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as Iudas and Ionathas were in the land of Galaad and Simon their brother in Galilee before Ptolomais 56 Then Iosephus the sonne of Zachari and Azarias the captaynes hearing of the actes that were done and of the battailes that were striken saide 57 Let vs get vs a name also and go fight against the heathen that are rounde about vs. 58 So they gaue their hoast a commaundement and went toward Iamma 59 Then came Gorgias and his men out of the citie to fight against them 60 Iosephus also and Azarias were chased vnto the borders of Iewry and ther were slaine that day of the people of Israel two thousand men so that there was a great miserie among the people of Israel 61 And all because they were not obedient vnto Iudas and his brethren but thought they shoulde quite themselues manfully 62 Neuerthelesse they came not of the seede of these men by whom Israel was helped 63 But the men that were with Iudas were greatly commended in the sight of all Israel and all the Heathen wheresoeuer their name was heard vpon 64 And the people came vnto them bidding them welcome 65 After this went Iudas foorth with his brethren and fought against the children of Esau in the lande that lyeth toward the south where he wan the citie of Hebron and the townes that lye beside it and as for the walles and towers rounde about it he brent them vp 66 Then remoued he to go into the lande of the Philistines and went through Samaria 67 At the same time were there many priestes slaine in the battaile which wilfully and without aduisement went out for to fight to get them honour 68 And when Iudas came to Azot in the Philistines lande he brake downe their aulters brent the images of their idols spoyled the cities and came againe into the lande of Iuda The .vj. Chapter 1 Antiochus wylling to take the citie of Elymas for a pray is driuen away of the citezins 8 He falleth into sicknesse and dyeth 17 His sonne Antiochus is made king 34 The besieging of the towre of Sion Eupator commeth into Iewry with a great armie 43 The boldnesse of Eleazar 1 NOw when king Antiochus trauailed thorough y e hie countries he heard that Elymas in Persia was a noble and plenteous citie in siluer and golde 2 And that there was in it a very rich temple where as were clothes coate armours and shieldes of golde which Alexander the sonne of Philip king of Macedonia that raigned first in Grecia had left behinde him 3 Wherefore he went about to take the citie to spoyle it but he was not able for the citezins were warned of it and fought with him 4 And so he fled and departed with great heauinesse and came againe into Babylon 5 Moreouer there came one which brought him tidinges in Persia that his hoastes which were in the lande of Iuda were driuen away 6 And how that Lysias went foorth first with a great power and was dryuen away of the Iewes how that they had wonne the victory and gotten great goodes out of the hoastes that perished 7 How they had broken downe the abhomination which he set vp vpon the aulter at Hierusalem fenced the sanctuary with hie walles lyke as it was afore yea and Bethsura his citie also 8 So it chaunced that when the king heard these wordes he was afrayde greeued very sore Wherefore he layde him downe vpon his bed and fell sicke for very sorowe and all because it had not happened as he had deuised 9 And there continued he long for his griefe was euer more and more so that he sawe he must needes dye 10 Therfore he sent for all his friendes saide vnto them The sleepe is gone fro myne eyes for the very sorowe and vexation of heart that I haue 11 For when I consider in my minde the great aduersitie that I am come vnto and the fluddes of heauines which I am come in where as afore time I was so merie and so greatlie set by by reason of my power 12 Againe considering the euill that I haue done at Hierusalem from whence I toke all the riches of golde and siluer that were in it and sent to destroye the inhabitours of Iurie without any reason why 13 I know that these troubles are come vpon me for the same cause and behold I must dye with great sorowe in a straunge lande 14 Then called he for one Phillip a frend of his whom he made ruler of all his realme 15 And gaue him the crowne his robe and his ring that he shoulde take his sonne Antiochus vnto him bring him vp till he might raigne him selfe 16 So the king Antiochus died there in the hundred fourtie and nine yere 17 When Lysias knew that the king was dead he ordained Antiochus his sonne whom he had brought vp to raigne in his fathers steede and called him Eupator 18 Nowe they that were in the castle at Hierusalem kept in the Iewes rounde about the sanctuary and sought euer still to do them harme for the strengthening of the Heathen 19 Wherefore Iudas thought to destroy them and called all the people together that they might lay siege vnto them 20 So they came together in the hundred and fiftie yere and besieged them laying foorth their ordinaunce instrumentes of warre 21 Then certaine of them that were besieged went foorth vnto whom some vngodly men of Israel ioyned them selues also 22 And went vnto the king saying how long wyll it be or thou punishe and auenge our brethren 23 We haue euer ben minded to do thy father seruice to walke in his statutes and to obey his commaundementes 24 Therfore our people fell from vs and wheresoeuer they founde any of vs they slue them and spoyled our enheritaunce 25 And they haue not onely medled with vs but with all our countries 26 And beholde this day are they besieging the castle at Hierusalem to take it and haue made vp the strong holde in Bethsura 27 And if thou doest not preuent them right soone they wil do more then these and thou shalt not be able to ouercome them 28 When the king heard this he was very angry and called all his friendes the captaines of his armie and all his footemen and horsemen 29 He hired men of warre also of other realmes pertayning to the kinges that were confederate with him and of the Iles of the sea which came vnto him 30 And the number of his hoast was an hundred thousand footemen and twentie thousand horsemen and thirtie two Elephantes well exercised to battaile 31 These came through Idumea vnto Bethsura and besieged it a long season made diuers instrumentes of warre against it but the Iewes came out and brent them with fire fought like men 32 Then departed Iudas from the castle at Hierusalem and remoued the hoast toward Bethzacaran ouer against the kinges armie 33 So the king arose
sonne of Idapsis 24. xerses Daniel Abacuc Aggeus Zacharias Iudith F Nabuchodonosor a sorcerer was cast foorth into a wood and nourished of a wilde goate and bewrayed by an Owle sitting ouer the bushe and so a leper toke him vp His name riseth of that for Nabu is by interpretation an Owle 〈◊〉 a goate and Nosor a leper who afterwarde was made king of the Chaldees and slue the king of Egypt and afterward by his prowesse gate the monarchie of the Assyrians and raigned in Babylon in the fourth yere of Ioachim king of Iuda and in the ninteenth yere of his raigne besieged Hierusalem and toke it put in prison Sedechia the two tribes and people of Israel whose eyes he put out and slue his children and destroyed the temple He slue Saran and Sophoni the prophetes of the Lorde with diuers of the nobilitie of the Iewes This man at the last for his pride was turned into a wilde beast and seuen monethes together had his dwelling with them but through the prayer of Daniel and his seuen yeres penaunce he was restored againe Daniel 4. Nabuchodonosor the lesse was called the sonne of the great he did beautifie notablie the temple and repaired his princely pallace of Babylon he made a gardein whiche dyd hange for his wyues sake Dan. 6. G Euilmoradac in the time that his father was turned into a beast did many wicked thinges and for that his father kept not promise with him fearing that he woulde rise againe he counseled with Ioachim and toke vp his fathers carcase againe and deuided it into 300. peeces and gaue it vnto 300. vultures This king of Babylō had three sonnes of the whiche one was Baltasar 4. Regum 25. H Baltasar the last king of Babylon he made a feast wherin he was drūke he commaunded the vessels of the temple of God to be vsed at his table wherin he his wiues dranke at what time he saw a hand in a wall writing Mane techel phares whiche Daniel dyd interprete the wordes thus Mane God hath numbred thy kingdome and brought it to an end Techel thou art wayed in the ballance and art founde to light Phares thy kingdome is dealt in partes and is geuen to the Medes and Persians And that night he was slayne of Cyrus vnder whom Susan was deliuered from the accusation of the elders Dan. 13. I Darius sonne of Astriages raigned with Cyrus hys nephew who slue Baltasar to whom Cyrus committed the dominiō of Babylon and of the Medes This Darius toke Daniel with him into the Medes and extolled him aboue all his noble men and deliuered hym from the lions denne 1. Esdras 6. Bishoppes Iudas Iohannes B Iadus Onias Simon the iust C Eleazar Manasses Onias D Simon Onias Ihesus or Iason Onias or Menelaus Alchimus E Iesus Manasses The temple ✚ The habitation of kinges And the pristes ✚ The habitacōn Of the Noble Cytyzens And of The propheites within The walles wthoute y e walls of the Citie the habitatōn of the Cominie people in the City of Jherusalem the Valley 〈◊〉 of Jesaphat the Dunghill porte the gate of the old fish porte the fishe porte the porte of the well of siloe the Shepe Gate Este Southe Weast Northe A. Vnder Artaxerses Longimanus Ne●mias the sonne of He●chias a Iewe butler to Artaxerses in the castle of Susis hearyng the lande of Hierusalem to be in great afflictions and being pined therwith the king pitiyng him gaue him letters of imbassage to Hierusalem and there he ministred necessaries for the buildyng of the worke and by the helpe of Elizaphat hye priest and other priestes he builded the walles with sixe porches as in this round figure here vnder written appeareth He had many resisting him so that by the space of two yeres the workmen were fayne to holde in one hande their trowels and in the other hande their swordes and Neemias deliuered the people of Israel from vsuries And while Esdras read the lawe and the people weepyng he wylled them to come together to heare the lawe foure tymes in the day and foure tymes in the nyght And so Neemias dyed was buryed next to the wall which he dyd builde 3. Esd 5. A. Artaxerses when he raigned Esdras repaired the common Librarie repaired the lawe burnt of the Chaldees deuised newe caractes of letters more easie to be written read and for that he was called a swift scribe and had license of Artaxerses to teache the lawe of God in Hierusalem gaue hym power to fraunchesse the Leuites from all tributes to minister punishment vpon all transgressours B. Iohn the sonne of Iudas the brother of Iesus who conspired agaynst his brother Iohn to get the hye bishoppricke and thervpon gat the familiaritie of Vagosus in trust of whō he rose against his brother whervpon Iohn impatientlie slue his brother Yessus For which act Ochus the king at y e suggestion of Vagosus did call for agayne the tribute of the .7 yere whiche was released by Esdras 1. Mach. 9. These be the names of the Citie of Hierusalem Solima Luza Bethel Ierosolima Gebus Helia Hierusasalem Salem C. In Simons tyme Iesus made y e booke of Sapience which is called Ecclesiasticus of which Simon he maketh there mention 1. Mach. 9. D. Onias priest sonne of Simon the iust for the crueltie of Antiochus the great king of Syria fled to Ptolomie into Egypt there builded a temple like to the Iewes which endured 250. yeres till the tyme of Vaspasian the Emperour who destroyed the citie 2. Mach. 3. E. Alchimus was made the bishop by Demetrius and alway aduersarie to Iudas Machabeus he destroyed the walles of the house of the Lorde and the workes of the prophetes he was striken and miserably dyed of the paulsie 1. Mach. 7. F. Ptolomeus the sonne of Lagi vnder a colour of sacrificyng entred Hierusalem and solde many captiues of Iurie and Garizim Hest 12. G. Ptolomeus Philadelphus beyng a great louer of bookes and learnyng by the counsayle of Demetrius Aristeus deliuered .120000 Iewes and sold eche of them for 130. peeces of siluer he sent his oblations into y e temple of God he receaued the 70. interpreters in Alexandria honorably whiche were sent frō Eleazar the hye priest and after their interpretation whiche was done in .70 dayes he sent them home agayne with great rewardes he remitted the tribute of the .7 yere to the ministers of the temple Dan. 13. After these kinges of Egypt there were other kinges in Egypt which be not here set vntyll Cleopatra which beyng conquered with her louer Anthonie then the lande of Egypt came to be in the possession of the Romanes We reade of three temples in the Scripture first the temple of the Lorde made by Solomon the seconde in the mount Garasim made by Manasses the brother of Iadus hye priest in the tyme of Darius the last king of the Assyrians the thirde in Egypt in the region of Elipoleos
the archers founde him and he was wounded of shooters 4 Then saide Saul to his harnesse bearer Drawe thy sword and thrust me through therwith that these vncircumcised come not and do me shame But his harnesse bearer would not for he feared exceedingly So Saul caught a sword and fell vpon it 5 And when his harnesse bearer saw that Saul was dead he fell on a sword also and dyed 6 And thus Saul and his three sonnes and al they of his house dyed together 7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley sawe how they fled and that Saul his sonnes were dead they forsoke their cities and ran away and the Philistines came and dwelt in them 8 And it fortuned that on the morowe when the Philistines came to strip the dead bodies they founde Saul and his sonnes ouerthrowen in mount Gilboa 9 And when they had stript him they toke his head and his harnesse and sent them into the lande of the Philistines rounde about to shewe them vnto their idols and to the people 10 And they put his harnesse in the house of their god and set vp his head in the temple of Dagon 11 And when all they of Iabes in Gilead hearde all that the Philistines had done to Saul 12 They arose all the strongest of them and fet away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sonnes and brought them to Iabes and buried the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabes and fasted seuen dayes 13 So Saul dyed for his trespasse that he trespassed against the Lorde in that he kept not the word of the Lorde and in that he sought and asked counsaile of a woman that wrought with a spirite 14 And asked not of the Lorde and therefore he slue him and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Isai ¶ The .xj. Chapter 3 After the death of Saul Dauid is annoynted in Hebron 5 The Iebusites rebell against Dauid from whom he taketh the towre of Sion 6 Ioab is made captayne 10 His valiaunt men 1 THen all Israel gathered them selues to Dauid vnto Hebron saying 2 Beholde we be thy bones and thy fleshe And moreouer in tyme past euen when Saul was king thou leddest Israel out in And the Lorde thy God sayde vnto thee Thou shalt feede my people Israel and thou shalt be captayne ouer my people Israel 3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron and Dauid made a couenaunt with them in Hebrō before the Lorde And they annoynted Dauid king ouer Israel according to the worde of the Lorde by the hande of Samuel 4 And Dauid and all Israel went to Hierusalem which is Iebus where as were the Iebusites the inhabiters of the lande 5 And the inhabiters of Iebus sayde to Dauid Thou commest not in here Neuerthelesse Dauid wan the castel of Sion which is called the citie of Dauid 6 And Dauid sayde Whosoeuer smyteth the Iebusites first shal be the principall captayne and a lorde So Ioab the sonne of Zaruia went first vp and was made the chiefe captayne 7 And Dauid dwelt in the castell Sion and therefore they called it the citie of Dauid 8 And he built the citie on euery syde euen from Millo round about and Ioab repaired the rest of the citie 9 And Dauid prospered waxed great the Lorde of hoastes was with him 10 These are the principall men of power whom Dauid had and that claue to him in his kingdome with all Israel to make him king according to the word of the Lorde ouer Israel 11 And this is the number of the mightie men whom Dauid had Iosobeam the sonne of Hachmoni the chiefe among thirtie he lift vp his speare against three hundred and wounded them at one tyme. 12 After him was Eleazar his vncles sonne an Ahothite which was one of the three mightiest 13 He was with Dauid at Pasdammim and there the Philistines were gathered together to battaile And there was there a parcell of grounde full of barly and the people fled before the Philistines 14 And they stept foorth into the middest of the fielde and saued it and slue the Philistines and the Lorde gaue a great victorie 15 And the three of the thirtie chiefe captaynes went to a rocke to Dauid into the caue Adullam And the hoast of the Philistines abode in the valley of Rephaim 16 And when Dauid was in the holde the Philistines watch was at Bethlehem that same tyme. 17 And Dauid longed and sayde Oh that one woulde geue me drinke of the water of the well that is at the gate at Bethlehem 18 And the three brake through the hoast of the Philistines and drewe water out of the wel that was by y e gate at Bethlehem and toke it and brought it to Dauid Neuerthelesse Dauid woulde not drinke of it but rather offered it to the Lorde 19 And sayd my God forbyd it me that I shoulde do this thing Shall I drinke the blood of these men that haue put their liues in ieoperdie for with the ieoperdie of their liues they brought it therefore he would not drinke it And this did these three mightiest 20 And Abisai the brother of Ioab he also was captayne among three For he lyft vp his speare against three hundred and wounded them and had a name among the three 21 Yea among three he was more honorable then the two for he was their captayne Howbeit he attayned not to the first three 22 Banaia y e sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a very strong man which had done many actes of Cabzeel he slue two strong lions of Moab went downe and slue a lion in a pit in time of snowe 23 And he slue an Egyptian whose stature was euen fiue cubites long and in the Egyptians hand was a speare lyke a weauers beame And the other went downe to him with a waster plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand and slue him with his owne speare 24 Such thinges did Banaia the sonne of Iehoiada and had the name among the three mightiest 25 And was honorable among thirtie but attayned not vnto the first three And Dauid made him of his counsaile 26 The other men of armes were these Asahel the brother of Ioab Elhanan his vncles sonne of Bethlehem 27 Samoth the Harodite Helez the Pelonite 28 Ira the sonne of Ickes the Thekoite Abieser the Anatothite 29 Sibbecai the Husathite Ilai the Ahohite 30 Maharai the Nepthophathite Heled the sonne of Baana the Nethophathite 31 Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibea that pertayned to the children of Beniamin Benaia the Phirathonite 32 Hurai of the riuers of Gaas Abiel the Arbathite 33 Azmaueth the Baharumite Elihaba the Salabonite 34 The sonnes of Hassem the Gezonite Ionathan the sonne of Sage an Hararite 35 Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite Eliphal the sonne of Vr. 36 Hepher the Mecherathite Ahia the Pelonite 37 Hezro the Carmelite
comfort her 42 Neuerthelesse nowe seest thou the likenes of the womā no more but there appeared vnto thee a citie buylded 43 And where she tolde thee of the fall of her sonne so is this the solution of it 44 This woman whom thou sawest is Sion and where as she tolde thee euen she whom thou seest nowe as a citie buylded 45 And as touching that she sayde vnto thee that she hath ben thirtie yeres vnfruitefull and baren those are the thirtie yeres wherein there was no offering made in her 46 But after thirtie yeres Solomon builded the citie and offred offeringes and then bare the baren a sonne 47 And where as she tolde thee that she nourished hym with labour that was the dwelling in Hierusalem 48 But where as she tolde thee that her sonne dyed as his chaunce was when she came into her chaumber that is the fall that is come to Hierusalem 49 And beholde when thou sawest her like one that mourned for her sonne and begannest to comfort her of these things whiche haue chaunced these are to be opened vnto thee 50 For nowe the most hyghest seeth that thou art sory in thy minde and suffrest from thy whole heart for her and so hath he shewed thee her clearenesse and the fayrenesse of her beautie 51 And therefore I bad thee remayne in the fielde where no house was builded 52 For I knewe that the highest would shewe this vnto thee 53 Therfore I commaunded thee to go into the fielde where no foundation nor buylding is 54 For in the place where the highest beginneth to shewe his citie there can no mans buylding be able to stande 55 And therefore feare not and let not thyne heart be afraide but go thy way in and see the beautie and greatnes of the buylding as much as thyne eyes be able to see 56 And then shalt thou heare as muche as thyne eares may comprehende 57 For thou art blessed aboue many other and art called with the highest as the fewe 58 But to morowe at night thou shalt remayne here 59 And so shall the highest shewe thee visions of the hye thinges which he wyll do vnto them that dwell vpon earth in the last dayes So I slept y e same night another like as he commaunded me The .xi. Chapter 1 The vision of an Egle comming foorth of the sea and of her fethers 37 Of a Lion comming out of the forest 1 THen saw I a dreame and beholde there came vp from the sea an Egle whiche had xii fethered winges and three heades 2 And I sawe and beholde she spread her wynges ouer all the earth and al the wyndes of the ayre blew on her gathered them together 3 And I behelde and out of her fethers there grew other contrary fethers and they became litle fethers and small 4 But her heades remayned styll the head in the middest was greater then the other yet rested it with the residue 5 Moreouer I saw that the Egle flewe with her wynges and raigned vpon earth and ouer all them that dwelt vppon the earth 6 And I sawe that all thinges vnder heauen were subiect vnto her and no man spake against her no not one creature vpon earth 7 I sawe also that the Egle stoode vp vpon her clawes and gaue a sounde with her fethers and a voyce saying after this maner 8 Watche not altogether sleepe euery man in his owne place and watche by course 9 But let the heades be preserued for the last 10 Neuerthelesse I sawe that the voyce went not out of her heades but from the myddest of her body 11 And I numbred her contrary fethers and beholde there were eyght of them 12 And I loked and beholde vpon the ryght syde there arose one fether and raigned ouer all the earth 13 And so it was that when it raigned the ende of it came and the place therof appeared no more So the next folowyng stoode vp and raigned and had a great tyme. 14 And it happened that when it raigned the ende of it came also lyke as the first so that it appeared no more 15 Then came there a voyce vnto it and sayde 16 Heare thou that hast kept the earth so long this I say vnto thee before thou begynnest to appeare no more 17 There shall none after thee attayne vnto thy tyme neither vnto the halfe therof 18 Then arose the thirde and raigned as the other afore and appeared no more also 19 So went it with all the residue one after another so that euery one raigned and then appeared no more 20 Then I loked and beholde in processe of tyme the fethers that folowed stoode vp on the ryght syde that they myght rule also and some of them ruled but within a whyle they appeared no more 21 For some of them were set vp but ruled not 22 After this I loked and beholde the twelue fethers appeared no more nor the two wynges 23 And there was no more vpon the Egles body but two heades that rested and sixe wynges 24 Then sawe I also that two wynges deuided them selues from the sixe and remayned vnder the head that was vpon the right side for the foure continued in their place 25 So I loked and beholde the fethers that were vnder the wyng thought to set vp them selues and to haue the rule 26 Then was there one set vp but shortly it appeared no more 27 And the seconde was sooner away then the first 28 And I behelde and lo the two that remayned thought also in them selues to raigne 29 And when they so thought beholde there awaked one of the heades that were at rest namely it that was in the myddest for that was greater then the two other heades 30 And then I sawe that the two heades were ioyned with hym 31 And the head was turned with them that were with hym and dyd eate vp the two vnder wynges that woulde haue raigned 32 But this head put the whole earth in feare and bare rule in it ouer all those that dwelt vpon the earth with much labour and he had the gouernaunce of the worlde ouer all the wynges that had ben 33 After this I loked and beholde the head that was in the myddest sodaynly appeared no more lyke as the wynges 34 But there remayned the two heades which ruled vpon earth and ouer those that dwelt therin 35 And I behelde and lo the head vpon the ryght syde deuoured it that was vpon the left syde 36 Then I hearde a voyce which sayde vnto me loke before thee and consider the thyng that thou seest 37 Then I sawe and beholde as it were a lion that roareth runnyng hastyly out of the wood and I sawe that he sent out a mans voyce vnto the Egle and sayde 38 Heare thou I wyll talke with thee and the hyest shall say vnto thee 39 Is it not thou that hast the victorie of the foure beastes whom I made to raigne vpon earth and in my worlde
Gaddis 3 Simon called Thasi 4 Iudas otherwyse called Machabeus 5 Eleazer otherwyse called Abaron and Ionathā whose sirname was Apphus 6 These sawe the euill that was done among the people of Iuda and Hierusalem 7 And Mathathias sayd wo is me alas that euer I was borne to see this miserie of my people the piteous destruction of the holy citie and thus to sit so still it beyng deliuered into the handes of the enemies 8 Her sanctuarie is come into the power of straungers her temple is as it were a man that hath lost his good name 9 Her pretious ornamentes are caried away captiue her olde men are slayne in the streetes and her young men are fallen thorowe the sworde of the enemies 10 What people is it that hath not some possession in her kingdome or who hath not gotten some of her spoyles 11 * All her glorie is taken away she was a free woman and nowe she is become an handemayde 12 Behold our sanctuarie our beautie and honour is wasted away and defiled by the gentiles 13 What helpeth it vs then to liue 14 And Mathathias rent his clothes he and his sonnes and put sackecloth vpon them and mourned very sore 15 Then came the men thyther whiche were sent of king Antiochus to compell such as were fled into the citie of Modin for to do sacrifice to burne incense vnto idoles and to forsake the lawe of God 16 So many of the people of Israel consented and enclined vnto them but Mathathias and his sonnes remayned stedfast 17 Then spake the commissioners of king Antiochus and sayd vnto Mathathias Thou art a noble man of hye reputation and great in this citie hauing many fayre children and brethren 18 Come thou therfore first and fulfill the kinges commaundement like as all the heathen haue done yea and the men of Iuda and such as remayne at Hierusalem so shalt thou and thy children be in the kinges fauour and enriched with golde siluer and great rewardes 19 Mathathias aunswered spake with a loude voyce Though all nations obey the king Antiochus and fall away euery man from keping the law of their fathers though they consent to his commaundementes 20 Yet will I and my sonnes and my brethren not fall from the lawes of our fathers 21 God forbid we shoulde that were not good for vs that we shoulde forsake the lawe and ordinaunces of God and to agree vnto the commaundement of king Antiochus 22 Therfore we will do no such sacrifice neither breake the statutes of our lawe to go another way 23 And when he had spoken these wordes there came one of the Iewes whiche openly in the sight of all did sacrifice vnto the idoles vpon the aulter in the citie of Modin according to the kinges commaundement 24 When Mathathias sawe this it greeued hym at the heart so that his reynes shoke withall and his wrath kindled for very zeale of the law With that he start vp and killed the Iewe beside the aulter 25 Yea and slue the kinges commissioner that compelled hym to do sacrifice destroyed the aulter at the same time 26 Such a zeale had he vnto the lawe of God like as Phinehes dyd vnto Zambrithe sonne of Salomi 27 And Mathathias cryed with a loude voyce thorow the citie saying Who so is feruent in the law and will kepe the couenaunt let him folowe me 28 So he and his sonnes fled into the mountaynes and left all that euer they had in the citie 29 Many other godly men also which lyued iustly and vprightly departed into the wildernesse with their children their wiues and their cattell and remayned there for the tiranny increased sore vpon them 30 Now when the kinges seruauntes and the hoast whiche was at Hierusalem in the citie of Dauid hearde that certayne men had broken the kinges commaundement and were gone their way to the wildernesse into secrete places 31 Then many pursued after them and after they had ouertaken them they camped them selues and set the battel in aray against them in the Sabbath day 32 And sayd vnto them Will ye yet rebell Get you hence and do the commaundement of king Antiochus and ye shall lyue 33 They aunswered We will not go for thee neither will we do the kinges commaundemēt to defile the Sabbath day 34 Then began they to fight against them 35 But the other gaue them none other aunswere neither cast they one stone at them nor made fast their priuie places 36 But sayde We will dye all in our innocentie heauen earth shall testifie with vs that ye put vs to death wrongfully 37 Thus they fought against them vpon the Sabbath and slue both men cattayle their wyues and their children to the number of a thousande people 38 When Mathathias and his friendes heard this they mourned for them right sore 39 And sayde one to another If so be that we al do as our brethren haue done and fight not for our lyues and for our lawes against the heathen then shall they the sooner roote vs out of the earth 40 So they concluded among them selues at the same time saying 41 Whatsoeuer he be that commeth to make battayle with vs vpon the Sabbath day we will fight against him and not dye all as our brethren that were murthered in the wildernesse 42 Vpon this came the assemblie of the Assideans vnto them whiche were of the strongest men in Israel and all such as were feruent in the lawe 43 And al they that were fled for persecution came to helpe them and to stand by them 44 Insomuch that they gathered an hoast of men and slue the wicked doers in their gelousie and the vngodly men in their wrath but the rest fled vnto the heathen and escaped 45 Then Mathathias and his friendes went about and destroyed the aulters 46 And circumcised the children that had not yet receaued circumcision as many as they found within the coastes of Israel 47 And folowed mightily vpon the proud men and this acte prospered in their handes 48 Insomuch that they kept the lawe against the power of the gentiles and the kinges and gaue not ouer their domimon vnto wicked doers 49 After this when the time drewe on fast that Mathathias shoulde dye he sayde vnto his sonne Now is pryde and persecution increased nowe is the time of destruction wrathfull displeasure 50 Wherefore O my sonnes be ye feruent in the lawe and ieoparde your liues for the testament of the fathers 51 Call to remembraunce what actes our fathers dyd in their time so shall ye receaue great honour and an euerlasting name 52 Remember Abraham was not he founde faythful in temptation it was reckened vnto him for righteousnesse 53 Ioseph in time of his trouble kept the commaundement was made a Lorde of Egypt 54 Phinehes our father was so feruent for the honour of God that he obtayned the couenaunt of an euerlasting priesthood 55
