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the lande of Israel, and you shall knowe that I and wicked, therefore shall my sworde goe out of
am the Lord. 39 As for you, O house of Israel, his sheath against all flesh from the South to the
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thus saith the Lord God, Goe you, and serue euery North, That all flesh may knowe that I the Lord
one his idole, seeing that ye will not obey me, haue drawen my sworde out of his sheath, and it
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and pollute mine holy Name no more with your shall not returne any more. Mourne therefore,
giftes and with your idoles. 40 For in mine holy thou sonne of man, as in the paine of thy reines,
mountaine, euen in the hie mountaine of Israel, and mourne bitterly before them. 7 And if they
saith the Lord God, there shall all the house say vnto thee, Wherefore mournest thou? then
of Israel, and all in the lande, serue me: there answere, Because of the bruite: for it commeth,
will I accept them, and there will I require your and euery heart shall melt, and all handes shall
offrings and the first fruites of your oblations, be weake, and all mindes shall faint, and all knees
with all your holy things. 41 I will accept your shallfallawayaswater: beholde, itcommeth, and
sweete sauour, when I bring you from the people, shall be done, saith the Lord God. 8 Againe, the
and gather you out of the countreys, wherein ye word of the Lord came vnto me, saying, Sonne
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haue bene scattered, that I may be sanctified in of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lord
you before ye heathen. 42 And ye shall knowe, God, say, A sworde, a sworde both sharpe, and
that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into fourbished. 10 It is sharpened to make a sore
the land of Israel, into the land, for the which I slaughter, and it is fourbished that it may glitter:
lifted vp mine hande to giue it to your fathers. how shall we reioyce? for it contemneth the rod
43 And there shall ye remember your wayes, and of my sonne, as all other trees. 11 And he hath
all your workes, wherein ye haue bene defiled, giuen it to be fourbished, that he may handle it:
and ye shall iudge your selues worthy to be cut this sword is sharpe, and is fourbished, that he
off, for all your euils, that ye haue committed. may giue it into ye hand of the slayer. 12 Cry, and
44 And ye shall knowe, that I am the Lord, when houle, sonne of man: for this shall come to my
I haue respect vnto you for my Names sake, and people, and it shall come vnto all the princes of
not after your wicked wayes, nor according to Israel: the terrours of the sword shall be vpon my
your corrupt workes, O ye house of Israel, saith people: smite therefore vpon thy thigh. 13 For it
the Lord God. 45 Moreouer, the worde of the is a triall, and what shall this be, if the sworde
Lord came vnto me, saying, 46 Sonne of man, set contemne euen the rodde? It shall be no more,
thy face toward the way of Teman, and drop thy saith the Lord God. 14 Thou therefore, sonne of
word toward the South, and prophecie towarde man, prophecie, and smite hand to hand, and
the forest of the fielde of the South, 47 And say let the sworde be doubled: let the sworde that
to the forest of the South, Heare the worde of hath killed, returne the third time: it is the sword
the Lord: thus saith the Lord God, Beholde, I of the great slaughter entring into their priuie
will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall deuoure all chambers. 15 I haue brought the feare of the
the greene wood in thee, and all the drie wood: sword into all their gates to make their heart to
the continuall flame shall not bee quenched, and faint, and to multiplie their ruines. Ah it is made
euery face from the South to the North shall be bright, and it is dressed for the slaughter. 16 Get
burnt therein. 48 And all flesh shall see, that I thee alone: goe to the right hande, or get thy
the Lord haue kindled it, and it shall not bee selfe to the left hande, whithersoeuer thy face
quenched. Then saide I, Ah Lord God, they say turneth. 17 I wil also smite mine hands together,
of me, Doeth not he speake parables? and wil cause my wrath to cease. I the Lord haue

21 said it. 18 The worde of the Lord came vnto mee
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1 The word of ye Lord came to me againe, againe, saying, Alsothousonneofman, appoint
saying, 2 Sonne of man, set thy face toward thee two wayes, that the sworde of the King of
Ierusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy Babel may come: both twaine shall come out of
places, and prophecie against the land of Israel. one lande, and chuse a place, and chuse it in
the corner of the way of the citie.
Appoint a
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3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, way, that the sworde may come to Rabbath of
Beholde, I come against thee, and will drawe my the Ammonites, and to Iudah in Ierusalem the
sword out of his sheath, and cut off from thee strong citie. 21 And the King of Babel stoode at
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both the righteous and the wicked. Seeing then the parting of the way, at the head of the two
that I will cut off from thee both the righteous