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JEREMIAH, XXXIII.

the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, y saith the LORD.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

1 A gracious return promised. 15 Christ the branch of righteousness promised.

OREOVER the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, (while he was yet shut up a in the court of the prison,) saying,

2 Thus saith the LORD, the maker thereof, b the LORD that formed it, to establish it; 1 The LORD, is his c

name:

B. C. 590.

y Ps. 126.1-4.
(CHAP. 33.)
a ch.32.2.3.
b Is.37.26.
1 JEHO-
VAH.
c Am.5.6.
9.6.

d ch.29.12.
Ps.91.15.

2 hidden,
Is.48.6.

e ch.32.24.

3 Call d unto me, and I will an- fch.21.4,5. swer thee, and show thee great g ch.30. 17. and 2 mighty things, which thouh Ex.34.6. knowest not.

4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, ei and by the sword;

Is.55.7.
Jno. 10.10.
Tit.3.5,6.
He.6.17,18.
1 Po.1.3.
Is. 1.26.

k Eze.36.25.
Zec. 13.1.
1Jno. 1.9.
Re. 1.5.

7 ch.31.34.

5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but ƒ it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger, and in my fury, and for all whose wicked-m ch.13.11. ness I have hid my face from this city.

6 Behold, I g will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance h of peace and truth.

7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as i at the first.

Is.62.7. n Is.60.5. 0 ch.25.10. Re. 18.23.

p 2Ch.5.13.

Ezr.3.11.
Ps.136.1.
Is. 12.4.

q Is.65.10.
r ch.50.19,20.

s Is.4.2.

11.1. Zec.6.12, 13.

3 Jehovahtsidkenu.

8 And I will cleanse k them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby t Is.42.21. they have transgressed against me. u ch.23.6. 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise m and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall n fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

v 1Co.1.30.

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10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, (which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are deso-x late, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,) 11 The voice o of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise p the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy

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not be cut
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David.

2Sa.7.14

16.

1Ki.2.4.

Is.9.7.
P's.89.29,

36.
Lu.1.32,23.
Ro. 15. 16.
1Pe.2.5,9.

Re. 1.6.

Is.54.9,10.
z 2Sa.23.5.
a ch.31.37.
b Re.7.9.10.
c ver.21,22.

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return promised endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise mto the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks q to lie down.

13 In the cities of the mountains,r in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.

14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch s of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness t in the

land.

16 in u those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, 3 The LORD our v Righteousness.

17 For thus saith the LORD; 4 David shall never w want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer a burnt-offerings, and to kindle meat-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

20 Thus saith the LORD; Ify ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

21 Then may also my covenant z be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

22 As the host of heaven a cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so b will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto

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Zedekiah's captivity, &c.

JEREMIAH, XXXIV. Judgment for disobedience.

chosen, he hath even cast them B. C. 590. off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

25 Thus saith the LORD; If my d covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for e I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

CHAPTER XXXIV. Jeremiah prophesieth the captivity of Zedekiah and the city.

HE word which came unto TJeremiah from the LORD,

d Ge.8.22. Ps.74.16,17.

e Ezr.2.1,70.

(CHAP. 34.) a ch.39.1,&c.

52.4,&c. 2Ki.25.1, &c.

1 the dominion of his hand.

b ch 21.10. 32.28.29.

2 his mouth shall speak to thy mouth.

c 2Ch.16.14. 21.19.

(when a Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth 1 of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,) say- d ch.22.18. ing,

19.8.

g Ne.5.11.

2 Thus saith the LORD, the God e 2Ki. 18. 13. of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus ƒ Le.25.10. saith the LORD; Behold, Ib will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire : 3 And thou shalt not escape outh Le.25.39of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the Ex.21.2. eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

i

46. 1C0.6.8.

De. 15. 12.

3 or, sold himself. 4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, 4 to-day. O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt k 2Ki.23.3. not die by the sword: Ne.10.29.

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5 But thou shalt die in peace: ands with the burnings c of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and theywill lamentd thee. Ex.20.7. saying, Ah, lord! for I have proLe. 19.12. nounced the word, saith the LORD. 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

m Mat. 18.2834.

n Mat.7.2. Ga.6.7. Ja.2.13.

7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and o ch.32.36. Against Azekah: fore these de- & for a refenced cities remained of the cities moving.

of Judah.

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9 That g every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his h brother.

10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

12 T Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

14 At i the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath 3 been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

15 And ye were 4 now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant k before me in the house 5 which is called by my name:

16 But ye turned, and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection,m to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim n a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to o the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you 6 to be removed p into all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, g when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, 19 The princes of Judah, and the

God blesseth

the Rechabites. we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

JEREMIAH, XXXV. princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, B. C. 590. and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

r ch.7.33. 16.4.

19.7.

s ch.37.5-11.

20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life : and their dead r bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah t ch.40.2.3. and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which s are gone up from you.

u ch.52.7,13.

v ch.44.2,6. La. 1.1.

9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed :

10 But we have dwelt g in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.

12 T Then came the word of the

22 Behold, I will command, saith
the LORD, and cause them to return (CHAP. 35.) LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

to this city; and they t shall fight against it, and take u it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without v an inhabitant.

CHAPTER XXXV.

God blesseth the Rechabites for their

obedience.

a 2Ki. 10. 15. 1Ch.2.55.

biki.6.5.

c 1Ch.9.18,

19.

HE word which came unto d Ps.84. 10.

