The vision of the throne.

19   And when the beastes went, the wheeles went with them: and when the beasts were lift vp from the earth, the wheeles were lift vp.

20   Whither the spirit led them, they went, & thither did the spirite of the wheeles leade them, and the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirit of the beastes was in the wheeles.

21   When the beastes went, they went, & when they stoode, they stoode, and when they were lifted vp from the earth, the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirite of the beastes was in the wheeles.

22   And the similitude of the firmament vpon the heads of the beasts was wonderfull, like vnto chrystall, spred ouer their heads aboue.

23   And vnder the firmament were their wings streight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which couered th&ebar;, and euery one had two, which couered their bodies. The vision of the throne.

24   And when they went foorth, I heard the noyse of their ^note wings, like the noyse of great waters, and as the voyce of the Almightie, euen the voyce of speach, as the noyse of an host: and when they stood, they ^note let downe their wings.

25   And there was a voyce fr&obar; the firmament, that was ouer their heads, when they stoode, and had let downe their wings.

26   And aboue the firmament that was ouer their heads, was the facion of a throne like vnto a saphir stone, and vpon the similitude of the throne was by appearance, as the similitude of a man aboue vpon it.

27   And I sawe as the appearance of amber, and as the similitude of fire ^note round about within it to looke to, euen from his loynes vpwarde: and to looke to, euen from his loynes downewarde, I sawe as a likenesse of fire, and brightnesse round about it.

Stiffe hearted.

28   As the likenesse of the bowe, that is in the cloude in the day of raine, so was the appearance of the light round about.

29   This was the appearance of the similitude of the glorie of the Lord: and when I sawe it, I fell ^note vpon my face, and I heard a voyce of one that spake. CHAP. II. The Prophet is sent to call the people from their errour.

1   And ^note he said vnto me, ^note Sonne of man, stand vp vpon thy feete, & I wil speake vnto thee.

2    ^noteAnd the Spirite entred into me, when he had spoken vnto me, and set me vpon my feete, so that I heard him that spake vnto me.

3   And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: for they and their fathers haue rebelled against me, euen vnto this very day.

4   For they are ^note impudent children, and stiffe hearted: I do send thee vnto them, & thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God.

5   But surely they will not heare, neither in deede will they cease: for they are a rebellious house: yet shall they knowe that ^note there hath bene a Prophet among them.

6   And thou sonne of man, ^note feare them not, neither be afraide of their wordes, although rebels, and thornes be with thee, and thou remainest with scorpions: feare not their wordes, nor be afrayde at their lookes, for they are a rebellious house.

7   Therefore thou shalt speake my words vnto them: but surely they will not heare, neither will they in deede cease: for they are rebellious.

8   But thou sonne of man, heare what I say vnto thee: be not thou rebellious, like this rebellious house: open thy mouth, and ^note eate that I giue thee.

9   And when I looked vp, beholde, an hande was sent vnto me, and loe, a roule of a booke was therein.

10   And he spred it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein, ^note Lamentations, and mourning, and woe. CHAP. III. 1 The Prophet being fed with the worde of God and with the constant boldne&esset;e of the Spirit, is sent vnto the people that were in captiuitie. 17 The office of true ministers.

1   Moreouer he saide vnto me, Sonne of man, eate that thou findest: ^note eate this roule, and goe, and speake vnto the house of Israel.

2   So I opened my mouth, and he gaue mee this roule to eate.

3   And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, cause thy belly to eate, and fill thy bowels with this roule that I giue thee. Then did I eate it, and it was in my mouth as sweete as honie.

4   And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, goe, and enter into the house of Israel, and declare them my wordes.

5   For thou art not sent to a people of an vnknowen ^note tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel,

6   Not to many people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an harde language, whose wordes The Prophets charge. thou canst not vnderstand: yet if I should sende thee to them, they would obey thee.

7   But the house of Israel will not obey thee: for they will not obey me: yea, all the house of Israel are impudent and stiffe hearted.

8   Beholde, I haue made thy face ^note strong against their faces, and thy forehead harde against their foreheads.

9   I haue made thy forehead as the adamant, and harder then the flint: feare them not therefore, neither be afraid at their lookes: for they are a rebellious house.

10   He said moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, ^note receiue in thine heart al my words that I speake vnto thee, and heare them with thine eares,

11   And goe and enter to them that are led away captiues vnto the children of thy people, and speake vnto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God: but surely they will not heare, neither will they in deede cease.

12   Then the spirite tooke me vp, and I heard behinde me a noise of a great russhing, saying, ^note Blessed be þe; glorie of the Lord out of his place.

13   I heard also the noyse of the wings of the beasts, that touched one another, and the ratling of the wheeles that were by them, euen a noyse of a great russhing.

14   So the spirit lift me vp, and tooke me away and I ^note went in bitternesse, and indignation of my spirite, but the hand of the Lorde was strong vpon me.

15   Then I came to them that were led away captiues to ^note Tel-abib, that dwelt by the riuer Chebar, and I sate where they sate, and remained there astonished among them ^note seuen dayes.

16   And at the ende of seuen dayes, the worde of the Lorde came againe vnto me, saying,

17   Sonne of man, I haue made thee a ^note watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore heare the worde at my mouth, and giue them warning from me.

18   When I shall say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou giuest not him warning, nor speakest to admonish the wicked of his wicked way, that he may liue, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at thine hande.

19   Yet if thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.

20   Likewise if a ^note righteous man turne from his righteousnesse, and commit iniquitie, I will lay a ^note stumbling blocke before him, and he shal die, because thou hast not giuen him warning: he shall die in his sinne, and his ^note righteous deedes, which he hath done, shall not be remembred: but his blood will I require at thine hand.

21   Neuerthelesse, if thou admonish that righteous man, that the righteous sinne not, and that he doeth not sinne, he shall liue because he is admonished: also thou hast deliuered thy soule.

22   And the ^note hande of the Lorde was there vpon me, and he said vnto me, Arise, and goe into the ^note fielde, and I will there talke with thee.

23   So when I had risen vp, and gone foorth into the fielde, beholde, the ^note glorie of the Lorde stoode there, as the glorie which I sawe by the riuer Chebar, and I fell downe vpon my face.

24   Then the Spirit entred into me, which ^note set

The sinnes of the people. me vp vpon my feete, and spake vnto me, and said to me, Come, and ^note shut thy selfe within thine house.

25   But thou, O sonne of man, beholde, they shall put bandes vpon thee, and shall binde thee with them, and thou shalt not goe out among them.

26   And I will make thy tongue ^note cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth, that thou shalt be d&ubar;me, and shalt not be to them as a man that rebuketh: for they are a rebellious house.

27   But when I shall haue spoken vnto thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, He that heareth, let him heare, and he that leaueth off, ^note let him leaue: for they are a rebellious house. CHAP. IIII. 1 The besieging of the citie of Ierusalem is signified. 9 The long continuance of the captiuitie of Israel. 16 An hunger is prophesied to come.

1   Thou also sonne of man, take thee a bricke, and lay it before thee, and pourtray vpon it the citie, euen Ierusalem,

2   And lay siege against it, and builde a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and lay engins of warre against it rounde about.

3   Moreouer, take an ^note yron pan, and set it for a wall of yron betweene thee and the citie, and direct thy face towarde it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: this shall be a signe vnto the house of Israel.

4   Sleepe thou also vpon thy left side, and lay the iniquitie of the ^note house of Israel vpon it: according to the nomber of the dayes, that thou shalt sleepe vp&obar; it, thou shalt beare their iniquity.

5   For I haue layed vpon thee the yeeres of their iniquitie, according to the nomber of the dayes, euen three hundreth and ninetie dayes: so shalt thou beare the iniquitie of the house of Israel.

6   And when thou hast accomplished them, sleepe againe vpon thy ^note right side, and thou shalt beare the iniquitie of the house of Iudah fourtie dayes: I haue appointed thee a day for a yeere, euen a day for a yeere.

7   Therefore thou shalt direct thy face towarde the siege of Ierusalem, and thine ^note arme shalbe vncouered, and thou shalt prophesie against it.

8   And beholde, I will lay ^note bands vpon thee, and thou shalt not turne thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the dayes of thy siege.

9   Thou shalt take also vnto thee wheate, and barley, and beanes, and lentiles, and millet, ^note and fitches, and put them in one vessell, and make thee bread thereof according to the nomber of the dayes, that thou shalt sleepe vpon thy side: euen ^note three hundreth and ninetie dayes shalt thou eate thereof.

10   And the meate, whereof thou shalt eate, shalbe by weight, euen ^note twenty shekels a day: and from time to time shalt thou eate thereof.

11   Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, euen the sixt part of ^note an Hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.

12   And thou shalt eate it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it ^note in the dongue that commeth out of man, in their sight. The heare.

13   And the Lord said, So shall the children of Israel eate their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will cast them.

14   Then said I, Ah, Lord God, beholde, my soule hath not bene polluted: for from my youth vp, euen vnto this houre, I haue not eaten of a thing dead, or torne in pieces, neither came there any ^note vncleane flesh in my mouth.

15   Then he said vnto me, Loe, I haue giuen thee bullockes ^note dongue for mans dongue, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

16   Moreouer, he said vnto me, Sonne of man, beholde, I will breake ^note the staffe of bread in Ierusalem, and they shall eate bread by weight, and with care, and they shal drinke water by measure, and with astonishment.

17   Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie. CHAP. V. The signe of the heares, whereby is signified the destruction of the people.

1   And thou sonne of man, take thee a sharpe knife, or take thee a barbours rasor & cause it ^note to passe vpon thine head, and vpon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and deuide the heare.

2   Thou shalt burne with fire the thirde part in the middes of ^note the citie, when the dayes of the siege are fulfilled, and thou shalt take the other thirde part, and smite about it with a knife, and the last thirde part thou shalt scatter in the winde, and I will drawe out a sworde after them.

3   Thou shalt also take thereof a fewe in nomber, and binde them in thy ^note lappe.

4   Then take of them againe and cast them into the middes of the fire, and burne them in the fire: ^note for thereof shall a fire come foorth into all the house of Israel.

5   Thus saith the Lorde God, This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the middes of the nations and countreyes, that are rounde about her.

6   And she hath changed my ^note iudgements into wickednes more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreis, that are round about her: for they haue refused my iudgem&ebar;ts & my statutes, & they haue not walked in them.

7   Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Because your ^note multitude is greater then the nations that are rounde about you, and ye haue not walked in my statutes, neither haue ye kept my iudgements: no, ye haue not done according to the iudgements of the nations, that are rounde about you,

8   Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, I, euen I come against thee, and will execute iudgement in the middes of thee, euen in the sight of the nations.

9   And I will doe in thee, that I neuer did before, neither will do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

10   For in the middes of thee, the fathers ^note shall eate their sonnes, and the sonnes shall eate their fathers, and I will execute iudgement in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the windes.

11   Wherefore, as I liue, saith the Lorde God, Surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuarie with all thy filthinesse, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also destroy thee,

The arrowes of famine. neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue any pitie.

12   The third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they bee consumed in the middes of thee: and another third part shall fall by the sword round about thee: and I will scatter the last third part into all windes, and I will drawe out a sword after them.

13   Thus shall mine anger bee accomplished, and I will cause my wrath to cease in them, and I will be ^note comforted: and they shal knowe, that I the Lord haue spok&ebar; it in my zeale, when I haue accomplished my wrath in them.

14   Moreouer, I will make thee waste, and abhorred among the nations, þt; are round about thee, and in the sight of all that passe by.

15   So thou shalt bee a reproche and shame, a chastisement and an astonishment vnto the nations, that are rounde about thee, when I shall execute iudgements in thee, in anger and in wrath, and in sharpe rebukes: I the Lorde haue spoken it.

16   When I shall sende vpon them the ^note euill ^note arrowes of famine, which shalbe for their destruction, and which I will sende to destroy you: and I will encrease the famine vpon you, and wil breake your staffe of bread.

17    ^noteSo will I send vpon you famine, and euill beastes, and they shall spoyle thee, and pestilence and blood shall passe through thee, and I will bring the sworde vpon thee: I the Lorde haue spoken it. CHAP. VI. Hee sheweth that Ierusalem shalbe destroyed for their idolatrie. 8 Hee prophesieth the repentance of the remnant of the people, and their deliuerance.

1   Againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, Set thy face towardes the ^note mountaines of Israel, and prophecie against them,

3   And say, Ye mountaines of Israel, heare the worde of the Lorde God: thus sayth the Lorde God to the ^note mountaines and to the hilles, to the riuers and to the valleis, Beholde, I, euen I will bring a sworde vpon you, and I will destroy your hie places:

4   And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images of the ^note sunne shalbe broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.

5   And I will lay the dead carkeises of the children of Israel before their ^note idoles, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

6   In all your dwelling places the cities shalbe desolate, and the hie places shalbe laide waste, so that your altars shalbe made waste and desolate, and your idoles shalbe broken, and cease, & your images of the sunne shalbe cut in pieces, & your workes shalbe abolished.

7   And the slaine shall fall in the middes of you, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

8   Yet will I leaue a remnant, ^note that you may haue some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when you shalbe scattred through the countreyes.

9   And they that escape of you, shall remember me among the nations, where they shalbe in captiuitie, because I am grieued for their whorish hearts, which haue departed from mee, and for their eyes, which haue gone a whoring after their Sword, famine, and pestilence. idoles, and they ^note shalbe displeased in them selues for the euils, which they haue committed in all their abominations.

10   And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, and that I haue not saide in vaine, that I woulde doe this euill vnto them.

11   Thus saith the Lorde God, ^note Smite with thine hand, & stretch forth with thy foote, and say, Alas, for all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sworde, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

12   He that is farre off, shal dye of the pestilence, and he that is neere, shal fall by the sword, and hee that remaineth and is besieged, shal dye by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath vpon them.

13   Then ^note ye shall knowe, that I am þe; Lorde, when their slaine men shalbe among their idoles round about their altars, vpon euerie hie hill in al the toppes of the mountaines, and vnder euery greene tree, and vnder euerie thicke oke, which is the place where they did offer sweete sauour to all their idoles.

14   So will I ^note stretch mine hand vpon them, and make the lande waste, and desolate ^note from the wildernes vnto Diblath in all their habitations, and they shall know, that I am the Lorde. CHAP. VII. The ende of all the land of Israel shall suddenly come.

1   Moreouer the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

2   Also thou sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, An ende is come vnto the lande of Israel: the ende is come vpon the foure corners of the lande.

3   Nowe is the ende come vpon thee, and I wil sende my wrath vpon thee, and will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will laye vpon thee all ^note thine abominations.

4   Neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue pitie: but I will laye thy waies vpon thee: and thine abomination shall bee in the middes of thee, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

5   Thus saith the Lorde God, ^note Beholde, one euil, euen one euill is come.

6   An ende is come, the end is come, it ^note watched for thee: beholde, it is come.

7   The ^note morning is come vnto thee, þt; dwellest in the lande: the time is come, the day of trouble is neere, and not the ^note sounding againe of the mountaines.

8   Now I will shortly powre out my wrath vpon thee, and fulfil mine anger vpon thee: I will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will lay vpon thee all thine abominations.

9   Neither shall mine eie spare thee, neither will I haue pitie, but I will laye vpon thee according to thy wayes, and thine abominations shalbe in the middes of thee, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde that smiteth.

10   Beholde, the day, beholde, it is come: the morning is gone forth, the ^note rod florisheth: ^note pride hath budded.

11    ^noteCrueltie is risen vp into a rod of wickednes: none of them shal remaine, nor of their riches, nor of any of theirs, neither shall there bee ^note lamentation for them.

12   The time is come, the day draweth neere: let not the byer ^note reioyce, nor let him that selleth,

Israel threatned. ^note mourne: for the wrath is vpon al the multitude thereof.

13   For hee that selleth, shall not ^note returne to that which is solde, although they were yet aliue: for the ^note vision was vnto al the multitude thereof, and they returned not, ^note neither doeth any encourage himselfe in the punishment of his life.

14    ^noteThey haue blowen the trumpet, and prepared all, but none goeth to the battel: for my wrath is vpon all the multitude thereof.

15   The sword is without, and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field, shall dye with the sword, and he that is in the citie, famine and pestilence shall deuoure him.

16   But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

17    ^noteAll handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.

18    ^noteThey shall also girde them selues with sackecloth, and feare shall couer them, and shame shalbe vpon all faces, & baldnes vpon their heads.

19   They shall cast their siluer in the streetes, and their golde shalbe cast farre off: their ^note siluer and their gold can not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: for this ruine is for their iniquitie.

20   He had also set the beautie of his ^note ornament in maiestie: but they made images of their abominations, and of their idoles therein: therefore haue I set it farre from them.

21   And I will giue it into the handes of the ^note strangers to be spoyled, and to the wicked of the earth to be robbed, and they shall pollute it.

22   My face will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my ^note secret place: for the destroyers shall enter into it, and defile it.

