rule

¶ Behold, a King shal reigne in righteousnes, and princes shal rule in iudgement.

Behold, the LORD God will come with strong hand, and his arme shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his worke before him.

1611 marginal noteOr, against the strong.

1611 marginal noteOr, recompence for his worke.

1611 marginal noteChap.62.11.

Who raised vp the righteous man from the East, called him to his foote, gaue the nations before him, and made him rule ouer kings? Hee gaue them as the dust to his sword, and as driuen stuble to his bow.

1611 marginal noteHeb. righteousnesse.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule: he maketh it out with the line: he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasse, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beautie of a man; that it may remaine in the house.

Now therefore, what haue I here, sayth the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule ouer them, make them to howle, sayth the LORD, and my Name continually euery day is blasphemed.

1611 marginal noteEzek.36.20,23. rom. 2.24.

Wee are thine, thou neuer barest rule ouer them, they were not called by thy Name.

1611 marginal noteHeb. thy name was not called vpon them.

The prophets prophecie falsely, and the priests beare rule by their meanes, and my people loue to haue it so: and what will yee doe in the end therof?

1611 marginal noteOr, take into their hands.

1611 marginal noteChap.14.18. and 23.25.26. eze. 13.6.

And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thicke branches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

¶ As I liue, sayeth the LORD God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arme, and with furie powred out, will I rule ouer you.