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Verse 1

Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:

Verse 2

And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.

Verse 3

Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.

Verse 4

For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.

Verse 5

Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.

Verse 6

For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.

Verse 7

Therefore saith the Lord,

Verse 8

I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just complain continually.

Verse 9

And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.

Verse 10

Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:

Verse 11

But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.

Verse 12

Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.

Verse 13

They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.

Verse 14

Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!

Verse 15

For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.

Verse 16

For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.

Verse 17

A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.

Verse 18

For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.

Verse 19

A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.

Verse 20

Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.

Verse 21

Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;

Verse 22

My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.

Verse 23

The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.

Verse 24

Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.

Verse 25

I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.

Verse 26

For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.

Verse 27

For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.

Verse 28

Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:

Verse 29

Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of them shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they which hear them may fear and tremble.

Verse 30

Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.

Verse 31

And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,

Verse 32

Then these shall be troubled bled, and keep silence through their power, and shall flee.

Verse 33

And from the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and dread, and strife among their kings.

Verse 34

Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.

Verse 35

They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,

Verse 36

And dung of men unto the camel's hough.

Verse 37

And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon earth: and they that see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall come upon them.

Verse 38

And then shall there come great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.

Verse 39

And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall open it; and the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the star stirred to cause fear toward the east and west wind, shall be destroyed.

Verse 40

The great and mighty clouds shall be puffed up full of wrath, and the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent place an horrible star,

Verse 41

Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters.

Verse 42

And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.

Verse 43

And they shall go stedfastly unto Babylon, and make her afraid.

Verse 44

They shall come to her, and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that be about her shall bewail her.

Verse 45

And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear.

Verse 46

And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:

Verse 47

Woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her; and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in thy lovers, which have always desired to commit whoredom with thee.

Verse 48

Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions: therefore saith God,

Verse 49

I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.

Verse 50

And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower, the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.

Verse 51

Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee.

Verse 52

Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,

Verse 53

If thou hadst not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and saying over their dead, when thou wast drunken,

Verse 54

Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?

Verse 55

The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom, therefore shalt thou receive recompence.

Verse 56

Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief

Verse 57

Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.

Verse 58

They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.

Verse 59

Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea, and receive plagues again.

Verse 60

And in the passage they shall rush on the idle city, and shall destroy some portion of thy land, and consume part of thy glory, and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed.

Verse 61

And thou shalt be cast down by them as stubble, and they shall be unto thee as fire;

Verse 62

And shall consume thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.

Verse 63

Thy children shall they carry away captive, and, look, what thou hast, they shall spoil it, and mar the beauty of thy face.

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