 16. & 59. v. 21.
• 10 [::] He prophecied not only of the Iewes but alſo of the Gentiles.
• 11 [*] or a nuttie rodde.
• 12 [::] God is watchful to performe his word: and a nuttie rodde (as the 70. tranſlate) that is, his Law is outwardlie hard, and bitter, like a nut ſhel, but ſweete & pleaſant, as the kernel, when the ſhel is broken S. Theodoret.
• 19 [::] God promiſed not peace in his life, but victorie in his death.

Chapter 2

CHAP. II. God expoſtulateth with the Iewes, 6. that they regard not his great benefites▪ 8. Some prieſtes, and (pretended) prophetes ſeruing falſe goddes, 23. and denying their fault, 25. are obſtinate in idolatrie: 36. for which they shal be confounded.

1 AND the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

2 Goe, and crie in the eares of Ieruſalem, ſaying: Thus ſaith our Lord: I haue remembred thee, pitying [::] thy youth, and the charitie of thy deſpouſing, when thou dideſt folow me in the deſert, in a land that is not ſowen.

3 Iſrael [::] is holie to our Lord, the firſt fruites of his fruites: al they that doe deuoure it doe ſinne: euil shal come vpon them, ſaith our Lord.

4 Heare ye the word of our Lord ô houſe of Iacob, and al ye kinredes of the houſe of Iſrael:

5 thus ſaith our Lord: What iniquitie haue your fathers found in me, that they haue made themſelues far from me, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?

6 And they haue not ſaid: Where is our Lord, that made vs come vp out of the land of Aegypt: that led vs through the defert, through a land inhabitable and without way, through a land of thirſt, & the image of death, through a land, wherein no man walked, nor anie man dwelt?

7 And I brought you into the land of [::] Carmel, that you might eate the fruite thereof, and the beſt thinges therof: and being entered in, you haue contaminated my land, and made mine inheritance an abomination.

8 The prieſtes haue not ſaid: Where is our Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the paſtours haue tranſgreſſed againſt me, and the prophets haue prophecied in Baal, and haue folowed idoles.

9 Therefore wil I yet contend in iudgement with you, ſaith our Lord, and I wil plead with your children.

10 Paſſe ye to the iles of Cethim, and ſee: and ſend into Cedar, and conſider earneſtly: and ſee if there hath the like thing bene done.

11 If a nation hath changed their goddes, and ſurely they are not goddes: but my people hath changed their glorie into an idol.

12 Be aſtoined ô heauens vpon this, and ô gates thereof be ye deſolate exceedingly, ſaith our Lord.

13 For [::] two euils hath my people done, Me they haue forſaken the fountaine of liuing water, & haue digged to them ſelues ceſternes: broken ceſternes, that are not able to holde waters.

14 Why, is Iſrael a bondman, or a ſeruant borne in the houſe? why then is he become a praye?

15 The lions haue roared vpon him, and haue geuen their voice, they haue made his land a wildernes: his cities are burnt vp, & there is none to dwel in them.

16 The children alſo of Memphis, and Taphnes haue defloured thee, euen to the crowne of the head.

17 Is not this done to thee, becauſe thou dideſt forſake the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?

18 And now what wilt thou in the way of Aegypt, to drinke the trubled water? And what haſt thou to doe with the way of the Aſſyrians, to drinke the waters of the riuer?

19 Thy malice shal reproue thee, and thine apoſtacie shal rebuke thee. Know thou, & ſee that it is an euil and a bitter thing for thee, to haue left the Lord thy God, and that my feare is not with thee, ſaith our Lord the God of hoſtes.

20 From the beginning thou haſt broken my yoke, thou haſt burſt my bonds, and thou ſaidſt: I wil not ſerue. For on euerie litle high hil, and vnder euerie greene thicke tree thou waſt laied downe as an harlot.

21 But I planted thee an elect vineyard, [::] al true ſeede: how then art thou turned vnto me into that which is depraued, ô ſtrange vineyard?

22 If thou shalt wash thyſelf with nitre, and multiplie to thy ſelf the herbe borith, thou art ſpotted in thine iniquitie before me, ſaith our Lord God.

23 How ſayſt thou: I am not polluted, I haue not walked after Baalim? ſee thy wayes in the valley, know what thou haſt done: a ſwift courſer that rideth his wayes.

24 The wild Aſſe accuſtomed to the wildernes in the deſire of his ſoule, hath drawen the winde of his loue: none ſhal turne her away: al that ſeeke her shal not faile: in her monethlie flowres they shal finde her.

25 Stay thy foote from nakednes, and thy throate from thirſt. And thou ſaideſt: I haue deſpayred, no, I wil not doe it: for I haue loued ſtrangers, and I wil walke after them.

26 As the theefe is confounded when he is taken, ſo is the houſe of Iſrael confounded, they and their kinges, the princes and prieſtes, and their prophetes,

27 ſaying to wood: Thou art my father: and to ſtone: Thou haſt begotten me: they haue turned the backe to me, & not the face: and in the time of their affliction they wil ſay: Ariſe, and deliuer vs.

28 Where are the goddes, whom thou haſt made to thee? let them ariſe and deliuer thee in the time of thine affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy goddes ô Iuda.

29 What wil you contend with me in iudgement? you haue al forſaken me, ſaith our Lord.

30 [::] In vaine haue I ſtriken your children, they haue not receiued diſcipline: your ſworde hath deuoured your prophetes, as a waſting lion is your generation.

31 See yee the word of our Lord: why, am I become a wildernes to Iſrael, or a lateward ſpringing land? why then hath my people ſaid: We haue reuolted, we wil no more come to thee?

32 Wil a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride the ſtomacher of her breſt? but my people hath forgotten me innumerable daies.

33 Why doſt thou endeuour to shew thy way good to ſeeke loue, which moreouer alſo haſt taught thy malices to be thy wayes.

34 And in thy winges is found the bloud of the ſoules of the poore and innocentes? Not in diches haue I found them, but in al places, which before I haue mentioned.

35 And thou haſt ſaid: I am without ſinne and innocent: and therfore let thy furie be turned away from me. Beholde, I wil contend with thee in iudgement, becauſe thou haſt ſaid: I haue not ſinned.

36 How vile art thou become exceedingly, iterating thy wayes! and thou shalt be confounded of Aegypt, as thou art confounded of Aſſur.

37 For from hence alſo thou shalt goe, and thy handes shal be vpon thy head: becauſe the Lord hath deſtroyed thy confidence, and thou shalt haue nothing proſperous therein.

Marginal notes to Chapter 2

• 2 [::] God multiplied Iſrael in Aegypt, & deliuered, them from ſeruitude.
• 3 [::] Not of anie deſert, but of Gods mere grace Iſrael was preferred before other nations.
• 5 Mi⟨illegible⟩h. 6. ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩ ▪
• 7 [::] Into a fruitful land.
• 13 [::] God commanding two thinges to flee from euil & to do good: the Iewes contrariwiſe left God and ſerued idols.
• 20 Iſa. ⟨illegible⟩.
• 21 Mat. 21. v. 33.
• 21 [::] God created al thinges good, planted his Church in iuſtice and ſancti⟨illegible⟩ie & no euil proceded from him.
• 27 Iere. 32. v. 33.
• 28 Iere. 11. ⟨illegible⟩. 13.
• 30 [::] Gods intention when he puniſheth, is to moue ſinners to repentance: afflicting them in this life, that they may eſcape eternal damnation.

Chapter 3

CHAP. III. I dolaters (and other ſinners) are inuited to repent, with promiſe of remiſſion: 6. but neither the kingdome of Iſrael, nor Iuda wil returne. 14 God ſtil calling; ſome Iewes, and manie Gentiles come to Chriſt.

1 IT IS commonly ſaid: If a man put away his wife, and she departing from him, marie an other man wil he returne to her anie more? shal not that woman be polluted, and contaminated? [::] but thou haſt committed fornication with manie louers: neuertheles returne vnto me, ſaith our Lord, and I wil receiue thee.

2 Lift vp thine eies direct: and ſee where thou haſt not bene polluted: thou dideſt ſitte in the waies, expecting them as a robber in the wildernes: and thou haſt polluted the land in thy fornications, and in thy malices.

3 For which thing the droppes of rayne were kept back, and there was no lateward shower: thou haddeſt an harlots forehead, thou wouldeſt not blush.

4 Therefore at the leaſt from henceforth cal me: thou art my father, the guide of my virginitie.

5 Why, wilt thou be angrie for euer, or wilt thou perſeuere vnto the end? Loe, thou haſt ſpoken, and haſt done euils, and haſt preuailed.

6 And our Lord ſaid to me in the daies of Ioſias the king: Haſt thou ſeene what thinges the reuolter [::] Iſrael hath done? she hath gone of herſelf vpon euerie high mountaine, and vnder euerie thicke greene tree, and hath fornicated there.

7 And I ſaid, when she had done al theſe thinges: Returne to me, and she returned not. And [::] Iuda her tranſgreſſing ſiſter ſaw,

8 becauſe the rebel Iſrael had plaied the harlot, I had put her away, and geuen her a bil of diuorce: and Iuda her tranſgreſſing ſiſter was not afrayd, but went and plaid the harlot alſo herſelf.

9 And with the facilitie of her fornication she contaminated the land, and plaid the harlot with ſtone and wood.

10 And in al theſe thinges Iuda her tranſgreſſing ſiſter hath not returned to me in her whole hart, but in falſehood, ſaith our Lord.

11 And our Lord ſaid to me: The rebellious Iſrael hath iuſtified her ſoule, [::] in compariſon of the tranſgreſſour Iuda.

12 Goe, and crie theſe wordes againſt the North, and thou shalt ſay▪ Returne ô rebellious Iſrael, ſaith our Lord, and I wil not returne away my face from you: becauſe I am holie, ſaith our Lord, and I wil not be angrie for euer.

13 But yet know thou thine iniquitie, that thou haſt tranſgreſſed againſt the Lord thy God: and thou haſt diſperſed thy waies to ſtrangers vnder euerie thicke greene tree, and haſt not heard my voice, ſaith our Lord.

14 Returne ô ye reuolting children, ſaith our Lord: becauſe I am your husband: and I wil take you one of a citie, and two of a kinred, and wil bring you into Sion.

15 And I wil geue you paſtours according to my hart, and they shal feede you with knowlege and doctrine.

16 And when you shal be multiplied, and increaſe in the land in thoſe daies, ſaith our Lord, they shal ſay no more: The Arke of the teſtament of our Lord: neither shal it aſcend vpon their hart, neither shal they be mindeful thereof, neither shal it be viſited, neither shal that be done anie more.

17 In that time Ieruſalem shal be called the throne of our Lord: and [::] al Gentiles shal be gathered together to it, in the name of our Lord into Ieruſalem, & they shal not walke after the peruerſitie of their moſt wicked hart.

18 In thoſe daies the houſe of Iuda shal goe to the houſe of Iſrael, and [::] they shal come together from the land of the North to the land, which I gaue to your fathers.

19 But I ſaid: How shal I make thee as children, and geue thee a land worthie to be deſired, the goodlie inheritance of the hoſtes of the Gentiles? And I ſaid: Thou shalt cal me father, & shalt not ceaſe to walke after me.

20 But as if a woman should contemne her louer, ſo hath the houſe of Iſrael contemned me, ſaith our Lord.

21 A voice was heard in the waies, weeping & howling of the children of Iſrael: becauſe they haue made their way vniuſt, they haue forgotten our Lord their God.

22 Returne ye reuolting children, and I wil heale your reuoltinges. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.

23 In verie deede the litle hilles were lyars, and the multitude of the mountaines: verily in the Lord our God is the ſaluation of Iſrael.

24 Confuſion hath eaten the labour of our fathers from our youth, thei⟨illegible⟩ flockes, and their heards, their ſonnes, and their daughters.

25 We shal ſleepe in our confuſion, and our ignominie shal couer vs, becauſe we haue ſinned to the Lord our God, we, and our fathers from our youth euen to this day: and we haue not heard the voice of the Lord our God.

Marginal notes to Chapter 3

• 1 [::] No idolat⟨illegible⟩ie nor other ſinne whatſoeuer can be ſo great, but God wil remitte it, if the ſinner be penitent.
• 6 [::] The tenne tribes.
• 7 [::] The two tribes.
• 11 [::] The kingdom of Iuda receiuing more benefites was more faultie then the kingdome of Iſrael, but neither of them excuſable.
• 17 [::] After the captiuitie manie ⟨illegible⟩evves returned to God, but eſpecially this prophecie is fulfilled in the Gentiles ſince Chriſt.
• 18 [::] The kingdom of Iſrael being in captiuitie long before Iuda, at laſt they vvere releaſed al together. S. Theodoret in hunc locum.

Chapter 4

CHAP. IIII. An admonition to ſincere repentance, and circumciſion of the hart: 5. with threates of grieuous punishment to thoſe, that perſist in ſinne. 19. Which the Prophet foreſeing lamenteth the vaſtation of the land. 27. yet mixt with conſolation, that it shal not be vtterly ruined.

1 IF thou wilt returne ô Iſrael, ſaith our Lord, returne to me: if thou wilt take away thy ſtumbling blockes from my face, thou shalt not be moued.

2 And thou shalt ſweare: [::] Our Lord liueth, in truth, & in iudgement, and in iuſtice: and the Gentiles shal bleſſe him, & shal praiſe him.

3 For thus ſaith our Lord to the man of Iuda, and to Ieruſalem: Make vnto you new fallow ground, & ſow not vpon thornes:

4 be circumciſed to our Lord, and take away the prepuces of your hartes ye men of Iuda, and inhabitants of Ieruſalem: leſt perhapes mine indignation goe forth as fire, and be kindled, and there be none that can quench it: becauſe of the malice of your cogitations.

5 Declare ye in Iuda, and make it heard in Ieruſalem: ſpeake, and ſound with the trumpet in the land: crie ſtrongly, and ſay: Aſſemble yourſelues, and let vs enter into the fenced cities,

6 lift vp the ſigne in Sion. Take courege, ſtand not, becauſe I do bring euil from the North, ad great deſtruction.

7 The lyon is come vp out of his denne, and the robber of the Gentiles hath lifted vp himſelfe: he is come forth out of his place, that he may make thy land as a wildernes: thy cities shal be waſted, remayning without an inhabiter.

8 For this gird yourſelues with clothes of heare, mourne and howle: becauſe the wrath of the furie of our Lord is not turned away from vs.

9 And it shal be in that day, ſaith our Lord: The hart of the king shal perish, & the hart of the princes: and the prieſts shal be aſtonied, and the prophets shal be amaſed.

10 And I ſaid: Alas, alas, alas, ô Lord God, haſt thou then deceiued this people and Ieruſalem, ſaying: You shal haue peace: and behold the ſword hath come euen to the ſoule?

11 At that time it shal be ſaid to this people, & to Ieruſalem: A burning wind in the waies, that are in the deſert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fanne, and to purge.

12 A ful ſpirit from theſe shal come to me: and now I wil ſpeake my iudgement with them.

13 Behold he shal come in a cloude, and his chariots as a tempeſt: his horſes are ſwifter then eagles: woe vnto vs, becauſe we are deſtroyed.

14 Wash thy hart from malice ô Ieruſalem, that thou maiſt be ſaued: how long shal hurtful cogitations abide in thee?

15 For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and notifying the idol from mount Ephraim.

16 Say ye to the Gentiles: loe it is heard in Ieruſalem, that there come keepers from a farre countrie, & ſound their voice vpon the cities of Iuda.

17 They are ſet vpon her round about, as the keepers of fildes: becauſe she hath prouoked me to wrath, ſaith our Lord.

18 Thy waies, and thy cogitations haue done theſe thinges to thee: this thy malice, becauſe it is bitter, becauſe it hath touched thy hart.

19 My bellie, my belly aketh, the ſenſes of my hart are trubled in me, I wil not hold my peace, becauſe my ſoule hath heard the voice of the trumpet, the crie of battel.

20 Deſtruction is called vpon deſtruction and al the earth is waſted: my tentes are waſted quickly, ſodenly my skinnes.

21 How long shal I ſee one that fleeth away, shal I heare the voice of the trumpet?

22 Becauſe my foolish people haue not knowen me: they are vnwiſe children, and without witte: they are [::] wiſe to do euils, but to doe wel they haue not knowen.

23 I beheld the earth, and loe it was voide, and a thing of nothing: and the heauens, & there was no light in them.

24 I ſaw the mountaines, & loe they were moued: & al the little hilles were trubled.

25 I beheld, and there was not a man: and euerie ſoule of the a⟨illegible⟩re was departed.

26 I looked, and behold Carmel made deſert: and al the cities therof were deſtroyed at the face of our Lord, and at the face of the wrath of his furie.

27 For thus ſaith our Lord: Al the land shal be deſolate, [::] but yet I wil not make a conſummation.

28 The earth shal mourne, and the heauens shal lament from aboue: becauſe I haue ſpoken, I haue purpoſed, and it hath not repented me, neither am I turned away from it.

29 At the voice of the horſeman, and the archer, al the citie is fled: they haue entred into high places, and haue climed the rocks: al the cities are forſaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.

30 But thou being waſted, what wilt thou doe? when thou shalt clothe thy ſelfe in ſcarlet, when thou shalt be adorned with golden iewels, & shalt paint thine eies with ſtibike ſtone, thou shalt be trimmed in vaine: thy louers haue contemned thee, they wil ſeeke thy life.

31 For I haue heard the voice as of a traueling woman, anguishes as of a woman in labour of child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, amongſt them that dye, and ſtretch forth their handes: woe is me, becauſe my ſoule hath fainted for them that are ſlaine.

Marginal notes to Chapter 4

• 2 [::] An othe is an act of religion: & lavvful, ſo it be made by God almightie, not by falſe goddes; and vvith other three conditions; in truth not falſly in iudgement vvith due conſideration not rashly: and in iuſtice in matter that is iuſt, and of importance.
• 3 Oſe⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩0.
• 18 Sap. 1.
• 22 [::] If they were in dede natural fooles they should be excuſed.
• 27 [::] Gods prouidence neuer ſuffereth the Church to be deſtroyed.

Chapter 5

CHAP. V. Al ſortes of higher and lower degrees tranſgreſſe Gods law: 9. and shal be punished.

1 GOE round about the wayes of Ieruſalem, and looke, and conſider, and ſeeke in the ſtreetes therof, whether you can finde a man that doth iudgements, and ſecketh fidelitie: & I wil be propicious vnto him.

2 Yea if they ſay: Our Lord liueth [::] this alſo they wil ſweare falſely.

3 O Lord thyne eies regard fidelitie: thou haſt ſtriken them, & they were not ſorie: thou haſt broken them, and they haue refuſed to receiue diſcipline: they haue hardned their faces more then the rocke, and they would not returne.

4 But I ſaid: Perhaps they are poore & foolish, not knowing the way of the Lord, the iudgement of their God.

5 I wil go therfore to the great men, & wil ſpeake to them: for they haue knowen the way of their Lord: & behold theſe altogether haue more broken the yoke, haue burſt the bondes.

6 Therefore hath [::] the lion out of the wood ſtriken them, [::] the woolf in the euening hath waſted them, [::] the leopard watching vpon their citties: euerie one of them that shal come forth, shal be taken, becauſe their preuarications are multiplied, their reuoltinges are ſtrengthned.

7 Wherupon can I be propicious to thee? thy children haue forſaken me, and ſweare by them, that are not goddes: I filled them, & they committed aduoutrie, and did riotouſly in the harlots houſe

8 They are become as amarous horſes, and ſtalions: euerie one neyed at his neighbours wife:

9 VVhy, shal I not viſite vpon theſe thinges, ſaith our Lord? and on ſuch a nation shal not my ſoule take reuenge?

10 Scale the walles therof, and diſſipate them, but make not a conſummation: take away the branches therof, becauſe they are not the Lordes.

11 For by preuarication hath the houſe of Iſrael preuaricated againſt me, & the houſe of Iuda, ſaith our Lord.

12 They haue denied our Lord, and ſaied: It is not he: neither shal the euil come vpon vs: we shal not ſee ſword & famine.

13 The prophets haue ſpoken into the wind, & there was no anſwer in them: theſe things therfore shal happen to them.

14 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of hoſtes: Becauſe you haue ſpoken this word: behold, I geue my wordes in thy mouth as fire, & this people as ſtickes, and it shal deuoure them.

15 Behold I wil bring vpon you a nation from a far ô houſe of Iſrael, ſaith our Lord: a ſtrong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whoſe tongue thou shalt not know, nor vnderſtand what it ſpeaketh.

16 The quiuer thereof is as an open ſepulcher, they are al ſtrong.

17 And it shal eate thy corne, and thy bread: it shal deuoure thy ſonnes, and thy daughters: it shal eate thy flocke, & thy heards: it shal eate thy vineyard, and thy figge: & it shal deſtroy thy fenced cities, wherein thou haſt confidence, with the ſword.

18 But yet in thoſe daies, ſaith our Lord: I [::] wil not bring you into conſummation.

19 And if you shal ſay: Why hath the Lord our God done al theſe thinges to vs? thou shalt ſay to them: As you haue forſaken me, and ſerued a ſtrange god in your owne land, ſo shal you ſerue ſtrange ones in a land not your owne.

20 Declare ye this to the houſe of Iacob, and make it heard in Iuda, ſaying:

21 Heare thou foolish people, that haſt no hart, which hauing eies, ſeeſt not: and eares, and heareſt not.

22 Me then wil you not feare, ſaith our Lord: and at my preſence wil ye not be ſorie? Who haue ſet the ſand a limitie for the ſea, an euerlaſting precept, that shal not paſſe, and they shal be moued, and shal not preuaile: and the waues therof shal ſwel, and shal not paſſe ouer it.

23 But to this people their hart is become incredulous and exaſperating, they are reuolted and departed.

24 And they haue not ſaid in their hart: Let vs feare the Lord our God, who geueth vs the timely and lateward rayne in due ſeaſon: who preſerueth the fulnes of the yearly harueſt vnto vs.

25 Your iniquities haue turned away theſe thinges, and your ſinnes haue ſtayed good from you.

26 Becauſe there are found impious men in my people, that lye in wate as foulers ſetting ſnares & trappes to take men.

27 As a net ful of birdes, ſo their houſes are ful of guile: therefore are they magnified, & enriched.

28 They are made groſſe and fatte: and haue tranſgreſſed my wordes moſt wickedly. The cauſe of the widow they haue not iudged; the cauſe of the pupil they haue not directed, and the iudgement of the poore they haue not iudged.

29 [::] Shal I not viſite vpon theſe thinges, ſaith our Lord? or vpon ſuch a nation shal not my ſoule take reuenge?

30 Aſtonishment and meruelous thinges are done in the land.

31 The prophets prophecied a lye, & the prieſts claped with their handes: and my people hath loued ſuch thinges: what shal be done therefore in the later end thereof?

Marginal notes to Chapter 5

• 2 [::] Except al requiſite conditiōs be obſerued in an othe it is vnlavvful: as vvhen one ſvveareth by God almighty but vntruly, of rashly, or to do an vnlavvful thing, it is periurie.
• 6 [::] By the lion the prophet ſemeth to vnderſtand Nabuchodonoſor.
• 6 [::] By the vvulf Nabuzardan.
• 6 [::] By the leopard Alexāder the great, or Antiochus Epiphanes.
• 8 Ezec. 22.
• 18 [::] As before v. 10. & ch. 4. v. 27.
• 28 Iſa. 1. Zach. 7.
• 29 [::] It is againſt Gods iuſt iudgement to omitte ſuch thinges vnpuniſhed. v. 9. & ch. 9. v. 9.

Chapter 6

CHAP. VI. Ieruſalem shal be deſtroyed for trangreſſing Gods law: 8. and contemning admonitions. 16. Yet God admonisheth againe the Iewes, and they contemning, 18. he calleth the Gentiles, and reiecteth the ⟨illegible⟩ewes.

1 TAKE courege ye children of Beniamin in the middes of Ieruſalem, and in Thecua ſound with the trumpet, & ouer Bethacarem lift vp the ſtandart: becauſe there is euil ſeene from the North, and great deſtruction.

2 I haue reſembled the daughter of Sion to a beautiful & delicate woman.

3 To her shal [::] paſtours come, and their flockes: they haue pitcht tents in her round about: euerie one shal feede them that are vnder his hand.

4 Sanctifie ye battel vpon her: ariſe, and let vs go vp in the midday: wo vnto vs, becauſe the day is declined, becauſe the shaddowes of the euening are waxen longer.

5 Ariſe, and let vs goe vp in the night, and deſtroy her houſes.

6 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Hew downe her wood, caſt a trench about Ieruſalem: this is the citie of viſitation, al oppreſſion is in the middes thereof.

7 As a ceſterne maketh colde the water therof, ſo hath she made colde her malice: iniquitie and ſpoile shal be heard in her, infirmitie and plague alwaies before me.

8 Be thou taught Ieruſalem, leſt perhaps my ſoule depart from thee, leſt perhaps I make thee a deſert land not habitable.

9 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſts: Euen to one cluſter shal they gather as in a vineyard the remaines of Iſrael, turne back thy hand, as the grapegatherer to the basket.

10 To whom shal I ſpeake? and whom shal I conteſt, that he may heare? behold, their eares are vncircumciſed, and they can not heare: behold the word of our Lord is become vnto them as a reproche: and they wil not receiue it.

11 Therefore am I ful of the furie of our Lord, I haue laboured ſuſtayning: power out vpon the litle one without, and vpon the counſel of the yong men together: for man with woman shal be taken, the ancient with him that is ful of daies.

12 And their houſes shal paſſe to others, their landes and wiues together: becauſe I wil extend my hand vpon the inhabitants of the land, ſaith our Lord.

13 For from the leſſer euen to the greater, al ſtudie auarice: and from the prophets euen to the prieſt, al commit guile.

14 And they cured the deſtruction of the daughter of my people with ignominie, ſaying: Peace, peace: & there was not peace.

15 They were confounded, becauſe they did abomination: yea rather they were not confounded with confuſion, and they knew not how to blush, for the which thing, they shal fal among them that fal: in the time of their viſitation, they shal fal downe, ſaith our Lord.

16 Thus ſaith our Lord: Stand ye vpon the waies, and ſee, and aske of the old pathes, which is the good way, and walke ye in it: and you shal find refreshing for your ſoules. And they ſaid: We wil not walke.

17 And I appointed watchmen ouer you. Heare yee the voice of the trumpet. And they ſaid: We wil not heare.

18 [::] Therefore heare ye, ô Gentiles, and thou congregation know, what great thinges I wil doe to them.

19 Heare ô earth: Behold I wil bring euils vpon this people, the fruites of their cogitations: becauſe they haue not heard my wordes, and they haue caſt of my law.

20 To what purpoſe bring you me frankencenſe from Saba, and the ſweete ſmelling cane from a farre countrie? your holocauſtes are not acceptable, and your victimes haue not pleaſed me.

21 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil bring ruine vpon this people, & the fathers with the children shal fal in them together, neighbour and neighbour, and they shal perish.

22 Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold there cometh a people from the land of the [::] North, & a great nation shal ariſe vp from the endes of the earth.

23 It shal take arrow and shild: it is cruel, and wil haue no mercie. The voice thereof shal ſound as the ſea: & they shal mount vpon horſes, prepared as a man to battel, againſt thee ô daughter of Sion.

24 We haue heard the fame thereof, our handes are diſſolued: tribulation hath caught vs, ſorowes as a woman in trauel.

25 Goe not out to the fieldes and walke not in the way: becauſe the ſword of the enemie is feare round about.

26 Be girded with ſackcloth ô daughter of my people, & be ſprinkled with ashes: make thee a bitter lamentation as the mourning of the only begotten, becauſe the deſtroyer shal ſodenly come vpon vs.

27 I haue ſette thee a ſtrong prouer in my people: and thou shalt know, and proue their way.

28 Al theſe princes are declyning, walking deceitfully, braſſe and yron: they are al corrupted.

29 The bellowes haue failed, the lead is conſumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vaine: for their malices are not conſumed.

30 Cal ye them reprobate ſiluer, becauſe our Lord hath reiected them.

Marginal notes to Chapter 6

• 3 [::] Captaines are called paſtours, becauſe they feede and gouerne their ſoldiars.
• 13 Iſa. 56.
• 16 Mat. II.
• 18 [::] Af⟨illegible⟩er al the Prophetes of the old teſtament▪ Chriſt himſelf, and laſtly his Apoſtles, called the levves, vvho ſtil contemning, the Gentils are called, & they heare, and obey▪ Mat. 10. v. 5. Act. 13 v. 46.
• 20 Iſa 1.
• 22 [::] That is from Babylon which is northward from Ieruſalem.

Chapter 7

CHAP. VII. God promiſeth to dwel with thoſe that walke right wayes: 8. otherwiſe the material temple wil not ſaue them: 16. neither the prayers of the prophet shal helpe them, perſiſting in their ſinnes: 21. nor ſacrifice, but obedience to Gods law.

1 THE word, that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, ſaying:

2 Stand in the gate of the houſe of the Lord, and preach there this word, and ſay: Heare ye the word of our Lord al Iuda, which goe in by theſe gates, to adore our Lord.

3 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Make your wayes good, and your ſtudies: and I wil dwel with you in this place.

4 Truſt not in wordes of lying, ſaying: [::] The temple of our Lord, the temple of our Lord, it is the temple of our Lord.

5 For if you shal wel direct your waies, & your ſtudies: if you shal doe iudgement between a man and his neighbour,

6 to the ſtranger, & to the pupil, & to the widow shal do no oppreſſion, nor shede innocent bloud in this place, & walke not after ſtrange godds to your owne euil:

7 I wil dwel with you in this place: in the land, which I gaue to your fathers from the beginning and for euer.

8 Behold you truſt to your ſelues in wordes of lying: which shal not profite you:

9 to ſteale, to murder, to committe aduouterie, to ſweare falſely, to offer to Baalim, & to go after ſtrange godds, which you know not.

10 And you haue come, and ſtood before me in this houſe, in which my name is inuocated, and haue ſaid: We are deliuered becauſe we haue done al theſe abominations.

11 Why, is this houſe then wherein my name is inuocated, in your eies become a denne of theeues? I, euen I am: I haue ſeene, ſaith our Lord.

12 Goe ye to [::] my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and ſee what I haue done to it for the malice of my people Iſrael:

13 and now, becauſe you haue done al theſe workes, ſaith our Lord: and I haue ſpoken to you early riſing, and ſpeaking, and you haue not heard: and I haue called you, and you haue not anſwered:

14 I wil doe to this houſe, wherein my name is inuocated, and wherein you haue confidence: and to the place which I haue geuen you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.

15 And I wil caſt you away from my face, as I haue caſt away al your bretheren, [::] the whole ſeede of Ephraim.

16 Thou therefore pray not for this people, neither take vnto thee praiſe and prayer for them, and reſiſt me not: becauſe I wil not heare thee▪

17 Seeſt thou not what theſe doe in the cities of Iuda, and in the ſtreete of Ieruſalem?

18 The children gather the ſtickes, & the fathers kindle the fire, and the wemen temper the dough to make cakes vnto the queene of heauen, & to offer libaments vnto ſtrange goddes, and to prouoke me to wrath.

19 Why doe they prouoke me to wrath, ſaith our Lord? and not themſelues to the confuſion of their owne countenance?

20 Therefore this ſaith our Lord God: Behold my furie, and my indignation is powred vpon this place, vpon men, and vpon beaſtes, and vpon the wood of the countrie, and vpon the fruites of the land, and it shal be kindled, and shal not be quenched.

21 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael; Adde your holocauſtes to your victims, and eate ye the flesh.

22 Becauſe I ſpake not with your fathers, & I [::] commanded them not in the day, that I brought them out of the land of Aegypt, touching the word of holocauſtes and victims.

23 But this word I commanded them, ſaying: Heare ye my voice, and I wil be your God, and you shal be my people: and walke ye in al the way, that I haue commanded you, that it may be wel with you.

24 And they heard not, nor inclined their eare: but haue gone in their pleaſures, and in the peruerſitie of their wicked hart: and haue bene made backward and not foreward,

25 from the day that their fathers came out of the land of Aegypt, euen to this day. And I haue ſent to you al my ſeruants the prophetes by day, riſing early, and ſending.

26 And they haue not heard me, nor inclined their eare: but they haue hardened their necke, and haue wrought worſe, then their fathers.

27 And thou ſhalt ſpeake vnto them al theſe wordes, & they wil not heare thee: & thou shalt cal them, and they wil not anſwere thee.

28 And thou shalt ſay to them: This is the nation which hath not heard the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiued diſcipline: faith is perished, and is taken away out of their mouth.

29 Powle thy heare, & caſt it away, and take lamentation on hiegh: becauſe our Lord hath caſt of, and hath left the generation of his furie,

30 becauſe the children of Iuda haue done euil in mine eies, ſaith our Lord. They haue put their ſtumbling blockes in the houſe, wherin my name is inuocated, that they might pollute it:

31 and they haue built the excelſes of Topheth, which is in the valley of the ſonne of Ennom, that they might burne their ſonnes, and their daughters with fire: which thinges I commanded not, nor thought in my hart.

32 Therfore loe the daies shal come, ſaith our Lord, & it shal no more be ſaid: Topheth, and the valley of the ſonne of Ennom: but the valley of ⟨illegible⟩laughter: and They shal burie in Topheth, becauſe there is no place.

33 And the carcaſſe of this people shal be for meats to the foules of the ayre, and to the beaſtes of the land, and there shal be none to driue them away.

34 And I wil make to ceaſe out of the cities of Iuda, and out of the ſtreetes of Ieruſalem, the voice of ioy, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegroome, and the voice of the bride: for the land shal be in deſolation.

Marginal notes to Chapter 7

• 4 [::] The Ievves preſumed that God would neuer ſuffer his Temple to be deſtroied; they thought alſo that external ſacrifices vvithout internal repētance should take avvay the ſinnes; but for their impenitence they & their ſacrifices are reiected, and the temple deſtroied.
• 11 Mat. ⟨illegible⟩1.
• 12 [::] It is true that God ſanctified the tabernacle in Silo, and aftervvards the temple in Ieruſalem, but if the people be not ſanctified, he is not ⟨illegible⟩ied to the place.
• 12 Ioſ. 18. Iud. 18. 1. Reg. ⟨illegible⟩.
• 14 Iſa. 65. 1. Reg. 4.
• 15 [::] The Kingdome of ⟨illegible⟩ene tribes.
• 22 [::] God gaue his perfect law compriſed in the ten commandments: which alone being kept wil ſuffice: & aftervvardes added ceremonial precepts, to exerciſe the people in external ſacrifices of beaſtes and other corporal thinges to be offered to him ſelf, as wel to kepe them from idolatrie, as to leade them therby to internal vertues, and to ſignifie Myſteries of the new teſtament. As is noted. Leuit. 1.
• 34 ⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩.

Chapter 8

CHAP. VIII. The Babylonians ſpoyling Ieruſalem wil caſt the bones of Kinges, Prieſtes, Prophetes, and others out of their ſepulchres, and most cruelly afflict the liuing: 5. God ſo permitting, becauſe they would not repent, when the true Prophetes admonished them ſo to do. 18. Al which the prophet forſeing lamenteth.

1 AT THAT time, ſaith our Lord, [::] they wil caſt out the bones of the kinges of Iuda, and the bones of the princes thereof; and the bones of prieſts, and the bones of the Prophets, and the bones of them that inhabite Ieruſalem; out of their ſepulchers.

2 And they shal ſpread them abrode in the ſunne, and the moone, and al the hoſt of heauen, which they haue loued, and which they haue ſerued, and after which they haue walked, and which they haue ſought, and adored: they shal not be gathered, and they shal not be buried: they shal be as a dunghil vpon the face of the earth.

3 And they shal chooſe rather death then life, al that shal be remaining of this wicked kinred in al places, which are leaft, to the which I haue caſt them out, ſaith the Lord of hoſtes.

4 And thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith our Lord: Shal not he that falleth riſe againe? and he that is turned away, shal he not turne againe?

5 Why then is this people in Ieruſalem turned away with a contentious reuolting? they haue apprehended lying, and would not returne.

6 I attended, and harkned: no man ſpeaketh that which is good, there is none that doth penance for his ſinne, ſaying: What haue I done? They are al turned to their owne courſe, as an horſe going with violence to battel.

7 The kite in the heauen hath knowen her time: the turtle, and the ſwalow, and the ſtorke haue obſerued the time of their coming: but my people haue not knowen the iudgement of the Lord.

8 How ſay you: We are wiſe, and the law of our Lord is with vs? In very deede the lying penne of the Scribes hath wrought lying.

9 The wiſe are confounded, they are terrified & taken: for they [::] haue caſt away the word of our Lord, and there is no wiſedom in them.

10 Therefore wil I geue their wemen to ſtrangers, their fildes to inheritours: becauſe from the leaſt euen to the greateſt al folow auarice: from the prophet euen to the prieſt al make lies.

11 And they healed the deſtruction of the daughter of my people to ignominie, ſaying: Peace, peace, when there was not peace.

12 They are confounded, becauſe they haue done abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confuſion, and they haue not knowen how to blush: therefore shal they fal among them that fal, in the time of their viſitation they shal fal, ſaith our Lord.

13 Gathering I wil gather them together, ſaith our Lord, there is no grape in the vines, and there are no figges on the figtree, the leafe is fallen downe: and I haue geuen them the thinges that are paſſed.

14 Why doe we ſitte? come together and let vs enter into the fenced citie, and let vs be ſilent there: becauſe the Lord our God hath made vs to be ſilent, and hath geuen vs water of gaule for drinke: for we haue ſinned to our Lord.

15 We expected peace and there was no good: a time of medicine and behold feare.

16 From Dan was the ſnoring noyſe of his horſes heard, with the voice of the neyinges of his fighting horſes al the land was moued: and they came and deuoured the land, and the fulnes thereof: the citie and the inhabitants thereof.

17 For behold I wil ſend you [::] ſerpents baſaliskes, for which there is no inchantment: and they shal bite you, ſaith our Lord.

18 My ſorow is aboue ſorow, my hart mourning within me.

19 Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a farre countrie: Is not our Lord in Sion: or is not her king in her? Why then haue they prouoked me to wrath in their ſculptils, and in ſtrange vanities?

20 The harueſt is paſt, ſommer is ended: and we are not ſaued.

21 For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made ſorowful, aſtonishment hath taken me.

22 Is there noe roſen in Galaad? or is there no phiſition there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people cloſed?

Marginal notes to Chapter 8

• 1 [::] Perſecuters ſpoile the ſhrines of kinges and other principal perſons of crueltie; & alſo of auarice if they be richly adorned.
• 9 [::] Thoſe that profeſſe knowlege of the law, & obſerue it not in workes, haue not true wiſdom.
• 17 [::] As ſerpents can not be hindered by inchantments from hurting men, no more can the furious Chaldees be diſſwaded by anie ſpeach from killing, ſpoyling, and ranſaking the Iſraelites.

Chapter 9

CHAP. IX. The prophet lamenteth the future calamitie of the people, and their falſe dealing ech with others. 12. willing al to conſider that their wickednes is the cauſe of their miſerie, 17. and to mourne, 23. and returne to God: 25. Who otherwiſe wil punish both Gentiles, and Iewes not circumciſed in hart.

1 VVHO [::] wil geue water to my head, and to mine eies a fountaine of teares? and I wil weepe day & night for the ſlaine of the daughter of my people.

2 Who wil geue me in the wildernes an inne of wayfaring men, and I wil forſake my people, and depart from them? becauſe they are al adulterers, an aſſemblie of tranſgreſſors.

3 And they haue bent their tongue, as a bowe of lying and not of truth: they haue taken courege in the land, becauſe they haue proceeded from euil to euil, and me they haue not knowen, ſaith our Lord.

4 Let euerie man take heede to himſelf of his neighbour, and in euerie brother of his, let him not haue affiance: becauſe euerie brother ſupplanting wil ſupplant, and euerie freind wil walke deceitfully.

5 And man shal ſcorne his brother, and they wil not ſpeake truth: for they haue taught their tongue to ſpeake lies: they haue laboured to doe vniuſtly.

6 Thine inhabitation is in the middes of deceipt: in deceipte they haue refuſed to know me, ſaith our Lord.

7 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Behold I wil melt, and wil trie them: for what els shal I doe at the face of the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is a wandring arrow, it hath ſpoken guile: in his mouth he hath ſpoken peace with his freind, and ſecretly he layeth waite for him.

9 Shal I not viſite vpon theſe thinges, ſaith our Lord? or vpon ſuch a nation shal not my ſoule be reuenged?

10 Vpon the mountaines I wil take vp weeping and lamentation, & vpon the beautiful places of the deſert, mourning: becauſe they are burnt, for that there is not a man that paſſeth through: & they haue not heard the voice of the owner: from the foule of the ayre vnto the beaſtes they are gone away and departed.

11 And I wil make Ieruſalem to be heapes of ſand, and dennes of dragons: and I wil geue the cities of Iuda into deſolation, becauſe there is not an inhabiter.

12 Who is a wiſe man, that can vnderſtand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of our Lord may be made, that he may declare this, why the earth hath perished, and is burnt as a deſert, becauſe there is none that paſſeth through?

13 And our Lord ſaid: Becauſe they haue forſaken my law, which I gaue them, and haue not heard my voice, and haue not walked in it.

14 And they haue gone after the peruerſitie of their owne hart, and after Baalim, which they learned of their fathers.

15 Therfore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil feede this people with worme wood, and geue them water of gaule to drinke.

16 And I wil diſperſe them in the Nations, which they and their fathers haue not knowen: and I wil ſend the ſword after them, :: til they be conſumed.

17 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſts the God of Iſrael: Conſider and cal ye lamenting wemen, and let them come: & ſend to them that are wiſe, and let them make haſte;

18 let them haſten & take vp a lamentation vpon vs: let our eies shede teares, & our eieliddes rune downe with waters.

19 Becauſe a voice of lamentation is heard from Sion; How are we waſted and confounded exceedingly? becauſe we haue left the land, becauſe our tabernacles are caſt downe.

20 Heare therefore ye wemen the word of our Lord: and let your eares take the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters lamentation: and euerie one her neighbour mourning:

21 becauſe death is come vp through our windowes, it is entred into our houſes, to deſtroy the children from without, the young men our of the ſtreetes.

22 Speake: Thus ſaith our Lord: and the carcaſſe of man shal fal as dung vpon the face of the countrie, and as a graſſe behind the backe of the mower, and there is none to gather it.

23 Thus ſaith our Lord: Let not the wiſeman glorie in his wiſedom, and let not the ſtrong man glorie in his ſtrength, & let not the rich man glorie in his riches:

24 but he that glorieth, let him glorie in this, to vnderſtand & know me, becauſe I am the Lord that do mercie and iudgement, and iuſtice in the earth: for theſe thinges pleaſe me, ſaith our Lord.

25 Behold, the daies come, ſaith our Lord; and I wil viſite vpon euerie one, that hath the prepuce circumciſed,

26 vpon [::] Aegypt, and vpon Iuda, and vpon Edom, and vpon the children of Ammon, and vpon Moab, and vpon al that haue their heare powled, dwelling in the deſert: becauſe al nations haue the prepuce, but al the houſe of Iſrael are vncircumciſed in the hart.

Marginal notes to Chapter 9

• 1 [::] Not a few teares; but a fountaine, or riuer is ſcarſe ſufficient to lament the ſlaughter of
• 8 Pſa. 27.
• 13 After the deſtruction of Ieruſalem moſt of the people, eſpecially the richer ſort were caried into ca⟨illegible⟩t⟨illegible⟩uitie; others were perſecuted til they were conſumed, that is, euen to death & deſtruction But not al the nation conſumed, for he prophecied the contrarie. ch. 4. v. 27. & ch. 5. v. 10. & 18 And after 70. yeares the reliques were releaſed, and returned into Iewrie, manie alſo remained ſtil there. As is euident in the bookes of Eſdras.
• 23 ⟨illegible⟩ Cor. ⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩ Cor. 10.
• 26 [::] Theſe nations are alſo circumciſed in fleſh, but neither they no⟨illegible⟩ the Iewes are circumciſed in hart which argue⟨illegible⟩h them of hypochrifie.

Chapter 10

CHAP. X. Influence of ſtarres, nor imagined powre of idols, is not to be feared: but God only. 6. whoſe Maieſtie is infinite, and idols haue no powre at al. 19. Ieruſalem lamenteth, 24. and prayeth God to pardon and protect his owne people.

1 HEARE ye the word, which our Lord hath ſpoken concerning you ô houſe of Iſrael.

2 Thus ſaith our Lord: According to the waies of the Gentils learne not: and [::] of the fignes of heauen, which the heathen feare, be not afraid:

3 Becauſe the lawes of the people are vaine: becauſe the worke of the hand of the artificer hath cut a tree out of the foreſt with an axe.

4 with ſiluer and gold he hath decked it: with nailes and hammers he hath compacted it, that it fal not aſunder.

5 They are framed after the ſimulitude of a palme tree, and shal not ſpeake: being caried they shal be remoued, becauſe [::] they are not able to go. Therefore feare them not, becauſe they can neither doe il nor wel.

6 There is not the like vnto thee ô Lord: thou art great, and great is thy name in ſtrength.

7 Who shal not feare thee ô king of Nations? For thine is the glorie: among al the wiſe of the Gentiles, & in al their kingdoms there is none like vnto thee.

8 They shal be proued altogether vnwiſe and foolish: the doctrine of their vanitie is wood.

9 Siluer wrapped vp is brought from Tharſis, and gold from Ophaz: the worke of the artificer, and the handes of the copperſmith: hyacinth and purple are their clothing: al theſe thinges are the worke of artificers.

10 But our Lord is the true God: he is the liuing God, and the King euerlaſting: at his indignation the earth shal be moued: & the Gentils shal not ſuſtaine his threatning.

11 Thus then you shal ſay to them: The goddes that made not heauen and earth, let them perish from of the earth, and from theſe places, that are vnder heauen.

12 He that maketh the earth in his ſtrength, prepareth the world in his wiſedom, and with his prudence ſtretcheth out the heauens.

13 At his voice he geueth a multitude of waters in the heauen, & lifteth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth: he maketh lightninges into rayne, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treaſures.

14 Euerie man is become a foole for knowlege, euery craftes man is confounded in the ſculptil: becauſe it is falſe that he hath melted, and there is no ſpirite in them.

15 They are vaine thinges, and a worke worthie to be laughed at: in the time of their viſitation they shal perish.

16 The portion of Iacob is not like to theſe: for it is he that formed al thinges: and Iſrael is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of hoſts is his name.

17 Gather thy confuſion out of the land, thou that dwelleſt in beſeige.

18 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil caſt forth farre of the inhabitans of the land at this time: & I wil afflict them, ſo that they may not be found,

19 Woe is me for my deſtruction, my plague is very ſore. But I ſaid: Truly this is myne infirmitie, and I wil beare it.

20 My tabernacle is waſted, al my cordes are broken in ſunder: my children are gone out from me, and are not: there is none to ſtretch out my tent anie more, & to ſet vp my courtaines.

21 Becauſe the paſtours haue done foolishly, and haue not ſought our Lord: therefore haue they not vnderſtood, and al their flocke is diſperſed.

22 Loe the voice of a bruit cometh, a great commotion from the land of the North: to make the cities of Iuda a deſert, & an habitation of dragons.

23 I know Lord, that [::] mans way is not his owne: neither is it in a man to walke, and to direct his ſteppes.

24 Correct me ô Lord, but yet in iudgement: and not in thy furie, leſt perhappes thou bring me to nothing.

25 Power out thine indignation vpon the Gentiles, that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the prouinces, that haue not inuocated thy name: becauſe they haue eaten Iacob, and deuoured him, and conſumed him, and haue diſſipated his glorie.

Marginal notes to Chapter 10

• 2 [::] Heathniſ⟨illegible⟩ idolaters thought the⟨illegible⟩ was diuine powre in the planetes, and other ſtarres. But the faithful know th⟨illegible⟩ they are the creatures of God, made for the benefite of men, not that men ſhould ſerue or feare th⟨illegible⟩.
• 5 [::] Of other idols made of vvood, ſiluer, gold, and the like, it is more eaſie to ſee the vanitie.
• 6 Mich. 7.
• 7 Apoc. 15.
• 13 Pſa. 134.
• 23 [::] Man can not do anie good thing without Gods helpe, nor anie euil without his permiſſion neither of which deſtroyeth freewil▪ As in the preſent example Nabuchodonoſor could not afflict the Iewes but by Gods permiſion.
• 24 Pſal. 6.
• 25 Pſal. 78.

Chapter 11

CHAP. XI. The Prophet being commanded to preach the obſeruation of Gods couenant is not heard. 9. The people folovv their fathers example, adoring idols. 11. and shal therefore be ſeuerely punished, neither shal their idols, nor prayers of the iust profite them. 15. their malice against Chriſt is deſcribed 20. and the reuenge therof.

1 THE word that was made from our Lord to Ieremie, ſaying:

2 Heare ye the wordes of this couenant, and ſpeake to the men of Iuda, and to the inhabitants of Ieruſalem,

3 and thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: Curſed is the man that shal not heare the wordes of this couenant,

4 which I [::] commanded your fathers in the day, that I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the yron fornace, ſaying: Heare ye my voice, and doe al thinges, that I command you: and you shal be my people, and I wil be your God.

5 That I may raiſe vp the othe, which I ſware to your fathers, that I would geue them a land flowing with milke & hunnie, as is this day. And I anſwered, & ſaid: Amen Lord.

6 And our Lord ſaid to me: Crie aloude al theſe wordes in the cities of Iuda, and without Ieruſalem, ſaying: Heare ye the wordes of this couenant, and do them:

7 becauſe conteſting I did conteſt your fathers in the day, that I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt euen to this day: ariſing early I conteſted, and ſaid: Heare ye my voice:

8 and they heard not, nor inclined their eare: but went euerie one in the peruerſitie of his owne wicked hart: & I brought vpon them al the wordes of this couenant, which I commanded them to doe, and they did not.

9 And our Lord ſaid to me: Conſpiracie is found in the men of Iuda, and in the inhabitants of the men of Ieruſalem.

10 They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, which would not heare my wordes: and theſe therfore haue gone after ſtrange goddes, to ſerue them: the houſe of Iſrael, and the houſe of Iuda hath made voide my couenant, which I made with their fathers.

11 For which thing thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil bring in euils vpon them, out of which they shal not be able to goeforth: and they shal crie to me, and I wil not heare them.

12 And the cities of Iuda, and the inhabitants of Ieruſalem shal goe, and crie to goddes, vnto whom they ſacrificed, and they shal not ſaue them in the time of their affliction.

13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy goddes ô Iuda: and according to the number of the waies of Ieruſalem thou didſt ſet altars of confuſion, altars to ſacrifice to Baalim.

14 [::] Thou therefore pray not for this people, and take not to thee praiſe and prayer for them: becauſe I wil no⟨illegible⟩ heare in the time of their crie vnto me, in the time of their affliction.

15 What is it that my beloued hath in my houſe done much wickednes? shal [::] the holie flesh take away from thee thy malices: in which thou haſt boſted?

16 The Lord hath called thy name, a plentiful oliue tree, faire, fruiteful, beautiful: at the voice of a word, a great fire flamed vp in it, and the shrubbes thereof are burnt.

17 And the Lord of hoſtes that planted thee, hath ſpoken euil vpon thee: for the euils of the houſe of Iſrael, and of the houſe of Iuda, which they haue done to themſelues, to prouoke me, in offering to Baalim.

18 [::] But thou Lord haſt shewed me, and I haue knowen: thou haſt shewed me their ſtudies.

19 And I as a milde lambe, that is caried to a victim: and I [::] knew not that they deuiſed counſels againſt me, ſaying: Let vs caſt wood on his bread, and raſe him out of the land of the liuing, and let his name be mentioned no more.

20 But thou ô Lord of Sabaoth, which iudgeſt iuſtly, and proueſt the reynes and the hartes, let me ſee thy reuenge of them: for to thee I haue reueled my cauſe.

21 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, which ſeeke thy life, and ſay: Thou shalt not prophecie in the name of our Lord, and thou shalt not die in our handes.

22 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Behold I wil viſite vpon them: their yong men shal die by the ſword, their ſonnes and their daughters shal die in famine.

23 And there shal be [::] no remaines of them: for I wil bring in euil vpon the men of Anathoth, the yeare of their viſitation.

Marginal notes to Chapter 11

• 4 [::] Not for the priuilegies of kinred (being the children of Abraham, Iſaac and Iacob) nor for ſuffering circumciſion nor for the reſt of the Sabbath, but for obedience (in keeping the couenant and precepts) our Lord is the God of Iſrael, and Iſrael his people S. Ierom.
• 14 [::] Ch. 7. v. 16. ch▪ 14. v. 11.
• 15 [::] Fleſh offered in ſacrifice is hol⟨illegible⟩e, but profiteth not thoſe that are obſtinate in ſinne.
• 18 [::] By conſent of al Churches (ſaith S. Ierom) this is ſpoken of Chriſt.
• 19 [::] VVho ſo bore himſelf, as if he had not knowen when the Iewes condemned him in their councel. For otherwiſe he knew, and foretold, that he ſhould be betrayed & crucified Mat. 20. v▪ 18. 19 & ch. 26 v. 2.
• 23 [::] He ſpeaketh only of the wicked for ſtil ſome reliques remaine. Iſa. 10. Ier. 4. Ro. 9.

Chapter 12

CHAP. XII. It ſemeth ſtrange that the wicked proſper. 5. The Iewes heretofore afflicted by weaker enimies, shal be more oppreſſed by the Babylonians. 10. Euil paſtors shal be punished. 14. and forraine enimies deſtroyed.

1 THOV in deede ô Lord art iuſt, if I diſpute with thee, but yet I wil ſpeake iuſt thinges to thee: [::] Why doth the way of the impious proſper: why is it wel with al that tranſgreſſe, and doe wickedly?

2 Thou haſt planted them, and they haue taken roote: they proſper and bring forth fruite: thou art nigh to their mouth, and farre from their reynes.

3 And thou Lord haſt knowen me, thou haſt ſene me, and proued my hart with thee: gather them together as a flocke to the victime, and [*] ſanctifie them in the day of ſlaughter.

4 How long shal the land mourne, and the herbe of euerie fielde be withered for malice of the inhabitants therein? Beaſt is conſumed, and foule: becauſe they haue ſaied: He shal not ſee our later endes.

5 If running with footemen thou haſt laboured: how canſt thou contend with horſes? And whereas in a land of peace thou haſt bene ſecure, what wilt thou doe in the pride of Iordan?

6 For euen thy bretheren, & the houſe of thy father, they alſo haue fought againſt thee, and haue cried after thee with ful voice: beleue them not when they shal ſpeake good thinges vnto thee.

7 I haue forſaken my houſe, I haue left mine inheritance: I haue geuen my beloued ſoule into the hand of her enemies.

8 Myne inheritance is become vnto me as a lion in the wood: it hath vttered a voice againſt me, therefore haue I hated it.

9 Why, is myne inheritance vnto me as a bird of diuers coulors? is it as a birde died through out? come, aſſemble yourſelues al ye beaſtes of the land, make haſte to deuoure.

10 Manie paſtours haue deſtroyed my vineyard, they haue troden downe my portion: they haue made my portion that was worthie to be deſired, into a deſert of deſolation.

11 They haue laied it into diſſipation, and it hath mourned vpon me. With deſolation is al the land made deſolate: becauſe there is none that conſidereth in the hart.

12 Vpon al the wayes of the deſert the waſters are come, becauſe the ſword of our Lord shal deuoure from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace to al flesh.

13 They haue ſowen wheate, and reaped thornes: they haue taken an inheritance, and it shal not profite them: you shal be ashamed of your fruites, for the wrath of the furie of our Lord.

14 Thus ſaith the Lord againſt al my moſt wicked neighbours: [::] which touche the inheritance that I haue diſtributed to my people of Iſrael: Behold I wil plucke them out of their land, & the houſe of Iuda I wil plucke out of the middes of them.

15 And when I shal haue plucked them out, I wil returne, and haue mercie on them: and wil bring them backe, euerie man to his inheritance, and euerie man into his land.

16 And it shal be: if being taught they wil learne the waies of my people, that they ſweare in my name: Our Lord liueth, as they haue taught my people to ſweare by Baal: they shal be built in the middes of my people.

17 But if they wil not heare, I wil plucke out that nation with plucking vp and with deſtruction, ſaith our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 12

• 1 [::] Prophetes, & other holie men, not ignorant nor doubtful of Gods prouidence, ſpeake ſometimes in the perſon of the weake, as deſirous to know why God ſuffereth the wicked to proſper in this world, and the godlie to be afflicted. Iob. 21. v. 7. Dauid Pſal. 72. v. 2. 3. Abacuc. 1. v. 3.
• 1 Iob. 21. Abac. 1.
• 3 [*] S⟨illegible⟩gregate.
• 14 [::] After that the children are chaſticed, the rodde is to be burned.
• 17 The 2. part. The peoples ingratitude s⟨illegible⟩ning againſt God, and perſecuring the Prophet.

Chapter 13

CHAP. XIII. By a girdle firſt vſed and after leaft of, 8. is prefigured the reiection of the Iewes: 12. til Gods mercie recalleth them. 17. The Prophet lamenting their obſtinacie, 22. sheweth that their ſinne is the cauſe of their miſerie.

1 THVS ſaith our Lord to me: Goe, and get thee [::] a girdle of linnen, and thou shalt put it about thy loynes, & shalt not put it into water.

2 And I got a girdle according to the word of our Lord, and put it about my loynes.

3 And the word of our Lord was made to me the ſecond time, ſaying:

4 Take the girdle, which thou haſt gotten, which is about thy loynes, and riſing goe to Euphrates, and hide it there in an hole of the rocke.

5 And I went, and hidde it in Euphrates, as our Lord had commanded me.

6 And it came to paſſe after manie daies, our Lord ſaid to me: Ariſe, goe to Euphrates: and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee that thou shouldſt hide it there.

7 And I went to Euphrates, and digged, and tooke the girdle out of the place, where I had hid it: and behold the girdle was rotten, ſo that it was fitte for noe vſe.

8 And the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

9 Thus ſaith our Lord: ſo wil I make the pride of Iuda, & the great pride of Ieruſalem.

10 This moſt wicked people, which wil not heare my wordes, and walke in the peruerſitie of their hart: and haue gone after ſtrange goddes to ſerue them, and to adore them: & they shal be as this girdle, which is fitte for no vſe.

11 For as the girdle cleaueth to the loynes of a man, ſo haue I faſt ioyned to me al the houſe of Iſrael, and al the houſe of Iuda, ſaith our Lord: that they might be my people, and name, and prayſe, and glorie: and they heard not.

12 Thou shalt ſay therefore vnto them this word: Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: [::] Euerie bottle shal be filled with wine. And they shal ſay to thee: Why, are we ignorant that euerie bottle shal be filled with wine?

13 And thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil fil al the inhabitants of this land, & the kinges that of the ſtocke of Dauid ſitte vpon his throne, and the prieſts, and the prophets, and al the inhabitants of Ieruſalem, with drunkennes.

14 And I wil diſperſe them euerie man from his brother, and the fathers and ſonnes together, ſaith our Lord: I wil not ſpare, and I wil not yelde: neither wil I haue mercie not to deſtroy them.

15 Heare ye, and geue eare. Be not eleuated, becauſe our Lord hath ſpoken.

16 Geue ye glorie to our Lord your God, before it waxe darke, and before your feete ſtumble at the darke mountaines: you shal looke for light, and he wil turne it into the shadow of death, and into darkenes.

17 But if you wil not heare this, in ſecret my ſoule shal weepe becauſe of the pride: weeping it shal weepe, and mine eie shal droppe teares, becauſe the flocke of our Lord is taken.

18 Say to the king, and to her that ruleth: Be humbled, ſitte downe: becauſe the crowne of your glorie is come downe from your head.

19 The cities of the South are shut, and there is none that may open them: al Iuda is tranſported with a perfect tranſmigration.

20 Lift vp your eies, and ſee you, that come from the North: where is the flocke that is geuen thee, thy noble cattel?

21 what wilt thou ſay when he shal viſite thee? for thou haſt taught them againſt thee, and inſtructed them againſt thyne owne head: shal not ſorowes apprehend thee, as a woman in trauel?

22 And if thou shalt ſay in thy hart: Why are theſe thinges come vnto me? For the multitude of thine iniquitie, thy more shamelie partes are diſcouered, the ſoles of thy feete are polluted.

23 [::] If the Aethiopian can change his skinne, or the leopard his ſpottes: you alſo can doe wel, when you haue learned euil.

24 And I wil ſcatter them as ſtubble, which is violently taken with the winde in the deſert.

25 This is thy lot, and portion of thy meaſure from me, ſaith our Lord, becauſe thou haſt forgotten me, and haſt truſted in lying.

26 Wherefore I haue alſo made bare thy thighes againſt thy face, and thine ignominie hath appeared,

27 thine adulteries, and thy neying the wickedneſſe of thy fornication: vpon the litle hilles in the field I haue ſeene thine abominations. Woe to thee Ieruſalem, thou wilt not be made cleane after me: how long yet?

Marginal notes to Chapter 13

• 1 [::] Prophecies vttered in factes haue more force to perſwade, then only wordes. And therfore the Prophetes by Gods commandment vſe both theſe wayes. Heb. 1.
• 12 [::] An other prophetical ſimilitude to ſignifie that the Iewes ſhal be perplexe, not knowing what to do in extreme diſſtreſſe: as ſenſles men ouercome with much wine.
• 17 ⟨illegible⟩am. 1.
• 23 [::] Cuſtome is as it were an other nature, hard to be altered: yet Gods grace raiſeth ſome inueterate ſinners to true repentance, but this is rare And of them ſelues without grace no ſinners can riſe nor repent.

Chapter 14

CHAP. XIIII. Iurie shal be afflicted with drought and famine. 11. Neither shal the prophets prayer, nor their faſtes, nor ſacrifices auaile them. 14. Falſeprophetes shal perish with the ſeduced people. 17. Ieremie lamenting exhorteth them to repentance.

1 THE word of our Lord that was made to Ieremie concerning the wordes [::] of the drought.

2 Iurie hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen downe, & are obſcured on the earth, and the crie of Ieruſalem is come vp.

3 The greater men haue ſent their inferiours to the water: they came to drawe, they found no water, they caried backe their veſſels emptie: they were confounded and afflicted, and couered their heades.

4 For the waſte of the land, becauſe there came no rayne vpon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they couered their heades.

5 For the hinde alſo brought forth in the field, and left it: becauſe there was no graſſe.

6 And the wild aſſes ſtood vpon the rockes, they drew winde as dragons, their eies failed, becauſe there was no graſſe.

7 If our iniquities haue anſwered vs: Lord do for thy names ſake, becauſe our reuoltinges are manie, to thee we haue ſinned.

8 O expectation of Iſrael, the ſauiour thereof in the time of tribulation: why wilt thou be as a ſeiourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?

9 Why wilt thou be as a wandring man, as the [::] ſtrong that can not ſaue? but thou ô Lord art in vs, and thy name is inuocated vpon vs, forſake vs not.

10 Thus ſaith our Lord to his people, which hath loued to moue their feete, and haue not reſted, and hath not pleaſed our Lord: Now wil he remember their iniquities, and viſite their ſinnes.

11 And our Lord ſaid to me: Pray not for this people to good.

12 When they shal faſt I wil not heare their prayers: and if they shal offer holocauſtes and victimes, I wil not receiue them: becauſe with ſword, and famine, and peſtilence I wil conſume them.

13 And I ſaid: A a a, ô Lord God [::] the Prophetes ſay to them: You shal not ſee the ſword, and there shal be no famine among you, but he wil geue you true peace in this place.

14 And our Lord ſaid to me: The prophetes prophecie falſely in my name: I ſent them not, and I commanded them not, neither haue I ſpoken vnto them: lying viſion, and deceitful diuination, guilfulnes, and the ſeduction of their owne hart they prophecie vnto you.

15 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord of the prophets, that prophecie in my name, whom I ſent not, that ſay: There shal not be ſword, and famine in this land: In ſword and famine shal thoſe prophetes be conſumed.

16 And the peoples to whom they prophecie, shal be caſt forth in the waies of Ieruſalem through famine and ſword, and there shal be none to burie them; they and their wiues, their ſonnes and their daughters, and I wil power out their euil vpon them.

17 And thou shalt ſay this word vnto them: Let mine eies shede teares night and day, and not ceaſe, becauſe the [::] virgine daughter of my people, is afflicted with great affliction, with a verie ſore plague exceedingly.

18 If I shal goe out to the fieldes, loe the ſlaine with the ſword: and if I enter into the citie, loe the pyned away with famine. For the prophet and the prieſt are gone into a land which they knew not.

19 Why, caſting of haſt thou caſt away Iuda, or hath thy ſoule abhorred Sion? why then haſt thou ſtriken vs, ſo that there is no health? we haue expected peace, and there is no good: and a time of curing, and behold truble.

20 We haue knowen ô Lord our impieties, the iniquities of our fathers, becauſe we haue ſinned to thee.

21 Geue vs not into reproche for thy names ſake, neither make vs to haue the contumelie of the throne of thy glorie: remember, make not thy couenant with vs voide.

22 Why, are there among the ſculptils of the Gentiles that can raine? or can the heauens geue showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we haue expected? for thou haſt made al theſe thinges.

Marginal notes to Chapter 14

• 1 [::] The Iewes ſuffered famine & thirſt by reaſon of drought, for their ſinnes, which alſo ſignifieth depriuation of God⟨illegible⟩ grace for their former wickednes.
• 9 [::] As one that braggeth, and eſteemeth him ſelf ſtrong.
• 13 [::] Falſe prophetes ſeducing the people, can not excuſe them from ſinne. For when the blind leadeth the blind, both fal into the pitte.
• 17 Lam. 1. & 2.
• 17 [::] Notwithſtanding there were very manie greuous ſinners, yet in reſpect of the iuſt the Church is a virgine.

Chapter 15

CHAP. XV. Though Moyſes and Samuel should pray for this people, yet God hath determined to punish them with plague, warre, famine, and captiuitie, 6. for their impenitencie. 10. The prophet lamenteth that for his preaching the people is become worſe, 15. and perſecuteth him. 19. but God promiſeth to deliuer and to reward him.

1 AND our Lord ſaid to me: “ If Moyſes and Samuel [::] shal ſtand before me, my ſoule is not toward this people: caſt them out from my face, and let them goe forth.

2 And if they shal ſay vnto thee: Whither shal we goe forth? thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith our Lord: [::] They that to death, to death, and they that to ſword, to ſword: and they that to famine, to famine: and they that to captiuitie, to captiuitie.

3 And I wil viſite vpon them foure kindes, ſaith our Lord: The ſword to kil, and dogges to teare, & the foules of the ayre, and beaſts of the earth to deuoure and to deſtroy.

4 And I wil geue them into rage to al the kingdomes of the earth: becauſe of Manaſſes the ſonne of Ezechias the king of Iuda, for al thinges that he did in Ieruſalem.

5 For who shal haue pitie on thee Ieruſalem? or who shal be ſorie for thee? or who shal goe to pray for thy peace?

6 Thou haſt forſaken me, ſaith our Lord, thou haſt gone backward: and I wil ſtretch forth my hand vpon thee, and wil kil thee: I am wearie in praying thee.

7 And I wil ſcatter them with a fanne in the gates of the land: I haue ſlayne and deſtroyed my people, & yet they are not returned from their waies.

8 Their widowes are multiplied vnto me aboue the ſand of the ſea: I haue brought into them vpon the mother of the youngman a waſter at noone day: I haue caſt terrour ſudenly vpon the cities.

9 She is weakned that bare ſeuen, her ſoule hath fainted: the ſunne went downe to her, when it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the reſidue of them I wil geue vnto the ſword in the ſight of their enemies, ſaith our Lord.

10 Woe is me, my mother: why haſt thou borne me a man of brawling, a man of diſcord in al the earth? I haue not lent to vſurie, neither hath anie man lent vnto me to vſurie: al curſe me.

11 Our Lord ſaith: If thy remnant shal not be to good, if I haue not holpen thee in the time of affliction, and in the time of tribulation againſt the enemie.

12 Why, shal [::] yron be confederate with the yron from the North, and alſo [::] braſſe?

13 Thy riches and thy treaſures I wil geue into ſpoile for naught for al thy ſinnes, and in al thy borders.

14 And I wil bring thine enemies out of a land, which thou knoweſt not: becauſe a fire is kindled in my furie, it shal burne vpon you.

