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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.