endureth for euer 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Who hath made great lightes for his mercy endureth for euery 8 The sunne to rule in the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moone the starres to gouerne in the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Who smote Egypt with their first borne for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Who deuided the red sea in partes for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to passe through the mydst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 He ouerthrewe Pharao and his hoast in the red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Who led his people through the wyldernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Who smote great kinges for his mercy endureth for euer 18 And he slue mightie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sihon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Bashan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And he gaue away their lande for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 For an heritage vnto Israel his seruaunt for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe for his mercy endureth for euer 24 And he deliuered vs from our aduersaries for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Who geueth foode vnto al creatures for his mercy endureth for euer 26 Confesse you it vnto the Lord of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer The argument of the .cxxxvij. psalme The prophete declareth the great griefe and lamentation of the children of Israel for that they beyng led prisoners vnto Babylon were prouoked to sing as they vsed to do at Sion He protesteth that he can not forget Hierusalem He prayeth God to remember the Idumites who malitiously incensed their enemies against them He prophesieth of the destruction of Babylon 1 BY the waters of Babylon we set downe there also we wept when we remembred Sion 2 We hanged vp our harpes on the Salou trees in the mydst of it 3 For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song and for our waylynges myrth saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion 4 We aunswered howe can we sing one of the songes of God in another lande besides our owne 5 If I forget thee O Hierusalem let my right hande forget her cunning 6 Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I do not remember thee yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth 7 Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem they sayde downe with it downe with it euen to the grounde 8 O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs. 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh throweth thy litle children against the stone The argument of the .cxxxviij. psalme ¶ Dauid thanketh God for his goodnes towardes hym in that he dyd heare hym in aduersitie and deliuered hym from his enemies whereby he trusteth in time to come in all distresses to be helped ¶ Of Dauid 1 I Wyll geue thankes vnto thee O God with my whole heart I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee before the gods 2 I wyll make my lowe obeysaunce towarde thy holy temple and I wyll prayse thy holy name in respect of thy louing kindnes and trueth 3 For thou hast magnified thy name and thy worde aboue all thinges 4 In the day of myne aduersitie I called vpon thee and thou heardest me thou enduedst my soule more and more with strength 5 All the kinges of the earth will prayse thee O God for they haue hearde the wordes of thy mouth 6 Yea they wyll sing of the wayes of God for great is the glory of God 7 For though God be on high yet he will haue respect vnto the lowly and he wyll knowe the proude a farre of 8 If I shall walke in the midst of trouble thou wylt make me to lyue thou wylt stretche foorth thyne hande vpon the furiousnes of mine enemies and thy right hande shall saue me 9 God wyll finishe that he hath begun by me O God thy louing kindnes endureth for euer thou wylt not forsake the workes of thyne owne handes The argument of the .cxxxix. psalme ¶ Dauid falsly accused calleth to witnesse of his innocencie God who knoweth hym throughly and vnto whom nothing is vnknowen of that is sayd done or thought out of whose handes he can not escape in any place Finally he pronounceth that he hateth the wicked to the intent that he may declare that he hath nothing to do with them ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid 1 O GOD thou hast searched me to the quicke and thou hast knowen me 2 Thou knowest my downe sitting mine vprising thou vnderstandest my thoughtes long before they be 3 Thou compassest about my path and my iourney into all coastes and thou vsest all my wayes 4 For there is not a word in my tongue but beholde thou O Lorde knowest it altogether 5 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before and layde thyne hande vpon me 6 The knowledge that thou hast of me is marueylous it is so high that I can not attayne vnto it 7 Whyther can I go from thy spirite or whyther can I flee away from thy face 8 If I ascende vp into heauen thou art there if I lay me downe in hell thou art there also 9 If I take the wynges of the morning and go to dwell in the vttermost part of the sea 10 Euen there also thy hande shall leade me and thy ryght hande shal holde me 11 And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me and the night shal be day for me 12 Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee and the night shal be as lightsome as the day darknesse and lyght to thee are both alike 13 For thou hast my reynes in thy possession thou didst couer me in my mothers wombe 14 I wyll confesse it vnto thee for that thy doynges are to be dreaded I am made after a marueylous sort thy workes be marueylous and that my soule knoweth ryght well 15 The substaunce of my body was not hyd from thee when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe 16 Thyne eyes dyd see me when I was most imperfect and in thy booke * were written euery day of them wherin the partes of my body were shaped and no one of them were knowen vnto thee 17 Howe precious be thy cogitations towardes me O God howe greatly be the summe of them increased 18 I go about to count them I fynde that they
tymâ— of the lawe written which did eâ—dure vnto the natiuitie of Christe and conteyneth yeres 1510. H This Ahud was lame of his right hand or left handed he slue the king of the Moabites the land had peace fourscore yeres Iud. 3. I Sanger slue sixe hundred Philistians with one share he defended the Israelites but after his death they sinned against god and therfore were afflicted 20. yeres by Sisara in whose time Troia was buylden of Tros king of Dardan Iud. 4. K Debora wyfe to Barak a prophetesse she fought against Sisara and slue him by Iahel the wyfe of Hebar song her canticle â—nd the land had rest fourtie yeres after whose death the Israelites sinned against God therfore were deliuered into the handes of Madian seueÌ„ yeres in whose time Apollo founde the art of Phisicke and the harpe Iud. 4. L Gedeon saluted of the angel he sacrificed to God vnder an oke who for destroying the aulter of Baal was called Ieroboal he had a signe in a fleece that God woulde deliuer Israel by his hand in whose time Mercurius made the lute Tyrus the citie was buylded 250. yeres before the temple Iud. 6. M Abimelech sonne of Gedeon slue 70. of his brethren vpon one stone in one day yet Ioatham thâ— youngest fled to thâ— mountaynes and spake the parable of y e oliue of the figtree of the vine of the bryer this Abimelech was striken with a peece of a milstone bad his squire kill hym with his sworde Iud. 8. C Mary Moyses sister wife to Calef for y e drowning of Pharao in the red sea song y e Canticle Exo. 15. and because she dyd chyde Moyses for his wyfe the Ethiopian she was striken with lepri Num. 12. D Chore straue against Moyses and Aaron for the priesthood because he was of the first begotten of Caaf for which offence he was deuided from others swalowed into y e grouÌ„de with his family with Dathan and Abiron Num. 16 N Naason comming foorth out of Egpyt a prince in y e tribe of Iuda and so it is true that the Lorde said to AbrahaÌ„ gen 15. that in the fift generation the childreÌ„ of Israel went out of Egypt and so making an accompt according to y e kingly tribes as telling the generations and not the persons and therfore the successions which is to be seene counting from Iuda to Naason for fiue times it is saide there he begat But if it be coÌ„tayned in that letter in the 4. generation the order must be taken in the priestly tribe couÌ„ting from Leui to Eleazar Exo. 5. Mat. 1. O Salmon maryed Rahab the harlot of Iericho which receaued y e spies that Iosue sent and hid them vnder the bunches of flax of whom Salmon begat Booz the grandfather of that Booz which begat Obeth for they were three ioyntly together the father the sonne and the nephewe they were called Booz and because it was a name of three men Mathew the euangelist putteth him but once in his genealogie Math. 1. Rom. Moyses A 120. 40. Iudges of Israel Iosue F 110. 27. Othoniel G 40. Ahud H 80. Sangaâ— I 1. Debora K 40. Gedeon L 40. Abimelech M 3. Aaron R 113. Abin Eleazar Ythamar Phinces E Abisue Boezi Maria. C Chore. D In this figure folowing be the names of the â—tions repâ— â–ª where the children of Israel pitched their tentes in y e desâ—r by the space of fourtie yeres as appeareth in the bookes of Exodus and Leuiticus whose names be briefely recyted in the bookes of â—umerie 33. Esrom THE MANSIONS OF THE FIRST YERE XII FROM THEIR DEPARTVRE OVT OF AEGIPT TO THE DESERT OF SINAI 12 MANSIONS RAMESES RED SEA SVCOTH DESERT OF SYN ETHAM DAPHKA PIHALROTH ALVS MARAH RAPHIDIM ELIM DESERT OF SINAI THE MANSIONS OF THE SECOND YERE XXI NVMERI CAP .33 FROM THE DESERT OF SINAI TO CADEâ— EARNE 21. MANSIONS GRAVE â—F LVST MOVNT SEPHER MOVNT SEROTH HAZEROTH HARADA BENEIAAKAN RITHMA MAKELOTH GADGAD RIMON PHARES THAHATH IETHEBATHA LIENA THARATH ABRONA RISSA MITHCA EZEON GABER KEHELATHA HASMONA DESERT OF CADES THE MANSIONS OF THE THIRD YERE IX FROM CADES BARNE TO THE FEELDE OF MOAB 9 MANSIONS MOVNT HOB ALMON DIRLATHAIM ZALMONA MOVNTS ABARIM PHVNCN FEâ—Lâ—ES OF MOAB OBOTH II MABARIM DIBONGAD THES BE THE 42 MANSIONS OF FR PEOPLE 2OF ISRAEL BY YEREâ— Aram. Aminadab Nanson N Salmon O THE TABERNACLE OF COVENANT THE CITYES OF PRIESTES 13 THE CYTIES OF CHAATHITS 10 THE CYTIES OF GERSONITS 13 THE CYTIES OF MERARIE 12 ISACHAR IVDAS RVBEN SYMEON GAD EPHRAIM BENIAMIN MANASSES NEPTALIM ASER DAN ZABVLON EAST SOVTH WEST NORTH This figure folowing serueth to vnderstand the disposing of the Tribes and Leuites by foure quarters of the world about the tabernacle At the cast was Iudas with 74600. of whom the chiefe was Naason â–ª with other about him y e whole nuÌ„ber was 186400 Towarde the south was Ruben with 46500. fighting men of his stocke of whom the chiefe was Elisur and about him was others to the number in the whole 18100. men Toward the west was Ephraim with 40500 men of whom the chiefe was Elisama nigh vnto him were others which were in the whole 108â—00 Toward the north was Dan with 72700. men the head of whom was Abiasar and about him were others to the number of 175000. of fighting men This is the summe of the children of Israel by the houses of their kindredes so that the hoast amounted to 600550. men The Leuites were not numbred within the other tribes and all these pitched their tentes about the tabernacle as appeareth Num. 2. but most largely Exo. 27. This figure also serueth to vnderstand what Leuites what cities in what tribes the children of Leui with their suburbes dyd receiue by lot for the tenthes of the tabernacles as in Iosue 21.1 Paâ— 6. This figure also sheweth the sixe cities of refuge vnto the which they did flee that by chaunce slue any man and were therein saued and after the death of the high priest they returned againe into their owne houses Deu. 4. Iosue 20. A Bishops Ozi Azaria Meraioth Amazias Achitob Hely F Hely 88. 40. Ophni and Phinees Achitob Abimelech From this Ozi was the priesthood translated from the children of Eleazar to Eli whiche was of y e children of Ithamar â— these 4. outward of y e children of Eleazar were depriued of the priesthood vntil Sadoch G. Abdon had 40 sonnes and 30. nephewes of them in whose dayes the people of Israel receeded not from the Lord some thinke that that notable fact of the Leuits wyfe which is red in Iudg. 19. after whose death the Israelites dyd offende was comitted therfore were plagued of the Philistines Iud. 12. C Iudges Thola A 23. Iahir B 22 Iepte C 7 Abession D 7 Ailon E 10 Abdon G 8 Sampsou H 29 Hely 40 Samuel I 20 Ioel. Abias These 2 sonnes of Samuel were iudges the one in Bethel the other in Barsabe whiche bothe peruerted iudgment by their
