the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 15 °Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the 'poorest sort of the people, and the residue of the people that were left! in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and (16 the residue of the multitude. But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the 'poorest of the land 'to be' 17 vinedressers and husbandmen. And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases and the brasen sea that were' in the house of the LORD, 'did' the Chaldeans 'break in pieces', and carried all the brass 18 of them to Babylon. The 'pots' also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the "basons', and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they 19) ministered, took they away. And the cups, and the firepans, and the basons, and the 'pots', and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the cap20 tain of the guard took away. The two pillars, the one sea, and 'the' twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was with21 out weight. And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was (22) hollow. And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the 'chapiter' round about, all of brass and the second pillar also 'had' like unto these, *23) and pomegranates. And there were ninety and six pomegranates on 'the sides; all the pomegranates were an hundred upon the network round 24 about. And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and

Zephaniah the second priest, and the 25) three keepers of the 'door: land out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king's 'face', which were found in the city; and the scribe "of the captain! of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found 26 in the midst of the city. And1 Neb

uzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the (27 king of Babylon to Riblah. And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried 28 away captive out of his land. This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three 29 and twenty: in the eighteenth year

of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred. 30 thirty and two persons: in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

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"And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth 32 out of prison; and 'he ‍spake kindly Ito him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him 33) in Babylon. And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all the days of 34 his life. And for his 'allowancel, there was a continual 'allowance' given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

3 Heb. threshold. Or, eunuch

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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!

How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces,

How is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her:

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her,

They are become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude;

She dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:

All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

The ways of Zion do mourn, be

cause none come to the 2solemn Jassembly';

All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh:

Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

Her adversaries are become the 'head', her enemies prosper;

For the LORD hath afflicted her for

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Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing':

All that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:

Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered! not her latter end;

Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter:

Behold, O LORD, my affliction; for
the enemy hath magnified him-
self.

The adversary hath spread out his
hand upon all her pleasant things:
For she hath seen that the heathen
Jare entered into her sanctuary,
'Concerning' whom thou didst com-
mand that they should not enter
into thy congregation.

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LAMENTATIONS.

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They have given their pleasant things for meat to 'refresh' the soul:

See, O LORD, and behold; for I am become vile.

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?

Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which

is done unto me,

"Wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:

He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back;

He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand;

They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to "fail" : The Lord hath delivered me into

their hands, against whom I am not able to 'stand'.

(15) The Lord hath set at nought all

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My children are desolate, because the enemy hath' prevailed. (17) Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; The LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries:

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Hear, I pray you, all 'ye peoples', and behold my sorrow:

My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:

My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them meat to 'refresh' their souls.

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; Mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me;

All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it:

Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast "proclaimed', and they shall be like unto me.

Let all their wickedness come before thee;

And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions:

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For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!

He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied;

He hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah;

He hath brought them down to the ground:

He hath 'profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel;

He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy:

And he hath burned up! Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye:

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In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his fury like fire.

The Lord is become! as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strong holds :

And he hath multiplied' in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden;

He hath destroyed his place! of assembly:

The LORD hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion,

And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,

He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces:

1 Or, from whom I am not able to rise up

Or, booth Or, hedge 5 Or, lappointed feast

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They have made a noise in the
house of the LORD, as in the day
of a solemn 'assembly'.
The LORD hath purposed to de-
stroy the wall of the daughter of
Zion;

He hath stretched out 'the' line, he
hath not withdrawn his hand from
1destroying:

But he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:

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Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is Inot;

Yea', her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;

They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth:

The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled,

My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;

Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

They say to their mothers, Where
is corn and wine?

When they swoon' as the wounded
in the streets of the city,
When their soul is poured out into
their mothers' bosom.
What shall I testify unto thee?

what shall I liken to thee, O daugh-
ter of Jerusalem?

What shall I equal to thee, that I

may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?

For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

14) Thy prophets have seen 'visions for thee lof vanity' and 'foolishness';

And they have not discovered thine iniquity, to bring again' thy captivity:

But have seen for thee burdens of vanity and causes of banish

ment.

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All that pass by clap their hands at thee;

They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city that men called' The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

The LORD hath done that which he devised;

He hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;

He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied:

And he hath caused 'the' enemy to rejoice over thee,

He hath 'exalted' the horn of thine adversaries.

Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night;

Give thyself no 'respite'; let not the apple of thine eye cease. Arise, cry out in the night, 'at the beginning of the watches;

Pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children,

That faint for hunger at the top of

every street.

20) See', O LORD, and behold, to whom thou hast done thus!!

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Shall the women eat their fruit, 'the' children that are dandled in the hands!?

Shall the priest and the prophet
be slain in the sanctuary of the
Lord?

The youth and the old 'man' lie
on the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men are
fallen by the sword:

Thou hast slain them in the day
of thine anger; thou hast 'slaugh-
tered', and not pitied.

22) Thou hast called, as in 'the' day 'of' a solemn assembly', 'my terrors lon every side,

And there was none that escaped lor remained in the day of the LORD'S anger:

1 Heb. swallowing up. 2 Or, Ibreach!

3 Or, take to witness for thee 4 Or, loracles

5 Or, things to draw thee aside 6 Or, finished\

7 See Jer. vi. 25.

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VERSION OF 1611.-swaddled.

"Remember mine affliction and my 'misery, the wormwood and the gall.

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is 'bowed down within!

me.

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

8 Let him sit alone and keepi silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

'Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. 'Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.