15 [::] Thou knoweſt ô Lord, be mindful of me, and viſite me, and defend me from them, that perſecute me: doe not receiue me in [::] thy patience, know that I haue ſuſtayned reproch for thee.

16 Thy wordes were found, and I did eate them, and thy word was made to me a ioy & gladnes of my hart: becauſe thy name is inuocated vpon me ô Lord God of hoſtes.

17 I ſate not in the councel of ieſters, and I haue gloried at the face of thy hand: I ſate alone, becauſe thou haſt filled me with threaning.

18 Why is my ſorow made perpetual, and my deſperate plague refuſeth to be cured? it is become vnto me as a lie of [::] vnfaythful waters.

19 For this cauſe thus ſaith our Lord: If thou wilt be conuerted, I wil conuert thee, and thou shalt ſtand before my face: and if thou wilt ſeperate the pretious thing from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shal be turned to thee, & [::] thou shalt not be turned to them.

20 And I wil geue thee vnto this people as a braſen wal, ſtrong: and they shal fight againſt thee, and shal not preuaile: becauſe I am with thee to ſaue thee, and to deliuer thee, ſaith our Lord.

21 And I wil deliuer thee out of the hand of the moſt wicked, and I wil redeeme thee out of the hand of ſtrong.

Marginal notes to Chapter 15

• 1 [::] The Geneua Bible is corruptly tranſlated contrarie to the Hebrew and Greeke: Though Moyſes and Samuel ſtood before me.
• 2 [::] This Hebrew phraſe ſignifieth, that ſome ſhal dye by ſicknes, ſome by the ſword, ſome by famine, ſome ſhal be lead into captiuitie, as God hath feuerally ordayned.
• 2 Zach. 11.
• 4 4. Reg. 21.
• 9 Amos. 8.
• 12 [::] There can hardly be concord betwen potent kingdomes.
• 12 [::] The weaker is eaſily afflicted by the ſtronger.
• 15 [::] The Prophet fearing his ovvne vveaknes prayeth to be deliuered from perſecution.
• 15 [::] Defer not to deliuer me. As Pſal. 12. v 2. 3
• 17 Pſal. 1. & 2⟨illegible⟩.
• 18 [::] Vaine hopes.
• 19 [::] The people shal yeld to the prophets admonition, not he to their peruerſitie.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XV.

1. If Moyſes and Samuel shal ſtand before me.] As before God reueled to this [Margin: No prayers of others do aauaile for obſtinate & impenitent ſinners.] prophet Ieremie, that the people ſhould aſſuredly be puniſhed, and therfore prohibited him (ch. 7. v. 16. ch. 11. v. 14▪ & ch. 14. v. 11.) that he ſhould not pray for them: ſo here he confirmeth the ſame determinate ſentence of their puniſhment, ſaying: If Moyſes and Samuel shal ſtand before me, my ſoule is not tovvards this people. That is, though not only Ieremie (a zelous holie prophet now liuing) but alſo Moyſes and Samuel (departed from this world long before) ſhal pray for this people, yet they ſhal not eſcape the deſigned puniſhment, for their great ſinnes. By neceſſarie conſequence of which confirmation, is [Margin: Sainctes after their death pray for men in this world.] alſo proued, that Moyſes and Samuel, after their death, both could and did ſometimes pray for the ſame people. For otherwiſe the particular mention of theſe prophetes▪ were not to the purpoſe, if they neuer did, nor could pray for them. And wheras the Engliſh gloſſe (in the Geneua Bible) ſuppoſeth Gods meaning to be, that if there vvere anie man liuing moued vvith ſo great zele tovvards the people, as vvere theſe tvvo, yet he vvould not grant this requeſt, for as much as he had determined the contrarie, it is euident that Ieremie, Ezechiel, Daniel, and [Margin: This text is vnderſtood of Moyſes and Samuel them ſelues.] ſome other prophetes then liuing, had alſo great zele, very like to the others, and therfore this text ſpeaketh not of others like vnto them; but as S. Ierom (in his commentaries, vpon this place) S. Chryſoſtom (ho. 1. in 1. Theſſ. 1.) and S. Gregorie (li. 9. Moral▪ c. 12.) vnderſtand it, of Moyſes and Samuel them ſelues, being in aſſured happie ſtate, where their former great zele and charitie were now greater, and more perfect then in this life.

Chapter 16

CHAP. XVI. The prophet is forbid to marie, trubleſome times not ſuffering the cares of familie: 5. He muſt neither goe to places of feaſting, nor mourning, more dying then can be mourned or buried. 10. Al which is for their idolatrie. 15. but after captiuitie the people shal be releaſed. 16. And both Iewes and Gentiles conuerted to Christ.

1 AND the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

2 [::] Thou shalt not take a wife, and thou shalt not haue ſonnes, and daughters in this place.

3 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord concerning ſonnes and daughters, that are begotten in this place, and concerning their mothers, which beare them: and concerning their fathers, of whoſe ſtocke they were borne in this land:

4 by the deathes of diſeaſes they shal die: they shal not be mourned, and they shal not be buried, they shal be as a dunghil vpon the face of the earth: they shal be conſumed, both with ſword, and famine: and their carcaſſe shal be meate for the foules of the ayre, and beaſtes of the earth.

5 For thus ſaith our Lord: Enter not into the houſe of feaſting, neither goe thou to mourne, nor comfort them: becauſe I haue taken away my peace from this people, ſaith our Lord, mercie and commiſerations.

6 And great and litle shal die in this land: they shal not be buried nor mourned, and they shal not cut them ſelues, neither shal baldnes be made for them.

7 And they shal not breake bread among them to him that mourneth to comfort him vpon the dead: and they shal not geue them drinke of the cuppe to comfort them vpon their father and mother.

8 And enter not into the houſe of feaſting, to ſitte with them, and to eate and drinke:

9 becauſe thus ſaith our Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil take away out of this place in your eies, and in your daies the voice of ioy, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegrome, and the voice of the bride.

10 And when thou shalt tel this people al theſe wordes, and they shal ſay to thee: Wherefore hath our Lord ſpoken vpon vs al this greate euil? what is our iniquitie? and what is our ſinne, that we haue ſinned to the Lord our God?

11 Thou shalt ſay to them: Becauſe your fathers haue forſaken me, ſaith our Lord: and gone after ſtrange goddes, and ſerued them, and adored them: and me they haue forſaken, & my law they haue not kept.

12 But [::] you alſo haue wrought worſe then your fathers: for behold euerie one walketh after the peruerſitie of his euil hart, that he heare me not.

13 And I wil caſt you forth out of this land, into a land, which you and your fathers knew not: and there you shal ſerue ſtrange goddes day and night, which shal not geue you anie reſt.

14 [::] Therefore behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord, & it shal be ſaid no more: The Lord liueth, that brought forth the children of Iſrael out of the Land of Aegypt,

15 But, The Lord liueth, that brought the children of Iſrael out of the Land of the North, and out of al the landes to the which I did caſt them out: and I wil bring them againe into their land, which I gaue to their fathers.

16 Behold I wil ſend manie [::] fishers ſaith our Lord, & they shal fishe them: and after this I wil ſend them manie [::] hunters, & they shal hunt them from euerie mountaine, and from euerie litle hil, and out of the caues [::] of rockes.

17 Becauſe mine eies are vpon al their waies: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquitie hath not bene hid from mine eies.

18 And I wil repay firſt their duble iniquities, and their ſinnes: becauſe they haue contaminated my land with the carcaſſes of their idols, and with their abominations they haue filled mine inheritance.

19 O Lord my force, and my ſtrength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles ſhal come from the endes of the earth, and shal ſay: In very deede our fathers haue poſſeſſed lying, vanitie which hath not profited them.

20 Why, [::] shal a man make goddes vnto himſelf, and they are not goddes?

21 Therefore behold I wil shew them at this time, I wil shew them my hand, and my powre: and they shal know that my name is the Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 16

• 2 [::] Ieremie not only liued ſingle in the time of tribulation, but alſo rema⟨illegible⟩ned a virgin al his li⟨illegible⟩e. S. Ier⟨illegible⟩m li▪ 1. aduer Iouian. poſt medium.
• 12 [::] After long expectation of amendment, & generation after generation adding more ſinnes, at laſt cometh great puniſhment.
• 14 [::] But againe after puniſhment God ſheweth his mercie.
• 16 [::] The Apoſtles.
• 16 [::] Other Apoſtolical men.
• 16 [::] Not only Chriſt is a rock, but he hath alſo geuen to his Apoſtle Peter to be called a rocke. In whoſe iudgements they that reſt are rightly ſayde to be tranſlated from the rocke. S. Iero. in hunc locum.
• 20 [::] To make men is the worke of God, and therfore it is very abſurde, that a man can make goddes. S. Iero. ibidem.

Chapter 17

CHAP. XVII. For obſtinacie in ſinne the Iewes shal be ledde captiue. 5. He is curſed that trusteth in flesh: 7. and bl⟨illegible⟩ſſed that trusteth in God. 9. Only God ſearcheth the hart, geuing to euerie one as they deſerue. 11. The prophet prayeth to be deliuered from his enemies: 19. preacheth obſeruation of the Law: 24. ſo they shal pr⟨illegible⟩ſper, otherwiſe perish.

1 THE ſinne of Iuda is written with [::] yron penne in naile of Adamant, grauen vpon the bredth of their hart, and in the hornes of their altars.

2 When their children shal remember their altars, and their groues, and their trees with greene leaues in the high mountaines,

3 ſacrificing in the field: I wil geue thy ſtrength, and al thy treaſures into ſpoile, thine excelſes for ſinne in al thy coſtes.

4 And thou shalt be left alone of thine inheritance, which I gaue thee: and I wil make thee ſerue thine enemies in a land, which thou knoweſt not: becauſe thou haſt kindled a fire in my furie, it shal burne for euer.

5 Thus ſaith our Lord: Curſed be the man that truſteth [::] in man, & maketh flesh his arme, and his hart departeth from our Lord.

6 For he shal be as litle bushes in the deſert, and shal not ſee when good shal come: but he shal dwel in drynes in the deſert, in a land of ſaltnes, and not habitable.

7 Bleſſed be the man, that truſteth in our Lord, and our Lord shal be his confidence.

8 And he shal be as a tree that is planted vpon the waters, that ſpreddeth his rootes towards moyſture: and it shal not feare when the heate cometh. And the leafe thereof shal be greene, and in the time of drought it shal not be careful, neither shal it ceaſe at anie time to bring forth fruite.

9 The hart of man is peruerſe, and vnſearcheable, who shal know it?

10 I the Lord [::] that ſearche the hart, and proue the reynes: which geue to euerie one according to his way, and according to the fruite of his inuentions.

11 The partrich hath nourished that which she brought not forth: he hath gathered riches, and not in iudgement: in the middes of his dayes he shal leaue them, and in his latter end he shal be a foole.

12 A throne of glorie of height from the beginning, the place of our ſanctification:

13 O Lord the expectation of Iſrael: al that forſake thee, shal be confounded: they that depart from thee, shal be written in the earth: becauſe they haue forſaken the vaine of liuing waters our Lord.

14 Heale me ô Lord, and I shal be healed: ſaue me, and I shal be ſaued: becauſe thou art my praiſe.

15 Behold they ſay to me: Where is the word of our Lord? let it come.

16 And I am not trubled, folowing thee the paſtour, and the day of man I haue not deſired, thou knoweſt. That which hath proceeded out of my lippes, hath bene right in thy ſight.

17 Be not thou a terrour vnto me, thou art mine hope in the day of affliction.

18 Let them be confounded that perſecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afrayd, and let not me be afrayd: bring vpon them the day of affliction, and with duble deſtruction, deſtroy them.

19 Thus ſaith our Lord to me: Goe, and ſtand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kinges of Iuda come in, and goe out, and in al the gates of Ieruſalem:

20 and thou shalt ſay to them: Heare the word of our Lord ye kinges of Iuda, and al Iuda, and al the inhabitants of Ieruſalem, that enter in by theſe gates.

21 Thus ſaith our Lord: Take heede to your ſoules, and carie not burdens on [::] the Sabbath day: neither bring them in by the gates of Ieruſalem.

22 And caſt not forth burdens out of your houſes on the Sabbath day, and al worke you shal not doe: ſanctifie the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

23 And they heard not, nor inclined their eare: but hardned their necke, that they would not heare me, and that they would not take diſcipline.

24 And it shal be: if you wil heare me, ſaith our Lord, that you bring not burdens in by the gates of this citie on the Sabbath day: and if you wil ſanctifie the Sabbath day, that you doe not al workes therein:

25 [::] there shal enter in by the gates of this citie kinges and princes, ſitting vpon the throne of Dauid, and mounting on chariotes and horſes, they and their princes, the men of Iuda, and the inhabiters of Ieruſalem: and this citie shal be inhabited for euer.

26 And they shal come from the cities of Iuda, and from round about Ieruſalem, and from the land of Beniamin, and from the champaine countries, & from the mountaines, and from the South, carying holocauſt, and victime, and ſacrifice, and frankincenſe, and they shal bring in oblation into the houſe of our Lord.

27 But if you wil not heare me, to ſanctifie the Sabbath day, & not to carie burden, and not to bring in by the gates of Ieruſalem on the Sabbath day: I wil kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shal deuoure the houſes of Ieruſalem, and it shal not be quenched.

Marginal notes to Chapter 17

• 1 [::] Theſe metaphorical termes ſignifie that their ſinnes were inueterated, and hard to be blotted out.
• 5 [::] Chiefe and principal truſt muſt be in Gods helpe, not in mans ſtrength or policie.
• 5 Iſa. 30.
• 8 Pſal. 1.
• 10 [::] It is proper to God only by his owne powre to ſearch the hart of man and to know his ſecrete thoughts vvhich men, nor Angels can not naturally know; but holie Angels & glorified Sainctes do knovv the thoughtes of men by light of glorie vvhen mortal men pray vnto them; & prophetes know by light of prophecie, as Elizeus ſavv vvhen Giezi tooke bribes; and by ſpecial inſpiration, S. Peter knew the fraude of Ananias & Za phira. Act. 5.
• 10 Pſa. 7. v. 10. Apoc. 2. v. 23.
• 21 [::] By the ſabbath, as often els vvhere, is meant the obſeruation of al the lavv.
• 25 [::] Such temporal rewardes vvere commonly promiſed in the old teſtament, but in the nevv is promiſed life euerlaſting, & eternal glorie.

Chapter 18

CHAP. XVIII. As clay in the hand of a potter, ſo is Iſrael in Gods hand. 8. He pardoneth penitents, 10. and punisheth the obſtinate. 18. They conſpire against Ieremie, for which he denounceth miſeries hanging ouer them.

1 THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, ſaying:

2 Ariſe and goe downe into the potters houſe, and there thou shalt heare my wordes.

3 And I went downe into the potters houſe, and behold he made a worke vpon the wheele.

4 And the veſſel was broken which he made of clay with his handes: and turning [::] he made it an other veſſel, as it pleaſed in his eies to make it.

5 And the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

6 Why, shal I not be able to doe vnto you, as this potter, ô houſe of Iſrael? Behold, ſaith our Lord, as clay in the hand of the potter, ſo are you in my hand, ô houſe of Iſrael.

7 I wil ſodenly ſpeake againſt nation, and againſt kingdom, to roote out, and deſtroy, and waſt it.

8 If that nation shal repent them of their euil, againſt whom I haue ſpoken: I alſo wil repent me of the euil, that I haue thought to doe to it.

9 And I wil ſodenly ſpeake of nation and of kingdom, to build and plant it.

10 If it shal do euil in mine eies, that it heare not my voice: I wil repent me of the good that I haue ſpoken to do vnto it.

11 Now therefore tel the man of Iuda, and the inhabitantes of Ieruſalem, ſaying: Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I forge euil againſt you, and deuiſe a deuice againſt you: let euerie man returne from his euil way, and direct ye your waies and your ſtudies.

12 Who ſaid: We are deſperate: for we wil goe after our cogitations, and we wil do euerie one the peruerſitie of his euil hart.

13 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: Aske the Nations: Who hath heard ſuch horrible thinges, as the virgine of Iſrael hath done exceedingly?

14 Why shal the ſnow of Libanus faile from the rocke of the field? or can the cold waters gushing forth and runing downe, be drawen out?

15 Becauſe my people hath forgotten me, ſacrificing in vaine, and ſtumbling in their waies, in the pathes of the world, that they might walke by them in a way not trodden:

16 that their land might be made into deſolation, and into an euerlaſting hiſſe: euerie one that shal paſſe by it, shal be aſtonied, and wagge his head.

17 As the burning winde wil I diſperſe them before the enemie: the backe, and not the face wil I shew them in the day of their perdition.

18 And they ſaid: [::] Come, and let vs finde deuiſes againſt Ieremie: for the law shal not perish from the prieſt, nor counſel from the wiſe, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let vs ſtrike him with the tongue, and let vs not attend to al his wordes.

19 Attend ô Lord vnto me, and heare the voice of mine aduerſaries.

20 Why, is euil rendred for good, becauſe they haue digged a pitte for my ſoule? Remember that I haue ſtood in the ſight, to ſpeake good for them, and to returne away their indignation from them.

21 Therefore geue their children into famine, and lead them into the handes of the ſword: let their wiues be made without children, & widowes: and let the husbands be killed by death: let their youngmen be pearced through with the ſword in battel.

22 Let a crie be heard out of their houſes, for thou shalt bring the robber vpon them ſodenly: becauſe they haue digged a pitte to take me, and haue hid ſnares for my feete.

23 But thou ô Lord knoweſt al their counſel againſt me vnto death: be not propicious to their iniquitie, & let not their ſinne be cleane put out from thy face: let them be made falling in thy ſight, in the time of thy furie deale with them.

Marginal notes to Chapter 18

• 4 [::] A potter can make a nevv veſſel of the ſame clay being misformed in caſting, ſo it be yet freſh, & moyſt; but God can alſo reforme man being hardned in hart, as if he made a new potte of an old one, broken into peeces or deformed.
• 6 Iſa. 45. Rom. 9.
• 18 [::] Alluding to his owne perſecution the prophet here ſpeaketh expreſly of Chriſt, as S. Ierom ſheweth it verified when the Iewes crucified Chriſt, crying Crucifie him, crucifie him.

Chapter 19

CHAP. XIX. The prophet holding an earthen bottel in his hand, preacheth the deſtruction of Ieruſalem, 4. for their idolatrie: 10. and in ſigne therof breaketh the bottel in peeces: 11. denouncing that God wil ſo breake the people that contemne his word.

1 THVS ſaith our Lord: Goe, and [::] take a potters earthen bottel of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the prieſts:

2 and goe forth to the valley of the ſonne of Ennom, which is by the enterie of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt preach the wordes, that I wil ſpeake to thee.

3 And thou shalt ſay: Heare the word of our Lord ye kinges of Iuda, and inhabitants of Ieruſalem: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil bring in affliction vpon this place: ſo that euerie one, that shal heare it, his eares shal tingle:

4 becauſe they haue forſaken me, and haue made this place ſtrange: & they haue ſacrificed therein to ſtrange goddes, whō they, and their fathers, & the king of Iuda haue not knowen: and they haue filled this place with the bloud of innocents.

5 And they haue built the excelſes of Baalim, to burne their children with fire for holocauſt to Baalim: which I commanded not, nor haue ſpoken of, neither haue they aſcended into my hart.

6 Therefore behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: and this place shal no more be called, Topheth, and the valley of the ſonne of Ennom, but the valley of ſlaughter.

7 And I wil diſſipate the counſel of Iuda and Ieruſalem in this place: and I wil ſubuerte them with the ſword in the ſight of their enemies, and in the hand of them that ſeeke their liues: and I wil geue their carcaſſes to be meate for the foules of the ayre, and for the beaſtes of the earth.

8 And▪ I wil make this citie into aſtonishment, and into hiſſing: euerie one that shal paſſe by it, shal be aſtonished, & shal hiſſe vpon al the plague therof.

9 And I wil feede them with the flesh of their ſonnes, and with the flesh of their daughters: and euerie one shal eate the flesh of his freind in the ſiege, and in the diſtreſſe, wherein their enemies shal include them, & they that ſeeke their liues.

10 And thou shalt breake the bottel in the ſight of the men, that shal goe with thee.

11 And thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: So wil I breake this people, and this citie, as the potters veſſel is broken, that can [::] no more be repaired: and they shal be buried in Topheth, becauſe there is no other place to burie in.

12 So wil I doe to this place, ſaith our Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof: and I wil make this citie as Topheth.

13 And the houſes of Ieruſalem, and the houſes of the kinges of Iuda shal be as the place of Topheth, vncleane: al houſes, in the toppes whereof they haue ſacrificed to al the hoſt of heauen, and haue offered libaments to ſtrange goddes.

14 And Ieremie came from Topheth, whither our Lord had ſent him to prophecie, and he ſtoode in the court of the houſe of our Lord, and ſaid to al the people:

15 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: Behol⟨illegible⟩ ▪ I wil bring in vpon this citie, & vpon al the cities thereof al the euils that I haue ſpoken againſt it: becauſe they haue hardened their necke, that they would not heare my wordes.

Marginal notes to Chapter 19

• 1 [::] VVordes & actions together inſtruct both by the eares & eyes, and ſo moue more effectually. as S. Ierom often noteth.
• 11 [::] That which is vnpoſſible to men, is poſſible to God. Mat. 19. See Annot. ch. 18. v. ⟨illegible⟩ ▪

Chapter 20

CHAP. XX. Phaſſur a prieſt beateth the prophet, and putteth him in the ſtockes. He ſtil prophecieth their captiuitie in Babylon. 7. Lamenteth that he and his preaching is derided: 11. confideth in God: 14. and vttereth his afflicted minde.

1 AND Phaſſur the ſonne of Emmer prieſt, who was appointed prince in the houſe of our Lord, heard Ieremie prophecying theſe wordes.

2 And Phaſſur ſtroke Ieremie the prophet, and put him into the ſtockes, that was in the vpper gate of Beniamin, in the houſe of our Lord.

3 And when it was light on the morow, Phaſſur brought forth Ieremie out of the ſtockes. And Ieremie ſaid to him: Our Lord hath called thy name not [::] Phaſſur, but feare on euerie ſide.

4 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil geue thee into feare, thee and al thy freindes: and they shal fal by the ſword of their enemies, and thine eies shal ſee, and I wil geue al Iuda into the hand of the king of Babylon: & he shal tranſport them into Babylon, and shal ſtrike them with the ſword.

5 And I wil geue al the ſubſtance of this citie, and al the labour therof, & al the price, and al the treaſures of the kings of Iuda wil I geue into the hand of their enemies: and they shal ſpoile them, and take them away, and carie them into Babylon.

6 But thou Phaſſur, and al the inhabiters of thy houſe shal goe into captiuitie, and thou shalt come into Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt be buried, thou and al thy freindes, to whom thou haſt prophecied a lie.

7 Thou haſt ſeduced me ô Lord, and I am ſeduced: thou waſt ſtronger then I, and haſt preuailed: I am made a deriſion al the day, al doe ſcorne me.

8 Becauſe now long agoe I ſpeake, crying out iniquitie, and I often proclayme waſting: and the word of our Lord is made a reproch to me, and a deriſion al the day.

9 And I ſaid [::] I wil nor remember him, nor ſpeake anie more in his name: and there was made in my hart as a fire boyling, and shut vp in my bones: and I fainted, not ſuſtayning to beare it.

10 For I heard the contumelies of manie, & terrour on euerie ſide: perſecute ye, and let vs perſecute him: of al the men, that were my peaceables, and garding my ſide: if by anie meanes he may be deceiued, and we preuaile againſt him, & be reuenged on him.

11 But our Lord is with me as a ſtrong warrier: therefore they that perſecute me shal fal, and shal be weake: they shal be confounded exceedingly, becauſe they haue not vnderſtood the euerlaſting reproch, which neuer shal be cleane put away.

12 And thou Lord of hoſtes, prouer of the iuſt, which ſeeſt the reynes and the hart: let me ſee I beſech thee thy reuenge of them: for to thee I haue reueled my cauſe.

13 Sing ye to our Lord, prayſe our Lord: becauſe he hath deliuered the ſoule of the poore out of the hand of the wicked.

14 :: Curſed be the day, wherein I was borne: the day in which my mother bare me, be it not bleſſed.

15 Curſed be the man that told my father, ſaying: There is a man child borne to thee: and as it were with ioy he reioyced him.

16 Let that man be as the cities are, which our Lord hath ſubuerted, and it hath not repented him: let him heare crying in the morning, and howling at noone time.

17 Who ſlew me not from the wombe, that my mother might be made my graue, and her wombe an euerlaſting conception.

18 Why came I out of the wombe, that I should ſee labour and ſorow, and my daies should be ſpent in confuſion?

Marginal notes to Chapter 20

• 3 [::] Phaſſur ſignifieth multiplying principalitie, but his name was changed into Feare on euerie ſide, to ſignifie that he ſhould be terrified by many enimies.
• 9 [::] As Iob (ſaith S. Ierom) ſo this holie prophet in hyperbolical wordes ſhe weth his afflicted mind, ſignifying that which our Sauiour alſo affirmeth (Mat. 26.) It were better not to be then to be in miſerie; & as Iacob hauing liued in much trauel and affliction, calleth his dayes few and euil (Gen. 47.) Amos alſo ( ⟨illegible⟩. 5.) ſaith: The day of our Lord (afflicting) is darknes, not light. Likewiſe S. Paul calleth this world wicked (Gal. 1) and the dayes euil. Epheſ. 5.
• 14 Iob. 3.

Chapter 21

CHAP. XXI. [Margin: The 3. part. Comminations to Ieruſalem, eſpecially to the King, euil prieſts, & falſe prophets: for which Ieremie is againe perſecuted.] The prophet anſwereth the kinges meſſengers, that Ieruſalem shal be punished with plague, ſworde, famine, and captiuitie. 9. Thoſe shal eſcape beſt that yeld themſelues captiues: 11. exhorteth to correct their liues, leſt al be vtterly deſtroyed.

1 THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, [::] when king Sedecias ſent Phaſſur the ſonne of Melchias vnto him, and Sophonias the ſonne of Maaſias prieſt, ſaying:

2 Aske our Lord for vs, becauſe Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon maketh battel againſt vs: if perhaps our Lord shal doe with vs according to al his meruelous workes, and he may retire backe from vs.

3 And Ieremie ſaid to them: Thus shal you ſay to Sedecias:

4 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil conuert the weapons of warre which are in your handes, and wherewith you fight againſt the king of Babylon, and the Chaldees, that beſiege you round about the walles: and I wil gather them together in the middes of this citie.

5 And I wil vanquish you in ſtretched out hand, and in a ſtrong arme, and in furie, and in indignation, and in great wrath.

6 And wil ſtrike the inhabitants of this citie, men and beaſts shal dye with a greate peſtilence.

7 And after this ſaith our Lord: I wil geue Sedecias the king of Iuda, and his ſeruants, and his people, & they that are leaft in his citie from the peſtilence, and the ſword, and famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that ſeeke their life, and he wil ſtrike them in the edge of the ſword, and he wil not be moued, nor ſpare, nor haue mercie.

8 And to this people thou shalt ſay: Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold [::] I geue before you the way of life, and the way of death.

9 He that shal dwel within this citie, shal dye with the ſword, and with famine, and peſtilence: but he that shal goe forth, and flee to the Chaldees, that beſiege you, shal liue, and his life shal be to him, as a ſpoile.

10 For I haue ſet my face vpon this citie to euil, and not to good, ſaith our Lord: it shal be geuen into the hand of the king of Babylon, & he shal burne it with fire.

11 And to the houſe of the king of Iuda, Heare ye the word of our Lord,

12 ô houſe of Dauid, thus ſaith our Lord: Iudge ye iudgement in the morning, & deliuer the oppreſſed by violence out of the hand of the oppreſſour: leſt perhaps mine indignation goe forth as fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quenche it, becauſe of the malice of your ſtudies.

13 Behold, I to thee inhabitreſſe of the firme & champaine valley ſaith our Lord: which ſay: Who shal ſtrike vs? and who shal enter into our houſes?

14 And I wil viſite vpon you according to the fruite of your ſtudies, ſaith our Lord: & I wil kindle a fire in the foreſt therof: and it shal deuoure al thinges round aboute it.

Marginal notes to Chapter 21

• 1 [::] This reuelation was made to Ieremie & vttered by him long after thoſe, which are in the former chapters: yea and after ſome of thoſe which are recorded in the chapters folowing. For he ſpeaketh here of the time when Nabuchodonoſor inuaded the countrie.
• 8 [::] Gods grace is euer ready that ſinners may conuert if they vvil.
• 9 Deut. 7. 11 30.

Chapter 22

CHAP. XXII. The Prophet going to the palace admonisheth the king, and his officers to iudge and gouerne rightly: 5. threatning that otherwiſe they shal fal into calamitie: 10. prophecieth that Sellum shal not returne into Ieruſalem: 13. reprehendeth vniust builders; 18. that Ioakim shal dye and be buried ignominiouſly: 24. and I cchonias with his mother shal dye in the captiuitie of Babylon.

1 THVS ſaith our Lord: [::] Goe downe into the houſe of the king of Iuda, and there thou shalt ſpeake this word,

2 and shalt ſay: Heare the word of our Lord ô king of Iuda, which ſitteſt vpon the throne of Dauid: thou and thy ſeruantes, and thy people, which enter in by theſe gates.

3 Thus ſaith our Lord doe ye iudgement and iuſtice: and deliuer the oppreſſed by violence out of the hand of the oppreſſour: and the ſtranger, and pupil, and widow make not ſorowful, nor oppreſſe them vniuſtly: and the innocent bloud shede not in this place.

4 For if doeing you wil do this thing, there shal enter in by the gates of this houſe, kinges of the ſtocke of Dauid ſitting vpon his throne, and mounting vpon chariotes and horſes, they and their ſeruants, and their people.

5 But if you wil not heare theſe wordes: by my ſelf I haue ſworne, ſaith our Lord, that this houſe shal be into deſolation.

6 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord vpon the houſe of the king of Iuda: [::] Galaad thou art vnto me the head of [::] Libanus: if I make thee not a wildernes, cities not habitable.

7 And I wil [::] ſanctifie vpon thee a killing man and his weapons: and they shal cut downe thy choſen ceders, & shal caſt them headlong into the fire.

8 And manie nations shal paſſe by this citie: and euerie one shal ſay to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done ſo to this great citie?

9 And they shal anſwer: Becauſe they haue forſaken the couenant of the Lord their God, and haue adored ſtrange goddes, and ſerued them.

10 Weepe not for the dead, neither mourne ye vpon him with weeping: Lament him that goeth forth, becauſe he shal returne no more, nor ſee the land of his natiuitie.

11 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord to [::] Sellum the ſonne of Ioſias the king of Iuda, who [::] hath reigned for Ioſias his father, who is gone forth out of this place. He shal returne hither no more:

12 but in the place, to which I haue tranſported him, there shal he die, and he shal not ſee anie this land more.

13 Woe to him that buildeth his houſe in iniuſtice, and his chambers not in iudgement: his freind he wil oppreſſe without cauſe, and his hyre he wil not render him.

14 Who ſaith: I wil build me a broad houſe, and large chambers: who openeth to himſelf windowes, and maketh embowed ſielings of ceder, and painteth them with ruddle.

15 Why, shalt thou reigne, becauſe thou compareſt thyſelf to the ceder? why, did not thy father eate and drinke, and doe iudgement and iuſtice then when it was wel with him?

16 He iudged the cauſe of the poore and needie to his owne good, did he it not therefore becauſe he knew me, ſaith our Lord?

17 But thine eies and hart are to auarice, and to shede innocent bloud, and to craftie oppreſſion, & to the courſe of euil worke.

18 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord to Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda: They shal not mourne for him, Alas brother, and alas ſiſter: they shal not crie together to him, Alas Lord, and alas ô noble one.

19 With the burial of an aſſe shal he be buried, rotted and caſt forth without the gates of Ieruſalem.

20 Goe vp to Libanus & crie: and in Baſan geue thy voice, & crie to them that paſſe by, becauſe al thy louers are deſtroyed.

21 I ſpake to thee in thine abundance: & thou ſaidſt: I wil not heare: This is thy way from thy youth, becauſe thou heardeſt not my voice.

22 The winde shal feede al thy paſtores, & thy louers shal goe into captiuitie: and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of al thy malice.

23 Thou that ſitteſt in Libanus, and makeſt thy neſte in the ceders, how haſt thou mourned together when ſorowes came to thee, as the ſorowes of a woman in trauel?

24 I liue, ſaith our Lord: that if[::] Iechonias the ſonne of Ioakim the king of Iuda shal be a ring on my right hand, thence wil I pluck him of.

25 And I wil geue thee into the hand of them that ſeeke thy life, and into the hand of them, whoſe face thou feareſt, and into the hand of Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldees.

26 And I wil ſend thee, and thy mother that bare thee, into a ſtrange countrie, in the which you were not borne, and there you shal dye:

27 and into the land, wherto they lift vp their minde to returne thither: they shal not returne.

28 Why, is this man Iechonias an earthen and broken veſſel? is he a veſſel without al pleaſure? why are they caſt away, he and his ſeede are caſt forth into a land which they know not?

29 Earth, earth, earth, heare the word of our Lord.

30 Thus ſaith our Lord: Write this man barren, a man that in his daies shal not proſper: for neither shal there be a man of his ſeede, that shal ſitte vpon the throne of Dauid, and haue power anie more in Iuda.

Marginal notes to Chapter 22

• 1 [::] This was prophecied before that which is written in the chapter precedent; for the prophetes do not obſerue the order of hiſtorie.
• 6 [::] By Galaad he ſignifieth the kinges palace.
• 6 [::] By Libanus Ieruſalem.
• 7 [::] By ſanctifie ſegregate, ſeparate, or deſigne to this office.
• 8 Deut. 29. 3. Reg. 9.
• 11 [::] The fourth ſonne of Ioſias. 1. Par. 3. v. 15.
• 11 [::] To whom (as is probable) Nabuchodonoſor gaue the title of king, after the death of Sedecias.
• 24 [::] Otherwiſe called Ioachin the ſonne of Ioakim. 4. Reg. 24. v. 6.
• 26 :: This Ioachin (or Iechonias) was reſtored to good eſtate, 4 Reg. 25. v. 27. but not to the dignitie or power of a king, neither Salathiel, Zorobabel, or others of his poſteritie til Chriſt.

