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Moreouer the Spirit lift me vp, and brought me vnto the East gate of the Lords house, which looketh Eastward: and behold at the doore of the gate fiue and twenty men; among whom I saw Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur, and Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah, Princes of the people.

Then said he vnto me; Sonne of man, these are the men that deuise mischiefe, & giue wicked counsel in this city.

Which say, It is not neere, let vs build houses: this citie is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

Therefore prophecie against them, prophecie, O sonne of man.

And the Spirit of the Lord fell vpon me, and said vnto me, Speake, thus saith the Lord; Thus haue ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your minde, euery one of them.

Ye haue multiplyed your slaine in this citie, and yee haue filled the streetes thereof with the slaine.

Therefore thus sayth the Lord God; Your slaine whom ye haue laid in the middest of it, they are the flesh, and this citie is the cauldron: but I wil bring you foorth out of the middest of it.

Ye haue feared the sword, and I will bring a sword vpon you, saith the Lord God.

And I will bring you out of the middest thereof, and deliuer you into the hands of strangers, and will execute iudgements among you.

Yee shall fall by the sword, I will iudge you in the border of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

This citie shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the middest thereof, but I will iudge you in the border of Israel.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for yee haue not walked in my statutes, neither executed my iudgements, but haue done after the maners of the heathen that are round about you.

And it came to passe, when I prophecied, that Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah died: then fell I downe vpon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said; Ah Lord God, wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?