Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 509

before their enemies, I will repulse let usplot against ]erem.iah·, for law them. '.[`l”l€1`BfOI’B‘glV8 their children wives be childless, and widows,ea;1d death ;———their brave men slain by the heard from their homes, when the and not advance them~—-I will terrify in the day of distress! Come

will not cease from the priest, or advice from the skilful, or 2. message from the Preacher ;———Iet us revile him, and not listen to his speeches? Oh, EvER·L1vme, listen to the

utteranceof my plea.- They repay a. pitfor my life 2. Remember I stood in Your presence to speakkindly to them;-—to tum away Your angerfrom to famine, and their young men to the hand of the sword, and let their let their- men come to e; murderous sword in battle! `Let a. shriek be

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]EREMIAH. ther distress I intended to bring IO II I2 16 18 21 upon it. But when I speak to a nation, or

to a kingdom, to build up and to plant it,——-if it does wrong in My sight, and refuses to listen to My voice, then I sigh over the benefits with which I have said I would benefit it. ‘So you now speak to the men of

judah, and to the inhabitants, of jerusalem, to say:·-—‘ Thus says the Evan-Lxvmo. I will form misery against you, and contrive plans against you, —- therefore let each now turn from his wicked way, and amencl your course, and proceed- ings.' But they will reply, ‘ There is no hope of that, for we will follow our own plans} And each will practise the-suggestions of his evil heart. the ,EvaR4r.1v1NG

Enquire, I pray of the nations, Who has heard such horrors as that Girl, Israel, has done? ‘ Will the snow of Lebanon supply

in the fields of Mitzer as cold waters are poured froma spring? Yet My People have abandoned Me for DE- LUs10Ns,·-—·they offer incense, and stumble from their ancient path- ways, to followunpaved bye·paths; to turn their country to a waste, to a continuous jungle !~ All who pass it will hiss! and shake their heads! I will scatter them like anleast wind me injury for kindness,——·for they dig, them,——for they dug aditch to catch rue, and laid a trap for my feet. plunderers come suddenly upon You, however, EVER-L1v1NG, knew 23 all their intentions of murder against me. Let there be no expiation for their faults, and blot not out their sins from before You; and let them be deprived of Your presence, at the time Your anger works upon them I brzmialy urbzrzh in Qu; u Qhitlz. The EvE1z—r.1v1No· commanded 19 me thus: ‘Go and buy an earthenware

bottle, accompanied by some of the gentry of the People. and some of the gentry of the Priests. Then 2 proceed to the valley opposite the pottery—gate, and there proclaim the message I will speak to you,--and say :—¥·‘ Hear the message of the 3 Evnu—r.1y1No, you kings of judah, ° and inhabitants of ]`erusalem·! The Loan or Hosrs, the.Gon of Israel says thus;-‘ I will bring evil upon this place, which shall make the ears of all who hear it tingle! because they have forsaken Me, and estranged-this place,-and burnt incense in it to seducing gods, whom they or ‘their,fathers, or the kings of judah had not known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocent! And have built columns to Bal, and burnt their children in the fire as burnt `offerings to Bal, although I ordered them not,. and did not command it, and it never entered My heart.! says the

and call this place no longer Thopheth,1 but the Valley of Murder! For It will empty out the counsellors of judah into this place, and throw- them down. before the sword of their enemies, and to thc hands- of those, who seek their lives, and give their qarcases as food to the fowls of the sk-ics, and the beasts of the earth, and make thisoci-ty desolate. Every pzxssenby shall. hiss, and be shocked at her ruins I. And they‘sha;II eat the flesh of theisr.son·s·, amd the flesh of their daughters, and everyone eat the flesh of his frienclin the siege and distress with which their enemies who seek their lives shall oppress them! Then you shall smash the bottle before 1 The Spittoon. s<>9