Chapter 23

CHAP. XXIII. God reproueth the euil gouerners, promiſing to reduce the reliques of the people from diſperſion; 4. to ſend good paſtors; and Christ the chiefe Pastor. 9. Falſeprophetes are threatned: 16. The people warned, not to heare them, preaching without miſſion, 27. againſt Gods wil, 33. and calling Gods word a burden.

1 VVOE to the paſtors, that deſtroy and teare the flocke of my paſture, ſaith our Lord.

2 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael to the paſtours, that feede my people: You haue ſcattered my flocke, and caſt them out, and haue not viſited them: Behold I wil viſite vpon you the malice of your ſtudies, ſaith our Lord.

3 And I wil gather together the remnant of my flocke out of al landes, into which I shal haue caſt them out: and I wil make them returne to their fieldes, and they shal increaſe and be multiplied.

4 And I wil raiſe vp paſtors ouer them, and they shal feede them: they shal feare no more, and they shal not dread: and none shal be to ſeeke of the number, ſaith our Lord.

5 Behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: & I wil rayſe vp to Dauid[::] a iuſt branch: and he shal reigne a king, and shal be wiſe: and he shal doe iudgement and iuſtice in the earth.

6 In thoſe daies shal Iuda be ſaued, and Iſrael shal dwel confidently: and this is the name that they shal cal him: The Lord our iuſt one.

7 For this cauſe behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord, and they shal ſay no more: Our Lord liueth, that brought forth the children of Iſrael out of the Land of Aegypt:

8 but: Our Lord liueth, that hath brought forth, and brought hither the ſeede of the houſe of Iſrael from the Land of the North, and out of al the landes, to which I had caſt them out: & they shal dwel in their owne land.

9 To the prophets: My hart is broken in the middes of me, al my bones haue trembled: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man wette with wine, at the preſence of our Lord, and at the preſence of his holie wordes.

10 Becauſe the land is replenished with aduouterers, becauſe the land hath mourned by reaſon of malediction, the fieldes of the deſert are withered: and their courſe is become euil, & their ſtrength vnlike.

11 For the prophet and the prieſt are polluted: and in my houſe I haue found their euil, ſaith our Lord.

12 Therefore their way shal be as ſlipper ground in the darke: for they shal be driuen forth, and fal therein: for I wil bring euils vpon them, the yeare of their viſitation, ſaith our Lord.

13 And in the prophetes of Samaria I haue ſeene foolishnes: They prophecied in Baal, and deceiued my people Iſrael.

14 And in the prophetes of Ieruſalem I ſaw the ſimilitude of adulterers, and the way of lying: and they ſtrengthned the handes of the moſt wicked, that no man would returne from his malice: they are al become vnto me as Sodoma, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

15 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes to the prophets: Behold I wil feede them with wormewood, and wil geue them galle to drinke, for from the prophetes of Ieruſalem is pollution gone forth vpon al the land.

16 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: He are not the wordes of the prophets, that prophecie vnto you, and deceiue you: they ſpeake the viſion [::] of their owne hart, not from the mouth of the Lord.

17 They ſay to them that blaſpheme me: Our Lord hath ſpoken: Peace shal be to you, and to euerie one that walketh in the peruerſitie of his owne hart, they haue ſaid: There shal no euil come vpon you.

18 For who hath bene preſent in the counſel of our Lord, and hath ſeene and heard his word? Who hath conſidered his word, and heard it?

19 Behold the whirlewind of the Lords indignation shal come forth, and a tempeſt breaking out: it shal come vpon the head of the impious.

20 The furie of the Lord shal not returne til he doe it, and vntil he accomplish the cogitation of his hart: in the later daies you shal vnderſtand his counſel.

21 I [::] ſent not the prophetes, and they ranne: I ſpake not to them, and they prophecied.

22 If they had ſtood in my counſel, and made my wordes knowen to my people, I had verely turned them from their euil way, and from their moſt wicked cogitations.

23 Am I God neere hand thinkeſt thou, ſaith our Lord? and not God farre of?

24 Shal a man be hid in ſecretes: and shal not I ſee him, ſaith our Lord? Why, doe not I fil heauen and earth, ſaith our Lord?

25 I haue heard what the prophets haue ſaid, prophecying in my name lies, and ſaying: I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed.

26 How long is this in the hart of the prophetes prophecying lies, and prophecying the ſeductions of their owne hart?

27 Who wil make my people to forget my name through their dreames, which euerie one telleth to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

28 The prophet that hath a dreame, let him tel the dreame: and he that hath my word, let him ſpeake my word truly: what hath the cha⟨illegible⟩e to doe with the wheate, ſaith our Lord?

29 Why, are not my wordes as fire, ſaith our Lord: and as a hammer breaking a rocke?

30 Therefore behold I to the prophetes, ſaith our Lord: which ſteale my wordes euerie one from his neighbour.

31 Behold I to the prophetes, ſaith our Lord: which take their tongues, and ſay: Our Lord ſaith it.

32 Behold, I to the prophets dreaming lies, ſaith our Lord: which haue told thoſe thinges, and haue ſeduced my people in their lying, and in their [::] miracles: when I had not ſent them, nor commanded them, who haue not profited this people, ſaith our Lord.

33 If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the prieſt shal aske thee, ſaying: What is the burden of our Lord? thou shalt ſay to them: We are the burden. for I wil caſt you forth, ſaith our Lord.

34 And the prophet, and the prieſt, and the people that ſaith: The burden of our Lord wil I viſite vpon that man, and vpon his houſe.

35 Thus shal you ſay euerie one to his brother, & neighbour: What hath our Lord anſwered? and what hath our Lord ſpoken?

36 And the burden of our Lord shal no more be mentioned: becauſe euerie mans burden shal be his owne word: & you haue peruerted the wordes of the liuing God, the Lord of hoſtes our God.

37 Thus shalt thou ſay to the prophet: What hath our Lord anſwered thee? and what hath our Lord ſpoken?

38 But if thou shalt ſay the burden of our Lord: for this, thus ſaith our Lord: Becauſe you haue ſaid this word: The burden of our Lord: and I haue ſent to you, ſaying: Say not: The burden of our Lord:

39 Therefore behold I wil take you away carying you, and wil forſake you, & the citie which I haue geuen to you, and to your fathers, from before my face.

40 And I wil geue you into euerlaſting reproch, and into eternal ignominie, which shal neuer be put away by obliuion.

Marginal notes to Chapter 23

• 1 Ezec 13. & 34.
• 5 Iſa. 4. 40. 45.
• 5 [::] Chriſt who is iuſt of himſelf, who maketh others iuſt, and without whom no man can be iuſt.
• 6 Ezec. 34. Dan 9. Ioa. 1. v. 45.
• 8 Deut. 33.
• 16 [::] To truſt their owne iudgement, not beleuing the definitions of the Church, & relying euerie one vpon his priuate ſpirite is a manifeſt note of heretikes, falſe▪ prophetes or Apoſtataes.
• 21 [::] Miſſion of Paſtors & Prophetes was alvvayes ſo neceſſary in Gods Church, that whoſoeuer cōmeth without right miſſion is a falſe prophet, a woolfe & not a paſtor.
• 32 [::] Falſe prophetes may do falſe miracles, that is, ſtrange thinges to deceiue others: but can not worke true miracles. Becauſe therfore it is hard for vulgar people to iudge which are falſe miracles, the former note of right miſſion is a more ſecure marke to know true & falſe prophets.

Chapter 24

CHAP. XXIIII. By a parable of good and euil figges, is ſignified, 5. the reduction of the penitent from captiuitie: 8. and the vexation of thoſe, that ſtayed in Ieruſalem, or fled into Aegypt.

1 OVR Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets ful of figges, ſet before the temple of our Lord: after that Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon tranſported Iechonias the ſonne of Ioakim the king of Iuda, and his princes, and the crafteſman, and incloſer of Ieruſalem, and had brought them into Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figges: as the figges of the prime time are wont to be: and one basket had very naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, becauſe they were naught.

3 And our Lord ſaid to me: What ſeeſt thou Ieremie? And I ſaid: Figges: the good figges, [::] exceeding good, and the naughtie figges, exceeding naught: which can not be eaten becauſe they are naught.

4 And the word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

5 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: As are theſe good figges: ſo wil I know the tranſmigration of Iuda, which I haue ſent forth out of this place into the land of Chaldees, vnto good.

6 And I wil ſet mine eies vpon them to be pacified, & I wil bring them againe into this land: and I wil build them, and not deſtroy: and I wil plant them and not plucke them vp.

7 And I wil geue them an hart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shal be my people, and I wil be their God: becauſe they shal returne to me in al their hart.

8 And as are the very naughtie figges, that can not be eaten, becauſe they are naught: thus ſaith our Lord, ſo wil I geue Sedecias the king of Iuda: and his princes, and the reſt of Ieruſalem, that haue remained in this citie, and that dwel in the Land of Aegypt.

9 And I wil geue them into vexation, and affliction, to al the kingdomes of the earth: into reproch, and to be a parable, and into a prouerbe, and into malediction in al places, to which I haue caſt them out.

10 And I wil ſend among them the ſword, famine, and peſtilence: til they be conſumed out of the land, which I gaue them, and their fathers.

Marginal notes to Chapter 24

• 3 [::] Literally he prophecieth that king Ieconias and others caried in the firſt trāſmigration into Babylon ſhould be releaſed or exalted; and king Sedecias with his children & folovvers ſhould periſh: but myſtically he prophecieth that the good ſhal proſper & be high ly rewarded, & the wicked ſhal be miſerable and moſt ſeuerely puniſhed.

Chapter 25

CHAP. XXV. After the peoples contemning to heare Ieremie, and other Prophets, preaching three & twentie yeares, 8. he denounceth their aſſured captiuitie ſeuentie yeares in Babylon: 12. and then the ruine of their enemies. 15. Al which wrath of God, Ieremie forshsweth to the Iewes, 19. and Gentiles. 29. Which shal first happen to Gods proper people: 36. and ſo extend to al nations: 34. the principal gouerners bewayling their common miſerie.

1 THE word that was made to Ieremie concerning al the people of Iudain [::] the fourth yeare of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda (the ſame is the firſt yeare of Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon.)

2 Which Ieremie the prophet ſpake to al the people of Iuda, and to al the inhabitants of Ieruſalem, ſaying:

3 From the thirteenth yeare of Ioſias, the ſonne of Amon king of Iuda vntil this day; this is the three & twentith yeare, the word of our Lord was made to me, and I haue ſpoken to you riſing in the night and ſpeaking, and you haue not heard.

4 And our Lord hath ſent al his ſeruants the prophets, ryſing early, and ſending and you haue not heard, not inclined your eares to heare

5 when he ſaid: Returne ye euerie one from his euil way, and from your moſt wicked cogitations: and you shal dwel in the land, which our ⟨illegible⟩ord hath geuen you, and your fathers from euerlaſting & for euermore.

6 And goe ye not after ſtrange goddes to ſerue them, & adore them: nor prouoke me to wrarh in the works of your handes, and I wil not afflict you.

7 And you haue not heard me, ſaith our Lord, ſo that you prouoked me to anger in the workes of your handes, to your euil.

8 Therfore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: For that you haue not heard my wordes:

9 behold I wil ſend, and take al the kinreds of the North, ſaith our Lord, and Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon [::] my ſeruant: and I wil bring them vpon this land, and vpon the inhabitants thereof, and vpon al the nations that are round about it: and I wil kil them, and make them into aſtonishment and hyſſing, and into euerlaſting deſolations.

10 And I wil deſtroy out of them the voice of ioy, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegroome, and the voice of the bride, the noiſe of the mil, and the light of the lampe.

11 And al this land shal be in deſolation, and into aſtonishment: and al theſe nations shal ſerue the king of Bebylon [::] ſeuentie yeares.

12 And when the ſeuentie yeares shal be expired, I wil viſite vpon the king of Babylon, and vpon that nation, ſaith our Lord, their iniquitie, and vpon the land of Chaldees: and I wil make it into euerlaſting deſolations.

13 And I wil bring vpon that land al my wordes, that I haue ſpoken againſt it, al that is written in this booke, whatſoeuer Ieremie hath prophecied againſt al nations:

14 becauſe they haue ſerued them, whereas they were manie nations, & great kinges: and I wil repay them according to their workes, and according to the deedes of their handes.

15 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Take [::] the cuppe of wine of this furie at my hand: & thou shalt drinke thereof to al nations, vnto the which I shal ſend thee.

16 And they shal drinke, and be trubled, and be madde at the face of the ſword, which I shal ſend among them.

17 And I tooke the cuppe at the hand of our Lord, and I dranke to al the nations, to which our Lord ſent me:

18 to Ieruſalem, and the cities of ⟨illegible⟩uda, and to the kinges thereof, & princes thereof: that I would geue them into deſolation, and into aſtonishment, and into hiſſing, and into malediction, as is this day.

19 To Pharao the king of Aegypt, and to his ſeruants, and his princes, & al his people,

20 and to al generally: to al the kinges of the land of Auſitis, and to al the kinges of the land of the Philiſthijms, and of Aſcalon, and of Gaza, and of Accaron, and to the remnant of Azotus,

21 and of Idumea, and of Moab, and to the children of Ammon.

22 And to al the kinges of Tyre, and to al the kinges of Sidon: and to the kinges of the land of the iles, who are beyond the Sea.

23 And to Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and to al [::] that haue their heare powled.

24 And to al the kinges of Arabia, and to al the kinges of the Weſt, that dwel in the deſert.

25 And to al the kinges of Zambri, and to al the kinges of Elam, and to al the kinges of the Medes:

26 alſo to al the kinges of the North from neere and from a farre of: to euerie one againſt his brother: and to al the kingdomes of the earth, which are vpon the face thereof: and the king of Seſac shal drinke after them.

27 And thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Drinke ye, and be drunken, & vomite: and fal, and riſe not, at the face of the ſword, which I shal ſend among you.

28 And when they shal not take the cuppe of thy hand to drinke, thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Drinking you shal drinke:

29 becauſe loe in the citie, wherein my name is inuocated, wil I beginne to afflict, and shal you be as innocent and ſcape free? you shal not ſcape free: for I cal the ſword vpon al the inhabitants of the earth, ſaith the Lord of hoſtes.

30 And thou shalt prophecie vnto them al theſe wordes, and shalt ſay to them: Our Lord from on high shal roare, and from his holie habitation shal geue his voice: roaring he shal roare vpon his beautie: the crie as it were of them that [::] tread grapes shal be ſung againſt al the inhabitants of the earth.

31 The ſound is come euen to the endes of the earth: becauſe there is iudgement to our Lord with the Nations: he entreth iudgement with al flesh, the impious I haue deliuered to the ſword, ſaith our Lord.

32 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Behold, affliction shal go forth from nation to nation: & a great whirlewind shal goe forth from the endes of the earth.

33 And the ſlaine of our Lord shal be in that day from the one end of the earth euen to the other end thereof: they shal not be mourned, and they shal not be gathered vp, nor buried: as a dunghil shal they lie vpon the face of the earth.

34 Howle ye paſtoures, and crie: and ſprinkle your ſelues with ashes ye leaders of the flocke: becauſe your daies are accomplished, to be ſlaine: and your diſſipations, and you shal fal as precious veſſels.

35 And flight shal faile from the paſtours, and ſaluation from the principals of the flocke.

36 A voice of the crie of the paſtoures, and an bowling of the principals of the flocke: becauſe our Lord hath waſted their paſtures.

37 And the fieldes of peace haue bene ſilent at the preſence of the wrath of the furie of our Lord.

38 He hath as a lyon forſaken his couert, becauſe their land is made into deſolation at the preſence of the wrath of [::] the doue, and at the preſence of the wrath of the furie of our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 25

• 1 [::] As is noted before (ch. 21.) theſe prophe cies are not written in order of the time when they were vttered. For this viſion perteyneth to Ioakim, who was father to Ieconias, and elder brother to Sedecias, of whom the for mer chapters make mentiō.
• 5 4. Reg. 17.
• 9 [::] This wicked king is called Gods ſeruant in that he was his inſtrument o⟨illegible⟩ miniſter to puniſh other ſinners.
• 11 Dan. 9. 1. Eſd. 1. 3. Eſd. 1.
• 11 [::] Theſe ſeuentie yeares begane in the eleuenth yeare of Sedecias.
• 15 [::] This metaphor of a cuppe ſignifieth that Gods wrath is powred out to puniſh ſinners. As Pſa. 74. v. 9. Iſa. 51. v. 17.
• 23 [::] The Iſmaelites, & Agarenes (otherwiſe called Sarazens) powled their heare to the eares, & left the loweſt part long; as now the Polonians & Hungarians vſe to be powled.
• 29 1. Pet. 4.
• 30 Ioel. 3. Amos. 1.
• 30 [::] As thoſe that labour in the vinepreſſeſing to encorege ech other, ſo in affliction it wil be neceſſarie to doe the like.
• 38 [::] Though God of his nature is moſt meke like to a doue, yet prouoked by ſinne he powreth out wrath▪

Chapter 26

CHAP. XXVI. The prophet for preaching Gods commination, 7. is apprehended by the prieſtes, and falſe prophetes: 10. but deliuered from death by the ancientes of the people: 18. alleaging the examples of Michaeas, 20. and Vrias prophecying the ſame before.

1 IN THE beginning of the kingdom of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda, came this word from our Lord, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord: Stand in the court of the houſe of our Lord, and thou shalt ſpeake to al the [*] cities of Iuda, out of the which they come, to adore in the houſe of our Lord, al the wordes which I haue commanded thee to ſpeake vnto them: withdraw not a word,

3 [::] if perhaps they wil heare and be conuerted euerie one from his euil way: and it may repent me of the euil that I thinke to doe to them for the malice of their ſtudies.

4 And thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith our Lord: If you wil not heare me to walke in my law, which I haue geuen you,

5 that you heare the wordes of my ſeruants the prophetes, which I ſent to you in the night riſing, and directing, and you heard not:

6 I wil geue this houſe as Silo, and this citie I wil geue into malediction to al the nations of the earth.

7 And the prieſtes, and prophetes, and al the people heard Ieremie ſpeaking theſe wordes in the houſe of our Lord.

8 And when Ieremie had ended ſpeaking al thinges that our Lord had commanded him, to ſpeake vnto al the people: the prieſtes, and prophetes, and [::] al the people apprehended him, ſaying: Let him dye the death.

9 Why hath he prophecied in the name of our Lord, ſaying: This houſe shal be as Silo: and this citie shal be made deſolate, for that there is no inhabitant? And al the people was gathered together againſt Ieremie in the houſe of our Lord.

10 And the princes of Iuda heard theſe wordes: and they went vp from the kings houſe into the houſe of our Lord, and ſa⟨illegible⟩e in the entrie of the new gate of the houſe of our Lord.

11 And the prieſtes and the prophetes ſpake to the princes, and to al the people, ſaying: The iudgement of death is to this man: becauſe he hath prophecied againſt this citie, as you haue heard with your eares.

12 And Ieremie ſpake to al the princes, and to al the people, ſaying: Our Lord ſent me, that I should prophecie to this houſe, & to this citie al the wordes that you haue heard.

13 Now therfore make your waies good, and your ſtudies, & heare the voice of our Lord your God: and our Lord wil repent him of the euil, that he hath ſpoken againſt you.

14 But I loe am in your handes: doe vnto me that which is good, and right in your eyes:

15 Howbeit know ye and vnderſtand that if you kil me, you shal betray innocent bloud againſt your ſelues, and againſt this citie, and the inhabitantes therof. For in truth our Lord ſent me to you, that I should ſpeake al theſe wordes in your eares.

16 And the princes, and [::] al the people ſaid to the prieſtes, and to the prophetes: There is no iudgement of death to this man: becauſe he hath ſpoken to vs in the name of the Lord our God.

17 Men therefore of the ancients of the land roſe vp: and they ſpake to al the aſſemblie of the people, ſaying:

18 Michaeas the Moraſthi was a prophet in the daies of Ezechias the king of Iuda, and he ſpake to al the people Iuda, ſaying: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Sion shal be plowed as a field, and Ieruſalem shal be as an heape of ſtones: and the mount of the houſe as the high places of woodes.

19 Did Ezechias the king of Iuda, and al Iuda, condemne him to death? Did they not feare our Lord, and beſeech the face of our Lord: and it repented our Lord of the euil, that he had ſpoken againſt them? Therefore we doe great euil againſt our ſelues.

20 There was alſo a man prophecying in the name of our Lord, Vrias the ſonne of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he prophecied againſt this citie, and againſt this land according to al the wordes of Ieremie.

21 And king Ioakim, and al his mighties, and his princes heard theſe wordes: & the king ſought to kil him. And Vrias heard, and was afraied, and fled and went into Aegypt.

22 And king Ioakim ſent men into Aegypt, Elnathan the ſonne of Achobor, and men with him into Aegypt.

23 And they brought Vrias out of Aegypt: and brought him to king Ioakim, and he ſtroke him with the ſword: and he caſt forth his carcaſſe in the ſepulchers of the baſe vulgar people.

24 Therefore the hand of Ahicam the ſonne of Saphan was with Ieremie, that he should not be deliuered into the handes of the people, and they kil him.

Marginal notes to Chapter 26

• 2 [*] Men of the cities.
• 3 [::] Gods cōm⟨illegible⟩nations are conditional, if the people perſiſt in ſinne they shal be punished, as is threatned, but if they repent the punishment shal be mitigated.
• 6 ⟨illegible⟩. Reg 4.
• 8 [::] It is a moſt cōmon phraſe of holie Scripture to ſay, al, for moſt part.
• 12 Ch. 25. 2. Par. 36.
• 13 1. Eſd. 1. 3. Eſd. 1.
• 16 [::] Common people doe eaſily change their iudgement, ſometimes to the better, as here to ſaue the prophets life, ſometimes to worſe, as when they had receiued our Sauiour with ioy on palmeſunday, within few dayes after they cried: Crucifie him.
• 18 Mich. 3.

Chapter 27

CHAP. XXVII. Ieremie putteth chaines about his owne necke, and then ſendeth them to ſundrie kinges, admonishing them, that they muſt either be ſubiect to the king of Babylon, 8. or perish by ſword, famine, and peſtilence. 14. Inueigheth againſt falſe prophetes preaching the contrarie. 16. and falſly affirming that the veſſels already taken away shal quickly be reſtored. 18. wheras in dede the reſt shal alſo be caried away, but al at last reſtored.

1 IN THE beginning of the kingdom of Ioakim, the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda, was this word made to Ieremie from our Lord, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord to me: Make thee [::] bandes, and chaynes: and thou shalt put them on thy necke.

3 And thou shalt ſend them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the meſſengers, that are come to Ieruſalem to Sedecias the king of Iuda.

4 And thou shalt command them that they ſpeake to their lordes: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Thus shal you ſay to your lordes:

5 I made the earth, and men, and the beaſtes, that are vpon the face of the earth, in my great ſtrength, and in my ſtretched out arme: and I haue geuen it to him, that pleaſed in mine eies.

6 And now therefore I haue geuen al theſe landes into the hand of Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon [::] my ſeruant: more ouer alſo the beaſtes of the field I haue geuen him, to ſerue him.

7 And al nations shal ſerue him, and his ſonne, and his ſonnes ſonne: til the time come of his land and of himſelf: and manie nations and great kinges shal ſerue him.

8 But the nation and kingdome that shal not ſerue Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon: and who ſoeuer shal not bowe his necke vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon: I wil viſite vpon that nation with ſword, and with famine, and with peſtilence, ſaith our Lord: til I conſume them in his hand.

9 You therefore heare not your prophetes, and deuiners, and dreamers, and ſouthſayers, and ſorcerers, that ſay to you: You shal not ſerue the king of Babylon.

10 Becauſe they prophecie lies vnto you: that they may make you far from your countrie, and caſt you out, and you perish.

11 But the nation, that shal ſubmit their necke vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon, and shal ſerue him; the ſame wil I let alone in their owne land, ſaith our Lord: and they shal husband it, and dwel in it.

12 And to Sedecias the king of Iuda, I haue ſpoken according to al theſe wordes, ſaying: Submitte your neckes vnder the yoke of the king of Babylon, & ſerue him, and his people, & you shal liue.

13 Why wil you dye, thou and thy people with the ſword, and famine, & the peſtilence, as the Lord hath ſpoken to the nation, that wil not ſerue the king of Babylon?

14 Heare not the wordes of the prophetes that ſay to you: You shal not ſerue the king of Babylon: becauſe they ſpeake a lie to you.

15 Becauſe I ſent them not, ſaith our Lord: & they prophecie in my name falſely: that they may caſt you out, & you perish, as wel you, as the prophetes that prophecie vnto you.

16 And to the prieſtes, and to this people I haue ſpoken, ſaying: Thus ſaith our Lord: Heare not the wordes of your prophetes, that prophecie to you, ſaying: Behold the veſſels of our Lord shal returne out of Babylon euen now quickly, for they prophecie a lie vnto you.

17 Therefore heare them not, but ſerue the king of Babylon, that you may liue. Why is this citie geuen into deſolation?

18 And [::] if they be prophetes, and the word of our Lord be in them: let them interpoſe themſelues before the Lord of hoſtes, that the veſſels which were leaft in the houſe of our Lord, and in the houſe of the king of Iuda, and in Ieruſalem, come not into Babylon.

19 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes to the pillars, and to the ſea, and to the feete, and to the reſt of the veſſels, that are remayning in this citie.

20 Which Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon, tooke not when he tranſported Ieconias the ſonne of Ioakim, the king of Iuda, from Ieruſalem into Babylon, and al the great men of Iuda and Ieruſalem.

21 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael to the veſſels, that are left in the houſe of our Lord, and in the houſe of the king of Iuda and Ieruſalem:

22 They shal be tranſported into Babylon, and there they shal be vntil the day of their viſitation, ſaith our Lord: and I wil cauſe them to be brought, and to be reſtored in this place.

Marginal notes to Chapter 27

• 2 [::] Bandes and chaynes are apt ſignes of captiuitie, becauſe they are the very inſtruments wherwith captiues are bond.
• 6 [::] Hangmen, or executioners are Gods inſtruments, & his ſeruantes in puniſhing the wicked.
• 10 Ch. 23. & 29.
• 15 Ch. 14.
• 18 [::] It is ſo falſe that the treaſures caried away shal quickly be reſtored, that in dede more shal be caried away before the former be recouered.
• 19 4 Reg. 25.
• 20 4 Reg. 24.
• 22 4. Reg. 25.

Chapter 28

CHAP. XXVIII. Hananias a falſe prophet auoucheth that within two yeares the holie veſſel and king I echonias with other captiues shal be reſtored. 5. I eremie prayeth that it may be ſo. 7. but prophecieth that it wil not ſo be. 10. The falſe prophet in confirmation of that he ſaith, breaketh I eremies chaine. 12. But I eremie againe prophecieth the contrarie. 16. & that Hananias shal dye the ſame yeare.

1 AND it came to paſſe in that yeare, in the beginning of the kingdom of Sedecias king of Iuda, in the [::] fourth yeare, in the fifth moneth, Hananias the ſonne of Azur the prophet of Gabaon ſpake to me, in the houſe of our Lord before the prieſtes, and al the people, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael, I haue broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

3 As yet two yeares of dayes, and I wil make al the veſſels of the houſe of our Lord to be brought backe into this place, which Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon tooke out of this place, and tranſported them into Babylon.

4 And Iechonias the ſonne of Iaokim the king of Iuda, and al the tranſmigration of Iuda, that are entered into Babylon, I wil make to returne to this place, ſaith our Lord: for I wil breake the yoke of the king of Babylon.

5 And Ieremie the prophet ſaid to Hananias the prophet in the preſence of the prieſtes, and in the preſence of al the people, that ſtoode in the houſe of our Lord:

6 And Ieremie the prophet ſaid: [::] Amen, Our Lord ſo doe: our Lord raiſe vp thy wordes, which thou haſt prophecied: that the veſſels may be brought againe into the houſe of our Lord, and al the tranſmigration out of Babylon to this place.

7 But yet heare this word, that I ſpeake in thine eares, and in the eares of al the people:

8 The prophets, that haue bene before me, and before thee from the beginning, and haue prophecied concerning manie countries, and concerning great kingedomes of warre, and of affliction, and of famine.

9 The prophet, that hath prophecied peace: when his word shal come to paſſe, the prophet shal be knowen, whom our Lord hath ſent in truth.

10 And Hananias the prophet tooke the chaine from the necke of Ieremie the prophet and brake it.

11 And Hananias ſpake in the ſight of al the people, ſaying: Thus ſaith our Lord: So wil I breake the yoke of Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon after two yeares of dayes from the necke of al nations.

12 And Ieremie the prophet went his way. And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie, after that Hananias the prophet brake the chayne from the necke of Ieremie the prophet, ſaying:

13 Goe, and thou shalt tel Hananias: Thus ſaith our Lord: Thou haſt broken chaynes of wood, and thou shalt make for them chaynes of yron.

14 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: An yron yoke haue I put vpon the necke of al theſe Nations, to ſerue Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon, and they shal ſerue him: moreouer alſo the beaſtes of the earth I haue geuen him.

15 And Ieremie the prophet ſaid to Hananias the prophet: Heare Hananias: Our Lord ſent thee not, & thou haſt made this people to truſt in a lie.

16 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil ſend thee from of the face of the earth: this yeare shalt thou dye: for thou haſt ſpoken againſt our Lord.

17 And Hananias the prophet died in that yeare, the ſeuenth moneth.

Marginal notes to Chapter 28

• 1 [::] Sedecias reigning eleuen yeares, the fourth yeare of his reigne may vvel be called in the beginning of his reigne.
• 6 [::] The prophet hearing a good thing falſly auouched wisheth it might be ſo, but left others be deceiued, warneth the people not to beleeue it, becauſe it is falſe and shal not happen as the falſe prophet affirmeth.

Chapter 29

CHAP. XXIX. [Margin: The 4. part. Conſolations and threates as the people ſhal deſerue, with the deſtruction of Ieruſalem, cap tiuitie of the king & people and their releaſe after 70. yeares] Ieremie writeth to the captiues in Babylon, exhorting them to liue in peace, 8. and not harking to falſeprophetes. 10. For they muſt remaine there ſeuentie yeares, and then shal be deliuered. 16. And thoſe that remaine in Ieruſalem shal ſuffer ſword, famine, and peſtilence. 21. And Achab, Sedecias, 24. and Someias falſe prophetes, shal dye miſerably.

1 AND theſe are the wordes of [::] the booke, which Ieremie the prophet ſent from Ieruſalem to the remnant of the ancientes of the tranſmigration, and to the prieſtes, and to the prophetes, and to al the people, which Nabuchodonoſor had tranſported from Ieruſalem into Babylon:

2 after that Iechonias the king was gone forth, and the queene, and the Eunuches, and the princes of Iuda, and of Ieruſalem, and the craftes man, and the incloſer our of Ieruſalem:

3 by the hand of Elaſa the ſonne of Saphan, and Gamarias the ſonne of Helcias, whom Sedecias the king of Iuda ſent to Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon into Babylon, ſaying:

4 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael to al the tranſmigration, which I haue tranſported; from Ieruſalem into Babylon:

5 Build ye houſes, and inhabite them: and plant orchardes, and eate the fruite of them.

6 Take wiues, and beget ſonnes and daughters: & geue wiues to your ſonnes, & geue your daughters to husbands, & let them beare ſonnes and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.

7 And ſeeke the peace of the citie, to which I haue tranſported you: & pray for it to our Lord: becauſe in the peace thereof there shal be peace to you.

8 For thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Let not your prophetes, that are in the middes of you, and your diuiners ſeduce you: and attend not to your dreames, which you dreame:

9 becauſe they doe falſely prophecie to you in my name: and I ſent them not, ſaith our Lord.

10 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: When the ſeuentie yeares shal beginne to be expired in Babylon, I wil viſite you: and I wil raiſe vp vpon you my good word, to bring you againe to this place.

11 For I know the cogitations, that entend vpon you, ſaith our Lord, cogitations of peace, and not of affliction, to geue you an end and patience.

12 And you shal inuocate me, and goe: and you shal pray me, and I wil heare you,

13 You shal ſeeke me, and shal finde: when you shal ſeeke me with al your hart.

14 And I wil be found of you, ſaith our Lord: and I wil bring backe your captiuitie, and I wil gather you out of al nations, and from al places to the which I haue expelled you, ſaith our Lord: and I wil make you to returne from the place, to the which I haue tranſported you.

15 Becauſe you haue ſaid: [::] Our Lord hath raiſed vp prophetes to vs in Babylon:

16 for thus ſaith our Lord to the king, that ſitteth vpon the throne of Dauid, and to al the people the inhabiter of this citie, to your bretheren, that are not gone forth with vou into the tranſmigration.

17 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Behold I wil ſend vpon them the ſword, and famine, and the peſtilence: & I wil make them as naughtie figges, that can not be eaten, becauſe they are very naught.

18 And I wil perſecute them with the ſword, & with famine, & with peſtilence: and I wil geue them into vexation to al the kingdomes of the earth: into [::] malediction, & into aſtonishment, and into hyſſing, & into reproch to al the Nations, to which I haue caſt them out:

19 becauſe they haue not heard my wordes, ſaith our Lord: which I ſent to them by my ſeruantes the prophetes in the night ryſing, and ſending: and you heard not, ſaith our Lord.

20 You therefore heare the word of our Lord al ye the tranſmigration, which I haue ſent out from Ieruſalem into Babylon.

21 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael to Achab the ſonne of Colias, and to Sedecias the ſonne of Maaſias, which prophecie vnto you in my name falſely: Behold I wil deliuer them into the handes of Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon: and he shal ſtrike them in your eies.

22 And of them a malediction shal be taken vp by al the tranſmigration of Iuda, that is in Babylon, ſaying: Our Lord make thee as Sedecias, and as Achab, whom the king of Babylon fryed in the fire:

23 for that they haue done follie in Iſrael, and committed adulterie with their freindes wiues, and haue ſpoken the word in my name falſely, which I commanded them not: I am the iudge and the witnes, ſaith our Lord.

