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< c The word of the Lord came unto me saying , Before I formed thee In the womb I knew thee , And before thou earnest forth out of the womb I had chosen thee , And I ordained thee a prophet to the
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€ < Loid > remember David ! All his afflictions . How he sware unto the Lord , And vowed unto the mighty one of Jacob , Surely I will not go into my house , Nor go up into my bed . I will not give sleep to mine eyes , Nor slumber to mine eye-lids , Until I find out a place for the Lord , A habitation for the mighty one of Jacob , Lo we heard of it at Ephratah , VJe found it in the fields of Jaar : Let us go into his tabernacle , Let us worship at his footstool . "
The circumstance that will here strike the English reader , as a peculiarity , is the substitution of " Jaar /' in the sixth verse ,, for the rendering [ " the wood" ] hy our public translators . It may not be an easy task to
ascertain whether the Hebrew word be in this place a proper name . A great number of learned and judicious writers , have received it as such : indeed ,, the majority of those annotators , & c . ^ to whom we have access , take it in that sense ; and the change seems to he vindicated , and perhaps required ,
by the parallelism and by the history . * At tiie same time , we should feel pleasure in obtaining more satisfactory evidence of there having * been a spot distinctly known among the Hebrews as " Jaar : " fVeils , in his Geography of the Old Testament ^ is far from being perspicuous and decisive on this
point . We shall novv compare Strauss's translation \ of a few of the introductory verses of the hook of Jeremiah with that which Blayney has given of them : ch . i . 4—11 :
" Even [ see ver . 2 ] the word of Jehovah came unto me ? , saying : Before I formed thee in the womb , 1 knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth from the birth , I separated thee ; a prophet unto the nations have I constituted thee . Then said I , Alas ! O Lord Jehovah , behold , I know not how to speak ; for I am a child . And Jehovah said unto me , Say not , I am a child : hut unto whomsoever 1 shall send thee , thou sb ; ilt go , and whatsoever I . shall give thee in charge , thou shall speak . \ W not . thou afraid because of them , for I will be with thee , to protect
* 1 Sam . vii . ; 2 Sam . vi . t Vol . III . p . J , 2 d ed . : B . iii . Ch . ii . Vol . 11 . 27 , &c .
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thee , said Jehovah . And Jehovah put forth his hand , and touched my mouth And Jehovah said unto me , Behold , \ have put my words in thy mouth . See I have given thee power this day over na- ' tions and over kingdoms , to root our , and to pull down , and to destroy , and to overthrow , and to build , and to plant . " Blayney .
nations . And I replied , ' Ah , Lord God ! Behold I cannot speak ; For I am a child . ' But the Lord said unto rue , ' Say not , 1 am a child : For thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee .
And thou shalt speak whatsoever I command thee . Be not afraid of them ; For I am with thee to help thee ;' So saith Jehovah . Then Jehovah put forth his hand And touched my mouth ,
And said to me , < Behold , I put my words into thy mouth , See , I have this day set thee before nations and kingdoms , To root out and to pull down , To build up aud to plant again . Strauss .
There is no considerable difference here between the English and the German translator . Perhaps , some little advantage may he found on the side of Blayney , in point of strict and minute fidelity . Strauss " s editor has scarcely retained the parallelism at the beginning of the passage , ver . 5 .
Among the quotations , are the noblest ,, the most picturesque and beautiful and tender effusions of Hebrew poetry . We regret that we have not room to copy additional specimens of them into our pages . There is one fragment , however , that we must not pass in silence .
A portion of Psa . Ixxxiv ., occurs twice in this work , and well expresses Melon's zeal for the services of the temple : *
? n . i . Oh . ii . Vol . I . 21 ; B . ii . Ch . ii . Vol . 1 . 208 .
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354 Review . —Hehn ' s Pilgrimage to Jerusalem .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/38/
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