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of his words. 19 Hearken vnto mee, O Lord, and the fielde. 8 And I will make this citie desolate
heare the voyce of them that contend with me. and an hissing, so that euery one that passeth
20 Shall euill be recompensed for good? for they thereby, shalbe astonished and hisse because of
haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I all ye plagues thereof. 9 And I will feede the
stood before thee, to speake good for the, and to with the flesh of their sonnes and with the flesh
turne away thy wrath from them. 21 Therefore, of their daughters, and euery one shall eate the
deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them flesh of his friende in the siege and straitnesse,
drop away by the force of the sworde, and let wherewith their enemies that seeke their liues,
their wiues be robbed of their children, and be shall hold them strait. 10 Then shalt thou breake
widowes: and let their husbands be put to death, the bottell in the sight of the men that go with
and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in thee, 11 And shalt say vnto them, Thus saith ye
the battell. 22 Let the crye bee heard from their Lord of hostes, Euen so will I breake this people
houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly and this citie, as one breaketh a potters vessell,
vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take that cannot be made whole againe, and they shall
me, and hid snares for my feete. 23 Yet Lord thou bury them in Topheth till there be no place to
knowest al their counsel against me tendeth to bury. 12 Thus will I doe vnto this place, sayth the
death: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither put Lord, and to the inhabitantes thereof, and I will
For the houses of
make this citie like Topheth.
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out their sinne from thy sight, but let them be Ierusalem, and the houses of the Kings of Iudah
ouerthrowen before thee: deale thus with them
in the time of thine anger. shalbe defiled as the place of Topheth, because of
al the houses vpon whose roofes they haue burnt
19 incense vnto all the host of heauen, and haue
powred out drinke offerings vnto other gods.
1 Thus sayth the Lord, Goe, and buy an earthen 14 Then came Ieremiah from Topheth, where the
bottel of a potter, and take of the ancients of the Lord had sent him to prophecie, and he stood in
people, and of the ancients of the Priests, And the court of the Lordes house, and sayde to all
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goe forth vnto the valley of Ben-hinnom, which the people, 15 Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the
is by the entrie of the East gate: and thou shalt God of Israel, Beholde, I will bring vpon this citie,
preache there the wordes, that I shall tell thee, and vpon all her townes, all the plagues that I
3 And shalt say, Heare yee the worde of the Lord, haue pronounced against it, because they haue
O Kings of Iudah, and inhabitantes of Ierusalem, hardened their neckes, and would not heare my
Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, wordes.
Behold, I will bring a plague vpon this place, the
which whosoeuer heareth, his eares shall tingle. 20
4 Because they haue forsaken me, and prophaned 1 When Pashur, the sonne of Immer, the Priest,
thisplace, andhaueburntincenseinitvntoother which was appointed gouernour in the house
gods, whome neyther they, nor their fathers of the Lord, heard that Ieremiah prophecied
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haue knowen, nor the Kings of Iudah (they haue these things, Then Pashur smote Ieremiah the
filled this place also with the blood of innocents, Prophet, and put him in the stockes that were
5 And they haue built the hie places of Baal, to in the hie gate of Beniamin which was by the
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burne their sonnes with fire for burnt offrings House of the Lord. And on the morning, Pashur
vnto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake brought Ieremiah out of the stockes. Then said
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it, neither came it into my minde) Therefore Ieremiah vnto him, The Lord hath not called thy
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behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that this name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. For thus
place shall no more be called Topheth, nor ye saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee to be a
terrour to thy self, and to al thy friends, and they
valley of Ben-hinnom, but the valley of slaughter. shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine
7 And I will bring the counsell of Iudah and eyes shall beholde it, and I will giue all Iudah
Ierusalem to nought in this place, and I will cause into the hande of the King of Babel, and he shall
them to fall by the sword before their enemies, cary them captiue into Babel, and shall slay them
and by the hand of them that seeke their liues: with the sworde. Moreouer, I will deliuer all the
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and their carkeises will I giue to be meate for substance of this citie, and all the labours thereof,
ye foules of the heauen, and to the beastes of and al the precious things thereof, and all the