words

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my seruants the Prophets, did they not take holde of your fathers? and they returned and saide; Like as the LORD of hostes thought to doe vnto vs, according to our wayes, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with vs.

1611 marginal noteOr, ouertake.

1611 marginal noteLam.1.18.

And the LORD answered the Angel that talked with me, with good words, and comfortable words.

Should yee not heare the wordes, which the LORD hath cried by the former Prophets, when Ierusalem was inhabited, and in prosperitie, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the South of the plaine?

1611 marginal noteOr, are not these the wordes.

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Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should heare the Law, and the wordes which the LORD of hostes hath sent in his spirit by the former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hostes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. by the hand of &c.

¶ Thus saith the LORD of hostes, Let your handes be strong, ye that heare in these dayes, these wordes by the mouth of the Prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laied, that the Temple might be built.

¶ Ye haue wearied the LORD with your words: yet ye say, Wherein haue we wearied him? when ye say, Euery one that doeth euill, is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them, or where is the God of iudgement?

¶ Your words haue bin stout against me, saith the LORD, yet ye say, What haue we spoken so much against thee?

1611 marginal noteIob.1.14

And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare your words: when yee depart out of that house, or city, shake off the dust of your feete.

1611 marginal noteMar. 6.11.

1611 marginal noteActs 13.51.

For by thy wordes thou shalt bee iustified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

When they had heard these wordes, they marueiled, and left him, and went their way.