for her several corruptions.

CHAP. XLIX. The restoration of Moab. 17 All ye that are about him bemoan Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in him; and all ye that know his name, say, the high places, and him that burneth inHow is the strong staff broken, and the cense to his gods.

beautiful rod!

36 Therefore my heart shall sound for 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Moab like pipes, and my heart shall Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall because the riches that he hath gotten are come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy perished. strong holds.

37 For every head shall be bald, and 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the every beard clipped: upon all the hands way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackher that escapeth, and say, What is done? cloth.

20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken 38 There shall be lamentation generally down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, upon all the house-tops of Moab, and in the that Moab is spoiled, streets thereof: for I have broken Moab

21 And judgment is come upon the plain like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, the LORD. and upon Mephaath,

22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,

23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,

24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.

26 ¶ Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

27 For was not Israel a derision unto 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall thee? was he found among thieves? for be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst the LORD. for joy.

44 He that fleeth from the fear, shall

28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the dove that maketh her nest in the sides I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the of the hole's mouth. year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

29 We have heard the pride of Moab, 45 They that fled stood under the sha(he is exceeding proud,) his loftiness, and dow of Heshbon because of the force: but his arrogancy, and his pride, and the a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and haughtiness of his heart. a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; devour the corner of Moab, and the crown but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so of the head of the tumultuous ones. effect it. 46 Wo be unto thee, O Moab! the peo31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and ple of Chemosh perisheth for thy sons I will cry out for all Moab; my heart are taken captives, and thy daughters shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. captives.

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CHAP. XLIX. NONCERNING the Ammonites, thus

32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for 47 ¶ Yet will I bring again the captivity thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. are gone over the sea, they reach even to Thus far is the judgment of Moab. the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon 53ummer CONCER LORD; Hath Israel no sons? thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. the plentiful field, and from the land of hath he no heir? why then doth their king Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his the wine-presses: none shall tread with cities?

shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. 2 Therefore behold, the days come, 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they ut-of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Amtered their voice, from Zoar even unto Ho-monites; and it shall be a desolate heap, ronaim, as a heifer of three years old: for and her daughters shall be burned with the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

The judgment of Edom,

JEREMIAH. Damascus, Kedar, and Hazor.

3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and cry, ye daughters of Rabbah.gird you with Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, the hedges; for their king shall go into neither shall a son of man dwell in it. captivity, and his priests and his princes 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion together. from the swelling of Jordan against the

4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, habitation of the strong: but I will sudthy flowing valley, O backsliding daugh- denly make him run away from her: and ter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, who is a chosen man, that I may appoint Who shall come unto me? over her? for who is like me? and who 5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, will appoint me the time? and who is that saith the Lord GoD of hosts, from all those shepherd that will stand before me? that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

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 desolate 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.

8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O in- 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as habitants of Dedan; for I will bring the the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozcalamity of Esau upon him, the time that rah: and at that day shall the heart of the I will visit him. mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

9 If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning-grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

23 ¶ Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint-hearted; 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. uncovered his secret places, and he shall 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and not be able to hide himself: his seed is turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized spoiled, and his brethren, and his neigh-on her: anguish and sorrows have taken bours, and he is not. her, as a woman in travail.

11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will 25 How is the city of praise not left, preserve them alive; and let thy widows the city of my joy! trust in me.

26 Therefore her young men shall fall

12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, in her streets, and all the men of war shall they whose judgment was not to drink of be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of the cup,have assuredly drunken; and art hosts.

thou he that shall altogether go unpunish- 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall ed? thou shalt not go unpunished, but of Damascus, and it shall consume the thou shalt surely drink of it. palaces of Ben-hadad.

13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the 28 Concerning Kedar, and concernLORD, that Bozrah shall become a desola-ing the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebution, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and chadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, all the cities thereof shall be perpetual thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

wastes.

14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, 29 Their tents and their flocks shall and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, they take away: they shall take to themsaying, Gather ye together, and come selves their curtains, and all their vessels, against her, and rise up to the battle. and their camels; and they shall cry unto 15 For lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,

saith the Lord.

17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

them, Fear is on every side.