kingdome shall be stablished for euer before thee euen thy throne shal be stablished for euer 17 According to all these wordes and according to all this vision so dyd Nathan speake vnto Dauid 18 Then went king Dauid in and set him downe before the Lord and sayde Who am I O Lorde God and what is my house that thou hast brought me hyther to 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight O Lorde God but thou hast spoken also of thy seruauntes house for a great whyle but doth this appertayne to man O Lorde God 20 And what can Dauid say more vnto thee for thou Lorde God knowest thy seruaunt 21 Euen for thy wordes sake according to thyne owne heart hast thou done al these great thinges to make them knowen vnto thy seruaunt 22 Wherfore thou art great O Lorde God for there is none like thee neither is there any God besides thee according to al that we haue heard with our eares 23 * And what one people in the earth is lyke thy people lyke Israel whose God went and redeemed them to hym selfe that they myght be his people and that he myght make hym a name and do for you great thynges and terrible for thy lande O Lorde euen for thy people which thou redeemedst to thee out of Egypt euen from the nations and their gods 24 For thou hast ordeyned thy people Israel to be thy people for euer and thou Lorde art become their God 25 And nowe Lorde God the worde that thou hast spoken concernyng thy seruaunt and his house make it good for euer and do as thou hast saide 26 And let thy name be magnified for euer of men that shall say The Lorde of hoastes is the God ouer Israel and let the house of thy seruaunt Dauid be stablished before thee 27 For thou O Lorde of hoastes God of Israel hast tolde in the eare of thy seruaunt saying I wyll buylde thee an house And therefore hath thy seruaunt founde in his heart to pray this prayer vnto thee 28 Therefore nowe Lorde God thou art God and thy wordes be true thou that hast tolde this goodnes vnto thy seruaunt 29 Therefore nowe let it please thee to blesse the house of thy seruaunt that it may continue for euer before thee for thou Lorde God hast spoken it and with thy blessyng let the house of thy seruaunt be blessed for euer ¶ The .viii. Chapter 1 Dauid ouercommeth the Philistines and other straunge nations and maketh them tributaries to Israel 1 AFter this now Dauid smote the Philistines and subdued them and Dauid toke the bridel of bondage out of the hand of the Philistines 2 And he smote the Moabites and measured them with a lyne and cast them downe to the grounde euen with two lynes measured he them to put them to death and with one full corde to kepe them alyue And so became the Moabites Dauids seruauntes and brought giftes 3 Dauid smote also Hadarezer y e sonne of Rehob king of Zoba as he went to recouer his border at the ryuer Pherath 4 And Dauid toke of his a thousand and seuen hundred horsemen and destroyed all the charets and twentie thousand footemen but reserued an hundred charets of them 5 And when the Syrians of Damascon came to succour Hadarezer king of Zoba Dauid slue of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men 6 And put souldiers in Syria Damascon And the Syrians became seruaūtes to Dauid and brought giftes and the Lorde saued Dauid in all that he went vnto 7 And Dauid toke the shieldes of golde that belonged to the seruauntes of Hadarezer brought them to Hierusalem 8 And out of Beta and Berothai cities of Hadarezer did Dauid bryng exceeding much brasse 9 When Thoi king of Hamath heard how Dauid had smitten all the hoast of Hadarezer 10 Thoi sent Ioram his sonne vnto king Dauid to salute him and to blesse him because he had fought against Hadarezer and beaten him for Thoi had great warre with Hadarezer And Ioram brought with him vessels of siluer vessels of golde and vessels of brasse 11 Which brasse king Dauid did dedicate vnto the Lorde with the siluer golde that he had deditate of al nations which he subdued 12 Of Syria of the Moabites of the children of Ammon of the Philistines and of Hamalek and of the spoyle of Hadarezer sonne of Rehob king of Zoba 13 And Dauid gat him a name after that he returned had smitten of the Syrians in the valley of salt xviii thousand men 14 And he put a garison in Edom euen throughout all Edom put he souldiers and all they of Edom became Dauids seruauntes And the Lorde kept Dauid whatsoeuer he toke in hand 1 And Dauid raigned ouer all Israel and executed iudgement and iustice vnto all his people 16 And Ioab the sonne of Zaruia was ouer the hoast Iehosaphat the sonne of Ahilud was recorder 17 And Sadoc the sonne of Ahitob and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar were the priestes Saraiah was the scribe 18 And Banaiahu the sonne of Iehoida and the Cherethites and the Phelethites and Dauids sonnes were chiefe rulers The .ix. Chapter 9 Dauid restoreth all the landes of Saul to Miphiboseth the sonne of Ionathan 10. He appoynted Ziba to see to the profite of his landes 1 AND Dauid sayde Is there yet any man left of y e house of Saul For I wil shewe him mercie for Ionathans sake 2 And there was of the householde of Saul a seruaunt whose name was Ziba and when they had called him vnto Dauid the king saide vnto him Art thou Ziba He said Thy seruaunt is he 3 And the king saide Remaineth there yet any man of the house of Saul whō I may shewe the mercie of God vpon Ziba aunswered the king Ionathan hath yet a sonne which is lame on his feete 4 The king said vnto him where is he Ziba saide vnto the king Behold he is in the house of Machir the sonne of Amiel of Lodeber 5 Then king Dauid sent fet him out of the house of Machir the sonne of Amiel of Lodeber 6 Now when Miphiboseth the sonne of Ionathan y e sonne of Saul was come vnto Dauid he fell on his face and dyd reuerence And Dauid saide Miphiboseth He aunswered Beholde thy seruaunt 7 Dauid saide vnto him Feare not for I will surelie shewe thee kindnesse for Ionathan thy fathers sake and will restore thee all the fieldes of Saul thy father thou shalt eate bread on myne owne table continually 8 And he bowed him selfe and sayde What is thy seruaunt that thou shouldest loke vpon such a dead dogge as I am 9 Then the king called to Ziba Sauls seruaunt and said vnto him I haue geuen vnto thy maisters sonne all that parteyned to Saul and to all his house
felicitie of thy chosen that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people and that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce 6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes but they rebelled at the sea euen at the red sea 8 Neuerthelesse he saued them for his names sake that he myght make his power to be knowen 9 And he rebuked the red sea and it was dryed vp so he led them through the deepe as through a wyldernesse 10 And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them redeemed them from the hande of the enemie 11 As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them there was not one of them left remayning 12 Then beleued they his wordes and song prayse vnto him 13 But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes they woulde not wayte for his counsell 14 And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gaue them their desire and sent leannes withal into their soule 16 They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes and at Aaron the saint of God 17 So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan and couered the company of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindled in their company the flambe brent vp the vngodly 19 They made a calfe in Horeb and worshipped the moulten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay 21 They forgat God their sauiour who had done so great thynges in Egypt wonderous workes in y e land of Cham and terrible thinges at the red sea 22 Wherfore he appointed to destroy them had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym to turne away his wrathful indignation lest he should destroy them 23 Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired they gaue no credite vnto his worde 24 But they murmured in their tentes they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God 25 Then lift he vp his hand against them to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations and to scatter them in sundry landes 26 They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead 27 And they prouoked the Lorde vnto anger with their owne inuentions and a plague fell mightily amongst them 28 Then stoode vp Phinehes he executed iustice and so the plague ceassed 29 And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse in generation and generation for euermore 30 They also prouoked God at the waters of strife and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes 31 For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes 32 Moreouer they destroyed not the Heathen as God commaunded them 33 But they were mingled amongst the Heathen and learned their workes 34 Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols whiche were to theÌ„ a snare 35 Yea they sacrifised their sonnes and their daughters vnto deuils 36 And they shed innocent blood euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan and the lande was defiled with blood 37 Thus were they stayned with their owne workes and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions 38 Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce 39 And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen and they that dyd hate them were lordes ouer them 40 Their enemies oppressed them and brought them into subiection vnder their hande 41 Many a time dyd God deliuer them but they rebelled against hym with their owne inuentions and were brought downe for their wickednes 42 Neuerthelesse he did beholde them in their aduersitie in geuing eare to their complaint 43 And he remembred his couenaunt and repented according to the multitude of his mercies 44 Yea he made all those that led them away captiue to pitie them 45 Saue vs O God our Lorde and gather vs from among the Heathen that we may geue thankes to thy holy name and glory of thy prayse 46 Blessed be God the Lord of Israel froÌ„ world to world without end and let all people say so be it Prayse ye the Lord. The argument of the .cvii. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to prayse God and to thanke God for it is he that helpeth them in all distresses when they crye vnto him He prouideth houses and cities for them that els would wander as vagabondes in wyldernesse He satisfieth the hungry and the thirstie He setteth at libertie prisoners and captiues He healeth the sicke and diseased He comforteth and helpeth those that be in ieoperdie of seas He maketh a fruitfull lande barren a barren grounde fruitfull He bringeth princes to lowe estate setteth vp the poore in honour At these things the godly reioyseth the mouth of the wicked is stopped 1 COnfesse you it vnto God for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 Let such as God did redeme speake whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie 3 And whom he gathered out of the landes from the east and from the west from the north and from the south 4 They went astray out of the way in solitarines â—andâ— in wildernes and found no citie to dwell in they were hungry and thirstie their soule fainted in them 5 And they cry vnto god in their trouble who deliuereth them froÌ„ their distresse 6 And he leadeth them foorth by the right way that they might go to the citie inhabited 7 O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men 8 For he satisfieth the greedie soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes 9 Suche as fit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron 10 Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest 11 Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines they fall downe and there is none to helpe them 12 And they cry vnto god in their trouble who deliuereth theÌ„ out of their distresse 13 For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death and breaketh their bondes in sunder 14 O that men would confesse vnto God his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men 15 For he breaketh the gates of brasse smyteth the barres of iron in sunder 16 Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes for their wickednes 17 Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate and they be euen harde at deathes doore 18 And they crye vnto God in their trouble who deliuereth them
earth with all that is therin shal reioyce ouer Babylon when the destroyers shal come vpon her from the north saith the Lorde 49 Like as Babylon hath beaten downe and slayne many out of Israel so shall there fall many and be slayne in all her kingdome 50 Ye that haue escaped the sworde haste you stande not styl remember the Lord a farre of and thynke vpon Hierusalem 51 For we are ashamed to heare the blasphemies our faces were couered with shame because the straunge aliauntes came into the sanctuarie of the Lorde 52 Wherfore beholde saith the Lorde the tyme commeth that I wyll visite the images of Babylon and through the whole lande they shall mourne and fall 53 Though Babylon clymed vp into heauen and kept her power on hye yet shall I sende her destroyers saith the Lorde 54 A piteous crye shal be hearde from Babylon and a great miserie from the lande of the Chaldees 55 When the Lorde destroyeth Babylon wheÌ„ he driueth out the high stomacke and proude boastyng wherwith they haue ben as furious as the waues of the great water fluds and made great crakes with their wordes 56 For the destroyers shall come vpon her euen vpon Babylon which shall take their worthies and breake their bowes for the God of recompence euen the Lorde shall sufficiently recompence them 57 Yea saith the Lorde I wyll make their princes their wisemen their chiefe rulers their nobles and their worthies drunken so that they shall sleepe an euerlastyng sleepe and neuer wake thus saith the kyng whose name is the Lorde of hoastes 58 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde of hoastes The thicke wall of Babylon shal be broken and her hye gates shal be burnt vp the thyng that the Gentiles the people haue wrought with great trauayle labour shall come to naught and be consumed in the fire 59 This is the charge that Ieremie the prophete gaue vnto Saraiah the sonne of Neriah the sonne of Maasiah when he went towarde Babylon with Zedekiah the kyng of Iuda in the fourth yere of his raigne nowe this Saraiah was a peaceable prince 60 Ieremie wrote in a booke al the miserie that shoulde come vpon Babylon yea and all these sermons that be written agaynst Babylon 61 And gaue Saraiah this charge When thou commest vnto