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ISAIAH
Chapter
1
1
This is the prophecy of Esay the sonne of Amos, which he shewed vpon Iuda and
Ieruasalem: In the tyme of Osias, Ioathan, Ahas, and Ezechias kynges of Iuda.
2 Heare o heauen, herken o earth, for the LORDE speaketh: I haue norished
& brought vp children, and they are fallen awaye fro me.
3 An oxe knoweth his LORDE, and an Asse his masters stall, but
Israel
knoweth nothinge, my people hath no vnderstondinge.
4 Alas for this synful people, which are experte in blasphemies, a
frawerde generacion, vnnatural children. They haue forsaken the LORDE, they haue
prouoked the holy one of
Israel
vnto anger, and are gone bacward.
5 Wherfore shulde ye be plaged eny more? For ye are euer fallinge awaye.
The whole heade is sick, and the herte is very heuy.
6 From the sole of the foote vnto the heade, there is no whole parte in
all yor body: but all are woundes, botches, sores and strypes, which can nether
be helped, bounde vp, molified, ner eased with eny oyntment.
7 Youre londe lieth waist, youre cities are brent vp, youre enemies
deuoure youre londe, and ye must be fayne to stonde, and loke vpon it: and it is
desolate, as it were with enemies in a batell.
8 Morouer ye doughter of Syon is left alone like a cotage in a vynyearde,
like a watchouse in tyme of warre, like a beseged citie.
9 And excepte the LORDE of hostes had left us a few alyue: we shulde haue
bene as Sodoma, & like vnto Gomorra.
10 Heare the worde of the LORDE ye tyrauntes of Sodoma: and herken vnto
the lawe of oure God, thou people of Gomorra.
11 Why offre ye so many sacrifices vnto me? I am discontent for the
brentoffringes of wethers, and with ye fatnesse offedbeastes. I haue no pleasure
in the bloude of bullockes, lambes and gootes.
12 When ye apeare before me, who requyreth you to treade within my
porches?
13 Offre me no mo oblacions, for it is but lost laboure. I abhorre youre
incense. I maye not awaye with youre newmoones, youre Sabbathes and solempne
dayes. Youre fastinges are also in vayne.
14 I hate youre new holy dayes and fastinges, euen fro my very harte. They
make me weery, I can not abyde them.
15 Though ye holde out yor hondes, yet turne I myne eyes from you. And
though ye make many prayers, yet heare I nothinge at all, for youre hondes are
full of bloude.
16 Wash you, make you clene, put awaye yor euell thoughtes out of my
sight, cease from doinge of euell and violence.
17 Lerne to do right, applie youre selues to equyte, delyuer the
oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his right, let the wydowes complaynte come
before you.
18 Now go to (saieth the LORDE) we wil talke together. Is it not so?
Though youre synnes be as read as scarlet, shal they not be whyter then snowe?
And though they were like purple, shall they not be like whyte woll?
19 Is it not so? Yf ye be louynge & obedient, ye shal enioye the best
thinge that groweth in the londe.
20 But yf ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the
swerde: for thus the LORDE hath promised with his owne mouth.
21 How happeneth it then that the rightuous citie (which was full of
equite) is become vnfaithfull as an whore? rightuousnes dwelt in it, but now
murthur.
22 Thy Siluer is turned to drosse, and thy wyne myxte wt water.
23 Thy prynces are traytours and companyons of theues. They loue giftes
altogether, and folowe rewardes. As for the fatherles, they helpe him not to his
right, nether wil they let the wydowes causes come before them.
24 Therfore speaketh the LORDE God of hostes the mighty one of
Israel
: Ah I must ease me of myne enemies, and a venge me vpo the.
25 And therfore shal I laye my honde vpon the, and burne out thy drosse
from the fynest and purest, and put out all thy leade,
26 & set thy iudges agayne as they were somtyme, and thy Senatours as
they were from ye begynnynge. Then shalt thou be called the rightuous citie, the
faithful citie.
27 But Sion shalbe redemed with equyte, and hyr captiuyte with
rightuousnesse
28 For the transgressours and vngodly, and soch as are become vnfaithfull
vnto the LORDE, must all together be vtterly destroyed.
29 And excepte ye be ashamed of the oketrees wherin ye haue so delited,
and of the gardes that ye haue chosen:
30 ye shalbe as an oke whose leaues are fallen awaye, and as a garden that
hath no moystnesse.
31 And as for the glory of these thinges, it shalbe turned to drie strawe,
and he that made them to a sparke. And they shal both burne together, so that no
man shalbe able to quench them.
Chapter
2
1 Morouer this is the worde that was opened vnto Esaye the sonne of Amos,
vpon Iuda and Ierusalem.
2 It will be also in processe of tyme: That the hill where the the house
of the LORDE is buylded, shal be ye chefe amoge hilles, and exalted aboue al
litle hilles. And al heithe shal prease vnto him and the multitude of people
shall go vnto him,
3 speakinge thus one to another: vp, let us go to the hill of the LORDE,
and to the house of ye God of Iacob: yt he maye shewe us his waye, and yt we
maye walke in his pathes. For ye lawe shal come out of Syon, and the worde of
God from Ierusalem,
4 and shal geue sentence amonge the heithen, and shal reforme the
multitude of people: So that they shal breake their swerdes and speares, to make
sythes, sycles & sawes therof. From that tyme forth shal not one people lift
vp wapen agaynst another, nether shal they lerne to fight from thensforth.
5 It is to the that I crie (o house of Iacob) vp, let us walke in the
light of the LORDE.
6 But thou art scatred abrode with thy people (o house of Iacob) for ye go
farre beyonde yor fathers, whether it be in Sorcerers) whom ye haue as the
phylistynes had) or in calkers of mens byrthes, wherof ye haue to many.
7 As soone as youre londe was ful of syluer and golde, and no ende of
youre treasure: so soone as youre londe was ful of stronge horses and no ende of
youre charettes:
8 Inmediatly was it ful of Idols also, euen workes of youre owne hondes,
which ye youre selues haue facioned, and youre fyngers haue made.
9 There kneleth the man, there falleth the man downe before them, so yt
thou canst not bringe him awaye from thence.
10 And therfore get ye soone in to some rock, vnd hyde the in the grounde
from the sight of the fearful iudge, and from ye glory of his Magestie.
11 Which casteth downe ye high lokes of presumptuous personnes, and
bryngeth lowe the pryde of ma, and he only shall be exalted in ye daye.
12 For the daye of ye LORDE of hostes shal go ouer all pryde &
presumpcio, vpon all the that exalte the selues, and shal bringe them all downe?
13 vpo all high & stoute Cedre trees of Libanus, and vpon all the okes
of Basan,
14 vpon all high hilles, and vpon all stoute mountaynes,
15 vpon all costly towres, and vpon all stronge walles,
16 vpon all shippes of the see, and vpon euery thinge yt is glorious and
pleasaunt to loke vpon.
17 And it shall bringe downe the pryde of man, and laye mans
presumptuousnesse full lowe, and the LORDE shal only haue the victory in that
daye.
18 But the Idols shal utterly be roted out.
19 Men shal crepe in to holes of stone, and in to caues of the earth, from
the sight of the fearfull iudge, and from the glory of his magesty: what tyme as
he shal make him vp to shake the earth.
20 Then, the shal ma cast awaye his goddes of syluer and golde (which he
neuertheles had made to honoure the) vnto Molles and Backes:
21 that he maye the better crepe in to the caues and rockes, and in to the
cliffes of hard stones, from ye sight of the fearful iudge and from the glory of
his Magesty.
22 Every man can eschue a persone moued in anger, for what doth he wysely?
Chapter
3
1 Euen so shal ye LORDE of hoostes take awaye fro Ierusale & Iuda, all
possessios & power, all meat and drinke,
2 ye captayne and the soudyare, ye iudge and the prophete, the wyse and
the aged ma,
3 the worshipful of fiftie yeare olde, and the honorable: the Senatours,
and men of vnderstondinge: the masters of craftes and oratours.
4 And I shal geue you children to be youre prynces (saieth the LORDE) and
babes shall haue the rule of you.
5 One shall euer be doinge violence and wronge to another. The boye shal
presume agaynst the elder, and the vyle persone agaynst the honorable.
6 Yee one shal take a frende of his owne kynred by ye bosome, and saye:
thou hast clothinge, thou shalt be oure heade, for thou mayest kepe us from this
fall and parell.
7 Then shall he sweare and saye: I can not helpe you. Morouer, there is
nether meate ner clothinge in my house, make me no rueler of the people.
8 For Ierusalem and Iuda must decaye, because that both their wordes and
councels are agaynst the LORDE, they prouoke the presence of his magesty vnto
anger.
9 The chaunginge of their countenaunce bewrayeth them, yee they declare
their owne synnes them selues, as the Sodomites, & hyde the not. Wo be vnto
their soules, for they shalbe heuely rewarded.
10 Then shal they saye: O happie are the godly, for they maye enioye the
frutes of their studies.
11 But wo be to ye vngodly and vnrightuous for they shalbe rewarded after
their workes.
12 O my people, rybaudes oppresse ye, and women haue rule of the. O my
people, thy leders deceaue the, and treade out the waye of thy footsteppes.
13 The LORDE is here to comon of the matter, and stondeth to geue iudgment
with the people.
14 The LORDE shal come forth to reason with the Senatours and prynces of
his people, and shal saye thus vnto them: It is ye that haue burnt vp my
vynyearde, the robbery of the poore is in youre house.
15 Wherfore do ye oppresse my people, and marre ye faces of the innocentes?
thus shal the God of hoostes reuyle them.
16 Morouer thus saieth ye LORDE: Seinge the doughters of Sion are become
so proude, and come in with stretched out neckes, and with vayne wanton eyes:
seinge they come in trippinge so nycely with their fete:
17 Therfore shal the LORDE shaue the heades of the doughters of Sion, and
make their bewtie bare in that daye.
18 In that daye shal the LORDE take awaye the gorgiousnes of their
apparel, and spanges, cheynes, partlettes,
19 and colares, bracelettes and hooues,
20 ye goodly floured, wyde and broderd raymet, brusshes and headbandes,
21 rynges and garlades,
22 holy daye clothes and vales, kerchues and pynnes,
23 glasses and smockes, bonettes and taches.
24 And in steade of good smell there shalbe stynck amonge them. And for
their gyrdles there shalbe lowse bondes. And for wellset hayre there shalbe
baldnesse. In steade of a stomacher, a sack cloth, and for their bewty
wythrednesse and sonneburnynge.
25 Their husbondes and their mightie men shall perish with the swerde in batell.
26 At that tyme shall their gates mourne and complayne, and they shal syt
as desolate folck vpon the earth.
Chapter
4
1 Then shal seuen wyues take holde of one man, and saye: we will laye all
oure meat and cloothinge together in comon, only that we maye be called thy
wyues, and that this shamefull reprofe maye be take from us.
2 After that tyme shal the braunch of ye LORDE be beutiful and mightie,
and ye frute of the earth shalbe fayre and pleasaunt for those Israelites that
shall springe therof.
3 Then shall the remnaunt in Sion and the remnaunt at Ierusalem be called
holy: namely all soch as are written amonge the lyuynge at Ierusalem:
4 what tyme as the LORDE shall wash awaye the desolacion of the doughters
of Sio, ad pourge the bloude out from Ierusale, wt ye wynde of his smoke and
fyre.
5 Morouer vpon all the dwellinges of the hill of Sion and vpon their whole
congregacion, shal the LORDE prouyde a cloude and smoke by daye, and the
shyninghe of a flammynge fyre by night, for all their glory shalbe preserued.
6 And Ierusalem shall be a tabernacle for a shadowe because of hete in the
daye tyme, a place and refuge where a man maye kepe him for wether and rayne.
Chapter
5
1 Now well than, I will synge my beloued frende a songe of his vynyearde.
My beloued frende hath a vyneyearde in a very frutefull plenteous grounde.
2 This he hedged, this he walled rounde aboute, and planted it with goodly
grapes. In the myddest of it buylded he a towre, and made a wyne presse therin
And afterwarde when he loked yt it shulde bringe him grapes, it brought forth
thornes.
3 I shewe you now my cause (o ye Citysens of Ierusalem and whole Iuda:)
Iudge I praye you betwixte me: and my wynegardinge.
4 What more coude haue bene done for it, that I haue not done? Wherfore
then hath it geuen thornes, where I loked to haue had grapes of it?
5 Well, I shall tell you how I will do wt my vynyarde: I will take the
hedge from it, that it maye perish, and breake downe ye wall, that it maye be
troden vnder fote.
6 I will laye it waist, that it shall nether be twysted nor cut, but beare
thornes and breares. I wil also forbyd ye cloudes, that they shal not rayne vpon
it.
7 As for the vynyarde of the LORDE of hoostes it is the house of
Israel
, and whole Iuda his fayre plantinge. Of these he loked for equyte, but se there
is wronge: for rightuousnesse, lo, It is but misery.
8 Wo to you that ioyne one house to another, and bringe one londe so nigh
vnto another, till ye can get no more grounde. Wil ye dwell vpon the earth
alone?
9 The LORDE of hoostes rowneth me thus i myne eare: shal not many greater
and more gorgions houses be so waist, that no man shall dwell in the?
10 And ten akers of vynes shal geue but a Quarte, and xxx. bushels of sede
shal geue but thre.
11 Wo be vnto them that ryse vp early to vse them selues in dronkynnes,
and yet at night are more superfluous with wyne.
12 In whose companies are harpes and lutes, tabrettes and pipes, and wyne.
But they regarde not the worke of the LORDE, and cosidre not the operacio of his
hondes.
13 Therfore cometh my folck also in captiuyte, because they haue no
vnderstondynge. Their glory shalbe myxte with huger, and their pryde shalbe
marred for thurste.
14 Therfore gapeth hel, and openeth hyr mouth marvelous wyde: that pryde,
boostinge and wisdome, with soch as reioyse therin, maye descende in to it.
15 Thus shal man haue a fall, he shalbe brought lowe, and the high lokes
of the proude layde downe.
16 But the LORDE of hoostes, yt holy God: shalbe exalted and vntouched,
when he shal declare his equyte and rightuousnesse after this maner.
17 Then shal ye lambes eate their apoynted foder, and shal fede
plenteously in the mountaynes
18 Wo vnto vayne persones, that drawe wickednes vnto the, as it were with
a coorde: and synne, as it were with a cart rope.
19 Which vse to speake on this maner: let him make haist now, and go forth
wt his worke, that we maye se it. Let the councel of ye holy one of
Israel
come, and drawe nie, yt we maye knowe it.
20 Wo vnto them that call euel good, and good euel: which make
darcknesselight, & light darcknesse, yt make sower swete, and swete sower.
21 Wo vnto them that are wyse in their owne sight, and thinke them selues
to haue vnderstodinge.
22 Wo vnto them, yt are connynge men to suppe out wyne, and experte to set
vp drokenesse.
23 These gyue sentence with the vngodly for rewardes, but condemne the
iust cause of the rightuous.
24 Therfore, like as fyre licketh vp the strawe, and as the flame cosumeth
the stubble: Euen so (when their root is ful,) their blossome shal vanish awaye
like dust or smoke. for they despyse the lawe of the LORDE of hoostes, and
blaspheme the worde of the holy maker of
Israel
.
25 Therfore is the wrath of the LORDE kyndled also agaynst his people, and
he shaketh his honde at them: yee he shal smyte so, that the hilles shal
tremble. And their carcases shal lye in the ope stretes, like myre. After all
this, the wrath of God shall not ceasse, but he shal stretch his hode wyder.
26 And he shal gyue a toke vnto a straunge people, and call vnto them in a
farre countre: and beholde, they shal come hastely with spede.
27 There is not one faynt nor feble amonge them, no not a slogish nor
slepery parsone. There shal not one of them put of the gyrdle from his loynes,
ner lowse the lachet of his shue.
28 Their arowes are sharpe, and their bowes bent. Their horse hoofes are
like flynt, and their cartwheles like a stormy wynde.
29 Their crie is as it were of a lyon, and the roaringe of them like
lyons
whelpes. They shal roare, and hatch vp the praye, and no man shal recouer it or
get it from the.
30 In that daye they shalbe so fearce vpon them, as the see. And yf we
loke vnto the londe, beholde, it shalbe all darcknesse and sorowe. Yf we loke to
heauen: beholde, it shalbe darck with careful desperacion.
Chapter
6
1 In the same yeare yt kynge Osias dyed, I sawe the LORDE sittinge vpon an
high and glorious seate, and his trayne fylled ye palace.
2 From aboue flakred the Seraphins, wherof euery one had sex wynges. With
twayne ech couered his face, wt twayne his fete, and with twayne dyd he flye.
3 They cried also ech one to other on this maner: holy, holy, holy is the
LORDE of hoostes. The whole worlde is ful of his glory.
4 Yee the geastes and dorechekes moued at their crienge, and the house was
ful of smoke.
5 Then I sayde: O wo is me. For I was astonished: that I (which am a man
of vnclene lippes, and dwell amonge people yt hath vnclene lippes also:) Shulde
se ye Kynge and LORDE of hoostes with myne eyes.
6 Then flewe one of the Seraphins vnto me, hauinge a hote cole in his
honde, which he had taken from the aulter with the tonges,
7 and touched my mouth, and sayde: lo, this hath touched thy mouth, &
thy vnrightouousnes is taken a waye, and thy synne forgeuen.
8 After this I herde the voyce of the LORDE takinge advysement on this
maner: Whom shall I sende, and who wilbe oure messaunger? The I sayde: here am
I, sende me.
9 And so he sayde: go, and tel this people: ye shall heare in dede, but ye
shal not vnderstonde, ye shal planely se, and not perceaue.
10 Harden the harte of this people, stoppe their eares, and shut their
eyes, that they se not wt their eyes, heare not with their eares, and
vnderstonde not with their hartes, and conuerte and be healed.
11 Then spake I: LORDE, how longe? he answered: vntil the cities be
vtterly without inhabitours, and ye houses without men, till the lode be also
desolate, and lye vnbuylded.
12 For the LORDE shal take the men farre awaye, so that the londe shall
lye waist
13 Neuertheles, the tenth parte shal remayne therin, for it shal conuerte
and be fruteful. And likewise as the Terebyntes and Oketrees bringe forth their
frutes, so shal the holy sede haue frute.
Chapter
7
1 It happened in the tyme of Ahas the sonne of Ionathas, which was the
sonne of Ioathan Kynge of Iuda: that Rezin the Kinge of Siria, and Poca Romelies
sonne, Kynge of Israel: wente vp toward Ierusalem to besege it (but wanne it
not.)
2 Now when the house of Dauid (that is Ahas) herde worde therof, yt Siria
and Ephraim were confederate together: his herte quaked (yee and ye hertes also
of his people) like as a tre in the felde, that is moued with the wynde.
3 Then sayde God vnto Esay: go mete Ahas (thou and thy sonne Sear Iasub)
at the heade of ye ouer pole, in the fote path by the fullers grounde,
4 and saye vnto him: take hede to thyself and be still, but feare not,
nether be faynt harted, for these two tales: that is: for these two smokynge
fyre brandes, the wrath and furiousnes of Rezin the Sirian and Romelies sonne:
5 because that the Kynge of Siria Ephraim and Romelies sonne haue wekedly
conspyred agaynst the,
6 sayenge: We will go downe in to Iuda, vexe the, and brynge them vnder vs,
and set a Kynge there, euen the sonne of Taball.
7 For thus saieth the LORDE God ther to, It shall not so go forth, nether
come so to passe:
8 for the headcitie of ye Sirians is Damascus, but the head of Damascus is
Rezin. And after fyue and threscore yeare, shal Ephraim be nomore a people.
9 And the chefe citie of Ephraim is
Samaria
, but the head of
Samaria
is Romelies sonne. And yf ye beleue not, there shall no promyse be kepte with
you.
10 Morouer, God spake vnto Ahas, sayenge:
11 requyre a token of the LORDE thy God, whether it be towarde the depth
beneth or towarde ye hight aboue.
12 The sayde Ahas: I will requyre none, nether will I tempte the LORDE.
13 The LORDE answered: Then heare to, ye of the house of Dauid: Is it not
ynough for you, that ye be greuous vnto men, but ye must greue my God also?
14 And therfore the LORDE shal geue you a token of himself: Beholde, a
virgin shal coceaue and beare a sonne, and shal call his name Emanuel.
15 Butter and hony shal he eate, yt he maye knowe the euel, and chose ye
good.
16 But or euer that childe come to knowlege, to eschue the euel and chose
the good: The londe (that thou art so afrayde for) shalbe desolate of both hir
kynges.
17 The LORDE also shal sende a tyme vpon the, vpon thy people, and vpo thy
fathers house (soch as neuer came sence the tyme yt Ephraim departed from Iuda)
thorow ye kynge of the Assirians.
18 For at the same tyme shal the LORDE whistle for the flyes yt are aboute
the water of Egipte, and for ye Beyes in the Assirians londe.
19 These shall come, and shal light all in the valeyes, in ye vowtes of
stone, vpon all grene thinges, and in all corners.
20 At the same tyme shal the LORDE shaue the hayre of the heade and the
fete and the beerd clene of, with the rasoure that he shall paye them withall
beyonde the water: namely, with ye kynge of the Assirians.
21 At the same tyme shall a man lyue with a cowe, and two shepe.
22 Then because of the aboundaunce of mylck, he shal make butter and eat
it. So that euery one which remayneth in the londe, shal eate butter and hony.
23 At the same tyme all vynyardes (though there be a thousand vynes in
one, and were solde for a thousand siluerlinges) shalbe turned to brears and
thornes.
24 Like as they shal come in to the londe with arowes and bowes, so shal
all the londe become brears and thornes.
25 And as for all hilles that now are hewen downe, thou shalt not come vpo
them, for feare of brears and thornes. But the catel shalbe dryuen thither, and
the shepe shal fede there.
Chapter
8
1 Morouer the LORDE sayde vnto me: Take the a greate leaf, and wryte in
it, as men do with a penne, that he spede him to robbe, and haist him to spoyle.
2 And Inmediatly I called vnto me faithful wytnesses: Vrias the prest, and
Zacharias ye sonne of Barachias.
3 After that went I vnto the prophetisse, that now had conceaued and borne
a sonne. Then sayde the LORDE to me: geue him this name: Maherschalal haschbas,
that is: a spedie robber, an hastie spoyler.
4 For why, or euer the childe shal haue knowlege to saye: Abi and Im, yt
is father, and mother: shal ye riches of
Damascus
and ye substaunce of
Samaria
be take awaye, thorow the Kynge of ye Assirians.
5 The LORDE spake also vnto me, sayenge:
6 for so moch as the people refuseth the stilrenninge water of Silo, and
put their delite in Rezin and Romelies sonne:
7 Beholde, the LORDE shal bringe mightie and great floudes of water vpon
them: namely, ye kynge of the Assirians with all his power. Which shall poure
out his furyousnes vpo euery man, and renne ouer all their bankes.
8 And shal breake in vpon Iuda, increasinge in power, till he get him by
the throte. He shal fyl also the wydenesse of thy londe wt his brode wynges, O
Emanuel.
9 Go together ye people, and gather you, herken to all ye of farre
countrees. Mustre you, and gather you: mustre you and gather you,
10 take youre councel together, yet must youre councel come to nought: go
in honde withal, yet shal it not prospere. Excepte Emanuel: (that is God) be
with
11 For the LORDE chastised me, and toke me by ye honde, and warned me,
sayenge vnto me: that I shulde not walcke in the waye of this people. He sayde
morouer:
12 rounde with none of the, who so euer saye: yonder people are bounde
together. Neuertheles feare them not, nether be afrayde of them,
13 but sanctifie the LORDE of hoostes, let him be youre feare and drede.
14 For he is the sanctifienge, and stone to stomble at, ye rock to fall
vpon, a snare and net to both the houses: to
Israel
, and the inhabitours of Ierusalem.
15 And many shal stomble, fall, and be broke vpon him: yee they shalbe
snared and taken.
16 Now laye the witnesses together (sayde the LORDE) and seale the lawe
with my disciples.
17 Thus I waite vpon the LORDE, that hath turned his face from the house
of Iacob, and I loke vnto him.
18 But lo, as for me, and the children which the LORDE hath geuen me: we
are a token and a wondre in
Israel
, for the LORDE of hoostes sake, which dwelleth vpon the hill of Syon.
19 And therfore yf they saye vnto you: aske councel at the soythsayers,
witches, charmers and coniurers, then make them this answere: Is there a people
enywhere, that axeth not councel at his God: whether it be concernynge the dead,
or the lyuynge?
20 Yf eny man want light, let him loke vpon the lawe and the testimony,
whether they speake not after this meanynge.
21 Yf he do not this, he stombleth and suffreth huger. And yf he suffre
honger, he is out of pacience, and blasphemeth his kynge and his God. Then
loketh he vpwarde, and downewarde to the earth,
22 and beholde, there is trouble and darcknesse, vexacion is rounde aboute
him, and the cloude of erroure And out of soch aduersite, shall he not escape.
