Ezekiel — The Coverdale Bible (1535)

Ezekiel is the book of the priest-prophet of the Babylonian exile, with his visions of the glory of God, the valley of dry bones and the new temple. In Coverdale’s Bible of 1535 it stands in the Prophets under the heading “The Prophet Ezechiel”. Coverdale’s summary of the chapters stands before the text; the 1535 Bible has no verse numbers, so the text keeps its own paragraphs, in 48 chapters, with the marginal notes and references printed after each chapter.

What Ezechiel conteyneth.

• Chap. I. The vision of the iiij. beestes and wheles.
• Chap. II. The sendinge out of the prophet.
• Chap. III. The office of a prophet.
• Chap. IIII. A prophecy of the sege of Ierusalem.
• Chap. V. With what plages God punished Ierusalem.
• Chap. VI. Punishment for Idolatry.
• Chap. VII. The longe captiuyte of the people and causes therof.
• Chap. VIII. Ezechiel seyth greate abhominacion thorow the hole in the wall.
• Chap. IX. The slaughter of the people. Soch as haue the signe of ⟨non-Latin script⟩ Thau, are saued.
• Chap. X. The visiō of the iiii. beestes agayne.
• Chap. XI. The vision of the xxv. men.
• Chap. XII. A prophecy of the captiuyte of Iuda.
• Chap. XIII. A sermon agaynst false prophetes
• Chap. XIIII. Punyshment for wylfulnesse and presumpciō of synne God letteth soch people be disceaued.
• Chap. XV. Agaynst Ierusalem that vnfrutfull vyne.
• Chap. XVI. A maruelous goodly descripcion of the Idolatry of Ierusalem, for the which he calleth them whores.
• Chap. XVII. A prophecy of the destruccion off Ierusalem. A promyse of Christ.
• Chap. XVIII. Euery man shall beare his owne synne, and not anothers.
• Chap. XIX. The captiuyte off the kynges of Iuda. The crueltie of kinges and princes.
• Chap. XX. The greate vnthanfulnesse off the people. Agayne, the merciful longe sufferaunce of God.
• Chap. XXI. The swearde, prophecyed to come vpon Israel and the Ammonites, by the kynge of Babilon.
• Chap. XXII. The synnes, wherfore Ierusalē was punished: both the prophetes, prestes, rulers and comon people.
• Chap. XXIII. The Idolatry or whordome of Samaria and Ierusalem.
• Chap. XXIIII. The destruccion off Ierusalem and captiuyte of the people signified by the pot.
• Chap. XXV. Agaynst Ammon, Moab, Seir, and the Palestynes.
• Chap. XXVI. He mourneth vpon the cite off Tyre (otherwyse called Zor) for the destruccion that was to come vpon her.
• Chap. XXVII.XXVIII. Agaynst the prince of Tyre, and agaynst Sidon.
• Chap. XXIX.XXX.XXXI.XXXII. Plages vpon Egipte and the kynges therof.
• Chap. XXXIII. The office off a preacher. The worde of God must be folowed in very dede, and not only in mouth.
• Chap. XXXIIII. Agaynst euell shepherdes, Christ the only true shepherde is promised.
• Chap. XXXV. Agaynst the mount Seir, that is, agaynst the Edomites.
• Chap. XXXVI. A promyse of the delyueraunce of Israel.
• Chap. XXXVII. A consolacion for the Israelites, and a figure of the generall resurrecciō, signified by the drye bones.
• Chap. XXXVIII.XXXIX. Of Gog and Magog, with their destruccion.
• Chap. XL. From this chapter vnto the ende, the prophet seith in a vision the buyldinge agayne of Ierusalē, ād the temple: Wherby is descrybed the mystery off the church off christ, and saluacion of the faithfull in hi⟨illegible⟩ ▪

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Chapter 1

IT chaūsed, in the xxx. yeare the fifth daye off the fourth Moneth, that I [A] was amonge the presoners by the ryuer off Cobar: where the heauens opened, & I sawe a vision of God. Now the fifth daye off the Moneth made out the fyfth yeare off kynge Ioachims captiuyte. At the same tyme came yᵉ worde off the LORDE vnto Ezechiel the sonne off Buzi prest, in the londe off the Caldees by the water of Cobar, where the honde off the LORDE came vpō him.⁽¹⁾ And I loked: & beholde, a stormy wynde came out off the north with a greate doude full of fyre, which wᵗ his glistre lightened all rounde aboute.

And in yᵉ myddest off the fyre it was all cleare, and as it were the licknesse of foure beastes, which were fashioned like a man: sauynge, that euery one had foure faces and foure wynges.

[B] Their legges were straight, but their fete were like bullockes fete, and they glistred, as it had bene fayre scoured metall. Vnder their wynges vpon all the foure corners, they had mens hondes. Their faces and the it wynges were towarde the foure corners: yet were the wynges so, that one euer touched another. When they wente, they turned them not aboute:⁽²⁾ but ech one wente straight forwarde.

Vpon the rightside off these foure, their faces were like the face off a man and the fa off a Lyon: But vpon the left side, they had the face off an oxe and the face off an Aegle.

Their faces also and their wynges werespred out aboue: so that two wynges off one touched euer two wynges off another, and with the other two they couered their bodie. Euery one when it wente, it wente straight forwarde.

[C] Where as the sprete led them, thither they wente, and turned not aboute in their goynge.⁽³⁾

The fashion and countenaūce of the beestes was like hote coales off fyre, euen as though burnynge cresshettes had bene amonge the beestes: and the fyre gaue a glistre, and out off the fyre there wente lighteninge. Whē yᵉ beestes wēte forwarde & backwarde, one wolde haue thought it had lightened. Now whē I had well considered the beestes, I sawe a worke off wheles vpon the earth with foure faces also like the beestes.

The fashion & worke of the wheles was like the see. The foure wheles were ioyned [D] and made (to loke vpon) as it had bene one whele in another. When one wente forwarde, they wente all foure, and turned thē not aboute ī their goinge. They were large, greate and horrible to loke vpon.

Their bodies were full off eyes rounde aboute them all foure. Whē the beestes wēte, the wheles wente also with them: And when the beestes lift them selues vp from yᵉ earth, the wheles were lift vp also. Whyther so euer the sprete wente, thither wente they also, & yᵉ wheles were lift vp & folowed thē. for yᵉ sprete of life was in the wheles. When yᵉ beestes wēte forth, stode still, or lift them selues vp from the earth: then the wheles also wente, stode still, & were lift vp, for yᵉ breth off life was in the wheles.

Aboue ouer yᵉ heades of the beestes there [E] was a firmament, which was fashioned as it had bene off the most pure Christall, & that was spred out aboue vpon their heades: vnder the same firmament were their wynges layed abrode, one towarde another, and two wynges couered the body of euery beest. And when thy wente forth, I herde the noyse off their wynges, like the noyse of greate waters, as it had bene the voyce off the greate God, and a russhinge together as it were off an hoost off men. And when they stode still, they let downe their winges. Now when they stode still, and had letten downe their wynges, it thondred in the firmament, that was aboue their heades.

Aboue the firmament that was ouer their heades, there was the fashion off a seate, as it had bene made off Saphir. Apon the seate there sat one like a mā. I behelde him, and he was like a cleare light, as it had bene all of fyre with in from his loynes vpwarde.

And beneth when I loked vpon him vnder yᵉ loynes, me thought he was like a shyninge fyre, that geueth light on euery syde. Yee the shyne and glistre yᵗ lightened rounde aboute, was like a raynbowe, which in a raynie daye apeareth in the cloudes. Euē so was the similitude, wherin the glory off the LORDE apeared. Whē I sawe it, I fell vpon my face, and herkened vnto the voyce off him, that spake.

Notes to Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

[A] THen sayde he vnto me: Stonde vp vpon thy fete (O thou sonne of mā) and I will talke with the.⁽¹⁾ And as he was commonynge with me, the sprete came in to me, and set me vp vpon my fete: so that I marcked the thinge, that he sayde vnto me. And he sayde: Beholde, thou sonne off man: I will sende the to the children off Israel, to those runnagates and obstinate people: for they haue takē parte agaynst me, and are runne a waye fro me: both they, and their forefathers,⁽²⁾ vnto this daye.

Yee I will sende yᵉ vnto a people yᵗ haue rough vysages and stiff stomackes: vnto whom thou shalt saye on this maner: This the LORDE God himselff hath spoken, yᵗ whether they be obedient or no (for it is a frauwarde housholde) they maye knowe yet that there hath bene a prophet amonge them.

Therfore (thou sonne off man) feare thē [B] not, nether be afrayed off their wordes: for they shall rebell agaynst the,⁽³⁾ and despise yᵉ. Yee thou shalt dwell amonge scorpions: but feare not their wordes, be not abashed at their lokes, for it is a frauwerde housholde.

Se that thou speake my wordes vnto them, whether they be obediēt or not, for they are obstinate. Therfore (thou sonne of man) obeye thou all thinges, that I saye vnto yᵉ, and be not thou stiffnecked, like as they are a stiffnecked housholde. Open thy mouth, and eate that I geue the.

So as I was lokynge vp, beholde, there was sent vnto me an hande, wherin was a closed boke: and the hande opened it before me,⁽⁴⁾ and it was written within and without, full off carefull mourninges: alas, and wo.

Notes to Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

[A] THen sayde he vnto me: thou sonne of mā, eate that, what so euer it be: Yee eate that closed boke, and go thy waye,⁽¹⁾ and speake vnto the children off Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he gaue me the boke for to eate, and sayde vnto me: Thou sonne of man, thy bely shal eate, and thy bowels shalbe fylled with yᵉ boke, that I geue the. Then dyd I eate the boke,⁽²⁾ and it was in my mouth sweter then hony.

And he sayde vnto me: thou sonne of mā, get the soone vnto the house off Israel, ād shewe thē yᵉ wordes, that I cōmaunde the:⁽³⁾ for I sende the not to a people that hath a straūge, vnknowne or harde speache, but vnto the house off Israel: Not to many nacions, which haue diuerse speaches and harde languages, whose wordes thou vnderstōdest not: Neuertheles,⁽⁴⁾ yf I sent the to those people, they wolde folowe the: But the house off Israel wil not folowe yᵉ, for they will not folowe me:⁽⁵⁾ Yee all the house off Israel haue stiff foreheades and harde hertes. Beholde therfore, I will make thy face preuayle agaynst their faces, and harden thy foreheade agaynst their foreheades: so that thy foreheade shall be harder then an Adamāt or flynt stone: that thou mayest feare them yᵗ lesse,⁽⁶⁾ and be lesse afrayed off them, for they are a frauwerde housholde.

He sayde morouer vnto me: thou sonne off man, take diligent hede with thine eares,[B] to yᵉ wordes that I speake vnto the, fasten them in thine herte: and go to the presoners off thy people, speake vnto them, ād saye on this maner:

Thus the LORDE God hath spokē: Whether ye heare, or heare not. With that, the sprete toke me vp. And I herde the noyse of a greate russhinge and remouynge off the most blissed glory off the LORDE out off his place.

I herde also the noyse off the wynges off the beestes, that russhed one agaynst another, yee and the ratlynge off the wheles, that were by them, which russhinge & noyse was very greate.

Now when the sprete toke me vp, and caried me awaye,⁽⁷⁾ I wente with an heuy and a soroufull mynde, but the honde off yᵉ LORDE comforted me right soone.

And so in the begynnynge off the Moneth Abib, I came to the presoners, that dwelt by the water off Cobar, and remaȳned in that place, where they were:⁽⁸⁾ and so continued I amonge them seuen dayes, beinge very sory.

And when the seuen dayes were expyred, the LORDE sayde vnto me: Thou sonne off [C] man,⁽⁹⁾ I haue made the a watch man vnto the house of Israel: therfore take good hede to the wordes, and geue them warnynge at my commaundement.

Yff I saye vnto the, concernynge the vngodly mā, that (without doute) he must dye, and thou geuest him not warnynge, ner speakest vnto him, that he maye turne from his euell waye, and so to lyue: Then shall the same vngodly man dye in his owne vnrightuosnes: but his bloude will I requyre off thyne honde. Neuertheles, yff thou geue warnynge vnto the wicked, and he yet forsake not his vngodlynesse: then shall he dye in his owne wickednesse, but thou hast discharged thy soule.

Now yf a rightuous mā go frō his rightuousnesse,⁽¹⁰⁾ and do the thinge that is euell: I will laye a stomblinge blocke before him, and he shall dye, because thou hast not geuen him warninge: Yee dye shall he in his owne synne, so that the vertue, which he did before, shall not be thought vpon: but his bloude will I requyre of thine honde.

Neuertheles, yf thou exhortest the rightuous, that he synne not, and so yᵉ rightuous do not synne: Then shall he lyue, because he hath receaued thy warnynge, and thou hast discharged thy soule. And there came the hōde off the LORDE vpon me, and he sayde vnto me: Stonde vp, and go in to the felde, yᵗ I maye there talke with the.

[D] So when I had rysen vp, and gone forth into the felde: Beholde, the glory off the LORDE stode there,⁽¹¹⁾ like as I sawe it afore, by the water off Cobar.

⁽¹²⁾Then fell I downe vpon my face, and yᵉ sprete came in to me, which set me vp vpon my fete, and sayde thus vnto me: Go thy waye, and sparre thy selff in thyne house. Beholde (O thou sonne off man) there shall chaynes be brought for the, to bynde the wᵗ all, so that thou shalt not escape out off thē. And I will make thy tunge cleue so the rofe off thy mouth, that thou shalt be domme, and not be as a chider with them: for it is an obstinate housholde.

But when I speake vnto the, then open thy mouth, and saye: Thus saieth the LORDE God: who so heareth, let him heare: who so will not, let him leaue: for it is a frauwarde housholde.

Notes to Chapter 3

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Chapter 4

[A] THou sonne off man: take a tyle stone, and laye it before the, and descrybe vpon it the cite off Ierusalem: how it is beseged, how bulworkes and strōge diches are grauen on euery syde off it: descrybe also tentes, and an hoost off men rounde aboute it.

Morouer, take an yron panne, and set it betwixte the & yᵉ cite in steade off an yron wall, Then set thy face towarde it, besege it, and laye ordinaunce agaynst it, to wynne it. This shal be a token vnto the house off Israel. But thou shalt slepe vpon thy left syde, and laye the synne of the house off Israel vpon the.

Certayne dayes apoynted, thou shalt slepe vpon that syde, and beare their synnes.⁽¹⁾ Neuertheles I will apoynte the a tyme (to put off their synnes) and the nombre off the daies: Thre hundreth & xc. dayes must thou beare the wickednesse off the house of Israel. When thou hast fulfilled these dayes, lye downe agayne, and slepe vpon thy right syde xl. dayes, and beare the synnes off the house of Iuda.

A daye for a yeare, a daye (I saye) for a yeare, will I euer laye vpon the.⁽²⁾ Therfore [B] set now thy face agaynst that beseged Ierusalem, and discouer thine arme, that thou mayest prophecie agaynst it.

Beholde, I will laye chaynes vpon the, that thou shalt not turne the from one syde to another, till thou hast ended the dayes of thy sege.

Wherfore, take vnto the wheate, barly beanes, growell sede, milium and fitches: and put these together in a vessell, and make the loaues of bred therof, acordinge to the nombre of the dayes that thou must lye vpon yᵗ syde: that thou mayest haue bred to eate, for thre hundreth and XC. dayes.

And the meate that thou eatest, shall haue a certayne waight apoynted: Namely, twentie sycles euery daye. This apoynted meate shalt thou eate daylie, from the beginnynge to the ende.

Thou shalt dryncke also a certayne measure off water: Namely, the sixte parte of an Hin shalt thou drynke daylie from the begynnynge to the ende. Barly cakes shalt thou eate, yet shalt thou first strake thē ouer with mās donge, yᵗ they maye se it. And [C] with that, sayde the LORDE:⁽³⁾ Euen thus shal the children of Israel eate their defyled bred in the myddest off the Gentiles, amonge whom I will scatre them.

Then sayde I: Oh LORDE God, Beholde, my soule was yet neuer stayned: for fro my youth vp vnto this houre, I dyd neuer eate of a deed carcase, or of that which was slayne of wilde beestes, nether came there euer eny vnclene flesh in my mouth.

Where vnto he answered me, and sayde: Well than, I will graunte the to take cowes donge, for the donge off a man, and to strake the bred ouer with all, before thē.

And he sayde vn to me: Beholde thou sonne off man,⁽⁴⁾ I will mynishe all the prouysion of bred in Ierusalem, so that they shall we ye their bred, and eate it with scarcenesse. But as for water, they shall haue a very litle measure theroff, to drynke. And when they haue nomore bred ner water, one shal be destroyed with another, and famish awaye for their wickednesse.

Notes to Chapter 4

⁽¹⁾ Dan. 9. d

⁽²⁾ Nu. 14. ⟨illegible⟩

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⁽⁴⁾ Eze. 5. d Eze. 14. d Re. 25. a

Chapter 5

[A] TAke the then a sharpe knyfe (O thou sonne of man) namely, a rasoure. Take that, and shaue the hayre off thy heade and beerd: Then take the scoales and the waight, and deuyde the hayre a sunder. And burne the thirde parte therof in the fyre in the myddest off the cite, and cut the other thirde parte in peces with a knyfe.⁽¹⁾ As for the thirde parte that remayneth, cast it in the wynde, and then shewe the bare knyfe.

Yet afterwarde take a litle off the same, & bynde it in they cote lappe. Then take a curtesy of it, and cast it in the myddest of yᵉ fyre, and burne it in the fyre. Out of the same fyre shall there go a flame, vpon the whole house of Israel.

[B] Morouer, thus sayde the LORDE God: This same is Ierusalem. I set her in the middest of the Heithen and nacions, that are rounde aboute her, but she hath despised my iudgmētes more then yᵉ Gentiles thē selues, and broken my cōmaundementes more then the nacions, that lye rounde aboute her: For they haue cast out myne ordinaunces, and not walked in my lawes. Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God:⁽²⁾ For so moch as ye wᵗ youre wickednesse farre exceade the Heithē, that dwell rounde aboute you: (For ye haue not walked in my lawes, nether haue ye kepte myne ordinaūces) Therfore thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God:

I will also come vpon the, for in the myddest of the will I syt in iugdmēt, in the sight of the Heithen, and will handle the of soch a fashion, as I neuer dyd before, and as I neuer wil do from that tyme forth, and that because of all thy abhominacions. For in the the fathers shal be fayne to eate their owne sonnes,⁽³⁾ and the sonnes their owne fathers. Soch a courte will I kepe in the, and the whole remnaunt will I scatre in to all the wyndes.

Wherfore, as truly as I lyue (saieth the [C] LORDE God) seynge thou hast defyled my Sanctuary, with all maner off abhominacions and with all thy shamefull offences: For this cause will I also destroye the▪ Myne eye shall not ouersee the, nether will I spare the.

One thirde parte within the,⁽⁴⁾ shall die of the pestilence and of honger: Another thirde parte shall be slayne downe rounde aboute the, with the swearde: The other thirde parte that remayneth, will I scatre abrode towarde all the wyndes, and drawe out the swearde after them. Thus wil I perfourme my indignacion and set my wrath agaynst them, and ease my self. So that when I haue fulfilled myne anger agaynst them, they shall knowe, that I am the LORDE, which wᵗ a feruent gelousy haue spoken it.

Morouer I will make the waist and abhorred,[D] before all the Heithen that dwell aboute the, and in the sight off all them, that go by the: so that when I punysh the in my wrath, in myne anger, and with the plage off my whote displeasure: thou shalt be a very abhominacion, shame, a gasinge and wondringe stocke, amonge the Heithen that lye aboute the.

Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it, and it shall come to passe, when I shute amonge them the perlous dartes of hōger, which shalbe but death:⁽⁵⁾ Yee therfore shall I shute them, because I will destroye you. I will encrease hunger, and mynish all the prouysion off bred amonge you.

Plages and mysery will I sende you, yee and wilde beestes also to destroye you. Pestilence and bloud sheddinge shall come vpon you, and the swearde wil I bringe ouer you. Euen I the LORDE, haue sayde it.

Notes to Chapter 5

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⁽³⁾ Deu. 28. e Tren. 4. b 4. Reg. 6. f

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Chapter 6

THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off man,[A] turne thy face to the mountaynes of Israel,⁽¹⁾ that thou mayest prophecie vnto them, and saye: Heare the worde of the LORDE God, o ye mountaynes off Israel: Thus hath the LORDE God spoken to the moūtaynes, hilles, valleys and dales:

Beholde, I will brynge a swearde ouer you, and destroye youre hie places: I wil cast downe youre aulters, and breake downe youre temples. Youre slayne men will I laye before youre goddes, and the deed carcases off the children off Israel will I cast before their ymages, youre bones wil I strowe rounde aboute youre aulters, and dwellinge places.

The cities shalbe desolate, yᵉ hill chapels layed waist: youre aulters destroyed, & broken: youre goddes cast downe, and taken awaye, yoʳ tēpels layde eauē with the groūde, youre owne workes clene roted out. Youre [B] slayne men shall lie amonge you, that ye maye lerne to knowe, how yᵗ I am the LORDE. Those yᵗ amōge you haue escaped the swearde, will I leaue amonge the Gentiles, for I will scatre you amonge the nacions. And they that escape from you,⁽²⁾ shall thinke vpon me amonge the heithen, where they shalbe in captiuyte.

As for that whorish and vnfaithfull herte of theirs, wherwith they runne awaye frome, I will breake it: yee & put out those eyes off theirs, that committe fornicacion with their Idols.

Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selues, for the wickednesses ād abhominacions, which they haue done: and shal lerne to knowe, how that it is not in vayne, that I the LORDE spake, to bringe soch mysery vpon them.

The LORDE sayde morouer vnto me: [C] Smyte thine hondes together, and stampe with thy fete, and saye: Wo worth all the abhominacions and wickednesses of the house of Israel, for because of thē, they shal perish with the swearde, with hōger and with pestilence. Who so is farre of, shall dye off the pestilence: he that is nye at hande, shall perish with the swearde: and yᵉ other that are beseged, shall dye of honger.

Thus wil I satisfie my wrothfull displeasure vpon them. And so shall ye lerne to knowe, that I am the LORDE, whē youre slayne men lye amōge youre goddes, and aboute youre aulters: vpon all hie hilles and toppes off mountaynes, amōge all grene trees, amonge all thicke okes: euen in the places, where they dyd sacrifice to all their Idols. I will stretch myne honde out vpon them, & will make the londe waist: So that it shall lye desolate and voyde, from the wildernesse off Deblat forth, thorow all their habitacions: to lerne them for to knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 6

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Chapter 7

[A] THe worde off the LORDE came vnto me, on this maner: The I call, O thou sonne off man. Thus saieth the LORDE God vnto the londe off Israel: The ende commeth, yee verely the ende commeth vpon all the foure corners off the earth.

But now shall the ende come vpon the: for I will sende my wrath vpō the, and wil punysh the: acordinge to thy wayes, and rewarde the after all thy abhominaciōs. Myne eye shall not ouersee the,⁽¹⁾ nether will I spare the: but rewarde the, acordinge to thy waies, and declare thy abhominacions. Then shall ye knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, one mysery and plage shall come after another: the ende is here. The ende (I saye) that waiteth for the, is come already, yᵉ houre is come agaynst the, that dwellest in the londe.

The tyme is at honde, the daye of sediciō is hard by, & no glad tidinges vpō the moūtaynes.[B] Therfore, I will shortly poure out my sore displeasure ouer the, and fulfill my wrath vpon the. I will iudge the after thy waies, and recompence the all thy abhominacions.

Myne eye shal not ouersee the,⁽²⁾ nether wil I spare the: but rewarde the after thy waies, and shewe thy abhominacions: to lerne you for to knowe, how yᵗ I am the LORDE, yᵗ smyteth. Beholde, the daye is here, the daye is come, the houre is runne out, the rodde florisheth, wylfulnesse waxeth grene, malicious violēce is growne vp, and the vngodly waxen to a staff. Yet shall there no complaynte be made for them, ner for the trouble that shall come of these thinges.

The tyme cōmeth, the daye draweth nye: Who so byeth, let him not reioyce:⁽³⁾ he that selleth, let him not be sory: for why, Trouble shall come in the myddest off all rest:⁽⁴⁾ so that the seller shall not come agayne to the byer, for nether off them both shall lyue. For the [C] vision shal come so greatly ouer all, yᵗ it shal not be hyndered: No mā also wᵗ his wickednesse shall be able to saue his owne life.

The trompettes shall ye blowe, and make you all ready, but no man shall go to the batell, for I am wroth with all the whole multitude.

The swearde shalbe without, pestilence and honger within: so that who so is in the felde, shalbe slayne with the swearde: and he that is in the cite,⁽⁵⁾ shall perish with honger and pestilence.

And soch as escape and fle from amonge them, shal be vpon the hilles, like as the doues in the felde: euery one shalbe afrayed, because off his owne wickednesse.

⁽⁶⁾All hondes shalbe letten downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water: they shall gyrde them selues with sack cloth, feare shal fall vpon them. Their faces shall be confoūded, and their heades balde: their syluer shall lye in the stretes, and their golde shalbe despised:⁽⁷⁾ Yee their syluer and golde maye not delyuer them, in the daye of the fearfull wrath of the LORDE.

[D] They shall not satisfie their hongrie soules, nether fyll their emptie belies therwith: For it is become their owne decaye thorow their wickednesse: because they made therof, not only costly Ieweles for their pompe and pryde,⁽⁸⁾ but also abhominable ymages and Idols. For this cause will I make them to be abhorred. Morouer, I will geue it in to yᵉ hondes off the straungers to be spoyled: and to yᵉ wicked, for to be robbed, and they shall destroye it.

