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21 Woevntothemthatarewiseintheirowneeyes, Seraphims vnto me with an hote cole in his hand,
and prudent in their owne sight. 22 Wo vnto them which he had taken from the altar with the tongs:
that are mightie to drinke wine, and to them that 7 And he touched my mouth, and sayd, Loe, this
are strong to powre in strong drinke: 23 Which hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquitie shall be
iustifie the wicked for a rewarde, and take away taken away, and thy sinne shalbe purged. Also I
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the righteousnesse of the righteous from him. heard the voyce of the Lord, saying, Whome shall
24 Therefore as the flame of fire deuoureth the I send? and who shall goe for vs? Then I sayd,
stubble, and as the chaffe is cosumed of the flame: Here am I, send me. And he sayd, Goe, and say
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so their roote shalbe as rottennesse, and their vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye
bud shall rise vp like dust, because they haue cast shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and
off the Lawe of the Lord of hostes, and contemned 10
the word of the holy one of Israel. 25 Therefore is not perceiue. Make the heart of this people
the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their
eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with
and hee hath stretched out his hand vpon them, their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts,
and hath smitten them that the mountaines did and conuert, and he heale them. 11 Then sayd
tremble: and their carkases were torne in the
middes of the streetes, and for all this his wrath I, Lord, howe long? And he answered, Vntill
was not turned away, but his hande was stretched the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the
out still. 26 And he will lift vp a signe vnto the houses without man, and the land be vtterly
nations a farre, and wil hisse vnto them from desolate, 12 And the Lord haue remoued men
the ende of the earth: and beholde, they shall farre away, and there be a great desolation in the
come hastily with speede. 27 None shall faint nor mids of the land. 13 But yet in it shalbe a tenth,
fall among them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, and shall returne, and shalbe eaten vp as an elme
neither shall the girdle of his loynes be loosed, or an oke, which haue a substance in them, when
they cast their leaues: so the holy seede shall be
nor the latchet of his shooes be broken: 28 Whose
arrowes shall be sharpe, and all his bowes bent: the substance thereof.
his horse hoofes shall be thought like flint, and 7
his wheeles like a whirlewinde. 29 His roaring 1
shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons And in the dayes of Ahaz, the sonne of
whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the Iotham, the sonne of Vzziah king of Iudah, Rezin
praye: they shall take it away, and none shall the King of Aram came vp, and Pekah the sonne
deliuer it. 30 And in that day they shall roare vpon of Remaliah King of Israel, to Ierusalem to fight
against it, but he could not ouercome it.
And
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them, as the roaring of the sea: and if they looke it was tolde the house of Dauid, saying, Aram
vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe,
and the light shalbe darkened in their skie. is ioyned with Ephraim: therefore his heart was
moued, and the heart of his people, as the trees
6 of the forest are moued by the winde. 3 Then
1 In the yeere of the death of King Vzziah, I saw sayde the Lord vnto Isaiah, Goe foorth nowe to
also the Lord sitting vpon an high throne, and meete Ahaz (thou and Sheariashub thy sonne) at
lifted vp, and the lower partes thereof filled the the ende of the conduit of the vpper poole, in
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Temple. 2 The Seraphims stoode vpon it: euery the path of the fullers fielde, And say vnto him,
one had sixe wings: with twaine he couered his Take heede, and be still: feare not, neither be
faint hearted for the two tailes of these smoking
face, and with twaine hee couered his feete, and
with twaine he did flie. 3 And one cryed to firebrands, for the furious wrath of Rezin and of
Aram, and of Remaliahs sonne:
Because Aram
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another, and sayde, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord hath taken wicked counsell against thee, and
of hostes: the whole world is full of his glory. Ephraim, and Remaliahs sonne, saying, Let vs
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4 And the lintles of the doore cheekes moued at goe vp against Iudah, and let vs waken them vp,
the voyce of him that cryed, and the house was
filled with smoke. 5 Then I sayd, Wo is me: for and make a breach therein for vs, and set a King
I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted in the mids thereof, euen the sonne of Tabeal.
Thus sayth the Lord God, It shall not stand,
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lips, and I dwell in the middes of a people of neither shall it be. 8 For the head of Aram is
polluted lips: for mine eyes haue seene the King Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin:
and Lord of hostes. 6 Then flewe one of the and within fiue and threescore yeere, Ephraim