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There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the middest thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the treasure and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the midst thereof.

1611 marginal noteMatth. 23 14.

Her priests haue violated my law, and haue prophaned mine holy things: they haue put no difference betweene the holy and prophane, neither haue they shewed difference between the vncleane and the cleane, and haue hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am prophaned among them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. offered violence to.

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolues rauening the praye, to shed blood, and to destroy soules, to get dishonest gaine.

1611 marginal noteMic.3.11 zeph. 3.3.

And her prophets haue dawbed them with vntempered morter, seeing vanity, and diuining lies vnto them, saying, Thus saith the LORD God, when the LORD hath not spoken.

And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, & they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names: Samaria is Aholah, and Ierusalem Aholibah.

And Aholah played the harlot, when she was mine, & she doted on her louers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

Thus she committed her whordomes with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, with all their idoles she defiled her selfe.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bestowed her whoredomes vpon them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the choise of the children of Asshur.

Neither left she her whoredomes brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and powred their whoredome vpon her.

Wherefore I haue deliuered her into the hand of her louers, into the hand of the Assyrians, vpon whom she doted.

1611 marginal note2.Kings 17.18.

These discouered her nakednes, they tooke her sonnes and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women, for they had executed iudgement vpon her.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a name.