Run through Jerusalem’s streets, Look now and know, And search her broad places If a man ye can find, If there be that doth justice Aiming at honesty. [That I may forgive her.] Though they say, “As God liveth,” Falsely they swear. Lord, are thine eyes upon lies(65) And not on the truth? Thou hast smitten, they ail not, Consumed them, they take not correction; Their faces set harder than rock, They refuse to return. Or take Ch. II. 5-8. A stanza of four lines in irregular Qînah measure (verse 5) is followed by a couplet of four-two stresses and several lines of three each (verses 6 and 7), and then (verse 8) by a couplet of three-two, another of four-three, and another of three-three.(66) In Chs. IX and X also we shall find irregular metres. Let us now take a passage, IX. 22, 23, which, except for its last couplet, is of another measure than the Qînah. The lines have three accents each, like those of the Book of Job:— Boast not the wise in his wisdom, Boast not the strong in his strength, Boast not the rich in his riches, But in this let him boast who would boast— Instinct and knowledge of Me, Me, the Lord, Who work troth And(67) justice and right upon earth, For in these I delight. Or this couplet, X. 23, in lines of four stresses each:— Lord, I know—not to man is his way, Not a man’s to walk or settle his steps! Not being in the Qînah measure, both these passages are denied to Jeremiah by Duhm. Is not this arbitrary? The sections of the Book which pass from verse to prose and from prose to verse are frequent. One of the most striking is the narrative of the Prophet’s call, Ch. I. 4-19, which I leave to be rendered in the next lecture. In Chap. VII. 28 ff. we have, to begin with, two verses:— This is the folk that obeyed not The voice of the Lord,(68) That would not accept correction; Lost(69) is truth from their mouth. Shear and scatter thy locks, Raise a dirge on the heights, The Lord hath refused and forsaken The sons of His wrath. Then these verses are followed by a prose tale of the people’s sins. Is this necessarily from a later hand, as Duhm maintains, and not naturally from Jeremiah himself? Again Chs. VIII and IX are a medley of lyrics and prose passages. While some of the prose is certainly not Jeremiah’s, being irrelevant to the lyrics and showing the colour of a later age, the rest may well be from himself. Ch. XIV is also a medley of verse and prose. After the Dirge on the Drought (which we take later), comes a passage in rhythmical prose (verses 11-16), broken only by the metrical utterance of the false prophets in verse 13:— Sword or famine ye shall not see, They shall not be yours; But peace and staith shall I give you Within this Place.(70) And verse comes in again in verses 17-18, an Oracle of Jeremiah’s own:—