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Isaiah 17:6 514 Isaiah 19:12

his arme, and he shall be as he that gathereth the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite
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eares in the valley of Rephaim. Yet a gathering is riping in the floure, then he shall cut downe the
of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an branches with hookes, and shall take away, and
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oliue tree, two or three beries are in the top of cut off the boughes: They shall be left together
the vpmost boughes, and foure or fiue in the hie vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the
branches of the fruite thereof, sayeth the Lord beastes of the earth: for the foule shall sommer
vpon it, and euery beast of the earth shall winter
God of Israel. At that day shall a man looke to his vpon it. At that time shall a present be brought
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maker, and his eyes shall looke to the holy one of
Israel. And hee shall not looke to the altars, the vnto the Lord of hostes, (a people that is scattered
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workes of his owne hands, neither shall he looke abroade, and spoyled, and of a terrible people
to those thinges, which his owne fingers haue from their beginning hitherto, a nation, by litle
made, as groues and images. 9 In that day shall and litle euen troden vnder foote, whose land the
the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of riuers haue spoyled) to the place of the Name of
boughes and branches, which they did forsake, the Lord of hostes, euen the mount Zion.
because of the children of Israel, and there shall
be desolation. 10 Because thou hast forgotten the 19
God of thy saluation, and hast not remembred 1 The burden of Egypt. Beholde, the Lord
the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set rideth vpon a swift cloude, and shall come into
pleasant plantes, and shalt graffe strange vine Egypt, and the idoles of Egypt shall be moued at
branches: 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt
to growe, and in the morning shalt thou make thy in the middes of her. 2 And I will set the Egyp-
seede to florish: but the haruest shall be gone in tians against the Egyptians: so euery one shall
the day of possession, and there shalbe desperate fight against his brother, and euery one against
sorrowe. 12 Ah, the multitude of many people, his neighbour, citie against citie, and kingdome
they shall make a sounde like the noyse of the against kingdome. And the spirite of Egypt shall
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sea: for the noyse of the people shall make a faile in the middes of her, and I will destroy their
sounde like the noyse of mightie waters. 13 The counsell, and they shall seeke at the idoles, and
people shall make a sounde like the noise of many at the sorcerers, and at them that haue spirits of
waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall diuination, and at the southsayers. 4 And I will
flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell
the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling Lordes, and a mightie King shall rule ouer them,
thing before the whirlewinde. 14 And loe, in the sayth the Lord God of hostes. 5 Then the waters
euening there is trouble: but afore the morning of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed
it is gone. This is the portion of them that spoyle vp, and wasted. 6 And the riuers shall goe farre
vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs. away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and
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downe. The grasse in the riuer, and at the head
1 Oh, the lande shadowing with winges, which of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer,
is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia, Sending ambas- shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.
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sadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon 8 The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that
the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to cast angle into the riuer, shall lament, and they
a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, that spread their nette vpon the waters, shall be
vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen weakened. Moreouer, they that worke in flaxe of
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hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden diuers sortes, shall be confounded, and they that
vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled. weaue nettes. 10 For their nettes shalbe broken,
3 Al ye the inhabitants of ye world and dwellers and all they, that make pondes, shalbe heauie in
in the earth, shall see when he setteth vp a signe heart. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles:
in the mountaines, and when he bloweth the the counsell of the wise counselers of Pharaoh is
trumpet, ye shall heare. 4 For so the Lord saide become foolish: how say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am
vnto me, I will rest and beholde in my tabernacle, the sonne of the wise? I am the sonne of the
as the heate drying vp the rayne, and as a cloude ancient Kings? 12 Where are nowe thy wise men,
of dewe in the heate of haruest. 5 For afore the that they may tell thee, or may knowe what the