witnesses, Urias the priest, & Zacharias the sonne of Barachias. 3 And I went to the prophetesse, and she conceived, and bare a sonne. And our Lord sayd to me: Cal his name, [1] Hasten to take away the spoiles: make hast to take prayes. 4 For before the childe know to cal his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus shal be taken away, and the spoiles of Samaria before the king of the Assirians. 5 And our Lord added yet to speake unto me, saying: 6 For that [2] this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that runne with silence, and rather taken Rafin, and the sonne of Romelia: 7 for this cause behold our Lord wil bring upon them the waters of the river strong and manie, the king of the Assirians, and al his glorie: and he wil ascend over al their rivers, and wil flowe over al their bankes. 8 And wil goe through Juda, overflowing, and passing through shal come even to the necke. And the stretching out of his winges shal fil the bredth of thy land o Emmanuel. 9 Gather ye together o peoples, and be overcome, gird yourselves, & be overcome. 10 Take counsel and it shal be defeated: speake a word, and it shal not be done: because God is with us. 11 For thus sayth our Lord to me: As in a strong arme he hath caught me, that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying: 12 Say not: Conspiracie: for al thinges that this people speaketh, is conspiriacie: and feare ye not their feare, neither dread ye. 13 The Lord of hostes him sanctifie ye: be he your dread, and he your terrour. 14 And he shal be a sancitification to you. Bu for a stone of offence, and for a rocke of scandal to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruine to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And verie manie of them shal stumble and fal, and shal be broken in peeces, and shal be snared, and taken. 16 Binde the testimonie, seale the law in my disciples. 17 And I wil expect our Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I wil wayte for him. 18 Behold I and my children, whom our Lord hath geven me for a signe, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Sion. 19 And when they shal say to you: Aske of Pythones, and of diviners, which whisper in their inchantments: shal not the people aske vision of their God, for the living of the dead? 20 To the law rather, and to the testimonie. And if the speake not according to this word, they shal not have the morning
- ↑ Christ the Sonne of God and virgins child quickly taketh the pray from the duel, who before possessed almost al the world.
- ↑ The prophet speaketh of the tenne tribes, which joyned forces with the king of Syria against Jerusalem, but them selves were firt brought into captivity by the Assyrians, God protecting Jerusalem for that time, and long after.
