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of the God of Israel was there according to the before their noses. 18 Therefore will I also execute
vision, that I saw in the fielde. 5 Then saide he my wrath: mine eye shall not spare them, neither
vnto mee, Sonne of man, lift vp thine eyes nowe will I haue pitie, and though they crie in mine
towarde the North. So I lift vp mine eyes towarde eares with a loude voyce, yet will I not heare
the North, and beholde, Northward, at the gate them.
of the altar, this idole of indignation was in the
entrie. 6 He said furthermore vnto me, Sonne 9
of man, seest thou not what they doe? euen 1 He cryed also with a loude voyce in mine
the great abominations that the house of Israel eares, saying, The visitations of the citie draw
committeth here to cause me to depart from my neere, and euery man hath a weapon in his hande
Sanctuarie? but yet turne thee and thou shalt to destroy it. 2 And beholde, sixe men came by
see greater abominations. 7 And he caused me the way of the hie gate, which lieth towarde the
to enter at the gate of the court: and when I North, and euery man a weapon in his hande to
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looked, beholde, an hole was in the wall. Then destroy it: and one man among them was clothed
said he vnto me, Sonne of man, digge nowe in with linen, with a writers ynkhorne by his side,
the wall. And when I had digged in the wall, and they went in and stoode beside the brasen
beholde, there was a doore. 9 And he said vnto altar. 3 And the glorie of the God of Israel was
mee, Go in, and beholde the wicked abominations
that they doe here. 10 So I went in, and sawe, and gone vp from ye Cherub, whereupon he was and
beholde, there was euery similitude of creeping stoode on the doore of the house, and he called
to the man clothed with linnen, which had the
thinges and abominable beasts and all the idoles writers ynkhorne by his side. And the Lord said
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of the house of Israel painted vpon the wall round vnto him, Goe through the middes of the citie,
about. 11 And there stoode before them seuentie euen through the middes of Ierusalem and set a
men of the Ancients of the house of Israel, and
in the middes of them stoode Iaazaniah, ye sonne marke vpon the foreheads of them that mourne,
of Shaphan, with euerie man his censour in his and cry for all the abominations that be done in
hand, and the vapour of the incense went vp like the middes thereof. 5 And to the other he said,
a cloude. 12 Then saide hee vnto mee, Sonne that I might heare, Goe ye after him through the
of man, hast thou seene what the Ancients of citie, and smite: let your eye spare none, neither
the house of Israel do in the darke, euery one haue pitie. 6 Destroy vtterly the old, and the
in the chamber of his imagerie? for they say, yong, and the maides, and the children, and the
The Lord seeth vs not, the Lord hath forsaken the women, but touch no man, vpon whome is the
earth. 13 Againe he saide also vnto me, Turne thee marke, and begin at my Sanctuarie. Then they
againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations began at the Ancient men, which were before
that they doe. 14 And he caused me to enter into the house. 7 And he sayde vnto them, Defile
the entrie of the gate of the Lords house, which the house, and fill the courtes with the slaine,
was toward the North: and beholde there sate then goe foorth: and they went out, and slewe
women mourning for Tammuz. 15 Then saide them in the citie. 8 Nowe when they had slaine
hee vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of them, and I had escaped, I fell downe vpon my
man? Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see face, and cryed, saying, Ah Lord God, wilt thou
greater abominations then these. 16 And he destroy all the residue of Israel, in powring out
caused me to enter into the inner court of the thy wrath vpon Ierusalem? Then saide he vnto
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Lordes house, and beholde, at the doore of the me, The iniquitie of the house of Israel, and Iudah
Temple of the Lord, betweene the porche and the
altar were about fiue and twentie men with their is exceeding great, so that the lande is full of
backs toward the Temple of the Lord, and their blood, and the citie full of corrupt iudgement: for
faces towarde the East, and they worshipped the they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and
sunne, towarde the East. 17 The he said vnto me, the Lord seeth vs not. 10 As touching me also,
Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Is it a mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue
small thing to the house of Iudah to commit these pitie, but will recompence their wayes vpon their
abominations which they do here? for they haue heades. 11 And beholde, the man clothed with
filled the land with crueltie, and haue returned to linen which had the ynkhorne by his side, made
prouoke mee: and loe, they haue cast out stinke report, and saide, Lord, I haue done as thou hast
commanded me.