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wayes, consulting by diuination, and made his selfe. 4 Thou hast offended in thy blood, that
arrowes bright: hee consulted with idoles, and thou hast shed, and hast polluted thy selfe in
looked in the liuer. 22 At his right hand was the thine idols, which thou hast made, and thou hast
diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to caused thy dayes to draw neere, and art come
open their mouth in the slaughter, and to lift vnto thy terme: therefore haue I made thee a
vp their voyce with shouting, to laye engines of reproch to the heathen, and a mocking to all
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warre against the gates, to cast a mount, and to countreys. Those that be neere, and those that
builde a fortresse. 23 And it shalbe vnto them as a be farre from thee, shall mocke thee, which art
false diuination in their sight for the othes made vile in name and sore in affliction. 6 Beholde,
vnto them: but hee will call to remembrance the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready
their iniquitie, to the intent they should be taken. to his power, to shed blood. 7 In thee haue
24 Therefore thus sayeth the Lord God, Because ye they despised father and mother: in the middes
haue made your iniquitie to bee remembred, in of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in
discouering your rebellion, that in al your workes thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the
your sinnes might appeare: because, I say, that ye widowe. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things,
are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with and hast polluted my Sabbaths. 9 In thee are
the hand. 25 And thou prince of Israel polluted, men that cary tales to shed blood: in thee are
and wicked, whose day is come, when iniquitie they that eate vpon the mountaines: in ye mids
shall haue an ende, 26 Thus saith the Lord God, of thee they comit abomination. 10 In thee
I will take away the diademe, and take off the haue they discouered their fathers shame: in
crowne: this shalbe no more the same: I wil exalt thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in
the humble, and will abase him that is hie. 27 I wil her floures. 11 And euery one hath committed
ouerturne, ouerturne, ouerturne it, and it shall abomination with his neighbours wife, and euery
be no more vntill he come, whose right it is, and
I will giue it him. 28 And thou, sonne of man, one hath wickedly defiled his daughter in lawe,
and in thee hath euery man forced his owne
prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lord God to sister, euen his fathers daughter. 12 In thee
the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemie: haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast
say thou, I say, The sword, the sword is drawen taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast
foorth, and fourbished to the slaughter, to con- defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, and hast
sume, because of the glittering: 29 Whiles they forgotten me, saith the Lord God. 13 Beholde,
see vanitie vnto thee, and prophecied a lie vnto therefore I haue smitten mine hands vpon thy
thee to bring thee vpon the neckes of the wicked couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the
that are slaine, whose day is come when their blood, which hath bene in the middes of thee.
iniquitie shall haue an ende. 30 Shall I cause it to 14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be
returne into his sheath? I will iudge thee in the strong, in the dayes that I shall haue to doe with
place where thou wast created, euen in the land thee? I the Lord haue spoken it, and will doe it.
of thine habitation. 31 And I wil powre out mine 15 And I wil scatter thee among the heathen, and
indignation vpon thee, and will blowe against disperse thee in the countreys, and will cause thy
thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliuer thee into filthines to cease from thee. 16 And thou shalt
the hand of beastly men, and skilfull to destroy. take thine inheritance in thy selfe in the sight of
32 Thou shalt bee in the fire to be deuoured: thy the heathen, and thou shalt knowe that I am the
blood shall be in the middes of the lande, and Lord. 17 And the worde of the Lord came vnto me,
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thou shalt be no more remembred: for I the Lord saying, Sonneofman, thehouseofIsraelisvnto
haue spoken it. me as drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and
22 yron, and leade in the mids of the fornace: they
are euen the drosse of siluer.
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Therefore, thus
1 Moreover, the worde of the Lord came vnto sayth the Lord God, Because ye are all as drosse,
me, saying, Now thou sonne of man, wilt thou beholde, therefore I will gather you in the middes
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iudge, wilt thou iudge this bloody citie? wilt of Ierusalem. 20 As they gather siluer and brasse,
thou shew her all her abominations? 3 Then and yron, and leade, and tinne into the middes of
say, Thus sayth the Lord God, The citie sheddeth the fornace, to blowe the fire vpon it to melt it, so
blood in the middes of it, that her time may come, wil I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath,
and maketh idols against her selfe to pollute her