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Come downe and sit in the O virgine, daughter Babel, sit on the there is no throne, O daughter of the for thou shalt no more be called, Tender and delicate.
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Take the mill stones, and grinde loose thy make bare the vncouer the legge, and passe through the floods.
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Thy filthinesse shall be discouered, and thy shame shall be I will take vengeance, and I will not meete thee as a man.
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Our redeemer, the Lord of hostes is his Name, the holy one of Israel.
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Sit still, and get thee into darkenesse, O daughter of the for thou shalt no more be called, The ladie of kingdomes.
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I was wroth with my I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them into thine thou diddest shew them no mercy, but thou didest lay thy very heauy yoke vpon the ancient.
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And thou saidest, I shall be a ladie for euer, so that thou diddest not set thy mind to these things, neither diddest thou remember ye latter end therof.
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Therefore nowe heare, thou that art giuen to pleasures, and dwellest carelesse, Shee sayeth in her heart, I am and none I shall not sit as a widowe, neither shall knowe the losse of children.
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But these two thinges shall come to thee suddenly on one day, the losse of children and they shall come vpon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy diuinations, and for the great abundance of thine inchanters.
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For thou hast trusted in thy thou hast sayd, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, they haue caused thee to rebel, and thou hast saide in thine heart, I am, and none els.
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Therefore shall euill come vpon thee, and thou shalt not knowe the morning destruction shall fal vpon thee, which thou shalt not be able to put destruction shall come vpon thee suddenly, or thou beware.
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Stand now among thine inchanters, and in the multitude of thy southsaiers (with whome thou hast wearied thy selfe from thy youth) if so be thou maist haue profit, or if so be thou maist haue strength.
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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy let now the astrologers, the starre gasers, and prognosticatours stand vp, and saue thee from these things, that shall come vpon thee.
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Beholde, they shall be as the fire shall burne they shall not deliuer their owne liues from the power of the there shalbe no coles to warme at, nor light to sit by.
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Thus shall they serue thee, with whom thou hast wearied thee, euen thy marchants from thy euery one shall wander to his owne none shall saue thee.