before the day and brought the power of his hoast into the way to Bethzacarā where the hoastes made them redie to the battaile blowing the trumpettes 34 And to prouoke the Elephantes for to fight they shewed them the sappe of red grapes and mulberies 35 And deuided the Elephantes among the hoast so that by euery Elephant there stoode a thousand men well harnessed helmettes of steele vpon their heades yea vnto euery one of the Elephantes also were ordained fiue hundred horsemen of the best 36 Which wayted on the Elephant going wheresoeuer he went and departed not from him 37 Euery Elephant was couered with a strong towre of wood fastened thereon with instrumentes whereupon were thirtie and two valiaunt men with weapons to fight and within was a man of Inde to rule the beaste 38 As for the remnaunt of the horsemen he set them vpon both the sides in two partes with trumpettes to prouoke the hoast to stirre vp such as were slowe in the armie 39 And when the sunne shone vpon their shieldes of golde and steele the mountaines glistered againe at them were as bright as the cressets of fire 40 The kinges hoast also was deuided one parte vpon the hie mountaines the other low beneath so they went on taking good heede and keping their order 41 And all they that dwelt in the lande were afrayd at the noyse of their hoast when the multitude went foorth and when the weapons smote together for the hoast was both great and mightie 42 Iudas also and his hoast entred into the battaile and slue sixe hundred men of the kinges armie 43 Now when Eleazar the sonne of Saura did see one of the Elephantes deckt with the kinges badge and was a more goodly beast then the other he thought the king should be vpon him 44 And ieoparded him selfe to deliuer his people to get him a perpetual name 45 Wherfore he ranne with a courage vnto the Elephant in the middest of the hoast smiting them downe on both the sides and slue many about him 46 So went he to the Elephantes feete and gat him vnder him and slue him then fel the Elephant downe vpon him and there he dyed 47 Iudas also and his men seeing the power of the king and the mightie violence of his hoast departed from them 48 And the kinges armie went vp against them toward Hierusalem and pitched their tentes in Iurie beside mount Sion 49 Moreouer the king toke truice with them that were in Bethsura but whē they came out of the citie because they had no vitayles but were shut vp within and the lande lay vntilled 50 The king toke Bethsura and set men to keepe it and turned his hoast to the place of the sanctuary 51 And layed siege to it a great while where he made all maner ordinaunce handbowes firie dartes racketts to cast stones scorpions to shoote arrowes and slinges 52 The Iewes also made ordinaunce against theirs and fought a long season 53 But in the citie there were no vittailes for it was the seuenth yere of y e warres and those heathen that remayned in Iurie had eaten vp all their store 54 And in the sanctuary were fewe men left for the hunger came so vpon them that they were scattred abrode euery man to his owne place 55 So when Lysias heard that Philip whom Antiochus the king while he was yet liuing had ordained to bring vp Antiochus his sonne that he might be king 56 Was come againe out of Persia Medea with the kinges hoast and thought to obtaine the kingdome with the gouernaunce of all thinges 57 He gate him to the king in al the haste and to the captaynes of the hoast and saide We decrease dayly and our vittailes are but small Againe the place that we laye siege vnto is very strong it were our part to see for the realme 58 Let vs agree with these men and take truice with them and with al their people 59 And graunt them to lyue after their lawe as they did afore for they be greeued and do all these thinges against vs because we haue despised their lawe 60 So the king and the princes were content and sent vnto them to make peace and they receaued it 61 Now when the king and the princes had made an oth vnto them they came out of the castle 62 And the king went vp to mount Sion but when he saw that the place was well fenced he brake the oth that he had made and commaunded to destroy the wall rounde about 63 Then departed he in all the haste and returned vnto Antioch where he found Philip hauing dominion of the citie So he fought against him and toke the citie againe into his handes The .vij. Chapter 1 Demetrius raigned after he had killed Antiochus and Lysias 5 He troubleth the children of Israel through the counsel of certaine wicked persons 37 The prayer of the priestes against Nicanor 41 Iudas killeth Nicanor after he hath made his prayer 1 IN the hundred fiftie and one yere came Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus from the citie of Rome with a smal company of men vnto a citie of the sea coast and there he bare rule 2 And when he came to Antioch the citie of his progenitours his hoast toke Antiochus and Lysias to bring them vnto him 3 But when it was tolde him he saide let me not see their faces 4 So the hoast put them to death Now whē demetrius was set vpon the throne of his kingdome 5 There came vnto him wicked and vngodlie men of Israel whose captayne was Alcimus that woulde haue ben made hie priest 6 These men accused the people of Israel vnto the king saying Iudas and his brethren haue slaine thy frendes and driuen vs out of our owne lande 7 Wherfore send now some man to whō thou geuest credence that he may go and see al the destruction which he hath done vnto vs and to the kinges lande and let him be punished with all his friendes and fauourers 8 Then the king chose Bacchides a friend of his which was a man of great power in the realme beyond the water and faithful vnto the king and sent him to see the destruction that Iudas had done 9 And as for that wicked Alcimus he made him hie priest and commaunded him to be auenged of the children of Israel 10 So they departed from the king and came with a great hoast into the lande of Iuda sending messengers to Iudas and his brethren speaking vnto them with peaceable wordes but vnder disceite 11 Therefore Iudas and his people beleued not their saying for they saw that they were come with a great hoast 12 After this came the scribes together vnto Alcimus Bacchides to entreate of reasonable couenauntes 13 And the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that required peace of them 14 Saying Alcimus the priest is come of the seede of Aaron how can
THen came Iohn vp from Gaza and tolde Simon his father what Cendebeus had done among their people 2 Vpon this called Simon two of his eldest sonnes Iudas and Iohn and saide vnto them I and my brethren and my fathers house haue euer from our youth vp vnto this day foughten against the enemies of Israel and God gaue vs good fortune to deliuer Israel ofttimes 3 And now forsomuch as I am olde and ye by gods goodnesse are of a sufficient age be ye in steade of me and my brother to go foorth and fight for our people and the helpe of God be with you 4 So he chose twentie thousand fighting men of the countrey with horsemen also whiche went foorth against Cendebeus and rested at Modin 5 In the morning they arose and went into the playne fielde and beholde a mightie great hoast came against them both of footemen and horsemen Nowe was there a water broke betwixt them 6 And Iohn remoued the hoast towarde them and when he saw that the people was afrayde to go ouer the water broke he went ouer first him selfe and the men seyng this folowed him 7 Then Iohn set his horsemen and footemen in order the one by the other for their enemies horsemē were very many 8 But when they blewe vp the priestes trumpettes Cendebeus fled with his hoast whereof many were slayne and the remnaunt gat them to their strong holdes 9 Iudas also Iohns brother was wounded at the same time and Iohn folowed still vpon the enemies till he came to Cedron which Cendebeus had builded 10 The enemies fled also vnto the towres that were in the fieldes of Azotus and those dyd Iohn burne vp with fyre Thus there were slayne two thousand men of them and Iohn turned againe peaceably into Iurie 11 And in the fielde of Iericho was Ptolomi the sonne of Abobus made captayne which because he had aboundaunce of siluer and golde 12 For he had maried the daughter of Simon the hye priest 13 Waxed proude in his minde thought to conquer the land imagining falshood against Simon and his sonnes to destroy them 14 Nowe as Simon was goyng about thorow the cities that were in the countrey of Iurie and caring for them he came downe to Iericho with Mathathias Iudas his sonnes in the hundred threescore seuenteenth yere in the eleuenth moneth called Sabat 15 Then Ptolomi the sonne of Abobus receaued them but with disceyte into a strong house of his called Dochus whiche he had buylded where he made them a banket and had hyd men there 16 So when Simon and his sonnes were mery and had drunken well Ptolomi stoode vp with his men whom he had hid there and toke their weapons entred into the banket house and slue Simon with his two sonnes and certayne of his seruauntes 17 Such great vnfaythfulnesse dyd Ptolomi in Israel and recompenced euyll for good 18 Then wrote Ptolomi these thinges sent vnto king Antiochus requiring him that he shoulde sende hym an hoast to helpe him and so should he deliuer him the lande with the cities and tributes of the same 19 He sent other men also vnto Gaza for to take Iohn and wrote vnto the captaynes to come to him and he shoulde geue them siluer gold and rewardes 20 And to Hierusalem he sent other to take it and the sanctuarie 21 Then ran there one before and tolde Iohn in Gaza that his father and his brethren were slayne howe that Ptolomi had sent to slay him also 22 When Iohn hearde this he was sore abashed and layed handes of them that were come to destroy hym and slue them for he knewe that they went about to kill hym 23 As for other thinges concerning Iohn of his warres of his noble actes wherin he behaued hym selfe manfully of the buylding of walles which he made and other of his deedes 24 They are written in the cronicles of his priesthood from the time foorth that he was made hye priest after his father ¶ The end of the first booke of the Machabees ❧ The seconde booke of the Machabees The first Chapter 1 An epistle of the Iewes that dwelt at Hierusalem sent vnto them that dwelt in Egypt wherin they exhort them to geue thankes for the death of Antiochus 19 Of the fire that was hyd in the pit 24 The prayer of Nehemias 1 THe brethren of the Iewes which be at Hierusalem in the lande of Iurie wishe vnto these brethrē of the Iewes that are thorowout Egypt health and peace 2 God be gracious vnto you and thinke vpon his couenaunt that he made with Abraham Isaac and Iacob his faythfull seruauntes 3 And geue you all such an heart that ye may loue and serue hym yea and perfourme his will with an whole heart and a willing mynde 4 He open your heartes vnto his law and in his commaundementes sende you peace 5 Heare your prayers be at one with you and neuer forsake you in time of trouble 6 Forsomuch as now we here be praying for you 7 What time as Demetrius raigned in the hundred threescore nyne yere we Iewes wrote vnto you in the trouble violence that came vnto vs In those yeres after that Iason departed out of the holy lande and kingdome 8 They brent vp the portes and shed innocent blood then made we our prayer vnto the Lorde and were hearde we offered vp sacrifices and fine floure setting foorth cakes and bread 9 And nowe come ye vnto the feast of tabernacles in the moneth Casleu 10 In the hundred fourescore and eyghtteene yere the people that was at Hierusalem and in Iurie the counsel and Iudas him selfe sent this wholsome salutation vnto Aristobulus king Ptolomies maister whiche came of the generation of the annoynted priestes and to the Iewes that were in Egypt 11 Insomuch as God hath deliuered vs from great peryls we thanke hym hyly no lesse at all then if we had vanquished the king in battell 12 For when he with those that had fought against the holy citie dyd set vpon Persia 13 For as he was in Persis namely the captayne with the great hoast he perished in the temple of Naneas beyng disceaued thorowe the deuice of Naneas priestes 14 For when Antiochus as he that should marry with her came and his friendes with him into the place to receaue by name of dowrie the money whiche the priestes of Naneas had set foorth 15 He entred with a small companie into the compasse of the temple and so they shut the temple 16 Nowe when Antiochus entred by opening the priuy entraunce of the temple the priestes stoned the captayne to death hewed them in peeces that were with him smote of their heades and threwe them out 17 In all thinges God be praysed which hath deliuered the wicked into our handes to be punished 18 Where as we are now purposed to kepe the purification of the temple vpon the twentie fiue day of the moneth Casleu we
was sore smitten and like as he had intreated other men so he died a miserable death in a straunge countrey vpon a mountayne 29 And his body dyd Philip that went with him cary away which fearing the sonne of Antiochus went into Egypt to Ptolomi Philometor The .x. Chapter 1 Iudas Machabeus taketh a citie and the temple 10 He beginneth to shewe the actes of Eupator 16 The Iewes fight against the Idumeans 24 Timotheus inuadeth Iurie with whom Iudas ioyneth battell 29 Fiue men appeare in the ayre to the helpe of the Iewes 39 Timothi is slayne 1 MAchabeus nowe and his company thorowe the helpe of the Lorde wan the temple and the citie againe 2 Destroyed the aulters and chappels that the heathen had buylded through the streetes 3 Clensed the temple made another aulter of bricke stone and after two yeres they offered sacrifices set foorth the incense the lightes and shewe bread 4 When that was done they fell downe flat vpon the grounde and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such trouble but if they sinned any more against him he him selfe to chasten them with mercie and not to come in the handes of those aliauntes and blasphemous men 5 Nowe vpon the same day that the straungers polluted the temple it happened that on the very same day it was clensed againe namely the twentie and fyfth day of the moneth called Casleu 6 They kept eyght dayes in gladnesse like as in the feast of the tabernacles remembring that not long afore they held the feast of the tabernacles vpon the mountaynes and in dennes like beastes 7 And to the same token they bare greene bowes braunches palmes and song Psalmes before hym that had geuen them good successe to clense his place 8 They agreed also together and made a statute that euery yere those dayes shoulde be solemply kept of all the people of the Iewes 9 How Antiochus then that was called the noble died it is sufficiently tolde 10 Nowe will we speake of Eupator the sonne of that wicked Antiochus howe it happened with hym and so with fewe wordes to comprehende the aduersitie that chaunced in the warres 11 When he had taken in the kingdome he made one Lysias whiche had ben captayne of the hoast in Phenices and Syria ruler ouer the matters of the realme 12 For Ptolomi that was called Macron beyng a ruler for the Iewes and specially to sit in iudgement for such wrong as was done vnto them vndertoke to deale peaceably with them 13 For the whiche cause he was accused of his friendes before Eupator and when he was suspect to be a traytour because he had left Cypres that Philometor had committed vnto him and because he departed from noble Antiochus that he was come vnto he poysoned hym selfe and died 14 Now when Gorgias was gouernour of the same places he toke straungers and vndertoke oft times to warre with the Iewes 15 Moreouer the Idumeans that helde the strong holdes receaued those that were dryuen from Hierusalem and toke in hande to warre also 16 But they that were with Machabeus besought prayed vnto the Lorde that he woulde be their helper and so they fell vpon the strong holdes of the Idumeans 17 And wan many places by strength such as came against them they slue and killed no lesse of all together then twentie thousande 18 Neuerthelesse some no lesse then nyne thousande were fled into two strong towres hauing all maner of ordinaunce to withstande them 19 Then Machabeus leauing Simon Iosephus Zacheus and those that were with them whiche were very many went to besiege them to fight where most neede was 20 Nowe they that were with Simon beyng led with couetousnesse were intreated for money thorowe certayne of those that lay in the castles toke threescore and ten thousande dragmas and let some of them escape 21 But when it was tolde Machabeus what had happened he called the captaynes of the people together accusing those persons that they had sold the brethren for money let their enemies go 22 So he slue those traytours immediatly went in hande with the two castles 23 And when they had ordred them selues manly with their weapons handes they slue in the two castles mo then twentie thousande 24 Now Timotheus whom the Iewes had ouercome afore gathered a multitude of strange people brought an hoast also of horsemen of the Asians to winne Iurie by strength 25 But when he drewe nye Machabeus and they that were with him fell to their prayer sprinkled asshes vpon their heades beyng gyrded with heery cloth about their loynes 26 Fell downe before the aulter and besought the Lord that he would be mercifull to them but an enemie vnto their enemies and to take part against their aduersaries according as it is promised in the lawe 27 So after the prayer they toke their weapons went on further from the citie when they came nye the enemies they prepared them selues against them 28 And betimes in the morning at the breake of the day both the hoastes buckled together The one part had the Lorde for their refuge which is the geuer of prosperitie strength and victorie the other had a manly stomacke which is a captayne of warre 29 The battayle nowe beyng great there appeared vnto the enemies from heauen fiue goodly men vpon horsebackes with bridels of gold leading the Iewes 30 And two of them hauing Machabeus betwixt them that kept him safe on euery side with their weapons but shot dartes and lightninges vpon the enemies where thorow they were confounded with blindnesse and so sore afrayde that they fell downe 31 There were slayne of footemen twentie thousand and fyue hundreth and sixe hundreth horsemen 32 As for Timotheus him selfe he fled vnto Gazara a very strong hold wherin Chereas was captayne 33 But Machabeus and his companie layed siege to it chearfully foure dayes 34 Now they that were within trusting to the strength of the place cursed and banned exceedingly and made great craking with wicked wordes 35 Neuerthelesse vpon the fyft day in the morning twentie yong men of Machabeus company beyng set on fire in their mindes because of the blasphemie came manfully vnto the wall and with bolde stomakes smote downe those that they mette 36 Others also clymed vp vpō the towres vndertaking to set fire vpon the portes to burne those blasphemous persons quicke with the fiers that they had made others brake open the gates and receaued the rest of the armie and toke the citie 37 Two dayes were they destroying the castle which when they founde Timotheus that was crept in a corner they killed him and slue Chereas his brother in like maner with Apollophanes 38 When this was done they song Psalmes with prayses and thankesgeuing vnto the Lorde which had done so great thinges for Israel and geuen them the victorie The .xi. Chapter 1 Lysias goeth about to
of Onias the priest O. Alexander translated the kingdome of the Persies to him selfe and toke Tyrus and Gaza and in his anger was goyng to Hierusalem because Iadus the priest denyed him both his tribute and his victu●ls but Iadus and other of the priestes met him whom he dyd reuerence Christes line Eliathim Azor. Sadoch Achim Bliud Christes line Kinges of the Parsians a. Axtaxerses Longimanus 40. xerses H moneth ii Sogdianus moneth vii Darius bastarde Assuerus or Artaxerses I Artaxerses Ochus k xvi Arsanius iiii Darius vi Kinges of Grecia Alexand. of Macedonia o. xii Kinges of Macedonia Philip king of Macedonia Kinges of Egypt Ptolomeus son of Lagi F Ptolomeus Philadelp G Ptolomeus Euergites Ptolomeus Philopator Ptolomeus Epiphanes Ptolomeus ●hilometor lxx interpretours Iesus the son of Sirach Phophetes Esdras Malachias Nehemias Hester Kinges of Asia Antigonus kyng of Asia Kinges of Syria Seleucus Antiochus sother Antheus Theos Seleucus Galericus Seleucus Zerannos Antiochus the great L Seleucus Philopator M Antiochus Epiphanes N. H. xerses raigned after Artaxerses his father two monethes after whom Sogdianus his sonne .7 monethes and after him his sonne Darius called Bastard .20 yeres vnder whom Egypt lande receeded from the Persians after his death raigned Artaxerses or Assuerus who raigned ouer 127. Prouinces in the dayes of this Darius Plato the Philosopher was famous Esd 4. I. Assuerus after his sumptuous feast when he expulsed Vasti and had maryed Hester for his Queene he caused Ammon to be hanged for the murther he committed vpō the Iewes and so also were ten of his children hanged Mardocheus was exalted to honour who wrote to the hye priest in Hierusalem to obserue this feast for a perpetuall memorie Hest 7. About this tyme Aristotle dyd heare Plato readyng K. Ochus sonne to Artaxerses at the suggestion of Vagosus his lieftenaunt restored agayne the tributes that were released by Esdras to the ministers of the temple N. Antiochus Epiphanes after he harde of the death of his father cowardy of his brother being pledge at Rome stole priuily away was receaued into certaine cities of Syria he put in the temple the idol of Iupiter compelled the Iewes to worship it L. Antiochus the great kylled his brother Seleucus he renewed the tribute of .7 yeres subdued Iurie ouercame Philopator the king of Egypt for whose crueltie Onias the hye priest fledde to Ptolomeus Epiphanes at the last he was slain in Perside of the priestes in the temple of Nanae 2. Mach. 1. M. Seleuchus Philopator the sonne of Antiochus magnus sent Eliodore to Hierusalem to spoyle the treasurie of the temple whervpon he was slayne of two young men who yet at the request of Onias was raised vp agayne and sent vnto him 2. Mach. 3. The children of Mathathias A. Mathathias priest in Medin but not the bye priest after he had slayne the messengers of Antiochus which compelled the people of Israel to commit idolatrie and after he had slayne the Iewe in the sight of them all that did sacrifice vpon the aulter he fled with fiue of his children and with others which feared God and hid them selues in caues and in wooddes and vpon the Sabbath daye he taught them to vse armour and restored the lawes of the fathers destroyed the aulter of the idols circumcised the children that were not circumcised and towarde his death he made a testament commaundyng the lawe to be obserued 1. Mac. 2. B. Iudas Machabeus that notable triumpher in Israel who had neuer y e like before nor after whose workes be set out in the booke of the Machabees after standyng in defence of the lawe of God he was slayne and offered him selfe as martir to the Lorde 1. Mach. 9. C. Ionathas stoode faythfullye to the testament of God but at the last he was guil●fully slaine with his .2 sonnes of Triphō 1. Mach. 9. D. Eleazar goyng about to supplant the Elephant which as he thought caryed Antiochus goyng through y e armie killing on both sides felled the Elephant which dyd oppresse him to death ● Mach. 6. E. Simon a prudent man tyl his olde age and victorious but at the last he was slayne vngratiously of his sonne in lawe 1. Mach. 15. F. Iohn Hircanus did open two of the eyght lockers of Dauid and gaue to Antiochus to rayse vp his siege from Hierusalem .300 talentes and to styll the murmure of the people for the spoylyng of the graue he was the first that builded hospitalles for sicke folkes which he did with the rest of the money G. Aristobolus after he had put his mother in prison and three of his brethren he set the crowne on his owne head and at the suggestion of his wife he killed his brother Antigonus H. Alexander slue about .1000 of the Iewes and he obeyng his wife gaue vp his Crowne I. Alexandra his wife promisyng to her sonne Hircanus the dominion put in prison Aristobolus her other sonne K. Hircanus after his mothers death was chased of his brother Aristobolus discomfited he fled to Hierusalem at the last agreed that Aristobolus should be chiefe ruler and Hircanus vnder him which Hircanus went to Aretha king of Arabia secretely to helpe him agayne to his dominion whiche Aretha commyng into Iurie besieged Hierusalem and shoulde haue taken it yf one Scaurus duke of the Romanes had not raysed vp the siege and so departed L. This Aristobolus ▪ ouercommyng his brother Hircanus in battayle was taken prisoner in Hierusalem of Pompeius brought to Rome but he breaking prison out of Rome with a great multitude of the Iewes besieged Alexandria which he woulde haue destroyed but Aristobolus was taken and brought agayne to Rome with his children M. Antigonus the sonne of Aristobolus by the helpe of Lisania his nephewe promisyng to Parthus kyng of the Parthians .1000 talentes and .500 virgins to restore him into the kingdome agayne and he hauyng many thousande men of the Parthians besieged Hierusalem At the last the king of the Parthians constituted Antigonus kyng and slue Hircanus after he had cut of his ●ares Mathathias Asamoneus A. Iudas Machabeus B. Ionathas C. Eleazar D. Iohannes Simon E. Iohannes Hircanus F. Aristobolus king G. Alexander H. Alexandra I. Brethren Hircanus K. Aristobolus L. Antigonus M. Alexandra Alexander Lisanias N. Antiochus Eupater after the takyng of Bethsura and the besiegyng of Hierusalem and his promise made to the Iewes of obseruyng their lawes he droue out Philip out of Antiochia At the last he and Lysias bounde of their owne armie and at the commaundement of Demetrius Sother the children of Seleuchus were slayne 1. Mach. 7. O. Demetrius Sother the sonne of Seleuchus returnyng to Rome slue Antiochus with Lysia did constitute Alchimus for hie bishop with whom Bacchades was sent into Iurie destroyed many about Hierusalem he lost Nichanor who was slaine by the hande of Iudas who was killed by Bacchides Ionathas withdrawing his helpe although he promised him many thinges Alexander
inheritaunce in the inheritaunce of them 10 And the third lot arose for the childrē of Zabulon throughout their kynreds And the coastes of their inheritaunce came to Sarid 11 And went vp westward euen to Maralah and reached to Dabbaseth came thence to the riuer that lyeth before Iokneam 12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunne risyng vnto the border of Chisloth Thabor then goeth out to Dabereth and goeth vp to Iaphia 13 And from thence goeth along eastward to Gethah Hepher to Itthah Kazin and goeth to Remmon and turneth to Neah 14 And compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon and endeth in the valey of Iephthahel 15 And Katath Nahalol Simeon Iedalah and Bethlehem twelue cities with their villages 16 This is the inheritaunce of the children of Zabulon throughout their kynredes and these are the cities with their villages 17 And the fourth lot came out to Isachar euen for the children of Isachar by their kinreds 18 And their coast was Iesraelah Casuloth ' and Sunem ' 19 Hapharaim Sion and Anaharath ' 20 Harabith Kision and Abez ' 21 Rameth Enganim Enhadah and ' Bethphazez ' 22 And his coast reacheth to Thabor Sahazimah and Bethsames and endeth at Iordane syxteene cities with their villages 23 This is the inheritaunce of the tribe of the children of Isachar by their kinreds and these are the cities with their villages 24 And y e fyfth lot came out for the tribe ' of the children of Aser by their kinreds ' 25 And their coast was Helkath Hali ' Beten and Achsap ' 26 Alamelech Amaad and Miseal and came to Carmel westwarde and to Sihor Libanath 27 And turneth toward the sunne rising to Bethdagon and commeth to Zabulon and to the valley of Iephthahel towarde the north side of Bethemek Neiel and goeth out on the lefte side of Cabul 28 And to Hebron Rohob Hammon ' and Kanah euen vnto great Sidon ' 29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah to the strong citie of Zor and turneth to Hozah endeth at the sea by the possession of Achzibah 30 Amah also and Aphek and Rohob twentie and two cities with their villages 31 This is the inheritaunce of the children of Aser by their kinreds these are the cities with their villages 32 And the syxth lot came out to the children of Nephthali euen to the childrē of Nephthali by their kinredes 33 And their coast was from Heleph ' and from Elon to Zaenanim Adami ' children of Iuda and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon these cities by name 10 Which the children of Aaron being of the kynredes of the Caathites and of the childrē of Leui obtained for theirs was the first lotte 11 And they gaue them Kiriath Arba of the father of Enac which is Hebron in the hyll countrey of Iuda with the suburbes of the same rounde about it 12 But the lande that pertayned to the citie and the villages therof gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephune to be his possession 13 And thus they gaue to the childrē of Aaron the priest a citie to the which the slayer myght flee euen Hebron with her suburbes and Libna with her suburbes 14 And Iathir with her suburbes and Estemoa with he suburbes 15 Holon with her suburbes Dabir with her suburbes 16 Ain with her suburbes Iuttah with her suburbes Bethsames with her suburbes nine cities out of those two tribes 17 And out of the tribe of Beniamin they gaue Gibeon with her suburbes Gabae with her suburbes 18 Anatoth with her suburbes Almon with her suburbes foure cities 19 All these cities of the children of Aaron priestes were thirteene cities with their suburbes 20 And the kynredes of the children of Caath that were Leuites that is to say the other children of Caath had cities geuen them for their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim 21 For they gaue them the citie that the slear might flee vnto Sichem with her suburbes in mount Ephraim and Gazer with her suburbes 22 And Cibraim with her suburbes and Bethhoron with her suburbes foure cities 23 And out of y e tribe of Dan Elthee with her suburbes Gabethon with her suburbes 24 And Aialō with her suburbes Gathremon with her suburbes foure cities 25 And out of the halfe tribe of Manasses Thanach with her suburbes Gathremon with her suburbes two cities 26. All the cities for the other kynredes of the children of Caath were ten with their suburbes 27 And vnto the childrē of Gerson which were of the kynredes of the Leuites they gaue out of the other halfe tribe of Manasses the citie of refuge for y e slear Golan in Basan with her suburbes Beestherah with her suburbes two cities 28 And out of the tribe of Isachar Kision with her suburbes and Dabereh with her suburbes 29 And Iarmuth with her suburbes Enganim with her suburbes foure cities 30 And out of the tribe of Aser Misal with her suburbes Abdō with her suburbes 31 Helcath with her suburbes and Rohob with her suburbes foure cities 32 And out of the tribe of Nephthali the citie for the slear to flee vnto Kedes in Galilee with her suburbes Hamothdor with her suburbes and Carthan with her suburbes three cities 33 All the cities of y e Gersonites throughout their kynredes were thirteene cities with their suburbes 34 And vnto the other kynredes of the children of Merari the rest of the Leuites they gaue out of the tribe of Zabulon Iecnam with her suburbes and Cartha with her suburbes 35 Dimnah with her suburbes and Nahalal with her suburbes foure cities 36 And out of the tribe of Rubē Bezer with her suburbes and Iahasa with her suburbes 37 Kedmoth with her suburbes and Mephaath with her suburbes foure cities 38 And out of the tribe of Gad they gaue the citie for the slear to flee vnto Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbes and Mahanaim with her suburbes 39 Hesbon with suburbes and Iaser with her suburbes foure cities in all 40 So that all the cities of the children of Merari throughout their kinredes which were the rest of the kynredes of the Leuites were by their lot twelue cities 41 And all the cities that the Leuites had among the possession of the children of Israel were .xlviii. with their suburbes 42 And these cities lay euery one seuerally hauing their suburbes rounde about them throughout al the said cities 43 And the Lorde gaue vnto Israel all the lande which he sware to geue vnto their fathers And they conquered it dwelt therin 44 And the Lord gaue them rest rounde about according to all that he sware vnto their fathers and there stoode not a man of all their enemies before them The Lorde also deliuered all their enemies into their handes 45 There scaped nothing of al the good thinges which the Lord had sayd vnto y e house of Israel but all came to passe The
