38:5Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

38:5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

38:5And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

38:6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

38:6And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

38:6And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

38:6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

38:6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

38:7And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

38:7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

38:7And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.

38:7Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

38:7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

38:7Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

38:7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

38:8And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

38:8And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

38:8Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

38:8After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

38:8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

38:8Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,

38:9And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

38:9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

38:9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

38:9And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

38:9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

38:9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

38:9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

38:10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

38:10Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

38:10And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.

38:10Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

38:10Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

38:10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

38:11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

38:11So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

38:11And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

38:11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

38:11And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

38:11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

38:12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

38:12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

38:12And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

38:12And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.