Babylon see that thou reade these wordes 62 And say O Lord thou art determined to roote out this place so that neither people nor cattell shall dwell there any more but to lye waste for euer 63 And when thou hast read out the booke bynde a stone to it and cast it in the middest of Euphrates 64 And say Euen thus shall Babylon sincke be thrust downe with the burthen of trouble that I wyll bryng vpon her so that she shall neuer come vp agayne Thus farre are the preachynges of Ieremie The .lij. Chapter 1 He repeateth the takyng of Zedekiah 4 Hierusalem is taken of the Chaldees 10 Zedekias sonnes are kylled before his face and his eyes put out 13 The citie is burned 14 The temple is spoyled and robbed 25 They that were left in Hierusalem are caryed to Babylon 31 Kyng Iehoakim is brought foorth of prison and fed like a kyng 1 ZEdekiah was one and twentie yeres olde wheÌ„ he was made king and raigned eleuen yeres in HierusaleÌ„ his mothers name was Hamutal Ieremies daughter of Libna 2 He liued wickedly before the Lorde euen as Iehoakim did 3 For the Lorde was angry at Hierusalem and Iuda so long tyll he had cast them out of his presence and Zedekiah fell from the kyng of Babylon 4 But in the ninth yere of his raigne in the tenth moneth the tenth day of the moneth it happened that Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon with all his hoast came before Hierusalem and besieged it and made bulwarkes rounde about it 5 And this besiegyng of the citie endured vnto the eleuenth yere of kyng Zedekiah 6 And in the fourth moneth the ninth day of the moneth there was a great hunger in the citie that there were no more victuals for the people of the lande 7 So all the souldiers brake away and fled out of the citie by night through the way of the port betweene the two walles by the kynges garden Nowe the Chaldees had compassed the citie rounde about yet went these men their way through the wildâ—rnesse 8 And so the Chaldees folowed vpon them and toke Zedekiah the kyng in the fielde of Iericho when his hoast was runne from hym 9 So they caryed the kyng away prisoner to Reblath vnto the kyng of Babylon in the lande of Hemath where he gaue iudgement vpon hym 10 The kyng of Babylon also caused Zedekias sonnes to be slayne before his face yea and put all the princes of Iuda to death at Reblath 11 Moreouer he put out the eyes of Zedekiah caused hym to be bounde with two chaynes to be caryed vnto Babylon and let him lye in prison tyl he dyed 12 Nowe the tenth day of the fifth moneth in the nineteenth yere of Nabuchodonozor kyng of Babylon Nabuzaradan the chiefe captayne and the kyng of Babylons seruauntes came vnto Hierusalem 13 And burnt vp the house of the Lorde he burnt vp also the kynges palace all the houses and all the gorgeous buildinges in Hierusalem 14 And the whole hoast of the Chaldees that were with the chiefe captayne brake downe all the walles of Hierusalem rounde about 15 As for the poore people and such folke as was yet left in the citie which also were fallen to the kyng of Babylon yea and what people as yet remayned Nabuzaradan the chiefe captayne caryed them away prisoners 16 But the poore people of the countrey did Nabuzaradan the chiefe captayne leaue in the lande to occupie the vineyardes and fieldes 17 The Chaldees also brake the brasen pyllers that were in the house of the Lord yea the seate and the brasen lauer that was in the house of the Lorde and caryed all the mettall of them vnto Babylon 18 They toke away also the chalderns shouels fleshhokes sprinklers spoones and all the brasen vessels that was occupied in the seruice 19 With the basons cole pannes sprinklers pottes candlestickes spoones and cuppes wherof some were of golde and some of siluer 20 The chiefe captayne toke also the two pillers the lauer the twelue brasen bullockes that stoode vnder the seat which king Solomon made in the house of the Lorde and all the vessels conteyned so much mettal that it might not be waied 21 For euery piller was eyghteene cubites hye and the rope that went about it was twelue cubites and foure fingers thicke and rounde 22 Nowe vpon the rope were brasen knoppes and euery knoppe was fiue cubites hye and vpon the knoppes were hoopes and pomgranates round about of cleane brasse 23 After this maner were both the pillers fashioned with y e pomgranates wherof there were an hundred ninetie and sixe which hanged vpon the hoopes rounde
that all they that are appointed in wrytyng and shewed vnto you by Aman whiche is ordayned and set ouer all our landes and the most principall next vnto the kyng and in maner as a father shall with their wiues and chyldren be destroyed rooted out with the sworde of their enemies and aduersaries and that there shal be no mercy shewed and no man spared And this shal be done the fourteenth day of the moneth called Adad of this yere 7 That they whiche of olde and nowe also haue euer ben rebellious may in one day with violence be thrust downe into the hell to the intent that after this maner our empire may haue peace and tranquilitie 8 But Mardocheus thought vpon all the workes noble actes of the Lorde and made his prayer vnto him 9 Saying O Lorde Lorde thou valiaunt and almightie king for all thinges are in thy power and if thou wilt helpe and deliuer Israel there is no man that can withstande nor let thee 10 For thou hast made heauen and earth and what wonderous thing soeuer is vnder the heauen 11 Thou art Lorde of all thinges and there is no man that can resist thy maiestie O Lorde 12 Thou knowest all thinges thou wotest Lorde that it was neither of malice nor presumption nor for any desire of glory that I would not bow downe my selfe nor worship yonder proude presumptious Aman 13 For I woulde haue ben content and that with good wyll if it might haue done Israel any good to haue kist euen his footesteppes 14 But that I did it because I woulde not set the honour of a man in the steede of the glory of God because I would worship none but only thee my Lorde and this haue I done in no pryde nor presumption 15 And therfore O Lord thou God and kyng haue mercy vpon thy people for they imagine howe they may bring vs to naught yea their minde and desire is to destroy and to ouerthrowe thy people that hath euer ben thyne inheritaunce of olde 16 O despise not thy portion which thou hast deliuered brought out of Egypt for thyne owne selfe 17 Heare my prayer and be mercifull vnto thy people whom thou hast chosen for an heritage vnto thy selfe Turne our complaynt and sorow into ioy that we may liue O Lorde and prayse thy name O Lord suffer not the mouthes of them that praise thee to be destroyed 18 All the people of Israel in like maner cryed as earnestly as they coulde vnto the Lorde for their death and destruction stoode before their eyes ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter ¶ The prayer of Hester for the deliueraunce of her and her people 1 QVeene Hester also beyng in the battayle of death resorted vnto the Lorde 2 Layde away her glorious apparell and put on the garmentes that serued for sighing and mourning In the steede of precious oyntment she scattered ashes and dounge vpon her head and as for her body she humbled it with fasting and brought it very low All the places where she was wont to haue ioy afore those filled she with her owne heere that she pluckt of 3 She prayed also vnto the Lorde God of Israel with these wordes O my Lorde thou only art our kyng helpe me desolate woman whiche haue no helper but thee 4 For my miserie and destruction is harde at my hande 5 Fro my youth vp I haue hearde out of the kinred of my father that thou tokest Israel from among all people and so haue our fathers of their fore elders that they shoulde be thy perpetuall inheritaunce and looke what thou didst promise them thou hast made it good vnto them 6 Nowe Lorde we haue sinned before thee therefore hast thou geuen vs into the handes of our enemies 7 Because we worshipped their gods Lorde thou art righteous 8 Neuerthelesse it satisfieth them not that we are in bitter and heauie captiuitie and oppressed among them but thou hast layde their handes vpon the handes of their gods 9 So that they begin to take away the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordayned and appoynted to destroy thine inheritaunce to shut and to stop the mouthes of them that prayse thee to quench the glory and worship of thy house and thyne aulter 10 And to open the mouthes of the heathen that they may prayse the power and vertue of the gods and to magnifie the fleshly kyng for euer 11 O Lorde geue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing lest they laugh vs to scorne in our miserie and fall but turne their deuice vpon them selues and punishe hym that hath begun the same ouer vs and set hym to an example 12 Thinke vpon vs O Lord and shewe thy selfe vnto vs in the tyme of our distresse and of our trouble strength me O thou kyng of Gods thou Lorde of all power 13 Geue me an eloquent and pleasaunt speache in my mouth before the lion Turne his heart into the hate of our enemies to destroy him and all such as consent vnto him 14 But deliuer vs with thy hande and helpe me thy handmayde which haue no defence nor helper but onlye the Lorde 15 Thou knowest all thinges thou wotest that I loue not the glory and worship of the vnrighteous and that I hate and abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised and of all heathen 16 Thou knowest my necessitie that I hate the token of my preeminence and worship which I beare vpon my head what tyme as I must shewe my selfe and be seene and that I abhorre it as an vncleane cloth and that I weare it not when I am quiet and alone by my selfe 17 Thou knowest also that I thy handmayden haue not eaten at Amans table and that I haue had no pleasure nor delight in the kinges feast that I haue not drunke the wine of the drinke offeringes 18 And that I thy handmayden haue no ioy since the day that I was brought hyther vnto this day but only in thee O Lorde O thou God of Abraham 19 O thou mightie God aboue all heare the voyce of them that haue no other hope and deliuer vs out of the hande of the wicked and deliuer me out of my feare The .xv. Chapter 1 Mardocheus moueth Hester to go in vnto the kyng and make intercession for her people 9 And she perfourmed his request 1 MArdocheus also bade Hester go in vnto the kyng and pray for her people and for her countrey 2 Remember saith he the dayes of thy lowe estate how thou wast nourished vnder my hande For Aman whiche is next vnto the kyng hath geuen sentence of death against vs 3 Call thou therefore vpon the Lorde and speake for vs vnto the king and deliuer vs from death 4 And vpon the thirde day it happened that Hester layde away the mourning garmentes and put on her glorious apparell 5 And deckt her selfe goodly after that she had called vpon God whiche is the beholder and sauiour of all thinges and toke two maydens with her
ordeined by the word of God and that thynges whiche are seene were made of thynges * whiche were not seene 4 By fayth Abel offered vnto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain by whiche he was witnessed to be ryghteous God testifiyng of his gyftes by which also he beyng dead yet speaketh 5 By fayth was Enoch translated that he shoulde not see death neither was he founde for God had taken hym away For afore he was taken away he was reported of to haue pleased God 6 But without fayth it is vnpossible to please hym For he that cōmeth to God must beleue that God is and that he is a rewarder of them that seeke him 7 By fayth Noe beyng warned of God of thinges not seene as yet moued with reuerence prepared the arke to the sauyng of his house through the whiche arke he condempned the worlde and became heire of the righteousnes which is by fayth 8 By fayth Abraham when he was called obeyed to go out into a place whiche he shoulde afterwarde receaue to inheritaunce and he went out not knowyng whyther he shoulde go 9 By fayth he remoued into the lande of promise as into a straunge countrey whē he had dwelt in tabernacles with Isaac and Iacob heires with hym of the same promise 10 For he loked for a citie hauyng a foundation whose buylder and maker is God 11 Through fayth also Sara her selfe receaued strength to conceaue seede and was delyuered of a chylde whē she was past age because she iudged hym faythfull which had promised 12 And therfore sprang there of one euen of one whiche was as good as dead so many in multitude as are the starres in the skye and as the sande the whiche is by the sea shore innumerable 13 These all dyed according to fayth not hauing receaued the promises but seing them a farre of and beleuyng and salutyng and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth 14 For they that saye suche thynges declare that they seke a countrey 15 Also yf they had ben myndfull of that countrey from whence they came out they had leasure to haue returned 16 But nowe they desire a better that is a heauenly Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a citie 17 By fayth Abraham offered vp Isaac when he was proued and he that had receaued the promises offered vp his only begotten sonne 18 To whom it was saide that in Isaac shall thy seede be called 19 For he considered that God was able to rayse the dead vp agayne frō whence also he receaued hym in a similitude of the resurrection 20 By fayth did Isaac blesse Iacob and Esau concernyng thynges to come 21 By fayth Iacob when he was a dying blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph and worshypped towarde the toppe of his scepter 22 By fayth Ioseph when he dyed remembred the departyng of the chyldren of Israel and gaue commaundement of his bones 23 By fayth Moyses whē he was borne was hyd three monethes of his