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1 Even like as in tyme past it hath bene well sene, that ye londe of
Zabulon and the londe of Nepthali (where thorow the see waye goeth ouer Iordane
in to the londe of
Galilee
) was at the first in litle trouble, but afterward sore vexed.
2 Neuertheles ye people that haue dwelt in darcknesse, shal se a greate
light. As for them that dwel in the londe of the shadowe of death, vpon them
shal the light shyne.
3 Shalt thou multiplie the people, and not increase the ioye also? They
shal reioyse before the euen as men make mery in haruest, and as men that haue
gotten the victory, when they deale the spoyle.
4 For thou shalt breake the yocke of the peoples burthen: the staff of hys
shulder, and the rod of his oppressoure, as in ye daye at Madia.
5 Morouer all temerarious and sedicious power (yee where there is but a
cote fyled wt bloude) shalbe burnt, and fede the fyre.
6 For vnto us a childe shalbe borne, and vnto us a sonne shalbe geue. Vpo
his shulder shal the kyngdome lye, and he shalbe called wt his owne name: The
woderous geuer of councel, the mightie God, the euerlastinge father, the prynce
of peace,
7 he shal make no ende to encrease the kyngdome and peace, and shal syt
vpon the seate of Dauid and in his kyngdome, to set vp the same, to stablish it
with equyte and rightuousnesse, from thence forth for euermore. This shal the
gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe.
8 The LORDE sent a worde in to Iacob, the same is come in to
Israel
.
9 All the people also of Ephraim, and they that dwel in
Samaria
, can saye with pryde and hie stomackes, on this maner:
10 The tyle worcke is fallen downe, but we will buylde it with harder
stones. The Molbery tymbre ys broken, but we shal set it vp agayne with Cedre.
11 Neuertheles, the LORDE shal prepare Rezin the enemie agaynst the, and
so ordre their aduersaries,
12 that ye Sirians shal laye holde vpon them before, and the Philistynes
behynde, and so deuoure
Israel
with open mouth. After all this, the wrath of the LORDE shal not ceasse, but
yet his hande shable stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not vnto him, that chastiseth them, nether do
they seke the LORDE of hoostes.
14 Therfore the LORDE shal rote out of
Israel
both heade and tale, braunch and twygge in one daye.
15 By the heade, is vnderstonde the Senatoure and honorable man, and by ye
tale, the prophet that preacheth lyes.
16 For all they which enfourme the people that they be in a right case,
soch be disceauers. Soch as men thynke also to be perfecte amonge these, are but
cast awaye.
17 Therfore shal the LORDE haue no pleasure in their yonge me, nether
fauoure their fatherlesse and wydowes. For thei are altogether ypocrites and
wicked, and all their mouthes speake foly. After all this shal not the LORDEs
wrath ceasse, but yet his honde shalbe stretched out still.
18 For the vngodly burne, as a fyre in the bryers and thornes: And as it
were out of a fyre in a wod or a redebush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pryde.
19 For this cause shal ye wrath of the LORDE of hoostes fall vpon the
londe, and the people shalbe consumed, as it were with fyre, no man shal spare
his brother.
20 Yf a man do turne him to the right honde, he shal famesh, or to the
lefte hande to eat, he shal not haue ynough. Euery man shal eate the flesh of
his owne arme:
21 Manasses shal eate Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they both shal
eate Iuda. After all this shal not the LORDES wrath ceasse, but yet shal his
honde be stretched out still.
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1 Wo be vnto you yt make vnrightuous lawes, and devyse thinges, which be
to harde for to kepe:
2 wherthorow the poore are oppressed, on euery syde, and the innocetes of
my people are there with robbed of iudgment: that wyddowes maye be youre praye,
and that ye maye robbe the fatherlesse.
3 What will ye do in tyme of the visitacion and destruction, that shal
come from farre? To whom will ye renne for helpe? or to whom will ye geue youre
honoure, that he maye kepe it?
4 that ye come not amonge the presoners, or lye amonge the deed? After
all this shal not the wrath of the LORDE ceasse, but yet shal his honde be
stretched out still.
5 Wo be also vnto Assur, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose honde is
the rod of my punyshment.
6 For I shal sende him amonge those ypocritish poeple, amonge the people
that haue deserued my disfauoure shal I send him: that he maye utterly robbe
them, spoyle them, and treade them downe like the myre in the strete.
7 Howbeit his meanynge is not so, nether thinketh his harte of this
fashion. But he ymagineth only, how he maye ouerthrowe and destroye moch people,
8 for he saieth: are not my princes all kynges?
9 Is not Calno as easie to wynne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquere
Antiochia then Arphad? Or is it lighter to ouercome
Damascus
the Samaria?
10 As who say: I were able to wynne the kingdome of the Idolaters and
their goddes, but not Ierusalem and
Samaria
.
11 Shal I not do vnto Ierusalem and their ymages, as I dyd vnto
Samaria
and their ymages?
12 Wherfore the LORDE saieth: As soone as I haue perfourmed my whole
worcke vpon the Hyl of Syon and Ierusalem: the will I also vyset the noble and
stoute kynge of Assiria, with his wysdome and pryde.
13 For he stondeth thus in his owne coceate: This do I, thorow the power
of myne owne honde, and thorow my wisdome: For I am wyse, I am he that remoue
the londes of the people, I robbe their prynces: and (like one of the worthies)
I dryue them from their hie seates.
14 My honde hath founde out the hoostes of the people, as it were a nest.
And like as egges, that were layde here and there, are gathered together: So do
I gather all countrees. And there is no man, yt darre be so bolde, as to touch a
fether, that darre open his mouth, or once whisper.
15 But doth the axe boost itself, agaynst him yt heweth therwith, or doth
the sawe make eny krakinge, agaynst him that ruleth it? That were euen like, as
yf the rod dyd exalte it self agaynst him, that beareth it: or as though ye
staff shulde magnifie it self, as who saye: it were no wodd.
16 Therfore shal the LORDE of hoostes sende him pouerte in his riches,
and burne vp his power, as it were with a fyre.
17 But the light of
Israel
shalbe yt fyre, and his Sanctuary shalbe the flame, and it shal kyndle, and
burne vp his thornes and breyers in one daye,
18 yee all the glory of his woddes and feldes shalbe consumed with body
and soule. As for him self, he shalbe as one chased awaye.
19 The trees also of his felde shalbe of soch a nombre, that a childe
maye tell them.
20 After yt daye shal the remnaunt of Israel, and soch as are escaped out
of the house of Iacob, seke no more coforte at him that smote them, but shal
conforte them selues with faithfulnesse and treuth in the LORDE, the holy, one
of Israel.
21 The remnaunt, yee and the Posteryte of Iacob, shal couerte vnto God
the mighty one
22 For though thy people (o
Israel
) be as the sonde of the see, yet shal but the remnaunt of them only conuerte
vnto him. Perfecte is the iudgmet of him that floweth in rightuousnesse:
23 and therfore ye LORDE of hoostes shal perfectly fulfil the thinge,
that he hath determyned in the myddest of the whole worlde.
24 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes: Thou my people, that
dwellest in Sion, be not afrayde for the kinge of the Assirians: He shal wagg
his staff at the, yee and beate the with the rodd, as the Egiptias dyd sometyme:
25 But soone after, shal my wrath and my indignacion be fulfylled agaynst
their blasphemies.
26 Morouer the LORDE of hoostes shal prepare a scourge for him, like as
was the punyshmet of Madia vpo ye mount of Oreb. And he shal lift vp his rod
ouer the see, as he dyd somtyme ouer the Egiptians.
27 Then shal his burthen be taken from thy shulders, and his yock from
thy neck, yee the same yock shal corrupte for very fatnesse.
28 He shal come to Aiath, and go thorow toward Migron. But at Machnias
shal he muster his hooste,
29 and go ouer ye foorde. Gaba shalbe their restinge place, Rhama shalbe
afrayde, Gabea Saul shal fle awaye.
30 The voyce of ye noyse of thy horses (o doughter Gallim) shalbe herde
vnto lais and to Anathoth, which also shalbe in trouble.
31 Madmena shal tremble for feare, but the citesyns of Gabim are maly,
32 yet shal he remayne at Nob that daye. After that, shal he lift vp his
honde agaynst the
mount
Sion
, and agaynst the hill of Ierusalem.
33 But se, the LORde God of hoostes shal take awaye the proude from
thence, wt feare. He shal hew downe the proude, and fel the hie mynded.
34 The thornes of the wod shal be rooted out wt yron, and Libanus shal
haue a mightie fal.
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1 After this there shal come a rod forth of ye Kynrede of Iesse, and a
blossome out of his rote.
2 The sprete of the LORDE shal light vpon it: the sprete of wysdome, and
vnderstondinge: the sprete of councel, and strength: ye sprete of knowlege, and
of the feare of God:
3 and shal make him feruent in the feare of God. For he shal not geue
sentece, after the thinge yt shal be brought before his eies, nether reproue a
matter at the first hearinge:
4 but with rightousnesse shal he iudge the poore, and with holynes shal
he refourme the symple of the worlde. He shal smyte ye worlde with ye staff of
his mouth, & with ye breath of his mouth shal he slaye the wicked.
5 Rightuousnesse shalbe the gyrdle of his loynes, treuth and
faithfulnesse the gyrdinge vp of his raynes.
6 The shal ye wolfe dwel with the
labe
, and the leoparde shal lye downe by the gote. Bullokes,
lyons
and catel shal kepe company together, so that a litle childe shal dryue them
forth.
7 The cowe and the Bere shal fede together, and their yongones shal lye
together. The lyo shal eate strawe like the oxe, or the cowe.
8 The childe whyle he sucketh, shal haue a desyre to the serpentes nest,
and whe he is weened, he shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne.
9 Noman shal do euel to another, no man shal destro another, in all the
hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shalbe ful of ye knowlege of ye LORDE, euen
as though the water of the see flowed ouer the earth.
10 Then shal the Gentiles enquere after the rote of Iesse (which shalbe
set vp for a token vnto the Gentiles) for his dwellinge shalbe glorious.
11 At the same tyme shal the LORDE take in honde agayne, to conquere ye
remnaunt of his people (which are lefft alyue) From the Assirias, Egiptians,
Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Caldeyes, Antiochias and Ilodes of the see.
12 And he shal set vp a toke amonge the Gentiles, and gather together ye
dispersed of Israel, yee and the outcastes of Iuda from the foure corners of ye
worlde.
13 The hatred of Ephraim, and ye enmyte of Iuda shalbe clene rooted out.
Ephraim shal beare no euel wil to Iuda, and Iuda shal not hate Ephraim:
14 but they both together shal flye vpo the shulders of the Philistynes
toward the West, and spoyle them together that dwell toward the East. The
Idumytes and the Moabites shal let their hodes fall, and the Ammonites shalbe
obedient vnto them.
15 The LORDE also shal cleue the tunges of the Egipcias see, and with a
mightie wynde shal he lift vp his honde ouer Nilus, and shal smyte his seue
streames and make men go ouer drye shod.
16 And thus shal he make a waye for his people, yt remayneth from the
Assirians, like as it happened to ye Israelites, what tyme they departed out of
the londe of Egipte.
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1 So that then thou shalt saye: O LORDE, I thanke the, for thou wast
displeased at me, but thou hast refrayned thy wrath, and hast mercy vpon me.
2 Beholde, God is my health, in whom I trust, and am not afrayde. For the
LORDE God is my strength, and my prayse, he also shalbe my refuge.
3 Therfore with ioye shal ye drawe water out of the welles of the Sauioure,
4 and then shal ye saye: Let vs geue thankes vnto the lorde, and call
vpon his name, and declare his councels amonge the people, and kepe them in
remembraunce, for his name is excellet.
5 O synge praises vnto the LORDE, for he doth greate thinges, as it is
knowne in all the worlde.
6 Crie out, and be glad, thou that dwellest in Sion, for greate is thy
prince: the holy one of
Israel
.
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1 This is ye heuy burthe of Babilo, which Esaye the sonne of Amos dyd se.
2 Make some tokes to the hie hilles, call vnto them, holde vp youre hode,
that the prynces maye go in at the dore.
3 For I will sende for my debites and my gyautes (sayeth the LORDE) and
in my wrath I will call for soch, as tryumphe in my glory.
4 With that, me thought I herde in the moutaynes, a noyse, like as it had
bene of a greate people: and a russhinge, as though the kyngdomes of all nacions
had come together. (And the LORDE of hoostes was the captayne of the whole armye.)
5 As they had come not only out of farre countrees, but also from the
endes of the heaues: Eue the LORDE himself with the ministers of his wrath, to
destroye the whole lode.
6 Mourne therfore, for the daye of the LORDE is at honde, and commeth as
a destroyer from ye allmighty.
7 Then shall all hondes be letten downe, and all mens hertes shal melt awaie,
8 they shal stonde in feare, carefulnesse and sorowe shal come vpo them,
and they shal haue payne, as a woman that traueleth with childe. One shall euer
be abasshed of another, & their faces shal burne, like ye flame.
9 For lo, the daye of the LORDE shall come, terrible, full of indignacion
and wrath: to make the londe waist, and to root out the synne therof.
10 For the starres and planetes of heauen shal not geue their light, the
Sonne shalbe quenched in the rysinge, and the Mone shal not shyne with his
light.
11 And I wil punysh the wickednesse of the worlde, & the synnes of
the vngodly, sayeth the LORDE. The hye stomackes of the proude will I take awaye,
and will laye downe the boostinge of tyrauntes.
12 I will make a man dearer the fyne golde, and a man to be more worth,
the a golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Morouer, I will so shake the heaue, that the earth shall remo out of
hir place. Thus shall it go wt Babilon, in the wrath of the LORDE of hoostes in
ye daye of his fearfull indignacio.
14 And Babilon shalbe as an hunted or chased doo, and as a flocke wt out
a shepherde. Euery ma shal turne to his owne people, & fle echone into his
owne londe.
15 Who so is founde alone, shalbe shot thorow: And who so gather
together, shalbe destroyed wt the swerde.
16 Their children shalbe slayne before their eyes, their houses spoyled,
& their wyues rauyshed.
17 For lo, I shall bringe vp ye Medes agaynst the, which shal not regarde
syluer, nor be desyrous of golde.
18 Then shall yonge mens bowes be knapped asunder. The Medes shal haue no
pitie vpo wome wt childe, & their faces shall not spare ye childre.
19 And Babilo (yt glory of kigdomes and bewtie of the Caldees honor)
shalbe destroyed, eue as God destroyed Sodom & Gomorra.
20 It shal neuer be more inhabited, nether shal there be eny more
dwellinge there, from generacion to generacion. The Arabians shall make no mo
tentes there, nether shall the shepardes make their foldes there eny more:
21 but wylde beastes shal lie there, & ye houses shalbe full of
greate Oules. Estriches shal dwell there, & Apes shal daunse there:
22 The litle Oules shall crie in the palaces, one after another, &
Dragos shalbe in the pleasaut perlours. And as for Babilons tyme, it is at honde,
& hir dayes maye not be longe absent.
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1 Bvt ye LORDE wilbe mercyfull vnto Iacob, & wyll take vp
Israel
agayne, & set the in their owne lode. Straugers shal cleue vnto the, &
get the to ye house of Iacob.
2 They shal take ye people, & cary the home wt the. And ye house of
Israel
shal haue the in possession, for seruautes & maydes in ye lode of ye LORDE.
They shal take those prisoners, whose captyues they had bene afore: & rule
those, yt had oppressed the.
3 When ye LORDE now shal bringe ye to rest, fro ye trauayle, feare, &
harde bondage yt thou wast laden withall:
4 then shalt thou vse this mockage vpon ye kinge of Babilon, & saye:
How happeneth it yt ye oppressour leaueth of? It ye golden tribute come to an
ende?
5 Doutles the LORDE hath broken the staff of the vngodly, & the
cepter of ye lordly.
6 Which whe he is wroth, smyteth ye people wt durable strokes, & in
his woders he persecuteth the, & tameth the cotinually.
7 And therfore ye whole worlde is now at rest and quyetnesse, & men
synge for ioye.
8 Yee euen the Fyrre trees and Cedres of Libanus reioyse at thy fall,
sayenge: Now yt thou art layde downe, there come no mo vp to destroye vs.
9 Hell also trembleth at thy commynge, All mightie men and prynces of the
earth, steppe forth before the. All kynges of the earth stonde vp fro their
seates,
10 that they maye all (one after another) synge and speake vnto the. Art
thou wounded also as we? art thou become like vnto vs?
11 Thy pompe and thy pryde is gone downe to hell: Mothes shalbe layde
vnder the, & wormes shalbe thy coueringe.
12 How art thou fallen from heauen (o Lucifer) thou faire mornige childe?
hast thou gotten a fall euen to the grounde, thou that (notwithstondinge)
dyddest subdue the people?
13 And yet thou thoughtest in thine harte: I will clymme vp in to heauen,
and make my seate aboue the starres of God, I wyll syt vpon the glorious mount
toward the North,
14 I wyll clymme vp aboue the cloudes, & wilbe like the highest of
all.
15 Yet darre I laye, yt thou shalt be brought downe to the depe of hell.
16 They that se the, shal narowly loke vpo the, and thinke in them selues,
sayenge: Is this the man, that brought all londes in feare, and made ye
kingdomes afrayde:
17 Is this he that made the worlde in a maner waist, & and layde the
cities to the grounde, which let not his prisoners go home?
18 How happeneth it, that the kynges of all people lie, euery one at home
in his owne palace, with worshipe,
19 and thou art cast out of thy graue like a wilde braunch: like as dead
mens rayment that are shott thorow with the swerde: as they that go downe to the
stones of the depe: as a dead coarse that is troden vnder fete:
20 and art not buried wt them? Euen because that thou hast waisted thy
lode, and destroyed thy people. For the generacion of the wicked shalbe without
honor, for euer.
21 There shal a waye be sought to destroye their childre, for their
fathers wickednes: they shal not come vp agayne to possesse the londe, and fyll
the worlde ful of castels and townes.
22 I wil stonde vp agaynst them (sayeth the LORDE of hoostes) and root
out ye name and generacion of Babilon (saieth the LORDE)
23 & wil geue it to the Otters, and wil make water poddels of it. And
I wil swepe them out with the besome of destruccion, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.
24 The LORDE of hoostes hath sworne an ooth, sayege: It shal come to
passe as I haue determined: & shalbe fulfilled as I haue deuysed.
25 The Assirians shalbe destroyed in my londe, and vpon my mountaytaines
wyll I treade them vnder fote. Wherthorow his yocke shall come from you, &
his burthen shalbe taken from youre shulders.
26 This deuyce hath God taken thorow the whole worlde, and thu s is his
honde stretched out ouer all people.
27 For yf the LORDE of hoostes determe a thinge, who wyl dysanulle it?
And yf he stretch forth his honde, who wil holde it in agayne?
28 The same yeare that kynge Achas dyed, God threatned by Esay on this maner:
29 Reioyse not (thou whole Palestina) as though ye rod of him yt beateth
the were broken: For out of ye serpentes rote, there shal waxe a kockatrice,
& the frute shalbe a fyrie worme.
30 But the poore shall fede of the best thinges, and the symple shal
dwell in safetie. Thy rotes wil I destroye wt honger, and it shall slaye yi
remnaunt.
31 Mourne ye portes, wepe ye Cities And feare thou (o whole Palestina)
for there shal come fro the North a smoke, whose power no man maye abyde.
32 Who shall then maynteyne the messages of the Gentyles? But the LORDE
stablisheth Syon, & the poore of my people shall put their trust in him.
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1 This is ye heuy burthe vpo Moab: Ar of Moab was destroyed (as me
thought) in the night season: The walles of Moab perished in the night, &
vanished awaye:
2 They wete to Baith and Dibon in the hie places, for to wepe: Moab did
mourne fro Nebo to Medba: All their heades were colled, and al their beardes
shauen.
3 In their stretes were they gyrded aboute with sack cloth. In all the
toppes of their houses & stretes was there nothinge, but mournynge and
wepinge.
4 Hesebon and Eleale cried, that their voyce was herde vnto Iahaz. The
worthies also of
Moab
bleared and cried for very sorow of their myndes:
5 Wo is my hert for
Moabs
sake. They fled vnto the cite of Zoar, which is like a fayre fruteful bullock,
they went vp to Luhith, wepinge. The waye toward Horonaim was ful of lamentacion
for ye hurte.
6 The waters of Nimrim were dried vp, the
grasse
was wythred, the herbes destroyed, & what necessary grene thinge there was
besyde.
7 In like maner the thinge yt was left them of their substaunce, they
caried it by water to Araby.
8 The crie went ouer the whole londe of
Moab
: from Eglaim vnto Beer, was there nothinge but mouanynge.
9 The waters of Dimon were full of bloude, for ye enemie had sent thither
a bonde of men, which as a
lyon
, layde waite foe the remnaunt of the londe, and for them yt were escaped.
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1 Then sent the lordes of the lode a ma of warre, from the rocke that
lieth toward the deserte, vnto the hill of the doughter Sion
2 (For as for the doughters of Moab, they were as it had bene a
trymblinge byrde, yt is put out of hir nest, by the fery of Arnon) which
messaunger sayde:
3 gather youre councel, come together, couer vs with youre shadowe in the
myddaye, as the night doth: hyde the chased, & bewraye not the that are
fled,
4 let the persecuted Moabites dwel amoge you, be oure open refuge agaynst
the destroyer: for the aduersary oppresseth vs, the robber vndoeth vs, & the
tyraunte dryueth vs out of oure londe.
5 But ye Trone of youre kingdome is ful of grace, therfore he that
sytteth vpon it wt faitfulnesse & treuth in the house of Dauid, knowe the
thinge & do his diligence to helpe shortly, acordinge to Equite and
rightuousnes.
6 As for
Moabs
pride (shal they answere) it is wel knowne. And all though they be excellent,
proude, arrogant, & hie mynded: yet is their strength nothinge like.
7 And therfore
Moab
complayneth vnto
Moab
, wherthorow they come all to mourne: & now yt they be smytten, they take
their deuyce beneth by the bryck wall, and make their coplaynte.
8 The suburbes also of Hesebon were made waist, & the princes of the
Gentyles hewed downe ye vynyardes of Sibma, which were planted with noble
grapes, and spred vnto Iazer, and went vnto the ende of the deserte, whose
braunches stretched their selues forth beyonde the see.
9 Therfore I mourned for Iazer, & for ye vynyardes of Sibma wt greate
sorow. I poured my teares vpon Hesebon & Eleale, for all their songes were
layde downe, in their haruest & gatheringe of their grapes:
10 Myrth and chere was gone out of ye felde & vynyardes, in so moch,
that no man was glad ner sunge. There wete no treader in to the wynepresse,
their mery chere was layde downe.
11 Wherfore my bely robled (as it had bene a lute) for
Moabs
sake, & myne inwarde membres, for the bryck walles sake.
12 For it happened thus also: whe
Moab
sawe that she was turned vp syde downe: she went vp an hie in to hir sanctuary,
to make hir prayer there, but she might not be helped.
13 This is the deuyce, which the LORDE toke in honde at that tyme agaynst
Moab
.
14 But now the LORDE sayeth thus: In thre yeare shal ye power of
Moab
wt their pope (which is greate) be minished, like as ye burthe of an hyred
seruaunte: And as for ye remnaunt of them, they shalbe lesse then a fewe, and
not rekened moch worth.
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1 This is the heuy burthe vpo
Damascus
: Beholde,
Damascus
shal be nomore a cite, but an heape of broken stones.
2 The cities of Aroer shalbe waist, The catel shal lie there, & noma
shal fraye the awaye.
3 Ephraim shal no more be stroge, &
Damascus
shal nomore be a kyngdome. And as for ye glory of ye remnaunt of ye Sirians, it
shalbe as the glory of the childre of
Israel
, saieth ye LORDE of hoostes.
4 At that tyme also shal ye glory of Iacob be very poore, & his
fatnes leane.
5 It shal happe to the, as when one sheareth in haruest, which cutteth
his handful wt the sickle, & when one gathreth ye sheaues together in the
valley, of Rephaim,
6 there remayneth yet some ears ouer. Or as whe one shaketh an olyue tre,
which fyndeth but two or thre olyue beries aboue in the toppe, and foure or fyue
in the braunches. Thus the LORDE God of Israel hath spoken.
7 Then shal man couerte agayne vnto his maker, & turne his eyes to
the holy one of
Israel
8 And shal not turne to the aulters that are ye worke of his owne hodes,
nether shal he loke vpon groaues & ymages, which his fyngers haue wrought.
9 At the same tyme shal their stronge cities be desolate, like as were
once ye forsake plowes & corne, which they forsoke, for feare of ye children
of
Israel
.
10 So shalt thou (o Damascus) be desolate, because thou hast forgotte God
yi Sauioure, & hast not called to remebraunce ye rock of thi stregth,
Wherfore thou hast also set a fayre plate, & grafted a straunge braunch.
11 In the daye when thou diddest plante it, it was greate, and gaue soone
the frute of thi sede: But in the daye of haruest, thou shalt reape an heape of
sorowes & miseries.
12 Wo be to the multitude of moch people, that russh in like the see, and
to the heape of folke, that renne ouer all like greate waters.