23   ¶2; Make a ^note chaine: for the lande is full of the ^note iudgement of blood, and the citie is full of crueltie.

24   Wherefore I will bring the most wicked of the heathen, and they shall possesse their houses: I will also make the pompe of the mightie to cease, and their ^note holie places shalbe defiled.

25   When destruction commeth, they shall seeke peace, and shall not haue it.

26   Calamitie shall come vpon calamitie, and rumour shall bee vpon rumour: then shall they seeke a vision of the Prophet: but the Lawe shal perish from the Priest, and counsel from the Ancient.

27   The King shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the handes of the people in the land shall be troubled: I wil doe vnto them according to their waies, and according to their iudgements will I iudge them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde. CHAP. VIII. 1 An appearance of the similitude of God. 3 Ezekiel is brought to Ierusalem in the spirit. 6 The Lorde sheweth the Prophet the idolatries of the house of Israel.

1   And in the ^note sixt yere, in the ^note sixt moneth, & in the fift day of the moneth, as I sate in mine house, and the Elders of Iudah sate before me, the hand of the Lord God fell there vpon me.

2   Then I beheld, and lo, there was a likenesse, as the appearance of ^note fire, to looke to, from his loynes downeward, & from his loynes vpward, as Vile idolatrie. the appearance of brightnes, & like vnto amber.

3   And he stretched out the likenes of an h&abar;d, and tooke me by an hearie locke of mine head, and the Spirit lift me vp betweene the earth, and the heauen, and brought mee ^note by a Diuine ^note vision to Ierusalem, into the entry of þe; inner ^note gate that lieth toward the North, where remained the idole of ^note indignation, which prouoked indignation.

4   And beholde, the glorie of the God of Israel was there according to the vision, that I saw ^note in the fielde.

5   Then saide he vnto mee, Sonne of man, lift vp thine eyes nowe towarde the North. So I lift vp mine eyes towarde the North, and beholde, Northward, at the gate of the ^note altar, this idole of indignation was in the entrie.

6   He said furthermore vnto me, Sonne of m&abar;, seest thou not what they doe? euen the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here to cause me to depart from ^note my Sanctuarie? but yet turne thee and thou shalt see greater abominations.

7   And he caused me to enter at the gate of the court: and when I looked, beholde, an hole was in the wall.

8   Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, digge nowe in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall, beholde, there was a doore.

9   And he said vnto mee, Go in, and beholde the wicked abominations that they doe here.

10   So I went in, and sawe, and beholde, there was euery similitude of creeping thinges and ^note abominable beasts and all the idoles of the house of Israel painted vpon the wall round about.

11   And there stoode before them seuentie ^note men of the Ancients of the house of Israel, and in the middes of them stoode Iaazaniah, þe; sonne of Shaphan, with euerie man his censour in his hand, and the vapour of the incense went vp like ^note a cloude.

12   Then saide hee vnto mee, Sonne of man, hast thou seene what the Ancients of the house of Israel ^note do in the darke, euery one in the chamber of his imagerie? for they say, The Lorde seeth vs not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

13   Againe he saide also vnto me, Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they doe.

14   And he caused me to enter into the entrie of the gate of the Lords house, which was toward the North: and beholde there sate women mourning for ^note Tammuz.

15   Then saide hee vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations then these.

16   And he caused me to enter into the inner court of the Lordes house, and beholde, at the doore of the Temple of the Lord, betweene the porche and the altar were about fiue and twentie men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord, and their faces towarde the East, and they worshipped the sunne, towarde the East.

17   Th&ebar; he said vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Is it a small thing to the house of Iudah to commit these abominations which they do here? for they haue filled the land with crueltie, and haue returned to prouoke mee: and loe, they haue cast out ^note stinke before their noses.

18   Therefore will I also execute my wrath:

The marked. mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, and ^note though they crie in mine eares with a loude voyce, yet will I not heare them. CHAP. IX. 1 The destruction of the citie. 4 They that shalbe saued, are marked. 8 A complaint of the Prophet for the destruction of the people.

1   He cryed also with a loude voyce in mine eares, saying, The visitations of ^note the citie draw neere, and euery man hath a weapon in his hande to destroy it.

2   And beholde, sixe ^note men came by the way of the hie gate, which lieth towarde the ^note North, and euery man a weapon in his hande to destroy it: and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writers ^note ynkhorne by his side, and they went in and stoode beside the brasen altar.

3   And the glorie of the God of Israel was ^note gone vp from þe; Cherub, whereup&obar; he was and stoode on the ^note doore of the house, and he called to the man clothed with linnen, which had the writers ynkhorne by his side.

4   And the Lord said vnto him, Goe through the middes of the citie, euen through the middes of Ierusalem and ^note set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that ^note mourne, and cry for all the abominations that be done in the middes thereof.

5   And to the other he said, that I might heare, Goe ye after him through the citie, and smite: let your eye spare none, neither haue pitie.

6   Destroy vtterly the old, and the yong, and the maides, and the children, and the women, but touch no man, vpon whome is the ^note marke, and begin at my Sanctuarie. Then they began at the ^note Ancient men, which were before the house.

7   And he sayde vnto them, Defile the house, and fill the courtes with the slaine, then goe foorth: and they went out, and slewe them in the citie.

8   Nowe when they had slaine them, and I had escaped, I fell downe vpon my face, and cryed, saying, ^note Ah Lorde God, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel, in powring out thy wrath vpon Ierusalem?

9   Then saide he vnto me, The iniquitie of the house of Israel, and Iudah is exceeding great, so that the lande is full ^note of blood, and the citie full of corrupt iudgement: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, & the Lord seeth vs not.

10   As touching me also, mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, but will recompence their wayes vpon their heades.

11   And beholde, the man clothed with linen which had the ynkhorne by his side, made report, and saide, Lorde, I haue done as thou hast commanded me. CHAP. X. 1 Of the man that tooke hote burning coales out of the middle of the wheeles of the Cherubims. 8 A rehearsall of the vision of the wheeles, of the beastes, and of the Cherubims.

1   And as I looked, beholde, in the ^note firmament that was aboue the head of the ^note Cherubims there appeared vpon them like vnto the similitude of a throne, as it were a saphir stone.

2   And he spake vnto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in betweene the wheeles, euen vnder the Cherub, & fill thine hands with coales of fire from betweene the Cherubims, & scatter th&ebar; ouer ^note the citie. And he went in in my sight.

3   Now the Cherubims stood vpon the right The Cherubims and wheeles. side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloude filled the inner court.

4   Then the glorie of the Lorde ^note went vp from the Cherub, and stoode ouer the doore of the house, & the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightnesse of the Lordes glorie.

5   And the ^note sound of the Cherubims wings was heard into the vtter court, as the voyce of the Almightie God, when he speaketh.

6   And when he had commaunded the man clothed with linnen, saying, Take fire from betweene the wheeles, & from betweene þe; Cherubims, then he went in and stood beside þe; wheele.

7   And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from betweene the Cherubims vnto the fire, that was betweene the Cherubims, and tooke thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linnen: who tooke it and went out.

8   And there appeared in the Cherubims, the likenesse of a mans hande vnder their wings.

9   And when I looked vp, beholde, foure wheeles were beside the Cherubims, one wheele by one Cherub, and another wheele by another Cherub, and the appearance of the wheeles was as the colour of a ^note Chrysolite stone.

10   And their appearance (for they were all foure of one facion) was as if one wheele had bene in another wheele.

11   When they went foorth, they went vpon their foure sides, and they returned not as they went: but to the place whither the first went, they went after it, and they ^note turned not as they went.

12   And their whole bodie, and their ^note rings, and their hands, and their wings, & the wheeles were full of eyes round about, euen in the same foure wheeles.

13   And the Cherub cryed to these wheeles in mine hearing, saying, O wheele.

14   And euery beast had foure faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, & the second face was the face of a man, and the thirde the face of a lyon, and the fourth the face of an Egle.

15   And the Cherubims were lifted vp: ^note this is the beast that I sawe at the riuer Chebar.

16   And when þe; Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lift vp their wings to mount vp from the earth, the same wheeles also turned not from beside them.

17   When the Cherubims stoode, they stood: & when they were lifted vp, they lifted th&ebar; selues vp also: for the ^note spirit of the beast was in them.

18    ^noteThen the glorie of the Lorde departed from aboue the doore of the house, and stoode vpon the Cherubims.

19   And the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and mounted vp from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheeles also were besides them: and euery one stoode at the entrie of the gate of the Lordes House at the East side, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vp&obar; them on hie.

20    ^noteThis is the ^note beast that I sawe vnder the God of Israel by the riuer Chebar, and I knewe that they were the Cherubims.

21   Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of mans hands was vnder their wings.

22   And the likenes of their faces was the selfe same faces, which I sawe by the riuer Chebar,

The mockers punished. and the appearance of the Cherubims was þe; selfe same, and they went euery one straight forwarde. CHAP. XI. 2 Who they were that seduced the people of Israel. 5 Against these he prophecieth, shewing them howe they shall be dispersed abroade. 19 The renewing of the heart commeth of God. 21 He threatneth them that leane vnto their owne counsels.

1   Moreouer, the Spirite lift me vp, and brought me vnto the East gate of the Lordes house, which lyeth Eastwarde, and beholde, at the entrie of the gate were fiue and twentie men: among whome I sawe Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur, and Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah, the princes of the people.

2   Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, these are the men that imagine mischiefe, and deuise wicked counsell in this citie.

3   For they say, ^note It is not neere, let vs builde houses: this citie is the ^note caldron, and wee be the flesh.

4   Therefore prophesie against them, sonne of man, prophesie.

5   And the Spirite of the Lord fell vpon me, and said vnto me, Speake, Thus saith the Lorde, O ye house of Israel, this haue ye said, and I know that which riseth vp of your mindes.

6   Many haue ye murthered in this citie, and ye haue filled the streets thereof with the slaine.

7   Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, They that ye haue slaine, and haue layed in the middes of it, they are ^note the flesh, and this citie is the caldron, but I wil bring you foorth of the mids of it.

8   Ye haue feared the sworde, and I wil bring a sworde vpon you, saith the Lorde God.

9   And I will bring you out of the middes thereof, and deliuer you into ^note the hands of strangers, and will execute iudgements among you.

10   Ye shall fall by the sworde, and I wil iudge you in the border of ^note Israel, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

11   This citie shall not be your caldron, neyther shall ye be the flesh in the middes thereof, but I will iudge you in the border of Israel.

12   And ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde: for ye haue not walked in my statutes, neither executed my iudgements, but haue done after the maners of the heathen, that are round about you.

13   ¶2; And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the sonne of ^note Benaiah dyed: then fell I downe vpon my face, and cryed with a loude voyce, and saide, Ah Lorde God, wilt thou then vtterly destroy all the remnant of Israel?

14   Againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

15   Sonne of man, thy ^note brethren, euen thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, & all the house of Israel, wholy are they vnto whome the inhabitants of Ierusalem haue said, Depart ye farre from the Lord: for the lande is giuen vs in possession.

16   Therefore say, Thus saith the Lorde God, Although I haue cast them farre off among the heathen, and although I haue scattered them among the countreis, yet wil I be to them as a litle ^note Sanctuarie in þe; countreis where they shal come.

17   Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will gather you againe from the people, and assemble you out of the countreis where ye haue bene scattered, & I will giue you þe; land of Israel.

18   And they shall come thither, and they shal take away all the idoles thereof, and all the abominations An heart of flesh. thereof from thence.

19    ^noteAnd I will giue them one heart, and I will put a newe spirit within their bowels: and I will take the ^note stonie heart out of their bodies, and will giue them an heart of flesh,

20   That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

21   But vpon them, whose heart is towarde their idoles, and whose affection goeth after their abominations, I will lay their way vpon their owne heades, saith the Lorde God.

22   ¶2; Then did the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and the wheeles besides them, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vpon them on hie.

23   And the glorie of the Lord went vp from the middes of the citie, & stoode vpon the mo&ubar;taine which is towarde the East side of the citie.

24   Afterwarde the Spirite tooke me vp, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Caldea to them that were led away captiues: so the vision that I had seene, went vp from me.

25   Then I declared vnto them that were ^note led away captiues, all the things that the Lorde had shewed me. CHAP. XII. 1 The parable of the captiuitie. 18 Another parable whereby the distresse of hunger and thirst is signified.

1   The worde of the Lorde also came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, thou dwellest in the middes of a rebellious house, which haue eyes to see, and see ^note not: they haue eares to heare, and heare not: for they are a rebellious house.

3   Therefore thou sonne of man, ^note prepare thy stuffe to goe into captiuitie, and goe foorth by day in their sight: and thou shalt passe from thy place to another place in their sight, if it be possible that they may consider it: for they are a rebellious house.

4   Then shalt thou bring foorth thy stuffe by day in their sight as the stuffe of him that goeth into captiuitie: and thou shalt go forth at euen in their sight, as they that go foorth into captiuitie.

5   Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and cary out thereby.

6   In their sight shalt thou beare it vpon thy shoulders, and carie it foorth in the darke: thou shalt couer thy face that thou see not the earth: for I haue set thee as a ^note signe vnto the house of Israel.

7   And as I was commaunded, so I brought forth my stuffe by day, as þe; stuffe of one þt; goeth into captiuitie: and by night I digged through the wall with mine hand, & brought it forth in þe; darke, & I bare it vp&obar; my shoulder in their sight.

8   And in the morning came the word of the Lord vnto me, saying,

9   Sonne of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, sayde vnto thee, What ^note doest thou?

10   But say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, This ^note burden concerneth the chiefe in Ierusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

11   Say, I am your signe: like as I haue done, so shall it be done vnto them: they shall goe into bondage and captiuitie.

12   And the chiefest that is among them, shall beare vpon his shoulder in the darke, and shall

The litle nomber. goe forth: they shall digge through the wall, to cary out thereby: he shall couer his face, that he see not the ground with his eies.

13   My net also will I spread vpon ^note him, and he shall be taken in my net, and I will bring him to Babel to the lande of the Caldeans, yet shall he not see it, though he shall dye there.

14   And I will scatter toward euerie winde all that are about him to helpe him, and all his garisons, and I will drawe out the sworde after them.

15   And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, & disperse them in the countreis.

16   But I will leaue a ^note litle nomber of them from the sworde, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all these abominations among the heathen, where they come, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lorde.

17   ¶2; Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

18   Sonne of man, eate thy bread with trembling and drinke thy water with trouble, & with carefulnesse,

19   And say vnto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lorde God of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and of the lande of Israel, They shall eate their bread with carefulnes, and drinke their water with desolation: for the lande shall bee desolate from her abundance because of the crueltie of them that dwell therein.

20   And the cities that are inhabited, shal be left voyde, and the land shall be desolate, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

21   ¶2; And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

22   Sonne of man, what is that prouerbe that you haue in the land of Israel, saying, The dayes ^note are prolonged and all visions ^note faile?

23   Tell them therefore, Thus sayeth the Lord God, I wil make this prouerbe to cease, and they shall no more vse it as a prouerbe in Israel: but say vnto them, The daies are at hand and the effect of euery vision.

24   For no vision shall be any more in vaine, neither shall there bee any flattering diuination within the house of Israel.

25   For I am the Lorde: I wil speake, and that thing that I shall speake, shall come to passe: it shall be no more prolonged: for in your dayes, O rebellious house, will I saye the thing, and will performe it, sayeth the Lord God.

26   Againe the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

27   Sonne of man, beholde, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that hee seeth, is for ^note many dayes to come, and he prophecieth of the times that are farre off.

28   Therefore say vnto them, Thus sayth the Lorde God, All my wordes shall no longer be delayed, but that thing which I haue spoken, shall be done, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XIII. 2 The word of the Lorde against false prophets, which teach the people the counsels of their owne hearts.

1   And þe; word of þe; Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, prophecie against the prophets of ^note Israel, that prophecie, and say thou vnto them, that prophecie out of their ^note owne hearts, Heare the worde of the Lorde.

3   Thus sayth the Lorde God, Woe vnto the Vntempered morter. foolish Prophets that followe their owne spirit, and haue seene nothing.

4   O Israel, thy Prophets are like the foxes ^note in the waste places.

5    ^noteYe haue not risen vp in the gappes, neither made vp the hedge for þe; house of Israel, to stand in the battel in the daye of the Lorde.

6   They haue seene vanitie, and lying diuination, saying, The Lord sayth it, and the Lorde hath not sent them: & they haue made others to hope þt; they would c&obar;firme the word of their prophecie.

7   Haue ye not seene a vaine vision? and haue yee not spoken a lying diuination? ^note ye say, The Lorde sayth it, albeit I haue not spoken.

8   Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Because ye haue spoken vanytie & haue seene lyes, therefore beholde, I am agaynst you, sayth the Lorde God,

9   And mine hande shalbe vpon the Prophets that see vanity, and diuine lies: they shall not be in the assemblie of my people, neither shall they be written in the ^note writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel: & yee shall know that I am the Lord God.

