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THE THRENES, that is to say, THE LAMENTATIONS OF IEREMIE THE PROPHET
THE ARGVMENT OF IEREMIES LAMENTATIONS.
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noteThese Lamentations, in Greeke called Threni, and by the
Hebrew Rabhins intituled Cinoth, were written by Ieremie before
the greatest part of his other prophecies (as semeth most probable to S. Ierom)
and were first songue at the death of Iosias king of Iuda. Againe when king
Sedecias with manie others were taken captiues, manie also slaine, and
the Temple and citie of Ierusalem destroyed. But most especially he prophecieth
the Iewes miserable estate, and iust cause of Lamentation after Christs
coming, and their reiecting him. And therfore his Church singeth the same
in the Aniuersarie, or Commemoration of his Passion and Death; and most
piously inuiteth al sinners, both Iewes and Gentiles, to returne vnto Christ
our Redemer, saying: Ierusalem, Iervsalem conuertere ad Dominum
Deum tuum. note In this litle booke the diligent reader wil easely
obserue manie doleful pathetical speaches, powred out from a pensiue hart,
as in great calamities it commonly happeneth, with litle connexion of sentences;
but otherwise foure whole chapters are very artificially compiled in
verse; not by number of times, with measure of long and short syllables, as
the Grekes and Latines vse, but after the Hebrew maner, obseruing number
of syllables, and beginning euerie verse, with a distinct letter, from the first
to the last in order, with some smal varietie, of the Hebrew Alphabet. note
Doubtles with great mysteries, as S. Ierom iudgeth, and therfore explicateth
the significations, and certaine connexions, of the two and twentie Hebrew
letters: as we haue noted vpon the 118. Psalme: but aboue the capacitie of
our vnderstanding. In the last chapter the Prophet omitting the obseruation
of Initial letters, in twentie two verses prayeth lamentably; as the
whole people shal pray in captiuitie.
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THE THRENES, that is to say, THE LAMENTATIONS OF IEREMIE THE PROPHET.
And it came to passe, after that Israel was brought into captiuitie,
and Ierusalem was desolate, Ieremie the prophete sate
weeping, and he mourned with this lamentation vpon Ierusalem,
and with a pensiue mind sighing, and wayling he sayd: note
Chap. I.
1 noteHow doeth the citie ful of people, sitte solitarie: how
is the ladie of the Gentiles become as a widow: the
princesse of prouinces is made tributarie? note
2 noteWeeping she hath wept in the night, and her teares are on
her cheekes: there is none to comfort her of al her deare ones:
al her freindes haue despised her, and are become her enimies.
3 noteIudas is note gone into transmigration because of affliction,
and the multitude of bondage: she hath dwelt among the
Gentiles, neither hath she found rest: al her persecuters haue
apprehended her within the straites.
4 noteThe waies of Sion mourne, because there are none that
come to the solemnitie: al her gates are destroyed: her priestes
sighing: her virgins lothsome, and herself is oppressed with
bitternes.
5 noteHer aduersaries are made note in the head, her enemies are enriched:
because our Lord hath spoken vpon her for the multitude
of her iniquities: her litle ones are led into captiuitie,
before the face of the afflicter.
6 noteAnd from the daughter of Sion al her beautie is departed:
her princes are become as note rammes not fynding pastures:
and they are gone without strength before the face of the
pursewer.
7 noteIerusalem hath remembred the dayes of her affliction, and
preuarication of al her thinges worthie to be desyred, which
she had from the daies of old, when her people fel in the enimies
hand, and there was no helper: the enemies haue sene her,
and haue scorned her sabbathes.
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8 noteIerusalem hath sinned a sinne, therfore is she made vnstable:
al that did glorifie her, haue despised her, because they haue
sene her ignominie: but she sighing is turned backward.
9 noteHer note filthines is on her feete, neither hath she remembred
her end: she is pulled downe excedingly, not hauing a
comforter: see ô Lord mine affliction, because the enemie is
exalted.
10 noteThe enimie hath thrust his hand to al her thinges worthie
to be desyred: because she hath sene the Gentiles enter into
her sanctuarie, of whom thou gauest commandment that
they should not enter into thy church.
