1   The burden of the ^note valley of vision. What ^note aileth thee nowe that thou art wholy gone vp vnto the house toppes?

2   Thou that art full of ^note noise, a citie full of brute, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men shall not bee slaine ^note with sworde, nor die in battell.

3   All thy princes shal flee together from the bowe: they shalbe ^note bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from ^note farre.

4   Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe ^note bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5   For it is a day of trouble, and of ruine, and of perplexitie by the Lorde God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the citie: and a ^note crying vnto the mountaines.

6   ¶2; And Elam ^note bare the quiuer in a mans charet &wt; horsemen, and Kir vncouered the shield.

7   And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues in aray against the gate.

8   And hee discouered the ^note couering of Iudah: and thou didest looke in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

9   And ye haue seene ^note the breaches of the citie of Dauid: for they were many, and ye gathered the waters of the lower poole.

10   And yee nombred the houses ^note of Ierusalem, and the houses haue yee broken downe to fortifie the wall,

11   And haue also made a ditche betweene the two walles, for the ^note waters of the olde poole, and haue not looked vnto the maker ^note thereof, neither had respect vnto him that formed it of olde. Feasting for fasting.

12   And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.

13   And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh, & drinking wine, ^note eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die.

14   And it was declared in þe; eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.

15   Thus sayeth the Lord God of hostes, Goe, get thee to that ^note treasurer, to Shebna, the steward of the house, and say,

16   What haste thou to doe here? and whome hast thou ^note here? that thou shouldest here hewe thee out a sepulchre, as he that heweth out his sepulchre in an hie place, or that graueth an habitation ^note for him selfe in a rocke?

17   Beholde, the Lord wil carie thee away with a great captiuitie, and will surely couer thee.

18   He wil surely rolle and turne thee like a bal in a large countrey: there shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shalbe the ^note shame of thy lordes house.

19   And I wil driue thee from thy station, and out of thy dwelling will he destroy thee.

20   And in that day will I ^note call my seruant Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah,

21   And with thy garments will I clothe him, and with thy girdle will I strengthen him: thy power also will I commit into his hande, and hee shalbe a father of the inhabit&abar;ts of Ierusalem, and of the house of Iudah.

22   And the ^note key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so hee shall open, and no m&abar; shal shut: & he shal shut, & no man shal open.

23   And I will fasten him as a ^note naile in a sure place, and hee shall be for the throne of glorie to his fathers house.

24   And they shall hang vpon him all the glorie of his fathers house, euen of the nephewes and posteritie ^note all smal vessels, from the vessels of the cuppes, euen to all the instruments of musike.

25   In that day, sayeth the Lord of hostes, shall the ^note naile, that is fastned in the sure place, depart and shall be broken, and fall: and the burden, that was vpon it, shall bee cut off: for the Lorde hath spoken it.

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