Chapter 2

The Chaldees will assault and afflict the Jews with great violence. ℣.12 After humble repentance in captivity, ℣.18 God's benignity will comfort them. ℣.13 with aboundance of spiritual grace by Christ: ℣.28 sending also the Holy, Ghost. ℣.30 And terrible signs before the day of Judgement.

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   Sound ye with the trumpet in Sion, howl in my holy mount, let all the inhabitants of the land be troubled: Because the day of our Lord cometh,

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   because the day of darkness, and of mist is near, the day of cloud, & whirlwind: as the morning spread upon the mountains much people & strong: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, and after it shall not be even unto the years of generation & generation.

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   Before the face thereof a devouring fire, & after it a burning flame: the land before it as it were a garden of pleasure, and after it the wilderness of a desert, neither is there that can escape it.

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   As the appearance of horses, their appearance, & as horsemen so shall they run.

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   As the sound of chariots upon the top of mountains shall they leap, as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle.

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   At his presence the people shall be vexed: all visages shall be made like a pot.

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   They shall run as valiants: as men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march in their ways, & shall not decline from their paths.

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   None shall press his brother: they shall walk every one in their own path: yea & through the windows they shall fall, & shall not demolish.

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   They shall enter the city: they shall run on the wall, they shall climb the houses, by the windows they shall enter as a thief.

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    At his presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.

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    And our Lord hath given his voice before the face of his host: because his camps are exceeding many, because strong & doing his word: for great is the day of our Lord, and terrible exceedingly: & who shall sustain it?

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    Now therefore saith our Lord: Convert to me in all your heart, in fasting, & in weeping, and in mourning.

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    And rent your hearts, and not your garments, & turn to the Lord your God: because he is benign & merciful, patient and of much mercy, & ready to be gracious upon the malice.

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    Who knoweth if he will convert, & forgive, and leave after him benediction, sacrifice, and libament to the Lord your God?

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    Sound ye with the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly,

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    gather together the people, sanctify the Church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, & them that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth to his chamber, & the bride out of her bride-chamber.

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    Between the porch & the altar the priests our Lord's ministers shall weep, & shall say: Spare o Lord, spare thy people: and give not thine inheritance into reproach, that the nations have dominion over them. Why say they in the peoples: Where is their God?

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    Our Lord hath been zealous to his land, & hath spared his people.

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    And our Lord answered, and said to this people: Behold I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be replenished with them: & I will give you no more to be a reproach in the Gentiles.

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    And him that is from the North, I will make far from you: & I will expel him into a land unpassable, & desert, his face against the east sea, & his extreme part to the last sea: & his stink shall ascend, & his rottenness shall ascend, because he hath done proudly.

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    Fear not o land, rejoice & be glad: because our Lord hath magnified to do.

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    Fear not ye beasts of the region: because the beautiful things of the desert are sprung, because the tree hath brought his fruit, the fig-tree, & the vine have given their vigour.

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    And ye children of Sion rejoice, & be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a Doctor of justice, & he will make the early and the late shower to descend to you as in the beginning.

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    And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.

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    And I will render you the years, which the locust, the bruke, and the blast, and the eruke hath eaten: my great strength which I have sent upon you.

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    And you shall eat eating, and shall be filled: and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath done marvels with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever.

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    And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: & I, the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be confounded for ever.

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    And it shall be after this: I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons, and your daughters shall prophesy: your ancients shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

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    Yea and upon my servants and handmaids in those days I will pour out my spirit.

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    And I will give wonders in heaven, and in earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

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    The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and horrible day of the Lord doth come.

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    And it shall be, every one that shall invocate the name of the Lord, shall be saved: because in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as our Lord hath said, and in the residue whom our Lord shall call.