Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 512

7 and will prepare destroyers with their weapons, who will fell your choice cedars, and fling them upon the fire.

8 Many of the Nations also shall pass by this city, and each will say to his companion, ‘ For what has the Evzzks LIVING destroyed this great city?’

g And they will reply, ‘Because they forsook the Covenant of their EVER- Livmc Gon, and bowed to seducing gods, and served them. Q. @2m:nciuli¤u nf §bulum·l:2:t· §¤¤binb. 10 ‘i‘ Weep not for the dead, and lament them not! But weep, weep for the departed,—·~for he will never return,

For thus says the LORD to Shalum-ben- joshiah, King of Judah, who reigns

When he goes away from this place he shall never return again I 16 x8 20 21 ‘»Woe ! for he buildshis house, but

not by- Righteousness; and his cham- bers, but not by justices! r He works by his neighbours, without paying, and gives them no wages. He says, ‘I will build for myself a spacious house, and airy ch_arnbers,’ and forms himself windows, and ceilings, of cedar, and paints them vermilion. Will you reign because you stretch yourself like a cedar ? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and right,-——and thus prospered? tHe gave justice to the wretched, and the poor,-·~and prospered. Was not that asks the EVER- You have neither eyes, nor heart, however, except for fraud and for shedding innocent blood, and oppression and to practise extortion. ‘The1·cfore, the LORD says thus to

joiakhim-ben-] oshiah, king of judah, mourn not for him, ‘ Alas for my brother! or alas for my friend l ’ Mourn not for him, ‘ Alas for his Majesty l ’ or ‘Alas for his honour! ’ ‘He I shall be buried with the

burial of an ass,-—dragged and Hung outside of the gates of jerusalem! ®¤li tu @ziuaiI Email': §urr¤iu¤ auth Sins. Go up to Lebanon and shriek, and on Bashan raise your voice,and howl at Abarim, for all your delights are shattered! ‘l spoke to you in your prosperity. You replied, ‘ I will not listen ! ’ That was your way from your youth! You have never listened to My voice. All your shepherds attend to the wind! and all your friends will go into captivity, for now I will degrade and shame you for all your wickedness, Inhabitress in Lebanon! Builder in the cedars! How charming you will be when the agonies of a woman in childbirth come upon you! By My to Koniah·ben—]oiakhim, king of judah, if you were the seal on My right hand, I would tear you off, and give you to the hand that seeks your life, and to the hand of whoever you fear ;—-——and then to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and the hand of the Kasdirn! I will also fling along with you the mother who bore you into another country where you were not borne-and there you shall die !° And to the country to which they lift up their souls, they shall never return! Is this man Koniah a contemp-

tible broken pot? or a thing in which there is no use ? Why do they throw him, and his race away, and fiing to a land which they know not? ’ Earth! Earth l Earth ! listen to

the message of the EVER-LIVINQ. Write this man childless —;~—-a man who shall not prosper in his days,——-for none of his family shall prosper who sit upon the throne of David, and rule in jerusalem ! 22 26 28

wuz @2n¤um:zh in Wicket {inlets, but Qlesturntimm in israel. Woe to the shepherds who de- 23 stroy and scatter the sheep of My says the Evnn—x.1v1Ne, Therefore, the Evn1z·1.1v1No Goo of Israel thus addresses the shepherds : ‘Shepherds of My. People, you

scatter the sheep, andchase them away, and do not collect them. There- fore I will impose upon you the wickedness of your proceedings} But I will collect the remnants of My Hook from all the lands where I have driven them, and will restore them to their homes, and they shallrbe fruitful and multiply. I will also appoint shep- herds over them, who will tend-them, and they shall not be terrified, or says the EvE1z· L1v1NG. SI2 __¢___j