24 And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt ſay:

25 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: For that thou haſt ſent in thy name bookes to al the people, that is in Ieruſalem, and to Sophonias the ſonne of Maaſias, the prieſt, & to al the prieſtes, ſaying:

26 Our Lord hath made thee prieſt for Ioiada the prieſt, that thou shouldeſt be ruler in the houſe of our Lord, vpon euerie man rauing and prophecying, to put him into the ſtockes, and into priſon.

27 And now why haſt thou nor rebuked Ieremie the Anathothite, which prophecieth vnto you?

28 Becauſe vpon this he hath ſent into Babylon to vs, ſaying: It is long: build ye houſes, and inhabite them: and plant gardens, and eate the fruities of them.

29 Sophonias therefore the prieſt reade this booke in the eares of Ieremie the propher.

30 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie, ſaying:

31 Send to al the tranſmigration, ſaying: Thus ſaith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite: Becauſe Semeias hath prophecied to you, and I ſent him not: and hath made you to truſt in a lie:

32 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil viſite vpon Semeias the Nehelamite, and vpon his ſeede: there shal not be vnto him a man ſitting in the middes of this people, and he shal not ſee the good, that I wil doe to my people, ſaith our Lord: becauſe he hath ſpoken preuarication againſt our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 29

• 1 [::] Againſt the flatery of falſe prophetes affirming that the captiues ſhal ſhortly be reduced, Ieremie ſincerely writeth vnto them that they muſt remaine in Babylon a long time.
• 8 Ch. 14.
• 10 Ch. 25. 2. Par. 36. I. Eſd. 1. Dan. 9.
• 14 3. Iſd. I.
• 15 [::] The ſeduced people thought the falſe prophets had bene true prophetes of God.
• 17 Ch. 24.
• 18 [::] Their miſerie ſhal be ſo great that it ſhal be as a prouerbe of them that wiſh euil to others, to ſay: The malediction of the Ievves fal vpon you, as is more clerly explicated. v. 22.

Chapter 30

CHAP. XXX. The prophet is commanded to write the ſame which he preacheth: 4. first penſiue thinges, 8. Then ioyful. 9. Eſpecially in the new Testament, when God wil raiſe Dauid (towitte Chriſt) 16. Who shal deſtroy al enemies. 19, And whoſe Church shal be great, glorious, and perpetual.

1 THIS is the word, that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael, ſaying: Write vnto thee al the wordes that I haue ſpoken to thee, in a booke.

3 For behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: and I wil conuert the conuerſion of my people [::] Iſrael and Iuda, ſaith our Lord: and I wil make them returne to the land, which I gaue their fathers, and they shal poſſeſſe it.

4 And theſe are the wordes, that our Lord hath ſpoken to Iſrael and to Iuda:

5 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: We haue heard a voice of terrour: there is feare and no peace.

6 Demand, and ſee if a man beare childe? wherefore then haue I ſeene euerie mans hand vpon his loyne, as a woman that is in trauel, and al faces are turned into the iaundice?

7 Alas, becauſe that is a great day, neither is there the like to it: and it is the time of tribulation to Iacob, and he shal be ſaued out of it.

8 And it shal be in that day, ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: I wil breake his yoke from of thy necke, and wil breake his bandes: and ſtrangers shal no more rule ouer him:

9 but they shal ſerue our Lord their God, and Dauid their king, whom I wil raiſe vp to them.

10 Thou therefore my ſeruant Iacob feare not, ſaith our Lord, neither be thou afrayd Iſrael: becauſe loe I wil ſaue thee out of a farre countrie, and thy ſeede out of the land of their captiuitie: and Iacob shal returne, and be at reſt, & flow with al good thinges, and there shal be none whom he may feare:

11 becauſe I am with thee, ſaith our Lord, to ſaue thee: for I wil make [::] a conſumation in al the Nations, in which I haue diſperſed thee: but thee I wil not make into conſummation: but I wil chaſtice thee in iudgement, that thou maiſt not ſeme to thy ſelfe innocent.

12 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: Thy wound is vncurable, thy ſtripe is very ſore.

13 There is none to iudge thy iudgement to binde it vp: there is no proſite of medicines for thee.

14 Al thy louers haue forgoten thee, and wil not ſeeke thee: for with the ſtroke of an enemie I haue ſtriken thee with cruel chaſtiſment: for the multitude of thine iniquitie, thy ſinnes are hardened.

15 What crieſt thou vpon thine affliction? thy ſorow is vncurable: for the multitude of thine iniquitie, and for thine hardned ſinnes I haue done theſe thinges to thee.

16 Therefore al that eate thee, shal be deuoured: and al thine enemies shal be led into captiuitie: and they that waſte thee, shal be waſted, and al thy ſpoilers wil I geue to the ſpoile.

17 For I wil cloſe vp thy wound, and wil heale thee of thy woundes, ſaith our Lord. Becauſe they haue called thee, ô Sion, an out caſt: This is she, that had none to ſeeke after her.

18 Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I [::] wil conuert the conuerſion of the tabernacles of Iacob, and wil haue pitie on his houſes, and the citie shal be built in her high place, and the temple shal be founded according to the order thereof.

19 And out of them shal come forth praiſe, and the voice of them that play: and I wil multiplie them, and they shal not be diminished: and I wil glorifie them, & they shal not be leſſened.

20 And his children shal be as from the beginning, and his aſſemblie shal be permanent before me: and I wil viſite againſt al that afflict him.

21 And [::] his duke shal be of himſelf: and the prince shal be brought forth from the middes of him: and I wil bring him [::] nere, and he shal come to me. For who is this, that applieth his hart to approch vnto me, ſaith our Lord?

22 And you ſhal be my people: and I wil be your God.

23 Behold, the whirle wind of our Lord, the furie going forth, the ſtorme violently falling, it ſhal light vpon the head of the impious.

24 Our Lord wil not turne away the wrath of indignation, til he haue done and accomplished the cogitation of his hart: in the latter daies you shal vnderſtand theſe thinges.

Marginal notes to Chapter 30

• 3 [::] It is probable by this, & Ch. 31. Ezec. 33. & other places that vvith the evvo tribes of the kingdom of Iuda manie of the tenne tribes, returned alſo from captiuitie whoſe chiefe citie was Samaria.
• 7 Iod. 1. Amos. 5. Sopho. 1.
• 11 [::] Only the true Church is perpetually conſetued without interruption; al other nations, kingdomes, & cōgregations do change and are conſumed.
• 18 [::] After ſeuentie yeares captiuitie the temple ſhal be reedified, but more fully & more perfectly this prophecie is fulfilled in Chriſt and his Apoſtles, when the citie was built in a hiegh place, the citie which can not be hidde, ſette in a mountaine.
• 21 [::] Chriſt of the iſſue of Iacob.
• 21 [::] VVho according to his diuinitie is the Sonne of God as he ſayth of himſelfe. Ioan. 14. I am in the Father and the Father in me.

Chapter 31

CHAP. XXXI. God wil reduce Iſrael from captiuitie, 4. and geue them abundance of al thinges: 9. after their tribulation. 15. Rachel (The afflicted Church) shal ceaſe from mourning: 18. confeſſing that she is iuſtly chaſtiſed. 20. Christ a perfect man shal be conteyned in his mothers wombe, 26. He riſing from ſlepe (death) wil build his Church. 31. with a new couenant: 36. that it shal be large, and perpetual.

1 AT THAT time, ſaith our Lord: I wil be the God of [::] al the kindredes of Iſrael, and they shal be my people.

2 Thus ſaith our Lord: The people that remayned from the ſword, found grace in the deſert: Iſrael shal goe to his reſt.

3 Our Lord hath appeared to me of long time. And in euerlaſting charitie haue I loued thee, therefore haue I drawen thee, taking compaſſion.

4 And I wil build thee againe, and thou shalt be builded ô virgin Iſrael: thou shalt yet be adorned with thy timbrels, & shal goe forth in the quyre of them that play.

5 Thou shalt yet plant vinyards in the mountaines of Samaria: the planters shal plant, and til the time come, they shal not make vintage:

6 becauſe there shal be a day, wherein the watchmen on mount Ephraim shal crie: Ariſe, and let vs goe vp vnto Sion to the Lord our God.

7 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: Reioyce in gladnes ô Iacob, and neye againſt the head of the Gentiles: ſound ye, and ſing, and ſay: Saue ô Lord thy people the remnant of Iſrael.

8 Behold I wil bring them out of the land of the North, and wil gather them from the endes of the earth: among whom shal be the blinde and the lame, the woman with childe, and she that beareth childe together, a great companie of them that returne hither.

9 They shal come in weepeing: and in mercie I wil reduce them: and I wil bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shal not ſtumble in it: becauſe I am become a father to Iſrael, and [::] Ephraim is my firſtbegotten.

10 Heare the word of our Lord ye Nations, & shew forth in the ilands, that are farre of, and ſay: He that diſperſed Iſrael, wil gather him: and he wil keepe him as the paſtour his flocke.

11 For our Lord hath redeemed Iacob, and he wil deliuer him out of the hand of the mightier.

12 And they shal come, and shal praiſe in mount Sion: and they shal runne together to the good thinges of our Lord for the corne, and wine, and oile, and the increaſe of cattel and heardes, and their ſoule shal be as a watered garden, & they shal be hungrie no more.

13 Then shal the virgin reioyce in the quyre, the youngmen and old men together: and I wil turne their mourning into ioy, and wil comfort them, and make them ioyful from their ſorow.

14 And I wil replenish the ſoule of the prieſtes with fatnes: and my people shal be filled with my good thinges, ſaith our Lord.

15 Thus ſaith our Lord: A voice of lamentation is heard on high of the mourning, and weeping of [::] Rachel weeping for her children, and refuſing to be comforted for them, becauſe they are not.

16 Thus ſaith our Lord: Let thy voice ceaſe from weeping, and thine eies from teares: becauſe there is a reward for thy worke, ſaith our Lord: and they shal returne out of the land of the enemie.

17 And there is hope to thy laſt endes, ſaith our Lord: and the children shal returne to their borders.

18 Hearing I heard Ephraim going into trāſmigration: Thou haſt chaſtiſed me, and I am taught, as a young bullocke not tamed. [::] Conuert me, and [::] I shal be conuerted: becauſe thou art the Lord my God.

19 For after thou didſt conuert me I did penance: and after thou didſt shew vnto me, I ſtroke my thigh: I am confounded, and ashamed, becauſe I haue ſuſtayned the reproch of my youth.

20 Certes Ephraim is an honorable ſonne to me, certes a delicate childe: becauſe ſince I ſpake of him, as yet wil I remember him. Therefore are my bowels trubled vpon him: pitying I wil pitie him, ſaith our Lord.

21 Sette thee a watch tower, make vnto thee bitternes: direct thy hart into the right way, wherein thou haſt walked: returne ô virgin Iſrael, returne to theſe thy cities.

22 How long wilt thou be diſſolute in deliciouſnes ô wandring daughter? becauſe our Lord hath created a new thing vpon the earth: A WOMAN SHAL COMPASSE [::] A MAN.

23 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: As yet shal they ſay this word in the land of Iuda, and in the cities thereof, when I shal conuert their captiuitie: Our Lord bleſſe thee the beauty of iuſtice, the holie mountaine.

24 and Iudas and al his cities shal dwel in it together: the husbandmen and they that driue the flockes.

25 Becauſe I haue inebriated the wearie ſoule: and euerie hungrie ſoule I haue filled.

26 Therefore I was raiſed vp as out of a ſleepe, and I ſaw, and my ſleepe was ſweete to me.

27 Behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: and I wil ſow the houſe of Iſrael and the houſe of Iuda with [::] the ſeede of men, and with the ſeede [::] of beaſtes.

28 And as I haue watched vpon them, to plucke vp, and deface, and diſſipate, & deſtroy, and afflict: ſo wil I watch ouer them, to build, and to plant them, ſaith our Lord.

29 In thoſe daies they shal ſay no more: The fathers did eate the bitter grape, and the teeth of the children are ſet on edge.

30 But euerie one shal dye in his owne iniquitie: euerie man that shal eate the ſowre grape, his teeth shal be on edge.

31 Behold the daies shal come, ſaith our Lord: and I wil make a new couenant with the houſe of Iſrael and the houſe of Iuda:

32 not according to the couenant, which I made with their fathers in the day that I tooke their hand, to bring them out of the Land of Aegypt: the couenāt which they made voide, and I had the dominion of them, ſaith our Lord.

33 But this shal be the couenant, that I wil make with the houſe of Iſrael: after thoſe daies ſaith our Lord: I wil geue my law in their bowels, and in their hart I wil write it: and I wil be their God, and they shal be my people.

34 And a man shal no more teach his neighbour, and a man his brother, ſaying: Know our Lord: for al shal know me from the leaſt of them euen to the greateſt, ſaith our Lord: becauſe I wil be propicious to their iniquitie, and their ſinne I wil remember no more.

35 Thus ſaith our Lord, that geueth the ſunne for the light of the day, the order of the moone and of the ſtarres, for the light of the night: that trubleth the ſea, and the waues thereof doe ſound, the Lord of hoſtes is his name.

36 If theſe lawes shal faile before me, ſaith our Lord: thee alſo [::] the ſeede of Iſrael shal faile, that it be not a nation before me for euer.

37 Thus ſaith our Lord: If the heauens aboue shal be able to be meaſured, and the foundations of the earth beneth to be ſearched out: I alſo wil caſt away al the ſeede of Iſrael, for al thinges, that they haue done, ſaith our Lord.

38 Behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: and the citie shal be built to our Lord from the tower of Hananeel euen to the gate of the corner.

39 And the rule of the meaſure shal goe out farder in his ſight vpon the litle hil Gareb: and it shal compaſſe Goatha,

40 and al the valley of carcaſſes, and of ashes, and al the countrie of death, euen to the torrent of Cedron, and to the corner of the Eaſt gate of horſes, the Holie of our Lord: shal not be plucked vp, and it shal no more be deſtroyed for euer.

Marginal notes to Chapter 31

• 1 [::] Together with the two tribes manie alſo of the tenne tribes were reduced from captiuitie. And when Chriſt came into this world they were more readie to receiue him, then the other two tribes. Mat. 13 Mar. 6: Luc. 4. Ioan. 4.
• 6 Iſa. 2. ⟨illegible⟩ich. 4. Zach. ⟨illegible⟩.
• 9 [::] God wil alſo ⟨illegible⟩evv his mercie to the tene tribes (ſignified by Ephraim) as a father loueth his firſt begotten.
• 15 [::] By Rachel the mother of Ioſeph & Beniamin, are ſignified al the vvemen of both kingdomes (Iſrael & Iuda) mourning the miſeries of the captiuitie. And particularly of the mothers lamenting the ſlaughter of their children nere Bethlehem. Mat. 2.
• 15 Mat. 2,
• 18 [::] Gods grace is the principal cauſe of iuſtification.
• 18 [::] Mans cooperation by freewil is the ſecōdarie cauſe.
• 22 [::] Chriſt in his mothers wombe in ſtature an infant: but in al perfection a man.
• 27 [::] God promiſed the Iewes multiplication of men.
• 27 [::] And of catle which were a principal riches, as appeareth by the word, pecunia deriued of pecus.
• 34 Iſa. 54
• 34 Ioa. 6.
• 36 [::] The ſeede of Iſrael remaineth foreuer; not in the incredulous Iewes (ſaith S. Ierom) but in thoſe which with the Apoſtles, & by the Apoſtles beleue in Chriſt.

Chapter 32

CHAP. XXXII. Nabuchodonoſor beſieging Ieruſalem, Ieremie in priſon 7. byeth by Gods commandment a field of his coſin. 17. Prayeth for the whole nation, reciting Gods former benefites, 26. Prophecieth their captiuitie in Babylon, 30. for their idolatrie: 36. and deliuerie from thence, 40. With a new couenant to ſerue God ſincerely.

1 THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord [::] in the tenth yeare of Sedecias the king of Iuda: the ſame is the eightenth yeare of Nabuchodonoſor.

2 Then the armie of the king of Babylon beſieged Ieruſalem: and Ieremie the prophet was shut vp in the court of the priſon, that was in the houſe of the king of Iuda.

3 For Sedecias the king of Iuda had shut him vp, ſaying: Why doeſt thou prophecie, ſaying: Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil geue this citie into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shal take it?

4 And Sedecias the king of Iuda shal not eſcape out of the hand of the Chaldees: but he shal be deliuered into the handes of the king of Babylon: and he shal ſpeake with him mouth to mouth, and [::] his eies shal ſee his eies.

5 And he shal leade Sedecias into Babylon: and he shal be there til I viſite him, ſaith our Lord. But if you wil fight againſt the Chaldees, you shal haue nothing proſperous.

6 And Ieremie ſaid: The word of our Lord was made to me, ſaying:

7 Behold, Hanameel the ſonne of Sellum thy coſin shal come to thee, ſaying: Bye vnto the my field, which is in Anathoth: for it apperteyneth to thee by kinred to bye it.

8 And Hanameel myne vncles ſonne came vnto me according to the word of our Lord to the enterie of the priſon, and ſaid to me: Poſſeſſe my field, which is in Anathoth in the land of Beniamin: becauſe the inheritance perteineth to thee, and thou art nere of kinne to poſſeſſe it. And I vnderſtood that it was the word of our Lord.

9 And I bought the field of Hanameel myne vncles ſonne, which is in Anathoth: and I weyed him the ſiluer, ſeuen ſtaters, and ten peeces of ſiluer.

10 And I wrote it in a booke, and ſigned it, and tooke witneſſes: & I weighed the ſiluer in balance.

11 And I tooke the booke of the poſſeſſion ſigned, and the ſtipulations, and the thinges ratified, and the ſignes on the out ſide.

12 And I gaue the booke of the poſſeſſion to Baruch the ſonne of Neri the ſonne of Maaſias in the ſight of Hanameel my coſin, and in the ſight of the witneſſes, that were written in the booke of the purchaſe, & in the ſight of al the Iewes, that ſate in the court of the priſon.

13 And I commanded Baruch before them, ſaying:

14 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Take theſe bookes, this booke of the purchaſe ſigned, and this booke, that is open: and put them in an earthen veſſel, that they may continew manie daies.

15 For thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: Yet shal houſes, and fieldes, and vineyardes be poſſeſſed in this land.

16 And I prayed to our Lord, after that I deliuered the booke of the poſſeſſion to Buruch the ſonne of Neri, ſaying:

17 Alas, alas, alas, ô Lord God: behold thou haſt made heauen and earth in thy great ſtrength, and in thy ſtretched out arme: no word shal be hard to thee:

18 Which doeſt mercie on thouſandes, and rendreſt the iniquitie of the fathers into the boſome of their children after them. ô Moſt ſtrong, great, & mightie, the Lord of hoſtes is thy name.

19 Great in counſel, and incomprehenſible in cogitation: whoſe eies are open vpon al the waies of the children of Adam, to render vnto euerie one according to his waies, and according to the fruite of his inuentions.

20 Which haſt put ſignes and wonders in the land of Aegypt euen vntil this day, and in Iſrael, and in men, and haſt made thee a name as is this day.

21 And thou dideſt bring forth thy people Iſrael out of the Land of Aegypt, in ſignes, and in wonders, and in a ſtrong hand, and in a ſtretched out arme, and in great terrour.

22 And thou gaueſt them this land, which thou ſwareſt to their fathers, that thou wouldſt geue them a land flowing with milke and honie.

23 And they entered in, and poſſeſſed it: and they obeyed not thy voice, and in thy law they walked not: al that thou didſt command them to doe, they did not: and al theſe euils are befallen them.

24 Behold munitions are built againſt the citie, that it may be taken: and the citie is geuen into the handes of the Chaldees, which fight againſt it, at [::] the preſence of the ſword, and of famine, and of peſtilence: and what thinges ſoeuer thou haſt ſpoken, are come to paſſe, as thy ſelf ſeeſt.

25 And ſayſt thou to me ô Lord God: Bye the field for ſiluer, and take witneſſes, whereas the citie is geuen into the handes of the Chaldees?

26 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie, ſaying:

27 Behold I am the Lord the God of al fleſh: shal anie word be hard for me?

28 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil deliuer this citie into the handes of the Chaldees, and into the handes of the king of Babylon, and they shal take it.

29 And the Chaldees shal come fighting againſt this citie, and shal ſet in on fire, and burne it, and the houſes, in whoſe toppes they did ſacrifice to Baal, and offered libaments to ſtrange goddes to prouoke me vnto wrath.

30 For the children of Iſrael, and the children of Iuda were continually doeing euil in myne eies [::] from their youth: the children of Iſrael which euen vntil this preſent exaſperate me in the worke of their handes, ſaith our Lord.

31 Becauſe in furie and in myne indignation this citie is made to me, from the day that they builded it, vntil this day, wherein it shal be taken out of my ſight.

32 For the malice of the children of Iſrael, and of the children of Iuda, which they haue done prouoking me to wrath, they and their kinges, their princes, and their prieſtes, and their prophets, the men of Iuda and the inhabitants of Ieruſalem.

33 And they haue turned the backes to me, and not the faces: when I taught them early, and inſtructed them, and they would not heare that they might take diſcipline.

34 And they haue ſet their idols in the houſe, wherein my name is inuocated, that they might pollute it.

35 And they haue built the excelſes of Baal, which are in the valley of the ſonne of Ennom, that they might conſecrate their ſonnes and their daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither hath it aſcended into my hart, that they should doe this abomination, and bring Iuda into ſinne.

36 And now for theſe thinges, thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael to this citie, whereof you ſay that it is deliuered into the handes of the king of Babylon in ſword, and in famine, & in peſtilence.

37 Behold [::] I wil gather them together out of al landes, to which I haue caſt them out in my furie, and in my wrath, and in my great indignation: and I wil bring them againe into this place, and wil make them dwel confidently.

38 And they shal be my people, and I wil be their God.

39 And I wil geue them one hart, and one way, that they may feare me al daies: and it may be wel with them, and with their children after them.

40 And I wil make an euerlaſting couenant with them: and wil not ceaſe to doe them good: and I wil geue my feare in their hart, that they reuolt not from me.

41 And I wil reioyce vpon them, when I shal doe them good: and I wil plant them in this land in truth in my whole hart and in al my ſoule.

42 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: As I haue brought vpon this people al this great euil: ſo wil I bring vpon them al the good, that I ſpeake to them.

43 And the fieldes shal be poſſeſſed in this land: whereof you ſay that it is deſolate, becauſe there is remayning no man nor beaſt, and it is geuen into the handes of the Chaldees.

44 The fieldes shal be bought for money, and shal be written in a booke, and the ſigne shal be ſtamped on, and a witnes shal be taken, in the land of Beniamin, and round about Ieruſalem, in the cities of Iuda, and in the cities on the mountaines, and in the champaine cities, and in the cities that are toward the South: becauſe I wil conuert their captiuitie, ſaith our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 32

• 1 [::] VVhen the citie was beſie ged, and Ieremie in priſon prophecied that it ſhould be taken, and ſubdued by the enimies; yet he bought landes, to ſignifie that in time they ſhould be deliuered from captiuitie.
• 4 [::] Sedecias was brought to the king of Babylon in Reblatha where they put out his eyes, & thence caried him blind to Babylon. 4. Reg. 25. and ſo coming to that citie he could not ſee it. Ezech. 12. v. 13.
• 18 Exo 3⟨illegible⟩.
• 24 [::] By the force of the ſword, famine, & peſtilence, as Pſa. 59. v. 6. that they flee from the face of the bovv.
• 30 [::] VVhen they were in the vvildernes newly deliuered from Aegypt, they committed manie hainous crimes: in murmuring ſchiſme, idolatrie, and other carnal & ſpiritual ſinnes.
• 33 Pſal. 35. 1. Reg. 21.
• 37 [::] Leſt anie ſhould thinke that by Gods iuſt and ſeuere puniſhment, or by anie reuolting from his ſeruice the Church might be vtterly deſtroyed, he ſtil promiſeth mercie towards the reliques of his people, that they ſhal neuer al fayle, but continew til the Redemer of mankind Chriſt ſhal come. And much leſſe ſhal Chriſts Church euer faile after his coming.

Chapter 33

CHAP. XXXIII. God promiſeth remiſſion of ſinnes: 10. reduction from captiuitie, & manie other benefites. 14. He wil geue iudgement and iuſtice in Dauid (Chriſt) whoſe throne (the Church) 19. shal be glorious. 24. and permanent.

1 AND the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie [::] the ſecond time, when as yet he was shut vp in the court of the priſon, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord that wil doe, and wil forme it, and prepare it, the Lord is his name.

3 Crie vnto me, and I wil heare thee: and I wil tel thee great thinges, and and firme thinges which thou knoweſt not.

4 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael to the houſes of this citie, and to the houſes of king of Iuda, which are deſtroyed, and to the munitions, and to the ſword

5 of them that come to fight with the Chaldees, and to fil them with the carcaſſes of the men, whom I haue ſtriken in my furie, and in myne indignation, hiding my face from this citie becauſe of al their malice.

6 Behold I wil bring to them a ſcarre and health, and wil cure them: and I wil reuele vnto them the prayer of peace and truth.

7 And I wil conuert the conuerſion of Iuda, & the conuerſion of Ieruſalem: & wil build them as from the beginning.

8 And I wil cleanſe them from al their iniquitie, wherein they haue ſinned to me: & I wil be propicious to al their iniquities, wherein they haue ſinned to me, & deſpiſed me.

9 And it shal be to me a name, & a ioy, and a praiſe, and an exultation to al the nations of the earth, that shal heare al the good thinges, which I wil doe to them: and they shal feare, and be trubled in al the good thinges, & in al the peace, that I wil make to them.

10 Thus ſaith our Lord: Yet there shal be heard in this place, (which you ſay is deſolate, becauſe there is neither man nor beaſt: in the cities of Iuda, and without Ieruſalem, which are deſolate without man, and without inhabiter, and without beaſt)

11 the voice of ioy and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegroome and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that ſay: Confeſſe ye to the Lord of hoſtes, becauſe our Lord is good, becauſe his mercie is for euer: and of them that carie vowes into the houſe of our Lord. For I wil bring backe the conuerſion of the land as from the beginning, ſaith our Lord.

12 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Yet there shal be in this deſolate place without man, and without beaſt, and in al the cities thereof, an habitation of paſtours of the reſting flockes.

13 In the cities on the mountaines, and in the champaine cities, and in the cities that are toward the South: and in the land of Beniamin, and round about Ieruſalem, and in the cities of Iuda there shal yet paſſe flockes, at the hand of him that numbreth them, ſaith our Lord.

14 Behold the daies shal come, ſaith our Lord, and [::] I wil raiſe vp the good word, that I haue ſpoken to the houſe of Iſrael, and to the houſe of Iuda.

15 In thoſe daies, and in that time, I wil make [::] the ſpring of iuſtice to bud forth vnto Dauid: and he shal doe iudgement and iuſtice in the earth.

16 In thoſe daies shal Iuda be ſaued, and Ieruſalem shal dwel confidently: & this is the name, that they shal cal him; The Lord of our iuſt one.

17 Becauſe thus ſaith our Lord: [::] There shal not faile of Dauid a man, to ſitte vpon the throne of the houſe of Iſrael.

18 And of the Prieſtes and Leuites there shal not faile from before my face a man, to offer [::] holocauſtes, and to burne ſacrifice, and to kil victimes al daies.

19 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie, ſaying:

20 Thus ſaith our Lord: If my couenant with the day can be made voide, and my couenant with the night, that there be not day and night in their time:

21 alſo my couenant may be made voide with Dauid my ſeruant, that there be not of him a ſonne to reigne in his throne, and Leuites and Prieſtes my miniſters.

22 Euen as the ſtarres of heauen can not be numbred, and the ſand of the ſea be meaſured: ſo wil I multiplie the ſeede of Dauid my ſeruant, and the Leuites my miniſters.

23 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie, ſaying:

24 Haſt thou not ſeene what this people hath ſpoken, ſaying: The [::] two kinreds, which our Lord had choſen, are caſt of: and they haue deſpiſed my people, becauſe it is no more a Nation before them?

25 Thus ſaith our Lord: If I haue not ſet my couenant betwen day and night, and lawes to heauen and earth:

26 ſurely I wil alſo caſt of the ſeede of Iacob, and of Dauid my ſeruant, that I take not of his ſeede princes of the ſeede of Abraham, Iſaac, and Iacob. For I wil bring backe their conuerſion, and wil haue mercie on them.

Marginal notes to Chapter 33

• 1 [::] Beſides manie other reuelations, this prophet had two viſions in priſon, in confirmation that God would conſerue his people and Church for euer, notwithſtanding their manifold great ſinnes & great affliction and deſtruction of manie for the ſame.
• 14 [::] An euident prophecie and promiſe of Chriſt.
• 14 Iere. 23. v. 5.
• 15 [::] Borne of the ſeede of Dauid.
• 17 [::] Dauids progenie ſhal continew vnto Chriſt: whoſe kingdom, vvhich is his Church, ſhal haue no end. Luc. 1. v. 33 Pſal. 88. v. 30.
• 18 [::] S Hypolitus and al ancient Fathers teach that the holie Euchariſt is the cōplement of al ſacrifices of the old Teſtament.
• 24 [::] Gods moſt ſpecial prouidence bleſſed the families of Dauid and Aaron aboue al other kinreds.

Chapter 34

CHAP. XXXIIII. King Sedecias shal fal into the handes of Nabuchodonoſor, and Ieruſalem shal be burned: 8. becauſe he hath broken the couenant, of releaſing Iewes from bondage, 14. in the ſeuenth yeare; and contrarie to particular promiſe of obſeruing that law.

1 THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, when Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon, and al his armie, and al the kingdoms of the earth that were vnder the power of his hand, & al the peoples made warre againſt Ieruſalem & againſt al the cities thereof, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: Goe, & ſpeake to Sedecias the king of Iuda: & thou shalt ſay to him: Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil deliuer this citie into the handes of the king of Babylon, & he shal burne it with fire.

3 And thou shalt not eſcape out of his hand: but by taking thou shalt be taken, & thoushalt be deliuered into his hand: and [::] thine eies shal ſee the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shal ſpeake with thy mouth, and thou shalt enter into Babylon.

4 But yet heare the word of our Lord ô Sedecias king of Iuda: Thus ſaith our Lord to thee: Thou shalt not dye by the ſword,

5 but thou shalt dye in peace, and according to the burninges of thy fathers the former kinges that haue bene before thee, ſo shal they burne thee: and, Alas Lord, shal they mourne for thee: becauſe I haue ſpoken the word, ſaith our Lord.

6 And Ieremie the prophet ſpake al theſe wordes to Sedecias the king of Iuda in Ieruſalem.

7 And the armie of the king of Babylon fought againſt Ieruſalem, and againſt al the cities of Iuda, that were remayning, againſt Lachis, and againſt Azecha: for theſe remained of the cities of Iuda, fenſed cities.

8 The word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, after that king Sedecias made a couenant with al the people in Ieruſalem, proclayming:

9 That euerie one should diſmiſſe his ſeruant, & euerie one his handmayd▪ the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman free: and that they should not haue dominion ouer them, that is, on a Iewe and his brother.

10 Al the princes therefore heard, and al the people which, had made the couenant, that euerie man should diſmiſſe his ſeruant, and euerie man his handmaide free, and should no more haue dominion ouer them: they heard therefore, and diſmiſſed them.

11 And [::] they turned afterwards: and drew their ſeruants and their handmaids back againe, whom they had diſmiſt free, and brought them into ſubiection as men ſeruants, and wemen ſeruantes.

12 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie from our Lord, ſaying:

13 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: I made a couenant with your fathers in the day, that I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt, from the houſe of bondage, ſaying:

14 When ſeuen yeares shal be accomplished, let euerie man diſmiſſe his brother an Hebrew, that was ſold to him, and he shal ſerue thee ſix yeares: and thou shalt diſmiſſe him free from thee: and your fathers haue not heard me, nor inclined their eare.

15 And you were conuerted this day, & did that which is right in myne eies, that you proclaymed libertie euerie one to his freind: and you made a couenant in my ſight, in the houſe, wherein my name is inuocated vpon it.

16 And you are returned, and haue defiled my name: and you haue brought backe againe euerie man his ſeruant, and euerie man his handmayde, whom you had diſmiſt to be free, and of their owne iuriſdiction: and you haue brought them into ſubiection to be your ſeruants and handmaydes.

17 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: You haue not heard me, to proclaime libertie euerie man to his brother, and euerie one to his freind: behold I proclaime vnto you libertie, ſaith our Lord, to the ſword, to the peſtilence, and to famine: and I wil geue you into commotion to al the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I wil geue the men, that tranſgreſſe my couenant, and haue not obſerued the wordes of the couenant, wherevnto they conſented in my ſight, the calfe which they did cut into two partes, and paſſed betwen the diuiſions thereof.

19 The princes of Iuda and the princes of Ieruſalem, the eunuches, and the prieſtes, and al the people of the land that paſſed betwene the diuiſions of the calfe.

20 And I wil geue them into the handes of their enemies, and into the handes of them that ſeeke their life: & their carcaſſe shal be for meate to the foules of the ayre, and to the beaſtes of the earth.

21 And Sedecias the king of Iuda, and his princes I wil geue into the handes of their enemies, & into the handes of them that ſeeke their liues, and into the handes of the armies of the king of Babylon, which are retired from you.

22 Behold I [::] command, ſaith our Lord, and I wil bring them againe into this citie, and they shal fight againſt it, and take it, and burne it with fire: and the cities of Iuda I wil geue into deſolation, becauſe there is not an inhabiter.

Marginal notes to Chapter 34

• 3 [::] See ch. 32. v. 4. & 4. Reg. 25. v. 7.
• 11 [::] Recidiuation into ſinnes after remiſſion, offendeth God more then the former ſinnes, as ou⟨illegible⟩ Sauiour teacheth by a parable. Ma. 18.
• 14 Exo. 21.
• 14 Deut. 15.
• 22 [::] God was not the cauſe of the Babylonians crueltie, but permitted and directed the ſame to puniſh the Iewes.

Chapter 35

CHAP. XXXV. By example of the Rechabites voluntarily keeping their fathers rule, 12. God expoſtulateth with the people that kepe not his praeceptes; 17. denouncing that they shal be punished, and the Rechabites rewarded.

