It came to pass that an call came ...on the devises of man ...and did ring ...and ring in my ears and wring my heart ...and did in the night season ...ride into my my dreams as a night mare (the green mare) of revelation ...
and a call came in ...for a calling out ...a call to be delivered from the captivity of man ...from the bondage of "in"prisonment ...and deliverance from the mean cities of man ...
for an young man had called an was without help ...of any one ...for he was of little known to us ...save a measure of his heart was known ...by my son ...and he asked if it were possible ...that he might be delivered from jail ...from a prison ...for he had been caught in the city ...unawares of the meanness there ...and we all prayed earnest of heart to God and Christ if any helps be allowed and provided ..and for a "way" made that this one be delivered from darkness ...
and so it was that mine son and i went to get ...this young man out of jail ...and we traveled a long way off ...afar off ...half a days journey ...in swift moving ...hours upon hours ...to the city of evil darkness ...where the young man was held captive ...
and God and Christ provided ...and made use of the time ...for my son and i ...spoke of God and his son ...the whole way and the way ...back ...and was as though a blessing for us... from them ...and time seemed to be lost ...and miles of miles lost as we drove the many and many miles ...as it was ...it seemed in an instant ...hundreds of miles vanished ...and hours ...escaped us in the twinkling of an eye ..as we discerned the wonders and perfect measures of God and Christ ...and they did help us on the way ...
and the more in the hardness of living in the flesh ...God and Christ had provided ...ways and ableness ...for us to travel the great distance ...to that city and to deliver the young man ...
even so much so that we had peacefullness ...even not knowing the way to this evil city ...neither knowing the way around the wicked place ...Yet glory to God and Christ ...we were shown and a way prepared ...as we entered in to the bowels of the beast ...ly place ...and we had comfort and peace and was in all things ...quieted of heart and spirit ...even as was ways made ahead for us ...to find this young man easily ...
and i was astounded ...for once arriving ...in the place ...a habitation of hell ...and squallerous squandering of massive buildings and concrete ...and twisted high ways of man ...yet time ...vanished ...as it seemed ...beneath our feet ...as we got the young man out of jail ...neither was there any soul in the hole place that vexed us ...and i perceived that those of evil intent ...did look the other way ...as we walked among them ...to get the young man out ...for it appeared that none would or was able to look upon us ...
Now it came to pass that we ...having the young man in safe keeping with us ...did then make our way out of the evil city ...yet God and Christ provided ...and showed to us all of the place ...plainly and simply ...the massive oppression ...beyond evil ...structures of evil rule ...so oppressive and proud ...that the roman columns of the place ...massive as they were started even half way up the buildings ...as if to declare before heaven their wicked rule ...
and the place of prisonment ...was to look on ...even as a sepliecurse ...a tomb ...that any in there was thought by the rulers to be allready dead ...and the twisted "high ways" that lead to and away from the heart of the city ...were dark and dirty filthy ...with the "progress" of the place ...and the hole of the place was shown as wicked to me ...and i said ...i don't see any thing worthy to be save in this place of hell ...and the young man that was with us then ...said ...save only a few souls in there that might have worthy hearts ...and so we drove the faster to flee from the hellish hardness of the filthy city of rule ...
and i asked the young man the measure of his ...weariness and how so did it come to pass that he became trapped in this vile place ...and he said he was robbed by thieves ...and choked and thrown down ...and ripped of his money and any other thing of worth in the evil city ...and left ...in an heap on the sidewalk ...
and that he had then called for help of the local police ...and whensoever they came ...they looked hard on him ...and said he should count himself lucky to be alive ...and harder they looked on him and found the he was driving and car ...without permission ...for his permission to drive had been withheld from him ...and so they said ...well ...now you will have to go to jail ...and prisoned ...for offending the rule of the state and this city ...and so it was ...
and so it was ...that after being robbed by thieves laying in wait ...and put upon by them ...and the thieves escaping ...plainly ...and the police yawning ...against even looking to the matter ...that now the police and the evil rule robbed him the more ...for the fines and bail and taking away his car ...and keeping it ...was to add up to many times more ...than even the thieves stole from him ....
and it seemed that ...all the robbing that this young man went through ...that all the thieves were either let to escape ...over looked ...or were justified by the evil justice of man ...nevertheless thieves being thieves ...whether "justified" or over looked ...or not ...
Nevertheless we traveled afar off and the farther from the evil rule of the evil city the better ...as i watched the hellish glow of it fade ...in the rear view mirror ...
and as we went ...i told of a time when of nearly the same had happened to me ...when i was an young man of plain heart ...and i said nevertheless ...even did i have permission to drive ...and had done no unworthy thing ...in that evil city ...yet was found near to ...ones the police had made much money from ...by chasing and capturing them ...charging them ...and releasing them ...too close was i to them ...and counted the same as them ...these "catch and release criminals" (tic)...that the police ...game with all the day and night long ...and the reward for the evil rulers is in the capturing ...then fines and bail and attorneys fees and any other thing they can lay to their charge ...is heaped upon them ...YEEECK ! even credit is given the game fish ...so as to keep the game going ...what evil ...
and so it was that the young man had peace again ...and comfort as we fled the place ...and God and Christ provided ...all this for him ...and even so to buy him food ...and with that fullness the young man took rest and fell fast asleep in the comfort ...all the way ..all "the way" till we came to the place where he asked to be taken ...
and where did he ask to be taken ?? yeeeck ! even a similar place ...of darkness ...like unto the city he was delivered from ...save it was a smaller city ..and a lessor place of wickedness (or was it? ) ...for he asked to be taken to the cauldron of the colleges of man ...and a place of habitation nearby ...to another habitation of hell ...maybe slightly lessor than than the prison he was loosed from ...save this prison did not have walls ...yet was the same ...as he was ...even this prisoner of darkness ...of it all that he seemed unable to escape ...
and as we came to this other heap of hellishness ..as he left us ...as he was gone ...and gathered up quickly in the darkness of it all ...into the night ...to others who spirits clung to the same thing he did ...i said to mine son ...seems he will not escape ...for he gathers up with darkness wheresoever he goes ...and is captive of it ...and mine son said to me ...i have seen his heart ...and there is a chance he might come out of it ...for when in plainness of the day ...and in peace ...he shows his heart to be not of ...nor desiring darkness ...
and i said God and Christ help him ...for only of them can he be delivered ...save know this when all this evil wickedness is destroyed ...none will be able to hide in it ...neither will any have a heart for things that no longer exist ...and our hearts gathered up to pray ...that God and Christ look to the young man who seemed to be in prison ...whethersoever ...behind walls of worse wickedness or not ...
Now somewhat tiresome ...and early in the mourning ...did i go ...off to rest ...and found comfort in prayer before i came to sleep ....
and God and Christ ministered to me while i slept ...and did show me the more of the wicked eveil rule over the peoples ...and how the fat proud consuming sow of it ...layed ...gluttonness in the wicked cities ...and the very most plain simple matters before God and Christ ...for the world is full of darkness and eveil wicked rule and evil wicked spiritual rule ...so much so that there is nothing only dread darkness on the face of the world ...Yet God and Christ see little sparks of light as it is ...not seeing the flesh ...neither any other thing of a person ...only if there is present ...a little light in the heart of any ...and God and Christ search and look for any lights of heart ...that any might also have a heart for rightness ...and to reach out to these to help and increase them ...in spirit and truth ..that any might come the way further into the love and perfectness of worthiness before God and Christ ...Nevertheless each having their own will ...whether for increase in rightness or ...turning from it into darkness ...be of their own hearts and wills ...the way they go ...whethersoever ...the light remain in them or go out utterly ...whether the light have increase ...or no ...and minnish they themselves into darkness ...and such was this soul that we were sent to bring out of the prison of darkness ...in him was such a light ...and we pray the light remains and has increase ...in him ...of God and Christ ...so that he can remain safe and saved unto the blessed will of God and Christ for him ...least he parish in darkness ...
and how so ...that needs be ...all be destroyed ...save a measure of any that might not have a heart for the eveil wicked rule of it ...nor the evil wicked spiritual rule of it ...where devils dance with devils ...and the evil spirited whirls about "in"joying the wretchedness ...even counting themselves as lords of the world of the worldly ...and keepers of the same ...
and i saw a man ...in truth did i see him ...of realness ...of reality ...by the verity of God and Christ ...i was shown "man" ...keeping maintenance ...cleaning ...washing ...tending to a tombstone of the dead ...even the same as these keep their cities ...
spirit of the cities of "man" ...murder...wicked rule and lordshi- over others ...And Cain lay with his wife, which conceived and bare Henoch. And he was building a city, and called the name of it after the name of his son, Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad.
and the language of the cities of man ...all the same ...profit ...evil rule ...and pain of darkness ...And all the world was of one tongue and one language. And as they came from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinear, and there they dwelled. And they said one to another: come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire. So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar. And they said: Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had builded. And the Lord said: See, the people is one, and have one tongue among them all: And this have they begun to do, and will not leave off from all that they have purposed to do. Come on, let us descend, and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth. Thus the Lord scattered them from there upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city. Wherefore the name of it is called Babell, because that the Lord there confounded the tongue of all the world. And because that the Lord from there scattered them abroad upon all the earth.
