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without being satisfied? hearken diligently vnto thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches, that keepe
me, and eate that which is good, and let your my Sabbaths, and chuse the thing that pleaseth
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soule delite in fatnes. 3 Encline your eares, and me, and take holde of my couenant, Euen vnto
come vnto me: heare, and your soule shall liue, them wil I giue in mine House and within my
and I will make an euerlasting couenant with walles, a place and a name better then of the
you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid. 4 Beholde, sonnes and of the daughters: I will giue them an
I gaue him for a witnes to the people, for a euerlasting name, that shall not be put out. Also
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prince and a master vnto the people. Beholde, the strangers that cleaue vnto the Lord, to serue
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thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, him, and to loue the Name of the Lord, and to be
and a nation that knew not thee, shall runne his seruants: euery one that keepeth the Sabbath,
vnto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and the and polluteth it not and imbraceth my couenant,
holy one of Israel: for hee hath glorified thee. 7 Them wil I bring also to mine holy mountaine,
6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call and make them ioyfull in mine House of prayer:
ye vpon him while he is neere. 7 Let the wicked their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be
forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne accepted vpon mine altar: for mine House shall
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imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he be called an house of prayer for all people. The
wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for Lord God sayth, which gathereth the scattered
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hee is very ready to forgiue. For my thoughtes of Israel, Yet wil I gather to them those that
are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my are to be gathered to them. 9 All ye beastes of
wayes, sayth the Lord. 9 For as ye heauens are the fielde, come to deuoure, euen all ye beastes
higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher of the forest. 10 Their watchmen are all blinde:
then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme
thoughts. 10 Surely as the raine commeth downe dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe
and the snow from heauen, and returneth not and delite in sleeping. 11 And these griedy dogs
thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it to can neuer haue ynough: and these shepheards
bring forth and bud, that it may giue seede to cannot vnderstand: for they all looke to their
the sower, and bread vnto him that eateth, 11 So owne way, euery one for his aduantage, and for
shall my worde be, that goeth out of my mouth: his owne purpose. 12 Come, I wil bring wine,
it shall not returne vnto me voyde, but it shall and we wil fill our selues with strong drinke, and
accomplish that which I will, and it shall prosper to morowe shalbe as this day, and much more
in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 Therefore ye abundant.
shall go out with ioy, and be led forth with peace:
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before you into ioye, and all the trees of the
fielde shall clap their handes. 13 For thornes there 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man con-
shall grow firre trees: for nettles shall growe the sidereth it in heart: and mercifull men are
myrrhe tree, and it shalbe to the Lord for a name, taken away, and no man vnderstandeth that the
and for an euerlasting signe that shall not be righteous is taken away from the euill to come.
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taken away. Peace shall come: they shall rest in their beds,
euery one that walketh before him. 3 But you
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adulterer and of the whore. On whome haue ye
1 Thus saith the Lord, Keepe iudgement and iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust
doe iustice: for my saluation is at hand to come, out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children,
and my righteousnes to be reueiled. 2 Blessed and a false seede? 5 Inflamed with idoles vnder
is the man that doeth this, and the sonne of euery greene tree? and sacrificing the children
man which layeth holde on it: hee that keepeth in the valleys vnder the tops of the rocks? Thy
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the Sabbath and polluteth it not, and keepeth portion is in the smooth stones of the riuer:
his hand from doing any euill. 3 And let not they, they are thy lot: euen to them hast thou
the sonne of the stranger, which is ioyned to powred a drinke offering: thou hast offered a
the Lord, speake and say, The Lord hath surely sacrifice. Should I delite in these? 7 Thou hast
separate me from his people: neither let the made thy bed vpon a very hie mountaine: thou
Eunuch say, Beholde, I am a drye tree. 4 For wentest vp thither, euen thither wentest thou