My face wil I turne from thē, my Treasury shall be defyled: for the theues shall go in to it, and suspende it. I wil make clene ryddaunse, for the londe is whole defyled with vnrightuous iudgment of innocent bloude, & the cite is full off abhominacions.

[E] Wherfore, I will bringe the most cruell tyrauntes from amonge the Heithen, to take their houses in possession. I will make the pompe off the proude to ceasse, ād they shal take in their Sanctuary. When this trouble cōmeth, they shal seke peace, but they shal haue none. One myschefe and sorowe shal folowe another, and one rumoure shal come after another: Then shall they seke visions in vayne at their prophetes. The lawe shal be gone from the prestes,⁽⁹⁾ and wyszdome from the elders. The kynge shall mourne, the princes shalbe clothed with heuynesse, and yᵉ hōdes off the people in the londe shall tremble for feare. I will do vnto them after their owne waies, & acordinge to their owne iudgmentes will I iudge them: to lerne them for to knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 7

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 7. b 9. c

⁽²⁾ Eze. 7. b 9. c

⁽³⁾ 1. Cor. 7. ⟨illegible⟩

⁽⁴⁾ 2. Tess. 5. Iere. 15. b

⁽⁵⁾ Deu. 32. d

⁽⁶⁾ Esa 15. e

⁽⁷⁾ Soph. 1. c Ecc. 5 b

⁽⁸⁾ Osee. 8. a

⁽⁹⁾ ere. 38. c

Chapter 8

[A] IT happened, that in the sixte yeare, the fifth daye of the sixte Moneth I sat in my house, and the LORDES off the councell off Iuda with me: and the honde off the LORDE God fell euen there vpō me.

And as I loked vp, I sawe as it were a licknesse off fyre from his loynes downwarde, and from his loynes vpwarde it shyned maruelous cleare.⁽¹⁾

This symilitude stretched out an honde, and toke me by the hayrie lockes off my heade, and the sprete lift me vp betwitte heauen and earth: and God brought me in a vision to Ierusalem, in to the courte off the inwarde porte that lieth towarde the north: there stode an ymage, with whom he that hath all thinges in his power, was very wroth.

And beholde, the glory off the God off Israel was in the same place:⁽²⁾ euē as I had sene it afore in the felde. And he sayde vnto me: Thou sonne off man, O lift vp thine eyes, and loke towarde the north. Then lift I vp myne eyes towarde the north, and beholde: Besyde the porte northwarde, there was an aulter made vnto the ymage off prouocacion in the very entrynge in.

And he sayde furthermore vnto me: Thou sonne off man, Seist thou what these do? Seist thou the greate abhominacions that the house off Israel commytte in this place? which ought not to be done in my sanctuary?

But turne the aboute, and thou shalt se yet greater abhominacions. And with that brought he me to the courte gate: and whē I loked, beholde, there was an hole in the wall.

Then sayde he vnto me: Thou sonne off [B] man, dygge thorow the wall. And when I dygge thorow the wall, beholde, there was a dore. And he sayde vnto me: go thy waye in, & loke what wicked abhominacions they do there.

So I wente in, and sawe: and beholde, there were all maner ymages off wormes & beastes, all Idols and abhominacions of yᵉ house off Israel paynted euerychone rounde aboute the wall.

There stode also before the ymages lxx. lordes of the councell off the house off Israel:⁽³⁾ and in the myddest off them stode Iaasanias the sonne off Saphan: And euery one off them had a censoure in his honde, & out off the incense, there wente a smoke, as it had bene a cloude.

Then sayde he vnto me: Thou sonne off man,⁽⁴⁾ hast thou sene what the Senatours off the house off Israel do secretly, euery one in his chambre? For they saye: Tush, the LORDE seth vs not, the LORDE regardeth not the worlde. And he sayde vnto me: Turne the yet agayne, and thou shat se the greate abhominacions that they do.

And with that, he brought me to the dore off the porte off the LORDES house, towarde the north. And beholde, there sat women mournynge for Thamus. Then sayde he vnto me: hast thou sene this, thou sonne [C] of mā? Turne yᵉ aboute, & thou shalt se yet greater abhominacions. And so he brought me in to the inwarde courte of the LORDES house: & beholde, at the porte of the LORDES house, betwixte the fore entrie and the aulter, there were fyue and twenty men, that turned their backes vpon the Temple of the LORDE, & their faces towarde the easte, and these worshipped the Sonne.

And he sayde vnto me: hast thou sene this, thou sonne of man? Thinketh the house of Israel, that it is but a trifle, to do these abhominacions here? Shulde they fyll the londe full of wickednesse, and vndertake to prouoke me vnto anger? Yee & purposly to cast vp their noses vpon me? Therfore wil I also do some thinge in my wrothfull displeasure, so that myne eye shall not ouersee them, nether wil I spare them.⁽⁵⁾ Yee and though they crie in myne eares with loude voyce, yet wil I not heare them.

Notes to Chapter 8

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 3. b 11. d

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⁽⁵⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 1. c ⟨illegible⟩ 1⟨illegible⟩ c ⟨illegible⟩ b ⟨illegible⟩. 3. a

Chapter 9

[A] HE cried also with a loude voyce in myne eares, sayenge: Come here ye rulers of the cite, euery man with his weapened honde to the slaughter. Then came there sixe men out of the strete of the vpper porte towarde the north, and euery man a weapen in his honde to the slaughter. There was one amongst them, that had on him a lynninge rayment, and a wryters ynckhorne by his syde.

These wente in, and stode beside the brasen aulter:⁽¹⁾ for the glory of the LORDE was gone awaye from the Cherub, and was come downe to the thresholde of the house, & he called the mā, that had the lynnynge rayment vpon him, and the writers ynckhorne by his syde, and the LORDE sayde vnto him: Go thy waye thorow the cite of Ierusalem, and set this marck ⟨non-Latin script⟩ Thau vpō the foreheades of them,⁽²⁾ that mourne, and are sory for all the abhominacions, that be done therin. And to the other, he sayde that I might heare: [B] Go ye after him thorow the cite, slaye, ouersee none,⁽³⁾ spare none: Kyll, & destroye both olde men and yonge, maydens, children, and wyues.

⁽⁴⁾But as for those, that haue this marck ⟨non-Latin script⟩ Thau vpō them: se that ye touch them not, and begynne at my Sanctuary.⁽⁵⁾ Then they begāne at the elders, which were in the Temple, for he had sayde vnto them: When ye haue defyled the Temple, and fylled the courte with the slayne, then go youre waye forth. So they wēte out and slewe downe thorow yᵉ cite. Now when they had done yᵉ slaughter, & I yet escaped: I fell downe vpon my face, & cried, sayenge: O LORDE, wilt thou then destroye all the resydue of Israel, in thy sore displeasure, that thou hast poured vpō Ierusalem?

Then sayde he vnto me: The wickednesse of the house of Israel and Iuda is very greate: so that the lōde is full of bloude,⁽⁶⁾ and yᵉ cite full of vnfaithfulnesse: For they saye: Tush, yᵉ LORDE regardeth not the earth, he seyth vs not. Therfore will I vpon them, myne eye shall not ouersee them, nether will I spare them, but will recompence their wickednesse vpon their heades.

And beholde, the mā that had the lynnynge rayment vpon him, and the writers, ynck horne by his syde: tolde all the matter how it happened, and sayde: LORDE, as thou hast commaunded me, so haue I done.

Notes to Chapter 9

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩0. e ⟨illegible⟩ 9. c ⟨illegible⟩ 1. b

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⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 2. a

⁽⁴⁾ ⟨non-Latin script⟩

⁽⁵⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 25. d ⟨illegible⟩ b ⟨illegible⟩. 4. c

⁽⁶⁾ Iob 22. b Esa. 29. c Eccī. 23. c Ezec. 7. a

Chapter 10

ANd as I loked, beholde, In the firmament [A] that was aboue the Cherubins there apeared the similitude of a stole of Saphir vpō them:⁽¹⁾ Then sayde he that sat therin, to him that had the lynnynge rayment vpon him: Crepe in betwene the wheles that are vnder the Cherubins, and take thine honde full of hote coales out from betwene the Cherubins, and cast them ouer the cite. And he crepte in, that I might se.

Now the Cherubins stode vpō the right syde of the house, when the man wēte in, and the cloude fylled the ynnermer courte.⁽²⁾ But the glory of the LORDE remoued from the Cherubins, and came vpon the thresholde of the house: so that the Temple was full of cloudes, and the courte was full of the shyne of the LORDES glory. Yee and the sounde of the Cherubins wynges was herde in to the forecourte, like as it had bene the voyce of the almightie God, when he speaketh. Now when he had bydden the man yᵗ was clothed in lynnynge, to go and take the hote coales from the myddest of yᵉ wheles, which were vnder the Cherubins: he wente [B] and stode besyde the wheles. Then the one Cherub reached forth this honde from vnder the Cherubins, vnto yᵉ fyre that was betwene the Cherubins, and toke therof, and gaue it vnto him (that had on the lynnynge rayment) in his honde: which toke it, and wente out. And vnder the wynges of yᵉ Cherubins, there apeared the licknes of a mās hōde: I sawe also foure wheles besyde the Cherubins, so that by euery Cherub there stode a whele. And the wheles were (to loke vpon) after yᵉ fashion of yᵉ precious stone of Tharsis: Yet (vnto the sight) were they fashioned & like, as yf one whele had bene in another.

When they wente forth, they wēte all iiij together, not turnynge aboute in their goinge: But where the first wente, thither wente they after also, so that they turned not aboute in their goinge.⁽³⁾ Their whole bodies, their backes, their hōdes & wynges, yee & the wheles also, were all full of eyes rounde aboute them all foure. And I herde him call yᵉ wheles, Galgal (that is) a rounde boull. Euery one of them had foure faces: so that the one face was the face of a Cherub, the seconde of a man, the thirde of a lyon, the fourth of an Aegle, & they were lifted vp aboue. This is the beest, that I sawe at the water of Cobar. [C] Now when the Cherubins wente, the wheles wente with them: & when the Cherubins shoke their wynges to lift them selues vpwarde, the wheles remayned not behynde, but were with them also. Shortly, when they stode, these stode also: And when they were lift vp, yᵉ wheles were lift vp also with thē, for the sprete of life was in the wheles.

⁽⁴⁾Then the glory of the LORDE was lift vp from the thresholde of the temple, and remayned vpon the Cherubins: And the Cherubins flackred with their wynges, and lift thē selues vp from the earth: so that I sawe when they went, and the wheles with them. And they stode at the east syde of the porte that is in the house of the LORDE. So the glory of the LORDE was vpon them. This is the beest that I sawe vnder the God of Israel, by the water of Cobar. And I perceaued, that it was the Cherubins. Euery one had foure faces, & euery one foure wynges, & vnder their winges, as it were mēs hondes. Now the figure of their faces was, euen as I had sene them, by the water of Cobar, & so was the countenaunce of thē: Euery one in his goinge wente straight forwarde.

Notes to Chapter 10

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 9 a

⁽²⁾ 2. Par. 7 a

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ze. 1. b

⁽⁴⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ze. 11. d ⟨illegible⟩. a

Chapter 11

[A] MOrouer, the sprete of the LORDE lift me vp, & brought me vnto yᵉ east porte of the LORDES house. And beholde, there were xxv men vnder the dore: amōge whom I sawe Iaasanias the sonne of Asur, & Pheltias the sonne of Banias, the rulers of the people. Then sayde the LORDE vnto me: Thou sonne of man: These men ymagin myschefe, and a wicked councel take they in this cite, sayenge: Tush, there is no destruccion at honde, let vs buylde houses: This Ierusalem is the cauldron, & we be the flesh. Therfore shalt thou prophecie vnto them, yee prophecie shalt thou vnto them, O sonne of man. And with that, fell the sprete of the LORDE vpon me, and sayde vnto me: Speake, thus saieth the LORDE: On this maner haue yee spokē (O ye house of Israel) and I knowe the ymaginaciōs of youre hertes. Many one haue ye murthured in this cite, & filled the stretes full of the slayne.

Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God:[B] The slayne men that ye haue layed on the grounde in this cite, are the flesh, & this cite is the cauldron:⁽¹⁾ But I wil bringe you out of it: ye haue drawē out yᵉ swearde, euē so wil I also bringe a swearde ouer you, saieth yᵉ LORDE God. I will dryue you out of this cite and delyuer you in to youre enemies honde, & wil condemne you. Ye shal be slayne in all the coastes of Israel, I wil be avenged of you: to lerne you for to knowe, that I am the LORDE. This cite shal not be youre cauldron, nether shal ye be the flesh therin: but in the coastes of Israel wil I punysh you, that ye maye knowe, that I am the LORDE: in whose commaundementes ye haue not walked, ner kepte his lawes:⁽²⁾ but haue done after the customes of the Heithen, that lie rounde aboute you.

Now when I preached, Pheltias the sonne [C] of Banias dyed. Then fell I downe vpō my face, & cried with a loude voyce: O LORDE God, wilt thou then vterly destroye all the remnaunt in Israel? And so the worde of the LORDE came to me on this maner: Thou sonne of man: Thy brethren, thy kynsfolke, & yᵉ whole house of Iuda, which dwell at Ierusalem, saye: They be gone farre from the LORDE, but the londe is geuen vs in possession. Therfore tell them, thus saieth the LORDE God: I wil sende you farre of amōge the Gentiles, & scatre you amonge the nacions, & I wil halowe you but a litle, in the londes where ye shall come. Tell them also, thus saieth the LORDE God: I wil gather you agayne out of the nacions, & bringe you from the countrees where ye be scatred, & will geue you the londe of Israel agayne: & thither shal ye come. And as for all impedimentes, & all youre abhominacions: I will take them awaye.

And I wil geue you one herte, & wil plante [D] a new sprete within yoʳ bowels.⁽³⁾ That stony herte wil I take out of youre body, & geue you a fleshy herte: that ye maye walke in my commaundementes, and kepe myne ordinaunces, & do them: that ye maye be my people, and I youre God. But loke whose hertes are disposed to folowe their abhominacions and wicked lyuynges: Those mens dedes will I bringe vpon their owne heades, saieth the LORDE God. After this dyd the Cherubins lift vp their winges, and the wheles wente with them, and the glory of the LORDE was vpon them.⁽⁴⁾ So the glory of the LORDE wente vp from the myddest of the cite,⁽⁵⁾ & stode vpon the mount of the cite towarde the east. But the wynde toke me vp, & in a vision (which came by the sprete of God) it brought me agayne in to Caldea amonge the presoners. Then the vision that I had sene, vanyshed a waye fro me. So I spake vnto the presoners, all the wordes of the LORDE, which he had shewed me.

Notes to Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

[A] THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me,⁽¹⁾ sayenge: Thou sonne of mā, thou dwellest in the myddest of a frauwerde housholde: which haue eyes to se, & yet se not: eares haue they to heare, and yet heare they not, for they are an obstinate housholde. Therfore (O thou sonne of man) make thy gere redy to flit, and go forth by fayre daye light, yᵗ they maye se. Yee euē in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place: yf peraduenture they wil considre, yᵗ they be an vnobedient housholde. Thy gere that thou hast made redy to flit withall, shalt thou beare out by fayre daye light, that they maie se: & thou yⁱ self shalt go forth also at euē in their sight, as a mā doth whē he flitteth.

Dygge thorow the wall, that they maye se, and beare thorow it the same thinge, that thou tokest vp in their sight. As for thy self, thou shalt go forth in the darcke. Hyde thy face that thou se not yᵉ earth, for I haue made the a shew tokē vnto the house of Israel. [B] Now as yᵉ LORDE cōmaunded me, so I dyd: yᵉ gere that I had made redy, brought I out by daye. At euen I brake downe an hole thorow the wall with my honde: & when it was darcke, I toke the gere vpō my shulders, and bare them out in their sight.

And in the mornynge, came the worde of the LORDE vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, yf Israel, yᵗ frauwerde housholde axe the, and saye: what dost thou there? Then tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: This punyshment toucheth the chefe rulers at Ierusalem, and all the house of Israel, that dwell amonge them: Tell them: I am youre shew token: like as I haue done, so shal it happen vnto you: Flyt shal ye also, and go in to captiuyte.⁽²⁾ The chefest that is amonge you, shall lade his shulders in the darcke, and get him awaye. He shal breake downe the wall, to carie stuff there thorow: He shal couer his face, that he se not the grounde, with his eyes.

My lyne will I sprede out vpon him, and [C] catch him in my net,⁽³⁾ and carie him to Babilon, in the lōde of the Caldees: which he shal not se, & yet shal he dye there. As for all his helpers, and all his hoostes that be aboute him: I will scatre them towarde all the wyndes, and drawe out a swearde after them. So when I haue scatred them amonge the Heithen, and strowed them in the londes:⁽⁴⁾ they shal knowe, that I am yᵉ LORDE. But, I will leaue a litle nombre of them, from the swearde, hunger & pestilence: to tell all their abhominacions amonge the Heithen, where they come: that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Morouer, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge: Thou sonne of man: with a fearfull trēblinge shalt thou eate thy bred, with carefulnesse & sorowe shalt thou drynke thy water. And vnto the people of the londe, speake thou on this maner: Thus saieth the LORDE God, to them that dwell in Ierusalem, and to the londe of Israel: Ye shall eate youre bred with sorowe, and drynke youre water with heuynesse: Yee the londe with the fulnesse therof shalbe layde waist, for yᵉ wickednesse of them that dwell therin. And the cities that now be well occupied, shal be voyde, and the londe desolate: that ye maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Yet came the worde of the LORDE vnto [D] me agayne, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, what maner of byworde is that,⁽⁵⁾ which ye vse in the londe of Israel, sayenge: Tush, seynge that the daies are so slacke in commynge,⁽⁶⁾ all the visiōs are of none effecte: Tell them therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: I wil make that byworde to ceasse, so that it shall nomore be comonly vsed in Israel.

But saye this vnto them: The daies are at honde, that euery thinge which hath bene prophecied, shalbe fulfilled. There shall no vision be in vayne, nether eny prophecie fayle amonge the children of Israel: For it is I the LORDE, that speake it: and what so euer I yᵉ LORDE speake, it shal be perfourmed, and not be slacke in commynge.

Yee euen in youre dayes (O ye frauwarde housholde) will I deuyse some thinge, & bringe it to passe, saieth the LORDE God. And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge: Beholde, thou sonne of man: The house of Israel saye in this maner: Tush, as for the vision that he hath sene, it will be many a daye or it come to passe: Is it farre of yet, the thinge that he prophecieth. Therfore saye vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: All my wordes shal nomore be slacke: Loke what I speake, that same shal come to passe, saieth the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 12

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⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 21. b

⁽³⁾ Eze. 17. c 3⟨illegible⟩. a

⁽⁴⁾ Eze. 1⟨illegible⟩. b b. 22

⁽⁵⁾ Ro. 2. a

⁽⁶⁾ 2. Pet. 3. b

Chapter 13

[A] THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayēge: Thou sonne of man, Speake prophecie agaynst those prophetes, that preach in Israel: & sayeth thou vnto them that prophecie out of their owne hertes: Heare the worde of the LORDE, thus saieth the LORDE God:⁽¹⁾ Wo be vnto those folish prophetes, that folowe their owne sprete, and speake, where they se nothinge. O Israel, thy prophetes are like the foxes vpon the drie felde: For they stonde not in the gappes, nether make they an hedge for the house of Israel,⁽²⁾ that mē might abyde the parell in the daye of the LORDE. Vayne thinges they se, & tell lies, to mayntene their preachinges withall. The LORDE (saye they) hath spokē it, when in very dede the LORDE hath not sent them. Vayne visiōs haue ye sene, & spokē false prophecies. when ye saye: the LORDE hath spoken it, where as I neuer sayde it.

[B] Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: Because youre wordes be vayne, & ye seke out lies: Beholde, I wil vpon you, saieth yᵉ LORDE. Myne hondes shal come vpon the prophetes, that loke out vayne thinges, and preach lies: they shal not be in the councell of my people, ner written in the boke of the house of Israel, nether shal they come in the londe of Israel: that ye maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE God. And that for this cause:⁽³⁾ they haue disceaued my people, & tolde them of peace, where no peace was. One setteth vp a wall, & they dawbe it with lowse claye.⁽⁴⁾ Therfore tell them which dawbe it with vntempered morter, that it shall fall. For there shal come a greate shuwer of rayne, greate stones shall fall vpon it, & a fore storme of wynde shal breake it, so shal yᵉ wall come downe. Shal it not then be sayde vnto you: where is now the morter, that ye dawbed [C] it withall? Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: I will breake out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wynde, so that in myne anger there shal come a mightie shuwer of rayne, & hale stones in my wrath, to destroye withall.

As for yᵉ wall, that ye haue dawbed with vntempered morter, I wil breake it downe, & make it eauen with the grounde: so that the foundacion therof shal remoue, & it shal fall yee & ye youre selues shall perish in the myddest therof: to lerne you for to knowe, that I am the LORDE. Thus wil I perfourme my wrath vpon this wall, & vpon them that haue dawbed it with vntempered morter, and then will I saye vnto you: The wall is gone, & the dawbers are awaye. These are the prophetes of Israel, which prophecie vnto the cite of Ierusalem, & loke out visions of peace for them, where as no peace is, saieth the LORDE God. Wherfore (o thou sonne of mē,) set thy face agaynst the doughters of yᵉ people, which prophecie out of their owne hertes: & speake thou prophecie agaynst them, & saye: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Wo be vnto you, that sowe pilowes vnder all arme holes, and bolsters vnder the heades both of yonge and olde, to catch soules withall. For when ye haue gotten the soules of my people in youre captiuyte,⁽⁵⁾ ye promyse them life, and dishonoure me to my people, for an handfull of barly, & for a pece of bred: when ye kyll the soules of them that dye not, & promyse life to them, that lyue not: Thus ye dyssemble with my people, yᵗ beleueth yoʳ lies.

Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil also vpō the pillowes, wherwith ye catch the soules in flyenge: thē will I take from youre armes, & let the soules go, that ye catch in flyenge. Youre bolsters also wil I teare in peces, & delyuer my people out of youre honde: so that they shal come nomore in youre hōdes to be spoyled, & ye shal knowe, that I am the LORDE. Seinge yᵗ with youre lyes ye discomforte the herte of the rightuous, whom I haue not discomforted: Agayne:⁽⁶⁾ For so moch as ye corage the honde of the wicked, so that he maye not turne from his wicked waye, & lyue: therfore shall ye spie out nomore vanyte, ner prophecie youre owne gessinges: for I wil delyuer my people out of youre honde, that ye maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 13

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Chapter 14

THere resorted vnto me certayne of yᵉ [A] elders of Israel, & sat downe by me,⁽¹⁾ Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, these men beare their Idols in their hertes, & go purposly vpon the stomblinge block of their owne wickednesse: how darre they then are councell at me? Therfore speake vnto them, & saye: thus saieth the LORDE God: Euery man of the house of Israel that beareth his Idols in his herte, purposynge to stomble in his owne wickednesse, and commeth to a prophet, to enquere eny thinge at me by him: vnto that man wil I the LORDE myself geue answere, acordinge to the multitude of his Idols: that the house of Israel maye be snared in their owne hertes, because they be clene gone fro me, for their Idols sakes.

Wherfore, tell the house of Israel: thus saieth the LORDE God:⁽²⁾ Be conuerted, forsake youre Idols, and turne youre faces from all yoʳ abhominacions. For euery man (whether he be of the house of Israel, or a straunger, that sogeourneth in Israel) which departeth fro me, and carieth Idols in his herte, purposinge to go still stomblinge in his owne wickednesse, and commeth to a prophet, for to axe councell at me thorow him: vnto yᵗ man wil I the LORDE geue answere, by myne owne self.

[B] I wil set my face agaynst that man, and wil make him to be an example for other, yee and a comon byworde: and wil rote him out of my people, that he maye knowe, how yᵗ I am the LORDE. ⁽³⁾ And yf that prophet be disceaued, when he telleth him a worde: then I the LORDE myself haue disceaued that prophet, and wil stretch forth myne honde vpon him, to rote him out of my people of Israel: and they both shall be punyshed for their wickednesse.

Acordinge to yᵉ synne of him that axeth, shal the synne of the prophet be: that yᵉ house of Israel be led nomore fro me thorow erroure, and be nomore defyled in their wickednesse: but that they maye be my people, and I their God, saieth the LORDE God. And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, when the londe synneth agaynst me, and goeth forth in wickednesse: I will stretch out myne hōde vpon it, and destroye all the prouysion of their [C] bred, and sende derth vpon them, to destroye man & beest in the londe.⁽⁴⁾ And though Noe, Daniel and Iob these thre men were amonge them,⁽⁵⁾ yet shal they in their rightuousnesse delyuer but their owne soules, saieth the LORDE God.

Yf I bringe noysome beestes in to the londe, to waist it vp, and it be so desolate, that no man maye go therin for beestes: yf these thre men also were in the londe, as truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) they shal saue nether sonnes ner doughters, but be only delyuered them selues: and as for the londe, it shal be waist.

Or, yf I bringe a swearde in to the londe, and charge it to go thorow the londe: so that I slaye downe man and beest in it, and yf these thre men were therin: As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) they shal delyuer nether sonnes ner doughters, but only be saued them selues.

Yf I sende a pestilence in to the londe,[D] and poure out my sore indignacion vpon it in bloude, so that I rote out of it both man and beest, and yf Noe, Daniel and Iob were therin: As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) they shal delyuer nether sonnes ner doughters, but saue their owne soules in their rightuousnesse.

Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE God: Though I sende my foure trublous plages vpon Ierusalem: the swearde, honger,⁽⁶⁾ perlous beestes and pestilence, to destroye man and beest out of it: yet shal there a remnaunt be saued therin, which shal bringe forth their sonnes and doughters. Beholde, they shal come forth vnto you, and ye shall se their waye, and what they take in honde, & ye shal be cōforted, as touchinge all the plages that I haue brought vpon Ierusalem.

They shall comforte you, when ye se their waye and workes: and ye shal knowe, how yᵗ it is not without a cause, that I haue done so agaynst Ierusalem, as I dyd, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 14

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Chapter 15

THe worde of the LORDE came vnto [A] me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man: What commeth of the vyne amonge all other trees? and of the wyne stocke, amōge all other tymbre of the groaue? Do mē take wodd of it, to make eny worke withall? Or maye there a nale be made of it, to hange eny thinge vpon? Beholde, it is cast in the fyre to be brent, the fyre consumeth both the endes of it, the myddest is brent to aszshes. Is it mete then for eny worke? No.

Seinge then, that it was mete for no worke, beinge whole: moch lesse maye there eny thinge be made of it, when the fyre hath consumed and brent it. And therfore thus saieth [B] the LORDE God: Like as I cast the vyne in to the fyre for to be brent, as other trees of the wod: Euen so wil I do with them that dwell in Ierusalem, and set my face agaynst them: they shall go out from the fyre, and yet the fyre shall consume them.⁽¹⁾ Then shal ye knowe, that I am the LORDE, when I set my face agaynst them, and make the londe waist: because they haue so sore offended, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 15

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Chapter 16

[A] AGayne, the worde of LORDE spake vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, shewe the cite of Ierusalem their abhominacions, and saye: thus saieth the LORDE God vnto Ierusalem: Thy progeny and kynred came out of the londe of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Cethite. In yᵉ daye of thy byrth when thou wast borne, yᵉ stringe of thy nauel was not cut of: thou wast not bathed in water to make the clene▪ Thou wast nether rubbed wᵗ salt, ner swedled in cloutes: No man regarded the so moch, as to do eny of these thinges for yᵉ, or to shewe the soch fauoure, but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon yᵉ felde, yee despised wast thou in the daye of thy byrth.

Then came I by the, and sawe the troden downe in thine owne bloude, & sayde vnto the: thou shalt be pourged from thine owne bloude, frō thine owne bloude (I saye) shalt thou be clensed.⁽¹⁾ So I planted the, as the blossome of thy felde: thou art growen vp, & waxē greate: thou hast gotten a maruelous pleasaunt beutie, thy brestes are come vp, thy hayre is goodly growen, where as thou wast naked and bare afore.

[B] Now when I wente by yᵉ, & loked vpon the: beholde, thy tyme was come, yee euē the tyme to wowe the. Then spred I my clothes ouer the, to couer thy dishonestie: Yee I made an ooth vnto the,⁽²⁾ & maried my self with the (saieth the LORDE God) & so thou becamest myne owne. Then waszshed I the with water, & pourged thy bloude from the. I anoynted the with oyle, I gaue the chaunge of raymentes, I made the shues of Taxus lether: I gyrthed yᵉ aboute wᵗ white sylcke, I clothed the with kerchues, I decked the wᵗ costly apparell, I put rynges vpon thy fyngers: a chayne aboute thy necke, spāges vpō thy foreheade, eare rynges vpon thyne eares, & set a beutifull crowne vpon thine heade. Thus wast thou deckte with syluer & golde, & thy rayment was of fyne white sylke, of nedle worke & of dyuerse colours.

Thou didest eate nothinge but symnels, honny & oyle: maruelous goodly wast thou & beutifull, yee euen a very Quene wast thou: In so moch, that thy beuty was spoken of amonge the Heithen, for thou wast excellēt in my beuty, which I put vpō the, saieth the LORDE God. But thou hast put confidēce in thine owne beuty, & played the harlot, when thou haddest gotten the a name. Thou hast committed whordome, with all that wente by the, & hast fulfilled their desyres: Yee thou hast taken thy garmētes of dyuerse colours, & deckte thine aulters therwith,⁽³⁾ where vpon thou mightest fulfill thine whordome, of soch a fashion, as neuer was done, ner shalbe.⁽⁴⁾ The goodly ornamētes & Iewels which I gaue the of myne owne golde and syluer, hast thou takē, & made the mēs ymages therof, and committed whordome withall.

Thy garmentes of dyuerse colours hast thou taken, and deckte them therwith: myne oyle & incense hast thou set before them. My meate which I gaue the, as symnels, oyle & hony: (to fede the withall) that hast thou set before them, for a swete sauoure. And this came also to passe, saieth the LORDE God▪ Thou hast takē thine owne sonnes & doughters, whom thou haddest begotten vnto me▪ ⁽⁵⁾ and these hast thou offred vp vnto them, to be their meate. Is this but a small whordome of thine (thinkest thou) that thou slayest my children, and geuest them ouer, to be brēt vnto them? And yet in all thy abhominacions and whordome, thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, how naked and bare thou wast at that tyme, & troden downe in thine owne bloude. After all these thy wickednesses (wo wo vnto the, saieth yᵉ LORDE) thou hast buylded thy stewes and bredel houses in euery place: yee at the heade of euery strete hast thou buylded the an aulter. Thou hast made thy beuty to be abhorred: thou hast layed out thy legges to euery one that came by, and multiplied thine whordome.⁽⁶⁾ Thou hast committed fornicacion with the Egipcians thy neghbours, which had moch flesh: & thus hast thou vsed thine whordome, to anger me.

Beholde, I will stretch out myne honde ouer the, and wil mynish thy stoare of fode, and delyuer the ouer in to the willes of the Philistynes thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abhominable waye.⁽⁷⁾ Thou hast played the whore also with the Assirians, which might not satisfie the: Yee thou hast played the harlot, & not had ynough. Thus hast thou still cōmitted thy fornicacion from the londe of Canaan vnto the Caldees, and yet thy lust not satisfied. How shulde I circumcide thine herte (saieth the LORDE God) seinge thou doest all these thinges, thou precious whore: buyldinge thy stewes at the heade of euery strete, and thy brodel houses in all places? Thou hast not bene as an other whore, yᵗ maketh booste of hir wynnynge: but as a wife yᵗ breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir huszbōde. Giftes are geuen to all other whores, but thou geuest rewardes vnto all thy louers: & offrest them giftes, to come vnto the out of all places, & to committe fornicacio with the. It is come to passe with the in thy whordomes, contrary to the vse of other women: yee there hath no soch fornicacion bene committed after the, seinge that thou profrest giftes vnto other, & no rewarde is geuen the: this is a contrary thinge. Therfore heare the worde [D] of the LORDE, o thou harlot: Thus saieth the LORDE God: For so moch as thou hast spēt thy moneye, & discouered thy shame, thorow thy whordome with all thy louers, and with all the Idols of thy abhominacions in the bloude of thy children, whom thou hast geuen them:⁽⁸⁾ Beholde therfore, I wil gather together all thy louers, vnto whom thou hast made thy self comon: yee & all them whom thou fauourest, and euery one that thou hatest:⁽⁹⁾ and will discouer thy shame before thē, that they all maye se thy fylthines.

Morouer, I wil iudge the as a breaker of wedlocke and a murthurer, and recompence the thine owne bloude in wrath and gelousy. I wil geue the ouer in to their power, that shal breake downe thy stewes, and destroye thy brodel houses: they shal stripe the out of thy clothes, all thy fayre & beutifull Iewels shal they take from the, and so let the syt naked & bare:⁽¹⁰⁾ Yee they shal bringe the comon people vpon the, which shal stone the, & slaye the downe with their sweardes. They shall burne vp thy houses, and punysh the in the sight of many womē. Thus wil I make thy whordome to ceasse, so that thou shalt geue out no mo rewardes.

Shulde I make my wrath to be still, take my gelousy from the, be content, and nomore to be displeased? seinge thou remembrest not the dayes of thy youth, but hast prouoked [E] me to wrath in all these thinges? Beholde therfore, I wil bringe thine owne wayes vpon thine heade, saieth the LORDE God: how be it, I neuer dyd vnto the, acordinge to thy wickednesse and all thy abhominacions. Beholde, all they yᵗ vse comon prouerbes, shall vse this prouerbe also agaynst the: Soch a mother, soch a doughter.

Thou art euen thy mothers owne doughter, that hath cast of hir houszbonde and hir children: Yee thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsoke their huszbōdes and their children.⁽¹¹⁾ Youre mother is a Cethite, and youre father an Amorite. Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and hir doughters that dwel vpō thy left honde.

But thy yongest sister that dwelleth on yᵉ right hōde, is Sodoma and hir doughters. Yet hast thou not walked after their wayes, ner done after their abhominacions: But in all thy wayes thou hast bene more corrupte then they.

As truly as I lyue,⁽¹²⁾ saieth the LORDE God: Sodoma thy sister with hir doughters, hath not done so euel, as thou and thy doughters. Beholde, the synnes of thy sister Sodoma were these: Pryde, fulnesse of meate, abundaunce and Idilnesse: these thinges had she and hir doughters. Besydes that, they reached not their honde to the poore and nedy, but were proude, and dyd abhominable thinges before me:⁽¹³⁾ therfore I toke them awaye, when I had sene it.⁽¹⁴⁾ Nether hath Samaria done half of thy synnes, yee thou hast exceaded them in wickednesse: In so moch that in comparison of all the abhominacions which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women. Therfore beare thine owne shame, thou that in synne hast ouercome thy sisters: seinge thou hast done so abhominably, that they were better then thou. Be ashamed therfore (I saye) and beare thine owne confucion, thou that makest thy sisters good women.

As for their captiuyte, namely the captiuyte of Sodoma and hir dougters: the captiuyte of Samaria and hir doughters: I wil [F] bringe them agayne, so will I also bringe agayne thy captiuyte amōge them: that thou mayest take thine owne confucion vpon the, and be ashamed of all that thou hast done, and to comforte them.

Thus thy sisters (namely) Sodoma and hir doughters: Samaria and hir doughters with yᵉ self & thy doughters, shalbe brought agayne to youre olde estate. Whē thou wast in thy pryde, and before thy wickednesse came to light: thou woldest not heare speake of thy sister Sodoma, vntill the tyme that the Sirians with all their townes, and the Philistynes with all that lye rounde aboute them, brought the to shame and confucion: that thou mightest beare thine owne fylthynes and abhominacion, saieth the LORDE.

For thus saieth the LORDE God: I shulde (by right) deale with the, as thou hast done. Thou hast despysed the ooth, and broken the couenaunte. Neuertheles, I wil remembre the couenaunt, that I made with them thy youth, in so moch that it shall be an euerlastinge couenaunt: So that thou also remembre thy wayes, and be ashamed of thē: then shalt thou receaue of me thy elder and yonger sisters, whom I wil make thy doughters, and that besyde thy couenaunt.⁽¹⁵⁾ And so I wil renue my couenaunt with the, yᵗ thou mayest knowe, that I am the LORDE: that thou mayest thincke vpō it, be ashamed, and excuse thine owne confucion nomore: when I haue forgeuen the, all that thou hast done, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 16

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Chapter 17

[A] THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man: put forth a darcke speakynge and a parable,⁽¹⁾ vnto the house of Israel, and saye: Thus saieth the LORDE God:⁽²⁾ There came a greate Aegle with greate wynges, yee wᵗ mightie longe wynges, and full of fethers of dyuerse colours, vpon the mount of Libanus, and toke a braunch from a Cedre tre, and brake of the toppe of his twygge, and caried it in to the londe of Canaan, and set it in a cite of marchauntes. He toke also a braunch of the londe, and planted it in a frutefull grounde, he brought it vnto greate waters, & set it as a will ye tre therby. Then dyd it growe, and was a greate wyne stocke, but lowe by the grounde: thus there came of it a vyne, and it brought forth blossomes, & spred out braunches.

But there was another Aegle, a greate one, which had greate wynges and many fethers: and beholde, yᵉ rotes of this vyne had an hūger after him, and spred out his braunches towarde him, to water his frutes: Neuertheles it was plāted vpon a good grounde besyde greate waters: so that (by reason) it shulde haue brought out braunches and [B] frute, and haue bene a goodly vyne. Speake thou therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: Shal this vyne prospere? shal not his rotes be pluckte out, his frute broken of, his grene braunches wythereed and fade awaye? yee without ether stronge arme or many people, shal it be plucked vp by the rotes. Beholde, it was planted: shall it prospere therfore? Shall it not be dryed vp and withered, yee euen in the shutinge out of his blossomes, as soone as yᵉ east wynde bloweth?

Morouer, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge:⁽³⁾ Speake to that frauwarde housholde: knowe ye not, what these thinges do signifie? Tell them: Beholde, the kinge of Babilon came to Ierusalem, and toke the kinge & his prynces, and ledde them to Babilon.

He toke of the kinges sede, and made a couenaunt with him, and toke an ooth of him: The prynces of the londe toke he with him also, that the londe might be holden in subieccion, and not to rebelle, but kepe the couenaunt, and fulfill it. But he fell from him, & sent his Embassitours in to Egipte, that he might haue horses & moch people. Shulde [C] that prospere? Shulde he be kepte safe, that doth soch thinges? Or shulde he escape, that breaketh his couenaunt?

As truly as I lyue, saieth the LORDE God: He shal dye at Babilon, in yᵉ place where the kinge dwelleth, that made him kinge: whose ooth he hath despised, and whose couenaunt he hat broken. Nether shall Pharao with his greate hoost and multitude of people, maynteyne him in the warre: when they cast vp diches, and set vp bulworkes to destroye moch people. For seinge he hath despysed the ooth, and broken the couenaunt (where as he yet gaue his honde thervpon) and done all these thinges, he shall not escape.

Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: As truly as I lyue, I will bringe myne ooth that he hath despysed, and my couenaunt that he hath broken, vpon his owne heade.⁽⁴⁾ I wil cast my net aboute him, and catch him in my yarne. To Babilon will I cary him, there will I punysh him, because of the greate [D] offence that he made me. As for those yᵗ fle from him out of yᵉ hoost, they shalbe slayne with the swearde. The residue shalbe scatred towarde all the wyndes: and ye shal knowe, that I the LORDE haue spoken it.

Thus saieth the LORDE God: I will also take a braunch from an hie Cedre tre, and will set it, and take the vppermost twygge, that yet is but tendre, and plante it vpon an hie hill: Namely, vpon the hie hill of Sion will I plante it: that it maye bringe forth twygges, and geue frute, and be a greate Cedre tre: so that all maner of foules maye byde in it, and make their nestes vnder the shadowe of his braunches.

And all the trees of the felde shall knowe, that I the LORDE haue brought downe the hie tre, and set the lowe tre vp: that I haue dryed vp the grene tre, and made the drye tre to florish: Euen I the LORDE yᵗ spake it, haue also brought it to passe.

Notes to Chapter 17

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Chapter 18

THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me, on this maner: what meane ye by this comon prouerbe, that ye vse in the londe of Israel, sayenge: The fathers haue eaten soure grapes,⁽¹⁾ and the childrēs teth are set on edge? As truly as I lyue, saieth yᵉ LORDE God, ye shal vse this by worde nomore in Israel.

⁽²⁾Beholde, all soules are myne. Like as the father is myne, so is yᵉ sonne myne also. The soule that synneth,⁽³⁾ shal dye. Yf a man be godly, and do the thinge that is equall & right, (he eateth not vpon the hilles: he lifteth not his eyes vp to the Idols of Israel: he defyleth not his neghbours wife: he medleth wᵗ no menstruous woman: he greueth no body: he geueth his detter his pledge agayne: he taketh none other mans good by violēce: he parteth his mete with the hongrie: he clotheth the naked: he lendeth nothinge vpon vsury:⁽⁴⁾ he taketh nothinge ouer: he withdraweth his honde from doinge wronge: he hādleth faith fully betwixte man & man: he walbeth in my commaundementes, & kepeth my lawes,⁽⁵⁾ & perfourmeth thē faithfully:) This is a rightuous mā, he shal surely lyue, saieth the LORDE God.

[B] Yf he now get a sonne, that is a murthurer, a shedder of bloude: yf he do one of these thinges (though he do not all) he eateth vpon the hilles:⁽⁶⁾ he defyleth his neghbours wife: he greueth the poore and nedy: he robbeth and spoyleth: he geueth not the detter his pledge agayne: he lifteth vp his eyes vnto Idols, & medleth with abhominable thinges: he lendeth vpon vsury, and taketh more ouer. Shal this man lyue? He shal not lyue. Seinge he hath done all these abhominacions, he shall dye: his bloude shalbe vpon him.

Now yf this man get a sonne also, that seith all this fathers synnes, which he hath done: and feareth, nether doth soch like: Namely, he eateth not vpon the mountaynes: he lifteth not his eyes vp to the Idols of Israel: he defyleth not his neghbours wife: he vexeth no man: he kepeth no mans pledge: [C] he nether spoyleth, ner robbeth eny man: he dealeth his meate with the hungrie: he clotheth the naked: he oppresseth not the poore: he receaueth no vsury, ner eny thinge ouer: he kepeth my lawes, and walketh in my commaundementes: This man shal not dye in his fathers synne, but shall lyue without fayle. As for his father: because he oppressed and spoyled his brother, and dyd wyckedly amonge his people: lo, he is deed in his owne synne. And yet saye ye: Wherfore thē shulde not this sonne beare his fathers synne? Therfore: because the sonne hath done equyte and right, hath kepte all my commaundementes, and done them: therfore, shall he lyue in dede.

⁽⁷⁾The same soule yᵗ synneth, shall dye. The sonne shal not beare the fathers offence, nenether shal the father beare the sonnes offence.⁽⁸⁾ The rightuousnes of the rightuous shall be vpon himself, and the wickednes of the wicked shal be vpon himself also. But yf yᵉ vngodly will turne awaye, from all his synnes that he hath done, and kepe all my commaundemētes, and do the thinge yᵗ is equall & right: doutles he shal lyue, and not dye. As for all his synnes that he dyd before, they shall not be thought vpon: but in his rightuousnes that he hath done, he shal lyue. For [D] haue I eny pleasure in the death of a synner, saieth the LORDE God?⁽⁹⁾ but rather that he conuerte, and lyue?

Agayne: yf the rightuous turne awaye from his rightuousnes, and do iniquyte, acordinge to all the abhominacions, that yᵉ wicked mā doth: shal he lyue? All the rightuousnes that he hath done, shall not be thought vpō: but in the fawte that he hath offended withall, and in the synne that he hath done, he shal dye.

And yet ye saye: Tush,⁽¹⁰⁾ the waye of yᵉ LORDE is not indifferēt. Heare therfore ye house of Israel: Is not my waye right? Or, are not youre wayes rather wicked? When a rightuous mā turneth awaye from his rightuousnesse, and medleth with vngodlynes: he must dye therin: Yee for the vnrightuousnes that he hath done, must he dye. Agayne:[E] when the wicked man turneth awaye from his wickednesse, that he hath done,⁽¹¹⁾ and doth the thinge which is equall and right: he shal saue his soule alyue. For in so moch as he remembreth himself, and turneth him from all the vngodlynes, that he hath vsed, he shall lyue, and not dye.

And yet saieth the house of Israel: Tush, the waye of the LORDE is not equall. Are my wayes vnright, o ye house of Israel? Are not youre wayes rather vnequall? As for me, I wil iudge euery man, acordinge to his wayes, O ye house of Israel, saieth the LORDE God. Wherfore, be conuerted,⁽¹²⁾ and turne you clene from all youre wickednesse, so shal there no synne do you harme. Cast awaye frō you all youre vngodlynesse, that ye haue done: make you new hertes and a new sprete.⁽¹³⁾ Wherfore wil ye dye, O ye house of Israel? seynge I haue no pleasure in yᵉ death of him that dyeth, saieth the LORDE God. Turne you then, and ye shal lyue.

Notes to Chapter 18

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Chapter 19

BVt mourne thou for the prynces off Israel, & saye: Wherfore laye thy mother that lyonesse, amōge the lyons? & norished hir yonge ones amōge the lyons whelpes? One of hir whelpes she brought vp, & it became a lyon: it lerned to spoyle, and to deuoure folke. The Heithen herde of him, & toke him in their nettes, & brought him in chaynes vnto the londe of Egipte.

Now when the damme sawe, that all hir hope & comforth was awaye, she toke another of hir whelpes, and made a lyon of him: which wente amonge the lyons, & became a fearce lyon: lerned to spoyle and to deuoure folcke: he destroyed their palaces, and made their cities waist: In so moch that the whole londe and euery thinge therin, were vtterly desolate, thorow the very voyce of his roaringe.

Then came the Heithen together on euery syde out of all countrees agaynst him, layed their nettes for him, and toke him in their pytte.⁽¹⁾ So they bounde him with chaynes, and brought him to the kinge of Babilon: which put him in preson, that his voyce shulde nomore be herde vpon the mountaynes [B] of Israel. As for thy mother, she is like a vyne in thy bloude, planted by the water syde: hir frutes and braunches are growen out of many waters: hir stalkes were so stronge, that men might haue made staues therof for officers: she grew so hie in hir stalkes.

So when men sawe that she exceaded yᵉ heith and multitude of hir braunches, she was roted out in displeasure, and cast downe to the grounde. The East wynde dryed vp hir frute, hir stronge stalkes were broken of, wythered and brent in the fyre. But now she is planted in the wildernesse, in a drye and thurstie grounde. And there is a fyre gone out of hir stalkes, which hath brēt vp hir braunches and hir frute: so that she hath no mo stronge stalkes, to be staues for officers. This is a piteous and miserable thinge.

Notes to Chapter 19

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Chapter 20

[A] IN in the xvij yeare the x daye of the v Moneth,⁽¹⁾ it happened, that certayne of the elders of Israel came vnto me for to axe councell at the LORDE, and sat them downe by me. Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me on this maner: Thou sonne of man: Speake to the elders of Israel, and saye vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Are ye come hither to axe eny thinge at me? As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE,) I will geue you no answere. Wilt thou not reproue them (thou sonne of man) wilt thou not reproue them? Shewe them the abhominacions of their forefathers, & tell thē: Thus saieth the LORDE God:⁽²⁾ In the daye when I chose Israel, and lift vp myne honde vpon the sede of the house of Iacob, & shewed my self vnto them in the londe of Egipte: Yee when I lifte vp myne honde ouer thē, and sayde: I am the LORDE youre God, euen in the daye that I lift vp myne honde ouer them, to bringe them out of the londe of Egipte: in to a londe that I had prouyded for them, which floweth with mylcke and hony, and is a pleasaunt lōde amonge all other: Then sayde I vnto them:⁽³⁾ Cast awaye euery man the abhominacions that he hath before him, and defyle not youre selues with the Idols of Egipte, for I am the LORDE youre God.

But they rebelled agaynst me, and wolde [B] not folowe me: to cast awaye euery man the abhominacions of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egipte. Then I made me to poure my indignacion ouer them, and to satisfie my wrath vpon them: yee euen in the myddest of the londe of Egipte. But I wolde not do it, for my names sake: that it shulde not be vnhalowed before the Heithen, amonge whom they dwelt, and amonge whom I shewed my self vnto them, that I wolde bringe them out of the londe of Egipte. Now when I had caried them out of the londe of Egipte, and brought them in to the wildernesse: I gaue them my commaundementes,⁽⁴⁾ & shewed thē my lawes: which who so kepeth shal lyue in them. I gaue them also my holy dayes, to be a token betwixte me and them, and therby to knowe, that I am the LORDE, which haloweth them. And yet the house of Israel rebelled agaynst me in the wildernesse, they wolde not walke in my commaundementes, they haue cast awaye my lawes: (which who so kepeth shulde lyue in them,) and my Sabbath daies haue thy greatly vn halowed.

Thē I made me to poure out my indignacion vpon them,⁽⁵⁾ & to cōsume them in the wildernesse. Yet I wolde not do it, for my names sake: lest it shulde be dishonoured before the Heithē, from the which I had caried them awaye. But I swore vnto them in the wildernesse, that I wolde not bringe them into the londe, which I gaue them: a londe that floweth with mylcke & hony, & is a pleasure of all londes: & yᵗ because they refused my lawes, & walked not in my cōmaundemētes, but had vnhalowed my Sabbathes, for their herte was gone after their Idols. Neuertheles myne eye spared thē, so yᵗ I wolde not vtterly slaye thē, & cōsume thē in the wildernes. Morouer, I sayde vnto their sonnes in yᵉ [C] wildernesse:⁽⁶⁾ walke not in the statutes of yoʳ forefathers, kepe not their ordinaunces, and defyle not youre selues with their Idols, for I am the LORDE youre God. But walke in my statutes, kepe my lawes & do them, halowe my Sabbathes:⁽⁷⁾ for they are a token betwixte me & you, that ye maye knowe, how yᵗ I am the LORDE. ⁽⁸⁾ Notwithstōdinge, their sonnes rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kepte not my lawes to fulfill them (which he that doth shal lyue in them) nether halowed they my Sabbath dayes.⁽⁹⁾ Thē I made me agayne to poure out my indignacion ouer them, and to satisfie my wrath vpon them in the wildernesse. Neuertheles I with drewe my honde for my names sake, lest it shulde be vn halowed amonge the Heithē, before whom I had brought them forth. I lift vp myne honde ouer them also in the wildernesse, that I wolde scatre them amonge the Heithen, and strowe them amonge the nacions: because they had not kepte my lawes, but cast asyde my commaundementes, vnhalowed my Sabbathes, and lift vp their eyes to their fathers Idols. Wherfore I gaue them also commaundementes not good, & lawes thorow the which they shulde not lyue, & I vnhalowed them in their owne giftes:⁽¹⁰⁾ (when I appoynted for myself all their first borne) to make them desolate: that they might knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

[D] Therfore (O thou sonne of man) tell the house of Israel, thus saieth the LORDE God: Besyde all this, youre forefathers haue yet blasphemed me more, and greatly offended agaynst me: For after I had brought them in to the londe, yᵗ I promysed to geue them, when they sawe euery hie hill & all the thicke trees: they made there their offringes, and prouoked me with their oblacions, makinge swete sauoures there, & poured out their drinke offeringes. Then I axed them▪ what haue ye to do with all, that ye go thither? And therfore is it called the hie place vnto this daye. Wherfore, speake vnto the house of Israel: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Ye are euen as vnclene as youre forefathers, & committe whordome also with their abhominaciōs.⁽¹¹⁾ In all youre Idols, where vnto ye bringe youre oblaciōs,⁽¹²⁾ & to whose honoure ye burne youre children: ye defyle youre selues, euen vnto this daye:⁽¹³⁾ how darre ye thē come, and axe eny question at me? O ye housholde of Israel? As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) ye get no answere of me: & as for the thinge that ye go aboute, it shal not come to passe, where as ye saye: we wil be as the Heithen, & do as other people in the londe, wod & stone wil we worshipe.

