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even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.

For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.

Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thine high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord come.

from the porch to the outer court: and there were palm-trees to the post thereof, and eight steps.

And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; the gate of Ruben, one, and the gate of Juda, one, and the gate of Levi, one.

Howl, ye gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, even all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no possibility of living.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

For the Lord will not reject for ever.

Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the Lord: for thy day is come, and the time of thy retribution.

THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.

And I will pour out my wrath upon thee, I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver thee into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction.

And they that are left in Judea shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

And they have built the altar of Tapheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in my heart.

For this city was obnoxious to my anger and my wrath, from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from my presence,

One shall rush, running to meet another runner, and one shall go with tidings to meet another with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.

And the priests shall eat no bird or beast that dies of itself, or is taken of wild beasts.

Thou didst walk in the way of thy sister; and I will put her cup into thine hands.

King Pharao shall see them, and shall be comforted over all their force, saith the Lord God.

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth day of the month, that Ulaemadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.

So I have poured out my wrath upon her in the fury of mine anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, saith the Lord God.

Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus saith the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to thee any more?

Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should ye die, O house of Israel?

Rise up, and go up against a nation settled and dwelling at ease, who have no doors, nor bolts, nor bars, who dwell alone.

Send to the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Samaeas the Aelamite, Since Samaeas has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity,

and do ye pollute yourselves with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.

For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke wherewith he shall smite them.

And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants: and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Juda, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they hearkened not.

And ye shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and ye shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations.

And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads, I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, saith the Lord.

And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures:

For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Tapheth, and the valley of the son of Ennom, but, The valley of the slain; and they shall bury in Tapheth, for want of room.

An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.

because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.

And Baruch took another roll, and wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book which Joakim had burnt: and there were yet more words added to it like the former.

Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.

And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.

And eastward four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; the gate of Joseph, one, and the gate of Benjamin, one, and the gate of Dan, one.

And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.

therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will visit Samaeas, and his family: and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do to you: they shall not see it.

And thou art to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear thy words, but they will not do them.

Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister's cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy.

Thus has the Lord said to thee, O Baruch.

Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them truly, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying,

And it shall not be as ye say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.

For I have caused his fear to be upon the land of the living yet he shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharao, and all his multitude with him, saith the Lord God.

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.

O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.

Thou shalt be fuel for fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of thy land; there shall be no remembrance at all of thee: for I the Lord have spoken it.

and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon,

for out of Jerusalem there shall be a remnant, and the saved ones out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

Thus said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.

At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.

And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.

And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them, whom the Lord has called.

Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, as it is known to you: be ye ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

And they shall bear the pillars of the court round about, and there shall be their sockets, and they shall bear the pillars of the veil of the door of the court, and their sockets and their pins, and their cords, and all their furniture, and all their instruments of service: take ye their number by name, and all the articles of the charge of the things borne by them.

And the chief over the chief of the Levites, was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.

Every word that I command you this day, it shalt thou observe to do: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.

His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

I have cleaved to thy testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another nation, and thine eyes wasting away shall look for them: thine hand shall have no strength.

This is the numbering of the children of Israel according to the houses of their families: all the numbering of the camps with their forces, was six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

For the sons of Manasse according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

For a cloud was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before all Israel, in all their journeyings.

And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle.

And ye shall not bear sin by reason of it, for ye shall have offered an offering of first-fruits from it, and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.

And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations for ever.

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.

Ambassadors shall arrive out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hasten to stretch out her hand readily to God.

And the angel of God said to him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand thee, for thy way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time.

to labour skillfully in all works of cunning workmanship, to form the gold and the silver and the brass,

The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.

Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.

Let the glory of the Lord be for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works;

The sons of Joseph according to their families, Manasse and Ephraim.

One golden censer of ten shekels full of incense.

And it shall come to pass if thou wilt go with us, it shall even come to pass that in whatsoever things the Lord shall do us good, we will also do thee good.

On the seventh day seven calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.

And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, wasof the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:

And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp.