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slay thy remnant. 31 Howle, O gate, crie, O citie: destroyer shalbe consumed, and the oppressour
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thou whole lande of Palestina art dissolued, for shall cease out of the land. And in mercy shall
there shall come from the North a smoke, and the throne be prepared, and hee shall sit vpon
none shalbe alone, at his time appointed. 32 What it in stedfastnesse, in the tabernacle of Dauid,
shall then one answere the messengers of the iudging, and seeking iudgement, and hasting
Gentiles? That the Lord hath stablished Zion, and iustice. We haue heard of the pride of Moab, (he
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the poore of his people shall trust in it. is very proud) euen his pride, and his arrogancie,
15 and his indignation, but his lies shall not be
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so.
Therefore shall Moab howle vnto Moab:
1 The burden of Moab. Surely Ar of Moab euery one shall howle: for the foundations of
was destroied, and brought to silece in a night: Kirhareseth shall ye mourne, yet they shalbe
surely Kir of Moab was destroied, and brought striken. 8 For ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut
to silence in a night. 2 He shall goe vp to downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes of the
the temple, and to Dibon to the hie places to heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof:
weepe: for Nebo and for Medeba shall Moab they are come vnto Iaazer: they wandred in the
howle: vpon all their heades shalbe baldnesse, wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out
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and euery beard shauen. In their streetes shall them selues, and went ouer the sea. Therefore
they bee gilded with sackecloth: on the toppes of will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, and of
their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I
howle, and come downe with weeping. 4 And will make thee drunke with my teares, because
Heshbon shall crie, and Elealeh: their voyce shall vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest
bee heard vnto Iahaz: therefore the warriers of a showting is fallen. 10 And gladnes is taken
Moab shall showt: the soule of euery one shall away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in
lament in him selfe. 5 Mine heart shall crie for the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting
Moab: his fugitiues shall flee vnto Zoar, an heiffer for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the
of three yere olde: for they shall goe vp with wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to
weeping by the mounting vp of Luhith: and by cease. 11 Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde
the way of Horonaim they shall raise vp a crie like an harpe for Moab, and mine inwarde partes
of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall for Ker-haresh. 12 And when it shall appeare
be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, that Moab shall be wearie of his hie places, then
the herbes consumed, and there was no greene shall hee come to his temple to praie, but he
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herbe. Therefore what euery man hath left, and shall not preuaile. 13 This is the word that the
their substance shall they beare to the brooke of Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.
the willowes. 8 For the crie went round about 14 And nowe the Lord hath spoken, saying, In
the borders of Moab: and the howling thereof three yeres, as the yeeres of a hireling, and the
vnto Eglaim, and the skriking thereof vnto Beer glorie of Moab shall be contemned in all the great
Elim, Because the waters of Dimon shall be full multitude, and the remnant shalbe very small
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of blood: for I will bring more vpon Dimon, euen
lyons vpon him that escapeth of Moab, and to the and feeble.
remnant of the land. 17
The burden of Damascus. Beholde, Damascus
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1 Send yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde be a ruinous heape. 2 The cities of Aroer shall
from the rocke of the wildernesse, vnto the be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for
mountaine of the daughter Zion. 2 For it shall they shall lye there, and none shall make them
be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: afraide. 3 The munition also shall cease from
the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes Ephraim, and the kingdome from Damascus, and
of Arnon. Gather a cousel, execute iudgement: the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the
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make thy shadowe as the night in the midday: children of Israel, sayeth the Lord of hostes. And
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hide them that are chased out: bewray not him in that day the glorie of Iaakob shall be impouer-
that is fled. 4 Let my banished dwell with thee: ished, and the fatnes of his flesh shalbe made
Moab be thou their couert from the face of the leane. 5 And it shalbe as when the haruest man
destroyer: for the extortioner shall ende: the gathereth the corne, and reapeth the eares with