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sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the the eares of the deafe be opened. 6 Then shall
land of Edom. 7 And the vnicorne shall come ye lame man leape as an hart, and the dumme
downewiththemandtheheifferswiththebulles, mans tongue shall sing: for in the wildernes shall
and their lande shalbe drunken with blood, and waters breake out, and riuers in ye desert. And
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their dust made fat with fatnesse. 8 For it is the
day of the Lordes vengeance, and the yeere of the dry ground shalbe as a poole, and the thirstie
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recompence for the iudgement of Zion. And the (as springs of water in the habitation of dragons:
riuers thereof shall be turned into pitche, and the where they lay) shall be a place for reedes and
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof rushes. 8 And there shalbe a path and a way,
shalbe burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched and the way shalbe called holy: the polluted shall
night nor day: the smoke thereof shall goe vp not passe by it: for he shalbe with them, and
euermore: it shall be desolate from generation walke in the way, and the fooles shall not erre.
to generation: none shall passe through it for 9 There shall be no lyon, nor noysome beastes
euer. 11 But the pelicane and the hedgehog shall ascend by it, neither shall they be found
shall possesse it, and the great owle, and the there, that the redeemed may walke. 10 Therefore
rauen shall dwel in it, and he shall stretch out the redeemed of the Lord shall returne and come
vpon it the line of vanitie, and the stones of to Zion with prayse: and euerlasting ioy shall
emptinesse. 12 The nobles thereof shall call to bee vpon their heads: they shall obteine ioye
the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all andgladnesse, andsorowandmourningshallflee
the princes thereof shalbe as nothing. 13 And it away.
shall bring foorth thornes in the palaces thereof,
nettles and thistles in the strong holdes thereof, 36
and it shall be an habitation for dragons, and a 1 Nowe in the fourteenth yeere of King
court for ostriches. 14 There shall meete also Ziim Hezekiah, Saneherib King of Asshur came vp
and Iim, and the Satyre shall cry to his fellow, against al the strong cities of Iudah, and tooke
and the shricheowle shall rest there, and shall them. 2 And the King of Asshur sent Rab-
finde for her selfe a quiet dwelling. 15 There shall shakeh from Lachish toward Ierusalem vnto King
the owle make her nest, and laye, and hatche,
and gather them vnder her shadowe: there shall Hezekiah, with a great hoste, and he stood by
the vultures also bee gathered, euery one with ye conduite of the vpper poole in the path of
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her make. 16 Seeke in the booke of the Lord, and the fullers fielde. Then came foorth vnto him
Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah the steward of the
reade: none of these shall fayle, none shall want house, and Shebna the chanceler, and Ioah the
her make: for his mouth hath commanded, and sonne of Asaph the recorder. 4 And Rabshakeh
his very Spirit hath gathered them. 17 And he sayde vnto them, Tell you Hezekiah, I pray you,
hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath Thus sayth the great King, the King of Asshur,
deuided it vnto them by line: they shall possesse What confidence is this, wherein thou trustest?
it for euer: from generation to generation shall 5 I say, Surely I haue eloquence, but counsell and
they dwell in it. strength are for the warre: on whom then doest
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35 thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Loe,
1 The desert and the wildernes shall reioyce: thou trustest in this broken staffe of reede on
Egypt, whereupon if a man leane, it will goe into
and the waste ground shalbe glad and florish his hand, and pearce it: so is Pharaoh King of
as the rose. 2 It shall florish abundantly and Egypt, vnto all that trust in him. But if thou say
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shall greatly reioyce also and ioye: the glory to me, We trust in the Lord our God. Is not that
of Lebanon shalbe giuen vnto it: the beautie he, whose hie places and whose altars Hezekiah
of Carmel, and of Sharon, they shall see the tooke downe, and said to Iudah and to Ierusalem,
glory of the Lord, and the excellencie of our Ye shall worship before this altar? Nowe there-
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God. Strengthen the weake handes, and comfort fore giue hostages to my lorde the King of Asshur,
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the feeble knees. 4 Say vnto them that are and I wil giue thee two thousand horses, if thou
fearefull, Bee you strong, feare not: beholde, your be able on thy part to set riders vpon them. For
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God commeth with vengeance: euen God with a howe canst thou despise any captaine of the least
recompense, he will come and saue you. 5 Then of my lordes seruants? and put thy trust on Egypt
shall the eyes of the blinde be lightened, and for charets and for horsemen? 10 And am I now