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The judgment of Edom,

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CHAP. XLIX.

9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will desstroy till they have enough.

10 PBut I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, Feb. 25. 29. they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

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18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall come up like a 4 ch. 12. 5. lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may ap• Exod. 15. point over her? for who is like me? 1 Or, content and who will appoint me the time? and judg-who is that shepherd that will stand beJob 41. 10. fore me? z cb. 54.45

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20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations deIsolate with them.

21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the +Red sea.

Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.

Before CHRIST cir. 600.

22 Behold, the shall come and fly up as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart i ch.4.13. of the mighty men of Edom be as the 48. 40, 41. heart of a woman in her pangs.

k Isai. 17. l.

Amos 1.3.

23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath cir. 600. is confounded, and Arpad: for they have & 37. 13. heard evil tidings: they are faintheart- Zech. 9.1, 2. ed; there is sorrow on the sea; it can- + Heb. not be quiet.

24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: "anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

25 How is "the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

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26 Therefore her young men shall ch. 50. 30. fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

27 And I will kindle a 'fire in the wall P Amos 1. 4. of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

cir. Gon.

r Judg.6.3. Job 1. 3.

28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebula. 21. 13. chadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil 'the men of the east. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall⚫ Ps. 120. 5. they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

t ch. 6. 95. & 46.5

greatly.

30 "Flee, get you far off, dwell u ver. 8. deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

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x Ezek. 38.

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31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith Or, that is the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

y Numb. 23. 9. Dent. 33.

28. Mic. 7.

14.

a ch. 9. 26.

32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: z Ezek. 5. and I will 'scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: "there shall no man abide there, nor any son man dwell in it.

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34¶ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam ch. 25. 25. in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the See Isai. chief of their might.

36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not

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1, 9, 21, 35 The judgment of Babylon. 4, 17, 33 The redemption of Israel. HE word that the LORD spake THE against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans †by Jeremiah the hand of Jere prophet.

a Isai. 13. 1. & 21. 1. & 47.1.

↑ Heb. by the

miah.

up.

ch. 51. 44

12, 13.

2 Declare ye among the nations, and leb. lift publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is bai. 46.1. taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is e See ch.43. broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. 34For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

d eh. 51.48.

e Isai. 13. 17, 18, 20. ver. 39, 40.

13. Ps.

9. Zech. 12.

10,

12 Your mother shall be sore conashamed: behold, the hindermost of the founded; she that bare you shall be nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Lent. + Heb. big, or, corpu

11.

Or, neigh
Hos. 10

as steeds.

b ch.9.17.

it shall not be inhabited, "but it shall be ch. 25. 12.
13 Because of the wrath of the LORD
wholly desolate: "every one that goeth
at all her plagues.
by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss

51.2.

bylon round about: all ye that bend the ch.05
14 Put yourselves in array against Ba-ver. ch.
bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for
she hath sinned against the LORD.

hath "given her hand: her foundations
15 Shout against her round about: she
are fallen, 'her walls are thrown down:
for "it is the vengeance of the LORD: take
vengeance upon her; has she hath done,
do unto her.

ver. 29.

1 Chron. Chron, 38. Erek 17.18

29.24 8. Lam. 5. 6.

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and him that handleth the || sickle in the Rev. 18.6.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, 178
time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall turn every one to his ch.51.9
people, and they shall flee every one to
his own land.

i İsai. 13. 14

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4¶ In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel lions have driven him away: first "the maKings 17 ¶ Israel is a scattered sheep; f Hos. 1.11. shall come, 'they and the children of Ju-king of Assyria hath devoured him; and 17.6 1the k ver. 6. Ezra 3.12, dah together, going and weeping: they last this "Nebuchadrezzar king of Baby- 10, 14 5.6 ch. 31. shall go, and seek the LORD their God. lon hath broken his bones. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with h Hos. 3.5 their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and ich. 31. 31, let us join ourselves to the LORD in 'a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. ver. 17. 1Pet. 6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on 1 ch. 2. 20. & 1 the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten

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27 Slay all her "bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! a ch.48. 44. for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

ver. 31.

11.

e ver. 14.

28 The voice of them that flee and b ch.51.10, escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her accordRev. 18.6 ing to her work; according to all that she e Isai.47.10. hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

d ver. 15. eh. 51. 56.

fch. 49. 26. & 51.4.

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30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou + Heb.pride. † most proud, saith the Lord GoD of hosts: forthy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

g ver. 27.

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Before CHRIST 595

God's severe judgments against Babylon. 39 'Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inha- 14 ch.53 bited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt 37. Rev. 18. in from generation to generation.

Isai. 13.

21, 22. & 34.

2.

t Isai. 13. 20.

u Gen. 19.

19. ch. 49.

40 "As God overthrew Sodom and ch.25.12. Gomorrah and the neighbour cities there- 25. Isai. 13. of, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide 18. & 51.26. there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

6. 22. & 25.