10   And therefore, because they haue deceiued my people, saying, ^note Peace, & there was no peace: and one buylt vp a ^note wall, and behold, the others daubed it with vntempered morter,

11   Say vnto them which daube it with vntempered morter, that it shall fall: for there shall come a great showre, and I wil sende haylestones, which shall cause it to fall, and a stormie winde shall breake it.

12   Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not bee sayd vnto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye haue daubed it?

13   Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will cause a stormie winde to breake foorth in my wrath, & a great showre shall bee in mine anger, & hailestones in mine indignation to consume it.

14   So I wil destroy the wall that ye haue daubed with vntempered morter, and bring it downe to the ground, so that the fundation thereof shalbe discouered, and it shall fal, and ye shalbe consumed in the middes thereof, and ye shall know, that I am the Lord.

15   Thus will I accomplish my wrath vpon the wall, and vpon them that haue daubed it with ^note vntempered morter, and will say vnto you, The wall is no more, neither the daubers thereof,

16   To wit, the Prophets of Israel, which prophesie vpon Ierusalem, and see visions of peace for it, and there is no peace, sayth the Lord God.

17   Likewise thou sonne of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesie out of their owne heart: and prophesie thou against them, and say,

18   Thus sayth the Lorde God, Woe vnto the women that sowe ^note pillowes vnder al arme holes, and make vailes vpon the head of euery one that standeth vp, to hunt soules: will yee hunt þe; soules of my people, and will yee giue life to the soules that come vnto you?

19   And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of ^note barly, and for pieces of bread to slay the soules of them that shoulde not dye, and ^note to giue life to the soules that should not liue in lying to my people, that heare your lies?

20   Wherefore thus saith the Lorde God, Behold, I will haue to do with your pillowes, wherewith

Idolaters threatned. yee hunt the ^note soules to make them to flie, and I will teare them from your armes, and will let the soules goe, euen the soules, that ye hunt to make them to flie.

21   Your vailes also will I teare, and deliuer my people out of your hande, and they shalbe no more in your hands to be hunted, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

22   Because with your lyes yee haue made the heart of the ^note righteous sadde, whome I haue not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not returne from his wicked way, by promising him life,

23   Therefore ye shal see no more vanitie, nor diuine diuinati&obar;s: for I wil deliuer my people out of your hand, & ye shall know that I am þe; Lord. CHAP. XIIII. 4 The Lorde sendeth false Prophets for the ingratitude of the people. 22 He reserueth a small portion for his Church.

1   Then came certaine of the Elders of Israel vnto me, and ^note sate before me.

2   And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

3   Sonne of man, these men haue set vp their idoles in their ^note heart, and put the stumbling blocke of their iniquitie before their face: should I, being required, answere them?

4   Therefore speake vnto them, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Euery man of the house of Israel that setteth vp his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to the ^note Prophet, I the Lorde will answere him þt; commeth, according to the multitude ^note of his idoles:

5   That ^note I may take the house of Israel in their owne heart, because they are all departed from me through their idoles.

6   Therfore say vnto the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God, Returne, and withdraw your selues, and turne your faces from your idoles, and turne your faces from all your abominations.

7   For euery one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that soiourneth in Israel, which departeth from mee, and setteth vp his idoles in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to a Prophet, for to inquire of him for me, I the Lord will answere him ^note for my selfe,

8   And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example and prouerbe, and I will cut him off from the middes of my people, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

9   And if the Prophet be ^note deceiued, when hee hath spoken a thing, I the Lorde haue deceiued that Prophet, and I will stretch out mine hande vpon him, and will destroy him from the middes of my people of Israel.

10   And they shall beare their punishment: the punishment of the Prophet shall bee euen as the punishment of him that asketh,

11   That the house of ^note Israel may go no more astray from mee, neither bee polluted any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, sayth the Lorde God.

12   ¶2; The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

13   Sonne of man, when þe; land sinneth against Noah, Daniel, and Iob. me by committing a trespasse, then will I stretch out mine hand vpon it, ^note & will breake the staffe of the bread thereof, and will send famine vpon it, and I will destroy man and beast forth of it.

14   Though these three men ^note Noah, Daniel, and Iob were among them, they shoulde deliuer but their owne soules by their ^note righteousnes, saith the Lorde God.

15   If I bring noysome beastes into the lande and they spoyle it, so that it bee desolate, that no man may passe through, because of beastes,

16   Though these three men were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall saue neither sonnes nor daughters: they onely shalbe deliuered, but the land shall be waste.

17   Or if I bring a sworde vpon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it,

18   Though these three men were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lorde God, they shal deliuer neither sonnes nor daughters, but they onely shall be deliuered themselues.

19   Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,

20   And though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth the Lorde God, they shal deliuer neither sonne nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes.

21   For thus saith the Lord God, Howe much more when I sende my ^note foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem, euen the sworde, and famine, and the noysome beast & pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?

22   Yet beholde, therein shalbe left a ^note remnant of them that shalbe caryed away both sonnes and daughters: behold, they shal come forth vnto you, and ye shal see their way, and their enterprises: and ye shall be comforted, concerning the euill that I haue brought vpon Ierusalem, euen concerning al that I haue brought vpon it.

23   And they shal comfort you, when yee see their way and their enterprises: & ye shal know, that I haue not done without cause all that I haue done in it, saith the Lorde God. CHAP. XV. As the vnprofitable wood of the vine tree is cast into the fire, so Ierusalem shalbe burnt.

1   And þe; word of þe; Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, what commeth of the vine tree aboue all other trees? and of the vine braunch, which is among the ^note trees of þe; forest?

3   Shall wood bee taken thereof to doe any worke? or wil men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

4   Behold, it is cast in the fire to be consumed: the fire consumeth both the endes of it, and the middes of it is burnt. Is it meete for any worke?

5   Behold, when it was whole, it was meete for no worke: how much lesse shall it bee meete for any worke, when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burnt?

6   Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, As the vine tree, that is among the trees of the forest, which I haue giuen to the fire to be consumed, so will I giue the inhabitants of Ierusalem.

7   And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from one ^note fire, and another fire shall consume them: and ye shall know, that I am the

The birth of Ierusalem: Her wickednes and idolatrie. Lord, when I set my face against them,

8   And when I make the lande waste, because they haue greatly offended, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XVI. The Prophet declareth the benefites of God towarde Ierusalem. 15 Their vnkindenesse. 46 Hee iustifieth the wickednesse of other people in comparison of the sinnes of Ierusalem. 49 The cause of the abominations, into which the Sodomites fell. 60 Mercie is promised to the repentant.

1   Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, cause Ierusalem to knowe her abominations,

3   And say, Thus saith the Lord God vnto Ierusalem, Thine habitation and thy kindred is of the land ^note of Canaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

4   And in thy natiuitie wh&ebar; thou wast ^note borne, thy nauell was not cut: thou wast not washed in water to soften thee: thou wast not salted with salt, nor swadled in cloutes.

5   None eye pitied thee to do any of these vnto thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open fielde to the contempt of thy person in þe; day that thou wast borne.

6   And when I passed by thee, I saw thee polluted in thine ^note owne blood, and I said vnto thee, wh&ebar; thou wast in thy blood, Thou shalt liue: euen when thou wast in thy blood, I saide vnto thee, Thou shalt liue.

7   I haue caused thee to multiplie as the bud of the fielde, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments: thy breastes are facioned, thine heare is growen, where as thou wast naked and bare.

8   Nowe when I passed by thee, and looked vpon thee, beholde, thy time was as the time of loue, and I spred my skirtes ouer thee, and couered ^note thy filthines: yea, I sware vnto thee, and entred into a couenant with ^note thee, saith the Lorde God, and thou becamest mine.

9   Then washed I thee with ^note water: yea, I washed away thy blood from thee, and I ^note anointed thee with oyle.

10   I clothed thee also &wt; broydred worke, and shod thee with badgers skin: and I girded thee about with fine linen, & I couered thee with silke.

11   I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets vpon thine handes, and a chaine on thy necke.

12   And I put a frontlet vpon thy face, and earings in thine eares, and a beautifull ^note crowne vpon thine head.

13   Thus wast thou deckt with gold and siluer, and thy rayment was of fine linen, and silke, and broydred worke: thou didest eate fine floure, and honie and oyle, and thou wast very beautifull, and thou didest grow vp into a kingdome.

14   And thy name was spred among the heathen for thy beautie: for it was perfite through my ^note beautie which I had set vpon thee, saith the Lord God.

15   Nowe thou didest ^note trust in thine owne beautie, and playedst the harlot, because of thy renowme, and hast powred out ^note thy fornications on euery one that passed by, thy desire was to him.

16   And thou didest take thy garments, & deckedst thine hie places with diuers colours, ^note and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like thinges Her wickednes and idolatrie. shall not come, neither hath any done so.

17   Thou hast also taken thy faire iewels made of my golde and of my siluer, which I had giuen thee, and ^note madest to thy selfe images of men, and didest commit whoredome with them,

18   And tookest thy broydred garments, and coueredst them: and thou hast set mine oyle and my perfume before them.

19   My meate also, which I gaue thee, as fine floure, oyle, and honie, wherewith I fedde thee, thou hast euen set it before them for a sweete sauour: thus it was, saith the Lord God.

20   Moreouer thou hast taken thy sonnes and thy daughters, whome thou hast borne vnto me, and these hast thou sacrificed vnto them, to ^note be deuoured: is this thy whoredome a small matter?

21   That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through fire for them?

22   And in all thine abominations and whoredomes thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

23   And beside all thy wickednes (wo, wo vnto thee, saith the Lord God)

24   Thou hast also built vnto thee an hie place, and hast made thee an hie place in euery streete.

25   Thou hast built thine hie place at euery ^note corner of the way, and hast made thy beautie to be abhorred: thou hast opened thy feete to euery one that passed by, & multiplied thy whoredome.

26   Thou hast also committed fornication with the ^note Egyptians thy neighbours, which haue great members, and hast encreased thy whoredome, to prouoke me.

27   Beholde, therefore I did stretche out mine hand ouer thee, and will diminish thine ordinarie, and deliuer thee vnto the will of them that hate thee, euen to the ^note daughters of the Philistims, which are ashamed of thy wicked way.

28   Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insaciable: yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

29   Thou hast moreouer multiplied thy fornication from the land of Canaan vnto Caldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

30   Howe weake is thine heart, saith the Lorde God, seeing thou doest all these thinges, euen the worke of a ^note presumptuous whorish woman?

31   In that thou buildest thine hie place in the corner of euery way, and makest thine hie place in euery streete, and hast not bene as an harlot ^note that despiseth a reward,

32   But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

33   They giue giftes to all other whores, but thou giuest giftes vnto all thy louers, and rewardest them, that they may come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

34   And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy fornications, neither the like fornication shall be after thee: for in that thou giuest a rewarde, and no reward is giuen vnto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

35   Wherefore, O harlot, heare the worde of the Lord.

36   Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thy ^note shame was powred out, and thy filthinesse discouered through thy fornications with thy louers,

The iudgement of Ierusalem. and with all the idoles of thine abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didest offer vnto them,

37   Beholde, therefore I wil gather all ^note thy louers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loued, with al them that thou hast hated: I will euen gather them round about against thee, and will discouer thy filthines vnto them, that they may see all thy filthines.

38   And I wil iudge thee after þe; maner of them that are ^note harlots, and of them that shead blood, and I wil giue thee the blood of wrath & ielousie.

39   I will also giue thee into their handes, and they shal destroy thine hie place, and shall breake downe thine hie places. they shall strippe thee also out of thy clothes, and shall take thy faire iewels, and leaue thee naked and bare.

40   They shall also bring vp a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swordes.

41   And they ^note shall burne vp thine houses with fire, and execute iudgements vpon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt giue no reward any more.

42   So will I make my wrath towarde thee to rest, and my ^note ielousie shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be no more angrie.

43   Because thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, but hast prouoked me with all these things, behold, therefore I also haue ^note brought thy way vpon thine head, sayeth the Lorde God: yet hast not thou had consideration of all thine abominations.

44   Beholde, all that vse prouerbes, shall vse this prouerbe against thee, saying, As is the mother, ^note so is her daughter.

45   Thou art thy mothers daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children, and thou art the sister of thy ^note sisters, which forsooke their husbandes and their children: your mother is an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

46   And thine elder sister is Samaria, and her ^note daughters, that dwell at thy left hand, and ^note thy yong sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom, and her daughters.

47   Yet hast thou ^note not walked after their wayes, nor done after their abominations: but as it had bene a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more then they in all thy wayes.

48   As I liue, saith the Lorde God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, neither shee nor her daughters, as thou hast done and thy daughters.

49   Beholde, this was the iniquitie of thy sister Sodom, ^note Pride, fulnesse of bread, and aboundance of idlenesse was in her, and in her daughters: neither did shee strengthen the hande of the poore and needie.

50   But they were hautie, and committed abomination before mee: therefore I tooke them away, as pleased me.

51   Neither ^note hath Samaria committed halfe of thy sinnes, but thou hast exceeded them in thine abominations, and hast ^note iustified thy sisters in all thine abominations, which thou hast done.

52   Therefore thou which hast iustified thy sisters, beare thine owne shame for thy sinnes, that thou hast committed more abominable then they which are more righteous then thou art: be thou therefore confounded also, and beare thy shame, Gods mercie. The two Egles. seeing that thou hast iustified thy sisters.

53   Therefore I will bring againe ^note their captiuitie with the captiuitie of Sodom, and her daughters, and with the captiuitie of Samaria, and her daughters: euen the captiuitie of thy captiues in the middes of them,

54   That thou mayest beare thine owne shame, and mayest bee confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou hast ^note comforted them.

55   And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall returne to their former state: Samaria also and her daughters shall returne to their former state, ^note when thou and thy daughters shall returne to your former state.

56   For thy sister Sodom ^note was not heard of ^note by thy report in the day of thy pride,

57   Before thy wickednes was ^note discouered, as in that same time of the reproch of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistims round about ^note her which despise thee on all sides.

58   Thou hast borne therefore thy wickednesse and thine abomination, saith the Lord.

59   For thus saith the Lord God, I might euen deale with thee, as thou hast done: when thou didest despise the ^note othe, in breaking the couenant.

60   Neuerthelesse, I wil ^note remember my couenant made with thee in þe; dayes of thy youth, and I wil confirme vnto thee an euerlasting couenant.

61   Then thou shalt remember thy wayes, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receiue ^note thy sisters, both thy elder & thy yonger, and I will giue them vnto thee for daughters, but not ^note by thy couen&abar;t.

62   And I wil establish my couenant with thee, and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord,

63   That thou mayest remember, and be ^note ashamed, & neuer open thy mouth any more: because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee, for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XVII. The parable of the two Egles.

1   And the worde of the Lorde came vnto mee, saying,

2   Sonne of man, put foorth a parable and speake a prouerbe vnto the house of Israel,

3   And say, Thus saith the Lorde God, The great ^note egle with great wings, and long wings, and ful of fethers, which had diuers colours, came vnto Lebanon, & tooke the hiest branch of the cedar,

4   And brake off the toppe of his twigge, and caried it into the land ^note of marchants, and set it in a citie of marchants.

5   Hee tooke also of the ^note seede of the lande, and planted it in a fruitfull ground: hee placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowe tree.

6   And it budded vp, and was ^note like a spreading vine of ^note low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and the rootes thereof were vnder it: so it became a vine, and it brought foorth branches, and shot foorth buds.

7   There was also ^note another great egle with great wings and many feathers, and beholde, this vine did turne her rootes toward it, & spred foorth her branches toward it, that she might water it by the trenches of her plantation.

8   It was planted in a good soyle by great ^note waters, that it should bring forth branches, and

Periurie and infidelitie punished. beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.

9   Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall ^note he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to drie? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

10   Beholde, it was planted: but shal it prosper? shall it not be dried vp, and wither? ^note when the East winde shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches, where it grewe.

11   Moreouer, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

12   Say now to this rebellious house, Know ye not, what these things meane? tell them, Behold, the King of Babel is come to Ierusalem, and hath taken ^note the King thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babel,

13   And hath taken one of the Kings seede, and made a couenant with him, & hath taken ^note an othe of him: he hath also taken the princes of the land,

14   That the kingdome might be in subiection, and not lift it selfe vp, but keepe their couenant, and stand to it.

15   But he rebelled against him, and sent his ambassadours into Egypt, that they might giue him horses, and much people: shall hee prosper? shall he escape, that doeth such things? or shal he breake the couenant, and be deliuered?

16   As I liue, saith the Lord God, he shall die in the middes of Babel, in the place of the King, that had made him King, whose othe he despised, and whose couenant made with him, he brake.

17   Neither shall Pharaoh with his mightie hoste, and great multitude of people, mainteine him in the warre, when they haue cast vp mounts, and builded ramparts to destroy many persons.

18   For he hath despised the othe, and broken þe; couenant (yet lo, he had giuen ^note his hand) because he hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

19   Therefore, thus sayth the Lord God, As I liue, I wil surely bring mine othe that he hath despised, and my couenant that he hath broken vpon his owne head.