1 THE word, that was made to Ieremie from our Lord in the dayes [::] of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias the king of Iuda, ſaying:

2 Goe to “ the houſe of the Rechabites: and ſpeake to them, & thou shalt bring them into the houſe of our Lord, into one chamber of the treaſuries, and thou shalt geue them wine to drinke.

3 And I tooke Iezonias the ſonne of Ieremias the ſonne of Habſamias, and his bretheren, and al his ſonnes, and the whole houſe of the Rechabites.

4 And I brought them into the houſe of our Lord, to the treaſure houſe of the ſonnes of Hanan, the ſonne of Iegedelias the man of God, which was by the treaſure houſe of the princes, aboue the treaſure of Maaſias the ſonne of Sellum, who was keeper of the entrie.

5 And I ſet before the ſonnes of the houſe of the Rechabites goblets ful of wine, and cuppes: and I ſaid to them: Drinke ye wine.

6 Who anſwered: We wil not drinke wine: becauſe [::] Ionadab the ſonne of Rechab, our father, commanded vs, ſaying: You shal not drinke wine, you and your children for euer.

7 And you shal not build houſe, and you shal not ſow ſeede, and you shal not plant vineyardes, nor haue anie: but you shal dwel in tabernacles al your daies, that you may liue manie daies vpon the face of the land, wherin you are [::] ſtrangers.

8 We therefore haue obeyed the voice of Ionadab the ſonne of Rechab, our father, in al thinges that he commanded vs: ſo that we dranke not anie wine al our daies: we and our wiues, our ſonnes & our daughters.

9 And we builded not houſes to inhabite, and vineyard, and filde, and ſeede we haue not had:

10 but we haue dwelt in tabarnacles, and haue bene obedient according to al thinges, that Ionadab our father commanded vs.

11 But when Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon was come vp to our Land, we ſaid: [::] Come, and let vs goe into Ieruſalem from the face of the hoſt of the Chaldees, and from the face of the hoſt of Syria: and we haue taried in Ieruſalem.

12 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie, ſaying:

13 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Goe, & ſay to the men of Iuda, and to the inhabitants of Ieruſalem: Why wil you not receiue diſcipline, to obey my wordes, ſaith our Lord?

14 [::] The wordes of Ionadab the ſonne of Rechab haue preuailed, which he commanded his ſonnes not to drincke wine: and they haue not drunke vntil this day, becauſe they haue obeyed the commandment of their father: but I haue ſpoken to you, early ryſing and ſpeakeing, and you haue not obeyed me.

15 And I haue ſent to you al my ſeruants the prophetes, riſing early, and ſending and ſaying: Returne ye euerie one from his moſt wicked way, and make your ſtudies good: and folow not ſtrange goddes, nor worship them, and you shal dwel in the land, which I gaue you and your fathers: and you haue not inclined your eare, nor heard me.

16 The children therefore of Ionadab the ſonne of Rechab haue firmely kept the precept of their father, which he commanded them: but this people hath not obeyed me.

17 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: Behold, I wil bring vpon Iuda, and vpon al the inhabitants of Ieruſalem al the affliction, which I haue ſpoken againſt them, becauſe I haue ſpoken to them, and they haue not heard: I haue called them, and they haue not anſwered me.

18 But to the houſe of the Rechabites Ieremie ſaid: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: For that you haue obeyed the commandment of Ionadab your father, and haue kept al his commandments, and haue done al thinges, that he commanded you:

19 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: There shal not want a man of the ſtocke of Ionadab the ſonne of Rechab, ſtanding in my ſight al daies.

Marginal notes to Chapter 35

• 1 [::] Here againe it appeareth that the prophet obſerueth not the order of time in vvriting his viſions. For the thing here recorded happened before the prophecies mentioned in the former chapters.
• 6 [::] This Ionadab vvas a man of powre & eſtimation, very familiar vvith Iehu king of Iſrael. 4. Reg. 10. v. 15
• 7 [::] The Rechabites deſcended not of Iſrael, but of Iethro a Madianite, Moyſes father in lavv: as both Hebrevv & L⟨illegible⟩ in Do⟨illegible⟩ by ⟨illegible⟩ on.
• 11 [::] In caſe of neceſſitie they entered into the city, otherwiſe remained in tentes.
• 14 [::] Seing theſe religious Rechabites obſerued obediently the rule of their father & founder, in vvorkes of ſupererogation, othervviſe not commanded: much more al are bound to kepe Gods commandments.
• 15 Iere. 18. v. 11. & 25. v. 5.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXXV.

1. The houſe of Rechabites.] VVe haue here (according to the ſtate of Gods [Margin: Religious Orders in the old Teſtament.] Church in the old Teſtament) a cleare example of religious life, by profeſſing and performing good workes of ſupererogation, not commanded by God, but piouſly inſtituted by a holie man called Ionadab. VVhich, not only himſelf, and his proper children, but alſo their poſteritie manie ages after him, voluntarily obſerued by a preſcript Rule: Not to builde houſes, nor dwel in anie (but in tentes) not to ſow ſeede, nor to plant, nor haue vinyardes, nor to drinke wine. A like rule but not the ſame in al pointes, was preſcribed by God himſelf [Margin: The rule of Rechabites differed from the Nazareites & children of the Propheces. They were figures of more perfect orders in the Church of Chriſt.] (Num 6) for ſuch as would voluntarily embrace it. And Elias and Elizens with then diſciples obſerued an other forme of religious life: as appeareth, 4. Reg. 1. 2. &c. Al which vvere figures of more perfect Religious Orders in the Church of Chriſt, conſiſting in three eſſential vowes, of voluntarie Pouertie, Chaſtitie, and Obedience: not commanded but commended, and for the better attayning to perfection counſeled by our Sauiour; vvherof they are called Euangelical Counſels, obſerved by the Apoſtles, leauing al their worldlie ſubſtance, and al deſire of hauing anie proper poſſeſſions: ſuch alſo as had wiues leauing them, the reſt no⟨illegible⟩ marying; & al renouncing their owne willes, ſubiected the ſame to Chriſts wil; folovving him. VVhoſe example others imitating, this holie maner of [Margin: Mat. 19. v. 12. 21.] life hath ſtil continued in the Church, as is euident by the Eccleſiaſtical hiſtories euen from the Apoſtles time But al obſerued not the ſame particular rules, nor [Margin: Diuers kindes of Religious Orders.] [Margin: Luc 18. v. 22.] were called by the ſame titles. For as in the time of Moyſes law, ſome were called Nazareites; ſome the Children of the Prophetes; and ſome Rechabites, after the name of their founders father Rechab, a renowmed godlie man: ſo now ſome are called Eremites, ſome Monkes, ſome Freares, and ſome Religious Clerkes. And of ech of theſe kindes, diuers ſortes are diſtinguiſhed by varietie of rules, habites, ſpecial functions, and titles either of their firſt Inſtitutors, or of the Inſtitutes themſelues, or of the places, or other occaſions. As Carmelites, Auguſtines (as wel Monkes, as Canons Regular) Benedictins, Bernardins, Carthuſians, Dominicans, Fra⟨illegible⟩c ſcans, Ieſui⟨illegible⟩es, Theatines, Capuchines, [Margin: Varieties of Religious Orders make no difference in Catholique Religion. But do much adorne the whole Church.] and the like. As alſo manie diſtinct Orders of Nunnes. But none of them al differ from the reſt, nor from other Catholique Chriſtians in pointes of faith: nor make anie Sectes of Religion, as Heretikes ridiculouſly obiect. For al beleue and confeſſe the ſelf ſame Catholique Faith, in al the Articles therof; al vſe and acknowlege the ſame, and no other holie Sacraments; and al are vnited in one vniuerſal Church; vnder one viſible Head: Euerie Order good and holie in their profeſſion; & al together excellently a⟨illegible⟩o⟨illegible⟩ing the whole bodie [Margin: Pſal. 44. v. 11. 1⟨illegible⟩.] with ſacred ſemelie varieties, make the ſame vniuerſal Church more glorious.

Chapter 36

CHAP. XXXVI. Ieremie in priſon ſendeth Baruch by Gods commandment, to read a booke of comminations before the people: 7. exhorting them to repent: 9. which being read in a porch of the Temple, 11. Micheas reporteth it to the Nobles in the court, 14. whither Baruch being called readeth the ſame before them: 20. they informe the king: 21. who hearing part therof, cauſeth the booke to be burned: 26. and commandeth to apprehend Baruch, and Ieremie. 27. The booke is write againe by them with addition of more.

1 AND it came to paſſe in the fourth yeare of Ioakim, the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda: this word was made to Ieremie from our Lord, ſaying:

2 Take [::] a volume of a booke and thou shalt write in it al the wordes, that I haue ſpoken to thee againſt Iſrael and Iuda, & againſt al Nations ſince the day that I ſpake to thee, from the daies of Ioſias euen to this day.

3 If perhaps the houſe of Iuda hearing al the euils, that I meane to doe vnto them, let euerie man returne from his moſt wicked way: and I wil be propicious to their iniquitie, and to their ſinne.

4 Ieremie therefore called Baruch the ſonne of Nerias: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Ieremie al the wordes of our Lord, which he ſpake to him, in the volume of the booke.

5 And Ieremie commanded Baruch, ſaying: I am [::] shut vp, neither am I able to goe into the houſe of our Lord.

6 Goe thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, wherein thou haſt written from my mouth the wordes of our Lord, in the hearing of al the people in the houſe of our Lord on the faſting day: moreouer alſo in the hearing of al Iuda, which come out of their cities, thou shalt read it to them:

7 if perhaps their prayer may fal in the ſight of our Lord, and euerie one returne from his moſt wicked way: becauſe great is the furie & indignation, which our Lord hath ſpoken againſt this people.

8 And Baruch the ſonne of Nerias did according to al thinges, that Ieremie the prophet had commanded him, reading out of the volume the wordes of our Lord in the houſe of our Lord.

9 And it came to paſſe in the fifth yeare of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias the king of Iuda, in the ninth moneth: they proclaymed a faſt in the ſight of our Lord to al the people in Ieruſalem, and to al the multitude, that was flocked together out of the cities of Iuda in Ieruſalem.

10 And Baruch redde out of the wordes of Ieremie in the houſe of our Lord, in the treaſurie of Gamarias the ſonne of Saphan the ſcribe, in the higher court, in the entrie of the new gate of the houſe of our Lord, al the people hearing it.

11 And when Micheas the ſonne of Gamarias the ſonne of Saphan had heard al the wordes of our Lord out of the booke:

12 he went downe into the kings houſe to the treaſurie of the ſcribe: and behold al the princes ſate there, Eliſama the ſcribe, and Dalaias the ſonne of Semeias, and Elnathan the ſonne of Achobor: and Gamarias the ſonne of Saphan, & Sedecias the ſonne of Hananias, and al the princes.

13 And Micheas told them al the wordes that he had heard Baruch reading out of the volume in the eares of the people.

14 Al the princes therefore ſent to Baruch, Iudi the ſonne of Nathanias, the ſonne of Selemias, the ſonne of Chuſi, ſaying: Take in thy hand the volume, out of which thou haſt redde in the hearing of the people, and come. Baruch therefore the ſonne of Nerias tooke the volume in his hand, and came to them.

15 And they ſaid to him: Sitte, & reade theſe thinges in our eares. And Baruch redde in ⟨illegible⟩h⟨illegible⟩ eares.

16 Therefore when they had heard al the wordes, they were aſtonied euerie one toward his neighbour, and they ſayd to Baruch: We muſt tel the king al theſe wordes.

17 And they asked him, ſaying: Tel vs how dideſt thou write al theſe wordes from his mouth.

18 And Baruch ſayd to them: From his mouth he ſpake as it were reading vnto me al theſe wordes: and I wrote in a volume with inke.

19 And the princes ſayd to Baruch: Goe, and be hidde thou and Ieremie, and let no man know where you are.

20 And they went to the king into the court: moreouer they layde vp the volume in the treaſurie of Eliſama the ſcribe: and they tolde al the wordes in the hearing of the king.

21 And the king ſent Iudi, that he should take the volume: who taking it out of the treaſurie of Eliſama the ſcribe, redde it, the king hearing, and al the princes, that ſtood about the king.

22 And the king ſate in the winter houſe in the ninth moneth: and there was an hearth ſet before him ful of burning coles.

23 And when Iudi had redde three or foure pages, [::] he cut it with the penknife of a ſcribe: and he caſt it into the fire, that was vpon the hearth, til al the volume was conſumed with the fyre, that was on the hearth.

24 And the king and al his ſeruants, that heard al theſe wordes, did not feare, nor rent their garments.

25 But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias gayneſaid the king, not to burne the booke: and he heard them not.

26 And the king commanded Ieremiel the ſonne of Amelech, and Saraias the ſonne of Ezriel, and Selemias the ſonne of Abdeel, that they should apprehend Baruch the ſcribe, and Ieremie the Prophet: but [::] our Lord hid them.

27 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie the Prophet, after that the king had burnt the volume and the wordes, that Baruch had written from the mouth of Ieremie, ſaying:

28 Againe take an other volume: and write in it al the former wordes, that were in the firſt volume, which Ioakim the king of Iuda hath burnt.

29 And to Ioakim the king of Iuda thou shalt ſay: Thus ſaith our Lord: Thou haſt burnt that volume, ſaying: Why haſt thou written in it telling: The king of Babylon wil come in haſt, and wil waſte this land: and he wil make man and beaſt, to ceaſe out of it?

30 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord againſt Ioakim the king of Iuda: [::] There shal not be of him to ſitte vpon the throne of Dauid: and his carcaſſe shal be caſt forth to the heate by day, and to the froſt by night.

31 And I wil viſite againſt him, and againſt his ſeede, and againſt his ſeruants their iniquities, and I wil bring vpon them, and vpon the inhabitants of Ieruſalem, and vpon the men of Iuda al the euil, that I haue ſpoken to them: and they haue not heard.

32 And Ieremie tooke an other volume, and gaue it to Baruch the ſonne of Nerias the ſcribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Ieremie al the wordes of the booke, which Ioakim the king of Iuda had burnt with fire: and there were added moreouer manie moe wordes, then had bene before.

Marginal notes to Chapter 36

• 2 [::] Beſides preaching, which the euil diſpoſed did either not duly regard, or quickly forget, God commanded that his wil ſhould alſo be written, for a perpetual admonition, if they would read it, or heare it redde, and for a teſtimonie againſt them, and a warning to others.
• 5 [::] He was not now in priſon; for (v. 19.) certaine noble men of the court aduiſed both Baruch and him to hide themſelues; but kept himſelf cloſe in ſome ſecret place; as moſt Prieſtes do now in England, that they may better exerciſe their function, then if they were in the perſecutors handes.
• 23 [::] The ſecretarie cut out the leaues and burnt them by the kings commandment: as appeareth. v. 25. &c.
• 26 [::] God did not tranſlate them to an other place, but they hyding themſelues by Gods direction, the ſearchers could not finde them.
• 30 [::] His ſonne Iechonias reigned but three monethes: which is counted as no reigne. Theodoret.
• 30 Ch. 22. v. 19.
• 31 Nor anie of his iſſue in wordlie glorie, as their predeceſſors had reigned▪ S. Tho. p. 3. q. 3⟨illegible⟩ ▪ a. 2. ad. 3.

Chapter 37

CHAP. XXXVII. Sedecias appointed by the king of Babylon to reigne in Iuda, requesteth Ieremias prayers. 4. The Chaldees beſieging Ieruſalem, and hearing that the Aegyptians come againſt them, part away. 5. But Ieremie prophecieth that they wil returne, and burne Ieruſalem. 10. For which he is impriſoned. 16. After manie dayes the king examineth him of his prophecie, who ſtil affirming the ſame, 20. is kept in the entrie of the priſon.

1 AND king Sedecias the ſonne of Ioſias reigned for Iechonias the ſonne of Ioakim: whom Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon made king in the Land of Iuda.

2 And he obeyed not, he and his ſeruants, and the people of the land the wordes of our Lord, that he ſpake in the hand of Ieremie the prophet.

3 And king Sedecias ſent Iuchal the ſonne of Selemias, and Sophonias the ſonne of Maaſias prieſt to Ieremie the prophet, ſaying: [::] Pray the Lord our God for vs.

4 And Ieremie walked freely in the middes of the people: for they had not caſt him into ward in priſon. Therefore the armie of Pharao came out of Aegypt: and the Chaldees that beſieged Ieruſalem, hearing ſuch tydinges, retyred from Ieruſalem.

5 And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie the prophet, ſaying:

6 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael: Thus shal you ſay to the king of Iuda, which ſent you to demand of me: Behold the armie of Pharao, which is come forth to helpe you, shal returne into his land into Aegypt.

7 And the Chaldees shal returne, and make warre againſt this citie, and take it, and burne it with fire.

8 Thus ſaith our Lord: Deceiue not your ſoules, ſaying: The Chaldees going shal goe away, and retyre from vs, becauſe they shal not goe away.

9 But if you shal ſtrike al the hoſt of the Chaldees, that fight againſt you, and there be left of them ſome wounded: euerie one shal riſe vp out of his tent, and shal burne this citie with fire.

10 Therefore when the armie of the Chaldees was retyred from Ieruſalem, becauſe of Pharaos armie.

11 Ieremie went out of Ieruſalem to goe into the land of Beniamin, and to diuide poſſeſſion there in the ſight of the citizens.

12 And when he was come to the gate of Beniamin, there was there the keeper of the gate by courſe, one named Ierias, the ſonne of Selemias, the ſonne of Hananias: and he apprehended Ieremie the prophet, ſaying: [::] Thou fleeſt to the Chaldees.

13 And Ieremie anſwered: It is not ſo, I flee not to the Chaldees. And he heard him not: but tooke Ieremie, and brought him to the princes.

14 For which thing the princes being angrie againſt Ieremie, they beate him, and caſt him into the priſon that was in the houſe of Ionathan the ſcribe: for he was chiefe ouer the priſon.

15 Ieremie therefore went into the houſe of the lake, and into the dungeon: and Ieremie ſate there manie daies.

16 But Sedecias the king ſending tooke him: and demanded of him in his houſe ſecretly, and ſaid: Thinkeſt thou the word is from our Lord? And Ieremie ſaid: It is. And he ſaid: Thou shalt be deliuered into the handes of the king of Babylon.

17 And Ieremie ſaid to king Sedecias, what haue I ſinned againſt thee, and thy ſeruants, and thy people, that thou haſt caſt me into the priſon houſe?

18 Where are your prophetes that did prophecie to you, and ſaid: The king of Babylon shal not come vpon you and vpon this land?

19 Now therefore heare I beſeech thee my Lord king: let my petition be auailable in thy ſight: and ſend me not back into the houſe of Ionathan the ſcribe, leſt I dye there.

20 King Sedecias therefore commanded that Ieremie should be committed in the entrie of the priſon: and there should be geuen him a peece of bread euerie day, beſide brothe, til al the bread were ſpent out of the citie: and Ieremie remayned in the entrie of the priſon.

Marginal notes to Chapter 37

• 1 4▪ Reg. 24. 2 Para. 36. ⟨illegible⟩ ▪ Eſd. 1.
• 3 [::] As Herod dealt afterwards with S. Iohn Baptiſt: ſo this king eſtemed, reuerenced, and feared Ieremie, and yet perſecuted him.
• 12 [::] It is an old deuiſe of perſecuters to pretend falſe cauſes againſt the innocent; ſo Iulian the Apoſtata charged Criſtian Catholiques, with treaſon and ſedition. Hist. tripart. li. 6. c. 27. ſo did alſo the Arrians, Vandals, & other heretikes againſt Catholiques. as Raffinus and Victor teſtifie.

Chapter 38

CHAP. XXXVIII. The nobles being offended with Ieremies preaching, ſolicite to haue him ſlaine: 5. the king putting him in their handes, they caſt him into a dyrtie dongeon, 7. from whence at the instance of Abdemelech an Aethiopian, he is drawen forth, 14. and hauing licence to ſpeake, he aduiſeth the king to yeld himſelf to the Chaldees, ſo he and the citie shal be ſafe: 18. otherwiſe shal be taken captiue, 24. which the king commandeth him to kepe ſecrete.

1 AND Saphatias the ſonne of Mathan, and Gedelias the ſonne of Phaſſur, and Iuchal the ſonne of Selemias, and Phaſſur the ſonne of Melchias heard the wordes, that Ieremie ſpake to al the people, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord: Whoſoeuer shal remaine in this citie, shal dye by ſworde, and famine, and peſtilence: but he that shal flee to the Chaldees, shal liue, and his life shal be ſafe and [::] liuing.

3 Thus ſaith our Lord: By deliuering this citie shal be deliuered into the hand of the armie of the king of Babylon, and he shal take it.

4 And the princes ſaid to the king: We deſire thee that this man may be put to death: for of purpoſe he weakneth the handes of the men of warre, that are remayning in this citie, and the handes of the people, ſpeaking to them according to theſe wordes: for this man ſeeketh not peace to this people, but euil.

5 And king Sedecias ſaid: Behold he is in your handes: for it is not lawful for the king to denie you anie thing.

6 They therefore tooke Ieremie, and caſt him into the lake of Melchias the ſonne of Amelech, which was in the entrie of the priſon: and they let downe Ieremie by ropes into the lake, wherein there was no water, but myre. Ieremie therefore ſunke downe into the myre.

7–8 But [::] Abdemelech the Aethiopian an eunuch, that was in the kings houſe, heard that they had caſt Ieremie into the lake: moreouer the king ſate in the gate of Beniamin. And Abdemelech went out of the kings houſe, and ſpake to the king, ſaying:

9 My Lord king, theſe men haue done al thinges naughtely, whatſoeuer they haue done againſt Ieremie the prophet, caſting him into the lake, that he may dye for famine, for there is no more bread in the citie.

10 The king therefore commanded Abdemelech the Aethiopian, ſaying: Take with thee from hence thirtie men, and lift vp Ieremie the prophete out of the lake, before he dye.

11 Abdemelech therefore taking the men with him, entred into the kings houſe, that was vnder the celler: and he tooke thence old ragges, and old thinges that were rotten: and he let them downe to Ieremie into the lake by cordes.

12 And Abdemelech the Aethiopian ſaid to Ieremie: Put the old ragges, and theſe rent and rotten thinges vnder the cubite of thine armes, and vpon the ropes: Ieremie therefore did ſo.

13 And they drew out Ieremie with the cordes, and brought him forth out of the lake. And Ieremie remayned in the entrie of the priſon.

14 And king Sedecias ſent; and tooke to him Ieremie the prophet to the third dore, that was in the houſe of our Lord: and the king ſaid to Ieremie: I aſke thee a word, hide not anie thing from me.

15 And Ieremie ſaid to Sedecias: If I shal tel thee, wilt thou not kil me? and if I geue thee counſel, thou wilt not heare me.

16 King Sedecias therefore ſware to Ieremie ſecretly, ſaying: Our Lord liueth, that made vs this ſoule, if I kil thee, and if I deliuer thee into the handes of theſe men, that ſeeke thy life.

17 And Ieremie ſaide to Sedecias: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: [::] If going forth thou wilt goe out to the princes of the king of Babylon, thy ſoule shal liue, and this citie shal not be burnt with fire: and thou shalt be ſafe, and thine houſe.

18 But if thou wilt not goe out to the princes of the king of Babylon, this citie shal be deliuered into the handes of the Chaldees, and they shal burne it with fire: and thou shalt not eſcape out of their hand.

19 And king Sedecias ſaid to Ieremie: I am careful becauſe of the Iewes, that are fled to the Chaldees: leſt perhaps I be deliuered into their handes, and they mocke me.

20 But Ieremie anſwered: They shal not deliuer thee, heare I beſeeche thee the word of our Lord, which I ſpeake to thee, and it shal be wel with thee, and thy ſoul⟨illegible⟩ shal liue.

21 But if thou wilt not goe forth: this is the word, which our Lord hath shewed me:

22 Behold al the wemen, that are remayning in the houſe of the king of Iuda, shal be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and they shal ſay: Thy peaceable men haue ſeduced thee, and haue preuailed againſt thee, they haue drowned thy feete in the myre, and in a ſliperie place, and are reuolted from thee.

23 And al thy wiues, and thy ſonnes shal be brought out to the Chaldees, and thou shalt not eſcape their handes, but thou shalt be taken in the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shal burne this citie with fire.

24 Sedecias therefore ſaid to Ieremie: Let none know theſe wordes, and thou shalt not dye.

25 But if the princes shal heare, that I haue ſpoken with thee: and shal come to thee, and ſay to thee: Tel vs what haſt thou ſpoken with the king, conceale not from vs, and we wil not kil thee.

26 Thou shalt ſay to them: I did proſtrate my prayers before the king, that he would not command me to be caried backe into the houſe of Ionathan, & there dye.

27–28 Al the princes therefore came to Ieremie, and asked him; and he ſpake to them according to al the wordes, that the king had commanded him, and they left him: for nothing had bene heard. But Ieremie remained in the entrie of the priſon, vntil the day, that Ieruſalem was taken: and it came to paſle that Ieruſalem was taken.

Marginal notes to Chapter 38

• 2 Iere▪ 2⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩. 9.
• 2 [::] The Hebrew phraſe life shal beliuing, and, liuing he shal liue, ſignifieth that he ſhal liue moſt ſecurely. Myſtically this ſaftie in voluntarie baniſhment ſignifieth, that voluntarie temporal penance ſaueth from eternal damnation.
• 7–8 [::] God euer moueth ſome to pittie the innocent afflicted, til at laſt he geueth them acrowne of glorie for their conſtant patience.
• 17 [::] Prophecies are not only certaine when a thing is abſolutly affirmed, but alſo when they are conditional, as this was, and the euent ſhould haue bene accordingly if the king had folowed the prophets aduiſe, though by not going the contrarie captiuitie, and much miſerie happened to the king and people.
• 23 4. Reg. 25

Chapter 39

CHAP. XXXIX. Ieruſalem after two yeares ſiege is taken by the Chaldees: 4. king Sedecias with others, fleing by a poſterne gate, is taken, brought to the king of Babylon, al his ſonnes are ſlaine, his eyes put out, and ſo led into Babylon. 8. The kinges palace and the towne houſe are burned; the walles of the citie deſtroyed, the people caried captiue, only the pooreſt left to til the ground. 11. Ieremias is deliuered. 15. And Abdemelech is ſaued from danger.

1 IN THE ninth yeare of Sedecias the king of Iuda, the tenth moneth, came Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon, and al his armie to Ieruſalem, and they beſieged it.

2 And in the eleuenth yeare of Sedecias, the fourth moneth, the ninth of the moneth the citie was opened.

3 And al the princes of the king of Babylon went in, and [::] ſate in the midle gate: Neregal, Sereſer, Semegarnabu, Sarſachim, Rabſares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and al the reſt of the princes of the king of Babylon.

4 And when Sedecias the king of Iuda, and al the men of warre had ſeene them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the citie by the way of the kinges garden, and by the gate, that was betwen the two walles, and they went out to the way of the deſert.

5 But the hoſt of the Chaldees purſued them: and they tooke Sedecias in the field of the deſert of Iericho, and being taken they brought him to Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon into Reblatha, which is in the Land of Emath: and he ſpake vnto him [::] iudgements.

6 And the king of Babylon killed the ſonnes of Sedecias in Reblatha, before his eies: and the king of Babylon killed al the nobles of Iuda.

7 The eies alſo of Sedecias he plucked out: and bound him with fetters, to be led into Babylon.

8 The kinges houſe alſo, and the houſe of the common people the Chaldees burnt with fire, and they ouerthrew the wal of Ieruſalem.

9 And the remnant of the people, that remayned in the citie, and the fugitiues that were fled to him, and the reſt of the people that remained, Nabuzardan the prince of the ſoldiars tranſported into Babylon.

10 And the poore people, that had nothing at al, Nabuzardan the maſter of the ſoldiars let alone in the land of Iuda, and he gaue them vineyards, and ceſternes in that day.

11 But Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon had commanded Nabuzardan the prince of the ſoldiars concerning Ieremie, ſaying:

12 Take him, and ſet thine eies vpon him, and doe him no euil: but as he wil ſo doe to him.

13 Nabuzardan therefore the prince of the warfare ſent; and Nabuſezban alſo, and Rabſares, and Negerel, & Sereſer, and Rebmag, and al the nobles of the king of Babylon,

14 ſent, and tooke Ieremie out of the entrie of the priſon, and deliuered him to Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam the ſonne of Saphan, that he might enter into the houſe, & dwel among the people.

15 But to Ieremie the word of our Lord was made, when he was shut vp in the entrie of the priſon, ſaying: Goe, and tel Abdemelech the Aethiopian, ſaying:

16 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil bring my wordes vpon this citie vnto euil, and not vnto good: and they shal be in thy ſight in that day.

17 And I wil deliuer thee in that day, ſaith our Lord: and thou shalt not be deliuered into the handes of the men, whom thou feareſt:

18 but deliuering I wil deliuer thee, and thou shalt not fal by the ſword: but thy life shal be to thee vnto ſaluation, becauſe thou haſt had confidence in me, ſaith our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 39

• 1 ⟨illegible⟩ Reg. 25. Iere 52.
• 3 [::] Poſſeſſion of one gate gaue ſufficient entrance to the whole armie; whereupon the king and his chiefe nobles fled by a poſterne gate.
• 5 [::] He expoſtulated, & iuſtly reproued Sedecias for rebelling breaking his othe, ſhewing ingratitude, for ſo much as Nabu chodonoſor had made him king, & repoſed cōfidence in him.

Chapter 40

CHAP. XL. [Margin: The fifth part. Ieremie prophecieth the deſtruction of the Iewes going into Aegypt; and of ſundrie nations for their idolattie, and crueltie.] Ieremie being permitted to goe whither he wil, 6. repayreth to Godolias, gouernour of the countrie. 7. To whom alſo manie Iewes come from ſundrie places. 13. Godolias warned of danger, doth not beleue it.

1 THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord, after that he was diſmiſt of Nabuſardan maſter of the warre from Rama, when he tooke him bound with cheynes in the middes of al, that went in tranſmigration of Ieruſalem and Iuda, and were led into Babylon.

2 The prince therefore of the warre taking Ieremie, ſaid to him: [::] The Lord thy God hath ſpoken this euil vpon this place,

3 and hath brought it: and the Lord hath done as he hath ſpoken: becauſe you haue ſinned to the Lord, and haue not heard his voice, & this word is fallen to you.

4 Now then behold I haue looſed thee this day from the cheynes, that are on thy handes: if it pleaſe thee to come with me into Babylon, come: and I wil ſet myne eies vpon thee: but if it pleaſe thee not to come with me into Babylon, tarrie: behold al the land is in thy ſight, that which thou shalt chooſe, and whither it shal pleaſe thee to goe, thither goe.

5 And come not with me: but dwel with Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam, the ſonne of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath appointed chiefe ouer the cities of Iuda: dwel therefore with him in the cities of Iuda: dwel therefore with him in the middes of the people: or whither ſoeuer it shal pleaſe thee to goe, goe. The Maſter of the warre gaue him victuals alſo, and giftes, and diſmiſſed him.

6 And Ieremie came to Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam into Maſphath: and dwelt with him in the middes of the people, that was left in the land.

7 And when al the princes of the armie, that were diſperſed through the countries, they and their companions, had heard, that the king of Babylon had made Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam gouernour of the countrie, and that he had committed vnto him men, & wemen, and children, & thoſe of the poore of the land, that had not bene tranſported into Babylon.

8 Then came to Godolias, into Maſphath both Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias, and Iohanan, and Ionathan, the ſonnes of Caree, and Sareas the ſonne of Thanehumeth, and the children of Ophi, that were of Netophathie, and Iezonias the ſonne of Maachati, they and their men.

9 And Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam the ſonne of Saphan ſware to them, and to their companions, ſaying: Feare not to ſerue the Chaldees: dwel in the land, and ſerue the king of Babylon, and it shal be wel with you.

10 Behold I dwel in Maſphath, that I may anſwere [::] the commandment of the Chaldees, that are ſent to vs: but you gather ye vintage, and harueſt, and oile, and lay it vp in your veſſels, and abide in your cities which you hold.

11 Yea and al the Iewes, that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Idumea, and in al the countries, when it was heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Iewrie, and that he dad made Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam the ſonne of Saphan ruler ouer them:

12 al the Iewes, I ſay, returned out of al places, to which they had fled, and they came into the land of Iuda to Godolias into Maſphath: and they gathered wine, and harueſt exceeding much.

13 But Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and al the princes of the hoſt, that had bene diſperſed in the countries, came to Godolias into Maſphath.

14 And they ſaid to him: Know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath ſent Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias to kil thee. And Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam beleued them not.

15 But Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, ſpake to Godolias apart in Maſphath, ſaying: I wil goe, and ſtrike Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias no man knowing it: leſt he kil thee, and al the Iewes be diſperſed, that are gathered vnto thee, and the remnant of Iuda perish.

16 And Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam ſaid to Iohanan the ſonne of Caree: Doe not [*] this word: for thou ſpeakeſt falſe of Iſmahel.

Marginal notes to Chapter 40

• 2 [::] This heathen prince ſeing the Iewes afflicted for their ſinnes, confeſſeth the iuſtice of God, not ſparing to puniſh his owne elected people.
• 9 4. Reg. 25.
• 10 [::] Being chiefe gouernour he promiſeth according to his place to defend the people, to anſwer for them, and to be their agent, and procurator in whatſoeuer the Chaldees ſhould command, or require of them.
• 16 [*] This thing.

Chapter 41

CHAP. XLI. Godolias with other Iewes and ſome Chaldees are ſlaine by Iſmael, ſent from the king of Moabites: 8▪ tenne are ranſomed for their riches, 11. Iohanan taking armes to reuenge the ſlaughter, Iſmael flyeth away, deliuering thoſe whom he held captiues: 17. and they prepare to flee into Aegypt.

1 AND it came to paſſe in the ſeuenth moneth, came Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias, the ſonne of Eliſama of the kings bloud, and the nobles of the king, and ten men with him, to Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam into Maſphath: and [::] they did eate bread there together in Maſphath.

2 And Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias aroſe, and the ten men, that were with him, & they ſtroke Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam the ſonne of Saphan with the ſword, and ſlew him, whom the king of Babylon had made ruler ouer the land.

3 Al the Iewes alſo that were with Godolias in Maſphath, and the Chaldees that were found there, and the men of warre did Iſmahel ſtrike.