41 *Behold, a people shall come from & ver. 9. ch. the north, and a great nation, and many 14 & 51.87 kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

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42 They shall hold the bow and the y cb. 6. 22. lance: they are cruel, and will not shew 18. mercy: their voice shall roar like the Isai. 5. 30. sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

b ch. 49. 24.

ech. 49. 19,

me plead?

ch. 49. 19.

44 Behold, he shall come up like a &c. lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is moto that shepherd that will stand before me? a Job 41.10. 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of e Isai. 14. the LORD, that he hath taken against Ba- 24, &c. ch. bylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise of the taking of Ba- f Rev. 18. 9. bylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

CHAP. LI.

1 The severe judgment of God against Babylon in revenge of Israel. 59 Jeremiah delivereth the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon.

HUS saith the LORD; Behold, I will Traise up against Babylon, and against

51. 11.

19.7. ch.4.

them that dwell in the midst of them Heb.heart. that rise up against me," a destroying wind; 1,.King 2 And will send unto Babylon "fan- 1. ners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they ech. 50, 14. shall be against her round about.

b ch. 15.74

3 Against him that bendeth let the ch. 50. 4. archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

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4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are ch.426. thrust through in her streets.

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5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not h ch. 50. 15, cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

28.

i ch.25. 14.

k Rev. 17.4

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7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth 1 Rev. 14.8. drunken: the nations have drunken of In ch. 25. 16. her wine; therefore the nations are mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly "fallen and destroyed: howl for her; Ptake balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

n Isai. 21. 9. Rev. 14.8. & 18. 2.

9 ch. 48. 20. Rev. 18. 9, 11, 19.

p ch. 46. 11.

4 Isai. 13. 4.

ch. 50. 16.

r Rev. 18. 5.

Ps. 37.6.

9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

10 The LORD hath 'brought forth our teh. 50. 28. righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

u ch. 46. 4.

Heb pure

x Isai. 13. 17. ver. 28.

11 "Make + bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for y ch.50.45. his device is against Babylon, to destroy 2 ch.50. 28. it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 12 * Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set +Heb. liers up the watchmen, prepare the + ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

a Nah. 2. 1. & 3. 14.

in wait.

b Rev. 17. 1, 15.

e eh. 49. 13. Amos 6. 8.

13 PO thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetous

ness.

14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn Heb. byt by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they +Heb.utter. shall lift up a shout against thee.

his soul.

d Nah. 3. 15.

f Gen. 1. 1,

d

e

e ch. 50. 15. 15 He hath made the earth by his 6. ch. 10. 12, power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

&c.

g Job 9.8. Ps. 104. 2. Isai. 40. 22. h ch. 10. 13.

Or, noise. i Ps. 135-7

k ch. 10. 14. Or, is

h

16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and "he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

17 Every man is brutish by his more brutish knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

than to know.

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18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inherit

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22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with Chron. thee will I break in pieces the young man 17 and the maid;

23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

24 And I will render unto Babylon 15 and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

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+ Heb. ever lasting den lations. u Isai. 13.2.

x cb. 25. 4.

27 "Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ara- y ch.50 4. rat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

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29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, toer. make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

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30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burn- ché ed her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

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45

Lam 29 Amos 1.5 Nah. 3.13.

31 One post shall run to meet an- ch other, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

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32 And that the passages are stopped, M.4 and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

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33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, or, in th the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is 'like a threshingfloor, it is r

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34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, ich. 50. 17. he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

+ Heb. My violence. Or, retinder.

+ Heb. inhabitress.

kch. 50.34 1 ch. 50. 38.

m Isai. 13. 22. ch.50.

35 +The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the tinhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore ths saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

37 m And Babylon shall become heaps, 34. Rev. 18. a dwellingplace for dragons, "an astonishneh. 25. 9, ment, and, an hissing, without an inhabitant.

2.

18.

38 They shall roar together like lions: Or, shake they shall yell as lions' whelps.

themselves.

o ver. 57.

p ch. 25. 26.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

41 How is "Sheshach taken! and how Isai. 13. 19. is the praise of the whole earth surDan. 430. prised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

eb. 49.95.

m. See Isai. 8. 7,8.

s cb. 50. 39, 40, ver. 29.

t Isai. 46. 1. ch. 50. 2.

a ver. 58.

x ver. 6. ch. 50. 8. Rev. 18.4.

Or, let not.

42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

43 'Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, "the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

46 And lest your heart faint, and ye 2 Kings 19 fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

2 ch.50. 2. +Heb. visit

ver. 52.

upon.

a Isai. 44.23. &49-13

47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will † do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

48 Then the heaven and the earth, Rev. 18. 20. and all that is therein, shall sing for Babch. 50.3, bylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

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53 Though Babylon should mount fch. 49. 16. up to heaven, and though she should for- Obad. 4. tify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

54 A sound of a cry cometh from Ba-ch. 50. 22. bylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: "for the LORD God of recom- ch.09. pences shall surely requite.

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60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all lain. the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that "none shall remain in it, neither n ch.50. 3. man nor beast, but that it shall be † deso-Heb. dese late for ever.

39 ver. 29.

lations.

63 And it shall be, when thou hast o See Rev. made an end of reading this book, that 18.21.

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