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for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an the Lord will destroy the Philistims, the remnant
inhabitant. 20 Egypt is like a faire calfe, but de- of the yle of Caphtor. 5 Baldenes is come vpon
struction commeth: out of the North it commeth. Azzah: Ashkelon is cut vp with the rest of their
21 Also her hired men are in the middes of her valleys. Howe long wilt thou thy selfe? O thou
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like fat calues: they are also turned backe and sword of the Lord, how long will it be or thou
fled away together: they could not stand, because cease! turne againe into thy scaberd, rest and be
the day of their destruction was come vpon them, still. 7 Howe can it cease, seeing the Lord hath
and the time of their visitation. 22 The voyce giuen it a charge against Ashkelon, and against
thereof shall goe foorth like a serpent: for they the sea banke? euen there hath he appointed it.
shall march with an armie, and come against
her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23 They shall 48
cut downe her forest, saith the Lord: for they 1 Concerning Moab, thus saith ye Lord of
cannot be counted, because they are moe then hostes, the God of Israel, Woe vnto Nebo: for it
ye grashoppers, and are innumerable. 24 The is wasted: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken:
daughter of Egypt shall be confounded: she shall Misgab is confounded and afraide. 2 Moab shall
be deliuered into the handes of the people of the boast no more of Heshbon: for they haue deuised
North. 25 Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God euill against it. Come, and let vs destroy it,
of Israel, Behold, I will visite the common people that it be no more a nation: also thou shalt
of No and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods be destroyed, O Madmen, and the sworde shall
and their Kings, euen Pharaoh, and al them that pursue thee. 3 A voyce of crying shall be from
trust in him, 26 And I will deliuer them into the Horonaim with desolation and great destruction.
handes of those, that seeke their liues, and into 4 Moab is destroyed: her litle ones haue caused
the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel, and their crie to be heard. 5 For at the going vp of
into the handes of his seruants, and afterwarde Luhith, the mourner shall goe vp with weeping:
she shall dwell as in the olde time, saith the Lord. for in the going downe of Horonaim, the enemies
27 But feare not thou, O my seruant Iaakob, and haue heard a cry of destruction, Flee and saue
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be not thou afraid, O Israel: for behold, I will
deliuer thee from a farre countrey, and thy seede your liues, and be like vnto the heath in the
from the land of their captiuitie, and Iaakob shall wildernesse. 7 For because thou hast trusted in
returne and be in rest, and prosperitie, and none thy workes and in thy treasures, thou shalt also
shall make him afraid. 28 Feare thou not, O Iaakob be taken, and Chemosh shall goe forth into cap-
my seruant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee, tiuitie with his Priestes and his princes together.
and I will vtterly destroy all the nations, whither 8 And the destroyer shall come vpon all cities,
I haue driuen thee: but I will not vtterly destroy and no citie shall escape: the valley also shall
thee, but correct thee by iudgement, and not perish and the plaine shalbe destroyed as the
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vtterly cut thee off. Lord hath spoken. Giue wings vnto Moab, that
it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof
47 shalbe desolate, without any to dwell therein.
Cursed be he that doeth the worke of the
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1 The wordes of the Lord that came to Ieremiah Lord negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth
the Prophet, against the Philistims, before that backe his sword from blood. 11 Moab hath bene
Pharaoh smote Azzah. 2 Thus saith the Lord, at rest from his youth, and he hath setled on
Beholde, waters rise vp out of the North, and his lees, and hath not bene powred from vessell
shalbe as a swelling flood, and shall ouerflowe the to vessell, neither hath he gone into captiuitie:
land, and all that is therein, and the cities with therefore his taste remained in him and his sent
them that dwell therein: then the men shall crie, is not changed. 12 Therefore beholde, the dayes
and all the inhabitants of the land shall howle, come, saith the Lord, that I will send vnto him
3 At the noise and stamping of ye hoofes of his such as shall carie him away, and shall emptie
strong horses, at the noise of his charets, and his vessels, and breake their bottels. 13 And
at the rumbling of his wheeles: ye fathers shall Moab shalbe ashamed of Chemosh as the house
not looke backe to their children, for feeblenes of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
of handes, Because of the day that commeth to 14 Howe thinke you thus, We are mightie and
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destroy all the Philistims, and to destroy Tyrus, strong men of warre? 15 Moab is destroyed, and
and Zidon, and all the rest that take their part: for his cities burnt vp, and his chose yong men are