Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 546

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51--44 45 53 I will visit Bcl in Babel, And bring his glut out of his mouth; When the nations will 110 more seek him, For the walls of Babel shall fa.11 E igllnrxniug in $>mwl. Beware of your heart failing and

being afraid at the rumours you may hear in the country; for a rumour shall come one year, and another year a report of disturbance in the land, governor against governor, because the times come that I will visit the idols of Babel, and all her land, to degrade them, and all her wounded shall fall in her midst. Then the heavens shall cheer over Babel, and the earth and all that is in it, when her plunderers come from says the LORD. ‘For as Babel Hung down the

wounded of_ Israel, so the wounded of Babel shall fall all over the ground. Fly from the sword and go! Delay not! Remember the LORD from afar! And ascend to jerusalem in your hearts} We are ashamed, for we have been

insulted,~—~our faces are covered with disgrace, for loathsome things have entered the sanctuary of the House ofthe Lone. says

when I will punish her idols, and the wounded shall groan in all her country. Although Babel mounts to the skies, and although she fortifies her lofty strength, her says the Loma. 54 There will be the sound of sh1·iek— ing from Babel, and of a great crash

55 from the land of the Kasdim, when 57 the Loan will desolate Babel, and a great sound will come from her like the roaring billows when many seas utter their growling voice! For destruction comes upon Babel,-eher warriors are captured,-—~their bows are broken, for the Loma is a Gon Then I will make her nobles, and learned, and viceroys, and governors, and heroes drunk,—-·and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and never awakef says the King named the LORD- 0F Hosts. Thus says the LORD OF HOSTS: ‘ The broad wall of Babel shall be

demolished! and her high gates be burnt with fire! Thus Peoples have wearied themselves for a vapour, and nations for the hre,—and are exhausted! instruction nf 3crmninl; iu Serial;. The order that jeremiah the 59 Preacher gave to Seriah—ben·Neriah— ben-Maksiah, when he was sent by Zedekiah, king of judah, to Babel, in the fourth year of his reign. Seriah had been High Chamberlain. Now Jeremiah had engraved all the

punishments that would come upon Babel in a book,—-··all these things that he wrote about Babel, and When you come to Babel, be careful to read these things, and say, 'LORD, You have spoken against this place to exterminate it, until it is uninhabited by men or beasts, and it becomes a desolation for ever! ' And when you have hnished reading the book fasten a stone to it, and fling it into the middle of the Frath, and say ‘ Babel shall sink like that, and never rise from the distress I will bring upon 1 At this point the Sermons of jere- miahare finished. 61

ZX §2l1r2lu ®h1t¤r'¤ Sirpplzmzittnrg ghnle lrzrmlnng tlyz Qlupiurz uf §2rusa1zm. Zedekiah. was ·twenty·one years old 52 at his coronation, and he reigned 1 No1*E.——Ch. 5:, v. 64. To us it seems a into th strange pg e midd e of a rivet larger than the Thames to reserve it safe for seventy years, but we now

pnow from the discoveries at·Nineveh and Babylon that in the time of the Prophet were not written on paper or skins, but upon stone slates, or more commonly upon tablets of potter's clay, upon which the d baavintooland

words were engravey ggg , the glates afterwards burnt li e pottery, which ma e them indestructible, so t at the river’s bed was the safest place to put the record, to be found again on the Euphrates being drained dry by Darius and Cyrus previous to their storming Babylon. It is recorded by josephus that the bale containing them was then discovered. Had they not been thus preserved,we may beysure Nebukhadnezzar would not have left a fragment of them in existen¤e.—F. F. 546