30 ¶ Flee, get you far off, dwell 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.

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

32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil:

The judgment of Elam.

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The judgment of Babylon. and I will scatter into all winds them that the LORD, the habitation of justice, even are in the utmost corners; and I will bring the LORD, the hope of their fathers. their calamity from all sides thereof, saith 8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, the LORD. and go forth out of the land of the Chal33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for deans, and be as the he-goats before the dragons, and a desolation for ever: there flocks. shall no man abide there, nor any son of 9 For lo, I will raise and cause to man dwell in it. come up against Babylon an assembly of 34 The word of the LORD that came great nations from the north country: and to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in they shall set themselves in array against the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah her; from thence she shall be taken: their king of Judah, saying, arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man;

35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Be- none shall return in vain. hold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, 11 Because ye were glad, because ye and will scatter them toward all those rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my heritage, winds; and there shall be no nation whither because ye are grown fat as the heifer at the outcasts of Elam shall not come. grass, and bellow as bulls;

37 For I will cause Elam to be dis- 12 Your mother shall be sore confoundmayed before their enemies, and before ed; she that bare you shall be ashamed: them that seek their life: and I will bring behold, the hindermost of the nations shall evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. the LORD; and I will send the sword after 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it them, till I have consumed them:

38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD. CHAP. L.

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HE word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

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

15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it 2 Declare ye among the nations, and is the vengeance of the LORD: take venpublish, and set up a standard; publish, geance upon her; as she hath done, do and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, unto her.

Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and pieces; her idols are confounded, her him that handleth the sickle in the time of images are broken in pieces. harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword

3 For out of the north there cometh up they shall turn every one to his people, a nation against her, which shall make her and they shall flee every one to his own land desolate, and none shall dwell there-land.

in: they shall remove, they shall depart, 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the both man and beast. lions have driven him away: first the king 4 In those days, and in that time, of Assyria hath devoured him; and last saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon come, they and the children of Judah hath broken his bones. together, going and weeping: they shall 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of go, and seek the LORD their God. hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with punish the king of Babylon and his land, their faces thitherward, saying, Come as I have punished the king of Assyria. and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a 19 And I will bring Israel again to his perpetual covenant that shall not be for- habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel gotten. and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied

6 My people hath been lost sheep: their upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. shepherds have caused them to go astray, 20 In those days, and in that time, saith they have turned them away on the moun- the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be tains: they have gone from mountain to sought for, and there shall be none; and hill, they have forgotten their resting-place. the sins of Judah, and they shall not be 7 All that found them have devoured found: for I will pardon them whom I rethem: and their adversaries said, We of-serve.

fend not, because they have sinned against 21 T Go up against the land of Mera

The judgment of Babylon,

JEREMIAH.

and redemption of Israel. thaim, even against it, and against the in- 37 A sword is upon their horses, and habitants of Pekod: waste and utterly upon their chariots, and upon all the mindestroy after them, saith the LORD, and do gled people that are in the midst of her; according to all that I have commanded thee. and they shall become as women: a sword 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and is upon her treasures; and they shall be of great destruction.

robbed.

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23 How is the hammer of the whole 38 A drought is upon her waters; and earth cut asunder and broken! how is they shall be dried up for it is the land of Babylon become a desolation among the graven images, and they are mad upon nations! their idols.

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24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast desert with the wild beasts of the islands not aware: thou art found, and also caught, shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell because thou hast striven against the LORD. therein and it shall be no more inhabited 25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from and hath brought forth the weapons of his generation to generation. indignation: for this is the work of the 40 As God overthrew Sodom and GoLord GoD of hosts in the land of the morrah and the neighbour cities thereof, Chaldeans. saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go 42 They shall hold the bow and the down to the slaughter: wo unto them! for lance: they are cruel, and will not shew their day is come, the time of their visitation. mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, 28 The voice of them that flee and and they shall ride upon horses, every one escape out of the land of Babylon, to de- put in array, like a man to the battle, clare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD against thee, O daughter of Babylon. our God, the vengeance of his temple.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the

29 Call together the archers against report of them, and his hands waxed feeBabylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp ble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs against it round about; let none thereof as of a woman in travail. escape recompense her according to her 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion work; according to all that she hath done, from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitdo unto her: forshe hath been proud against ation of the strong: but I will make them the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. suddenly run away from her: and who is 30 Therefore shall her young men fall a chosen man, that I may appoint over in the streets, and all her men of war shall her? for who is like me? and who will apbe cut off in that day, saith the LORD. point me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before nie?

