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Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
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The XXXVIII. Chapter.

A   Saphatias the sonne off Math&abar;, Gedolias the sonne of Pashur, Iuchal the sonne of Selamia, ∧ Pashur the sonne of Malchias perceaued the wordes, þt; Ieremy had spok&ebar; vnto all the people, namely on this maner: Thus saieth the LORDE: Who so remayneth in this cite, shall perish, ether with the swearde, with honger or with pestilence: note But who so falleth vnto the Caldees, shal escape, wynnynge his soule for a pray, ∧ shal lyue. For thus saieth the LORDE note This cite (no doute) must be delyuered into þe; power of the k&ibar;ge of Babil&obar;, ∧ he also shal wynne it. Th&ebar; sayde the prynces vnto þe; kynge: Syr, we besech you let this man be put to death, For thus he discorageth the h&obar;des of the soudyers þt; be in this cite, ∧ the h&obar;des of all the people, wh&ebar; he speaketh soch wordes vnto th&ebar;. This m&abar; verely laboureth not for peace of þe; people, but mischefe. Sedechias the kinge answered and sayde: lo, he is in yo&highr; h&obar;des, for þe; k&ibar;ge maye denye you nothinge. Then toke they Ieremy, and cast him in to the dongeon off Malchias the sonne off Amalech, that dwelt in the fore entre off the preson. And they let downe Ieremy &wt; coardes in to a dongeon, where there was no water, but myre. So Ieremy stack fast in the myre. B   Now when Abdemelech the Morian beynge a chamberlayne in the kynges courte, vnderstode, that they had cast Ieremy in to the dongeon: he went out off the kynges house, and spake to the kynge (which th&ebar; sat vnder the porte off Ben Iamin) these wordes: My lorde the kynge, where as these men medle with Ieremy the prophet, they do him wronge: Namely, in that they haue put him in preson, there to dye of honger, for there is no more bred in the cite. Th&ebar; the kynge comma&ubar;ded Abdemelech the Morian, and sayde: Take from h&ebar;ce xxx. men whom thou wilt, ∧ drawe vp Ieremy the prophet out of the dongeon, before he dye. So Abdemelech toke the men &wt; him, ∧ went to þe; house of Amalech, ∧ there vnder an almery he gat olde ragges ∧ worne cloutes, ∧ let th&ebar; downe by a coarde, in to the dongeon to Ieremy.

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And Abdemelech the Morian sayde vnto the prophet Ieremy: O put these ragges and cloutes vnder thine arme holes, betwixte th&ebar; and the coardes: &abar;d Ieremy dyd so. So they drewe vp Ieremy with coardes and toke him out of the dongeon, and he remayned in the fore entrie of the preson. Th&ebar; Sedechias the kynge sent and caused Ieremy the prophet be called vnto him, in to the thirde entrie, that was by the house off the LORDE. note C   And the kynge sayde vnto Ieremy: I wil axe the somwhat, but hyde nothinge fro me. Th&ebar; Ieremy answerde Sedechias: Yf I be playne vnto the, thou wilt cause me suffre death: yf I geue the co&ubar;cell, thou wilt not folowe me. So the kynge swore an ooth secretly vnto Ieremy, sayenge: As truly as the LORDE lyueth, that made vs these soules, I will not slaye the, ner geue the in to the h&obar;des of them, that seke after thy life.

Then sayde Ieremy vnto Sedechias: Thus saieth þe; LORDE off hoostes the God of Israel: Yf case be, that thou wilt go forth vnto the kynge off Babilons prynces, thou shalt saue thy life, note and this cite shall not be br&ebar;t, yee both thou and thy housholde shall escape with youre lyues. But yff thou wilt not go forth to the kynge off Babilons prynces, then shal this cite be delyuered in to the hondes of the Caldees which shal set fyre vpon it, and thou shalt be able to escape them. And Sedechias sayde vnto Ieremy: I am afrayde for the Iewes, that are fled vnto the Caldees, lest I come in their h&obar;des, and so they to haue me in derision.

D   But Ieremy answerde: No, they shal not betraye the: O herken vnto the voyce off the LORDE (I beseke þe;) which I speake vnto the, so shalt thou be well, and saue thy life.
But yf thou wilt not go forth, the LORDE hath tolde me this planely: Beholde, all the women that are left in the kynge of Iudaes house, shal go out to the kynge of Babilons prynces. For they thynke, þt; thou art disceaued: and that þe; men in whom thou didest put thy trust, haue gotten the vnder, and set thy fete fast in the myre, and gone their waye from the. Therfore all thy wyues with their children shall fle vnto the Caldees, and thou shalt not escape their hondes, but shalt be þe; kynge of Babilons presoner, ∧ this cite shall be brent. Then sayde Sedechias vnto Ieremy: loke þt; no body knowe off these wordes, and thou shalt not dye. But yf the prynces perceaue, that I haue talked with the, and come vnto the, sayenge: O speake, what sayde the kynge to the? hyde it not from vs, and we wil not put the to death. Tell vs (we praye the) what sayde þe; kynge to the? Se thou geue them this answere: I haue humbly besought the kynge, that he will let me lye nomore in Ionathas house, that I dye not there? Then came all the princes vnto Ieremy, and axed him, And he tolde them, after the maner as the kynge bad him. noteThen they helde their peace, for they perceaued nothinge. So Ieremy abode still in the fore entrie off the preson, vntill the daye that Ierusalem was wonne.
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Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
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