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and wil put you there and melt you. 21 I wil gather fire with her louers, to wit, with the Assyrians
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you, I say, and blowe the fire of my wrath vpon her neighbours, Which were clothed with blewe
you, and you shalbe melted in the mids thereof. silke, both captaines and princes: they were all
22 As siluer is melted in the mids of the fornace, pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon
so shall ye be melted in the mids thereof, and ye horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredome
shall knowe, that I the Lord haue powred out my with them, euen with all them that were the
wrath vpon you. 23 And the worde of the Lord chosen men of Asshur, and with all on whome she
came vnto me, saying, 24 Sonne of man, say vnto doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idoles.
Neither left she her fornications, learned of the
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her; Thou art the land, that is vncleane, and not Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her,
rained vpon in the day of wrath. 25 There is a
conspiracie of her prophets in the mids thereof and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and
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like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they powred their whoredome vpon her. Wherefore
haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the riches I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen
into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon whome she
and precious things: they haue made her many doted. 10 These discouered her shame: they tooke
widowes in the mids thereof. 26 Her Priests haue away her sonnes and her daughters, and slewe
broken my Lawe, and haue defiled mine holy her with the sworde, and she had an euill name
things: they haue put no difference betweene the among women: for they had executed iudgement
holy and prophane, neither discerned betweene vpon her. 11 And when her sister Aholibah sawe
the vncleane, and the cleane, and haue hid their this, she marred her selfe with inordinate loue,
eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am prophaned more then she, and with her fornications more
among them. 27 Her princes in the mids thereof then her sister with her fornications. 12 She
are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, both
and to destroy soules for their owne couetous captaines and princes clothed with diuers sutes,
lucre. 28 And her prophets haue dawbed them horsemen ryding vpon horses: they were all
with vntempered morter, seeing vanities, and pleasant yong men. 13 Then I sawe that she was
diuining lies vnto them, saying, Thus sayth the defiled, and that they were both after one sort,
Lord God, when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The 14 And that she encreased her fornications: for
people of the land haue violently oppressed by when she sawe men painted vpon the wall, the
spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore images of the Caldeans painted with vermelon,
and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the 15 And girded with girdles vpon their loynes, and
stranger against right. 30 And I sought for a man with dyed attyre vpon their heads (looking all
among them, that should make vp the hedge, like princes after the maner of the Babylonians
and stand in the gap before me for the land, in Caldea, the land of their natiuitie) 16 Assoone,
that I should not destroy it, but I found none. I say, as she sawe them, she doted vpon them,
31 Therefore haue I powred out mine indignation and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.
vpon them, and consumed them with the fire of 17 Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into
my wrath: their owne wayes haue I rendred vpon the bed of loue, they defiled her with their forni-
their heads, sayth the Lord God. cation, and she was polluted with them, and her
So she discouered
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lust departed from them.
23 her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then
1 The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, mine heart forsooke her, like as mine heart had
saying, Sonne of man, there were two women, forsaken her sister. 19 Yet she encreased her
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whoredome more, and called to remembrance
the daughters of one mother. 3 And they com- ye dayes of her youth, wherein she had played
mitted fornication in Egypt, they committed for- the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted
nication in their youth: there were their breasts vpon their seruants whose members are as the
pressed, andtheretheybruisedtheteatesoftheir members of asses, and whose yssue is like the
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virginitie. And the names of them were Aholah yssue of horses. 21 Thou calledst to remembrance
the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they the wickednes of thy youth, when thy teates were
were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: bruised by ye Egyptians: therefore ye paps of
thus were their names. Samaria is Aholah, and thy youth are thus. 22 Therefore, O Aholibah,
Ierusalem Aholibah. 5 And Aholah played the thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will raise
harlot when she was mine, and she was set on