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then shall ye be trode downe by it. 19 When and a tempest, and a flame of a deuouring fire.
it passeth ouer, it shall take you away: for it 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight
shall passe through euery morning in the day, against the altar, shalbe as a dreame or vision by
and in the night, and there shalbe onely feare night: euen all they that make the warre against
to make you to vnderstand the hearing. 20 For it, and strong holdes against it, and lay siege
the bed is streight that it can not suffice, and vnto it. 8 And it shalbe like as an hungry man
the couering narowe that one can not wrappe dreameth, and beholde, he eateth: and when he
himselfe. 21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount awaketh, his soule is emptie: or like as a thirsty
Perazim: hee shall be wroth as in the valley of man dreameth, and loe, he is drinking, and when
Gibeon, that he may do his worke, his strage he awaketh, beholde, he is faint, and his soule
worke, and bring to passe his acte, his strange longeth: so shall the multitude of all nations
acte. 22 Nowe therefore be no mockers, least your be that fight against mount Zion. 9 Stay your
bondes increase: for I haue heard of the Lord of selues, and wonder: they are blinde, and make
hostesaconsumption, euendeterminedvponthe you blinde: they are drunken but not with wine:
whole earth. 23 Hearken ye, and heare my voyce: they stagger, but not by strong drinke. 10 For the
hearken ye, and heare my speach. 24 Doeth the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber,
plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, and
open, and breake the clots of his ground? 25 When your chiefe Seers hath he couered. 11 And the
he hath made it plaine, wil he not then sowe vision of them all is become vnto you, as the
the fitches, and sowe cummin, and cast in wheat wordes of a booke that is sealed vp, which they
by measure, and the appointed barly and rye in deliuer to one that can reade, saying, Reade this,
their place? 26 For his God doeth instruct him I pray thee. Then shall he say, I can not: for it is
to haue discretion, and doeth teach him. 27 For sealed. 12 And the booke is giuen vnto him that
fitches shall not be threshed with a threshing can not reade, saying, Reade this, I pray thee.
instrument, neither shall a cart wheele be turned And he shall say, I can not reade. 13 Therefore
aboutvponthe cummin: butyefitches arebeaten
out with a staffe, and cummin with a rod. 28 Bread the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere
corne when it is threshed, hee doeth not alway vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with
their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre
thresh it, neither doeth the wheele of his cart
still make a noyse, neither will he breake it with from me, and their feare toward me was taught
the teeth thereof. 29 This also commeth from the by the precept of men, 14 Therefore behold, I wil
Lord of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell, againe doe a marueilous worke in this people,
and excellent in workes. euen a marueilous worke, and a wonder: for the
wisdome of their wise men shall perish, and the
29 vnderstanding of their prudent men shalbe hid.
1 Ah altar, altar of the citie that Dauid dwelt 15 Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their
in: adde yere vnto yere: let them kill lambs. counsell from the Lord: for their workes are in
2 But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who
there shalbe heauines and sorowe, and it shall knoweth vs? 16 Your turning of deuises shall it
be vnto me like an altar. 3 And I wil besiege not be esteemed as the potters clay? for shall
thee as a circle, and fight against thee on a the worke say of him that made it, Hee made
mount, and will cast vp ramparts against thee. me not? or the thing formed, say of him that
4 So shalt thou be humbled, and shalt speake facioned it, He had none vnderstanding? 17 Is it
out of the ground, and thy speach shalbe as out not yet but a litle while, and Lebanon shall be
of the dust: thy voyce also shall be out of the turned into Carmel? and Carmel shall be counted
ground like him that hath a spirite of diuination, as a forest? 18 And in that day shall the deafe
and thy talking shall whisper out of the dust. heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of
5 Moreouer, the multitude of thy strangers shalbe the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out
like small dust, and the multitude of strong men of darkenesse. 19 The meeke in the Lord shall
shalbe as chaffe that passeth away, and it shall receiue ioye againe, and the poore men shall
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be in a moment, euen suddenly. 6 Thou shalt reioyce in the holy one of Israel. For the
be visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder, cruel man shall cease, and the scornefull shalbe
consumed: and all that hasted to iniquitie, shalbe
and shaking, and a great noyse, a whirlewinde,