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¹ Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel.² Thus saith the Lorde, Learne not the way of the heathen, & be not afraid for the signes of heauen, though the heathen be afraid of such.³ For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe,⁴ And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.⁵ The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.⁶ There is none like vnto thee, O Lorde: thou art great, and thy name is great in power.⁷ Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? for to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee.⁸ But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.⁹ Siluer plates are brought from Tarshish, & golde from Vphaz, for the worke of the workeman, and the handes of the founder: the blewe silke, and the purple is their clothing: all these things are made by cunning men.¹⁰ But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shal tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath.¹¹ (Thus shall you say vnto them, The gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from vnder these heauens)¹² He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.¹³ Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rayne, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.¹⁴ Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.¹⁵ They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.¹⁶ The portion of Iaakob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rodde of his inheritance: the Lorde of hostes is his Name.

¹⁷ Gather vp thy wares out of the land, O thou that dwellest in the strong place.¹⁸ For thus sayth the Lorde, Beholde, at this time I will throwe as with a sling the inhabitants of the lande, and will trouble them, and they shal finde it so.¹⁹ Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.²⁰ My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my coardes are broken: my children are gone from me, and are not: there is none to spread out my tent any more, and to set vp my curtaines.²¹ For the Pastours are become beasts, and haue not sought the Lorde: therefore haue they none vnderstanding: and all the flockes of their pastures are scattered.²² Beholde, the noyse of the brute is come, & a great commotion out of the North countrey to make the cities of Iudah desolate, and a denne of dragons.²³ O Lord, I knowe, that the way of man is not in himselfe, neyther is it in man to walke and to direct his steps.²⁴ O Lorde, correct mee, but with iudgement, not in thine anger, least thou bring mee to nothing.²⁵ Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen, that knowe thee not, and vpon the families that call not on thy Name: for they haue eaten vp Iaakob and deuoured him & consumed him, & haue made his habitation desolate.