1Thus sayeth the Lord, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken.

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Deuteronomy 32:30, Deuteronomy 32:30, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:8, Matthew 18:25

2Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none answered: is mine hand so shortened, that it cannot helpe? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the Sea: I make the floods desert: their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst.

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Isaiah 59:1, Isaiah 59:1, Numbers 11:23, Numbers 11:23, Isaiah 66:4

3I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.

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Revelation 6:12, Revelation 6:12, Psalms 18:11, Psalms 18:12, Exodus 10:21

4The Lord God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.

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Luke 21:15, Luke 21:15, Jeremiah 1:9, Jeremiah 1:9, John 7:15

5The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.

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John 14:31, John 14:31, Philippians 2:8, Isaiah 35:5, Hebrews 5:8

6I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.

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Matthew 26:67, Matthew 26:67, Mark 14:65, Mark 14:65, Mark 15:19

7For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed.

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Hebrews 13:6, Hebrews 13:6, Ezekiel 3:8, Ezekiel 3:9, Ezekiel 3:8

8Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.

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Romans 8:32, Romans 8:34, Romans 8:32, Romans 8:34, Isaiah 41:1

9Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.

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Job 13:28, Job 13:28, Hebrews 1:11, Hebrews 1:12, Psalms 102:26

10Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his seruant: hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and staye vpon his God.

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John 12:46, John 12:46, Micah 7:7, Micah 7:9, Micah 7:7

11Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with sparkes: walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine hand: ye shall lye downe in sorowe.

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Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:7, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:7, Romans 1:21