The Corrupt City and the Promise of Purification

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Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement, and iustice lodged therein, but now they are murtherers.

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Thy siluer is become drosse: thy wine is mixt with water.

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Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.

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Therefore sayth the Lord God of hostes, the mightie one of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine enemies.

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Then I will turne mine hand vpon thee, and burne out thy drosse, till it be pure, and take away all thy tinne.

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And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward shalt thou be called a citie of righteousnes, and a faithfull citie.

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Zion shall be redeemed in iudgement, and they that returne in her, in iustice.

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And the destruction of the transgressers and of the sinners shalbe together: and they that forsake the Lord, shalbe consumed.

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For they shalbe confounded for the okes, which ye haue desired, and ye shall be ashamed of the gardens, that ye haue chosen.

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For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.

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And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker thereof, as a sparke: and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.

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