God’s Anger against Israel 1When Ephraim spake, there was tremblyng, he was exalted among the Israelites: but he hath sinned in Baal, and is dead.
2And nowe they sinne more and more, and of their siluer they haue made them molten images after the imaginatios of their owne braynes,
3Therfore they shalbe as the mornyng cloude, and as the deawe that early passeth away, and like as dust that the whirlewinde taketh away from the floore, and as smoke that goeth out of the chimney.
4Yet I am the Lorde thy God
5I did knowe thee in the wildernesse, in the lande of drought.
6But when they were well fed, and had enough, they waxed proude, & forgat me.
7Therfore wyll I be vnto them as a lion, and as a leoparde in the wayes to the Assyrians.
8I wyll meete them as a she beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I wyll breake that stubburne heart of theirs, there wyll I deuour them like a lion, yea the wylde beastes shall teare them. Death and Resurrection 9O Israel
10I am: where is thy king nowe that shoulde helpe thee in all thy cities? Yea and thy iudges of whom thou saydest, Geue me a king and princes.
11I gaue thee a king in my wrath, and in my displeasure I toke him from thee agayne.
12The wickednesse of Ephraim is bound together, and his sinne lyeth hyd.
13Therfore shall sorowes come vpon him as vpon a woman that trauayleth: an vndiscrete sonne is he, els woulde he not stande styll at the tyme of birth of children.
14I wyll redeeme them from the power of the graue, and deliuer them from death: O death, I wyll be thy death: O hell, I wyll be thy styng: yet can I see no comfort. Judgment on Samaria 15Though he grewe among his brethren, the east wynde
16Samaria shalbe made waste, for she is disobedient vnto her God: they shall perishe with the sworde, their children shalbe dasshed in peeces, and their women great with childe shalbe ript vp. |