A   When Pashur the preast, the sonne off Emmer, chefe in the house of þe; LORDE, herde Ieremy preach so stedfastly: ^note he smote Ieremy, and put him in the stockes, that are by the hie gate of Ben Iamin, in the house of þe; LORDE. The nexte daye folowinge, Pashur brought Ieremy out of the stockes agayne. Then sayde Ieremy vnto him: The LORDE shall call the nomore Pashur (that is excellent and increasinge) but Magor (that is fearfull &abar;d afrayed) euery where. For thus saieth the LORDE: beholde, I will make the afrayed, the thy self, and all that fauoure þe;: which shal perish with the swearde off their enemies, euen before þi; face.

And I wil geue whole Iuda vnder the power of the kinge of Babilon, which shall carie some vnto Babilon presoners, and slaye some with the swearde. B   Morouer, all þe; substaunce of this londe, ^note all their precious and gorgeous workes, all costlynesse, and all the treasure of the kinges of Iuda: wil I geue in to the h&obar;des of their enemies, which shal spoyle them, and carie them vnto Babilon. But as for the (o Pashur) thou shalt be caried vnto Babilon with all thine housholde, ∧ to Babil&obar; shalt thou come, where thou shalt die, and be buried: thou and all thy fauourers, to whom thou hast preached lies. O LORDE, thou makest me weake, but thou refre&esset;hest me, ∧ makest me stronge agayne. All the daye longe am I despysed, ^note and laughed to scorne of euery man: because I haue now preached longe agaynst malicious Tyranny, and shewed them off destruccion. ^noteFor þe; which cause they cast the worde off the LORDE in my teth, and take me euer to the worst.

C   Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not. For why, I herde so many derisi&obar;s and blasphemies, ^note yee euen of myne owne companyons, and off soch as were conuersaunte with me: which wente aboute, to make me afrayed sayenge: vpon him, let vs go vpon him, to feare him, and make him holde his tonge: þt; we maye ouercome him, and be avenged off him.

But the LORDE stode by me, like a mightie giaunte: therfore my persecuters fell, and coude do nothinge. They shal be sore confo&ubar;ded, for they haue done vnwisely, they shall haue an euerlastinge shame. And now, o LORDE of hoostes, ^note thou rightuous sercher) which knowest the reynes and the very hertes:) let me se them punyshed, for vnto the I committe my cause.

D   Synge vnto the LORDE, and prayse him, for he hath delyuered the soule off the oppressed, from the honde off the violent. Cursed be the daye, wherein I was borne: ^note vnhappie be þe; daye, where in my mother brought me forth. Cursed be the man, that brought my father the tidinges, to make him glad, sayenge: thou hast gotten a sonne. Let it happen vnto that man, ^note as to the cities which þe; LORDE turned vpside downe (when he had longe herde the wicked rumoure of them) because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her. Wherfore came I forth off my mothers wombe? ^noteTo haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lede my life with shame?

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