13 For though so many people increase as the flowinge waters, and though
they be armed, yet they fle farre of, and vanish awaye like the dust with the
wynde vpon an hill, and as the whyrle wynde thorow a storme.
14 Though they be fearful at night, yet in the morninge it is gone with
the, This is their porcion, that do vs harme, and heretage of them, that robbe
vs.
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1 Wo be to the londe of flienge shippes, which is of this syde ye floude
of Ethiopia:
2 which sendeth hir message ouer the see in shippes of redes vpo ye
water, and sayeth: go soone, and do yor message vnto a straunge and harde folke:
to a fearful people, & to a people yt is further then this: to a desperate
and pylled folke, whose londe is deuyded from vs with ryuers of water.
3 Yee all ye yt syt in the compasse of the worlde, and dwell vpon the
earth: when the token shalbe geuen vpo the mountaynes, then loke vp: and when
the horne bloweth, then herken to,
4 for thus hath ye LORDE sayde vnto me. I layde me downe, and pondred the
matter in my house, at the noone daye when it was hote: and there fel a myslinge
shower, like a dew, as it happeneth in haruest.
5 But the frutes, were not yet ripe cut of, and the grapes were but yonge
and grene. Then one smote of the grapes with an hoke, yee he hewed downe also
the buwes and the braunches, & dyd cast the awaye.
6 And thus they were layde waist, for the foules of the mountaynes, and
for ye beastes of the earth together. So yt the foules sat ther vpon, and the
beastes of the earth wyntered there.
7 Then shal there be a present brought vnto the LORDE of hoostes: euen
that harde folke, that fearful folke, and that further is the this: yt desperate
and pylled folke (whose londe is deuyded from vs with floudes of water) vnto the
place of the name of the LORDE of hoostes: euen vnto the hill of Sion.
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1 This is the heuy burthen vpon Egipte: Beholde, the LORDE wil ryde vpon
a swifte cloude, and come in to Egipte. And the goddes of Egipte shal trymble at
his comynge, and the hert of Egipte shal quake within her.
2 For thus saieth the LORDE: I wil stere vp the Egiptians one agaynst
another amonge them selues, so that one shalbe euer agaynst his brother and
neghboure, yee one cite agaynst another, and one kyngdome agaynst another.
3 And Egipte shalbe choked in hir self. Whe they axe councel at their
goddes, at their Prophetes, at their soythsayers and witches: then will I bringe
their councel to naught.
4 I wil delyuer Egipte also in to the hondes of greuous rulers, and a
cruel kinge shal haue the rule of them.
5 The water of the see shalbe drawe out, Nilus shal synke awaye, & be
dronke vp.
6 The ryuers also shalbe drawen out, the welles shal decreace and drie
awaye. Rede and rush shal fayle,
7 the
grasse
by the waters syde or vpon ye ryuers bancke, yee and what so euer is sowen by
the waters, shalbe wythered, destroyed, & brought to naught.
8 The fyshers shall mourne, all soch as cast angles in the water, shal
complayne, & they that sprede their nettes in the water, shalbe faynt harted.
9 Soch as laboure vpon flax & sylcke, shal come to pouerte, &
they also that weeue fyne workes.
10 All the poundes of Egipte, all the policie of their Moates &
diches shal come to naught.
11 Yee the vndiscrete prynces of Zoan, the councel of the wyse Senatours
of Pharao, shal turne to foolishnesse: Those that darre boast & saye of
Pharaos behalfe: I am come of wyse people.
12 I am come of ye olde regall Progeny. But where are now thy wyse me?
Let them tel the & shewe the, what the LORDE of hoostes hath taken in honde
agaynst Egypte.
13 Fooles are those prynces of Zoan, & proude are the prynces of Noph:
yee they dysceaue Egypte mith the nobilite of their stocke.
14 For the LORDE hath made Egypte droncke with the sprete of erroure, and
they shal vse it in all matters: eue like as a dronke ma goeth spewinge aboute.
15 For Egipte shal lacke good councel, so yt they shal not knowe what to
do, nether beginnynge nor ende, nether vpon the lode nor water.
16 The shal ye Egiptias be like vnto wome, afrayde & astoied, at the
liftinge vp of the hode, which ye LORDE of hoostes shal lifte vp ouer them.
17 The londe of Iuda also shal make the Egiptians afrayde, who so doth
but speake vpon it, shal put them in feare: And that because of the councel,
which ye LORDE of hoostes hath devysed agaynst them.
18 Then shal the fyue cities of Egipte speake with the Canaanites tunge,
ande sweare by the LORDE of hoostes, &
Heliopolis
shalbe one of them.
19 At the same tyme shal the LORDE of hoostes haue an aulter in the
myddest of the londe of Egipte, with this title ther by: Vnto the LORDE.
20 This shalbe a token or testimony vnto the LORDE of hoostes in the
londe of Egipte, when they shal crie vnto him, because of those that oppresse
them: that he shal sende them a captayne and a Sauioure to delyuer them.
21 Morouer, Egipte shalbe bought vnto the LORDE, and the Egiptians also
shal knowe the LORDE at the same tyme: they shal do him reuerence with peace
offringes, and with meatoffringes: they shal promyse him offringes, yee &
paye him also.
22 Thus the LORDE shal smyte Egipte, & heale it agayne: & so shal
they turne to ye LORDE, and he also shal haue mercy vpo them, and saue them.
23 Then shal there be a comon waye out of Egipte in to Assiria. The
Assirians shal come in to Egipte, and the Egypcians in to Assiria. The Egipcians
also and the Assirians shal both haue one Gods seruyce.
24 Then shal
Israel
with honoure be the thirde to Egipte and Assur.
25 And the LORDE of hoostes shal blesse them, sayenge: Blissed is my
people of the Egipcians, Assur is the worke of my hodes, but
Israel
is myne enheritaunce.
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1 The same yeare that Harthan came to Aschod, where Sarge the kinge of
the Assirians sent him, what tyme as he also beseged Aschdod, & wane it ye
same season:
2 The spake the LORDE vnto Esaye ye sonne of Amos, sayenge: go and lowse
of yt sack cloth fro thy loynes, and put of yi shues from thy fete. And so he
dyd, goinge naked & barefote.
3 Then sayde the LORDE: where as my seruaunt Esaye goeth naked and
barefote, it is a token and signifienge of the thinge, that after thre yeare
shal come vpo Egipte and
Ethiopia
.
4 For euen thus shal the kinge of the Assirians driue both yonge and olde,
as prisoners naked and barefote, out of Egipte and
Ethiopia
, And shal dyscouer ye shame of Egipte.
5 They shalbe also at their wittes ende, and ashamed one of another: the
Egipcians of the Moryans, and the Morians of the Egipcians, at the sight of
their glory.
6 Morouer they that dwel in ye Iles shal saye euen the same daye: beholde,
this is oure hope, to whom we fled to seke helpe, that we might be delyuered
from the kinge of ye Assirians. How will we escape?
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21
1 This is the heuy burthe of the waist see: A greuous visio was shewed
vnto me, like as when a storme of wynde and rayne russheth in from the
wyldernesse, that terrible londe.
2 Who so maye disceaue (sayde the voyce) let him disceaue: Who so maye
distroye, let him distroye. Vp
Elam
, besege it o Madai, for I will still all their gronynges.
3 With this, the raynes of my backe were ful of payne: Panges came vpon
me, as vpon a woman in hir trauayle. When I herde it, I was abasshed: and whe I
loked vp, I was afrayde.
4 Myne herte paunted, I trembled for feare. The darcknesse made me
fearfull in my mynde.
5 Yee soone make redy the table (sayde this voyce) kepe the watch, eate
and drynke: Vp ye captaynes, take you to youre shylde,
6 for thus the LORDE hath charged me: go thy waye, and set a watchma,
that he maye tell what he seyth.
7 And whe he had wayted diligetly, he sawe two horsmen: the one rydinge
vpon an Asse, the other vpon a camel.
8 And the
lyon
cried: LORDE, I haue stonde waytinge all the whole daye, and haue kepte my
watch all the night.
9 With yt came there one rydinge vpon a charet, which answered, and sayde
Babilon is fallen, she is turned vpsyde downe, and all ye ymages of hir goddes
are smytten to ye grounde.
10 This (o my felowe throsshers and fanners) haue I herde of the LORDE of
hoostes the God of Israel, to shewe it vnto you.
11 The heuy burthen of Duma. One of Seir cried vnto me: watchman, what
hast thou espied by night? Watchman, what hast thou espied by night?
12 The watchman answered: The daye breaketh on, and the night is comynge:
Yf youre request be earnest, then axe, and come agayne.
13 The heuy burthen vpon
Arabia
. At euen ye shal abyde in the wod, in the waye toward Dedanim.
14 Mete the thurstie with water, (o ye citisens of Hema) mete those with
bred that are fled.
15 For thei shal runne awaye from the weapen, from the drawe swerde, from
the bet bowe, and from the greate batell.
16 For thus hath the LORDE spoken vnto me: ouer a yeare shal all the
power of Cedar be gone, like as when the office of an hyred seruaunte goeth out:
17 And the remnaunt of the good Archers of Cedar, shalbe very few: For
the LORDE God of Israel hath spoken it.
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1 The heuy burthen, apon the
valley
of
Visions
. What hast thou there to do, that thou clymnest vp in to the house toppe,
2 o thou citie of miracles, sedicious and wilfull? seinge, thy slayne me
are nether killed wt swerde, ner deed in batel?
Isa 22:3 For all thy captaynes gat them to their horses from the ordinaunce, yee
they are altogether rydden awaye, and fled farre of.
4 When I perceaued yt, I sayde: awaye fro me, yt I maye wepe bytterly.
Take no laboure for to coforte me, as touchinge the destruction of my people.
5 For this is ye daye of the LORDE of hoostes, wherin he will plage,
treade downe, and wede out the valley of Visios, and breake downe the walles,
with soch a crack, that it shal geue a sownde in the mountaynes.
6 I sawe the Elamites take the quyuers to carte and to horse, and that
the walles were bare from harnesse.
7 Thy goodly valleys were ful of Charettes, the horse men made them soone
to besege the gates.
8 Then was the coueringe of Iuda put from thence, and then was sene the
sege of the tymbre house.
9 There shal ye se the riftes in the walles of the cite of Dauid, wherof
there shalbe many. Ye shal gather together the waters of the lower pole,
10 and tel the houses of Ierusale, and break of some of the to kepe ye walles.
11 And ye shal make a pyt betwyxte ye twayne walles of the water of the
olde pole, and nothinge regarde him, that toke it in honde and made it.
12 And at the same tyme shal ye LORDE of hoostes cal me to wepinge
mourninge, to baldnesse and puttinge on of sack clothe.
13 But they to fulfil their lust and wilfulnes, slaugter oxe, they kyll
shepe, they eate costly meate, & drynke wyne: let vs eate and drinke,
tomorow we shal die.
14 Neuertheles whe the LORDE of hoostes herde of it, he sayde: yee, yf
this wickednes of yours shalbe remitted, ye must die for it. This hath ye LORDE
God of hoostes spoken.
15 Thus sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes: Go in to the treasury vnto Sobna
the gouernoure, and saye vnto him:
16 What hast thou here to do? & from whece comest thou? that thou
hast made the a graue here? For he had caused a costly tombe of stone to be made
for himself, and a place to lye in to be hewen out of a rock.
17 Beholde the LORDE shal cast the out by violence, he will deck the of
another fashion, and put vpon the a straunge clothe.
18 He shal carie ye in to a farre coutre, like a ball with his hondes,
There shalt thou die, there shal the pompe of thy charettes haue an ende: thou
vylleyne of the house of thy LORDE:
19 I wil shute the out of thine office, and put the from thine estate.
20 After this wil I cal my seruaunt Eliakim, ye sonne of Helkia,
21 and araye him with thy cote, and gyrde him with thy gyrdle, and I wil
geue thy power in to his honde He shalbe a father of the citisens of Ierusalem,
and of the Kynred of Iuda.
22 I will also laye the keye of Dauids house vpon his shulders, and yf he
open, no man shal shit, and yf he do shyt, no man shal open.
23 I wil fasten him to a nale in the place of the most hie faithfulnesse,
and he shalbe vpon the glorius trone of his fathers house.
24 They shal hage vpon him all the glory of his fathers house, of the
children and childers childre, all apparel small and great, all instrumentes of
measure & musike.
25 This shal come to passe, (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) when the nale,
yt is fastened to the place of the highest faithfulnesse: shalbe pluckt of, And
whe the weight that hangeth vpon it, shal fall, be broken, and hewen in peces.
For the LORDE himself hath sayde it.
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1 An heuy burthen vpon Tirus. Mourne ye shippes of Tharsis, for she is
throwne downe to the grounde, and conquered of them, that are come from Cithim.
2 The Indwellers of the Ilondes, the marchauntes of
Sidon
, and they that occupied the see (of whom thou wast ful somtyme) are at a poynte.
3 For by see were there frutes brought vnto the, and all maner of corne
by water. Thou wast the comon marcket of al people.
4 Sido is sory for it, yee and all ye power of the see coplaneth, and
saieth: O yt I had neuer traueled with childe, that I had neuer borne eny, yt I
had nether norished boye, ner brought vp doughter.
5 As soone as Egipte perceaueth it, she wilbe as sory as Tirus it self.
6 Go ouer the see, Mourne ye yt dwel in the Iles.
7 Is not that the glorious cite, which hath bene of longe antiquite?
whose natyues dwellinge farre of, commende her so greatly?
8 Who hath deuysed soch thinges vpon Tirus the crowne of al cities, whose
marchautes and captaynes were the highest and principal of the worlde?
9 Eue the LORDE of hoostes hath deuysed it, that he maye put downe al
pompe, and minish all the glory of the worlde.
10 Go thorow thy londe (o thou doughter of the see) as men go ouer the
water, and there is not a gyrdle more.
11 Thus the LORDE that remoueth the kingdomes, and hath taken in hande
agaynst that mightie Canaan to rote it out:) hath stretched out his honde ouer
the see,
12 and sayde: From hence forth shalt thou make no more myrth (o thou
doughter
Sidon
) for thou shalt be put downe of the Cethes. Stonde vp therfore, and go where
the enemie wil carie the, where thou shalt also haue no rest.
13 Beholde (for thyne ensample:) The Caldees were soch a people, that no
man was like them, Assur buylded them: he set vp his castels & palaces, and
broke them downe agayne.
14 And therfore mourne (ye shippes of the see) for youre power shalbe
throwne downe.
15 After that, shal the lxx yeares of Tirus (euen as longe as their
kinges life was) be forgotten. And after lxx. yeares, it shal happe to Tirus as
with an harlot that playeth vpon a lute.
16 Take thy lute (saie men to her) and go aboute the citie, thou art yet
an vnknowne wensche, make pastyme with dyuerse balettes, wherby thou mayest come
in to acquantaunce.
17 Thus shal it happen after lxx. yeares. The LORDE shal uiset the citie
of Tirus, and it shal come agayne to hyr Marchaundyse, and shal occupie with al
the Kingdomes that be in the worlde.
18 But all hir occupiege and wynnynge, shalbe halowed vnto the LORDE. For
then shal they laye vp nothinge behinde them nor vpon heapes: but the
marchaudise of Tirus shal beloge vnto the citisens of the LORDE, to the fedinge
and susteninge of the hugrie, and to the clothinge of the aged.
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1 Beholde, ye LORDE shal waist and plage the worlde, he shal make the
face of the earth desolate, & scatre abrode ye inhabitours therof.
2 Then shal the prest be as the people, the master as the seruaunt, the
dame like the mayde, the seller like the byer, he that ledeth vpon vsury, like
him yt boroweth vpo vsury, the creditoure, as the detter.
3 Yee miserably shal ye worlde be waysted & clene destroyed. For ye
LORDE hath so determed in himself.
4 The earth shalbe heuye and decaye: The face of ye earth shal perish
& fal awaye, the proude people of ye worlde shal come to naught,
5 For ye earth is corrupte of hir indwellers. For why they haue offended
ye lawe, chaunged the ordinauces, and made the euerlastinge testamet of none
effecte,
6 And therfore shal the curse deuoure the earth: for they yt dwel thero,
haue synned. wherfore they shalbe brent also, and those that remayne, shalbe
very few.
7 The swete wyne shal mourne, the grapes shalbe weake, and all yt haue
bene mery in harte, shal sighe.
8 The myrth of tabrettes shalbe layde downe, the chere of the ioyful shal
ceasse, and the pleasure of lutes shal haue an ende:
9 there shal no more wyne bedronke with myrth, the beer shal be bytter to
the that drinke it,
10 the wicked cities shalbe broken downe, all houses shalbe shut, that no
man maye come in.
11 In the stretes shal there be lift vp a crie because of wyne, all mens
chere shal vanish awaye, and all ioye of the earth shal passe.
12 Desolacion shal remayne in the cities, and the gates shalbe smytten
with waistnesse.
13 For it shal happen vnto all londes and to all people, like as when a
ma smyteth downe ye olyues, yt are left vpon the tre: or seketh after grapes,
when the wyne gatheringe is out.
14 And those same (that remayne) shal lift vp their voyce, and be glad,
& shal magnifie the glory of the LORDE, euen from the see,
15 & prayse the name of the LORDE God of Israel, in the valeis and Ilodes.
16 We heare songes sunge to the prayse of the rightuous, fro al the endes
of the worlde. Therfore I must speake: O my vnfrutfulnesse, o my pouerte, Wo is
me, all is ful of synneres, which offende of purpose and malice.
17 And therfore, (o thou that dwellest vpon the earth) there is at hode
for the, feare, pyt and snare.
18 Who so escapeth the terrible crie, shal fall in to the pyt. And yf he
come out of the pyt, he shalbe take with the snare. For the wyndowes aboue
shalbe opened, and the foundacion of the earth shal moue.
19 The earth shal geue a greate crack, it shal haue a sore ruyne, and
take an horrible fall.
20 The earth shal stacker like a dronken man, and be take awaye like a
tent. Hir misdedes shal lie so heuye vpo her, yt she must fall, and neuer rise
vp agayne.
21 At the same tyme shal the LORDE mustre together the hie hooste aboue,
and ye kynges of the worlde vpon the earth.
22 These shalbe coupled together as prisoners be, and shalbe shut in one
warde and punished innumerable daies.
23 The Moone and the Sonne shalbe ashamed, when the LORDE of hoostes shal
rule them at Ierusalem vpon the
mount
Sion, before and with his excellent councel.
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25
1 O Lorde, thou art my God, I wil prayse the, and magnifie yi name: For
thou bringest marvelous thinges to passe, acordinge to thine olde councels,
truly and stedfastly.
2 Thou makest of townes, heapes of stone: and of head cities, broken
walles: The palaces of the wicked destroyest thou out of the citie, that they
shal neuer be buylded againe.
3 Therfore the very rude people must magnifie the, and the cities of the
cruel heithen must feare the.
4 For thou art the poore mans helpe, a stregth for the neadful in his
necessite. Thou art a defence agaynst euel wether, a schadowe agaynst the hete.
But vnto the presumptuous, thou art like a stroge whyrle wynde, that casteth
downe
5 the boostinge of the vngodly, thou kepest men from heate with the
shadow of the cloudes, thou cuttest of the braunches of tyrauntes.
6 Morouer the LORDE of hoostes shal once prepare a feast for all people
vpo the hill: A plenteous, costly, pleasaunt feast, of fat and welfed beastes,
of swete and most pure thinges.
7 Vpon the hill shal he take awaye the syde vale yt hageth before ye face
of al people, and the coueringe wherwith all Gentiles are couered.
8 As for death, he shal vtterly cosume it, The LORDE God shal wipe awaye
the teares from all faces, and take awaye the confucio of his people thorow ye
whole worlde. For ye LORDE himself hath sayde it.
9 At the same tyme shal it be sayde: lo, this is oure God in who we put
oure trust, and he hath healed vs. This is the LORDE that we haue wayted for:
Let vs reioyse & delyte in his health.
10 For the hode of ye LORDE ceaseth vpo this hil. But
Moab
shalbe throsshe downe vnder him, like as the straw is trode vnder fete in a
doge hill.
11 For he shal stretch out his hodes vpon him, like as a swimmer doth to
swymme. And wt the power of his hondes shal he cast downe his hie pompe.
12 As for his stroge holdes & hie walles: he shal buwe them, cast the
downe, and sell the to the grounde in to dust.
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1 Then shal this songe be sunge in the londe of Iuda: We haue a stroge
citie, the walles & the ordinauce shal kepe vs.
2 Ope ye gates, yt the good people maye go in, which laboureth for the treuth.
3 And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in honde: shalt
prouyde for peace, eue the peace yt me hope for in the.
4 Hope stil in the LORDE, for in the LORDE God is euerlastinge stregth.
5 For why, it is he, yt bringeth lowe the hie mynded citesyns, &
casteth downe the proude cities. He casteth the to the groude, yee eue in to ye
myre, yt they maye be trode
6 vnder the fete of the symple, & with the steppes of the poore.
7 Thou (LORDE) cosidrest the path of ye rigtuous, whether it be right,
whether the waye of ye rightuous be right.
8 Therfore (LORDE) we haue a respecte vnto the waye of thy iudgmentes,
thy name and thy remebraunce reioyse the soule.
9 My soule lusteth after the all the night loge, & my mynde haisteth
frely to the. For as soone as thy iudgment is knowne to the worlde, the the
inhabitours of the earth lerne rightuousnesse.
10 But the vngodly (though he haue recaued grace) yet lerneth he not
rightuousnesse, but in that place where he is punished, he offendeth, &
feareth not the glory of the LORDE.
11 LORDE, they wil not se thine hie honde, but they shal se it, and be
confounded: whe thou shalt deuoure them with the wrath of the people, and with
the fyre of thine enemies.
12 But vnto vs (LORDE) prouyde for peace: for thou workest in vs all or workes.
13 O LORDE oure God, though soch lordes haue dominacion vpon vs as knowe
not the: yet graute, that we maye only hope in the, and kepe thy name in
remembraunce.
14 The malicious Tyrauntes whe they die, are nether in life nor in the
resurrectio, for thou visitest the and rootest the out, and destroyest all the
memoryall of them.
15 Agayne, thou increacest the people (o LORDE), thou increacest the
people, thou shalt be praysed and magnified in all ye endes of the worlde.
16 The people that seke vnto the in trouble, that same aduersite which
they complane of, is vnto the a chastenynge before the.
17 Like as a wife wt childe (whe hir trauayle cometh vpo her) is ashamed,
crieth and suffreth the payne: Eue so are we (o LORDE) in thy sight.
18 We are with childe, we trauayle, & beare, & with the sprete we
bringe forth health, wherethorow the earth is vndestroyed, and the inhabitours
of the worlde perish not.
19 But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life
and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, & haue ioye: for yi dew
is a dew of life & light. But ye place of the malicious Tyrauntes is falle
awaye.
20 So go now my people in to thy chabre, and shut the doore to the, and
suffre now ye twicklinge of an eye, till the wrath be ouerpast
21 For beholde, the LORDE wil go out of his habitacion, & vyset the
wickednes of the that dwell vpon earth. He wil discouer the bloude that she hath
deuoured, she shal neuer hyde the, that she hath murthured.
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1 Then the LORDE with his heuye, great and loge swearde shal vyset
Leuiatha, that invincible serpet: eue Leuiatha yt croked serpent, and shal slaye
the Wallfish in ye see.
2 At the same tyme shal me synge of the vynyarde of Muscatel.
3 I the LORDE kepe it, and water it in due season. I watch daye &
night, that no man breake in to it. I beare no euel wil in my mynde.
4 Who will compell me, that I greatly forgettinge all faithfulnesse,
shulde burne it vp at once wt thornes & bushes?
5 Or who will enforce me to kepe or make peace?
6 It wil come to this poynte, yt Iacob shalbe rooted againe, and
Israel
shalbe grene & beare floures, & they shal fyll ye whole worlde wt their
frute.
7 Smyteth he not his smyter, as euel as he is smytte himself? Destroieth
he not ye murtherers, as he is murthured?
8 Euery ma recopenseth wt ye measure yt he receaueth: He museth vpo his
sore wynde, as vpo the dayes of extreme heate.
9 And therfore shal the iniquite of Iacob be thus reconciled. And so shal
he take awaye all ye frute of his synnes. As for aulter stones, he shal make
them all as stones beaten to poulder: the Groues and Idols shal not stonde.
10 The stronge cities shalbe desolate, and ye fayre cities shalbe left
like a wildernes. The catel shal fede and lie there, and the shepe shal eate it
vp.
11 Their haruest shal be brent, their wyues which were their bewtie when
they came forth: shalbe defyled. For it is a people without vnderstodinge, and
therfore he yt created them, shal not fauoure them: and he yt made them, shal
not be merciful to the.
12 In yt tyme shal ye LORDE shute from ye swifte water of
Euphrates
, vnto ye ryuer of Egipte. And there shal the children be chosen out one by one.
13 Then shal the greate trompet be blowen, so that those which haue bene
destroyed in the Assirians londe, and those that be scatred abrode in Egipte:
shal come & worshipe the LORDE at Ierusale, vpo the holy mount.
