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2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel drinke the water of gall: for from the prophets
vnto the pastors that feede my people, Yee haue of Ierusalem is wickednesse gone forth into all
scattered my flock and thrust them out, and haue the lande. 16 Thus sayth ye Lord of hosts, Heare
not visited them: beholde, I will visite you for not the wordes of the prophets that prophecie
the wickednesse of your works, saith the Lord. vnto you, and teach you vanitie: they speake
3 And I will gather the remnant of my sheepe the vision of their owne heart, and not out of
out of all countreyes, whither I had driuen them, the mouth of the Lord. 17 They say still vnto
and will bring them againe to their foldes, and them that despise mee, The Lord hath sayde, Ye
they shall growe and encrease. And I will set vp shall haue peace: and they say vnto euery one
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shepheardes ouer them, which shall feede them: that walketh after the stubbernesse of his owne
and they shall dread no more nor be afraide, nei- heart, No euill shall come vpon you. 18 For who
ther shall any of them be lacking, saith the Lord. hath stand in the counsel of the Lord that he
5 Behold, The dayes come, saith the Lord, that I hath perceiued and heard his word? Who hath
will raise vnto Dauid a righteous branche, and a marked his worde and heard it? 19 Beholde, the
King shall reigne, and prosper, and shall execute tempest of the Lord goeth forth in his wrath, and
iudgement, and iustice in the earth. 6 In his a violent whirlewinde shall fall downe vpon the
head of the wicked.
The anger of the Lord shall
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dayes Iudah shalbe saued, and Israel shall dwell not returne vntill he haue executed, and till he
safely, and this is the Name wherby they shall call haue perfourmed the thoughts of his heart: in
him, The Lord our righteousnesse. 7 Therefore the latter dayes ye shall vnderstande it plainely.
behold, the dayes come, sayth the Lord, that 21 I haue not sent these prophets, sayth the Lord,
they shall no more say, The Lord liueth, which yet they ranne; I haue not spoken to them, and
brought vp the children of Israel out of the lande yet they prophecied. 22 But if they had stande
of Egypt, But the Lord liueth, which brought vp in my counsell, and had declared my words to
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and led the seede of the house of Israel out of the my people, then they should haue turned them
North countrey and from all countryes where I from their euill way, and from the wickednesse
had scattered them, and they shall dwell in their of their inuentions. 23 Am I a God at hande, saith
owne lande. 9 Mine heart breaketh within mee, the Lord, and not a God farre off? 24 Can any
because of the prophets, all my bones shake: I hide him selfe in secrete places, that I shall not
am like a drunken man (and like a man whome see him, sayth the Lord? Do not I fill heauen and
wine hath ouercome) for the presence of the Lord 25
and for his holie wordes. 10 For the lande is earth, saieth the Lord? I haue heard what the
prophets said, that prophecie lies in my Name,
full of adulterers, and because of othes the lande
mourneth, the pleasant places of the wildernesse saying, I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed. 26 Howe
are dried vp, and their course is euill, and their long? Doe the prophets delite to prophecie lies,
force is not right. 11 For both the prophet and euen prophecying the deceit of their owne heart?
the Priest doe wickedly: and their wickednesse 27 Thinke they to cause my people to forget my
haue I found in mine House, saith the Lord. Name by their dreames, which they tell euery
12 Wherefore their way shalbe vnto them as slip- man to his neyghbour, as their forefathers haue
perie wayes in the darknesse: they shalbe driuen forgotten my Name for Baal? 28 The prophet that
foorth and fall therein: for I will bring a plague hath a dreame, let him tell a dreame, and hee
vpon them, euen the yeere of their visitation, that hath my worde, let him speake my worde
saith the Lord. 13 And I haue seene foolishnesse faithfully: what is the chaffe to the wheate, sayth
in the prophets of Samaria, that prophecied in the Lord? 29 Is not my word euen like a fire,
Baal, and caused my people Israel to erre. 14 I sayeth the Lord? and like an hammer, that
haue seene also in the prophets of Ierusalem breaketh the stone? 30 Therefore beholde, I will
filthines: they commit adulterie and walke in lies: come against the prophets, saieth the Lord, that
they strengthen also the hands of the wicked that steale my word euerie one from his neighbour.
none can returne from his wickednesse: they are 31 Beholde, I will come against the prophets, saith
all vnto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof the Lord, which haue sweete tongues, and say, He
as Gomorah. 15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of saith. 32 Beholde, I will come against them that
hostes concerning the prophets, Beholde, I will prophecie false dreames, saith the Lord, and doe
feede them with wormewood, and make them tell them, and cause my people to erre by their