CHAP. XI.
1 The destruction of Ierusalem. 3 The elect being cared for, the rest are reiected. 10 The staues of beauty and bands broken by the reiection of Christ. 15 The Type and curse of a foolish Shepheard.
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1 1 Open thy doores, O Lebanon, that the fire may deuoure thy cedars.
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2 Howle firre tree, for the cedar is fallen; because all the || mighty are spoiled; howle O yee okes of Bashan, for the || forrest of the vintage is come downe.2. [ || Or, gallants. , || Or, the defenced forrest. ]
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3 ¶ There is a voyce of the howling of the shepheards; for their glory is spoiled: a voyce of the roaring of young lyons; for the pride of Iordan is spoiled.
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4 Thus saith the Lord my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;
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5 Whose possessours slay them, and hold themselues not guiltie: and they that sell thē say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their owne shepheards pitie them not.
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6 For I will no more pitie the inhabitants of the land, saith the LordLORD: but loe, I will +deliuer the men euery one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliuer them.6 [ +Heb. make to be found. ]
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7 And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, euen you, O || poore of the flock: and I tooke vnto me two staues; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called ||Bandes, and I fed the flocke. 7[ || Or, verily the poore. , || Or, binders.]
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8 Three shepheards also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule +loathed them, and their soule also abhorred mee.8. [ +Hebr. was straitened for them. ]
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9 Then said I, I *will not feede you: that that dieth, let it die: and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest eate, euery one the flesh of +another. [ *Ier.15.2. , +Hebr. of his fellow or neighbour. ]
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10 ¶ And I tooke my staffe, euen Beautie, and cut it asunder, that I might breake my couenant which I had made with all the people.
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11 And it was broken in that day: and so || the poore of the flocke that waited vpon me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. [ || Or, the poore of the flocke, &c. certainly knewe. ]
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12 And I said vnto them, +If yee thinke good, giue me my price: and if not, forbeare: so they *weighed for my price thirtie pieces of siluer. [ +Hebr. if it be good in your eyes. , *Matth.26. 15. ]
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13 And the LORD said vnto mee, Cast it vnto the *potter: a goodly price, that I was prised at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. [* Matth.27. 9. ]
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14 Then I cut asunder mine other staffe, euen || Bands, that I might break the brotherhood betweene Iudah and Israel. [ || Or, binders. ]
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15 ¶ And the LORD said vnto me, Take vnto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepheard.
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16 For loe, I wil raise vp a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that bee || cut off, neither shall seeke the yong one, nor heale that that is broken, nor ||feed that that standeth still: but he shal eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces. [ || Or, hidden. , || Or, beare. ]
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17 *Woe to the idoll shepheard that leaueth the flocke: the sword shall be vpon his arme, and vpon his right eye: his arme shall be cleane dryed vp, and his right eye shall be vtterly darkened. [ * Iere.23.1. ezek.34.2. iohn 10.12. ]