As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE [E] God) I myself, wil rule you with a mightie honde, with a stretched out arme, and with indignacion poured out ouer you: & wil bringe you out of the nacions and londes, wherin ye are scatred: and gather you together with a mightie hōde, with a stretched out arme & wᵗ indignacion poured out vpon you: & wil bringe you in to the wildernesse of the people, & there I will reason with you face to face. Like as I punished yoʳ forefathers in the wildernesse, so wil I punish you also, saieth the LORDE God. I wil bringe you vnder my iuriszdiction, and vnder the bonde of the couenaunt. The forsakers also and the transgressours wil I take from amonge you, & bringe them out of the londe of youre habitacion: as for the londe of Israel, they shall not come in it: that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Go now then (saieth the LORDE God) ye house of Israel, cast awaye,⁽¹⁴⁾ and destroye euery man his Idols: then shal ye heare me, and nomore blaspeme my holy name with youre offrynges and Idols. But vpon my holy hill, euē vpon the hie hill of Israel shal all the house of Israel and all that is in the londe, worshipe me: and in the same place will I fauoure them,⁽¹⁵⁾ and there will I requyre youre heaue offringes, and the first linges of youre oblacions, with all youre holy thinges.

I wil accepte youre swete sauoure, when I bringe you from the nacions, and gather [F] you together out of the londes, wherin ye be scatred: that I maye be halowed in you before the Heithen, and that ye maye knowe, that I am the LORDE, which haue brought you in to the londe of Israel: yee in to the same lōde, that I swore to geue vnto youre fore fathers. There shal ye call to remembraunce youre owne wayes and all youre ymaginacions, wherin ye baue bene defyled: and ye shal be displeased with youre owne selues,⁽¹⁶⁾ for all youre wickednes, that ye haue done. And ye shal knowe, that I am the LORDE: when I entreate you after my name, not after yoʳ wicked wayes, ner acordinge to youre corrupte workes: o ye house of Israel, saieth the LORDE.

Morouer, the worde of yᵉ LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of mā, set thy face towarde the south, & speake to the south wynde, and saye to the wodde towarde the souht: Heare the worde of the LORDE, thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil kyndle a fyre in the, yᵗ shal cōsume the grene trees wᵗ the drye. No man shal be able to quench his flame, but all that loketh from the south to the north, shal be brent therin: & all flesh shal se, that I the LORDE haue kyndled it, so that no man maye quench it. Then sayde I: O LORDE, ⁽¹⁷⁾ they wil saye of me: Tush, they are but fables, that he telleth.

Notes to Chapter 20

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Chapter 21

[A] THe worde of the LORDE came to me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, set thy face towarde Ierusalem, speake agaynst the Sanctuary, & prophecie agaynst the londe of Israel, saye to the lōde of Israel: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil vpon the, & wil drawe my swearde out of yᵉ sheth, & rote out of yᵉ both the rightuous & the wicked. Seinge then that I will rote out of the both the rightuous & wicked, therfore shal my swearde go out of his sheth, agaynst all flesh from the north to the south: that all flesh maye knowe, how that I the LORDE haue drawen my swearde out of the sheth, & it shal not be put in agayne.

Mourne therfore (o thou sonne of man) yᵗ thy loynes crack withall, yee mourne bytterly for them: And yf they saye, wherfore mournest thou? Then tell them: for the tydinges that commeth, at the which all hertes shall melt, all hondes shal be letten downe, all stomackes shal faynte, and all knees shall waxe feble. Beholde, it commeth & shal be fulfilled, saieth the LORDE God.

[B] Agayne, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, prophecie, and speake: Thus saieth the LORDE God: speake, the swearde is sharpened & wel scoured. Sharpened is it for the slaughter, & scoured yᵗ it maye be bright.⁽¹⁾ O, the destroyenge staff of my sonne, shal bringe downe all wodde. He hath put his swearde to yᵉ dightinge, yᵗ good holde maye be takē of it. This swearde is sharpened & dight, yᵗ it maye be geuen in to the honde of the manslayer.

Crie (o thou sonne of man) and howle, for this swearde shal smyte my people, & all the rulers in Israel, which with my people shall be slayne downe to the grounde thorow this swearde. Smyte thou vpō thy thee, for, wherfore shulde not the plage & staff of indgmēt come? Prophecy thou sonne of man, & smyte thine hōdes together: make the swearde two edged, yee make it thre edged, yᵗ manslayers swearde, that swearde of the greate slaughter, which shal smyte them, euen in their preuy chambres: to make them abaszshed & faynte at the hertes, & in all gates to make some of them fall. O how bright and sharpe is it, how wel dight & mete for yᵉ slaughter: Get the to some place alone, ether vpon the right honde or on the lefte, whither so euer thy face turneth. I wil smyte my hondes together also, and satisfie my wrothfull indignacion: Euen I the LORDE haue sayde it.

The worde of the LORDE came yet vnto [C] me agayne, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, make the two stretes, that the swearde of yᵉ kinge of Babilō maye come. Both these stretes shall go out of one londe. He shal set him vp a place, at the heade of the strete shal be chose him out a corner. Make yᵉ a strete, that the swearde maye come towarde Rabath of the Ammonites, and to the stronge cite of Ierusalem. For the kinge of Babilon shall stonde in the turnynge of the waye, at the heade of the two stretes:⁽²⁾ to axe councell at the soythsayers, castinge the lottes with his arowes, to axe councell at the Idols, and to loke in the lyuer. But the soythsayenge shall poynte to the right syde vpon Ierusalem, that he maye set men of warre, to smyte it with a greate noyse, to crie out Alarum, to set batellrammes agaynst the gates, to graue vp dyches, & to make bulworkes.

Neuertheles, as for yᵉ soythsayenge, they shall holde it but for vanite, euen as though a iest were tolde them: Yee and they them selues remembre their wickednesse, so that by right they must be takē and wonne. Therfore saieth the LORDE God: For so moch as ye youre selues shewe youre offence, and haue opened youre wickednesse, so that in all youre workes men maye se youre synnes: Yet in so moch (I saye) that ye youreselues haue made mencion therof, ye shalbe taken by violence.

O thou shameful wicked gyde of Israel,[D] whose daye is come▪ euen the tyme that wickednesse shall haue an ende: Thus saieth the LORDE God: take awaye the mytre, and put of the crowne, and so is it awaye: the humble is exalted, and the proude brought lowe. Punysh, punysh, yee punysh them will I, and destroye them: and that shall not be fulfilled, vntill he come, to whom the iudgment belongeth, and to whom I haue geuē it. And thou (o sonne of man) prophecy, & speake:⁽³⁾ Thus saieth the LORDE God to the children of Ammon, & to their blasphemy, speake then: The swearde, the swearde, is drawen forth alredy to the slaughter, & scoured that it glistreth (because thou hast loked the out vanities, & prophecied lyes) yᵗ it maye come vpon thy necke, like as vpō the other vngodly, which be slayne: whose daye came, when their wickednesse was full.

Though it were put vp agayne into the sheath, yet will I punysh the, in the londe where thou wast norished & borne, and poure my indignacion vpon the, and will blowe vpon the in the fyre of my wrath, and delyuer the vnto cruell people, which are lerned to destroye. Thou shalt fede the fyre, and yᵗ bloude shall be shed in the londe, that thou mayest be put out of remembraunce. Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it.

Notes to Chapter 21

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Chapter 22

MOrouer, the worde of yᵉ LORDE came [A] vnto me, & sayde: Thou sonne of man, wilt thou not reproue this bloudthurstie cite? Shewe thē their abhominaciōs, & tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: O thou cite, yᵗ sheddest bloude in yᵉ myddest of the, yᵗ thy tyme maye come also: and makest the Idols to defyle the withall. Thou hast made thy self gilty, in yᵉ bloude yᵗ thou hast shed: & defyled yᵉ ī yᵉ ydols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy daies to drawe nye, & made the tyme of thy yeares to come. Therfore will I make yᵉ to be confounded amōge the Heithē, & to be despised in all the lōdes, whether they be nye or farre frō the: they shal laugh yᵉ to scorne, thou yᵗ hast gottē the so foule a name, & art full off myschefe.⁽¹⁾ Beholde, the rulers of Israel haue brought euery man his power, to shed bloude in the. In the haue they despised father & mother, in the haue they oppressed the straūger, in the haue they vexed the wyddowe & the fatherlesse. Thou hast despysed my Sāctuary,⁽²⁾ and vnhalowed my Sabbath. Murtherers are there in the, that shed bloude, & eate vpon the hilles, and in the they vse vnhappynesse.

[B] In yᵉ haue they discouered their fathers shame, in the haue they vexed women in their sicknesse.⁽³⁾ Euery mā hath dealte shamefully with his neghbours wife, & abhominably defyled his doughter in lawe. In the hath euery man forced his owne sister,⁽⁴⁾ euen his fathers doughter: Yee giftes haue bene receaued in the, to shed bloude. Thou hast taken vsury & encreace, thou hast oppressed thy neghbours by extorcion, and forgotten me, saieth the LORDE God. Beholde, I haue smytten my hondes vpō thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the bloude which hath bene shed in the. Is thy herte able to endure it, or maye thy hondes defende them selues, in the tyme that I shall bringe vpon the? Euen I the LORDE that speake it, will bringe it also to passe.

I will scatre the amonge the Heithen,⁽⁵⁾ & strowe the aboute in the lōdes, and wil cause thy fylthynesse to ceasse out off the: yee and I will haue the in possession in the sight of the Heithen, that thou mayest knowe, that I am the LORDE,

And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is turned to drosse.⁽⁶⁾ All they that shulde be brasse, tynne, yrō & leade, are in the [C] fyre become drosse. Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: For so moch as ye all are turned in to drosse, beholde: I will brynge you together vnto Ierusalem, like as syluer, brasse, yron, tynne and leade are put together in the fornace, and the fyre blowen there vnder to melt them: Euen so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignacion. I will brynge you together, and kyndle the fyre of my cruell displeasure vnder you, that ye maye be melted therin.

Like as the syluer is melted in the fyre, so shall ye also be melted therin: that ye maye knowe, how that I the LORDE haue poured my wrath vpon you.

And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayēge: Thou sonne of mā, tell her: Thou art an vn clene londe, which is not rayned vpon in the daye off the cruell wrath:⁽⁷⁾ thy prophetes that are in the, are sworne together to deuoure soules, like as a roaringe Lyon, that lyueth by his pray. They receaue riches and good, and make many wyddowes in yᵉ. Thy prestes breake my lawe, and defyle my [D] Sanctuary.⁽⁸⁾ They put no dyfference betwene the holy and vnholy, nether discerne betwene the clene and vnclene: they turne their eyes fro my Sabbathes, and I am vnhalowed amonge them.

Thy rulers in the are like rauyshinge wolues, to shed bloude,⁽⁹⁾ and to destroye soules, for their owne covetous lucre. As for thy prophetes, they dawbe with vntempered claye, they se vanities▪ and prophecie lies vnto them, sayenge: the LORDE God sayeth so, where as the LORDE hath not spoken The people in the londe vseth wicked extorciō and robbery.⁽¹⁰⁾ They vexe the poore and nedy: and oppresse the straunger agaynst right. And I sought in the londe for a man, that wolde make vp the hedge, and see him self in the gappe before me in the lōdes behalfe, yᵗ I shulde not vtterly destroye it▪ but I coude fynde none. Therfore wil I poure out my cruell displeasure vpon them, and burne them in the fyre of my wrath: their owne wayes will I recompence vpō their heades, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 22

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩5. c ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩5. c

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 3⟨illegible⟩. f ⟨illegible⟩. 5. a

⁽⁴⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. 27. c ⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩3. d ⟨illegible⟩. c

⁽⁵⁾ Eze. 1⟨illegible⟩. c 15. b

⁽⁶⁾ Esa. 1. c

⁽⁷⁾ Mich. 3. c

⁽⁸⁾ Leui. 10. ⟨illegible⟩

⁽⁹⁾ Mich. 3. d Soph. ⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩ Eze. 13. b

⁽¹⁰⁾ Exo. 2⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩

Chapter 23

[A] THe worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, there were two womē, that had one mother:⁽¹⁾ These (when they were yonge) beganne to playe the harlottes in Egipte. There were their brestes brussed, and the pappes off their maydenheade destroyed. The eldest of them was called Oola, and hir yongest sister Ooliba. These two were myne, and bare sonnes and doughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oola: and Ierusalem, that was Ooliba. As for Oola, she beganne to go a whorynge, when I had takē her to me. She was set on fyre vpon hir louers the Assirians, which had to do with her: euen the prynces and lordes, that were deckte in costly araye:⁽²⁾ fayre yonge men, lusty ryders of horses.

Thus thorow hir whordome, she cleued vnto all the yonge men off Assiria: Yee she was madde vpon them, and defyled herselff with all their Idols. Nether ceassed she frō the fornicaciō, that she vsed with the Egipcians: for in hir youth they laye wᵗ her, they brussed the brestes of hir maydenheade, and poured their wordome vpon her.⁽³⁾ Wherfore, I delyuered her in to yᵉ hōdes of hir louers, euen the Assirians, whom she so loued. These discouered hir shame, toke hir sonnes and doughters,⁽⁴⁾ and slewe her with the swearde: An euell name gat she of all people, ād they punyshed her.

[B] Hir sister Ooliba sawe this, ād destroyed herself wᵗ inordinate loue,⁽⁵⁾ more then she, & exceaded hir sister in whordome: she loued yᵉ Assirians (which also laye wᵗ her) namely, the prynces & greate lordes, that were clothed wᵗ all maner of gorgious apparell, all lusty horsmen and fayre yonge personnes. Then I sawe, that they both were defyled a like. But she increased still in whordome: for when she sawe men paynted vpon the wall, the ymages off the Caldees set forth with fresh colours, with fayre gyrdles aboute them, and goodly bonettes vpon their heades, lokynge all like prynces (after yᵉ maner of the Babiloniās and Caldees in their owne londe, where they be borne) Inmediatly, as soone as she sawe them, she brent in loue vpon them, and sent messaūgers for them in to the londe of the Caldees.

Now when the Babiloniās came to her, they laye with her, and defyled her with their whordome, and so was she poluted with with them. And when hir lust was abated from them,⁽⁶⁾ hir whordome and shame was discouered & sene: then my herte forsoke her, like as my herte was gone from hir sister also. Neuertheles she vsed hir whordome en⟨illegible⟩ the longer the more, and remembred the dayes off hir youth, wherin she had played the harlot in the londe off Egipte: she brent in lust vpon them,⁽⁷⁾ whose flesh was like yᵉ flesh of Asses, and their sede like the sede off horses.[C] Thus thou hast renued the fylthynesse of thy youth, when thy louers bressed yᵉ pappes, and marred thy brestes in Egipte.

Therfore (o Ooliba) thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God. I will rayse vp thy louers (with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust) agaynst the, and gather them together rounde aboute the: Namely, the Babilonians, and all the Caldees: Pecod, Schoa and Coa, with all the Assirians: all yonge and fayre louers: prynces and lordes, knyghtes and gentlemen, which be all good horsmen: These shall come vpon the with horses, charettes, & a greate multitude of people: which shal be harnessed aboute the on euery syde, wᵗ brestplates, sheldes and helmettes. I will punysh yᵗ before them, yee they thē selues shal punysh the, acordinge to their owne iudgmēt. I will put my gelousy vpon the, so that they shall deale cruelly with the. They shal cut of thy nose and thine eares, and the remnaunt shall fall thorow the swearde. They shall cary awaye thy sonnes and doughters, & the resydue shalbe brent in the fyre. Thy shal strype the out of thy clothes, & cary thy costly Iewels awaye with them.

Thus will I make an ende off thy fylthynesse [D] & whordome, which thou hast brought out of the lōde of Egipte: so that thou shalt turne thine eyes nomore after them, & cast thy mynde nomore vpon Egipte. For thus saieth the LORDE: Beholde, I will delyuer yᵉ in to the hōdes of them, whom thou hatest: yee euen in to the hondes of them, with whō thou hast fulfylled thy lust, which shall deale cruelly with yᵉ: All thy laboure shal they take with them, and leaue the naked and bare, and thus the shame of thy filthy whordome shal come to light. All these thinges shal happen vnto the, because of thy whordome, which thou hast vsed amonge the Gentiles, with whose Idols thou hast defyled yᵗ self. Thou hast walked in the waye of thy sister, therfore will I geue the hir cuppe in thy honde.

Thus saieth the LORDE God: Thou shalt drynke off thy sisters cuppe, how depe & farre so euer it be to the botome. Thou shalt be laughed to scorne, and had as greatly in derision, as is possible. Thou shalt be full off dronckennes and sorowe, for the cuppe of yᵉ sister Samaria is a cuppe of destruccion & waistinge: the same shalt thou drynke, and suppe it out euē to yᵉ dregges, yee thou shalt eate vp the broken peces off it, and so teare thine owne brestes: For euen I haue spoken it, saieth the LORDE God.

Therfore thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: For so moch as thou hast forgottē me, & cast me [E] asyde, so beare now thine owne fylthinesse & whordome. The LORDE sayde morouer vnto me: Thou sonne of mā, wilt thou not reproue Oola & Ooliba? Shewethē their abhominaciōs: namely, yᵗ they haue brokē their wedlocke, & stayned their hōdes wᵗ bloude: yee euen wᵗ their Idols haue they committed aduoutry,⁽⁸⁾ & offred them their owne children (to be deuoured) whō they had borne vnto me. Yee & this haue they done vnto me also:⁽⁹⁾ they haue defyled my Sāctuary in that same daye, & haue vnhalowed my Sabbath. For when they had slayne their childrē for their Idols, they came the same daye in to my Sanctuary, to defyle it. Lo, this haue they done in my house. Besyde all this, thou hast sent yᵗ messeungers for men out of farre coūtrees: and whē they came, thou hast bathed, trymmed and set forth thy selff off the best fashion: thou sattest vpō a goodly bed,⁽¹⁰⁾ & a table spred before the: whervpon thou hast set myne incense and myne oyle.

[F] Then was there greate cheare wᵗ her, & the men yᵗ were sent frō farre coūtrees ouer the deserte: vnto these they gaue bracelettes vpon their hondes, & set glorious crownes vpon their heades. Then thought Imodonte, these wil vse their harlotry also wᵗ yōder olde whore. And they wente in to her, as vnto a comon harlot: Euen so wente they also to Oola & Ooliba, those filthy women.

O ye all that loue vertue and rightuousnes,⁽¹¹⁾ iudge thē, punysh them: as aduoutrers and murtherers ought to be iudged and punyshed. For they are breakers off wedlocke, and the bloude is in their hondes. Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God: bringe a greate multitude off people vpon them, and make them be scatred and spoyled: these shal stone them, and gorre them with their sweardes. They shal slaye their sonnes and doughters and burne vp their houses with fyre.

Thus will I destroye all soch fylthynes out off the londe: that all women may lerne, not to do after youre vnclēnesse. And so they shall laye youre fylthinesse vpon youre owne selues, and ye shalbe punyshed for the synnes, that ye haue committed with youre Idols: & ye shall knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 23

⁽¹⁾ Eze. ⟨illegible⟩0. a

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. Re. 15. d

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. Re. 17. ⟨illegible⟩

⁽⁴⁾ Eze. 16. b

⁽⁵⁾ Iere. 3. b ⟨illegible⟩. Re. 16. b

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Chapter 24

IN the ix. yeare, in the x. Moneth. the x. daye off the Moneth, came the worde [A] off the LORDE vnto me, sayenge: O thou sonne off man, wryte vp the name off this daye, yee euē yᵉ houre of this present daye: when the kynge of Babilon set himself agaynst Ierusalē.⁽¹⁾ Shewe yᵗ obstinate housholde a parable, & speake vnto thē: Thus sayet the LORDE God: Get the a pot, set it on, & poure water in to it: put all the peces together in it, all the good peces: the loyne and the shulder, & fyll it with the best bones. Take one off the best shepe, & an heape off bones withall: let it boyle well, & let the bones seyth well therin.

With that, sayde the LORDE God on this maner: Wo be vnto the bloudy cite of yᵉ pot,⁽²⁾ whervpon the rustynesse hāgeth, and is not yet scoured awaye. Take out the peces that are in it, one after another: there nede no lottes be case therfore, for the bloude is yet in it Vpon a playne drye stone hath she poured it, and not vpon the grounde, that it might be couered with dust. And therfore haue I letten her poure hir bloude vpon a playne [B] drye stony rocke, because it shulde not be hid, and that I might bringe my wrothfull indignacion and vengeaunce vpon her.

Wherfore, thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: O, wo be vnto that bloudthurstie cite, for whō I wil prepare a heape off wodde: beare thou yᵉ bones together, kyndle thou the fyre, seeth the flesh, let all be well soddē, that the bones maye be suckte out. Morouer, set the potemptye vpon the coales, that it maye be warme and the metall hote: that the fylth and rustynesse maye be consumed. But it will not go off, there is so moch off it: the rustinesse must be brent out. Thy filthinesse is abhominable, for I wolde haue clensed the, but thou woldest not be clensed. Thou canst not be pourged from thine vnclennesse, till I haue poured my wrothfull indignacion vpon the. Euen I the LORDE haue so deuysed: Yee it is come therto allredy, that I will do it. I will not go backe, I will not spare, I wil not be intreated: but acordinge to thy wayes ād ymaginacions, thou shalt be punyshed, saieth the LORDE God.

[C] And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off man, beholde, I will take awaye the pleasure off thine eyes wᵗ a plage: yet shalt thou nether mourne ner wepe, ner water thy chekes therfore: thou mayest mourne by thy selff alone, but vse no deadly lamentacion. Holde on thy bonet, and put on thy shues vpon thy fete, couer not thy face, and eate no mourners bred. So I spake vnto the people bytymes in the mornynge, and at euen my wyfe dyed: then vpon the nexte morow, I dyd as I was cōmaunded. And yᵉ people sayde vnto me: wilt thou not tell vs, what that signifieth, which thou doest? I answered them, the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayēge: Tell the house of Israel, thus saieth yᵉ LODDE God: beholde, I wil suspende my Sanctuary: evē the glory of youre power, the pleasure of yoʳ eyes, and the thinge that ye love: youre sonnes and doughters whom ye haue left, shal fall thorow the swerde.

[D] Like as I haue done, so shall ye do also: Ye shal not hyde youre faces, ye shal eate no mourners bred: youre bonettes shal ye haue vpon youre heades, & shues vpon youre fete Ye shal nether mourne ner wepe, but in youre synnes ye shal be soroufull, and one repēte with another. Thus Ezechiel is youre shew tokē. For loke as he hath done, so (when this commeth) ye shall do also: that ye maye lerne to knowe, that I am yᵉ LORDE God. But beholde, O thou sonne of man: In the daye when I take from them their power, their ioye and honoure, the lust off their eyes, the burthē of their bodies: namely, their sonnes and doughters: Thē shall there one escape, and come vnto the, for to shewe the. In that daye shal yⁱ mouth be opened to him, which is escaped, that thou mayest speake, and be nomore domme: Yee and thou shalt be their shew tokē, that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 24

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 17. a Eze 11. b

⁽²⁾ Nau. 3. ⟨illegible⟩ Aba. 2. a

Chapter 25

THe worde of the LORDE came vnto [A] me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, set thy face agaynst yᵉ Ammonites, prophecy vpon them,⁽¹⁾ and saye vnto the Ammonites: Heare the worde off the LORDE God, Thus saieth the LORDE God: for so moch as thou speakest ouer my Sanctuary: A ha, I trow it be now suspended: and ouer the londe of Israel, I trow it be now desolate: yee ād ouer the house of Iuda, I trow they be now led awaye presoners: Beholde, I will delyuer yᵉ to the people of the east, yᵗ they maye haue the in possession: these shal set their castels and houses in the. They shall eate thy frute, and drynke vp thy mylcke. As for Rabath, I wil make of it a stall for camels, and of Ammon a shepefolde: and ye shal knowe, that I am the LORDE.