20    ^noteAnd I wil spread my net vpon him, & he shalbe taken in my net, & I wil bring him to Babel, and will enter into iudgement with him there for his trespas that he hath committed against me.

21   And all that flee from him with all his hoste, shal fall by the sword, & they that remaine, shalbe scattered towarde all the windes: and ye shall know that I the Lord haue spoken it.

22   Thus saith the Lorde God, I wil also take off the top ^note of this hie cedar, and wil set it, and cut off the ^note top of the tender plant thereof, and I wil plant it vpon an hie mountaine and great.

23   Euen in the hie mountaine of Israel will I plant it: and it shal bring forth boughes & beare fruite, and be an excellent cedar, and vnder it shal remaine all birds, and euery ^note foule shall dwell in the shadow of the branches thereof.

24   And all the ^note trees of the fielde shal knowe that I the Lord haue brought downe the hie tree, and exalted the lowe tree, that I haue dried vp the greene tree, and made the drie tree to florish: I the Lord haue spoken it, and haue done it. CHAP. XVIII. 2 He sheweth that euery man shall beare his owne sinne. 21 To him that amendeth, is saluati&obar; promised. 24 Death is prophecied to the righteous, which turneth backe fr&obar; the right way. Euery one shal beare his owne sinne.

1   The worde of the Lord came vnto me againe, saying,

2   What meane ye that ye speake this prouerbe, concerning the land of Israel, saying, ^note The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?

3   As I liue, sayth the Lord God, ye shall vse this prouerbe no more in Israel.

4   Beholde, all soules are mine, both the soule of the father, and also the soule of the sonne are mine: the soule that sinneth, it shall die.

5   But if a man be iust, and doe that which is lawfull, and right,

6   And hath not eaten ^note vpon the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles of the house of Israel, neither hath ^note defiled his neighbours wife, neither hath ^note lyen with a ^note menstruous woman,

7   Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, ^note but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

8   And hath not giuen foorth vpon ^note vsurie, neither hath taken any increase, but hath withdrawen his hand from iniquitie, and hath executed true iudgement betweene man and man,

9   And hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my iudgements to deale truely, he is iust, he shall surely liue, sayth the Lord God.

10   ¶2; If he beget a sonne, that is ^note a thiefe, or a sheader of blood, if he do any one of these things,

11   Though he doe not all these things, but either hath eaten vpon the mountaines, or defiled his neighbours wife,

12   Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,

13   Or hath giuen forth vpon vsurie, or hath taken increase, shal he liue? he shal not liue: seeing he hath done all these abominations, ^note he shal die the death, and his blood shall be vpon him.

14   ¶2; But if he beget a sonne, that seeth all his fathers sinnes, which he hath done, and feareth, neither doeth such like,

15   That hath not eaten vpon the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idols of þe; house of Israel, nor hath defiled his neighbours wife,

16   Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither hath spoyled by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

17   Neither hath withdrawen his hand from the afflicted, nor receiued vsurie nor increase, but hath executed my iudgements, and hath walked in my statutes, he shall not die in the iniquitie of his father, but he shal surely liue.

18   His father, because he cruelly oppressed and spoyled his brother by violence, and hath not done good among his people, loe, euen he dyeth in his iniquitie.

19   Yet say ye, Wherefore shall not the sonne beare the iniquitie of the father? because þe; sonne hath executed iudgement & iustice, and hath kept all my statutes, and done them, he shal surely liue,

20    ^noteThe same soule that sinneth, shal die: the sonne shall not beare the iniquitie of the father, neither shall the father beare the iniquitie of the sonne, but the righteousnes of the righteous shall

A newe heart. be vpon him, and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon him selfe.

21   But if the wicked will returne from all his sinnes that he hath committed, and keepe all my ^note statutes, and doe that which is lawfull & right, he shall surely liue, and shall not die.

22   All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shal not be ^note mentioned vnto him, but in his ^note righteousnes that he hath done, he shall liue.

23    ^noteHaue I any desire that the wicked should die, sayth the Lord God? ^note or shall he not liue, if he returne from his wayes?

24   But if the righteous turne away from his righteousnes, & commit iniquitie, and doe according to all the abominations, that the wicked man doeth, shall he liue? all his ^note righteousnes that he hath done, shall not be mentioned: but in his transgression that he hath committed, and in his sinne that he hath sinned, in them shal he die.

25   Yet ye say, The way of the Lorde is not ^note equall: heare now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equall? or are not your wayes vnequall?

26   For when a righteous man turneth away from his righteousnes, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die for the same, he shal euen die for his iniquitie, that he hath done.

27   Againe when the wicked turneth away from his wickednes that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawfull and right, he shal saue his soule aliue.

28   Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that hee hath committed, he shall surely liue and shall not die.

29   Yet saith þe; house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equall. O house of Israel, are not my wayes equall? or are not your wayes vnequall?

30   Therefore I will iudge you, O house of Israel, euery one according to his wayes, sayth the Lord God: returne therefore and cause others to turne away from all your transgressions: so iniquitie shall not be your destruction.

31   Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye haue transgressed, and make ^note you a newe heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

32   For I desire not the death of him that dyeth, sayth the Lord God: cause therefore one another to returne, and liue ye. CHAP. XIX. 1 The captiuitie of the Kings of Iudah signified by the lions whelps, and by the lion. 10 The prosperitie of the citie of Ierusalem that is past, and the miserie thereof that is present.

1   Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the ^note princes of Israel,

2   And say, Wherefore lay thy ^note mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,

3   And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.

4   The ^note nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chaines vnto the land of Egypt.

5   Nowe when she sawe, that she had waited and her hope was lost, she tooke another of her ^note whelps, and made him a lyon.

6   Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured ^note men.

7   And he knew their widowes, & he destroyed The wicked not heard. their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring.

8   Then the ^note nations set against him on euery side of the countreys, and laide their nets for him: so he was taken in their pit.

9   And they put him in prison and in chaines, and brought him to the King of Babel, and they put him in holdes, that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel.

10   Thy ^note mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she brought foorth fruite and branches by the abundant waters,

11   And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

12   But she was plucked vp in wrath: she was cast downe to the ground, & the ^note East winde dried vp her fruite: her branches were broken, & withered: as for the rod of her strength, the fire consumed it.

13   And now she is planted in the wildernes in a drie and thirstie ground.

14   And fire is gone out ^note of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation and shalbe for a lamentation. CHAP. XX. 3 The Lord denieth that he wil answere them when they pray, because of their vnkindnes. 33 He promiseth that his people shall returne from captiuitie. 46 By the forest that should be burnt, is signified the burning of Ierusalem.

1   And in the ^note seuenth yeere, in the fift moneth, the tenth day of the moneth, came certaine of the elders of Israel to enquire of the Lord, and sate before me.

2   Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto me, saying,

3   Sonne of man, speake vnto the Elders of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye come to enquire of me? as I liue, sayth the Lord God, when I am asked, I wil not answer you.

4   Wilt thou iudge them, sonne of man? wilt thou iudge them? cause ^note them to vnderstand the abominations of their fathers,

5   And say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, In the day when I chose Israel, and ^note lift vp mine hand vnto the seede of the house of Iaakob, and made my selfe knowen vnto them in the land of Egypt, when I lift vp mine hand vnto them, and sayd, I am the Lord your God,

6   In the day þt; I lift vp mine hand vnto them to bring them forth of the land of Egypt, into a land that I had prouided for them, flowing with milke & hony which is pleasant among all lands,

7   Then sayd I vnto them, Let euery man cast away the abominations of his eyes, ^note and defile not your selues with the idols of Egypt: for I am the Lord your God.

8   But they rebelled against me, & would not heare me: for none cast away the abominations of ^note their eyes, neither did they forsake the idoles of Egypt: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them, & to accomplish my wrath against them in the mids of the land of Egypt.

9   But I had respect to my ^note Name, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whome they were, & in whose sight I made my selfe knowen vnto them in bringing them forth of the land of Egypt.

Gods mercies.

10   Nowe I caried them out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernes.

11   And I gaue them my statutes, and declared my iudgements vnto them, ^note which if a man doe, he shall liue in them.

12   Moreouer I gaue them also my ^note Sabbaths to be a signe betwene me & them, that they might knowe that I am the Lord, that sanctifie them.

13   But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernes: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall liue in them, and my Sabbaths haue they greatly polluted: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them ^note in the wildernes to consume them,

14   But I had respect to ^note my Name, that it shoulde not bee polluted before the heathen in whose sight I brought them out.

15   Yet neuerthelesse, I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes that I would not bring them into the lande, which I had giuen them, flowing with milke and hony, which was pleasant aboue all landes,

16   Because they cast away my iudgments, and walked not in my statutes, but haue polluted my ^note Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.

17   Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them, that I would not destroye them, neither would I consume them in the wildernes.

18   But I said vnto their children in the wildernes, Walke ye not in the ordinances of your ^note fathers, neither obserue their maners, nor defile your selues with their idoles.

19   I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,

20   And sanctifie my Sabbaths, and they shall bee a signe betweene mee and you, that ye may knowe that I am the Lord your God.

21   Notwithstanding the children rebelled against mee: they walked not in my statutes, nor kept my iudgements to doe them, which if a man doe, hee shall liue in them, but they polluted my Sabbaths: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vp&obar; them, and to accomplish my wrath against them in the wildernes.

22   Neuerthelesse I withdrew mine hand & had respect to my Name that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them foorth.

23   Yet I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes, that I would scatter them among the heathen, & disperse them through the countreys,

24   Because they had not executed my iudgements, but had cast away my statutes and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after ^note their fathers idoles.

25   Wherefore I ^note gaue them also statutes that were not good, and iudgements, wherein they should not liue.

26   And I polluted them in their owne ^note giftes in that they caused to passe by the fire all that first openeth þe; wombe, that I might destroy them, to the ende, that they might know that I am þe; Lord.

27   Therefore, sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Yet in this your fathers haue blasphemed me, though they had before grieuously transgressed against me.

28    ^noteFor when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hand to giue Threatnings pronounced. it to them, then they saw euery hie hill, and all the thicke trees, and they offred there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offering of prouocation: there also they made their sweete sauour, and powred out there their drinke offerings.

29   Then I saide vnto them, What is the hie place whereunto ye goe? And the name thereof was called ^note Bamah vnto this day.

30   Wherefore, say vnto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye not polluted ^note after the maner of your fathers? and commit ye not whoredome after their abominations?

31   For when you offer your giftes, and make your sonnes to passe through the fire, you pollute your selues with all your idoles vnto this day: shal I answere you when I am asked, O house of Israel? As I liue, saith the Lord God, ^note I wil not answere you when I am asked.

32   Neither shall that be done that commeth into your minde: for ye say, We wil be as the heathen, and as the families of the countreys, and serue wood, and ^note stone.

33   As I liue, saith the Lorde God, I will surely rule you with a mightie hand, and with a stretched out arme, and in my wrath powred out,

34   And will bring you from the people, and will gather you out of the countreys, wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arme, and in my wrath powred out,

35   And I will bring you into the ^note wildernes of the people, and there wil I pleade with you face to face.

36   Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernes of the lande of Egypt, so will I pleade with you, saith the Lord God.

37   And I wil cause you to passe vnder the rod, and wil bring you into the bond of the couenant.

38   And I wil ^note chuse out from among you the rebels, and them that transgresse against mee: I will bring them out of the land where they dwel, and they shall not enter into the lande of Israel, and you shall knowe that I am the Lord.

39   As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lorde God, ^note Goe you, and serue euery one his idole, seeing that ye will not obey me, and pollute mine holy Name no more with your giftes and with your idoles.

40   For in mine holy mountaine, euen in the hie mountaine of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, and all in the lande, serue me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offrings and the first fruites of your oblations, with all your holy things.

41   I will accept your sweete sauour, when I bring you from the people, and gather you out of the countreys, wherein ye haue bene scattered, that I may be sanctified in you before þe; heathen.

42   And ye shall knowe, that I am the Lorde, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hande to giue it to your fathers.

43   And there shall ye remember your wayes, and all your workes, wherein ye haue bene defiled, and ye ^note shall iudge your selues worthy to be cut off, for all your euils, that ye haue committed.

44   And ye shall knowe, that I am the Lorde, when I haue respect vnto you for my Names sake, and not after your wicked wayes, nor according to your corrupt workes, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

The sworde drawen.

45   ¶2; Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

46   Sonne of man, set thy face toward the way of Teman, and drop thy word toward ^note the South, and prophecie towarde the forest of the fielde of the South,

47   And say to the forest of the South, Heare the worde of the Lord: thus saith the Lord God, Beholde, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall deuoure all the ^note greene wood in thee, and all the drie wood: the continuall flame shall not bee quenched, and euery face from the South to the North shall be burnt therein.

48   And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord haue kindled it, and it shall not bee quenched. Then saide I, Ah Lord God, they say of me, Doeth not he speake ^note parables? CHAP. XXI. 3 He threatneth the sworde, and destruction to Ierusalem. 25 He sheweth the fall of King Zedekiah. 28 He is commaunded to prophecie the destruction of the children of Ammon. 30 The Lord threatneth to destroy Nebuchad-nezzar.

1   The word of þe; Lord came to me againe, saying,

2   Sonne of man, set thy face toward Ierusalem, ^note and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophecie against the land of Israel.

3   And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I come against thee, and will drawe my sword out of his sheath, and cut off from thee both the ^note righteous and the wicked.

4   Seeing then that I will cut off from thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sworde goe out of his sheath against all flesh from the South to the ^note North,

5   That all flesh may knowe that I the Lorde haue drawen my sworde out of his sheath, and it shall not returne any more.

6   Mourne therefore, thou sonne of man, as in the paine of thy ^note reines, and mourne bitterly before them.

7   And if they say vnto thee, Wherefore mournest thou? then answere, Because ^note of the bruite: for it commeth, and euery heart shall melt, and all handes shall be weake, and all mindes shall faint, and all knees shall fall away as water: beholde, it commeth, and shall be done, saith the Lord God.

8   ¶2; Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

9   Sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lorde God, say, A sworde, a sworde both sharpe, and fourbished.

10   It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter, and it is fourbished that it may ^note glitter: how shall we reioyce? for it contemneth the ^note rod of my sonne, as ^note all other trees.

11   And he hath giuen it to be fourbished, that he may handle it: this sword is sharpe, & is fourbished, that he may giue it into þe; hand of the ^note slayer.

12   Cry, and houle, sonne of man: for this shall come to my people, and it shal come vnto all the princes of Israel: the terrours of the sword shall be vpon my people: ^note smite therefore vp&obar; thy thigh.

13   For it is a triall, ^note and what shall this be, if the sworde contemne euen the rodde? It shall be no more, saith the Lord God.

14   Thou therefore, sonne of man, prophecie, and smite ^note hand to hand, and let the sworde be doubled: let the sworde that hath killed, returne the third time: it is the sword of the great slaughter entring into their priuie chambers. The diademe taken away.

15   I haue brought the feare of the sword into all their gates to make their heart to faint, and to multiplie their ruines. Ah it is made bright, and it is dressed for the slaughter.

16   Get thee ^note alone: goe to the right hande, or get thy selfe to the left hande, whithersoeuer thy face turneth.

17   I wil also smite mine hands together, & wil cause my wrath to cease. I the Lord haue said it.

18   ¶2; The worde of the Lorde came vnto mee againe, saying,

19   Also thou sonne of man, appoint thee ^note two wayes, that the sworde of the King of Babel may come: both twaine shall come out of one lande, and chuse a place, and chuse it in the corner of the way of the citie.

20   Appoint a way, that the sworde may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and ^note to Iudah in Ierusalem the strong citie.

21   And the King of Babel stoode at the ^note parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, consulting by diuination, and made his arrowes bright: hee consulted with idoles, and looked in ^note the liuer.

22   At his right hand was the diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to open their mouth in the slaughter, and to lift vp their voyce with shouting, to laye engines of warre against the gates, to cast a mount, and to builde a fortresse.

23   And it shalbe vnto them ^note as a false diuination in their sight for the othes made vnto them: ^note but hee will call to remembrance their iniquitie, to the intent they should be taken.

24   Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because ye haue made your iniquitie to bee remembred, in discouering your rebellion, that in al your workes your sinnes might appeare: because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

25   And thou ^note prince of Israel polluted, and wicked, whose day is come, when iniquitie shall haue an ende,

26   Thus saith the Lord God, I will take away the ^note diademe, and take off the crowne: this shalbe no more the same: I wil exalt the humble, and will abase him that is hie.

27   I wil ouerturne, ouerturne, ouerturne it, and it shall be no more vntill he ^note come, whose right it is, and I will giue it him.

28   ¶2; And thou, sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lorde God to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemie: say thou, I say, The sword, the sword is drawen foorth, and fourbished to the slaughter, to consume, because of the glittering:

29   Whiles they see ^note vanitie vnto thee, & prophecied a lie vnto thee to bring thee vpon the neckes of the wicked that are slaine, whose day is come when their iniquitie shall haue an ende.

