Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 506

15-7 side,———I sat solitary because You filled Why are You like failing, unstable waters ? me with indignation. Why is my misery perpetual? and my wound incurable? refusing to be heeled? 16·-éxc ]EREMIAH. IO II have deserted,—-——the1*efore I point at you, and strip you, and hate pitying you! So I will winnow you with a winnower from the gates of the country,——I will fling out,--·I will destroy My People! Yet they will not return from their ways. I have made their widows more numerous than the sands of the seas. I have allowed outrage on the mother of young men, in open day; I have driven anguish and terror on her suddenly! The mother of seven languishes; the breath of her life has gone! Her sun has set while it is day! She is disgraced and scornedll But I will give the remainder to the says the EVER-LIVING. M): ilruplyzfs Qlrg uf @2¤pai1·. Alas, for me, my mother! You

have borne me a man of strife, and a man of doom to all the land! I have not borrowed, nor have I lent on usury ;·——yet all curse me! However the Evniz-Livmo said,

‘Will I not benehcently release? Willi not intercede for you yourself with the enemy in the bad time, 12 the time of distress? Can iron break a weapon made from the northern steel i? I will expose your power and treasures to plunder, not to sale! because of all your idols in all your

14 boundaries. And they shall be taken away by your enemies to an unknown land, for a fire burns in My anger, kindled against you} Qzrzmialy {Braga fur §im¤zlf fur ¥r¤t2rti¤:r. 15 Evaxmvxno, You know! Re- member and visit me, and avenge me upon my persecutors ! Repel me not in Your anger! Support me! You know `I am reproached on account

16 of You. I found Your words and devoured them, and Your words were sweet and pleasant to my heart,—·—for 18 Your NAME was fixed upon me, Even-Livmo Gon or Hosrs! I have not sat in the company of the joyous ;—·but felt pleasure at Your If you

will return,——then I will restore you to stand before Me. And if you sort out the worthless from the valuable, you shall be like My mouth,--they will come to you,——~and you need not go to them. I will also make for you a wall of brass as a defence against this People ;—·they may hght against you.———but they shall not overpower you, for I will be there to save and deliver you/’ said the EVER-r,1v1No. ‘I will also deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the hand of the terrible! 20 21 22 @132 §r¤pl;rt furlrihuzxt tn marry. Again, the message of the EVER- 16 LIvrNG came to me to say ‘ You shall not take a wife, nor 2 shall you have sons and daughters in thus said the Even- 3 upon the sons and the daughters that are born in this place, and upon the mothers who bore them, and upon the fathers who caused their birth in this land, I will inflict sickening deaths. They shall die unmourned, and lie unburied on the face of the ground like dung ! T hey shall end by sword and famine, and their corpses shall! be food for the {owls of the sky, and the beasts of the Thus said the Evan-ravine : ‘ Enter not the House of Weeping, nor go to a burial, nor moan for

them, for I will remove Peace from said the Evan-Livrno, ‘with Mercy and Pity. Both the little and great in this land shall die, they shall not be buried,—·—they

shall not be mourned or lamented, nor shorn for, nor shaven. They shall not distribute the bread of grief to comfort themselves over the dead, nor drink the cup of consolation for their father and mother. ‘ Neither enter the House of Feast-

ing to sit with them, to eat and drink, for thus says the Loan or Hosts, the GOD of Israel,——I will cause the sound of joy and gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and bride to cease from this place, in your sight and in your days. But when you relate to this People all these things, and they ask you, ‘ For what object does the EVER-Livmo speak to us about all this great misery? What is our fault? and what is the sin IO which we have sinned against our 506