ouer against the middest within the networke pomegranets and vpon the second head peece were there two hundred pomegranets in two rowes round about 21 And he set vp the pillers in the porch of the temple And when he had set vp the right piller he called the name therof Iachin and when he had set vp the left piller he called the name thereof Boaz. 22 And vpon the top of the pillers were lillie worke so was the workmanship of the pillers finished 23 And he made a moulten lauatorie ten cubites wide from brim to brim round in compasse and fiue cubites hie And a string of thirtie cubites did compasse it about 24 And vnder the brim of it there were knoppes round about ten in one cubite and thei compassed the lauatorie round about And the knoppes were cast with it in two rowes when it was cast 25 And it stoode on twelue oxen of which three loked toward the north three toward the west three toward the south and three toward the east and the lauatorie stoode vpon them and al their hinder partes were inward 26 It was an hand breadth thicke and the brym was wrought lyke the brym of a cup with flowres of lilies and it contained two thousand battes 27 And he made ten feete of brasse foure cubites long and foure cubites broade a peece and three cubites hie 28 And the worke of the feete was on this maner They had sides and the sides were betweene the ledges 29 And on the sides that were betweene the ledges were lions oxen and Cherubs and likewise vpō the ledges that were aboue and beneath the lions and oxen were certayne additions made of thynne worke 30 And vnder euery foote were foure brasen wheeles and boordes of brasse and in the foure corners thereof vnder the lauatorie were vndersetters moulten at the side of euery addition 31 And the stalke of the lauatorie was in the middle of it and aboue one cubite But the stalke thereof was round after the worke of the foote a cubite a halfe and also vpon the stalke were grauings with their bands foure square and not round 32 And vnder the sydes were foure wheeles and the axeltrees ioyned fast to the bottome and the height of euery wheele was a cubite and an halfe 33 And the workmanship of the wheeles was lyke the worke of a charet wheele and the axeltrees the nauelles spokes and shaftes were al moulten 34 And there were foure vndersetters in the foure corners of one foote the vndersetters were of y e very bottome selfe 35 And in the height of the bottome was there a rounde compasse of halfe a cubite hie and in that height of the bottome there proceeded both ledges and sydes out of the same 36 For in the boordes of the ledges and on the sydes he had grauen pictures of Cherubims lions paulme trees one by another rounde about 37 Thus made he the ten feete after this maner and they had all one fashion of casting one measure and one syse 38 Then made he ten lauers of brasse one lauer contayning fourtie battes and euery lauer was foure cubites vpon euery one of the ten feete he put one lauer 39 And he put fiue of those feete on the ryght syde of the house and other fiue on the left and he set the lauatorie on the right syde of the house eastward and toward the south 40 And Hiram made pots shouels and basons so finished all the worke that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lorde 41 That is to say two pillers and two round head peeces that were to be set on the toppes of the two pillers 42 And foure hundred pomegranates for the two networkes euen two rowes of pomegranates in one networke to couer the two head peeces that were to be set on the toppes of the pillers ' 43 And the ten feete and ten lauers on ' the feete ' 44 The lauatorie and twelue oxen vnder ' it 45 And pottes shouels and basons And all these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomō for the house of the Lord were of bright brasse 46 In the playne of Iordane did the king cast them euen in the thicke claye betweene Socoh and Zarthan 47 And Solomon left all the vessels vnwayed because they were so exceeding many neither founde they out the waight of the brasse 48 And so Solomon made al the vessels that parteyned vnto the house of the Lorde the golden aulter and the golden table wheron the shew bread was 49 And fiue candelstickes for the ryght side and fiue for the left before the quier of pure golde with flowres lampes and snuffers of golde 50 And bowles flat peeces basons spoones masours of pure golde and hyndges made he of golde both for the doores of the quier the place most holy and for the doores of the temple also 51 And so was ended all the worke that king Solomon made for the house of the Lorde And Solomon brought in the thinges which Dauid his father had dedicated euen the siluer golde and vessels and layde them vp among the treasures of the house of the Lord. ¶ The .viii. Chapter 4 The arke is borne into the temple 10 A cloude filleth the temple 15 The king blesseth the people 1 THen Solomon gathered the elders of Israel al the heads of the tribes and them that were captaynes amōg the fathers of the children of Israel vnto him in Hierusalem that they might bring vp the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde out of the citie of Dauid which is Sion 2 And all the men of Israel assembled vnto king Solomon to the feast that falleth in the moneth Ethanim which is the seuenth moneth 3 And al the elders of Israel were come and the priestes tooke vp the arke 4 And they bare the arke of the Lorde the tabernacle of the congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle those dyd the priestes and the leuites beare 5 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him and went with him before the arke did offer sheepe and oxen that could not be tolde nor numbred for multitude 6 And so the priestes brought the arke of the appoyntment of the Lord vnto his place euen into the quier of the temple and place most holy vnder the winges of the Cherubs 7 For the Cherubs stretched out their winges ouer the place of the arke and couered both it and also the staues therof a hie vpon it 8 And they drew out the staues that the endes of them might appeare out of the holy place within the quier but they were not seene without and there they haue ben vnto this day 9 And there was nothing in the arke saue the two tables of stone which Moyses put there at Horeb in y e which tables the Lorde made an appoyntment with the children of Israel when he brought them
the wyng of the other Cherub 12 And euen so the one wyng of the other Cherub was fiue cubites reaching to the wall of the house and the other wyng was fiue cubites also and reached to the wyng of the other Cherub 13 So that the wynges of the sayde Cherubs were stretched out twentie cubites and they stoode on their feete and loked inwardes 14 And he made a fore hanging of yelow silke purple crymosin and fine white caused the pictures of Cherubs to be brodred theron 15 And he made before the house two pillers of thirtie and fiue cubites high and the head that was aboue on the top of euery one of them was fiue cubites 16 And he made chaynes of wreathē worke for the quier put them on the heades of the pillers and made an hundred pomegranates and put them on the chaynes 17 And he reared vp the pillers before the temple one on the right hande and the other on the left and called the right Iachin and the left Boaz. The .iiii. Chapter 1 The aulter of brasse 2 The lauatorie 6 The caldrons 7 The candelstickes c. 1 ANd he made an aulter of brasse twentie cubites long and twentie cubites broade and ten cubites hie 2 And he cast a brasen lauatorie of ten cubites from brym to brym rounde in compasse and fiue cubites hie and a line of thirtie cubites dyd compasse it round about 3 And vnder it was the fashion of oxen whiche dyd compasse it rounde about with ten cubites dyd they compasse the lauatorie rounde about and there were two rowes of oxen whiche were cast lyke molten worke 4 And it stoode also vpon twelue oxen three loked towarde the north three towarde the west three toward the south and three toward the east and the lauatorie was set vpon them and all their backes were towarde the lauatorie 5 And the thyckest of it was an hande breadth and the brym like the brym of a cuppe with floures of lilies and it receaued and helde three thousande battes 6 And he made ten lauers and put fiue on the right hand and fiue on the left to washe and clense in them such thinges as they offered for a burnt offring But the great lauatorie was for the priestes to washe in 7 And he made ten candelstickes of gold according to the patterne that was geuē of them and put them in the temple fiue on the right hande and fiue on the left 8 And he made also ten tables and put them in the temple fiue on the right side and fiue on the left And he made an hundred basens of golde 9 And he made the court of the priestes and the great court and doores to it and ouerlayde the doores of them with brasse 10 And he set the great lauatorie on the right side of the east ende ouer against the south 11 And Hiram made pottes shouels and basens finished the worke that he was appoynted to make for king Solomon in the house of God 12 The two pillers and the bowles and the pommels on the toppe of the two pillers and the two wreathes to couer the two bowles of the pommels whiche were on the toppe of the pillers 13 And foure hundred pomegranates on the two wreathes two rowes of pomegranates on one wreath to couer the two bowles of the pomels 14 And he made two bottomes and lauers made he vpon the bottomes 15 The great lauatorie and twelue oxen vnder it 16 Pottes also shouels and fleshhokes and all these vessels dyd Hiram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the Lord of bright brasse 17 In the playne of Iordane did the king cast them euen in the clay grounde that is betweene Socoth and Zaredatha 18 And Solomon made al these vessels in great aboundaunce for the weyght of brasse coulde not be reckened 19 And Solomon made al the vessels that were for the house of God the golden aulter also the tables to set the shewe bread vpon 20 Moreouer the candelstickes with their lampes to burne after the maner before the quier and that of precious golde 21 And the floures and the lampes and the snoffers made he of golde and that perfect golde 22 And the dressing knyues basens spoones and censers of pure golde And the doore of the temple and the inner doores within the place most holy and the inner doores of the temple were gilted The .v. Chapter 1 The things dedicated by Dauid are put in the temple 2 The arke is brought into the temple 10 What was within it 12 They sing prayse to the Lorde 1 ANd so all the worke that Solomon made in the house of the lord was finished And Solomon brought in all the thinges that Dauid his father had dedicated with the siluer and golde and al the iewels and put them among the treasures of the house of God 2 Then Solomon gathered the elders of Israel together and all the heades of the tribes and auncient fathers of the children of Israel vnto Hierusalem to bring the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde out of the citie of Dauid whiche is in Sion 3 Wherefore all the men of Israel resorted vnto the king in the feast euen in the seuenth moneth 4 And all the elders of Israel came and the Leuites toke vp the arke 5 And the priestes the Leuites brought away the arke of the tabernacle of y e congregatiō al the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle and they bare them 6 And king Solomon all the congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him before the arke offered sheepe and oxen so many that they coulde not be tolde nor numbred for multitude 7 And the priestes brought the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde vnto his place euen into the quier of the temple within the place most holy and set it vnder the wynges of the Cherubs 8 So that the Cherubs stretched out their wynges ouer the place of the arke and the Cherubs couered both the arke and her barres aboue on hye 9 And the barres of the arke were so long that the heades of the barres were seene without the arke within the quier but not without and there the arke remayned vnto this day 10 But there was nothing in the arke saue the two tables which Moyses put therin at Horeb when the Lord made a couenaunt with the children of Israel after they were come out of Egypt 11 And it fortuned that when the priestes were come out of the holy place for all the priestes that were present were sanctified and did not then wayte by course 12 That both the Leuites and the singers vnder Asaph Heman and Ieduthun were appoynted to sundry offices with their children and brethren and were arayed in syne whyte hauing cymbales psalteries and harpes and stoode at the east ende of the aulter and by them an hundred and twentie priestes blowing with trumpets 13 And the trumpet
the beautie eloquence strength power successe administration of iustice aboundaunce of riches and maiestie of kyng Solomon with his wife and children setteth foorth Iesus Christe and his espouse the Churche whose eternal kingdome agaynst sinne death and hell is notably figured here in this psalme ¶ To the chiefe musition on the instrument Sosannim to be song of the children of Corach A song of loue geuyng wise instructions 1 MY heart is endityng of a good matter I wyll dedicate my workes vnto the king my tongue is as the penne of a redy writer 2 Thou art fayrer then the children of men full of grace are thy lippes because the Lorde hath blessed thee for euer 3 Girde thee with thy sworde vpon thy thygh O thou most mightie that is with thy glorie and thy maiestie 4 Prosper thou with thy maiestie ryde on the worde of trueth and of affliction for ryghteousnesse sake and thy ryght hande shall teache thee terrible thynges 5 Thyne arrowes are sharpe a people the kynges enemies shall submit in heart them selues vnto thee 6 Thy throne O Lorde endureth for euer and euer the scepter of ryghteousnesse is the scepter of thy kyngdome 7 Thou hast loued iustice and hated vngodlynesse wherfore the Lorde euen thy Lorde hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnesse more then thy felowes 8 All thy garmentes smell of Myrre Aloes and Cassia out of the iuorie palaces wherby they haue made thee glad 9 Kynges daughters are amongst thy honourable women vpon thy ryght hande standeth the queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir 10 Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine eare forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house 11 So shall the kyng haue pleasure in thy beautie for he is thy Lorde and worship thou hym 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall come with a present the riche among the people shall make their earnest prayer before thee 13 The kynges daughter is all glorious within her clothyng is of wrought golde 14 She shal be brought vnto the kyng in rayment of needle worke the virgins that folowe her and her company shal be brought vnto thee 15 With ioy and gladnesse shall they be brought and shal enter into the kinges palace 16 In steade of thy fathers thou shalt haue children whom thou mayst make princes in all landes 17 I wyll remember thy name from one generation vnto another therfore shall the people prayse thee worlde without ende ¶ The argument of the .xlvj. Psalme ¶ The prophete acknowledgeth God to haue deliuered Hierusalem so notably out of perilles that they all haue a cause to conceaue a full hope not for to feare any aduersitie in tyme to come He exhorteth other to beholde the great workes of God and turneth his speache to his aduersaries ¶ To the chiefe musition a song to be song of the children of Corach vpon Alamoth 1 THe Lorde is our refuge strength a helpe very easyly founde in troubles 2 Therfore we wyll not feare though the earth be transposed and though the hilles rushe into the middest of the sea 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell and though the mountaynes shake at the surges of the same Selah 4 Yet the fludde by his ryuers shall make glad the citie of God the holy place of the tabernacles of the most hyghest 5 God is in the myddest of her therfore she can not be remoued the Lorde wyll helpe her and that ryght early 6 The heathen make much a do and the kyngdomes are moued but God shewed his voyce and the earth melted away 7 The God of hoastes is with vs the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge Selah 8 O come hither and beholde the workes of God what distructions he hath brought vpon the earth 9 He maketh warres to ceasse in all the worlde he breaketh the bowe knappeth the speare in sunder and burneth the charettes in the fire 10 Be styll then and knowe that I am the Lorde I wyll be exalted among the heathen I wyll be exalted in the earth 11 The God of hoastes is with vs the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge Selah The argument of the .xlvij. psalme ¶ The prophete inciteth the faythfull to prayse God with all kynde of melody for that he subdueth their enemies vnder them He also declareth that the heathen with their princes shall receaue the fayth ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme to be song of the children of Corach 1 CLap your handes all ye people make a noise vnto the Lorde with a ioyfull voyce 2 For God is hygh and terrible he is the great king vpō all the earth 3 He wyll subdue the people vnder vs and the nations vnder our feete 4 He hath chosen for vs our inheritaunce the glorie of Iacob whō he loued Selah 5 The Lorde ascendeth in a triumph and God with the sounde of a trumpet 6 Syng psalmes to the Lorde syng psalmes syng psalmes to our kyng sing psalmes 7 For the Lorde is kyng of all the earth * syng psalmes all you that haue skyll 8 God raigneth ouer the heathen God sitteth vpon his holy throne 9 The princes of the people are assembled together for to be the people of the God of Abraham for the shieldes of the earth be Gods who is hyghly exalted ¶ The argument of the .xlviii. Psalme ¶ The prophete magnifieth the maiestie of God for his goodnesse benefites fayth and wonderfull defence towardes his Churche which he commendeth vnder the name of the citie of God of mount Sion of the holy hyll and palaces of the north syde ¶ A song the psalme of the children of Corach 1 GReat is God and hyghly to be praysed in the citie of our Lorde his holy hyll 2 The hyll of Sion is fayre in situation and the ioy of the whole earth vpon the north syde lyeth y e citie of the great king 3 God is well knowen in her palaces as a most sure refuge 4 For lo kinges did assemble and passe by together they them selues sawe it * lykewyse they marueyled they were astonyed with feare and sodenly in haste they were gone away 5 A feare came there vpon them and sorowe as vpon a woman in her childe trauayle 6 Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea through the east wynde 7 Lyke as we haue hearde so haue we seene in the citie of God of hoastes in the citie of our Lorde God vpholdeth the same for euer Selah 8 O Lorde we haue wayted for thy louyng kindnesse in the myddest of thy temple 9 O Lorde accordyng to thy name so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende thy ryght hande is full of iustice 10 Mount Sion shall reioyce and the daughters of Iuda shal be glad because of thy iudgementes 11 Compasse about Sion and go rounde about her and tell the towres therof 12 Marke well her bulwarkes beholde her hygh palaces that ye may tell it to your posteritie
that call vpon thee 6 Geue eare O God vnto my prayer and be attentiue vnto the voyce of my humble petitions 7 I call vpon thee in the day of my trouble for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde there is not one that can do as thou doest All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lorde and shall glorifie thy name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges thou art God alone 11 Teache me thy way O God and I wyll walke in thy trueth make my heart all one with thyne that it may feare thy name 12 I wyll acknowledge thee O Lorde my God with all my heart and I wyl glorifie thy name for euer 13 For great is thy mercy towarde me and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest part of hell 14 O God the proude are rysen against me a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule and haue not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy long yer thou be angry plenteous in goodnes and trueth 16 Turne thy face vnto me and haue mercy vpon me geue thy strength vnto thy seruaunt and helpe the sonne of thine handmayde 17 Shewe some good token of thy fauour towardes me that they whiche hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou God hast helped me and comforted me The argument of the .lxxxvij. psalme ¶ The prophete commendeth Sion the citie of God of the holy religion that is in it of the sitation of the great loue that God beareth to it of the noble actes done in it and in auauncing it aboue all the kingdomes of the earth ¶ A psalme the song of the sonnes of Corach 1 GOD loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob for her foundations are vpon the holy hilles 2 Very excellent thinges are spoken of thee O thou citie of God Selah 3 I wyll make mention amongst those that knowe me of Egypt and Babylon behold also of Palestina and Tyre with Ethiopia and it shal be sayde suche a man is borne there 4 But of Sion it shal be reported that very many be borne in her and the most highest him selfe shall establishe her 5 God wyll number in the register of the people euery one that is borne there Selah 6 And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes yea al my fountaines are in thee ¶ The argument of the .lxxxviij. psalme ¶ The prophete after a most lamentable sort desireth God to heare his prayers He complayneth of his great calamities and extreme perilles wherin he was wrapt by sicknes by ieoperdie of death and by the losse of his frendes as one forsaken of God and without al comfort He is loth to die for that then he can not prayse God with the faythful ¶ A song the psalme of the sonnes of Corach to the chiefe musition vpon Mahalath Leannoth a wise instruction of Heman the Ezrahite 1 O God the Lorde of my saluation I crye day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thyne eare vnto my crying 2 For my soule is full of miserie and my life toucheth the graue 3 I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength 4 I am free among the dead like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue whom thou remembrest no more and are cut away from thy hande 5 Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit in darknes and in deepenes 6 Thyne indignation sore presseth me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes Selah 7 Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre fro me and made me to be abhorred of them I am shut vp I can not get foorth 8 My sight fayleth through my affliction O God I haue called dayly vpon thee I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee 9 Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead or shal the dead rise vp againe and acknowledge thee Selah 10 Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue or thy faythfulnes in destruction 11 Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes 12 But vnto thee do I crye O God and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee 13 O God why abhorrest thou my soule and why hidest thou thy face from me 14 I am in miserie I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death I haue suffered thy terrours and I am styll in doubt 15 Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me and thy terrours haue vndone me 16 They came rounde about me dayly lyke water and compassed me altogether on euery syde 17 Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour thou hast hid mine acquaintaunce out of sight The argument of the .lxxxix. psalme ¶ The prophete prayseth the inspeakable goodnes of God for the couenaunt made to him and to the elect people of God for euer He prayseth his great power goodnes and iustice He declareth what promise God hath made to hym of his kingdome and posteritie He complayneth of the great spoyling of his kingdome and of his people He desireth God for his couenauntes sake to deliuer hym out of affliction vpon the consideration that mans life is very short ¶ A wyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite 1 I Wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generatiō to another 2 For I sayde mercy shall for euer endure thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens 3 I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt 4 I wyll establishe thy seede for euer and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation Selah 5 O God the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes 6 For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God and who is like vnto God amongst the children gods 7 God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes and to be feared aboue al them that are about him 8 O God Lorde of hoastes who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde and thy trueth is on euery side thee 9 Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea when her waues aryse thou delayest them 10 Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme 11 The heauens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde and of all the plentie that is therin 12 Thou hast made the north and the south Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name 13 Thou hast a mightie arme thy hand is strong and thy right hand is exalted 14 Iustice and iudgement is the foundation of thy throne
Lorde 5 Shewe your selues ioyfull vnto God all ye in the earth make a ioly noyse reioyce you chearfully syng psalmes 6 Syng psalmes vnto God playing vpon an harpe vpon an harpe and with the sounde of a psalterie 7 Shewe your selues ioyfull before the kyng eternall with trumpettes and sounde of shawmes 8 Let the sea make a noyse and that is within it the rounde worlde and they that dwell therin 9 Let the fluddes clappe their handes and let the hylles be ioyfull altogether before the face of God 10 For he commeth to iudge the earth he wyll iudge the worlde accordyng to iustice the people accordyng to equitie The argument of the .xcix. psalme ¶ The prophete setteth foorth the exceedyng fauour of God towardes the Israelites in that he raigned most mightily ouer them defended them dwelled amongst them and most gently hearde them and their fathers callyng vpon hym for helpe in their neede to the great discouragement of their aduersaries Wherfore he wylleth all to prayse God and to worshyp God 1 GOD raigneth the people be in a rage he sitteth betweene the Cherubims the earth quaketh 2 God is great in Sion and high aboue all people 3 They shall prayse thy name great dreadfull for it is holy and a kynges * power that loueth iudgement 4 Thou hast ordeyned all thynges accordyng to equitie thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Iacob 5 Magnifie God our Lorde and kneele downe before his footstoole for it is holy 6 Moyses Aaron among his priestes and Samuel among such as call vpon his name these called vpon God and he hearde them 7 He spake vnto them out of the cloudy pyller for they kept his testimonies and the lawe that he gaue them 8 O God our Lord thou heardest them O Lorde thou didst forbeare them and thou tokest auengement for their owne inuentions 9 Magnifie God our Lorde and kneele downe before his holy hyll for God our Lorde is holy ¶ The argument of the C. psalme ¶ The prophete moueth all the people of God to frequent Gods temple and to come thyther chearfully with all kynde of ioy seruyng praysyng and thankyng hym for that he only is the God that hath made vs and so gratious that we shal be partakers of his benefites and goodnesse for euer ¶ A psalme for to confesse 1 BE ye ioyfull in God all that be in the earth serue God with gladnesse and come before his face with a ioyfull noyse 2 Be ye sure that God is the Lorde it is he that hath made vs and not we our selues we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture 3 Go your way into his gates with thankesgeuyng and into his courtes with prayse be thankfull vnto hym and blesse his name 4 For God is gratious his mercie is euerlastyng and his trueth endureth from generation to generation ❧ The argument of the .cj. psalme ¶ Dauid settyng foorth the duetie of a good ruler declareth that in his gouernment aboue all thynges he wyll acknowledge Gods benefites goodnesse He wyll study to lyue vprightly to do no wrong or euyll nor to beare any malice at all in his heart but he wyll employ hym selfe most zelouslie to confounde the wicked and to promote the godly and vertuous ¶ A psalme of Dauid 1 I Will sing of mercie and iudgement I wyll syng vnto thee O God psalmes 2 I wyll endeuour my selfe to be fully instructed in the way of perfectnesse when thou wylt come vnto me I wil go vp and downe in the middest of my house in the perfectnesse of my heart 3 I wyll neuer set before myne eyes any deuillishe thyng I wyll detest to do the worke of transgressours it shall take no holde of me 4 A frowarde heart shall depart from me I wyll not once knowe any euyll 5 I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke 6 Myne eyes shal be vpō such in the lande as haue a true meanyng that they may sit with me he that leadeth a perfect lyfe shall minister vnto me 7 There shall no deceiptfull person haue any seate in my house he that telleth lyes shall not tary long in my syght 8 I wyll euery mornyng destroy all the vngodly in the lande that I may roote out from the citie of God all workers of wickednesse ¶ The argument of the .cii. Psalme ¶ The prophete desireth God to heare hym vtteryng his godly affect and great griefe for the calamities of the people of God desolation of the citie of Sion He setteth foorth the reproches and outragious behauiours of the enemies and his affliction of mynde for it He wisheth that the people may returne home agayne and that Sion may be reedified that Gods glorie may therin be set foorth And he consideryng the eternitie of God assureth hym selfe that God wyll perfourme his promises in grauntyng that the children of his people shall lyue for euer ¶ A prayer of the afflicted when he was ouerwhelmed and when he did powre out his petition before the face of God 1 HEare my prayer O God and let my crying come in vnto thee 2 Hyde not thy face from me in y e day of my distresse encline thine eare vnto me heare me spedyly in the day that I call 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoke and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande 4 My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse because I did forget to eate my bread 5 Through the noyse of my gronyng my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe 6 I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse and like an Owle that is in the desert I watch and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe 7 Myne enemies reuile me all the day long and they that are in a rage against me make their oth by me 8 For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread and mingled my drynke with weepyng because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast set me vp and cast me downe 9 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe and I am wythered lyke grasse 10 But thou O God endurest for euer and thy remembraunce throughout all generations 11 Thou wylt aryse vp thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her for the tyme appoynted is come 12 For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust 13 And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie 14 For God wyll buylde vp Sion to be seene in his glorious maiestie 15 He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe and he wyll not dispise their prayer 16 This shal be written for those that come
that is weaned from his mother yea my soule is within me as a weaned chylde 3 O Israel repose thou thy trust in God from this time foorth for euermore The argument of the .cxxxij. psalme ¶ The prophete desireth God to remember hym and his great affection towarde religion and to buylde a temple for his arke He sayeth it was declared vnto hym that Sion shoulde be the house of God Dauids petition when he brought the arke thyther God promiseth how that Dauids seede shal raigne after him for euer if they kepe his lawes and that he wyll blesse the citie of Sion and the inhabitauntes thereof with all kynde of felicitie ¶ A song of high degrees 1 O God be mindfull of Dauid with all his affliction 2 Who swore vnto God who made a vowe vnto the most mightie Lorde of Iacob 3 Saying I wyll not enter into the tabernacle of my house nor get vp into my bed 4 I wyll not suffer myne eyes to slepe nor myne eye liddes to slumber 5 Vntill I finde out a place for the temple of God an habitation for the most mightie Lorde of Iacob 6 Beholde we hearde it to be at Ephratha we founde it in the fieldes of the forest 7 We wyll go into his tabernacle and fall downe on our knees before his footestoole 8 Aryse O God for to come into thy resting place thou and the arke of thy strength 9 Let thy priestes be clothed with righteousnes and let thy saintes make a ioyfull noyse 10 For thy seruaunt Dauids sake turne not away from the face of thyne annoynted 11 God hath sworne for a trueth vnto Dauid and he wyll not go from it I wyll place vpon thy throne some of the fruite of thy body 12 If thy chyldren wyll kepe my couenaunt and my testimonies whiche I wyll teache them their chyldren also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore 13 For God hath chosen to be in Sion he had a desire that it might be an habitation for hym 14 This is sayeth he my rest for euer heare I wyll dwell for I haue a desire to it 15 I wyll aboundauntly powre my blessinges vpon her victuals and I wyll satisfie her poore with bread 16 I wyll clothe her priestes with saluation and her saintes shall make an exceeding ioyfull noyse 17 I will make there the horne of Dauid to bud vp I wyll ordayne a light for mine annoynted 18 I wyll clothe his enemies with shame but his crowne shall florishe vppon hym selfe ¶ The argument of the .cxxxiii. Psalme ¶ Dauid declareth howe acceptable a thing is brotherly loue and concorde both to God and man ¶ A song of high degrees made of Dauid 1 BEholde howe good and howe pleasaunt a thing it is that brethren dwel together in vnitie 2 It is lyke vnto a pretious oyntment powred vpon the head which runneth downe vpon the beard euen vpon Aarons beard which also runneth downe vpon the skyrtes of his garmentes 3 It is also like vnto the deawe of Hermon whiche falleth downe vpon the hyll of Sion 4 For God hath commaunded his blessing and life euerlasting to be where is suche concorde ¶ The argument of the .cxxxiiii. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth those that do watche all night in the house of God to lift vp their handes and to prayse God The Priestes and Leuites of duetie watched all night by course in the temple as it appeareth Leuit. viii ¶ A song of high degrees 1 BEholde blesse God all ye the seruauntes of God who in the nyght tyme remayne in the house of God 2 Lyft vp your holy handes and blesse God 3 God who made heauen and earth blesse thee out of Sion The argument of the .cxxxv. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all them to prayse God who come to the temple for that God hath chosen Iacob to be his inheritaunce and also for that he is able to do what he wyll in heauen earth and sea He rehearseth the workes that God did in deliuering them out of Egypt and in bryngyng them into the lande of Chanaan As for the gods of the Heathen they be but golde and siluer 1 PRayse ye the Lorde prayse ye the name of God prayse it ye seruauntes of God 2 Ye that stande in the house of God in the courtes of the house of our Lord 3 Prayse ye the Lorde for God is gratious sing psalmes vnto his name for it is pleasaunt 4 For the Lorde hath chosen Iacob vnto hym selfe and Israel for his owne possession 5 For I knowe that God is great and that our Lorde is aboue all gods 6 God doth whatsoeuer pleaseth hym in heauen and in earth in the sea and in all deepe places 7 He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses 8 He smote the first borne of Egypt aswell of beast as of man 9 He sent tokens and wonders into the mydst of thee O Egypt against Pharao and all his seruauntes 10 He smote many nations and slue mightie kinges 11 Sihon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Bashan and all the kingdomes of Chanaan 12 And he gaue their lande for an inheritaunce euen for an heritaunce to Israel his people 13 Thy name O God endureth for euer there wil be a remembraunce of thee O God from one generation to another 14 For God wyll iudge his people and he will be pacified beyng displeased with his seruauntes 15 As for the idols of the Heathen they are but siluer and golde the worke of mens handes 16 They haue a mouth and speake not they haue eyes but they see not 17 They haue eares and they heare not yea there is no breath in their mouth 18 They that make them are lyke vnto them and euery one that putteth his trust in them 19 Blesse God ye the house of Israel blesse God ye the house of Aaron 20 Blesse God ye the house of Leui ye that feare God blesse God 21 Blessed be God out of Sion who dwelleth at Hierusalem Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cxxxvi. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth men to prayse God aswell for all thinges created by hym as for his benefites peculiarly bestowed vpon the chyldren of Israel in deliuering them out of Egypt and in bringing them into the lande of Chanaan He doth insinuate also ▪ that God is not praysed worthyly except we acknowledge that all his benefites proceede of his free and meere goodnes and not of our desertes 1 COnfesse you it vnto the Lord for he is gratious and his mercie endureth for euer 2 Confesse you it vnto the God of Gods for his mercy endureth for euer 3 Confesse you it vnto the Lorde of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer 4 Who onlye doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer 5 Who by his excellent wysdome made the heauens for his mercy
