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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
Jeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city in thetribe of Benjamin: and was sanctified from his mother's womb, to be aprophet of God; which office he began to execute when he was yet a childin age. He was in his whole life, according to the signification of hisname, Great before the Lord; and a special figure of Jesus Christ, inthe persecutions he underwent for discharging his duty; in his charityfor his persecutors; and in the violent death he suffered at theirhands: it being an ancient tradition of the Hebrews, that he was stonedto death by the remnant of the Jews who had retired into Egypt.
Jeremias Chapter 1
The time, and the calling, of Jeremias: his prophetical visions. Godencourages him.
1:1. The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that werein Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.
1:2. The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias theson of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
1:3. And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias kingof Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of Josiasking of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive, in thefifth month.
1:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
1:5. Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: andbefore thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and madethee a prophet unto the nations.
1:6. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I ama child.
1:7. And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt goto all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thoushalt speak.
1:8. Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliverthee, saith the Lord.
1:9. And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lordsaid to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:
1:10. Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms,to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and tobuild, and to plant.
1:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou,Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.
1:12. And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watchover my word to perform it.
1:13. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: Whatseest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereoffrom the face of the north.
1:14. And the Lord said to me: From