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            against this lande, and against the inhabitantes Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel,
            thereof, and against all these nations rounde    Drinke and bee drunken, and spewe and fall, and
            about, and will destroy them, and make them an   rise no more, because of the sworde, which I will
            astonishment and an hissing, and a continuall    sende among you.   28 But if they refuse to take the
            desolation.  10  Moreouer I will take from them  cuppe at thine hande to drinke, then tell them,
            the voyce of mirth and the voyce of gladnesse,   Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Ye shall certainely
            the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of     drinke.  29  For loe, I beginne to plague the citie,
            the bride, the noise of the milstones, and the   where my Name is called vpon, and shoulde you
            light of the candle.  11 And this whole land shalbe goe free? Ye shall not goe quite: for I will call for a
            desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations sword vpon al the inhabitants of the earth, saith
            shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres. the Lord of hostes.   30 Therefore prophecie thou
            12 And when the seuentie yeres are accomplished, against them al these words, and say vnto them,
            I will visite the King of Babel and that nation, The Lord shall roare from aboue, and thrust out
            saith the Lord, for their iniquities, euen the land his voyce from his holy habitation: he shall roare
            of the Caldeans, and will make it a perpetuall vpon his habitation, and crie aloude, as they that
            desolation,  13  And I will bring vpon that lande presse the grapes, against all the inhabitants of
            all my wordes which I haue pronounced against the earth.    31 The sounde shall come to the endes
            it, euen all that is written in this booke, which  of the earth: for the Lord hath a controuersie
            Ieremiah hath prophecied against all nations.    with the nations, and will enter into iudgement
            14  For many nations, and great Kings shall euen  with all flesh, and he will giue them that are
            serue themselues of them: thus will I recompense  wicked, to the sworde, saith the Lord.  32  Thus
            them according to their deedes, and according to  saith the Lord of hostes, Behold, a plague shall
            the workes of their owne handes.  15 For thus hath  goe foorth from nation to nation, and a great
            the Lord God of Israel spoken vnto me, Take the  whirlewinde shalbe raised vp from the coastes
            cuppe of wine of this mine indignation at mine   of the earth,  33  And the slaine of the Lord shall
            hand, and cause all the nations, to whome I sende  be at that day, from one ende of the earth, euen
            thee, to drinke it.  16  And they shall drinke, and  vnto the other ende of the earth: they shall not
            be moued and be mad, because of the sworde       bee mourned, neither gathered nor buried, but
            that I will sende among them.   17  Then tooke I shalbe as the dongue vpon the grounde.  34 Howle,
            the cup at the Lordes hand, and made all people ye shepherdes, and crie, and wallowe your selues
            to drinke, vnto whome the Lord had sent me: in the ashes, ye principall of the flocke: for your
            18 Euen Ierusalem, and the cities of Iudah, and the  dayes of slaughter are accomplished, and of your
            Kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make  dispersion, and ye shall fall like precious vessels.
            them desolate, an astonishment, an hissing, and  35 And the flight shall faile from the shepherdes,
            a curse, as appeareth this day:  19  Pharaoh also,  and the escaping from the principall of the flocke.
            King of Egypt, and his seruants, and his princes,  36  A voyce of the crye of the shepherdes, and
            and all his people:  20 And all sortes of people, and  an howling of the principall of the flocke shalbe
            all the Kings of the lande of Vz: and all the Kings  heard: for the Lord hath destroyed their pasture.
            of the lande of the Philistims, and Ashkelon, and  37 And the best pastures are destroyed because of
            Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod:
            21  Edom, and Moab, and the Ammonites,   22  And  the wrath and indignation of the Lord.  38 He hath
            all the Kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon,  forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is
            and the Kings of the Yles, that are beyonde the  waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, and
            Sea,  23  And Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all  because of ye wrath of his indignatio.
            that dwell in the vttermost corners,  24  And all
            the Kings of Arabia, and all the Kings of Arabia,                       26
            that dwell in the desert,  25  And all the Kings    1
            of Zimri, and all the Kings of Elam, and all the      In the beginning of the reigne of Iehoiakim
            Kings of the Medes,  26  And all the Kings of the  the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah, came this
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            North, farre and neere one to another, and all   worde from the Lord, saying,     Thus saith the
            the kingdomes of the worlde, which are vpon      Lord, Sande in the court of the Lordes House,
            the earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drinke  and speake vnto all the cities of Iudah, which
            after them.  27  Therefore say thou vnto them,   come to worshippe in the Lords House, all the
                                                             wordes that I commaund thee to speake vnto
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