30   Shall I cause it to returne into his sheath? I will iudge thee in the place where thou wast created, euen in the land of thine habitation.

31   And I wil powre out mine indignation vpon thee, and will blowe against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliuer thee into the hand of beastly men, and skilfull to destroy.

32   Thou shalt bee in the fire to be deuoured: thy blood shall be in the middes of the lande, and thou shalt be no more remembred: for I the Lord haue spoken it.

Israel as drosse. CHAP. XXII. 1 Ierusalem is reprooued for crueltie. 25 Of the wicked doctrine of the false prophets and Priests, and of their vnsatiable couetousne&esset;e. 27 The tyrannie of rulers. 29 The wickedne&esset;e of the people.

1   Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

2   Now thou sonne of man, wilt thou ^note iudge, wilt thou iudge this bloody citie? wilt thou shew her all her abominations?

3   Then say, Thus sayth the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middes of it, that her ^note time may come, and maketh idols ^note against her selfe to pollute her selfe.

4   Thou hast offended in thy blood, that thou hast shed, & hast polluted thy selfe in thine idols, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy dayes to draw neere, & art come vnto thy terme: therefore haue I made thee a reproch to the heathen, and a mocking to all countreys.

5   Those that be neere, & those that be farre from thee, shall mocke thee, which art vile in ^note name and sore in affliction.

6   Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood.

7   In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee ^note haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

8   Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths.

9   In thee are men that cary tales to shed blood: in thee are they that eate vpon the mountaines: in þe; mids of thee they c&obar;mit abomination.

10    ^noteIn thee haue they discouered their fathers shame: in thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in her floures.

11   And euery one ^note hath committed abomination with his neighbours wife, and euery one hath wickedly defiled his daughter in lawe, and in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers daughter.

12   In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

13   Beholde, therefore I haue ^note smitten mine hands vpon thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood, which hath bene in the middes of thee.

14   Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands ^note be strong, in the dayes that I shall haue to doe with thee? I the Lorde haue spoken it, and will doe it.

15   And I wil scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countreys, and will cause thy ^note filthines to cease from thee.

16   And thou shalt take thine ^note inheritance in thy selfe in the sight of the heathen, & thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.

17   ¶2; And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

18   Sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as ^note drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and leade in the mids of the fornace: they are euen the drosse of siluer.

19   Therefore, thus sayth the Lorde God, Because ye are all as drosse, beholde, therefore I will gather you in the middes of Ierusalem.

20   As they gather siluer and brasse, and yron, A conspiracie. and leade, and tinne into the middes of the fornace, to blowe the fire vpon it to melt it, so wil I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and wil put you there ^note and melt you.

21   I wil gather you, I say, and blowe the fire of my wrath vpon you, and you shalbe melted in the mids thereof.

22   As siluer is melted in the mids of the fornace, so shal ye be melted in the mids thereof, and ye shall knowe, that I the Lord haue powred out my wrath vpon you.

23   And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

24   Sonne of man, say vnto her; Thou art the land, that is vncleane, ^note and not rained vpon in the day of wrath.

25   There is a conspiracie ^note of her prophets in the mids thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the riches and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the mids thereof.

26   Her Priests haue broken my Lawe, and haue defiled mine holy things: they haue put no difference betweene the holy and prophane, neither discerned betweene the vncleane, and the cleane, and haue hid their ^note eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am prophaned among them.

27   Her princes in ^note the mids thereof are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre.

28   And her ^note prophets haue dawbed them with vntempered morter, seeing vanities, and diuining lies vnto them, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God, when the Lord had not spoken.

29   The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.

30   And I sought for a man among them, that should ^note make vp the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

31   Therefore haue I powred out mine indignation vpon them, and consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their owne wayes haue I rendred vpon their heads, sayth the Lord God. CHAP. XXIII. Of the idolatrie of Samaria and Ierusalem, vnder the names of Aholah and Aholibah.

1   The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one ^note mother.

3   And they committed fornication ^note in Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teates of their virginitie.

4   And the names of ^note them were Aholah the elder, & Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names. Samaria is Aholah, and Ierusalem Aholibah.

5   And Aholah played the harlot ^note when ^note she was mine, and she was set on fire with her louers, to wit, with the Assyrians her neighbours,

6   Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon horses.

Aholah and Aholibah.

7   Thus she committed her whoredome with them, euen with all them that were the chosen men of Asshur, and with all on whome she doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idoles.

8   Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they ^note lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and powred their whoredome vpon her.

9   Wherefore I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon whome she doted.

10   These discouered her shame: they tooke away her sonnes and her daughters, and slewe her with the sworde, and she had an euill name among women: for ^note they had executed iudgement vpon her.

11   And when her sister Aholibah sawe this, she marred her selfe with inordinate loue, more then she, and with her fornications more then her sister with her fornications.

12   She doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, both captaines and princes clothed with diuers sutes, horsemen ryding vpon horses: they were all pleasant yong men.

13   Then I sawe that she was defiled, and that they were both after one sort,

14   And that she encreased her fornications: for when she sawe men ^note painted vpon the wall, the images of the Caldeans painted with vermelon,

15   And girded with girdles vpon their loynes, and with dyed attyre vpon their heads (looking all like princes after the maner of the Babylonians in Caldea, the land of their natiuitie)

16   Assoone, I say, as she sawe them, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.

17   Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her lust departed from them.

18   So she discouered her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then mine heart forsooke her, like as mine heart had forsaken her sister.

19   Yet she encreased her whoredome more, and called to remembrance þe; dayes of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20   For she doted vpon their seruants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose yssue is like the yssue of horses.

21   Thou calledst to remembrance the wickednes of thy youth, when thy teates were bruised by þe; Egyptians: therefore þe; paps of thy youth are thus.

22   Therefore, O Aholibah, thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will raise vp thy louers against thee, from whome thine heart is departed, and I will bring them against thee on euery side,

23   To wit, the Babylonians, and all the Caldeans, ^note Peked, and Shoah, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: they were all pleasant yong men, captaines and princes: all they were valiant and renoumed, riding vpon horses.

24   Euen these shal come against thee with charets, waggons, and wheeles, and with a multitude of people, which shall set against thee, buckler and shield, and helmet round about: and ^note I will leaue the punishment vnto them, and they shall iudge thee according to their ^note iudgements.

25   And I wil lay mine indignation vpon thee, and they shal deale cruelly with thee: they shall A cup of destruction. cut off thy ^note nose and thine eares, and thy remnant shal fall by the sword: they shall cary away thy sonnes and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be deuoured by the fire.

26   They shal also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fayre iewels.

27   Thus wil I make thy wickednes to cease from thee and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28   For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I wil deliuer thee into the hand of them, whome thou hatest: euen into the hands of them from whome thine heart is departed.

29   And they shall handle thee despitefully, and shall take away all thy ^note labour, and shall leaue thee naked and bare, and the shame of thy fornications ^note shalbe discouered, both thy wickednes, and thy whoredome.

30   I wil doe these things vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idoles.

31   Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister: therefore wil I giue her ^note cup into thine hand.

32   Thus saith þe; Lord God, Thou shalt drinke of thy sisters cup, deepe and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorne and had in derision, because it containeth much.

33   Thou shalt be filled with ^note drunkennes and sorow, euen with the cup of destruction, and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

34   Thou shalt euen drinke it, and wring it out to the dregges, and thou shalt breake the sheards thereof, and teare thine owne breasts: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

35   Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe, therefore thou shalt also beare thy wickednes and thy whoredome.

36   ¶2; The Lord sayd moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, wilt thou iudge Aholah & Aholibah? and wilt thou declare to them their abominations?

37   For they haue played the whores, and blood is in their hands, and with their idoles haue they committed adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes, whome they bare vnto me, to passe by the fire to be their ^note meate.

38   Moreouer, thus haue they done vnto me: they haue defiled my Sanctuarie in the same day, and haue prophaned my Sabbaths.

39   For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, they came the same day into my Sanctuarie to defile it: and loe, thus haue they done in the middes of mine house.

40   And howe much more is it that they sent for men to come from ^note farre vnto whom a messenger was sent, and loe, they came? for whome thou diddest wash thy selfe, and paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thee with ornaments,

41   And satest ^note vpon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oyle.

42   And a voyce of a multitude being at ease, was with her: and with the men to make the company great were brought men of ^note Saba from the wildernes, which put bracelets vpon their hands, and beautifull crownes vpon their heads.

43   Then I sayd vnto her, that was olde in adulteries, Now shall she and her fornications come to an end.

A parable of the seething pot.

44   And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wicked women.

45   And þe; righteous men they shal iudge them, after the maner of ^note harlots, and after the maner of murtherers: for they are harlots, and blood is in their hands.

46   Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them vnto the tumult, and to the spoyle,

47   And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them with their swordes: they shal slay their sonnes, and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.

48   Thus will I cause wickednesse to cease out of the land, that all ^note women may be taught not to doe after your wickednesse.

49   And they shall laye your wickednesse vpon you, and ye shall beare the sinnes of your idoles, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord God. CHAP. XXIIII. He sheweth the destruction of Ierusalem by a parable of a seething pot. 16 The parable of Ezekiels wife being dead.

1   Againe in the ^note ninth yeere, in the tenth moneth, in the tenth day of the ^note moneth, came the worde of the Lord vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, write thee the name of the day, euen of this same day: for the King of Babel set himselfe against Ierusalem this same day.

3   Therefore speake a parable vnto the rebellious house, and say vnto them, Thus sayth the Lorde God, Prepare a ^note pot, prepare it, and also powre water into it.

4   Gather the ^note pieces thereof into it, euen euery good piece, as the thigh and the shoulder, and fill it with the chiefe bones.

5   Take one of the best sheepe, and ^note burne also the ^note bones vnder it, and make it boyle well, and seethe the bones of it therein,

6   Because the Lorde God sayth thus, Woe to the bloody citie, euen to the pot, ^note whose skomme is therein, & whose skomme is not gone out of it: bring it out ^note piece by piece: let no ^note lot fall vpon it.

7   For her blood is in the middes of her: shee set it vpon an high ^note rocke, and powred it not vpon on the ground to couer it with dust,

8   That it might cause wrath to arise, & take vengeance: euen I haue set her blood vpon an high rocke that it should not be couered.

9   Therefore thus saith þe; Lord God, ^note Woe to the bloody citie, for I will make ^note þe; burning great.

10   Heape on much wood: ^note kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and cast in spice, and let the bones be burnt.

11   Then set it emptie vpon the coles thereof, that ^note the brasse of it may be hot, and may burne, and that the filthinesse of it may be molten in it, and that the skomme of it may be consumed.

12    ^noteShe hath wearied her selfe with lyes, and her great skomme went not out of her: therefore her skomme shall be consumed with fire.

13   Thou remainest in thy filthines and wickednes: because I would ^note haue purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthines, till I haue caused my wrath to light vpon thee.

14   I the Lord haue spoken it: it shall come to passe, and I will doe it: I will not goe backe, neither will I spare, neither will I repent: according to Ezekiels wife a signe. thy wayes, & according to thy workes shall ^note they iudge thee, sayeth the Lord God.

15   ¶2; Also the worde of þe; Lord came vnto me, saying,

16   Sonne of man beholde, I take away from thee the ^note pleasure of thine eyes with a plague: yet shalt thou neither mourne nor weepe, neither shal thy teares runne downe.

17   Cease from sighing: make no mourning for the dead, and binde the tyre of thine head vpon thee, ^note and put on thy shooes vpon thy feete, and couer not thy lips, and eate ^note not the bread of men.

18   So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife dyed: and I did in ^note the morning, as I was commanded.

19   And the people said vnto me, Wilt thou not tell vs what these things meane towarde vs that thou doest so?

20   Then I answered them, The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

21   Speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I will ^note pollute my Sanctuarie, euen the ^note pride of your power, the pleasure of your eyes, and your hearts desire, and your sonnes, and your daughters whom ye haue left, shall fall by the sworde.

22   And ye shall doe as I haue done: ye shall not couer your lippes, neither shall ye eate the bread of men.

23   And your tyre shalbe vpon your heads, and your shooes vpon your feete: ye shall not mourne nor weepe, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourne one toward another.

24   Thus Ezekiel is vnto you a signe: according to all that he hath done, ye shall do: and when this commeth, ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

25   Also, thou sonne of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their power, þe; ioy of their honor, þe; pleasure of their eyes, & the ^note desire of their heart, their sonnes & their daughters?

26   That he that escapeth in that day, shal come vnto thee to tell thee that which hee hath heard with his eares?

27   In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speake, and be no more dumme, & thou shalt be a signe vnto them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXV. 1 The worde of the Lorde against Ammon, which reioyced at the fall of Ierusalem. 8 Against Moab and Seir, Idumea and the Philistims.

1   The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophecie against them,

3   And say vnto the Ammonites, Heare the word of the Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God, Because thou saydest, ^note Ha, ha, against my Sanctuarie, when it was polluted, and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate, and against the house of Iudah, when they went into captiuitie,

4   Beholde, therefore I will deliuer thee to the ^note men of the East for a possession, and they shall set their ^note palaces in thee, & make their dwellings in thee: they shall eate thy fruite, and they shall drinke thy milke.

5   And I will make ^note Rabbah a dwelling place for camels, and the Ammonites a sheepecote, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

6   For thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast clapped the hands, and stamped with the feete,

Why Tyrus was destroyed. and reioyced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel,

7   Beholde, therefore I will stretche out mine hand vpon thee, and will deliuer thee to be spoyled of the heathen, and I will roote thee out from the people, and I will cause thee to be destroyed out of the countreys, and I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

8   Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Moab and Seir doe say, Beholde, the house of Iudah is like vnto all the heathen,

9   Therefore, beholde, I will open the side of Moab, euen of the cities ^note of his cities, I say, in his frontiers with the pleasant countrey, Beth-ieshimoth, Baal-meon, and Karia-thaim.

10   I will call the men of the East against the Ammonites, and will giue them in possession, so that the Ammonites shal no more be remembred among the nations,

11   And I will execute iudgements vpon Moab, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

12   ¶2; Thus sayth the Lorde God, Because that Edom hath done euill by taking vengeance vpon the house of Iudah, and hath committed great offence, and reuenged himselfe vpon them,

13   Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Edom, and destroy man and beast out of it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and they of Dedan shall fall by the sworde.

14   And I will execute my vengeance vpon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall doe in Edom according to mine anger, and according to mine indignation, & they shall know my vengeance, sayth the Lord God.

15   Thus sayth the Lord God, Because the Philistims haue executed vengeance, and reuenged themselues with a despitefull heart, to destroy it for the olde hatred,

16   Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Behold, I will stretche out mine hand vpon the Philistims, and I will cut off the ^note Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

17   And I will execute great vengeance vpon them with rebukes of mine indignation, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde, when I shall lay my vengeance vpon them. CHAP. XXVI. 1 He prophecieth that Tyrus shall be ouerthrowen because it reioyced at the destruction of Ierusalem. 15 The wondring and astonishment of the marchants for the destruction of Tyrus.

1   And in the ^note eleuenth yeere, in the first day of the moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Ierusalem, Aha, the ^note gate of the people is broken: it is turned vnto me: for seeing she is desolate, I shall be ^note replenished,

3   Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Beholde, I come against thee, O Tyrus, and I will bring vp many nations against thee, as the sea mounteth vp with his waues.

4   And they shall destroy the walles of Tyrus and breake downe her towres: I will also scrape her dust from her, & make her like the top of a rocke.

5   Thou shalt be for the spreading of nettes in the middes of the sea: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God, and it shalbe a spoile to þe; nations.

6   And her ^note daughters which are in the fielde, shall be slaine by the sworde, and they shall know The destruction of Tyrus. that I am the Lord.

7   For thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I will bring vpon Tyrus Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel, a King of Kings from the North, with horses and with charets, and with horsemen, with a multitude and much people.

8   He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the fielde, and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift vp the buckler against thee.

9   He shall set engins of warre before him against thy walles, and with his weapons breake downe thy towres.

10   The dust of his horses shall couer thee, for their multitude: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entrie of a citie that is broken downe.

11   With the hooues of his horses shall he treade downe all thy streetes: he shall slay thy people by the sworde, and the ^note pillars of thy strength shall fall downe to the ground.

12   And they shall robbe thy riches, and spoyle thy marchandise, and they shall breake downe thy walles, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the middes of the water.

13    ^noteThus will I cause the sounde of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thine harpes shall be no more heard.

14   I wil lay thee like the top of a rocke: ^note thou shalt be for a spreading of nets: thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

15   Thus sayth the Lorde God to Tyrus, Shall not the yles tremble at the sounde of thy fall? and at the crie of the wounded, when they shall be slaine and murthered in the middes of thee?

