1   Thvs sayth our Lord:09Q0307 Heauen is my seate, and the earth my foote stoole: ^note what is this house that you wil build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

2   My hand hath made al these thinges, & al these thinges haue bene done, sayth our Lord. But to whom shal I haue respect, but to the poore litle one, and the contrite of spirit, and him that trembleth at my wordes?

3   He that ^note immolateth an oxe, is as he

that should slay a man: he that killeth a sheepe in sacrifice, as he that should braine a dog: he that offereth oblation, as he that should offer swines bloud: he that remembreth frankincense, as he that should blesse an idol. Al these thinges haue they chosen in their wayes, and in their abominations their soule is delighted.

4   Wherfore I also wil choose their delusions: and the thinges that they feared, I wil bring to them: because I called, and there was none that would answer: I haue spoken, and they heard not: and they haue done euil in mine eies, and haue chosen the thinges that I would not.

5   Heare the word of our Lord, ye that tremble at his word: your brethren that hate you, and reiect you for my name sake, haue sayd: Let the Lord be glorified, & we shal see in your ioy: but they shal be counfounded.

6   A voice of people from the citie, ^note a voice from the temple, the voice of our Lord repaying retribution to his enemies.

7   Before she traueled, she brought forth, before her time came to be deliuered, she brought forth a man childe.

8   Who euer heard such a thing? and who hath sene the like to this? why, shal the earth trauel in one day? or shal a nation be brought forth together, because Sion hath traueled, and brought forth her children?

9   Shal not I ^note that make others to bring forth children, my self bring forth, saith the Lord? shal I, that geue generation to others, be barren, sayth the Lord thy God?

10   Reioyce with Ierusalem, and be ioyful in her al ye that loue her: be glad with her in gladnes al ye, that mourne vpon her,

11   that you may sucke, and be filled of the breast of her consolation: that you may milke, and flow with delightes in al maner of her glorie.

12   Because thus saith our Lord: Behold I wil decline vpon her as it were a floud of peace, and as a torrent ouerflowing the glorie of the Gentiles, which you shal sucke: at the breasts you shal be caried, & vpon the knees they shal speake you fayre.

13   As if the mother would speake one fayre, so wil I comfort you, and in Ierusalem you shal be comforted.

14   You shal see, and your hart shal reioyce, and your bones shal spring as an herbe, and the hand of our Lord shal be knowen to his seruants, and he shal be wrath with his enemies.

15   Because loe our Lord ^note wil come in fyre, and his chariotes as a whirlewind, to render his furie in indignation, and his rebuking in flame of fyre:

16   because our Lord shal iudge in fyre, and in his sword to al flesh, and the slaine of our Lord shal be multiplied,

17   they that were sanctified, and

thought them selues cleane in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eate swines flesh, and abomination and the mouse: they shal be confounded, sayth our Lord.

18   But I know their workes, and their cogitations: I come that I may gather together with al nations and tongues: and they shal come and shal see my glorie.

19   And I wil put ^note a signe in them, and I wil send of them, that shal be saued, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Afrike, and Lydia them that hold the arrow: into Italie, and Greece, to the ilandes farre of, to them that haue not heard of me, and haue not sene my glorie. And they shal shew forth my glorie to the Gentiles:

20   and ^note they shal bring al your brethren of al nations a gift to our Lord, vpon horses, and in chariotes, & in horse litters, & on mules, and in coches, to my holie mountaine Ierusalem, sayth our Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring in a gift in a cleane vessel into the house of our Lord.

21   And09Q0308 I wil take of them to be priestes, and leuites, sayth our Lord.

22   Because as new heauens, and a new earth, which I make to stand before me, sayth our Lord: so shal your sede stand, and your name.

23   And there, shal be moneth after moneth, and sabbath after sabbath: ^noteal flesh shal come to adore before my face, sayth our Lord.

24   And they shal goe out, and see the carcasses of the men, that haue transgressed against me: their worme shal not die, and their fyre shal not be quenched: and they shal be euen vnto satietie of sight to al flesh.

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