1   Beholde, speake thou in the eares of my people the wordes of prophecie which I wyll put in thy mouth, sayth the Lorde,

2   And cause them to be written in a letter: for ^note it is the trueth.

3   Feare not the imaginations agaynst thee, Let not the vnfaythfulnesse of them trouble thee that speake agaynst thee:

4   For all the vnfaythfull, shall dye in their vnfaythfulnesse.

5   Beholde (saith the Lorde) I will bring plagues vpon the worlde, the sworde, hunger, death, and destruction:

6   For wickednesse hath the vpper hande in all the earth, and their shamefull workes are fulfylled:

7   Therfore sayth the Lorde,

8   I wyll holde my tongue no more of their wickednesse which they do so vngodly, neither wyll I suffer them in the thynges that they deale withall so wickedly: Beholde, ^note the innocent and ryghteous blood cryeth vnto me, and the soules of the iust complaine continually:

9   And therfore sayth the Lorde, I wyll surely auenge, and receaue vnto me all

the innocent blood from among them.

10    ^noteBeholde my people is led as a flocke of sheepe to be slayne, I wyll not suffer them nowe to dwell in the lande of Egypt:

11   But wyll bryng them out with a mightie hande and a stretched out arme, and smite it with plagues as afore, and wyll destroy all the lande of it. B   

12   Egypt shall mourne, and the foundations of it shalbe smitten, with the plague and punishment that God shall bryng vpon it.

13   They that tyll the grounde shall mourne, for their seedes shalbe destroyed through the blastyng and hayle, and by an horrible starre.

14   Wo worth the worlde, and them that dwell therin:

15   For the sworde and their destruction draweth nye, and one people shal stande vp to fyght agaynst another, ∧ swordes in their handes.

16    ^noteFor men shalbe vnstedfast, and some shall do violence vnto other, they shall not regarde their kyng, and the princes shall measure the way of their doinges by their power.

17   A man shall desire to go into a citie, and shall not be able.

18   For because of their pride the cities shalbe troubled, the houses shall tremble, and men shalbe afrayde.

19   A man shall haue no pitie vpon his neyghbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoyle their goodes because of the ^note hunger of bread, and because of the great trouble. C   

20   Beholde, sayth God, I call together all the kynges of the earth to reuerence me, which are from the ^note vprisyng, from the south, from the east, and Libanus, to turne vpon them, and restore the thynges that they haue done to them:

21   Lyke as they do yet this day vnto my chosen, so wyll I do also, and recompence them in their bosome: Thus saith the Lorde God.

22   My ryght hande shall not spare the sinners, and my sworde shall not ceasse ouer them that shed the innocent blood vpon earth.

23   The fire is gone out from his wrath, ∧ hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners lyke the strawe that is kyndled.

24   Wo worth them that sinne, and kepe not my commaundementes, sayth the Lorde.

25   I wyll not spare them: Go your way ye children from the power, defile not my sanctuarie:

26   For the Lorde knoweth all them that sinne agaynst him, ∧ therfore deliuereth he them vnto death and destruction.

27   For nowe are the plagues come vpon the worlde, and ye shall remayne in them: For God shall not deliuer you, because ye haue sinned agaynst hym.

28   Beholde an horrible vision commeth from the east,

29   Where generations of dragons of Arabia shal come out with many charettes, ∧ the multitude of them shalbe caryed as the wynde vpon earth, that all they which heare them may feare ∧ tremble, D   

30   Euen the Carmanies raging in wrath shall go foorth as the wylde boores of the forrest, and with great power shall they come and stande fyghtyng with them, and shall waste a portion of the lande of the Assyrians.

31   And then shall the dragons haue the vpper hande, and remembring their nature, shall turne about, conspiryng together in great power to persecute th&ebar;.

32   Then these shalbe troubled, and kepe scilence in their power, and shall flee:

33   And from the lande of the Assyrians shall the enemie besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their hoast shalbe feare and dread, and strife among their kynges.

34   Beholde cloudes from the east, and from the north vnto the south, and they are very horrible to loke vpon, full of wrath and storme:

35   They shall smite one vpon another, and they shal smite downe a great multitude of starres vpon the earth, euen their owne starre: and the blood shalbe from the sworde vnto the belly,

36   And the doung of man vnto the Camels litter,

37   And there shalbe great fearfulnesse and tremblyng vpon earth: and they that see the wrath shalbe afraide, and a tremblyng shall come vpon them:

38   And then shal there come great raynes from the south, and from the north, and part from the west:

39   And strong wyndes shall aryse from the east, and shall open it, and the cloude which he raysed vp in wrath, and the

starre stirred to cause feare towarde the east and west wind shalbe destroyed:

40   The great cloudes shalbe lift vp, and the mightie cloudes full of wrath, and the starre, that they may make all the earth afrayde and them that dwell therin, and that they may powre out ouer euery high place an horrible starre,

41   Fire, and hayle, and fleing swordes, and many waters: that all fieldes may be full, and all riuers with the aboundaunce of great waters. G   

42   And they shal breake downe the cities, and walles, mountaynes, and hilles, trees of the wood, and the grasse of the medowes, and all their corne.

43   And they shall go stedfast vnto Babylon, and make her afrayde.

44   They shall come to her and besiege her, the ^note starre and all wrath shall they powre out vpon her, then shall the dust and smoke go vp vnto the heauen, and all they that be about her shall bewayle her:

45   And they that remayne vnder her, shal do seruice vnto them that haue put her in feare.

46   And thou Asia that comfortest thy selfe also vpon the hope of Babylon, and art the glorie of her person:

47   Wo be vnto thee thou wretch, because thou hast made thy selfe like vnto her, and hast deckte thy daughters in whordome, that they might ^note triumphe and please thy louers which haue alway desired to commit whordome with thee.

48   Thou hast folowed the abominable citie in all her workes and inuentions: therfore sayth God,

49   I will sende plagues vpon thee, widdowhood, pouertie, hunger, warres, ∧ pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death,

50   And the glorie of thy power shalbe dried vp as a floure, wh&ebar; the heate riseth that is sent ^note ouer thee:

51   Thou shalt be sicke as a poore wife that is plagued and beaten of women: so that the mightie and louers shall not be able to receaue thee.

52   Would I so hate thee, sayth the Lord,

53   If thou haddest not alway slayne my chosen, exalting the stroke of thy handes, and sayde ouer their death when thou wast drunken,

54   Set foorth the beautie of thy countenaunce?

55   The rewarde of thy whordome shalbe recompenced thee in thy bosome, therefore shalt thou receaue rewarde.

56   Like as thou hast done vnto my chosen, sayth the Lord: euen so shal God do vnto thee, and shall deliuer thee into the plague.

57   Thy children shall dye of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sworde: Thy cities shalbe broken downe, and al thyne shal perishe with the sword in the fielde.

58   They that be in the mountaynes shall dye of hunger, and eate their owne flesh, and drinke their owne blood for very hunger of bread and thirst of water.

59   Thou as vnhappie shalt come through the sea, and receaue plagues againe.

60   In the passage they shall cast downe the slayne citie, and shall roote out one part of thy lande, and consume the portion of thy glorie, and shal returne to her that was destroyed.

61   They shal treade thee downe like stubble, and they shalbe thy fire,

62   And shall consume thee, thy cities, and thy lande, and thy mountaynes, all thy woodes and thy fruitefull trees shall they burne vp with the fire.

63   Thy children shall they cary away captiue: and loke what thou hast, they shall spoyle it, and marre the beautie of thy face.

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