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for them. They shall not stretch out the hands man make gods vnto himselfe, and they are no
for the in the mourning to comfort them for gods? 21 Beholde, therefore I will this once teach
the dead, neither shall they giue them the cup them: I will shewe them mine hande and my
of consolation to drinke for their father or for power, and they shall know that my Name is the
their mother. 8 Thou shalt not also goe into the Lord.
house of feasting to sit with them to eate and to
drinke. 9 For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the 17
God of Israel, Beholde, I wil cause to cease out of 1 The sinne of Iudah is written with a pen of
this place in your eyes, euen in your dayes the yron, and with the poynt of a diamonde, and
voyce of myrth, and the voyce of gladnes, the grauen vpon the table of their heart, and vpon
voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the the hornes of your altars. 2 They remember
bride. 10 And when thou shalt shewe this people their altars as their children, with their groues
all these wordes, and they shall say vnto thee, by the greene trees vpon the hilles. 3 O my
Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this mountaine in the fielde, I will giue thy substance,
great plague against vs? or what is our iniquitie? and all thy treasures to be spoyled, for the sinne
and what is our sinne that we haue committed of thy high places throughout all thy borders.
against the Lord our God? 11 Then shalt thou say 4 And thou shalt rest, and in thee shall be a rest
vnto them, Because your fathers haue forsaken from thine heritage that I gaue thee, and I will
me, sayth the Lord, and haue walked after other cause thee to serue thine enemies in the land,
gods, and haue serued them, and worshipped which thou knowest not: for yee haue kindled a
them, and haue forsaken me, and haue not kept fire in mine anger, which shall burne for euer.
my Law, 12 (And ye haue done worse then your 5 Thus saith the Lord, Cursed be the man that
fathers: for beholde, you walke euery one after trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arme, and
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withdraweth his heart from the Lord.
the stubbernesse of his wicked heart, and will not shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and
heare me) 13 Therefore will I driue you out of this shall not see when any good commeth, but shall
land into a lande that ye knowe not, neither you, inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse,
nor your fathers, and there shall ye serue other in a salt land, and not inhabited. Blessed be the
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gods day and night: for I will shew you no grace. man, that trusteth in ye Lord, and whose hope
14 Behold therfore, saith the Lord, the dayes come the Lord is. 8 For he shall be as a tree that is
that it shall no more be sayde, The Lord liueth, planted by the water, which spreadeth out her
which brought vp the children of Israel out of rootes by the riuer, and shall not feele when the
the land of Egypt, 15 But the Lord liueth, that heatecommeth, butherleafeshallbegreene, and
brought vp the children of Israel from the lande shall not care for the yeere of drought, neyther
of the North, and from all the landes where hee shall cease from yeelding fruit. 9 The heart is
had scattered them, and I wil bring them againe deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can
into their land that I gaue vnto their fathers. knowe it? 10 I the Lord search the heart, and
16 Behold, sayth the Lord, I wil send out many try ye reines, euen to giue euery man according
fishers, and they shall fish them, and after, will I to his wayes, and according to the fruite of his
send out many hunters, and they shall hunt them workes. 11 As the partryche gathereth the yong,
from euery mountaine and from euery hill, and which she hath not brought forth: so he that
out of the caues of the rockes. 17 For mine eyes getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them
are vpon al their wayes: they are not hid from in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall
my face, neither is their iniquitie hid from mine bee a foole. 12 As a glorious throne exalted from
eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquitie the beginning, so is the place of our Sanctuarie.
and their sinne double, because they haue defiled 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee,
my lande, and haue filled mine inheritance with shall be confounded: they that depart from thee,
their filthie carions and their abominations. 19 O shalbe written in the earth, because they haue
Lord, thou art my force, and my strength and my forsaken the Lord, the fountaine of liuing waters.
refuge in the day of affliction: the Gentiles shall 14 Heale me, O Lord, and I shall bee whole: saue
come vnto thee from the ends of the world, and me, and I shall bee saued: for thou art my prayse.
shall say, Surely our fathers haue inherited lies, 15 Behold, they say vnto me, Where is the word
and vanitie, wherein was no profite. 20 Shall a of the Lord? let it come nowe. 16 But I haue