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her antiquitie is of ancient daies: her owne feete the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed
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shall leade her afarre off to be a soiourner. Who the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and
hath decreed this against Tyrus (that crowneth brake the euerlasting couenant. 6 Therefore
men) whose marchantes are princes? whose hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the in-
chapmen are the nobles of the worlde? 9 The habitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the
Lord of hostes hath decreed this, to staine the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe
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pride of all glorie, and to bring to contempt all men are left. The wine faileth, the vine hath no
them that be glorious in the earth. 10 Passe might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.
through thy lande like a flood to the daughter 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of
of Tarshish: there is no more strength. 11 He them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe
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stretched out his hand vpon the sea: he shooke ceaseth. They shall not drinke wine with mirth:
the kingdomes: the Lord hath giuen a comman- strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke
dement concerning the place of marchandise, to it. 10 The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery
destroy the power thereof. 12 And he saide, Thou house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
shalt no more reioyce when thou art oppressed: 11 There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al
O virgin daughter of Zidon: rise vp, goe ouer ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone
vnto Chittim: yet there thou shalt haue no rest. away. 12 In the citie is left desolation, and the
13 Behold the lande of the Caldeans: this was no gate is smitten with destruction. 13 Surely thus
people: Asshur founded it by the inhabitantes of shall it bee in the middes of the earth, among
the wildernesse: they set vp the towers thereof: the people, as the shaking of an oliue tree, and
they raised the palaces thereof and hee brought as the grapes when the vintage is ended. 14 They
it to ruine. 14 Howle yee shippes of Tarshish, shall lift vp their voyce: they shall shout for the
for your strength is destroyed. 15 And in that magnificence of the Lord: they shall reioyce from
day shall Tyrus bee forgotten seuentie yeeres, the sea. 15 Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the
(according to the yeeres of one King) at the ende valleis, euen the Name of the Lord God of Israel,
of seuentie yeeres shall Tyrus sing as an harlot. in the yles of the sea. 16 From the vttermost
16 Take an harpe and go about the citie: (thou part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen
harlot thou hast beene forgotten) make sweete glory to the iust, and I sayd, My leanesse, my
melodie, sing moe songes that thou maiest be leanesse, woe is mee: the transgressours haue
remembred. 17 And at the ende of seuentie yeres offended: yea, the transgressours haue grieu-
shall the Lord visite Tyrus, and shee shall returne ously offended. 17 Feare, and the pitte, and the
to her wages, and shall commit fornication with snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
all the kingdomes of the earth, that are in the 18 And hee that fleeth from the noyse of the feare,
world. 18 Yet her occupying and her wages shall shall fall into the pit: and he that commeth vp
bee holy vnto the Lord: it shall not be laied vp out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for
nor kept in store, but her marchandise shalbe the windowes from on high are open, and the
for them that dwell before the Lord, to eate foundations of the earth doe shake. 19 The earth
sufficiently, and to haue durable clothing. is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dis-
solued: the earth is mooued exceedingly. 20 The
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1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the
iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that
and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside it shall fall, and rise no more. 21 And in that day
downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants shall the Lord visite the hoste aboue that is on
thereof. 2 And there shalbe like people, like hie, euen the Kinges of the world that are vpon
Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together,
like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, as the prisoners in the pit: and they shall be shut
like borower, like giuer, like taker to vsurie. The
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earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: vp in the prison, and after many daies shall they
for the Lord hath spoken this worde. The earth be visited. 23 Then the moone shall be abashed,
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and the sunne ashamed, when the Lord of hostes
lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem: and
and decaied: the proude people of the earth are glory shalbe before his ancient men.
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weakened. The earth also deceiueth, because of