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38 They shall rore together like lions, and yell as broken: for the Lord God that recompenceth,
the lyons whelpes. 39 In their heate I will make shall surely recompence. 57 And I will make
them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that drunke her princes, and her wise men, her dukes,
they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they
and not wake, sayth the Lord. 40 I wil bring shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake,
them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
like rams and goates. 41 How is Sheshach taken! 58 Thus saith the Lord of hostes, The thicke wall
and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! of Babel shalbe broken, and her hie gates shall
how is Babel become an astonishment among the be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour
nations! 42 The sea is come vp vpon Babel: he is in vaine, and the folke in ye fire, for they shalbe
couered with the multitude of the waues thereof. weary. 59 The worde which Ieremiah the Prophet
43 Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and commanded Sheraiah the sonne of Neriiah, the
a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, sonne of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah
neither doth the sonne of man passe thereby. 44 I the King of Iudah into Babel, in the fourth yeere
wil also visite Bel in Babel, and I wil bring out of of his reigne: and this Sheraiah was a peaceable
his mouth, that which he hath swallowed vp, and prince. 60 So Ieremiah wrote in a booke all the
the nations shall runne no more vnto him, and euill that should come vpon Babel: euen al these
the wall of Babel shall fall. 45 My people, go out of things, that are written against Babel. 61 And
the middes of her, and deliuer yee euery man his Ieremiah sayd to Sheraiah, Whe thou commest
soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord, 46 Least vnto Babel, and shalt see, and shalt reade all these
your heart euen faynt, and ye feare the rumour, wordes, 62 Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast
that shalbe heard in the land: the rumour shall spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none
come this yeere, and after that in the other yeere should remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but
shall come a rumour, and crueltie in the land, that it should be desolate for euer. 63 And when
and ruler against ruler. 47 Therefore beholde, the thou hast made an ende of reading this booke,
dayes come, that I will visite the images of Babel, thou shalt binde a stone to it, and cast it in the
and the whole land shalbe confounded, and all middes of Euphrates, 64 And shalt say, Thus shall
her slayne shall fall in the middes of her. 48 Then Babel be drowned, and shall not rise from the
the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, euil, that I will bring vpon her: and they shall be
shall reioyce for Babel: for the destroyers shall weary. Thus farre are the wordes of Ieremiah.
come vnto her from the North, saith the Lord.
49 As Babel caused the slaine of Israel to fal, so 52
by Babel the slaine of all the earth did fall. 50 Ye 1 Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde
that haue escaped the sworde, goe away, stand when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen
not still: remember the Lord a farre of, and let yeeres in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was
Ierusalem come into your minde. 51 Wee are Hamutal, the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.
confounded because wee haue heard reproch: 2 And he did euil in the eyes of the Lord, according
shame hath couered our faces, for straungers are to all that Iehoiakim had done. 3 Doubtlesse
come into the Sanctuaries of the Lordes House. because the wrath of the Lord was against
52 Wherefore behold, the dayes come, sayth the Ierusalem and Iudah, till he had cast them out
Lord, that I will visite her grauen images, and from his presence, therefore Zedekiah rebelled
through all her land the wounded shall grone. against the King of Babel. 4 But in the ninth
53 Though Babel should mount vp to heauen, and yeere of his reigne, in the tenth moneth the tenth
though shee should defend her strength on hye, day of the moneth came Nebuchad-nezzar King
yet from mee shall her destroyers come, sayth of Babel, he and all his hoste against Ierusalem,
the Lord. 54 A sound of a cry commeth from and pitched against it, and buylt fortes against
Babel, and great destruction from the land of the it round about. 5 So the citie was besieged vnto
Caldeans, 55 Because the Lord hath layde Babel the eleuenth yeere of the King Zedekiah. Now in
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waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth,
and her waues shall roare like great waters, and the famine was sore in ye citie, so that there was
a sounde was made by their noyse: 56 Because no more bread for ye people of the land. Then
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the destroyer is come vpon her, euen vpon Babel, the citie was broken vp and all the men of warre
and her strong men are taken, their bowes are fled, and went out of the citie by night, by the