A    ^noteThe worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off man, turne thy face to the mountaynes of Israel, that thou mayest prophecie vnto them, and saye: Heare the worde of the LORDE God, o ye mountaynes off Israel: Thus hath the LORDE God spoken to the mo&ubar;taynes, hilles, valleys and dales:

Beholde, I will brynge a swearde ouer you, and destroye youre hie places: I wil cast downe youre aulters, and breake downe youre temples. Youre slayne men will I laye before youre goddes, and the deed carcases off the children off Israel will I cast before their ymages, youre bones wil

I strowe rounde aboute youre aulters, and dwellinge places.

The cities shalbe desolate, þe; hillchapels layed waist: youre aulters destroyed, ∧ broken: youre goddes cast downe, and taken awaye, yo&highr; t&ebar;pels layde eau&ebar; with the gro&ubar;de, youre owne workes clene roted out. B   Youre slayne men shall lie amonge you, that ye maye lerne to knowe, how þt; I am the LORDE. Those þt; am&obar;ge you haue escaped the swearde, will I leaue amonge the Gentiles, for I will scatre you amonge the nacions. And they that escape from you, shall thinke vpon me amonge the heithen, where they shalbe in captiuyte. ^note

As for that whorish and vnfaithfull herte of theirs, wherwith they runne awaye fro me, I will breake it: yee ∧ put out those eyes off theirs, that committe fornicacion with their Idols.

Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selues, for the wickednesses &abar;d abhominacions, which they haue done: and shal lerne to knowe, how that it is not in vayne, that I the LORDE spake, to bringe soch mysery vpon them.

C   The LORDE sayde morouer vnto me: Smyte thine hondes together, and stampe with thy fete, and saye: Wo worth all the abhominacions and wickednesses of the house of Israel, for because of th&ebar;, they shal perish with the swearde, with h&obar;ger and with pestilence. Who so is farre of, shall dye off the pestilence: he that is nye at hande, shall perish with the swearde: and þe; other that are beseged, shall dye of honger.

Thus wil I satisfie my wrothfull displeasure vpon them. And so shall ye lerne to knowe, that I am the LORDE, wh&ebar; youre slayne men lye am&obar;ge youre goddes, and aboute youre aulters: vpon all hie hilles and toppes off mountaynes, am&obar;ge all grene trees, amonge all thicke okes: euen in the places, where they dyd sacrifice to all their Idols. I will stretch myne honde out vpon them, ∧ will make the londe waist: So that it shall lye desolate and voyde, from the wildernesse off Deblat forth, thorow all their habitacions: to lerne them for to knowe, that I am the LORDE.

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