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broken! howe is Babel become desolate among it shall be no more inhabited, neither shall it
the nations! 24 I haue snared thee, and thou art be inhabited from generation vnto generation.
taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art 40 As God destroied Sodom and Gomorah with
found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen the places thereof neere about, sayeth the Lord:
against the Lord. 25 The Lord hath opened his so shall no man dwell theere, neither shall the
treasure, and hath brought foorth the weapons of sonne of man remaine therein. 41 Beholde, a
his wrath: for this is the woorke of the Lord God people shall come from the North, and a great
of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans. 26 Come nation, and many Kings shall be raised vp from
against her from the vtmost border: open her the coastes of the earth. 42 They shall holde
store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and the bowe and the buckeler: they are cruell and
destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left. vnmercifull: their voyce shall roare like the sea,
27 Destroy all her bullockes: let them goe downe and they shall ride vpon horses, and be put
to the slaughter. Wo vnto them, for their day in aray like men to the battell against thee, O
is come, and the time of their visitation. 28 The daughter of Babel. 43 The King of Babel hath
voyce of them that flee, and escape out of the heard the report of them, and his hands waxed
lande of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance feeble: sorow came vpon him, euen sorowe as of a
of the Lord our God, and the vengeance of his woman in trauaile. 44 Beholde, hee shall come vp
Temple. 29 Call vp the archers against Babel: al ye like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the
that bend the bow, besiege it rounde about: let strong habitation: for I will make Israel to rest,
none thereof escape: recompence her according and I will make them to haste away from her: and
to her worke, and according to all that she hath who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against
done, doe vnto her: for she hath bene proud her? for who is like me, and who will appoynt
against the Lord, euen against the holy one of me the time? and who is the shepheard that
Israel. 30 Therefore shall her yong men fall in the will stande before me? 45 Therefore heare the
streetes, and al her men of warre shalbe destroied counsell of the Lord that hee hath deuised against
in that day, sayeth the Lord. 31 Beholde, I come Babel, and his purpose that hee hath conceiued
vnto thee, O proude man, saith the Lord God of against the lande of the Caldeans: surely the least
hostes: for thy day is come, euen the time that I of the flocke shall drawe them out: surely he shall
will visite thee. 32 And the proude shall stumble make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At
and fall, and none shall raise him vp: and I will the noyse of the winning of Babel the earth is
kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall deuoure moued, and the crye is heard among the nations.
all round about him. 33 Thus saieth the Lord of
hosts, The children of Israel, and the children
of Iudah were oppressed together: and all that 51
tooke them captiues, held them, and would not 1 Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I wil raise vp
let them goe. 34 But their strong redeemer, whose against Babel, and against the inhabitants that
Name is the Lord of hostes, he shall maintaine lift vp their heart against me, a destroying wind,
their cause, that he may giue rest to the lande, 2 And wil send vnto Babel fanners that shall fanne
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babel. 35 A sworde her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of
is vpon the Caldeans, sayeth the Lord, and vpon trouble they shalbe against her on euery side.
the inhabitants of Babel, and vpon her princes, 3 Also to the bender that bendeth his bowe, and
and vpon her wise men. 36 A sworde is vpon to him that lifteth himselfe vp in his brigandine,
the soothsaiers, and they shall dote: a sword is will I say, Spare not her yong men, but destroy
vpon her strong men, and they shalbe afraide. all her hoste. 4 Thus the slaine shall fall in the
37 A sworde is vpon their horses and vpon their lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust
charets, and vpon all the multitude that are in through in her streetes. 5 For Israel hath bene
the middes of her, and they shall be like women: no widowe, nor Iudah from his God, from the
a sworde is vpon her treasures, and they shall Lord of hostes, though their lande was filled with
be spoyled. 38 A drought is vpon her waters, sinne against the holy one of Israel. 6 Flee out
and they shall be dried vp: for it is the lande of of the middes of Babel, and deliuer euery man
grauen images, and they dote vpon their idoles. his soule: be not destroyed in her iniquitie: for
39 Therefore the Ziims with the Iims shall dwel this is the time of the Lordes vengeance he will
there, and the ostriches shall dwel therein: for render vnto her a recompence. 7 Babel hath