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1 Wo be to ye crowne of pryde, to ye dronke Ephraemites, and to the
faydinge floure, to the glory of his pope, yt is vpo the toppe of the pleteous
valley: which me be ouerladen wt wyne.
2 Beholde, the strength and power of the LORDE shal breake in to the
londe on euery syde, like a tempest of hale, that beareth downe stronge holdes,
and like an horrible, mightie and ouer flowinge water.
3 And the proude crowne of the dronken Ephraemites, shal be troden vnderfoote.
4 And as for the faydinge floure, the glory of his pompe, which is vpon
the toppe of the plenteous valley: it shal happen vnto him, as to an vntymely
frute before the haruest come. Which as soone as it is sene, is by and by
deuoured, or euer it come well in a mans honde.
5 And then shal the LORDE of hoostes be a ioyful crowne, and a glorious
garlade vnto the remnaunt of his people.
6 Vnto the lowly, he shalbe a sprete of iudgment, and vnto them that
dryue awaye the enemies from ye gates, he shalbe a sprete of stregth.
7 But they go wronge by ye reason of wyne, they fall and stacker because
of stroge drynke. Yee eue the prestes and prophetes them selues go amisse, they
are dronken with wyne, and weake braned thorow stronge drynke. They erre in
seinge, and in iudgmet they fayle.
8 For all tables are so ful of vomyte and fylthynes, yt no place is clene.
9 What is he amonge them, yt can teach, instructe or enfourme the childre,
which are weened from suck or taken from the brestes: of eny other fashion,
then:
10 Commaunde yt maye be commaunded, byd yt maye be bydde, forbyd that
maye be forbydde, kepe backe yt maye be kepte backe, here a litle, there a litle.
11 And therfore the LORDE also shal speake wt lispinge lippes and wt a
straunge laguage vnto this people, to whom he spake afore of this maner:
12 This shal bringe rest, yf one refresh the weery, ye this shal bringe
rest. But they had no will to heare.
13 And therfore the LORDE shal answere their stubbournes (Comaunde yt
maye be comaunded, byd yt maye be bydden, forbyd yt maye be forbydde, kepe backe
yt maye be kepte backe, here a litle, there a litle) That they maye go forth,
fall backwarde, be brussed, snared and taken.
14 Wherfore heare the worde of the LORDE, ye mockers that rule the LORDES
people, which is at Ierusale.
15 For ye coforte yor selues thus: Tush, death & we are at a poynte,
& as for hell, we haue made a codicion with it: that though there breake out
eny sore plage, it shal not come vpon vs. For with disceate wil we escape, and
with nymblenes will we defende or selues.
16 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil laye a stone in
Sion, a greate stone, a costly corner stone for a sure foundacion: yt who so
putteth his trust in him, shal not be confouded.
17 Rightuousnes wil I set vp agayne in ye balaunce, and iudgment in the
weightes. The tepest of hale shal take awaye yor refuge, that ye haue to
disceaue withal, and ye ouerflowinge waters shal breake downe yor stroge holdes
of dissimulacio.
18 Thus the appoyntmet that ye haue made wt death, shalbe done awaye, and
the codicion that ye made with hell, shal not stode. When the greate destructio
goeth thorow, it shal all to treade you, It shal take you quyte awaye before it.
19 For it shal go forth early in the mornynge, and contynue only yt daye
and yt night. And the very feare only shal teach you, when ye heare it.
20 For ye bedde shalbe so narow yt a ma ca not lye vpon it. And the
coueringe to small, that a ma maye not wynde him self therin.
21 For the LORDE shal steppe forth as he dyd vpon the mount Perazim, and
shal take on as he dyd vpo the dale of Gabaon: that he maye bringe forth his
deuyce, his straunge deuyce: and fulfil his worke, his wonderful worcke.
22 And therfore make no mockes at it, that youre captiuyte increase not:
for I haue herde the LORDE of hoostes saye, that there shal come a soden
destruction and plage vpon the whole earth.
23 Take hede, and heare my voyce, pondre and merck my wordes wel.
24 Goeth not the husbonde man euer in due season earnestly to his londe?
he moweth & ploweth his grounde to sowe.
25 And whe he hath made it playne, he soweth it with fitches or comyn. He
soweth ye wheate and Barlye in their place, Milium and
Rye
also in their place.
26 And yt he maye do it right, his God teacheth him and sheweth him.
27 For he treadeth not the fitches out with a
wayne
, nether bringeth he the cart here and there ouer the comyn, but he throssheth
ye fitches out with a flale, and the comyn with a rod.
28 As for the wheate, he gryndeth it to make bred therof, In as moch as
he can not bringe it to passe wt treadinge out. For nether the brussinge that
the cart wheles make, ner his beastes can grynde it.
29 This and soch like thinges come of the LORDE of hostes which is
maruelous in councel, and greate in rightuousnesse.
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1 Wo vnto the o Ariel Ariel, thou cite that Dauid wane. Take yet some
yeares, and let some feastes yet passe ouer:
2 then shal Ariel be beseged, so that she shal be heuy and sorouful, and
shal be vnto me euen as a
lyon
.
3 For I wil laye sege to the rounde aboute, and kepe ye in with towers,
and graue vp dykes agaynst ye.
4 And thou shalt be brought lowe, and speake out of the earth, and thy
wordes shal go humbly out of ye grounde.
5 Thy voyce shal come out of the earth, like the voyce of a witch, and
thy talkinge shal groane out of the myre. For the multitude of thine enemies
shalbe like mealdust. And the nombre of Tyrauntes shalbe as ye dust that the
wynde taketh awaye sodenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORDE of hoostes with thondre, earth
quake, and with a greate crack, with the whyrle wynde, tempest, and with the
flame of a consumynge fyre.
7 But now the multitude of all the people, that went out agaynst Ariel:
the whole hooste, the stronge holdes, and sege: is like a dreame which apeareth
in the night.
8 It is like as when an hungrie man dreameth that he is eatynge, and when
he awaketh, he hath nothinge: like as when a thurstie man dreameth that he is
drinkinge, and when he awaketh, he is faynt, and his soule vnpacient. So is the
multitude of all people, that mustre them selues agaynst the hill of Sion.
9 But ye shalbe at youre wittes ende, ye shalbe abasshed: ye shal stackre,
and rele to and fro. Ye shalbe dronken, but not of wyne. Ye shal fall, but not
thorow dronkenes:
10 For the LORDE shal geue you an hard slepinge sprete, and holde downe
youre eyes: namely yor prophetes and heades which shulde se, them shal he couer.
11 And all visions shalbe vnto you, as the wordes that stonde in a sealed
lettre, when one offreth it to a man that is lerned, and sayeth: rede vs this
lettre. The he answereth: I ca not rede it, for it is shutt.
12 But yf it be geue to one yt is not lerned, or sayde vnto him: rede
this lettre: Then sayeth he. I can not rede.
13 Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE: For so moch as this people draweth nye
me wt their mourh, and prayseth me highly with their lippes (where as there
herte neuertheles is farre fro me, and the feare which they owe vnto me, that
turne they to mens lawes and doctrynes)
14 therfore wil I also shewe vnto this people, a maruelous terrible and
greate thinge (Namely this:) I wil destroye the wisdome of their wise, and the
vnderstodinge of their lerned men shal perish.
15 Wo be vnto them that seke so depe, to hyde their ymaginacion before
the LORDE, which rehearce their coucels in ye darknes, and saye: who seith vs,
or who knoweth vs?
16 Which ymaginacion of yours is euen as when the potters claye taketh
advisemet, as though the worke might saye to ye worke master: make me not, or as
when an erthen vessel saieth of the potter: he vnderstondeth not.
17 Se ye not that it is hard by, that Libanus shalbe turned in to Charmel,
and that Charmel shalbe taken as a wodde?
18 Then shal deaf men vnderstonde the wordes of the boke, and the eyes of
the blynde shal se without eny cloude or darknes.
19 The oppressed shal holde a mery feast in the LORDE, and the poore
people shal reioyse in the holy one of
Israel
.
20 Then shal the furious people ceasse, and ye mockers shal be put awaye,
and all they yt do wronge shalbe rooted out,
21 soch as laboure to drawe me vnto synne: and yt disceaue him, which
reproueth them in the gate, & soch as turne good personnes to vanite.
22 And therfore the LORDE (euen the defender of Abraham) saieth thus vnto
the house of Iacob: Now shal not Iacob be ashamed, nor his face cofounded,
23 when he seith amonge his children (whom my hondes haue made) soch as
halowe my name amonge them: that they maye sancifie the holy one of Iacob, and
feare the God of Israel:
24 and that they which afore tyme were of an erroneous sprete, haue now
vnderstondinge, and yt soch as before coude not speake, are now lerned in my
lawe.
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1 Wo be to those shrenkinge children (saieth the LORDE) which seke
councel, but not at me: which take a webbe in honde, but not after my will: that
they maye heape one synne vpon another.
2 They go downe in to Egipte, (and axe me no councel) to seke helpe at
the power of Pharao, and coforte in the shadowe of the Egipcias.
3 But Pharaos helpe shalbe youre cofucion, and the comforte in the
Egipcians shadowe shalbe youre owne shame.
4 Youre rulers haue bene at Zoan, and yor messaungers came vnto Hanes.
5 But ye shal all be ashamed of the people yt maye not helpe you, which
shal not bringe you strength or comforte, but shame and confucion.
6 Youre beastes haue borne burthens vpo their backes towarde the South,
thorow the waye that is ful of parell and trouble, because of the lyo and lyones,
of the Cockatrice and shutynge dragon. Yee the Mules bare youre substaunce, and
the Camels brought yor treasure vpon their croked backes, vnto a people that can
not helpe you.
7 For the Egipcians helpe shalbe but vane and lost. Therfore I tolde you
also yt youre pryde shulde haue an ende.
8 Wherfore go hece, and write them this in their tables, and note it in a
booke: that it maye remayne by their posterite, and be stil kepte.
9 For it is an obstinate people, vnfaithful children, children that will
not heare the lawe of the LORDE.
10 They darre saye to the prophetes: Intromitte youre selues with
nothinge, and vnto ye Soythsayers: tell us of nothinge for to come, but speake
frendly wordes vnto vs, and preach vs false thinges.
11 Treade out of the waye, go out of the path, turne the holy one of
Israel from vs.
12 Therfore thus saieth the holy one of Israel: In as moch as ye haue
cast of youre bewtie, and conforted youre selues with power and nymblenesse, and
put youre confidence therin:
13 therfore shal ye haue this myschefe agayne for youre destruction and
fall, like as an hie wall, that falleth because of some rift (or blast,) whose
breakinge cometh sodenly.
14 And youre destruction shalbe like as an erthe pot, which breaketh no
man touchinge it, yee and breaketh so sore, that a man shal not fynde a sheuer
of it to fetch fyre in, or to take water with all out of the pyt.
15 For the LORDE God, euen the holy one of
Israel
hath promised thus: With stilsittinge and rest shal ye be healed, In quyetnesse
and hope shal youre strength lie.
16 Notwithstondinge ye regarde it not, but ye will saie: No, for thus are
we costrayned to fle vpo horses. (And therfore shall ye fle) we must ryde vpon
swift beastes, and therfore youre persecutours shal yet be swifter.
17 A thousand of you shal fle for one, or at the most for fyue, which do
but only geue you euell wordes: vntil ye be desolate, as a shipmast vpon an hie
mountayne, and as a beaken vpon an hill.
18 Yet stondeth the LORDE waitinge, that he maye haue mercy vpon you, and
lifteth him self vp, that he maye receaue you to grace. For the LORDE God is
rightuous. Happie are all thei that wate for him.
19 For thus (o thou people of Sion and ye citisens of Ierusalem) shal ye
neuer be in heuynes, for doutlesse he will haue mercy vpon the. As soone as he
heareth the voyce of thy crie, he will helpe the.
20 The LORDE geueth you the bred of aduersite, and the water of trouble.
But thine instructer fleyth not farre from the, yf thine eyes loke vnto thine
instructer,
21 and thine eares harken to his worde, that crieth after the and saieth:
This is the waye, go this, and turne nether to the right honde nor the leffte.
22 Morouer yf ye destroye the syluer workes of youre Idols, and cast
awaye the golden coapes that ye deckt them withall (as fylthynes) and saie, get
you hence:
23 The wil he geue rayne to the sede, that ye shal sowe in the earth, and
geue you breade of the encrease of the earth, so that all shalbe plenteous aud
abundaunt. Thy catel also shal he fede in the brode medowes.
24 yee thyne oxe and Mules that till the grounde, shal eate good fodder,
which is pourged wt ye fanne.
25 Goodly ryuers shal flowe out of all his mountaynes and hilles. In the
daye of the greate slaughter when the towers shal fall,
26 the Moone shal shyne as the Sonne and ye Sone shyne shalbe seuefolde,
and haue as moch shyne, as in seuen dayes beside. In that daye shal the LORDE
bynde vp ye brussed sores of his people, and heale their woundes.
27 Beholde, the glory of the LORDE shal come from farre, his face shal
burne, that no man shalbe able to abyde it, his lippes shal wagge for very
indignacion, and his tunge shal be as a consumynge fyre.
28 His breath like a vehement floude of water, which goeth vp to the
throte. That he maye take awaye ye people, which haue turned them selues vnto
vanite, and the brydle of erroure, that lieth in other folkes chawes.
29 But ye shal synge, as the vse is in ye night of the holy solempnite.
Ye shal reioyse from youre hert, as they that come with the pipe, when they go
vp to the mount of the LORDE, vnto ye rock of
Israel
.
30 The LORDE also shal set vp the power of his voyce, and declare his
terrible arme, with his angrie countenaunce, yee and the flame of the consumynge
fyre, with earth quake, tempest of wynde, and hale stones.
31 Then shal the Assirian feare also, because of the voyce of the LORDE,
which shal smyte him with the rodde.
32 And the same rodde which the LORDE wil sende vpon him, shal moue the
whole foundacion: with trompet, with noyse of warre and batell to destroye.
33 For he hath prepared the fyre of payne from the begynnynge, yee euen
for kynges also. This hath he made depe & wyde, ye norishinge therof is fyre
and wodde innumerable, which the breath ofte LORDE kyndleth, as it were a match
of brymstone.
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1 Wo vnto them that go downe in to Egipte for helpe, and trust in horses,
and conforte them selues in Charettes, because they be many, and in horse me
because they be lustie and stronge. But they regarde not the holy one of
Israel
, and they aske no question at the LORDE.
2 Where as he neuertheles plageth ye wicked, and yet goeth not from his
worde, wha he steppeth forth and taketh the victory agaynst the housholde of the
frauwerde, and against the helpe of euel doers.
3 Now the Egiptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not
sprete. And as soone as the LORDE stretcheth out his honde, then shal the helper
fall, and he that shulde haue bene helped, and shal altogether be destroyed.
4 For thus hath the LORDE spoke vnto me: Like as the Lyon or lyos whelpe
roareth vpon the pray that he hath gotten, and is not afrayde, though ye
multitude of shepardes crie out vpon him, nether abashed for all the heape of
them: So shal the LORDE of hoostes come downe from the mount Sion, and defende
his hill.
5 Like as byrdes flotre aboute their nestes, so shal the LORDE of hoostes
kepe, saue, defende and deliuer Ierusalem.
6 Therfore (o ye childre of
Israel
turne agayne, like as ye hahaue exceaded in youre goinge back.
7 For in yt daye euery man shal cast out his Idols of syluer and golde,
which ye haue made with youre synful hondes.
8 Assur also shalbe slayne with the swerde, not wt a mans swerde. A
swerde shal deuoure him, but not a mans swerde. And he shal fle from the
slaughter, and his seruauntes shalbe taken prisoners.
9 He shal go for feare to his stronge holdes, and his prynces shal fle
from his badge. This hath ye LORDE spoke, whose light burneth in Sion, and his
fyre in Ierusalem.
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1 Beholde, the kinge shal gouerne after ye rule of rightuousnes, and ye
princes shal rule acordinge to the balaunce of equite.
2 He shalbe vnto me, as a defence for the wynde, and as a refuge for the
tempest, like as a ryuer of water in a thurstie place, and ye schadowe of a
greate rock in a drie lode.
3 The eyes of the seinge shall not be dymme, and the eares of them that
heare, shal take diliget hede.
4 The hert of the vnwise, shal attayne to knowlege, and the vnparfite
tuge shal speake planely and distinctly.
5 Then shal the nygarde be no more called gentle, ner the churle lyberall.
6 But the churle wil be churlishly mynded, and his hert wil worke euell
and playe the ypocrite, and ymagyn abhominacios agaynst God, to make the hungrie
leane, and to withholde drinke from the thurstie:
7 These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous, these be his shameful
councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes, yee euen there
as he shulde geue sentence with the poore.
8 But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges, and commeth vp with
honesty.
9 Vp (ye rich and ydle cities), harken vnto my voyce. Ye careles cities,
marcke my wordes.
10 After yeares and dayes shal ye be brought in feare, o ye carelesse
cities. For Haruest shalbe out, and the grape gatheringe shal not come.
11 O ye rich ydle cities, ye that feare no parell, ye shalbe abashed and
remoued: when ye se the barennesse, the nakednesse and preparinge to warre.
12 Ye shal knock vpo youre brestes, because of the pleasaunt felde, and
because of the fruteful vynyarde.
13 My peoples felde shal bringe thornes and thistels, for in euery house
is voluptuousnes & in the cities, wilfulnes.
14 The palaces also shalbe broken, and the greatly occupide cities
desolate. The towers and bulwerckes shalbe become dennes for euermore, the
pleasure of Mules shalbe turned to pasture for shepe:
15 Vnto the tyme that ye sprete be poured vpon vs from aboue. Then shal
the wildernesse be a fruteful felde & the plenteous felde shalbe rekened for
a wodde.
16 Then shal equyte dwel in the deserte, and rightuousnesse in a fruteful londe.
17 And the rewarde of rightuousnesse shalbe peace, and hir frute rest and
quietnesse for euer.
18 And my people shal dwel in the ynnes of peace, in my tabernacle and
pleasure, where there is ynough in the all.
19 And whe the hale falleth, it shal fall in the wodde and in the citie.
20 O how happy shal ye be, whe ye shal safely sowe youre sede besyde all
waters & dryue thither the fete of youre oxe & asses.
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1 Therfore wo vnto the (o robber) shalt not thou be robbed also? and vnto
the that laiest wait, as who saye there shulde no waite be layde for the? Wo
vnto the which doest hurte, euen so shalt thou be hurt also. And as thou layest
waite, so shal wait be layde for the also.
2 LORDE be merciful vnto vs, we wait for the. Thine arme is at a poynte
to vyset vs, but be thou oure health in the tyme of trouble.
3 Graute that the people maye fle at the anger of thy voyce, & that
at thy vpstondinge the Gentiles maye be scatred abrode,
4 and that their spoyle maye be gathered, as the greshoppers are comonly
gathered together in to the pyt.
5 Stonde vp LORDE, thou that dwellest on hie: Let Sio be fylled with
equyte and rightuousnesse.
6 Let treuth and faithfulnesse be in hir tyme: power, health, wisdome,
knowlege & the feare of God are hir treasure.
7 Beholde, their aungels crie with out, the messaungers of peace wepe bytterly.
8 The stretes are waist, there walketh no man therin, the appoyntmen is
broken, the cities are despised, they are not regarded,
9 the desolate earth is in heuynes. Libanus taketh it but for a sporte,
that it is hewen downe: Saron is like a wyldernes: Basa & Charmel are turned
vpside downe.
10 And therfore saieth ye LORDE: I wil vp, now wil I get vp, now wil I aryse.
11 Ye shal conceaue stubble, and beare strawe, & youre sprete shalbe
the fyre, that it maye consume you:
12 & the people shalbe burnt like lyme, & as thornes burne that
are hewen of, & cast in the fyre.
13 Now herken to (ye that are farre of) how I do with them, & cosidre
my glory, ye that be at honde.
14 The synners at Sion are afrayde, a sodane fearfulnesse is come vpon
the ypocrytes. What is he amonge us (saye they) that will dwell by that
consumynge fyre? which of vs maye abyde that euerlastinge heate?
15 He that ledeth a godly life (saye I) & speaketh the treuth: He
that abhorreth to do violence and disceate: he that kepeth his hode that he
touch no rewarde: which stoppeth his eares, that he heare no councel agaynst the
innocent: which holdeth downe his eyes, that he se no euel.
16 He it is, that shal dwel on hie, whose sauegarde shalbe in the true
rocke, to him shalbe geuen the right true meat & drynke.
17 His eyes shal se the kynge in his glory: & in the wyde worlde,
18 and his herte shal delite in the feare of God. What shal then become
of the scrybe? of the Senatoure? what of him that teacheth childre?
19 There shalt thou not se a people of a straunge tuge, to haue so
diffused a laguage, that it maye not be vnderstonde: nether so straunge a
speache, but it shal be perceaued.
20 There shal Sion be sene, the head citie of oure solempne feastes.
There shal thine eyes se Ierusalem that glorious habitation: the tabernacle that
neuer shal remoue, whose nales shal neuer be taken out worlde without ende,
whose coardes euerychone shal neuer corruppe:
21 for the glorious Magesty of the LORDE shal there be present amoge vs.
In that place (where fayre broade ryuers & streames are) shal nether Gallye
rowe, ner greate shippe sale.
22 For the LORDE shalbe oure capteyne, the LORDE shalbe oure lawe geuer,
The LORDE shalbe oure kinge, & he himself shalbe oure Sauioure.
23 There are the coardes so layd abrode, that they ca not be better: The
mast set vp of soch a fashion, that no baner ner sale hageth thero: but there is
dealed greate spoyle, yee lame men runne after the pray.
24 There lieth no ma that saieth: I am sick, but all euel is taken awaye
from the people, that dwel there.
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1 Come ye Heithen & heare, take hede ye people. Herke thou earth
& all that is therin: thou rounde copasse & al that groweth thervpon:
2 for the LORDE is angrie with al people, & his displeasure is
kindled agaynst all the multitude of them, to curse them, & to slaye them.
3 So that their slayne shalbe cast out, & their bodies stincke: that
eue the very hilles shalbe wet with the bloude of them.
4 All the starres of heauen shalbe consumed, & the heauen shal folde
together like a roll, & all the starres therof shall fall, like as the
leaues fall from the vynes and fygetrees.
5 For my swearde (saieth he) shalbe bathed in heauen, & shal
immediatly come downe vpon Idumea, and vpon the people which I haue cursed for
my vengeaunce.
6 And the LORDES swearde shalbe full of bloude, & be rustie with the
fatnesse & bloude of lambes and gootes, with the fatnesse of neeres of the
wethers. For the LORDE shal kyl a great offringe in Bosra, and in the londe of
Idumea.
7 There shal the Vnicornes fall with the Bulles, (that is with the
giauntes) and their londe shalbe washed with bloude, & their grounde
corrupte with fatnesse.
8 Vnto the also (o Sion) shal come the daye of the vengeaunce of God, and
the yeare when as thyne owne iugdmentes shalbe recompensed.
9 Thy floudes shalbe turned to pytch, and thine earth to brymstone, &
therwith shal the londe be kyndled,
10 so that it shal not be quenched daye ner night: But smoke euermore,
& so forth to lie waist. And no man shal go thorow thy londe for euer:
11 But Pellicanes, Storkes, great Oules, and Rauens shall haue it in
possession, & dwell therein. For God shal sprede out the lyne of desolacion
vpon it, & weye it with the stones of emptynes.
12 When kinges are called vpo, there shalbe none, and all princes shalbe awaye.
13 Thornes shal growe in their palaces, nettels & thistles in their
stronge holdes, yt the dragons maye haue their pleasure therin, & that they
maye be a courte for Estriches.
14 There shal straunge visures and monstruous beastes mete one another,
& the wylde kepe company together. There shal the lamia lye, & haue hir
lodginge.
15 There shall the hedghogge buylde, digge, be there at home, and bringe
forth his yongeones. There shal the kytes come together, ech one to his like.
16 Seke thorow the scripture of the LORDE & rede it. There shal none
of these thinges be left out, there shal not one (ner soch like) fayle. For what
his mouth commaundeth, that same doth his sprete gather together (or fulfilleth).
17 Vpon whom so euer ye lot fallet, or to whom he dealeth it with the
line: those shal possesse the enheritaunce from generacion to generacion, and
dwel therin.
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1 Bvt the deserte & wildernesse shal reioyse, ye waist grounde shal
be glad, and florish as the lilly.
2 She shal florish pleasauntly, and be ioyful, and euer be geuynge of
thankes more and more. For ye glory of libanus, the bewty of Charmel & Saro
shalbe geuen her. These shal knowe the honoure of the LORDE, and the magesty of
oure God.
3 And therfore strength ye weake hodes, and conforte the feble knees.
4 Saye vnto them that are of a fearful hert: Be of good chere, and feare
not. Beholde: youre God cometh, to take vengeaunce & to rewarde, God cometh
his owne self, and wil delyuer you.
5 Then shal the eyes of the blinde be lightned, and the eares of the
deaff opened.