For thus saieth the LORDE God: In so moch as thou hast clapped with thine hondes, and stamped with thy fete, yee reioysed in thine herte ouer the londe of Israel with despyte: beholde, I wil stretch out myne hōde ouer the also, and delyuer the, to be spoyled off the Heithen, and rote the out from amonge the people, and cause the be destroyed out off all londes: yee I will make the be [B] layed waist, that thou mayest knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God:⁽²⁾ For so moch as Moab and Seir do saye: As for the house off Iuda, it is but like as all other Gētiles be: Therfore beholde, I will make the cities off Moab weapenlesse, and take awaye their strength: their cities and chefe coastes off their londe, which are the pleasures off the countre: As namely. Betiesimoth, Baalmeō and Cariathaim: these will I open vnto thē off the east, yᵗ they maye fall vpon the Ammonites: and will geue it them in possession: so that the Ammonites shal no more be had in remēbraunce amonge the Heithen. Euen thus will I punysh Moab also, that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Morouer, thus sayeth the LORDE God: Because that Edom hath avenged & eased himself vpon the house off Iuda,⁽³⁾ therfore thus saieth the LORDE: I will reach out myne honde vpon Edom, and take awaye man and beest out off it. From Themā vnto Dedan wil I make it desolate, they shalbe slayne [C] with the swearde. Thorow my people of Israel, wil I avenge me agayne vpō Edō:⁽⁴⁾ they shal hādle him, acordinge to my wrath and indignaciō, so that they shal knowe my vengeaunce, saieth the LORDE God.

Thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: For so moch as the Philistynes haue done this: namely,⁽⁵⁾ taken vengeaunce with despitefull stomackes, and off an olde euell will set them selues to destroye: Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil stretch out myne hōde ouer the Philistynes, and destroye the destroyer, and cause all the remnaunt off the see coast to perish. A greate vengeaunce will I take vpon them, and punysh them cruelly: that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE, which haue avenged me off them.

Notes to Chapter 25

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. 21 d ⟨illegible⟩ere▪ 49. a

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Chapter 26

[A] IT happened, that in the xi. yeare, the first daye off the Moneth, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge:⁽¹⁾ Thou sonne of man, Because that Tyre hath spoken vpon Ierusalem: A ha, now I trow the portes of the people be broken, and she turned vnto me, for I haue destroyed my bely full. Yee therfore saieth yᵉ LORDE God: Beholde O Tyre, I will vpō the, I wil bringe a greate multitude off people agaynst yᵉ, like as whē the see aryseth with his wawes: These shal breake the walles off Tyre, and cast downe hir towres; I wil scrape the grounde from her, and mate her a bare stone: yee as the dryenge place, where the fyshers hange vp their nettes by the see syde. Euen I haue spoken it, sayeth the LORDE God. The Gētiles shal spoyle her: hir doughters vpon the felde shall perish with the swearde, yᵗ they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

For thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, [B] I will brynge hither Nabuchodonosor (which is the kynge off Babilon & a kynge of kynges) from the North, vpō Tyre, with horses, charettes, horsmen and with a greate multitude of people. Thy doughters that are in the londe, shal be slaye with yᵉ swearde: But agaynst yᵉ, he shall make bullworkes & graue vp dyches aboute the, & lift vp his shylde agaynst yᵉ. His slynges & batelrāmes shal he prepare for thy walles, & wᵗ his wrapēs breake downe thy towres. The dust of his horses shal couer yᵉ, they shalbe so many: yⁱ walles shal shake at the noyse of yᵉ horse men, charettes & wheles: when he cōmeth to thy portes, as men do into an open cite. With the hoffes off his horse fete, shal he treade downe all thy stretes.

He shal slaye thy people wᵗ the swearde, & breake downe the pilers of thy strength. They shal waist awaye thy riches, & spoyle yⁱ marchaūdise. Thy walles shal they breake downe, & destroye thy houses of pleasure. Thy stones, thy tymbre & foundacions, shall they cast in the water. Thus wil I brynge the melody of thy songes,⁽²⁾ & the voyce of thy mynstrelsy to an ende, so that they shal no more be herde. I wil make a bare stone off the, yee a dryenge place for nettes, and shalt neuer be buylded agayne: For euē I yᵉ LORDE haue spoken it, sayeth the LORDE God: thus hath the LORDE God spoken concernynge Tyre: The Iles shall be moued at the noyse off thy fall, & at the crie of the slayne, yᵗ shal be murthured in the. All kynges off the see shall come downe from their seates regall: they shal laye awaye their roabes, and put off their costly clothinge: Yee with tremblinge shal they be clothed, they shall syt vpō the grounde: they shal be afrayed at thy sodane fall, and be abasshed at the.

They shal mourne for the, and saye vnto the: O thou noble cite, yᵗ hast bene so greatly occupyed off olde,⁽³⁾ thou that hast bene the strongest vpon the see wᵗ thine inhabitours off whom all men stode in feare: How art thou now so vtterly destroyed? Now at the tyme off thy fall the inhabitours off the Iles, yee and the Iles them selues shall stonde in feare at thine ende. For thus sayeth [D] the LORDE God: when I make the a desolate cite (as other cities be, that no man dwell in) and when I brynge the depe vpon the, yᵗ greate waters maye couer the: Then will I cast the downe vnto them, that descende in to yᵉ pytte: vnto a people that hath bene lōge deed, and set the in a londe yᵗ is beneth, like the olde wyldernes, with them which go downe to their graues, so yᵗ no mā shal dwell more in the. And I wil make the to be no more in honoʳ, in the lōde of the lyuynge. I wil make an ende off the, ād thou shalt be gone. Though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou not be founde for euermore, saieth yᵉ LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 26

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩

⁽³⁾ Tren. 1. a.

Chapter 27

THe worde off the LORDE came vnto [A] me, sayenge: O thou so⟨illegible⟩ane off mā, make a lamentable cōplaynte vpon Tyre, saye vnto Tyre, which is a porte off the see, yᵗ occupieth with moch people:⁽¹⁾ and many Iles: thus speaketh yᵉ LORDE God: O Tyre thou hast sayde: what, I am a noble cite. thy borders are in the myddest of the see, and thy buylders haue made the maruelous goodly. All yⁱ tables haue they made of Cip⟨illegible⟩e trees of the mount Senir. Frō Libanus haue they takē Cedre trees, to make the mastes: & the Okes of Basan to make the rowers.

Thy boordes haue they made of yuery, & of costly wod out of the Ile of Cethim. Thy sale was of whyte small nedle worke out off the londe of Egipte, to hāge vpō thy mast: & thy hanginges of yalow sylcke & purple, out of yᵉ Iles of Elisa. They of Sidō & Arnad were thy maryners, & the wysest in Tyre were thy shypmasters. The eldest and wysest at Gebal were they, that mended & stopped thy shippes.

All shippes off the see with their shipmē occupied their marchaundies in the. The Perses, Lydians and Lybians were in thyne hoost, and helped the to fight: these hanged vp their shildes & helmettes with the▪ these set forth thy beuty.

They off Arnad were with thine hoost roūde aboute thy walles, & were thy watchmen vpon thy towres: these hanged vp their shildes roūde aboute thy walles, and made [B] the maruelous goodly. Tharsis occupide with the in all maner of wares, in syluer, yron, tynne and lead, and made thy market greate. Iauan, Tubal and Mesech were thy marchauntes, which brought the men, & ornamentes off metall for thy occupyenge. They off the house of Thogarma brought vnto the at the tyme off thy Marte, horse, horsmen and mules. They off Dedan were thy marchaūtes:⁽²⁾ and many other Iles that occupyed with the, brought the wethers, elephāt bones and Paycockes for a present The Sirians occupied with the, because of thy dyuerse workes, and increased thy marchaundies, with Smaragdes, with scarlet, with nedle worke, wᵗ whyte lynninge cloth, with sylcke and with Christall.

Iuda and the londe off Israel occupide with the, and brought vnto thy markettes, wheate, balme, hony, oyle, & triacle. Damascus also vsed marchaūdies with the, in the best wyne and whyte woll: because thy occupienge was so greate, and thy wares so many. Dan, Iauan, and Meusal haue brought vnto thy markettes, yron redy made, with Casia and Calamus, acordinge to thyne-occupienge. Dedan occupied with the, infayre tapestry worke and quyszhyns. Arabia & all the princes off Cedar haue occupied wᵗ the, in shepe, wethers and goates. The marchauntes off Seba and Rema haue occupied also with the, in all costly spices, in all precious stones and golde, which they brought vnto thy marckettes. Haran, Chene and Eden, the marchauntes off Saba, Assiria and Chelmad, were all doers with yᵉ and occupied with the: In costly rayment, off yalow sylke and nedle worke, (very precious, & therfore packte & boūde together wᵗ roapes) Yee and in Cedre wodde, at the tyme off yᵉ marckettes. The shippes of Tharsis were the chefe off thy occupienge.

[C] Thus thou art full, and in greate worshipe, euen in the myddest off the see. Thy maryners were euer brynginge vnto the out of many waters. But yᵉ easte wynde shal ouerbeare the in to the myddest off the see: so yᵗ thy wares, thy marchaūdies, thy ryches, thy maryners, thy shipmasters, thy helpers, thy occupiers (that brought the thinges necessary) the men off warre that are in the: yee and all thy comons shall perish in the myddest off the see, in the daye off thy fall. The suburbes shall shake at the loude crie-off thy shippmen. All whirry men, and all maryners vpō the see, shall leape out of their bootes, and set them selues vpon the lōde. They shal lift vp their voyce because off the, and make a lamentable crye. They shall cast dust vpon their heades, ād lye downe in the asshes. They shal shaue them selues, & put sacke cloth vpon them for thy sake.

They shall mourne for the with hertfull sorow, and heuy lamentacion, yee their children also shall wepe forthe: Alas, what cite hath so bene destroyed in the see, as Tyre is? When thy wares & marchaundies came frō the sees. thou gauest all people ynough. The kynges off the earth hast thou made rich, thorow the multitude off thy wares and occupienge: But now art thou cast downe is to the depe of the see, all thy resorte of people is perished with the. All they that dwell in the Iles are abasshed at the, and all their kynges are afrayed, yee their faces haue chaunged coloure. The marchauntes of the nacions wondre at the, In that thou art so clene brought to naught, & cōmest nomore vp.

Notes to Chapter 27

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 26.28.

⁽²⁾ Eze. 25. ⟨illegible⟩

Chapter 28

THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, tell the prynce of Tyre:⁽¹⁾ Thus saieth the LORDE God: because thou hast a proude hert and hast sayde: I am a God,⁽²⁾ I haue my seate in the myddest off the see like a god: where as thou art but a man & not God, & yet stondest in thine owne cōceate, that thou art God: Beholde, thou thynkest thy selfe wyser then Daniel, that there is no secretes hyd from yᵉ. With thy wiszdome & thy vnderstōdinge, thou hast gottē the greate welthynesse, and gathered treasure of syluer & golde, With thy greate wiszdome and occupienge, hast thou increased thy power, and because of thy greate riches thy hert is proude.

Therfore thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: For so moch as thou hast lift vp thine herte, as though thou werst God: beholde, I will bringe enemies vpon the, euen the tyrauntes of the Heithē: these shal drawe out their sweardes vpon thy beuty and wiszdome, and shall defyle thy glory. They shal cast the downe to the pytte, so that thou shalt dye in the middest of the see, as they that be slayne. Let se, yff thou wilt saye then (before thē that slaye yᵉ) I am God: where as thou art but a man, and not God, in the hondes of them that slaye the. Dye shalt thou, euen as the vncircumcised in the hōdes of yᵉ enemies: for I myself haue spoken it, saieth the LORDE God.

Morouer, the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off man, make a lamentable complaynte ouer the kynge of Tyre, & tell him: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Thou art a seale of a licknesse, full off wyszdome & excellent beuty. Thou hast bene in yᵉ pleasaūt gardē off God: thou art decte with all maner of precious stones: with Ruby, Topas, Christall, Iacyncte, Onyx, Iaspis, Saphir, Smaragde, Carbūcle, & golde. Thy beuty & yᵉ holes yᵗ be in yᵉ were set forth in the daye of yᵉ creacion. Thou art a fayre Cherub, stretched wyde out for to couer.

I haue set the vpon the holy mount off God, there hast thou bene, and walked amōge the fayre glisteringe stones. From the tyme of thy creacion thou hast bene right excellent, [C] tyll wickednesse was founde in the. Because off thy greate marchaundise,⁽³⁾ thy hert is full of wickednesse, & thou hast offended. Therfore wil I cast the from the mount of God, (O thou coueringe Cherub) and destroye the amōge the glisteringe stones. Thy hert was proude in yᵉ fayre beuty, & thorow thy beuty thou hast destroyed thy wiszdome. I will cast yᵉ downe to the grounde, & yᵗ in yᵉ sight of kynges. Thou hast defyled thy Sāctuary, wᵗ the greate wickednesse off thy onrightuous occupyenge. I wil bringe a fyre from the myddest of the, to consume the: ād wil make the to asshes, in the sight of all thē yᵗ loke vpon the. All they that haue bene acquaunted with the amonge the Heithē, shal be abasshed at the: seinge thou art so clene brought to naugth, and cōmest no more vp.

And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, set thy face agaynst Sidō, Prophecie vpō it, and speake. Thus saieth the LORDE God:⁽⁴⁾ Beholde o Sidon, I wil vpō the, & get me honoure in the: that it maye be knowne, how that I am yᵉ LORDE, when I punysh her, & get me honoure in her. For I will sende pestilence & bloud sheddinge in to hir stretes, so yᵗ those which [D] be slayne with the swerde, shal lye rounde aboute in the myddest of her: & they shal knowe, that I am the LORDE. She shal no more be a prickinge thorne, & an hurtinge brere vnto the house of Israel, ner vnto thē that lye rounde aboute her and hate her: and they shal knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Thus saieth the LORDE God: when I gather the housholde of Israel together agayne, from the nacions amonge whom they be scatred: then shal I be sanctified in thē, in yᵉ sight of the Gētiles: & they shal dwell in the lōde, yᵗ I gaue to my seruaunt Iacob. They shal dwell safely therin, buylde houses,⁽⁵⁾ and plante vynyardes: Yee safely shal they dwell therin, when I haue punyshed all those, that despyse them rounde aboute: and then shall they knowe, yᵗ I am the LORDE their God.

Notes to Chapter 28

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ ▪ 2. b

⁽⁴⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. 3. a ⟨illegible⟩. 9. a

⁽⁵⁾ Deu. 28. c Esa. 65. d

Chapter 29

IN the x. yeare, vpon the xij. daye off [A] the x. Moneth, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayēge:⁽¹⁾ O thou sonne off mā, set now thy face agaynst Pharao the kynge off Egipte, Prophecye agaynst him and agaynst the whole lōde of Egipte: Speake, and tell him, thus saieth the LORDE God: beholde, o Pharao thou kinge of Egipte, I wil vpō the, thou greate whall fysh, yᵗ lyest in yⁱ waters: Thou yᵗ sayest: the water is myne, I haue made it myself. I wil put an hoke in thy chawes, & hāge all the fish in thy waters vpō thy skales: after yᵗ I wil drawe the out of thy waters, yee & all the fish of yᵉ waters that hange vpon thy skales.

I wil cast the out vpon the dry lōde with the fish of thy waters, so that thou shalt lye vpon the felde. Thou shalt not be gathered ner taken vp, but shalt be meate for the beestes of the felde, & for the foules off the ayre: that all they which dwell in Egipte, maye knowe, that I am the LORDE: because thou hast bene a staff of rede to the house of Israel.⁽²⁾ When they toke holde of yᵉ wᵗ their hōde thou brakest and prycdest them on euery syde: and yff they leaned vpō the, thou brakest, ād hurtdest the reynes of their backes. Therfore, thus sayeth the LORDE: God: beholde,[B] I will brynge a swearde vpon the, and rote out of the both man and beest. Yee the londe of Egipte shalbe desolate and waist, & they shal knowe, that I am the LORDE: Because he sayde: the water is mine, I my self haue made it. Beholde therfore, I wil vpon the, & vpon thy waters: I will make the londe off Egipte waist and desolate, from the towre of Syenes vnto the borders of the Moriās londe: so that in xl. yeares there shall no fote off man walke there, nether fote of catell go there, nether shal it be inhabited. I wil make the londe of Egipte to be desolate amonge other waist countrees, and her cities to lye voyde xl. yeares, amonge other voyde cities: And I wil scatre the Egipcians amonge the Heithen and nacions.

Agayne, thus sayeth the LORDE God: Whē the xl. yeares are expyred, I wil gather the Egipcians together agayne,⁽³⁾ out off the naciōs, amonge whō they were scatred, and wil bringe the presoners off Egipte agayne in to the londe off Pathures their owne natyue councre, that they maye be there a lowly small kyngdome: yee they shal be the smallest amonge other kyngdomes, lest they exalte them selues aboue the Heithen: for I will so mynish them, that they shall nomore rule the Heithen. They shall nomore be an hope vnto the house off Israel, nether prouoke thē enymore to wickednesse, to cause them turne backe, and to folowe them: ād they shal knowe, that I am the LORDE God.

[C] In the xxvij. yeare, the first daye of the first Moneth, came yᵉ worde off the LORDE vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off man, Nabuchodonosor the kynge off Babilon hath made his hoost, with greate trauayle and laboure to come before Tyre: that euery heade maye be balde, and euery shulder bare. Yet hath Tyre geuen nether him ner his hoost eny rewarde, for yᵉ greate trauayle yᵗ he hath taken there. Therfore thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: beholde I wil geue the lōde of Egipte vnto Nabuchodonosor the kynge off Babilō, yᵗ he maye take awaye all hir substaūce, robbe hir robberies, ād spoyle hir spoyles, to paye his hoost their wagies withall. I wil geue him the londe of Egipte for his laboure, that he toke for me before Tyre. At the same tyme wil I cause the horne off the house of Israel to growe forth, & open thy mouth agayne amonge them: that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 29

⁽¹⁾ Esa. 19. a 20. a Iere. 46. Eze. 30.31.32.

⁽²⁾ 4. Re. 18. ⟨illegible⟩ Esa 30 a 31. a. 36. a

⁽³⁾ Iere. 46. ⟨illegible⟩

Chapter 30

[A] MOrouer, the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, prophecy & speake: thus saieth the LORDE God: Mourne, wo worth this daye,⁽¹⁾ for the daye is here, the daye of yᵉ LORDE is come: the darcke daye of yᵉ Heithē the houre is at honde, the swearde commeth vpon Egipte. When the wounded men fall downe in Egipte, when hir people are taken awaye, and when hir foundaciōs are destroyed: the Morians londe shal be afrayed, yee the Morians londe, Lybia & Lydia, all their comon people, & Chub, & all yᵗ be confederate vnto thē, shal fall wᵗ thē thorow yᵉ swearde.

Thus saieth yᵉ LORDE: The maynteyners of the lōde of Egipte shal fall, the pryde of hir power shal come downe: euē vnto the tower off Syenes shall they be slayne downe [B] wᵗ the swearde, saieth yᵉ LORDE God: amonge other desolate countrees they shal be made desolate, & amōge other waist cities they shalbe waisted. And they shal knowe, yᵗ I am yᵉ LORDE, when I kyndle a fyre in Egipte, & when all hir helpers are destroyed.

At that tyme, shal there messaungers go forth frome in shippes, to make yᵉ carelesse Morians afrayed: and sorowe shal come vpon them in the daye of Egipte, for doutles it shal come. Thus saieth the LORDE God: I wil make an ende of the people of Egipte thorow the honde of Nabuchodonosor kynge of Babilon. He and his people with him, yee and the cruell tyrauntes of the Heithen shalbe brought to destroye the londe. They shal drawe out their sweardes vpon Egipte and fyll the londe full of slayne men. I will drye vp their floudes of water, ād sell the lōde in to the hondes of wicked people. The lōde and all yᵗ is therin, wil I destroye thorow the enemies. Euē I the LORDE haue sayde it.

And thus saieth the LORDE God: I will destroye the Idols, and brynge the ymages of Noph to an ende.⁽²⁾ There shal nomore be a prynce of Egypte, and a fearfulnesse will I [C] sende in to the Egipcians londe. As for Pathures, I wil make it desolate, ād kyndle a fyre in Zoan. Alexandria will I punysh, & poure my wroth full indignaciō vpō Sin, which is the strength of Egipte. All the sustaunce of Alexandria will I destroye, and kyndle a fyre in Egipte.

Sin shalbe in greate heuynesse, Alexandria shalbe roted out, and Noph shall haue daylie sorowe. The best men off Heliopolis & Bubasto shalbe slayne with the swearde, ād caried awaye captyue. At Taphnis the daye shalbe darke, when I breake there the scepter of the londe of Egipte, and when yᵉ pompe of hir powʳ shal haue an ende. A clonde shal couer her, and hir doughters shalbe led a waye in to captyuyte. Thus will I punysh Egipte, that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.

It happened in the xi. yeare, vpon the seuēth daye of yᵉ first Moneth, yᵗ the LORDES [D] worde came vnto me, sayēge: Beholde, thou sonne of mā, I wil breake yᵉ arme of Pharao kynge of Egipte: and lo, it shal not be boūde vp to be healed, nether shal eny plays⟨illegible⟩re be layed vpon it, for to ease it, or to make it so strōge, as to holde a swearde. Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: beholde, I will vpon Pharao yᵉ kinge of Egipte, & brusse his strōge arme (yet is it but a broken one) & will smyte the swearde out of his honde.

As for the Egipcians, I wil scatre them amonge the Heithen, & strowe thē in the londes aboute. Agayne I wil strength yᵉ arme of the kinge of Babilō, & geue him my swearde in his hōde: but I wil breake Pharaos arme, so yᵗ he shal holde it before him piteously, like a wounded man.

Yee I will stablish the kynge of Babilōs arme, & the armes of Pharao shal fall downe: that it maye be knowne, that I am the LORDE, which geue the kynge off Babilon my swearde in his hōde, that he maye drawe it out vpon the londe of Egipte: and that when I scatre the Egipcians amonge the Gentiles, and strowe them in yᵉ lōdes aboute, they maye knowe, yᵗ I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 30

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 29.31.32.

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩

Chapter 31

MOrouer, it happened in the xi. yeare [A] yᵉ first daye of the thirde Moneth, that the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, speake vnto Pharao the kynge of Egipte,⁽¹⁾ ād to all his people: Whom art thou like in yᵗ greatnesse? Beholde, Assur was like a Cedre tre vpō the mount of Libanus, with fayre braūches: so thicke, that he gaue shadowes, and shot out very hye. His toppe reached vnto the cloudes. The waters made him greate, and the depe set him vp an hye. Roūde aboute the rotes of him rāne there floudes of water, he sent out his litle ryuers vnto all the trees of the felde. Therfore was he hyer thō all the trees of the felde, and thorow yᵉ multitude of waters that he sent frō him, he optayned many and longe braunches. All foules of the ayre made their nestes in his braūches, vnder his bowes gēdred all the beastes of yᵉ felde, & vnder his shadow dwelt all people. Fayre and beutifull was he in his greatnesse, and in the length of his braunches, for his rote stode besyde greate waters: no Cedretre might hyde him. In the pleasaūt garden of God, there was no Fyrre tre like his braūches, the playne trees were not like yᵉ bowes of him. All the trees in the garden off God might not be cōpared vnto him in his beuty: so fayre and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his braunches: In so moch, yᵗ all the trees in the pleasaūt gardē of God, had envye at hī. Therfore, thus saieth [B] the LORDE God: For so moch as he hath lift vp himself so hie, & stretched his toppe in to the cloudes, & seinge his hert is proude in his highnesse: I wil delyuer him in to yᵉ hondes of yᵉ mightiest amōge yᵉ Heithē, which shall rote him out. Acordīge to his wickednes will I cast him awaye, the enemies shal destroye him, & the mighty men of the Heithen shall so scatre him, that his braunches shal lye vpon all mountaynes & in all valleys: his bowes shall be broken downe to the grounde thorow out the londe. Then all the people of the londe shal go from his shadowe, and forsake him. When he is fallē, all yᵉ foules of yᵉ ayre shal syt vpon him, and all wilde beestes of the felde shal go aboute amonge his braūches: so that from hence forth, no tre in the water shall attayne to his hyenesse, nor reach his toppe vnto the cloudes, nether shall eny tre off the water stonde so hye, as he hath done. For vnto death shall they all be delyuered vnder the earth, and go downe to yᵉ graue, like other men.

Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE God:[C] In the daye when he goeth downe to the graue, I wil cause a lamentacion to be made. I will couer the depe vpon him, I will staunch his floudes, and the greate waters shalbe restrayned. I shall cause Libanus to be soroufull for his sake, and all the trees off the felde shall be smyttē.⁽²⁾ I wil make the Heithen shake at the sounde of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell, with them yᵗ descende in to the pytte. All the trees of Eden, wᵗ all the chosen and besttrees of Libanus, yee and all they that are planted vpon the waters, shal mourne with him also in the lower habitaciōs: for they shal go downe to hell wᵗ him, vnto thē that be slayne with the swearde, which dwelt afore vnder the shadow off his arme amōge the Heithē. To whom shalt thou be lickened, that art so glorious & greate, amonge the trees off Eden? Yet art thou cast downe vnder yᵉ earth (amonge the trees off Eden) where thou must lye amonge the vncircumcised, with them that be slayne wᵗ the swearde. Euen thus is it with Pharao & all his people, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 31

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 29· ⟨illegible⟩ ▪ 32.

⁽²⁾ Esa. 14. c Eze. 32. c

Chapter 32

IN the xij. yeare, the first daye of the xij. Moneth, the worde of the LORDE [A] came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, take vp a lamentacion vpō Pharao the kynge of Egipte, & saye vnto him:⁽¹⁾ Thou art reputed as a Lyon of the Heithen, & as a whalfish in the see. Thou castest yᵗ waters aboute the, thou troublest the waters wᵗ thy fete, and stampest in their floudes. Thus sayeth the LORDE God:⁽²⁾ I wil sprede my net ouer yᵉ, namely, a greate multitude of people: these shal dryue the into my yarne, for I will cast the vpō the lōde, and let the lye vpō the felde, that all the foules of the ayre maye syt vpō the: I wil geue all the beastes of the felde ynough off the. Thy flesh will I cast vpō the hilles, and fyll the valleys with thy hyenesse. I will water the londe with the abundaunce off thy bloude euen to the moūtaynes, & yᵉ valleys shal be full off the.

When thou art put out, I will couer the heauen, and make his starres dymme.⁽³⁾ I will sprede a cloude ouer the Sonne, ād the Moone shall not geue hir light. All the lightes [B] off heauen will I put out ouer the, and bringe darcknesse vpon thy londe, saieth yᵉ LORDE God. I wil trouble the hertes off many people, when I bringe thy destruccion amōge the Heithen and countrees, whom thou knowest not. Yee I will make many people with their kynges so afrayed thorow yᵉ, that their hayre shal stonde vp, whē I shake my swearde at their faces. Sodenly shal they be astonnyed, euery man in him self, at yᵉ daye of thy fall.

For thus saieth the LORDE God: the kynge of Babilons swearde shal come vpon yᵉ, with yᵉ sweardes of the worthies will I smyte downe thy people. All they that be mightie amonge the Gētiles, shal waist the proude pompe of Egipte, and brynge downe all hir people. All the catell also of Egipte wil I destroye, that they shal come nomore vpō the waters: so that nether mās fote ner beastes clawe, shal stere them eny more. Then wil [C] I make their waters cleare, and cause their floudes to runne like oyle, sayeth the LORDE God: when I make the londe of Egipte desolate, and when yᵉ countre with all that is therin, shalbe layde waist: and whē I smyte all thē which dwell in it, that they maye knowe, that I am the LORDE. This is the mournynge, that the doughters off the Heithen shall make: Yee a sorow and lamentaciō shal they take vp, vpon Egipte and all hir people, saieth the LORDE God.

In the xij. yeare, the xv. daye of the Moneth, came the worde off the LORDE vnto me sayenge: Thou sonne of man. Take vp a lamentacion vpon the people of Egipte, and cast them downe, yee ād the mightie people of the Heithē also,⁽⁴⁾ euen with thē that dwell beneth: and with them that go downe in to the graue. Downe (how fayre so euer thou be) and laye the with the vncircircumcised. Amōge those that be slayne with the swearde, shal they lye. The swearde is geuen alredy▪ he shal be drawen forth and all his people. The mightie worthies and his helpers, yᵗ be [D] gone downe and lye with the vncircumcised and with them that be slayne with yᵉ swearde: shal speake to him out of the hell.

Assur is there also with his company, ād their graues rounde aboute, which were slayne ād fell all with the swearde, whose graues lye besyde him in the lowe pytte. His comōs are buried rounde aboute his graue: alltogether wounded and slayne with the swearde, which men afore tyme brought feare into yᵉ londe off the lyuynge.

There is Elam also with all his people,⁽⁵⁾ and their graues rounde aboute: which all beynge wounded and slayne with the swearde, are gone downe vncircumcised vnder the earth, which neuertheles somtyme brought feare in to the londe off the lyuynge: for the which they beare their shame, with the other that be gone downe to yᵉ graue.

Their buryall is geuen them and all their [E] people, amonge them that be slayne. Their graues are rounde aboute all them, which be vncircumcised, and with them that be slay▪ thorow the swearde: for seynge that in tymes past they made the londe off the lyuynge afrayed, they must now beare their owne shame, with them that go downe to the pytte, and lye amonge them, that be slayne.

There is Mesech also and Tubal, and their people, and their graues rounde aboute. These all are amonge the vncircūcised, and them that be slayne with the swearde, because afore tyme they made the londe off the lyuynge afrayed.

Shulde not they then lye also amonge yᵉ worthies, and vncircumcised Giauntes? which wᵗ their weapens are gone downe to hel: whose sweardes are layed vnder their heades, whose wickednesse is vpon their bones: because that as worthies, they haue brought feare in to yᵉ lōde of yᵉ lyuinge? Yee amōge the vncircūcised shalt thou be destroyed, and slepe with them, that perished thorow the swearde.

There is the lōde off Edom with hir kynges and prynces also, which wᵗ their strēgth [F] are layed by them that were slayne with the swearde, yee amonge the vncircumcised,⁽⁶⁾ and them which are gone downe in to the pytte. Morouer, there be all the prynces of the north, with all the Sidoniās, which are gone downe to the slayne.

With their feare and strength they are come to confucion, and lye there vncircumcised, amonge those that be slayne with the swearde: and beare their owne shame, with them that be gone downe to yᵉ pytte. Now when Pharao seyth this, he shal be comforted ouer all his people, that is slayne with the swearde: both Pharao & all his hoost, saieth yᵉ LORDE God. For I haue geuē my feare in the lōde of the lyuynge. But Pharao & all his people shall ye amōge the vncircumcised, and amonge them that be slayne with the swearde, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 32

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 29.30.31.

⁽²⁾ Eze. 12. b 17. c

⁽³⁾ Eze. 13. ⟨illegible⟩ loc. 3. c

⁽⁴⁾ Esa. 14. c Eze. 31. c

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Chapter 33

[A] AGayne, the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off man, Speake to the childrē of thy people, and tell them: When I sende a swearde vpon a londe, yf the people off the londe take a man off their countre, and set him to be their watchman: yᵉ same man (whā he seyth the swearde come vpon the londe) shall blowe the trompet,⁽¹⁾ and warne the people.

Yff a man now heare the noyse off the trompet & will not be warned, and the swearde come ād take him awaye: his bloude shall be vpō his owne heade: For he herde the soūde of the trompet, and wolde not take hede, therfore his bloude be vpon him. But yff he will receaue warnynge, he shal saue his life. Agayne, yf the watch man se the swerde come, and shewe it not with the trompet, so yᵗ the people is not warned: yff the swearde come then, and take eny man from amōge thē: the same shall be taken awaye in his owne synne, but his bloude will I requyre off the watchmans honde.

[B] And now (O thou sonne of man) I haue made the a watchman vnto the house of Israel:⁽²⁾ that where as thou hearest eny thinge out of my mouth, thou mayest warne them on my behalfe. Yff I saye vnto the wicked: thou wicked, thou shalt surely dye: and thou geuest him not warnynge, that he maye bewarre off his vngodly waye: then shall the wicked dye in his owne synne, but his bloude will I requyre of thy honde. Neuertheles yf thou warne the wicked off his waye, to turne from it, where as he yet wil not be turned from it: then shal he dye because off his synne, but thou hast delyuered thy soule.

Therfore (O thou sonne off man) speake vnto the house off Israel, Ye saye thus: Oure offences and synnes lye vpon vs, and webe corrupte in them: how shulde we then be restored vnto life? Tell them: As truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) I haue no pleasure in the death off the wicked,⁽³⁾ but moch rather that the wicked turne from his waye and lyue. Turne you, turne you from yoʳ vngodly wayes, o ye off the house off Israel. Oh, wherfore will ye dye?

[C] Thou sonne off man, tell the children off thy people:⁽⁴⁾ The rightuousnes of the rightuous shall not saue him, whan so euer he turneth awaye vnfaithfully: Agayne, the wickednesse of the wicked shal not hurte him, whan so euer he conuerteth from his vngodlynesse:

And yᵉ rightuousnesse of the rightuous shal not saue his life, when so euer he synneth. Yff I saye vnto the rightuous, that he shall surely lyue, and so he trust to his owne rightuousnesse, and do synne: then shall his rightuousnesse be nomore thought vpon, but in the wickednesse that he hath done, he shall dye.

Agayne, yff I saye to the wicked:⁽⁵⁾ thou shalt surely dye: and so he turne frō his synnes, and do the thinge that is laufull and right: In so moch that the same wicked mā geueth the pledge agayne, restoreth that he had taken awaye by robbery, walketh in the cōmaundementes off life, and doth no wrōge:

Then shall he surely lyue, and not dye. Yee the synnes that he had done, shal neuer be thought vpon: For in so moch as he doth now the thynge that is laufull and right, he shall lyue. And yet the children off thy people saye: Tush, the waye of the LORDE is not right, where as their owne waye is rather vnright.

When the rightuous turneth from his [D] rightuousnesse, and doeth the thynge that is wicked, he shall dye therfore. But yf the wicked turne from his wickednesse, doinge the thinge that is laufull and right,⁽⁶⁾ he shall lyue therfore. Yet ye saye▪ he waye of yᵉ LORDE is not equall. O ye house of Israel, I wil iudge euery one of you after his wayes.

In the xij. yeare, the v. daye of the x. Moneth of oure captyuyte, it happened, that one which was fled out of Ierusalem, came vnto me, and sayde: yᵉ cite is destroyed. Now the honde of the LORDE had bene vpon me the euenynge, afore this man (which was escaped) came vnto me, and had opened my mouth, vntyll the mornynge that he came to me: Yee he opened my mouth, so yᵗ I was nomore domme. Then came the worde of yᵉ LORDE vnto me, and sayde: Thou sonne off man, these that dwell in the waisted londe of Israel, saye: Abraham was but one man, ād he had the londe in possessiō: now are we many, and the londe is geuen vs to possesse also And therfore tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE: In the bloude haue ye eaten, youre [E] eyes haue ye lift vp to Idols,⁽⁷⁾ and haue shed bloude: shal ye then haue the londe in possession?

Ye leane vpon youre sweardes, ye worke abhominacions, euery one defyleth his neghbours wife: and shal ye then possesse the londe? Saye thou these wordes vnto thē: Thus saieth the LORDE God: As truly as I lyue, all ye that dwell in this wildernesse, shall be slayne wᵗ the swearde: what so is vpon the felde, will I geue vnto the beestes to be deuoured: those that be in stronge holdes and dennes, shall dye off the pestilēce. For I wil make the londe desolate and waist, and yᵉ pōpe off hir strength shall come to an ende. The mountaynes in Israel shal be so waiste that no man shall trauayle therby.

Then shall they lerne to knowe, that I am the LORDE, ⁽⁸⁾ whē I make the lōde waist and desolate, because off all their abhominacions, that they haue wrought. And thou [F] sonne off man, the children off thy people yᵗ talke of the, by the walles ād in the dores of their houses, sayenge one to another: come, let vs heare, what worde is gone forth from the LORDE: These come vnto the, after yᵉ maner of a greate people: yee my people syt downe before the, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter:⁽⁹⁾ For in their mouthes they shewe themselues, as though they were feruent, but their herte goeth after their owne couetous lucre. And as a balet yᵗ hath a swete tune, ād is pleasaūt to synge, so shalt thou be vnto them: thy wordes shal they heare, but they will not do therafter. Whē this commeth to passe (for lo, it cōmeth in dede) then shal they knowe, that there hath bene a prophet amonge them.

Notes to Chapter 33

⁽¹⁾ Re. 9. d

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ze. 3. c

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ze. 18. ⟨illegible⟩

⁽⁴⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ze. 18. d

⁽⁵⁾ Esa. 55. b Iere. 1⟨illegible⟩ a

⁽⁶⁾ Eze. 18. Ro 2. a

⁽⁷⁾ Leui. 17 ⟨illegible⟩ Deu. 3. ⟨illegible⟩

⁽⁸⁾ Eze. 25. c

⁽⁹⁾ Esa. 29 c Mat. 15. a

Chapter 34

ANd the worde off the LORDE came [A] vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne off mā, prophecye agaynst the shepherdes of Israel, prophecy, and speake vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Wo be vnto the shepherdes off Israel,⁽¹⁾ that fede them selues. Shulde not the shepherdes fede yᵉ flockes?

Ye haue eaten vp the fatte, ye haue clothed you with the woll: the best fedde haue ye slayne, but yᵉ flocke haue ye not norished: The weake haue ye not holden vp,⁽²⁾ the sicke haue ye not healed: the broken haue ye not bounde together, the outcastes haue ye not brought agayne: yᵉ lost haue ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly haue ye ruled thē.⁽³⁾ Thus are they scatred here and there without a shepherde: yee all the beastes off the felde deuoure them, and they go astraye.

My shepe go wandringe vpon all moūtaynes and vpon euery hye hill, yee they be scatred abrode in all feldes, and there is no man, that careth for them, or seketh after them.

[B] Therfore o ye shepherdes, heare the worde off the LORDE, Thus sayeth the LORDE God: As truly as I lyue, for so moch as my shepe are robbed, and deuoured off all the wylde beestes off the felde, hauynge no shepherde: and seynge that my shepherdes take no regarde off my shepe, but fede them selues only, and not my shepe: Therfore heare yᵉ worde off the LORDE, o ye shepherdes: Thus sayeth the LORDE God: Beholde, I myselff will vpon the shepherdes, and requyre my shepe from their hondes, and make thē ceasse from fedynge of my shepe: yee the shepherdes shall fede them selues nomore: For I will delyuer my shepe out off their mouthes so that they shall not deuoure them after this.

For thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I will loke to my shepe myselff,⁽⁴⁾ and seke them. Like as a shepherde amōge the flocke seketh after the shepe that are scatred abrode, euen so will I seke after my shepe, and gather them together out off all places, where they haue bene scatred in the cloudy and darcke daye. I will bringe them out from all people, and gather them together out of all londes. I will bringe thē in to their owne londe, and fede them vpon the mountaynes off Israel, by the ryuers, and in all the places of [C] the countre. I will fede them in right good pastures, and vpon the hie mountaynes off Israel shall there foldes be. There shal they lye in a good folde, ād in a fat pasture shall they fede: euen vpon the mountaynes of Israel.

I will fede my shepe myselff, and bringe them to their rest, sayeth the LORDE God. Soch as be lost, will I seke:⁽⁵⁾ soch as go astraye, wil I brynge agayne: soch as be woūded, will I bynde vp: soch as be weake, will I make stronge: soch as be fat and well lykinge, those will I preserue, and fede them with yᵉ thinge that is laufull. And as for you (o my shepe) sayeth the LORDE God: I will put a difference amonge the shepe,⁽⁶⁾ amonge the wethers ād the goates. Was it not ynough for you, to eat vp the good pasture, but ye must treade downe the residue of youre pasture wᵗ youre fete also? Was it not ynough for you to drynke cleare water, but ye must trouble the residue also with youre fete?

Thus my shepe must be fayne to eate yᵉ thinge, that ye haue troden downe with yoʳ fete, and to drynke it, that ye with youre fete haue defyled.

Therfore, thus sayeth the LORDE God vnto them: Beholde, I will seuer the fat shepe from the leane: for so moch as ye haue shot the weake shepe apō yᵉ sydes & shulders, and runne vpon them with youre homes, so longe till ye haue vtterly scatred them abrode. I wil helpe my shepe, so yᵗ they shal nomore be spoyled: yee I wil discerne one [D] shepe from another. I wil rayse vp vnto them one only shepherde: euen my seruaunt Dauid,⁽⁷⁾ he shal fede thē, and he shal be their shepherde. I the LORDE wil be their God, and my seruaunt Dauid shal be their prince: Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it.

Morouer, I wil make a couenaunt of peace with them, and dryue all euell beastes out of the londe: so that they maye dwell safely in the wildernesse, and slepe in the woddes. Good fortune & prosperite wil I geue them, and vnto all that be rounde aboute my hill. A prosperous shower and rayne wil I sende them in due season,⁽⁸⁾ that the trees in the wodde maye bringe forth their frutes, & yᵉ grounde hir increase. They shalbe safe in their londe, and shal knowe, that I am the LORDE, which haue brokē their yocke, and delyuered them out of the hondes of those, that helde them in subieccion.

They shal nomore be spoyled of the Heithen, ner deuoured with the beastes of the lōde: but safely shal they dwell, & no man shall fraye them. I wil set vp an excellēt plāte for them, so yᵗ they shal suffre no more hunger in the londe, nether beare the reprofe of yᵉ Heithen eny more. Thus shal they vnderstonde, that I the LORDE their God am wᵗ them, & yᵗ they (euen the house of Israel) are my people, saieth the LORDE God. Ye men are my flocke,⁽⁹⁾ ye are the shepe of my pasture: and I am youre God, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 34

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 13. a ⟨illegible⟩re. 14. b 23. a▪

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩uc. 4. b

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. Pe. 5. a

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⁽⁷⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 30. b ⟨illegible⟩ c ⟨illegible⟩ 5. a

⁽⁸⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ b

⁽⁹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩4. b

Chapter 35

[A] MOrouer, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, turne thy face towarde the mount Seir, prophecy vpon it, & saye vnto it:⁽¹⁾ Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, (o thou mount Seir) I will vpon the, I will reach out myne hōde ouer the, yee waist & desolate wil I make the. Thy cities wil I breake downe, & thou shalt lye voyde: that thou mayest knowe, how that I am the LORDE. For so moch as thou bearest an olde enemyte agaynst the children of Israel,⁽²⁾ & with a cruel honde hast made them afrayed, what tyme as they were troubled & punyshed for their synne: Therfore, as truly as I lyue (saieth yᵉ LORDE God) I wil prepare the vnto bloude, yee bloude shal folowe vpon the: seinge thou layest waite for bloude,⁽³⁾ therfore shall bloude persecute the. Thus wil I make the mount Seir desolate & waist, and bringe to passe, that there shall no man go thither, ner come from thence. His mountaynes wil I fyll wᵗ his slayne men: thy hilles, dales and valleys shallye full of them, that are slayne with yᵉ swearde. I wil make the a perpetuall wildernesse, so that noman shal dwell in thy cities: yᵗ ye maye knowe, how yᵗ I am the LORDE.

And because thou hast sayde: what, both [B] these nacions and both these londes must be myne, & I wil haue them in possession,⁽⁴⁾ where as the LORDE was there. Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: As truly as I lyue, I will hādle the acordinge to thy wrath and gelousy, like as thou hast dealt cruelly with them: that I maye be knowne amōge them, how I haue punyshed the. Yee and that thou also mayest be sure, that I the LORDE haue herde all thy despyteful wordes, which thou hast spokē agaynst the mountaynes of Israel, sayenge: Lo, they are made waist, and geuen vs to deuoure.

Thus with youre mouthes ye haue made youre boost agaynst me, yee & multiplied youre pronde wordes agaynst me, which I haue herde altogether. Where vnto, thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: when the whole worlde is in wealth, then wil I make the waist.⁽⁵⁾ And like as thou (o mount Seir) wast glad, because the heretage of the house of Israel was destroyed: euen so wil I do vnto the also, that thou and whole Edom shall be destroyed, & knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 35

⁽¹⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 4. ⟨illegible⟩ 49. b ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩5. b ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩6. a

⁽²⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ 20. c ⟨illegible⟩. a

⁽³⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. 5. a

⁽⁴⁾ Exo. 25. c

⁽⁵⁾ Eze. 22. ⟨illegible⟩ 26. a

Chapter 36

THou sonne of man, prophecie vpon [A] the mountaynes of Israel, & speake:⁽¹⁾ Heare the worde of the LORDE, o ye mountaynes of Israel: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Because yoʳ enemie hath sayde vpon you: A ha, yᵉ hie euerlastynge places are now become ours: prophecy therfore, & speake: thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: Seinge ye be waisted & trodē downe on euery syde, & become a possession vnto yᵉ resydue of yᵉ Gētiles, which haue brought you in to mēs mouthes & vnto an euel name amonge yᵉ people: Therfore, heare the worde of the LORDE God, o ye mountaynes of Israel: Thus saieth the LORDE God vnto the mountaynes and hilles, valleys & dales, to the voyde wildernesses & desolate cities, which are spoyled, and had in derision on euery syde, amonge the resydue of the Heithē: Yee euē thus saieth the LORDE God: In the fyre of my gelousy haue I taken a deuyce, agaynst the resydue of the Gētiles, and agaynst all Edom:⁽²⁾ which haue takē in my lōde vnto thē selues for a possession: which also reioysed frō their whole herte wᵗ a despiteful stomacke, to waist it, and to spoyle it.

[B] Prophecy therfore vpon the londe of Israel, speake vnto yᵉ mountaynes and hilles, to valleys and dales, thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, this haue I deuysed in my gelousy and terrible wrath: For so moch as ye haue suffred reprofe of the Heithen, therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: I haue sworne, that the Gentiles which lye aboute you, shal beare youre confucion them selues. And as for you (o mountaynes of Israel) ye shall shute out youre braunches, and bringe forth youre frute to my people of Israel, for it is harde by, that it wil come.

Beholde, I come vnto you, and vnto you will I turne me, that ye maye be tylled and sowen. I wil sende you moch people, which shalbe all of the house of Israel: the cities shalbe inhabited, and yᵉ decayed places shal be repayred againe. I wil prouyde you with moch people and catell, which shal increase & bringe frute. I wil restore you also to youre olde estate, and shewe you more kindnes thē euer ye had before: wherby ye shal knowe, yᵗ I am the LORDE. Yee people wil I sende vnto you (o my folke of Israel (which shal haue the in possession, and thou shalt be their inheritaunce, so that thou shalt nomore be [C] without them. Agayne, thus saieth the LORDE God: For so moch as they saye vnto you: thou art an eater vp of men, and a waister of thy people: therfore thou shalt eate no mo men, nether destroye thy people eny more, saieth the LORDE God. And I wil not suffre the, for to heare thine owne confucion amonge the Gentiles from hensforth. Thou shalt not beare the reprofe of the nacions, ner cast out thine owne people enymore, saieth the LORDE God.

Morouer, the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: O thou sonne of mā, when the house of Israel dwelt vpon their owne grounde, they defyled them selues with their owne wayes & ymaginacions: so that in my sight their waye was like the vnclennesse of a menstruous woman. Wherfore I poured my wrothfull displeasure vpon them, because of the bloude that they had shed in the londe, & because of their Idols, wherwith they had defyled them selues. I scatred them also amonge the Heithen, so that they were strowed aboute in the lōdes. Acordinge to their wayes & after their owne inuencions, so dyd I punysh them.

[D] Now when they were gone vnto the Hetthen,⁽³⁾ and come in amonge them, they dishonoured my holy name: so that it was sayde of them: Are these the people of God, & must go out of their owne londe? Then spared I my holy name, which yᵉ house of Israel had dishonoured amonge the Gentiles, to whom they came. Therfore tell yᵉ house of Israel: Thus saieth the LORDE God: I do not this for yoʳ sakes (O house of Israel) but for my holy names sake, which ye dishonoured amōge the Heithen, when ye came to them. Therfore, I wil halowe my greate name agayne, which amonge the Gētiles is euel spoken of: for ye youre selues haue dishonoured it amōge them. And the Gentiles shal knowe, that I am the LORDE, when I am honoured in you before their eyes, saieth yᵉ LORDE God.

As for you, I wil take you from amonge the Heithen, and gather you together out of all countrees, and bringe you agayne into youre owne londe.⁽⁴⁾ Then will I poure cleare water vpon you, & ye shalbe clene: Yee from all youre vnclennesse and from all yoʳ Idols shal I clense you. A new herte also wil I geue [E] you,⁽⁵⁾ and a new sprete wil I put in to you: As for that stony hert, I will take it out of youre body, and geue you a fleszshy herte.⁽⁶⁾ I wil geue you my sprete amonge you, and can se you to walke in my commaundemētes, to kepe my lawes, and to fulfill them.

And so ye shall dwell in the londe, that I gaue to yoʳ forefathers, & ye shal be my people, and I wil be youre God. I wil helpe you out of all youre vnclēnesse, I wil call for the corne, and wil increase it, and wil let you haue no honger. I will multiplie the frutes of the trees and yᵉ increase of the felde for you, so that ye shal beare no more reprofe of honger amōge the Heithē. Then shal ye remēbre yoʳ owne wicked wayes, and youre ymaginaciōs, which were not good: so that ye shal take displeasure at youre owne selues, by reason of youre synnes and abhominacions.

But I wil not do this for youre sakes (saieth [F] the LORDE God) be ye sure of it. Therfore (o ye house of Israel) be ashamed of youre synnes. Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE God: what tyme as I shal clēse you from all youre offences, then wil I make the cities to be occupied agayne, and wil repayre the places that be decayed. The desolate londe shal be buylded agayne, which afore tyme laye waist, in the sight of all them, that wēte by. Then shal it be sayde: This waist lōde is become like a garden of pleasure, and the voyde, desolate and brokē downe cities, are now stronge, and fensed agayne. Then the residue of the Heithen that lye rounde aboute you, shal knowe, that I am the LORDE, which repayre that was broken downe, and plante agayne, that was made waist. Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it, & wil do it in dede.

Thus saieth the LORDE God: I wil yet once be founde agayne of yᵉ house of Israel, & do this for them: I shal increase them as a flocke of men.⁽⁷⁾ Like as the holy flocke and the flocke of Ierusalem are in the hie solempne feastes: so shal also the wilde waisted cities be fylled with flockes of men: and they shal knowe, that I am the LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 36

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[A] THe honde of the LORDE came vpon me, & caried me out in the sprete of the LORDE, & let me downe in a playne felde, that laye full of bones, & he led me rounde aboute by them▪ & beholde, the bones that laye vpon the felde, were very many, & maruelous drye also. Then sayde he vnto me: Thou sonne of man: thinkest thou these benes maye lyue agayne? I answered: O LORDE God, thou knowest. And he sayde vnto me: Prophecy thou vpon these bones, & speake vnto them: Ye drye bones, heare the worde of the LORDE. Thus saieth the LORDE God vnto these bones: Beholde, I will put breth in to you, that ye maye lyue: I wil geue you synowes, & make flesh growe vpon you, & couer you ouer with skynne: & so geue you breth,⁽¹⁾ that ye maye lyue, and knowe, that I am the LORDE.

