A   O who will geue my heade water ynough, ∧ a well of teares for myne eyes: that I maye wepe night &abar;d daye, for the slaughter of my people? Wolde God that I had a cotage some where farre from folke, that I might leaue my people, and go from th&ebar;: for they be all aduoutrers and a shrenckinge sorte. They b&ebar;de their t&ubar;ges like bowes, to shute out lies: As for the treuth, they maye nothinge awaye with all in the worlde. For they go from one wickednes to another, and holde nothinge of me, saieth the LORDE.

^noteYee one must kepe himself from another, no man maye safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermyneth another, ∧ one neghboure begyleth another. Yee one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no treuth. ^noteThey haue practised their tunges to lye, and taken greate paynes to do myschefe. They haue set their stole in the myddest of disceate, and (for very dissemblinge falsede) they wil not knowe me, saieth the LORDE.

Therfore thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes, beholde, I wil melte them and trie th&ebar;, for what shulde I els do to my people? Their tunges are like sharpe arowes, to speake disceate. ^noteWith their mouth they speake peaceably to their neghboure, but preuely they laye waite for him. Shulde I not punysh them for these thinges, saieth the LORDE? Or, shulde I not be auenged of eny soch people, ^note as this? B   Vpon the mountaynes will I take vp a lamentacion and soroufull crie, and a mournynge vpon the fayre playnes of the wildernes: Namely, how they are so brente vp, that no man goeth there enymore: Yee a man shal not heare one beast crie there.

^noteByrdes and catell are all gone from th&ebar;ce. I will make Ierusalem also an heape of stones, and a denne of venymous wormes. And I wil make the cities of Iuda so waist, that no man shal dwell therin. What man is so wise, as to vnderstonde this? Or to whom hath the LORDE spoken by mouth, that he maye shewe this, and saye: ^note O thou londe, why perishest thou so? Wherfore art thou so brent vp, and like a wildernesse, that no m&abar; goeth thorow? Yee the LORDE himself tolde the same vnto them, that forsoke his lawe, and kepte not the thynge that he gaue them in commaundement, nether lyued therafter: but folowed the wickednes of their owne hertes, and serued straunge goddes, as their fathers taught them. ^note

Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes, the God of Israel: Beholde, I will fede this people with wormwod, and geue th&ebar; gall to drynke. ^noteI will scatre them also amonge the Heithen, whom nether they ner their fathers haue knowne: and I will sende a swearde amonge them, to persecute them, ^note vntill I bringe them to naught. C   Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: loke that ye call for mournynge wyues, and sende for wise women: that they come shortly, and singe a mournynge songe of you: that the teares maye fall out of oure eyes, and that oure eye lyddes maye gu&esset;he out of water.

For there is a lamentable noyse herde of Sion: O how are we so sore destroyed? O how are we so piteously confounded? We must forsake oure owne naturall countre, and we are shot out of oure owne lodg&ibar;ges. Yet heare the worde of the LORDE (o ye women). And let youre eares regarde the wordes of his mouth: that ye maye lerne youre doughters to mourne, and that euery one maye teach hir neghbouresse, to make lamentacion. Namely thus: Deeth is clymm&ebar; vp in at oure wyndowes, he is come in to oure houses, to destroye the childe before the dore, ∧ þe; yonge man in the strete.

^noteBut tell thou planely, thus saieth þe; LORDE: The deed bodies of men shal lye apon þe; grounde, as the donge vpon the felde, and as the hay after the mower, and there shalbe no man to take them vp. D   Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE: Let not the wise man reioyse in his wisdome, ner the stronge man

in his strength, nether the rich man in his riches: ^noteBut who so wil reioyse, let him reioyse in this, that he vnderst&obar;deth, and knoweth me: for I am the LORDE, which do mercie, equite and rightuousnes vpon earth. Therfore haue I pleasure in soch thinges, ^note saieth þe; LORDE. Beholde, the tyme c&obar;meth (saieth the LORDE) that I wil vyset all them, whose foreskynne is vncircumcised: ^note The Egipcians, the Iewes, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the shauen Madianites, that dwel in the wildernes. For all þe; Gentiles are vncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel, are vncircumcised in the herte. ^note

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