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Ephraim, as I sawe, is as a tree in Tyrus planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shal bring forth his children to the murtherer.

And Ephraim is as an heifer vsed to delite in threshing: but I will passe by her faire necke: I will make Ephraim to ride: Iudah shall plowe, and Iaakob shall breake his cloddes.

But you haue plowed wickednesse: ye haue reaped iniquitie: you haue eaten the fruite of lies: because thou didest trust in thine owne waies, and in the multitude of thy strong men,

They called them, but they went thus from them: they sacrificed vnto Baalim, and burnt incense to images.

I ledde Ephraim also, as one shoulde beare them in his armes: but they knewe not that I healed them.

He shall no more returne into the lande of Egypt: but Asshur shalbe his King, because they refused to conuert.

Ephraim copasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Iudah yet ruleth with God, and is faithfull with the Saints.

But Ephraim prouoked him with hie places: therefore shal his blood be powred vpon him, and his reproche shall his Lord reward him.

When Ephraim spake, there was trembling: hee exalted him selfe in Israel, but he hath sinned in Baal, and is dead.

Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt knowe no God but me: for there is no Sauiour beside me.

O Israel, one hath destroyed thee, but in me is thine helpe.

Who is wise, and he shall vnderstande these things? and prudent, and he shall knowe them? for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, and the iust shall walke in them: but the wicked shal fall therein.

Neither shal one thrust another, but euery one shall walke in his path: and when they fall vpon the sword, they shal not be wounded.

But I will remooue farre off from you the Northren armie, & I will driue him into a land, barren & desolate with his face toward the East sea, and his end to the vtmost sea, and his stinke shal come vp, and his corruption shal ascend, because he hath exalted himselfe to do this.

Feare not, O land, but be glad, and reioyce: for the Lord wil do great things.

But whosoeuer shal call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued: for in mount Zion, and in Ierusale shalbe deliuerance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant, whom the Lord shal call.

The Lord also shall roare out of Zion, and vtter his voyce from Ierusalem, and the heauens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord wil be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

But Iudah shall dwell for euer, and Ierusalem from generation to generation.

But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commanded the Prophetes, saying, Prophecie not.

Surely the Lord God will doe nothing, but he reueileth his secrete vnto his seruantes the Prophets.