6 Then shal the lame man leape as an herte, & the domme mas tuge shal
geue thankes. In the wildernesse also there shal welles springe, and floudes of
water in the deserte.
7 The drie grounde shal turne to ryuers, and the thurstie to springes of
water. Where as dragons dwelt afore, there shal growe swete floures and grene
russhes.
8 There shalbe footpathes & comon stretes, this shalbe called the
holywaye. No vnclene person shal go thorow it, for the LORDE himself shal go
with the that waye, and the ignoraut shal not erre.
9 There shalbe no
lyon
, and no rauyshinge beast shall come therin nor be there, but men shal go there
fre and safe.
10 And the redemed of the LORDE shal conuerte, and come to Sion with
thankesgeuinge. Euerlastinge ioye shal they haue, pleasure & gladnesse
shalbe amoge them, And as for all sorow and heuynes, it shal vanish awaye.
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1 In the xiiij. yeare of kinge Ezechias, came Sennacherib kinge of the
Assirians downe, to laye sege vnto all the stronge cities of Iuda
2 And the kinge of the Assirias sent Rabsaches from Lachis toward
Ierusalem, agaynst kinge Ezechias, with a greuous hooste, which set him by the
condite of the ouerpole, in the waye that goeth thorow ye fullers lode.
3 And so there came forth vnto him Eliachim Helchias sonne the presydent,
Sobna the scribe, and Ioah Asaphs sonne the Secretary.
4 And Rabsaches sayde vnto them: Tel Ezechias, that the greate kinge of
Assiria sayeth thus vnto him: What presumpcion is this, that thou trustest vnto?
5 Thou thinkest (peradueture) that thou hast councel & power ynough,
to mayntene this warre: or els wher to trustest thou, that thou castest thi self
of fro me?
6 lo, Thou puttest thy trust in a broken staff of rede (I meane Egipte)
which he that leaneth vpon, it goeth in to his honde & shuteth him thorow.
Euen so is Pharao the kinge of Egipte, vnto all the that trust in him.
7 But yf thou woldest saye to me: We trust in ye LORDE oure God: A goodly
god, in dede: whose hie places & aulteres Ezechias toke downe, and
commaunded Iuda and Ierusalem, to worshipe only before the aulter.
8 Abyde the, thou hast made a condicion with my lorde the kinge of the
Assirias, that he shulde geue the two thousande horses: Art thou able to set me
there vp?
9 Seinge now that thou canst not resist the power of the smallest prynce
that my LORDE hath, how darrest thou trust in yt charettes and horse men of
Egipte?
10 Morouer, thinkest thou yt I am come downe hither, to destroye this
londe with out the LORDES will? The LORDE sayde vnto me: go downe in to that
londe, that thou mayest destroye it.
11 Then sayde Eliachim, Sobna & Iohah vnto Rabsaches: Speake to vs
thy seruauntes (we praye the) in the Sirians language, for we vnderstonde it
well: And speake not to vs in the Iewes tunge, lest the folcke heare, which
lieth vpon the wall.
12 Then answered Rabsaches: Thinke ye, yt the kinge sent me to speake
this only vnto you? Hath he not sent me to the also, that lie vpo the wall? that
they be not copelled to eate their owne donge, and drinke their owne stale with
you?
13 And Rabsaches stode stiff, & cried with a loude voyce in the Iewes
tuge, and sayde: Now take hede, how the greate kinge of the Assirias geueth you
warnynge.
14 Thus saieth the kinge: Let not Ezechias disceaue you, for he shal not
be able to delyuer you.
15 Morouer, let not Ezechias comforte you in the LORDE, when he saieth:
The LORDE with out doute shal defende vs, & shal not geue ouer this cite in
to the hondes of the kinge of the Assirias, beleue him not.
16 But thus saieth the kinge of Assiria: opteyne my fauoure, enclyne to
me: So maye euery ma enioye his vynyardes and fygetrees, and drinke the water of
his cisterne:
17 vnto the tyme that I come myself, & bringe you in to a londe, yt
is like youre owne: wher in is wheat and wyne, which is both sowen with sede,
and planted with vynyardes.
18 Let not Ezechias disceaue you, when he sayeth vnto you: the LORDE shal
delyuer us. Might the goddes of the Gentiles kepe euerymans londe, from the
power of the kinge of the Assirians?
19 Wher is the God of hemath & Arphad? Where is the God of Sepharnaim?
And who was able to defende
Samaria
out of my honde?
20 Or which of all the goddes of the lodes, hath deliuered their countre
out of my power, so that the LORDE shulde delyuer Ierusalem fro my honde?
21 Vnto this, Ezechias messaungers helde their tunges, and answered not
one worde: for the kinge had charged them, that they shulde geue him none
answere.
22 So came Eliachim Elchias sonne the presidet, Sobna the scrybe, and
Ioah Asaphs sonne the Secretary, vnto Ezechias with rente clothes, & tolde
him the wordes of Rabsaches.
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1 When Ezechias herde that, he rente his clothes, & put on a sack
cloth, & went in to the temple of the LORDE.
2 But he sent Eliachim the Presidet, Sobna the scrybe wt the eldest
prestes cloothed in sack, vnto the Prophet Esay the sonne of Amos,
3 & they sayde vnto him: Thus saieth Ezechias: this is the daye of
trouble, of plage & of wrath: like as when a childe cometh to the byrth, but
the woman hath no power to bringe it forth.
4 The LORDE thy God (no doute) hath well considered the wordes of
Rabsaches, whom his lorde ye kinge of the Assirians hath sent, to defie &
blaspheme the lyuynge God: with soch wordes, as the LORDE yi God hath herde
rightwell. And therfore lift vp yi prayer for the remnaunt, that yet are left.
5 So the seruauntes of kinge Ezechias came to Esay.
6 And Esay gaue them this answere: Saie thus vnto youre lorde: thus
saieth the LORDE: Be not afrayde of the wordes that thou hast herde, wherwith
the kinge of Assirias seruauntes haue blasphemed me.
7 Beholde, I will cause a wynde go ouer him, as soone as he heareth it,
he shal go agayne in to his countre, there will I distroye him with the swerde.
8 Now when Rabsaches returned, he founde ye kinge of Assiria layenge sege
to Lobna, for he had vnderstonde, that he was departed from Lachis.
9 For there came a rumoure, yt Taracha kinge of
Ethiopia
was come forth to warre agaynst him. And when the kinge of Assiria herde yt, he
sent other messaungers to kinge Ezechias, with this commaundement.
10 Saye thus to Ezechias kinge of Iuda: Let not thy God disceaue the, in
whom thou hopest, & sayest: Ierusale shal not be geue in to the hondes of
the kinge of Assiria.
11 For thou knowest well, how the kinges of Assiria haue handled all the
londes, that they haue subuerted, & hapest thou to escape?
12 Were the people of the Getiles (whom my progenitours coquered)
deliuered at eny tyme thorow their goddes? As namely, Gozan,
Haran
, Rezeph, & the childre of
Eden
, which dwell at Thalassar.
13 Where is the kinge of Hemath, & the kinge of Arphad, & the
kinge of the citie Sepharnaim, Ena and Aua?
14 Now when Ezechias had receaued ye lettre of the messaungers, & red
it, he went vp in to the house of the LORDE, & opened the lettre before ye
LORDE.
15 And Ezechias prayed before the LORDE on this maner:
16 O LORDE of hoostes, thou God of Israel, which dwellest vpo Cherubin.
Thou art the God, that only is God of all the kingdomes of the worlde, for thou
only hast created haue & earth.
17 Encline thine eare LORDE & cosidre, open thine eyes (o LORDE,)
& se, and pondre all the wordes of Senacherib, which hath sent his embassage
to blaspheme the, the lyuynge God.
18 It is true (o LORDE) that the kinges of Assiria haue coquered all
kingdomes & londes,
19 & cast their goddes in the fyre. Notwithstodinge those were no
goddes but the workes of mens hondes, of wodd or stone, therfore haue they
destroyed them.
20 Delyuer vs then (o LORDE oure God) from the hondes of Sennacherib, yt
all kingdomes of the earth maye knowe, that thou only art ye LORDE.
21 Then Esay the sonne of Amos sent vnto Ezechias, sayenge: Thus saieth
ye LORDE God of Israel: Where as thou hast made thy prayer vnto me, as touchinge
Sennacherib,
22 this is the answere, that the LORDE hath geuen concernynge him:
Despised art thou, & mocked (o doughter of Sion) he hath shaken his heade at
the, o doughter of Ierusalem.
23 But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied or blaspemed? And agaynst
who hast thou lifted vp thy voyce, & exalted thy proude lokes? euen agaynst
the holy one of
Israel
.
24 Thou with thy seruauntes hast blasphemed the LORDE, and thus holdest
thou of thyself: I couer the hie mountaynes, & sydes of Libanus with my
horsmen. And there wil I cut downe the hie Cedre trees & the fayrest Fyrre
trees. I will vp in to the heyth of it & in to the chefest of his timbre
woddes.
25 Yf there be no water, I wil graue & drynke. And as for waters of
defence, I shal drie them vp with the fete of myne hooste.
26 Yee (saiest thou) hast thou not herde, what I haue taken in honde,
& brought to passe of olde tyme? That same wil I do now also: waist,
destroye, & bringe the stronge cities vnto heapes of stones.
27 For their inhabitours shalbe like lame men, brought in feare &
confounded. They shalbe like the
grasse
& grene herbes in the felde, like the hay vpo house toppes, that wythereth,
afore it be growne vp.
28 I knowe thy wayes, thy goinge forth & thy comynge home, yee &
thy madnesse agaynst me.
29 Therfore thy furiousnesse agaynst me, & thy pryde is come before
me. I wil put a rynge in yi nose, & a bridle byt in the chawes of the, &
turne the aboute, eue the same waye thou camest.
30 I wil geue the also this token (o Ezechias) this yeare shalt thou eate
that is kepte in stoare, & the next yeare soch as groweth of himself, and in
the thirde yeare ye shal sowe and reape, yee ye shal plante vynyardes, and
enioye the frutes therof.
31 And soch of the house of Iuda as are escaped, shal come together, and
the remnaunt shal take rote beneth, & bringe forth frute aboue.
32 For the escaped shal go out of Ierusale, & the remnaunte from the
mount
Sion
. And this shal the gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe.
33 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE, cocernynge the kinge of the Assirians:
He shall not come in to the citie, and shal shute no arowe in to it, there shall
no shilde hurte it, nether shal they graue aboute it.
34 The same waye that he came, shal he returne, and not come at this
citie, saieth the LORDE.
35 And I wil kepe and saue the citie (saieth he) for myne owne, & for
my seruaunte Dauids sake.
36 Thus the angel went forth, and slewe of the Assirians hooste, an
clxxxv. thousande. And when men arose vp early (at Ierusale:) Beholde, all laye
ful of deed bodies.
37 So Sennacherib the kinge of the Assirians brake vp, and dwelt at Niniue.
38 Afterwarde it chaunsed, as he prayed in the Teple of Nesrah his god,
that Adramalech and Sarazer his owne sonnes slewe him with the swearde, and fled
in to the londe of Ararat. And Esarhadon his sonne reigned after him.
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1 Not longe afore this, was Ezechias deadsick: And the prophet Esay the
sonne of Amos came vnto him, and sayde: Thus commaundeth the LORDE: Set thyne
house in ordre, for thou must dye, and shalt not escape.
2 Then Ezechias turned his face towarde the wall, & prayed vnto the LORDE,
3 and sayde: Remembre (o LORDE) that I haue walked before the in treuth
and a stedfast hert, and haue done the thinge that is pleasaunt to the. And
Ezechias wepte sore.
4 The sayde God vnto Esay:
5 Go and speake vnto Ezechias: The LORDE God of Dauid thy father sendeth
ye this worde: I haue herde thy prayer, and considred thy teares: beholde, I
will put xv yeares mo vnto thy life,
6 and delyuer the and the citie also, from the honde of the kinge of
Assiria, for I will defende the cite.
7 And take the this token of the LORDE, yt he will do it, as he hath
spoken:
8 Beholde, I will returne the shadowe of Achas Diall, yt now is layed out
with the Sonne, and bringe it ten degrees bacward. So the Sonne turned ten
degrees bacward, the which he was descended afore.
9 A thankesgeuynge, which Ezechias kinge of Iuda wrote, when he had bene
sicke, & was recouered.
10 I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and
haue wanted the residue of my yeares.
11 I spake within my self: I shal neuer viset the LORDE God in this life:
I shal neuer se man, amonge the dwellers of the worlde
12 Myne age is folden vp together and taken awaye fro me, like a
sheperdes cotage: my lyfe is hewen of, like as a weeuer cutteth of his webb.
Whyl I was yet takinge my rest, he hewed me of, & made an ende of me in one
daie.
13 I thought I wolde haue lyued vnto the morow, but he brussed my bones
like a
lyon
, and made an ende of me in one daye.
14 Then chatred I like a swalowe, and like a Crane, and mourned as a doue.
I lift vp myne eyes in to ye hight: O LORDE, (sayde I) violence is done vnto me,
be thou suertie for me.
15 What shal I speake or say, ethat he maye this doo? yt I maye lyue out
all my yeares, yee in the bytternesse of my life?
16 Verely (LORDE,) men must lyue in bytternesse, & all my life must I
passe ouer therin: For thou raysest me vp, and wakest me. But lo, I wilbe wel
content with this bytternes.
17 Neuertheles my couersacion hath so pleased ye, that thou woldest not
make an ende of my life, so that thou hast cast all my synnes behynde thy backe.
18 For hell prayseth not the, death doth not magnifie the. They that go
downe into the graue, prayse not thy treuth:
19 but the lyuynge, yee the lyuynge acknowlege the, like as I do this
daye. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulnesse.
20 Delyuer vs (o LORDE) and we wil synge prayses in thy house, all the
dayes of oure life.
21 And Esay sayde: take a playster offyges, and laye it vpon the sore, so
shal it be whole.
22 Then saide Ezechias: O what a greate thinge is this, that I shal go vp
in to the house of the LORDE.
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1 At the same tyme Merodach Balada, Baladas sonne kinge of Babilon, sent
lettres and presentes to Ezechias. For he vnderstode, how that he had bene sick,
& was recouered agayne.
2 And Ezechias was glad therof, & shewed them the comodities of his
treasure: of syluer, of golde, of spyces & rootes, of precious oyles, all
that was in his cubboordes and treasure houses. There was not one thinge in
Ezechias house, & so thorow out all his kingdome, but he let them se it.
3 The came Esay the prophet to kinge Ezechias, and sayde vnto him: What
haue ye men sayde, and from whence came they vnto the? Ezechias answered: They
came out of a farre countre vnto me: out of Babilon.
4 Esay sayde: what haue they looked vpon in thyne house? Ezechias
answerde: All that is in myne house, haue they sene: and there is nothinge in my
treasure, but I shewed it them.
5 Then sayde Esay vnto Ezechias: Vnderstode the worde of the LORDE of hoostes,
6 Beholde, the tyme wil come, that euery thinge which is in thine house,
and all that thy progenitours haue layde vp in stoare vnto this daye, shalbe
caried to Babilon, and nothinge left behinde. This sayeth the LORDE.
7 Yee and parte of thy sonnes that shal come of the, and whom thou shalt
get, shalbe caried hence, and become gelded chamberlaines in the kinge of
Babilons courte:
8 Then sayde Ezechias to Esay: Now God prospere his owne councel, which
thou hast tolde me. He sayde morouer: So that there be peace, and faithfulnesse
in my tyme.
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1 Be of good chere my people, be of good chere (saieth youre God)
2 Conforte Ierusalem, and tell her: that hir trauale is at an ende, that
hir offence is pardoned, that she hath receaued of the LORDES honde sufficient
correction for all hir synnes.
3 A voyce crieth: Prepare ye waye for the LORDE in the wyldernesse, make
straight ye path for oure God in the deserte.
4 Let all valleis be exalted, and euery mountayne and hill be layde lowe.
What so is croked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made
playne feldes.
5 For the glory of the LORDE shal apeare, & all flesh shal se it, for
why, ye mouth of the LORDE hath spoken it.
6 The same voyce spake: Now crie. And I sayde: what shal I crie? Then
spake it: that, all flesh is
grasse
, and that all the bewtie therof, is as the floure of the felde.
7 When the
grasse
is wytthered, the floure falleth awaye. Euen so is the people as
grasse
, when the breath of the LORDE bloweth vpon them.
8 Neuerthelesse whether the
grasse
wyther, or the floure fade awaye: Yet the worde of oure God endureth for euer.
Morouer the voyce cried thus:
9 Go vp vnto the hill (o Sion) thou that bringest good tidinges, lift vp
thy voyce with power, o thou preacher Ierusalem. Lift it vp without feare, and
say vnto the cities of Iuda: Beholde, youre God:
10 beholde, the LORDE, euen the almightie sha come with power, &
beare rule with his arme. Beholde, he bringeth his treasure with him, and his
workes go before him.
11 He shal fede his flock like an hirdman. He shal gather the lambes
together with his arme, and carie them in his bosome, & shal kindly intreate
those that beare yonge.
12 Who hath holden the waters in his fist? Who hath measured heauen with
his spanne, and hath comprehended all the earth of ye worlde in thre fyngers?
Who hath weyed the mountaynes and hilles?
13 Who hath refourmed the mynde of the LORDE? Or who is of his councel to
teach him?
14 At whom hath he asked coucel, to make him vnderstode, and to lerne him
the waye of iudgment: to teach him science, and to enstructe him in the waye of
vnderstodinge?
15 Beholde, all people are in coparison of him, as a droppe to a
bucketfull, and are counted as the leest thinge yt the balaunce weyeth. Beholde,
ye Iles are in comparison of him, as the shadowe of the Sonne beame.
16 Libanus is not sufficiet to ministre fyre for his offringe, and all
the beastes therof are not ynough to one sacrifice.
17 All people in comparison of him, are rekened, as nothinge, yee vayne
vanite and emptynesse.
18 To whom then will ye licke God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto
him?
19 Shal the caruer make him a carued ymage? and shal the goldsmyth couer
him with golde, or cast him in to a fourme of syluer plates?
20 Morouer shal the ymage maker (yt the poore man which is disposed, maye
haue somthinge to set vp also) seke out and chose a tre, that is not rotten, and
carue ther out an ymage, yt moueth not?
21 Knowe ye not this? Herde ye neuer of it? Hath it not bene preached
vnto you sence the hegynnynge? Haue ye not bene enfourmed of this, sence the
foundacion of ye earth was layde:
22 That he sytteth vpon the Circle of the worlde, and that all the
inhabitours of the worlde are in coparison of him, but as greshoppers: That he
spredeth out the heaues as a coueringe, that he stretcheth them out, as. a tent
to dwell in:
23 That he bringeth princes to nothinge, and the iudges of the earth to
dust:
24 so that they be not planted nor sowen agayne, nether their stocke
rooted agayne in the earth? For as soone as he bloweth vpon them, they wither
& fade awaye, like the strawe in a whirle wynde.
25 To whom now wil ye licken me, & whom shal I be like, saieth the
holy one?
26 Lift vp youre eyes an hie, and considre. Who hath made those thinges,
which come out by so greate heapes? and he can call them all by their names. For
there is nothinge hyd vnto the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might.
27 How maye then Iacob thinke, or how maye
Israel
saye: My wayes are hyd from the LORDE, and my God knoweth not of my iudgmentes.
28 Knowest thou not, or hast thou not herde, that the euerlastinge God,
the LORDE which made all the corners of the earth, is nether weery nor faynt,
and that his wisdome can not be comprehended:
29 but that he geueth strength vnto the weery, and power vnto the faynte?
30 Children are weery and faynt, and the strongest men fall:
31 But vnto them that haue the LORDE before their eyes, shal strength be
encreased, Aegles wynges shal growe vpon them: When they runne, they shal not
fall: and when they go, they shal not be weery.
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1 Be still (ye Ilondes) and herken vnto me. Be stronge ye people, Come
hither, and shew youre cause, we will go to the lawe together.
2 Who rayseth vp ye iuste from the rysinge of the Sonne, and calleth him
to go forth? Who casteth downe the people, and subdueth the kinges before him:
that he maye throwe them all to the groude with his swearde, and scatre them
like stuble with his bowe?
3 He foloweth vpon them, and goeth safely himself, and cometh in no
footpath with his fete.
4 Who hath made, created, and called the generacions from the begynnynge?
Euen I the LORDE, which am the first, and with the last.
5 Beholde ye Iles, that ye maye feare, and ye endes of the earth, that ye
maye be abasshed, draw nye, and come hither.
6 Euery man hath exorted his neghboure, and brother, and bydden him be stronge.
7 The Smyth conforted the moulder, & the Ironsmyth the hammerman,
sayenge: It shalbe good, that we fasten this cast worke: and then they fastened
it with nales, that it shulde not be moued.
8 And thou Israel my seruaunt: Iacob my electe sede of Abraha my beloued,
9 whom I led from the endes of the earth by the honde: For I called the
from farre, & saide vnto the: Thou shalt be my seruaunt: I haue chosen the,
& will not cast ye awaye:
10 be not afrayde, for I wil be with ye.
Lake
not behinde ye, for I wil be thy God, to stregth ye, helpe ye, & to kepe ye
with this right hode of myne.
11 Beholde, all they that resist the, shal come to confucion and shame:
and thine aduersaries shalbe destroyed & brought to naught.
12 So that who so seketh after them, shal not fynde them. Thy destroyers
shal perish, & so shall they that vndertake to make batell agaynst the.
13 For I thy LORDE & God, wil strength thy right honde. Euen I that
saye vnto the: Feare not, I will helpe the.
14 Be not afrayde thou litle worme Iacob, and thou despysed
Israel
: For I will helpe the, saieth the LORDE, & the holyone of
Israel
thine avenger.
15 Beholde, I wil make the a treadinge cart & a new flale, yt thou
mayest throsshe & grynde the mountaynes, and bringe the hilles to poulder.
16 Thou shalt fanne them, & the wynde shal carie them awaye, &
the whyrlwynde shal scatre the. But thou shalt reioyse in the LORDE, and shalt
delite in praysinge the holyone of
Israel
.
17 When the thurstie and poore seke water & fynde none, & when
their tunge is drie of thurst: I geue it them, saieth the LORDE. I the God of
Israel forsake them not.
18 I bringe forth floudes in the hilles, & welles in the playne
feldes. I turne ye wildernes to ryuers, and the drie londe to condytes of water.
19 I plante in the wayst grounde trees of Cedre, Boxe, Myrre and olyues.
And in the drie, I set Fyrre trees, elmes and
hawthornes
together.
20 All this do I, yt they altogether maye se and marcke, perceaue with
their hertes, & considre: that the honde of the LORDE maketh these thinges,
and that the holyone of
Israel
bringeth them to passe.
21 Stonde at youre cause (saieth the LORDE) and bringe forth youre
strogest grounde, counceleth the kinge of Iacob.
22 Let the goddes come forth them selues, and shewe vs the thinges ye are
past, what they be: let the declare the vnto vs, yt we maye take them to herte,
and knowe them herafter.
23 Ether, let the shewe vs thinges for to come, and tel vs what shalbe
done herafter: so shal we knowe, that they be goddes. Shewe somthinge, ether
good or bad, so wil we both knowlege ye same, & tel it out.
24 Beholde, ye goddes are of naught, & yor makinge is of naught, but
abhomination hath chosen you.
25 Neuertheles I haue waked vp one from the North, & he shal come.
And another from the East, which shal call vpo my name, & shal come to the
prynces, as the Potter to his claye, & as ye Potter treadeth downe the myre.
26 Who tolde yt afore? So wil we confesse & saye, that he is
rightuous. But there is none that sheweth or declareth eny thinge, there is none
also that heareth youre wordes.
27 Beholde, I will first graute the of Sion & Ierusalem to be Euangelistes.
28 But when I cosidre: there is not one amonge the yt prophecieth, nether
(when I axe him) yt answereth one worde.
29 Lo, wicked are they & vayne, with the thinges also that they take
in honde: yee wynde are they, and emptynesse, with their ymages together.
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1 Beholde now therfore, this is my seruaunt whom I will kepe to my self:
my electe, In whom my soule shalbe pacified. I will geue him my sprete, that he
maye shewe forth iudgment & equyte amonge the Gentiles.
2 He shal not be an outcryer, ner an hie mynded person. His voyce shall
not be herde in ye stretes.
3 A brussedrede shal he not breake, & the smokinge flax shal he not
quench: but faithfully & truly shal he geue iudgmet.
4 He shal nether be ouersene ner haistie, that he maye restore
rightuousnesse vnto the earth: & the Getiles also shal kepe his lawes.
5 For thus saieth God the LORDE vnto him (Euen he that made the heauens,
and spred them abrode, & set forth the earth with hir encrease: which geueth
breath vnto the people that is in it, & to them that dwel therin)
6 I the LORDE haue called ye in rightuousnesse, & led the by the
honde. Therfore wil I also defende the, & geue the for a couenaunt of the
people, & to be the light of the Getiles.
7 That thou mayest open the eyes of the blinde, let out the prysoners,
& them that syt in darknesse, out of the dongeon house.