16   Then all the princes of the ^note sea shall come downe from their thrones: they shall lay away their robes, and put off their broydered garments, and shall clothe themselues with astonishment: they shall sitte vpon the ground, and be astonished at euery moment, and be amased at thee.

17   And they shall take vp a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, Howe art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited ^note of the sea men, the renoumed citie which was strong in the sea, both she and her inhabitants, which cause their feare to be on all that haunt therein!

18   Nowe shall the yles be astonished in the day of thy fall: yea, the yles that are in the sea, shall be troubled at thy departure.

19   For thus saith the Lord God, When I shall make thee a desolate citie, like þe; cities that are not inhabited, and when I shall bring the deepe vpon thee, and great waters shall couer thee,

20   When I shall cast thee downe with them that descende into the pitte, with the people ^note of olde time, and shall set thee in the lowe partes of the earth, like the olde ruines, with them, I say, which goe downe to the pitte, so that thou shalt not be inhabited, and I shall shewe my glory in the land of the ^note liuing,

21   I will ^note bring thee to nothing, & thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou neuer be found againe, sayth the Lord God. CHAP. XXVII. The Prophet bewaileth the desolation of Tyrus, shewing what were the riches, power and authoritie thereof in time past.

The power and riches of Tyrus.

1   The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of m&abar;, take vp a lam&ebar;tation for Tyrus,

3   And say vnto Tyrus, that is situate at the entrie of the sea, which is the marte ^note of the people for many yles, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfite beautie.

4   Thy borders are in the ^note middes of the sea, and thy builders haue made thee of perfit beauty.

5   They haue made all thy shippe boardes of firre trees of ^note Shenir: they haue brought cedars from Lebanon, to make mastes for thee.

6   Of þe; okes of Bashan haue they made thine ores: the company of the Assyrians haue made thy banks of yuorie, brought out of þe; yles of ^note Chittim.

7   Fine linen with broydered woorke, brought from Egypt, was spread ouer thee to be thy sayle, blue silke and purple, brought from the yles of Elishah, was thy couering.

8   The inhabitants of Zidon, and Aruad were thy mariners, O Tyrus: thy wise men that were in thee, they were thy ^note pilots.

9   The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof were in thee thy ^note calkers, all the shippes of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupie thy marchandise.

10   They of Persia, and of Lud & of Phut were in thine armie: thy men of warre they hanged the shielde and helmet in thee: they set foorth thy beautie.

11   The men of Aruad with thine armie were vpon thy walles round about, and the ^note Gammadims were in thy towres: they hanged their shields vpon thy walles round about: they haue made thy beautie perfite.

12   They of Tarshish were thy marchantes for the multitude of all riches, for siluer, yron, tynne, and leade, which they brought to thy faires.

13   They of ^note Iauan, Tubal and Meshech were thy marchants, ^note concerning the liues of men, and they brought vessels of brasse for thy march&abar;dise.

14   They of the house of ^note Togarmah brought to thy faires horses, and horsemen, and mules.

15   The men of Dedan were thy marchantes: and the marchandise of many yles were in thine handes: they brought thee for a present ^note hornes, teeth, and peacockes.

16   They of Aram were thy marchants for the multitude of thy ^note wares: they occupied in thy faires with ^note emerauds, purple, & broidred worke, and ^note fine linen, and corall, and pearle.

17   They of Iudah & of the land of Israel were thy marchants: they brought for thy marchandise wheat of ^note Minnith, and Pannag, and honie and oyle, and ^note balme.

18   They of Damascus were thy marchants in þe; multitude of thy wares, for the multitude of all riches, as in the wine of Helbon and white wooll.

19   They of Dan also and of Iauan, going to and fro, occupied in thy faires: yron woorke, cassia and calamus were among thy marchandise.

20   They of Dedan were thy marchants in precious clothes for the charets.

21   They of Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar ^note occupied with thee, in lambes, and rammes and goates: in these were they thy marchants.

22   The march&abar;ts of Sheba, and Raamah were thy marchantes: they occupied in thy faires with the chiefe of all spices, and with al precious stones and golde. The mourning for Tyrus fall.

23   They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.

24   These were thy marchants in all sortes of things, in raiment of blewe silke, and of broydred woorke, and in coffers for the rich apparell, which were bound with cordes: chaines also were among thy marchandise.

25   The shippes of Tarshish ^note were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.

26   Thy ^note robbers haue brought thee into great waters: the ^note East winde hath broken thee in the middes of the sea.

27   Thy riches and thy faires, thy marchandise, thy mariners and pilotes, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy marchandise & al thy men of warre that are in thee, and all thy multitude which is in the middes of thee, shall fall in the middes of the sea in the day of thy ruine.

28   The ^note suburbes shall shake at the sound of the crie of thy pilotes.

29   And all that handle the ore, the mariners and al the pilots of the sea shal come downe from their shippes, and shall stand vpon the land,

30   And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow th&ebar;selues in the ashes.

31   They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning.

32   And in their mourning, they shal take vp a lam&ebar;tation for thee, saying, What citie is like Tyrus, so destroied in the middes of the sea!

33   When thy wares went foorth of the seas, thou filledst many people, & thou diddest enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy marchandise.

34   When thou shalt be broken by þe; seas in the depths of the waters, thy marchandise and all thy multitude, which was in the mids of thee, shal fal.

35   All the inhabitantes of the yles shall be astonished at thee, and all their Kings shall be sore afraide and troubled in their countenance.

36   The marchants among the people shal hisse at thee: thou shalt be a terrour, and neuer shalt be ^note any more. CHAP. XXVIII. 2 The worde of God against the King of Tyrus for his pride. 21 The word of the Lord against Zidon. 25 The Lorde promiseth that he will gather together the children of Israel.

1   The woorde of the Lorde came againe vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of m&abar;, say vnto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saieth the Lord God, Because thine heart is exalted, & thou hast said, ^note I am a God, I sit in the seat of God in þe; mids of the sea, yet thou art but a man & not God, and ^note though thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

3   Behold, thou art wiser then ^note Daniel: there is no secrete, that they can hide from thee.

4   With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.

5   By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

6   Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

Zidon a pricking thorne.

7   Behold, therefore I wil bring strangers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations: and they shall drawe their swordes against the beautie of thy wisedome, and they shall defile thy brightnes.

8   They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

9   Wilt thou say then before him, that slayeth thee, I am a god? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hands of him that slayeth thee.

10   Thou shalt die the death of the ^note vncircumcised by the hands of str&abar;gers: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

11   ¶2; Moreouer the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

12   Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the King of Tyrus, and say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Thou sealest vp the summe, and art full of ^note wisedome and perfite in beautie.

13   Thou hast ben in Eden the garden of God: euery precious stone was in thy garment, the rubie, the topaze and the ^note diamonde, the chrysolite, the onix, and the iasper, the saphir, ^note emeraude, and the carbuncle and golde: the woorkemanship of thy timbrels, & of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14   Thou art ^note the anointed Cherub, that couereth, and I haue set thee ^note in honour: thou wast vpon the holy mountaine of God: thou hast walked in the middes of the ^note stones of fire.

15   Thou wast perfite in thy wayes from the day that thou wast ^note created, till iniquitie was found in thee.

16   By the multitude of thy marchandise, they haue filled the middes of thee with crueltie, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as prophane out of the ^note mountaine of God: and I will destroy thee, O couering Cherub from the mids of the stones of fire.

17   Thine heart was lifted vp because of thy beautie, and thou hast corrupted thy wisedome by reason of thy brightnes: I wil cast thee to þe; grounde: I will lay thee before Kinges that they may beholde thee.

18   Thou hast defiled thy ^note sanctification by the multitude of thine iniquities, & by the iniquitie of thy marchandise: therefore wil I bring forth a fire from the mids of thee, which shall deuoure thee: and I wil bring thee to ashes vpon the earth, in the sight of all them that beholde thee.

19   All they that knowe thee among the people, shalbe astonished at thee: thou shalt be ^note a terrour, and neuer shalt thou be any more.

20   ¶2; Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

21   Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesie against it,

22   And say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Zidon, and I will be ^note glorified in the mids of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lorde, when I shal haue executed iudgements in her, and shalbe sanctified in her.

23   For I wil send into her pestilence, & blood into her streetes, and the slaine shall fall in the middes of her: ^note the enemie shall come against her with the sword on euery side, and they shal know that I am the Lord.

24   And they shalbe no more a pricking thorne vnto the house of Israel, nor any grieuous thorne of all þt; are round about them, and despised them, Egypt a staffe of reede. and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde God.

25   Thus saith the Lord God, When I shal haue gathered the house of Israel fr&obar; the people where they are scattered, and shalbe ^note sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shal they dwel in the land, that I haue giuen to my seruant Iaakob.

26   And they shal dwell safely therein, & shall builde houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell safely, when I haue executed iudgements vpon al round about them that despise them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord their God. CHAP. XXIX. Hee prophecieth against Pharaoh and Egypt. 13 The Lorde promiseth that he will restore Egypt after fourtie yeeres. 18 Egypt is the rewarde of King Nebuchad-nezzar for the labour, which he tooke against Tyrus.

1   In the ^note tenth yeere, and in the tenth moneth in the twelfth day of the moneth, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, set thy face against Pharaoh the King of Egypt, and prophecie against him, and against all Egypt.

3   Speake, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Beholde, I come against thee, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great ^note dragon, that lieth in the middes of his riuers, which hath saide, The riuer is mine, and I haue made it for my selfe.

4   But I will put ^note hookes in thy chawes, and I will cause the fish of thy riuers to sticke vnto thy scales, and I will drawe thee out of the middes of thy riuers, and all the fishe of thy riuers shall sticke vnto thy scales.

5   And I will leaue thee in the wildernes, both thee & al the fish of thy riuers: thou shalt fal vpon þe; open field: thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: for I haue giu&ebar; thee for meat to the beasts of the field, and to the foules of heauen.

6   And al the inhabitants of Egypt shal know that I am the Lord, because they haue ben a staffe of ^note reede to the house of Israel.

7   When they tooke holde of thee with their hand, thou diddest breake, & rent all their shoulder: & when they leaned vpon thee, thou brakest and madest all their loynes to ^note stand ^note vpright.

8   Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will bring a sworde vpon thee, and destroy man and beast out of thee,

9   And the land of Egypt shalbe desolate, and waste, & they shal know that I am þe; Lord: because he hath said, ^note The riuer is mine, & I haue made it,

10   Behold, therefore I come vpon thee, and vpon thy riuers, & I will make the land of Egypt vtterly waste and desolate from the towre of Seueneh, euen vnto the borders of the ^note blacke Mores.

11   No foote of man shall passe by it, nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall it be inhabited fourtie yeeres.

12   And I wil make the land of Egypt desolate in the middes of the countries, that are desolate, and her cities shall be desolate among the cities that are desolate, for fourtie yeeres: and I wil scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and wil disperse them through the countreis.

13   Yet thus saieth the Lord God, ^note At the end of fourtie yeeres will I gather the Egyptians from the people, where they were scattered,

14   And I wil bring againe the captiuitie of Egypt, and will cause them to returne into the land of Pathros, into the lande of their habitation, and they shalbe there a ^note small kingdome.

Nebuchad-nezzars wages.

15   It shall be the smallest of the kingdomes, neither shall it exalt it selfe any more aboue the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule the nations.

16   And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, to bring their ^note iniquitie to remembrance by looking after them, so shall they knowe, that I am the Lord God.

17   ¶2; In the ^note seuen and twentieth yeere also in the first moneth, and in the first day of the moneth, came the word of the Lord vnto me, saying,

18   Sonne of man, Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel caused his armie to serue a great ^note seruice against Tyrus: euery head was made balde, & euery shoulder was made bare: yet had he no wages, ^note nor his armie for Tyrus, for the seruice that he serued against it.

19   Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will giue the land of Egypt vnto Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel, and he shall take her multitude, and spoyle her spoyle, and take her pray, and it shall be the wages for his armie.

20   I haue giuen him the land of Egypt for his labour, that he serued ^note against it, because they wrought ^note for me, sayth the Lord God.

21   In that day will I cause the horne of the house of Israel to growe, and I will giue thee an open mouth in the middes of them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXX. The destruction of Egypt and the cities thereof.

1   The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, prophesie, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Howle and cry, Wo be vnto this day.

3   For the day is neere, & the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudie day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.

4   And the sword shall come vpon Egypt, and feare shall be in Ethiopia, when the slaine shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken downe.

5    ^noteEthiopia and Phut, and Lud, and all the common people, and Cub, and the men of the land, þt; is in league, shall fall &wt; them by the sword.

6   Thus sayth the Lord, They also that mainteine Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come downe: from the towre of ^note Seueneh shall they fall by the sword, sayth the Lord God.

7   And they shall be desolate in the middes of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middes of the cities that are wasted.

8   And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I haue set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

9   In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in shippes, to make the carelesse Mores aftaide, and feare shall come vpon them, as in the day of Egypt: for loe, it commeth.

10   Thus sayth the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel.

11   For he and his people with him, euen the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall drawe their swordes against Egypt, and fill the land with the slaine.

12   And I will make the riuers drye, and fell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make Pharaohs arme broken. the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord haue spoken it.

13   Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idoles, and I will cause their idoles to cease out of ^note Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a feare in the land of Egypt.

14   And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in ^note Zoan, and I will execute iudgement in No.

15   And I will powre my wrath vpon ^note Sin, which is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of ^note No.

16   And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall haue great sorowe and No shalbe destroyed, and Noph shall haue sorowes dayly.

17   The yong men of ^note Auen, and of ^note Phibeseth shall fall by the sworde: and these cities shall goe into captiuitie.

18   At Tehaphnehes the day ^note shall restraine his light, when I shall breake there the ^note barres of Egypt: and when the pompe of her power shall cease in her, the cloude shall couer her, and her daughters shall goe into captiuitie.

19   Thus will I execute iudgements in Egypt, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

20   ¶2; And in the ^note eleuenth yeere, in the first moneth, and in the seuenth day of the moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

21   Sonne of man, ^note I haue broken the arme of Pharaoh King of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bo&ubar;d vp to be healed, neither shal they put a roule to bind it, & so make it strong, to hold the sworde.

22   Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will breake ^note his arme, that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sworde to fall out of his hande.

23   And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countreys.

24   And I will strengthen the arme of the King of Babel, and put my sworde in his hand, but I will breake Pharaohs armes, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him, that is wounded before him.

25   But I will strengthen the armes of the king of Babel, and the armes of Pharaoh shall fall downe, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lord, ^note when I shall put my sworde into the hand of the King of Babel, and he shall stretch it out vpon the land of Egypt.

26   And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, & disperse them among þe; countreys, and they shall knowe, that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXXI. 2 A comparison of the prosperitie of Pharaoh with the prosperitie of the Assyrians. 10 He prophesieth a like destruction to them both.

1   And in the ^note eleuenth yeere, in the third moneth, and in the first day of the moneth the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, speake vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, and to his multitude, Whom art thou ^note like in thy greatnesse?

3   Beholde, Asshur was like a cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, & with thicke shadowing boughes, and shot vp very hye, and his toppe was among the thicke boughes.

4   The waters nourished him, and the deepe

The Assyrians prosperitie described. exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her ^note litle riuers vnto all the trees of the ^note fielde.

5   Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

6   All the foules of the heauen made their nestes in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations.

7   Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

8   The cedars in the garden ^note of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

9   I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

10   Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because ^note he is lift vp on high, and hath shot vp his toppe among the thicke boughes, and his heart is lift vp in his height,

11   I haue therefore deliuered him into the handes of the ^note mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I haue cast him away for his wickednesse.

12   And the strangers haue destroyed him, euen the terrible nations, and they haue left him vpon the mountaines, and in all the valleis his branches are fallen, and his boughes are ^note broken by all the riuers of the land: and all the people of the earth are departed from his shadowe, and haue forsaken him.

13   Vpon his ruine shall all the foules of the heauen remaine, and all the beastes of the fielde shall be vpon his branches,

14   So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

15   Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when he went downe to hell, I caused them to mourne, and I ^note couered the deepe for him, and I did restreine the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: I caused Lebanon to mourne for him, and all the trees of the fielde fainted.

16   I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit, & all the excellent trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon: euen all that are nourished with waters, shall ^note be comforted in the nether partes of the earth.

17   They also went downe to hell with him vnto them that be slaine with the sworde, and his arme, and they that dwelt vnder his shadowe in the middes of the heathen.

18   To whom ^note art thou thus like in glorie and in greatnesse among the trees of Eden? yet thou shalt be cast downe with the trees of Eden vnto the nether partes of the earth: thou shalt sleepe in the middes of the ^note vncircumcised, with them that The destruction of Egypt. be slaine by the sworde: this is Pharaoh and all his multitude, sayth the Lord God. CHAP. XXXII. 2 The Prophet is commaunded to bewayle Pharaoh King of Egypt. 12 He prophesieth that destruction shall come vnto Egypt through the King of Babylon.

