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Isaiah 51:11                                   536                                     Isaiah 53:3

            great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way more come into thee the vncircumcised and the
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            for the redeemed to passe ouer?  11 Therefore the  vncleane. Shake thy selfe from the dust: arise,
            redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come     and sit downe, O Ierusalem: loose the bandes
            with ioy vnto Zion, and euerlasting ioy shalbe   of thy necke, O thou captiue daughter, Zion.
            vpon their head: they shall obtaine ioy, and     3  For thus sayeth the Lord, Yee were solde for
            gladnesse: and sorow and mourning shall flee     naught: therefore shall ye be redeemed without
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            away.  12  I, euen I am he, that comfort you. Who  money. For thus saith the Lord God, My people
            art thou, that thou shouldest feare a mortall man,  went downe afore time into Egypt to soiourne
            and the sonne of man, which shalbe made as there, and Asshur oppressed them without cause.
            grasse?  13  And forgettest the Lord thy maker,  5 Nowe therefore what haue I here, saith the Lord,
            that hath spred out the heauens, and layde the thatmypeopleistakenawayfornaught, andthey
            foundations of the earth? and hast feared con- that rule ouer them, make them to howle, saith
            tinually all the day, because of the rage of the the Lord? and my Name all the day continually is
            oppressour, which is readie to destroy? Where blasphemed?       6 Therefore my people shall know
            is now the rage of the oppressour?  14 The captiue my Name: therefore they shall know in that day,
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            hasteneth to be loosed, and that hee should not that I am he that doe speake: beholde, it is I. How
            die in the pitte, nor that his bread should faile.  beautifull vpon the mountaines are the feete of
            15  And I am the Lord thy God that deuided the   him, that declareth and publisheth peace? that
            Sea, when his waues roared: the Lord of hostes declareth good tidings, and publisheth saluation,
            is his Name.  16 And I haue put my wordes in thy  saying vnto Zion, Thy God reigneth? The voyce
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            mouth, and haue defended thee in the shadowe     of thy watchmen shalbe heard: they shall lift
            of mine hand, that I may plant the heauens, and  vp their voyce, and shoute together: for they
            lay the foundation of the earth, and say vnto    shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring
            Zion, Thou art my people.  17 Awake, awake, and  againe Zion. O ye desolate places of Ierusalem,
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            stande vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the  bee glad and reioyce together: for the Lord
            hande of the Lord the cup of his wrath: thou hast  hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed
            drunken the dregges of the cup of trembling, and  Ierusalem.  10  The Lord hath made bare his holy
            wrung them out.   18  There is none to guide her  arme in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the
            among all the sonnes, whome she hath brought
            foorth: there is none that taketh her by the     endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our
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                                                                     Depart, depart ye: goe out from thence
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            hand of all the sonnes that she hath brought vp.  and touche no vncleane thing: goe out of the
            19  These two thinges are come vnto thee: who    middes of her: be ye cleane, that beare the vessels
            will lament thee? desolation and destruction     of the Lord.  12 For ye shall not goe out with haste,
            and famine, and the sworde: by whome shall I     nor depart by fleeing away: but the Lord will goe
            comfort thee?  20  Thy sonnes haue fainted, and  before you, and the God of Israel will gather you
            lye at the head of all the streetes as a wilde bull  together.  13  Beholde, my seruant shall prosper:
            in a nette, and are full of the wrath of the Lord,
            and rebuke of thy God.  21  Therefore heare nowe  he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very hie.
            this, thou miserable and drunken, but not with   14 As many were astonied at thee (his visage was
            wine.  22 Thus saith thy Lord God, euen God that  so deformed of men, and his forme of the sonnes
            pleadeth the cause of his people, Beholde, I haue  of men) so shall hee sprinkle many nations: the
            taken out of thine hande the cuppe of trembling,  Kings shall shut their mouthes at him: for that
            euen the dregges of the cuppe of my wrath: thou  which had not bene tolde them, shall they see,
            shalt drinke it no more.  23  But I will put it into  and that which they had not heard, shall they
            their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to  vnderstande.
            thy soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer,
            and thou hast layde thy bodie as the grounde, and                       53
            as the streete to them that went ouer.              1  Who will beleeue our report? and to whom
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                                  52                         is the arme of the Lord reueiled? But hee shall
                                                             growe vp before him as a branche, and as a roote
              1  Aries, arise: put on thy strength, O Zion:  out of a dry grounde: he hath neither forme nor
            put on thy garments of thy beautie, O Ierusalem,  beautie: when we shall see him, there shall be
            the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no no forme that wee should desire him.       3  He is
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