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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices vnto me, sayth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of rammes, and the fat of fedde beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullockes, or of lambes, or of hee goates.

1611 marginal noteHeb. great hee goats.

1611 marginal noteProu. 15.8 and 21.7. chap. 66.3. iere. 6.20. amos 5.21.

What meane yee that yee beat my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the LORD God of hosts?

What could haue beene done more to my Uineyard, that I haue not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, brought it foorth wilde grapes?

And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Uineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp; and breake downe the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for a treading.

And what wil ye doe in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from farre? To whom wil ye flee for helpe? And where will yee leaue your glory?

What shall one then answere the messengers of the nation? that the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poore of his people shall trust in it.

1611 marginal noteOr, betake themselues vnto it.

1611 marginal notePsal. 87.1, 5. and 102.17.

Where are they? Where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know, what the LORD of hosts hath purposed vpon Egypt.

For thus hath the LORD sayd vnto me; Goe, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

¶ The burden of Dumah. Hee calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¶ The burden of the valley of vision. What ayleth thee now, that thou art wholly gone vp to the house toppes?