A   Thys is the heauy05Q0850 burthen of Babilon, whiche Esai the sonne of Amos dyd se. 05Q0851Make some tokens to the hye05Q0852 hilles, call vnto th&ebar;, hold vp youre hande, that the Princes maye go in at the dore. For I will send for my05Q0853 debites ∧ my gyauntes (sayth the Lorde) and in my wrath I wil call for suche, as triumphe in my glory.

Babylon.

With that, me thought I heard in the mo&ubar;taynes a noyse, like as is hath bene of a great people: ∧ a russhynge, as though the kyngedomes of al nacions had come together. (And the Lorde of Hostes was the captayne of the whole armye) As they had not come only out of farre countreyes, but also from the endes of the heauens: Euen the Lorde him selfe with the ministres of his wrath, to destroye the whole lande. Mourne therfore, for the daye of the Lorde is at hande, ∧ commeth as a destroyer from the Almyghtye. Then shall all handes be letten doune, and all mens hertes shall melt awaie, they shall stande in feare, carefulnesse and sorowe shal come vpon th&ebar;, and they shal haue payne, as a woman that trauaileth with childe. 05Q0854One shal euer be abasshed of another, B   and their faces05Q0855 shall burne lyke the flamme.

For lo, the daye of the Lorde shall come, terrible, full of indignacion and wrathe, to make the lande waste, and to rote oute the synne therof. For the sterres and planetes of heauen shal not geue their lyght, the sunne shalbe quenched in the risinge, and the mone shall not shyne with his light. And I will punysh the wickednesse of the05Q0856 worlde, and the synnes of the vngodly, sayeth the Lorde. The hye stomackes of the proude wyl I take awaye, and will laye doune the boastynge of tyrauntes. I wyll make a man dearer then fyne goulde, C   and a man to be more worthe, then a goulden wedge of Ophir. Moreouer, I wil so shake the heauen, that the earth shall remoue oute of her place.

Thus shall it go with Babilon in the wrath of the Lorde of Hostes in the daye of his fearfull indignacyon. And Babilon shalbe as an hunted or chased do, and as a flocke wythout a sheperde. Euery man shal turne to his own people, and flee eche one into his owne land. Whoso is founde alone, shalbe shot thorow. And whoso gather together, shalbe destroied with the swerd. ^noteTheir chyldr&ebar; shalbe slaine before their eyes, their houses spoyled, and their wyues rauyshed. For lo, I shall brynge vp the Medes agaynst them, D   whiche shall not regarde siluer, nor be desyrous of gould. Then shall young mens bowes be knapped a sunder. The Medes shall haue no pytye vpon wemen with chylde, and their faces shal not spare the chyldren. ^noteAnd Babylon (that glory of kingedomes and bewtye of the Caldees honoure) shalbe destroied, euen as God destroyed Sodome and Gomorra. It shall neuer be more inhabyted, neyther shal there be any more dwellynge there from generaci&obar; to generacyon.

The Arabians shall make no more tentes there, neyther shall the shepardes make their foldes ther any more: but wild05Q0857 beastes shal lye there, ∧ the houses shalbe full of greate Oules. Estriches shall dwel there, and Apes shall daunse there: the lytle Oules shal crye in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shalbe in the pleasaunt parlours. And as for Babilons tyme it is at hande, ∧ her dayes maye not be longe absent.

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