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them. feared not. 18 Thou hast forgotten the mightie
God that begate thee, and hast forgotten God that
32 formed thee. 19 The Lord then sawe it, and was

1 Hearken, ye heauens, and I will speake: and angrie, for the prouocation of his sonnes and of
let the earth heare the words of my mouth. My his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my
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doctrine shall drop as the raine, and my speach face from the: I will see what their ende shalbe:
for they are a frowarde generation, children in
shall stil as the dew, as the showre vpon the who is no faith. 21 They haue moued me to
herbes, and as the great raine vpon the grasse. ielousie with that which is not God: they haue
3 For I will publish the name of the Lord: giue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: and I
ye glorie vnto our God. Perfect is the worke of will moue them to ielousie with those which are
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the mighty God: for all his wayes are iudgement. no people: I wil prouoke them to anger with a
God is true, and without wickednesse: iust, and foolish nation. 22 For fire is kindled in my wrath,
righteous is he. 5 They haue corrupted them and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and
selues towarde him by their vice, not being his shall consume the earth with her increase, and
children, but a frowarde and crooked generation. set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.
6 Doe ye so rewarde the Lord, O foolish people and 23 I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe
vnwise? is not he thy father, that hath bought mine arrowes vpon them. 24 They shalbe burnt
thee? he hath made thee, and proportioned with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with
thee. Remember the dayes of olde: consider the bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of
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yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents
and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they creeping in the dust. 25 The sworde shall kill
will tell thee. When the most hie God deuided to them without, and in the chambers feare: both
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the nations their inheritance, when he separated the yong man and the yong woman, the suckeling
the sonnes of Adam, he appoynted the borders with the man of gray heare. 26 I haue said, I
of the people, according to the nomber of the would scatter them abroade: I would make their
children of Israel. 9 For the Lordes portion is remembrance to cease from among men, 27 Saue
his people: Iaakob is the lot of his inheritance. that I feared the furie of the enemie, least their
aduersaries should waxe proude, and least they
10 He found him in ye land of ye wildernes, should say, Our hie hande and not the Lord hath
in a waste, and roaring wildernes: he led him done all this: 28 For they are a nation voide of
about, he taught him, and kept him as ye apple counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in
of his eye. 11 As an eagle stereth vp her nest, them. 29 Oh that they were wise, then they would
flootereth ouer her birdes, stretcheth out her
wings, taketh them, and beareth them on her vnderstand this: they would consider their latter
wings, 12 So the Lord alone led him, and there ende. 30 How should one chase a thousand, and
was no strange god with him. 13 He caryed him two put ten thousande to flight, except their
vp to the hie places of the earth, that he might strong God had sold the, and the Lord had shut
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eate the fruites of the fieldes, and he caused him them vp? For their god is not as our God,
to sucke hony out of the stone, and oyle out euen our enemies being iudges. 32 For their vine
of the hard rocke: 14 Butter of kine, and milke is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of
of sheepe with fat of the lambes, and rammes Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their
fed in Bashan, and goates, with the fat of the clusters be bitter. 33 Their wine is the poyson
graines of wheat, and the red licour of the grape of dragons, and the cruel gall of aspes. 34 Is not
hast thou drunke. 15 But he that should haue this laide in store with me, and sealed vp among
bene vpright, when he waxed fat, spurned with my treasures? 35 Vengeance and recompence are
his heele: thou art fat, thou art grosse, thou mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for
art laden with fatnes: therefore he forsooke God the day of their destruction is at hand, and the
that made him, and regarded not the strong God things that shall come vpon them, make haste.
of his saluation. 16 They prouoked him with 36 For the Lord shall iudge his people, and repent
strange gods: they prouoked him to anger with towarde his seruants, when hee seeth that their
abominations. 17 They offred vnto deuils, not to power is gone, and none shut vp in holde nor left
God, but to gods whome they knew not: new abroad. 37 When men shall say, Where are their
gods that came newly vp, whome their fathers gods, their mighty God in whome they trusted,