slain

Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.

They that bee slaine with the sword, are better then they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

1611 marginal noteHeb. flow out.

And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.

1611 marginal noteOr, sunne images, and so vers. 6.

And the slaine shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall knowe that I am the LORD.

Then shal ye know that I am the LORD, when their slaine men shalbe among their idoles round about their altars, vpon euery high hill in all the tops of the mountaines, and vnder euery greene tree, and vnder euery thicke oke, the place where they did offer sweet sauour to all their idoles.

And hee sayd vnto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slaine, goe ye forth: and they went forth and slew in the citie.

Ye haue multiplyed your slaine in this citie, and yee haue filled the streetes thereof with the slaine.

Therefore thus sayth the LORD God; Your slaine whom ye haue laid in the middest of it, they are the flesh, and this citie is the cauldron: but I wil bring you foorth out of the middest of it.

That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through the fire for them?

Thou therefore sonne of man, prophecie and smite thine hands together, and let the sword bee doubled the third time, the sword of the slaine, it is the sword of the great men, that are slaine, which entreth into their priuie chambers.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hand to hand.