But Abraham stood yet before the Lord, and drew near and said. Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked? If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the judge of all the world do according to right? And the Lord said: If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, I will spare all the place for their sakes.
And there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Lot sat at the gate of the city. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself to the ground with his face. And he said: See lords, turn in I pray you in to your servants house and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up early and go on your ways. And they said: nay, but we will bide in the streets all night.
And as they pressed sore upon Lot and began to break up the door, the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door. And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness both small and great: so that they could not find the door. And the men said moreover unto Lot: If thou have yet here any son in law or sons or daughters or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place: for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the Lord. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it.
And Lot went out and spake unto his sons in law which should have married his daughters, and said: stand up and get you out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city. But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons in law. And as the morning arose the angels caused Lot to speed him saying. Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that, that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city.
Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt up, your enemies devour your land, and you must be faine (obligated/ willing happy) to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in battle. Moreover the daughter of Zion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like watch house in time of war, like a besieged city. And except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us a few alive: we should have been as Sodoma, and like unto Gomorra.
Then spake I: Lord, how long? And he answered: Until the cities be utterly without inhabitantors, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded. For the Lord shall take the men far away, so that the land shall lie waste. Nevertheless, the tenth part shall remain therin, for it shall convert and be fruitful, And likewise as the Terebintes and Oak trees bring forth their fruits, so shall the holy seed have fruit.
*Now art thou fallen from heaven,( O Lucifer ) thou fair morning child? (kjv = son of the morning.) hast thou gotten a fall even to the ground, thou that ( not withstanding ) didest subdue the people? And yet thou thoughtest in thine heart: I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God, I will sit upon the glorious mount toward the North, I will climb up above the clouds, and will be like the highest of all. Yet dare I lay, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell. They that see thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying: Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid: Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and layed the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?
The same year that King Ahaz died, God threatened by Esai on this manner: Rejoice not ( thou whole Palestina ) as though the rod of him that beateth thee were broken: For out of the serpents root, there shall wax a cockatrice, and the fruit shall be a fiery *worm. (kjv = flying serpent) But the poor shall feed of the best things, and the simple shall dwell in safety. Thy roots shall I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay thy remnant. Mourn yee ports, weep ye cities, and fear thou ( O whole Palestina ) for there shall come from the North a smoke, whos power no man may abide. Who shall then maintain the messages of the Gentiles? But the Lord stablishes Sion, and the poor of my people shall put their trust in him.
At the same time shall their strong cities be desolate, like as were once the forsaken plows and corn, which they forsook, for fear of the children of Israel.
Then shall the five cities of Egypt speak with the *Canaanites tongue, and swear by the Lord of Hosts, and *Heliopolis shall be one of them. At the same time shall the Lord of hosts have an altar in the midst of the land of Egypt, with this title thereby: Unto the Lord. This shall be a token or testimony unto the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt, when they shall cry unto him, because of those that oppress them: that he shall send them a Captain and a Saviour to deliver them. *Canaanites tongue; this from the Hebrew; is the language of merchants. *Heliopolis; this city is not found in all the kjv even from 1611 to the present. From the references :He·li·op·o·lis 1. An ancient city of northern Egypt in the Nile River delta north of modern Cairo. It was the center of worship of the sun god Ra ; (depicted as a man having a hawks head, crowned with the sun and a sacrad "serpent". It gloryed itself it its library, famed schools of philosophy and astronomy. Two of its obelisks, both known as Cleopatras Needle, are now in London and in New York Citys Central Park. RN
also SEE ...LOOK SEE the last kingdumb of the world ...the "eagle whose wings cover the earth ...and Gog and Magog (britian) and the queen that is no widow ...mmmm
Go over the see (sea), mourn ye that dwell in the Isles. Is not that the glorious city, which hath been of long antiquity? Whose natives dwelling far off, commend her so greatly? Who hast devised such things upon Tyrus the crown of all cities, whose merchants and Captains were the highest in the world? Even the Lord of Hosts hath devised it, that he may put down all the pomp, and minish all the Glory of the world. Go through thy land ( O thou daughter of the see (sea) ) as men go over the water, and there is not a girdle more.
