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Isaiah 55:3                                    538                                     Isaiah 57:7

            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:
            the mountaines and the hilles shall breake foorth                       57
            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
                                  56                         witches children, come hither, the seede of the
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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
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