Theremiah from the LORD, in

13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction h to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding i_I

the days of Jehoiakim the son of threshold, or, have spoken unto you, rising early Josiah king of Judah, saying,

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4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the cham-h ch.32.33. her of the sons of Hanan, the son

of Igdaliah, a man of God, which i 2Ch.36.15, was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of

16.

and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

15 Ik have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, i rising up early and sending them, saying, Return m ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye u have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father,

Maaseiah the son of Shallum, c the k ch.7.13,25. which he commanded them; but keeperd of the 1 door:

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6 But they said, We will drink no wine for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever : 7 Neither shall ye build house, o Pr. 1.24,&c. have called unto them, but they

nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; e that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.f

35.

13. 13. 16.2. Is.65.12.

66.4.

Ep.6.2,3.

8 Thus have we obeyed the voice p Ex.20.12. of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged

us, to drink no wine all our days,

have not answered.

18 T And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because p ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you :

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19 Therefore, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; 2Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand g before me for ever. CHAPTER XXXVI.

Jeremiah causeth Baruch to write his prophecy.

AND it came to pass in the fourth

year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

B. C. 590.

2 There shall

not a man be cut off from Jonadab the son of Rcchab.

q ch.15.19.

Ps.5.5.
Lu.21.36.

(CHAP. 36.) a Is.8.1,

Eze.2.9.
Zec.5.1,2.

b ch.30.2.
Ho.8.12.

2 Take thee a roll a of a book, and write b therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, c from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 3 It may be d that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which cch.25.15,&c. I purpose to do unto them; that d ver.7. they may returne every man from ch.26.3. his evil way; that I may forgiveƒe ch.18.8. their iniquity and their sin.

Jon.3.8-10.

4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch gf Ac.3. 19. the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah 5 ch.32.12. all the words of the LORD, which 45.1,2. he had spoken unto him, upon a h ver.21,23, rollh of a book.

5 And Jeremiah commanded Ba-i ver.8. ruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

6 Therefore go thou, and read i in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the cars of the people in the LORD's house upon the fastingday: k and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

7 It may be 1 they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way for great m is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. 8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD inn the LORD's house.

32.

Eze:2.3-7.

k Le.16.29

31. 23.27,32. Ac.27.9.

I ver.3. their supplication shall fall. m 2Ki.22. 13, 17.

n Ne.8.3. Lu.4. 16,&c. oJoel 2. 15,&c.

.6,8. P ver. 2 or, door.

ch.26.10.

r ver.2,4. 2Ch.25.15,

9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast o before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto t ch.23.28. Jerusalem.

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16.

Pr.28.12.

Ac.5.40.

26.2.

Eze.2.4,5.

10 Then read p Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house u Am.3.15. of the LORD, in the chamber of Ge- v Ps.50.17. mariah the son of Shaphan the

scribe, in the higher court, at the

2

entryq of the new gate of the LORD's house in the ears of all the people.

Pr. 13. 13. 19.21. 21.30.

Re.22.19.

publicly read.

11 ¶ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced r all these words unto me, with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hides thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

20 T And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read itt in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse, u in the ninth month and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

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Judyment against Jehoiakim. JEREMIAH, XXXVII.

24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, w neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he

B. C. 606. w2Ki.22.11. Is.36.22.

37.1.

Jeremiah is imprisoned.

vants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake 1 by the prophet Jeremiah.

3 And Zedekiah the king sent ch.13.15-17. Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the sonc of Maaseiah y Pr.21.29. the priest to the prophet Jeremiah,

would not burn the roll; but he y 3 or,the king. saying, Pray now'd unto the LORD

would not hear them.

32.7.
64.2.

26 But the king commanded Je-z Ps.27.5. rahmeel the son of 3 Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to a Mat.24.35. take Baruch the scribe and Jere-b ch.22.19.30. miah the prophet: but z the LORD hid them.

4 visit upon,
ch.23.34.
c De.28. 15,

our God for us.

4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. 5 Then e Pharaoh's_army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed ƒ from Jerusalem.

6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremian, saying,

27 T Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, (after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,) saying, 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words a that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah (CHAP. 37.) me to inquire of me; Behold, Pha

hath burned.

29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

&c.
Pr.29.1.
d Mat.23.37.
s words as
they.

a ch.22.24.
2Ki.24.17.
2Ch.36.10.

b 2Ch.36.12-
16.

by the hand of. c ch.29.25. 52.24.

d ch.2.27.

30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his b dead 21.1,2. body shall be cast out in the day 42.2,20. to the heat, and in the night to the e 2Ki.24.7. frost.

31 And I will 4 punish him and his seed and his servants for their ini

Eze. 17. 15. ƒ ver. 11. ch.34.21.

ch.21.2.

quity: and Ic will bring upon them, g ver.3.
and upon the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem, and upon the men of Judah,
all the evil that I have pronounced
h ch.34.21,22.
against them; but they & hearkened i Job 15.31.
2 your souls.
k ch.21.4-7.

not.

32 T Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many 5 like words.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

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1 Jeremiah prophesieth the Chaldeans'
certain return and victory: 16 Hem Mat.5.11,

is smitten and put in prison.

12.

7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent g you unto

raoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

8 And h the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire."

9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive i not 2 yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us : for they shall not depart.

10 Fork though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but 3 wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

11 TAnd it came to pass,that when the army of the Chaldeans was 4 broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to 5 separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

14 Then said Jeremiah, It is 6 false, m I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. 15 Wherefore the princes were

AND king Zedekiah a the son of n Ac.5.25,40. wroth with Jeremiah, and smote n

Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

2 But neither he, nor his ser-1

23.2,3. him, and put him in prison in the 2Co.11.23-house of Jonathan the scribe for 27. they had made that the prison.

o ch.38.6.

16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, o and into the

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