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¶ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the Cedars, and hee was strong as the okes, yet I destroyed his fruite from aboue, and his rootes from beneath.

1611 marginal noteNum.21.24. deut. 2.31. iosh. 24.8.

Behold, I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is ful of sheaues.

1611 marginal noteOr, I will presse your place as a cart full of sheaues presseth.

Thus saith the LORD, As the shepheard taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges or a piece of an eare; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

1611 marginal noteHeb. deliuereth.

1611 marginal noteOr, on the beds feete.

I haue ouerthrowen some of you, as God ouerthrew Sodome & Gomorrah, and yee were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning: yet haue yee not returned vnto me, saith the LORD.

1611 marginal noteGen.19.24.

Forasmuch therfore as your treading is vpon the poore, and ye take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwell in them: yee haue planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vineyards of desire.

1611 marginal noteZeph.1.13.

Seeke good and not euill, that ye may liue: and so the LORD, the God of hosts shall be with you, as yee haue spoken.

Therefore the LORD, the God of hostes, the LORD saith thus: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the high wayes, Alas, Alas: and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation, to wailing.

As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a beare met him, or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

But let iudgement run downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie streame.

1611 marginal noteHeb. roule.

And the LORD tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the LORD said vnto me, Goe, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from behind.