sin

Then said hee vnto me, Th is is the place where the Priests shall boyle the trespasse offring, and the sinne offering, where they shall bake the meate offering: that they beare them not out into the vtter court, to sanctifie the people.

¶ And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sinne, and the sinne of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God, for the holy Mountaine of my God:

They eate vp the sinne of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquitie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. lift up their soule to their iniquitie.

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, altars shall be vnto him to sinne.

The high places also of Auen, the sinne of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorne and the thistle shall come vp on their altars; and they shall say to the mountaines, Couer vs; and to the hilles, Fall on vs.

1611 marginal noteIsai. 2.19. luc.23.30. reu.6.16. and 9.6.

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I haue found mee out substance: in all my labours they shall finde none iniquitie in mee, that were sinne.

1611 marginal noteOr, all my labours suffice me not: hee shall haue punishment of iniquitie in whom is sinne.

1611 marginal noteHeb. which

And now they sinne more and more, and haue made them molten images of their siluer, and idoles according to their owne vnderstanding, all of it the worke of the craftesmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice, kisse the calues.

1611 marginal noteHebr. they adde to sinne.

1611 marginal noteOr, the sacrificers of men.

The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound vp: his sinne is hid.

They that sweare by the sinne of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liueth, and the manner of Beer-sheba liueth, euen they shall fall, and neuer rise vp againe.

O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the charet to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sinne to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.