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thy buddes. 4 And they shall grow as among God hath shut their eyes that they cannot see,
the grasse, and as the willowes by the riuers of and their heartes, that they cannot vnderstand.
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waters. One shall say, I am the Lordes: another 19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is
shalbe called by the name of Iaakob: and another there knowledge nor vnderstanding to say, I haue
shall subscribe with his hand vnto the Lord, and burnt halfe of it, euen in the fire, and haue baked
name himselfe by the name of Israel. Thus saith bread also vpon the coles thereof: I haue rosted
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the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer, the flesh, and eaten it, and shall I make the residue
Lord of hostes, I am the first, and I am the last, thereof an abomination? shall I bowe to the
and without me is there no God. 7 And who is stocke of a tree? 20 He feedeth of ashes: a seduced
like me, that shall call, and shall declare it, and heart hath deceiued him, that he cannot deliuer
set it in order before me, since I appointed the his soule, nor say, Is there not a lye in my right
ancient people? and what is at hand, and what hand? 21 Remember these (O Iaakob and Israel)
things are to come? let them shewe vnto them. for thou art my seruant: I haue formed thee: thou
8 Feare ye not, neither be afraide: haue not I tolde art my seruant: O Israel forget me not. 22 I haue
thee of olde, and haue declared it? you are euen put away thy transgressions like a cloude, and
my witnesses, whether there be a God beside me, thy sinnes, as a mist: turne vnto me, for I haue
and that there is no God that I knowe not. 9 All redeemed thee. 23 Reioyce, ye heauens: for the
they that make an image, are vanitie, and their Lord hath done it: shoute, ye lower partes of the
delectable things shall nothing profite: and they earth: brast foorth into prayses, ye mountaines,
are their owne witnesses, that they see not nor O forest and euery tree therein: for the Lord hath
know: therefore they shalbe confounded. 10 Who redeemed Iaakob and will be glorified in Israel.
hath made a god, or molten an image, that is 24 Thus sayeth the Lord thy redeemer and he that
profitable for nothing? 11 Beholde, all that are of formed thee from the wombe, I am the Lord,
the fellowship thereof, shall be confounded: for that made all things, that spred out the heauens
the workemen themselues are men: let them all alone, and stretched out the earth by my selfe.
be gathered together, and stand vp, yet they shall 25 I destroy the tokens of ye southsayers, and
feare, and be confounded together. 12 The smith make them that coniecture, fooles, and turne the
taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coles, wise men backwarde, and make their knowledge
and facioneth it with hammers, and worketh it foolishnesse. 26 He confirmeth the worde of
with the strength of his armes: yea, he is an his seruant and performeth the counsell of his
hungred, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no messengers, saying to Ierusalem, Thou shalt bee
water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth inhabited: and to the cities of Iudah, Yee shall
out a line: he facioneth it with a red thread, be built vp, and I will repayre the decayed places
he planeth it, and he purtreyeth it with the thereof. 27 He saith to the deepe, Be drye and I
compasse, andmakethitafterthefigureofaman, will drye vp thy floods. 28 He saith to Cyrus, Thou
and according to the beautie of a man that it may art my shepheard: and he shall performe all my
remaine in an house. 14 He will hewe him downe desire: saying also to Ierusalem, Thou shalt be
cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and built: and to the Temple, Thy foundation shall be
taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he surely layed.
planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish
it. 15 And man burneth thereof: for he will take 45
thereof and warme himselfe: he also kindleth 1 Thus sayeth the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed,
it and baketh bread, yet he maketh a god, and whose right hand I haue holden to subdue na-
worshippeth it: he maketh it an idole and boweth tions before him: therefore will I weaken the
vnto it. 16 He burneth the halfe thereof euen in loynes of Kings and open the doores before him,
the fire, and vpon the halfe thereof he eateth and the gates shall not be shut: I will goe before
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flesh: he rosteth the roste and is satisfied: also he thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake
warmeth himselfe and sayth, Aha, I am warme, I the brasen doores, and burst the yron barres.
haue bene at the fire. 17 And the residue thereof 3 And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse,
he maketh a god, euen his idole: he boweth
vnto it, and worshippeth and prayeth vnto it, and the things hid in secret places, that thou
and sayeth, Deliuer me: for thou art my god. maist know that I am the Lord which call thee by
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18 They haue not knowen, nor vnderstand: for thy name, euen the God of Israel. For Iaakob my
seruants sake, and Israel mine elect, I will euen