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against me, saith the Lord. 12 They haue denied of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no
the Lord, and saide, It is not he, neither shall not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they
the plague come vpon vs, neither shall we see prosper, though they execute no iudgement for
sworde nor famine. 13 And the Prophetes shall the poore. 29 Shall I not visite for these things,
be as winde, and the worde is not in them: thus sayth the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged
shall it come vnto them. 14 Wherefore thus saith on such a nation as this? 30 An horrible and filthie
the Lord God of hostes, Because ye speake such thing is committed in the land. 31 The Prophets
wordes, beholde, I will put my wordes into thy prophesie lies, and ye Priests receiue giftes in
mouth, like a fire, and this people shall be as their handes, and my people delite therein. What
wood, and it shall deuoure them. 15 Loe, I will will ye then doe in the ende thereof?
bring a nation vpon you from farre, O house of
Israel, saith the Lord, which is a mightie nation,
and an ancient nation, a nation whose language 6
thou knowest not, neither vnderstandest what 1 O ye children of Beniamin, prepare to flee
they say. 16 Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: out of the middes of Ierusalem, and blowe the
they are all very strong. 17 And they shall eate trumpet in Tekoa: set vp a standart vpon Beth-
thine haruest and thy bread: they shall deuoure haccerem: for a plague appeareth out of the
thy sonnes and thy daughters: they shall eate vp North and great destruction. 2 I haue compared
thy sheepe and thy bullocks: they shall eate thy the daughter of Zion to a beautifull and daintie
vines and thy figge trees: they shall destroy with woman. 3 The pastors with their flockes shall
the sworde thy fenced cities, wherein thou didest come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes
trust. 18 Neuerthelesse at those dayes, sayth the rounde about by her, and euery one shall feede
Lord, I will not make a full ende of you. 19 And in his place. 4 Prepare warre against her: arise,
when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our and let vs goe vp toward the South: wo vnto vs:
God doe these things vnto vs? then shalt thou for the day declineth, and the shadowes of the
answere them, Like as ye haue forsaken me and euening are stretched out. Arise, and let vs goe
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serued strange gods in your land, so shall ye serue vp by night, and destroy her palaces. 6 For thus
strangers in a land that is not yours. 20 Declare hath the Lord of hostes said, Hewe downe wood,
this in the house of Iaakob, and publish it in Iu- and cast a mounte against Ierusalem: this citie
dah, saying, 21 Heare nowe this, O foolish people, must be visited: all oppression is in the middes
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and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and of it. As the fountaine casteth out her waters, so
see not, which haue eares and heare not. 22 Feare she casteth out her malice: crueltie and spoyle is
yenotme, saiththeLord? orwillyenotbeafraide continually heard in her before me with sorowe
at my presence, which haue placed the sand for and strokes. 8 Be thou instructed, O Ierusalem,
the bounds of the sea by the perpetuall decree lest my soule depart from thee, lest I make thee
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that it cannot passe it, and though the waues desolate as a land, that none inhabiteth. Thus
sayeth the Lord of hostes, They shall gather as
thereof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though a vine, the residue of Israel: turne backe thine
they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it? 23 But hande as the grape gatherer into the baskets.
this people hath an vnfaithfull and rebellious 10 Vnto whome shall I speake, and admonish that
heart: they are departed and gone. 24 For they they may heare? beholde, their eares are vncir-
say not in their heart, Let vs nowe feare the Lord cumcised, and they cannot hearken: beholde, the
our God, that giueth raine both early and late in worde of the Lord is vnto them as a reproche:
due season: hee reserueth vnto vs the appointed they haue no delite in it. 11 Therefore I am full of
weekes of the haruest. 25 Yet your iniquities haue the wrath of the Lord: I am weary with holding
turned away these things, and your sinnes haue it: I will powre it out vpon the children in the
hindred good things from you. 26 For among my streete, and likewise vpon the assembly of the
people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite yong men: for the husband shall euen be taken
as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, with the wife, and the aged with him that is full
to catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birdes, so of daies. 12 And their houses with their landes,
are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are and wiues also shalbe turned vnto strangers: for I
become great and waxen riche. 28 They are waxen will stretch out mine hande vpon the inhabitants
fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the land, sayeth the Lord. 13 For from the