All of

you have rebelled against me, faith JEHOVAH.

In vain have I fmitten your children;

They have not received instruction.

Your own sword hath devoured your prophets,
Like a destroying lion.

O ye

the caufe of JEHOVAH:

of this generation, behold ye Have I been a wilderness unto Ifrael?

Or a land of darkness?

Wherefore hath my people faid, We are our own masters ;
We will not come any more unto thee?

Can a virgin forget her ornaments? a bride her attire ?
Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Why wilt thou direct thy way to the feeking of love?
Therefore also have I taught calamities thy ways.

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Alfo in thy fkirts is found blood,

The lives of poor innocents;

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I have not found it in a digged hole,

But upon every oak.

Yet haft thou faid, Becaufe I am innocent,

Surely his wrath shall turn from me.

Behold I will enter into judgment with thee,

Because thou fayeft, I have not finned.

Why wilt thou make thyself exceedingly vile,

In repeating over again thy ways?

By means of Egypt also fhalt thou be put to fhame,

Even as thou haft been put to fhame by Affyria.

Yea from hence too fhalt thou

go forth,

With thy hands upon thy head:

Because JEHOVAH hath reprobated the objects of thy trust,
And thou shalt not profper in them.

Whilft thou fayeft, If a man put away his wife,

And the depart from him, and become another man's;
Shall he return unto her again?

Shall not that land be defiled?

Even thou haft played the harlot with many lovers —

Yet

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Yet return unto me, faith JEHOVAH.

Lift up thine eyes upon the open plains, and fee;
Where haft thou not been defiled in the highways?

Thou hast sat waiting in them like an Arabian in the desert;

And haft polluted the land by thy whoredoms and by thy wickedness.

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And although the fhowers have been withholden,

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And there hath been no latter rain;

Yet thou haft had a harlot's forehead,

Thou haft refolved not to be ashamed.

Wilt thou not from henceforward call upon me,

(Saying) My father, the guide of my youth wert thou?
Shall displeasure be kept in view for ever?

Or fhall there be a marking of offences for evermore?
Behold, thou haft spoken, and done,

Thou haft wrought wickedness, and haft prevailed.

JEHOVAH also faid unto me in the days of king Jofiah; Haft thou feen what revolted Ifrael hath done? She hath gone upon every high mountain, and to the foot of every green tree, and hath played the harlot there. And I faid after she had done all these things, Return thou unto me. But the retnrned not. And I faw, when be

8 And her faithlefs fifter Judah faw it. caufe of all the adulteries, which revolted Ifrael had committed, I had put her her away, and had given her a bill of divorce, that her faithlefs fifter Judah was not afraid, but went and played the 9 harlot alfo herself. And it came to pafs, through the wantonnefs of her prostitution, that she polluted the land, and com80 mitted adultery with stone and with wood. And also after all this, her faithless fifter Judah returned not to me with her whole heart, but feignedly, faid JEHOVAH. Therefore said JEHOVAH unto me, Revolted Ifrael hath juftified herself more than faithlefs Judah. Go and proclaim these words towards the north, and fay,

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RETURN, Ő revolted Ifrael, faith JEHOVAH,

I will not look down upon you with a lowring brow;
For I am merciful, faith JEHOVAH,

I will not keep displeasure in view for ever.

Only acknowledge thine iniquity.

That thou haft rebelled against JEHOVAH thy God;
And haft been liberal of thy ways to strangers,

Under every green tree;

And ye have not hearkened unto my voice, faith JEHOVAH.
Return, O revolted children, faith JEHOVAH,

For I have been a husband among you :

And I will take you one out of a city, and two out of a tribe,
And I will bring you to Sion.

And I will give you rulers after mine own heart,
And they shall rule you with knowledge and difcretion.

And it shall be, when ye shall have multiplied and increased
in the land,

In those days, faith JEHOVAH,

They shall no more fay, The ark of the covenant of JEHOVAH,
Nor shall it be the delight of their heart,

Nor shall they remember it, nor fhall they care [about it,]
Nor fhall it be made any more.

At that time shall Jerufalem be called the throne of JEHOVAH;
And all nations fhall refort to it in the name of JEHOVAH;
And they shall not walk any more after the lufting of their
evil heart.

In those days shall the house of Judah go unto the house of
Ifrael,

And they shall come together out of the north country,
Unto the land which I made your fathers to inherit.
And when I faid, How fhall I place thee among fons,
And give unto thee the land of defire,

Ths inheritance of the glory of hosts of nations?
Then faid I, Thou shalt call me, My father ;

And

And thou shalt not turn afide from following me.
Surely as a wicked woman breaketh her faith;
So have ye broken your faith towards me,

O house of Ifrael, faith JEHOVAH.

A voice hath been heard upon

the plains,

Weeping and fupplications of the children of Ifrael;
Because they have perverted their way,

They have forgotten JEHOVAH their God.

Return, O revolted children,

I will heal your apoftafies.

Behold we come unto thee,

For thou art JEHOVAH our God.

Surely hills are lies, the tumult of mountains

Surely in JEHOVAH our God is the falvation of Ifrael.

But that thing of fhame hath devoured the substance of our

fathers from our youth;

Their fheep, and their oxen,

Their fons, and their daughters.

We shall lie down in our fhame,

And our ignominy will overwhelm us ;

Because we have finned against JEHOVAH our God,
We and our fathers from our youth even until this day,
And have not obeyed the voice of JEHOVAH our God.

IF thou wilt turn again, O Ifrael,
Saith JEHOVAH, unto me fhalt thou return;
And if thou wilt put away thine abominations,
From before me shalt thou not be removed:
But thou shalt fwear, As JEHOVAH liveth,
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
And the nations shall bless themselves in him,
And in him shall they glory.

SURELY thus faith JEHOVAH To the men of Judah and to Jerufalem; (B)

Break

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And fow not among thorns. on bid
circumcifed unto JEHOVAH,
And take away the foreskins of

Be ye

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your hearts,

O ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerufalem;
Left my wrath go forth like fire,

And it be kindled that none can quench it,

Because of the evil of your doings.

Declare ye in Judah,

And in Jerufalem publish ye, and say;

Sound ye the trumpet in the land,

Proclaim throughout, and say,

Gather together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.

Set up a ftandard in Sion,

Retire in a body, make no stand;

For I am about to bring evil from the north,

Even a great destruction.

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And a destroyer of nations is on his way;

He is gone forth from his place to make thy land a deso-
lation ;

Thy cities shall be ruined, fo as to be without inhabitant.

For this caufe gird on fackcloth, lament, and wail,

Because the fierce anger of JEHOVAH is not turned away MAND

from him.

And it shall come to pafs in that day, faith JEHOVAH,

The heart of the king fhall fail, and the heart of the
princes;

And the priests fhall be aftonished, and the prophets shall
wonder.

Then faid I, Alas! O Lord JEHOVAH !

Surely thou haft altogether deceived this people and Jerusalem,
Saying, Ye fhall have peace;

Although the fword penetrateth to the very quick.

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