*Gr.run away. manacles in the midst of the captivity | Jews that were in Moab, and among of Juda, even those who were carried the children of Ammon, and those to Babylon. And the chief captain of that were in Idumea, and those that the guard took him, and said to him, were in all the rest of the country, The Lord thy God has pronounced all heard that the king of Babylon had these evils upon this place: 3 and the granted a remnant to Juda, and that Lord has done it; because ye sinned he had appointed over them Godolias against him, and hearkened not to his the son of Achicam. "And they came voice. 4 Behold, I have loosed thee to Godolias into the land of Juda, to from the manacles that were upon thine Massepha, and gathered grapes, and hands. If it seem good to thee to go very much summer fruit, and oil. with me to Babylon, then will I set 13 And Joanan the son of Caree, and mine eyes upon thee. 5 But if not, all the leaders of the host, who were depart; return to Godolias in the fields, came to Godolias to Masthe son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, sepha, 14 and said to him, Dost thou whom the king of Babylon has ap- indeed know that king Beleissa son of pointed governor in the land of Juda, Ammon has sent Ismael to thee to slay and dwell with him in the midst of thee? But Godolias believed them not. the people in the land of Juda: to 15And Joanan said to Godolias secretly whatsoever places it seems good in in Massepha, I will go now and smite thine eyes to go, do thou even go. Ismael, and let no man know it; lest And the captain of the guard made he slay thee, and all the Jews that him presents, and let him go. And are gathered to thee be dispersed, he came to Godolias to Massepha, and and the remnant of Juda perish. dwelt in the midst of his people that 16 But Godolias said to Jo- Gr. the thing. was left in the land. And all the anan, Do not this thing, leaders of the host that was in the for thou speakest lies concerning country, they and their men, heard Ismael. that the king of Babylon had appointed Godolias governor in the land, and they 48. Now it came to pass in the committed to him the men and their seventh month that Ismael the son of wives, whom Nabuchodonosor had not Nathanias the son of Eleasa of the seed removed to Babylon. And there royal, came, and ten men with him, to came to Godolias to Massepha Ismael Godolias to Massepha: and they ate the son of Nathanias, and Joanan son bread there together. And Ismael of Caree, and Sareas the son of Tha- rose up, and the ten men that were nacmeth, and the sons of Jophe the with him, and smote Godolias, whom Netophathite, and Ezonias son of the the king of Babylon had appointed Mochathite, they and their men. And governor over the land, and all the Godolias swore to them and to their Jews that were with him in Massepha, men, saying, Be not afraid before the and all the Chaldeans that were found children of the Chaldeans: dwell in there. And it came to pass on the the land, and serve the king of Baby-second day after he had smitten Godolon, and it shall be better for you. 10 And, behold, I dwell in your presence at Massepha, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come against you: and do ye gather grapes, and fruits, and oil, and put them into your vessels, and dwell in the cities which ye have obtained possession of. "And all the 3 Alex. + τοῦτο. lias, and no man knew of it, that there came men from Sychem, and from Salem, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and beating their breasts, and they had manna and frankincense in their hands, to bring them into the house of the Lord. And off. Ismael went out to meet them; and 49. Then came all the leaders of the host, and Joanan, and Azarias the son of Maaswas, and all the people great and small, 2 to Jeremias the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before thy face, and pray thou to the Lord thy God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as thine eyes see. 3And let the Lord thy God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing which we should do. 4And Jeremias said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare it to you; I will not hide 'anything from you. 5 And + Gr. a word. they said to Jeremias, Let the Lord be between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord shall send to us. "And whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, because we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God. 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came to Jeremias. And he called Joanan, and the leaders of the host, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, and he said to them, Thus says the Lord; 10 If ye will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull you down, but will plant you, and in no wise pluck you up: for I have 'ceased from the calamities which I + Gr. rested brought upon you. 11 Be upon, but Alex. not afraid of the king of from." Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the Lord: for I am with you, to deliver you, and save you out of their hand. 12 And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land. if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, that we may not hearken to the voice of the Lord; 14 for we will go they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias. And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, that he slew them and cast them into a pit. 8 But ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren. 9 Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he smote, Gr. this is. is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: even this Ismael filled with slain men. 10And Ismael 'brought + Or, carried back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon. And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ismael had done. 12 And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and + Or, the great found him near much water in Gabaon. 