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[1]For lo, the Lorde God of hoastes doth take away from Hierusalem and Iuda all maner of stay, all stay of meate and drynke |
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[2]The captayne and the souldiour, the iudge and the prophete, the prudent and the aged man |
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[3]The captayne of fiftie & the honorable, the senatour, the cunnyng artificer, and the eloquent oratour |
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[4]And I shall geue children to be their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them |
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[5]And the people shall eche one of them violently oppresse another, and euery one agaynst his neyghbour: The boy shall presume agaynst the elder, and the person of lowe degree agaynst the honorable |
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[6]Yea one shall take a friende of his owne kinrede by the bosome, and say: thou hast clothyng, thou shalt be our head, and stay this ruine with thy hande |
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[7]Then shall he sweare and say, I can not helpe you: there is neither meate nor clothyng in my house, make me no ruler of the people |
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[8]For Hierusalem and Iuda must decay: because that both their wordes and counsayles are agaynst the Lorde to prouoke the presence of his maiestie to anger |
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[9]Their very countenaunce bewrayeth the, yea they declare their owne sinnes [themselues] as Sodome, they hide it not: Wo be to their owne soules, for they haue rewarded euyll vnto them selues |
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[10]Say to the ryghteous that it shall go well with them: for they shall eate the fruite of their owne studies |
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[11][But] wo be vnto the wicked, for it shalbe euyll with hym: for he shalbe rewarded after his owne workes |
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[12]Children are extortioners of my people, and women rule ouer them: O my people, thy leaders deceaue thee, and corrupt the way of thy footsteppes |
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[13]The Lorde is here to commune of the matter, & standeth to iudge the people |
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[14]The Lorde shall enter into iudgement with the elders and princes of his people, [and shall say to them:] It is ye that haue burnt vp my vineyarde, the spoyle of the poore is in your houses |
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[15]What meane ye that ye bray [as in a morter] my people, and grinde the faces of the poore? saith the Lorde God of hoastes |
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[16]Moreouer the Lord hath said, seing the daughters of Sion are waxen proude, & walke with stretched foorth neckes, and wanton lokes, goyng and trippyng nicely, and tinckelyng with their feete |
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[17]Therfore shall the Lorde shaue the heades of the daughters of Sion, and shall discouer their filthinesse |
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[18]In that day shall the Lord take away the gorgiousnesse of the attire about their feete, & the caules, and the rounde tires [after the fashion of the moone. |
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[19]The sweete perfumes, and the bracelettes, and the mufflers |
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[20]The bonnettes, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablettes, and the earynges |
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[21]And rynges, and nose iewels |
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[22]The costly apparell, and the vayles, and the wimples, & the crispyng pinnes |
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[23]And the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoodes, and the lawnes |
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[24]And in steade of good smell there shalbe stincke, and in steade of their girdle a rent, and for well set heere there shalbe baldnesse, in steade of a stomacher a sacke cloth, & [sunne] burnyng for beautie |
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[25]Thy men shal perishe with the sword, and thy valiaunt souldiours in the battayle [O Hierusalem. |
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[26]And her gates shall mourne and bewayle: and she deyng desolate, shall syt vpon the grounde |