1   Wo to the ^note rebellious children, sayth the Lord, that take counsell, but not of me, and ^note couer with a couering, but not by my spirit, that they may lay sinne vpon sinne:

2   Which walke forth to goe downe into Egypt (and haue not asked at my mouth) to strengthen them selues with the strength of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadowe of Egypt.

3   But the strength of Pharaoh shalbe your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4   For his ^note princes were at Zoan, and his Ambassadours came vnto Hanes.

5   They shalbe all ashamed of the people that cannot profite them, nor helpe nor doe them good, but shalbe a shame and also a reproche.

To waite for the Lorde.

6   ¶2; The ^note burden of the beasts of the South, in a land of trouble and anguish, from whence shall come the yong and olde lyon, the viper and fierie flying serpent against them that shall beare their riches vpon the shoulders of the coltes, and their treasures vpon the bounches of the camels, to a people that cannot profite.

7   For the Egyptians are vanitie, & they shall helpe in vaine. Therefore haue I cried vnto ^note her, Their strength ^note is to sit still.

8   Now go, and write ^note it before them in a table, and note it in a booke that it may be for the ^note last day for euer and euer:

9   That it is a rebellious people, lying children, and children that would not ^note heare the law of the Lord.

10   Which say vnto the Seers, See not: and to the Prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs right things: but speake flattering things vnto vs: prophecie ^note errours.

11   Depart out of the way: go aside out of the path: cause the holy one of Israel to cease fr&obar; vs.

12   Therefoe thus saith the holy one of Israel, Because you haue cast off this worde, and trust in ^note violence, and wickednes, and stay thereupon,

13   Therefore this iniquitie shalbe vnto you as a breach that falleth, or a swelling in an hie wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly in a moment.

14   And the breaking thereof is like the breaking of a potters pot, which is broken without pitie, and in the breaking thereof is not found ^note a sheard to take fire out of the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

15   For thus sayd the ^note Lorde God, the Holy one of Israel, In rest and quietnes shall ye be saued: in quietnes and in confidence shall be your strength, but ye would not.

16   For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon ^note horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.

17   A thousand as one shall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of fiue shall ye flee, till ye be left as a ship maste vpon the ^note top of a mountaine, and as a beaken vpon an hill.

18   Yet therefore will the Lord waite, that he may haue ^note mercy vpon you, and therefore wil he be exalted, that hee may haue compassion vpon you: for the Lorde is the God of ^note iudgement. Blessed are all they that waite for him.

19   Surely a people shal dwell in Zion, and in Ierusalem: thou shalt weepe no more: he wil certainly haue mercy vpon thee at the voyce of thy crye: when he heareth thee, he wil answere thee.

20   And when the Lorde hath giuen you the bread of aduersitie, and the water of affliction, thy raine shalbe no more kept backe, but thine eyes shall see thy ^note raine.

21   And thine eares shal heare a worde behind thee, saying, This is the way, ^note walke ye in it, when thou turnest to the right hand, & when thou turnest to the left.

22   And ye shall ^note pollute the couering of the images of siluer, and the riche ornament of thine images of golde, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say vnto it, ^note Get thee hence. Vaine trust in man.

23   Then shall hee giue raine vnto thy seede, when thou shalt sowe the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and as oyle: in that day shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures.

24   The oxen also and the yong asses, that till the ground, shall eate cleane prouender, which is winowed with the shoouel and with the fanne.

25   And vpon euery hie ^note mountaine, and vpon euery hie hill shal there be riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

26   Moreouer, the light of the moone shall be as the light of the ^note sunne, and the light of the sunne shalbe seuen folde, and like the light of seuen dayes in the day that the Lord shall binde vp the breach of his people, and heale the stroke of their wound.

27   Beholde, ^note the Name of the Lorde commeth from farre, his face is burning, & the burden thereof is heauy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a deuouring fire.

28   And his spirit is as a riuer that ouerfloweth vp to the necke: it deuideth asunder, to fanne the nations with the fanne of ^note vanitie, and there shall be a bridle to cause them to erre in the chawes of the people.

29   But there shall be a song vnto you as in the ^note night, when solemne feast is kept: and gladnes of heart, as he that commeth with a pipe to goe vnto the mount of the Lord, to the mightie one of Israel.

30   And the Lorde shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard, and shall declare the lighting downe of his arme with the anger of his countenance, and flame of a deuouring fire, with scattering and tempest, and hailestones.

31   For with the voyce of the Lord shal Asshur be destroyed, which smote with the ^note rod.

32   And in euery place that þe; staffe shal passe, it shall ^note cleaue fast, which the Lord shall lay vpon him with ^note tabrets & harpes: and with battels, and lifting vp of hands shall he fight ^note against it.

33   For ^note Tophet is prepared of olde: it is euen prepared for the ^note King: hee hath made it ^note deepe and large: the burning thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord, like a riuer of brimstone, doeth kindle it.

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