"6. And the wild as&es did stand in the high places, they snuffed 

 up the wind like dragons ; their eyes did fail, because there was no 

 grass." See also 15, 18, 22. 



B.C. 600, Jer. vm, 13. " There shall be no grapes on the vine, 

 nor figs on the figtree, and the leaf shall fade; and all things that 

 I have given them shall pass away from them." 



Also B.C. 600, Jer. vn, 20, 32, 33, 34. B.C. 600 (see ix, 10 to 

 16. B.C. 599, xxix, 10, 17, 18. B.C. 590, xxxvm, 2. B.C. 588, 

 XL, 3. 



B.C. 588, xlii, 10 to 12. The people of Israel are cautioned 

 to remain in Judea and not to go into the land of Egypt. In 

 13 to 22, the doom that awaits them in Egypt is described : 



"So it shall be with all men that set their faces to go into Egypt 

 to sojourn there ; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and 

 by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or eacape from 

 the evil that I will bring upon them." 



Jer. xliii, 5, 6, 7, show that, notwithstanding the caution 

 the people went into Egypt, B.C. 588. The punishment for 

 disobedience is set forth in xliv, 11 to 13, B.C. 587 :— 



"They shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they 

 shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine ; they 

 shaD die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and 

 by the famine." See also 22, 27, 28. 



B.C. 589, Ezekiel xxix, 1 to 7. "Son of man, set thy face 



u-oah King of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and 



against all Egypt. Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; 



Behold I am against thee, Pharoah King of Egypt, the great 



dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, my 



B.C. 589. Prediction of drought and desolation for a 

 further term of 40 years ending in B.C. 549. 



Ezekiel xxix, 8. " Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I 

 will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. 



