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¶ For loe, I will raise and cause to come vp against Babylon, an assembly of great nations from the North countrey, and they shall set themselues in aray against her, from thence shee shalbe taken: their arrowes shalbe as of a mightie expert man: none shall returne in vaine.

1611 marginal noteOr, destroyer.

Put your selues in aray against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her; spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD,

Make bright the arrowes: gather the shields: the LORD hath raised vp the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his deuice is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

1611 marginal noteHeb. pure.

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

1611 marginal noteHeb. sons.

When I shall send vpon them the euill arrowes of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I wil increase the famine vpon you, and will breake your staffe of bread.

1611 marginal noteLeuit.26.26. chap.4.16. and 14.13.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination: he made his arrowes bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liuer.

1611 marginal noteHeb. mother of the way.

1611 marginal noteOr, kniues.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Teraphim.

And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.

And they that dwell in the cities of Israel, shall goe forth, and shall set on fire, and burne the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bowes and the arrowes, and the handstaues and the speares, and they shall burne them with fire seuen yeeres.

1611 marginal noteOr, iauelins.

1611 marginal noteOr, make a fire of them.

The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the shining of thy glittering speare.

1611 marginal noteOr, thine arrowes walked in the light, &c.

1611 marginal noteIosh.10.12.

1611 marginal noteIosh.10.11.