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         Tsade to chase, to hold on to contem[illegible]-

         by metaphore to weep streames, and never

         give over & that they should never

         made and an end of lamenting

         such a woe by continuall tears 

         from their hart ^crying^ within themselves. 

Their hart cryeth unto the Lord. O wall of the
town of the town of Sion shed down teares like
a river day and night, and take thee no intermission.
Let not the aple of thine eye leav off.

         Quoph returning or revolution^ary^ begin-

         ning and end as of this as of the [illegible]

         and of the streetes. that they return

         now with prayer and offer their harts

         before the Lord, for their infants [illegible]

         that lye staving. [symbol]. Job: 38 ^with^ a woeful ^sight^ 

         lamentation. 

Up and cry in the night, at the beginning of the waches
poure out thy hart like water right before the
Lord, lift up thy handes upon him for they infantes
lives, which faint for hunger in the endes of all
the streetes.

         Resh poor dispossessed the metaphore is

         by the mothers loss of their babies and

         sanctuary. both priest and prophet,

         that wer proper to them is the [illegible]

         goes to [illegible] and such spirit is ^not]^lamentation. 

See O Everlasting and behold, to whom thou hast
dealt thus; yf ever women did not eat their own
fruit; their babes not ^unsure^ in their handes, whether
ever priest and Prophet wer slain in the Sanctu-
arty of the Lord. 4.5.

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         Shinn to change or vary, the propriety

         is in age or sex or honor, and this is 

         all disfunction confounded, and hee make-

         eth noe difference but the sword takes

         one as wall as the other [symbol] 3 [symbol] 

In the streetes upon the ground lye both young
and old, my virgins and yong men are fallen
by the sword, thou killest and slayeth in thine
anger, and sparest not.

         Tav. A ^illegible or^ determination, and to make 

         an end and consum[m]ation of all, hee 

         maketh all my feares to meet together

         like a congregation ^for the spring^ to consume all. 

        the [illegible] bee these and bings

         and them of full growth. 3 [symbol].

Thou callest together my feares from every
side, rownd about as it were a day of Assembly,
and in the day of the Anger of the Everlasting
ther is not one that escapeth or remindeth
both those which I dandled and those which I
had brought up, my Enimy hath consumed.

Chap: 3.

The third hath a treble ABC of this same sort,
for the three captivityes of Jechomiah of
Jedikiah and the takeing of the City of
Jerusalem by devouring ^Sion^ and cedar twiggs ^for^