Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 534

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when you sent me to your EvBR~ LIVING GOD, saying ‘Entra:1t your EVER-LIVING GOD on account of us,—zmd whatever our EvEn·L1v1Nc; GOD says tO us, we will follow and do it!‘ I have told you to—day, but you will not listen to the direction of your Evniz-1.1v1NG Goo in anything He has sent by me to youi There- fore, now, assure yourselves you will die by the sword, by famine, and by plague in the place where you had decided to go and lodge! @12 Minis}; Gznmxls rzfuzz in hzlichz §I21·muinh'z gitzszugz. But when ]eremiah had finished

communicating to the crowd of all the commands of their EvER~LIvING Gon, which their EVER-Lxvmo Goo had sent to them,——a1l these com- mands, Az1·ia.h—ben- Hoshieh, and jokhanamben-Korekh, and all the insolent fellows, exclaimed to jeremiah, ‘You are 2. liar! Our EVER-

LIVING GOD has not sent command— ing you to tell us not to go to the Mitzemim to lodge there. But Baruk— ben—Neriah has set you on to us, so that he may give us into the power of the Kasdim to be killed or to transport us to Babel! Consequently jokhzman -· ben Korakh, and all the officers of the army, and the crowd, would not listen tothe instruction of the EVER- LIVING to stay in the land of judah. So ]okhanan»ben-Korakh, and all the officers of the forces, took all the fragments of judah that had returned to the land of judah from all the nations where they had fled to lodge,—·—all the men, and women, and children ,·—with the daughters of the king, and all the persons whom Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, had entrusted to Ghedaliah~ ben — Akikam, and }ererniah the Preacher, and l%aruk—ben—Neriah, and went to the land of the Mitze- mim,——-for they would not listen to the instruction of the EVER-LIVING, but went to T hakhfanes. Slnrcixtiulj nrhrrcir in living Ymib UDESBIQ §lU!I2E. But the command of the EVER.-

Lxvmo came to jeremiah in Thakh- fanes to say: ‘ Take great stones in your hands, and set them in white mortar in the Pavement, that is upon the square of Pharoh’s palace at Thakhfanes, in the presence of the men of judah, and say to them: Thus says the Loan or Hosrs, the Goo of Israel, I will send, and bring My servant Nebukhadnezzar, king of Babel, and place his throne over these stones which I have set, and spread his splendid tent over them! He shall come, and strike in the land of the Mitzeraim whoever are for death, with death; and whoever are for slavery,-—with slavery; and whoever are for the sword,-—with the sword! And I will set tire to the temples of the gods of the Mitzerites and burn them, and capture them, and he will put the land of Mitzer upon himself like a shepherd puts on his coat, and go out of it in quietude. He will also break the pillars of the Temple ofthe Sun that is in the land of the Mitzeraim, and burn the temples of the gods of the Mitzeraim with fire ! IG XI I2

3 message is the Qlrins in Engpt. The command which came to jere- 44 miah for all the jews resident in the land ofthe Mitzeraim,——the residents in Migdol, and Thakhfanes, and in Nof, in the district of Pathrom,—·to say: ‘Thus says the Loizo or Hostrs,

the Goo of Israel! You saw all the miseries which I brought upon jeru- salem, and upon all the cities of judah, and see them to—day a heap of ashes with no inhabitants in them, because of the wickedness that they practised, to provoke Me, by going and burning incense to, and serving seducing gods, which neither you nor your fathers knew, although I sent My servants the Preachers to you, rising early and sending;-—‘ Do not that loathsome thing that I hate! But they would not listen, norincline their ears, or turn from their wicked- ness, and cease to burn incense to seducing gods, therefore I poured out My indignation and anger; and burnt the cities of judah, and over- threw jerusalem, and they are ashes, and desolate to-day ! ‘ But now the Loan Gon or Hostrs,

the GOD of Israel asks this, Why will you commit this great sin against your own lives ? It will cut off man and woman,——child and suckling from judah, until not a fragment is 534