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and vtterly confounded, for we haue forsaken is their clothing: all these things are made by
the land, and our dwellings haue cast vs out. cunning men. 10 But the Lord is the God of trueth:
20 Therefore heare the worde of the Lord, O ye he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King:
women, and let your eares regard the words of at his anger the earth shall tremble, and the
his mouth, and teach your daughters to mourne, nations cannot abide his wrath. 11 (Thus shall
and euery one her neighbour to lament. 21 For you say vnto them, The gods that haue not made
deathiscomevpintoourwindowes, andisentred the heauens and the earth, shall perish from the
into our palaces, to destroy the children without, earth, and from vnder these heauens) 12 He hath
and the yong men in the streetes. 22 Speake, thus made the earth by his power, and established the
sayth the Lord, The carkeises of men shall lye, worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out
euen as the doung vpon the fielde, and as the the heauen by his discretion. 13 Hee giueth by his
handfull after the mower, and none shall gather voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and
them. 23 ThussaiththeLord, Letnotthewiseman he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes
glory in his wisedome, nor the strong man glorie of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rayne, and
in his strength, neyther the riche man glorie in bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.
his riches. 24 But let him that glorieth, glorie in 14 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge:
this, that he vnderstandeth, and knoweth me: for euery founder is confounded by the grauen im-
I am the Lord, which shewe mercie, iudgement, age: for his melting is but falsehood, and there
and righteousnes in the earth: for in these things is no breath therein. 15 They are vanitie, and the
I delite, sayth the Lord. 25 Beholde, the dayes worke of errours: in the time of their visitation
come, sayth the Lord, that I wil visite all them, they shall perish. 16 The portion of Iaakob is not
which are circumcised with the vncircumcised: like them: for he is the maker of all things, and
26 Egypt and Iudah, and Edom, and the children of Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lord of
Ammon, and Moab, and all the vtmost corners of hostes is his Name. 17 Gather vp thy wares out of
them that dwell in the wildernesse: for all these the land, O thou that dwellest in the strong place.
nations are vncircumcised, and al the house of 18 For thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, at this time
Israel are vncircumcised in the heart. I will throwe as with a sling the inhabitants of
10 the lande, and will trouble them, and they shall
1 Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he finde it so. 19 Wo is me for my destruction, and
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speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel. Thus saith my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my
the Lord, Learne not the way of the heathen, and sorow, and I will beare it. 20 My tabernacle is
be not afraid for the signes of heauen, though the destroyed, and all my coardes are broken: my
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heathen be afraid of such. For the customes of children are gone from me, and are not: there
the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out is none to spread out my tent any more, and
of the forest (which is the worke of the handes to set vp my curtaines. 21 For the Pastours are
of the carpenter) with the axe, 4 And another become beasts, and haue not sought the Lord:
decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten therefore haue they none vnderstanding: and
it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not. The all the flockes of their pastures are scattered.
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idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake 22 Beholde, the noyse of the brute is come, and
not: they are borne because they cannot go feare a great commotion out of the North countrey to
them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can make the cities of Iudah desolate, and a denne of
they do good. 6 There is none like vnto thee, O dragons. 23 O Lord, I knowe, that the way of man
Lord: thou art great, and thy name is great in is not in himselfe, neyther is it in man to walke
power. 7 Who would not feare thee, O King of and to direct his steps. 24 O Lord, correct mee, but
nations? for to thee appertaineth the dominion: with iudgement, not in thine anger, least thou
for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in bring mee to nothing. 25 Powre out thy wrath
al their kingdomes there is none like thee. But, vpon the heathen, that knowe thee not, and vpon
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altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the the families that call not on thy Name: for they
stocke is a doctrine of vanitie. Siluer plates are haue eaten vp Iaakob and deuoured him and
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brought from Tarshish, and golde from Vphaz, consumed him, and haue made his habitation
for the worke of the workeman, and the handes desolate.
of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple