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wayes, and we will walke in his paths: for the 3
Lawe shall go foorth of Zion, and the worde of 1 For lo, the Lord God of hostes will take away
the Lord from Ierusalem, 4 And he shall iudge from Ierusalem and from Iudah the stay and the
among the nations, and rebuke many people: strength: euen all the staye of bread, and all
they shall breake their swords also into mattocks, the stay of water, 2 The strong man, and the
and their speares into siethes: nation shall not man of warre, the iudge and the prophet, the
lift vp a sworde against nation, neither shall they prudent and the aged, 3 The captaine of fiftie,
learne to fight any more. 5 O house of Iaakob, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the
come ye, and let vs walke in the Lawe of the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man. 4 And
Lord. Surely thou hast forsaken thy people, the I will appoint children to bee their princes, and
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house of Iaakob, because they are full of the East babes shall rule ouer them. 5 The people shalbe
maners, and are sorcerers as the Philistims, and oppressed one of another, and euery one by his
abound with strange children. 7 Their land also neighbour: the children shall presume against
was full of siluer and golde, and there was none the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.
ende of their treasures: and their land was full 6 When euery one shall take holde of his brother
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of horses, and their charets were infinite. Their of the house of his father, and say, Thou hast
land also was full of idols: they worshipped the clothing: thou shalt bee our prince, and let this
worke of their owne hands, which their owne fall be vnder thine hand. 7 In that day hee shall
fingers haue made. And a man bowed himselfe, sweare, saying, I cannot bee an helper: for there
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and a man humbled himselfe: therefore spare isnobreadinminehouse, norclothing: therefore
them not. 10 Enter into the rocke, and hide thee
in the dust from before the feare of the Lord, and make me no prince of the people. 8 Doubtlesse
from the glory of his maiestie. 11 The hie looke Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe,
of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of because their tongue and workes are against the
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men shalbe abased, and the Lord onely shall be Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory. The triall
exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of their countenance testifieth against them, yea,
of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide
vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe. them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they
13 Euen vpon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are haue rewarded euil vnto themselues. 10 Say ye,
hie and exalted, and vpon all the okes of Bashan, Surely it shalbe well with the iust: for they shall
14 And vpon all the hie mountaines, and vpon all eate the fruite of their workes. 11 Woe be to the
the hilles that are lifted vp, 15 And vpon euery wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward
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hie tower, and vpon euery strong wall, 16 And of his handes shalbe giuen him. Children are
vpon all the shippes of Tarshish, and vpon all extortioners of my people, and women haue rule
pleasant pictures. 17 And the hautinesse of men ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee,
shalbe brought low, and the loftinesse of men cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy
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shalbe abased, and the Lord shall onely be exalted paths. The Lord standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee
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in that day. 18 And the idoles will he vtterly standeth to iudge the people. The Lord shall
destroy. 19 Then they shall goe into the holes of enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his
the rockes, and into the caues of the earth, from people and the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten
before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in
of his maiestie, when he shall arise to destroy your houses. 15 What haue ye to do, that ye beate
the earth. 20 At that day shall man cast away his my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the
siluer idoles, and his golden idoles (which they poore, saith the Lord, euen the Lord of hoasts?
had made themselues to worship them) to the 16 The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of
mowles and to the backes, 21 To goe into the holes Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched out
neckes, and with wandering eyes, walking and
of the rockes, and into the toppes of the ragged minsing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with
rockes from before the feare of the Lord, and from 17
the glory of his maiestie, when he shall rise to their feete, Therefore shall the Lord make the
destroy the earth. 22 Cease you from the man heades of the daughters of Zion balde, and the
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whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he Lord shall discouer their secrete partes. In that
to be esteemed? day shall the Lord take away the ornament of
the slippers, and the calles, and the round tyres,