11 noteAl her people sighing, and seeking bread: they haue geuen
al precious thinges for meate to refresh the soule, see ô Lord
and consider, because I am become vyle.
12 noteO al ye that passe by the way, attend, and see if there be
sorow like to my sorow: because he hath made note vintage of
me, as our Lord hath spoken in the day of the wrath of his
furie.
13 noteFrom on high he hath cast a fyre in my bones, and hath
taught me: he hath spred a net for my feete, he hath turned me
backward: he hath made me desolate, al the day consumed
with sorow.
14 noteThe yoke of mine iniquities hath watched: they are folded
together in his hand, and put vpon my necke: my strength is
weakened: our Lord hath geuen me into the hand, from
which I can not rise.
15 noteOur Lord hath taken away al my magnifical ones out of
the middes of me: he hath called a time against me, to destroy
mine elect: our Lord hath troden the winepresse to the virgin
the daughter of Iuda.
16 noteTherfore am I weeping, and mine eye shedding teares:
because a comforter is made far from me, conuerting my
soule: my children are become desolate because the enemie
hath preuayled.
17 noteSion hath spred forth her handes, there is none to comfort
her: our Lord hath commanded against Iacob, round about
him are his enemies: Ierusalem is become as a woman polluted
with menstrous floores among them.
18 noteOur Lord is iust, because I haue prouoked his mouth to
wrath: heare I beseech al ye peoples, and see my sorow: my
virgins, and my pong men are gone into captiuitie.
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19 noteI haue called note my freindes, they haue deceiued me: my
priestes and my ancientes are consumed in the citie: because
they haue sought meat for themselues, to refresh their
soule.
20 noteSee ô Lord that I am in tribulation, my bellie is trubled: my
hart is ouerturned in myself, because I am ful of bitternes:
the sword killeth abrode, and at home it is note lyke death.
21 noteThey haue heard that I doe sigh, and there is none to comfort
me: al mine enimies haue heard mine euil, they haue reioyced,
because thou hast done it: thou hast brought a day of
consolation, and they shal be made lyke to me.
22 noteLet al their euil enter in before thee: and vintage them, as
thou hast vintaged me for al mine iniquities: for my sighings
are manie, and my hart is sorowful.
Chap. II.
1 noteHow note hath our Lord in his furie couered the daughter
of Sion with darknes: cast forth the noble one of Israel
from heauen to the earth, and hath not remembred the
footestoole of his feete in the day of his furie.
2 noteOur Lord hath cast downe headlong, and hath not spared, al
the beautiful thinges of Iacob: he hath destroyed in his furie
the munitions of the virgin of Iuda, and cast it downe to the
ground: he hath polluted the kingdom, and the princes
therof.
3 noteHe hath broken note euerie horne of Israel in the wrath of
furie: he hath turned away his right hand backward from the
face of the enemie: and he hath kinled in Iacob as it were the
fyre of a flame deuouring round about.
4 noteHe hath bent his bow as an enemie, he hath fastned his right
hand as an aduersarie: and he hath killed al, that was fayre to
behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath
powred out his indignation as fyre.
5 noteOur Lord is become as an enemie: he hath cast downe Israel
headlong, he hath cast downe headlong al her walles: he hath
destroyed the munitions therof, and hath replenished in the
daughter of Iuda the humbled man and humbled woman.
6 noteAnd he hath destroyed his tent as a garden, he hath throwen
downe his tabernacle: our Lord hath brought festiuitie and
sabbath in Sion to obliuion: and king and priest into reproch,
and into the indignation of his furie.
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7 noteOur Lord hath reiected, he note hath cursed his sanctification:
he hath deliuered the walles of the towers therof into the
hand of the enemie: they haue made a noyse in the house
of our Lord, as in a solemne day.
8 noteOur Lord hath meant to destroy the wal of the daughter of
Sion: he hath streched out his corde, and hath not turned
away his hand from destruction: and the forewal hath mourned,
and the wal is destroyed together.
9 noteHer gates are fastned in the ground: he hath destroyed, and
broken ber barres: her king and her princes in the Gentiles:
there is no law, and her prophets haue not found vision from
our Lord.
