slaughter

And behold, sixe men came from the way of the higher gate, which lyeth toward the North, and euery man a slaughter weapon in his hand: and one man among them was clothed with linnen, with a writers inkehorne by his side, and they went in and stood beside the brasen altar.

1611 marginal noteHeb. which is turned.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a weapon of his breaking in pieces.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vpon his loines.

It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is fourbished, that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? It contemneth the rod of my sonne, as euery tree.

1611 marginal noteOr, it is the rod of my sonne, it despiseth euery tree.

I haue set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruines be multiplied. Ah, it is made bright, it is wrapt vp for the slaughter.

1611 marginal noteOr, glittering, or feare.

1611 marginal noteOr, sharpened.

At his right hand was the diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift vp the voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rammes against the gates, to cast a mount and to build a fort.

1611 marginal noteOr, battering rams.

1611 marginal noteHeb. rams.

¶ And thou sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the LORD God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproch: Euen say thou; The sword, the sword is drawen, for the slaughter it is fourbished, to consume because of the glittering:

¶ Thus saith the LORD God to Tyrus; Shall not the Iles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded crie, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

And the reuolters are profound to make slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.

1611 marginal noteOr, and, &c.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a correction.

And thy mightie men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that euery one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

Thus saith the LORD my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;

And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, euen you, O poore of the flock: and I tooke vnto me two staues; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the flocke.

1611 marginal noteOr, verily the poore.

1611 marginal noteOr, binders.