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raine? or can the heauens giue showres? is it not all thy sinnes euen in all thy borders. 14 And I
thou, O Lord our God? therefore we will waite wil make thee to go with thine enemies into a
vpon thee: for thou hast made all these things. land that thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled
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15 in mine anger, which shall burne you. O Lord,
thou knowest, remember me, and visite me, and
1 Then sayde the Lord vnto me, Though Moses reuenge me of my persecuters: take mee not
and Samuel stoode before mee, yet mine affec- away in the continuance of thine anger: know
tion coulde not be toward this people: cast them that for thy sake I haue suffered rebuke. 16 Thy
out of my sight, and let them depart. 2 And if wordes were founde by me, and I did eate them,
they say vnto thee, Whither shall we depart? and thy worde was vnto me the ioy and reioycing
then tell them, Thus saith the Lord, Such as are of mine heart: for thy Name is called vpon me, O
appointed to death, vnto death: and such as Lord God of hostes. 17 I sate not in the assembly
are for the sworde, to the sworde: and such as of the mockers, neither did I reioyce, but sate
are for the famine, to the famine: and such as alone because of thy plague: for thou hast filled
are for the captiuitie, to the captiuitie. 3 And I me with indignation. 18 Why is mine heauines
wil appoint ouer them foure kindes, sayth the continuall? and my plague desperate and cannot
Lord, the sworde to slay, and the dogs to teare be healed? why art thou vnto me as a lyar, and
in pieces, and the soules of the heauen, and the as waters that faile? 19 Therefore thus saith the
beastes of the earth to deuoure, and to destroy. Lord, If thou returne, then wil I bring thee againe,
4 I will scatter them also in all kingdomes of and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take
the earth, because of Manasseh the sonne of away the precious from the vile, thou shalt be
Hezekiah King of Iudah, for that which he did in according to my worde: let them returne vnto
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Ierusalem. Who shall then haue pitie vpon thee, thee, but returne not thou vnto them. 20 And I
O Ierusalem? or who shalbe sorie for thee? or will make thee vnto this people a strong brasen
who shall go to pray for thy peace? 6 Thou hast wall, and they shall fight against thee, but they
forsaken me, sayth the Lord, and gone backward: shall not preuaile against thee: for I am with thee
therefore wil I stretch out mine hand against to saue thee and to deliuer thee, saith ye Lord.
thee, and destroy thee: for I am weary with 21 And I will deliuer thee out of the hand of the
repenting. 7 And I wil scatter them with the wicked, and I will redeeme thee out of the hand
fanne in the gates of the earth I haue wasted, and of the tyrants.
destroyed my people, yet they would not returne
from their wayes. Their widdowes are increased 16
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The worde of the Lord came also vnto mee,
by mee aboue the sande of the sea: I haue brought saying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, nor
vpon them, and against the assembly of the yong 3
men a destroyer at noone day: I haue caused haue sonnes nor daughters in this place. For
him to fal vpon them, and the citie suddenly, thus sayeth the Lord concerning the sonnes, and
and speedily. Shee that hath borne seuen, hath concerning the daughters that are borne in this
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bene made weake: her heart hath failed: the place, and concerning their mothers that beare
sunne hath failed her, whiles it was day: she hath them, and concerning their fathers, that beget
bene confounded, and ashamed, and the residue them in this land, 4 They shall die of deathes
of them will I deliuer vnto the sworde before and diseases: they shall not be lamented, neither
their enemies, sayth the Lord. 10 Wo is mee, my shall they be buried, but they shalbe as dung
mother, that thou hast borne mee, a contentious vpon the earth, and they shalbe consumed by the
man, and a man that striueth with the whole sword, and by famine, and their carkeises shall
earth I haue neither lent on vsury, nor men haue be meate for the foules of the heauen, and for
lent vnto me on vsurie: yet euery one doeth curse the beasts of the earth. For thus saith the Lord,
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me. 11 The Lord sayd, Surely thy remnant shall Enter not into the house of mourning, neither
haue wealth: surely I will cause thine enemie goe to lament, nor be moued for the: for I haue
to intreate thee in the time of trouble, and in taken my peace, from this people, saith the Lord,
the time of affliction. 12 Shall the yron breake euen mercy and compassion. 6 Both the great,
the yron, and the brasse that commeth from the and the small shall die in this land: they shall
North? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures wil not be buried, neither shall men lament for them
I giue to be spoyled without gaine, and that for nor cut themselues, nor make themselues balde