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soule, because evils are rendered to them. 10 Say to the just that it is wel, because he shal eate the fruite of his inventions. 11 Woe to the impious unto evil: for the reward of his handes shal be made to him. 12 My people their exactours have spoyled, & wemen have ruled over them. My people, [1] they that cal thee blessed, the fame deceive thee, and dissipate the way of thy steppes. 13 Our Lord standeth to judge, and he standeth to judge peoples. 14 Our Lord shal come to judgement with the ancients of his people, and his princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoile of the poore is in your house. 15 Why do you consume my people, and grinde the faces of the poore, sayth our Lord the God of hostes? 16 And our Lord sayd: for that [2] the daughters of Sion are haughtie, and have walked with stretched out necke, and went with twinglings of eyes, and clapped their handes, walked on their feete, and jetted in a set pace. 17 Our Lord shal make balde the crowne of the daughters of Sion, and our Lord shal discover their haire. 18 In that day shal our Lord take away the ornament of shoes, and litle moones. 19 And cheynes, and ouches, and bracelettes, and bonnettes. 20 And the sheading combes, and sloppes, and tablettes, and sweete balles, and earlets. 21 And ringes, and pearles hanging on the forehead. 22 And changes of apparel, and shorte clokes, and the fine linen, and nedles, 23 and looking glasses, and launes, and headbands, and bonegraces. 24 And for swete favour there shal be stinke, and for a girdle a corde, and for frisled haire baldness, and for stomacher hairecloth. 25 Thy fayrest men also shal fal by the sworde and moorne, and she shal sit desolate on the ground.
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After the destruction of the Jewes, manie wemen shal seeke to marie with one man, 2. but the reliques, repenting of their sinnes, shal returne to God, 5. and florish under his protection
AND [3] seven wemen shal take hold of one man in that day, saying: We wil eate our owne bread, and be covered with our garments: only let thy name be called upon us, take away our reproch. 2 In that day the bud of our Lord shal be in magnificence, and glorie; and the fruite of the earth high, and exultation to them, that shal be saved of Israel. 3 And it shal be: Everie one that shal be least in Sion,
- ↑ An Ecclesiastical preacher must not flatter the people. He must move tears (sayth S. Jerom) not laughter.
- ↑ By the metaphor of wemen, S. Jerom understandeth the cities of Jurie, of which Jerusalem was the head, and Sion the chiefe place thereof, al which were defaced, by the Babylonians, but more fuly destroyed by Titus and Velpatian, fourtie yeares after Christs Passion.
- ↑ After the reduction of heathnith or heretical people to catholique religion, there wil be great want of spiritual pastors.
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