Chapter 3

Jerusalem for rejecting God's admonitions shall be destroyed, ℣.7 Christ being risen from death, the Jews persecuting the faithful shall be rejected, miserably destroyed, ℣.9 and the Gentiles called. ℣.11 So his Church shall flourish: ℣.13 and at last the Jews shall be converted.

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   Woe to thee thou provoking, and redeemed city, the dove. voice, and she hath not received

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   She hath not heard the discipline: she hath not trusted in our Lord, to her God she hath not approached.

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   Her princes in the midst of her as lions roaring: her judges, wolves in the evening, left nothing for the morning.

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   Her prophets mad, men unfaithful: her priests have polluted the holy, they have done unjustly against the law.

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   Our just Lord in the midst thereof will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will give his judgement into light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known the confusion.

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   I have destroyed the Gentiles, & their corners are dissipated: I have made their ways desert, whiles there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, not a man remaining, nor any inhabiter.

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   I said: Nevertheless thou shalt fear me, thou shalt receive discipline: and her habitation shall not perish for all things, wherein I have visited her: but yet rising early they corrupted all their cogitations.

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   Wherefore expect me, saith our Lord, in the day of my resurrection till hereafter, because my judgement to assemble the Gentiles, and to gather kingdoms: & to pour upon them mine indignation, all the wrath of my fury: for in the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.

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   Because then will I restore to the peoples, a chosen lip, that all may invocate in the name of the Lord, & may serve him with one shoulder.

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    Beyond the rivers of Æthiopia, thence shall my suppliants the children of my dispersed bring me a gift.

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    In that day thou shalt not be confounded upon all thine inventions, wherein thou hast prevaricated against me: because then will I take away out of the midst of thee the lofty speakers of thy pride, & thou shalt add no more to be exalted in my holy mount.

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    And I will leave in the midst of thee a people poor and needy: & they shall hope in the name of our Lord.

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    The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, neither shall they speak leasing, and deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth: because they shall feed, and shall lie down, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

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    Praise o daughter of Sion: make jubilation Israel: be glad & rejoice in all thy heart o daughter of Jerusalem.

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    Our Lord hath taken away thy judgement, he hath turned away thine enemies: the king of Israel our Lord in the midst of thee, thou shalt fear evil no more.

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    In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion, let not thy hands be dissolved.

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    Our Lord thy God in the midst of thee strong, he will save: he will rejoice upon thee in gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful upon thee in praise.

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    The triflers that were departed from thee, I will gather together, because they were of thee: that thou mayst no more have reproach for them.

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    Behold I will kill all that have afflicted thee at that time: and I will save the halt, & her that was cast out I will gather: and I will make them into praise, and into name, in all the land of their confusion.

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    In that time, when I will bring you: and in the time, that I will gather you: for I will give you into a name, and into praise to all the people of the earth, when I shall convert your captivity before your eyes, saith our Lord.