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will. 11 I call a birde from the East, and the man thou maist haue profit, or if so be thou maist haue
of my counsell from farre: as I haue spoken, so strength. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of
will I bring it to passe: I haue purposed it, and thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre
I will doe it. 12 Heare me, ye stubburne hearted, gasers, and prognosticatours stand vp, and saue
that are farre from iustice. 13 I bring neere my thee from these things, that shall come vpon
iustice: it shall not be farre off, and my saluation thee. 14 Beholde, they shall be as stubble: the
shall not tarie: for I wil giue saluation in Zion, and fire shall burne them: they shall not deliuer their
my glory vnto Israel. owne liues from the power of the flame: there
shalbe no coles to warme at, nor light to sit
47 by. 15 Thus shall they serue thee, with whom
1 Come downe and sit in the dust: O virgine, thou hast wearied thee, euen thy marchants from
daughter Babel, sit on the ground: there is no thy youth: euery one shall wander to his owne
throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou quarter: none shall saue thee.
shalt no more be called, Tender and delicate.
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thy lockes: make bare the feete: vncouer the 1 Hear yee this, O house of Iaakob, which are
legge, and passe through the floods. 3 Thy called by the name of Israel, and are come out of
filthinesse shall be discouered, and thy shame the waters of Iudah: which sweare by the Name
shall be seene: I will take vengeance, and I will of the Lord, and make mention of the God of
not meete thee as a man. 4 Our redeemer, the Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousnesse.
Lord of hostes is his Name, the holy one of 2 For they are called of the holy citie, and staie
Israel. 5 Sit still, and get thee into darkenesse, themselues vpon the God of Israel, whose Name
O daughter of the Chaldeas: for thou shalt no is the Lord of hostes. I haue declared ye former
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more be called, The ladie of kingdomes. 6 I was things of old, and they went out of my mouth, and
wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine I shewed them: I did them suddenly, and they
inheritance, and giuen them into thine had: thou came to passe. 4 Because I knewe, that thou art
diddest shew them no mercy, but thou didest lay obstinate, and thy necke is an yron sinew, and
thy very heauy yoke vpon the ancient. 7 And thy brow brasse, Therefore I haue declared it
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thou saidest, I shall be a ladie for euer, so that to thee of old: before it came to passe, I shewed
thou diddest not set thy mind to these things, it thee, lest thou shouldest say, Mine idole hath
neither diddest thou remember ye latter end done them, and my carued image, and my molten
therof. 8 Therefore nowe heare, thou that art image hath commanded them. Thou hast heard,
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giuen to pleasures, and dwellest carelesse, Shee
sayeth in her heart, I am and none els: I shall behold all this, and wil not yee declare it? I
not sit as a widowe, neither shall knowe the haue shewed thee newe things, euen now, and
losse of children. 9 But these two thinges shall hid things, which thou knewest not. 7 They are
come to thee suddenly on one day, the losse created now, and not of olde, and euen before this
of children and widowhoode: they shall come thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say,
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vpon thee in their perfection, for the multitude Beholde, I knewe them. Yet thou heardest them
not, neither diddest know them, neither yet was
of thy diuinations, and for the great abundance of thine eare opened of olde: for I knewe that thou
thine inchanters. 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wouldest grieuously transgresse: therefore haue
wickednesse: thou hast sayd, None seeth me. Thy I called thee a transgressour from the wombe.
wisdom and thy knowledge, they haue caused 9 For my Names sake will I defer my wrath, and
thee to rebel, and thou hast saide in thine heart, for my praise will I refraine it from thee, that I
I am, and none els. 11 Therefore shall euill come
vpon thee, and thou shalt not knowe the morning cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I haue fined thee, but
thereof: destruction shall fal vpon thee, which not as siluer: I haue chosen thee in the fornace
of affliction.
For mine owne sake, for mine
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thou shalt not be able to put away: destruction owne sake wil I doe it: for how should my Name
shall come vpon thee suddenly, or thou beware. be polluted? surely I wil not giue my glory vnto
12 Stand now among thine inchanters, and in the another. 12 Heare me, O Iaakob and Israel, my
multitude of thy southsaiers (with whome thou called, I am, I am the first, and I am the last.
hast wearied thy selfe from thy youth) if so be 13 Surely mine hand hath laid the foundation of