people namely of ingratefulnesse stubburnesse 11 faithlesse seruice of God 24 and sheweth Gods terrible iudgement agaynst them vnlesse they repent 1 THe vision of Esai y e sonne of Amos which he sawe vpon Iuda and Hierusalem in the dayes of Vzia Ioathan Ahaz and Iehezekiah kinges of Iuda 2 Heare O heauens and hearken O earth for the Lorde hath spoken I haue norished and brought vp children and they haue done vnfaithfully against me 3 The oxe hath knowen his owner and the asse his maisters cribbe but Israel hath not knowen my people hath geuen no heede 4 Ah sinnefull nation a people laden with iniquitie a seede of the wicked corrupt children they haue forsaken the Lorde they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger they are gone backwarde 5 Why shoulde ye be stricken any more for ye are euer fallyng away euery head is diseased and euery heart heauy 6 From the sole of the foote vnto the head there is nothyng sounde in it but woundes blaynes and putrifiyng sore they haue not ben salued neither wrapped vp neither molified with the oyntment 7 Your lande is wasted your cities are burnt vp straungers deuour your lande before your face and it is made desolate as it were the destruction of enemies in the tyme of warre 8 And the daughter of Sion shal be left as a cotage in a vineyarde lyke a lodge in a garden of Cucumbers lyke a besieged citie 9 Except the Lorde of hoastes had left vs a small remnaunt we shoulde haue ben as Sodoma lyke vnto Gomorra 10 Heare the worde of the Lord ye lordes of Sodoma and hearken vnto the lawe of our God thou people of Gomorra 11 Why offer ye so many sacrifices to me wyll the Lorde say I am full of the burnt offeringes of weathers of the fatnesse of fed beastes I haue no pleasure in the blood of bullockes lambes and goates 12 When ye come to appeare before me treadyng in my courtes who hath required this at your handes 13 Offer me no mo oblations for it is but lost labour incense is an abhominable thyng vnto me I may not away with your newe moones your sabbathes solempne meetynges your solempne assemblies are wicked 14 I hate your newe moones and appoynted feastes euen from my very heart they make me weery I can not abyde them 15 When you holde out your handes I wyll turne myne eyes from you and though ye make many prayers yet I wyll heare nothyng at all seyng your handes are full of blood 16 Washe you make you cleane put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght ceasse from doyng of euyll 17 Learne to do well applie your selues to equitie deliuer the oppressed helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght let the widdowes complaynt come before you 18 And then go to saith the Lorde let vs talke together though your sinnes be as red as scarlet they shal be as whyte as snowe and though they were lyke purple they shal be as whyte as wooll 19 If ye be wyllyng and obedient ye shal eate the good of the lande 20 But yf ye be obstinate and rebellious ye shal be deuoured with the sworde for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it 21 Howe happeneth it then that the righteous citie which was full of equitie is become vnfaythfull as a whore Righteousnesse dwelt in it but nowe murtherers 22 Thy siluer is turned to drosse and thy wine mixt with water 23 Thy princes are wicked and companions of theeues they loue gyftes altogether and gape for rewardes As for the fatherlesse they helpe hym not to his ryght neither wyll they let the widdowes causes come before them 24 Therfore saith the Lorde God of hoastes the mightie one of Israel Ah I must ease me of mine enemies and auenge me of mine aduersaries 25 And I shall lay my hande vpon thee and purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy tinne 26 And set thy iudges agayne as they were sometyme and thy senatours as they were from the begynnyng and then thou shalt be called the ryghteous citie the faythfull citie 27 Sion shal be redeemed with equitie and her conuertes with righteousnesse 28 But the transgressours and the vngodly and such as forsake the Lorde shall altogether be vtterly destroyed 29 For ye shal be confounded for the trees which ye haue desired and ye shal be ashamed of the gardens that ye haue chosen 30 For ye shal be as a tree whose leaues are fallen away and as a garden that hath no moystnesse 31 And the very strong one of your idols shal be as towe and the maker of it as a sparke of fire and they shal both burne together and no man quenche them The .ij. Chapter 1 A prophecie of Christe and his kyngdome 12 Pryde couetousnesse superstition and idolatrie are reproued 17 Gods terrible iudgement agaynst these 1 THe selfe same worde that Esai the sonne of Amos sawe vpon Iuda and Hierusalem 2 And this shall come to passe in the latter dayes the hyll of the Lordes house shal be prepared in the heyght of the mountaynes and shal be hygher then the hylles and all nations shall preasse vnto hym 3 And a multitude of people shall go speakyng thus one to another come let vs ascende to the hyll of the Lorde to the house of the God of Iacob and he wyll instruct vs of his wayes and we wyll walke in his pathes for out of Sion shall come a lawe and the worde of the Lorde from Hierusalem 4 And shall geue sentence among the heathen and shall refourme the multitude of people they shall breake their swordes also into mattockes and their speares to make sithes And one people shall not lyft vp a weapon agaynst another neither shall they learne to fyght from thencefoorth 5 Come ye O house of Iacob and let vs walke in the lyght of the Lorde 6 For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob because they be replenished with euils from the east and with sorcerers lyke the Philistines and in straunge children they thynke them selues to haue enough 7 Their lande is full of siluer and golde neither is there any ende of their treasure their lande is also full of horses and no ende is there of their charrettes 8 Their lande also is full of vayne gods and before the worke of their owne handes they haue bowed them selues yea euen before the thyng that their owne fingers haue made 9 There kneeleth the man there falleth the man downe before them therfore forgeue them not 10 Get thee into the rocke and hyde thee in the grounde for feare of the Lorde and for the glorie of his maiestie 11 The high lookes of man shal be brought lowe and the hautinesse of men shal be bowed downe and the Lorde alone shal be exalted in that day 12 For the day of the Lorde of hoastes shal be vpon all the proude loftie and vpon all that is exalted and
because the rod of him that beateth thee is broken for out of the serpentes roote there shall come an Adder and his fruite shal be a fierie fleeyng worme 30 But the first borne of the poore shal be fed and the simple shall dwell in safetie Thy roote also wyll I destroy with hunger and it shall slay the remnaunt 31 Mourne thou porte weepe thou citie for O whole lande of Palestina thou art layd waste for there shal come from the north a smoke that not one alone may abide at home in his times 32 What shall one then aunswere the messengers of the Gentiles For the Lorde hath stablished Sion and the poore of his people that be therein shall put their trust in it The .xv. Chapter A prophecie agaynst Moab 1 THis is the burthen vpon Moab Ar of Moab was destroyed ouerthrowen in the nyght season Kir also in Moab was destroyed and perished in the nyght 2 Moab went vp to the idols house euen to Dibon to the hygh places to weepe for Neba and Moab shall mourne for Medba All their heades were balde and all their beardes shauen 3 In her streetes are they girded about with sackcloth In all the toppes of her houses and streetes shal be nothyng but mournyng and weepyng 4 Hesbon and Eleale shall crye that their voyce shal be hearde vnto Iahaz and therfore the armed souldiours also of Moab shall bleate out and crye for very sorowe of their myndes 5 Wo shall my heart be for Moabs sake they shall flee vnto the citie of Zoar which is lyke a faire young bullocke of three yere olde for they shall all go vp to Luith weepyng euen so by the way towarde Horonaim they shall make lamentation for their vtter destruction 6 For the waters of Nimrim shal be dryed vp by reason wherof the grasse is withered the hearbes destroyed and the greene thynges gone 7 Therfore the goodes that remayneth in Moab and the riches therof they shall cary to the brooke of wyllowes 8 For the crye went ouer the whole lande of Moab vnto Eglaim and vnto Beer Elim was there nothyng but mournyng 9 Because the waters of Dimon were full of blood I wyll adde more vpon Dimon and lions vpon the remnaunt of the lande and on them that are escaped from Moab The .xvj. Chapter The destruction of Moab 1 SEnde the lorde of the worlde a lambe from the rocke that lyeth towarde the desert vnto the hyl of the daughter Sion 2 For as for the daughters of Moab they shal be as a trembling birde that is put out of her neste for they shall cary them vnto Arnon 3 Gather your counsell come together in iudgement couer vs with your shadowe in the midday as the nyght doth hyde the chased and bewray not them that are fled 4 Let my persecuted people dwell among you Moab be thou their refuge against the destroyer for the aduersarie is brought to naught the robber is vndone the tiraunt is wasted out of the lande 5 And in mercie shall the seate be prepared and he shall sit vpon it in the trueth in the tabernacle of Dauid iudging and sekyng iudgement and makyng haste vnto ryghteousnesse 6 We haue hearde of the pride of Moab he is very proude presumptuous arrogant and full of indignation and vayne are his lyes 7 Therfore shall Moab make lamentation because of the Moabites that shal be slayne yea they shall wayle altogether because of the foundations of the citie that is made of bricke shall ye complayne euen ye lame people that are left only behynde 8 For the vines of Hesbon are cut downe as for the vine of Sibma the lordes of the heathen haue broken downe her principall braunches they are come euen vnto Iazer they went on wandering vnto the wildernesse her goodly braunches were throwen downe as they went ouer the sea 9 Therfore wyll I mourne for Iazer and for the vine of Sibma I wyl poure my teares vpon thee O Hesbon and Eleale for the crye of thyne enemies is fallen vpon thy sommer fruites and vpon thy haruest 10 The mirth and cheare is taken away out of the plentifull fielde and in the vineyardes there shal be no ioy nor gladnesse The treader shall treade out no wine in their presses the song of their mery cheare haue I layde downe 11 Wherfore my bowels shall rumble like an Harpe for Moabs sake mine inwarde partes for the cities sake that is made of bricke 12 And it shall come to passe that when it is seene that Moab shal be made weery of his hyll chappelles he shall come to his temple to pray but he shall not be able 13 So then this is the saying that the Lorde hath spoken concernyng Moab since that tyme. 14 But nowe the Lorde hath spoken saying In three yeres which shal be as the yeres of an hired seruaunt shall the glorie of Moab be turned into contempt throughout all his multitude which is very great and that which remayneth shal be very small and feeble ¶ The .xvij. Chapter A prophecie agaynst Damascus 1 THis is the burthen vpon Damascus Beholde Damascus is taken away to be no more a citie but shal be an heape of broken stones 2 The waste cities of Aroer shal be foldes for cattell which shall lye there and there shal be none to fray them away 3 Ephraim also shall no more be strong and Damascus shall no longer be a kyngdome and the remnaunt of Syria shal be as the glorie of the children of Israel saith the Lorde of hoastes 4 And in that day it shall come to passe that the glorie of Iacob shal be made very thinne and the fatnesse of his fleshe shall waxe leane 5 And he shal be as one that gathereth vp corne in haruest euen lyke hym whose arme reapeth the eares of corne He shal be also lyke hym that gathereth eares of corne in the valley of Rephaim 6 Some gatheryng in deede shall there be left in it euen as in the shakyng of an Oliue tree there remayne two or three berries in the toppe of the vppermost bowe and foure or fyue in the brode fruitfull braunches thereof saith the Lorde God of Israel 7 Then shall man turne agayne to his maker and his eyes shall haue respect to the holy one of Israel 8 As for the aulters which are his owne handy worke he shal not regarde them and the thynges that his fingers hath made as groues and images those shal he not cast his eye vnto 9 In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken shrubbes braunches which they left because of the childrē of Israel and the lande shal be desolate 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation and hast not ben myndfull of thy strong rocke therfore shalt thou set pleasaunt plantes and shalt graffe the braunche of another mans vine 11 In that day shalt thou make thy plant to growe and early in the mornyng shalt thou make thy seede to
Stoupe downe that we may go ouer thee make thy body euen with the grounde and as the streete to go vpon ¶ The .lij. Chapter 1 An exhortation and comfort to the people of God 1 VP Sion vp take thy strength vnto thee put on thyne honest rayment O Hierusalem thou holy citie for from this tyme foorth there shall no vncircumcised nor vncleane person come in thee 2 Shake thee from the dust arise and stande vp O Hierusalem Plucke out thy necke from the bonde O thou captiue daughter Sion 3 For thus saith the Lorde ye are solde for naught therfore shal ye be redeemed also without any money 4 For thus saith the Lorde God My people went downe afore tyme into Egypt there to be straungers and the kyng of the Assyrians oppressed them without any cause 5 And nowe what profite is it to me saith the Lorde that my people is freely caryed away brought into heauinesse by their rulers and my name euer styll blasphemed saith the Lorde 6 But that my people may knowe my name I my selfe wyll speake in that day Beholde here am I. 7 O howe beautifull are the feete of the embassadour that bryngeth the message from the mountayne and proclaymeth peace that bryngeth the good tidinges and preacheth health and saith vnto Sion Thy God is the kyng 8 Thy watchmen shall lyft vp their voyce with loude voyce they shall reioyce together for they shall see plainly when the Lorde shall conuert Sion 9 Be glad O thou desolate Hierusalem and reioyce together for the Lord hath comforted his people he hath deliuered Hierusalem 10 The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme and shewed it foorth in the syght of all the gentiles and all the endes of the earth hath seene the sauyng health of our God 11 Away away get you out from hence and touche no vncleane thyng Go out from among such and be cleane that beare the vessell of the Lorde 12 For ye shall not escape by runnyng nor by fleeyng away but the Lorde shall go before you and the God of Israel shall gather you together 13 Beholde my seruaunt shal deale prosperously therfore shal he be magnified exalted and greatly honoured 14 Lyke as the multitude shall wonder vpon hym because his face shal be so defourmed and not as mans face his beautie like no man 15 Euen so shall the multitude of the gentiles speake of him and kynges shall shut their mouthes before hym for they haue seene that which was not tolde to them and haue vnderstande that wherof they had not hearde The .liij. Chapter 1 He prophec●eth euidently of the passion of our sauiour Iesus Christe 1 BVt who hath geuen credence vnto our preaching or to whom is the arme of the Lorde knowen 2 For he dyd growe before the Lorde like as a braunche and as a roote in a drye grounde he hath neither beautie nor fauour when we loke vpon hym there shal be no fairenesse we shall haue no lust vnto hym 3 He is dispised and abhorred of men he is such a man as hath good experience of sorowes and infirmities We haue reckened hym so vile that we hyd our faces from hym 4 Howbeit he only hath taken on him our infirmitie and borne our paynes Yet we dyd iudge hym as though he were plagued and cast downe of God 5 Wheras he notwithstandyng was wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickednesse for the payne of our punishment was layde vpon hym and with his stripes are we healed 6 As for vs we are all gone astray lyke sheepe euery one hath turned his owne way but the Lord hath throwen vpon hym all our sinnes 7 He suffered violence and was euyll intreated and dyd not open his mouth He shal be led as a sheepe to be slayne yet shall he be as styll as a lambe before the shearer and not open his mouth 8 From the prison and iudgement was he taken and his generation who can declare for he was cut of from the grounde of the lyuyng which punishment dyd go vpon hym for the transgression of my people 9 His graue was geuen hym with the condempned and with the riche man at his death wheras he did neuer violence nor vnright neither hath there ben any disceiptfulnesse in his mouth 10 Yet hath it pleased the Lord to smite hym with infirmitie that when he had made his soule an offeryng for sinne he might see long lastyng seede and this deuice of the Lorde shall prosper in his hande 11 Of the trauayle and labour of his soule shall he see the fruite be satisfied My righteous seruaunt shall with his knowledge iustifie the multitude for he shall beare their sinnes 12 Therfore wyll I geue hym among the great ones his part and he shall deuide the spoyle with the mightie because he geueth ouer his soule to death and is reckened among the transgressours which neuerthelesse hath taken away the sinnes of the multitude and made intercession for the misdoers The .liiij. Chapter 1 Of the great dominion of Christe 7 The indignation of God endureth but a short space but his mercie is euerlastyng 1 BE glad nowe thou baren that bearest not reioyce syng and be mery thou that art not with childe for the desolate hath mo childrē then the maryed wyfe saith the Lorde 2 Make thy tent wyder and spreade out the hanginges of thine habitation spare not lay foorth thy wardes and make fast thy stakes 3 For thou shalt be multiplied on the ryght syde and on the left and thy seede shall haue the gentiles in possession and dwell in the desolate cities 4 Feare not for thou shalt not be confounded be not ashamed for thou shalt not come to confusion Yea thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth and shalt not remember the dishonour of thy widowhead 5 For he that made thee shal be thy Lorde and husbande whose name is the Lord of hoastes and thy redeemer shal be euen the holy one of Israel the Lorde of the whole worlde 6 For the Lorde hath called thee beyng as a desolate sorowfull woman and as a young wyfe that was forsaken saith thy God 7 A litle while haue I forsaken thee but with great mercifulnesse shall I take thee vp vnto me 8 When I was angry I hyd my face from thee for a litle season but through euerlastyng goodnesse haue I pardoned thee saith the Lorde thy redeemer 9 And this is vnto me as the water of Noe for like as I haue sworne that I wyll not bryng the water of Noe any more vpon the worlde so haue I sworne that I wyll neuer be angry with thee nor reproue thee 10 The mountaynes shall remoue and the hylles shall fall downe but my louyng kyndnesse shall not moue and the bonde of my peace shall not fall downe from thee saith the Lorde thy
wayes are so crooked that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace 9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs We loke for light lo it is darknesse for the morning shine see we walke in the darke 10 We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall we grope euen as one that hath none eyes we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night in the falling places lyke men that are halfe dead 11 We roare all like beares and mourne still like doues we looke for equitie but there is none for health but it is farre from vs. 12 For our offences are many before thee and our sinnes testifie against vs yea we must confesse that we offende and knowledge that we do amisse 13 Namely transgresse and dissemble against the Lorde and fall away from our God vsing presumpteous and trayterous imaginations and casting false matters in our heartes 14 And therefore is equitie gone aside and righteousnesse standeth farre of trueth is fallen downe in the streete and the thing that is playne and open may not be shewed 15 Yea the trueth is taken away and he that refraineth hym selfe from euyll must be spoyled When the Lorde sawe this it displeased hym sore that there was no equitie 16 He sawe also that there was no man righteous and he wondred that there was no man to helpe hym wherefore he helde hym by his owne power and he sustayned hym by his owne righteousnesse 17 He put righteousnesse vpon hym for a brest plate he set the helmet of health vpon his head He put on wrath in the steade of clothing and toke ielousie about him for a cloke 18 Euen as when a man goeth foorth wrathfully to recompence his enemies and to be auenged of his aduersaries he wyll recompence and rewarde the Ilandes 19 They shall feare the name of the Lorde from the rising of the sunne and his maiestie vnto the going downe of the same for he shall come as a violent water streame which the winde of the Lorde hath moued 20 But vnto Sion there shall come a redeemer and vnto them in Iacob that turne from wickednesse saith the Lord. 21 I wyll make this couenaunt with them saith the Lord My spirite that is vpon thee and the wordes whiche I haue put in thy mouth shall neuer go out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy childers chyldren from this time foorth for euermore worlde without ende saith the Lorde The .lx. Chapter 1 A consolation and confort to Hierusalem 5 The Churche is gathered together among the gentiles by preaching of the gospell 16 and aboundeth with all good thinges 1 GEt thee vp betymes and be bright O Hierusalem for thy light commeth and the glorie of the Lord is risen vp vpon thee 2 For lo whyle the darknesse cloude couereth the earth and the people the Lorde shall shewe thee light and his glory shal be seene in thee 3 The gentiles shall come to thy light kinges to the brightnesse that springeth foorth vpon thee 4 Lift vp thyne eyes and loke rounde about thee all these gather them selues and come to thee thy sonnes shall come vnto thee from farre and thy daughters shall gather them selues to thee on euery side 5 Then thou shalt see this and be glorious thou shalt maruayle exceedingly and thyne heart shal be opened when the aboundaunce of the sea shal be conuerted vnto thee that is when the riches of the gentiles shall come vnto thee 6 The multitude of camels shall couer thee the dromedaries of Madian and Epha all they of Saba shall come bringing gold and incense and shewing the prayse of the Lorde 7 All the cattell of Cedar shal be gathered vnto thee the rammes of Nabaioth shall serue thee to be offred acceptablie vpon mine aulter and the house of my glory wyll I garnishe 8 But what are these that flee here like the cloudes and as the doues fleing to their windowes 9 The Isles also shall wayte for me and specially the shippes of Tharsis that they may bryng thy sonnes from farre and their siluer and their golde with them vnto the name of the Lorde thy God vnto the holy one of Israel that hath glorified thee 10 Straungers shall buylde vp thy walles and their kynges shall do thee seruice for whē I was angrie I smote thee and of my mercy I pardoned thee 11 Thy gates shall stande open still both day and night and neuer be shut that the hoast of the gentiles may come and that their kynges may be brought vnto thee 12 For euery people and kingdome that serueth not thee shall perishe and be destroyed with vtter destruction 13 The glory of Libanus shall come vnto thee the Firre trees Boxes and Cedars together to garnishe the place of my sanctuarie for I wyll glorifie the place of my feete 14 Moreouer those shall come kneeling vnto thee that haue vexed thee and all they that despised thee shall fall downe at thy foote Thou shalt be called the citie of the Lorde Sion the citie of the holy one of Israel 15 Because thou hast ben forsaken and hated so that no man went thorowe thee I wyl make thee glorious for euer and euer and ioyfull throughout all posterities 16 Thou shalt sucke the milke of the gentiles and kinges breastes shall feede thee and thou shalt knowe that I the Lorde am thy sauiour and redeemer the mightie one of Iacob 17 For brasse wyll I geue thee golde and for iron siluer for wood brasse and for stones iron I wyll turne thyne oppression into peace and thyne exactions into righteousnesse 18 Violence and robberie shall neuer be hearde of in thy lande neither harme and destruction within thy borders thy walles shal be called health and thy gates the prayse of God 19 The sunne shall neuer be thy day light and the light of the moone shall neuer shine vnto thee but the Lorde him selfe shal be thyne euerlasting light and thy God shal be thy glory 20 Thy sunne shall neuer go downe and thy moone shall not be hid for the Lorde hym selfe shal be thyne euerlasting light and thy sorowfull dayes shal be ended 21 Thy people shal be all righteous and possesse the lande euer the floure of my planting the worke of my hands wherof I wyll reioyce 22 The youngest and least shall growe into a thousande and the simplest into a strong people I the Lorde shall shortlye bryng this thing to passe in his tyme. ¶ The .lxj. Chapter 1 He prophesieth that Christe shal be annoynted and sent to preache 1 THe spirite of the Lord is vpon me for the Lord hath annoynted me and sent me to preache good tidinges vnto the poore that I might binde vp the wounded heartes that I might preache deliueraunce to the captiue and open the prison to thē that are bounde 2 That I might declare
thy gelousie thy strength the multitude of thy mercies and thy louing kindnesse wyll not be intreated of vs 16 Yet art thou our father for Abraham knoweth vs not neither is Israel acquainted with vs but thou Lorde art our father and redeemer and thy name is euerlasting 17 O Lorde wherefore hast thou led vs out of the way wherefore hast thou hardened our heartes that we feare thee not Be at one with vs agayne for thy seruauntes sake and for the generation of thyne heritage 18 Thy holy people haue had but a litle whyle thy sanctuarie in possession for our enemies haue troden downe thy holy place 19 And we were thyne from the beginning when thou wast not their Lorde for they haue not called vpon thy name ¶ The .lxiiij. Chapter 1 The prophete vnder the person of the Iewes bewayleth their exile and banishment ● Mans righteousnesse is like a cloth defiled 1 O That thou wouldest cleaue the heauens in sunder come downe that the mountaines might melt away at thy presence 2 Like as at an hotte fire and that the malitious might boyle away as the water doth vpon the fire whereby thy name might be knowen among thyne enemies and that the gentiles might tremble before thee 3 When thou wroughtest wonderous straunge workes we looked not for them thou camest downe and the hilles melted at thy presence 4 For since the beginning of the worlde it hath not ben hearde or perceaued neither hath any eye seene another God beside thee whiche doest so muche for them that put their trust in thee 5 Thou helpest hym that doth right with chearefulnesse and them that thinke vpon thee in thy wayes but lo thou hast ben angrie for we offended and haue ben euer in sinne though the worlde hath cleaued to them yet shall we be saued 6 We are all as an vncleane thing and all our righteousnesse are as filthy ragges we fal euerychone as the leafe for our sinnes cary vs away lyke the winde 7 There is no man that calleth vpon thy name that standeth vp to take hold by thee therefore hidest thou thy face from vs and consumest vs because of our sinnes 8 But nowe O Lorde thou father of ours we are thy clay and thou art our potter and we all are the worke of thy handes 9 Be not to sore displeased O Lord and kepe not our offences to long in thy remembraunce but consider that we all are thy people 10 The cities of thy sanctuarie lye waste Sion is a wildernesse and Hierusalem a desert 11 Our holy house whiche is our beautie where our fathers praysed thee is brent vp yea all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away 12 Wylt thou not be intreated O Lorde for all this wylt thou holde thy peace and scourge vs so sore The .lxv. Chapter 1 The reiecting of the Iewes and the calling of the heathen 1 THey seeke me that hitherto haue not asked for me they finde me that hitherto haue not sought me I haue saide I am here I am here I am founde of a people that neuer called vpon my name 2 For thus long haue I euer holden out mine handes to an vnfaythfull people that go not the right way but after their owne imagination 3 To a people that is euer defiyng me to my face they make their oblations in gardens and their smoke vpon aulters of bricke 4 They lurke among the groues and lye in the dennes all night they eate swines fleshe and vncleane broth is in their vessels 5 If thou commest nye them they say touche me not for I am holyer then thou All these men when I am angry shal be turned to smoke and fire that shall burne for euer 6 Beholde it is written before my face and shall not be forgotten but recompenced I shall rewarde it them into their bosome 7 I meane your misdeedes and the misdeedes of your fathers together saith the Lord which haue made their smokes vpon the mountaines and blasphemed me vpon the hilles therefore wyll I measure their olde deedes into their bosome agayne 8 Moreouer thus saith the Lord Like as when newe wine is founde in the cluster and one saith Lose it not for there is blessing therein euen so wyll I do also for my seruauntes sakes that I wyll not destroy them all 9 But I will take a seede out of Iacob and out of Iuda one to take possession of my hill My chosen shall possesse it and my seruauntes shall dwell there 10 Saron shal be a sheepefolde and the valley of Achor shall geue the stalling for the cattell of my people that seeke after me 11 But as for you ye are they that haue forsaken the Lorde and forgotten my holy hyll ye haue set vp an aulter vnto Iupiter and geuen riche drinke offeringes vnto the planets 12 Therfore wyll I number you to the sworde that ye shal be destroyed altogether for that when I called no man gaue me aunswere when I spake ye hearkened not vnto me but dyd wickednesse before mine eyes and chose the thinges that pleased me not 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Beholde my seruauntes shall eate but ye shall haue hunger beholde my seruauntes shall drinke but ye shall suffer thirst beholde my seruauntes shal be merie but ye shal be confounded 14 Beholde my seruauntes shall reioyce for very quietnesse of heart but ye shal crye for sorowe of heart and complaine for vexation of minde 15 Your name shall ye leaue accursed among my chosen for God the Lorde shall slay you and call his seruauntes by another name 16 Who so reioyceth vpon earth shall reioyce in the true God and who so sweareth vpon earth shall sweare in the true God for the olde afflictions shal be forgotten and taken away out of my sight 17 For lo I shall make a newe heauen and a newe earth and as for the olde they shall neuer be thought vpon nor kept in minde 18 But the Lorde saith Be glad and euermore reioyce for the things that I shall do For why beholde I shall make a ioyfull Hierusalem and his people ioyfull 19 Yea I my selfe will reioyce with Hierusalem and be glad with my people and the voyce of weeping and wayling shall not be hearde in her from thencefoorth 20 There shall neither be chylde nor olde man that haue not their full dayes but when the chylde commeth to an hundred yeres olde it shal dye and if he that is an hundred yeres of age do wrong he shal be cursed 21 They shall buylde houses and dwell in them they shall plant vineyardes and eate the fruite of them 22 They shall not buylde and another possesse they shall not plant and another eate but the life of my people shal be like a tree and mine elect shall enioy styll the worke of their handes 23 They shall not labour in vayne nor beget with trouble for
in the tyme of their trouble when they say stande vp and helpe vs 28 I shall aunswere them Where are nowe thy gods that thou hast made thee bid them stande vp and helpe thee in the time of thy neede For loke howe many cities thou hast O Iuda so many gods hast thou also 29 Wherfore then wyll ye go to lawe with me seeyng ye all are sinners agaynst me saith the Lorde 30 It is but lost labour that I smite your children for they receaue not my correction your owne sworde destroyeth your prophetes lyke a deuouryng lion 31 Oh generation hearken vnto the worde of the Lorde Am I become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel or a lande that hath no lyght wherfore saith my people then We are lordes we wyll come no more vnto thee 32 Doth a mayde forget her rayment or a bride her stomacher but my people hath forgotten me a very long whyle 33 Why beautifiest thou thy wayes so hyely to obteyne fauour therthrough therfore also hast thou taught wickednesse through thy wayes 34 Vpon thy wynges is found the blood of poore and innocent people whom thou didst not fynde in corners holes but thou sluest the prophetes for reprouyng all these thynges 35 Yet darest thou say I am without sinne and giltlesse Tushe his wrath can not come vpon me Beholde I wyll reason with thee because thou darest say I haue not offended 36 Why gaddest thou so much hither and thither to chaunge thy wayes for thou shalt be confounded aswell of Egypt as thou wast of the Assyrians 37 Yea thou shalt go thy way from them and smite thine handes together vpon thy head because the Lorde shall bring that confidence and hope of thine to naught thou shalt not prosper withal The .iij. Chapter 1 God beyng mercifull calleth to repentaunce his people which he had forsaken for their whoredome with idols 20 He exhorteth Israel vnto repentaunce promisyng them sheepheardes that shoulde haue the true knowledge of God 23 The returne of Israel vnto God confessyng their offence 1 COmmonly when a man putteth away his wyfe and she goeth from hym maryeth with another then the question is shoulde he resort vnto her any more after that Is not that lande then defiled and vncleane But as for thee thou hast played the harlot with many louers yet turne agayne to me saith the Lorde 2 Lift vp thine eyes to the hygh places and loke where thou hast not ben defiled Thou hast wayted for them in the streetes and as a murtherer in the wildernesse through thy whoredome and shamefull blasphemies is the lande defiled 3 This is the cause that the rayne and euenyng deawe hath ceassed Thou hast gotten thee an whores forehead and wylt not be ashamed 4 Wylt thou not herafter say vnto me O my father thou art he that hast brought me vp and led me from my youth 5 Wyll God continue his wrath for euer wyll he kepe our faultes in memorie to the ende Neuerthelesse thou speakest such wordes but thou art euer doyng worse and worse to the vtmost of thy power 6 The Lorde sayde also vnto me in the tyme of Iosiah the kyng Hast thou seene what that rebellion Israel hath done howe she hath runne vp vpon all the hylles and among all thicke trees and there played the harlot 7 Hast thou seene also when she had done all this howe I sayde vnto her that she shoulde turne agayne vnto me and yet she is not returned Iuda that vnfaithfull sister of hers also sawe this 8 Namely that after I had well seene the adulterie of the shrinckyng harlot Israel I put her away and gaue her a byll of deuorcement For all this her vnfaithfull sister Iuda was not ashamed but went backe and played the whore 9 Yea and the wantonnesse of her whoredome hath defyled the whole lande For she hath cōmitted fornication with stones and stockes 10 Neuerthelsse her vnfaithfull sister Iuda is not turned vnto me agayne with her whole heart but faignedlye saith the Lorde 11 And the Lorde sayde vnto me The backslyder Israel is more righteous then the vnfaithfull Iuda 12 And therfore go preach these wordes towarde the north and say Thou disobedient Israel turne agayne saith the Lorde and I wyll not bring my wrath vpon you for I am mercifull saith the Lorde and I wyll not alway beare displeasure agaynst thee 13 But on this condition that thou know thy great blasphemie namely that thou hast vnfaithfully forsaken the Lord thy God and hast made thy selfe partaker of straunge gods vnder all greene trees and hast had no wyll to heare my voyce saith the Lorde 14 O ye disobedient childrē turne againe saith the Lorde and I wyll be maryed with you for I wyll take one out of the citie and two out of one generation from among you and bryng you into Sion 15 And wyll geue you heardmen after myne owne mynde which shall feede you with learnyng and wisdome 16 Moreouer when ye be encreased and multiplied in the lande then saith the Lorde there shall no more boast be made of the arke of the Lordes testament No man shall thinke vpon it neither shall any man make mention of it for from thencefoorth it shall neither be visited neither shall such thyng be done any more 17 Then shall Hierusalem be called the Lordes seate and all heathen shal be gathered vnto it for the name of the Lordes sake which shal be set vp at Hierusalem And from that tyme foorth they shall folowe no more the imagination of their owne frowarde heart 18 Then those that be of the house of Iuda shal go vnto the house of Israel and they shall come together out of the north into the same lande that I haue geuen your fathers 19 I haue thought thus howe shall I take thee to be my children and geue a pleasaunt lande for thine heritage yea and a goodly hoast of the heathen And I sayd Call me father and shrincke not from me 20 Truely lyke as a woman fayleth her husbande so are ye vnfaithfull vnto me O ye house of Israel saith the Lorde 21 The voyce of the children of Israel was hearde on hye weepyng and waylyng for that they haue defiled their way and forgotten God their Lorde 22 O ye disobedient children turne againe so shall I heale your backturnynges Lo we come vnto thee for thou art the Lorde our God 23 Truely in vayne is health hoped for from the hylles be they neuer so many but the health of Israel standeth only vpon God our Lorde 24 Confusion hath deuoured our fathers labour from our youth vp yea their sheepe and bullockes their sonnes and daughters 25 So do we also sleepe in our confusion and shame couereth vs for we our fathers from our youth vp vnto this day haue sinned agaynst the Lord our God and haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde
our God The .iiii. Chapter 1 The true repentaunce or returnyng to God 4 he exhorteth to the circumcision of the heart 5 The destruction of Iurie is prophecied for the malice of their heartes 1 O Israel yf thou wylt turne thee then turne vnto me saith y e Lord and yf thou wylt put away thine abhominations out of my sight thou shalt not be moued 2 And shalt sweare The Lord lyueth in trueth in equitie and righteousnesse and all people shal be fortunable and ioyfull in hym 3 For thus saith the Lorde to all Iuda and Hierusalem Plowe your lande and sowe not among the thornes 4 Be circumcised in the Lorde and cut away the foreskynne of your heartes all ye of Iuda and all the indwellers of Hierusalem * that myne indignation breake not out lyke fire and kindle so that no man may quenche it because of the wickednesse of your imaginations 5 Preach in Iuda and Hierusalem crye out and speake blowe the trumpettes in the lande crye that euery man may heare and say Gather you together and we wyll go into strong cities 6 Set vp the token in Sion speede you and make no tarying for I wyll bring a great plague and a great destruction from the north 7 For the spoyler of the gentiles is broken vp from his place as a lion out of his denne that he may make thy lande waste and destroy the cities so that no man may dwell therin 8 Wherfore girde your selues about with sackcloth mourne and weepe for the fearefull wrath of the Lorde is not withdrawen from vs. 9 At the same tyme saith the Lord the heart of the kyng of the princes shal be gone the priestes shal be astonished and the prophetes shal be sore afrayde 10 Then sayde I Oh Lorde God hast thou then deceaued this people and Hierusalem saying Ye shall haue peace and nowe the sworde goeth through their lyues 11 Then shall it be sayde to the people and Hierusalem A strong winde in the hye places of the wildernesse commeth through the way of my people but neither to fanne nor to cleanse 12 After that shall there come vnto me a strong wynde from those places then wyll I also geue sentence vpon them 13 For lo he ariseth like a cloude and his charrets are like a stormie wynde his horses are swifter then the Egle Wo vnto vs for we are destroyed 14 O Hierusalem washe thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest be helped Howe long shall thy vayne thoughtes remayne with thee 15 For a voyce from Dan and from the hill of Ephraim speaketh out and telleth of a destruction 16 Remember the heathen and geue Hierusalem warning and preache vnto her that watchers ouer her are commyng from farre countries they haue cryed out against the cities of Iuda 17 And they haue beset her about in euery place lyke as the watchmen in the fielde For they haue prouoked me to wrath saith the Lorde 18 Thy wayes and thy thoughtes haue brought thee vnto this such is thine owne wickednesse and disobedience and because it is a bitter thyng it hath stricken thee to the heart 19 Ah my belly ah my belly shalt thou crie howe is my heart so sore my heart panteth within me I can not be styll for I haue hearde the crying of the trumpettes and peales of warre 20 They crye murther vpon murther the whole lande shall perishe Immediatly my tentes were destroyed and my hanginges in the twincklyng of an eye 21 Howe long shall I see the tokens of warre and heare the noyse of the trumpettes 22 Neuerthelesse this shall come vpon them because my people is become foolishe and hath not knowen me they are the children of foolishnesse and without any discretion To do euyll they haue wit inough but to do well they haue no wisdome 23 I haue loked vpon the earth and see it was waste and voyde I loked towarde heauen and it had no shine 24 I behelde the mountaynes and lo they trembled and all the hylles were in a feare 25 I loked about me and there was no body and all the birdes of the ayre were away 26 I marked well and the plowed fielde was become waste yea all their cities were broken downe at the presence of the Lord and indignation of his wrath 27 For thus hath the Lorde saide The whole lande shal be desolate yet wyll I not then haue done 28 And therfore shall the earth mourne and the heauen be sorie aboue for the thyng that I haue spoken to the prophetes purposed and taken vpon me to do shall not repent me and I wyll not go from it 29 The whole lande shall flee for the noyse of horsemen and bowmen they shall runne into dennes into wooddes and climbe vp the stonye rockes all the cities shal be voyde and no man dwellyng therin 30 What wylt thou nowe do thou being destroyed For though thou clothest thy selfe with scarlet and deckest thee with golde though thou payntest thy face with colours nowe yet shalt thou trimme thy selfe in vayne For those that hitherto haue ben thy louers shall abhorre thee and go about to slay thee 31 For I heare a noyse lyke as it were of a woman trauaylyng one labouryng of her first childe Euen the voyce of the daughter Sion that casteth out her armes and sowneth saying Ah wo is me howe sore vexed and faynt is my heart for feare of the murtherers The .v. Chapter 1 In Iurie is there no righteous or faithfull man founde either amongst the people or the rulers for whose sake the Lorde shoulde spare the citie 15 wherfore Iurie is destroyed of the Assyrians 1 LOke through Hierusalem beholde and see seeke through her streetes also within yf ye can fynde one man that doth equall and ryght or seketh for the trueth and I shall spare that citie saith the Lorde 2 * For though they can say the Lorde lyueth yet they sweare to deceaue 3 Wheras thou O Lorde lokest only vpon faith and trueth Thou hast scourged them but they toke no repentaunce thou hast corrected them for amendement but they refused thy correction they made their faces harder then a stone and woulde not amende 4 Therfore I thought in my selfe peraduenture they are so simple foolishe that they vnderstande nothyng of the Lordes way and iudgementes of their God 5 Therfore will I go vnto their heades and rulers and talke with them if they knowe the way of the Lord and iudgementes of their God But these in lyke maner haue broken the yoke and burst the bondes in sunder 6 Wherfore a lion out of the wood hath hurt them and a woolfe in the euenyng shall destroy them the Leoparde doth lye lurkyng by their cities to teare in peeces all them that come therout for their offences are multiplied and their departyng away is encreased 7 Shoulde I then for all this haue mercie vpon thee Thy children
and thy abhominations haue I seene Wo be vnto thee O Hierusalem wylt thou neuer be clensed any more Or when shall that be The .xiiij. Chapter 1 Of the dearth that shoulde come in Iurie 7 The prayer of the people askyng mercie of the Lorde 10 The vnfaithfull people are not hearde 12 Of prayer fastyng and of false prophetes that seduce the people 1 THe worde of the Lorde shewed vnto Ieremie concernyng the dearth of the fruites 2 Iuda hath mourned his gates are desolate they are brought to heauinesse euen vnto the grounde and the crye of Hierusalem goeth vp 3 The Lordes sent their seruauntes to fetche water and when they came to the welles they did finde no water but caried their vessels home emptie they be ashamed and confounded and couer their heades 4 For the grounde is dryed because there commeth no rayne vpon it the plowmen also be ashamed and couer their heades 5 The hynde also forsoke the young fawne that he brought foorth in the fielde because there was no grasse 6 The wylde asses did stande in the hye places and drewe in their winde lyke the dragons their eyes did fayle for want of grasse 7 Doubtlesse our owne wickednesse doth rewarde vs but Lorde do thou accordyng to thy name though our transgression and sinnes be many and agaynst thee haue we sinned 8 For thou art the comfort and helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the lande and as one that goeth his iourney and cōmeth in only to remayne for a night 9 Why wylt thou make thy selfe a cowarde and as it were a giaunt that yet may not helpe But thou O Lorde art in the middest of vs and thy name is called vpon of vs forsake vs not 10 Thus hath the Lorde sayde vnto his people seyng they haue had such a lust to wander abrode and haue not refrayned their feete therfore the Lorde hath no pleasure in them but he wyll nowe bring againe to remembraunce all their misdeedes and punishe all their sinnes 11 Yea euen thus sayde the Lorde vnto me Thou shalt not pray to do this people good 12 For though they fast I wyll not heare their prayers and though they offer burnt offeringes and sacrifices yet wyll not I accept them for I wyll destroy them with the sworde hunger and pestilence 13 Then aunswered I O Lorde God the prophetes say vnto them Tushe ye shall neede to feare no sworde and no hunger shall come vpon you but the Lorde shall geue you sure rest in this place 14 And the Lorde sayde vnto me The prophetes preach lyes in my name wheras I haue not sent them neither gaue I them any charge neither did I speake vnto them yet they preache vnto you false visions charming vanitie and deceiptfulnesse of their owne heart 15 Therfore thus saith the Lorde As for those prophetes that preache in my name whom I neuerthelesse haue not sent and that say Tushe there shall no sworde nor hunger be in this lande with sworde and with hunger shall those prophetes perishe 16 And the people to whom they preache shal be cast out of Hierusalem dye of hunger and be slayne with the sworde and there shal be no man to bury them both they and their wiues their sonnes and their daughters for thus wyll I poure their wickednesse vpon them 17 This shalt thou say also vnto them Mine eyes shall weepe without ceassyng day and nyght for my people shal be destroyed with great harme and shall perishe with a great plague 18 For yf I go into the fielde lo it lyeth all full of slayne men If I come into the citie lo they be all famished of hunger yea their prophetes also and priestes shal be led into an vnknowen lande 19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda Doest thou so abhorre Sion Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs that we can be healed no more We loked for peace and there commeth no good for the tyme of health and lo here is nothyng but trouble 20 We knowledge O Lorde all our misdeedes and the sinnes of our fathers for we haue offended thee 21 Cast vs not of O Lord for thy names sake forget not thy louyng kindnesse ouerthrowe not the throne of thine honour breake not the couenaunt that thou hast made with vs. 22 * Are there any among the gods of the gentiles that sende rayne or geue the showres from heauen Art not thou thy selfe our Lorde God we wyll trust in thee for thou doest all these thynges The .xv. Chapter 1 The Lorde wyll not heare Moyses or Aaron yf they pray for the people but wyll wrappe them in many miseries The cause of such great miseries 1 THus spake the Lorde vnto me Though Moyses and Samuel stoode before me yet haue I no heart to this people driue them away that they may go out of my sight 2 And yf they say vnto thee whyther shall we go then tell them The Lorde geueth you this aunswere Some vnto death some to the sworde some to hunger some into captiuitie 3 For I wyll bryng foure plagues vpon them saith the Lorde The sworde shal slay them the dogges shall teare them in peeces the soules of the ayre and beastes of the earth shall eate them vp and destroy them 4 I wyll scatter them about also in all kingdomes and landes to be plagued because of Manasses the sonne of Hezekia kyng of Iuda for the thynges that he did in Hierusalem 5 Who shall then haue pitie vpon thee O Hierusalem who shal be sorie for thee Or who shall make intercession to obtayne peace for thee 6 Seing thou goest from me and turnest backwarde saith the Lorde therfore I dyd stretche out myne hande against thee to destroy thee and I haue ben sorie for thee so long that I am weerie 7 I haue scattred them abrode with the fanne of euery side of the land I haue wasted my people and destroyed them yet they haue had no lust to turne from their owne wayes 8 I haue made their widowes mo in number then the sandes of the sea vpon the mothers of their children dyd I bryng a destroyer in the noone day sodaynly and vnawares did I sende a feare vpon their cities 9 She that hath borne seuen children hath none her heart is full of sorowe the sunne doth fayle her in the cleare day she is confounded and faintie for very heauinesse As for those that remayne I wyll deliuer them vnto the sworde before their enemies saith the Lorde 10 O mother alas that thou euer didst beare me a brawler and rebuker of the whole lande though I neuer lent nor receaued vpon vsurie yet all men speake euyll vpon me 11 And the Lord aunswered me Veryly thy remnaunt shall haue wealth Come not I to thee when thou art in trouble helpe thee when thine enemie oppresseth thee 12 Doth one iron
the Lordes vengeaunce is come yea he shall rewarde her agayne 7 Babylon hath ben in the Lordes hande a golden cuppe that maketh all landes drunken of her wine haue all people drunken therfore are they out of their wittes 8 But sodaynly is Babylon fallen and destroyed mourne for her bryng plasters for her woundes yf she may peraduenture be healed agayne 9 We woulde haue made Babylon whole say they but she is not recouered therfore wyll we let her alone and go euery man into his owne countrey for her iudgement is come into heauen and is gone vp to the cloudes 10 The Lorde hath brought foorth our righteousnesse and therfore come on we wyll shewe in Sion the worke of the Lorde our God 11 Make sharpe the arrowes and multiplie your shieldes for the Lorde shall rayse vp the spirite of the kyng of the Medes which hath alredy a desire to destroy Babylon this shal be the vengeaunce of the Lorde the vengeaunce of his temple 12 Set vp tokens vpon the walles of Babylon make your watch strong set your watchmen in araye yea holde priuie watches and yet for all that shall the Lorde go foorth with his deuice which he hath taken vpon them that dwell in Babylon 13 O thou that dwellest by the great waters O thou that hast so great treasure and riches thine ende is come and the reckenyng of thy wynnynges 14 The Lorde of hoastes hath sworne by hym selfe that he wyll ouerwhelme thee with men lyke grashoppers in number whiche with a courage shall crye alarum alarum agaynst thee 15 Yea euen the Lorde of hoastes that with his power made the earth with his wisdome prepared the round world and with his discretion spread out the heauens 16 Assoone as he letteth his voyce be hearde the waters in the ayre waxe fierce he draweth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth he turneth the lightnynges to rayne he bryngeth the wyndes out of their secrete places 17 If they be esteemed by their wisdome all men are become fooles confounded be all the casters of images for the thing that they make is but deceipt and hath no breath 18 Vayne is it and an erronious worke and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe 19 The portion of Iacob is none such but he that made all thinges whose name is the Lorde of hoastes he is the rodde of his enheritaunce 20 Thou hast ben mine hammer and weapons for warre for with thee haue I broken the people in peeces and with thee haue I destroyed kyngdomes 21 Through thee I haue beaten to powder horse and horsemen yea the charrettes and such as sate vpon them 22 Through thee I haue broken man and woman olde and young bacheler and mayden 23 Through thee I haue destroyed the sheepheard and his flocke the husbandman and his cattell the princes and the rulers 24 Therfore wyll I rewarde the citie of Babylon and all the inhabitauntes of Chaldea with all the euyll which they haue done vnto Sion yea that ye your selues shall see it saith the Lorde 25 Beholde I come vpon thee thou noysome hyll saith the Lorde thou that destroyest all landes I wyll stretch out my hand ouer thee and cast thee downe from the stony rockes and wyll make thee a burnt hyll 26 So that neither corner stones shal be taken any more out of thee but waste and desolate shalt thou lye for euermore saith the Lorde 27 Set vp a token in the lande blowe the trumpets among the heathen prouoke the nations agaynst her call the kyngdomes of Ararat Menni and Ascanez agaynst her set the prince agaynst her bryng as great a sort of terrible horses agaynst her as yf they were grashoppers 28 Prepare against them the people of the Medes with their kynges princes and all their chiefe rulers yea and the whole lande that is vnder hym 29 The lande also shall shake and be afrayde when the deuice of the Lorde shall come foorth agaynst Babylon to make the lande of Babylon so waste that no man shal dwel any more therin 30 The worthyes of Babylon shall leaue the battayle and kepe them selues in strong holdes their strength hath failed them they shal be lyke women their dwellyng places shal be burnt vp their barres shal be broken 31 One purseuaunt shall meete another yea one poste shall come by another to bryng the kyng of Babylon tidinges that his citie is taken on euery syde 32 The foordes occupied the fennes burnt vp and the souldiers sore afrayde 33 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon hath ben in her tyme lyke as a threshyng floore but shortly shall her haruest come 34 Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon hath deuoured and destroyed me he hath made me an emptie vessell he swalowed me vp lyke a dragon and fylled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out 35 My substaunce wherof he hath spoyled me and the thyng that was left me which he hath caryed away crye out against Babylon saith the daughter that dwelleth in Sion yea and my blood also agaynst the Chaldees saith Hierusalem 36 Therfore thus saith the Lorde Beholde I wyll defende thy cause and auenge thee I wyll drynke vp her sea and drye vp her water sprynges 37 Babylon shall become an heape of stones a dwellyng place for dragons a fearefulnesse and wonderyng and no man shall dwell there 38 They shall rore together lyke lions and as the young lions when they be angry so shall they bende them selues 39 In their heate I shall geue them a dinner and they shal be drunken for ioy then shall they sleepe an euerlastyng sleepe and neuer wake saith the Lorde 40 I shall cary them downe to be slayne lyke sheepe lyke weathers and goates 41 O howe was Sesach wonne O howe was the glorie of the whole lande taken howe happeneth it that Babylon is so wondred at among the heathen 42 The sea is risen ouer Babylon hath couered her with her great waues 43 Her cities are layde waste the lande lyeth vnbuilded and voyde it is a lande where no man dwelleth and where no man trauayleth through 44 Moreouer I wyll visite Bell at Babylon the thyng that he hath swalowed vp that same shall I plucke out of his mouth the gentiles also shall runne no more vnto hym yea and the walles of Babylon shall fall 45 O my people come out of Babylon that euery man may saue his life from the fearfull wrath of the Lorde 46 Be not faynt hearted and feare not at euery rumoure that shal be hearde in the lande for euery yere bryngeth newe tidinges and in the yere folowing newe tidinges and robbyng in the lande and lorde vpon lorde 47 And lo the tyme commeth that I will visite the images of Babylon and the whole lande shal be confounded yea and her slayne shall lye in the middest of her 48 Heauen and
in his wrath As for the honour of Israel he hath cast it downe frō heauen vnto the earth and he remembred not his owne footestole when he was angry 2 The Lorde hath cast out all the habitations of Iacob without any fauour all the strong places of the daughter of Iuda hath he broken in his wrath and throwen them downe to the grounde her kingdome and her princes hath he prophaned 3 In the wrath of his indignation he hath broken all the horne of Israel he hath withdrawen his right hande from the enemie yea a flambe of fire is kindled in Iacob and hath consumed vp all rounde about 4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemie he hath fastened his ryght hande as an aduersarie and euery thyng that was pleasaunt to see he hath slayne he hath powred out his wrath like a fire into the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion 5 The Lorde is become like as it were an enemie he hath deuoured Israel and all his palaces yea all his strong holdes hath he destroyed and fylled the daughter of Iuda with much sorowe and heauinesse 6 His tabernacle as a garden hath he destroyed his solempne meetinges hath he put downe the Lord hath brought it so to passe that the hye solempne feastes and Sabbathes in Sion are cleane forgotten in his heauy displeasure hath he dispised the kyng and priestes 7 The Lorde hath forsaken his owne aulter and hath abhorred his owne sanctuarie and hath geuen the walles of their towres into the handes of the enemie their enemies made a noyse in the house of the Lorde as it had ben in a solempne feast day 8 The Lorde thought to breake downe the walles of the daughter of Sion he spread out his line and drewe not in his hande tyll he had destroyed them therfore mourne the turrettes the broken walles fall downe together 9 Her gates are suncke downe to the grounde her barres are broken and smitten in sunder the kyng and princes are caryed away to the gentiles they haue neither lawe nor prophetes nor yet any vision from the Lorde 10 The senatours of the daughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in scilence they haue strawed asshes vpon their heads and gyrded them selues with sackcloth the maydens of Hierusalem hang downe their heades to the grounde 11 Mine eyes begin to fayle me through weeping my body is disquieted my liuer is powred vpon the earth for the great hurt of the daughter of my people seeing the chyldren and babes dyd swowne in the streetes of the citie 12 Euen when they spake to their mothers Where is meate and drinke for whyle they so sayde they fell downe in the streetes of the citie like as they had ben wounded and some dyed in their mothers bosome 13 What shall I say vnto thee O thou daughter Hierusalem to whom shal I liken thee To whom shall I compare thee O thou daughter Sion to comfort thee withall thy heart is lyke a mayne sea who may heale thee 14 Thy prophetes haue looke dout vayne and foolish thinges for thee they haue not shewed thee of thy wickednesse to kepe thee from captiuitie but they haue seene out for thee burthens of vanitie and banishment 15 All they that go by thee clappe their handes at thee hissing and wagging their heades vpon the daughter Hierusalem and say Is this the citie that men call so faire wherein the whole lande reioyceth 16 All thyne enemies gape vpon thee whispering and grinding their teeth saying let vs deuour for the tyme that we looked for is come we haue founde and seene it 17 The Lorde hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do and perfourmed that he had deuised long ago he hath destroyed and not spared he hath caused thyne aduersarie to triumph ouer thee and set vp the horne of thyne enemie 18 Their heart cryed vnto the Lorde O thou citie of the daughter Sion let thy teares runne downe like a riuer day and night rest not and let not the apple of thyne eye leaue of 19 Stand vp and make thy prayer in the first watche of the night powre out thine heart like water before the Lord lift vp thyne handes for the liues of thy young chyldren that dye of hunger in the streetes 20 Beholde O Lorde and consider to whom thou hast done thus Shall the women then eate their owne fruite euen chyldren of a spanne long shall the priestes and prophetes be slayne in the sanctuarie of the Lorde 21 Young and olde lye thorowe the streetes vpon the grounde my maydens and young men are slayne with the sworde whom thou in the day of thy wrathfull indignation hast put to death yea euen thou hast put them to death and not spared them 22 My neighbours that are rounde about me hast thou called as it were to a feast day so that in the day of the lordes wrath none escaped neither was any left behinde those that I haue brought vp and nourished hath myne enemie destroyed The .iij. Chapter 1 I Am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie 2 He droue me foorth and led me yea into darknesse but not into light 3 Against me is he turned he turneth his hande dayly against me 4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde and my bones hath he bruised 5 He hath buylded rounde about me and closed me in with gall and trauaile 6 He hath set me in darknesse as they that be dead for euer 7 He hath so hedged me in that I can not get out and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me 8 Though I crye and call pitiously yet heareth he not my prayer 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones and made my pathes crooked 10 He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare and as a lion in a hole 11 He hath marred my wayes and broken me in peeces he hath layde me waste altogether 12 He hath bent his bowe and made me as it were a marke to shoote at 13 The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot euen into my reynes 14 I am laughed to scorne of all my people they make songues vpon me all the day long 15 He hath filled me with bitternesse and geuen me wormewood to drinke 16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones and roulled me in the dust 17 He hath put my soule out of rest I forget all good thinges 18 I thought in my selfe I am vndone there is no hope for me in the Lorde 19 O remember yet my miserie and my trouble the wormewood and the gall 20 Yea thou shalt remember them for my soule melteth away in me 21 Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart I get a hope agayne 22 Namely it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed 23 Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing O Lorde great is
wayes to cut of them that shoulde escape neither shouldest thou haue shutte vp the remnaunt thereof in the day of affliction 15 For the day of the Lorde is neare vpon all the heathen as thou hast done it shal be done to thee thy rewarde shall returne vpon thyne head 16 For as ye haue drunke vpon myne holy mountaine so shall all the heathen drinke continually yea they shal drinke and swalowe vp and they shal be as though they had not ben 17 But vpon mount Sion shal be deliueraunce and it shal be holy and the house of Iacob shal possesse their possessions 18 And the house of Iacob shal be a fire and the house of Ioseph a flambe and the house of Esau as stubble and they shall kindle in them and deuoure them and there shal be no remnaunt of the house of Esau for the Lorde hath spoken it 19 And they shall possesse the south side of the mount of Esau and the plaine of the Philistines and they shall possesse the fieldes of Ephraim and the fieldes of Samaria and Beniamin shall haue Gilead 20 And the captiuitie of his hoast of the children of Israel which were among the Chanaanites shall possesse● vnto Zarephath and the captiuitie of Hierusalem which is in Sepharad shall possesse the cities of the south 21 And they that shall saue shall come vp to mount Sion to iudge the mount of Esau and the kingdome shal be the Lordes ❧ The booke of the prophete Ionas ¶ The first Chapter 3 Ionas fled when he was sent to preache 4 A tempest ariseth and he is cast into the sea for his disobedience 1 THe worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionas the sonne of Amittai saying 2 Aryse go to Niniue that great citie and crye against it for their wickednesse is come vp before me 3 And Ionas rose vp to flee into Tharsis from the presence of the Lorde and went downe to Ioppa and founde a ship going to Tharsis so he payed his fare and went downe into it that he might go with them vnto Tharsis from the presence of the Lorde 5 Then the maryners were afrayde and cryed euery man vnto his God and cast the wares that were in the shippe into the sea to lighten it of them but Ionas was gone downe into the sides of the shippe he laye downe sleeping 6 And the shippe maister came to him and saide What meanest thou sleeper Vp and call vpon thy God if so be that God wyl shine vnto vs that we perishe not 7 And they saide euery one to his felow Come let vs cast lottes that we may know for whose cause this euil is on vs. And they cast lottes and the lotte fel on Ionas 8 Then saide they vnto him Tell vs for whose cause is this euill come vpon vs what is thyne occupation whence camest thou what countrey man art thou and of what nation 9 And he aunswered them I am an Hebrue and I feare the Lorde God of heauen which hath made the sea and the drye lande 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraide saide vnto him Why hast thou done this for the men knewe we that he fled from the presence of the Lorde because he had tolde them 11 And they saide vnto him What shal we do vnto thee that the sea may be calme vnto vs For the sea wrought and was troublous 12 And he saide vnto them Take me and cast me into the sea and the sea shal be calme vnto you for I know that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you 13 Neuerthelesse the men assayed with rowing to bring the shippe to lande but they could not because the sea wrought and was troublous against them 14 Wherfore they cryed vnto the Lorde and saide We beseche thee O Lord We beseche thee let not vs perishe for this mans lyfe and lay not to our charge innocent blood for thou O Lorde hast done as it pleased thee 15 So they toke vp Ionas and cast him into the sea and the sea left raging 16 And the men feared the Lorde exceedingly and offered a sacrifice vnto the Lorde and made vowes 17 And the Lorde prepared a great fishe to swalowe vp Ionas Ionas was in the belly of the fishe three dayes and three nightes The .ij. Chapter 1 Ionas is in the fisshes belly 3 His prayer 11 He is deliuered 1 AND Ionas prayed vnto the Lorde his God out of the fisshes belly 2 And saide In affliction I cryed vnto the Lorde and he heard me out of the belly of hell cryed I and thou heardest my voyce 3 Thou haddest cast me downe into the deepe into the middest of the sea and the floods compassed me about all thy billowes and waues passed ouer me 4 And I saide I am cast away out of thy sight yet wyll I loke againe toward thyne holy temple 5 The waters compassed me euen vnto the soule the deapth closed me on euery side and the weedes were wrapt about my head 6 I went downe to the bottome of the mountaines the earth with her barres was about me for euer yet hast thou brought vp my lyfe from corruption O Lorde my God 7 When my soule fainted within me I remembred the Lorde and my prayer came in vnto thee into thy holy temple 8 They that holde vpon lying vanitie forsake his mercie 9 But I wyll sacrifice vnto thee with the voyce of thankesgeuing and wyll pay that that I haue vowed for saluation is of the Lorde 10 And the Lorde spake vnto the fisshe and it cast out Ionas vpon the drye lande The .iii. Chapter 2 Ionas is sent againe to Niniue 5 The repentaunce of the king of Niniue 1 AND the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionas the second time saying 2 Aryse and go to Niniue that great citie and preache against it the preaching which I speake vnto thee 3 So Ionas arose and went to Niniue according to the word of the Lord Niniue was a great citie and excellent of three dayes iourney 4 And Ionas began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney and he cryed saide Yet fourtie dayes Niniue shal be destroyed 5 And the men of Niniue beleued God and proclaymed a fast and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them 6 And worde came vnto the king of Niniue which arose from his throne and put of his robe and couered him selfe with sackcloth sate downe in asshes 7 And he caused a cryer to crye and say through the citie by the counsell of the king his nobles Let neither man nor beast bullocke nor sheepe taste ought at all neither feede nor drinke water 8 And let both man beast put on sackcloth and crye mightyly vnto God yea let euery man turne from his euill way and from the wickednesse that is in his handes 9 Who can tel whether God wyl turne and be moued with
I wyll put them together as the sheepe of Bozra as the flocke in the middest of their folde they shall make great noyse by reason of the multitude of men 13 The breaker shall come vp before them they shall breake out and passe by the gate and go out by it and their king shall go before them and the Lorde shal be vpon their heades ¶ The .iij. Chapter Against the tiranny of princes and false prophetes 1 ANd I saide heare I pray you O heads of Iacob ye princes of the house of Israel shoulde not ye know iudgement 2 But they hate the good and loue the euill they plucke of their skinnes from them and their fleshe from their bones 3 And they eate also the fleshe of my people slay of their skinne from them and they breake their bones and chop them in peeces as for the pot and as fleshe within the cauldron 4 Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde but he wyll not heare them he wyll euen hide his face from them at that time because they haue done wickedly in their workes 5 Thus saith the Lorde concerning the prophetes that deceaue my people and bite them with their teeth and crye peace but if a man put not into their mouthes they prepare warre against him 6 Therfore night shal be vnto you for a vision and darkenesse shal be vnto you for a diuination and the sunne shall go downe ouer the prophetes and the day shal be darke ouer them 7 Then shall the sears be ashamed and the soothsayers confounded yea they shal al couer their lippes for they haue none aunswere of God 8 Yet notwithstanding I am full of power by the spirite of the Lorde and of iudgement and of strength to declare vnto Iacob his transgression and to Israel his sinne 9 Heare this I pray you ye heades of the house of Iacob and princes of the house of Israel they abhorre iudgement and peruert all equitie 10 They builde vp Sion with blood and Hierusalem with iniquitie 11 The heades therof iudge for rewards and the priestes thereof teache for hyre and the prophetes thereof prophecie for money yet wyll they leane vpon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among vs no euill can come vpon vs. 12 Therefore shall Sion for your sake be plowed as a fielde Hierusalem shal be an heape and the mountaine of the house as the hie places of the forest The .iiij. Chapter The calling of the Gentiles and conuertion of the Iewes 1 BVt in the latter dayes it wyll come to passe that the hill of the Lordes house shal be prepared in the toppe of the mountaines and shal be set vp hygher then any mountaynes or hilles and people shall prease vnto it 2 Yea the multitude of the Gentiles shall haste them thither saying Come let vs go vp the to hill of the Lorde and to the house of the God of Iacob and he shall teache vs his wayes and we wyll walke in his pathes for the lawe shall come out of Sion and the word of God from Hierusalem 3 And he shall iudge many people and rebuke mightie nations of farre countreys so that of their swordes they shal make plough shares and sythes of their speares one people shall not lift vp a sworde against another yea they shall no more learne to fight 4 But euery man shall sit vnder his vineyarde and vnder his figtree and no man shall make them afraide for the mouth of the Lorde of hoastes hath spoken it 5 Therfore all people wyll walke euery man in the name of his God and we wyll walke in the name of our lord God for euer and euer 6 At the same time saith the Lorde wyl I gather vp the lame and the outcast and such as I haue chastened 7 And wyll geue a remnaunt vnto the lame and make of the outcast a mightie people and the Lorde him selfe shal be their king vpon the mount Sion from this time foorth for euermore 8 And vnto thee O thou towre of the flocke thou strong holde of the daughter Sion vnto thee shall it come euen the lordeship and kingdome to the daughter Hierusalem 9 Why then doest thou crye and lament is there no king in thee are thy counsellers perished that thou art so payned as a woman in her trauaile 10 And now O thou daughter Sion sorowe and lament as a woman in her trauaile for nowe must thou get thee out of the citie dwelt vpon the plaine fielde yea vnto Babylon shalt thou go but there shalt thou be deliuered * and there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hande of thyne enemies 11 Now also are there many people gathered together against thee saying Sion shal be condempned and our eye shall loke vpon Sion 12 But they know not the thoughtes of the Lord they vnderstand not his counsel for he shall gather them together as the sheaues in the barne 13 Therefore get thee vp O thou daughter Sion and thresshe out the corne for I wyll make thy horne iron and thy hooues brasse that thou mayst breake in peeces many people their goodes shalt thou consecrate vnto the Lorde and their substaunce vnto the ruler of the whole worlde ¶ The .v. Chapter Of the destruction of Hierusalem 1 NOW shalt thou be robbed thy selfe O thou robbers daughter they shall laye siege against vs smyte the iudge of Israel with a rodde vpon the cheeke 2 And thou Bethlehem Ephrata art little among the thousandes of Iuda out of thee shal he come foorth vnto me which shal be the gouernour in Israel whose out going hath ben from the beginning and from euerlasting 3 Therefore wyll he geue them vp for a season vntill the time that she which shall beare haue borne then shall the remnaunt of his brethren be conuerted vnto the children of Israel 4 He shall stande faste and geue foode in the strength of the Lorde and in the maiestie of the name of the Lorde his God and when they be conuerted he shal be magnified vnto the farthest partes of the worlde 5 And he shall be our peace when the Assirians shall come into our lande when he shal treade in our palaces then shall we raise against him seuen sheepheardes and eyght principall men 6 These shall subdue the lande of Assur with the sworde and the lande of Nimrod with their naked weapons Thus shall he deliuer vs from the Assirian when he commeth within our lande and setteth his foote within our borders 7 And the remnaunt of Iacob shal be among the multitude of people as the deawe of the Lord and as the droppes vpon the grasse that taryeth for no man and wayteth on no body 8 Yea the residue of Iacob shal be among the gentiles and the multitude of people as the lion among the beastes of the wood and as the lions whelpe among the flockes of sheepe which whē he goeth through treadeth downe
the twentie and fourth day of the eleuenth moneth whiche is the moneth Sebah in the seconde yere of Darius came the word of the Lord vnto Zacharias the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophete saying 8 I sawe by night and behold there sate one vpon a red horse and stoode still among the myrre trees that were in a botome and behinde hym were there red speckled and whyte horses 9 Then sayde I O my Lorde what are these And the angel that talked with me sayde vnto me I will shewe thee what these be 10 And the man that stoode among the myrre trees aunswered and said These are they whom the Lorde hath sent to go thorowe the world 11 And they aunswered the angel of the Lorde that stoode among the myrre trees and sayd We haue gone thorowe the world and beholde all the world sitteth still and is carelesse 12 Then the lordes angel gaue aunswere and saide O lorde of hoastes how long wylt thou be vnmerciful to Hierusalem and to the cities of Iuda with whom thou hast ben displeased now these three score and ten yeres 13 So the Lorde gaue a louing and a comfortable aunswere vnto the angel that talked with me 14 And the angel that communed with me saide vnto me Crye thou speake Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes I am exceeding ielous ouer Hierusalem and Sion 15 And sore displeased at the carelesse heathen for where as I was but a litle angry they helped forward the affliction 16 Therfore thus saith the Lorde I wyl returne vnto Hierusalem in tender mercie so that my house shal be builded in it saith the Lorde of hoastes yea and the lyne shal be stretched vpon Hierusalē 17 Crye also and speake thus saith the Lorde of hoastes My cities shal be in good prosperitie againe the Lorde shall yet comforte Sion choose Hierusalem 18 Then lyft I vp myne eyes and sawe and beholde foure hornes 19 And I saide vnto the angel that talked with me what be these He aunswered me These are the hornes which haue scattered Iuda Israel and Hierusalem 20 And the Lorde shewed me foure carpenters 21 Then saide I what wyll these do He aunswered said These are the hornes which haue scattered Iuda so that no man durst lyft vp his head but these are come to fray them away and to cast out the hornes of the Gentiles which lyft vp their horne ouer the lande of Iuda to scatter it abroade The .ij. Chapter The renewing of Hierusalem and Iuda 1 I Lyft vp myne eyes agayne and loked and beholde a man with a measure lyne in his hande 2 Then saide I whyther goest thou And he said vnto me To measure Hierusalem that I may see how long and how broade it is 3 And behold the angel that talked with me went his way foorth Then went there out another angel to meete him ▪ 4 And saide vnto him Runne speake to this young man and say Hierusalem shal be inhabited without any wall for the very multitude of people and cattaile that shal be therein 5 For I my selfe saith the Lorde wyl be vnto her a wall of fire rounde about wyl be the glory in the middest of her 6 O get you foorth O flee from the land of the north saith the Lorde for I haue scattred you into the foure windes of the heauen saith the Lorde 7 Saue thy selfe O Sion thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon 8 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes After this glory hath he sent me out to the heathen which spoyled you for who so toucheth you shal touche the apple of his owne eye 9 Beholde I wyll lyft vp myne hande ouer them so that they shall be spoyled of those which afore serued them and ye shall knowe that the Lorde of hoastes hath sent me 10 Be glad and reioyce O daughter Sion for lo I am come to dwell in the middest of thee saith the Lorde 11 At the same time there shal many heathen cleaue to the lord shal be my people Thus wyll I dwell in the middest of thee and thou shalt knowe that the lorde of hoastes hath sent me vnto thee 12 The Lorde shall haue Iuda in possession for his part in the holy lande and shall choose Hierusalem yet againe 13 Let all fleshe be still before the Lorde for he is raysed vp out of his holy place ¶ The .iij. Chapter 1 Of the lw and hie estate of Christe vnder the figure of Iosua the priest 8 a prophecie of Christe 1 ANd he shewed me Iosua the hie priest standing before the angell of the Lord and Satan stoode at his right hande to resist him 2 And the Lorde saide vnto Satan The Lorde reproue thee thou Satan yea the Lorde that hath chosen Hierusalem reproue thee Is not this a brand taken out of the fire 3 Now Iosua was clothed in vncleane rayment and stoode before the angel 4 And he aunswered saide vnto those that stoode before him Take away the foule clothes frō him And vnto him he saide Beholde I haue taken away thy sinne from thee and I wyll clothe thee with chaunge of rayment 5 And I saide Let them set a fayre miter vpon his head So they set a fayre miter vpon his head put on clothes vpon him and the angell of the Lorde stoode there 6 Then the angell of the Lorde testified vnto Iosua and spake 7 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes If thou wylt walke in my wayes keepe my watch thou shalt iudge my house kepe my courtes and I wyll geue thee place among these that stande here 8 Heare O Iosua thou hie priest thou thy felowes that sit before thee for they are monstruous persons behold I wyl bring foorth the braunche my seruaunt 9 For lo the stone that I haue layde before Iosua vpon one stone shal be seuen eyes beholde I wyll cut out the grauing therof saith the Lorde of hoastes and I wyll take away the sinne of the lande in one day 10 In that day shall euery man call his neighbour vnder the vine and vnder the figtree saith the Lorde of hoastes The .iiii. Chapter The vision of the golden candelsticke and the exposition thereof 1 ANd the angell that talked with me came againe and waked me as a man that is raysed out of his sleepe 2 And saide vnto me what seest thou And I saide I haue loked and beholde a candelsticke all of golde with a boule vpon it and his seuen lampes therein vpon euery lampe seuen pypes 3 And two olyue trees thereby one vpon the right side of the boule the other vpon the left side 4 So I aunswered and spake to the angell that talked with me saying O my Lorde what are these 5 The angell that talked with me aunswered and saide vnto me Knowest thou not what these be And I said No my Lorde 6 He aunswered and
46 Then sayde I vnto the angell what young person is it that crowneth them and geueth them the palmes in their handes 47 So he aunswered and sayd vnto me It is the sonne of God whom they haue knowledged in the world Then began I greatly to commende them that stoode so stiffely for the name of the Lorde 48 Then the angell sayde vnto me Go thy way and tell my people what maner of thinges howe great wonders of the Lorde thy God thou hast seene ¶ The .iij. Chapter 4 The wonderous workes whiche God dyd for the people are recited 31 Esdras marueyleth that God suffereth the Babylonians to haue rule ouer his people whiche yet are sinners also 1 IN the thirtith yere after the fall of the citie I was at Babylon and lay troubled vppon my bed and my thoughtes came vp ouer my heart 2 For I sawe the desolation of Sion and the plenteous wealth of them that dwelt at Babylon 3 And my spirite was sore moued so that I began to speake feareful wordes to the most hyest and sayde 4 O Lorde Lorde thou spakest at the beginning when thou plantedst the earth and that thy selfe alone and gauest commaundement vnto the people 5 And a body vnto Adam without soule whiche was a creature of thy handes and hast breathed in hym the breath of lyfe and so he liued before thee 6 And thou leddest hym into Paradise which thy ryght hande had planted or euer the earth brought fruites 7 And vnto him thou gauest commaundement to loue thy way which he transgressed and immediatly thou appoyntedst death in hym and in his generations Of whom came nations tribes people and kinredes out of number 8 And euery people walked after their owne wyll and did wonderfull thinges before thee and as for thy commaundementes they dispised them 9 But in processe of tyme thou broughtest the water fludde vpon those that dwelt in the worlde destroyedst them 10 So that by the fludde that was wrought in eche of them that was by death in Adam 11 Neuerthelesse one of them thou leftest namely Noe with his householde of whom came all ryghteous men 12 And it happened that when they that dwelt vpon the earth began to multiplie and had gotten them many children and were a great people they began to be more vngodly then the first 13 Nowe when they liued so wickedly before thee thou didst choose thee a man from among them whose name was Abraham 14 Hym thou louedst and vnto hym only thou shewedst thy wyll 15 And madest an euerlasting couenaunt with hym promisyng hym that thou wouldest neuer forsake his seede 16 And vnto hym thou gauest Isahac vnto Isahac also thou gauest Iacob and Esau As for Iacob thou dydst choose him to thee and put backe Esau And so Iacob became a great multitude 17 And it came to passe that when thou leddest his seede out of Egypt thou broughtest them vp to the mount Sina 18 Bowing downe the heauens setting fast the earth mouyng the grounde makyng the deapthes to shake and troublyng the worlde 19 And thy glorie went through foure portes of fire and earthquakes and windes and colde that thou myghtest geue the lawe vnto the seede of Iacob and diligence vnto the generation of Israel 20 And yet tokest thou not away from them that wicked heart that thy lawe myght bryng foorth fruite in them 21 For the first Adam bearyng a wicked heart transgressed and was ouercome and so be all they that are borne of him 22 Thus remayned weaknesse still and the lawe in the heartes of the people with the wickednesse of the roote so that the good departed away and the euyll abode styll 23 So the tymes passed away and the yeres were brought to an ende Then dyddest thou rayse thee vp a seruaunt called Dauid 24 Whom thou commaundedst to builde a citie vnto thy name and to offer vp incense and sacrifice vnto thee therin 25 When this was done nowe many yeres then the inhabiters of the citie forsoke them 26 And in all thynges dyd euen as Adam and all his generations had done for they also had a wicked heart 27 And so thou gauest the citie ouer into the handes of thine enemies 28 But do they of Babylon then any thyng better that they shoulde therfore haue the dominion in Sion 29 For when I came thyther and sawe there so great wickednesse that it coulde not be numbred then my soule sawe many euyl doers in this thirteth yere so that my heart fayled me 30 For I saw howe thou sufferedst them in such vngodlinesse and sparedst the wicked doers but thine owne people hast thou rooted out and preserued thine enemies and this hast thou not shewed me 31 I can not perceaue howe this happeneth Do they of Babylon then better then they of Sion 32 Or is there any other people that knoweth thee sauyng the people of Israel or what generation hath so beleued thy couenauntes as Iacob 33 And yet their rewarde appeareth not and their labour hath no fruite For I haue gone here and there through the heathen and I see that they be riche and wealthy and thynke not vpon thy commaundementes 34 Waygh thou therfore our wickednesse nowe in the ballaunce and theirs also that dwell in the worlde and so shall thy name be no where founde but in Israel 35 Or when was it that they which dwel vpon earth haue not sinned in thy sight or what people hath so kept thy commaundementes 26 Thou shalt finde that Israel by name hath kept thy preceptes but not the ●other people and● heathen The .iiij. Chapter 5 The angel reproueth Esdras because he seemed to enter into the profounde iudgementes of God 1 AND the angel that was sent vnto me whose name was Vriel gaue me an answere 2 And sayd Thy heart hath taken to much vpon it in this worlde and thou thinkest to comprehende the way of the hyghest 3 Then sayde I Yea my Lorde And he aunswered me and sayde I am sent to shewe thee three wayes and to set foorth three similitudes before thee 4 Wherof yf thou canst declare me one I wyll shewe thee also the way that thou desirest to see and I shall shewe thee from whence the wicked heart commeth 5 And I sayde Tell on my Lord. Then sayde he vnto me Go thy way waygh me the wayght of the fire or measure me the blast of the winde or call me agayne the day that is past 6 Then aunswered I and sayde What man borne is able to do that that thou shouldest aske such thynges of me 7 And he sayde vnto me If I shoulde aske thee howe deepe dwellynges are in the middest of the sea or howe great water springes are in the begynnyng of the deepe or howe great water springes are vpon the stretchyng out of the heauens or which are the outgoinges of Paradise 8 Peraduenture thou
touchyng thy lyfe I am not sent to shewe thee for I do not knowe it The .v. Chapter 1 In the latter tymes trueth shal be hyd 6 Vnrighteousnesse and all wickednesse shall raigne in the worlde 23 Israel is reiected and God deliuereth them 35 God doth all thyng in season 1 NEuerthelesse as concernyng the tokens marke this Behold the dayes shall come that they which dwell vpon earth shal be taken in a great number and the way of the trueth shal be hyd and the lande shal be barren from faith 2 But iniquitie shal be increased aboue that which nowe thou seest or that thou hast hearde long ago 3 And the lande that thou seest nowe to haue rule shalt thou shortly see waste 4 But yf God graunt thee to lyue thou shalt see after the thirde trumpet that the sunne shall sodaynly shyne agayne in the night and the moone three tymes in the day 5 And blood shall droppe out of wood and the stone shall geue his voyce and the people shal be vnquieted 6 And euen he shall rule whom they hope not that dwell vpon earth and the foules shall flitte 7 And the Sodomitishe sea shall cast out the fishe and make a noyse in the nyght which many haue not knowen but they shal all heare the voyce therof 8 There shal be a confusion also in many places and the fire shal be oft sent out agayne and the wylde beastes shall chaunge their places and menstruous women shall beare monsters 9 And salt waters shal be founde in the sweete and all friendes shall fyght one agaynst another then shall all wyt and vnderstandyng be hyd and put asyde into their secrete places 10 And shal be sought of many and yet not be founde then shall vnryghteousnesse and voluptuousnesse haue the vpper hande vpon earth 11 One lande also shall aske another and say Is ryghteousnesse that maketh a man righteous gone through thee And it shall say no 12 At the same tyme shall men hope but nothyng obteyne they shall labour but their wayes shall not prosper 13 To shewe thee such tokens I haue leaue and if thou wylt pray agayne and weepe as nowe and fast seuen dayes thou shalt heare yet greater thynges 14 Then I awaked and a fearfulnesse went through all my body my mynde was feeble so that I almost sowned withall 15 So the angel that was come to talke with me helde me comforted me and set me vp vpon my feete 16 And in the seconde nyght it came to passe that Salathiel the captayne of the people came vnto me saying Where hast thou ben and why is thy countenaunce so heauy 17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed vnto thee in the lande of their captiuitie 18 Vp then and eate and forsake vs not as the sheephearde that leaueth his flocke in the handes of wicked wolues 19 Then sayde I vnto hym Go thy wayes fro me and come not nye me And he hearde it and as I sayde so went he his way from me 20 And so I fasted seuen dayes mournyng and weepyng lyke as Vriel the angell commaunded me 21 And after seuen dayes so it was that the thoughtes of my heart were very greeuous vnto me agayne 22 And my soule receaued the spirite of vnderstandyng and I began to talke with the most hyghest agayne 23 And sayde O Lorde Lorde of euery wood of the earth and of all the trees thereof thou hast chosen thee one only vineyarde 24 And of all landes of the whole worlde thou hast chosen one pyt and of all floures of the grounde thou hast chosen thee one lilie 25 And of all the deapthes of the sea thou hast fylled thee one ryuer and of all builded cities thou hast halowed Sion vnto thy selfe 26 And of all the foules that are created thou hast named thee one doue and of all the cattell that are made thou hast prouided thee one sheepe 27 And among all the multitudes of peoples thou hast gotten thee one people vnto this people whom thou louedst thou gauest a lawe that is proued of all 28 And nowe O Lorde why hast thou geuen this one people ouer vnto many and vpon the one roote thou hast prepared others and why hast thou scattered thy one only people among many 29 Which treade them downe yea which haue euer withstande thy promises and neuer beleued thy couenauntes 30 If thou didst so much hate thy people yet shouldest thou punishe them with thine owne handes 31 Nowe when I had spoken these wordes the angell that came to me the nyght afore was sent vnto me 32 And sayde vnto me Heare me and I wyll instruct thee hearken to the thyng that I say and I shall tell thee more 33 And I sayde Speake on my Lorde Then sayde he vnto me Thou art sore troubled in mynde for Israels sake Louest thou that people better then he that made them 34 And I sayde No Lorde but of very griefe and compassion haue I spoken for my reynes payne me euery houre because I woulde haue experience of the way of the most hyest and seke out part of his iudgement 35 And he sayde vnto me That thou mayest not And I sayde Wherfore Lorde wherunto was I borne then or why was not my mothers wombe then my graue that I myght not haue seene the miserie and trouble of Iacob and the wearyng out of the stocke of Israel 36 And he sayde vnto me Number me the thynges that are not yet come gather me together the droppes that are scattered abroade make me the floures greene agayne that are withered 37 Open me the places that are closed and bring me foorth the wyndes that in them are shut vp shewe me the image of a voyce and then I wyll declare to thee the thyng that thou labourest to knowe 38 And I sayde O Lorde Lorde who may knowe these thynges but he that hath not his dwellyng with men 39 As for me I am vnwise howe may I then speake of these thynges wherof thou askest me 40 Then sayd he vnto me Lyke as thou canst do none of these thynges that I haue spoken of euen so canst thou not fynde out my iudgement or in the ende the loue that I haue promised vnto my people 41 And I sayde Beholde O Lorde yet art thou nye vnto them that be reserued tyll the ende and what shal they do that haue ben before me or we that be nowe or they that shall come after vs 42 A● sayde vnto me I wyll lyken my iud●ment vnto a ryng Lyke as there is no slacknesse of the last euen so there is no swiftnesse of the first 43 So I aunswered and sayde Couldest thou not make those that haue ben made and be nowe and that are for to come at once that thou mightest shewe thy iudgement the sooner 44 Then aunswered he me and sayde The creature may not haste aboue the maker neither may the worlde holde them at once that
vnto me Sir let me alone that I may bewayle my selfe and take yet more sorow for I am sore vexed in my minde and brought very low 42 And I sayde vnto her what ayleth thee Or who hath done any thing to thee tell me 43 She sayde vnto me I thy seruaunt haue ben vnfruitfull and baren and haue had no chylde though I haue had an husbande thirtie yeres 44 And these thirtie yeres I do nothing els day and night and all houres but make my prayer to the highest 45 After thirtie yeres God hearde me thy handmayden looked vpon my miserie considered my trouble and gaue me a sonne and I was glad of hym so was my husband also and al my neighbours and we gaue great honour vnto the almightie 46 And I nourished him with great trauayle 47 So when he grewe vp and came to the tyme that he shoulde haue a wyfe I made a feast The .x. Chapter Esdras and the woman that appeareth vnto hym commune together 1 ANd it so came to passe that when my sonne went into his chaumber he fell downe and dyed 2 Then ouerthrewe we all the lightes and all my neyghbours rose vp to comfort me then toke I my rest vnto the seconde day at nyght 3 And when they had all left of to comfort me that I shoulde be quiet then I rose vp by nyght and fled and am come hyther into this fielde as thou seest 4 And am purposed not to returne into the citie but to remayne here and neither to eate nor drinke but continually to mourne and to fast vntyll I dye 5 Then let I my meditation and thoughtes fal that I was in and spake to her in displeasure saying 6 Thou foolish woman aboue al other seest thou not our heauines and mourning and what happeneth vnto vs 7 Howe Sion our mother is all wofull sory and howe she is cleane brought downe and mourneth extremely 8 Seyng we be all nowe in heauines make our mone for we all be sorowfull art thou so heauie for one sonne 9 Demaunde the earth and she shall tell thee that it is she whiche ought by reason to mourne for the fall of so manye that growe vpon her 10 For from the beginning all men are borne of her and other shall come and beholde they walke almost all into destruction and the multitude of them shal be rooted out 11 Who shoulde then by reason make more mourning then she that hath lost so great a multitude and not thou whiche art sory but for one 12 But if thou wouldest say vnto me My mourning is not like the mourning of the earth for I haue lost the fruite of my body whiche I brought foorth with heauines and bare with sorowes 13 But the earth is according to the maner of the earth and the present multitude goeth agayne into her as it is come to passe 14 Then say I vnto thee Like as thou hast borne with trauayle and sorowe euen so the earth also from the beginning geueth her fruite vnto man euen to him that laboured her 15 And therefore withholde thy sorowe and heauines by thy self looke what happeneth vnto thee beare it strongly 16 For if thou iudgest the marke and ende of God to be righteous and good and receauest his counsell in time thou shalt be commended therin 17 Go thy way then into the citie to thy husbande 18 And she sayde vnto me That wyll I not do I wyll not go into the citie but here wyll I dye 19 So I communed more with her and sayde 20 Do not so but be counselled and folow me for howe many fauls hath Sion Be of good comfort because of the sorowe of Hierusalem 21 For thou seest that our sanctuarie is layde waste our aulter broken our temple destroyed 22 Our playing of instrumentes is layde downe and songues art put to scilence our myrth is vanished away the light of our candelsticke is quenched the arke of our couenaunt is taken from vs all our holy thinges are defiled and the name that is called vpon ouer vs is almost dishonoured our chyldren are put to shame our priestes are brent our Leuites are caryed away into captiuitie our virgins are defiled and our wyues rauished our righteous men spoyled and our chyldren destroyed our young men are brought in bondage and our strong worthyes are become weake 23 And Sion our seale which is the greatest of al is loosed vp from her worship for she is deliuered into the handes of them that hate vs. 24 And therfore shake of thy great heauinesse and put away the multitude of sorowes that the mightie may be mercyfull vnto thee and that the highest may geue thee rest and ease from thy labour and trauayle 25 And when I was talkyng with her her face and beautie shined sodainely and her countenaunce glistered so that I was afraide of her and mused what it might be 26 And immediatly she caste out a great voyce very fearefull so that the earth shoke at the noyse of the woman 27 And I looked and beholde the woman appeared vnto me no more but there was a citie buylded a place was shewed from the ground foundation Then was I afraide and cryed with a loude voyce and sayde 28 Where is Vriel the angell whiche came to me at the first For he hath caused me to come in many considerations and hye thoughtes and myne ende is turned to corruption and my prayer to rebuke 29 And as I was speaking these wordes he came vnto me and looked vpon me 30 And lo I lay as one that had ben dead and myne vnderstanding was altred and he toke me by the right hande and comforted me and set me vpon my feete and sayde vnto me 31 What ayleth thee and why is thyne vnderstanding vexed and the vnderstanding of thy heart and wherefore art thou sory 32 And I sayde Because thou hast forsaken me and I haue done * according vnto thy wordes I went into the field and there haue I seene thinges and see that I am not able to expresse 33 He sayde vnto me Stande vp and be manly I shall geue thee exhortation 34 Then sayde I Speake on to me my Lorde forsake me not lest I dye thorowe my rashnesse 35 For I haue seene that I knewe not and heare that I do not knowe 36 Or is my vnderstanding deceaued or doth my soule dreame 37 Nowe therefore I beseche thee that thou wylt shewe thy seruaunt of this wonder 38 He aunswered me then and sayde Heare me and I shall enfourme thee and tell thee wherfore thou art afraide for the hyest hath opened many secrete thinges vnto thee 39 He hath seene that thy way is right for that thou takest sorowe continually for thy people and makest great lamentation for Sion 40 And therefore vnderstande the vision which thou sawest a litle whyle ago after this maner 41 Thou sawest a woman mourning and thou begannest to
heareth the prayer of the oppressed 14 He despiseth not the desire of the fatherlesse nor the wydowe when she powreth out her prayer before him 15 Doth not God see the teares that runne downe the cheekes of the wydowe or heareth he not the complaint ouer such as make her to weepe For from her cheekes do the teares go vp vnto heauen and the Lord which heareth them doth accept them 16 Who so serueth God after his pleasure shal be accepted and his prayer reacheth vnto the cloudes 17 The prayer of him that humbleth him selfe goeth through the cloudes tell she come nye she wyll not be comforted nor go her way tyll the highest God haue respect vnto her geue true sentēce and perfourme the iudgement 18 And the Lorde wyll not be slacke in comming nor tary long tyll he haue smitten in sunder the backes of the vnmercifull and auenged him selfe of the heathen tyll he haue taken away the multitude of the cruell and broken the scepter of the vnrighteous tyll he geue euery man after his workes and rewarde them after their doinges tyll he haue delyuered his people maintayned their cause and reioyced them in his mercie 19 O how faire a thing is mercie in the time of anguishe and trouble it is lyke a cloude of rayne that commeth in the time of drouth ¶ The .xxxvi. Chapter 1 A prayer to God in the person of all faithfull men 22 The prayse of a good woman 1 HAue mercie vpon vs O Lorde thou God of all thinges haue respect vnto vs shewe vs the light of thy mercies 2 And sende thy feare among the heathen and straungers which seeke not after thee that they may knowe that there is no God but thou and that they may shew thy wonderous workes 3 Lyft vp thyne hande ouer the outlandishe heathen that they may learne to knowe thy might and power 4 Lyke as thou art halowed in vs before them so bring to passe that thou mayst be magnified also in them before vs. 5 That they may know thee lyke as we know thee for there is none other God but onely thou O Lorde 6 Renue the tokens and chaunge the wonderous workes shew thyne hand and thy right arme gloriouslie 7 Rayse vp thyne indignation and poure out thy wrath take away the aduersarie and smite the enemie 8 Make the time shorte remember thy couenaunt that thy wōderous workes may be praysed 9 Let the wrath of the fyre consume them that lyue so carelesse and let them perishe that do thy people hurt 10 Smyte in sunder the head of the princes that be our enemies and say there is none other but we 11 Gather all the tribes of Iacob together againe that they may knowe how that there is none other God but onely thou that they may shewe thy wonderous workes and be thou thy peoples heritage lyke as from the beginning 12 O Lorde haue mercie vpon the people that hath thy name and vpon Israel whom thou hast lykened to a first borne sonne 13 O be mercifull vnto Hierusalem the citie of thy sanctuarie the citie of thy rest 14 Fill Sion with thyne vnspeakable vertues and thy people with thy glorie 15 Geue witnesse vnto thy creature whō thou madest from the beginning and rayse vp the prophesies that haue ben shewed in thy name 16 Rewarde them that wayte for thee that thy prophetes may be founde faithfull 17 O Lorde heare the prayer of thy seruauntes according to the blessing of Aaron ouer thy people and guide thou vs in the way of righteousnes that al they which dwell vpon the earth may know that thou art the Lorde the eternall God which is from euerlasting 18 The belly deuoureth all meates yet is one meate better then another 19 Lyke as the tongue tasteth venison so doth an heart of vnderstandyng marke false wordes 20 A froward heart geueth heauines but a man of experience lyfteth him vp againe 21 The woman receaueth euery man yet is one daughter better then another 22 A faire wyfe reioyceth her husband and a man loueth nothing better 23 If there be in her tongue gentlenes meekenes and holsome talke then is not her husband lyke other men 24 He that hath gotten a vertuous woman hath a goodlie possession she is vnto him a helpe and piller wherevpon he resteth 25 Where no hedge is there the goodes are spoyled and where no huswyfe is there the frendles mourneth 26 Lyke as there is no credence geuen to a robber that goeth from one citie to another so is not the man beleued that hath no nest and must turne in where he may abide in the night The .xxxvii. Chapter 1 Howe a man should knowe friendes and counsellers 12 and searche the company of an holy man 1 EVery friende sayth I wyll be friendly vnto him also but there is some friend which is onely a frende in name 2 Remaineth not there heauines vnto death when a companion and friend is turned to an enemie 3 O most wicked presumption from whence art thou sprong vp to couer the earth with falshood and disceite 4 There is some companion which in prosperitie reioyceth with his friend but in the time of trouble he taketh part against him 5 There is some companion that mourneth with his friend for the bellies sake but when trouble commeth he taketh holde of the shielde 6 Forget not thy friend in thy minde thinke vpon him in thy riches 7 Seeke no counsell at thy kinsmen and hide thy counsel from such as beare thee no good wyll 8 Euery counseller prayseth his counsell neuerthelesse there is some that counselleth but for his owne profite 9 Beware of the counseller and be aduised afore whereto thou wylt vse him for he wyll counsaile for him selfe fest he cast the lot vpon thee 10 And say vnto thee Thy way and purpose is good and afterwarde he stande against thee and loke what shal become of thee 11 Aske no counsaile at him that suspecteth thee for an enemie hide thy counsaile from such as hate thee aske no counsell for religion of him that is without religion nor for iustice of him that hath no iustice aske no counsel at a woman touching her of whō she is ielous nor at a fearefull and faint harted body in matters of warre or at a marchaunt how deare he wyl cheape thy wares toward his or at a byer of selling or at an enuious man of thankesgeuing or at the vnmerciful of louing kindnesse or at an vnhonest man of honestie or at the slothfull of working or at an hyreling which hath no house of profit or wealth or at an idle body of much labour take no such folkes to counsell 12 But be diligent to seeke counsaile at a vertuous man that feareth God such a one as thou knowest to be a keper of the commaundementes which hath a minde after thyne owne minde and is sory for thee when thou stumblest 13 And holde thy
of vngodlines 24 Insomuch that their sinnes and misdeedes had the vpper hande so sore that at the last they were driuen out of the lande for the same 25 Yea he sought out and brought vp all wickednes tyll the vengeaunce came vpon them ¶ The .xlviij. Chapter The prayse of Elias Elizeus Ezechias and Esaias 1 THen stoode vp Elias the prophete as a fyre and his worde brent lyke a cresset 2 He brought an hunger vpon them and in his zeale he made thē fewe in number for they might not away with the commaundementes of the Lorde 3 Through the worde of the Lorde he shut the heauen three times brought he the fire downe 4 O Elias howe honorable art thou in thy wonderous deedes who may make his hoast to be lyke thee 5 One that was dead thou raysedst vp from death and in the worde of the hyest thou broughtest him out of the graue againe 6 Thou hast cast downe kinges and destroyed them and the honorable from their seate 7 Vpon the mount S●na thou heardest the iudgement vpon horeb the iudgement of the vengeaunce 8 Which diddest annoynt kinges to recompence and ordaynedst prophetes after thee 9 Thou wast taken vp in the storme of fire in a charet of fixie horses 10 Thou wast ordayned in the reproouinges in time to pacifie the wrath of the Lorde before it raged to turne the heartes of the fathers vnto the children to set vp the tribes of Iacob againe 11 Blessed were they that sawe thee and were garnished in loue for we lyue in lyfe but after death we shall haue no such name 12 Elias was couered in the storme but Elizeus was filled with his spirite while he lyued he was afrayde of no prince and no man might ouercome him 13 There coulde no worde deceaue him and after his death his body prophecied 14 He did wonders in his lyfe in death were his workes maruaylous 15 For all this the people amended not neither departed they from their sinnes tyll they were caryed away prisoners out of the lande and were scattered abrode in all countries so that of them there remayned but a very litle people and a prince vnto the house of Dauid 16 Howbeit some of them did right and some heaped vp vngodlynes 17 Ezechias made his citie strong conueyed water into it digged through the stony rocke with iron and made vp a wall by the water side 18 In his time came Sennacherib vp and sent Rabsakes lyft vp his hande against Sion defied them with great pride 19 Then trembled their heartes and handes so that they sorowed lyke a woman trauayling with childe 20 So they called vpon the Lord which is mercifull and lyft vp their handes before him immediately the Lorde heard them out of heauen 21 He thought no more vpon their sinnes nor gaue them ouer to their enemies but deliuered them by the hande of Esaias 22 He smote the hoast of the Assyrians and his angel destroyed them 23 For Ezechias had done the thing that pleased the Lorde and remayned stedfastly in the way of Dauid his father as Esaias the great faithfull prophete in the sight of God had commaunded him 24 In his time the sunne went backward and he lengthened the kinges lyfe 25 With a right spirite prophecied he what shoulde come to passe at the last and to such as were sorowfull in Sion he gaue consolation wherewith they might comfort them selues for euermore 26 He shewed thinges that were for to come and secrete or euer they come to passe ¶ The .xlix. Chapter ▪ Of Iosias Ezechias Dauid Ieremie Ezechiel Zorobabel Iesus Nehemias Enoch and Ioseph 1 THe remembraunce of Iosias is lyke as whē the apothecarie maketh many precious sweete smelling thinges together his remembraunce shal be sweete as hony in all mouthes and as the playing of musicke at a banket of wine 2 He was appoynted to turne the people againe and to take away all abhominations of the vngodlie 3 He directed his heart vnto the Lorde and in the time of the vngodlie he set vp the worship of God againe 4 All kinges except Dauid Ezechias and Iosias committed wickednes for euen the kinges of Iuda also forsoke the lawe of God 5 For they gaue their horne vnto other their honour worship also to a straūge people 6 Therefore was the elect citie of the sanctuarie brent with fire and the streetes therof layd desolate and waste in the hande of Ieremie 7 For they entreated him euill which neuerthelesse was a prophete ordayned from his mothers wombe that he might roote out breake of and destroy and that he might builde vp and plant againe 8 Ezechiel sawe the glorie of the Lorde in a vision which was shewed him vpon the charet of the Cherubims 9 For he thought vpon the enemies in the rayne to do good vnto such as had ordered their wayes aright 10 And the bones of the twelue prophetes florished from out of their place for they gaue comfort and consolation vnto Iacob and deliuered them faithfully 11 How shal we prayse Zorobabel which was as a ring on the right hande 12 So was Iesus also the sonne of Iosedec these men in their times builded the house set vp the sanctuarie of the Lorde againe which was prepared for an euerlasting worship 13 And among the elect was Nehemias whose renowme was great which set vp for vs the walles that were broken downe made the portes and barres againe and builded our houses a new 14 But vpon the earth is there no man created lyke Enoch for he was taken vp from the earth 15 Neither was there a lyke man vnto Ioseph which was lord of his brethren and the vpholder of his people his bones were couered and kept 16 Seth and Sem were in great honour among the people and so was Adam aboue all the beastes when he was created The .l. Chapter 1 Of Simon the sonne of Onias 22 An exhortation to prayse the Lorde 1 SImon the sonne of Onias the hye priest which in his lyfe set vp the house againe and in his dayes made fast the temple 2 The height of the temple also was founded of him the double building and the hye walles of the temple 3 In his dayes the welles of water flowed out and were exceeding full as the sea 4 He toke care for his people and deliuered them from destruction he kept his citie made it strong that it shoulde not be besieged 5 How honorable was his conuersation among the people and when he came out of the house couered with the vaile 6 He gaue lyght as the morning starre in the middest of the cloudes and as the moone when it is full 7 He shined as the sunne in the temple of God he is as bright as the raynebowe in the faire cloudes 8 And florisheth as the floures and roses in the spring of the
his kingdome he went about to obtayne the lande of Egypt also that he might haue the dominion of two realmes 18 Vpon this entred he into Egypt with a strong hoast with charets Elephants horsemen and a great number of ships 19 And began to warre against Ptolome the king of Egypt But Ptolome was afrayde of him and fled and many of his people were wounded to death 20 Thus Antiochus wanne many strong cities and toke away great good out of the lande of Egypt 21 And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt he turned againe in the hundred fourtie and three yere and went toward Israel 22 And came vp to Hierusalem with a mightie people 23 And entred proudely into the sanctuarie and toke away the golden alter the candelsticke and al the ornaments therof the table of the shewbread the pouring vessels the chargers the golden spoones the vayle the crownes golden apparell of the temple and brake downe all in peeces 24 He toke also the siluer and golde the precious iewels and the secret treasures that he founde 25 And when he had taken away altogether caused a great murther of men and spoken very proudly the departed ino his owne lande 26 Therefore there was great lamentation throughout all Israel 27 The princes and the elders of the people mourned the young men and the maydens were defiled and the faire beautie of women was chaunged 28 The bridegrome and the bryde toke them to mourning 29 The lande and those that dwelt therein was moued for all the house of Iacob was brought to confusion 30 * After two yeres the king sent his chiefe treasurer vnto the cities of Iuda which came to Hierusalem with a great multitude of people 31 Speaking peaceable wordes vnto thē but all was deceite for when they had geuen him credence 32 He fell sodenly vpon the citie smote it sore destroyed much people of Israel 33 And when he had spoyled the citie he set fire on it casting downe houses and walles on euery side 34 The women and their children toke they captiue and led away their cattell 35 Then builded they the citie of Dauid with a great and thicke wall and with mightie towres and made it a strong holde for them 36 Beside all this they set wicked people and vngodlie men to kepe it 37 Stored it with weapons and vitailes gathered the goodes of Hierusalem and layed them vp there Thus became it a theeuishe castel 38 Thus they became a heauy burthen laying wayte for the people that went into the sanctuary and for the cruell destruction of Israel 39 Thus they shed innocent blood on euery side of the sanctuary and defiled it 40 Insomuch that the citezins were faine to depart and the citie became an habitation of straungers being desolate of her owne seede for her owne natiues were faine to leaue her 41 Her sanctuary was cleane wasted her holy dayes were turned into mourning her Sabbathes were had in derision her honour brought to naught 42 Loke how great her glory was before so great was her confusion and her ioye turned into sorowe 43 Antiochus also the king sent out a commission vnto all his kingdome that all the people should be one 44 Then they left euery man his lawe and al the heathen agreed to the commaundement of king Antiochus 45 Yea many of the Israelites consented therevnto offering vnto idols and defiling the Sabbath 46 So the king Antiochus sent his messēgers with his commission vnto Hierusalem and to all the cities of Iuda that they should folow the lawes of the heathen 47 And forbad either burnt offering meate offering or peace offering to be made in the temple of God that there should no Sabbath nor hie feast day be kept 48 But commaunded that the sanctuary and the holy people of Israel should be defiled 49 He commaunded also that there should be set vp other aulters temples idols to offer vp swines flesh and other vncleane beastes 50 That men should leaue their children vncircumcized to defile their soules with all maner of vncleannesse and abhominations 51 That they might so forget the lawe and chaunge all the holy ordinaunces of God 52 And that whosoeuer would not do according to the commaundement of king Antiochus should suffer death 53 In lyke maner cōmaunded he throughout all his realme and set rulers ouer the people for to compell them to do these thinges 54 Commaunding al the cities of Iuda to do sacrifice vnto idols 55 Then went the people vnto the heathen by heapes forsooke the law of the Lorde and committed much euil in the lande 56 And the droue the Israelites into secrete places euen where so euer they coulde flee for succour 57 The fifteenth day of the moneth Casleu in the hundred threescore and fifth yere set king Antiochus an abhominable idoll of desolation vpon the aulter of God and they builded aulters throughout all the cities of Iuda on euery side 58 Before the doores of the houses and in the streates where they brent incense and did sacrifice 59 And as for the bookes of the lawe of God they brent them in the fire and rent them in peeces 60 Whatsoeuer he was that had a booke of the testament of the Lorde founde by him yea whosoeuer endeuoured him selfe to kepe the lawe of the Lorde the kinges cōmaundement was that they should put him to death 61 And through his aucthoritie they executed these thinges euery moneth vpon the people of Israel that were founde in the cities 62 The twentie and fifth day of the moneth what time as they did sacrifice vpon the aulter which stoode in the steade of the aulter of the Lorde 63 According to the commaundement of king Antiochus they put certaine women to death which had caused their children to be circumcized 64 Not onely that but they hanged vp the childrē by the neckes throughout al their houses and slue the circumcizers of thē 65 Yet were there many of the people of Israel which determined in thēselues that they woulde not eate vncleane thinges but chose rather to suffer death then to be defiled with vncleane meates 66 So because they would not breake the blessed lawe of God they were cruelly slaine 67 And this great tiranny encreased very sore vpon the people of Israel The .ii. Chapter 1 The mourning of Mathathias and his sonnes for the destruction of the holy citie 19 They refuse to do sacrifice vnto idols 24 The zeale of Mathathias for the lawe of God 33 They are slaine and wyll not fight againe because of the Sabbath day 49 Mathathias dying commaundeth his sonne to sticke by the worde of God after the example of the fathers 1 IN those dayes there did stand vp one Mathathias the sonne of Iohn the sonne of Simeon the priest out of the kinred of Ioarib from Hierusalem and dwelt vpon the mount of Modin 2 And had fiue sonnes Iohn called
and dyd according to his desire yea made an oth that he should neuer do him harme all the dayes of his lyfe 72 So he restored vnto him all the prisoners that he had taken out of the lande of Iuda and then turned and went his way into his owne land neither proceeded he any further to come vnto the borders of Iuda 73 Thus Israel had no more warre and Ionathas dwelt at Machmas and began there to gouerne the people and destroyed the vngodly men out of Israel The .x. Chapter 4 Demetrius desireth to haue peace with Ionathas 48 Alexander moueth warre against Demetrius 50 Demetrius is slayne 51 The friendship of Ptolomeus and Alexander 1 IN the hundred and threescore yere came Alexander the sonne of noble Antiochus and toke Ptolomais whose citizines receaued him and there he raygned 2 When Demetrius heard therof he gathered an exceeding great hoast and went foorth against him to fight 3 Wherfore Demetrius sent letters vnto Ionathas with louing wordes and praysed him greatly 4 For he sayde We will first make peace with him before he bynde him selfe with Alexander against vs 5 Els he shall remember the euyl that we haue done against him his brother and his people 6 And so he gaue Ionathas leaue to gatheran hoast to make weapons to be confederat with him and commaunded the pledges that were in the castle to be deliuered vnto him 7 Then came Ionathas to Hierusalem and read the letters in the audience of al the people and of them that were in the castle 8 And therefore were they sore afrayde because they hearde that the king had geuen him licence to gather an hoast 9 Thus were the pledges deliuered vnto Ionathas which restored them to their parentes 10 Ionathas also dwelt at Hierusalem and began to buylde vp and to repayre the citie 11 Commaunding the workmen to wall it and the mount Sion rounde about with free stone to be a strong hold and so they did 12 As for the heathen that were in the castles whiche Bacchides had made vp they fled 13 So that euery man left the place and went into his owne countrey 14 Only at Bethsura remayned certayne of the Iewes whiche had forsaken the lawe and commaundementes of God for Bethsura was their refuge 15 Nowe when king Alexander heard of the promises that Demetrius had made vnto Ionathas and when it was tolde him of the battayles and noble actes which he and his brethren had done and of the great trauayles that they had taken 16 He sayde Where shall we finde such a man well we wil make him our friend and be confederat with hym 17 Vpon this he wrote a letter vnto him with these wordes 18 King Alexander saluteth his brother Ionathas 19 We haue hearde of thee that thou art a valiaunt man and meete to be our friende 20 Wherfore this day we ordayne thee to be the hye priest of thy people and to be called the kinges friende Vpon this he sent hym a purple clothing a crowne of gold that thou mayest consider what is for our profite and kepe friendship towarde vs. 21 So in the seuenth moneth of the hundred and threescore yere vpon the solempne feast day of the tabernacles Ionathas put the holy rayment vpon him then gathered he an hoast and prepared many weapons 22 Whiche when Demetrius hearde he was marueylous sory 23 And sayde Alas what haue we done that Alexander hath preuented vs in getting the friendship of the Iewes for his owne defence 24 Yet will I wryte louingly vnto them also yea and promise them dignities and rewardes that they may be of my syde 25 Wherevpon he wrote vnto them these wordes King Demetrius sendeth greeting vnto the people of the Iewes 26 Whereas ye haue kept your couenaunt toward vs and continued in our friendship not inclining to our enemies we were glad when we hearde therof 27 Wherfore remayne still and be faythfull to vs and we shall well recompence you for the thinges that ye haue done on our partie 28 We shal releasse you of many charges and geue you rewardes 29 And now I discharge you and all the Iewes from tributes I forgeue you the customes of salt and releasse you of the crowne taxes of the thirde part of seede 30 And halfe the fruite of trees whiche is myne owne duetie I do releasse them from this day foorth so that they shall not be taken of the lande of Iuda nor of the three cities which are added therunto out of Samaria and Galilee from this day foorth for euermore 31 Hierusalem also with all thinges belonging therto shal be holy and free yea the tythes and tributes shall pertayne vnto it 32 As for the power of the castle whiche is at Hierusalem I remit and geue it vnto the hygh priest that he may set in it such men as he shall choose to kepe it 33 I freely deliuer all the Iewes that are prisoners throughout all my realme so that euery one of them shal be free from paying any tribute yea euen of their cattell 34 All the solempne feastes Sabbathes newe moones the dayes appoynted the three dayes before and after the feast shal be free for all the Iewes in my realme 35 So that in them no man shall haue power to do any thing or to vexe any of them in any maner of cause 36 There shall thirtie thousand also of the Iewes be written vp in the kinges hoast and haue their wages payed as all other men of warre of the kinges should haue and of them shal be ordeyned certayne to kepe the kinges strong holdes 37 Yea and some of them shal be set ouer the kinges secret affaires and their gouernours and princes shal be of them selues and lyue after their owne lawes as the king hath commaunded in the lande of Iuda 38 And the three cities that are fallen vnto Iurie from the countrey of Samaria shal be taken as Iurie and be vnder one neither be subiect to any straunge lord but to the hie priest 39 As for Ptolomais and the land pertayning therto I geue it vnto the sanctuarie at Hierusalem for the necessarie expences of the holy thinges 40 Moreouer I will geue euery yere fyfteene thousande sicles of siluer of the kinges reuenues out of the places appertayning vnto me 41 And all the ouerplus which they haue not payed for thinges due as they dyd in the former yeres from hence foorth they shall geue it towarde the workes of the temple 42 And besides this the fyue thousande sicles of siluer which they receaued yerely of the account appoynted for the interteynement of the sanctuarie these yeres passed euen these thinges shal be releassed because they appertaine to the priestes that minister 43 Item whosoeuer they be that flee vnto the temple at Hierusalem or within the liberties therof where as they are fallen into the kinges daunger for any maner of businesse they shal be pardoned and al the goodes that they haue in
my realme shal be free 44 For the buylding also and repayring of the worke of the sanctuarie expences shal be geuen out of the kinges reuenues 45 Yea and for the making of the walles rounde about Hierusalem for the breaking downe of the olde and for the setting vp of the strong holdes in Iurie shall the costes and charges be geuen out of the kinges reuenues 46 But when Ionathas and the people hearde these wordes they gaue no credence vnto them neither receaued them for they remembred the great wickednesse that he had done vnto Israel and howe sore he had vexed them 47 Wherfore they agreed vnto Alexanander for he was a prince that had dealt friendly with them and so they stoode by him alway 48 Then gathered king Alexander a great hoast and brought his armie against Demetrius 49 So the two kinges stroke battayle together but Demetrius hoast fled and Alexander folowed after and fell vpon them 50 A mightie sore fielde was it continuing till the sunne went downe and Demetrius was slayne the same day 51 And Alexander sent ambassadours vnto Ptolomi the king of Egypt with these wordes saying 52 Forsomuch as I am come againe to my realme and am set in the throne of my progenitours and haue gotten the dominion ouercommed Demetrius 53 Conquered the lande striken a fielde with hym so that we haue discomfited both hym and his hoast and sit in the throne of his kingdome 54 Let vs nowe make friendship together geue me thy daughter to wyfe so shal I be thy sonne in lawe and both geue thee rewardes and her accordyng to thy dignitie 55 Ptolomi the king gaue aunswere saying Happy be the day wherein thou art come againe to the lande of thy progenitours and set in the throne of their kingdome 56 And nowe will I fulfill thy wryting but meete me at Ptolomais that we may see one another and that I may marry my daughter vnto thee according to thy desire 57 So Ptolomi went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra and came vnto Ptolomais in the hundred threescore and two yere 58 Where king Alexander mette hym and he gaue Alexander his daughter Cleopatra and maried them at Ptolomais with great worship like as the maner of kinges is to be 59 Then wrote king Alexander vnto Ionathas that he shoulde come and meete him 60 So he went honorably vnto Ptolomais there he mette the two kinges and gaue them and their friendes great presentes of golde and siluer and founde fauour in their sight 61 And there came together against Ionathas certayne wicked men and vngratious persons of Israel making complayntes of him but the king regarded them not 62 As for Ionathas the king commaunded to take of his garmentes to cloth him in purple and so they did Then the king appoynted him to sit by him 63 And sayde vnto his princes Go with him into the middest of the citie make a proclamation that no man complayne against him of any matter and that no man trouble hym for any maner of cause 64 So it happened that when his accusers sawe the worship whiche was proclaymed of hym that he was clothed in purple they fled euery one 65 And the king made much of him wrote hym among his chiefe friendes made hym a duke and partaker of his dominion 66 Thus Ionathas went againe to Hierusalem with peace and gladnesse 67 In the hundred threescore fyft yere came Demetrius the sonne of Demetrius from Creta into his fathers lande 68 Wherof when Alexander heard tell he was right sory and returned vnto Antioch 69 And Demetrius chose Apollonius whiche had the gouernaunce of Celosiria to be his captayne So he gathered a great hoast and came vnto Iamnia sent worde vnto Ionathas the hygh priest saying 70 Darest thou withstande vs thy selfe alone As for me I am but laughed to scorne and shamed because thou diddest vaunte thy strength against vs in the mountaynes 71 Now therfore if thou trustest in thyne owne strength come downe to vs into the playne fielde there let vs trye the matter together for thou shalt knowe that I haue the strength of many cities 72 And shalt knowe who I am and the other that stand by me which say That your foote is not able to stande before our face for thy fathers haue ben twyse chased in their owne lande 73 And nowe howe wilt thou be able to abyde so great an hoast of horsemen and footemen in the fielde where as is neither rocke stone nor place to flee vnto 74 When Ionathas hearde the wordes of Apollonius he was moued in his mynde wherfore he chose ten thousand men and went out of Hierusalem and Simon his brother mette hym for to helpe hym 75 And they pitched their tentes at Ioppa but the citie kept hym foorth for Apollonius garrison was in Ioppa 76 Then Ionathas layed siege to it and they that were in the citie for very feare let him in and so Ionathas wan Ioppa 77 Apollonius hearing of this toke three thousand horsemen with a great hoast on foote and went to Azotus as though he woulde go further and came immediatly into the playne fielde because he had so many horsemen and put his trust in them 78 So Ionathas folowed vpon hym to Azotus and the army skirmished with his rereward and there they stroke the battayle 79 Nowe had Apollonius left a thousande horsemen behynde them priuily in the tentes 80 And when Ionathas knewe that such wayte was layed behynde them they went rounde about the enemies hoast and shot dartes at the people from the morning to the euening 81 As for Ionathas people they kept their order as he had commaunded them and the enemies horses were weery 82 Then brought Simon foorth his hoast and set them against the footemen for the horsemen were weery alredy So he discomfited them and they fled 83 And they that were scattered in the fielde gat them to Azotus and came into the temple of Dagon their idoll that they might there saue their liues 84 But Ionathas set fire vpon Azotus and all the cities rounde about it and toke their goodes and brent vp the temple of Dagon with all them that were fled into it 85 Thus were slayne and brent welnye eyght thousande men 86 So Ionathas remoued the hoast from thence and brought them to Ascalon where the men of the citie came foorth and mette him with great worship 87 After this went Ionathas and his hoast againe to Hierusalem with great substaunce of good 88 And when king Alexander heard these thinges he thought to do Ionathas more worship 89 And sent him a coller of gold as the vse is to be geuen vnto such as are of the kinges next blood He gaue him also the citie of Accaron with the landes belonging therto in possession The .xi. Chapter 3 The discention betwixt Ptolomeus and Alexander his sonne in lawe 17 The death of Alexander 19 Demetrius
And they commaunded to make this writing in tables of brasse and fasten it vnto the wall that compasseth the sanctuary in an open place 49 And to lay vp a copie of the same in the treasurie that Simon and his posteritie might haue it The .xv. Chapter 1 Antiochus maketh a couenaunt of frendship with Simon 11 and Tryphon is persecuted 15 The Romanes write letters vnto kinges and nations in the defence of the Iewes 27 Antiochus refusing the helpe that Simon sent him breaketh his couenaūt 1 MOreouer king Antiochus the sonne of Demetrius sent letters from the Iles of the sea vnto Simon the hie priest and prince of the Iewes and to all the people 2 Concerning these wordes Antiochus the king sendeth greeting vnto Simon the hie priest and to the people of the Iewes 3 Forsomuch as certaine wicked men haue gotten the kingdome of our progenitours I haue purposed to chalenge the realme againe and to restore it to the olde estate Wherefore I haue gathered a great hoast and made shippes of warre 4 That I may go through the countrey and be auenged of them which haue destroyed our lande and wasted many cities in my realme 5 And therefore nowe I make thee free also from all the tributes whereof all kinges my progenitours haue discharged thee from other customes wherefrom they haue releassed thee whatsoeuer they be 6 Yea I geue thee leaue to smite money of thyne owne within thy lande 7 As for Hierusalem I wyll that it be holy and free and all the weapons and houses of defence which thou hast builded and kepest in thyne handes shable thyne 8 Whereas any thing is or shal be owing vnto the king I forgeue it thee from this time foorth for euermore 9 And when we haue obtayned our kingdome we shall do thee thy people and the temple great worship so that your honour shal be knowen throughout the whole worlde 10 In the hundred threescore fourteenth yere went Antiochus into his fathers land and all the men of warre came together vnto him so that fewe were left with Tryphon 11 So the king Antiochus folowed vpon him but he fled vnto Dora which lyeth by the sea side 12 For he sawe that there was mischiefe comming vnto him and that his hoast had forsaken him 13 Then came Antiochus vnto Dora with an hundred and twentie thousand men of armes on foote and eyght thousand horsmen so he compassed the citie rounde about and the shippes came by the sea 14 Thus they vexed the citie by land and by water insomuch that they suffered no man to go in nor out 15 In the meane season came Numenius they that had ben with him from the citie of Rome hauing letters written vnto the kinges prouinces wherein were contayned these wordes 16 Lucius the consull of Rome sendeth greeting vnto Ptolomi the king 17 The Ambassadours of the Iewes our friendes being sent from Simon the hie priest and from the people of the Iewes came vnto vs for to renue the olde friendship and bonde of loue 18 Brought a shielde of golde weying a thousand pounde 19 Wherefore we thought it good to write vnto the kinges and prouinces to do them no harme nor to take part against them their cities nor countries neither to maintaine their enemies against them 20 And we were content to receaue of them the shielde 21 If there be any wicked persons therefore fled from their countrey vnto you deliuer them vnto Simon the hie priest that he may punishe them according to their owne lawe 22 The same wordes wrote the Romanes also vnto Demetrius the king to Attalus Araba Arsaces 23 And to all regions as Samsanes to them of Spartia Delo Mydo Sidon Caria Samos Pamphilia Lycia Alicarnassem and to the Rhodes to Faselidis Coo Sida Arado Cortyna Gnidum to Cypres and Cyren 24 And of euery letter they sent a copie to Simon the hie priest 25 So Antiochus the king brought his hoast vnto Dora the second time to take it where he made diuers ordinaunce of warre and kept Tryphon in that he should not go eyther in or out 26 Then sent Simon vnto Antiochus two thousand chosen men to helpe him with golde siluer other plenteous thinges 27 Neuerthelesse he woulde not receaue them but brake all the couenaūt which he made with Simon afore and withdrewe him selfe from him 28 He sent Athenobius also a frend of his vnto Simon for to reason with him saying Ye withholde fro me Ioppa and Gaza with the castle that is at Hierusalem which are cities of my realme 29 Whose borders ye haue destroyed and done great euill in the lande hauing the dominion in many other places of my kingdome 30 Wherfore deliuer now the cities which ye haue taken with the tributes of the places that ye haue rule vpon without the borders of Iurie 31 Or els geue me fiue hundred talentes of siluer yea for the harme that ye haue done in the cities for the tributes of the same other fiue hundred talentes yf no we shall come and fight against you 32 So Athenobius the kinges friend came to Hierusalem and when he sawe the great worship honour of Simon in golde siluer so great plentie of ornamentes he maruailed tolde Simon as the king commaunded him 33 Then aunswered Simon and saide vnto him As for vs we haue neither taken other mens landes nor withholden thē but onely our fathers heritage which our enemies had vnrighteously in possession a certaine time 34 This heritage of our farhers haue we chalenged in processe of time 35 And whereas thou complaynest concerning Ioppa Gaza they did great harme to our people and in our lande yet wyll we geue an hundred talentes for them Neuerthelesse Athenobius aunswered him not one worde 36 But turned againe wrothfully vnto the king tolde him al these words and the great dignitie of Simon with al that he had seene the king was very angry 37 And in the meane time fled Tryphon by ship vnto Orthosias 38 Then the king made Cendebeus captaine of the sea coast and gaue him an hoast of footemen and horsemen 39 Commaunding him to remoue the hoast toward Iurie to builde vp the citie of Cedron to make vp the portes and to warre against the people of the Iewes As for the king him selfe he folowed vpon Tryphon 40 So Cendebeus came vnto Iamnia and began to vexe the people to treade downe Iurie to take the people prisoners to slay them 41 And to builde vp Cedron where he set horsmen and other men of warre that they might come foorth and go through the streetes of Iurie lyke as the king had commaunded him The .xvj. Chapter 1 Cendebeus the captaine of Antiochus hoast is put to flight of the sonnes of Simon 11 Ptolomeus the sonne of Abobus killeth Simon and his two sonnes at a banket 23 Iohn killeth them that lye in wayte for his lyfe 1
castle required it of him 28 For Sostratus was the man that gathered the customes wherefore they were both called before the king 29 Thus was Menelaus put out of the priesthood Lysimachus his brother came in his steade and Sostratus left Crates ouerseer of the Cyprians 30 It happened in the meane season that the Tharsians and Mallotians made insurrection because they were geuen for a present vnto Antiochus the kinges concubine 31 Then came the king in all haste to still them againe and to pacifie the matter leauing Andronicus there to be his deputie as one meete therfore 32 Now Menelaus supposing that he had gotten a right conuenient time stole certayne vessels of golde out of the temple and gaue them to Andronicus for a present and some he solde at Tyrus and in the cities therby 33 Whiche when Onias knewe of a suretie he reproued him but he kept him in a sanctuarie beside Daphnis that lyeth by Antioche 34 Wherefore Menelaus gat hym to Andronicus and prayed him that he would slay Onias So when he came to Oui as he counseled hym craftyly to come out of the sanctuarie geuing hym his hande with an oth how be it he suspect hym and then he slue Onias without any regarde of righteousnesse 35 For the whiche cause not onely the Iewes but other nations also toke indignation and were displeased for the vnrighteous death of so godly a man 36 And when the king was come againe from Cilicia the Iewes and certayne of the Grekes went vnto hym complayning for the vnrighteous death of Onias 37 Yea Antiochus hym selfe was sory in his mynde for Onias so that it pitied him and he wept remembring his sobernesse and manerly behauour 38 Wherefore he was so kindled in his minde that he commaunded Andronicus to be stripped out of his purple clothing and so to be led throughout the citie yea and the vngratious man to be slayne in the same place where he committed his wickednesse vpon Onias Thus the Lorde rewarded him his punishement as he had deserued 39 Now when Lysimachus had done many wicked deedes in the temple thorow the counsell of Menelaus and the voyce came abrode the multitude gathered them together against Lysimachus for he had caryed out now much golde 40 So when the people arose and were full of displeasure Lysimachus armed three thousande vnthriftes to defende him a certayne tyraunt being their captayne which was growen both in age and woodnesse 41 They therefore seyng the interprise of Lysimachus caught vp some stones some blockes endes some handfulles of dust that was next at hand threwe them vpon the rebelles of Lysimachus bande that had set vpon them 42 Thus there were many of them wounded some beyng slayne and all the other chased away But as for the wicked church robber hym selfe they killed him beside the treasurie 43 Of these matters therefore there was kept a court against Menelaus 44 Now when the king came to Tyrus three men that were sent from the senate pleaded him giltie before the king 45 But Menelaus being nowe conuict went promised Ptolomi the sonne of Dorymenes to geue him much money if he woulde pacifie the king towarde him 46 So Ptolomi went to the king into a court where as he was set to coole him and brought him out of that minde 47 Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations that notwithstanding was cause of all mischiefe and those poore men which if they had tolde their cause yea before the Scythians they shoulde haue ben iudged innocent them he condepmned to death 48 Thus were they soone punished which folowed vpon the matter for the citie for the people and for the holy vessels 49 Wherefore they also of Tyrus moued with hatred of that wicked deede caused them to be very honorably buried 50 And so through the couetousnesse of them that were in power Menelaus remayned still in aucthoritie encreasing in malice to the hurt of the citezins The .v. Chapter 2 Of the signes and tokens seene in Hierusalem 6 Of the ende and office of Iason 11 The pursute of Antiochus against the Iewes 15 The spoyling of the temple 1 ABout the same time Antiochus vndertoke his second viage into Egypt 2 And then were there seene throughout all the citie of Hierusalem fourtie dayes longe horsmen running in the ayre with robes of golde and as bandes of speare men 3 And as troupes of horsmen set in aray incountering and coursing one against another with shaking of shieldes and multitude of dartes and drawing of swordes and shooting of arrowes and the glittering of the golden armour seene and harnesse of all sortes 4 Wherefore euery man prayed that those tokens might turne to good 5 Now when there was gone foorth a false rumour as though Antiochus had ben dead Iason toke a thousand men and came sodenly vpon the citie the citezins ranne vnto the walles at the last was the citie taken and Menelaus fled into the castle 6 As for Iason he spared not his owne citezins in the slaughter neither considered he what great euill it were to destroy the prosperitie of his owne kinsemen but did as one that had gotten the victory of his enemies and not of his friendes 7 For all this gat he not the superioritie but at the last receaued confusion for his malice and fled againe lyke a vacabound into the land of the Ammonites 8 Finally for a rewarde of his wickednesse he was accused before Aretha the king of the Arabians insomuch that he was faine to flee from citie to citie being despised of euery man as a forsaker of the lawes and an abhominable person and at the last as an open enemie of his owne naturall countrey and of the citezins he was driuen into Egypt 9 Thus he that afore put many out of their owne natiue lande perished from home him selfe he went to Lacedemon thinking there to haue gotten succour by reason of kinred 10 And he that afore had caste many one out vnburied was throwen out him selfe no man mourning for him nor putting him in his graue so that he neither enioyed the buriall of a straunger neither was he partaker of his fathers sepulchre 11 Now when this was done the king suspected that the Iewes woulde haue fallen from him wherefore he came in a great displeasure out of Egypt toke the citie by violence 12 He commaunded his men of warre also that they should kill and not spare but slay downe such as withstoode them or clymed vp vpon the houses 13 Thus was there a great slaughter of young men olde men women children and virgins 14 In three dayes were there slaine fourscore thousand fourtie thousand put in prison and there were as many solde as were slaine 15 Yet was he not content with this but durst go into the most holy temple of al the worlde Menelaus that traytour to the lawes and to his owne naturall countrey being his guide 16 And with his
wicked handes toke the holy vessels which other kinges and cities had geuen thyther for the garnishing honour of the place them toke he in his handes vnworthyly and defiled them 17 So mad was Antiochus that he considered not how that God was not a litle wroth for the sinnes of them that dwelt in the citie for the which such confusion came vpon that place 18 And why if it had not happened them to haue ben lapped in many sinnes this Antiochus assoone as he had come had sodenly ben punished and shut out of his presumption like as Heliodorus was whom Seleueus the king sent to robbe the treasurie 19 Neuerthelesse God hath not chosen the people for the places sake but the place for the peoples sake 20 And therefore is the place become partaker of the peoples trouble but afterward shall it enioy the wealth of them And lyke as it was now forsaken in the wrath of almightie God so when the great God is reconsiled it shal be set vp in hie worship againe 21 So when Antiochus had taken a thousand and eyght hundred talentes out of the temple he gat him to Antioch in al the haste thinking in his pride that he might make men saile vpon the drye lande and to go vpon the sea such an hie minde had he 22 He left deputies there to vexe the people at Hierusalem left he Philip a Phrygian in maners more cruell then him selfe that set him there 23 At Garizim he left Andronicus and Menelaus which were more greeuous to the citezins then other 24 Nowe as he was thus set in malice against the Iewes he sent Apollonius a cruell prince with an armie of twentie and two thousand commaunding him to slay those that were of perfect age and to sell the women maydens and children 25 When he came now to Hierusalem he faigned peace kept him still vntill the Sabbath day and then he commaunded his men to take them to their weapons for the Iewes kept holy day 26 And so he slue all them that were gone foorth to the open play running here and there through the citie with his men weaponed and murthered a great number 27 But Iudas Machabeus which was the tenth fled into the wildernesse led his lyfe there with his company among wylde beastes and vpon the mountaynes dwelling there and eating hearbes lest they shoulde be partakers of the filthynesse The .vj. Chapter 1 The Iewes are compelled to leaue the lawe of God 4 The temple is defiled 12 The readers are admonished that they shall not abhorre the aduersitie wherewith the Lorde afflicteth them 28 The greeuous paine of Eleazarus 1 NOt longe after this sent the king an olde man of Antioch for to compell the Iewes to transgresse the ordinaunces of the fathers of the lawe of God 2 To defile the temple that was at Hierusalem and to call it the temple of Iupiter Olimpius and that they shoulde be in Garizim as those which dwel at the place of Iupiter the harberous 3 This wicked sedition of the vngodlie was heauy vpon all the people 4 For the temple was full of voluptuousnes bibbing and bolling of the heathen of rybaudes and harlots together the women went into the holy place and bare in that was not lawfull 5 The aulter also was full of vnlawfull thinges which the law forbiddeth to lay vpon it 6 The Sabbathes were not kept the other solempne feastes of the land were not regarded to be plaine there durst no man be knowē that he was a Iewe. 7 In the day of the kinges birth they were compelled parforce to offer and when the feaste of Bacchus was kept they were constrayned to weare gar landes of iuie and so to go about to the honour of Bacchus 8 Moreouer through the counsell of Ptolomeus there went out a cōmaundement vnto the next cities of the heathen against the Iewes that the lyke custome banketting should be kept 9 And who so would not conforme them selues to the maners of the Gentiles should be put to death then might a man haue seene the present miserie 10 For there were two women accused to haue circumcized their sonnes whom when they had led rounde about the citie the babes hanging at their brestes they cast them downe headlonges ouer the walles 11 Some that were crept in dennes and had kept the Sabbath were accused vnto Philip and brent in the fire because that for the feare of God they kept the commaundement so stiffely and would not defende them selues 12 Now I beseche all those which reade this booke that they refuse it not for these fals of aduersitie and iudge the thinges that are happened for no destruction but for a chastening of our people 13 And why When God suffereth not sinners long to folow their owne minde but shortly punisheth them it is a token of his great louing kindnesse 14 For this grace haue we of God more then other people That he suffreth not vs long to sinne vnpunished lyke as other nations 15 That when the day of iudgement commeth he may punishe them in the fulnes of their sinnes 16 If we sinne he correcteth vs but he neuer withdraweth his mercie from vs and though he punishe with aduersitie yet doth he neuer forsake his people 17 But let this that we haue spoken now with fewe wordes be for a warning and exhortation of the heathen Now wyll we come to the declaring of the matter 18 Eleazar one of the principall scribes an aged man and of a well fauoured countenaunce was constrained to gape with open mouth and to eate swynes fleshe 19 But he desiring rather to dye gloriously then to lyue with shame offered him selfe willingly to the martirdome 20 Now when he saw that he must nedes go to it he toke it patiently for he was at a poynt with himselfe that he would not consent to any vnlawful thing for any pleasure of lyfe 21 They that stoode by being moued with pitie but not a right for the olde frendship of the man toke him aside priuilie and prayed him that he would let such fleshe be brought him as were lawfull to eate and then to make a countenaunce as though he had eaten of the flesh of the sacrifice like as the king commaunded 22 For so he might be deliuered from death and so for the olde frendship of the man they shewed him this kindnes 23 But he began to consider discreetely and as became his age and the excellencie of his auncient yeres and the honour of his gray heares whereunto he was come and his most honest conuersation from his childhood but chiefely the holy law made and geuen by God therefore he aunswered consequently and willed them straightwayes to send him to the graue 24 For it becommeth not mine age saide he in any wyse to dissemble whereby many young persons might thinke that Eleazar being fourscore yeres olde and ten were nowe gone to a straunge religion 25
they all had made a generall prayer they besought the mercifull Lorde to be at one with his seruauntes 30 Of those also that were with Timotheus and Bacchides which fought against them they slue twentie thousand wanne high and strong holdes and deuided mo spoyles euer geuing an equal portion vnto the sicke to the fatherlesse to wydowes and to aged persons 31 And when they had diligently gathered their weapons together they layde them all in conuenient places and the remnaunt of the spoyles brought they to Hierusalem 32 They slue also Philarches that wicked person which was with Timotheus and had vexed many Iewes 33 And when they helde the thankesgeuing at Hierusalem for the victory they brent those that had set fire on the portes of the temple namely Calisthenes which was fled into an house and so they gat a worthy rewarde for their wickednesse 34 As for that most vngratious Nicanor which had brought a thousand marchauntes to bye the Iewes 35 He was through the helpe of the Lord brought downe euen of them whom he regarded not insomuch that he put of his glorious rayment fled by sea and came alone to Antioch with great shame and dishonour which he gat through the destruction of his hoast 36 Thus he that promysed the Romanes to pay them their tribute when he toke Hierusalem began nowe to say plainely that God was the defender of the Iewes and therefore not possible to wounde them because they folowed the lawes which God had made The .ix. Chapter 1 Antiochus wylling to spoyle Persepolis is dryuen to flight 9 As he persecuted the Iewes he is striken of the Lorde 13 The faigned repentaunce of Antiochus 28 He dyeth 1 AT the same time came Antiochus againe with dishonour out of Persia 2 For when he came to Persepolis and vndertoke to robbe the temple and to subdue the citie the people ranne together and defended them selues insomuch that he and his were faine to flee with shame and so after that flight it happened that Antiochus came againe with dishonour 3 But when he came to Egbatana he gat knowledge what was happened vnto Nicanor and Timotheus 4 Now as he was auauncing him selfe in his wrath he thought he was able to auenge the iniurie that was done to them vpon the Iewes therfore commaunded to make redy his charret hasting on his iourney without ceassing the iudgement of God prouoking him because he had spoken so proudly that he would come to Hierusalem make it a graue of the Iewes 5 But the Lorde God of Israel that seeth all thinges smote him with an vncurable and an inuisible plague which no man could heale For assoone as he had spoken these wordes there came vpon him an horryble paine of his bowels a sore griefe of the inner partes 6 And that was but right for he had martyred other mens bowels with diuers and straunge tormentes 7 Howbeit he woulde in no wyse ceasse from his malice yea he was yet the prouder and more malicious against the Iewes but whyle he was commaunding to make haste in the matter it happened that he fell downe violently from the charret that ranne swiftly so that it bruised his body and did him great payne 8 And so he that thought a litle before he might commaund the fluddes of the sea so proude was he beyond the condition of man and to waye the hye mountaynes in a payre of balaunce was now brought downe to the grounde and carried vpon a horslitter knowledging the manifest power of God vpon him 9 So that the wormes came out of the bodie of this wicked man in aboūdance and whiles he was aliue his flesh fell of for paine and torment and all his armie was greeued at his smell 10 Thus he that a litle afore thought he might reache to the starres of heauen him might no man now abide nor beare for the vehemencie of stincke 11 Therefore he being brought from his great pride began for to come to the knowledge of him selfe for the punishment of God warned him his payne encreased euer more and more 12 And when he him selfe might not abide his owne stincke he saide these wordes It is reason to be obedient vnto God and that a man which is mortall thinke not through pride him selfe to be equall vnto God 13 This wicked person prayed also vnto the Lorde who nowe woulde haue no mercie vpon him 14 And as for the citie that he came vnto so hastyly to bring it downe to the ground and to make it a graue for dead men now he desireth to deliuer it free 15 And as touching the Iewes whom he had iudged not worthy to be buried but woulde haue cast them out with their children for to be deuoured of the foules and wilde beastes saying that he woulde haue destroyed both olde and young now he promysed to make them like the citezins of Athens 16 And where as he had spoyled the holy temple afore nowe he maketh promyse to garnishe it with great giftes to encrease the holy ornamentes and of his owne rentes to beare the costes charges belonging to the offringes 17 Yea and that he would also become a Iewe hym selfe to go through euery place of the worlde that was inhabyted and to preache the power of God 18 But when his paynes would not ceasse for the ryghteous iudgement of God was come vpon hym out of a very dispayre he wrote vnto the Iewes a letter of intercession conteyning these words 19 The king and prince Antiochus wisheth vnto the vertuous citezins of the Iewes much health and good prosperitie 20 If ye and your children fare well and if all thinges go after your minde we geue great thankes 21 In my sicknesse also do I remember you louyngly for as I came out of Persia was taken with sore disease I thought it necessary to care for the common wealth 22 Neither dispaire I in my selfe but haue a good hope to escape this sickenesse 23 But considering that my father led an hoast somtime in the higher places and shewed who should raigne after him 24 That if there happened any controuersie or any hard thing were declared they in the lande might knowe their chiefe Lorde that there should be no insurrection 25 Againe when I ponder with my selfe how that al the mightie men and neighbours rounde about are laying wayse loke but for oportunitie to do harme I haue ordeined that my sonne Antiochus shall raigne after me whom I oft commended to many of you when I was in the higher kingdomes haue written vnto him as it foloweth hereafter 26 Therfore I pray you and require you to remember the benefites that I haue done vnto you generally and in especiall and that euery man wil be faythfull to me and my sonne 27 For I hope that he shal be of sober and louing behauour and if he folowe my deuice he shal be indifferent vnto you 28 Thus that murtherer and blasphemer of God
raigneth after the death of Ptolomeus 22 Sion is besieged of Ionathas 42 Demetrius seing that no man resisteth hym sendeth his armie againe 54 Tryphon moueth Antiochus against Demetrius 60 Demetrius is deliuered by the succour of Ionathas 63 After his deliueraunce he breaketh his couenaunt that he had made 1 ANd the king of Egypt gathered an hoast like the sande that lyeth vpon the sea shore and many shippes went about thorow disceyte to obtayne the kingdome of Alexander and to ioyne it vnto his owne realme 2 Vpon this he toke his iourney into Syria vsing gentle wordes so that he was letten into the cities men came foorth to meete hym for king Alexander had commaunded them so to do because he was his father in lawe 3 Nowe when Ptolomi entred into any citie he left men of warre to kepe it and this he did thorowout all the cities 4 And when he came to Azotus they shewed hym the temple of Dagon and Azotus that was brent vp with the other thinges which were destroyed the dead bodies cast abrode and the graues that they had made by the way side for such as were slayne in the fielde 5 And tolde the king that Ionathas had done all these thinges to the intent they might get him euyll will But the king sayde not one worde therto 6 And Ionathas mette the king with great honour at Ioppa where they saluted one an other and toke their rest 7 So when Ionathas had gone with the king vnto the water that was called Eleutherus he turned againe to Hierusalem 8 Nowe Ptolomi had gotten the dominion of the cities vnto Seleucia vpon the sea coast imagining wicked counsels against Alexander 9 And sent ambassadours vnto Demetrius saying Come let vs make a bonde betwixt vs so shall I geue thee my daughter that Alexander hath and thou shalt raigne in thy fathers kingdome 10 I repent that I gaue Alexander my daughter for he goeth about to slay me 11 And thus he slaundered Alexander because he woude haue had his realme 12 Thus he toke his daughter from him gaue her vnto Demetrius and forsoke Alexander so that his malice was openly knowen 13 And Ptolomi came to Antioch where he set two crownes vpon his owne head the crowne of Egypt and of Asia 14 In the meane season was king Alexander in Cilicia for they that dwelt in those places had rebelled against hym 15 But when Alexander hearde of this he came to warre against hym So king Ptolomi brought foorth his hoast and mette him with a mightie power and chased him away 16 Then fled Alexander into Arabia there to be defended and king Ptolomeus honour increased 17 And Zabdiel the Arabian smote of Alexanders head sent it vnto Ptolomi 18 But the thirde day after died king Ptolomi hym selfe and they whom he had set in the strong holdes were slayne one of another 19 And Demetrius raigned in the hundred threscore and seuenth yere 20 At the same time gathered Ionathas them that were in Iurie to lay siege vnto the castle which was at Hierusalem so they made many instrumentes of warre against it 21 Then went there certayne vngodly persons whiche hated their owne people vnto king Demetrius and told hym that Ionathas besieged the castle 22 So when he hearde it he was angry and immediatly came vnto Ptolomais wrote vnto Ionathas that he should not lay siege to the castle but come and speake with hym at Ptolomais in all haste 23 Neuerthelesse when Ionathas heard this he commaunded to besiege it He chose also certayne of the elders and priestes of Israel and put him selfe in peryll 24 And toke with him golde siluer clothing and diuers presentes and went to Ptolomais vnto the king and found● him gracious 25 And though certayne vngodly men of his owne people made complayntes vpon him 26 Yet the king intreated him like as his predecessours had done before and promoted hym in the sight of all his friendes 27 Confirmed hym in the hye priesthood with all the worship that he had afore and made him his chiefe friend 28 Ionathas also desired the king that he woulde make Iurie free with the three head cities of Samaria and the landes perteyning therto vpon this did Ionathas promise hym three hundred talentes 29 Wherunto the king consented and gaue Ionathas wryting of the same conteyning these wordes 30 King Demetrius sendeth greeting vnto his brother Ionathas and to the people of the Iewes 31 We sende you here a copie of the letter which we did write vnto our cosen Lasthenus concerning you that ye shoulde knowe it 32 King Demetrius sendeth greeting vnto Lasthenus his father 33 For the faythfulnesse that our friendes the people of the Iewes kepe vnto vs and for the louing kindnesse which they beare towarde vs we are determined to do them good 34 Wherfore we assigne vnto the coastes of Iudea the three gouernemētes Afferema Lydda and Ramatha whiche are added vnto Iurie from Samaria and all the landes pertayning therevnto to be freely separated for such as do sacrifice in Hierusalem both concerning the paymentes whiche the king toke yerely aforetime the fruite also of the earth and trees 35 As for other tithes and tributes that belonged vnto vs we discharge them therof from this time foorth 36 In like maner we graunt vnto them all the customes of salt crowne taxes which were brought vnto vs and this freedome shal they haue firme and stedfast from this time foorth for euermore 37 Therefore see that ye make a copie of these our letters and deliuer it vnto Ionathas that it may be set vpon the holy mount in a conuenient place 38 After this when Demetrius the king sawe that his land was in rest and that no resistaunce was made against him he sent away all his hoast euery man to his owne place except certayne bandes of straungers whom he brought from the Iles of the heathen wherefore all his fathers hoast hated him 39 Now was ther one Tryphon that had ben of Alexanders part afore whiche when he saw that all the hoast murmured against Demetrius he went to Samalcue the Arabian that brought vp Antiochus the sonne of Alexander 40 And lay sore vpon him to deliuer hym this young Antiochus that he might raine in his fathers steade He tolde him also what great euyll Demetrius had done how his men of warre loued him not so remayned there a long season 41 And Ionathas sent vnto king Demetrius to driue them out which were in the castle at Hierusalem and those that were in the fortresses for they dyd Israel great harme 42 So Demetrius sent word vnto Ionathas saying I will not only do these thinges for thee and thy people but at time conuenient I wil do both thee and thy people great worship 43 But now thou shalt do me a pleasure if thou wilt sende me men to helpe me for all myne armie is gone fro me 44 So