13 And it came to pass, when all the people that was with Ismael saw Joanan, and the leaders of the host that was with him, 14 that they returned to Joanan. 15 But Ismael escaped with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. 16And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he had brought back from Ismael, mighty men war, and the women, and the other property, and the eunuchs, whom they had brought back from Gabaon: and they departed, and dwelt in Gaberoch amaa, that is by Bethleem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans: 18 for they were afraid of them, because Ismael had smitten Godolias, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land. water. in 9 reads ἀπὸ, 13 But Taphnas. 4 + false: the + More lit. falsehoods, maining ones into the land of Egypt, and we shall to Jeremias, saying, It is see no war, and shall not hear the Lord has not sent thee to sound of a trumpet, and we shall not us, saying, Enter not into plural. hunger for bread; and there we will Egypt to dwell there: 3 but Baruch dwell: 15 then hear the word of the the son of Nerias sets thee against us, Lord; thus says the Lord; 16 If ye set that thou mayest deliver us into the your face toward Egypt, and go in hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and there to dwell; then it shall be, that that we should be carried away capthe sword which ye fear shall find you tives to Babylon. So Joanan, and in the land of Egypt, and the famine all the leaders of the host, and all the to which ye have regard, shall over- people, refused to hearken to the voice take you, coming after you in Egypt; of the Lord, to dwell in the land and there ye shall die. 17 And all the of Juda. 5And Joanan, and all the + More lit. men, and all the strangers leaders of the host, took all the remaliens by birth. who have set their face to- nant of Juda, who had re- + Gr. the reward the land of Egypt to dwell there, turned to dwell in the land; of Juda. shall be consumed by the sword, and the mighty men, and the women, and by the famine: and there shall not one the children that were left, and the of them escape from the evils which I daughters of the king, and the souls will bring upon them. which Nabuzardan had left with Godo18 For thus says the Lord; As my lias the son of Achicam, and Jeremias wrath has dropped upon the inha- the prophet, and Baruch the son of bitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath Nerias. And they came into Egypt: drop upon you, when ye have entered for they hearkened not to the voice into Egypt: and ye shall be a desola- of the Lord: and they entered into tion, and under the power of others, and a curse and a reproach: and ye And the word of the Lord came to shall no more see this place. 19 These Jeremias in Taphnas, saying, Take are the words which the Lord has thee great stones, and hide them in the spoken concerning you the remnant of entrance, at the gate of the house of Juda; Enter ye not into Egypt: and Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight of the now know ye for a certainty, 20 that ye men of Juda: 10 and thou shalt say, have wrought wickedness in your Thus has the Lord said; Behold, I +Or, against hearts, when ye sent me, will send, and will bring Nabuchodosaying, Pray thou for us to nosor king of Babylon, and he shall the Lord; and according to all that place his throne upon these stones the Lord shall speak to thee we will which thou hast hidden, and he shall do. 21 And have not hearkened to lift up weapons against ye the voice of the Lord, with which he them. 11 And he shall enter are, and so on. sent me to you. 22 Now therefore ye in, and smite the land of Egypt, shall perish by sword and by famine, delivering some for death to death; and in the place which ye desire to go into some for captivity to captivity; and to dwell there. some for the sword to the sword. 12 And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn them, and shall carry them ti. e. the away captives and shall temples. search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his for vermin in, garment; and he shall go forth in peace. 13 And he shall break your souls. 50. And it came to pass, when Jeremias ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, for which the Lord had sent him to them, even all these words, that Azarias son of Maasæas spoke, and Joanan, the son of Caree, and all the men who had spoken 2 + 9 + Or, such as ti.e. the men. Lit. search &c. to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire. of this pollu tion. + 6 12 to not ceased even to this day, and + Heb. and Alex. + 'to 51. THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land of Pathura, saying, 2 Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye have seen all the evils which Istruction, and for a curse. have brought upon Jerusalem, and will visit them that dwell in the land upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, they are desolate without inhabitants, with sword and with famine: 14 and 3 because of their wickedness, which there shall not one be pre- + Alex. + and they have wrought to provoke me, by served of the remnant of pestilence." going to burn incense to other gods, Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, whom ye knew not. 4 Yet I sent to return to the land of Juda, to which to you my servants the prophets early they hope in their hearts to return: in the morning, and I sent, saying, they shall not return, but only they + Gr. the thing Do not ye this abomin- that escape. 