A. V.

+ Heb. good things with

him.

+ Heb. the

matter of the day in his day.

and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, tevery day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

31 1 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him 32 forth out of prison; and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon. 33 And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all 34 the days of his life. And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days

of his life.

* Jer. 13. 17. *Job 7.3.

+ Heb. for the greatness of servitude.

* Deut.

1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

2 She *weepeth sore in the *night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate : her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

5 Her adversaries are the chief, her ene28. 13, 43, mies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:

44.

* Jer. 52.

28.

|| Or, desirable.

+ Heb. is become

a remov

ing, or, wandering.

:

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her "pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!

How is she become as a widow!

She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary!

2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;

Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her:

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.

3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth

no rest:

All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the 2 solemn assembly;

All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper;

For the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:

Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her 3majesty is departed:

Her princes are become like harts that find no

pasture,

And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries

All her pleasant things that were from the days of old:

When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her,

The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her 5 desolations.

8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing: All that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:

Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her "pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that * they should not enter into thy congregation.

11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

12 ¶ Is it nothing to you, all ye that † pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden "the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

16 For these things I weep; *mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should + relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his +commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my *bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

2 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,

9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end;

Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she

hath no comforter:

Behold, O LORD, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:

For she hath seen that the heathen are entered into her sanctuary,

Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread;

They have given their pleasant things for meat to refresh the soul:

See, O LORD, and behold; for I am become vile. 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?

Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,

1 Wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:

He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back;

He hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand;

R.V.

1 Or, Whom the LORD hath afflicted

2 Heb. stumble.

They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to 2 fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, 3 against whom I am not able to stand. 15 The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men from in the midst of me;

He hath called a solemn assembly against me

to crush my young men :

The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water;

Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me:

My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her;

The LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries:

Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing. 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:

Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold

my sorrow:

My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,

20

While they sought them meat to refresh their souls. Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress; my

bowels are troubled;

Mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:

Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me;

All mine enemies have heard of my trouble;
they are glad that thou hast done it:
Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast pro-
claimed, and they shall be like unto me.

22 Let all their wickedness come before thee;
And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me
for all my transgressions:

For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

2 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!

He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,

3 Or,

whom I

am not able to rise up

and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath + brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew tall that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

*

6 And he hath violently taken away his "tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath + given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her *prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings "swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pified;

He hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah;

He hath brought them down to the ground: He hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

3 He hath cut off in fierce anger 1 all the horn of Israel;

He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy:

And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye:

R.V.

1 Or,

every horn

2 In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath Or, On poured out his fury like fire.

5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;

He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath
destroyed his strong holds:

And he hath multiplied in the daughter of
Judah mourning and lamentation.

6 And he hath violently taken away his taber-
nacle, as if it were of a garden;

He hath destroyed his place of assembly:
The LORD hath caused solemn assembly and
sabbath to be forgotten in Zion,

And hath despised in the indignation of his
anger the king and the priest.

7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,

He hath given up into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces:

They have made a noise in the house of the
LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of
the daughter of Zion;

He hath stretched out the line, he hath not
withdrawn his hand from 5 destroying :
But he hath made the rampart and wall to
lament; they languish together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath
destroyed and broken her bars:

Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not;

Yea, her prophets find no vision from the LORD. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;

They have cast up dust upon their heads; they
have girded themselves with sackcloth:
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are
troubled,

3 Or. booth Or hedge

4 Or, appointed feast

5 Heb. swallow ing up.

6 Or,

My liver is poured upon the earth, for the 6 destruction of the daughter of my people; Because the young children and the sucklings breach swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine?

When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,

When their soul is poured out into their
mothers' bosom.

13 What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I
liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort
thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?
For thy breach is great like the sea: who can
heal thee?

14 Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of
vanity and foolishness;

And they have not discovered thine iniquity, to bring again thy captivity:

But have seen for thee burdens of vanity and

9 causes of banishment.

7 Or.

take to

witness for thee

A.V.

*Ps.48.2.

* Lev. 26. 16. Deut. 28. 15.

they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call *The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

17 The LORD hath done that which he had * devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the *Jer. 14. daughter of Zion,* let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

17. ch. 1. 16.

They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying:

Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee;

They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up;

Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

17 The LORD hath done that which he devised; He hath 'fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;

He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee,

He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord:

O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night;

Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

ning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

20 ¶ Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

3 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travel.

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

the watches;

Pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:

Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children,

That faint for hunger at the top of every

21

22

done thus!

Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?

Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;

My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:

Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger;

thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied. Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, 2my terrors on every side, And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

3 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with 5 gall and travail.

66 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

7 He hath fenced me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the † arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

in secret places.

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

their song all the day.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat + prosperity.

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is thumbled in me.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him,

to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.

R.V.

19 Remember mine affliction and my 2 misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

1 Or,

cast off

2 Or. wandering Or, outI cast

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. state

22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him,

to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

29 Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever. 32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

4

Or, He sitteth

alone

&c. (vv. 28

30)

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not* evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man "complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us : thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 Thou hast made us as the *offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 * Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

the children of men.

34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord 5 approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

out any intermission,

from his heart.

5 Heb. seeth not.

• Or, a

man

that is in his sins

7 Or, thyself

covered

8 Or, tumult