because

¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselues in the children of strangers.

1611 marginal noteOr, more then the East.

1611 marginal noteOr, abound with the children. &c

For Ierusalem is ruined, & Iudah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to prouoke the eyes of his glorie.

¶ Moreouer the LORD saith; Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feet:

1611 marginal noteHebr. deceiuing with their eyes.

1611 marginal noteOr, tripping nicely.

¶ Therefore my people are gone into captiuitie, because they haue no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, aud their multitude dried vp with thirst.

1611 marginal noteHeb. their glory are men of famine.

Therfore as the fire deuoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaffe, so their root shall be rottennes, and their blossome shall goe vp as dust: because they haue cast away the Lawe of the LORD of hosts, and despised the worde of the Holy One of Israel.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the tongue of fire.

¶ Then sayd I; woe is me; for I am vndone, because I am a man of vncleane lippes, and I dwell in the midst of a people of vncleane lippes: for mine eyes haue seene the king, the LORD of hostes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off.

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the sonne of Remaliah haue taken euill counsell against thee, saying;

With arrowes and with bowes shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briars and thornes.

To the Law and to the Testimonie: if they speake not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. no morning.

1611 marginal noteHeb.2.13.

And it shall come to passe in that day, that his burden shalbe taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy necke, and the yoke shalbe destroyed because of the anointing.

1611 marginal noteHebr. shall remoue.