1   And in the ^note twelfth yeere in the twelfth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation for Pharaoh King of Egypt, and say vnto him, Thou art like a ^note lyon of the nations and art as a ^note dragon in the sea: thou castedst out thy riuers ^note and troubledst the waters with thy feete, and stampedst in their riuers.

3   Thus sayth the Lord God, ^note I will therefore spread my net ouer thee with a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come vp into my net.

4   Then will I leaue thee vpon the land, and I will cast thee vpon the open field, and I wil cause all the foules of the heauen to remaine vpon thee, and I will fill all the beastes of the field with thee.

5   And I will lay thy flesh vpon the mountaines, and fill the valleys ^note with thine height.

6   I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou ^note swimmest, euen to þe; mountaines, and the riuers shall be full of thee.

7   And when I shall ^note put thee out, I will couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: ^note I will couer the sunne with a cloude, and the moone shall not giue her light.

8   All the lightes of heauen will I make darke for thee, and bring ^note darkenesse vpon thy lande, sayeth the Lord God.

9   I will also trouble the heartes of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations and vpon the countries which thou hast not knowen.

10   Yea, I will make many people amased at thee, and their Kings shalbe astonished with feare for thee, when I shall make my sworde to glitter against their faces, and they shall be afraide at euery moment: euery man for his owne life in the day of thy fall.

11   For thus sayth the Lorde God, The sworde of the King of Babel shall come vpon thee.

12   By the swordes of the mightie will I cause thy multitude to fall: they all shall be terrible nations, and they shal destroy the ^note pompe of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shalbe consumed.

13   I will destroy also all the beastes thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foote of man trouble them any more, nor the hooues of beast trouble them.

14   Then will I make ^note their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne like oyle, sayeth the Lord God.

15   When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the countrey with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know þt; I am þe; Lord.

16   This is the mourning wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude, sayeth the Lord God.

17   ¶2; In the twelfth yeere also in the fifteenth day of the moneth, came the worde of the Lorde vnto me, saying,

18   Sonne of man, lament for the multitude of

The ende of Tyrants. Egypt, and ^note cast them downe, euen them and the daughters of the mighty nations vnto the nether partes of the earth, with them that goe downe into the pit.

19   Whome doest thou passe ^note in beautie? goe downe and sleepe with the vncircumcised.

20   They shall fall in the middes of them that are slaine by the sword: ^note shee is deliuered to the sword: draw her downe, and all her multitude.

21   The most mighty & strong shall speake to ^note him out of the mids of hel with them that helpe her: they are gone downe and sleepe with the vncircumcised that be slaine by the sworde.

22   Asshur is there and all his companie: their graues are about him: all they are slaine and fallen by the sworde.

23   Whose graues are made in the side of the pit, and his multitude are rounde about his graue: all they are slaine and fallen by the sworde, which caused feare to be in the land of the liuing.

24   There is ^note Elam & all his multitude round about his graue: al they are slaine and fallen by the sword which are gone downe with the vncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused themselues to be feared in the land of the ^note liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that are gone downe to the pit.

25   They haue made his bed in the mids of the slaine with al his multitude: their graues are round about him: all these vncirc&ubar;cised are slaine by the sworde: though they haue caused their feare in the land of þe; liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that goe downe to the pitte: they are laide in the middes of them, that be slaine.

26   There is ^note Meshech, Tubal, & all their multitude, their graues are round about them: al these vncircumcised were slaine by the sworde, though they caused their feare to be in þe; land of the liuing.

27   And they shal not lie &wt; the valiant ^note of the vncircumcised, þt; are fallen, which are gone down to the graue, with their weapons of warre, & haue laied their swords vnder their heads, but their iniquitie shalbe vpon their bones: because they were the feare of the mighty in the lande of the liuing.

28   Yea, thou shalt be broken in the middes of the vncircumcised, and lie with them that are slaine by the sworde.

29   There is Edom, his Kings, and all his princes, which with their strength are laied by them that were slaine by the sworde: they shall sleepe with the vncircumcised, and with them that goe downe to the pit.

30   There be al the princes of the ^note North, with al the Zidonians, which are gone downe with the slaine, with their feare: they are ashamed of their strength, and the vncircumcised sleepe with them that be slaine by the sword, and beare their shame with them that goe downe to the pit.

31   Pharaoh shall see them, and hee shall be ^note comforted ouer all his multitude: Pharaoh, and all his armie shall be slaine by the sword, saieth the Lord God.

32   For I haue caused my ^note feare to be in the lande of the liuing: and he shal be laid in the mids of the vncircumcised with them, that are slaine by the sword, euen Pharaoh and all his multitude, sayeth the Lord God. CHAP. XXXIII. 2 The office of the gouernours and ministers. 14 Hee strengtheneth them that despaire, and boldeneth them with the promes of mercie. 30 The woorde of the Lorde against the mockers of the Prophet. Of the watchman.

1   Againe, the woorde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, speake to the children of thy people, and say vnto them, When I bring the sworde vpon a lande, if the people of the lande take a man ^note from among them, and make him their ^note watchman,

3   If when hee seeth the sworde come vpon þe; land, he blow the trumpet, & warne the people,

4   Then hee that heareth the sounde of the trumpet, and will not bee warned, if the sworde come, and take him away, his blood shall be vpon his owne head.

5   For he heard the sound of the trumpet, and woulde not bee admonished: therefore his blood shall be vpon him: but he that receiueth warning, shall saue his life.

6   But if the watchman see the sworde come, and blowe not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the sworde come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away for his ^note iniquitie, but his blood will I require at the watchmans hande.

7    ^noteSo thou, O sonne of man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt heare the woorde at my ^note mouth, and admonish them from me.

8   When I shall say vnto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt die the death, if thou doest not speake, and admonish the wicked of his way, that wicked man shall die for his iniquitie, but his blood will I ^note require at thine hand.

9   Neuerthelesse, If thou warne the wicked of his way, to turne from it, if he doe not turne from his way, he shall die for his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.

10   Therefore, O thou sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus yee speake and say, If our transgressions and our sinnes bee vpon vs, and we are consumed because of them, ^note howe should we then liue?

11   Say vnto them, As I liue, sayeth the Lorde God, ^note I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turne from his way & liue: turne you, turne you from your euill waies, for why will ye die, O ye house of Israel?

12   Therefore thou sonne of man, saye vnto the children of thy people, The ^note righteousnesse of the righteous shall not deliuer him in the day of his transgression, nor the wickednesse of the wicked shall cause him to fall therein, in the day that he returneth from his wickednesse, neither shal the righteous liue for his righteousnesse in the day that he sinneth.

13   When I shal say vnto the righteous, that he shall surely liue, if he trust to his owne righteousnes, and commit iniquitie, all his righteousnes shal be no more remembred, but for his iniquitie that he hath committed, he shall die for the same.

14   Againe when I shall say vnto the wicked, thou shalt die the death, if he turne from his sinne, and doe that which is lawfull and ^note right,

15   To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.

16   None of his sinnes that he hath c&obar;mitted, shal be mentioned vnto him: because he hath done

A iesting song. that, which is lawful, and right, he shal surely liue.

17   Yet the children of thy people say, ^note The way of the Lord is not equall: but their owne way is vnequall.

18   When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.

19   But if the wicked returne from his wickednesse, and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall liue thereby.

20   Yet yee say, The way of the Lord is not equall. O ye house of Israel, I will iudge you euery one after his waies.

21   Also in the twelfth yere of ^note our captiuitie, in the tenth moneth, and in the fift day of the moneth, one that had escaped out of Ierusalem, came vnto me, and said, The citie is smitten.

22   Now the ^note hand of the Lord had bene vpon me in þe; euening afore hee that had escaped, came, and had opened my mouth vntill he came to me in the morning: and when hee had opened my ^note mouth, I was no more dumme.

23   Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, and saide,

24   Sonne of man, these that dwel in the desolate places of the land of Israel, talke and say, ^note Abraham was but one, and hee possessed the lande: but we are many, therefore the lande shall be giuen vs in possession.

25   Wherefore say vnto them, Thus saieth the Lorde God, Ye eate with the ^note blood, and lift vp your eyes towarde your idoles, and sheade blood: should ye then possesse the land?

26   Ye leane vpon your ^note swordes: ye worke abomination, and yee defile euery one his neighbours wife: should ye then possesse the land?

27   Say thus vnto them, Thus saieth the Lorde God, As I liue, so surely they that are in the desolate places, shall fall by the sword: and him that is in the open field, will I giue vnto the beasts to be deuoured: and they that be in the forts and in the caues, shall die of the pestilence.

28   For I will lay the land desolate and waste, and the ^note pompe of her strength shall cease: and the mo&ubar;taines of Israel shalbe desolate, and none shall passe through.

29   Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I haue laid þe; land desolate & wast, because of al their abominations, þt; they haue committed.

30   Also thou sonne of man, the children of thy people þt; ^note talke of thee by the wals & in the dores of houses, and speake one to another, euery one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, & heare what is the word that commeth from the Lord.

31   For they come vnto thee, as the people vseth to come: and my people sit before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they will not doe them: for with their mouthes they make ^note iestes, and their heart goeth after their couetousnesse.

32   And loe, thou art vnto them, as a ^note iesting song of one that hath a pleasant voyce, and can sing well: for they heare thy woordes, but they doe them not.

33   And when this commeth to passe (for loe, it will come) then shall they know, that a Prophet hath bene among them. CHAP. XXXIIII. 2 Against the shepherds that despise the flocke of Christ, and seeke their owne gaine. 7 The Lord saieth that he will visite his dispersed flocke, and gather them together. 23 Hee promiseth the true shepherd Christ, and with him peace. Against ill shepheards.

1   And the woorde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, prophesie against the shepherdes of Israel, prophesie & say vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord God vnto the shepherds, ^note Wo be vnto the ^note shepherds of Israel, þt; feede them selues: should not the shepherds feede the flockes?

3   Yee eate the ^note fat, and yee clothe you with the wooll: yee kill them that are fed, but ye feede not the sheepe.

4   The ^note weake haue ye not strengthened: the sicke haue ye not healed, neither haue ye bounde vp the broken, nor brought againe that which was driuen away, neither haue yee sought þt; which was lost, but with crueltie, and with rigour haue yee ruled them.

5   And they were scattered without a shepherde: and when they were dispersed, they were ^note deuoured of all the beastes of the fielde.

6   My sheepe wandred through all the mountaines, and vpon euery hie hill: yea, my flocke was scattered through al the earth, and none did seeke or search after them.

7   Therefore ye shepherds, heare the woorde of the Lord.

8   As I liue, sayeth the Lorde God, surely because my flocke was spoyled, and my sheepe were deuoured of all the beasts of the fielde, hauing no shepherde, neither did my shepherdes seeke my sheepe, but the shepherdes fedde them selues, and fedde not my sheepe,

9   Therefore, heare ye the word of the Lorde, O ye shepherds.

10   Thus saieth the Lorde God, Behold, I come against the shepherds, and will require my sheepe at their hands, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheepe: neither shall the shepherds feede them selues any more: for I wil deliuer my sheepe from ^note their mouthes, and they shall no more deuoure them.

11   For thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

12   As a shepherd searcheth out his flocke, when he hath bene among his sheepe that are scattered, so wil I seeke out my sheepe and wil deliuer them out of all places, where they haue beene scattered in ^note the cloudie and darke day,

13   And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countreis, and will bring them to their owne lande, and feede them vpon the mountaines of Israel, by the riuers, and in all the inhabited places of the countrey.

14   I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the hie mountaines of Israel shal their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde and in fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines of Israel.

15   I will feede my sheepe, and bring them to their rest, sayth the Lord God.

16   I will seeke that which was lost, and bring againe that which was driu&ebar; away, and will binde vp that which was broken, and will strengthen the weake but I wil destroy the fat & the ^note strong, and I will feede them with ^note iudgement.

17   Also you my sheepe, Thus saieth the Lorde God, behold, I iudge betweene sheepe, & sheepe, betweene the rammes and the goates.

18   Seemeth it a small thing vnto you to haue eaten vp the good ^note pasture, but yee must treade downe &wt; your feete the residue of your pasture?

The noble plant. and to haue drunke of the deepe waters, but yee must trouble the residue with your feete?

19   And my sheepe eate that which yee haue troden with your feete, and drinke that which ye haue troubled with your feete.

20   Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God vnto them, behold, I, euen I wil iudge betweene the fat sheepe and the leane sheepe.

21   Because ye haue thrust with side and with shoulder, & pusht al the weake with your hornes, till ye haue scattered them abroade,

22   Therefore wil I helpe my sheepe, and they shal no more be spoyled, & I wil iudge betweene sheepe and sheepe.

23   And I wil set vp a shepherd ouer them, and he shall feede them, euen my seruant ^note Dauid, he shal feede them, and he shalbe their shepherd.

24   And I the Lord will be their God, and my seruant Dauid shalbe the prince am&obar;g them. I the Lord haue spoken it.

25   And I will make with them a couenant of peace, and will cause the euil beastes to cease out of the land: and they shal ^note dwel safely in the wildernesse, and sleepe in the woods.

26   And I wil set them, as a blessing, euen ro&ubar;d about my mountaine: and I will cause rayne to come downe in due season, & there shalbe raine of blessing.

27   And the ^note tree of the fielde shal yeeld her fruite, and the earth shall giue her fruite, and they shalbe safe in their land, and shal know that I am the Lord, when I haue broken the cordes of their yoke, & deliuered them out of the hands of those that serued themselues of them.

28   And they shall no more be spoyled of the heathen, neither shall the beastes of the land deuoure them, but they shal dwell safely and none shal make them afrayd.

29   And I will rayse vp for them a ^note plant of renoume, & they shalbe no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither beare the reproche of the heathen any more.

30   Thus shall they vnderstande, that I the Lorde their God am with them, and that they, euen the house of Israel, are my people, sayth the Lord God.

31   And yee my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XXXV. 2 The destruction that shall come on mount Seir, because they troubled the people of the Lord.

1   Moreouer the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

2   Sonne of man, Set thy face against mount ^note Seir, and prophesie against it,

3   And say vnto it, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, O mount Seir, I come against thee, and I wil stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.

4   I wil lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, & thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.

5   Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred and hast put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie, when their ^note iniquitie had an ende,

6   Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lorde God, I wil prepare thee vnto blood, and blood shal pursue thee: except thou ^note hate blood, euen blood shal pursue thee. The enemie spoyled.

7   Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste, and cut off from it him that passeth out & him that returneth.

8   And I will fill his mountaines with his slayne men: in thine hilles, and in thy valleys and in all thy riuers shal they fall, that are slayne with the sworde.

9   I wil make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not ^note returne, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

10   Because thou hast said, ^note These two nations, and these two countreys shalbe mine, and we wil possesse them (seeing the Lord was ^note there)

11   Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lorde God, I wil euen do according to thy ^note wrath, and according to thine indignation which thou hast vsed in thine hatred against them: & I wil make my selfe knowen among ^note them wh&ebar; I haue iudged thee.

12   And thou shalt know, that I the Lord haue heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountaines of Israel, saying, They lye waste, they are giuen vs to be deuoured.

13   Thus with your mouthes ye haue boasted against me, & haue multiplied your words against me: I haue heard them.

14   Thus sayth the Lorde God, So shall all the world reioyce when I shal make thee desolate.

15   As thou diddest reioyce at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I doe vnto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea wholly, & they shall know, that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXXVI. 8 He promiseth to deliuer Israel from the Gentiles. 22 The benefites done vnto the Iewes, are to be ascribed to the mercie of God, & not vnto their deseruings. 26 God renueth our hearts, that we may walke in his commandements.

1   Also thou sonne of man, prophesie vnto the ^note mountaines of Israel, & say, Ye mountaines of Israel, heare the word of the Lord.

2   Thus saith the Lord God, because the ^note enemie hath sayde against you, Aha, euen the ^note hye places of the world are ours in possession,

3   Therefore prophesie, & say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Because that they haue made you desolate, & swallowed you vp on euery side, that ye might be a possession vnto the residue of the heathen, & ye are come vnto the lippes & ^note tongues of men, and vnto the reproch of the people,

4   Therefore ye mountaines of Israel, heare the worde of the Lord God, Thus sayth the Lord God to the mountaines & to the hilles, to the riuers, and to the valleys, and to the waste, and desolate places, and to the cities that are forsaken: which are spoyled & had in derision of the residue of the heathen that are round about.

5   Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Surely in the fire of mine indignation haue I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which ^note haue taken my lande for their possession, with the ioy of all their heart, and with despitefull mindes to cast it out for a pray.

6   Prophesie therfore vpon the land of Israel, and say vnto the mountaines, and to the hilles, to the riuers, & to the valleys, Thus sayth the Lorde God, Behold, I haue spoken in mine indignation, and in my wrath, because yee haue suffered the ^note shame of the heathen,

7   Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I haue ^note lifted vp mine hand, surely the heathen that are

Comfort to Israel. about you, shal beare their shame.

