1   And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

2    ^noteThou shalt not take a wife, and thou shalt not haue sonnes, and daughters in this place.

3   Because thus saith our Lord concerning sonnes and daughters, that are begotten in this place, and concerning their mothers, which beare them: and concerning their fathers, of whose stocke they were

borne in this land:

4   by the deathes of diseases they shal die: they shal not be mourned, and they shal not be buried, they shal be as a dunghil vpon the face of the earth: they shal be consumed, both with sword, and famine: and their carcasse shal be meate for the soules of the ayre, and beastes of the earth.

5   For thus saith our Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither goe thou to mourne, nor comfort them: because I haue taken away my peace from this people, saith our Lord, mercie and commiserations.

6   And great and litle shal die in this land: they shal not be buried nor mourned, and they shal not cut them selues, neither shal baldnes be made for them.

7   And they shal not breake bread among them to him that mourneth to comfort him vpon the dead: and they shal not geue them drinke of the cuppe to comfort them vpon their father and mother.

8   And enter not into the house of feasting, to sitte with them, and to eate and drinke:

9   because thus saith our Lord of hostes the God of Israel: Behold I wil take away out of this place in your eies, and in your daies the voice of ioy, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegrome, and the voice of the bride.

10   And when thou shalt tel this people al these wordes, and they shal say to thee: Wherefore hath our Lord spoken vpon vs al this greate euil? what is our iniquitie? and what is our sinne, that we haue sinned to the Lord our God?

11   Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers haue forsaken me, saith our Lord: and gone after strange goddes, and serued them, and adored them: and me they haue forsaken, & my law they haue not kept.

12   But ^note you also haue wrought worse then your fathers: for behold euerie one walketh after the peruersitie of his euil hart, that he heare me not.

13   And I wil cast you forth out of this land, into a land, which you and your fathers knew not: and there you shal serue strange goddes day and night, which shal not geue you anie rest.

14    ^noteTherefore behold the daies come, saith our Lord, & it shal be said no more: The Lord liueth, that brought forth the children of Israel out of the Land of Ægypt,

15   But, The Lord liueth, that brought the children of Israel out of the Land of the North, and out of al the landes to the which I did cast them out: and I wil bring them againe into their land, which I gaue to their fathers.

16   Behold I wil send manie ^notefishers saith our Lord, & they shal fishe them: and after this I wil send them manie ^note hunters, & they shal hunt them from

euerie mountaine, and from euerie litle hil, and out of the caues ^note of rockes.

17   Because mine eies are vpon al their waies: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquitie hath not bene hid from mine eies.

18   And I wil repay first their duble iniquities, and their sinnes: because they haue contaminated my land with the carcasses of their idols, and with their abominations they haue filled mine inheritance.

19   O Lord my force, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shal come from the endes of the earth, and shal say: In very deede our fathers haue possessed lying, vanitie which hath not profited them.

20   Why, ^note shal a man make goddes vnto himself, and they are not goddes?

21   Therefore behold I wil shew them at this time, I wil shew them my hand, and my powre: and they shal know that my name is the Lord.

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