8 I my self, whose name is the LORDE, which geue my power to none other,
nether myne honoure to the goddes:
9 shewe you these new tidinges, and tel you them or they come, for olde
thinges also are come to passe.
10 Synge therfore vnto the LORDE, a new songe of thakes geuynge, blow out
his prayse vnto the ende of the worlde. They that be vpon the see, & all
that is therin, prayse him, the Iles & they that dwel in them.
11 Let the wildernes with hir cities lift vp hir voyce, the townes also
that be in Cedar. Let them be glad that syt vpon rockes of stone, and let them
crie downe from the hie mountaynes:
12 ascribinge almightynes vnto the LORDE, & magnifienge him amonge
the Getiles.
13 The LORDE shal come forth as a gyaunte, and take a stomacke to him
like a fresh man of warre. He shal roare and crie, and ouercome his enemies.
14 I haue longe holden my peace (saieth the LORDE) shulde I therfore be
still, and kepe sylence for euer? I will crie like a trauelinge woman, and once
wil I destroye, and deuoure.
15 I wil make waist both mountayne & hill, & drie vp euery grene
thinge, that groweth theron. I wil drie vp the floudes of water, & drinke vp
the ryuers.
16 I wil bringe the blinde into a strete, that they knowe not: and lede
them in to a fotepath, that they are ignoraunt in. I shal make darknesse light
before the, & the thinge yt is croked, to be straight. These thinges will I
do, & not forget them.
17 And therfore let them conuerte, and be ashamed earnestly, that hope in
Idols, & saye to fashioned ymages: ye are oure godes.
18 Heare, o ye deaf men, and sharpen youre sightes to se (o ye blinde.)
19 But who is blynder, the my seruaunt? Or so deaf, as my messaungers,
whom I sent vnto them? For who is so blynde as my people, & they yt haue the
rule of them?
20 They are like, as yf thou vnderstodest moch, and keptest nothinge: or
yf one herde well, but were not obedient.
21 The LORDE be merciful vnto them for his rightuousnesse sake, that his
worde might be magnified & praysed.
22 But it is a myscheuous & wiked people. Their yonge men belonge all
to the snare, & shalbe shut in to preson houses. They shal be caried awaye
captyue and no man shal lowse them. They shal be trode vnder fote, & no man
shal laboure to bringe the agayne.
23 But who is he amonge you, yt pondreth this in his mynde, yt considreth
it, & taketh it for a warnynge in tyme to come?
24 Who suffred Iacob to be trodden vnder fote, and
Israel
to be spoyled? dyd not the LORDE? Now haue we synned agaynst him, and haue had
no delite to walke in his wayes, nether bene obedient vnto his lawe.
25 Therfore hath he poured vpon vs his wroothful displeasure, and stroge
batell, which maketh vs haue to do on euery syde, yet will we not vnderstode: He
burneth vs vp, yet syncketh it not in to oure hartes.
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1 Bvt now, the LORDE that made the (o Iacob) and he that fashioned the (o
Israel
) saieth thus: Feare not, for I will defende ye. I haue called ye by thy name,
thou art myne owne.
2 When thou wentest in the water, I was by the, that the stroge floudes
shulde not pluck ye awaye: When thou walkest in the fyre, it shal not burne ye,
and the flame shall not kindle vpon the.
3 For I am the LORDE thy God, the holyone of
Israel
, thy Sauioure. I gaue Egipte for yi delyueraunce, the Moryas and the Sabees for
the:
4 because thou wast deare in my sight, and because I set by the, and
loued the. I pilled all men for the, and delyuered vp all people for thy sake,
5 that thou shuldest not feare, for I was with the. I wil bringe thy sede
from the east, and gather the together from the west.
6 I wil saye to the north: let go. And to the south, kepe not backe: But
bringe me my sonnes from farre, and my doughters from the endes of the worlde:
7 Namely, all those that be called after my name: For the haue I created,
fashioned, and made for myne honoure.
8 Bringe forth that people, whether they haue eyes or be blynde, deaf or
haue eares.
9 All nacions shal come in one, and be gathered in one people. But which
amonge yonder goddes shall declare soch thinges, & tell vs what is to come?
Let them bringe their witnesses, so shal they be fre: for the men shal heare it,
and saye: it is truth.
10 But I bringe you witnesses (saith the LORDE) euen those that are my
seruauntes, whom I haue chosen: to the intent that ye might be certified, and
geue me faithful credence: yee and to cosidre, that I am he, before whom there
was neuer eny God, and that there shalbe none after me.
11 I am only the LORDE, and without me is there no Sauioure.
12 I geue warnynge, I make whole, I teach you, that there shulde be no
straunge God amonge you. And this recorde must ye beare me youre selues (saieth
the LORDE) that I am God.
13 And euen he am I from the begynnynge, and there is none, that can take
eny thinge out of my honde. And what I do, can no man chaunge.
14 Thus saieth the LORDE the holy one of
Israel
youre redemer: For youre sake I will sende to Babilon, and bringe all the
strongest of them from thence: Namely, the Caldees that boost them of their
shippes:
15 Euen I the LORDE youre holy one which haue made
Israel
, and am youre kinge.
16 Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE (Euen he that maketh a waye in the see,
and a footpath in the mightie waters:
17 which bringeth forth the charettes and horses, the hooste and the
power, that they maye fall a slepe and neuer ryse, and be extincte, like as tow
is quenched.
18 Ye remembre not thinges of olde, and regarde nothinge that is past.
19 Therfore beholde, I shal make a new thinge, and shortly shall it
apeare: Ye shall well knowe it, I tolde it you afore, but I will tell it you
agaane. I will make stretes in the deserte, and ryuers of water in the
wildernesse.
20 The wilde beastes shal worshippe me: the dragon, and the Estrich. For
I shall geue water in ye wildernesse, and streames in the deserte: that I maye
geue drike to my people, whom I chose.
21 This people haue I made for my self, and they shal shewe forth my prayse.
22 For thou (Iacob) woldest not call vpon me, but thou haddest an vnlust
towarde me, o
Israel
.
23 Thou gauest me not thy yonge beastes for burntoffringes, nether didest
honoure me with thy sacrifices. Thou boughtest me no deare spice with thi money,
nether pouredest the fat of thy sacrifices vpon me. Howbeit I haue not bene
chargeable vnto the in offriges, nether greuous in Incense.
24 But thou hast lade me with thy synnes, and weeried me with thy vngodlynes:
25 Where as I yet am euen he only, that for myne owne selfes sake do
awaye thine offences, & forget thy synnes: so that I wil neuer thinke vpon
them.
26 Put me now in remembraunce (for we will reason together) & shewe
what thou hast for the, to make the quyte.
27 Thy first father offended sore, and thy rulers haue synned agaynst me
28 Therfore I ether suspended, or slewe the chefest prynces: I dyd curse
Iacob, and gaue
Israel
into reprofe.
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1 So heare now, o Iacob my seruaunt, and
Israel
whom I haue chose.
2 For thus saieth the LORDE, that made the, fashioned the, and helped
the, euen from thy mothers wombe: Be not afrayde (o Iacob my seruaunte,) thou
rightuous, whom I haue chosen.
3 For I shal poure water vpon the drie grounde, and ryuers vpon the
thurstie. I shal poure my sprete vpon thi sede, and myne encrease vpo thy stocke.
4 They shal growe together, like as the
grasse
, and as the Willies by the waters side.
5 One will saye: I am the LORDES. Another wil call vnder the name of
Iacob. The thirde shal subscrybe with his honde vnto ye LORDE, and geue him self
vnder the name of
Israel
.
6 Morouer, thus hath the LORDE spoke: euen the kinge of
Israel
, and his avenger, ye LORDE of hoostes: I am the first, and the last, and
without me is there no God.
7 For what is he, that euer was like me, which am from euerlastinge? Let
him shewe his name and do wherthorow he maye be lickened vnto me. Let him tell
you forth planely thiges, that are past and for to come:
8 yee and that without eny feare or stoppe. For haue not I euer tolde you
hyther to, & warned you? Ye can beare me recorde youre selues. Is there eny
God excepte me? or eny maker, that I shulde not knowe him?
9 Wherfore all caruers of Idols are but vayne, and their laboure lost.
They must beare recorde them selues, that (seinge they can nether se ner
vnderstonde) they shalbe confounded.
10 Who shulde now make a god, or fashio an Idol, that is profitable for nothinge?
11 Beholde all the felashippe of the must be brought to confucion. Let
all the workmasters of them come and stonde together from amonge men: they must
be abashed and confouded one with another.
12 The smyth taketh yron, and tempreth it with hote coles, and fashioneth
it with hammers, & maketh it wt all the strength of his armes: Yee somtyme
he is faynt for very hunger, and so thurstie, that he hath no more power.
13 The carpenter (or ymage caruer) taketh me the tymbre, and spredeth
forth his lyne: he marketh it with some coloure: he playneth it, he ruleth it,
ad squareth it, and maketh it after the ymage of a man, and acordinge to the
bewtie of a man: that it maye stonde in the temple.
14 Morouer, he goeth out to hewe downe Cedre trees: He bringeth home
Elmes and okes, and other tymbre of the wodd. Or els the Fyrre trees which he
planted himself, ad soch as the rayne hath swelled,
15 which wodde serueth for me to burne. Of this he taketh and warmeth
himself withall: he maketh a fyre of it to bake bred. And after warde maketh a
god there of, to honoure it: and an Idol, to knele before it.
16 One pece he burneth in the fyre, with another he rosteth flesh, that
he maye eate roste his bely full: with the thirde he warmeth himself, and saieth:
Aha: I am well warmed, I haue bene at the fyre.
17 And of the residue, he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He
kneleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and sayeth: delyuer
me, for thou art my god.
18 Yet men nether considre ner vnderstonde, because their eyes are
stopped, that they can not se: and their hertes, that they cannot perceaue.
19 They pondre not in their myndes (for they haue nether knowlege ner
vnderstodinge) to thinke thus: I haue bret one pece in the fyre, I haue baked
bred wt ye coles there of, I haue rosted flesh withall, & eaten it: Shal I
now of the residue make an abhominacion, and fall downe before a rotten pece of
wodd?
20 The kepinge of dust, and folishnesse of herte hath turned them a syde:
so that none of them can haue a fre conscience to thinke: maye not I erre?
21 Cosidre this (o Iacob and
Israel
) for thou art my seruaut. I haue made the, that thou mightest serue me. O
Israel, forget me not.
22 As for thyne offences, I dryue them awaye like the cloudes, and thy
synnes as the myst. Turne ye agayne vnto me, & I will delyuer ye.
23 Be glad ye heauens, whom the LORDE hath made, let all yt is here
beneth vpon the earth, be ioyfull. Reioyse ye mountaynes & woddes, with all
the trees that are in you: for ye LORDE shal redeme Iacob, & shewe his glory
vpon
Israel
.
24 For thus saieth the LORDE thy redemer, euen he that fashioned the from
thy mothers wombe: I am the LORDE, which do all thinges my self alone. I only
haue spred out the heauens, and I only haue layde the foundacion of the earth.
25 I destroye the tokens of witches, and make the Sothsayers go wronge.
As for the wise, I turne them bacward, and make their conninge folishnesse.
26 But I set vp the purpose of my seruauntes, and fulfil the councel of
my messaugers. I saye to Ierusale: turne agayne: And to the cities of Iuda, be
ye buylded agayne: and I repayre their decayed places.
27 I saye to the grounde: be drie. And I drie vp thy water floudes.
28 I saye to Cirus: thou art myne hyrd man, so that he shal fulfill all
thinges after my will. I saye to Ierusalem: be thou buylded, and to the teple:
be thou fast grounded.
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1 Thus saieth the LORDE vnto Cirus his anoynted, whom he ledeth by ye
right hode: that the people maye fall downe before him: I wil lowse the gyrdle
of kinges, yt they shal open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their
dores.
2 I wil go before the, and make the croked straight. I shal breake the
brasen dores, & burst the yron barres.
3 I shall geue the the hyd treasure, & the thinge which is secretly
kepte: that thou mayest knowe, yt I the God of Israel haue called the by thy
name:
4 and that for Iacob my seruaunt sake, & for
Israel
my chosen. For I called the by yi name, and ordened the, or euer thou knewest
me:
5 Euen I the LORDE, before whom there is none other, for wt out me there
is no God I haue prepared the, or euer thou knewest me:
6 that it might be knowne from the risynge of the Sonne to the goinge
downe of the same, that all is nothinge without me. For I am the LORDE, &
there is els none.
7 It is I yt created the light and darcknes, I make peace and trouble:
Yee euen I the LORDE do all these thinges.
8 The heauens aboue shal droppe downe, and the cloudes shal rayne
rightuousnes. The earth shal open itself, and brynge forth health, and therby
shal rightuousnes florish. Euen I the LORDE shal bringe it to passe.
9 Wo be vnto him that chydeth wt his maker, the potsherde with the
potter. Saieth ye claye to the potter: What makest thou? or, yi worke serueth
for nothige?
10 Wo be vnto him, yt saieth to his father: why begettest thou? And to
his mother: why bearest thou?
11 Thus saieth the LORDE, euen the holy one & maker of
Israel
: Axe me of thinges for to come, concernynge my sonnes: and put me in
remebraunce, as touchinge the workes of my hodes:
12 I haue made the earth, and created ma vpon it. With my hondes haue I
spred forth heauen, and geuen a commaundment for all the hooste therof.
13 I shal wake him vp with rightuousnesse, and ordre all his wayes. He
shal buylde my cite, & let out my prisoners: & that nether for gift nor
rewardes, saieth the LORDE of hoostes.
14 The LORDE hath sayde morouer: The occupiers of Egipte, the marchauntes
of the Moryans and Sabees, shal come vnto the with tribute, they shalbe thine,
they shal folowe the, and go with cheynes vpon their fete. They shal fall downe
before the, and make supplicacion vnto the. For God (wt out who there is none
other God) shal be with the.
15 O how profounde art thou o God, thou God & Sauioure of
Israel
?
16 Confounded be ye, and put to dishonoure: go hence together with shame,
all ye that be workmasters of erroure: (that is worshippers of Idols)
17 But Israel shalbe saued in the LORDE, which is the euerlastinge
saluacio: They shal not come to shame ner confucion, worlde without ende.
18 For thus sayeth the LORDE: euen he that created heauen, the God yt
made the earth, that fashioned it, and set it forth: I haue not made it for
naught, but I made it to be enhabited: Euen I the LORDE, without whom there is
none other.
19 I haue not spoken secretly, nether in darcke places of the earth. It
is not for naught, that I sayde vnto the sede of Iacob: seke me. I am the LORDE,
which whe I speake, declare the thinge that is rightuous and true.
Isa 45:20 Let the be gathered & come together, let the drawe nye hyther, yt
are escaped of the people: Haue they eny vnderstondinge, that set vp the stockes
of their Idols, and praye vnto a god, that ca not helpe the?
21 Let men drawe nye, let them come hither, ad aske councel one at
another, and shewe forth: What is he, that tolde this before? or, who spake of
it, euer sence the begynnynge? Haue not I ye LORDE done it: without whom there
is none other God? the true God and sauioure, and there is els none but I?
22 And therfore turne you vnto me (all ye endes of the earth) so shal ye
be saued, for I am God, & there is els none.
23 I sweare by myself: out of my mouth cometh ye worde of rightuousnesse,
and that maye no man turne: but all knees shal bowe vnto me, and all tunges shal
sweare by me,
24 sayenge: Verely in the LORDE is my rightuousnes and strength. To him
shal me come: but all they that thinke scorne of him, shalbe confounded.
25 And the whole sede of
Israel
shalbe iustified, & praysed in ye LORDE.
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1 Neuertheles Bel shal fall, & Nabo shalbe broken: whose ymages are a
burthe for the beastes and catell, to ouerlade the, and to make them weery.
2 They shal syncke downe, and fall together: for they maye not ease them
of their burthen, therfore must they go in to captiuyte.
3 Herken vnto me, o house of Iacob, and all ye that remayne yet of the
housholde of Israel: whom I haue borne from youre mothers wombe, and brought you
vp from yor byrth, till ye were growen:
4 I I which shall beare you vnto youre last age: I haue made you, I will
also norish you, beare you and saue you.
5 Whom will ye make me like, in fashion or ymage, that I maye be like
him?
6 Ye fooles (no doute) wil take out syluer and golde out of youre purses,
and weye it, and hyre a goldsmyth to make a god of it, that men maye knele downe
and worshipe it.
7 Yet must he be taken on mens shulders and borne, and set in his place,
that he maye stonde and not moue. Alas that men shulde crie vnto him, which
geueth no answere: and delyuereth not the man that calleth vpon him, from his
trouble.
8 Considre this well, and be ashamed, Go in to youre owne selues (O ye
runnagates).
9 Remembre the thinges which are past, sence the begynnynge of the worlde:
that I am God, and that there is els no God, yee and yt there is nothinge like
vnto me.
10 In the begynnynge of a thinge, I shewe the ende therof: and I tel
before, thinges that are not yet come to passe. With one worde is my deuyce
accomplished, & fulfilleth all my pleasure.
11 I call a byrde out of the east, and all that I take in honde, out of
farre countrees. As soone as I commaunde, I bringe it hither: as soone as I
thinke to deuyse a thinge, I do it.
12 Heare me, o ye that are of an hie stomack, but farre from rightuousnesse.
13 I shal bringe forth my rightuousnesse, It is not farre, and my health
shal not tarie longe awaye. I wil laye health in Sio, and geue
Israel
my glory.
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1 But as for the (O doughter, thou virgin Babilon) thou shalt syt in the
dust. Thou shalt syt vpon the groude, and not in a trone (o thou mayden of
Chaldea
). Thou shalt nomore be called tender, and pleasaut.
2 Thou shalt bringe forth the querne, & grynede meel, put downe thy
stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade thorow the water ryuers.
3 Thy shame shalbe discouered, ad thy preuyties shal be sene. For I wil
auenge me of the, and no man shal let me:
4 saieth oure redemer, which is called the LORDE of hoostes, the holy one
of
Israel
.
5 Syt still, holde thy tunge, and get the in to some darcke corner (O
doughter Caldea) for thou shalt nomore be called lady of kyngdomes.
6 I was so wroth with my people, yt I punyshed myne enheritaunce, and
gaue them in to thy power. Neuertheles, thou shewdest them no mercy, but euen
the very aged men of the, didest thou oppresse right sore with thy yock,
7 & thou thoughtest thus: I shalbe lady for euer. And besyde all
that, thou hast not regarded these thinges, nether cast, what shulde come after.
8 Heare now therfore, thou wilful, that syttest so carelesse, &
speakest thus in thine herte: I am alone, and without me is there none: I shal
neuer be wydow, ner desolate agayne.
9 And yet both these thiges shal come to the vpo one daye in the
twincklinge of an eye: Namely, wyddowhead, and desolacion. They shal mightely
fall vpon the, for ye multitude of thy witches, and for the greate heape of thy
coniurers.
10 For thou hast conforted thy self in thy disceatfulnes, and hast sayde:
No ma seith me. Thyne owne wisdome & connynge haue disceaued the, In that
thou hast sayde: I am alone, and without me there is none.
11 Therfore shal trouble come vpo ye, & thou shalt not knowe, from
whece it shal arise. Myschefe shal fall vpo ye, which thou shalt not be able to
put of. A sodane misery shal come vpon the, or euer thou be awarre.
12 Now go to thy coniurers, and to the multitude of thy witches, (whom
thou hast bene acquanted withal from thi youth) yf they maye helpe the, or
strengthe the.
13 Thou hast hither to had many councels of them, so let the heauengasers
& the beholders of starres, come on now and delyuer the: yee and let the
shewe, when these new thinges shall come vpon the.
14 Beholde, they shalbe like strawe, which yf it be kindled with fyre, no
man maye rydde it for the vehemence of the flame: And yet it geueth no zynders
to warme a ma by, ner cleare fyre to syt by.
15 Euen so shal they be vnto the, whom thou hast vsed & occupide from
thy youth. Euery one shal shewe ye his erroneous waye, yet shall none of them
defende the.
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1 Heare this, O thou house of Iacob: ye yt are called by the name of
Israel, and are come out of one stocke wt Iuda: which sweare by the name of the
LORDE, and beare witnesse by the God of Israel (but not wt treuth and right)
2 which are called fre men of the holy citie, as they that loke for
conforth in the God of Israel, whose name is the LORDE of hoostes.
3 The thinges that I shewed you euer sence the begynnynge: Haue I not
brought the to passe, immediatly as they came out of my mouth, and declared
them? And they are come?
4 Howbeit I knewe that thou art obstinate, and that thy neck hath an yron
vane, and that thy brow is of brasse.
5 Neuertheles I haue euer sence the begynnynge shewed the of thinges for
to come, and declared the vnto the, or euer they came to passe: that thou
shuldest not saye: myne Idol hath done it, my carued or cast ymage hath shewed
it.
6 Heare & considre all these thinges, whether it was ye that
prophecied the: But as for me, I tolde the before at the begynnynge, new &
secrete thinges, yt thou knewest not of:
7 And some done now not of olde time, wherof thou neuer herdest, before
they were brought to passe: that thou canst not saye: I knewe of them.
8 Morouer there be some wherof thou hast nether herde ner knowne, nether
haue they bene opened vnto thine eares afore tyme. For I knew that thou woldest
maliciousli offende, therfore haue I called the a transgressoure, euen from thy
mothers wombe.
9 Neuertheles for my names sake, I haue withdrawen my wrath, and for myne
honours sake I haue ouersene the, so that I haue not rooted the out.
10 Beholde I haue pourged the, and not for moneye. I haue chosen the in
the fyre of pouerte,
11 And that only for myne owne sake, for I geue myne Honoure to none
other, that thou shuldest not despise me.
12 Herken vnto me o Iacob, &
Israel
who I haue called. I am euen he that is, I am ye first and the last.
13 My honde is the foundacion of the earth, & my right honde spanneth
ouer the heauens. As soone as I called the they were there.
14 Gather you all together, ad herken: Which of yonder goddes hath
declared this, that the LORDE wil do by the kinge of Babilon, (whom he loueth
& fauoureth) and by the Caldees his arme?
15 I my self alone haue tolde you this before. Yee I shal call him and
bringe him forth, & geue him a prosperous iourneye.
16 Come nye & heare this: haue I spoke eny thige darckly sence the
begynnynge? whe a thige begynneth, I am there. Wherfore the LORDE God with his
sprete hath sent me,
17 And thus saieth the LORDE thine avenger, the holyone of Israel: I am
ye LORDE thy God, which teach the profitable thinges, and lede ye the waye, that
thou shuldest go
18 Yf thou wilt now regarde my comaundement, thy welthynes shalbe as the
water streame: & thy rightuousnes as the wawes flowinge in the see.
19 Thy sede shalbe like as the sonde in the see, & the frute of thy
body, like the grauel stones therof: Thy name shal not be roted out, nor
destroyed before me.
20 Ye shal go awaye from Babilon, and escape the Caldees with a mery
voyce. This shalbe spoken of, declared abrode, & go forth vnto the ende of
the worlde: so that it shalbe sayde: The LORDE hath defended his seruaunte Iacob,
21 that they suffred no thurste, whe they trauayled in the wildernesse.
He claue the rockes a sonder, and the water gusshed out.
22 As for the vngodly, they haue no peace, saieth the LORDE.
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1 Herken vnto me, ye Iles, and take hede ye people from farre: The LORDE
hath called me fro my byrth, and made mecion of my name fro my mothers wobe:
2 he hath made my mouth like a sharpe swerde, vnder ye shadowe of his
honde hath he defended me, and hyd me in his quyuer, as a good arowe,
3 and sayde vnto me: Thou art my seruaunt Israel, I wilbe honoured in
the.
4 Then answerde I: I shal lese my laboure, I shal spende my strength in
vayne. Neuertheles, I wil commytte my cause and my worke vnto the LORDE my God.
5 And now saieth the LORDE (eue he that fashioned me fro my mothers wombe
to be his seruaute, that I maye bringe Iacob agayne vnto him: howbeit,
Israel
will not be gathered vnto hi agayne. In whose sight I am greate, which also is
my LORDE, my God and my stregth)
6 Let it be but a smal thinge, that thou art my seruaunt, to set vp the
kinreddes of Iacob, & to restore the destructio of Israel: yf I make the not
also the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my health vnto the ende of
the worlde.
7 Morouer thus saieth the LORDE the aveger and holy one of Israel,
because of the abhorringe and despisinge amonge the Gentiles, concernynge the
seruaunt of all them yt beare rule: Kynges and prynces shal se, and arise and
worshipe, because of the LORDE that he is faithfull: and because of the holy one
of Israel, which hath chosen the.
8 And thus saieth the LORDE: In the tyme apoynted wil I be present with
the. And in the houre of health wil I helpe the, & delyuer the. I wil make
the a pledge for ye people, so yt thou shalt helpe vp the earth agayne, and
chalenge agayne the scatred heretages:
9 That thou mayest saye to ye presoners: go forth, & to them that are
in darknesse: come in to the light, that they maye fede in the hie wayes, &
get their lyuynge in all places.
