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the husbandmen and they that goe foorth with the fields vnto the brooke of Kidron, and vnto the
the flocke. 25 For I haue saciate the wearie soule, corner of the horsegate toward the East, shalbe
and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule. holy vnto the Lord, neither shall it be plucked vp
26 Therefore I awaked and behelde, and my sleepe nor destroyed any more for euer.
was sweete vnto me. 27 Beholde, the dayes come,
saith the Lord, that I will sowe the house of Israel, 32
and the house of Iudah with the seede of man 1 The worde that came vnto Ieremiah from the
and with the seede of beast. 28 And like as I haue Lord, in the tenth yere of Zedekiah king of Iudah,
watched vpon them, to plucke vp and to roote
out, and to throw downe, and to destroy, and to which was the eightenth yeere of Nebuchad-
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plague them, so wil I watch ouer them, to build nezzar. For then the King of Babels hoste be-
and to plant them, saith ye Lord. 29 In those sieged Ierusalem: And Ieremiah the Prophet was
dayes shall they say no more, The fathers haue shutte vp in the court of the prison, which was in
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eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are the King of Iudahs house. For Zedekiah King of
set on edge. 30 But euery one shall die for his Iudah had shut him vp, saying, Wherefore doest
owne iniquitie: euery man that eateth the sowre thou prophesie, and say, Thus saith the Lord,
grape, his teeth shalbe set on edge. 31 Beholde, Beholde, I will giue this citie into the handes of
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the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will make the King of Babel, and he shall take it? And
a new couenant with the house of Israel, and Zedekiah the King of Iudah shall not escape out
with the house of Iudah, 32 Not according to ye of the hande of the Caldeans, but shall surely be
couenant that I made with their fathers, when I deliuered into the handes of the King of Babel,
tooke them by the hand to bring them out of the and shall speake with him mouth to mouth, and
land of Egypt, the which my couenant they brake, his eyes shall beholde his face, 5 And he shall
although I was an husband vnto them, saith the lead Zedekiah to Babel, and there shall he be,
Lord. 33 But this shall be the couenant that I will vntil I visit him, saith ye Lord: though ye fight
make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, with the Caldeans, ye shall not prosper. 6 And
saith the Lord, I will put my Lawe in their inward Ieremiah said, The word of the Lord came vnto
partes, and write it in their hearts, and wil be me, saying, 7 Beholde, Hanameel, the sonne of
their God, and they shalbe my people. 34 And they Shallum thine vncle, shall come vnto thee and
shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and say, Bye vnto thee my fielde, that is in Anathoth:
euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for the title by kindred appertaineth vnto thee to
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for they shall all know me from the least of them bye it. So Hanameel, mine vncles sonne, came
vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for to mee in the court of the prison, according to
I wil forgiue their iniquitie, and will remember the word of the Lord, and said vnto me, Bye my
their sinnes no more. 35 Thus saith the Lord, field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is
which giueth the sunne for a light to the day, in the countrey of Beniamin: for the right of the
and the courses of the moone and of the starres possession is thine, and the purchase belongeth
for a light to the night, which breaketh the sea, vnto thee: bye it for thee. Then I knewe that
when the waues thereof roare: his Name is the this was the worde of the Lord. 9 And I bought
Lord of hostes. 36 If these ordinances depart out the field of Hanameel, mine vncles sonne, that
of my sight, saith the Lord, then shall the seede was in Anathoth, and weighed him the siluer,
of Israel cease from being a nation before me, euen seuen shekels, and tenne pieces of siluer.
for euer. 37 Thus saith the Lord, If the heauens 10 And I writ it in the booke and signed it, and
can be measured, or the fundations of the earth tooke witnesses, and weighed him the siluer in
be searched out beneath, then wil I cast off all the balances. 11 So I tooke the booke of the pos-
the seed of Israel, for all that they haue done, session, being sealed according to the Lawe, and
saith the Lord. 38 Behold, the dayes come, saith custome, with the booke that was open, 12 And I
the Lord, that the citie shalbe built to the Lord gaue the booke of the possession vnto Baruch the
from the tower of Hananeel, vnto the gate of the
corner. 39 And the line of the measure shall go sonne of Neriah, the sonne of Maaseiah, in the
sight of Hanameel mine vncles sonne, and in the
foorth in his presence vpon the hil Gareb, and presence of the witnesses, written in the booke
shall compasse about to Goath. 40 And the whole of the possession, before al the Iewes that sate in
valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the court of the prison. 13 And I charged Baruch