Jeremias

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1. 1Jeremie prophesied in the times of Josias, Joakim, and Sedecias Kings of Juda: 5. being sanctified in his mother's womb, is sent in his tender age to prophesy, 11. the destruction of Jerusalem. 17. God giving him courage against his persecutors.
2. 2God expostulateth with the Jews, 6. that they regard not his great benefits: 8. Some priests, and ( pretended ) prophets serving false gods, 23. and denying their fault, 25. are obstinate in idolatry: 36. for which they shall be confounded.
3. 3Idolaters ( and other sinners ) are invited to repent, with promise of remission: 6. but neither the kingdom of Israel, nor Juda will return. 14. God still calling, some Jews, and many Gentiles come to Christ.
4. 4An admonition to sincere repentance, and circumcision of the heart: 5. with threats of grievous punishment to those, that persist in sin. 19. Which the Prophet foreseeing lamenteth the vastation of the land. 27. yet mixed with consolation, that it shall not be utterly ruined.
5. 5All sorts of higher and lower degrees transgress God's law: 9. and shall be punished.
6. 6Jerusalem shall be destroyed for transgressing God's law: 8. and contemning admonitions. 16. Yet God admonisheth again the Jews, and they contemning, 18. he calleth the Gentiles, and rejecteth the Jews.
7. 7God promiseth to dwell with those that walk right ways: 8. otherwise the material temple will not save them: 16. neither the prayers of the prophet shall help them, persisting in their sins: 21. nor sacrifice, but obedience to God's law.
8. 8The Babylonians spoiling Jerusalem will cast the bones of Kings, Priests, Prophets, and others out of their sepulchres, and most cruelly afflict the living: 5. God so permitting, because they would not repent, when the true Prophets admonished them so to do. 18. All which the prophet foreseeing lamenteth.
9. 9The prophet lamenteth the future calamity of the people, and their false dealing each with others. 12. willing all to consider that their wickedness is the cause of their misery, 17. and to mourn, 23. and return to God: 25. who otherwise will punish both Gentiles, and Jews not circumcised in heart.
10. 10Influence of stars, nor imagined power of idols, is not to be feared: but God only. 6. whose Majesty is infinite, and idols have no power at all. 19. Jerusalem lamenteth, 24. and prayeth God to pardon and protect his own people.
11. 11The Prophet being commanded to preach the observation of God's covenant is not heard. 9. The people follow their fathers' example, adoring idols. 11. and shall therefore be severely punished, neither shall their idols, nor prayers of the just profit them. 15. their malice against Christ is described 20. and the revenge thereof.
12. 12It seemeth strange that the wicked prosper. 5. The Jews heretofore afflicted by weaker enemies, shall be more oppressed by the Babylonians. 10. Evil pastors shall be punished. 14. and foreign enemies destroyed.
13. 13By a girdle first used and after left off, 8. is prefigured the rejection of the Jews: 12. till God's mercy recalleth them. 17. The Prophet lamenting their obstinacy, 22. sheweth that their sin is the cause of their misery.
14. 14Jurie shall be afflicted with drought and famine. 11. Neither shall the prophet's prayer, nor their fasts, nor sacrifices avail them. 14. False prophets shall perish with the seduced people. 17. Jeremie lamenting exhorteth them to repentance.
15. 15Though Moyses and Samuel should pray for this people, yet God hath determined to punish them with plague, war, famine, and captivity, 6. for their impenitency. 10. The prophet lamenteth that for his preaching the people is become worse, 15. and persecuteth him. 19. but God promiseth to deliver and to reward him.
16. 16The prophet is forbid to marry, troublesome times not suffering the cares of family: 5. He must neither go to places of feasting, nor mourning, more dying than can be mourned or buried. 10. All which is for their idolatry. 15. but after captivity the people shall be released. 16. And both Jews and Gentiles converted to Christ.
17. 17For obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led captive. 5. He is cursed that trusteth in flesh: 7. and blessed that trusteth in God. 9. Only God searcheth the heart, giving to every one as they deserve. 11. The prophet prayeth to be delivered from his enemies: 19. preacheth observation of the Law: 24. so they shall prosper, otherwise perish.
18. 18As clay in the hand of a potter, so is Israel in God's hand. 8. He pardoneth penitents, 10. and punisheth the obstinate. 18. They conspire against Jeremie, for which he denounceth miseries hanging over them.
19. 19The prophet holding an earthen bottle in his hand, preacheth the destruction of Jerusalem, 4. for their idolatry: 10. and in sign thereof breaketh the bottle in pieces: 11. denouncing that God will so break the people that contemn his word.
