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

2   Sonne of man make knowne ^note to Ierusalem her abominations:

3   and thou shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God to Ierusalem: Thy roote, and thy generation of the land of Chanaan, thy father an Amorrheite, and thy mother a Cetheite.

4   And when thou wast borne, in the day of thy birth thy nauil was not cut, and thou wast not washed with water to health, nor salted with salt, nor swadled in cloutes.

5   No eye had mercie on thee to do vnto thee one of these thinges, hauing pitie on thee: but thou wast throwen forth vpon the face of the earth in the abiection of thy soule, in the day that thou wast borne.

6   And passing by thee, ^note I saw thee to be troden downe in thy bloud: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy bloud: Liue. I said to thee, I say: In thy bloud liue.

7   Multiplied as the spring of the field haue I made thee: and thou wast multiplied, and made great, and thou wentest in, and camest to the ornaments of wemen: thy breastes swelled, and thy heare budded: and thou wast naked, and ful of confusion.

8   And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time, the time of louers: and I spred my garment ouer thee, and couered thy ignominie. And I sware to thee, and I entered a couenant with thee: saith our Lord God: & thou wast made myne.

9   And I washed thee with water, and made cleane thy bloud from of thee: and I anoynted thee with oile.

10   And I clothed thee with diuers colours, & shod thee with hyacinth: and I girded thee with silke, and clothed thee with fine garments.

11   And I ^note adorned thee with ornament, and gaue bracelettes on thy handes, and a cheine about thy necke.

12   And I gaue a iewel vpon thy face, and ringes to thine eares, and a crowne of beautie on thy head.

13   And thou wast adorned with gold, and siluer, and wast clothed with silke, & embrodered worke, and manie colours: thou hast eaten floure, and honie, and oile, and wast made very beautiful excedingly: and didst prosper to a kingdom.

14   And thy name went forth into the Gentils, because of thy beautie: because thou wast perfect in my beautie, which I had put vpon thee, saith our Lord God.

15   And hauing confidence in thy beautie thou hast fornicated in thy name: and thou hast layd forth thy fornication to euerie passenger to be made his.

16   And taking of thy garments thou madest thee idoles embrodred on each side: & thou didst fornicate vpon them, as hath not bene done, nor shal not hereafter.

17   And thou tookest the vessels of thy beautie, of my gold, and my siluer, which I gaue thee: and thou madest thee images of men, and hast fornicated in them.

18   And thou tookest thy garments of manie colours, and coueredst them: and mine oile, and mine incense thou didst put before them.

19   And

my bread, which I gaue thee, the floure, and oile, and honie, wherwith I haue nourished thee, thou didst set in their sight for an odour of sweetnes, and it was done, saith our Lord God.

20   And thou hast taken ^note thy sonnes, and thy daughters, which thou didst begete to me: & hast immolated the same vnto them to deuoure. Why, is thy fornication smal?

21   Thou hast immolated my sonnes, and hast geuen them, consecrating them to the idols.

22   And after al thine abominations, and fornications, thou wast not mindful of the dayes of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and ful of confusion, troden downe in thy bloud.

23   And it chanced after al thy malice (wo, wo to thee, saith our Lord God)

24   thou didst also build thee a stewes, and madest thee a brothel house in al streetes.

25   At euerie head of the way hast thou built a signe of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beautie abominable: and hast diuided thy feete to euerie one that passeth by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.

26   And thou hast fornicated with the children of Ægypt thy neighbours of great flesh, & hast multiplied thy fornication to prouoke me.

27   Behold I wil strech out my hand vpon thee, and wil take away thy iustification: and I wil geue thee into the soules of the daughters of Palestine that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way.

28   And thou hast committed fornication with the sonnes of the Assyrians, because neither as yet wast thou filled: and after thou didst fornicate, neither so wast thou faciated.

29   And thou didst multiplie thy fornication in the Land of Chanaan with the Chaldees: and neither so wast thou saciated.

30   Wherin shal I clense thy hart, saith our Lord God: wheras thou doest al these the workes of a woman that is a whore, and malapert?

31   Because thou hast built thy brothel house in the head of euerie way, and thy excelse thou hast made in euerie strete, neither becamest thou as an harlot that by disdayne augmenteth the price,

32   but as a woman aduouteresse, that ouer her husband bringeth in strangers.

33   To ^note al harlots are rewards geuen: but thou hast geuen rewardes to al thy louers, & thou didst geue them giftes to come vnto thee on euerie side, to fornicate with thee.