⁽²⁾So I prophecied, as he had cōmaunded me. And as I was prophecienge, there came a noyse and a greate mocion, so that the bones ranne euery one to another. Now whē I had loked, beholde, they had synowes, and flesh grewe vpon them: and aboue they were couered with skynne, but there was no [B] breth in them. Then sayde he vnto me: Thou sonne of man, prophecie thou towarde the wynde: prophecy, and speake to the wynde: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Come (o thou ayre) from the foure wyndes, & blowe vpon these slayne, that they maye be restored to life. So I prophecied, as he had commaunded me: Then came the brethtn to them, and they receaued life, and stode vp vpon their fete, a maruelous greate sorte.

Morouer, he sayde vnto me: Thou sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.⁽³⁾ Beholde, they saye: oure bones are dryed vp, oure hope is gone, we are clene cut of. Therfore prophecie thou, & speake vnto them. Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil open youre graues (o my people) & take you out of youre sepulcres, & bringe you in to the londe of Israel agayne. So shall ye knowe yᵗ I am the LORDE, when I open youre graues, & bringe you out of them. My sprete also wil I put in you, & ye shal lyue: I wil set you agayne in youre owne londe, and ye shal knowe, that I am the LORDE, which haue sayde it, and fulfilled it in dede.

The worde of the LORDE came vnto me,[C] sayenge: Thou sonne of man, take a sticke and wryte vpon it: Vnto Iuda & to the children of Israel his companyons. Then take another sticke, and wryte vpon it: Vnto Ioseph the stocke of Ephraim, and to all the housholde of Israel his companyons. And than take both these together in thine honde, so shal there be one stycke therof. Now yf the childrē of thy people saye vnto the: wilt thou not shewe vs, what thou meanest by these? Then geue them this answere: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde,⁽⁴⁾ I wil take the stocke of Ioseph, which is in the honde of Ephraim and of the trybes of Israel his felowes, and wil put them to the stocke of Iuda, & make them one stocke, and they shal be one in my honde. And the two stickes where vpon thou wrytest, shalt thou haue in thine honde, that they maye se, and shalt saye vnto them:

Thus saieth the LORDE God: beholde, I wil take awaye the childrē of Israel from amonge the Heithen, vnto whom they be gone, and wil gather them together on euery syde, and bringe them agayne in to their owne londe: yee I wil make one people of thē in yᵉ londe, vpon the mountaynes of Israel, and they all shal haue but one kinge. They shall [D] nomore be two peoples from hensforth, nether be deuyded in to two kingdomes: they shal also defyle thē selues nomore with their abhominacions, Idols and all their wicked-doinges. I wil helpe thē out of all their dwellinge places, wherin they haue synned: & will so clense them, that they shalbe my people, and I their God.

Dauid my seruaunt shalbe their kinge,⁽⁵⁾ & they all shal haue one shepherde only. They shal walke in my lawes, and my commaundementes shal they both kepe & fulfill. They shal dwell in the londe, that I gaue vnto Iacob my seruaunt, where as youre fathers also haue dwelt. Yee euē in the same londe shal they, their children, & their childers children dwell for euermore: and my seruaunt Dauid shal be their euerlastynge prynce. Morouer, I will make a bonde of peace with them, which shal be vnto them an euerlastinge couenaunt. I wil sattle thē also, and multiplie them, my Sanctuary wil I set amonge thē for euermore.

My dwellinge shalbe wᵗ them, yee I wil be their God, & they shalbe my people. Thus the Heithen also shal knowe, that I the LORDE am yᵉ holy maker of Israel: whē my Sanctuary shal be amonge them for euer more.

Notes to Chapter 37

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Chapter 38

[A] ANd the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, turne thy face towarde Gog in the londe of Magog, which is the chefe prynce at Mesech and Tubal: prophecy agaynst him, and saye:⁽¹⁾ Thus saieth the LORDE God: O Gog thou chefe prynce of Mesech and Tubal:⁽²⁾ beholde, I wil vpon the, and wil turne the aboute, and put a bytt in thy chawes: I wil bringe the forth and all thine hoost, both horse & horsmen, which be all weapened of the best fashion: a greate people, that handle altogether speares, shyldes, and swerdes: the Perses, Moryans and with them the Lybians, which all beare shyldes and helmettes: Gomer, and all his hoostes: the house of Thogorma out of the north quarters, and all his hoostes, yee and moch people with the.

Therfore prepare the, set thy self in araye with all thy people, that are come vnto the by heapes, and be thou their defence. After many dayes thou shalt be visited, and in the latter yeares thou shalt come in to the lōde, that hath bene destroyed with the swearde, & now is replenished agayne wᵗ dyuerse people vpon the mountaynes of Israel, which haue lōge lyen waist. Yee they be brought out of the nacions, & dwell all safe. Thou shalt come vp like a stormy wether, to couer the lōde, and as it were a darcke cloude: thou with all thine hoostes, and a greate multitude of people with the.

[B] Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE God: At the same tyme shal many thinges come in to thy mynde, so that thou shalt ymagyn myschefe, and saye: I wil vp to yonder playne londe, seinge they syt at ease, and dwell so safely (for they dwell all without eny walles, they haue nether barres nor dores) to spoyle them, to robbe thē, to laye honde vpon their so wel inhabited wildernesses: agaynst that people, yᵗ is gathered together from amonge the Heithē, which haue gotten catell and good, and dwell in the myddest of the londe. Then shal Saba and Dedan and the marchauntes of Tharsis wᵗ all their Worthies, saye vnto the: Art thou come to robbe? Hast thou gathered thy people together, because thou wilt spoyle? to take syluer and golde: to cary awaye catell and good: and to haue a greate pray?

Therfore, o thou sonne of man, thou shalt prophecie, and saye vnto Gog: Thus saieth the LORDE God: In that daye thou shalt knowe, that my people of Israel dwelleth safe: and shalt come from thy place, out of the north partes: thou and moch people wᵗ the, which ryde vpon horses, wherof there is a greate multitude and an innumerable sorte. Yee thou shalt come vpon my people of Israel, as a cloude to couer the lōde. This shal come to passe in the latter dayes: I wil bringe the vp in to my londe, that the Heithen maye knowe me, when I get me honoure vpon the (o Gog) before their eyes.

Thus saieth the LORDE God: Thou art he, of whom I haue spoken afore tyme, by my seruauntes yᵉ prophetes of Israel, which prophecied in those dayes & yeares, that I shulde bringe the vpon them. At the same tyme,[C] when Gog commeth vp in to the londe of Israel (saieth the LORDE God) shal my indignaciō go forth in my wrath. For in my gelousy and hote displeasure I haue deuysed,⁽³⁾ that there shalbe a greate trouble in the londe of Israel at that tyme. The very fyszshes in the see, the foules of the ayre, the beestes of the felde, and all the men yᵗ are vpon the earth, shal tremble for feare of me.

The hilles also shalbe turned vp side downe, the stayres of stone shal fall, and all walles shal syncke to the grounde. I wil call for a swearde vpon them in all my mountaynes, saieth the LORDE God: so that euery mans swearde shal be vpon another. With pestilēce and bloude wil I punysh him: stormy rayne and hale stones, fyre and brymstone, wil I cause to rayne vpon him and all his heape, yee and vpon all that greate people that is with him. Thus wil I be magnified, honoured, and knowne amonge the Heithen: that they maye be sure, how yᵗ I am yᵉ LORDE.

Notes to Chapter 38

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Chapter 39

THerfore o thou sonne of man, prophecie [A] agaynst Gog, and speake: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, o Gog:⁽¹⁾ thou chefe prynce at Mesech and Tubal, I wil vpon the, and turne the aboute, & carie the forth, & lede yᵗ from the north partes, and bringe the vp to the mountaynes of Israel. As for thy bowe, I wil smyte it out of thy left honde, and cast thine arowes out of thy right honde. Thou with all thine heape, and all the people that is with the, must fall vpon the mountaynes of Israel. Then wil I geue the vnto yᵉ foules and wilde beastes of the felde, to be deuoured: there must thou lye vpon the felde: for euē I the LORDE haue spoken it, saieth the LORDE God.

[B] In to Magog, and amonge those that sit so carelesse in the Iles: wil I sende a fyre, and they shal knowe, yᵗ I am the LORDE. I wil make also the name of my holynesse to be knowne amonge my people of Israel: and I will not let my holy name be euel spoken of enymore: but the very Heithen also shal knowe, that I am the LORDE, the holy one of Israel. Beholde, it commeth, and shalbe fulfilled in dede, saieth the LORDE God. This is the daye, wherof I haue spoken: They that dwell in yᵉ cities of Israel, shal go forth and set fyre vpon the weapens, and burne them: shyldes and speres, bowes and arowes, bylles and clubbes: seuen yeares shall they be burnynge therof, so that they shall els bringe no stickes from yᵉ felde, nether haue nede to hew downe eny out of the wodde: For they shall haue weapens ynew to burne. They shal robbe those that robbed them, and spoyle those that spoyled them, saieth yᵉ LORDE God.

[C] At the same tyme will I geue vnto Gog, a place to be buried in, in Israel: euē the valley, where thorow men go from the east to the see warde. Those that trauayle therby, shal abhorre it. There shal Gog and all his people be buried: and it shalbe called the valley of the people of Gog. Seuen monethes longe shall the house of Israel be burienge of them, that they maye clense the lōde: Yee all the people of the londe shal burie them. O it shal be a glorious daye, when I get me that honoure, saieth the LORDE God. They shal ordene men also to be deed buriers, euer goinge thorow the lōde, and appoynte them certayne places to bury those in, which remayne vpon the felde, that the londe maye be clensed. From ende to ende shal they seke, and that v⟨illegible⟩ monethes lōge. Now those that go thorow the londe, where they se a mans bone, they shall set vp a token by it, till the deed buriers haue buried it also, in the valley of the people of Gog. And the name of the cite shalbe called Hamona: Thus shall they make the londe clene.

And thou sonne of man: thus saieth the [D] LORDE God: Speake vnto all the foules and euery byrde, yee and to all the wilde beastes of the felde: heape you together and come, gather you roūde aboute vpō my slaughter, that I haue slayne for you: euen a greate slaughter vpon the mountaynes of Israel: eate flesh,⁽²⁾ and drynke bloude. Ye shal eate yᵉ flesh of the worthies, and drynke the bloude of the prynces of the londe: of the wethers, of the lambes, of the goates, and of the oxen that be all slayne at Basan. Eate yᵉ fat youre bely full, and drynke bloude, till ye be droncken of the slaughter, which I haue slayne vnto you. Fyl you at my table, with horses & stronge horsmen: with captaynes and all mē of warre, saieth the LORDE God.

I will bringe my glory also amonge the Gentiles, that all the Heithen maye semy iudgment, that I haue kepte, and my honde which I haue layed vpon them: that yᵉ house of Israel maye knowe, how that I am yᵉ LORDE their God, from that daye forth. And the Heithen shal knowe, that where as [E] the house of Israel were led in to captiuyte: it was for their wickednes sake, because they offended me.

For the which cause I hyd my face from them, and delyuered them in to the hondes of their enemies, that they might all be slayne with the swearde. Acordinge to their vn clennesse ⟨illegible⟩ vnfaithfull dealinges, so haue I entreated them, and hyd my face from them. Therfore thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: Now will I bringe agayne the captyues of Iacob, and haue mercy vpon the whole house of Israel, and be gelous for my holy names sake. All their confucion and offence that they haue done agaynst me, shal be taken awaye: and so safely shal they dwell in their londe, that no man shal make them a frayed. And when I haue brought thē agayne from amonge the people, when I haue gathered them together out of their enemies londes, and am praysed in them before many Heithen: then shall they knowe, that I am the LORDE their God, which suffred them to be led in to captiuyte amonge the Heithen, but now haue brought them agayne in to their owne londe, and not left one of them yonder.

After that, will I hyde my face nomore from them, but will poure out my sprete vpon the house of Israel,⁽³⁾ saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 39

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Chapter 40

IN the xxv yeare of oure captiuyte,[A] in the begynnynge of the yeare, the x daye of the moneth: that is the xiiij yeare, after that yᵉ cite was smytten downe: the same daye came the honde of the LORDE vpon me, and caried me forth: euen in to the londe of Israel brought heme in the visions of God: and set me downe vpō a maruelous hie mountayne, whervpon there was a buyldinge (as it had bene of a cite) towarde the north.

Thither he caried me, and beholde, there was a man, whose similitude was like brasse, which had a threde of flax in his honde, and a meterodde also. He stode in the dore, & sayde vnto me: marcke well with thine eyes, herken to with thine eares, and fasten it in thine hert, whatso euer I shal shewe the, for to the intent that they might be shewed the, therfore art thou brought hither. And what soeuer thou seyst, thou shalt certifie the house of Israel therof.

Beholde, there was a wall on the outsyde rounde aboute the house: the meterodde that he had in his honde, was six cubites longe & a spanne. So he measured the bredth of the buyldinge, which was a meterodde, and the [B] heyth also a meterodde. Then came he vnto the eastdore, and wente vp the stares, ⟨illegible⟩ measured the postes of the dore wherof euery one was a meterodde thicke Euery chambre was a meterodde longe and brode betwene the chambers were fyue cubites The poste of the dore within the porche was one meterodde. He measured als⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩ of the ⟨illegible⟩nnermer dore, which ⟨illegible⟩ meterodde. Thē measured he the entrie of the dore that conteyned eght cubites, and his pilers two cubites: and this entrie stode inwarde.

The chambers of the dore eastwarde, were thre on euery syde: alike brode and longe. The pilers also that stode of both the sydes, were of one measure. After this, he measured the wydenesse of the dore: which was x cubites, & the heyth of the dore xiij cubites. The edge before the chābres was one cubite brode vpō both the sydes, & the chambres six cubites wyde of either syde. He measured yᵉ dore from the rygge of one chābre to another, whose wydenesse was xxv cubites, & one dore stode agaynst another. He made pilers also lx cubites hie, rounde aboute the courte dore. Before the inwarde parte vnto the fore entre of the ynnermer dore, were fiftie cubites. The chambers and their pilers within, rounde aboute vnto yᵉ dore, had syde wyndowes: So had the fore entries also, whose wyndowes wente rounde aboute within. And vpon the pilers there stode date trees.

[C] Then brought he me in to the fore courte, where as were chābres & paued workes, made in yᵉ fore courte roūde aboute: xxx chābres vpon one paued worcke. Now the paued worke was a lōge besyde the dores, and that was the lower paued worke. After this, he measured yᵉ bredth from the lower dore, vnto the ynnermer courte of the out syde, which had an hundreth cubites vpon the east & the north parte. And the dore in the vttemost courte towarde the north, measured he after the lēgth and bredth: his thre chambres also on either syde, with his pilers & fore entries: which had euen the measure of the first dore. His heyth was fiftie cubites, the bredth xxv cubites: his wyndowes & porches with his date trees, had euen like measure as the dore towarde the east: there where vij steppes to go vp vpō, & their porche before them. Now yᵉ dore of the ynnermer courte stode straight ouer agaynst the dore, that was towarde yᵉ north east. From one dore to another, he measured an C cubites.

After that; he brought me to the south syde, where there stode a dore towarde yᵉ south: whose pilers and porches he measured, these had the fyrst measure, & with their porches they had wyndowes rounde aboute, like the first wyndowes. The heyth was I cubites, yᵉ ⟨illegible⟩ xxv, with steppes to go vp vpon: his porche stode before him, with his pilers and date trees on either syde. And the dore of the ynnermer courte stode towarde the south, & he measured from one dore to another an C cubites. So he brought me in to yᵉ ynnermer [D] courte, thorow the dore of the south syd▪ which he measured, & it had the measure afore sayde. In like maner, his chambres, pilers and fore entries, had euen the fore sayde measure also. And he had with his porches rounde aboute, wyndowes of l cubites hye, & xxv cubites brode. The porches rounde aboute were xxv cubites longe, and v cubites brode: and his porch reached vnto yᵉ vttemost courte: vpon his pilers there were date trees, and viij steppes to go vp vpon.

He brought me also in to the ynmost courte vpon the east syde, and measured the dore, acordinge to yᵉ measure afore sayde. His chābers, pilers and porches had euen the same measure, as the first had: & with his porches he had wyndowes roūde aboute. The heith was l cubites, yᵉ bredth xxv cubites: His porches reached vnto the vttemost courte: his pilers also had date trees on either syde, and viij steppes to go vp vpon. And he brought [E] me to the north dore, and measured it, which also had the foresayde measure. His chābres, pilers and porches had wyndowes rounde aboute: whose heyth was l cubites, and the bredth xxv. His pilers stode towarde the vttemost courte, and vpon them both were date trees, and viij steppes to go vp vpon. There stode a chambre also, whose intraūce was at the dore pilers, and there the burnt offringes were waszshed.

In the dore porche, there stode on ether syde two tables for the slaughtinge: to slaye the brent offringes, synne offringes and trespace offringes thervpon. And on the out syde as men go forth to the north dore, there stode two tables. Foure tables stode on ether syde of the dore, that is viij tables, whervpon they slaughted. Foure tables were of hewen stone for the burnt offringes, of a cubite and a half longe and brode, and one cubite hie: whervpon were layed yᵉ vessels and ornamentes, which were vsed to, the burnt & slayne offeringes, when they were slaughted. And within there were hokes foure fyngers brode, fastened rounde aboute, to hange flesh vpon, & vpon the tables was layed the offringe flesh. On the outsyde of the ynnermer dore were the syngers chambers in the inwarde courte besyde yᵉ north dore ouer agaynst the south. There stode one also ⟨illegible⟩ syde the east dore north warde.

[F] And he sayde vnto me: This chambre on the south syde belongeth to the prestes,⁽¹⁾ that kepe the habitacion: and this towarde the north, is the prestes that wayte vpon the aulter: which be the sonnes of Sadoch, that do seruyce before the LORDE in steade of the children of Leui. So he measured the fore courte, which had in length an C cubites, and as moch in bredth by the foure corners. Now the aulter stode before the house: And he brought me to the fore entre of the house, and measured the walles by the entre dore: which were fyue cubites longe on ether syde. The thicknesse also of the dore on ether syde, was thre cubites. The lēgth of the porche was xx cubites. the bredth xj. cubites, and vpon steppes went men vp to it: by the walles also were pilers, on either syde one.

Notes to Chapter 40

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Chapter 41

[A] AFter this he brought me to the temple, and measured the postes: which were of both the sydes vj. cubites thicke, acordinge to the wydenesse of the tabernacle. The bredth of yᵉ dore was x. cubites, & the walles of the dore on either syde fyue cubites. He measured the length therof, which conteyned xl. cubites, and the bredth xx. Thē wente he in, and measured the dore postes, which were two cubites thicke: but the dore itself was sixe cubites, and the bredth of the dore was vij. cubites. He measured the lēgth and bredth therof, which were euery one xx. cubites, before the temple.

And he sayde vnto me: this is the holyest of all. He measured also the wall of the house, which was sixe cubites. The chambres yᵗ stode rounde aboute yᵉ house, were euery one foure cubites wyde, and one stode harde vpō another, wherof there were xxxiij. And there stode postes beneth by the walles rounde aboute the house, to beare thē vp: but in yᵉ wall of yᵉ house they were not fastened: The [B] syde chambres were the hyer the wyder, and had steppes thorow them rounde aboute yᵉ house. Thus was it wyder aboue, that from the lowest men might go to the hyest & mydde chābers▪ I sawe also that the house was very hye rounde aboute. The foundacion of the syde chambres was a meterodde (that is sixe cubites) brode. The thicknesse of the syde wall without, conteyned fyue cubites, & so ⟨illegible⟩ of the chābers in yᵉ house. ⟨illegible⟩ chambers, was the ⟨illegible⟩ aboute yᵉ house. The ⟨illegible⟩ ouer agaynst the out ⟨illegible⟩ was towarde the north, yᵉ other towarde the south: and the thicknesse ⟨illegible⟩ cubites rounde abou⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩ that was separated towarde the west, was lxx. cubites wyde: the wall ⟨illegible⟩ buyldinge was v cubites thicke roūde aboute, and the length foure score cubites and ten. So he measured the house which [C] was an C. cubites longe, and the separated buyldinge with the wall were an C. cubites lōge also. The wydnesse before the house and of it yᵗ was separated towarde the east, was an C. cubites.

And he measured the length of the buyldinge before and behinde with the chābers vpon both the sydes: and it conteyned an C. cubites. The ynnermer temple, the porch of the forecourte, yᵉ syde postes, these thre had syde wyndowes, and pilers rounde aboute ouer agaynst the postes, from the grounde vp to the wyndowes: The wyndowes them selues were syled ouer with bordes: & thus was it aboue the dore, vnto the ynmost house, and without also: Yee the whole wall on euery syde both within and without was syled ouer wᵗ greate bordes. There were Cherubins and date trees made also, so that one date tre stode euer betwixte two Cherubins: One Cherub had two faces, yᵉ face of a man lokinge asyde towarde the date tre, and a lyons face on the other syde. Thus was it [D] made roūde aboute in all the house: Yee the Cherubins and date trees were made from the grounde vp aboue the dore, and so stode they also vpon the wall of the temple.

The bypostes of the temple were foure squared, and the fashion of the Sanctuary was, euen as it appeared vnto me afore in yᵉ vision. The table was of wodde, thre cubites hie and two cubites longe: his corners, the length and the walles were of wodde. And he sayde vnto me: This is the table, that shal stonde before the LORDE. The temple and the holiest of all had ether of them two dores, and euery dore had two litle wickettes which were folden in one vpon another, on euery syde two. And vpon the dores of the temple there were made Cherubins and date trees, like as vpon the walles: and a greate thicke balke of wodde was before on the outsyde of the porche. Vpō both the sydes of the walles of the porche, there were made depe wyndowes and date trees, hauynge beames and balkes, like as the house had.

Chapter 42

[A] THen caried he me out in to t⟨illegible⟩fore courte towarde the north, & brought me in to the chambre that stode ouer agaynst the backe buyldinge northwarde, which had the length of an C cubites, whose dore turned towarde the north. The wydenesse conteyned L. cubites, ouer agaynst the xx. cubites of the ynnermer courte, & agaynst the paued worke that was in the fore courte. Besyde all these thre there stode pilers, one ouer against another: And before this chābre there was a walkinge place of x. cubites wyde, and within was a waye of one cubite wyde, and their dores towarde the north. Thus the hyest chambres were allwaye narower then the lowest and myddelmost of yᵉ buildinge: for they bare chambre vpon chambre, and stode thre together one vpon another, not hauynge pilers like the fore courte: therfore were they smaller then those beneth and in the myddest, to reken from the grounde vpwarde.

[B] The wall without that stode by yᵉ chambres towarde the vttemost courte vpon the fore syde of the chambres, was L. cubites lōge: for the lēgth of yᵉ vttemost chambers in the fore courte was L. cubites also: but the length therof before the temple was an C. cubites. These chambres had vnder them an intraunce of the east syde, wherby a man might go into them out of the fore courte, thorow the thicke wall of the fore courte towarde the east, right ouer agaynst the separated buyldinge. Before the same buyldinge vpō this syde there were chābers also which, had a waye vnto them, like as the chambers on the north syde of the same length and wydenesse.

Their intraunce, fashion and dores were all of the same maner. Yee euen like as the other chamber dores were, so were those also of the south syde. And before the waye towarde [C] the syngers steppes on the east syde, there stode a dore to go in at. Then sayde he vnto me: The chambers towarde the north & the south, which stōde before the backe buyldinge: those be holy habitacions, wherin the prestes that do seruyce before the LORDE, must eate the most holy offringes: and there must they laye the most holy offringes: meat offringes, synne offringes & trespace offringes, for it is an holy place. When the prestes come therin, they shal not go out in to the fore courte: but (seynge they be holy) they shall leaue the clothes of their ministracion, and put on other garmentes, when they haue eny thinge to do with the people.

Now when he had measured all the ynnermer [D] house, he brought me forth thorow the east porte, and measured the same rounde aboute. He measured the east syde with yᵉ meterodde, which rounde aboute conteyned v.C. meteroddes. And the north syde measured he, which conteyned rounde aboute euen so moch. The other two sydes also towarde the south and the west (which he measured) conteyned ether of them v.C. meteroddes. So he measured all yᵉ foure sydes where there wente a wall rounde aboute v.C. meteroddes longe, and as brode also, which separated the holy from the vnholy.

Chapter 43

SO he brought me to yᵉ dore, that turneth [A] towarde the east. Beholde, thē came the glory of the God of Israel from out of the east, whose voyce was like a greate noyse of waters, and the earth was lightened with his glory. His sight to loke vpon was like the first, that I sawe,⁽¹⁾ when I wente in, what tyme as the cite shulde haue bene destroyed: and like the vision that I sawe by the water of Cobar.⁽²⁾ Then fell I vpon my face, but the glory of the LORDE came in to the house thorow the east dore. So a wynde toke me vp, and brought me in to yᵉ ynnermer courte: & beholde, the house was full of the glory of the LORDE.

I herde one speakinge vnto me out of the house, and there stode one by me, that sayde vnto me: O thou sonne of man,⁽³⁾ this rowme is my seate, and the place of my fotesteppes: where as I wil dwell amonge the children of Israel for euermore: so that the house of Israel shal no more defyle my holy name▪ nether thei, ner their kinges, thorow their whordome, thorow their hie places, & thorow the deed bodies of their kinges: which haue buylded their thresholdes in maner harde vpon my thresholdes, and their postes almost at my postes: so that there is but a bare wall betwixte me and them.

Thus haue they defyled my holy name with their abhominacions, that they haue cōmitted. Wherfore I haue destroyed them in my wrath: But now they shal put awaye their whordome and the deed bodies of their kinges out of my sight, that I maye dwell amōge them for euermore.⁽⁴⁾ Therfore (o thou sonne of man) shewe thou the housholde of Israel a temple, that they maye be ashamed of their wickednesse, and measure them selues an example therat.

