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Babel the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and thine heart, I will ascende into heauen, and exalt
pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction my throne aboue beside the starres of God: I will
of God in Sodom and Gomorah. 20 It shall not bee sitte also vpon the mount of the Congregation in
inhabited for euer, neither shall it be dwelled in the sides of the North. 14 I wil ascend aboue ye
from generation to generation: neither shall the height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most
Arabian pitch his tents there, neither shall the high. 15 But thou shalt bee brought downe to the
shepheardes make their foldes there. 21 But Ziim graue, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see
shall lodge there, and their houses shall be ful of thee, shall looke vpon thee and consider thee,
Ohim: Ostriches shall dwel there, and the Satyrs saying, Is this the man that made the earth to
shall dance there. 22 And Iim shall crie in their tremble, and that did shake the kingdomes? 17 He
palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: made the worlde as a wildernesse, and destroied
and the time thereof is readie to come, and the the cities thereof, and opened not the house of
daies thereof shall not be prolonged. his prisoners. 18 All the Kings of the nations,
euen they all sleepe in glorie, euery one in his
14 owne house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy graue

1 For the Lord wil haue compassion of Iaakob, like an abominable branch: like the raiment of
and wil yet chuse Israel, and cause them to rest those that are slaine, and thrust thorowe with a
sword, which goe downe to the stones of the pit,
in their owne lande: and the stranger shall ioyne as a carkeise troden vnder feete. 20 Thou shalt
him selfe vnto them, and they shall cleaue to the not be ioyned with them in the graue, because
house of Iaakob. 2 And the people shall receiue thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine
them and bring them to their owne place, and the thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be
house of Israel shall possesse them in the land renoumed for euer. 21 Prepare a slaughter for
of the Lord, for seruants and handmaids: and his children, for the iniquitie of their fathers: let
they shall take them prisoners, whose captiues them not rise vp nor possesse the land, nor fil
they were, and haue rule ouer their oppressours. the face of the world with enemies. 22 For I wil
3 And in that day when the Lord shall giue thee rise vp against them (sayth the Lord of hostes)
rest from thy sorrow, and from thy feare, and and will cut off from Babel the name and the
from the sore bodage, wherein thou didest serue, remnant and the sonne, and the nephew, sayth
4 Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the Lord: 23 And I wil make it a possession to
the King of Babel, and say, Howe hath the oppres- ye hedgehogge, and pooles of water, and I will
sor ceased? and the gold thirsty Babel rested? sweepe it with the besome of destruction, sayeth
5 The Lord hath broken the rodde of the wicked, the Lord of hostes. 24 The Lord of hostes hath
and the scepter of the rulers: Which smote the sworne, saying, Surely like as I haue purposed, so
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people in anger with a continuall plague, and shall it come to passe, and as I haue consulted, it
ruled the nations in wrath: if any were perse- shall stand: 25 That I will breake to pieces Asshur
cuted, he did not let. The whole worlde is at rest in my land, and vpon my mountaines will I treade
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and is quiet: they sing for ioye. 8 Also the firre him vnder foote: so that his yoke shall depart
trees reioyced of thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, from them, and his burden shall be taken from
saying, Since thou art laid downe, no hewer came off their shoulder. 26 This is the counsell that
vp against vs. 9 Hel beneath is mooued for thee is consulted vpon the whole worlde, and this
to meete thee at thy comming, raising vp the is the hande stretched out ouer all the nations,
deade for thee, euen all the princes of the earth, 27 Because the Lord of hostes hath determined
it, and who shall disanull it? and his hande is
and hath raised from their thrones all the Kinges stretched out, and who shall turne it away? 28 In
of the nations. 10 All they shall crie, and saie the yeere that King Ahaz died, was this burden.
vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? 29 Reioyce not, (thou whole Palestina) because
art thou become like vnto vs? 11 Thy pompe is
brought downe to ye graue, and the sounde of thy the rod of him that did beat thee, is broken
for out of the serpents roote shall come forth a
violes: the worme is spred vnder thee, and the cockatrise, and the fruit therof shalbe a firy flying
wormes couer thee. 12 How art thou fallen from serpent. 30 For the first borne of the poore shall
heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? and be fed, and the needie shall lie downe in safetie:
cutte downe to the grounde, which didest cast and I will kill thy roote with famine, and it shall
lottes vpon the nations? 13 Yet thou saidest in