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neither lift vp crie or praier for them neither fire, which I commanded them not, neither came
intreat me, for I will not heare thee. 17 Seest it in mine heart. 32 Therefore beholde, the dayes
thou not what they doe in the cities of Iudah come, sayeth the Lord, that it shall no more be
and in the streetes of Ierusalem? 18 The children called Topheth, nor the valley of Ben-Hinnom,
gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and but the valley of slaughter: for they shall burie in
the women knede the dough to make cakes to Topheth til there be no place. 33 And ye carkeises
the Queene of heauen and to powre out drinke of this people shalbe meat for the foules of the
offrings vnto other gods, that they may prouoke heauen and for the beastes of the earth, and none
me vnto anger. 19 Doe they prouoke me to shall fraie them away. 34 Then I will cause to cease
anger, sayeth the Lord, and not themselues to from the cities of Iudah and from the streetes
the confusion of their owne faces? 20 Therefore of Ierusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of
thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, mine anger gladnesse, the voice of the bridegrom and the
and my wrath shall be powred vpon this place, voice of the bride: for the lande shalbe desolate.
vpon man and vpon beast, and vpon the tree of 8
the fielde, and vpon the fruite of the grounde, 1 At that time, sayeth the Lord, they shall
and it shall burne and not bee quenched. 21 Thus bring out the bones of the Kings of Iudah, and
sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Put
your burnt offerings vnto your sacrifices, and eat the bones of their princes, and the bones of the
the flesh. 22 For I spake not vnto your fathers, nor Priests and the bones of the Prophets, and the
commanded them, when I brought them out of bones of the inhabitants of Ierusalem out of their
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And they shall spread them before
graues.
the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offrings and the sunne and the moone, and all the host of
sacrifices. 23 But this thing commanded I them, heauen, whom they haue loued, and whome they
saying, Obey my voyce, and I will be your God, haue serued, and whome they haue followed, and
and yee shalbe my people: and walke yee in all whome they haue sought, and whome they haue
the wayes which I haue commanded you, that worshipped: they shall not be gathered nor be
it may be well vnto you. 24 But they would not buried, but shall be as doung vpon the earth.
obey, nor incline their eare, but went after the 3 And death shall bee desired rather then life
counsels and the stubbernesse of their wicked of all the residue that remaineth of this wicked
heart, and went backewarde and not forwarde. familie, which remaine in all the places where I
25 Since the day that your fathers came vp out haue scattered them, sayeth the Lord of hostes.
of the lande of Egypt, vnto this day, I haue euen 4 Thou shalt say vnto them also, Thus sayeth the
sent vnto you al my seruants the Prophets, rising Lord, Shall they fall and not arise? shall he turne
vp earely euery day, and sending them. 26 Yet away and not turne againe? 5 Wherefore is this
would they not heare me nor encline their eare, people of Ierusalem turned backe by a perpetuall
but hardened their necke and did worse then rebellion? they gaue themselues to deceit, and
their fathers. 27 Therefore shalt thou speake al would not returne. I hearkened and heard, but
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these words vnto them, but they will not heare none spake aright: no man repented him of his
thee: thou shalt also crie vnto them, but they wickednesse, saying, What haue I done? euery
will not answere thee. 28 But thou shalt say vnto one turned to their race, as the horse rusheth
them, This is a nation that heareth not the voice into the battell. 7 Euen the storke in the aire
of the Lord their God, nor receiueth discipline: knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and
trueth is perished, and is cleane gone out of the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of
their mouth. 29 Cut off thine heare, O Ierusalem, their comming, but my people knoweth not the
and cast it away, and take vp a complaint on iudgement of the Lord. Howe doe yee say, Wee
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the hie places: for the Lord hath reiected and are wise, and the Lawe of the Lord is with vs?
forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne
children of Iudah haue done euill in my sight, of the scribes is in vaine. 9 The wise men are
sayth the Lord: they haue set their abominations ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they
in the House, whereupon my Name is called, to haue reiected the word of the Lord, and what
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pollute it. 31 And they haue built the hie place wisdome is in them? Therefore will I giue their
of Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-Hinnom wiues vnto others, and their fieldes to them that
shall possesse them: for euery one from the least
to burne their sonnes and their daughters in the euen vnto the greatest is giuen to couetousnesse,