Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 497

5-22 people, their mind is blind, rebellious, preach falsehood, and the,Priests trick Olives, for trouble appears from the delicate, and tender daughter of ment against jerusalem. It is a city As a spring pours out water, so she degenerate, and wandering. ‘ Why do they not say to their heart,

Let us look to our EVER-LIVING

GOD Who gives min, and sprinkles the latter rain in its season to accom- plish the laws of harvest, and He will protect us? ' I`heir faults restrain them, and

their sins hold back from them those beneiits. For the wicked are found in My People; they spread nets, they lay traps, they catch men! As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of treachery by which they become rich vi They are fat, enriched,—they deal in false evidence, they regard no right,—·—the right of the widow, of the orphan,·—·—and they administer not protection and justice to the poor. Shall I not punish for these things says the Evan-Lxvmo. ‘* Even if heathen did them, would not My soul avenge them There is a shameful and horrible

thing in the country! The Preachers with their hands;-—and My People love to have it so,»·—and what can be done viler than that 3 Warning in ‘@cnj¤miu. Benjamin, on the walls of jerusalem, and blow aloud with the trumpet, and north, with agreat; crash! My idle, Zion! Misery and desolation comes on you ! They pitch their tents around you! each at the side of his mate! They proclaim war against her, they mount and go up to the forts! Woe for us !——for the day turns !—-—for the dark shadows extend ! They rise up by night and destroy her palaces! For thus says the LORD OF HOSTS,

‘ Cut timber, and pile up an embank·· crammed with wrong in its breast. 6——·18 ]EREl\/IIAH. 22 28 your mind, in whom no ear is seen, so they cannot hear! Could you not asks the EVER- if you had not reeled from My presence? Since I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, by an ancient decree, which it cannot trans- gress, but its foaming waves approach, and cannot pass beyond? But for this Strengthen yourselves, sons of

hoist a standard over the Castle of pours out wrongdoing; violence and plunder are heard in her; wounding and murder are always before Me! Return to Me, jerusalem, lest My soul becomes sick of you !-—-for fear I should make you a desert,~—a land where no one dwells 1 Thus says the Loan or Hosrs,

‘ Glean, glean the remnant of Israel like a vine! Turn your hand like a grape—picker over the boughs. W32 §rnpl;2t. To whom shall I speak, and give

instructions, that they will hear? See! They have artificial ears, that cannot listen! The word of the EvER·L1v1NG has become their scorn; they have no pleasure in it! Therefore I am full of the spirit of the Evan-—L1vmo. I am unable to restrain myself. @132 ¥urh. ‘ Pour it out upon the children in

the street, and upon the crowd of youths, at once, for the Man and the Woman shall be captured with the old man who is full of days! And their homes shall be transferred to strangers, with their lands and their wives, for I will extend My hand against this country; and from the least to the greatest they shall all be plunderedl for from the Preacher to the Priest, they are all false! And the fragments of My People shall be scattered in shame, for crying ' Peace! Peace! ’ when

there is no peace! Were they honoured when they acted disgrace- fully? Nay! they were not ashamed of shame, any of them,—-—they would not recognize it,-·—therefore they shall fall when they are attacked,--they shall fall and totter at the hour of says the Evan-Ltvmo. Qt $112:1 iu ilsiucl tu llrprni.

Thus said the Even-L1v;No,

‘Stand in the roads, and examine, and enquire in the old paths, which is the best way, and walk in it, and But We will not walk ‘ Then I appointed watchmen over

them, to make them listen to the voice ofthe trumpet. But they re- plied, ‘We will not listen! There- IO II I2 x6 18 fore hear the heathen, and recognize 497