father and mother because they sawe he was a proper chylde neither feared they the kynges commaundement 24 By fayth Moyses when he was great refused to be called the sonne of Pharaos daughter 25 Chosyng rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God then to enioye the pleasures of sinne for a season 26 Esteemyng the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt For he had respect vnto the recompence of the rewarde 27 By fayth he forsoke Egypt fearyng not the wrath of the kyng For he endured euen as though he had seene him which is inuisible 28 Through fayth he ordeyned the Passouer and the effusion of blood lest he that destroyed the first borne shoulde touche them 29 By fayth they passed through the redde sea as by drye lande which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned 30 By fayth the walles of Iericho fell downe after they were compassed about seuen dayes 31 By fayth the harlot Rahab perished not with them that were disobedient when she had receaued the spyes with peace 32 And what shall I more say for the tyme woulde fayle me to rehearse of Gedeon of Barac and of Sampson and of Iephte of Dauid also and Samuel and of the prophetes 33 ☞ Which through faith subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnesse obteyned the promises stopped the mouthes of the Lions 34 Quenched the violence of fyre escaped the edge of the sworde out of weakenesse were made strong waxed valiant in fyght turned to flyght the armies of the aliantes 35 The women receaued their dead raysed to lyfe agayne Other were racked not lokyng for deliueraunce that they might receaue a better resurrectiō 36 And others were tryed with mockynges and scourgynges Yea moreouer with bondes and prisonment 37 They were stoned were hewen asunder were tempted were slaine with sword wandred about in sheepskinnes and goates skinnes beyng destitute afflicted and tormented 38 Of whō the worlde was not worthie They wandred in wildernesse and in mountaynes and in dennes and caues of the earth 39 And these all through fayth obteyned good report and receaued not the promise 40 God prouidyng a better thyng for vs that they without vs shoulde not be made perfect ¶ The .xij Chapter 1 An exhortation to be patient and stedfast in trouble and aduersitie vpon hope of euerlastyng rewarde 25 A commendation of the newe Testament aboue the olde 1 WHerfore seyng that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses lay away all that presseth downe the sinne that hangeth so fast on let vs run with patience vnto the battayle that is set before vs 2 Lokyng vnto Iesus the captayne and finissher of our fayth which for the ioy that was set before hym endured the crosse hauyng dispised the shame and is set downe on the ryght hande of the throne of God 3 Consider therfore hym that endured such speakyng agaynst hym of sinners lest you shoulde be weryed fayntyng in your myndes 4 Ye haue not yet resisted vnto blood stryuyng agaynst sinne 5 And ye haue forgotten the exhortatiō which speaketh vnto you as vnto chyldren My sonne despise not thou the chastenyng of the Lorde neither faynt when thou art rebuked of hym 6 For whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth and scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth 7 If ye endure chastenyng God offereth him selfe as vnto sonnes For what sonne is he whom the father chasteneth not 8 But yf ye be without chastisment wherof all are partakers then are ye bastardes and not sonnes 9 Furthermore we haue had fathers of our fleshe which corrected vs and we gaue them reuerence Shall we not then much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites and lyue 10 For they veryly for a fewe dayes chastened vs after their owne pleasure
Chapter 2 The people murmure agaynst God 10 And woulde haue stoned Caleb and Iosuah 37 The searchers of the lande dye 45 Amalech kylleth the Israelites 1 AND all the multitude of the people cried out and wept throughout that nyght 2 And all the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron and the whole congregation sayde vnto them Woulde God that we had dyed in the lande of Egypt either that we had dyed in this wyldernesse 3 Wherfore hath the Lorde brought vs vnto this lande to fall vpon the sworde and that our wyues and our chyldren should be a pray Were it not better that we returne vnto Egypt agayne 4 And they sayd one to another Let vs make a captayne and returne vnto Egypt agayne 5 Then Moyses Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel 6 And Iosuah the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephune whiche were of them that searched the lande rent their clothes 7 And spake vnto al the companie of the chyldren of Israel saying The lande whiche we walked through to searche it is a very good lande 8 If the Lord haue a loue to vs he will bryng vs into this lande and geue it vs whiche is such a lande as floweth with mylke and hony 9 But in any wyse rebell not ye agaynst the Lorde neither feare the people of the lande for they are but bread for vs Their shielde is departed from them and the Lorde is with vs feare them not therfore 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones And the glory of the Lorde appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the chyldren of Israel 11 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Howe long do this people prouoke me and how long wyll it be yer they beleue me for all the signes which I haue shewed among them 12 I will smyte them with the pestilence and destroy them and wyll make of thee a greater nation and mightier then they 13 And Moyses sayde vnto the Lorde Then the Egyptians shall heare it for thou broughtest this people in thy might from among them 14 And it wylbe tolde to the inhabiters of this lande also for they haue hearde lykewyse that thou Lorde art among this people and that thou Lorde art seene face to face and that thy cloude standeth ouer them that thou goest before them by day tyme in a pyller of a cloude and in a pyller of fire by nyght 15 If thou shalt kyll all this people as they were but one man then the nations whiche haue hearde the fame of thee wyll say 16 Because the Lord is not able to bryng in this people into the lande whiche he sware vnto them therefore he hath slaine them in the wyldernesse 17 And nowe I beseche thee let the power of my Lord be great accordyng as thou hast spoken saying 18 The Lorde is long yer he be angrie and of great mercy and suffreth iniquitie and sinne and leaueth no man innocent and visiteth the vnrighteousnesse of the fathers vpon the chyldren in the thirde and fourth generations 19 Be mercyfull I beseche thee vnto the sinne of this people accordyng vnto thy great mercy as thou hast forgeuen this people from Egypt euen vntyll nowe 20 And the Lorde sayde I haue forgeuen it according to thy request 21 But as truely as I liue all the earth shal be filled with the glory of the Lord. 22 But all those men whiche haue seene my glory and my miracles whiche I did in Egypt and in the wildernesse and haue tempted me nowe this ten tymes and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce 23 Shall not see the lande whiche I sware vnto their fathers neither shall any of them that prouoked me see it 24 But my seruaunt Caleb because he had another maner of spirite and because he hath folowed me vnto the vtmost hym wyll I bryng into the lande which he hath walked in and his seede shall inherite it 25 And also the Amalechites and Chanaanites remayne in the valley To morowe turne you and get you into the wyldernesse euen by the way of the red sea 26 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron saying 27 Howe long doth this euyll multitude murmure agaynst me I haue hearde the murmuringes of the children of Israel with the whiche they murmure agaynst me 28 Tell them therefore As truely as I liue sayeth the Lorde I wyll do vnto you euen as ye haue spoken in myne eares 29 Your carkasses shall fall in the wyldernesse And all you that were tolde throughout your numbers from twentie yeres and aboue whiche haue murmured against me 30 Shall not come into the lande ouer which I lifted vp myne hand to make you dwell therin saue Caleb the sonne of Iephune and Iosuah the sonne of Nun. 31 But your chyldren whiche ye sayde shoulde be a pray them I wyll bryng in and they shall knowe the lande whiche ye haue refused 32 And your carkasses shall fall in this wyldernesse 33 And your chyldren shall wander in the wildernesse fourtie yeres and suffer for your whordome vntyll your carkasses be wasted in the wyldernesse 34 After the number of the dayes in whiche ye searched out the lande euen fourtie dayes euery day for a yere shal ye beare your vnrighteousnesse euen fourtie yeres and ye shall knowe my breache of promise 35 I the Lorde haue sayde that I wyll do it vnto all this euyll congregation that are gathered together against me For in this wildernesse they shal be consumed and there they shall dye 36 And the men whiche Moyses sent to searche the lande and whiche when they came agayne made all the people to murmure against hym and brought vp a sclaunder vpon the lande 37 Euen those men that dyd bryng vp that sclaunder vpon it as though it had ben euill dyed in a great plague before the Lorde 38 But Iosuah the sonne of Nun and Caleb the sonne of Iephune whiche were of the men that went to searche the lande liued styll 39 And Moyses tolde these sayinges vnto all the chyldren of Israel and the people toke great sorowe 40 And they rose vp early in the morning and gate them vp into the toppe of the mountayne saying lo we be here and wyll go vp vnto the place of which the Lorde sayde For we haue sinned 41 And Moyses sayde Wherfore transgresse ye thus the worde of the Lorde it wyll not come well to passe 42 Go not vp therefore for the Loâ—e is not among you that ye be not slayne before your enemies 43 For the Amalechites and the Chanaanites are there before you ye wyll fall vpon the sworde because ye are turned away from the Lorde the Lorde wyll not be with you 44 But they presumed â—â—stinatly to go vp into the hyll top Neuer the later the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde and Moyses departed not
sicknesses and all maner plagues whiche are not written in the booke of this lawe wyll the Lorde bryng vpon thee vntyll he bryng thee to naught 62 And ye shal be lefte fewe in number where before ye were as the starres of heauen in multitude because thou wouldest not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God 63 And it shall come to passe that as the Lord reioyced ouer you to do you good and to multiplie you euen so he will reioyce ouer you to destroy you to bring you to naught and ye shal be wasted from of the lande whyther thou goest to enioy it 64 And the Lord shal scatter thee among all nations from the one ende of the worlde vnto the other and there thou shalt serue straunge gods whiche thou nor thy fathers haue knowen euen wood and stone 65 And among these nations thou shalt finde no ease neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest But the Lorde shal geue thee there an vnquiet heart and dasing eyes and sorowe of minde 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt feare both day and nyght and shalt haue none assuraunce of thy lyfe 67 In the morning thou shalt say would God it were nyght And at nyght thou shalt say would God it were mornyng for feare of thyne heart whiche thou shalt feare and for the sight of thyne eyes whiche thou shalt see 68 And the Lorde shall bryng thee into Egypt agayne with shippes by the way whiche I sayde to thee thou shalt see it no more againe And there ye shal be solde vnto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall bye you ¶ The .xxix. Chapter 2 The people are exhorted to obserue the commaundementes 10 The whole people from the hyest to the lowest are comprehended vnder Gods couenaunt 19 The punishment of hym that flattereth hym selfe in his wickednesse 24 The cause of Gods wrath agaynst his people 1 THese are the wordes of the couenaunt which the Lorde commaunded Moyses to make with the children of Israel in the lande of Moab besyde the appoyntment which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moyses called all Israel sayde vnto them Ye haue seene all that the Lorde did before your eyes in the lande of Egypt vnto Pharao and vnto all his seruauntes and vnto all his lande 3 The great temptations which thine eyes haue seene those great miracles and wonders 4 And yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an heart to perceaue and eyes to see and cares to heare vnto this day 5 And I haue led you fourtie yeres in the wildernesse and your clothes are not waxed olde vpon you and thy shoe is not waxed olde vpon thy foote 6 Ye haue eaten no bread nor drunke wine or strong drynke that ye myght knowe howe that I am the Lorde your God 7 And ye came vnto this place and Sehon the kyng of Hesbon and Og the kyng of Basan came out agaynst vs vnto battayle and we smote them 8 And toke their lande and gaue it for an inheritaunce vnto the Rubenites and Gadites and to the halfe tribe of Manasse 9 Kepe therfore the wordes of this couenaunt and do them that ye may vnderstande all that ye ought to do 10 Ye stande this day euery one of you before the Lorde your God your captaynes your tribes your elders your officers and all the men of Israel 11 Your childrē also your wiues and the straunger that is in thine hoast from the hewer of thy wood vnto the drawer of thy water 12 That thou shouldest go into the couenaunt of the Lorde thy God and into his othe which the Lorde thy God maketh with thee this day 13 For to make thee a people vnto hym selfe and that he may be vnto thee a God as he hath sayde vnto thee