8   But you, O mountaines of Israel, yee shall ^note shoote forth your branches, and bring foorth your fruite to my people of Israel: for they are ready to come.

9   For behold, I come vnto you, & I wil turne vnto you, and ye shalbe tilled and sowen.

10   And I wil multiply the men vpon you, euen all the house of Israel wholly, & the cities shalbe inhabited, & the desolate places shalbe builded.

11   And I wil multiply vpon you man & beast, and they shal encrease, and bring fruite, and I will cause you to dwell after your olde estate, & I will bestowe benefites vpon you more then ^note at the first, and ye shal know that I am the Lord.

12   Yea, I wil cause men to walke vpon ^note you, euen my people Israel, and they shall possesse ^note you, and ye shalbe their inheritance, and ye shal no more henceforth depriue them of men.

13   Thus sayth the Lord God, because they say vnto you, Thou ^note land deuourest vp men, & hast bene a waster of thy people,

14   Therefore thou shalt deuoure men no more, neither waste thy people henceforth, sayth the Lord God,

15   Neither will I cause men to heare in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou beare the reproche of the people any more, neither shalt cause thy folke to fal any more, saith the Lord God.

16   ¶2; Moreouer the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

17   Sonne of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their owne lande, they defiled it by their owne wayes, & by their deedes: their way was before me as the filthinesse of the menstruous.

18   Wherfore I powred my wrath vpon them, for the blood that they had shed in the land, and for their idoles, wherewith they had polluted it.

19   And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries for according to their wayes, and according to their deedes, I iudged them.

20    ^note And when they entred vnto the heathen, whither they went, they polluted mine holy Name, when they sayd of them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone out of his land.

21   But I fauoured mine holy ^note Name which the house of Israel had polluted among the heathen, whither they went.

22   Therfore say vnto the house of Israel, Thus saith þe; Lord God, I doe not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine ^note holy Names sake, which yee polluted among the heathen whither ye went.

23   And I wil sanctifie my great Name, which was polluted among the heathen, among whome you haue polluted it, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, sayth the Lorde God, when I shalbe sanctified in you before ^note their eyes.

24   For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your owne land.

25   Then wil I powre cleane ^note water vpon you, and ye shalbe cleane: yea, from all your filthines, and from all your idoles wil I clense you.

26    ^noteA newe heart also will I giue you, and a new spirit wil I put within you, and I will take away the stonie heart out of your body, and I will giue you an heart of flesh. The drie bones.

27   And I will put my spirite within you, and cause you to walke in my statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements and do them.

28   And ye shall dwell in the land, that I gaue to your fathers, and ye shalbe my people, & I will be your God.

29   I will also deliuer you from all your filthinesse, and I will call for ^note corne, and will increase it, and lay no famine vpon you.

30   For I will multiplie the fruite of the trees, & the increase of the fielde, that ye shal beare no more the reproch of famine among the heathen.

31   Then shal ye remember your owne wicked wayes, & your deedes that were not good, & shal iudge your selues worthie to haue bene ^note destroyed for your iniquities, and for your abominations.

32   Be it knowen vnto you that I do not this for your sakes, sayth the Lord God: therefore, O ye house of Israel, be ashamed, and confounded for your owne wayes.

33   Thus sayth the Lord God, What time as I shall haue clensed you from all your iniquities, I will cause you to dwel in the cities, & the desolate places shalbe builded.

34   And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all that passed by.

35   For they sayd, This waste land was like the garden of Eden, and these waste & desolate and ruinous cities were strong, and were inhabited.

36   Then the residue of the heathen that are left round about you, shal ^note know that I the Lord builde the ruinous places, and plant the desolate places: I the Lord haue spoken it, and wil do it.

37   Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be sought of þe; house of Israel, to performe it vnto them: I wil encrease them with men like a flocke.

38   As the holy flocke, as the flocke of Ierusalem in their solemne feastes, so shall the desolate cities be filled with flockes of men, and they shal know, that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXXVII. 1 He prophecieth the bringing againe of the people, being in captiuitie. 16 He sheweth the vnion of the ten tribes with the two.

1   The hand of the Lord was vpon me, & caryed me out in þe; spirit of þe; Lord, & set me downe in þe; mids of the ^note field, which was full of ^note bones.

2   And he led me round about by them, and beholde, they were very many in the open fielde, and lo, they were very drie.

3   And he sayde vnto me, Sonne of man, can these bones liue? And I answered, O Lorde God, thou knowest.

4   Againe he sayde vnto me, Prophecie vpon these bones and say vnto them, O ye dry bones, heare the word of the Lord.

5   Thus saith the Lord God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall liue.

6   And I will lay sinewes vpon you, & make flesh growe vpon you, & couer you with skinne, and put breath in you, that ye may liue, and yee shal know that I am the Lord.

7   So I prophecied, as I was commanded: and as I prophecied, there was a noyse, and beholde, there was a shaking, & the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8   And when I beheld, loe, the sinewes, & the flesh grewe vpon them, and aboue, the skinne couered them, but there was no breath in them.

9   Then sayd he vnto me, Prophecie vnto the

The vnitie of all the tribes. winde: prophecie, sonne of man, and say to the winde, Thus sayth the Lord God, Come from the foure ^note windes, O breath, and breathe vpon these slayne, that they may liue.

10   So I prophecied as hee had commaunded me: and the breath came into them, and they liued, and stood vp vpon their feete, an exceeding great armie.

11   Then he sayd vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are cleane cut off.

12   Therefore prophecie, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, my people, I will open your graues, and cause you to come vp out of your sepulchres, and bring you into the lande of Israel,

13   And yee shall knowe that I am the Lorde, ^note when I haue opened your graues, O my people, and brought you vp out of your sepulchres,

14   And shall put my Spirit in you, and ye shall liue, and I shal place you in your owne land: then yee shall knowe that I the Lorde haue spoken it, and performed it, sayth the Lord.

15   ¶2; The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

16   Moreouer thou sonne of man, take thee a piece of wood, and write vpon it, Vnto Iudah, and to the children of Israel his companions th&ebar; take ^note another piece of wood, and write vpon it, Vnto Ioseph the tree of Ephraim, and to al the house of Israel his companions.

17   And thou shalt ioyne th&ebar; one to another into one tree, & they shalbe as one in thine hand.

18   And when the children of thy people shall speake vnto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shewe vs what thou meanest by these?

19   Thou shalt answere them, Thus sayeth the Lord God, Behold, I wil take the tree ^note of Ioseph, which is in the hande of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellowes, and will put them with him, euen with the tree of Iudah, and make them one tree, and they shalbe one in mine hand.

20   And the pieces of wood, whereon thou writest, shalbe in thine hand, in their sight.

21   And say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and wil gather them on euery side, & bring them into their owne land.

22   And I will make them one people in the lande, vpon the mountaines of Israel, ^note and one king shalbe king to them all: and they shalbe no more two peoples, neither bee deuided any more henceforth into two kingdomes.

23   Neither shall they bee polluted any more with their idoles, nor with their abominati&obar;s, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will saue them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they haue sinned, and will clense them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

24   And Dauid my ^note seruant shalbe king ouer them, and they all shall haue one shepheard: they shall also walke in my iudgements, and obserue my statutes, and doe them.

25   And they shall dwell in the ^note lande, that I haue giuen vnto Iaakob my seruant, where your fathers haue dwelt, and they shal dwel therein, euen they, and their sonnes, & their sonnes sonnes for euer, and my seruant Dauid shall bee their A couenant of peace. prince for euer.

26   Moreouer, I will make ^note a couenant of peace with them: it shall be an euerlasting couenant with them, and I wil place them, and multiply them, and wil set my Sanctuarie among them for euermore.

27   My tabernacle also shalbe with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.

28   Thus the heathen shall knowe, that I the Lord do sanctifie Israel, when my Sanctuarie shall be among them for euermore. CHAP. XXXVIII. 2 He prophecieth that Gog and Magog shall fight with great power against the people of God. 21 Their destruction.

1   And the worde of the Lorde came vnto mee, saying,

2   Sonne of man, set thy face against ^note Gog, and against the lande of Magog, the chiefe prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophecie against him,

3   And say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Gog the chiefe prince of Meshech and Tubal.

4   And I wil destroy thee, & put hookes in thy chawes, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine host both horses, and horsemen, all clothed with al sorts of armour, eu&ebar; a great multitude with bucklers, and shieldes, all ^note handling swords.

5   They of ^note Paras, of Cush, and Phut with th&ebar;, euen all they that beare shielde and helmet.

6    ^noteGomer and all his bands, and the house of Togarmah of the North quarters, & al his bands, and much people with thee.

7   Prepare thy selfe, & ^note make thee ready, both thou, and al thy multitude, that are assembled vnto thee, and be thou their sauegard.

8   After many dayes thou shalt bee visited: for in the latter yeres thou shalt come into the land, that hath bene destroyed with the sworde, and is gathered out of many people vpon the mountaines of Israel, which haue long lien waste: yet ^note they haue bene brought out of the people, and they shall dwell all safe.

9   Thou shalt ascende and come vp like a tempest, and shalt be like a cloude to couer the land, both thou, and all thy bandes, and many people with thee.

10   Thus saith the Lorde God, Euen at þe; same time shall many things come into thy minde, and thou shalt thinke ^note euil thoughts.

11   And thou shalt say, I wil go vp to the land that hath no walled towres: ^note I will goe to them that are at rest, and dwell in safetie, which dwell all without walles, and haue neither barres nor gates,

12   Thinking to spoyle the pray, and to take a bootie, to turne thine hande vpon the desolate places that are nowe inhabited, and vpon the people, that are gathered out of the nations which haue gotten cattell and goods, and dwell in the middes of the land.

13   Sheba and Dedan, and the marchantes of Tarshish with all the lions thereof shall say vnto thee, ^note Art thou come to spoyle the praye? hast thou gathered thy multitude to take a booty? to cary away siluer and golde, to take away cattell and goods, and to spoyle a great pray?

14   Therefore, sonne of man, prophecie, and saye vnto Gog, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, In that day when my people of Israel ^note dwelleth safe,

Gogs destruction. shalt thou not knowe it?

15   And come fr&obar; thy place out of the North partes, thou and much people with thee? all shall ride vpon horses, euen a great multitude and a mightie armie.

16   And thou shalt come vp against my people of Israel, as a cloude to couer the land: thou shalt be in the ^note latter dayes, and I will bring thee vpon my lande, that the heathen may knowe mee, when I ^note shalbe sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

17   Thus saith the Lord God, Art not thou he, of whom I haue spoken in olde time, ^note by þe; hand of my seruants the Prophets of Israel which prophecied in those dayes and yeeres, that I woulde bring thee vpon them?

18   At the same time also wh&ebar; Gog shal come against the land of Israel, sayth the Lord God, my wrath shall arise in mine anger.

19   For in mine indignation and in the fire of my wrath haue I spoken it: surely at þt; time there shalbe a great shaking in the land of Israel,

20   So that the fishes of the sea, and the foules of the heauen, & the beasts of the field & al that moue & creepe vp&obar; the earth, and al þe; men þt; are vp&obar; the earth, shal tremble at my presence, & the mountaines shalbe ouerthrowen, and the ^note staires shall fall, and euery wall shall fall to the ground.

21   For I will call for a sworde against him ^note throughout all my mountaines, saith the Lorde God: euery mans sword shalbe against his brother.

22   And I will pleade against him with pestilence, and with blood, and I will cause to raine vpon him and vpon his bands, and vpon the great people, that are with him, a sore raine, and hailestones, fire, and brimstone.

23   Thus will I be ^note magnified, and sanctified, and knowen in the eyes of many nations, & they shall knowe, that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXXIX. 1 Hee sheweth the destruction of Gog and Magog. 11 The graues of Gog and his host. 17 They shalbe deuoured of birds and beastes. 23 Wherefore the house of Israel is captiue. 24 Their bringing againe from captiuitie is promised.

1   Therefore, thou sonne of man, prophecie against Gog, and say, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, þe; chiefe prince of Meshech and Tubal.

2   And I will destroy thee ^note and leaue but the sixt part of thee, and will cause thee to come vp from the North partes and will bring thee vpon the mountaines of Israel:

3   And I will smite thy bowe out of thy left hand, and I will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.

4   Thou ^note shalt fal vpon the mountaines of Israel, and all thy bands and the people, that is with thee: for I will giue thee vnto the birdes and to euery feathered foule and beast of the fielde to be deuoured.

5   Thou shalt fall vpon the open fielde: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

6   And I will sende a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell safely in the ^note yles, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord.

7   So will I make mine holy Name knowen in the middes of my people Israel, and I will not suffer them to pollute mine holy Name any more, and the heathen shal knowe that I am the Lord, the holy one of Israel. A great sacrifice.

8   Beholde, ^note it is come, and it is done, sayeth the Lord God: and this is the day whereof I haue spoken.

9   And they that dwell in the cities of Israel, shall ^note goe forth, and shall burne and set fire vpon the weapons, and on the shieldes, and bucklers, vpon the bowes, and vpon the arrowes, and vpon the staues in their handes, and vpon the speares, and they shall burne them with fire seuen yeeres.

10   So that they shall bring no wood out of the fielde, neither cut downe any out of the forestes: for they shall burne the weapons with fire, and they shall robbe those that robbed them, and spoyle those that spoyled them, sayeth the Lorde God.

11   And at the same time will I giue vnto Gog ^note a place there for burial in Israel, euen the valley whereby men go towarde the East part of the sea: and it shall cause them that passe by, to stoppe their ^note noses, and there shall they bury Gog with all his multitude: and they shall call it the valley of ^note Hamon-Gog.

12    ^noteAnd seuen moneths long shall the house of Israel be burying of th&ebar;, that they may clense the land.

13   Yea, all the people of the lande shall burie them, and they shall haue a name when I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.

14   And they shall chuse out men to goe continually through the ^note lande with them that trauaile, to bury those that remaine vpon þe; ground, and clense it: they shall search to the ende of seuen moneths.

15   And the trauailers that passe through the land, if any see a mans bone, then shall he set vp a signe by it, till the buriers haue buried it, in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

16   And also the name of the citie shalbe ^note Hamonah: thus shall they clense the land.

17   And thou sonne of man, thus sayeth the Lorde God, Speake vnto euery feathered foule, and to all the beastes of the fielde, Assemble your selues, and come ^note gather your selues on euery side to my sacrifice: for I do sacrifice a great sacrifice for you vpon the mountaines of Israel, that ye may eate flesh, and drinke blood.

18   Ye shall eate the flesh of the valiant, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of the weathers, of the lambes, and of the goates, and of bullockes, euen of all fat beastes of Bashan.

19   And ye shall eate fat till you be full, and drinke blood, till ye be drunken of my sacrifice, which I haue sacrificed for you.

20   Thus you shalbe filled at my table &wt; horses and chariots, &wt; valiant men, and with al men of warre, sayth the Lord God.

21   And I wil set my glory among the heath&ebar;, and all the heathen shall see my iudgement, that I haue executed, and mine hand, which I haue layed vpon them.

22   So the house of Israel shall knowe, that I am the Lord their God fr&obar; that day and so forth.

23   And the heathen shall knowe, that þe; house of Israel went into captiuitie for ^note their iniquitie, because they trespassed against me: therefore hid I my face from them, and gaue them into þe; hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

24   According to their vncleannes, and according to their transgressions haue I done vnto th&ebar;, and hid my face from them.

Deliuerance from captiuitie promised.

25   Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, Nowe will I bring againe the captiuitie of Iaakob, and haue compassion vpon the whole house of Israel, and wil be ielous for mine holy Name,

26   After that they haue borne their shame, & all their transgression, whereby they haue transgressed against me, wh&ebar; they dwelt safely in their land, and without feare of any.

27   When I haue brought them againe from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies landes, and am ^note sanctified in them in the sight of many nations,

28   Then shal they know, that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captiuitie among the heathen: but I haue gathered them vnto their owne land, and haue left none of them any more there,

29   Neither wil I hide my face any more from them: for I haue powred out my Spirit vpon the house of Israel, sayth the Lord God. CHAP. XL. The restoring of the citie and the Temple.

1   In the fiue and twentieth yeere of our being in captiuitie, in the ^note beginning of the yeere, in the tenth day of the moneth, in the fourteenth yeere after that the citie was smitten, in the selfe same day, the hande of the Lorde was vpon mee, and brought me thither.

2   Into the lande of Israel brought he me by ^note a diuine vision, & set me vpon a very hie mountaine, whereupon was as the building of a citie, toward the South. An Angel with a measure.

3   And he brought me thither, and beholde, there was a ^note man, whose similitude was to looke to, like brasse, with a linnen thread in his hand, and a reede to measure with: and he stoode at the gate.

4   And the man said vnto me, Sonne of man, beholde with thine eyes, and heare with thine eares, and set thine heart vpon all that I shal shew thee: for to the intent, that they might be shewed thee, art thou brought hither: declare al that thou seest, vnto the house of Israel. ^note