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Chap. XXIII.
note
God reproueth the euil gouerners, promising to reduce the reliques of the
people from dispersion; 4. to send good pastors; and Christ the chiefe
Pastor. 9. Falseprophetes are threatned: 16. The people warned, not to
heare them, preaching without mission, 27. against Gods wil, 33. and
calling Gods word a burden.
1 VVoe to the pastors, that destroy and teare the flocke
of my pasture, saith our Lord.
2 Therefore thus
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saith our Lord the God of Israel to the pastours, that feede my
people: You haue scattered my flocke, and cast them out, and
haue not visited them: Behold I wil visite vpon you the malice
of your studies, saith our Lord.
3 And I wil gather together
the remnant of my flocke out of al landes, into which
I shal haue cast them out: and I wil make them returne to
their fieldes, and they shal increase and be multiplied.
4 And
I wil raise vp pastors ouer them, and they shal feede them: they
shal feare no more, and they shal not dread: and none shal be
to seeke of the number, saith our Lord.
5 Behold the daies
come, saith our Lord: & I wil rayse vp to Dauid note a iust branch:
and he shal reigne a king, and shal be wise: and he shal doe
iudgement and iustice in the earth.
6 In those daies shal Iuda
be saued, and Israel shal dwel confidently: and this is the name
that they shal cal him: The Lord our iust one.
7 For this cause
behold the daies come, saith our Lord, and they shal say no
more: Our Lord liueth, that brought forth the children of
Israel out of the Land of Ægypt:
8 but: Our Lord liueth, that
hath brought forth, and brought hither the seede of the house
of Israel from the Land of the North, and out of al the landes,
to which I had cast them out: & they shal dwel in their owne
land.
9 To the prophets: My hart is broken in the middes of
me, al my bones haue trembled: I am become as a drunken
man, and as a man wette with wine, at the presence of our
Lord, and at the presence of his holie wordes.
10 Because the
land is replenished with aduouterers, because the land hath
mourned by reason of malediction, the fieldes of the desert
are withered: and their course is become euil, & their strength
vnlike.
11 For the prophet and the priest are polluted: and in
my house I haue found their euil, saith our Lord.
12 Therefore
their way shal be as slipper ground in the darke: for they shal
be driuen forth, and fal therein: for I wil bring euils vpon
them, the yeare of their visitation, saith our Lord.
13 And in
the prophetes of Samaria I haue seene foolishnes: They
prophecied in Baal, and deceiued my people Israel.
14 And
in the prophetes of Ierusalem I saw the similitude of adulterers,
and the way of lying: and they strengthned the handes
of the most wicked, that no man would returne from his
malice: they are al become vnto me as Sodoma, and the inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrha.
15 Therefore thus saith the
Lord of hostes to the prophets: Behold I wil feede them with
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wormewood, and wil geue them galle to drinke, for from the
prophetes of Ierusalem is pollution gone forth vpon al the
land.
16 Thus saith the Lord of hostes: Heare not the wordes
of the prophets, that prophecie vnto you, and deceiue you:
they speake the vision note of their owne hart, not from the
mouth of the Lord.
17 They say to them that blaspheme me:
Our Lord hath spoken: Peace shal be to you, and to euerie one
that walketh in the peruersitie of his owne hart, they haue
said: There shal no euil come vpon you.
18 For who hath bene
present in the counsel of our Lord, and hath seene and heard
his word? Who hath considered his word, and heard it?
19 Behold
the whirlewind of the Lords indignation shal come
forth, and a tempest breaking out: it shal come vpon the head
of the impious.
20 The furie of the Lord shal not returne til
he doe it, and vntil he accomplish the cogitation of his hart:
in the later daies you shal vnderstand his counsel.
21 I note sent
not the prophetes, and they ranne: I spake not to them, and
they prophecied.
22 If they had stood in my counsel, and made
my wordes knowen to my people, I had verely turned them
from their euil way, and from their most wicked cogitations.
23 Am I God neere hand thinkest thou, saith our Lord? and not
God farre of?
24 Shal a man be hid in secretes: and shal not I
see him, saith our Lord? Why, doe not I fil heauen and earth,
saith our Lord?
25 I haue heard what the prophets haue said,
prophecying in my name lies, and saying: I haue dreamed, I
haue dreamed.
26 How long is this in the hart of the prophetes
prophecying lies, and prophecying the seductions of their
owne hart?
27 Who wil make my people to forget my name
through their dreames, which euerie one telleth to his neighbour:
as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28 The prophet
that hath a dreame, let him tel the dreame: and he that
hath my word, let him speake my word truly: what hath the
chafe to doe with the wheare, saith our Lord?
29 Why, are not
my wordes as fire, saith our Lord: and as a hammer breaking a
rocke?
30 Therefore behold I to the prophetes, saith our Lord:
which steale my wordes euerie one from his neighbour.
31 Behold
I to the prophetes, saith our Lord: which take their
tongues, and say: Our Lord saith it.
32 Behold, I to the prophets
dreaming lies, saith our Lord: which haue told those thinges,
and haue seduced my people in their lying, and in their note miracles:
when I had not sent them, nor commanded them, who
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haue not profited this people, saith our Lord.
33 If therefore
this people, or the prophet, or the priest shal aske thee, saying:
What is the burden of our Lord? thou shalt say to them: We
are the burden. for I wil cast you forth, saith our Lord.
34 And
the prophet, and the priest, and the people that saith: The
burden of our Lord wil I visite vpon that man, and vpon his
house.
35 Thus shal you say euerie one to his brother, & neighbour:
What hath our Lord answered? and what hath our Lord
spoken?
36 And the burden of our Lord shal no more be mentioned:
because euerie mans burden shal be his owne word:
& you haue peruerted the wordes of the liuing God, the Lord
of hostes our God.
37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet:
What hath our Lord answered thee? and what hath our Lord
spoken?
38 But if thou shalt say the burden of our Lord: for
this, thus saith our Lord: Because you haue said this word:
The burden of our Lord: and I haue sent to you, saying: Say
not: The burden of our Lord:
39 Therefore behold I wil take
you away carying you, and wil forsake you, & the citie which
I haue geuen to you, and to your fathers, from before my face.
40 And I wil geue you into euerlasting reproch, and into eternal
ignominie, which shal neuer be put away by obliuion.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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