The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

¶ He promyseth despueraunce from the Gentyles vnto Israell. The vencrytes done vnto the Iewes are to be as∣trybed to the mercy of God / not vnto theyr deseruynges. God renueth oure hertes that we maye walke in his com∣maundementes.

CAPI. XXXVI.

THOV sonne of man, prophecy vpon [unspec A] the mountaynes of Israel / and speke: Heare the worde of the Lord / Oye moun∣taynes of Israell. Thus sayeth the Lorde God. Because your enemy hath sayde vpon you: ☞ A, ha, the hye euerlastynge places are nowe become ours: prophecye therfore / and speake: thus sayeth the Lorde God. Seynge ye be wasted and troden downe on euery syde / and become a possessyon vnto the resydue of the Gentyles / whiche haue brought you into mens mouthes and vnto an euyll name amonge the people. Ther∣fore / heare the worde of the Lorde God / O ye mountaynes of Israell. Thus sayeth / the Lord God vnto the mountaynes and hylles, valleys and dales, to the voyde wyl∣dernes and desolate cyties / which are spoy∣led / and had in derysyon on euery syde / a∣mong the resydue of the Heathen. Yee, euen thus sayeth the Lorde God. In the fyre of [unspec B] my gelousy haue I taken a deuyce / against the resydue of the Gentyles, and against all Edom: whiche haue taken in my lande vnto thēselues for a possessyon: whiche also reioysed from their whole hert with a dispi∣tefull stomacke, to waste it, and to spoyle it:

Prophecye therfore vpon the lande of Is∣rael, speake vnto the moūtaynes and hilles to valleys and dales, thus sayeth the Lorde God. Beholde, thys haue I deuysed in my gelousy and terryble wrathe. For so muche as ye haue suffred reprofe of the Heathen / therfore thus sayeth the Lorde God ☞ I haue sworne / that the Gentyles whiche lye aboute you / shall beare youre confusyon them selues. And as for you (O mountay∣nes [unspec C] of Israel) ye shal shute out your braun∣ches / and brynge for the youre frute to my people of Israell / for it is harde by / that it wyll come. Beholde / I come vnto you / and vnto you wyll I turne me / that ye maye by tylled and sowen.

☞ I wyll sende you much people, whiche shalbe all of the house of Israell, the cytyes shall be inhabyted, and the decayed places shalbe repayred agayne. I wyll prouyde you with muche people and catell / whiche shall increase and brynge frute. I wyll re∣store you also to your olde estate and shewe you more kyndnes then euer ye had before: wherby ye shal knowe, that I am the Lord.

Yee, people wyll I sende vnto you (O my folke of Israell) which shall haue the in pos¦sessyon, and thou shalte be theyr inhery∣taunce / so that thou shalte no more be with∣out them. Agayne / thus sayeth the Lorde God. For so muche as they saye vnto you / thou arte an eater vp of men, and a waster of thy people: therfore thou shalte eate no mo men / neyther destroye thy people any [unspec D] more, sayeth the Lorde God. And I wyl not suffre the, for to heare thine owne confusion amonge the Gentyles from hē••forth. Thou shalt not beare the reprofe of the naciōs nor cast out thyne owne people eny more, saieth the Lorde God.

Moreouer / the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying. O thou sonne of man, whē the house of Israell owe••t vpon their owne grounde / they defyled them selues wyth

theyr owne wayes & ymagynacions: so that in my syght their way was lyke the vnclen∣ues of a mēstruous woman. Wherfore / I poured my wrothful displeasure vpon thē / ☞ because of the bloude that they had shed in the lande, because of theyr Idols / wher∣with they had defiled them selues. I scatred them also among the Heathen / so that they were strowed aboute in the landes. Accor∣dynge to theyr wayes and after theyr owne inuencyons, so dyd I punyshe them. [unspec E]

Nowe / when they were gone vnto the Heathen, and come in amonge thē, they dis∣honoured my holy name so that it was said of them. Are these the people of God, & must go out of theyr owne lande? Then spared I my holy name / whiche the house of Israel had dishonoured amonge the Gentyles / to whom they came. Therfore tell the house of Israel: Thus saieth the Lord God I do not this for your sakes (O house of Israell) but for my holy names sake, which ye dishonou¦red amonge the Heathen / when ye came to them. Therfore, I wyll halowe my greate name agayne / which amonge the Gentyles is euyll spoken of: for ye youre selues haue dyshonoured it amonge them. And the Gen¦tyles shal know that I am the Lorde whan I am honoured in you before theyre eyes / sayeth the Lorde God.

As for you / I wyll take you from amonge the Heathē, and gather you together out of all countrees, and brynge you agayne into your owne lande. Then wyl I poure clea∣re water vpon you / and ye shalbe clene: yee, from al your vnclennesse and from al your Idols shall I clense you. A newe herte also wyl I geue you, and a new sprite wyl I put into you. As for that stony hert, I wyll take it out of youre body / and gyue you a fleshly herte. I wyl gyue my spryte among you & [unspec F] cause you to walcke in my commaūdemen∣tes to kepe my lawes. and fulfyll them.

And so ye shall dwell in the lande / that I gaue to youre forefathers and ye shalbe my people, and I wylbe your God. I wyl helpe you out of al your vnclennes. I wyl cal for the corne / and wyll increase it / and let you haue no honger. I wyl multyply the frutes of the trees & the increase of the feld for you so that ye shall beare no more reprofe of hō∣ger amonge the Heathen. Then shall ye re∣membre your owne wicked wayes, & youre ymaginaciōs, which were not good▪ so that ye shal take displesure at your owne selues by reason of your sinnes & abhominacions. [unspec G]

But I wyll not do thys for youre sakes (sayth the Lord God) be ye sure of it. Ther∣fore / O ye house of Israell, be ashamed of youre synnes. Moreouer, thus sayeth the Lorde God: what tyme as I shal clense you from all youre offences, then wyll I make the cytyes to be occupyed agayne / and wyll repayre the places that be decayed. The de∣solate lande shalbe builded agayne / whiche afore tyme laye wast in the syght of al them that wente by. Then shall it be sayde: thys waste lande is become lyke a garden of ple∣sure / and the voyde / desolate and broken downe cytyes are nowe stronge / and fensed againe. Then the resydue of of the Heathen that lye rounde about you / shall know that I am the Lorde / whiche repayre that was broken downe, and plant agayne / that was made waste. Euen I the Lorde haue spoken it / and wyll do it in dede.

Thus sayeth the Lorde God: I wyll yet once be founde agayn of the house of Israel and do this for them: I shal increase them as a flocke of men. Lyke as the holy flocke & the flocke of Ierusalē are in the hye solēpne feastes: so shal also the wylde wasted cytyes be fylled with flockes of men: and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

Notes

• Ezec. v••. ••.
• Ezech. 35. ••
• Esay. lii. v. Roma. ii. c.
• Esai. 44. •• ••ere xvii. ••
• Deu. xiii. ••
• Ieremi. ••▪ ••