1   And our Lord said to me:09Q0309 If Moyses and Samuel ^note shal stand before me, my soule is not to ward this people: cast them out from my face, and let them goe forth.

2   And if they shal say vnto thee: Whither shal we goe forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord: ^note They that to death, to death, and they that to sword, to sword: and they that to famine, to famine: and they that to captiuitie, to captiuitie.

3   And I wil visite vpon them foure kindes, saith our Lord: The sword to kil, and dogges to teare, & the foules of the ayre, and beasts of

the earth to deuoure and to destroy.

4   And I wil geue them into rage to al the kingdomes of the earth: because of Manasses the sonne of Ezechias the king of Iuda, for al thinges that he did in Ierusalem.

5   For who shal haue pitie on thee Ierusalem? or who shal be sorie for thee? or who shal goe to pray for thy peace?

6   Thou hast forsaken me, saith our Lord, thou hast gone backward: and I wil stretch forth my hand vpon thee, and wil kil thee: I am wearie in praying thee.

7   And I wil scatter them with a fanne in the gates of the land: I haue slayne and destroyed my people, & yet they are not returned from their waies.

8   Their widowes are multiplied vnto me aboue the sand of the sea: I haue brought into them vpon the mother of the youngman a waster at noone day: I haue cast terrour sudenly vpon the cities.

9   She is weakned that bare seuen, her soule hath fainted: the sunne went downe to her, when it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I wil geue vnto the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith our Lord.

10   Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of brawling, a man of discord in al the earth? I haue not lent to vsurie, neither hath anie man lent vnto me to vsurie: al curse me.

11   Our Lord saith: If thy remnant shal not be to good, if I haue not holpen thee in the time of affliction, and in the time of tribulation against the enemie.

12   Why, shal ^note yron be confederate with the yron from the North, and also ^note brasse?

13   Thy riches and thy treasures I wil geue into spoile for naught for al thy sinnes, and in al thy borders.

14   And I wil bring thine enemies out of a land, which thou knowest not: because a fire is kindled in my furie, it shal burne vpon you.

15    ^noteThou knowest ô Lord, be mindful of me, and visite me, and defend me from them, that persecute me: doe not receiue me in ^note thy patience, know that I haue sustayned reproch for thee.

16   Thy wordes were found, and I did eate them, and thy word was made to me a ioy & gladnes of my hart: because thy name is inuocated vpon me ô Lord God of hostes.

17   I sate not in the councel of iesters, and I haue gloried at the face of thy hand: I sate alone, because thou hast filled me with threaning.

18   Why is my sorow made perpetual, and my desperate plague refuseth to be cured? it is become vnto me as a lie of ^note vnfaythful waters.

19   For this cause thus saith our Lord: If thou wilt be conuerted, I wil conuert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face: and if thou wilt seperate

the pretious thing from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shal be turned to thee, & ^note thou shalt not be turned to them.

20   And I wil geue thee vnto this people as a brasen wal, strong: and they shal fight against thee, and shal not preuaile: because I am with thee to saue thee, and to deliuer thee, saith our Lord.

21   And I wil deliuer thee out of the hand of the most wicked, and I wil redeeme thee out of the hand of strong.

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