and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers Abraham Isahac and Iacob 14 I make not this bonde and this othe with you only 15 But both with hym that standeth here with vs this day before the Lorde our God and also with hym that is not here with vs this day 16 For ye knowe howe we haue dwelt in the lande of Egypt and howe we came through the myddes of the nations which ye passed by 17 And ye haue seene their abhominations and their idols wood and stone siluer and golde which were among them 18 Lest there be among you man or woman kinrede or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the Lorde our God to go and serue the gods of these nations and lest there be among you some roote that beareth gall and wormewood 19 So that when he heareth the wordes of this othe he blesse hym selfe in his heart saying I shall haue peace I wyll walke in the meanyng of myne owne heart to put the drunken to the thirstie 20 And so the Lorde wyll not consent to be mercifull vnto hym but then the wrath of the Lorde and his gelousie shall smoke agaynst that man and all the curses that are written in this booke shall lyght vpon hym and the Lorde shal do out his name from vnder heauē 21 And the Lorde shall seperate hym vnto euyll out of all the tribes of Israel accordyng vnto all the curses of the couenaunt that are written in the booke of this lawe 22 So that the generatiō to come of your children that shall ryse vp after you and the straunger that shall come from a farre lande shall say when they see the plagues of that lande and the diseases wherwith the Lorde hath smitten it 23 Howe all the lande is burnt vp with brimstone and salt and that it is neither sowen nor beareth nor any grasse groweth therin lyke as in the place of y e ouerthrowyng of Sodome Gomor Adama and Zeboim which the Lorde ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger 24 Euen then shal all nations say Wherfore hath the Lord done on this fashion vnto this lande O howe fierse is this great wrath 25 And men shall say Because they haue forsaken the couenaunt of the Lorde God of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them out of the lande of Egypt 26 For they went and serued straunge gods and worshipped them gods which they knewe not and which had geuen them nothyng 27 And the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot agaynst this lande to bryng vpon it all the curses that are written in this booke 28 And the Lorde cast them out of their lande in anger wrath and great indignation and cast them into a straunge lande as this day beareth witnesse 29 The secretes of the Lorde our God are opened vnto vs and to our children for euer that we may do all the wordes of this lawe The .xxx. Chapter 1 Mercie shewed when they repent 6 The Lorde doth circumcise the heart 11 All excuse of ignoraunce is taken away
there gathered together to battaile when the men of Israel were gone vp 10 He arose and layed on the Philistines vntill his hand was weery and claue vnto the sword And the Lorde gaue great victory the same day and the people returned after him only to spoyle 11 After him was Samma the sonne of Age the Hararite the Philistines gathered together besyde a towne where was a parcell of land full of lentils and the people fled from the Philistines 12 But he stoode in y e middest of the groūd and defended it slue the Philistines and the Lorde gaue great victorie 13 These three which were of the thirtie chiefe captaines went downe to Dauid in the haruest tyme vnto the caue Adullam and the hoast of the Philistines pytched in the valley of giauntes 14 And Dauid was then in an houlde and the souldiers of y e Philistines were in Bethlehem 15 And Dauid longed saide Oh that I had of the water that is in the wel by the gate of Bethlehem for to drynke 16 And the three mightie brake through the hoast of the Philistines drue water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and toke and brought it to Dauid Neuerthelesse he would not drinke thereof but powred it vnto the Lorde 17 And saide The Lorde forbyd that I should do so Is not this the blood of the men that went in ieoperdie of theyr lyues therefore he would not drinke it And these thinges did these three mightie men 18 Abisai the brother of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia was chiefe among the three he lyft vp his speare against three hundred and slue them had the name among the three 19 For he was most excellent of the three and was their captayne Howbeit he attayned not vnto the first three 20 And Banaiah the sonne of Iehoida the sonne of a mightie man valiaunt in actes of Kabzeel slue two strōg men of Moab He went downe also and slue a lion in the middest of a pit in time of snowe 21 And he slue an Egyptian a goodly bigge man and the Egyptian had a speare in his hand But he went downe to him with a staffe and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand and slue him with his owne speare 22 These thinges did Banaiah y e sonne of Iehoida and had the name among the three worthies 23 He was honorable among thirtie but he attayned not to the first three And Dauid made him of his counsel 24 Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem 25 Samma the Harodite Elica the Harodite Helez the Paltite Ira the sonne of Acces the Thecoite 26 Abiezer of Anathoth Mebunnai y e Husathite 27 Zelmon an Ahohite Maharai the Netophathite 28 Heleb the sonne of Baanah an Netophatite Ithai the sonne of Ribai out of Gibea of the children of Beniamin 29 Banaiah the Pirathonite Heddai of the ryuer of Gaas 30 Abialbon the Arbathite Asmaueth the Barhumite 31 Eliahba a Saalbonite of the sonnes of Iasen Ionathan 32 Samma the Hararite Ahiam y e sonne of Sarar an Hararite 33 Eliphelet y e sonne of Aasbai the sonne of Maachathi Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite 34 Hezrai the Carmelite Paarai the Arbite 35 Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zoba Bani the Gadite 36 Zelec the Ammonite Naharai the Berothite which was the harnesse bearer of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia 37 Ira the Iethrite Gareb y e Iethrite 38 Vria the Hethite thirtie and seuen in all ¶ The .xxiiii. Chapter 1 Dauid causeth the people to be numbred 10 He repenteth and chooseth to fall into Gods handes 15 Seuentie thousand perishe with the pestilence 1 ANd agayne the Lorde was wroth against Israel and he moued Dauid agaynst them in that he sayde Go number Israel Iuda 2 For the king sayde to Ioab the captaine of the hoast which was with him Go thou abrode now throughout al the tribes of Israel euen from Dan to Beerseba and number ye the people that I may knowe the number of them 3 And Ioab saide vnto the king The Lorde thy God encrease the people an hundreth folde mo then they be that the eyes of my lorde the king may see it And what is the cause that my lorde the king hath a lust to this thyng 4 Notwithstanding the kinges word preuayled agaynst Ioab against the captaines of the hoast And Ioab the captaynes of the hoast went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel 5 And they passed ouer Iordane pitched in Aroer on the right syde of the citie that lyeth in the myddest of the valey of Gad and toward Iazer 6 And then they came to Gilead and to the land Tahtim hodshi from thēce they came to Dan Iaan and about to Sidon 7 And came to the strong hould of Tyre and to all the cities of the Heuites and of the Chanaanites then went out to the south of Iuda euen to Beerseba 8 And so when they had ben abrode throughout all the land they returned to Hierusalem after the end of nine monethes and twentie dayes 9 And Ioab deliuered the number and summe of the people vnto the king and there were in Israel eyght hundred thousand men of might that drewe swordes and the men of Iuda were fiue hundred thousand men 10 And Dauids heart smote him after that he had numbred the people And Dauid saide vnto the Lord I haue sinned exceedingly in that I haue done And nowe I beseche thee Lord take away the trespasse of thy seruaunt for I haue done very foolishly 11 And when Dauid was vp in the morning the word of the Lorde came vnto the prophet Gad Dauids sear saying 12 Go and say vnto Dauid thus sayth the Lorde I offer thee three thynges choose thee which of them I shall do vnto thee 13 So Gad came to Dauid and shewed him and said vnto him Wylt thou haue seuen yeres hunger to come vpon thy land or wilt thou flee three monethes before thyne enemies they folowyng thee or that there be three dayes pestilence in thy land Now therefore aduise thee and see what aunswere I shall geue to him that sent me 14 And Dauid saide vnto Gad I am in a wonderfull strayte Let vs fall now into the hand of the Lorde for much is his mercy and let me not fall into the hand of man 15 And so the Lorde sent a pestilence in Israel from the morning vnto the time appoynted And there dyed of the people from Dan to Beerseba seuentie thousand men 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand vpon Hierusalem to destroy it the Lorde repented him of the euill saide to the angel that destroyed the people It is now sufficient holde thyne hand And the angell of the Lord was by the threshing
knowledged and worshipped the Lord their God foure times on the day 4 Then stoode vp vpon the stayres of the Leuites Iesua Bani Cadmiel Sabaniah Bunni Serebiah Bani and Chanani and cryed loude vnto the Lorde their God 5 And the Leuites Iesua and Cadmiel Bani and Hasabnia Serebiah and Hodia Sebania and Phathahia sayde Stand vp and prayse the Lorde your God for euer and let thankes be geuē vnto the name of thy glory which excelleth all thankes geuing and prayse 6 Thou art Lorde alone thou hast made heauen and the heauen of all heauens with all their hoast the earth and all thinges that are therein the sea all that is therin thou preseruest them al the hoast of heauen worshippeth thee 7 Thou art O Lorde the God that hast chosen Abraham and broughtest him out of Vr in Chaldea * and calledst him Abraham 8 And foundest his heart faithfull before thee madest a couenaunt with him to geue vnto his seede the lande of the Chanaanites Hethites Amorites Pherezites Iebusites and Gergesites and hast made good thy wordes for thou art righteous 9 And hast considered the miserie of our fathers in Egypt and heard their complaynt by the red sea 10 And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes and on all the people of his lande For thou knowest that they were presumptuous and cruell against them and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day 11 And the red sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe as a stone in the mightie waters 12 And leddest them on the day time in a cloudie piller and on the night season in a piller of fyre to shewe them light in the way that they went 13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai and spakest vnto them from heauen and gauest them right iudgementes true lawes good commaundementes and statutes 14 And declaredst vnto them thy holy Sabbath and commaundedst them preceptes ordinaunces and lawes by the hande of Moyses thy seruaunt 15 And gauest them bread from heauen when they were hungry and broughtest foorth water for them out of the rocke when they were thirstye and promysedst them that they should go in and take possession of the lande ouer which thou haddest lyft vp thyne hand for to geue them 16 But they and our fathers were proud and hardnecked so that they folowed not thy commaundementes 17 And woulde not obey neither were mindeful of the wonders that thou diddest for thē but hardened their neckes and had in their heades to returne to their bondage by their rebellion But thou O God of mercies gracious and full of compassion of long suffering and of great mercie yet forsookest them not 18 Moreouer when they had made them a moulten calfe and saide This is thy God that brought thee out of the lande of Egypt and did blasphemies 19 Yet forsookest thou them not in the wildernesse according to thy great mercies And the cloudy piller departed not from them on the day time to leade thē the way neither the piller of fire in the night season to shewe them light in the way by which they should go 20 And thou gauest them thy good spirite to enfourme them and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth and gauest them water when they were thirstie 21 Fourtie yeres long didst thou feede them in the wildernesse so that they lacked nothing their clothes waxed not olde and their feete swelled not 22 And thou gauest them kingdomes and nations and scatteredst them into corners so they possessed the lande of Schon and the lande of the king of Hesebon and the lande of Og king of Basan 23 And their children multipliedst thou as the starres of heauen and broughtest them into the lande whereof thou haddest spoken to their fathers that they should go into it and haue it in possession 24 And the children went in and possessed the lande and thou subduedst before them the inhabiters of the lande euen the Chanaanites and gauest them into their handes with their kinges and the people of the lande that they might do with them what they would 25 And they wanne their strong cities and a fat lande and toke possession of houses that were full of all maner of goodes welles digged out vineyards oliue gardens many fruiteful trees and they did eate and were filled and became fat and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse 26 Neuerthelesse they were disobedient and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backes slue their prophetes which exhorted them earnestly that they might bring them againe vnto thee and did great blasphemies 27 Therefore thou gauest them ouer into the hand of their enemies that vexed them And in the time of their trouble whē they cryed vnto thee thou heardest them from heauen and through thy great mercie thou gauest them sauiours which helped them out of the hande of their enemies 28 But when they came to rest they turned backe againe to do euill before thee therefore leftest thou them in the hande of their enemies so that they had the dominion ouer them And when they conuerted cryed vnto thee thou heardest them from heauen and many times hast thou deliuered them according to thy great mercie 29 And testifiedst vnto them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy lawe Notwithstanding they were proude and hearkened not vnto thy commaundementes but sinned in thy lawes which if a man do he shall lyue in them and turned the shoulder away and were stiffenecked and would not heare 30 Yet many yeres diddest thou forbeare them and testifiedst vnto them through thy spirite euen by the hand of thy prophetes and yet would they not heare therefore gauest thou them into the hand of the nations of the landes 31 And for thy great mercies sake thou hast not vtterly consumed them neither forsaken them for thou art a gratious and mercifull God 32 Now therfore our God thou great God mightie and terrible thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie regarde not a litle al the trauaile that hath come vnto vs and our kinges our princes our priestes our prophetes and our fathers and all the people since the time of the kinges of Assur ▪ vnto this day 33 And truely thou art iust in al that thou hast brought vpon vs for thou hast done right As for vs we haue ben vngodly 34 And our kinges and our princes our priestes and our fathers haue not done thy lawe nor regarded thy commaundementes and thy earnest exhortations wherewith thou hast exhorted them 35 And they haue not serued thee in their kingdome and in thy great goodnesse that thou gauest them and in the large and plenteous lande which thou gauest before them and haue not conuerted from their