20. 20Phassur a priest beateth the prophet, and putteth him in the stocks. He still prophesieth their captivity in Babylon. 7. Lamenteth that he and his preaching is derided: 11. confideth in God: 14. and uttereth his afflicted mind.
21. 21The prophet answereth the king's messengers, that Jerusalem shall be punished with plague, sword, famine, and captivity. 9. Those shall escape best that yield themselves captives: 11. exhorteth to correct their lives, lest all be utterly destroyed.
22. 22The Prophet going to the palace admonisheth the king, and his officers to judge and govern rightly: 5. threatening that otherwise they shall fall into calamity: 10. prophesieth that Sellum shall not return into Jerusalem: 13. reprehendeth unjust builders; 18. that Joakim shall die and be buried ignominiously: 24. and Jechonias with his mother shall die in the captivity of Babylon.
23. 23God reproveth the evil governors, promising to reduce the reliques of the people from dispersion; 4. to send good pastors; and Christ the chief Pastor. 9. False prophets are threatened: 16. The people warned, not to hear them, preaching without mission, 27. against God's will, 33. and calling God's word a burden.
24. 24By a parable of good and evil figs, is signified, 5. the reduction of the penitent from captivity: 8. and the vexation of those, that stayed in Jerusalem, or fled into Egypt.
25. 25After the people's contemning to hear Jeremie, and other Prophets, preaching three and twenty years, 8. he denounceth their assured captivity seventy years in Babylon: 12. and then the ruin of their enemies. 15. All which wrath of God, Jeremie foreshoweth to the Jews, 19. and Gentiles. 29. Which shall first happen to God's proper people: 36. and so extend to all nations: 34. the principal governors bewailing their common misery.
26. 26The prophet for preaching God's commination, 7. is apprehended by the priests, and false prophets: 10. but delivered from death by the ancients of the people: 18. alleging the examples of Micheas, 20. and Urias prophesying the same before.
27. 27Jeremie putteth chains about his own neck, and then sendeth them to sundry kings, admonishing them, that they must either be subject to the king of Babylon, 8. or perish by sword, famine, and pestilence. 14. Inveigheth against false prophets preaching the contrary. 16. and falsely affirming that the vessels already taken away shall quickly be restored. 18. Whereas indeed the rest shall also be carried away, but all at last restored.
28. 28Hananias a false prophet avoucheth that within two years the holy vessels and king Jechonias with other captives shall be restored. 5. Jeremie prayeth that it may be so. 7. but prophesieth that it will not so be. 10. The false prophet in confirmation of that he saith, breaketh Jeremie's chain. 12. But Jeremie again prophesieth the contrary. 16. & that Hananias shall die the same year.
29. 29Jeremie writeth to the captives in Babylon, exhorting them to live in peace, 8. and not harking to false prophets. 10. For they must remain there seventy years, and then shall be delivered. 16. And those that remain in Jerusalem shall suffer sword, famine, and pestilence. 21. And Achab, Sedecias, 24. and Semeias false prophets, shall die miserably.
30. 30The prophet is commanded to write the same which he preacheth: 4. first pensive things, 8. Then joyful. 9. Especially in the new Testament, when God will raise David (to wit Christ) 16. Who shall destroy all enemies. 19. And whose Church shall be great, glorious, and perpetual.
31. 31God will reduce Israel from captivity, 4. and give them abundance of all things: 9. after their tribulation. 15. Rachel (The afflicted Church) shall cease from mourning: 18. confessing that she is justly chastised. 20. Christ a perfect man shall be contained in his mother's womb, 26. He rising from sleep (death) will build his Church. 31. with a new covenant: 36. that it shall be large, and perpetual.
32. 32Nabuchodonosor besieging Jerusalem, Jeremie in prison 7. buyeth by God's commandment a field of his cousin. 17. Prayeth for the whole nation, reciting God's former benefits, 26. Prophesieth their captivity in Babylon, 30. for their idolatry: 36. and deliverance from thence, 40. With a new covenant to serve God sincerely.
33. 33God promiseth remission of sins: 10. reduction from captivity, and many other benefits. 14. He will give judgement and justice in David (Christ) whose throne (the Church) 19. shall be glorious. 24. and permanent.
34. 34King Sedecias shall fall into the hands of Nabuchodonosor, and Jerusalem shall be burned: 8. because he hath broken the covenant, of releasing Jews from bondage, 14. in the seventh year, and contrary to particular promise of observing that law.
