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liuing waters, to digge them pittes, euen broken me? ye all haue rebelled against me, sayeth the
pittes, that can holde no water. 14 Is Israel a Lord. 30 I haue smitten your children in vaine,
seruaunt, or is hee borne in the house? why then they receiued no correction: your owne sworde
is he spoiled? 15 The lions roared vpon him and hath deuoured your Prophets like a destroying
yelled, and they haue made his land waste: his lyon. 31 O generation, take heede to the worde
cities are burnt without an inhabitant. 16 Also of the Lord: haue I bene as a wildernesse vnto
the children of Noph and Tahapanes haue broken Israel? or a lande of darkenesse? Wherefore
thine head. 17 Hast not thou procured this vnto sayeth my people then, We are lordes, we will
thy selfe, because thou hast forsaken the Lord come no more vnto thee? 32 Can a maid forget
thy God, when he led thee by the way? 18 And her ornament, or a bride her attire? yet my
what hast thou now to do in the way of Egypt? people haue forgotten me, daies without num-
to drinke the water of Nilus? or what makest ber. 33 Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke
thou in the way of Asshur? to drinke the water of amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that
the Riuer? 19 Thine owne wickednes shall correct thy waies are wickednesse. 34 Also in thy wings
thee, and thy turnings backe shall reprooue thee: is founde the bloud of the soules of ye poore
know therefore and beholde, that it is an euil innocents: I haue not found it in holes, but vpon
thing, and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the all these places. 35 Yet thou saiest, Because I am
Lord thy God, and that my feare is not in thee, giltles, surely his wrath shall turne from mee:
sayeth the Lord God of hostes. 20 For of olde time beholde, I will enter with thee into iudgement,
I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bondes, because thou saiest, I haue not sinned. 36 Why
and thou saidest, I will no more transgresse, but runnest thou about so much to change thy waies?
like an harlot thou runnest about vpon al hie for thou shalt be confounded of Egypt, as thou
hilles, and vnder all greene trees. 21 Yet I had art confounded of Asshur. 37 For thou shalt
planted thee, a noble vine, whose plants were goe foorth from thence, and thine hands vpon
all natural: howe then art thou turned vnto me thine head, because the Lord hath reiected thy
into the plants of a strange vine? 22 Though confidence, and thou shalt not prosper thereby.
thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
sope, yet thine iniquitie is marked before me,
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am not polluted, neither haue I followed Baalim? 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she
beholde thy waies in the valley, and know, what goe from him, and become another mans, shall
thou hast done: thou art like a swift dromedarie, hee returne againe vnto her? shall not this land
that runneth by his waies. 24 And as a wilde be polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with
asse, vsed to the wildernesse, that snuffeth vp the many louers: yet turne againe to mee, sayeth the
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winde by occasion at her pleasure: who can turne Lord. Lift vp thine eyes vnto the hie places, and
her backe? all they that seeke her, will not wearie beholde, where thou hast not plaied the harlot:
themselues, but wil finde her in her moneth. thou hast sit waiting for them in the waies, as the
25 Keepe thou thy feete from barenes, and thy Arabian in the wildernesse: and thou hast pol-
throte from thirst: but thou saidest desperately, luted the lande with thy whoredomes, and with
No, for I haue loued strangers, and them will I thy malice. Therefore the showres haue beene
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follow. 26 As the theefe is ashamed, when he is restrained, and the latter raine came not, and
foud, so is the house of Israel ashamed, they, their thou haddest a whores forehead: thou wouldest
kings, their princes and their Priests, and their not bee ashamed. Diddest thou not stil crie vnto
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Prophets, 27 Saying to a tree, Thou art my father, me, Thou art my father, and the guide of my
and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me: for they youth? 5 Wil he keepe his anger for euer? will
haue turned their back vnto me, and not their he reserue it to the ende? thus hast thou spoken,
face: but in ye time of their troble they wil say, but thou doest euill, euen more and more. The
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Arise, and help vs. 28 But where are thy gods, Lord saide also vnto me, in the daies of Iosiah
that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they the King, Hast thou seene what this rebell Israel
can helpe thee in the time of thy trouble: for hath done? for she hath gone vp vpon euery
according to the nomber of thy cities, are thy high mountaine, and vnder euery greene tree,
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gods, O Iudah. 29 Wherefore wil ye pleade with and there plaied the harlot. And I sayde, when
shee had done all this, Turne thou vnto me: but