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barly, and for pieces of bread to slay the soules the Prophet be deceiued, when hee hath spoken
of them that shoulde not dye, and to giue life a thing, I the Lord haue deceiued that Prophet,
to the soules that should not liue in lying to my and I will stretch out mine hande vpon him, and
people, that heare your lies? 20 Wherefore thus will destroy him from the middes of my people of
saith the Lord God, Behold, I will haue to do with Israel. 10 And they shall beare their punishment:
your pillowes, wherewith yee hunt the soules to the punishment of the Prophet shall bee euen
make them to flie, and I will teare them from as the punishment of him that asketh, 11 That
your armes, and will let the soules goe, euen the the house of Israel may go no more astray from
soules, that ye hunt to make them to flie. 21 Your mee, neither bee polluted any more with all their
vailes also will I teare, and deliuer my people transgressions, but that they may be my people,
out of your hande, and they shalbe no more in and I may be their God, sayth the Lord God. 12 The
your hands to be hunted, and ye shall knowe worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,
that I am the Lord. 22 Because with your lyes 13 Sonne of man, when ye land sinneth against
yee haue made the heart of the righteous sadde, me by committing a trespasse, then will I stretch
whome I haue not made sad, and strengthened out mine hand vpon it, and will breake the staffe
the hands of the wicked, that he should not of the bread thereof, and will send famine vpon
returne from his wicked way, by promising him it, and I will destroy man and beast forth of it.
life, 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanitie, nor 14 Though these three men Noah, Daniel, and
diuine diuinatios: for I wil deliuer my people out Iob were among them, they shoulde deliuer but
of your hand, and ye shall know that I am ye Lord. their owne soules by their righteousnes, saith
14 the Lord God. 15 If I bring noysome beastes
1 Then came certaine of the Elders of Israel into the lande and they spoyle it, so that it
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vnto me, and sate before me. And the worde of bee desolate, that no man may passe through,
the Lord came vnto me, saying, Sonne of man, because of beastes, 16 Though these three men
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these men haue set vp their idoles in their heart, were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the
and put the stumbling blocke of their iniquitie Lord God, they shall saue neither sonnes nor
before their face: should I, being required, an- daughters: they onely shalbe deliuered, but the
swere them? Therefore speake vnto them, and land shall be waste. 17 Or if I bring a sworde
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say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Euery vpon this land, and say, Sword, go through the
man of the house of Israel that setteth vp his idols land, so that I destroy man and beast out of
in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke it, 18 Though these three men were in the mids
of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall
to the Prophet, I the Lord will answere him deliuer neither sonnes nor daughters, but they
that commeth, according to the multitude of his onely shall be deliuered themselues. 19 Or if I
idoles: 5 That I may take the house of Israel in send a pestilence into this land, and powre out
their owne heart, because they are all departed my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it
from me through their idoles. 6 Therfore say man and beast, 20 And though Noah, Daniel and
vnto the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God, Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth
Returne, and withdraw your selues, and turne the Lord God, they shall deliuer neither sonne
your faces from your idoles, and turne your faces nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne
from all your abominations. 7 For euery one soules by their righteousnes. 21 For thus saith
of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that the Lord God, Howe much more when I sende my
soiourneth in Israel, which departeth from mee, foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem, euen the
and setteth vp his idoles in his heart, and putteth sworde, and famine, and the noysome beast and
the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?
face, and commeth to a Prophet, for to inquire 22 Yet beholde, therein shalbe left a remnant of
of him for me, I the Lord will answere him for my them that shalbe caryed away both sonnes and
selfe, And I will set my face against that man, daughters: behold, they shall come forth vnto
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and will make him an example and prouerbe, and you, and ye shall see their way, and their enter-
I will cut him off from the middes of my people, prises: and ye shall be comforted, concerning the
and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord. 9 And if euill that I haue brought vpon Ierusalem, euen