mightie it is God mightie in battayle 9 Lyft vp your heades O ye gates and be you lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores and the kyng of glorie shall enter in 10 Who is this kyng of glorie euen the God of hostes he is the kyng of glorie Selah The argument of the .xxv. Psalme ¶ Dauid afflicted with enemies feelyng the great burden of sinne namely of his youth prayeth God partly to delyuer hym partly to teache hym and to pardon his offences He setteth foorth the infinite goodnesse and felicitie which is assured to all them that feare God Finally he confesseth that all his trust is in God 1 I Lyft vp my soule vnto thee O God I put my trust in thee my Lorde let me not be confounded neither let myne enemies triumph ouer me 2 Yea let not all them that hope in thee be put to shame let them be put to shame who without a cause do trayterously transgresse 3 Make me to knowe thy wayes O God and teache me thy pathes leade me foorth in thy trueth and teache me for thou art the Lorde of my saluation I haue wayted for thee al the day long 4 Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies thy louyng kindnesse for they haue ben for euer 5 Oh remember not thou the sinnes and offences of my youth but accordyng to thy mercie euen of thy goodnesse O God remember me 6 Gratious and ryghteous is God therfore he wyll teache sinners in the way 7 He wyll guide the meke in iudgement and teache the humble his way 8 All the pathes of God are mercie and trueth vnto such as kepe his couenaunt and his testimonies 9 Pardon thou therfore for thy name sake O God my wickednesse for it is very great 10 What man is he that feareth God God wyll teache hym in the way that he shall choose 11 His soule shall rest all nyght at ease and his seede shall inherite the lande 12 The secrete of God is among them that feare hym and he wyll make knowen vnto them his couenaunt 13 Myne eyes be alwayes turned vnto God for he wyll take my feete out of the net 14 Turne thy face vnto me and haue mercie vpon me for I am desolate and in miserie 15 The sorowes of myne heart are encreased O bryng thou me out of my distresse 16 Loke thou vpon myne aduersitie and vpon my labour and forgeue me all my sinne 17 Consider myne enemies for they do multiplie and they beare a tirannous hate against me 18 O kepe my soule and deliuer me lest I shal be confounded for I haue put my trust in thee 19 Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe for I haue wayted after thee 20 O God redeeme Israel out of all his aduersities The argument of the .xxvj. psalme ¶ Dauid offereth his cause for the whiche he was persecuted to be iudged of God protesting his innocencie partly in that he serued God with purenes of heart and vprightnes of life frequenting his temple and vsing his ceremonies partly also in that he hated all company of euill men whatsoeuer they were ¶ Of Dauid 1 IVdge thou me O God for I haue walked in my perfection my trustalso hath ben in God therfore I shall not fall 2 Examine me O God and proue me trye out my reynes and my heart 3 For thy louing kindnes is before mine eyes and I wyll walke in thy trueth 4 I haue not sit in company with vayne persons neither haue I entred once acquaintaunce with dissemblers 5 I haue hated the congregation of the malitious and I wyll not sit amongst the vngodly 6 I haue wasshed my handes in innocencie and so I haue gone about thine aulter O God 7 That in a publique confession I myght heare and set foorth all thy wonderous workes 8 O God I haue loued the habitation of thine house and the place wherethine honour dwelleth 9 O gather not my soule with sinners nor my life with bloodie men 10 In whose handes is wickednes and their right hande is full of gyftes 11 But as for me I wyll walke in my perfection O redeeme me and be mercyfull vnto me 12 My foote standeth vpon a playne grounde therfore I wyll blesse God in the congregations ¶ The argument of the .xxvij. psalme ¶ The prophete confesseth his boldnes courage and no feare at all that he had through God in extreame and perilous daungers Before al thinges he requireth that he may come into the temple with the godly for to sacrifice and to prayse God He prayeth also most earnestly for helpe at Gods hande being of all other forsaken 1 GOD is my lyght and saluation whom then shall I feare God is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraide 2 When the malitious approched neare vnto me for to eate vp my fleshe mine enemies and foes stumbled and fell 3 Though an hoast of men were layde in campe against me yet shall not mine heart be afraide and though there rose vp warre against me yet I wyll put my trust in this 4 I haue desired one thyng of God whiche once agayne I wyll earnestly require euen that I may dwell in the house of God all the dayes of my life to beholde the beautifulnes of God and to seeke it in his temple 5 For in the time of aduersitie he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secrete place of his pauilion he shall hide me and set me vp vpon a rocke of stone 6 And nowe he shall lift vp my head aboue mine enemies rounde about me therfore I wyll offer in his tabernacle a sacrifice of great ioy I wyll sing and prayse God with psalmes 7 Hearken vnto my voyce O god when I crye vnto thee haue mercy vpon me and heare me 8 My heart hath sayde vnto thee accorcording * to this thy commaundement seeke ye my face thy face O God wyll I seeke 9 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy seruaunt away in a displeasure thou hast ben my succour leaue me not neither forsake me O Lorde of my saluation 10 For my father and mother forsoke me and God did take me vp 11 Teache me thy way O God and leade me in a right path because of mine enemies 12 Deliuer me not into mine aduersaries handes for there are false witnesses rysen vp against me and such as speake wrong 13 If I had not beleued veryly to see the goodnes of God in the lande of the liuing their spite had kylled me 14 Attende thou therfore vpon God be of a good courage and he will comfort thine heart I say attende thou vpon God The argument of the .xxviii. psalme ¶ The prophete turning his face towardes the arke of God desireth that his prayers may be hearde that God would succour him and not suffer him to be oppressed of the wicked to whom vengeaunce is due he thanketh
13 For this God is our God for euer and euer he wyll be our guide vnto death The argument of the .xlix. psalme ¶ The prophete speakyng to the poore and riche declareth what a vanitie it is for a man to put his trust in worldly goodes and through them to become stout and arrogant for that they can neitheir delyuer any man from trouble calamitie sicknesse sinne death and displeasure of God neither can any man assure them to hym selfe or to his children for any tyme of continuaunce ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of the children of Corach 1 HEare this all ye people geue eare all ye that dwell in the worlde 2 As well lowe as high riche and poore one with another 3 My mouth shall vtter wisdome the cogitations of myne heart wyll bryng foorth knowledge 4 I wyll encline myne eare to a parable I wyll open my darke sentence vpon a harpe 5 Wherfore shoulde I feare in euyll dayes the wickednesse of my heeles then would compasse me round about 6 There be some that put their trust in their goodes and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches 7 But no man at all can redeeme his brother nor geue a raunsome vnto God for hym 8 For the redemption of their soule is very costly and must be let alone for euer yea though he lyue long and see not the graue 9 For he seeth that wyse men dye and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together and leaue their riches for other 10 And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another therfore they call landes after their owne names 11 Neuerthelesse man can not abyde in such honour he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe 12 This their way is their foolishnesse yet their posteritie prayse their saying Selah 13 They shal be put into a graue dead as a sheepe death shall feede on them but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng their beautie shall consume away hell shall receaue them from their house 14 But God wyll delyuer my soule from the place of hell for he wyll receaue me Selah 15 Be not thou afrayde though one be made riche or yf the glorie of his house be encreased 16 For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth neither shall his pompe folowe after hym 17 For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe men wyll speake good of thee 18 But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers and shall neuer see lyght 19 A man is in an honourable state but he wyll not vnderstande it he is lyke herein vnto bruite beastes that perishe ¶ The argument of the L. Psalme ¶ The prophete bryngeth in God to call to iudgement heauen earth and all the worlde declaryng that he is not ryghtly worshypped of them who offer sacrifices without fayth and who pretendyng religion in wordes and countenaunces leade a lyfe cleane contrary The true worship of God consisteth in offeryng vnto hym prayses in prosperitie and callyng vpon his name in aduersitie and withall in leadyng a good conuersation of lyfe A psalme of Asaph 1 THe most mightie Lorde God hath spoken and called the earth from the rysyng vp of the sunne vnto the goyng downe therof 2 Out of Sion hath the Lorde appeared in perfect beautie 3 Our Lorde commeth and he wyll not kepe scilence there goeth before hym a consumyng fire and a mightie tempest is sturred rounde about hym 4 He calleth from aboue the heauen and the earth that he may iudge his people 5 Gather my saintes together vnto me those that haue made a couenaunt with me with sacrifice 6 And the heauens shall declare his ryghteousnesse for God is iudge hym selfe Selah 7 Heare O my people and I wil speake I my selfe wyll testifie vnto thee O Israel I am the Lorde euen thy Lorde 8 I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt offerynges for that they be not alway before me 9 I wyll take no bullocke out of thy house nor goates out of thy foldes 10 For all the beastes of the forest are myne and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles 11 I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement 12 If I be hungry I wyll not tell thee for the whole worlde is myne and all that is therin 13 Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe and drynke the blood of goates 14 Offer vnto God prayse and pay thy vowes vnto the most hyghest 15 And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble I wyll heare thee and thou shalt glorifie me 16 But the Lorde sayd vnto the vngodly why doest thou preache my lawes and takest my couenaunt in thy mouth 17 Seyng that thou hatest discipline and hast cast my wordes behynde thee 18 When thou sawest a thiefe thou dydst consent vnto hym and thou hast ben partaker with the adulterers 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt 20 Thou sattest and spakedst agaynst thy brother yea and hast slaundered thine owne mothers sonne 21 These thynges hast thou done and I helde my tongue thou thoughtest that I am euen such a one as thou thy selfe art but I wyll reproue thee and I wyll set foorth in order before thine eyes all that thou hast done 22 Consider this I pray you ye that forget the Lorde lest I plucke you away and there be none to delyuer you 23 Who so offereth vnto me thankes and prayse he honoureth me and to hym that ordereth his conuersation ryght I wyll shewe the saluation of God ⧠The argument of the .lj. psalme ¶ Dauid acknowledgyng his great offence in committyng adulterie besecheth most humbly God of his great mercie to pardon his sinnes partly that Gods promises may appeare true who hath promised pardon to all them that from the bottome of their heart do confesse their faultes partly also that he myght lyue to builde the walles and temple of Hierusalem where sacrifices of righteousnes must be offered ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid when the prophete Nathan came vnto hym after he was gone in to Bethsabe ii Samuel xi 1 HAue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse 2 Washe me throughly from myne iniquitie and clense me from my sinne 3 For I do acknowledge my wickednesse and my sinne is euer before me 4 Agaynst thee only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying and founde pure when thou art iudged 5 Beholde I was ingendred in iniquitie and in sinne my mother conceaued me