4 And the ſecond day after he had killed Godolias, no man yet knowing it,

5 there came men from Sichem, and from Silo, and from Samaria eightie men: their beard shauen, and their garments rent, and il fauoured: and they had gifts, and frankincenſe in their hand, to offer in the houſe of our Lord.

6 Iſmahel therefore the ſonne of Nathanias going forth to meete them out of Maſphath, went going [::] and weeping: and when he had met them, he ſaid to them: Come to Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam.

7 Who when they were come to the middes of the citie, Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias ſlew them about the middes of the lake, he and the men that were with him.

8 But ten men were found among them, that ſaid to Iſmahel: Kil vs not: becauſe we haue treaſures in the field, of wheate, and barlie, and oile, and honie. And [::] he ceaſſed, and ſlew not them with their bretheren.

9 And the lake into the which Iſmahel threw al the carcaſſes of the men whom he ſtroke for Godolias, is the ſame [::] that king Aſa made, for Baaſa the king of Iſrael: the ſame did Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias fil with them that were ſlaine.

10 And Iſmahel led away captiue al the remnant of the people, that were in Maſphath: the kings daughters, and al the people, that remained in Maſphath: whom Nabuzardan the prince of the warre had commended to Godolias the ſonne of Ahi⟨illegible⟩am. And Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias tooke them, and he went away, to paſſe vnto the children of Ammon.

11 [::] But Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, & al the princes of the men of warre, that were with him, heard al the euil that Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias had done.

12 And taking al the men, they went forth to make battel againſt Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias, and they found him at the manie waters, that are in Gabaon.

13 And when al the people that was with Iſmahel, had ſeene Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre, that were with him, they reioyced.

14 And al the people, whom Iſmael had taken, returned into Maſphath: and returning they went to Iohanan the ſonne of Car⟨illegible⟩ ▪

15 But Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias fled with eight men, from the face of Iohanan, and went to the children of Ammon.

16 Iohanan therefore the ſonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre, that were with him, tooke al the remnant of the common people, which they had brought back from Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias out of Maſphath, after that he had ſtrooke Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam: ſtrong men for battel, and wemen, and children, & eunuches, which he had brought back from Gabaon.

17 And they went, and ſate ſeiourning in Chamaam, which is beſide Bethlehem: that they might goe forward, and enter into Aegypt

18 from the face of the Chaldees: for they feared them, becauſe Iſmahel the ſonne of Nathanias had ſtrooken Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam, whom the king of Babylon had made ruler in the land of Iuda.

Marginal notes to Chapter 41

• 1 4. Reg. 25.
• 1 [::] Such cruel tragedies are commonly atchiued by falſhood & treacherie, pretending freindſhipe, & intending miſchief.
• 6 [::] Not ſincerely weping, but hypocritically fea⟨illegible⟩ing to lament the deſtruction of the Temple, & Citie.
• 8 [::] Auarice tameth crueltie when nothing els can.
• 9 [::] It ſemeth that Aſa made this lake when he built Maſpha. 3▪ R⟨illegible⟩g. 15. v. 22.
• 11 [::] This Iohanan and his felowes roſe vp againſt Iſmahel, leſt otherwiſe they might haue bene iudged to haue bene of the ſame conſpiracie againſt Godolias, being fugitiues as Iſmael was.

Chapter 42

CHAP. XLII. Ieremie praying and conſulting God, 7. anſwereth that al thoſe which remaine in Ieruſalem shal be ſafe: 13. but thoſe that goe into Aegypt shalperish.

1 AND [::] there came al the Princes of the men of warre, and Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and Iezonias the ſonne of Oſaias, and the reſt of the common people from litle vnto great:

2 And they ſaid to Ieremie the prophet: Let our prayer fal in thy ſight: and pray for vs to the Lord thy God for al this remnant, becauſe we are left few of manie, as thine eies doe behold vs.

3 And let our Lord thy God tel vs the way, by which we may goe, and the [*] word that we muſt doe.

4 And Ieremie the prophet ſaid to them: I haue heard: behold I pray to our Lord your God according to your wordes: euerie word whatſoeuer he shal anſwer me, I wil tel you: neither wil I conceale from you anie thing.

5 And they ſaid to Ieremie: Be our Lord witnes betwen vs of truth and faith, if we doe not according to euerie word, for the which our Lord, thy God shal ſend thee to vs.

6 Whether it be [::] good, or euil, we wil obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we ſend thee: that it may be wel with vs, when we shal heare the voice of the Lord our God.

7 And when ten dayes were accomplished, the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie.

8 And he called Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre, that were with him, and the whole people from litle to great.

9 And he ſaid to them: Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael, to whom you ſent me, that I should proſtrate your prayers in his ſight:

10 If reſting you wil abide in this land, I wil build you, and not deſtroy you; I wil plant, and not plucke you vp: for now I am pacified vpon the euil that I haue done to you.

11 Feare not at the face of the king of Babylon, of whom you being feareful are afraid: feare him not, ſaith our Lord: becauſe I am with you, to ſaue you, and to deliuer you out of his hand.

12 And I wil geue you mercies, and wil haue mercie vpon you, and wil make you dwel in your owne land.

13 But if you shal ſay: We wil not dwel in this land, neither wil we heare the voice of the Lord our God,

14 ſaying: No, not ſo, but we wil goe forward to the Land of Aegypt: where we shal not ſee warre, and not heare the ſound of the trumpet, and shal not ſuſteyne famine: and there we wil dwel.

15 For this now heare the word of our Lord ye remnant of Iuda: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: If you shal ſet your face to goe into Aegypt, and shal enter to inhabite there:

16 the ſword which you feare, shal there take you in the Land of Aegypt: and the famine, for the which you are careful, shal cleeue to you in Aegypt, and there you shal dye.

17 And al the men, that shal ſet their face to goe into Aegypt, to dwel there, shal dye by the ſword, and by famine, and by peſtilence: none of them shal remaine, nor eſcape from the face of the euil, that I wil bring vpon them.

18 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: As my furie is powred our, and mine indignation vpon the inhabitants of Ieruſalem: ſo shal mine indignation be powred out vpon you, when you shal be entered into Aegypt, and you shal be into [::] an othe, and into aſtonishment, and into a curſe, and into reproch: and you shal no more ſee this place.

19 The word of our Lord is vpon you ô remnant of Iuda: Enter not into Aegypt: knowing you shal know that I haue adiured you this day,

20 becauſe you haue deceiued your ſoules: for you ſent me to the Lord our God, ſaying: Pray for vs to the Lord our God, and according to al thinges whatſoeuer the Lord our God shal ſay to thee, ſo tel vs, and we wil doe.

21 And I haue told you this day, and [::] you haue not heard the voice of the Lord your God concerning al thinges, for which he hath ſent me to you.

22 Now therefore knowing you shal know that by ſword, and famine, and peſtilence you shal dye in the place, to which you would enter for to dwel there.

Marginal notes to Chapter 42

• 1 [::] This conſultation was piouſly begune ſeeking to know Gods wil by his prophet: but the ſame people erred greuouſly in not folowing his direction, as he forſaw they would not▪ v. 21 And he further recordeth that they rebelliouſly oppoſed againſt him. ch. 43. v. 2.
• 3 [*] the thing.
• 6 [::] VVhether it ſeme to bring proſperitie or aduerſitie.
• 18 [::] An othe of execration. as Iſa. 65. v. 15.
• 21 [::] It was a dul le fault, in that they neither obeyed God ſpeaking by his prophet, not ſtood to their owne promiſe. v. 5.

Chapter 43

CHAP. XLIII. The reliques of the Iewes, againſt Ieremies admonitions, goe into Aegypt, 6. carying Ieremie and Baruch with them. 8. where Ieremie prophecieth that the king of Babylon shal ſpoyle that land, 12. and their idoles.

1 AND it came to paſſe, when Ieremie had finished ſpeaking to the people al the wordes of the Lord their God, for which our Lord their God had ſent him to them, al theſe wordes:

2 Azarias the ſonne of Oſaias ſaid: and Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and al the proude men, ſaying to Ieremie: [::] Thou ſpeakeſt a lie: the Lord our God ſent thee not, ſaying: Goe not into Aegypt, to dwel there.

3 But Baruch the ſonne of Nerias doth prouoke thee againſt vs, that he may deliuer vs into the handes of the Chaldees, that he may kil vs, and make vs to be tranſported into Babylon.

4 And Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre, and the whole people, heard not the voice of our Lord, to abide in the Land of Iuda.

5 But Iohanan the ſonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre taking al the remnant of Iuda, that were returned out of al nations, to which they had before bene diſperſed, to dwel in the Land of Iuda:

6 men, and wemen, and children, & the kinges daughters, and euerie ſoule, which Nabuzardan the prince of the warre had left with Godolias the ſonne of Ahicam, the ſonne of Saphan, and Ieremie the prophet, and Baruch the ſonne of Nerias.

7 And they went into the Land of Aegypt, becauſe they obeyed not the voice of our Lord: and they came as farre as Taphnis.

8 And the word of our Lord was made to [::] Ieremie in Taphnis, ſaying:

9 [::] Take thee greate ſtones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the caue, that is vnder the bricke wal in the gate of Pharaoes houſe in Taphnis: in the ſight of the men of Iuda.

10 And thou shalt ſay to them: Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God Iſrael: Behold I wil ſend, and take to me Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon my ſeruant: and I wil ſet his throne ouer theſe ſtones, which I haue hid, and he shal ſet his throne vpon them.

11 And coming he shal ſtrike the Land of Aegypt: thoſe that into death, into death: and thoſe that into captiuitie, into captiuitie: and thoſe that into the ſword, into the ſword.

12 And he shal kindle a fire in the temples of the goddes of Aegypt, and shal burne the ſame, and he shal lead them captiue: and he shal be clothed with the Land of Aegypt, as a paſtoris clothed with his cloke: & he shal goe out from thence in peace.

13 And he shal breake the ſtatuees of the houſe of the Sunne, that are in the Land of Aegypt: and the temples of the goddes of Aegypt he shal burne with fire.

Marginal notes to Chapter 43

• 2 [::] Sinful people are eaſily changed to worſe and worſe from their good motions. For this inſolent calumniation is farre from their promiſe, ch. 42. v. 5. & 6.
• 8 [::] The obſtinate people forced alſo Ieremie and Baruch to goe vvith them. into Aegypt.
• 9 [::] Vvhere both by wordes and other ſignes he prophecieth that the king of Babylon wil build his palace in the chief citie of Aegypt, and in ſigne therof layeth great ſtones as the fundation of the ſame. As els where he prophecied by factes. ch. 19. v. 10 c. 27. v. 2. c. 32 v. 7.

Chapter 44

CHAP. XLIIII. The Iewes admonished by Ieremie to leaue their idolatrie, 15. obſtinatly anſwer, that they wil perſiſt therin. 20. wherupon he prophecieth their deſtruction; 28. few eſcaping that returne into Ieruſalem. 29. And that the king of Aegypt shal alſo fal into his enimies handes.

1 THE word, that was made to Ieremie, to al the Iewes, that dwelt in the Land of Aegypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, & in the Land of Phatures, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: [::] You haue ſene al this euil, that I haue brought vpon Ieruſalem, and vpon al the cities of Iuda: and behold they are deſolate this day, and there is not an inhabiter in them:

3 for the malice, which they haue done, to prouoke me to wrath, & to goe and ſacrifice, and worſhipe falſe goddes, which both they, & you, and your fathers knew not.

4 And I haue ſent to you al my ſeruantes the prophetes, in the night ryſing, & ſending and ſaying: Doe not the word of this manner of abomination, which I hated.

5 And they heard not, nor inclined their eare to returne from their euils, and not to ſacrifice to ſtrange goddes.

6 And myne indignation and my furie is powred out, & it is kindled in the cities of Iuda, & in the ſtreetes of Ieruſalem: & they are turned into deſolation and waſte according to this day.

7 And now thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Why doe you this great euil againſt your owne ſoules, that there ſhould dye of you man and woman, child and ſuckling out of the middes of Iuda, and nothing be left remayning vnto you:

8 prouoking me in the workes of your handes, in ſacrificing to ſtrange goddes in the Land of Aegypt, into which you are entred to inhabite there: and that you should perish, and be a malediction, and a reproch to al the nations of the earth?

9 Why, haue you forgotten the euils of your fathers, and the euils of the kinges of Iuda, and the euils of the wiues, and your euils, and the euiles of your wiues, that they haue done in the Land of Iuda, and in the countries of Ieruſalem?

10 They are not clenſed euen to this day: and they haue not feared, and they haue not walked in the lawe of the Lord, and in my precepts, which I haue geuen before you and your fathers.

11 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil ſet my face vpon you to euil: and I wil deſtroy al Iuda.

12 And I wil take the remnant of Iuda, which haue ſet their face to goe into the Land of Aegypt, and to dwel there: and they shal be al conſumed in the Land of Aegypt: they shal fal by the ſword, and by famine: and they shal be conſumed [::] from the leaſt euen to the greateſt, by the ſword, and by famine shal they dye: and they shal be for an othe, and for a miracle, and into malediction, and into reproch.

13 And I wil viſite the inhabitants of the Land of Aegypt, as I haue viſited vpon Ieruſalem in ſword, and famine, and peſtilence.

14 And there ſhal be none that shal eſcape, and be remayning of the remnant of the Iewes, that goe to ſeiourne in the Land of Aegypt: & that shal returne into the Land of Iuda, to the which they eleuate their ſoules, for to returne and dwel there: there shal none returne but they that shal flee.

15 But al the men that knew that their wiues ſacrificied to ſtrange goddes: and al the wemen of whom there ſtood a great multitude, and al the people of the inhabitants in the Land of Aegypt in Phatures, anſwered Ieremie, ſaying:

16 The word, which thou haſt ſpoken to vs in the name of our Lord, we wil not heare of thee:

17 but doing we wil doe euerie word, that shal procede out of our owne mouth, to ſacrifice vnto [::] the queene of heauen, and to offer libaments vnto her, as we and our fathers haue done, our kinges, & our princes in the cities of Iuda, and in the ſtretes of Ieruſalem, and we were filled with bread, and it was wel with vs, and we ſaw no euil.

18 But from that time, ſince we ceaſſed to ſacrifice to the queene of heauen, and to offer libaments vnto her, we lacke al thinges, & we are conſumed with ſword, and famine.

19 And if we ſacrifice to the queene of heauen, and offer libamentes to her: why, haue we without our husbandes made her cakes to worshipe her, and to offer libamentes to her?

20 And Ieremie ſaid to al the people againſt the men, and againſt the wemen, and againſt al the people, that had anſwered him the word, ſaying:

21 Why, the ſacrifice that you haue ſacrificed in the cities of Iuda, and in the ſtreetes of Ieruſalem, you and your fathers, your kinges, and your princes, and the people of the land, is not our Lord mindful of them, and hath it not aſcended vpon his hart?

22 And our Lord would beare no longer for the malice of your ſtudies, and for the abominations, which you haue done, and your land is brought into deſolation, and into aſtonishment, and into malediction, for that there is not an inhabiter, as is this day.

23 Becauſe you haue ſacrificed to idols, and haue ſinned to our Lord: and haue not heard the voice of our Lord, and haue not walked in his law, and in his precepts, and in his teſtimonies: therefore are theſe euils fallen to you, as is this day.

24 And Ieremie ſaid to al the people, and to al the wemen: Heare you the word of our Lord al Iuda, which are in the Land of Aegypt:

25 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael, ſaying: You, and your wiues haue ſpoken with your mouth, and haue accomplished with your handes, ſaying: Let vs performe our vowes which we haue vowed, to ſacrifice to the queene of heauen, and to offer libaments to her: you haue fulfilled your vowes, and haue done them in worke.

26 Therefore heare ye the word of our Lord al Iuda, which dwel in the Land of Aegypt: Behold I haue ſworne by my great name, ſaith our Lord: that my name shal no more be called by the mouth of euerie man of Iuda, ſaying: Our Lord God liueth in al the Land of Aegypt.

27 Behold I wil watch vpon them to euil, and not to good: and al the men of Iuda that are in the Land of Aegypt, shal be conſumed, with ſword, and famine, til they be vtterly conſumed.

28 And they that shal eſcape the ſword, shal returne out of the Land of Aegypt into the Land of Iuda a few men: and al the remnant of Iuda that goe into the Land of Aegypt, to dwel there, shal know, whoſe word is accomplished, mine, or theirs.

29 And this shal be a ſigne for you, ſaith our Lord, that I viſite vpon you in this place: that you may know that my wordes shal be accomplished in deede againſt you to euil.

30 Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil deliuer Pharao Ephree the king of Aegypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that ſeeke his life: as I haue deliuered Sedecias the king of Iuda into the hand of Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon his enemie, and that ſeeketh his life.

Marginal notes to Chapter 44

• 2 [::] It is a very couenient motiue, & ought to be effectual vnto ſinful natio ⟨illegible⟩s to ſee their neighboures fallen into Hereſie, Tur⟨illegible⟩iſme or Paganiſme, for their obſtinacie in other ſinnes.
• 11 Amos▪ 9.
• 12 [::] Not al abſolutely, but the greateſt part and wel nere al: for ſome ſhal flee from thence. v 14. & 28.
• 12 Ch. 42. v 18.
• 17 [::] They reputed the moone as queene, and the ſunne as king of the ſtarres: more peculiarly men did ſacrifice to the ſunne, and wemen to the moone, but ſo that al did cooperate in both. For the children gathered stickes the fathers kindled the fire, and the vvemen tempered the dough, and made cakes vnto the queene of heauen. ch. 7. v. 18. 4. Reg. 23. v. 5.

Chapter 45

CHAP. XLV. Ieremie reprehendeth Baruch for lamenting in affliction.

1 THE word, that Ieremie ſpake to Baruch the ſonne of Nerias, when he had written theſe wordes in a booke, from the mouth of Ieremie, in the fourth yeare of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda, ſaying:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord the God of Iſrael to thee Baruch:

3 Thou haſt ſaid: Woe is me wretch, becauſe our Lord hath added [::] ſorow to my ſorow: I haue laboured in my mourning, and haue not found reſt.

4 Thus ſaith our Lord: Thus shalt thou ſay to him: Behold, them whom I haue builded, I doe deſtroy: and whom I haue planted, I doe pluck vp, and al this land.

5 And doeſt thou ſeeke to thy ſelf great thinges? Seeke not: for behold I wil bring euil vpon al flesh, ſaith our Lord: and I wil geue [::] thee thy life into ſafetie in al places, whither ſoeuer thou shalt goe.

Marginal notes to Chapter 45

• 3 [::] Baruch ſeing the people much afflicted and vnderſtanding by Ieremies prophecie, that they ſhould yet be more puniſhed, lamented the ſame.
• 5 [::] God granted not his prayer for the people but for himſelf only.

Chapter 46

CHAP. XLVI. Ieremie prophecieth that the king of Babylon shal inuade Aegypt, 13. and waſte the cites and land: 25. which shal againe be repayred. 27. And the reliques of the Iewes shal be deliuered from ſundrie places of captiuitie.

1 THE word of our Lord that was made to Ieremie the prophet againſt [::] the Gentiles,

2 to Aegypt againſt the armie of Pharao Nechao the king of Aegypt, which was beſide the riuer Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon ſtroke, in the fourth yeare of Ioakim the ſonne of Ioſias king of Iuda.

3 Prepare ye shild, and buckler, and goe forth to battel.

4 Yoke horſes, & mount ye horſemen: ſtand in helmets, furbish the ſpeares, put on coates of maile.

5 What then? [::] I ſaw them feareful, and turning their backes, their valiants ſlaine: they fled in haſt, neither looked they backe: terrour on enerie ſide, ſaith our Lord.

6 Let not the ſwift flee, nor the ſtrong thincke that he is ſafe: Toward the North by the riuer Euphrates they were ouercome, and fel downe.

7 Who is this that riſeth vp as a floud: and as it were of riuers, ſo his ſtreames doe ſwel?

8 Aegypt riſeth vp like a floud, and the waues thereof shal be moued as riuers, and shal ſay: Ryſing vp I wil couer the earth: I wil deſtroy citie, and the inhabitants thereof.

9 Get ye vp on horſes, & in chariots, and let the valiants come forth, Aethiopia, and the Lybians holding the shilde, and the Lydeans taking, and shooting arrowes.

10 And that day of our Lord the God of hoſtes, is a day of reuenge, that they may take vengeance of his enemies: the ſword shal deuoure, and be filled, & shal be drunken with their bloud: for the victime of our Lord the God of hoſtes is in the Land of the North by the riuer Euphrates.

11 Goe vp into Galaad, and take reſine [::] ô virgin the daughter of Aegypt: thou doeſt in vaine multiplie medicines, there shal not be health to thee.

12 The Gentiles haue heard thine ignominie, and thine howling hath filled the earth: becauſe the ſtrong hath ſtumbled againſt the ſtrong, and both are fallen together.

13 The word that our Lord ſpake to Ieremie the prophet, concerning this that Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon should come and, ſtrike the Land of Aegypt:

14 Tel Aegypt, and make it heard in Magdal, and let it ſound in Memphis, and in Taphnis: Say ye: Stand, and prepare thy ſelf: becauſe the ſword shal deuoure thoſe thinges, that be round about thee.

15 Why is thy valiant become rotten? he ſtood not: becauſe our Lord hath ouerthrowen him.

16 He hath multiplied them that fal, and man hath fallen againſt his neighbour, and they ſhal ſay: Ariſe, and let vs returne to our people, and to the Land of our natiuitie, from the face of the ſword of [*] the doue.

17 Cal ye the name of Pharao the king of Aegypt, Tumult, Time hath brought it.

18 I liue (ſaith the king, the Lord of hoſtes is his name) that as Thabor in the mountaines, and as Carmel in the ſea, he shal come.

19 Make ye veſſels of tranſmigration ô daughter inhabitant of Aegypt: becauſe Memphis shal be in deſolation, and shal be forſaken, and shal be inhabitable.

20 Aegypt a trimme and beautiful heyfer: a pricker from the North, shal come to her.

21 Her hyrelings alſo that conuerſed in the middes of her, as fatted calues are turned, and are fled together, neither could they ſtand: becauſe the day of their flaughter came vpon them, the time of their viſitation.

22 Her voice shal ſound as if it were of braſſe, becauſe they shal haſten with an armie, and with axes they shal come to her, as it were cutting trees.

23 They haue cut downe her foreſt, ſaith our Lord, which can not be counted: they are multiplied aboue locuſtes, and are without number.

24 The daughter of Aegypt is confounded, & deliuered into the hand of the people of the North.

25 The Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael hath ſaid: Behold I wil viſite vpon the tumult of Alexandria, and vpon Pharao, and vpon Aegypt, and vpon her goddes, and vpon her kinges, and vpon Pharao, and vpon them that truſt in him.

26 And I wil geue them into the hand of them that ſeeke their life, and into the hand of Nabuchodonoſor king of Babylon, and into the hand of his ſeruants: and after theſe thinges it shal be inhabited as in the daies of old, ſaith our Lord.

27 And [::] thou my ſeruant Iacob feare not, and be not thou afraid Iſrael: becauſe loe I wil ſaue thee from a farre, and thy ſeede out of the land of thy captiuitie: and Iacob shal returne, and reſt, and proſper: and there shal be none to terrifie him.

28 And thou my ſeruant Iacob feare not, ſaith our Lord: becauſe I am with thee, becauſe I wil conſume al the nations, to the which I haue caſt thee out: but thee I wil not conſume, but I wil chaſten thee in iudgement, neither wil I ſpare thee as innocent.

Marginal notes to Chapter 46

• 1 [::] As partly before ſo more eſpecially in the chapters folowing the prophet foreſheweth the puniſhment of diuers gentils which were the chiefeſt enimies to the Iewes.
• 5 [::] It is the common maner of Prophetes to ſpeake in the pretertence of thinges to come for the infallible certaintie therof.
• 11 [::] Aegypt accounted itſelf inuincible and ſo the prophet ironiouſly calleth it the virgin daughter, as in this whole paſſage he ſpeaketh by the ſame figure ironia, willing them to doe thoſe thinges which ſhould nothing helpe nor profite them, as appea reth by the next wordes: Thou doeſt in vaine multiplie medicines. or remedies, and v. 5. 10. 16.
• 16 [*] as ⟨illegible⟩h. 25. v. 38.
• 27 [::] Seing God wil reduce the Aegyptians from captiuitie, much leſſe nede the Iſraelites to feare Gods promiſe, that he wil reſtore them being his owne peculiar people.
• 27 I⟨illegible⟩a 43. & 44. Iere 30.

Chapter 47

CHAP. XLVII. The deſolation of the Philiſtims, Tyre, Sidon, Gaza, and Aſcalon is prophecied.

1 THE word of our Lord that was made to Ieremie the prophet againſt the Paleſthines, before Pharao ſtroke Gaza:

2 Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold there come vp waters from [::] the North, and they shal be as ⟨illegible⟩torrent ouerflowing, and they shal couer the earth, and the fulnes thereof, the citie and the inhabitantes thereof: men shal crie, and al the inhabitantes of the land shal howle

3 at the noiſe of the pompe of the armour, and of his men of warre, at the commotion of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheeles. The fathers haue not reſpected the children, being of diſſolute handes,

4 for the coming of the day, wherein al the Philiſthims shal be waſted, and Tyre, and Sidon shal be deſtroyed with al the reſt of their aydes. For our Lord hath ſpoyled the Paleſthines, the remnant of the ile of Cappadocia.

5 Baldnes is come vpon Gaza. Aſcalon hath held her peace, and the remnant of her valley, how long shalt thou be hewed?

6 O ſword of our Lord how long wilt thou not be quiet? Get thee into thy ſcabbard, be cooled, and be ſtil.

7 How shal it be quiet when our Lord hath commanded it againſt Aſcalon, and againſt the countries thereof by the ſea ſide, and there hath made appointment with it?

Marginal notes to Chapter 47

• 1 Iſa. 14. & 21.
• 2 [::] Babylon which is northward from Paleſtina.

Chapter 48

CHAP. XLVIII. A prophecie of the vaſtation of Moab, 29. for their pride: 47. but their capliuitie shal at laſt be releaſed.

1 TO Moab thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Woe vpon [::] Nabo, becauſe it is waſted, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the ſtrong one is confounded, and hath trembled.

2 There is no more reioycing in Moab: againſt Heſebon they haue thought euil. Come, and let vs deſtroy it from being a nation. therefore shalt thou in ſilence hold thy peace, and the ſword shal folow thee.

3 The voice of a crie from Oronaim: waſte, and great deſtruction.

4 Moab is deſtroyed: proclaime a crie to her children.

5 For by the aſcent of Luith shal the mourner goe vp in weeping: becauſe in the deſcent of Oronaim the enemies haue heard the howling of deſtruction:

6 Flee, ſaue your liues: and you shal be as heath in the deſert.

7 For that thou haſt had confidence in thy munitions, and in thy treaſures, thou alſo shalt be taken: and [::] Chamos shal goe into tranſmigration, his prieſts, and his princes together.

8 And the ſpoyler shal come to euerie citie, and no citie shal be ſaued: and the valleys shal perish, and the champaine countries shal be deſtroyed: becauſe our Lord hath ſaid:

9 Geue ye the floure to Moab, becauſe florishing it shal goe out: and her cities shal be deſolate, & inhabitable.

10 Curſed be he that doeth the worke of our Lord fraudulently: and curſed that ſtayeth his ſword from bloud.

11 Moab hath bene fruitful from his youth, and hath reſted in his dregges: neither hath he bene powred out of veſſel into veſſel, and hath not gone into tranſmigration: therefore hath his taſte remained in him, and his ſauour is not changed.

12 Therefore behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: and I wil ſend vnto him thoſe that shal order and diſpoſe of his pottes, and they shal ouerthrow him, and shal emptie his veſſels, and dash their pottes one againſt an other.

13 And Moab shal be ashamed of Chamos, as the houſe [::] of Iſrael was ashamed of Bethel, wherein it had confidence.

14 How ſay ye: We are valiant, and ſtrong men to fight?

15 Moab is waſted, & her cities they haue caſt downe: and her choſen yongmen are gone downe into ſlaughter: ſaith the king, the Lord of hoſtes is his name.

16 The deſtruction of Moab is nigh to come: the euil thereof shal come exceeding ſwiftly.

17 Comfort him al ye that are round about him, and al you that know his name, ſay: How is the ſtrong rod broken, the glorious ſtaffe?

18 Come downe from thy glorie, and ſit in drought ô habitation of the daughter of Dibon: becauſe the waſter of Moab shal come vp to thee, he shal deſtroy thy munitions.

19 Stand in the way, and looke ô habitation of Aroer: aske of him that fleeth: and ſay to him that hath eſcaped: What is chanced?

20 Moab is confounded, becauſe he is ouercome: howle ye, and crie, declare in Arnon, that Moab is waſted.

21 And iudgement is come to the champaine countrie: vpon Helon, and vpon Iaſa, and vpon Mephaath,

22 and vpon Dibon, and vpon Nabo, & vpon the houſe of Deblathaim,

23 and vpon Cariathaim, and vpon Bethgamul, and vpon Bethmaon,

24 . and vpon Carioth, and vpon Boſra: and vpon al the cities of the Land of Moab, that are far, and neere.

25 The horne of Moab is cut of, and his arme is broken, ſaith our Lord.

26 Make him drunken, becauſe he is erected againſt our Lord: and Moab shal wring his hand in his vomiting, and him ſelf alſo shal be in deriſion.

27 For [::] Iſrael hath bene in deriſion vnto thee: as though thou hadſt found him amongſt theeues: for thy wordes therefore, which thou haſt ſpoken againſt him, thou shalt be led captiue.

28 Leaue the cities, and dwel in the rocke ye inhabitants of Moab, and be ye as a doue making her neſt in the higheſt mouth of the hole.

29 We haue heard the pride of Moab, he is proude excedingly: his haughtines, and arrogancie, and pride, and loftines of his hart.

30 I know, ſaith our Lord, his boſting: and that the ſtrength thereof is not according to it, neither hath it endeuoured to doe according to that which it was able.

31 Therefore wil I waile vpon Moab, and to al Moab wil I crie, to the men [::] of the earthen wal that lament.

32 Of the mourning of Iazer I wil weepe to thee ô vineyard of Sabama: thy branches haue paſſed ouer the ſea, they are come euen to the ſea of Iaſer: the ſpoiler hath violently entered vpon thine harueſt, and thy vintage.

33 Ioy and gladnes is taken away out of Carmel, and out of the Land of Moab, and the wine out of the preſſes▪ I haue taken away: the treader of the grapeshal not ſing the accuſtomed cheereful note.

34 From the crie of Heſebon vnto Eleale, and Iaſa, they haue geuen their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, an heyfer of three yeares old: the waters alſo of Nemrim shal be verie il.

35 And I wil take away from Moab, faith our Lord, him that offereth in the excelſes, and that ſacrificeth to his goddes.

36 Therefore shal my hart ſound to Moab as a shaulme: and my hart shal geue the ſound of shaulmes to the men of the earthen wal: becauſe he hath done more then he could, therefore haue they perished.

37 For euerie head [::] baldnes, and euerie beard shal be shauen: in al handes binding together, and vpon euerie backe cloth of heare.

38 Vpon al the houſe toppes of Moab, and in the ſtreetes thereof al mourning: becauſe I haue broken Moab as an vnprofitable veſſel, ſaith our Lord.

39 How is it ouercome, and they haue howled? How hath Moab caſt downe the necke, and is confounded? And Moab shal be in deriſion, and for an example to al round about him.

40 Thus ſaith our Lord: Behold he shal flee as an eagle, & shal ſtretch forth his winges to Moab.

41 Carioth is taken, and munitions are wonne: and the hart of the valiants of Moab in that day, shal be as the hart of a woman in trauel.

42 And Moab shal ceaſe to be a people: becauſe he hath gloried againſt our Lord.

43 Feare, and pitte, and ſnare vpon thee ô inhabiter of Moab, ſaith our Lord.

44 He that shal flee from the face of feare, shal fal into the pitte: and he that shal come vp out of the pitte, shal be taken in the ſnare: for I wil bring vpon Moab the yeare of their viſitation, ſaith our Lord.

45 They ſtoode in the shadow of Heſebon that fled from the ſnare: becauſe there came a fire out of Heſebon, and a flame out of the middes of Sehon, and it hath deuoured part of Moab, and the toppe of the children of rumult.

46 Woe to thee Moab, thou haſt perished ô people of Chamos: becauſe thy ſonnes are taken, and thy daughters into captiuitie.

47 And I wil conuert the captiuirie of Moab [::] in the laſt daies, ſaith our Lord. Hitherto the iudgements of Moab.

Marginal notes to Chapter 48

• 1 Iſa. 15. & 16.
• 1 [::] Nabo a chief citie of Moab (as alſo Medaba, Iſa. 15.) and Cariathaim▪ Heſebon, Oronaim; and the reſt, v. 18▪ &c. ſhal be deſtroyed.
• 6 Iere. ⟨illegible⟩
• 7 [::] A great idol of the Moabites. Num 21. v. 29. 3. Reg. 11. v. 7 33 & 44. Reg. 23. v. 13. ſhal be ouerthrowne; to ſhew the vanitie in truſting to falſe goddes.
• 13 [::] The kingdom of the tenne tribes truſted as vainly in their calf ſette vp by Ieroboam in Bethel. 3. Reg. 12.
• 27 [::] Moabites deſcending from Lot, Abrahams nephew derided their kinred in miſeries, and are therfore more ſeuerely puniſhed.
• 31 [::] Men that bragge of more ſtrength then they haue, are reſembled to an earthen wall, v. 36.
• 33 Iſa. 16.
• 37 Iſa 15. Ezech. 7.
• 37 [::] Amongſt the Iewes and others in thoſe partes, cutting of their heare was a ſigne of mourning, but with the Romanes contrariewiſe mourners ſuffered their heare grow long. Cicero Orat. pro Pub-Seſtio, & pro On. Plancio.
• 44 Iſa. 34.
• 45 Num. 21
• 47 [::] Al Nations shal be conuerted to the Church of Chriſt. For other conuerſion of Moab, Ammon, Aelam, or the like, is not recorded in holie ſcripture, nor other hiſtorie.

Chapter 49

CHAP. XLIX. The like vaſtation of Ammon (6. who shal be againe restored.) 7. deſtruction of Idumea: 27. of the Syrians, 28. Agarenes, 34. and Aelamites: 39. whoſe captiuitie shal at laſt be releaſed.

