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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden, hee hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemne feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the King and the Priest.

The Lord hath cast off his Altar: hee hath abhorred his Sanctuarie: he hath giuen vp into the hand of the enemie the walles of her palaces: they haue made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemne Feast.

The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawen his hand from destroying: therefore hee made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languished together.

The Lord hath done that which he had deuised: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the dayes of old: hee hath throwen downe and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemie to reioyce ouer thee, hee hath set vp the horne of thine aduersaries.

I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.

Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.

It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.

He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch.

But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,

To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not.

Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes?

The tongue of the sucking child cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the young children aske bread, and no man breaketh it vnto them.

The Lord hath accomplished his furie, he hath powred out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath deuoured the foundations thereof.

The breath of our nostrels, the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadowe we shall liue among the heathen.

Now as I behelde the liuing creatures: behold one wheele vpon the earth by the liuing creatures, with his foure faces.