The XXV. Chapter.
THe worde of the LORDE came vnto [ A] me, sayenge: Thou sonne of man, set thy face agaynst ye Ammonites, pro¦phecy vpon them,* 1.1 and saye vnto the Ammo¦nites: Heare the worde off the LORDE God, Thus saieth the LORDE God: for so moch as thou speakest ouer my Sanctuary: A ha, I trow it be now suspended: and ouer the londe of Israel, I trow it be now desolate: yee ād ouer the house of Iuda, I trow they be now led awaye presoners: Beholde, I will dely∣uer ye to the people of the east, yt they maye haue the in possession: these shal set their cas¦tels and houses in the. They shall eate thy frute, and drynke vp thy mylcke. As for Ra∣bath, I wil make of it a stall for camels, and of Ammon a shepefolde: and ye shal knowe, that I am the LORDE.
For thus saieth the LORDE God: In so moch as thou hast clapped with thine hon∣des, and stamped with thy fete, yee reioysed in thine herte ouer the londe of Israel with despyte: beholde, I wil stretch out myne hō∣de ouer the also, and delyuer the, to be spoy∣led off the Heithen, and rote the out from a∣monge the people, and cause the be destroy∣ed out off all londes: yee I will make the be [ B] layed waist, that thou mayest knowe, that I am the LORDE.
Thus saieth ye LORDE God:* 1.2 For so moch as Moab and Seir do saye: As for the hou∣se off Iuda, it is but like as all other Gētiles be: Therfore beholde, I will make the cities off Moab weapenlesse, and take awaye the¦ir strength: their cities and chefe coastes off their londe, which are the pleasures off the countre: As namely. Betiesimoth, Baalmeō and Cariathaim: these will I open vnto thē off the east, yt they maye fall vpon the Am∣monites: and will geue it them in possession: so that the Ammonites shal no more be had in remēbraunce amonge the Heithen. Euen thus will I punysh Moab also, that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE.
Morouer, thus sayeth the LORDE God: Because that Edom hath avenged & eased himself vpon the house off Iuda,* 1.3 therfore thus saieth the LORDE: I will reach out my∣ne honde vpon Edom, and take awaye man and beest out off it. From Themā vnto De∣dan wil I make it desolate, they shalbe slay∣ne [ C] with the swearde. Thorow my people of Israel, wil I avenge me agayne vpō Edō:* 1.4 they shal hādle him, acordinge to my wrath and indignaciō, so that they shal knowe my vengeaunce, saieth the LORDE God.
Thus saieth ye LORDE God: For so moch as the Philistynes haue done this: namely,* 1.5 taken vengeaunce with despitefull stomac¦kes, and off an olde euell will set them selues to destroye: Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil stretch out myne hōde ouer the Philistynes, and destroye the destro¦yer, and cause all the remnaunt off the see coast to perish. A greate vengeaunce will I take vpon them, and punysh them cruelly: that they maye knowe, how that I am the LORDE, which haue avenged me off them.