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wicked shall cause him to fall therein, in the day beasts to be deuoured: and they that be in the
that he returneth from his wickednesse, neither forts and in the caues, shall die of the pestilence.
shall the righteous liue for his righteousnesse 28 For I will lay the land desolate and waste, and
in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I shall say the pompe of her strength shall cease: and the
vnto the righteous, that he shall surely liue, if moutaines of Israel shalbe desolate, and none
he trust to his owne righteousnes, and commit shall passe through. 29 Then shall they know that
iniquitie, all his righteousnes shall be no more I am the Lord, when I haue laid ye land desolate
remembred, but for his iniquitie that he hath and wast, because of al their abominations, that
committed, he shall die for the same. 14 Againe they haue committed. 30 Also thou sonne of man,
when I shall say vnto the wicked, thou shalt the children of thy people that talke of thee by
die the death, if he turne from his sinne, and the wals and in the dores of houses, and speake
doe that which is lawfull and right, 15 To wit, if one to another, euery one to his brother, saying,
the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe Come, I pray you, and heare what is the word
that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of that commeth from the Lord. 31 For they come
life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely vnto thee, as the people vseth to come: and my
liue, and not die. 16 None of his sinnes that people sit before thee, and heare thy wordes, but
he hath comitted, shall be mentioned vnto him: they will not doe them: for with their mouthes
because he hath done that, which is lawful, and
right, he shall surely liue. 17 Yet the children of they make iestes, and their heart goeth after
thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equall: their couetousnesse. 32 And loe, thou art vnto
but their owne way is vnequall. 18 When the them, as a iesting song of one that hath a pleasant
righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and voyce, and can sing well: for they heare thy
And when
woordes, but they doe them not.
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committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
19 But if the wicked returne from his wickednesse, this commeth to passe (for loe, it will come) then
and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall shall they know, that a Prophet hath bene among
liue thereby. 20 Yet yee say, The way of the Lord them.
is not equall. O ye house of Israel, I will iudge you 34
euery one after his waies. 21 Also in the twelfth 1 And the word of the Lord came vnto me, say-
yere of our captiuitie, in the tenth moneth, and in ing, Sonne of man, prophesie against the shep-
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the fift day of the moneth, one that had escaped herdes of Israel, prophesie and say vnto them,
out of Ierusalem, came vnto me, and said, The Thus saieth the Lord God vnto the shepherds,
citie is smitten. 22 Now the hand of the Lord had
bene vpon me in ye euening afore hee that had Wo be vnto the shepherds of Israel, that feede
escaped, came, and had opened my mouth vntill them selues: should not the shepherds feede the
he came to me in the morning: and when hee flockes? 3 Yee eate the fat, and yee clothe you
had opened my mouth, I was no more dumme. with the wooll: yee kill them that are fed, but ye
23 Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, feede not the sheepe. 4 The weake haue ye not
and saide, 24 Sonne of man, these that dwel in strengthened: the sicke haue ye not healed, nei-
the desolate places of the land of Israel, talke and ther haue ye bounde vp the broken, nor brought
say, Abraham was but one, and hee possessed againe that which was driuen away, neither haue
the lande: but we are many, therefore the lande yee sought that which was lost, but with crueltie,
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shall be giuen vs in possession. 25 Wherefore say and with rigour haue yee ruled them. And they
vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord God, Ye eate were scattered without a shepherde: and when
with the blood, and lift vp your eyes towarde they were dispersed, they were deuoured of all
your idoles, and sheade blood: should ye then the beastes of the fielde. 6 My sheepe wandred
possesse the land? 26 Ye leane vpon your swordes: through all the mountaines, and vpon euery hie
ye worke abomination, and yee defile euery one hill: yea, my flocke was scattered through al
his neighbours wife: should ye then possesse the the earth, and none did seeke or search after
land? 27 Say thus vnto them, Thus saieth the them. 7 Therefore ye shepherds, heare the wo-
Lord God, As I liue, so surely they that are in orde of the Lord. 8 As I liue, sayeth the Lord
the desolate places, shall fall by the sword: and God, surely because my flocke was spoyled, and
him that is in the open field, will I giue vnto the my sheepe were deuoured of all the beasts of
the fielde, hauing no shepherde, neither did my