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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they haue threshed Gilead, with threshing instruments of yron.

1611 marginal noteOr, he for foure.

1611 marginal noteOr, conuert it, or let it be quiet. And so ver. 6. &c.

¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Gaza, and for foure I will not turne away the punishment thereof: because they caried away captiue the whole captiuitie, to deliuer them vp to Edom.

1611 marginal noteOr, caried them away with an entire captiuitie.

1611 marginal note2.Chro. 28.18.

But I wil send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they deliuered vp the whole captiuitie to Edom, and remembred not the brotherly couenant.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the couenant of brethren.

But I wil send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Edom, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof, because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pitie, and his anger did teare perpetually, and kept his wrath for euer.

1611 marginal noteHeb. corrupted his compassions.

¶ Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue ript vp the women with childe of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

1611 marginal noteOr, diuided the mountaines.

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with showting in the day of battell, with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde.

¶ Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Moab, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because hee burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime.

1611 marginal note2.Kings.3.27.

And I will cut off the iudge from the middest thereof, and wil slay all the princes thereof with him, sayeth the LORD.