Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 498

the EvER·1,1v1NGI, and proclaim this Listen to the message from the go! Their silver is sick, they cry! For the EVER-LIVING has been sickened by them! to jeremiah, to say ; message there, and say: 7--18 6--19 ]EREMIAH. the proof of what has come upon

19 you! Let the land hear! See! I will bring misery upon this People,-—the fruit of their thoughts,··——because they would not listen to My words, and rejected My laws. Why do you bring irankincense 21 22, 26 28 to Me from Sheba, and cinnamon from a. distant land? Your burnt- offerings please not, and I cannot accept your sacrifices. 'l`herefore,' I will give this People to the Kasdim, and they shall fall by them, fathers and chil- dren together,-·the host and his friend shall perish. Thus says the Evmz-Lrvims,

‘Lookl a People come from a. northern land! and a Great Nation appears from a distant country! They are mighty with bows and arrows; they are bold and without mercy; their voice is like the roar- ing sea, and they ride upon horses, prepared as men of war against you, O Daughter of Zion ! ’ W12 ¥r¤pI3zt’¤ ®nmmznt. On hearing the report ot them

our hands faint! We are distressed and anguished as in the anguish of childbirth! Go not to the Held, walk not on the roads,-for there the sword of the enemy aifrights. Daughter of my People, gird on sackcloth! roll in the dust. Weak! Forsaken! place yourself with the wretched weepers,—for the plunderer comes suddenly on us! @32 @¤rh’s Reply in him. ‘ I will make you a beacon to My

People; a pillar and guide·post, and you shell point out their path. They are all sullen mutineers,—they»go on complaining, they are all brass and iron,—— they have corrupted them- selves. The bellows snort on the 3 §p:zi¤1 illiall in iizpzuiaxtrz. 7 This message came from the Loma Stand at the gate of the House of Even-Livmo, all judah who come to these gates to worship the EVER- Livmo. Thus says the Loan or Hosirs, the Gon of Israel! Amend your ways, and your paths, and I will allow you to remain in this place; Place not your trust upon lying messengers that say, ‘ This is a. Temple of the LORD! The Temple of the LORD} For if you. reform your ways and your goings,-——if you do justice between a man and his neighbour, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the orphan, and widow; if you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and follow seduc- ing gods to your own hurt, then I will settle you in this place for ever and for ever. You, however, trust yourselves to false doctrines that cannot benefit. You steal, murder, whore, gorge, and lie, and offer incense to Bal,——and go after seducing gods of whom you know nothing. ‘Yet you come and stand before

this House, upon which My Name has been invoked, and say, ‘ Deliver us because we have practised all these abominations! ‘ Has this House, upon which My

Name was invoked, becomea den of wild beasts in your eyes? Have I the EVER- Go, however, now to My House at Shilo, where I fixed My NAME fonmerly, and see what I did to it, because of the wickedness of My People Israel. And certainly you now have done all that they did,‘ and I have spoken to you early, and still speak, but you will not hear,-—and I call to you but you will not answer. Therefore I will make this House, upon which My NAME has been invoked,-upon which you rely,—-and the House that I gave you, and your fathers, what I have made Shilo! And I will fling you from My presence, as I flung your brothers, the whole Tribe of Ephraim. ‘And for yourself, do not suppli-

cate for this People, and do not raise on their account a cry or prayer, and entreat Me not, for I will not hear you! Have you not seen what they doin the cities of ]udah, and in the streets of jerusalem? The children gather wood, and their fathers are stokers of the fire, and their wives knead the dough, to make cakes to the ‘ Queen of the Skies! ' And they 498 IO II I2 16 18