35. 35By example of the Rechabites voluntarily keeping their father's rule, 12. God expostulateth with the people that keep not his precepts; 17. denouncing that they shall be punished, and the Rechabites rewarded.
36. 36Jeremie in prison sendeth Baruch by God's commandment, to read a book of comminations before the people: 7. exhorting them to repent: 9. which being read in a porch of the Temple, 11. Micheas reporteth it to the Nobles in the court, 14. whither Baruch being called readeth the same before them: 20. they inform the king: 21. who hearing part thereof, causeth the book to be burned: 26. and commandeth to apprehend Baruch, and Jeremie. 27. The book is writ again by them with addition of more.
37. 37Sedecias appointed by the king of Babylon to reign in Juda, requesteth Jeremias' prayers. 4. The Chaldees besieging Jerusalem, and hearing that the Egyptians come against them, part away. 5. But Jeremie prophesieth that they will return, and burn Jerusalem: 10. For which he is imprisoned. 16. After many days the king examineth him of his prophecy, who still affirming the same, 20. is kept in the entry of the prison.
38. 38The nobles being offended with Jeremias' preaching, solicit to have him slain: 5. the king putting him in their hands, they cast him into a dirty dungeon, 7. from whence at the instance of Abdemelech an Ethiopian, he is drawn forth, 14. and having licence to speak, he adviseth the king to yield himself to the Chaldees, so he and the city shall be safe: 18. otherwise shall be taken captive, 24. which the king commandeth him to keep secret.
39. 39Jerusalem after two years' siege is taken by the Chaldees: 4. king Sedecias with others, fleeing by a postern gate, is taken, brought to the king of Babylon, all his sons are slain, his eyes put out, and so led into Babylon. 8. The king's palace and the town house are burned, the walls of the city destroyed, the people carried captive, only the poorest left to till the ground. 11. Jeremias is delivered. 15. And Abdemelech is saved from danger.
40. 40Jeremie being permitted to go whither he will, 6. repaireth to Godolias, governour of the country. 7. To whom also many Jews come from sundry places. 15. Godolias warned of danger, doth not believe it.
41. 41Godolias with other Jews and some Chaldees are slain by Ismael, sent from the king of Moabites: 8. ten are ransomed for their riches; 11. Johanan taking arms to revenge the slaughter, Ismael flieth away, delivering those whom he held captives: 17. and they prepare to flee into Egypt.
42. 42Jeremie praying and consulting God, 7. answereth that all those which remain in Jerusalem shall be safe: 13. but those that go into Egypt shall perish.
43. 43The relics of the Jews, against Jeremie's admonitions, go into Egypt, 6. carrying Jeremie and Baruch with them. 8. where Jeremie prophesieth that the king of Babylon shall spoil that land, 12. and their idols.
44. 44The Jews admonished by Jeremie to leave their idolatry, 15. obstinately answer, that they will persist therein. 20. whereupon he prophesieth their destruction; 28. few escaping that return into Jerusalem. 29. And that the king of Egypt shall also fall into his enemies' hands.
45. 45Jeremie reprehendeth Baruch for lamenting in affliction.
46. 46Jeremie prophesieth that the king of Babylon shall invade Egypt, 13. and waste the cities and land: 25. which shall again be repaired. 27. And the reliques of the Jews shall be delivered from sundry places of captivity.
47. 47The desolation of the Philistims, Tyre, Sidon, Gaza, and Ascalon is prophesied.
48. 48A prophecy of the vastation of Moab, 29. for their pride: 47. but their captivity shall at last be released.
49. 49The like vastation of Ammon (6. who shall be again restored.) 7. destruction of Idumea: 27. of the Syrians, 28. Agarenes, 34. and Ælamites: 39. whose captivity shall at last be released.
50. 50Babylon which afflicteth the Israelites in captivity, 4. after their reduction into their country, 8. shall be utterly destroyed.
51. 51More miseries shall fall upon Babylon (11. by the Medes) with destruction of her idols.
52. 52A Recapitulation of the taking of Jerusalem after two years' siege. 7. king Sedecias taken in flight, 10. his children slain before his eyes, with other nobles, 11. his eyes put out, and so led into Babylon, 12. the Temple, the Palace, and other houses burnt, the people carried into captivity (15. few excepted to till the land) 17. the two brazen pillars, laver, and all the treasure taken away. 24. All the captives at divers times four thousand six hundred. 31. Finally king Joachin is exalted in the court.