10 There shal nether hunger ner thurste, heate nor Sonne hurte them. For
he that fauoureth them, shal lede them, and geue them drike of the springe
welles.
11 I will make wayes vpon all my mountaynes, and my fote pathes shalbe
exalted.
12 And beholde, they shal come from farre: lo, some from the north and
west, some from the south.
13 Reioyse ye heauens, and synge prayses thou earth: Talke of ioye ye
hilles, for God wil coforte his people, & haue mercy vpon his, yt be in
trouble.
14 Then shal Sion saye: God hath forsaken me, and the LORDE hath forgotte
me.
15 Doth a wife forget the childe of hir wombe, ad the sonne who she hath
borne? And though she do forget, yet wil not I forget the.
16 Beholde, I haue written the vp vpon my hondes, thy walles are euer in
my sight.
17 They that haue broken the downe, shal make haist to buylde the vp
agayne: and they that made the waist, shal dwell in the.
18 Lift vp thine eyes, and loke aboute the: all these shal gather them
together, and come to the. As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE) thou shalt put
them all vpo the, as an apparell, and gyrde the to the, as a bryde doth hir
Iewels.
19 As for thy londe that lieth desolate, waisted & destroyed: it
shalbe to narow for the, that shal dwell in it. And they yt wolde deuoure the,
shalbe farre awaye.
20 Then the childe who ye bare shall bringe forth vnto ye, shal saye in
thine eare: this place is to narow, syt nye together, yt I maye haue rowme.
21 Then shalt thou thinke by thy self: Who hath begotte me these? seinge
I am bare & aloe, a captyue & an outcast? And who hath norished the vp
for me? I am desolate & alone, but fro whece come these?
22 And therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I will stretch out
myne honde to the Gentiles, and set vp my token to the people. They shal bringe
the thy sonnes in their lappes, & carie thy doughters vnto ye vpon their
shulders.
23 For kinges shalbe thy noursinge fathers, and Quenes shalbe thy
noursinge mothers. They shal fall before the wt their faces flat vpon the earth,
and lick vp the dust of thy fete: that thou mayest knowe, how that I am the
LORDE. And who so putteth his trust in me, shal not be confounded.
24 Who spoyleth the giaunte of his pray? or who taketh the presoner from
the mightie?
25 And therfore thus saieth the LORDE: The prisoners shalbe taken from
the giaunte, and the spoyle delyuered from the violete: for I wil maynteyne thy
cause agaynst thine aduersaries, and saue thy sonnes.
26 And wil fede thine enemies with their owne fleshe, and make the drinke
of their owne bloude, as of swete wyne. And all flesh shal knowe (o Iacob) that
I am the LORDE thy Sauioure, and stronge auenger.
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1 Thus saieth the LORDE: Where is the bill of yor mothers deuorcemet,
that I sent vnto her? or who is the vsurer, to who I solde you? Beholde, for
youre owne offeces are ye solde: & because of youre transgression, is youre
mother forsake.
2 For why wolde no ma receaue me, when I came? & when I called, no
man gaue me answere. Was my hode clene smyte of, that it might not helpe? or,
had I not power to delyuer? lo, at a worde I drike vp the see, & of water
floudes I make drie lode: so yt for want of water, the fish corruppe, and die of
thurst.
3 As for heauen, I clooth it with darcknesse, and put a sack vpon it.
4 The LORDE God hath geue me a wel lerned tuge, so that I can conforte
them which are troubled, yee & yt in due season. He waked myne eare vp by
tymes in ye mornynge (as ye scolemasters do) yt I might herke.
5 The LORDE God hath opened myne eare, therfore ca I not saye naye, ner
wt drawe myself,
6 but I offre my backe vnto ye smyters, and my chees to the nyppers. I
turne not my face fro shame ad spittinge,
7 for the LORDE God helpeth me, therfore shal I not be cofounded. I haue
hardened my face like a flynt stone, for I am sure, that I shal not come to
confucion.
8 Myne aduocate speaketh for me, who wil then go with me to lawe? Let vs
stode one agaynst another: yf there be eny that wil reason with me, let him come
here forth to me.
9 Beholde, the LORDE God stondeth by me, what is he that can condempne
me? lo, they shalbe all like as an olde cloth, which ye mothes shal eate vp.
10 Therfore who so feareth the LORDE amoge you, let him heare the voyce
of his seruaut. Who so walketh in darcknesse, & no light shyneth vpo him,
let him hope in the LORDE, and holde him by his God.
11 But take hede, ye haue all kyndled a fyre, and gyrded youre selues
with the flame: Ye walke in the glistrige of youre owne fyre, and in the flame
that ye haue kyndled. This cometh vnto you fro my honde, namely, yt ye shal
slepe in sorowe.
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1 Herken vnto me, ye that holde of rightuousnes, ye that seke the LORDE.
Take hede vnto the stone, wherout ye are hewen, and to the graue wherout ye are
digged.
2 Considre Abraham youre father, & Sara that bare you: how that I
called him alone, prospered him wel, & encreased him:
3 how the LORDE conforted Sio, and repayred all hir decaye: makinge hir
deserte as a
Paradise
, and hir wildernesse as the garden of the LORDE. Myrth and ioye was there,
thankesgeuynge and ye voyce of prayse.
4 Haue respecte vnto me then (o my people) and laye thine eare to me: for
a lawe, and an ordinaunce shal go forth fro me, to lighten the Gentiles.
5 It is hard by, that my health & my rightuousnesse shal go forth,
and the people shalbe ordred with myne arme. The Ilondes (that is ye Gentiles)
shal hope in me, and put their trust in myne arme.
6 Lift vp youre eyes toward heaue, and loke vpon the earth beneth. For
the heauens shal vanish awaye like smoke, and the earth shall teare like a
clothe, & they that dwel therin, shal perish in like maner. But my health
endureth for euer, and my rightuousnes shall not ceasse.
7 Therfore hercken vnto me, ye yt haue pleasure in rightuousnes, thou
people that bearest my lawe in thine herte. Feare not the curse of men, be not
afrayde of their blasphemies & reuylinges:
8 for wormes & mothes shal eat the vp like clothe & woll. But my
rightuousnesse shal endure for euer, & my sauynge health from generacion to
generacion.
9 Wake vp, wake vp, & be stronge: O thou arme of the LORDE: wake vp,
lyke as in tymes past, euer and sence the worlde beganne.
10 Art not thou he, that hast wounded that proude lucifer, and hewen the
dragon in peces? Art not thou euen he, which hast dried vp the depe of the see,
which hast made playne the see grounde, that the delyuered might go thorow?
11 That the redemed of the LORDE, which turned agayne, might come with
ioye vnto Sio, there to endure for euer? That myrth and gladnesse might be with
them: that sorowe & wo might fle from the?
12 Yee I, I am eue he, that in all thiges geueth you consolacion. What
art thou then, that fearest a mortall ma, ye childe of man, which goeth awaye as
doeth the floure?
13 And forgettest the LORDE that made the, that spred out the heauens,
and layde the foundacion of the earth. But thou art euer afrayde for the sight
of thyne oppressoure, which is ready to do harme: Where is the wrath of the
oppressoure?
14 It cometh on fast, it maketh haist to apeare: It shal not perish, yt
it shulde not be able to destroye, nether shal it fayle for faute of norishinge.
15 I am the LORDE yi God, that make the see to be still, and to rage:
whose name is the LORDE of hoostes.
16 I shal put my worde also in thy mouth, and defende the with the
turnynge of my honde: that thou mayest plante the heauens, and laye the
foundacions of the earth, and saye vnto Sion: thou art my people.
17 Awake, Awake, and stonde vp o Ierusalem, thou that from the honde of
the LORDE, hast dronke out the cuppe of his wrath: thou that hast supped of, and
sucked out the slombringe cuppe to the botome.
18 For amonge all the sonnes whom thou hast begotten, there is not one
that maye holde the vp: and not one to lede the by the honde, of all the sonnes
that thou hast norished.
19 Both these thinges are happened vnto the, but who is sory for it? Yee,
destruction, waistinge, hunger & swerde: but who hath conforted the?
20 Thy sonnes lie comfortles at ye heade of euery strete like a take
venyson, & are ful of ye terrible wrath of ye LORDE, & punyshmet of thy
God.
21 And therfore thou miserable & dronke (howbe it not wt wyne) Heare
this:
22 Thus saieth thy LORDE: thy LORDE & God, ye defender of his people:
Beholde, I wil take ye slobrige cuppe out of thy hode, eue ye cuppe wt the
dregges of my wrath: yt fro hence forth thou shalt neuer drinke it more,
23 & wil put it i their hode that trouble the: which haue spoken to
thy soule: stoupe downe, that we maye go ouer the: make thy body eaue with the
grounde, and as the strete to go vpon.
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1 Vp Sion vp, take thy strength vnto the: put on thine honest rayment o
Ierusale, thou citie of the holy one. For from this tyme forth, there shal no
vncircumcised ner vncleane person come in the.
2 Shake the fro the dust, arise & stonde vp, o Ierusale. Pluck out
thy neck from the bode, o thou captyue doughter Sion.
3 For thus saieth the LORDE: Ye are solde for naught, therfore shal ye be
redemed also without eny money.
4 For thus hath the LORDE sayde: My people wete downe afore tyme in to
Egipte, there to be straungers. Afterwarde dyd the kinge of the Assirians
oppresse the, for naught.
5 And now what profit is it to me (saieth ye LORDE) yt my people is frely
caried awaye, & brought in to heuynes by their rulers, and my name euer
still blasphemed? saieth the LORDE.
6 But yt my people maye knowe my name, I my self will speake in that daye.
Beholde, here am
I.
7 O how bewtiful are the fete of the Embassitoure, yt bringeth the
message fro the mountayne, & proclameth peace: yt brigeth the good tydinges,
& preacheth health, & saieth vnto Sion: Thy God is the kinge.
8 Thy watchme shal lift vp their voyce, wt loude voyce shal they preach
of him: for they shal se him present, whe the LORDE shal come agayne to Sion.
9 Be glad, o thou desolate Ierusale, & reioyse together: for the
LORDE will coforte his people, he wil delyuer Ierusale.
10 The LORDE wil make bare his holy arme, & shewe it forth in the
sight of all the Getiles, & all the endes of the earth shal se the sauynge
health of oure God.
11 Awaye, Awaye, get you out fro thence, & touch no vncleane thinge.
Go out from amonge soch, And be cleane, ye that beare the vessell of the LORDE.
12 But ye shal not go out with sedicio, ner make haist as they that fle
awaye: for the LORDE shal go before you, ad the God of Israel shal kepe the
watch.
13 Beholde, my seruaunt shal deale wysely, therfore shal he be magnified,
exalted & greatly honoured.
14 Like as ye multitude shal wodre vpon him, because his face shalbe so
deformed & not as a mans face, & his bewtie like no man:
15 Euen so shal the multitude of the Getiles loke vnto him, & ye
kinges shal shut their mouthes before him. For they yt haue not bene tolde of
him, shal se him: and they yt herde nothinge of him, shal beholde him.
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1 Bvt who geueth credence vnto oure preachinge? Or to who is the arme of
the LORDE knowne?
2 He shal growe before the LORDE like as a brauch, & as a rote in a
drie grounde. He shal haue nether bewty ner fauoure. When we loke vpon him,
there shalbe no fayrnesse: we shal haue no lust vnto him.
3 He shalbe the most symple & despised of all, which yet hath good
experience of sorowes & infirmities. We shal reken him so symple & so
vyle, that we shal hyde oure faces fro him.
4 Howbeit (of a treuth) he only taketh awaye oure infirmite, &
beareth oure payne: Yet we shal iudge him, as though he were plaged and cast
downe of God:
5 where as he (not withstodinge) shal be wouded for oure offences, &
smytten for oure wickednes. For the payne of or punyshmet shalbe layde vpo him,
& wt his stripes shal we be healed.
6 As for vs, we go all astraye (like shepe), euery one turneth his owne
waye. But thorow him, the LORDE pardoneth all or synnes.
7 He shal be payned & troubled, ad shal not ope his mouth. He shalbe
led as a shepe to be slayne, yet shal he be as still as a lambe before the
shearer, & not open his mouth.
8 He shal be had awaye, his cause not herde, & wtout eny iudgment:
Whose generacion yet no man maye nombre, when he shalbe cut of fro the grounde
of the lyvinge: Which punyshment shal go vpon him, for the transgression of my
people.
9 His graue shalbe geue him with the codemned, & his crucifienge with
the theues, Where as he dyd neuer violence ner vnright, nether hath there bene
eny disceatfulnesse in his mouth.
10 Yet hath it pleased ye LORDE to smyte him with infirmite, that when he
had made his soule an offeringe for synne, he might se a loge lastinge sede. And
this device of the LORDE shal prospere in his honde.
11 With trauayle and laboure of his soule, shal he optayne greate riches.
My rightuous seruaunt shall with his wisdome iustifie & delyuer the
multitude, for he shal beare awaye their synnes.
12 Therfore wil I geue him the multitude for his parte, & he shal
deuyde the stroge spoyle because he shal geue ouer his soule to death, &
shalbe rekened amonge the transgressours, which neuertheles shal take awaye ye
synnes of the multitude, and make intercession for the mysdoers.
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1 Therfore be glad now, thou bare that bearest not. Reioyce, synge &
be mery, thou yt art not with childe: For the desolate hath moo children, then
the maried wife, saieth the LORDE.
2 Make thy tente wyder, & sprede out the hanginges of thine habitacio:
spare not, laye forth thy coardes, and make fast thy stakes:
3 for thou shalt breake out on the right syde and on the left, & thy
sede shal haue ye Getiles in possession, ad dwel in the desolate cities.
4 Feare not, for thou shalt not be confouded: Be not ashamed, for thou
shalt not come to confucion. Yee thou shalt forget the shame off thy youth, and
shalt not remembre the dishonoure of thy wedowheade.
5 For he that made the, shalbe thy LORDE & husbonde (whose name is
the LORDE of hoostes) & thine avenger shalbe euen the holy one off
Israel
, the LORDE of the whole worlde.
6 For the LORDE shal call the, beinge as a desolate soroufull woman, and
as a yonge wife that hath broken hir wedlocke: saieth thy God.
7 A litle while haue I forsaken the, but wt greate mercifulnes shal I
take the vp vnto me.
8 Whe I was angrie, I hid my face from the for a litle season, but thorow
euerlastinge goodnesse shal I pardon the, saieth the LORDE thine avenger.
9 And this must be vnto me, as the water of Noe: For like as I haue
sworne yt I wil not bringe the water off Noe eny more vpo the worlde: So haue I
sworne, yt I wil neuer be angrie wt the, ner reproue the:
10 The mountaynes shall remoue, & the hilles shal fall downe: but my
louynge kyndnesse shal not moue, and the bonde off my peace shal not fall downe
fro ye, saieth ye LORDE thy merciful louer.
11 Beholde, thou poore, vexed & despised: I wil make thy walles of
precious stones, & yi foundacio of Saphires,
12 thy wyndowes off Cristall, thi gates of fyne cleare stone, & yi
borders of pleasaut stones.
13 Thy childre shal all be taught of God, & I wil geue the
plenteousnes of peace.
14 In rightuousnes shalt thou be grounded, & be farre fro oppression:
for the which thou nedest not be afrayed, nether for hynderauce, for it shal not
come nye the.
15 Beholde, ye aleaunt yt was farre fro the, shal dwell wt the: & he
yt was somtyne a straunger vnto the, shalbe ioyned wt the:
16 Beholde, I make the smyth yt bloweth the coles in the fyre, & he
maketh a weapon after his hondy worke. I make also the waister to destroye:
17 but all the weapens yt are made agaynst the, shal not prospere. And as
for all tunges, yt shal resiste the in iudgmet, thou shalt ouercome the, &
codemne them. This is the heretage of the LORDES seruauntes, & the
rightuousnes that they shal haue of me, saieth the LORDE.
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1 Come to the waters all ye, yt be thurstie, & ye that haue no moneye.
Come, bye, that ye maye haue to eate. Come, bye wyne & mylck, without eny
money, or moneye worth,
2 Wherfore do ye laye out yor moneye, for the thinge yt fedeth not, and
spende youre laboure aboute the thinge that satisfieth you not? But herke rather
vnto me, ad ye shal eate of the best, & youre soule shal haue hir pleasure
in pleteousnes.
3 Enclyne youre eares, & come vnto me, take hede & youre soule
shal lyue. For I will make an euerlastinge couenaunt with you, eue the sure
mercies of Dauid.
4 Beholde, I shal geue him for a witnesse amoge ye folke, for a prynce
& captayne vnto the people.
5 Lo, thou shalt call an vnknowne people: & a people that had no
knowlege of the, shall runne vnto the: because off the LORDE thy God, ye holy
one of
Israel
, which glorifieth the.
6 Seke the LORDE while he maye be founde, call vpo him while he is nye.
7 Let the vngodly man forsake his wayes, ad the vnrightuous his
ymaginacios, & turne agayne vnto the LORDE, so shal he be merciful vnto him:
and to oure God, for he is redy to forgeue.
8 For thus saieth the LORDE: My thoughtes are not youre thoughtes, &
youre wayes are not my wayes:
9 But as farre as the heauens are hyer then the earth, so farre do my
waies exceade yours, & my thoughtes yours
10 And like as the rayne & snowe cometh downe from heaue, &
returneth not thither agayne, but watereth the earth, maketh it frutefull &
grene, that it maye geue corne & breade vnto the sower:
11 So the worde also that commeth out of my mouth, shal not turne agayne
voyde vnto me, but shal accoplish my wil & prospere in the thinge, wherto I
sende it.
12 And so shal ye go forth wt ioye, & be led with peace. The
mountaynes and hilles shal synge with you for ioye, and all the trees of the
felde shal clappe their hondes.
13 For thornes, there shal growe Fyrre trees, & ye Myrte tre in the
steade of breres. And this shal be done to the prayse of the LORDE, & for an
euerlastinge toke, that shal not be taken awaye.
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1 Thus saieth ye LORDE: Kepe equite, and do right, for my sauynge health
shal come shortly, & my rightuosnes shalbe opened.
2 Blissed is the man yt doth this, & the mans childe which kepeth the
same. He that taketh hede, yt he vnhalowe not the Sabbath (that is) he that
kepeth himself that he do no euel.
3 Then shal not the straunger, which cleaueth to the LORDE, saye: Alas
the LORDE hath shut me cleane out from his people. Nether shal the gelded man
saye: lo, I am a drie tre.
4 For thus saieth the LORDE, first vnto the gelded yt kepeth my Sabbath:
Namely: that holdeth greatly of the thinge that pleaseth me, and kepeth my
couenaut:
5 Vnto them wil I geue in my housholde and with in my walles, a better
heretage & name: the yf they had bene called sonnes & daughters. I wil
geue them an euerlastinge name, that shall not perishe.
6 Agayne, he saieth vnto the straugers that are disposed to sticke to the
LORDE, to serue him, & to loue his name: That they shalbe no bode me. And
all they, which kepe the selues, that they vnhalowe not the Sabbath, namely:
that they fulfill my couenaut:
7 Them wil I bringe to my holy moutayne, & make the ioyfull in my
house of prayer. Their burntoffringes and sacrifices shalbe accepted vpo myne
aulter. for my house shalbe an house of prayer for all people.
8 Thus saieth the LORDE God which gathereth together the scatred of
Israel
: I wil bringe yet another cogregacion to him.
9 All the beastes of the felde, & all the beastes of ye wod, shal
come to deuoure hi.
10 For his watchmen are all blinde, they haue alltogether no
vnderstondinge, they are all domme dogges, not beinge able to barcke, they are
slepery: slogish are they, & lie snortinge:
11 they are shamelesse dogges, yt be neuer satisfied. The sheperdes also
in like maner haue no vnderstondinge, but euery man turneth his owne waye, euery
one after his owne couetousnes, wt all his power.
12 Come (saye they) I wil fetch wyne, so shal we fyll oure selues, that
we maye be dronken. And do tomorow, like as to daye, yee and moch more.
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1 Bvt in the meane season ye righteous perisheth, & no ma regardeth
it in his hert. Good godly people are taken awaye. & no ma cosidreth it.
Namely: that the righteous is conuayed awaye thorow ye wicked:
2 that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly vpon his bed, & lyue
after his owne pleasure.
3 Come hither therfore ye charmers children, ye sonnes of the aduoutrer
& the whore:
4 Wherin take ye youre pleasure? Vpo whom gape ye with yor mouth, &
bleare out yor tonge? Are ye not childre of aduoutry, & a sede of
dissimulaicon?
5 Ye take youre pleasure vnder the okes, & vnder all grene trees, the
childe beynge slayne in the valleys, & dennes of stone.
6 Thy parte shalbe with the stony rockes by the ryuer: Yee euen these
shal be thy parte. For there thou hast poured meat and drynkoffringes vnto the.
Shulde I ouersee that?
7 Thou hast made thy bed vpon hie mountaynes, thou wentest vp thither,
and there hast thou slayne sacrifices.
8 Behynde the dores & postes, hast thou set vp thy remembraunce? When
thou haddest discouered thyself to another then me, when thou wetest downe,
& made thy bed wyder (that is) when thou didest carue the certayne of yonder
Idols, & louedest their couches, where thou sawest the:
9 Thou wentest straight to kinges with oyle & dyuerse oyntmentes
(that is) thou hast sent thy messaungers farre of, and yet art thou fallen in to
the pyt therby.
10 Thou hast had trouble for ye multitude of thyne owne wayes, yet
saydest thou neuer: I wil leaue of. Thou thinkest to haue life (or health) of
thy self, and therfore thou beleuest not that thou art sick.
11 For when wilt thou be abasshed or feare, seinge thou hast broken thy
promyse, & remembrest not me, nether hast me in thine hert? Thinkest thou,
that I also will holde my peace (as afore tyme) yt thou fearest me not?
12 Yee verely I wil declare yi goodnes & yi workes, but they shal not
profit ye.
13 whe thou criest, let yi chosen heape delyuer the. But the wynde shal
take them all awaye, &
cary
the in to ye ayre. Neuertheles, they yt put their trust in me, shal inheret the
londe, and haue my holy hill in possession.
14 And therfore thus he saieth: Make redy, make redy, and clense ye
strete, take vp what ye can out of the waye, that ledeth to my people.
15 For thus saieth the hie and excellet, euen he that dwelleth in
euerlastingnesse, whose name is the holyone: I dwel hie aboue and in the
sanctuary, & with him also, yt is of a cotrite and huble sprete: yt I maye
heale a troubled mynde, and a cotrite herte.
16 For I chide not euer, & am not wroth wt out ende. But ye blastinge
goeth fro me, though I make the breath.
17 I am wroth wt hi for his couetousnes & lust, I smyte him, I hyde
me, and am angrie, whe he turneth himself, and foloweth ye bywaye of his owne
hert.
18 But yf I maye se his right waye agayne, I make him whole, I lede him,
and restore him vnto them whom he maketh ioyful, & that were sory for him.
19 I make the frutes of thakesgeuinge. I geue peace vnto them that are
farre of, and to them that are nye, saye I the LORDE, that make him whole.
20 But the wicked are like the raginge see, that ca not rest, whose water
fometh with the myre & grauel.
21 Eueso ye wicked haue no peace, saieth my God.
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1 And therfore crie now, as loude as thou canst. Leaue not of, lift vp
thy voyce like a tropet, and shewe my people their offences, and ye house of
Iacob their synnes.
2 For they seke me dalye, and wil knowe my wayes, euen as it were a
people that dyd right, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God. They
argue with me concernynge right iudgment, and wil pleate at the lawe with their
God.
3 Wherfore fast we (saye they) and thou seist it not? we put oure liues
to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?
4 Beholde, when ye fast, youre lust remayneth still: for ye do no lesse
violence to youre detters: lo, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smyte him
with youre fist, that speaketh vnto you. Ye fast not (as somtyme) that youre
voyce might be herde aboue.
5 Thynke ye this fast pleaseth me, that a ma shulde chasten himself for a
daye, and to wryth his heade aboute like an hoke in an hairy cloth, & to lye
vpon the earth? Shulde that be called fastinge, or a daye yt pleaseth ye LORDE?
6 But this fastinge pleaseth not me, till ye tyme be thou lowse him out
of bondage, that is in thy daunger: that thou breake the ooth of wicked
bargaynes, that thou let the oppressed go fre, and take from them all maner of
burthens.
7 It pleaseth not me, till thou deale thy bred to the hongrie, &
brynge the poore fatherlesse home in to thy house, when thou seist the naked
that thou couer him, and hyde not thy face fro thine owne flesh.
8 Then shal thy light breake forth as ye mornynge, and thy health florish
right shortly: thy rightuousnesse shal go before the, and ye glory of the LORDE
shal embrace the.
9 Then yf thou callest, the LORDE shal answere the: yf thou criest, he
shal saye: here I am. Yee yf thou layest awaye thy burthens, and holdest thy
fyngers, and ceasest from blasphemous talkinge,
10 yf thou hast compassion vpon the hongrie, and refresshest ye troubled
soule: Then shal thy light springe out in the darknesse, and thy darknesse
shalbe as the noone daye.
