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vp, and no man shall open them: all Iudah shall vs, and thy Name is called vpon vs: forsake vs
be caried away captiue: it shall be wholy caried not. 10 Thus saith the Lord vnto this people,
away captiue. 20 Lift vp your eyes and beholde Thus haue they delited to wander: they haue not
them that come from the North: where is the refrained their feete, therefore the Lord hath no
flocke that was giuen thee, euen thy beautifull delight in them: but he will now remember their
flocke? 21 What wilt thou saye, when hee shall iniquitie, and visite their sinnes. 11 Then sayd
visite thee? (for thou hast taught them to be the Lord vnto me, Thou shalt not pray to do this
captaines and as chiefe ouer thee) shall not sorow people good. 12 When they fast, I will not heare
take thee as a woman in trauaile? 22 And if thou their cry, and when they offer burnt offering, and
say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will
vpon me? For the multitude of thine iniquities consume them by the sworde, and by the famine
are thy skirts discouered and thy heeles made and by the pestilence. 13 Then answered I, Ah
bare. 23 Can the blacke More change his skin? or Lord God, beholde, the prophets say vnto them,
the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, Ye shall not see the sworde, neither shall famine
that are accustomed to do euill. 24 Therefore will come vpon you, but I wil giue you assured peace
I scatter them, as the stubble that is taken away in this place. 14 Then the Lord said vnto me, The
with the South winde. 25 This is thy portion, prophets prophecie lyes in my Name: I haue not
and ye part of thy measures from me, sayth the sent them, neither did I command them, neither
Lord, because thou hast forgotten me and trusted spake I vnto them, but they prophecie vnto you
in lyes. 26 Therefore I haue also discouered a false vision, and diuination, and vanitie, and
thy skirts vpon thy face, that thy shame may deceitfulnes of their owne heart. 15 Therefore
appeare. 27 I haue seene thine adulteries, and thy thus saith the Lord, Concerning the prophets that
neiings, the filthinesse of thy whoredome on the prophecie in my Name, whom I haue not sent,
hils in the fieldes, and thine abominations. Wo yet they say, Sworde and famine shall not be
vnto thee, O Ierusalem: wilt thou not bee made in this land, by sword and famine shall those
cleane? when shall it once be? prophets be consumed. 16 And the people to
14 whome these prophets doe prophecie, shalbe
cast out in the streetes of Ierusalem, because of
1 The worde of the Lord that came vnto the famine, and the sword, and there shall be
Ieremiah, concerning the dearth. 2 Iudah hath none to bury them, both they, and their wiues,
mourned, and the gates thereof are desolate, and their sonnes, and their daughters: for I wil
they haue bene brought to heauinesse vnto the powre their wickednes vpon them. 17 Therefore
grounde, and the cry of Ierusalem goeth vp. And thou shalt say this worde vnto them, Let mine
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their nobles haue sent their inferiours to the eyes drop downe teares night and day without
water, who came to the welles, and founde no ceasing: for the virgine daughter of my people
water: they returned with their vessels empty: is destroyed with a great destruction, and with
theywereashamedandconfounded, andcouered a sore grieuous plague. 18 For if I go into the
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their heads. For the grounde was destroyed, be- field, behold the slaine with the sworde: and if I
cause there was no rayne in the earth: the plow- enter into the citie, behold them that are sicke for
men were ashamed, and couered their heads. hunger also: moreouer the Prophet also and the
5 Yea, the hinde also calued in the fielde, and Priest go a wandring into a land that they know
forsooke it, because there was no grasse. 6 And not. 19 Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath
the wilde asses did stande in the hygh places, thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten
and drew in their winde like dragons their eyes vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for
did faile, because there was no grasse. 7 O Lord, peace, and there is no good, and for the time of
though our iniquities testifie against vs, deale health, and behold trouble. 20 We acknowledge,
with vs according to thy name: for our rebellions O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our
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are many, we sinned against thee. O the hope of fathers: for we haue sinned against thee. 21 Doe
Israel, the sauiour thereof in the time of trouble, not abhorre vs: for thy Names sake cast not
why art thou as a strager in ye land, as one that downe the throne of thy glory: remember and
passeth by to tary for a night? Why art thou as breake not thy couenant with vs. 22 Are there any
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a man astonied, and as a strong man that cannot among the vanities of the Gentiles, that can giue
helpe? yet thou, O Lord, art in the middes of