Yee miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the Lord hath so determined in himself. The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish away, the proud people shall come to naught. For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For plagues; see Job (of the heart, and also the flesh). RN
For why? they have offended the law changed the ordinances, and made the everlasting testament of none effect. And therefore shall the curse devour the earth: for they that dwell theron have sinned, wherefore they shall be burnt also, and those that remain, shall be very few. The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh. The mirth of tabrets shall be layed down, the cheer of the joyful shall cease, and the pleasure of the lutes shall have an end: there shall be no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it, the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut, that no man may come in.
In the streets shall there be lift up a cry because of wine, all mens cheer shall vanish away, and all joy of the earth shall pass. Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with wasteness. For it shall happen unto all lands and to all people, like as when a man smiteth down the olives, that are left on the olive tree: or seeketh after grapes, when the wine gathering is out. And those same ( that remain ) shall lift up their voice, and be glad, and shall magnify the glory of the Lord, even from the see (sea) and praise the name of the Lord God of Israel in the *valleys and Flondes (floods). kjv = isles of the sea. We heard songs sung to the praise of the righteous, from all the ends of the world. Therefore I must speak: O mine unfruitfulness, O my poverty. Woe is me, all is full of sinners, which offend of purpose and malice. And therefore (O thou that dwellest upon the earth) there is at hand for thee, fear, pit and snare. Who so escapeth the terrible cry, shall fall in to the pit. >
And if he come out of the pit, he shall be taken with the snare. For the windows above shall be opened, and the foundation of the earth shall move. The earth shall give a great crack, it shall have a sore ruin, and take an horrible fall. The earth shall stacker (stagger) like a drunken man, and be taken away like a tent. Her misdeeds shall lay heavy upon her, that she must fall, and never rise up again.
At the same time shall the Lord muster together the high host above, and the Kings of the world upon the earth.>
O' Lord, thou art my God, I will praise thee, and will magnify thy name: For thou bringest marvelous things to pass, according to thine old counsels, truly and steadfastly. Thou makest of towns, heap of stone: and of head cities, broken walls: The palaces of the wicked destroyest thou out of the city, that they shall never be builded again. Therefore the very rude people must magnify thee, and the cities of the cruel Heathen must fear thee. For thou art the poor mans help, and strength for the needful in his necessity.
New Jerusalem ...not made from the old ...Then shall the song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city, the walls and the ordinance shall keep us. Open the gates, that the *good people may go in, which laboreth for the truth. (kjv = righteous nation) And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in hand: shall provide for peace, even the peace that men hope for in thee. Hope still in the Lord, for in the Lord God is everlasting strength. For why? It is he, that bringeth low the high minded citizens, and cast down the proud cities. He casteth them to the ground, yee even in to the mire, that they may be trodden under the feet of the simple, and with the steps of the poor. Thou ( Lord ) considerest the path of the righteous, whether it be right. Therefore ( Lord ) we have a respect unto to the way of thy judgements, thy name and thy remembrance rejoice the soul. My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgments are known to the world, then the inhabitors of the earth learn righteousness. But the ungodly ( though he have received grace ) yet learneth he not righteousness, but in the place where he is punished, he offendeth, and feareth not the glory of the Lord.
As for the altar of stones, he shall make them all as stones beaten to powder: the groves and Idols shall not stand. The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lay their, and the sheep shall eat it up.>
Their harvest shall be burnt, their wives which were their beauty, when they came forth: shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favor them and he that made them shall not be merciful to them. In that time shall the Lord shoot from the swift water of Euphrates, unto the river of Egypt. And there shall the children be chosen out one by one.
