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your vowes and doe the things that yee haue sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah. Make readie buck-
vowed. 26 Therefore heare the word of the Lord, ler and shielde, and goe forth to battell. 4 Make
all Iudah that dwel in the land of Egypt. Beholde, I readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp,
haue sworne by my great Name, sayeth the Lord, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the
that my Name shall no more be called vpon by speares, and put on the brigandines. Wherefore
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the mouth of any man of Iudah, in all the lande haue I seene them afraid, and driuen backe? for
of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liueth. 27 Behold, their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away,
I wil watch ouer them for euil and not for good, and looke not backe: for feare was rounde about,
and all men of Iudah that are in the land of sayeth the Lord. 6 The swift shall not flee away,
Egypt, shalbe consumed by the sword, and by the nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble,
famine, vntill they be vtterly destroied. 28 Yet and fall towarde the North by the riuer Perath.
a small nomber that escape the sworde, shall 7 Who is this, that commeth vp, as a flood, whose
returne out of the lande of Egypt into the lande of waters are mooued like the riuers? Egypt riseth
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Iudah: and all the remnant of Iudah that are gone vp like the flood, and his waters are mooued like
into the lande of Egypt to dwell there, shall know the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will
whose words shall stad, mine or theirs. 29 And couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them
this shall be a signe vnto you, saith the Lord, that dwell therein. 9 Come vp, ye horses, and
whe I visit you in this place, that ye may know rage ye charets, and let the valiant men come
that my words shall surely stand against you for foorth, the blacke Mores, and the Lybians that
euill. 30 Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will giue beare the shield, and the Lydians that handle and
Pharaoh Hophra King of Egypt into the hand of bend the bowe. 10 For this is the day of ye Lord
his enemies, and into the hand of them that seeke God of hostes, and a day of vengeance, that he
his life: as I gaue Zedekiah King of Iudah into may auenge him of his enemies: for the sworde
the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel his shall deuoure, and it shall be saciate, and made
enemie, who also sought his life. drunke with their blood: for the Lord God of

45 hosts hath a sacrifice in the North countrey by
Goe vp vnto Gilead, and take
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the Riuer Perath.
1 The worde that Ieremiah the Prophet spake balme, O virgine, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine
vnto Baruch the sonne of Neriah, when he had shalt thou vse many medicines: for thou shalt
written these woordes in a booke at the mouth haue no health. 12 The nations haue heard of
of Ieremiah, in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim thy shame, and thy crie hath filled the lande: for
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the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah, saying, Thus the strong hath stumbled against the strong and
sayeth the Lord God of Israel vnto thee, O Baruch, they are fallen both together. 13 The woorde that
3 Thou diddest say, Wo is me nowe: for the Lord the Lord spake to Ieremiah the Prophet, howe
hath laied sorrow vnto my sorrowe: I fainted in Nebuchad-nezzarkingofBabelshouldecomeand
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my mourning, and I can finde no rest. Thus shalt smite the lande of Egypt. 14 Publish in Egypt and
thou say vnto him, The Lord sayeth thus, Behold, declare in Migdol, and proclaime in Noph, and
that which I haue built, will I destroy, and that in Tahpanhes, and say, Stand still, and prepare
which I haue planted, will I plucke vp, euen this thee: for the sworde shall deuoure rounde about
whole lande. And seekest thou great things for thee. 15 Why are thy valiant men put backe?
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thy self? seeke them not: for beholde, I wil bring they could not stand, because the Lord did driue
a plague vpon al flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life them. 16 Hee made many to fall, and one fell
wil I giue thee for a pray in all places, whither vpon another: and they saide, Arise, let vs goe
thou goest. againe to our owne people, and to the land of
our natiuitie from the sworde of the violent.
46 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh King of Egypt,

1 The wordes of the Lord, which came to and of a great multitude hath passed the time
Ieremiah the Prophet against the Gentiles, As appointed. 18 As I liue, saith the King, whose
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against Egypt, against ye armie of Pharaoh Necho Name is the Lord of hostes, surely as Tabor is
King of Egypt, which was by the riuer Perath in the mountaines, and as Carmel is in the sea:
in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-nezzar King of so shall it come. 19 O thou daughter dwelling
Babel smote in the fourth yere of Iehoiakim the in Egypt, make thee geare to goe into captiuitie: