1 ! A prophicie against the Jewes.
2 ! He exhorteth the people to prayer, and fasting for the miserie that was at hand.
2 a Signifying, the Princes, the Priests, and the gouerners.
2 b He calleth the Jewes to the consideration of Gods judgements, who had now plagued the frutes of the grounde of the space of foure yere, which was for their sinnes, & to call them to repentance.
5 c Meaning, that the occasion of their excesse and drunkennes was taken away.
6 d This was another plague wherewith God had punished them when he stirred vp the Assyrians against them.
8 e Mourne grieuously as a woman, which hathe lost her housband, to whome she hathe bene maried in her youth.
9 f The tokens of Gods wrath did appeare in his Temple in so muche as Gods seruice was left of.
10 g All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.
13 h He sheweth that the only meanes to auoide Gods wrath, & to haue all things restored is vnfained repentance.
15 i We se by these great plagues that vtter destruction is at hand.