Up ( ye rich and idle *cities ) (kjv = women) harken unto my voice. Ye careless cities, *mark my words. After years and days shall ye be brought in fear, O ye careless cities. For the *Harvest shall be out, and the grape gathering shall not come. O ye rich idle cities ye that fear no peril, ye shall be abashed and removed: when ye see the bareness, the nakedness and the preparing to war. Ye shall knock upon your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and because of the fruitful vineyard. My peoples field shall bring thorns and thistles for every house is voluptuousness: and in the cities, wilfulness. The palaces also shall be broken, and the greatly occupied cities desolate. The towers and bulwarks shall be become dens for evermore, the pleasure of Mules shall be turned to pasture for sheep: unto the time, that the spirit be poured upon us from above. *Mark this word in all things. *It is worthy to note this capital letter of the word Harvest. RN
The streets are waste, there walketh no man therin, the appointment is broken, the cities are dispised, they are not regarded, the desolate earth is in heaviness. Libanus taketh it but for a sport, that it is hewn down: Saron is like a wilderness: and Basan and Carmel are turned upside down. *And therefore saith the Lord. I will up, now will I get up, now will I arise. Ye shall conceive stubble, and bare straw, and your spirit shall be the fire, that it may consume you: and the people shall be burnt like lime, and as thorns burn that are hewn off, and cast in the fire. Of this last sentence compare kjv. RN
Now hearken to, ye that are far off of how I do with them, and consider my glory, ye that be at hand. The sinners in Sion are afraid and sudden fearfulness is come upon the cities. What is he among us ( say they ) that will dwell by that consuming fire? Which of us may abide that everlasting heat? He that leadeth a godly life ( say I ) and speaketh the truth: He that abhoreth to do violence and deceit: he that keepeth his hand that toucheth no reward: which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent: which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil. He it is, that shall dwell on high whose saverguard shall be in the true rock, to him shall be given the right true meat and drink. His eyes shall see the king in his glory: and in the wide world, and his heart shall delight in the fear of God. What shall then become of the scribe? of the Senator? what of him that teacheth children? There shalt thou not see a people of a strange tongue to have so diffused a language, that it may not be understood: neither so strange a speach but it shall be perceived.
New Jerusalem ...not builded on the foundation of the old dispised one ....There shall Sion be seen, the head city of our solemn feasts. There shall thine eyes see Jerusalem that glorious habitation: the tabernacle that never shall remove, whose nails shall never be taken out world without end, whose *coardes (courses) *everychone ( every each one ?) shall never corrupt: for the glorious Majesty of the Lord shall there be present among us. In that place, where fair broad rivers and streams are shall neither Galley row, ner great ship sail. For the Lord shall be our captain, the Lord shall be our law giver. The Lord shall be our king, and he himself shall be our Saviour. There are the *coards (courses) so layed abroad, that they can not be better: The mast set up of such a fashion, that no banner nor sail hangeth theron: but there is dealed great spoil, yee lame men run after the prey, There layeth no man that sayeth: I am sick, but all evil is taken away from the people, that dwell there.*coards (courses) possible reference to a ship it is the lowest sail. RN
If there be no water, I will give drink. And as for waters of defense, I shall dry them up with the feet of my Host. Yee ( sayest thou ) hast thou not heard, what I have taken in hand, and brought to pass of old time? That same will I do now also: waste, destroy, and bring strong cities into heaps of stones. For their inhabitants shall be like lame men, brought in fear and confounded. They shall be like the grass and green herbs of the field, like the hay upon the housetops, that withered afore it be grown up.
NJ....Go up unto the hill ( O Sion ) thou that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with power, O thou preacher Jerusalem. Lift it up without fear, and say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God, behold the Lord, even the Allmighty will come with power, and shall beare rule with his arm. Behold, he bringeth his treasure with him, and his works go before him. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that beare young.
Therefore be glad now, thou barren that barest not. Rejoice, sing and be merry, thou that art not with child: For the desolate hath no more children, then the married wife, saith the Lord. > Make thy tent wider, and spread out the hangings of thy habitation: spare not, lay forth thy coards, and make fast thy stakes: for thou shalt break out on the right side and on the left, and thy seed shall have the Gentiles in possession, and dwell in the desolate cities. Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded: Be not ashamed, for thou shalt not come to confusion. Yee thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the dishonor of thy wedowhead (widowhood). For he that made thee, shall be thy Lord and husband ( whose name is the Lord of Hosts ) and thine avenger shall be even the holy one of Israel, the Lord of the whole world. For the Lord shall call thee, being as a desolate sorrowful woman, and as a young wife that hath broken her wedlock: sayeth thy God.
A little while have I forsaken thee, but with great mercifulness will I take thee up unto me. When I was angry, I hid my face from thee for a little season, but through everlasting goodness shall I pardon thee, sayeth the Lord thy avenger. And this must be unto me as the water of Noe: for as like I have sworn that I will not bring the water of Noe any more upon the world: so have I sworn that I will never be angry with thee, nor reprove thee: The mountains shall remove, and the hills shall fall down: but my loving kindness shall not move, and the bond of my peace be shall not fall down from thee, saith the Lord thy merciful lover. Behold thou poor, vexed, and despised: I will make walls of precious stones, and thy foundation of Sapphires, thy windows of Crystal, thy gates of fine clear stone, and thy borders of pleasant stones. Thy children shall be taught of God, and I will give them plenteousness of peace
In righteousness shalt thou be grounded, and be far from oppression: for the which thou needest not be afraid, neither for hinderance, for it shall not come nye thee. Behold, the aleaunt ( alien ) that was far from thee, shall dwell with thee: and he that was sometime a stranger unto thee, shall be joined with thee: Behold, I make the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and he maketh a weapon after his handy work. I make also the waster to destroy: but all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper. And as for all tongues, that shall resist thee in judgment, thou shalt over come them, and condemn them. This is the heritage of the Lords servants, and the righteousness that they shall have of me, saith the Lord.
Then the Lord said unto me: Out of the north shall come a plague upon all the dwellers of the land. For lo, I will call all the officers of the kingdoms of the north ( saith the Lord ) And they shall come, and every one shall set his feet in the gates of Jerusalem, and in all their walls round about and through all the cities of Judah. And through them shall I declare my judgment, upon all the wickedness of those men that have forsaken me: that have offered unto strange gods and worshipped the works of their own hands.
Preach in Judah and Jerusalem, cry out and speak: Blow the trumpets in the land, cry that every man may hear, and say: Gather you together, and we will go into the strong cities. Set up the token in Sion, speed you, and make no tarrying: for I will bring a great plague, and a great destruction from the north. For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therin. Wherefore gird yourselves about with sackcloth, mourn and weep for the fearful wrath of the Lord shall not be withdrawn from you.
Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom. I have looked upon the earth, and see, it is waste and void. I looked toward heaven, and it had no shine. I beheld the mountains, and they tremble, and all the hills were in fear. I looked about me, and there was nobody, and all the birds of the air were away. I marked well, and the plowed field was become waste: yee all their cities were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and indignation of his wrath. For thus hath the Lord said: The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not have then done. And therefore let the earth mourn, and let the heaven be sorry above: for the things that I have purposed and taken upon me to do, shall not repent me, and I will not go from it. The whole land shall flee, for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen: they shall run into dens in to woods, and climb up the rocks. All the cities shall be void, and no man dwelling therein. What wilt thou now do, thou being destroyed? For though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, and deckest thee with gold: though thou paintest thy face with colors, yet shalt trim thyself in vain.
As for their gods, it may well be said of them: they are gods, that made neither heaven ner earth: therefore shall they perish from the earth, and from all things under heaven. But (as for our God ) he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdom hath he finished the whole compass of the world, with his discretion hath he spread out the heavens. At his voice the waters gather together in the air, he draweth up the clouds from the utmost parts of the earth: he turneth lighting to rain, and bringeth forth the winds out of their treasures: His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all the casters of images, for that they cast, is but a vain thing, and hath no life. The vain craftsmen with their works, that they in their vanity hath made, shall perish one with another in the time of visitation. Nevertheless, Jacobs portion is not such: but it is he, that hath made all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of Hosts is his name. Put away thine uncleanness out of the land, thou that art in the strong cities. For thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will now thrust out the inhabitors of this land a great way off, and trouble them of such a fashion, that they shall no more be found.
Then the Lord said unto me again: preach this in the cities of Juda and round about Jerusalem, and say: Hear the words of this covenant, that ye may keep them. For I have diligently exhorted your fathers, ever since I brought them out of the Land of Egypt unto this day. I gave them warning by times, saying: hearken unto my voice: Nevertheless, they would not obey me, nor inclined their ears unto me, but followed the wicked imaginations of their own hearts. And therefore have I accused them as transgressors of all the words of this covenant, that I gave them to keep, which they (not with understanding ) have not kept.
I will not pardon them, I will not spare them, ner have pity upon them: but destroy them. Be obedient, give ear, take no destain at it, for it is the Lord himself that speaketh. Honor the Lord your God herein, or he take his light from you, and or ever your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death. But if ye will not hear me, that give you secret warning, I will mourn from my whole heart for your stubbornness. Piteously will I weep, and the tears shall gush out of mine eyes. For the Lords flock shall be carried away captive. Tell the king and the rulers: Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head. The cities toward the south shall be shut up, and no man shall open them. All Juda shall be carried away captive, so that none shall remain.
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