Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 545

51--20 51-··43 ]EREMIAI-I. 26 28 ‘ You are My hammer, and weapons of war, And I hammer the nations by you, And by you I break up the kingdoms! Hammer horse and his rider by you, And by you hammer chariot and driver, And hammer by you man and wife, And hammer by you old and young, And hammer by you youths and girls, And hammer by you flock and keeper, And by you hammer ploughman and plough, And by you hammer Rulers and governed; And will pay back again upon Babel And all who reside with the Kasdim, The sufferings they laid upon Zion, says the LORD. my: §¤¤¤¤mzs in Quin!. ‘Mountain! I am against you,’

to lay you waste! You wasted the whole earth,—-—so I will direct My hand against you, and roll you from the peaks, and make you a burut·out volcano, from which they will not take stone for building, or a stone for foundations,-—but you says the Loan. ‘ Raise a standard in the earth, blow

a trumpet among the Nations. Pre- pare the Nations against her! Sum— mon the Kingdoms! Ararat, Mini, and Ashkanez. Appoint generals against her, to lead the horsemen like hairy caterpillars! Prepare the Nations against her,·—-—the Kings of the Medea, with their marshals and all their lieutenants, all the countries they govern. Make the land shake and reel, for the intention of the Loan is tixed against Babel, to turn the country of Babel to a waste, and without inhabitants. The heroes of Babel evade the iight! They sit in their forts ! Their courage has failed I Their houses are iired,——·their bars are broken !——Postman runs to meet postman, -—- and reporter to meet reporter, to tell the king- of Babel that his city is captured on all sides! That the fords are seized,-—the reeds burnt with hre,-and his soldiers in For thus says the Loan or Hosrs,

The daughter of Babel is like com at thrashing time; tread her after a while, when the harvest time comes to her. Nebukhadnezzar, King of Babel,

has devoured and torn us; has left us an empty jar,·—-—swallowed us like a serpent,——he has gorged his belly with our sweets,-~he shall vomit us up ! My

violation and outraging be upon And my blood upon the jerusalem cries, LonD,

‘ I will plead your cause, and execute justice on account of you, and dry up the water, and make her fountains dry, and Babel shall become a stone heap,—-—the haunt of serpents, a waste, and jungle, without inhabitants. ‘They roar together like tigers.

They growl like young lions. I will lit their drink to their thirst, when they will get drunk for joy,-—and sleep an everlasting sleep, and never I will lay them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats! Song mz tbz Mupinrz cf Qakglmt. How was the Bronze Gate captured And the Bride of the World been seized? How was Babel made the desert of nations? The sea comes up against Babel! She is o’erwhelmed by its rollingbillowsl Her cities are made a waste, Her earth is dry and is black, A land in which no man dwells, And no son of Adam goesover! 545 20 2 I 22 33 34 35 37 39 43