15 Then all the men that able thing which I hate. knew that their wives burned *incense, 5 But they hearkened not to me, and and all the women, a great inclined not their ear to turn from multitude, and all the peo- other gods.' their wickedness, so as not to burn ple that dwelt in the land Lit.assembly. incense to strange gods. So mine of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jereanger and my wrath dropped upon mias, saying, 16 As for the word which them, and was kindled in the gates thou hast spoken to us in the name of of Juda, and in the streets of Jeru- the Lord, we will not hearken to thee. salem; and they became a desolation 17 For we will surely perform every + Lit. inacces- and a waste, as at this word that shall proceed out of our day. 7 And now thus has mouth, to burn incense to the queen the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings do ye commit these great evils against to her, as we and our fathers have done, your souls? to cut off man and woman and our kings and princes, in the of you, infant and suckling from the cities of Juda, and in the streets of midst of Juda, to the end that not Jerusalem: and so we were filled with one of you should be left; by pro- bread, and were well, and saw no evils. voking me with the works of your 18 But since we left off to burn +Gr.as. hands, to burn incense to other gods incense to the queen of heaven, we in the land of Egypt, into which ye have all been brought low, and have entered to dwell there, that ye might been consumed by sword and by be cut off, and that ye might become a famine. 19 And whereas we burned curse and a reproach among all the incense to the queen of heaven, and nations of the earth? 9 Have ye for- poured drink-offerings to her, did we gotten the sins of your fathers, and make cakes to her, and pour drinkthe sins of the kings of Juda, and the offerings to her, without our husbands? sins of your princes, and the sins of 20 Then Jeremias answered all the peoyour wives, which they wrought in ple, the mighty men, and the women, +See verse 6. the land of Juda, and in and all the people that returned him the streets of Jerusalem? 10 And have these words for answer, saying, 21 Did sible. + + + that seek.' not the Lord remember the incense | sign to you, that I will visit you for which ye burned in the cities of Juda, evil. 30 Thus said the Lord; +sc. for punand in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, Behold, I will give Uaphres ishment. and your fathers, and your kings, and king of Egypt into the hands of his your princes, and the people of the enemy, and into the hands of one land? and came it not into his heart? that seeks his life; as I gave + Aler. them 22 And the Lord could no longer bear Sedekias king of Juda into you, because of the wickedness of your the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of doings, and because of your abomina- Babylon, his enemy, and who sought tions which ye wrought; and so your his life. land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day; 23 because 1 THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS of your burning incense, and because THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of of the things wherein ye sinned against Nerias, when he wrote these words in the Lord: and ye have not hearkened the book from the mouth of Jeremias, to the voice of the Lord, and have not in the fourth year of Joakim the son 2 walked in his ordinances, of Josias king of Juda. Thus has + and in his law, and in his the Lord said to thee, O Or, for, or, testimonies; and so these evils have Baruch. 3 Whereas thou thee. come upon you. hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest; + + Lit. taken hold of you. 24 And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord. 25 Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drinkofferings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed them. 26 Therefore hear ye the +Gr. Juda. word of the Lord, all * Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, + Gr. Juda, or, The Lord lives, in all the one of Juda. land of Egypt. 27 For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all the + Gr. all Juda. Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed. 28 And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in number, and the remnant of Alex. who Juda, who have continued in the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand. 29 And this shall be a go down to." concerning say thou to him, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will pull down those whom I have built up, and I will pluck up those whom I have planted. 5 And wilt thou seek great things for thyself? seck them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says the Gr. for a Lord: but I will give to thee finding. thy life for a spoil in every place whither thou shalt go. + + 4 21st year of reigning. 52. It was the twenty-first year of Sedekias, when he began +Gr. more lit. to reign, and he reigned it being the eleven years in Jerusalem. Sedekias in his And his mother's name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobena. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round + Or, forts. about it with large stones. So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias, 6 on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there was 5 |