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Isaiah 3:19 506 Isaiah 5:20

19 The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the haue done any more to my vineyard that I haue
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bonnets, The tyres of the head, and the sloppes, not done vnto it? why haue I looked that it should
and the head bandes, and the tablets, and the bring foorth grapes, and it bringeth foorth wilde
earings, 21 The rings and the mufflers, 22 The grapes? 5 And nowe I will tell you what I will
costly apparell and the vailes, and the wimples, do to my vineyarde: I will take away the hedge
and the crisping pinnes, 23 And the glasses and thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake
the fine linen, and the hoodes, and the launes. the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe:
24 And in steade of sweete sauour, there shall be 6 And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut,
stinke, and in steade of a girdle, a rent, and in nor digged, but briers, and thornes shall growe
steade of dressing of the heare, baldnesse, and vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they
in steade of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth, raine no raine vpon it. 7 Surely the vineyard
and burning in steade of beautie. 25 Thy men shall of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and
fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell. the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee
26 Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression:
she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground. for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying. 8 Woe

4 vnto them that ioyne house to house, and laye
fielde to fielde, till there bee no place, that ye may
1 And in that day shall seuen women take hold be placed by your selues in the mids of the earth.
of one man, saying, Wee will eate our owne bread, 9 This is in mine cares, saith the Lord of hostes.
and we wil weare our owne garments: onely let Surely many houses shall be desolate, euen great,
vs bee called by thy name, and take away our and faire without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of
reproche. In that day shall the budde of the Lord vines shall yelde one bath, and the seede of an
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bee beautifull and glorious, and the fruite of the homer shall yelde an ephah. 11 Wo vnto them,
earth shalbe excellent and pleasant for them that that rise vp early to follow drunkennes, and to
are escaped of Israel. Then hee that shalbe left them that continue vntill night, till the wine
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in Zion, and hee that shall remaine in Ierusalem, doe inflame them. 12 And the harpe and viole,
shalbe called holy, and euery one shalbe written timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes:
among the liuing in Ierusalem, When the Lord buttheyregardnottheworkeoftheLord, neither
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shall wash the filthines of the daughters of Zion, consider the worke of his handes. 13 Therefore
and purge the blood of Ierusalem out of the my people is gone into captiuitie, because they
middes thereof by the spirite of iudgement, and had no knowledge, and the glorie thereof are
by the spirit of burning. 5 And the Lord shall men famished, and the multitude thereof is dried
create vpon euery place of mount Zion, and vpon vp with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath inlarged
the assemblies thereof, a cloude and smoke by it selfe, and hath opened his mouth, without
day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: measure, and their glorie, and their multitude,
for vpon all the glory shall be a defence. And a and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth among
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couering shalbe for a shadow in the day for the them, shall descend into it. 15 And man shalbe
heate, and a place of refuge and a couert for the brought downe, and man shalbe humbled, euen
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storme and for the raine. the eyes of the proude shalbe humbled. And
the Lord of hostes shalbe exalted in iudgement,
5 and the holy God shalbe sanctified in iustice.

1 Now will I sing to my beloued a song of 17 Then shall the lambes feede after their maner,
my beloued to his vineyarde, My beloued had and the strangers shall eate the desolate places
Woe vnto them, that draw iniquitie
of the fat.
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a vineyarde in a very fruitefull hill, 2 And hee with cordes of vanitie, and sinne, as with cart
hedged it, and gathered out the stones of it, ropes: 19 Which say, Let him make speede: let him
and he planted it with the best plants, and hee hasten his worke, that wee may see it: and let the
builte a towre in the middes thereof, and made counsell of the holy one of Israel draw neere and
a wine presse therein: then hee looked that it come, that we may knowe it. 20 Woe vnto them
should bring foorth grapes: but it brought foorth that speake good of euill, and euill of good, which
wilde grapes. 3 Now therefore, O inhabitants of put darkenes for light, and light for darkenes,
Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for sowre.
betweene me, and my vineyarde. What coulde I
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