And when they be ashamed of all their workes, then shewe them the fourme and fashion of the temple: the cōmynge in, the goinge out, all the maner and descripcion therof, yee all the vses and ordinaunces of it, yᵗ they maye kepe & fulfill all the fashions and customes therof.

[C] This is the descripcion of the house: Aboue vpō the mount rounde aboute all the corners, it shalbe yᵉ holiest of all. Beholde, that is the descripcion and fashion of the house. This is the measure of the aulter (after the true cubite,: which is a spanne longer then another cubite) his botome in the myddest was a cubite longe and wyde, and the ledge that wente rounde aboute it, was a spanne brode. This is the heyth of the aulter: From the grounde to the lower steppes the length is two cubites, and the bredth one cubite: and from the lower steppes to the higher are foure cubites, & the bredth but one cubite.

⁽⁵⁾The aulter was foure cubites hie, & from the aulter vpwarde stode foure hornes, and it was xij cubites longe and xij cubites brode, [D] vpon the foure corners: the coueringe of the aulter was xiiij cubites longe and brode vpon the foure corners, and the ledge that wente rounde aboute, had half a cubite: and the botome therof rounde aboute one cubite: his steppes stode towarde the easte. And he sayde vnto me: Thou sonne of man, thus saieth the LORDE God: these are the ordinaunces and lawes of the aulter, in the daye whē it is made, to offre burnt offringes, and to sprenkle bloude ther vpon.⁽⁶⁾ To the prestes, to yᵉ Leuites that be of the sede of Sadoch, and treade before me to do me seruyce, saieth the LORDE God: Vnto these geue thou a yonge bullocke, for a syn offringe: & take the bloude of him & sprenkle his foure hornes withal, & the foure corners of the aulter coueringe, with the ledge that goeth rounde aboute:⁽⁷⁾ here with shalt thou clense it, and reconcile it. Thou shalt take the bullock also of the syn-offringe, & burne him in a seuerall place with out the Sanctuary.

The nexte daye, take a gootbuck without blemish for a syn offringe, to reconcile the aulter [E] withall: like as it was reconciled with yᵉ bullocke. Now when thou hast made it clene, then offre a yonge bullocke without blemish, and a ramme out of the flocke without blemish also: Offre them before the LORDE, ⁽⁸⁾ and let the prest cast salt thervpon,⁽⁹⁾ and geue them so vnto the LORDE for a burntoffringe. Seuen dayes shalt thou bringe, euery daye a gootbucke. A yonge bullocke & a ramme of the flocke (both without blemish) shal they offre. Seuen dayes shal they reconcile and clense the aulter, & offre vpon it. When these dayes are expired, then vpon the viij daye and so forth, the prestes shal offre their burnt offringes and health offringes vpō yᵉ aulter: so wil I be mercifull vnto you, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 43

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⁽⁵⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. ⟨illegible⟩7. a

⁽⁶⁾ ⟨illegible⟩. 44. c

⁽⁷⁾ Leui. 16▪ ⟨illegible⟩

⁽⁸⁾ Leui. 22. c

⁽⁹⁾ Leui. 2. b

Chapter 44

AFter this, he brought me agayne to yᵉ [A] outwarde dore of the Sanctuary on the east syde, and that was shut. Then sayde the LORDE vnto me: This dore shal be stil shut, and not opened for eny mā to go thorow it, but only for the LORDE God of Israel: yee he shal go thorow it, els shal it be shut still. The prynce himself shal come thorow it, that he maye eate bred before the LORDE. At the porche shal he come in, and there shal he go out agayne.⁽¹⁾ Then brought he me to the dore, vpon the north syde of the house. And as I loked aboute me, beholde, the glory of the LORDE fylled the house: and I fell downe vpon my face. So the LORDE spake vnto me: O thou sonne of man, fasten this to thine herte, beholde, and take diligēt hede to all that I wil saye vnto the, concernynge all the ordinaunces of the LORDE and all his lawes: pondre well with thine herte the commynge in of the house and the goinge forth of the Sanctuary: and tell that obstinate housholde of Israel: Thus saieth the LORDE God: O house of Israel, ye haue now [B] done ynough with all youre abhominaciōs, seynge that ye haue brought in to my Sanctuary straungers, hauynge vncircumcised hertes & flesh, where thorow my Sāctuary is defiled, whē ye offre my bred, fat, & bloude.

Thus with all youre abhominacions ye haue broken my couenaunt, and not kepte the holy ordinaunces of my Sanctuary▪ but set kepers of my Sanctuary, euen after youre owne mynde. Therfore thus saieth yᵉ LORDE God: Of all the straungers that dwell amōge the childrē of Israel, no straunger (whose herte & flesh is not circumcised) shal come within my Sanctuary: No ner the Leuites that be gone backe fro me, and haue disceaued the people of Israel with erroures, goinge after their Idols: therfore shal thei beare their owne wickednes. Shulde they be set and ordened to ministre, vnder the dores of the house of my Sanctuary? and to do seruyce in the house: to slaye burnt offringes and sacrifices for yᵉ people: to stōde before them, and to serue them: seynge the seruyce that they do them, is before their Idols, and cause the house of Israel to stomble thorow wickednesse?

⁽²⁾For the which cause I haue pluckte out myne honde ouer them (saieth the LORDE) so that now they must beare their owne iniquyte, and not to come nye me, to serue me with their preasheade, in my Sanctuary, and most holyest of all: that they maye beare their owne shame and abhominacions, which they haue done. Shulde I vse them to be porters of the house, and to all the seruyce [C] yᵗ is done therin? But the prestes yᵉ Leuites the sonnes of Sadoch,⁽³⁾ that kepte the holy ordinaunces of my Sanctuary, when the children of Israel were gone fro me: shal come to me, to do me seruyce, to stonde before me, and to offre me the fat and the bloude, saieth the LORDE God.

They shall go in to my Sanctuary, and treade before my table, to do me seruyce, and to waite vpō myne ordinaunces. Now whē they go in at the dores of the ynnermer courte, they shal put on lynnynge clothes, so that no wollyne come vpon them: whyle they do seruyce vnder the dores of yᵉ ynnermer courte, and within. They shal haue fayre lynnynge bonettes vpon their heades, and lynnynge breches vpon their loynes, which in their laboure they shal not put aboute them: And when they go forth to the people in to the outwarde courte, they shal put of the clothes, wherin they haue ministred, and laye them in the habitacion of the Sanctuary, & put on other apparell, lest they onhalowe yᵉ people with their clothes.

They shal not shaue their heades, ner norish [D] the bushe of their hayre,⁽⁴⁾ but roūde their heades only. All the prestes that go in to the ynmost courte,⁽⁵⁾ shall drynke no wyne. They shall mary no wydowe, nether one that is put from hir huszbonde: but a mayde of the sede of the house of Israel, or a wydowe, that hath had a prest before.

They shal shewe my people the difference betwene the holy and vnholy,⁽⁶⁾ betwixte the clene and vnclene. Yf eny discorde aryse, they shal discerne it, and geue sentence after my iudgmentes. My solempne feastes, my lawes and ordinaunces shal they kepe, and halowe my Sabbathes.⁽⁷⁾ They shal come at no deed persone, to defyle them selues: (excepte it be father or mother, sonne or doughter, brother or sister that hath had yet no husbonde) in soch they maye be defyled.

And when he is clensed, there shal be rekened vnto him vij dayes: and yf he go into the Sanctuary agayne to do seruyce, he shal bringe a syn offringe saieth the LORDE God. They shall haue an heretage,⁽⁸⁾ yee I my self wilbe their heretage: els shall ye geue thē no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. The meat offringe, syn offringe & trespace offringe shal they eate, and euery dedicate thinge in Israel, shalbe theirs. The firstlinges of all the first frutes, and all fre will offringes shal be the prestes.

Ye shall geue vnto the prest also the firstlinges of youre dowe, that God maye prospere the resydue.⁽⁹⁾ But no deed carion shall the prest eate, ner soch as is deuoured of wilde beestes, foules or catell.

Notes to Chapter 44

⁽¹⁾ Exo 40. ⟨illegible⟩ 24. d Nu. 9. c 3. Reg. 8. b 2. Par. 7. ⟨illegible⟩

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⁽³⁾ Eze. 43. d 48. b

⁽⁴⁾ Leui. 19. f 21. a

⁽⁵⁾ Leui. 10. c ⟨illegible⟩1. b Ose. 1. a 3. a

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Chapter 45

WHen ye deuyde the lōde by the lott,[A] ye shal put asyde one parte for the LORDE, ⁽¹⁾ to be holy from other londes: namely, xxv M meteroddes longe, and x M brode. This shalbe holy, as wyde as it is rounde aboute. Of this parte there shalbe longe vnto the Sanctuary v C meteroddes in all the foure corners, and l cubites wyde rounde aboute to the suburbes. And from this meausre, namely of xxv M metteroddes longe, and x M brode, thou shalt measure, wherin the Sanctuary and the holiest of all maye stonde.

The resydue of that holy grounde shall be the prestes, which do seruyce in the Sanctuary of the LORDE, and go in before the LORDE to serue him, that they maye haue rowme to dwell in.

As for the Sanctuary, it shal stonde for it self: and to the Leuites the serue in that house, there shalbe geuen xx habitacions, of the xxv M lēgth & x M bredth: ye shal geue also vnto the cite a possessiō of v M meteroddes brode, & xxv M longe, besyde the parte of yᵉ Sanctuary: that shal be for the whole house of Israel.⁽²⁾ Vpon both the sydes of the Sanctuarys parte, & by the cite, there shalbe geuen vnto the prynce, what so euer lyeth ouer agaynst the cite, as farre as reacheth westwarde and eastwarde: which shalbe as longe as one parte, frō yᵉ west vnto yᵉ east.

This shalbe his owne lōde in Israel, that my princes be nomore chargeable vnto my people. And soch as remayneth yet ouer in the londe, shalbe geuen to the house of Israel [B] acordinge to their trybes. Thus saieth the LORDE God: O ye princes, ye haue now oppressed and destroyed ynough: now leaue of, handle now acordinge to the thinge, that is equall and laufull: and thrust out my people nomore, sayeth yᵉ LORDE God. Ye shal haue a true weight, a true Epha, & a true Bat.

⁽³⁾The Epha & the Bat shalbe a like. One Bat shal cōteyne yᵉ tēth parte of an Homer, and so shal one Epha do: their measure shal be after yᵉ Homer. One Sycle maketh xx. Geras.⁽⁴⁾ So xx. Sycles, and xxv. & xv. Sycles make a pounde. This is the Heaue offrynge, that ye shal geue to be heaued: namely, the xvj. parte of an Epha, out of an Homer of wheat: and the xvj. parte of an Epha, out of an Homer of barlie. The oyle shal be measured with the Bat: euen the x. parte of one Bat out of a Cor.

Ten Battes make one Homer: for one Homer maketh ten Battes. And one lābe from two hundreth shepe out of the pasture of Israel, for a meat offrynge, burnt offrynge and health offrynge, to recōcile them, sayeth the LORDE God. All the people of the londe shal geue this heaue offrynge with a frewil. Agayne, it shal be the prynces parte to offre burnt offrynges, meat offrynges and drynk offrynges vnto the LORDE, in the holy dayes, new Moones, Sabbathes, and in all the hye feastes of the house of Israel. The syn offrynge, meat offerynge, brent offerynge & health offringe shal he geue, to recōcile [C] the house of Israel. Thus sayeth yᵉ LORDE God: The first daye of the first moneth thou shalt take a yōge bullocke without blemysh, and clense the Sanctuary.

So the prest shal take of the bloude of yᵉ syn offrynge, and sprenkle it vpon the postes of the house, and vpon the foure corners of the aulter, with the dore postes of the ynnermer courte. And thus shalt thou do also the seuenth daye of yᵉ moneth (for soch as haue synned of ignoraunce, or beynge disceaued) to reconcile the house withall. Vpon yᵉ xiiij. daye of the first moneth ye shal kepe Easter. Seuē dayes shal the feast contynue,⁽⁵⁾ wherin there shal no sower ner leuēded bred be eatē.

Vpon the same daye shal yᵉ prynce geue for himself and all the people of the londe, a bullocke for a syn offringe. And in the feast of the seuen dayes he shal offre euery daye a bullocke & a ram, that are with out blemysh, for a burnt offrynge vnto the LORDE: & an he gaote daylie for a syn offrynge. For the meat offrynges he shall geue euer an Epha to a bullocke, an Epha to a ram, & an Hin of oyle to an Epha. Vpon yᵉ xv. daye of the seuenth moneth, he shal kepe the seuen dayes holy one after another, euē as the other vij. dayes: with the syn offrynge, burnt offringe, meat offrynge, and with the oyle.

Notes to Chapter 45

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Chapter 46

THus sayeth the LORDE God: yᵉ dore [A] of the ynnermer courte towarde the east, shall be shut the vj. worke dayes: but in the Sabbath and in the daye of the new Moone, it shalbe opened. Then shal the prynce come vnder the dore porche, & stonde still without by the dore cheke. So yᵉ prestes shall offre vp his burnt & health-offrynges. And he shal worshipe at the dore poste, and go his waye forth agayne: but yᵉ dore shal nomore be shut till the euenynge.

On the same maner shal the people of the londe also do their worshipe before the LORDE, without this dore vpon the Sabbathes and new Moones. This is now the burnt-offrynge, that the prynce shall bringe vnto the LORDE vpon the Sabbath: sixe lambes without blemysh, & a ram without blemysh, and an Epha for a meat offringe, with yᵉ ram. As for the lambes, he maye geue as many meat offrynges to them, as he wil, & an Hin of oyle to an Epha. In the daye of the new moneth, it shalbe a yonge bullocke with out blemysh, sixe lambes & a ram also without blemysh. With the bullocke he shal geue an Epha, and with the ram an Epha also for a meatofferinge: but to yᵉ lambes, what he maye come by: And euer an Hin of oyle to an Epha. When the prynce cōmeth, he shall [B] go vnder the dore porche, and euen there departe forth agayne. But when the people of the londe come before the LORDE in the hye solempne feast, as many as come in by the north dore to do worshipe, shal go out agayne at the south dore. And they that come in at the south dore, shal go forth agayne at yᵉ north dore. There shal none go out at the dore where he came in, but shal go forth right ouer on the other syde, and the prynce shall go in and out amonge them.

Vpon the solempne and hie feaste dayes, this shalbe the meatofferynge: An Epha to a bullock, and an Epha to a ram: and to the lambes, as many as he wil, but euer an Hin of oyle to an Epha. Now when the prynce bryngeth a burntofferynge or an health offerynge with a fre wil vnto the LORDE, the east dore shalbe opened vnto him, yᵗ he maye do with his burnt & healthofferynges, [C] as he doth vpō the Sabbath: and when he goeth forth, the dore shal be shut after him agayne. He shal daylie brynge vnto the LORDE a lambe of a yeare olde without blem⟨illegible⟩sh for a burntofferynge: this shall he do euery mornynge. And for a meatofferynge he shal geue the sixte parte of an Epha, & the thirde parte of an Hin of oyle (to myngle with the cakes) euery mornynge. Yee this shalbe a daylie meatofferinge vnto the LORDE, for an euerlastinge ordinaunce: & thus shal the lambe, the meatofferynge and oyle be geuen euery mornynge, for a dailie burntofferinge.

Morouer, thus sayeth the LORDE God: Yf the prynce geue a gifte vnto eny of his sonnes, then shall it be his sonnes heretage perpetuall, yᵗ he maye possesse it. But yf he wil geue one of his seruauntes some of his heretage,⁽¹⁾ it shall be his to the fre yeare, and thē to returne agayne vnto yᵉ prynce: for his heretage shalbe his sonnes only.⁽²⁾ The prynce also shal take none of the peoples enheritaunce, ner put thē from their possession: but to his owne sonnes shal he geue his possession, that my people be not scatred abrode, but that euery man maye haue his owne.

[D] And he brought me thorow the intraunce at the syde of the dore to yᵉ habitacion of the Sanctuary, that belongeth to yᵉ prestes and stode towarde the north, & beholde, there was a place vpon the west syde, then sayde he vnto me: This is the place, where the prestes shall dight the trespace and synofferynges, & bake yᵉ meatofferynges: that they nede not beare thē in to the outwarde courte, and so to vnhalowe the people. So he brought me in to the vttemost courte, rounde aboute all the foure corners. Beholde, in euery corner of yᵉ fore courte, there was yet a litle courte. Yee in all the foure corners of the courte, there was made a litle courte of xl. cubites longe, and xxx. cubites brode: these foure litle courtes were of one like measure, & there went a rygge wall rounde aboute them all foure, vnder the which there were harthes made rounde aboute. Then sayde he vnto me: This is the kechin, where the ministers of the house shal dight the slayne offerynges of the people.

Notes to Chapter 46

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Chapter 47

AFter this he brought me agayne before [A] the dore of the house: & beholde, there guszshed out waters from vnder yᵉ postes of the house eastwarde (for the house stode towarde the east) that ranne downe vpō the right syde of the house, which lyeth to the aulter south warde. Thē caried he me out to the north dore, and brought me forth there rounde aboute by the vttemost dore, yᵗ turneth eastwarde. Beholde,⁽¹⁾ there came forth the water vpon the right syde. Now whan the man yᵗ had the meterodde in his honde wente out vnto the east dore, he measured a M. cubites, & thē he brought me thorow yᵉ water, euē to the ancles: so he measured yet a thousande, & brought me thorow yᵉ water agayne vnto the knees: yet measured he a thousande, and brought me thorow the water vnto the loynes. After this he measured a thousande agayne, then was it soch a ryuer, yᵗ I might not wade thorow it: The water was so depe, that it was nedefull to haue swymmed, for it might not be waded ouer. And he sayde vnto me: hast thou sene this, o thou sonne of man? and with that, he brought me to the ryuer banck agayne.

Now when I came there, there stode many trees vpon ether syde of the ryuer bācke. Then sayde he vnto me: This water that floweth out towarde the east, and runneth downe in to the playne felde, commeth into the see: and from the see it runneth out, & maketh the waters whole. Yee all that liue and moue, where vnto this ryuer commeth, shal recouer. And where this water cōmeth, there shalbe many fysh. For all that commeth to this water, shall be lusty and whole. By this riuer shal the fyszshers stonde from Engaddi vnto En Eglaim, & there sprede out their nettes: for there shalbe greate heapes of fysh, like as in the mayne see. As for his claye and pyttes, they shal not be whole, for why, it shalbe occupide for salt.

By this ryuer vpon both the sydes of the [C] shore, there shall growe all maner of frutefull trees, whose leaues shall not fall of, nether shal their frute perish:⁽²⁾ but euer be rype at their monethes, for their water runneth out of the Sanctuary. His frute is good to eate, and his leaf profitable for medycine. Thus sayeth the LORDE God: Let this be the border, wherin ye shall deuyde the londe vnto the xij. trybes of Israel, with the lyne. Parte it indifferently vnto one as vnto another:⁽³⁾ of the which lōde I swore vnto youre fathers, that it shulde fall to youre enheritaunce.

This is the border of the londe vpon the northsyde, from the mayne see, as men go to Zadada: namely, Hemath, Berotha, Sabarim: from the borders of Damascus and Hemath vnto Hazar Tichon, that lieth vpon the coastes of Hauerā. Thus the borders frō the see forth, shalbe Hazar Euan, the border of Damascus the north, and the borders of Hemath: that is the north parte.

The east syde shal ye measure from Haueran and Damascus, from Galead and the londe of Israel by Iordane and so forth, from the see coast, that lieth eastwarde: and this is the east parte.

The south syde is, from Thamar forth to the waters of strife vnto Cades,⁽⁴⁾ the ryuer, to the mayne see: and that is the south parte.

[D] The west parte: namely the greate see from the borders therof, till a man come vnto Hemath: this is the west parte.

This londe shal ye parte amonge you, acordinge to the trybes of Israel, and deuyde it to be an heretage for you, and for the straūgers that dwel amōge you, and begette children.

⁽⁵⁾For ye shal take them amonge the childrē of Israell, like as though they were of youre owne housholde and countre, and they shal haue heretage with you amonge the childrē of Israel.

Loke in what trybe the straunger dwelleth, in the same trybe shal ye geue him his heretage, saieth the LORDE God.

Notes to Chapter 47

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Chapter 48

[A] THese are yᵉ names of the trybes that lye vpon the northsyde, by the waye of Hetlon, tyll thou commest vnto Hemath and Hazar Enam, the borders of Damascus towarde the north besyde Hemath: Dan shal haue his porciō from the east quarter vnto the west. Vpon the borders of Dan from the east syde vnto the west, shal Asser haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Asser frō the east parte vnto the west, shal Nephtali haue his porcion.

Vpon the borders of Nephtali from the east quarter vnto the west, shal Manasses haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Manasses from the east syde vnto the west, shal Ephraim haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Ephraim from the east parte vnto the west, shal Ruben haue his porcion. Vpō the borders of Ruben from the east quarter vnto the west, shal Iuda haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Iuda from the east parte vnto the west, ye shal set a syde one porciō of xxv.M. meteroddes longe and brode (like as another porcion from the east syde vnto the west,) wherin the Sanctuary shal stōde.

As for the porcion, that ye shal separate [B] out for the LORDE, it shalbe xxv.M. longe,⁽¹⁾ and x.M. brode. Which separated holy porcion shal belonge vnto these: namely to the prestes, towarde the north xxv.M. & towarde the west x.M. brode, towarde the east x.M. brode also, & towarde the south xxv.M. longe, wherin the Sanctuary of the LORDE shal stonde. Yee this same place shal be the prestes, yᵗ are of the childrē of Sadoch,⁽²⁾ & haue kepte my holy ordinaunce: which wente not astraye in the erroure of the children of Israel, like as the Leuites are gone astraye: and this separated pece that they haue of the londe, shalbe the most holy, harde vpon the borders of the Leuites. And nexte vnto the prestes, shal the Leuites haue xxv.M. lōge and x.M. brode. This shalbe on euery syde xxv.M. longe, and x.M. brode. Of this porciō they shal sell nothinge, ner make eny permutacion therof, lest the chefe of the londe fall vnto other, for it is halowed vnto the LORDE.

The other v.M. after the bredth, yᵗ lyeth [C] by the xxv.M, shalbe comon: it shal belonge to the cite and to the suburbes for habitacions, and yᵉ cite shal stonde in the myddest therof. Let this be the measure: towarde yᵉ north parte, v.C. & iiij.M: towarde the south parte, v.C. & iiij.M: towarde the east parte, v.C. and iiij.M: towarde yᵉ west parte, v.C. and iiij.M.

The suburbes harde vpon the cite, shall haue towarde the north, L. and ij.C: towarde the south, L. and two C: towarde the east, L. and two C: towarde the west also, L. and two C. As for the residue of the length, that lyeth hard vpon the separated holy grounde: namely, x.M. towarde the east and x.M. towarde the west, next vnto the holy porciō: it and the increase therof shal serue for their meate, that laboure in the cite. They that laboure for the welth of the cite, shall manteine this also, out of what tribe so euer they be in Israel.

All that is separated of the xxv.M. longe and xxv.M. brode on the foure partes, yᵗ shall ye put a syde for the separated porcion of the Sanctuary, & for the possession of yᵉ cite. The resydue vpon both the sydes of the [D] Sanctuary and possession of the cite,⁽³⁾ shall belonge to the prynce, before the place of yᵉ xxv.M. vnto the east ende, & before the place of yᵉ xxv.M. westwarde, vnto the borders of yᵉ cite: this shalbe yᵉ prynces porciō. This shalbe the holy place, and the house of the Sanctuary shal stonde in the myddest. Morouer, from the Leuites and the cities possession, yᵗ lye in the myddest of the prynces parte: loke what remayneth betwixte the border of Iuda & the border of Ben Iamin, it shal be the prynces.

Now of the other trybes.

Frō the east parte vnto the west, shal Ben Iamin haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Ben Iamin frō the east syde vnto yᵉ west, shal Symeon haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Symeō from the east parte vnto the west, shal Isachar haue his porcion. Vpō the borders of Isachar from the east syde vnto the west, shal Sabulon haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Sabulon from the east parte vnto the west, shal Gad haue his porcion. Vpon the borders of Gad southwarde, the coastes shal reach frō Thamar forth vnto the waters of strife to Cades, and to the [E] floude, euen vnto the mayne see.

⁽⁴⁾This is yᵉ lōde wᵗ his porciōs, which ye shal distribute vnto the trybes of Israel, saieth yᵉ LORDE God. Thus wyde shal the cite reach: vpon the north parte v C and iiij M measures. The portes of the cite, shal haue the names of the trybes of Israel. Thre portes of yᵉ northsyde: One Ruben, another Iuda, the thirde Leui.

Vpō yᵉ east syde, v C & iiij M measures, wᵗ yᵉ thre portes: The one Ioseph, another Bē Iamin, the thirde Dan. Vpon the south syde v C and iiij M measures, with the thre portes: the one Symeon, another Isachar, the thirde Sabulon. And vpon the west syde v C and iiij M measures, with thre portes also: the one Gad, another Asser, the thirde Nephtali. Thus shal it haue xviij M measures roūde aboute. And from that tyme forth, yᵉ name of the cite shal be: the LORDE is there.

Notes to Chapter 48

⁽¹⁾ Eze. 45.

⁽²⁾ Eze. 43. and 44.

⁽³⁾ Eze. 45. a

⁽⁴⁾ ⟨illegible⟩ume. 32 ⟨illegible⟩s. 13.14.

The ende of the Prophet Ezechiel.

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