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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices vnto me, sayth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of rammes, and the fat of fedde beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullockes, or of lambes, or of hee goates.

1611 marginal noteHeb. great hee goats.

1611 marginal noteProu. 15.8 and 21.7. chap. 66.3. iere. 6.20. amos 5.21.

Aske thee a signe of the LORD thy God; aske it either in the depth, or in the height aboue.

1611 marginal noteOr, make thy petition deepe.

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth egges that are left, haue I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moued the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? Or shal the sawe magnifie it selfe against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake it selfe against them that lift it vp, or as if the staffe should lift vp it selfe, as if it were no wood.

1611 marginal noteOr, as if a rod should shake them that lift it vp.

1611 marginal noteOr, that which is not wood.

(Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an Oliue tree, two or three berries in the toppe of the vppermost bough: foure or fiue in the out-most fruitfull branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

And hee shall not looke to the altars, the worke of his handes, neither shall respect that which his fingers haue made, either the groues or the images.)

1611 marginal noteOr, Sunne-images.

Neither shall there be any worke for Egypt, which the head or taile, branch or rush may doe.

Or let him take holde of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.

¶ Hath hee smitten him, as hee smote those that smote him? or is hee slaine according to the slaughter of them that are slaine by him?

1611 marginal noteHeb. according to the stroke of those.

It shall euen be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soule is emptie: or as when a thirstie man dreameth, and behold he drinketh; but hee awaketh, and behold he is faint, and his soule hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations bee, that fight against mount Zion.