10 noteThe ancients of the daughter of Sion haue sitten on the
ground, they haue held their peace: they haue sprinkled their
heades with dust, they are girded with heare clothes, the
virgins of Ierusalem haue cast downe their heades to the
ground.
11 noteMyne eies haue fayled for teares, my bowels are trubled:
my liuer is powred out on the earth, for the destruction of the
daughter of my people, when the litle one, and the sucking
faynted in the streetes of the towne.
12 noteThey sayd to their mothers: Where is wheate and wyne?
when they faynted as the wounded in the streets of the citie:
when they yelded vp the ghostes in the bosome of their
mothers.
13 noteWherto shal I compare thee? or wherto shal I liken thee
ô daughter of Ierusalem: wherto shal I make thee equal, and
comfort thee ô virgin daughter of Sion? For great is thy destruction
note as the sea: who shal heale thee?
14 noteThy prophetes haue sene false and foolish thinges for thee:
neither haue they opened thyne iniquitie, to prouoke thee to
penance, but they haue sene false burdens and banishements
for thee.
15 noteAl that passed by the way haue clapped their handes vpon
thee: they haue hissed, and moued their head vpon the daughter
of Ierusalem, saying: Is this the citie of perfect beautie, the
ioy of al the earth?
16 noteAl thyne enemies haue opened their mouth vpon thee: they
haue hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and haue sayd: We wil
deuour: Loe this is the day, which we expected: we haue
found it, we haue sene it.
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17 noteOur Lord hath done the thinges that he meant, he hath
accomplished his word, which he commanded from the dayes
of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath
made the enemie ioyful ouer thee, and hath exalted the horne
of thine aduersaries.
18 noteTheir hart hath cryed to our Lord vpon the walles of the
daughter of Sion: Shede teares as a torrent by day, and night:
geue no rest to thyself, neither let the aple of thyne eye cease.
19 noteArise, prayse in the night in the beginning of the watches:
powre out thy hart as waters before the sight of our Lord: lift
vp thy handes to him for the life of thy litle ones, which haue
fainted for famine in the head of al high wayes.
20 noteSee ô Lord, and consider whom thou hast vintaged thus:
note shal wemen then eate their owne fruite, litle ones of the
measure of a spanne? is the priest, and the prophet slaine in
the sanctuarie of our Lord?
21 noteThe childe and the old man lay on the ground without: my
virgins and my yongmen are fallen by the sword: thou hast
killed in the day of thy furie: thou hast strooken, note neither
hast thou had mercie.
22 noteThou hast called as it were to a solemne day, those that
should terrifie me round about, and there was none in the day
of the furie of our Lord, that escaped and was left: whom I
brought vp, & nourished, mine enemie hath consumed them.
Chap. III.
1 noteI The man note that see my pouertie in the rod of his indignation.
2 noteHe hath led me, and brought me into darknes and not into
light.
3 noteOnly against me he hath turned and hath conuerted his
hand al the day.
4 noteHe hath made my skinne old and my flesh, he hath broken
my bones.
5 noteHe hath built round about me, and he hath compased me
with note gaul, and note labour.
6 noteIn darke places he hath placed me as the euerlasting dead.
7 noteHe hath built round about against me, that I goe not forth:
he hath aggrauated my fetters.
8 noteYea and when I shal crie, and aske, he hath excluded my
prayer.
9 noteHe hath shut vp my wayes with square stones, he hath
subuerted my pathes.
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10 noteHe is become vnto me a beare lying inwaite: a lyon in
secret places.
11 noteHe hath subuerted my pathes, and hath broken me, he hath
made me desolate.
12 noteHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
13 noteHe hath shot in my reines the daughters of his quiuer.
14 noteI am made a derision to al my people, their songue al
the day.
15 noteHe hath replenished me with bitternes, he hath inebriated
me with wormwood.
16 noteAnd he note hath broken my teeth by number, he hath fed
me with ashes.
17 noteAnd my soule is repelled from peace, I haue forgotten good
thinges.
18 noteAnd I sayd: Mine end is note perished, and mine hope from
our Lord.
19 noteRemember my pouertie, and transgression, the wormwood,
and the gual.
20 noteRemembring I wil be mindful, and my soule shal languish
in me.
