God's terrible voice in the city

5. The Famine is a dreadful Judgement, whereby God speaks sometime unto a people very terribly; when God stretcheth upon a place the lines of confusion, & the stones of emptiness; as Isa. 34. 11. When God sendeth cleanness of teeth into Cities; as Amos 4. 6. When God shooteth into a Land the evil Arrows of Famine, and it becomes exceeding sore, this is one of the most dreadful Judgements of all Judgements in this world, far beyond Plague, or Fire, or Sword. See how pathetically the Famine amongst the Jews is described by Jeremiah in his Lamentations, Chap. 4. from the 4th ver. unto the 12. The tongue of the sucking Child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth f•r thirst; the young ⟨p. 18⟩Children ask for bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. They that feed delicately are desolate in the streets. They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown in a moment, and no hand stayed on her. The Nazarites were purer than snow; whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body then Rubies; their polishing was of sapphire: their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their lones, it is withered, it is become like a stick. They that be slain with the sword, are better than they which be slain with hunger; for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the Earth. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own Children, they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. The Lord hath accomplished his fury, he hath poured out his fierce anger.

5. The Famine is a dreadful Iudgement, whereby God speaks sometime unto a people very terribly; when God stretcheth upon a place the lines of confusion, & the stones of emptiness; as Isa. 34. 11. When God sendeth cleanness of teeth into Cities; as Amos 4. 6. When God shooteth into a Land the evil Arrows of Famine, and it becomes exceeding sore, this is one of the most dreadful Judgements of all Judgements in this world, far beyond Plague, or Fire, or Sword. See how pathetically the Famine amongst the Iews is described by Ieremiah in his Lamentations, Chap. 4. from the 4th ver. unto the 12. The tongue of the sucking Childe cleaveth to the roof of his mouth fr thirst; the young