out thy spirite they be recreated and thou reuiuest the face of the earth 31 The glorious maiestie of God shal endure for euer God wyll reioyce in his workes 32 He beholdeth the earth it trembleth he toucheth the hilles and they smoke 33 I wyll syng vnto God as long as I liue I will sing psalmes vnto my Lord so long as I shall be 34 My meditations of hym shal be very pleasaunt for all my ioy shal be in God 35 As for sinners they shal be consumed out of the earth and the vngodly shall come to an ende blesse thou God O my soule and prayse you the Lorde The argument of the .cv. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to acknowledge God to call vpon God for helpe to seeke God and to preache God but especially he moueth the Israelites to remember the promises that God made to their forefathers Abraham Isahac Iacob and also the benefites that he had bestowed on them aboue all other nations For God had such care of them beyng pilgrimes in forraine lands that he would not suffer any once to touch them yea he rebuked kinges for their sakes and he preserued them in famine and other aduersitie as Ioseph was solde into Egypt but it had a good successe The entring of the children of Israel into Egypt is set foorth and what happened vnto them whyles they were there Likewise their ioyfull departing out of Egypt their doyng by the way in the wyldernesse and at length their entring into the lande of promise where God placed them that they should kepe his commaundementes is most amply declared 1 COnfesse you it vnto God call vppon his name cause the people to vnderstande his deuises 2 Sing vnto hym sing psalmes vnto him talke you of all his wonderous workes 3 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God 4 Seeke God and his strength seeke his face euermore 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgementes of his mouth 6 O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob he is God our Lord his iudgementes are in all the earth 7 He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt for he promised a worde to a thousande generations euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham and of his othe vnto Isaac 8 And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt 9 Saying vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan the lot of your inheritaunce 10 When they were a fewe men in number and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it and when they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 11 He suffred no man to do them wrong yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes 12 Touche not mine annoynted and triumph not ouer my prophetes 13 Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande and he made all maner of foode to fayle 14 But he had sent a man before them euen Ioseph who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt 15 Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes the iron entred into his soule 16 Vntill the tyme came that his cause was knowen the worde of the Lorde tryed hym 17 The king sent and caused hym to be let go yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym 18 He made him Lorde of his house and ruler of all his substaunce 19 That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde and teache his senatours wysdome 20 Israel also came into Egypt Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham. 21 And he encreased his people exceedinglye and made them stronger then their enemies 22 Whos 's heart so turned that they hated his people and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes 23 Then he sent Moyses his seruaunt and Aaron whom he had chosen they did their message workyng his signes among them and wonders in the lande of Cham. 24 He sent darknes it was darke and they went not from his wordes 25 He turned their waters into blood and slue their fishe 26 Their lande brought foorth frogges yea euen in their kinges chaumbers 27 He spake the worde and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes and of lyce in all their quarters 28 He gaue them haylestones for rayne and flambes of fire in their lande 29 He smote their vines also figge trees and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes 30 He spake the worde and the grashoppers came caterpillers innumerable 31 And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande and deuoured the fruite of their grounde 32 He smote al the first borne in their land euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence 33 He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde there was not one feeble person in their tribes 34 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were smytten with dread of them 35 He spred out a cloude to be a couering and fire to geue light in the night season 36 The people required and he brought quayles and he filled them with the bread of heauen 37 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that streames ranne in drye places 38 For he remembred his holy worde spoken◠vnto Abraham his seruaunt 39 And he brought foorth his people with gladnes and his chosen with a ioyfull noyse 40 And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people 41 To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes and obserue his lawes Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cvi. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to prayse God and to do iustly He maketh his prayer acknowledging his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the forefathers of the Israelites who not considering the great benefites of God rebelled against God at the red sea Afterwarde in the wyldernes they did tempt God Core Dathan and Abiram conspiring against Moyses and Aaron were swalowed vp of the earth They worshipped a calfe made of golde They murmured against them that viewed the land of promise abhorring to heare of it They sacrifised to Baal Peor They grudged at God for lacke of water Finally when they came to the holy lande they committed idolatrie and al kinde of wickednes of life so that they were geuen vp vnto their enemies handes but God most mercyfully deliuered them for his promise sake ¶ Prayse ye the Lorde 1 COnfesse you it vnto god for he is gratious and his mercy endureth foreuer 2 Who can expresse the valiaunt actes of God who can publishe abrode all his prayse 3 Blessed are they that kepe iudgement and do iustice at all times 4 Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people O visite me with thy saluation 5 That I may see the
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
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
for my honours sake I will patiently forbeare thee that I do not roote thee out 10 Beholde I haue purged thee yet not as siluer I haue chosen thee in the fire of affliction 11 And that only for myne owne sake yea euen for myne owne sake wyll I do this or els what dishonour woulde they do to my name surely I wyll not geue my glorie vnto another 12 Hearken vnto me O Iacob and Israel whom I haue called I am euen he that is I am the first and the last 13 My hande hath layde the foundation of the earth and my ryght hande hath spanned ouer the heauens assoone as I call them they stande together 14 Gather you altogether and hearken Which of yonder gods hath declared this The Lorde hath a loue vnto him and he shal perfourme his wyll against Babel and declare his power against the Chaldees 15 I my selfe alone euen I haue tolde you this I dyd call him and bryng him foorth and he shall make his iourney prosperous 16 Come to me and heare this Haue I spoken any thyng darkly since the begynnyng From the tyme that this thyng begynneth I am there Wherefore the Lorde God and his spirite hath sent me 17 And thus saith the Lorde God thy redeemer the holy one of Israel I am the Lorde thy God which teache thee profitable thynges and leade thee the way that thou shouldest go 18 O that thou hadst regarded my commaundementes then had thy wealthynesse ben as the water streame and thy ryghteousnesse as the waues flowyng in the sea 19 Thy seede also had ben lyke as the sande in the sea and the fruite of thy body lyke the grauell stones therof His name shoulde not be rooted out nor destroyed before me 20 Go away from Babylon flee from the Chaldees with a mery voyce speake of this declare it abrode and go foorth into the ende of the worlde say The Lorde hath redeemed his seruaunt Iacob 21 They suffred no thirst he led them through the wildernesse and caused the waters to flowe out vnto them from out of the rocke he claue the rocke a sunder and the water gusshed out 22 As for the vngodly they haue no peace saith the Lorde ¶ The .xlix. Chapter 6 Christe shall gather together all nations be they neuer so farre of 1 YE Isles hearken vnto me and take heede ye people from farre The Lord hath called me from my birth and made mention of my name from my mothers wombe 2 He hath made my mouth lyke a sharpe sworde vnder the shadowe of his hande hath he defended me and hid me in his quiuer as a good arrowe 3 And sayde vnto me Thou art my seruaunt Israel I wyll be honoured in thee 4 Then I aunswered I haue lost my labour I haue spent my strength in vayne Neuerthelesse I wyll commit my cause and my worke vnto the Lorde my God 5 And nowe saith the Lorde euen he that fashioned me from my mothers wombe to be his seruaunt that I may bryng Iacob agayne vnto hym albeit Israel wyll not be gathered vnto hym agayne yet in Gods sight shall I be glorious my God shal be my strength 6 And he sayde It is but a small thyng that thou art my seruaunt to set vp the kinredes of Iacob and to restore the destruction of Israel For I haue made thee the lyght of the gentiles that thou mayest be my health vnto the ende of the worlde 7 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde the redeemer and holy one of Israel concernyng the abhorred dispised among the gentiles the seruaunt of them that beare rule kynges and princes shall see and arise and worship because of the Lorde that is faythfull and because of the holy one of Israel that hath chosen thee 8 And thus saith the Lorde In the tyme accepted haue I hearde thee and in the day of saluation haue I helped thee I wyll preserue thee and make thee to be the attonement of the people that thou mayest helpe vp the earth againe and possesse againe the desolate heritages 9 That thou mayest say vnto the prisoners go foorth and to them that are in darknesse come into the lyght they shall feede thee in the hye wayes and get their pasture in all hye places 10 They shall neither hunger nor thirst heate nor sunne shall not hurt them for he that fauoureth them shall leade them and geue them drynke of the well sprynges 11 I wyll make wayes vpon all my mountaynes and my footpathes shal be exalted 12 And beholde these shall come from farre lo some from the north and west some from the lande of Sinis which is in the south 13 Reioyce ye heauens and sing prayses thou earth talke of ioy ye hylles for God hath comforted his people wyll haue mercie vpon his that be in trouble 14 But Sion sayde God hath forsaken me and my Lorde hath forgotten me 15 Will a woman forget her owne infant and not pitie the sonne of her owne wombe And though they do forget yet wyll I not forget thee 16 Beholde I haue written thee vp vpon my handes thy walles are euer in my syght 17 They make haste who buildeth thee vp againe as for those that ouerthrowe thee and make thee waste they shall depart from thee 18 Lift vp thine eyes and loke about thee all these gather them together and come to thee As truely as I lyue saith the Lorde thou shalt put them all vpon thee as an apparell and girde them to thee as a bride doth her iewels 19 As for thy lande that lyeth desolate wasted and destroyed it shal be to narowe for them that shall dwell in it and they that woulde deuoure thee they shal be farre away 20 Then thy children whom the barren shall bring foorth shall say in thine care This place is to narowe geue place that I may haue roome 21 Then shalt thou thinke by thy selfe who hath begotten me these seeyng I am barren and alone a captiue and an outcast and who hath norished them vp for me I am desolate and alone but from whence come these 22 And therfore thus saith the Lorde God Beholde I wyll stretch out my hande vnto the gentiles and set vp my token to the people they shall bryng thee thy sonnes in their lappes and cary thy daughters vnto thee vpon their shoulders 23 For kynges shal be thy nursyng fathers and queenes shal be thy nursyng mothers They shall fall before thee with their faces flat vpon the earth lick vp the dust of thy feete that thou mayest knowe howe that I am the Lorde and that who so putteth their trust in me shall not be confounded 24 Shall the spoyle be taken from the mightie or the lawfull prisoner from the taker 25 But thus saith the Lorde The prisoners shal be taken from the mightie the spoyle shalde recouered from the violent for I wyll maynteyne