1 TO THE children of Ammon. Thus ſaith our Lord: why, [::] hath Iſrael no children? or hath he not an heire? why then hath [::] Melchom by inheritance poſſeſſed Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?

2 Therefore behold the daies come ſaith our Lord: and I wil make the noiſe of battel to be heard vpon Rabbath the children of Ammon, and it shal be deſtroyed into an heape, and her daughters shal be burnt with fire, and Iſrael shal poſſeſſe his poſſeſſoures, ſaith our Lord.

3 Howle Heſebon, becauſe Hai is waſted. Crie ye daughters of Rabbath, gird your ſelues with clothes of heare: mourne and goe about by the hedges: becauſe Melchom shal be led into tranſmigration, his prieſts, and his princes together.

4 What glorieſt thou in the valleis? thy valley hath flowed away ô delicate daughter, which didſt truſt in thy treaſures, and ſaidſt: Who shal come to me?

5 Behold I wil bring tertour vpon thee, ſaith our Lord the God of hoſtes, from al that are round about thee: and you shal be diſperſed euerie one from an others ſight, neither shal there be anie to gather together them that flee.

6 And after theſe thinges I wil make the captiues of the children of Ammon to returne, ſaith our Lord.

7 To Idumaea. Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: [::] Why is wiſedom no more in Theman? Counſel is perished from the children: their wiſedom is become vnprofitable.

8 Flee and turne your backes, goe downe into the gulfe ye inhabitantes of Dedan: becauſe I haue brought the perdition of Eſau vpon him, the time of his viſitation.

9 If the grape gatherers had come vpon thee, they had not left a cluſter: if theeues in the night, they had taken that should ſuffice them.

10 But I haue diſcouered Eſau, I haue reuealed his ſecrets, and he can not be concealed: his ſeede is waſted, and his bretheren, and his neighbours, and he shal not be.

11 Leaue thy pupilles: I wil make them liue: and thy widowes shal hope in me.

12 For thus ſaith our Lord: Behold they whoſe iudgement was not to drinke the cuppe, drinking shal drinke: and shalt thou be left as innocent? thou shalt not be innocent, but drinking thou shalt drinke.

13 Becauſe I haue ſworne by my ſelf, ſaith our Lord, that Boſra shal be into deſolation, and into reproch, and into a deſert, and into malediction: and al her citics shal be into euerlaſting deſolations.

14 I haue heard a bruite from our Lord, and a legate is ſent to the Nations: Gather your ſelues together, and come againſt her, and let vs riſe vp into battel.

15 For behold I haue made thee a litle one in the Gentiles, contemptible among men.

16 Thine arrogancie hath deceiued thee, and the pride of thy hart: which dwelleſt in the caues of the rocke, and endeuoureſt to apprehend the height of the hil. when thou shalt exalt thy neſt as an eagle, thence wil I bring thee downe, ſaith our Lord.

17 And Idumea shal be deſolate: euerie one that shal paſſe by it, shal be [::] aſtonied, and shal hiſſe vpon al the plagues thereof.

18 As Sodome is ouerthrowen and Gomorrha, and her neighbours ſaith our Lord: there shal not a man dwel there, and there shal no ſonne of man inhabite it.

19 Behold as a lion he shal come vp from the pride of Iordan, to the ſtrong beautifulnes: becauſe I wil make him runne ſodenly to her: and who shal be a choſen one whom I may appoint ouer her? for who is like to me? and who shal abide me? and who is this paſtour that can reſiſt my countenance?

20 Therefore heare ye the counſel of our Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his cogitations, which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: If the litle ones of the flocke shal not caſt them downe, if they shal not deſtroy their habitation with them.

21 At the voice of their ruine the earth is moued: the crie of their voice is heard in the Red ſea.

22 Behold he shal come vp as an eagle, and flie out: and he shal ſpred his winges ouer Boſra: and the hart of the ſtrong of Idumea shal be in that day, as the hart of a woman in trauel

23 [::] To Damaſcus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: becauſe they haue heard a verie il bruite, they are trubled in the ſea: for carefulnes it could not be quiet.

24 Damaſcus is vndone, she is turned into flight, ttembling hath apprehended her: anguish and ſorowes haue held her as a woman in trauel.

25 How haue they forſaken the laudable citie, the citie of ioy!

26 Therefore shal her yongmen fal in her ſtreetes: and al the men of warre shal be ſilent in that day, ſaith the Lord of hoſtes.

27 And I wil kindle a fire in the wal of Damaſcus, and it shal deuour the walles of Benadad.

28 [::] To Cedar, and to the kingdoms of Aſor, which Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon hath ſtrooken. Thus ſaith our Lord: Ariſe, and goe ye vp to Cedar, and waſte the children of the Eaſt.

29 They shal take their tabernacles, and their flockes: their cortines, and al their veſſels, and their camels they shal take to them: and they shal cal vpon them feare round about.

30 Flee yee, get away ſpedely, ſit in deepe pitts you that inhabite Aſor, ſaith our Lord: for Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon hath taken counſel againſt you, & hath deuiſed deuiſes againſt you.

31 Ariſe, and goe vp to the nation that is quiet, and that dwelleth confidently, ſaith our Lord, they haue neither doores, nor barres: they dwel alone.

32 And their camels shal be into ſpoile, and the multitude of beaſts for a praye: and I wil diſperſe them into euerie winde, which haue their heare powled: and from euerie confine of theirs, I wil bring deſtruction vpon them, ſaith our Lord.

33 And Aſor shal be for an habitation of dragons, deſolate for euer: there shal no man tarie there, nor ſonne of man inhabite it.

34 The word of our Lord that was made to Ieremie the prophet againſt [::] Aelam, in he beginning of the kingdom of Sedecias king of Iuda, ſaying:

35 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: Behold I wil breake the bow of Aelam, & their chife ſtrength.

36 And I wil bring vpon Aelam the foure windes from the foure coſtes of heauen: and I wil ſcatter them into al theſe windes: & there shal not be a nation, to which the fugitiues of Aelam shal not come.

37 And I wil make Aelam to feare before his enemies, and in the ſight of them that ſeeke their life: and I wil bring euil vpon them, the wrath of my furie, ſaith our Lord: and I wil ſend the ſword after them, til I conſume them.

38 And I wil ſet my throne in Aelam, and deſtroy kinges and princes from thence, ſaith our Lord.

39 [::] But in the laſt daies I wil cauſe the captiues of Aelam to returne, ſaith our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 49

• 1 [::] VVhen the tenne tribes were caried into captiuitie, the Ammo ⟨illegible⟩ites poſſeſſed the inheritance of Gad by intruſion as next neighboures, and of their kinred, as though al the Iſraelires had bene vtterly deſtroyed.
• 1 [::] And therfore God expoſtulateth this iniurie and abſurditie, that the people of Melchom, the idol of the Ammonites (4. Reg. 23.) ſhould inuade the inheritance of his owne people.
• 7 [::] The Idumeans were worldly wiſe, but became fooliſh in the way of ſerning God.
• 14 Abdi⟨illegible⟩ v. 1.
• 16 Abd. v. 4.
• 17 [::] As exceſſiue merueling at ſtrange and vnexpected euents, maketh men to be aſtonied: ſo if the ſame do pleaſe them, they hiſſe therat, ſignifiying contempt. Termes often vſed by this prophet.
• 18 Gen. 19. Iere. 50.
• 19 Iob. 41.
• 23 [::] This prophecie perteineth to Syria, whereof Damaſcus is the chief citie. Iſa. 7. v. 8.
• 28 [::] Cedar was one of Iſmaels ſonnes, and A⟨illegible⟩or the chief citie of the Agarens, to whom this prophecie perteineth.
• 34 [::] The Aelamites inhabiting in a part of Perſia, did aſſiſt the Chaldees againſt the Iewes, and therfore were puniſhed.
• 39 [::] This and the like prophecies, are vnderſtood of the conuerſion of the Gentiles to Chriſt: begune to be fulfilled, when the Holie Ghoſt deſcended. Act 2 v. 7.

Chapter 50

CHAP. L. Babylon which afflicteth the Iſraelites in captiuitie, 4. after their reduction into their countrie, 8. shal be vtterly destroyed.

1 THE word that our Lotd hath ſpoken [::] of Babylon, and the Land of the Chaldees in the hand of Ieremie the prophete.

2 Declare among the Gentiles, and make it heard, lift vp a ſigne: proclame and conceale it not: ſay; Babylon is taken, [::] Bel is confounded, Merodach is ouercome, their ſculptiles are confounded, their idoles are ouercome.

3 Becauſe a nation is come vp againſt them from the North, which shal bring her Land into deſolation: and there shal be none to dwel therein, from man euen to beaſt, and they are remoued, and gone away.

4 In thoſe daies, and in that time, ſaith our Lord, the children of Iſrael ſhal come, they and the children of Iuda together: walking and [::] weeping they ſhal haſten, and shal ſeeke the Lord their God.

5 Into Sion they shal aske the way, their faces hitherward. They shal come, and shal be ioyned to our Lord by an euerlaſting couenant, which shal by no obliuion be abolished.

6 My people is become a loſt flock, their paſtours haue ſeduced them, and haue made them wander in the mountaynes: they haue paſſed from mountayne to hil, they haue frogotten their couch.

7 Al that found them, haue eaten them: and their enemies ſaid: We haue not ſinned: becauſe they haue ſinned to the Lord the beautie of Iuſtice, and to the Lord the expectation of their fathers.

8 Depart out of the middes of Babylon, and goe forth out of the land of the Chaldees: and be ye as kiddes before the flocke.

9 Becauſe ⟨illegible⟩oe I rayſe vp, and wil bring into Babylon an aſſemblie of great nations from the land of [::] the North: and they shal be prepared againſt her, and thereby she shal be taken: his arrow as a valiant mans that is a killer, shal nor returne voide.

10 And Chaldea shal be for a praye: al that waſte it shal be filled, ſaith our Lord.

11 Becauſe you reioyce, and ſpeake great thinges, ſpoyling mine inheritance: becauſe you are powred out as calues vpon the graſſe, and you haue belowed as bulles.

12 Your [::] Mother is confounded exceedingly, and made euen with the duſt she that bare you: behold she shal be the laſt among the Gentiles, deſolate, without acceſſe, and drie.

13 Of the wrath of our Lord it shal not be inhabited, but shal be brought wholly into deſolation: euerie one that shal paſſe by Babylon, shal be aſtonied, and shal hiſſe vpon al the plagues thereof.

14 Be prepared againſt Babylon round about al ye that bend bow; ouerthrow her, ſpare not arrowes: becauſe she hath ſinned to our Lord.

15 Crie againſt her, she hath geuen the hand euerie where, her foundations are fallen, her walles are deſtroyed, becauſe it is the vengeance of our Lord. Take vengeance of her: as she hath done, ſo doe to her.

16 Deſtroy the ſower ou⟨illegible⟩ of Babylon, and him that holdeth the ſickle in the harueſt time: at the face of the ſword of the [::] doue euerie man shal returne to his people, and euerie one shal ſlee to his owne land.

17 Iſrael is a flock diſperſed, lyons haue caſt him out: firſt the king [::] of Aſſur did eate him: laſt this Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon hath ſpoyled his bones

18 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes the God of Iſrael: Behold I wil viſite the king of Babylon and his land, as I haue viſited the king of Aſſur:

19–20 and I wil bring Iſrael againe to his habitation: and Carmel shal be fed, and Baſan, and in mount Ephraim, and Galaad his ſoule shal be filled. In thoſe daies, and in that time, ſaith our Lord, the iniquitie of Iſrael shal be ſought, and it shal not be: and the ſinne of Iuda, and it shal not be found: becauſe I wil be propicious to them, whom I shal leaue.

21 Aſcend vpon the land of them that rule, and viſite vpon the inhabitants thereof, deſtroy, and kil the thinges that are behind them, ſaith our Lord: and doe according to al thinges that I haue commanded thee.

22–23 A voice of battel in the land, and great deſtruction. How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and deſtroyed? how is Babylon turned into a deſert among the nations?

24 I haue ſnared thee, and thou art taken Babylon, and thou kneweſt it not: thou art found & apprehended, becauſe thou haſt prouoked our Lord.

25 Our Lord hath opened his treaſure, and brought forth the veſſels of his wrath: becauſe the Lord the God of hoſtes hath a worke in the land of the Chaldees.

26–27 Come ye vnto her from the vttermoſt borders, open that they may goe forth that shal tread her downe: take the ſtones out of the way, and bring it into heapes, and kil her: neither let there be anie thing left. Deſtroy al her valiants, let them deſcend into ſlaughter: woe vnto them, becauſe their day is come, the time of their viſitation.

28 A voice of them that flee, and of them, that haue eſcaped out of the land of Babylon: to tel in Sion the reuenge of the Lord our God, the reuenge of his temple.

29 Declare ye againſt Babylon to verie manie, to al that bend bow: ſtand together againſt her round about, and let none eſcape: repay her according to her worke: according to al thinges, that she hath done, doe ye to her: becauſe she is erected againſt our Lord, againſt the holie one of Iſrael.

30 Therefore shal her yongmen fal in her ſtreetes: and al her men of warre shal hold their peace in that day, ſaith our Lord.

31 Behold I to thee thou prowd one, ſaith our Lord the God of hoſtes: becauſe thy day is come, the time of thy viſitation.

32 And the prowd shal fal, and tumble downe, and there shal be none to raiſe him vp: and I wil kindle a fire in his cities, and it shal deuoure al thinges round about him.

33 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: [::] The children of Iſrael, and the children of Iuda fuſteyne calumnie together: al that haue taken them, hold them, they wil not let them goe.

34 Their [::] ſtrong redeemer, the Lord of hoſtes is his name, in iudgement wil defend their cauſe, to terrifie the land, and to ſtirre vp the inhabitantes of Babylon.

35 The ſword to the Chaldees, ſaith our Lord, and to the inhabitants of Babylon, and to her princes, and to her wiſe men.

36 The ſword to her diuiners, who ſhal be foolish: the ſword to her valiants, who shal be afraid.

37 The ſword to his horſes, and to his chariots, and to al the common people, that is in the middes of her: and they shal be as wemen: the ſword to her treaſures, which shal be ſpoyled.

38 There shal be drought vpon her waters, and they shal be dryed vp: becauſe it is a land of ſculptiles, and they glorie in monſtrous thinges.

39 Therefore shal the dragons dwel with the foolish murderers: and the oſtriches shal dwel in it: and it shal no more be inhabited for euer, neither shal it be built euen to generation and generation.

40 As our Lord ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, ſaith our Lord: there shal no man dwel there, and ſonne of man shal not inhabite it.

41 Behold a people cometh from the North, and a great nation, and manie kinges shal riſe from the endes of the earth.

42 They shal take bow and shield: they are cruel and vnmerciful: their voice shal ſound as the ſea, and they shal mount vpon horſes: as a man prepared to battel againſt thee ô daughter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, and his handes are diſſolued: anguish hath caught him, ſorow as a woman in trauel.

44 Behold [::] as a lion he shal come vp [::] from the pride of Iordan to the ſtrong beautifulnes: becauſe I wil make him runne ſodenly to her: and who shal be a choſen one, whom I may appoint ouer her? For who is like to me? and who shal abide me? and who is this paſtour, that can reſiſt my countenance?

45 Therefore heare ye the counſel of our Lord, which he hath conceiued in his minde againſt Babylon: and his cogitations, which he hath thought vpon the land of the Chaldees: Vnles the litle ones of the flockes shal plucke them downe, vnles their habitation shal be deſtroyed with them.

46 At the voice of the captiuitie of Babylon the earth is moued, and the crie is heard amongſt the Nations.

Marginal notes to Chapter 50

• 1 [::] Babylonians and other Chaldees the greateſt enimies of the Iewes were at laſt ouerthrowne by the Medes and Perſians.
• 1 Iſa. 13. & 21.
• 2 [::] Bel and Merodoch greateſt idols of the Chaldees could neither ſaue their ⟨illegible⟩hen⟨illegible⟩s nor them ſelues.
• 4 [::] The Iewes Returning from captiuirie wept for ioy; as Ioſeph did ſeing his bretheren. Gen. 42. 43. & 45.
• 9 [::] The Medes and Perſians dwelling on the North to Babylon ouerthrew al Chaldea.
• 12 [::] The whole countrie of Chaldea is made a praye to the ſpoylers.
• 16 [::] God reſembled to a doue in meeknes, is ſeuere when he punisheth enormious ſinners, ch. 25. v 38 & 46. v. 16. Or, the king of Babylon is reſembled to a doue for his ſwiftnes.
• 17 [::] The Aſſirians ledde the tenne tribes into captiuitie. 4. Reg. 18. and the Chaldees the two tribes. 4. Reg. 25.
• 33 [::] Al the Iewes of both kingdomes being holden captiues in ſtrong handes.
• 34 [::] VVere redemed by a ſtronger arme, by God him ſelf.
• 40 Gen. 19.
• 44 [::] As the king of Babylon like a lion deſtroyed and deuoured others: ſo at laſt others deſtroyed him, and al his forces, cōming ſodenly vpon him.
• 44 [::] As when ⟨illegible⟩o⟨illegible⟩d⟨illegible⟩ ſwelling ouerfloweth the land.
• 44 Iob. 4⟨illegible⟩.
• 46 Apoc. 16.

Chapter 51

CHAP. LI. More miſories shal fal vpon Babylon (11. by the Medes) with deſtruction of her idoles.

1 THVS ſaith our Lord: [::] Behold I wil raiſe vpon Babylon and vpon the inhabitants thereof, which haue lifted vp their hart againſt me, as it were a peſtilent winde.

2 And I wil ſend vpon Babylon ⟨illegible⟩anners, and they shal fanne it, and shal deſtroy her land: becauſe they are come vpon her on euerie ſide in the day of her affliction.

3 Let not him that bendeth bend his bow, and let not him goe vp that is in [*] a brigandin, ſpare not her young men, kil al her hoſt.

4 And the ſlaine shal fal in the land of the Chaldees, and the wounded in the countries thereof.

5 Becauſe Iſrael and Iuda haue not bene left as a widow of their God the Lord of hoſtes: but their land hath bene replenished with ſinne from the holie one of Iſrael.

6 Flee ye out of the middes of Babylon, and let euerie one ſaue his owne life, hold not your peace vpon her iniquitie: becauſe it is the time of reuenge from our Lord, he wil requite her the like.

7 Babylon is a golden cuppe in the hand of our Lord, inebriating al the earth: of her wine haue the Nations drunke, and therefore they are in commotion.

8 Babylon is fallen ſodenly, and is deſtroyed: howle ye vpon her, take reſine for her ſorow, if perhaps she may be healed.

9 We haue cured Babylon, and she is not healed: let vs forſake her, & let vs goe euerie man to his owne land: becauſe her iudgement hath reached euen to the heauens, & is lifted vp vnto the clowdes.

10 Our Lord hath brought forth our iuſtices: come, and let vs tel in Sion the worke of the Lord our God.

11 Make sharpe the arrowes, fil the quiuers: our Lord hath rayſed vp the ſpirite of the kinges of the Medes: and againſt Babylon his minde is to deſtroy it, becauſe it is the reuenge of our Lord, the reuenge of his temple.

12 Vpon the walles of Babylon lift vp the enſigne, increaſe the watch▪ ſet vp watchemen, prepare embushments: becauſe our Lord hath meant, and hath done what ſoeuer he ſpake againſt the inhabitants of Babylon.

13 Thou that dwelleſt vpon manie waters, rich in treaſures: thine end is come with in a foote of thy cutting of.

14 The Lord of hoſtes hath ſworne by his ſoule: that I wil replenish thee with men as it were with the locuſt, and vpon thee shal the merie shoute be ſong.

15 He that made the earth in his ſtrength, hath prepared the world in his wiſedom, and with his prudence ſtretched out the heauens.

16 He geuing a voice, the waters are multiplied in heauen: who lifteth vp the clowdes from the extreme part of the earth, lightenings he hath turned into rayne: and he hath brought forth the winde out of his treaſures.

17 Euerie man is become a foole by knowlege: euerie mettal caſter is confounded in his ſculptil, becauſe his caſting is counterfet, neither is there ſpirite in them.

18 They are vaine workes, and worthie to be laughed at, in the time of their viſitation they shal perish.

19 The portion of Iacob is not as theſe thinges: becauſe he that made al thinges he it is, and Iſrael is the ſcepter of his inheritance: the Lord of hoſtes is his name.

20 Thou doeſt knocke together the veſſels of warre for me, and I wil knock together in thee the Gentiles, and I wil deſtroy in thee kingdomes:

21 And I wil breake in thee the horſe, and his rider: and I wil knock together in thee the chariot, and the rider thereof.

22 And I wil knocke together in thee man and woman, and I wil knocke together in thee the old man and the child, and I wil knock together in thee the young man and the virgin:

23 and I wil knocke together in thee the paſtour and his flocke, and I wil knocke together in thee the husbandman and his draweing cattle, and I wil knocke together in thee dukes and magiſtrates.

24 And I wil render to Babylon, and to al the inhabitants of Chaldee al their euil, that they haue done in Sion, before your eyes, ſaith our Lord.

25 Behold I to thee thou peſtiferous mountaine, ſaith our Lord, which corrupteſt the whole earth: and I wil ſtreatch out my hand vpon thee, and wil roll thee out of the rockes, and wil geue thee to be a mountayne of burning.

26 And they shal not take of thee a ſtone for the corner, and a ſtone for foundations, but thou shalt be deſtroyed for euer, ſaith our Lord.

27 Lift ye vp an enſigne in the land: ſound with the trumpet among the Gentiles: [::] ſanctifie the Gentiles vpon her: declare againſt her to the kinges of Ararat, Menni, and Aſcenez: number Taphſar againſt her, bring the horſe as the ſtinging locuſt.

28 Sanctifie the Gentiles againſt her, the kings of Media, the dukes thereof, and al the Magiſtrates thereof, & al the land of his dominion.

29 And the land shal be in a commotion, and shal be trubled: becauſe the cogitation of our Lord shal awake againſt Babylon, to lay the Land of Babylon deſert and inhabitable.

30 The valiants of Babylon haue ceaſed from battel, they haue dwelt in holdes: their ſtrength is deuoured, and they are become as wemen: her tabernacles are burnt, her barres are broken.

31 A runner shal come to meete the runner, and meſſenger to meete meſſenger: to tel the king of Babylon that his citie is taken from one end to the other:

32 and the fordes are taken before hand, and the fennes be burnt with fire, and the men of warre be trubled.

33 Becauſe thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes, the God of Iſrael: The daughter of Babylon is as a barne floore, the time of her threshing: yet a litle, and the time of her reaping shal come.

34 [::] Nabuchodoſor the king of Babylon hath eaten me, he hath deuoured me: he hath made me as an emptie veſſel: he hath ſwallowed me vp as a dragon, he hath filled his bellie with my tendernes, and hath caſt me out.

35 Iniquitie againſt me, and my flesh vpon Babylon, ſaith the habitation of Sion: and my bloud vpon the inhabitantes of Chaldee, ſaith Ieruſalem.

36 Therefore thus ſaith our Lord: Behold I wil iudge thy cauſe, and wil reuenge thy vengeance, and I wil make her ſea deſolate, and wil drie vp her vayne.

37 And Babylon shal be into heapes, the habitation of dragons, aſtonishment, and hiſſing, becauſe there is not an inhabiter.

38 They shal roare together as lions, they shal shake the manes as the whelpes of lions.

39 In their heate I wil ſet their drinke: and I wil make them drunke, that they may be drouſie, and ſleepe an euerlaſting ſleepe, & not ariſe, ſaith our Lord.

40 I wil leade them as lambes to be a victime, and as rammes with kiddes.

41 How is Seſach taken, and the noble one of al the earth apprehended? How is Babylon become an aſtonishment among the Gentiles?

42 The ſea is come vp ouer Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.

43 Her cities are become an aſtonishment: a land inhabitable and deſolate, a land wherein none can dwel, nor ſonne of man may paſſe by it.

44 And I wil viſite vpon Bel in Babylon, and I wil caſt out of his mouth that which he had ſwallowed: and the Gentiles shal no more runne together vnto him, for the wall alſo of Babylon shal fal.

45 Goe out of the middes of her my people: that euerie one may ſaue his life from the wrath of the furie of our Lord.

46 And leſt perhaps your hartes faint, and ye feare the bruite, that shal be heard in the land: and there shal come a bruite in the yeare, and after this yeare a bruite: and iniquitie in the land, and ruler vpon ruler.

47 Therefore behold the daies come, and I wil viſite vpon the ſculptiles of Babylon: and al her land shal be confounded and al her ſlaine shal fal in the middes of her.

48 And the heauens and the earth shal prayſe vpon Babylon, and al thinges that are in them: becauſe ſpoylers shal come to her from the North, ſaith our Lord.

49 And as Babylon cauſed that there should fal ſlaine in Iſrael: ſo of Babylon there shal fal ſlaine in the whole land.

50 You that haue eſcaped the ſword, come, ſtand not: remember our Lord a farre of, and let Ieruſalem aſcend vpon your hart.

51 We are confounded, becauſe we haue heard reproch: ignominie hath couered our faces: becauſe ſtrangers are come vpon the ſanctification of the houſe of our Lord.

52 Therefore behold the daies come, ſaith our Lord: and I wil viſite vpon her ſculptiles, and in al her land the wounded shal roare.

53 If Babylon shal aſcend vp into heauen, and ſtablish her ſtrength on high: from me there shal come waſters of her, ſaith our Lord.

54 A voice of crving from Babylon, and great deſtruction from the Land of the Chaldees:

55 becauſe our Lord hath waſted Babylon▪ and deſtroyed out of it the great voice: and their waues shal ſound as manie waters: their voice hath geuen a ſound.

56 Becauſe the ſpoyler is come vpon her, that is, vpon Babylon, and her valiants are apprehended, and their bow is weakened: becauſe the ſtrong reuenger our Lord rendring wil repay.

57 And I wil inebriate her princes, and her wiſe men, and her dukes, and her magiſtrates, and her valiants: and they shal ſleepe an euerlaſting ſleepe, and shal not awake, ſaith the king, the Lord of hoſtes is his name.

58 Thus ſaith the Lord of hoſtes: That moſt brode wal of Babylon by vndermyning shal be vndermined, and her high gates shal be burnt with fire, and the labours of the peoples shal come to nothing, and of the nations shal be into the fire, and shal perish.

59 The word that Ieremie the prophete commanded Saraias the ſonne of Nerias, the ſonne of Maaſias, when he went with Sedecias the king into Babylon, in the fourth yeare of his kingdome: and Saraias was [::] the prince of prophecie.

60 And Ieremie wrote al the euil, that was to come vpon Babylon in one booke: al theſe wordes, that are written againſt Babylon.

61 And Ieremie ſaid to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt ſee, and shalt reade al theſe wordes,

62 thou shalt ſay: Lord thou haſt ſpoken againſt this place to deſtroy it: that there be none to inhabite it from man euen vnto beaſt, and that it be a perpetual wilderneſſe.

63 And when thou shalt haue finished reading this booke, thou shalt tye a ſtone to it, and shalt throw it into the middes of Euphrates:

64 and thou shalt ſay: So shal Babylon be drowned, & she shal not riſe vp from the face of the affliction, that I wil bring vpon her, and she shal be diſſolued. [::] Hitherto the wordes of Ieremie.

Marginal notes to Chapter 51

• 1 [::] In al this chapter the prophet amplifieth the ſame he writte in the chapter precedent of the vtter deſtruction of Babylon.
• 3 [*] a coate of male.
• 6 2. Cor. 6.
• 8 Iſa. 21. Apoc. 14.
• 14 Amos. 6.
• 27 [::] Cal together al nations by publique proclamation to fight againſt Babylon.
• 34 [::] Sion in behalfe of al the Iewes, ſheweth that the Chaldees are iuſtly plaged, for their crueltie againſt Gods people.
• 59 [::] This Saraias was a principal Leuite, to whom it perteyned to read and publiſh the wordes and writinges of prophetes.
• 64 [::] Thus much Ieremie prophecied againſt Babylon.

Chapter 52

CHAP. LII. A Recapitulation of the taking of Ieruſalem after two yeares ſiege. 7. king Sedecias taken in flight, 10. his children ſlaine before his eyes, with other nobles, 11. his eyes put out, and ſo lead into Babylon, 12. the Temple, the Palace, and other houſes burnt, the people caried into captiuitie (15. few excepted to til the land) 17. the two braſen pillars, lauatorie, and al the treaſure taken away. 24. Al the captiues at diuers times foure thouſand ſix hundred. 31. Finally king Ioachin is exalted in the court.

1 A Child of one and twentie yeares was Sedecias when he began to reigne: and eleuen yeares he reigned in Ieruſalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Ieremie of Lobna.

2 And he did euil in the eyes of our Lord, according to al thinges that Ioakim had done.

3 Becauſe the furie of our Lord was againſt Ieruſalem, and againſt Iuda, til he caſt them away from his face: and Sedecias reuolted from the king of Babylon.

4 And it came to paſſe in the ninth yeare of his reigne, in the tenth moneth, the tenth of the moneth, came Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon, him ſelf and al his armie againſt Ieruſalem, and they beſieged it, and built againſt it munitions round about.

5 And the citie was beſieged vntil the eleuenth yeare of king Sedecias.

6 And in the fourth moneth, the ninth of the moneth, a famine poſſeſſed the citie: and there were no victuals for the people of the land.

7 And a breache was made into the citie, and al the men of warre fled, and went out of the citie in the night by the way of the gate that is betwen the two walles, & leadeth to the kinges garden (the Chaldees beſieging the citie round about) and they departed by the way, that leadeth into the wildernes.

8 But the armie of the Chaldees purſued the king: and they apprehended Sedecias in the deſert, which is beſide Iericho: and al his trayne fled ſcattering from him.

9 And when they had taken the king, they brought him to the king of Babylon into Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and to him iudgements.

10 And the king of Babylon killed the ſonnes of Sedecias before his eies: yea and al the princes of Iuda he ſlew in Reblatha.

11 And he plucked out the eies of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon: and he put him in the priſon houſe euen to the day of his death.

12 And in the fifth moneth, the tenth of the moneth, the ſame is the ninetenth yeare of Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon: came Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare, who ſtood before the king of Babylon in Ieruſalem.

13 And he burnt the houſe of our Lord, and the kings houſe, and al the houſes of Ieruſalem, and euerie great houſe he burnt with fire.

14 And al the hoſt of the Chaldees that was with the prince of the warfare, deſtroyed al the wall of Ieruſalem round about.

15 But of the poore of the people, and of the reſt of the vulgar ſorte, which remayned in the citie, and of the fugitiues, that were fled to the king of Babylon, and the reſt of the multitude: Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare tranſported.

16 But of the poore of the land Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare left ſome to be dreſſers of vineyards, and husbandmen.

17 The braſen pillers alſo, that were in the houſe of our Lord, and the feete, and the ſea of braſſe, that was in the houſe of our Lord, the Chaldees brake: and they tooke al the braſſe of them into Babylon.

18 And the kettles, and the fleshhookes, and the pſalteries, and the phials, and the litle mortars, and al the braſen veſſels, that had bene in the miniſtrie, they tooke:

19 and the water pottes, and the cenſars, and the pitchers, and the baſins, and the candleſtickes, and the mortars, & the gobblets: as manie as of gold, of gold: and as manie as of ſiluer, of ſiluer, did the prince of the warfare take:

20 and two pillars, and one ſea, & twelue oxen of braſſe, that were vnder the feete, which king Salomon had made in the houſe of our Lord: there was no weight of the braſſe of al theſe veſſels.

21 And concerning the pillars, there were eightene cubits of height in one pillar: and a corde of twelue cubits did compaſſe it about: moreouer the thicknes thereof, of foure fingers, and within it was holow.

22 And the litle heads of braſſe vpon both: the height of one litle head, of fiue cubits: and the litle nettes, and the pomegranates vpon the crowne round about, al of braſſe. Likewiſe of the ſecond piller, and the pomegranates.

23 And there were nintie ſix pomegranates hanging downe: and al the pomegranates an hundred, were compaſſed with litle nettes.

24 And the maſter of the warefare tooke Saraias the chiefe prieſt, and Sophonias the ſecond prieſt: and the three kepers of the entrie.

25 And of the citie he tooke one eunuch, that was chiefe ouer the men of warre: and ſeuen men of them, that ſaw the kings face, that were found in the citie: and a ſcribe the captayne of the ſouldiars, who tryed the yong ſouldiars: and three ſcore of the people of the land, that were found in the middes of the citie.

26 And Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare tooke them, and he brought them to the king of Babylon into Reblatha.

27 And the king of Babylon ſtroke them: and he killed them in Reblatha in the land of Emath: and Iuda was tranſported from his land.

28 This is the people, which Nabuchodonoſor tranſported: In the ſeuenth yeare, Iewes three thouſand and twentie three.

29 In the eightenth yeare of Nabuchodonoſor from Ieruſalem ſoules eight hundred thirtie two.

30 In the three and twentith yeare of Nabuchodonoſor, Nabuzardan the prince of the warefare tranſported of the Iewes ſeuen hundred fourtie fiue ſoules. al the ſoules therfore were foure thouſand ſix hundred.

31 And it came to paſſe in the ſeuen and thirtith yeare of the tranſmigration of Ioachin the king of Iuda, the twelfth moneth, the fiue and twentith of the moneth, Euilmerodach the king of Babylon lifted vp in the very yeare of his reigne, the head of Ioachin the king of Iuda, and he brought him out of the priſon houſe.

32 And he ſpake with him good thinges, and he ſette his throne aboue the thrones of the kinges, that were after himſelf in Babylon.

33 And he changed his priſon garments, and he did eate bread before him alwaies al the daies of his life.

34 And his allowance of meate, a continual prouiſion of meate was geuen him by the king of Babylon, euerie day a certaine, euen vnto the day of his death, al the daies of his life.

Marginal notes to Chapter 52

• 1 This whole hiſtorie is written more largely in the two laſt chapters of the fourth booke of kinges▪ and in the laſt of Paralip pomenon.
• 20 3. Reg. 7.

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The holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages. With arguments of the bookes, and chapters: annotations. tables: and other helpes. By the English College of Doway. The second tome (Psalms to 2 Machabees, with the Prayer of Manasses and the third and fourth books of Esdras), Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1610 (STC 2207). Copy: Henry E. Huntington Library, as reproduced in Early English Books Online (image set 2087).

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