21 noteRecording this thing in my hart, therfore wil I hope.
22 noteThe mercies of our Lord that we are not consumed: because
his commiserations haue not fayled.
23 note noteNew in the morning, great is thy fidelite.
24 noteOur Lord is my portion, sayd my soule: therfore wil I expect
him.
25 noteOur Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soule
that seeketh him.
26 noteIt is good to waite with silence for the saluation note of God.
27 noteIt is good for a man, when he beareth the yoke from his
youth.
28 noteHe shal sit solitarie, and hold his peace: because he hath
lifted himselfe aboue himself.
29 noteHe shal put his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there be hope.
30 noteHe note shal geue the cheeke to him that striketh him, he
shal be filled with reproches.
31 noteBecause our Lord wil not reiect for euer.
32 noteBecause if he hath reiected, he wil also haue mercie, according
to the multitude of his mercies.
33 noteFor he hath not humbled note from his hart, and cast of the
children of men.
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34 noteTo stamp vnder his fete al the prisoners of the earth.
35 noteTo auert the iudgement of a man before the face of the
Highest.
36 noteTo peruert a man in his iudgement, note our Lord hath not
knowne.
37 noteWho is this, that hath commanded it to be done, our Lord
not commanding it?
38 noteOut of the mouth of the Highest, there shal not procede
neither euil thinges, note nor good.
39 noteWhat hath the liuing man murmured, man for his sinnes?
40 noteLet vs search our wayes, & seeke, and returne to our Lord.
41 noteLet vs lift vp our hartes with our handes to our Lord into
the heauens.
42 noteWe haue done wickedly, and prouoked to wrath: therfore
thou art inexorable.
43 noteThou hast couered in furie, and hast strooken vs: thou hast
killed, and not spared.
44 noteThou hast sette a cloude before thee, that prayer may not
passe.
45 noteThou hast made me to be rooted out, and abiect in the
middes of the peoples.
46 noteAl the enemies haue opened their mouth vpon vs.
47 note noteProphecie is made vnto vs, feare, and snare, and destruction.
48 noteMyne eye hath shed streames of waters, in the destruction
of the daughter of my people.
49 noteMyne eye is afflicted, neither hath it bene quiet, because
there was no rest:
50 noteTil our Lord regarded and looked from the heauens.
51 noteMine eye hath spoyled my soule for al the daughters of my
citie.
52 noteMyne enemies in hunting haue caught me as a birde, without
cause.
53 noteMy life is fallen into the lake, and they haue layd a stone
vpon me.
54 noteThe waters haue flowed ouer my head: I sayd: I am
vndone.
55 noteI haue inuocated thy name ô Lord from the lowest lake.
56 noteThou hast heard my voice: turne not away thine eare from
my sobbings, and cries.
57 noteThou didst approch in the day, when I inuocated thee: thou
hast sayd: Feare not.
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58 noteThou hast iudged ô Lord the cause of my soule, redemer of
my life.
59 noteThou hast seene ô Lord their iniquitie against me: note iudge
my iudgement.
60 noteThou hast seene al their furie, al their cogitations against
me.
61 noteThou hast heard their reproch ô Lord, al their cogitations
against me.
62 noteThe lippes of them that rise vp against me; and their cogitations
against me al the day.
63 noteSee their sitting downe, and their rysing vp, I am their
psalme.
64 noteThou shalt render them a recompence ô Lord, according
to the workes of their handes.
65 noteThou shalt geue them note a shild of hart note thy labour.
66 noteThou shalt persecute in furie, and shalt destroy them from
vnder the heauens ô Lord.
Chap. IIII.
1 noteHow is note the gold darkned, the best colour changed, the
stones of the sanctuarie dispersed in the head of al
streetes?
2 noteThe noble children of Sion, & they that were clothed with
the principal gold: how are they reputed as earthen vessels,
the worke of the potters handes?
3 noteYea euen note the lamiaes haue opened their breast, they haue
geuen sucke to their yong, the daughter of my people is cruel,
as note the ostrich in the desert.
4 noteThe tongue of the suckling hath clouen to the roofe of his
mouth for thirst: the litle ones haue asked bread, and there
was none that brake it vnto them.
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