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day to night, thou wilt make an ende of me. 13 I to Babel: nothing shall be left, sayeth the Lord.
rekoned to the morning: but he brake all my 7 And of thy sonnes, that shall proceede out of
bones, like a lion: from day to night wilt thou thee, and which thou shalt beget, shall they take
make an ende of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, away, and they shall be eunuches in the palace of
so did I chatter: I did mourne as a doue: mine eies the King of Babel. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
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were lift vp on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed The worde of the Lord is good, which thou hast
me, comfort me. 15 What shall I say? for he hath spoken: and he saide, Yet let there be peace, and
said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke trueth in my dayes.
weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my
soule. 16 O Lord, to them that ouerliue them, and 40
to all that are in them, the life of my spirite shalbe
knowen, that thou causedst me to sleepe and hast 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your
giuen life to me. 17 Beholde, for felicitie I had God say. 2 Speake comfortably to Ierusalem,
bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my and crye vnto her, that her warrefare is accom-
soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast plished, that her iniquitie is pardoned: for she
cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe. 18 For the hath receiued of the Lords hand double for all
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A voyce cryeth in the wildernesse,
her sinnes.
graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make streight in
thee: they that goe downe into the pit, cannot 4
hope for thy trueth. 19 But the liuing, the liuing, the desert a path for our God. Euery valley shall
heshallconfessethee, asIdoethisday: thefather be exalted, and euery mountaine and hill shall
to the children shall declare thy trueth. 20 The be made lowe: and the crooked shalbe streight,
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Lord was ready to saue me: therefore we will sing and the rough places plaine. And the glory of
my song, all the dayes of our life in the House the Lord shalbe reueiled, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken
of the Lord. 21 Then said Isaiah, Take a lumpe of it. 6 A voyce saide, Crie. And he saide, What
drye figs and lay it vpon the boyle, and he shall shall I crie? All flesh is grasse, and all the grace
recouer. 22 Also Hezekiah had said, What is ye thereof is as the floure of the fielde. The grasse
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signe, that I shall goe vp into the House of the withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite
Lord? of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is
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39 grasse. The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth:
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1 At the same time, Merodach Baladan, the but the worde of our God shall stand for euer. O
Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee vp into
sonne of Baladan, King of Babel, sent letters, and the hie mountaine: O Ierusalem, that bringest
a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that good tidings, lift vp thy voyce with strength: lift
he had bene sicke, and was recouered. 2 And
Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them it vp, be not afraide: say vnto the cities of Iudah,
the house of the treasures, the siluer, and the Beholde your God. 10 Beholde, the Lord God will
golde, and the spices, and the precious ointment, come with power, and his arme shall rule for
and all the house of his armour, and all that was him: beholde, his rewarde is with him, and his
founde in his treasures: there was nothing in worke before him, 11 He shall feede his flocke like
his house, nor in all his kingdome that Hezekiah a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his
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shewed them not. Then came Isaiah the Prophet arme, and cary them in his bosome, and shall
vnto King Hezekiah, and said vnto him, What guide them with young. 12 Who hath measured
said these men? and from whence came they to the waters in his fist? and counted heauen with
the spanne, and comprehended the dust of the
thee? And Hezekiah saide, They are come from earth in a measure? and weighed ye mountaines
a farre countrey vnto me, from Babel. 4 Then in a weight, and the hilles in a balance? 13 Who
saide he, What haue they seene in thine house? hath instructed ye Spirit of the Lord? or was
And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house 14
haue they seene: there is nothing among my his counseler or taught him? Of whom tooke
treasures, that I haue not shewed them. 5 And he counsell, and who instructed him and taught
Isaiah saide to Hezekiah, Heare the worde of the him in the way of iudgement? or taught him
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Lord of hostes, Beholde, the dayes come, that all knowledge, and shewed vnto him the way of
that is in thine house, and which thy fathers haue vnderstanding? 15 Beholde, the nations are as a
layed vp in store vntill this day, shall be caried drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust of