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them all that I commaund thee: be not afraide
of their faces, lest I destroy thee before them.
The Book of the Prophet 18 For I, beholde, I this day haue made thee a

Jeremiah defenced citie, and an yron pillar and walles of
brasse against the whole lande, against the Kings
of Iudah, and against the princes thereof, against
1 The wordes of Ieremiah the sonne of Hilkiah the Priestes thereof and against the people of the
one of the Priests that were at Anathoth in the lande. 19 For they shall fight against thee, but
lande of Beniamin. 2 To whom the worde of the they shall not preuaile against thee: for I am with
Lord came in the dayes of Iosiah the sonne of thee to deliuer thee, sayth the Lord.
Amon King of Iudah in the thirteenth yeere of
his reigne: 3 And also in the dayes of Iehoiakim 2
the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah vnto the ende 1 Moreover, the woorde of the Lord came
of the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah, the sonne of vnto me, saying, 2 Goe, and crie in the eares
Iosiah King of Iudah, euen vnto the carying away of Ierusalem, saying, Thus sayeth the Lord, I
of Ierusalem captiue in the fift moneth. 4 Then remember thee, with the kindenes of thy youth
the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying, and the loue of thy marriage, when thou wentest
5 Before I formed thee in the wombe, I knewe after me in the wildernes in a lande that was not
thee, and before thou camest out of the wombe, I sowen. 3 Israel was as a thing halowed vnto the
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vnto the nations. 6 Then said I, Oh, Lord God, Lord, and his first fruits: all they that eat it, shall
behold, I can not speake, for I am a childe. But offend: euil shall come vpon them, saith the Lord.
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the Lord said vnto me, Say not, I am a childe: for 4 Heare ye the word of the Lord, O house of Iaakob,
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thou shalt goe to all that I shall send thee, and and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus
whatsoeuer I command thee, shalt thou speake. sayeth the Lord, What iniquitie haue your fathers
founde in mee, that they are gone farre from mee,
8 Be not afraide of their faces: for I am with thee
to deliuer thee, saith the Lord. 9 Then the Lord and haue walked after vanitie, and are become
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stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, vaine? For they saide not, Where is the Lord
and the Lord said vnto me, Beholde, I haue put that brought vs vp out of the lande of Egypt?
my wordes in thy mouth. 10 Beholde, this day that led vs through the wildernesse, through
haue I set thee ouer the nations and ouer the a desert, and waste land, through a drie land,
kingdomes to plucke vp, and to roote out, and and by the shadow of death, by a land that no
to destroye and throwe downe, to builde, and to man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
plant. 11 After this the worde of the Lord came 7 And I brought you into a plentifull countrey,
vnto me, saying, Ieremiah, what seest thou? And to eat the fruit thereof, and the commodities of
I said, I see a rod of an almonde tree. 12 Then saide the same: but when yee entred, yee defiled my
the Lord vnto me, Thou hast seene aright: for I land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
will hasten my worde to performe it. 13 Againe 8 The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and
the worde of the Lord came vnto me the second they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me
time, saying, What seest thou? And I saide, I see not: the pastours also offended against me, and
a seething pot looking out of the North. 14 Then the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after
saide the Lord vnto me, Out of the North shall a things that did not profite. Wherefore I wil yet
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plague be spred vpon all the inhabitants of the plead with you, saith the Lord, and I will pleade
land. 15 For loe, I will call all the families of the with your childrens children. 10 For goe ye to
kingdomes of the North, saith the Lord, and they the yles of Chittim, and beholde, and sende vnto
shall come, and euery one shall set his throne in Kedar. and take diligent heede, and see whether
the entring of the gates of Ierusalem, and on all there be such things. 11 Hath any nation changed
the walles thereof rounde about, and in all the their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people
cities of Iudah. 16 And I will declare vnto them
my iudgements touching all the wickednesse of haue chaged their glorie, for that which doeth
them that haue forsaken me, and haue burnt not profite. 12 O yee heauens, be astonied at
incense vnto other gods, and worshipped the this: bee afraid and vtterly confounded, sayeth
workes of their owne handes. 17 Thou therefore the Lord. 13 For my people haue committed two
trusse vp thy loynes, and arise and speake vnto euils: they haue forsaken mee the fountaine of