34   And in thee it was done contrarie to the custome of wemen in thy fornications, and after thee there shal be no fornication: for in that thou gauest rewardes, and didst not take rewardes, it hath bene done contrarie in thee.

35   Therfore heare ô harlot the word of our Lord.

36   Thus saith our Lord God: Because thy brasse

is powred out, and thine ignominie is reueled in thy fornications vpon thy louers, and vpon the idols of thine abominations in the bloud of thy children, whom thou gauest them:

37   Behold I wil gather together al thy louers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, & al, whom thou hast loued, with al, whom thou didst hate: and I wil gather them together vpon thee on euerie side, and wil discouer thine ignominie before them, and they shal see al thy turpitude.

38   And I wil iudge thee by the iudgements of aduouteresses, and them that shed bloud: and I wil geue thee into bloud of furie and zele.

39   And I wil geue thee into their handes, and they shal destroy thy brothel house, and throw downe thy stewes: and they shal turne thee naked out of thy garments, and shal take away the vessels of thy beautie: and shal leaue thee naked, and ful of ignominie.

40   And they shal bring vpon thee a multitude, and they shal stone thee with stones, & shal murder thee with their swords.

41   And they shal burne thy houses with fire, and shal do iudgementes in thee in the eyes of very manie wemen: and thou shalt cease to fornicate, and shalt geue rewardes no more.

42   And mine indignation shal rest in thee: and my zele shal be taken away from thee, and I wil cease, and be angrie no more.

43   For that thou hast not remembered the dayes of thy youth, and hast prouoked me in al these: wherfore I also haue geuen thy wayes on thy head, saith our Lord God, and I haue not done according to thy wicked dedes in al thine abominations.

44   Behold euerie one, that speaketh a common prouerbe, shal take vp that against thee, saying: ^note As the mother, so also her daughter.

45   Thou art the daughter of thy mother, which did cast of her husband, and her children: and thou art sister of thy sisters, which did cast of their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cetheire, & your father an Amorrheire.

46   And thy elder sister, Samaria, she and her daughters, that dwel on thy left hand, and thy sister yonger then thou, which dwelleth on thy right hand, Sodom, & her daughters.

47   But neither in their wayes hast thou walked, nor according to their wicked dedes hast thou done a very litle lesse: thou hast done almost more wicked thinges then they in al thy wayes.

48   Liue I, saith our Lord God, that Sodom thy sister her selfe hath not done, and her daughters, as thou hast done, and thy daughters.

49   Loe this was the iniquitie of Sodom thy sister, ^note pride, fulnes of bread, & abundance, and the idlenes

of her, and of her daughters: and they raught not the hand to the needie, and the poore.

50   And they were eleuated, and did abominations before me: and I tooke them away as thou hast sene.

51   And Samaria sinned not the halfe of thy sinnes: but thou hast passed them with thy wicked deedes, and hast iustified thy sisters in al thine abominations, which thou hast wrought.

52   Thou also therefore carie thy confusion, which hast passed thy sisters with thy sinnes, doing more wickedly then they: for they are iustified aboue thee: thou also therfore be confounded, & beare thine ignominie, which hast iustified thy sisters.

53   And I wil conuert restoring them by the conuersion of Sodom with her daughters, and by the conuersion of Samaria, and her daughters: and I wil conuert thy reuersion in the middes of them,

54   that thou mayst carie thine ignominie, and mayst be confounded in al thinges, that thou hast done, comforting them.

55   And thy sister ^note Sodom, and her daughters shal returne to their antiquitie: and Samaria, and her daughters shal returne to their antiquitie: and ^note thou, and thy daughters shal returne to your antiquitie.

56   And Sodom thy sister was not heard in thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,

57   before that thy malice was reueled: as at this time for reproch of the daughters of Syria, and of al the daughters of Palesthine in the circuite of thee, which compasse thee round about.

58   Thy wickednes, and thine ignominie thou hast caried, saith our Lord God.

59   Because thus saith our Lord God: And I wil do to thee, as thou hast despised the oath, to make the couenant frustrate:

60   and I wil remember my couenant with thee in the dayes of thy youth: and I wil raise vnto thee an euerlasting couenant.

61   And thou shal remember thy wayes, and shalt be confounded: when thou shalt receiue ^note thy sisters elder then thee with thy yonger: and I wil geue them to thee for daughters, but not by ^note thy couenant.

62   And I wil raise vp my couenant with thee: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,

63   that thou mayst remember, and be confounded, and maist no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shal be pacified toward thee in al that thou hast done, saith our Lord God.

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