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spoken vnto me, and set me vpon my feete, so 9 I haue made thy forehead as the adamant, and
that I heard him that spake vnto me. 3 And he harder then the flint: feare them not therefore,
said vnto me, Sonne of man, I send thee to the neither be afraid at their lookes: for they are
children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath a rebellious house. 10 He said moreouer vnto
rebelled against me: for they and their fathers me, Sonne of man, receiue in thine heart al my
haue rebelled against me, euen vnto this very words that I speake vnto thee, and heare them
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day. For they are impudent children, and stiffe with thine eares, 11 And goe and enter to them
hearted: I do send thee vnto them, and thou shalt that are led away captiues vnto the children of
say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God. 5 But thy people, and speake vnto them, and tell them,
surely they will not heare, neither in deede will Thus saith the Lord God: but surely they will not
they cease: for they are a rebellious house: yet heare, neither will they in deede cease. 12 Then
shall they knowe that there hath bene a Prophet the spirite tooke me vp, and I heard behinde
among them. 6 And thou sonne of man, feare me a noise of a great russhing, saying, Blessed
them not, neither be afraide of their wordes, be ye glorie of the Lord out of his place. 13 I
although rebels, and thornes be with thee, and heard also the noyse of the wings of the beasts,
thou remainest with scorpions: feare not their that touched one another, and the ratling of the
wordes, nor be afrayde at their lookes, for they wheeles that were by them, euen a noyse of a
are a rebellious house. 7 Therefore thou shalt great russhing. 14 So the spirit lift me vp, and
speake my words vnto them: but surely they will
not heare, neither will they in deede cease: for tooke me away and I went in bitternesse, and
they are rebellious. 8 But thou sonne of man, indignation of my spirite, but the hand of the
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heare what I say vnto thee: be not thou rebel- Lord was strong vpon me. Then I came to
lious, like this rebellious house: open thy mouth, them that were led away captiues to Tel-abib,
and eate that I giue thee. 9 And when I looked that dwelt by the riuer Chebar, and I sate where
vp, beholde, an hande was sent vnto me, and loe, they sate, and remained there astonished among
them seuen dayes.
And at the ende of seuen
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a roule of a booke was therein. 10 And he spred it dayes, the worde of the Lord came againe vnto
before me, and it was written within and without, 17
and there was written therein, Lamentations, me, saying, Sonne of man, I haue made thee
and mourning, and woe. a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore
heare the worde at my mouth, and giue them
3 warning from me. 18 When I shall say vnto the
wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou giuest
1 Moreover he saide vnto me, Sonne of man, not him warning, nor speakest to admonish the
eate that thou findest: eate this roule, and goe, wicked of his wicked way, that he may liue, the
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and speake vnto the house of Israel. So I opened same wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but
my mouth, and he gaue mee this roule to eate. his blood will I require at thine hande. 19 Yet if
3 And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, cause thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from
thy belly to eate, and fill thy bowels with this his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he
roule that I giue thee. Then did I eate it, and shall die in his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered
it was in my mouth as sweete as honie. 4 And thy soule. 20 Likewise if a righteous man turne
he said vnto me, Sonne of man, goe, and enter from his righteousnesse, and commit iniquitie,
into the house of Israel, and declare them my I will lay a stumbling blocke before him, and
wordes. For thou art not sent to a people of an he shall die, because thou hast not giuen him
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vnknowen tongue, or of an hard language, but warning: he shall die in his sinne, and his righ-
to the house of Israel, Not to many people of teous deedes, which he hath done, shall not be
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an vnknowen tongue, or of an harde language, remembred: but his blood will I require at thine
whose wordes thou canst not vnderstand: yet if hand. 21 Neuerthelesse, if thou admonish that
I should sende thee to them, they would obey righteous man, that the righteous sinne not, and
thee. But the house of Israel will not obey thee: that he doeth not sinne, he shall liue because he is
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for they will not obey me: yea, all the house of admonished: also thou hast deliuered thy soule.
Israel are impudent and stiffe hearted. Beholde, 22 And the hande of the Lord was there vpon
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I haue made thy face strong against their faces, me, and he said vnto me, Arise, and goe into the
and thy forehead harde against their foreheads. fielde, and I will there talke with thee. 23 So when