31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GoD of hosts : for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon 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.

33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 46 At the noise of the taking of BabyThe children of Israel and the children of lon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard Judah were oppressed together: and all among the nations. that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

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HUS saith the LORD; Behold, I will 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD raise up against Babylon, and against of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly them that dwell in the midst of them that plead their cause, that he may give rest to rise up against me, a destroying wind; the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of 2 And will send unto Babylon, fanners Babylon. that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they himself up in his brigandine and spare shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly men; and they shall be dismayed.

Tall her host.

God's judgment on Babylon

CHAP. LI.

in revenge of Israel. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust the LORD of hosts is his name. through in her streets. 20 Thou art my battle-axe, and weapons 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor of war: for with thee will I break in Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; pieces the nations, and with thee will I dethough their land was filled with sin stroy kingdoms; against the Holy One of Israel.

21 And with thee will I break in pieces 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, the horse and his rider; and with thee will and deliver every man his soul: be not cut I break in pieces the chariot and his off in her iniquity; for this is the time of rider;

the LORD's vengeance; he will render 22 With thee also will I break in pieces unto her a recompense. man and woman; and with thee will I 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the break in pieces old and young; and with LORD's hand, that made all the earth thee will I break in pieces the young man drunken: the nations have drunken of her and the maid; wine; therefore the nations are mad.

23 I will also break in pieces with thee 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and de- the shepherd and his flock; and with thee stroyed: howl for her; take balm for her will I break in pieces the husbandman and pain, if so be she may be healed. his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I 9 We would have healed Babylon, but break in pieces captains and rulers. she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country for her to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their Judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is evil that they have done in Zion in your lifted up even to the skies. sight, saith the LORD.

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

24 And I will render unto Babylon and

25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch 11 Make bright the arrows; gather the out my hand upon thee, and roll thee shields the LORD hath raised up the down from the rocks, and will make thee spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his a burnt mountain

device is against Babylon, to destroy it; 26 And they shall not take of thee a because it is the vengeance of the LORD, stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundathe vengeance of his temple. tions; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,

12 Set up the standard upon the walls of saith the LORD. Babylon, make the watch strong, set up 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for blow the trumpet among the nations, prethe LORD hath both devised and done that pare the nations against her, call together which he spake against the inhabitants of against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, Babylon. and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against

13 O thou that dwellest upon many wa-her; cause the horses to come up as the ters, abundant in treasures, thine end is rough caterpillars.

come, and the measure of thy covetousness. 28 Prepare against her the nations with 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by the kings of the Medes, the captains therehimself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with of, and all the rulers thereof, and all the men, as with caterpillars; and they shall land of his dominion. lift up a shout against thee.

29 And the land shall tremble and sor

15 He hath made the earth by his power, row; for every purpose of the LORD shall he hath established the world by his wis-be performed against Babylon, to make the dom, and hath stretched out the heaven by land of Babylon a desolation without an his understanding. inhabitant.

16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a 30 The mighty men of Babylon have multitude of waters in the heavens; and forborne to fight, they have remained in he causeth the vapours to ascend from the their holds: their might hath failed; they ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings became as women: they have burned her with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out dwelling-places; her bars are broken. of his treasures. 31 One post shall run to meet another,

17 Every man is brutish by his know- and one messenger to meet another, to shew ledge; every founder is confounded by the the king of Babylon that his city is taken graven image: for his molten image is at one end,

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falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 32 And that the passages are stopped, 18 They are vanity, the work of errors and the reeds they have burned with fire, in the time of their visitation they shall and the men of war are affrighted. perish. 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the 19 The Portion of Jacob is not like God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon them; for he is the former of all things: is like a threshing-floor, it is time to thresh