lands

Which thou hast commanded by thy seruants the prophets, saying, The land vnto which ye go to possesse it, is an vncleane land, with the filthinesse of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which haue filled it from one end to another, with their vncleannesse.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the hand of thy seruants.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from mouth to mouth.

1611 marginal noteExod. 23.32. deut. 7.3.

Some also there were that saide, We haue morgaged our landes, vineyards and houses, that we might buy corne, because of the dearth.

There were also that said, Wee haue borrowed money for the kings tribute, and that vpon our lands and vineyards.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and loe, wee bring into bondage our sonnes and our daughters, to bee seruants, and some of our daughters are brought vnto bondage already, neither is it in our power to redeeme them: for other men haue our lands and vineyards.

Restore, I pray you, to them, euen this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliue-yards, and their houses, also the hundreth part of the money, and of the corne, the wine, and the oyle, that ye exact of them.

Yet many yeres diddest thou forbeare them, and testifiedst against them by the Spirit in thy Prophets: yet would they not giue eare: therefore gauest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

1611 marginal noteHeb. protract ouer them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. in the hand of thy Prophets.

1611 marginal note2.King. 17.13. 2.Chr. 36.15.

¶ And the rest of the people, the Priests, the Leuites, the Porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselues from the people of the lands, vnto the Law of God, their wiues, their sonnes, and their daughters, euery one hauing knowledge, and hauing vnderstanding.

1611 marginal noteEzr. 2.43.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for euer, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their owne names.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to generation and generation.

¶ Make a ioyfull noise vnto God, all yee lands.

¶ Make a ioyfull noise vnto the LORD, all ye lands.

1611 marginal noteHebr. all the earth.