11 The LORDE shal euer be thy gyde, and satisfie the desyre of thine hert,
and fyl yi bones with marry. Thou shalt be like a freshwatred garden, and like
the founteyne of water, that neuer leaueth runnynge.
12 Then the places that haue euer bene waist, shalbe buylded of the:
there shalt thou laye a foundacion for many kynreds. Thou shalt be called the
maker vp of hedges, and ye buylder agayne of ye waye of the Sabbath.
13 Yee yf thou turne thy fete from the Sabbath, so that thou do not the
thinge which pleaseth thyself in my holy daye: then shalt thou be called vnto
the pleasaunt, holy & glorious Sabbath of the LORDE, where thou shalt be in
honor: so yt thou do not after thine owne ymaginacion, nether seke thine owne
wil, ner speake thine owne wordes.
14 The shalt thou haue yi pleasure in ye LORDE, which shal carie ye hie
aboue ye earth, & fede the wt the heretage of Iacob thy father: for the
LORDES owne mouth hath so promised.
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1 Beholde the LORDES honde is not so shortened yt it can not helpe,
nether is his eare so stopped yt it maye not heare.
2 But yor mysdedes haue separated you from yor God, & yor synnes hyde
his face from you, yt he heareth you not.
3 For yor hondes are defyled with bloude, and yor fyngers wt
vnrighteousnesse: Yor lippes speake lesynges, & yor tonge setteth out
wickednes.
4 No man regardeth righteousnes, & no ma iudgeth truly Euery man
hopeth in vayne thinges, and ymagineth disceate, coceaueth weerynesse, &
bringeth forth euell.
5 They brede cockatrice egges, & weeue ye spyders webb. Who so eateth
of their egges, dieth. But yf one treade vpon the, there cometh vp a serpent.
6 Their webbe maketh no clothe, & they maye not couer the wt their
labours. Their dedes are ye dedes of wickednes, & ye worke of robbery is in
their hodes.
7 Their fete runne to euell, & they make haist to shed innocet bloude.
Their coucels are wicked coucels, harme & destruccio are in their wayes.
8 But ye waye of peace they knowe not. In their goinges is no equyte,
their wayes are so croked, yt who so euer goeth therin, knoweth nothinge of
peace.
9 And this is ye cause yt equite is so farre fro vs, & yt
rightuousnes cometh not nye vs. We loke for light, lo, it is darknesse: for ye
mornynge shyne, se, we walke in ye darke.
10 We grope like ye blynde vpon ye wall, we grope euen as one yt hath
none eyes. We stomble at ye noone daye, as though it were toward night: in ye
fallinge places, like men yt are half deed.
11 We roare all like Beeres, & mourne stil like doues. We loke for
equite, but there is none: for health, but it is farre fro vs.
12 For or offences are many before ye, & or synnes testifie agaynst
vs. Yee we must cofesse yt we offende, & knowlege, yt we do amysse:
13 Namely, transgresse & dyssemble agaynst ye LORDE, & fall awaye
fro or God: vsinge presuptuous & traytorous ymaginacions, & castinge
false matters in or hertes.
14 And therfore is equyte gone asyde, & righteousnes stodeth farre
of: treuth is fallen downe in the strete, and the thinge that is playne and
open, maye not be shewed.
15 Yee ye treuth is lade in preson, and he that refrayneth himself fro
euel, must be spoyled. When the LORDE sawe this, it displeased him sore, yt
there was no where eny equite.
16 He sawe also, that there was no man, which had pitie therof, or was
greued at it. And he helde him by his owne power, and cleued to his owne
rightuousnes.
17 He put rightuousnes vpo him for a
brest
plate, & set the helmet of health vpo his heade. He put on wrath in steade
of clothige, & toke gelousy aboute him for a cloke:
18 (like as when a man goeth forth wrothfully to recopence his enemies,
& to be avenged of his aduersaries.) Namely, that he might recompence and
rewarde the Ilodes,
19 wherthorow the name of the LORDE might be feared, from the risynge of
the Sone: and his magesty, vnto the goinge downe of the same. For he shal come
as a violent waterstreame, which the wynde of the LORDE hath moued.
20 But vnto Sion there shal come a redemer, and vnto them in Iacob that
turne from wickednesse, saieth the LORDE.
21 I will make this conuenaunt with them (sayeth ye LORDE): My sprete
that is come vpon the, & the wordes which I haue put in yi mouth, shal neuer
go out of thy mouth, nor out of ye mouth of thy childre, no ner out of ye mouth
of thy childers childre, from this tyme forth for euer more.
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1 And therfore get the vp by tymes, for thy light cometh, & the glory
of ye LORDE shal ryse vp vpo ye.
2 For lo, while ye darknesse & cloude couereth the earth & the
people, the LORDE shal shewe the light, & his glory shal be sene in the.
3 The Gentiles shal come to thy light, & kynges to the brightnes yt
springeth forth vpo ye.
4 Lift vp thine eyes, & loke rounde aboute the: All these gather the
selues, & come to the. Sonnes shal come vnto ye from farre, & doughters
shal gather the selues to the on euery side.
5 When thou seist this, thou shalt maruel exceadingly, and thine hert
shalbe opened: when the power of the see shalbe couerted vnto the (that is) whe
the strength of the Gentiles shal come vnto the.
6 The multitude of Camels shal couer ye, the Dromedaries of Madia and
Epha. All they of
Saba
shal come, bringinge golde & incense, & shewinge the prayse of the
LORDE.
7 All the catel of Cedar shalbe gathered vnto ye, the rames of Nabaioth
shal serue the, to be offred vpo myne aulter, which I haue chosen, & in the
house of my glory which I haue garnished.
8 But what are these that fle here like the cloudes, and as the doues
flienge to their wyndowes?
9 The Iles also shal gather the vnto me, and specially the shippes of ye
see: that they maye bringe the sonnes from farre, and their syluer and their
golde with them, vnto the name of the LORDE thy God, vnto the holy one of
Israel
, that hath glorified the.
10 Straugers shal buylde vp thy walles, and their kiges shal do the
seruyce. For when I am angrie, I smyte the: and when it pleaseth me, I pardon
the.
11 Thy gates shal stonde open still both daye and night, and neuer be
shut: that the hooste of the Gentiles maye come, and that their kinges maye be
brought vnto the.
12 For euery people & kingdome that serueth not the, shal perish, and
be distroyed wt the swerde.
13 The glory of libanus shal come vnto the: The Fyrre trees, Boxes &
Cedres together, to garnish the place of my Sanctuary, for I wil glorifie the
place of my fete.
14 Morouer those shal come knelinge vnto the, yt haue vexed the: &
all they that despised ye, shal fall downe at yi fote. Thou shalt be called the
cite of the LORDE, the holy Sion of Israel.
15 Because thou hast bene forsake and hated, so that noman went thorow
the: I wil make the glorious for euer and euer, ad ioyful thorow out all
posterities.
16 Thou shalt sucke the mylck of the Gentiles, and kinges brestes shal
fede the. And thou shalt knowe that I the LORDE am thy Sauioure and defender,
the mighty one of Iacob.
17 For brasse wil I geue the golde, and for yron syluer, for wod brasse,
and for stones yron. I wil make peace thy ruler, and rightuousnes thyne officer.
18 Violence and robbery shal neuer be herde of in thy londe, nether harme
and destruction with in thy borders. Thy walles shalbe called health, & thy
gates the prayse of God
19 The Sonne shal neuer by thy daye light, ad the light of the Moone shal
neuer shyne vnto the: but ye LORDE himself shalbe thy euerlastinge light, &
thy God shalbe thy glory.
20 The Sonne shal neuer go downe, & thy Moone shal not be taken awaye,
for the LORDE himself shalbe thy euerlastinge light, ad thy sorouful dayes shal
be rewarded ye.
21 Thy people shalbe all godly, & possesse the londe for euer: the
floure of my plantinge, the worke of my hondes, wherof I wil reioyce.
22 The yongest & leest shal growe in to a thousande, & the
symplest in to a stronge people. I the LORDE shal shortly bringe this thinge to
passe in his tyme.
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1 The sprete of the LORDE God is wt me, for ye LORDE hath anoynted me,
& sent me, to preach good tydiges vnto the poore, yt I might bynde vp ye
wounded hertes, yt I might preach delyueraunce to ye captyue, & open the
preson to the that are bounde:
2 yt I might declare ye acceptable yeare of ye LORDE, & the daye of
ye avegeaunce of oure God: that I might comforte all them that are in heuynesse,
3 that I might geue vnto them yt mourne in Sion, bewty in the steade of
asshes, ioyful oyntmet for sighinge, pleasaunt raymet for an heuy mide: That
they might be called excellent in rightuousnesse, a platinge of the LORDE for
him to reioyce in.
4 They shal buylde the loge rough wildernes, & set vp ye olde deserte.
They shal repayre the waist places, & soch as haue bene voyde thorow out
many generacios
5 Straugers shal stode & fede yor catel, & the Aleauntes shalbe
yor plowme & reapers.
6 But ye shalbe named the prestes of the LORDE, & me shall call you
the seruautes of oure God. Ye shall enioye the goodes of ye Getiles &
tryuphe in their substauce.
7 For yor greate reprofe & shame, shal they haue ioye, yt ye maye
haue parte wt the. For they shal haue dubble possession i their lode, &
euerlastinge ioye shalbe wt them.
8 For I the LORDE, which loue right ad hate robbery (though it were
offred me) shal make their workes ful of faithfulnes, & make an euerlastinge
couenaunt with them.
9 Their sede also and their generacion shalbe knowne amoge the Gentiles,
and amoge the people. All they that se them, shall knowe, that they are the hie
blessed sede of ye LORDE.
10 And therfore I am ioyful in the LORDE, & my soule reioyseth in my
God. For he shall put vpon me the garmet of health, & couer me with the
matle of rightuousnes. He shal decke me like a brydegrome, & as a bryde that
hath hir apparell vpo her.
11 For like as ye grounde bringeth forth frute, & as the garde
shuteth forth sede: So shal the LORDE God cause rightuousnes, and the feare of
God to florish forth before all the Heithen.
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1 For Sions sake therfore wil I not holde my tuge, & for Ierusales
sake I will not ceasse: vntill their rightuousnes breake forth as ye shyninge
light, & their health as a burnynge lampe.
2 Then shal the Getiles se thy rightuousnesse & all kinges thy glory.
Thou shalt be named with a new name, which the mouth of ye LORDE shal shewe.
3 Thou shalt be a crowne in the honde of the LORDE, and a glorious
garlade in the hode of thy God.
4 From this tyme forth thou shalt neuer be called the forsake, & thy
lode shal nomore be called the wildernesse. But thou shalt be called Hephziba
(that is, my beloued) & yi londe Beula (that is) a maried woma: for ye LORDE
loueth ye, & thy lode shalbe inhabited.
5 And like as yonge ma taketh a doughter to mariage, so shal God mary
himself vnto yi sonnes. And as a brydegrome is glad of his bryde, so shal God
reioyse ouer the.
6 I wil set watchme vpo thy walles (o Ierusalem) which shall nether
ceasse daye nor night, to preach ye LORDE. And ye also shall not kepe him close,
7 nor leaue to speake of hi, vntill Ierusale be set vp, & made the
prayse of the worlde.
8 The LORDE hath sworne by his right honde & by his stronge arme,
that fro hence forth he wil not geue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies,
ner yi wyne (wheri thou hast laboured) to be drynke for ye straungers.
9 But they that haue gathered in the corne, shal eate it, & geue
thankes to the LORDE: & they that haue borne in the wyne, shall drynke it in
the court of my Sanctuary.
10 Stode back, & departe a sunder, ye yt stonde vnder ye gate, make
rowme ye people, repayre the strete, & take awaye ye stones, & set out a
toke for the people.
11 Beholde, ye LORDE proclameth in the endes of the worlde: tel ye
doughter Sio: se, thy Saluacio cometh, beholde, he bringeth his treasure wt him,
& his workes go before him.
12 For they who ye LORDE delyuereth, shalbe called the holy people: &
as for the, thou shalt be named the greatly occupied, and not the forsaken.
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1 What is he this, that cometh from
Edom
, with stayned reade clothes of Bosra: (which is so costly, cloth) & cometh
in so neebly with all his stregth? I am he yt teacheth rightuousnes, & am of
power to helpe.
2 Wherfore the is thy clothinge reade, & thy raymet like his yt
treadeth in ye wyne presse?
3 I haue trodde the presse my self alone, & of all people, there was
not one with me. Thus haue I trode downe myne enemies in my wrath, and set my
fete vpo them in my indignacion: And their bloude sprange vpo my cloothes, &
so haue I stayned all my rayment.
4 For the daye of vengeauce that I haue take in honde, & the yeare of
my delyueraunce is come.
5 I loked aboute me, and there was no ma to shewe me eny helpe, I fel
downe, and no man helde me vp. The I helde me by myne owne arme, & my
feruetnesse susteyned me.
6 And thus haue I troden downe the people in my wrath, and bathed them in
my displeasure: In so moch that I haue shed their bloude vpon the earth.
7 I will declare the goodnesse of the LORDE, yee and the prayse of the
LORDE for all that he hath gyuen vs, for the greate good yt he hath done for
Israel: which he hath gyuen them of his owne fauoure, & acordinge to the
multitude of his louynge kindnesses.
8 For he sayde: These no doute wilbe my people, and no shrekinge
children, and so he was their Sauioure.
9 In their troubles he forsoke the not, but the angel that went forth
from his presence, delyuered them: Of very loue & kindnesse that he had vnto
them, redemed he them. He hath borne them, and caried them vp euer, sence the
worlde begane.
10 But after they prouoked him to wrath and vexed his holy minde, he was
their enemie, and fought agaynst them him self.
11 Yet remebred he the olde tyme, of Moses & his people: How he
brought them from the water of the see, as a shepherde doth with his shepe: how
he had geuen his holy sprete amonge them:
12 how he had led Moses by the right honde with his glorious arme: how he
had deuyded the water before them (wherby he gat him self an euerlastinge name)
13 how he led them in the depe, as an horse is led in the playne, that
they shulde not stomble.
14 The sprete of the LORDE led them, as a tame beast goeth in the felde.
Thus (o God) hast thou led thy people, to make thy self a glorious name with
all.
15 Loke downe then from heaue, and beholde the dwellinge place of thy
sanctuary & thy glory. How is it, yt thy gelousy, thy strength, the
multitude of thy mercies and thy louynge kyndnesse, wyl not be entreated of vs?
16 Yet art thou or father: For Abraham knoweth vs not, nether is
Israel
acquanted with vs. But thou LORDE art oure father and redemer, and thy name is
euer lastinge.
17 O LORDE wherfore hast thou led vs out of thy waye? wherfore hast thou
hardened oure hertes, that we feare the not? Be at one with vs agayne, for thy
seruauntes sake yt are of the generacio of thy heretage.
18 Thy people hath had but litle of thy Sanctuary in possessio, for oure
enemies haue take it in:
19 And we are become, euen as we were from the beginnynge: but thou art
not their LORDE, for they haue not called vpon thy name.
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1 O that thou woldest cleue the heauen in sonder, & come downe: that
the mountaynes might melt awaye at thy presence,
2 like as at an hote fyre: and that the malicious might boyle, as the
water doth vpon the fyre: Wherby thy name might be knowne amoge thine enemies,
& yt the Getiles might treble before ye.
3 That thou mightest come downe with thy wonderous straunge workes, then
shulde the hilles melt at thy presence.
4 For sence the begynnynge of the worlde there was none (excepte thou o
God) that herde or perceaued, nether hath eny eye sene what thou dost for the,
that put their trust in the.
5 Thou helpest him that doth right with cherefulnesse, and them that
thynke vpon thy wayes. But lo, thou art angrie, for we offende, and haue bene
euer in synne, and there is not one whole.
6 We are all as an vnclene thinge, & all oure rightuousnesses are as
the clothes stayned with the floures of a woman: we fall euerychone as the leaf,
for oure synnes carie vs awaye like the wynde.
7 There is no man that calleth vpon thy name, that stondeth vp to take
holde by the. Therfore hydest thou thy face from vs, and consumest vs, because
of oure synnes.
8 But now o LORDE, thou father of ours: we are the claye, and thou art
oure potter, and we all are the worke of thy hondes.
9 Be not to sore displeased (o LORDE) and kepe not oure offences to loge
in thy remembraunce, but considre that we all are thy people.
10 The cities of thy Sanctuary lye waist, Sion is a wildernesse, and
Ierusalem a deserte.
11 Oure holy house which is oure bewty, where oure fathers praysed the,
is brent vp, yee all oure comodities and pleasures are waysted awaye.
12 Wilt thou not be intreated (LORDE) for all this? Wilt thou holde thy
peace, and scourge vs so sore?
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1 They shal seke me, that hitherto haue not axed for me: they shal fynde
me, that hither to haue not sought me. Then shal I saye immediatly, to the
people that neuer called vpon my name: I am here, I am here.
2 For thus longe haue I euer holden out my hondes to an vnfaithful
people, that go not the right waye, but after their owne ymaginacions:
3 To a people, that is euer defyenge me to my face. They make their
oblacions in gardens, and their smoke vpon aulters of bricke,
4 they lurck amonge the graues, and lie in the dennes all night. They
eate swyne flesh, and vnclene broth is in their vessels.
5 Yf thou comest nye them, they saie: touch me not, for I am holyer then
thou. All these men when I am angrie, shalbe turned to smoke and fyre, that shal
burne for euer.
6 Beholde, it is written before my face, & shal not be forgotten, but
recopensed. I shal rewarde it them in to their bosome:
7 I meane youre mysdedes, and the mysdedes of youre fathers together (saieth
the LORDE) which haue made their smokes vpon the mountaynes, and blasphemed me
vpon the hilles: therfore will I measure their olde dedes in to their bosome
agayne.
8 Morouer thus saieth the LORDE: like as when one wolde gather holy
grapes, men saye vnto him: breake it not of, for it is holy: Euen so will I do
also for my seruauntes sakes, that I will not destroye them all.
9 But I will take a sede out of Iacob, and out of Iuda one, to take
possession of my hill. My chosen shal possesse these thinges, & my
seruauntes shall dwell there.
10 Saron shalbe a shepefolde, and the
valley
of
Achor
shal geue stallinge for the catell of my people, that feare me.
11 But as for you, ye are they, yt haue forsaken the LORDE, and forgotten
my holy hill. Ye haue set vp an aulter vnto fortune, & geue rich
drinkofferinges vnto treasure.
12 Therfore wil I nombre you with the swerde, that ye shall be destroyed
all together. For when I called, no man gaue me answere: when I spake, ye
herkened not vnto me, but dyd wickednes before myne eyes, and chosed the thinge
that pleased me not.
13 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, my seruauntes shal eate,
but ye shall haue honger. Beholde, my seruauntes shall drynke, but ye shal
suffre thurste. Beholde, my seruauntes shal be mery, but ye shal be cofounded.
14 Beholde, my seruauntes shal reioyse for very quietnesse of herte. But
ye shal crie for sorow of hert, and coplayne for vexacion of mynde.
15 Youre name shal not be sworne by amonge my chosen, for God the LORDE
shal slaye you, and call his seruauntes by another name.
16 Who so reioyseth vpo earth, shall reioyse in the true God: And Who so
sweareth vpo earth, shal sweare in the true God. For the olde enemite shalbe
forgotten, and taken awaye out of my sight.
17 For lo, I shal make a new heaue, & a new earth. And as for the
olde, they shall neuer be thought vpo, ner kepte in mynde:
18 but me shalbe glad and euermore reioyse, for the thinges, that I shall
do. For why: Beholde, I shal make a ioyfull Ierusale,
19 yee I myself will reioyse with Ierusalem, & be glad with my
people: And the voyce of wepinge and waylinge shall not be herde in her from
thece forth.
20 There shall neuer be childe ner olde man, that haue not their full
dayes. But whe the childe cometh to an huderth yeare olde, it shall dye. And yf
he that is an huderth yeare of age do wronge, he shalbe cursed.
21 They shal buylde houses, and dwel in them: they shal plante vynyardes,
and eate the frute of them.
22 They shall not buylde, & another possesse: they shall not plante,
and another eate: But the life of my people shalbe like a tre, and so shal the
worke of their hondes.
23 My chosen shal lyue longe, they shall not laboure in vayne, ner beget
wt trouble: for they are the hie blessed sede of the LORDE, & their frutes
with them.
24 And it shalbe, that or euer they call, I shal answere them. Whyle they
are yet but thinkinge how to speake, I shal heare them.
25 The wolff and the lambe shal fede together, and the
lyon
shal eate haye like the bullocke. But earth shalbe the serpetes meate. There
shal no man hurte ner slaye another, in all my holy hill, saieth the LORDE.
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1 Thus saieth the LORDE: Heaue is my seate, and the earth is my fote
stole. Where shal now the house stonde, yt ye will buylde vnto me? And where
shal be the place, yt I wil dwel in?
2 As for these thinges, my hode hath made them all, and they are all
created, saieth the LORDE. Which of them shal I then regarde? Eue him that is of
a lowly troubled sprete, and stodeth in awe of my wordes.
3 For who so slayeth an oxe for me, doth me so greate dishonoure, as he
yt kylleth a ma. He that kylleth a shepe for me, choketh a dogge. He that
bringeth me meatoffringes, offreth swynes bloude: Who so maketh me a memoriall
of Incense, prayseth the thinge yt is vnright. Yet take they soch wayes in honde,
and their soule deliteth in these abhominacions.
4 Therfore wil I also haue pleasure in laughinge them to scorne, and the
thinge that they feare, wil I bringe vpon the. For when I called, no man gaue
answere: when I spake, they wolde not heare: But dyd wickednesse before myne
eyes, & chose the thinges that displease me.
5 Heare the worde of God all ye, that feare the thinge which he speaketh.
Youre brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my names sake, saye: Let the
LORDE magnifie himself, that we maye se youre gladnesse: & yet they shalbe
cofounded.
6 For as touchinge the cite and the temple, I heare the voyce of the
LORDE, that will rewarde, and recompece his enemies:
7 like as when a wife bringeth forth a man childe, or euer she suffre the
payne of the byrth and anguysh of ye trauayle.
8 Who euer herde or sawe soch thinges? doth the grounde beare in one daye?
or are the people borne all at once, as Sion beareth his sonnes?
9 For thus sayeth the LORDE: Am I he that maketh other to beare, and
beare not my self? Am not I he that beareth, and maketh baren? saieth thy God.
10 Reioyse with Ierusalem, & be glad with her, all ye that loue her.
Be ioyful with her, all ye that mourned for her.
11 For ye shal sucke coforte out of hir brestes, and be satisfied. Ye
shal taist, and haue delite in the plenteousnesse of hir power.
12 For thus sayeth the LORDE: beholde, I wil let peace i to her, like a
water floude, & ye might of the Heithe like a flowinge streame. Then shal ye
sucke, ye shal be borne vpon hir sydes, and be ioyful vpo hir knees.
13 For like as a childe is comforted of his mother, so shal I conforte
you, and ye shalbe comforted in Ierusalem.
14 And when ye se this, youre herte shal reioyse, and youre bones shal
florish like an herbe. Thus shal the honde of the LORDE be knowne amonge his
seruauntes, and his indignacion amonge his enemies.
15 For beholde, the LORDE shal come wt fyre, and his charet shal be like
a whyrlwynde, that he maye recompence his vengeaunce in his wrath, and his
indignacion with the flame of fyre.
16 For ye LORDE shal iudge all flesh with the fyre and with his swerde,
and there shalbe a greate nombre slayne of the LORDE.
17 Soch as haue made themselues holy and cleane in the gardens, and those
that haue eaten swyne flesh, myce, and other abhominacios, shalbe taken awaye
together, saieth the LORDE.
18 For I wil come to gather all people and tonges, with their workes and
ymaginacions: these shal come, and se my glory.
19 Vnto them shal I geue a toke, and sende certayne of the (that be
delyuered) amonge the Gentiles: in to Celicia,
Africa
and Lidia (where men can handle bowes) into Italie also and Grekelonde. The
Iles farre of, that haue not herde speake of me, & haue not sene my glory:
shal preach my prayse amonge the Gentiles,
20 and shal bringe all youre brethre for an offringe vnto the LORDE, out
of al people, vpo horses, charettes and horse lytters, vpo Mooles and cartes to
Ierusalem my holy hill (saieth the LORDE) like as the children of Israel bringe
the offringe in cleane vessels, to the house of the LORDE.
21 And I shal take out certayne of them for to be preastes and leuites,
saieth ye LORDE.
22 For like as the new heaue and the new earth which I wil make, shalbe
fast stablished by me: (saieth the LORDE) So shal youre sede and youre name
contynue,
23 and there shalbe a new Moone for the other, and a new Sabbath for the
other, & all flesh shal come to worshipe before me, (saieth ye LORDE.)
24 And they shal go forth, and loke vpo the caryons of them, that haue
transgressed agaynst me. For their wormes shal not dye, nether shal their fyre
be quenched, & all flesh shal abhorre them.
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