God wyll not destroy vs vtterly 5 Seyng thou art weery in runnyng with the footmen howe wilt thou then runne with horses In a peaceable sure lande thou mayest be safe but howe wylt thou do in the furious pride of Iordane 6 For thy brethren and thy kinrede haue altogether dispised thee and cryed out vpon thee altogether Beleue them not though they speake faire wordes to thee 7 As for me I say I haue forsaken mine owne dwellyng place and left mine heritage my lyfe also that I loue so well haue I geuen into the handes of myne enemies 8 Myne heritage is become vnto me as a lion in the wood it cryed out vpon me therfore haue I forsaken it 9 Is not mine heritage vnto me as a speckled birde are not the birdes round about agaynst her Come and gather ye together all the beastes of the fielde come that ye may eate it vp 10 Diuers heardmen haue brokē downe my vineyarde and troden vpon my portion of my pleasaunt portion they haue made a wildernesse and desert 11 They haue layde it waste and nowe that it is waste it sigheth vnto me yea the whole lande lyeth waste and no man regardeth it 12 The destroyers come ouer the borders in the desert euery way for the sworde of the Lorde doth consume from the one ende of the lande to the other and no fleshe hath rest 13 They haue sowen wheate and reaped thornes they haue taken heritage in possession but it doth them no good and they were ashamed of your fruites because of the great wrath of the Lord. 14 Thus saith the Lord vpon all my euyl neighbours that lay hande on mine heritage which I haue possessed euen my people of Israel Beholde I wyll plucke them namely Israel out of their lande and put out the house of Iuda from among them 15 And when I haue rooted them out I will be at one with them agayne and I wyll haue mercie vpon them and bryng them agayne euery man to his owne heritage and into his lande 16 And yf they namely that trouble my people wyll learne the wayes of them to sweare by my name the Lorde lyueth lyke as they learned my people to sweare by Baal then shall they be built among my people 17 But yf they wyll not obey then wyll I roote out the same folke and destroy them saith the Lorde ¶ The .xiij. Chapter 1 The destruction of the Iewes is prefigured and their sparsyng abrode 11 Why Israel was receaued to be the people of God and why they were forsaken 1 THus saith the Lorde vnto me Go thy way and get thee a lynnen girdle and girde it about thy loynes let it not be wet 2 Then I got me a girdle accordyng to the commaundement of the Lorde and put it about my loynes 3 After this the seconde tyme the Lorde spake vnto me agayne 4 Take the girdle that thou hast prepared and put about thee and get thee vp and go vnto Euphrates and hyde it there in a hole of the rocke 5 So went I and hyd it at Euphrates as the Lorde commaunded me 6 And it happened long after this that the Lorde spake vnto me Vp and get thee to Euphrates fetche the girdle from thence which I commaunded thee to hyde there 7 Then went I to Euphrates digged vp and toke the girdle from the place where I had hid it and beholde the girdle was corrupt so that it was profitable for nothyng 8 Then sayde the Lorde vnto me 9 Thus saith the Lorde Euen so wyll I corrupt the pride of Iuda and the hye mynde of Hierusalem 10 This people is a wicked people they wyll not heare my worde they folowe the wicked imaginations of their owne heart and hang vpon straunge gods them they serue and worship and therfore they shal be as this breeche that serueth for nothyng 11 For as straytly as a girdle lyeth vpon a mans loynes so straytly dyd I bynde the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Iuda vnto me saith the Lorde that they myght be my people that they might haue a glorious name that they might be in honour but they woulde not obey me 12 Therfore lay this riddle before them and say Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel Euery pot shal be fylled with wine And they shall say vnto thee Thinkest thou we knowe not that euery pot shal be fylled with wine 13 Then shalt thou say vnto them thus saith the Lorde Beholde I shall fyll all the inhabitours of this lande with drunkennesse the kynges that syt vpon Dauids stoole the priestes prophetes with all that dwell at Hierusalem 14 And I wyll set them one agaynst another yea the fathers against the sonnes saith the Lorde I wyll not pardon them I wyll not spare them nor haue pitie vpon them but destroy them 15 Heare geue eare take not disdayne at it for it is the Lorde hym selfe that speaketh 16 Honour the Lorde your God or he take his light from you and or euer your feete stumble in darcknesse at the hyll lest when you loke for the lyght he turne it into the shadowe and darcknesse of death 17 But if ye wyll not heare me that geue you secrete warnyng I wyll mourne from my whole heart for your stubburnnesse Piteously wyll I weepe and the teares shall gushe out of mine eyes for the Lordes flocke shal be caried away captiue 18 Tell the kyng and the queene humble your selues sit you downe lowe for your dignitie shal be throwen downe and the crowne of your glorie shall fall from your head 19 The cities towarde the south shal be shut vp and no man shall open them all Iuda shal be caryed away captiue so that none shall remayne 20 Lyft vp your eyes and beholde them that come from the north where is the flocke O thou lande that was geuen thee and where are thy fat and riche sheepe 21 To whom wilt thou make thy mone when the enemie shall come vpon thee for thou hast taught them thy selfe and made them maisters ouer thee Shall not sorowe come vpon thee as on a woman trauaylyng with childe 22 And if thou wouldest then say in thine heart Wherfore come these thinges vpon me Euen for the multitude of thy blasphemies shall thy hynder partes and thy feete be discouered 23 May a man of Inde chaunge his skinne and the cat of the mountayne her spottes so may ye that be exercised in euyll do good 24 Therfore wyll I scatter them like as the stubble that is taken away with the south wynde 25 This shal be your portion and the portion of your measure wherwith ye shal be rewarded of me saith the Lorde because ye haue forgotten me and put your trust in deceiptfull thinges 26 Therfore shall I turne thy clothes ouer thy head and discouer thy shame 27 Thy adulteries thy neyghinges thy shamefull whoredome on the hylles in the fieldes
them for lo all thinges are present vnto thee 25 Yet sayest thou vnto me O Lorde God and commaundest me that I shall bye a peece of land vnto my selfe for money and take witnesses thereto and yet in the meane season the citie is deliuered into the power of the Chaldees 26 Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto Ieremie saying 27 Beholde I am the Lorde God of all fleshe is there any thing then to harde for me 28 Therefore thus saith the Lorde beholde I shall deliuer this citie into the power of the Chaldees and into the power of Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon they shall take it 29 For the Chaldees shall come and winne this citie and set fire vpon it and burne it with the gorgious houses in whose parlours they haue made sacrifice vnto Baal and powred drinke offeringes vnto straunge gods to prouoke me vnto wrath 30 For the chyldren of Israel and the chyldren of Iuda haue only ben doyng wickednesse before me from their youth vp they haue ben only prouoking me to wrath with the workes of their owne handes saith the Lorde 31 For what hath this citie ben els but a prouoking of my wrath euer since the day that thei builded it vnto this houre wherein I cast it out of my sight 32 Because of the great blasphemies of the children of Israel and Iuda which they haue done to prouoke me yea they their kynges their princes their priestes their prophetes the men of Iuda and the citizens of Hierusalem 33 When I stoode vp early and taught them and instructed them they turned their backes to me and not their faces 34 They woulde not heare to be refourmed and correct but set their idols in the house that is halowed to my name to defile it 35 They haue buylded hye places for Baal in the valley of the chyldren of Hennom to cause their sonnes daughters to passe thorow fire in the honour of Moloch whiche I neuer commaunded them neither came it euer in my thought to make Iuda sinne with such abhomination 36 And nowe therefore thus hath the Lorde God of Israel spoken concerning this citie whiche as ye your selues confesse shal be deliuered into the hande of the kyng of Babylon when it is wonne with the sworde with hunger and with pestilence 37 Beholde I wyll gather them together from all landes wherein I haue scattred them in my wrath in fearefull and great displeasure and wyll bryng them agayne vnto this place where they shall dwell safely 38 And they shal be my people and I wyll be their God 39 And I wyll geue them one heart and one way that they may feare me al the dayes of their lyfe that they and their chyldren after them may prosper 40 And I wyll set vp an euerlasting couenaunt with them namely that I wyll neuer ceasse to do them good and that I wyll put my feare in their heartes so that they shall not runne away from me 41 Yea I wyll haue a lust and pleasure to do them good and faithfully to plant them in this land with my whole heart and with my whole soule 42 For thus saith the Lorde Like as I haue brought all this great plague vppon this people euen so wyll I also bryng vpon them all the good that I haue promised them 43 And men shall haue their possessions in this lande wherof ye say nowe that it shall neither be inhabited of the people nor of cattell but be deliuered into the handes of the Chaldees 44 Yea lande shal be bought for money and euidences made thervpon and sealed before witnesses in the countrey of Beniamin and rounde about Hierusalem in the cities of Iuda in the cities that are vpon the mountaynes and them that lye beneath yea and in the cities that are in the south for I wyll bryng their prysoners hyther agayne saith the Lorde ¶ The .xxxiii. Chapter 1 The prophete is monished of the Lord to pray for the deliueraunce of the people whiche the Lorde promiseth 8 God forgeueth sinnes and doth graciously to the people for his owne renowme 15 Of the byrth of Christe 20 The kyngdome of Christe in the Churche shall neuer be ended 1 MOreouer the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ieremie againe whē he was yet bounde in the court of the prison 2 Thus saith the Lord who made Hierusalē who fashioned the same to establishe it whose name is the Lorde 3 Crye vnto me and I wyll aunswere and shewe thee great and hye thinges whiche were vnknowen vnto thee 4 Thus I say speaketh the Lorde god of Israel concerning the houses of this citie and the houses of the kynges of Iuda that are broken thorowe the ordinaunce and the sworde 5 The inhabitours of this citie haue come to fight against the Chaldees and they are filled with the dead carkasses of men whom I haue slayne in my wrath and displeasure when I turned my face from this citie because of al her wickednesse 6 Beholde saith the Lorde I wyll repaire and heale their woundes and make them whole I wyll open them the large treasure of peace and trueth 7 And wyll returne the captiuitie of Iuda and Israel and wyll set them vp agayne as they were before 8 From all misdeedes wherein they offended against me I wyll clense them and all their blasphemies which they haue done against me when they regarded me not I wyll forgeue them 9 And this shall get me a name a prayse and honour among all the people of the earth whiche shall heare all the good that I wyll shewe vnto them yea they shal be afraide and astonied at all the good deedes and benefites that I wyll do for them 10 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde In this place wherof ye say that it shal be a wildernesse wherein neither people nor cattle shall dwell in lyke maner in the cities of Iuda and in the streetes of Hierusalem which also shal be so voyde that neither people nor cattle shall dwel there 11 Shall the voyce of gladnesse be heard agayne the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride the voyce of them that shall sing Prayse the Lord of hoastes for he is louing and his mercy endureth for euer and the voyce of them that offer vp gyftes in the house of the Lorde for I wyll restore the captiuitie of this lande as it was afore saith the Lorde 12 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes It shall come yet therto that in this lande whiche is voyde from men and cattle and in all the cities of the lande there shal be set vp shepheardes cottages to rest their flockes 13 In the cities vpon the mountaynes and in the cities that lye vpon the plaine and in the cities of the south in the lande of Beniamin and rounde about Hierusalem and in the cities of Iuda shall the sheepe passe agayne vnder the hande of him that telleth them saith the Lorde 14 Beholde the tyme commeth
shed in the lande thou shalt be put out of remembraunce for I the Lorde haue spoken it The .xxij. Chapter The worde of the Lorde agaynst Hierusalem for manslaughter and denying due honour to their fathers and mothers and other wickednesses 25 Of the wicked doctrine of the false prophets and priestes and of their vnsatiable couetousnesse 27 The tirannie of rulers 29 The wickednesse of the people 1 MOreouer the worde of the Lorde came vnto me and sayde 2 Thou sonne of man wylt thou not iudge wylt thou not iudge this blooddy citie wylt thou not shewe her all her abhominations 3 And tell them thus saith the Lorde God The citie sheddeth blood in the middest of it that her tyme may come and maketh idols agaynst her selfe to defile her selfe 4 Thou hast made thy selfe giltie in the blood that thou hast shed and defyled thee in the idols which thou hast made thou hast caused thy dayes to drawe nye and made the tyme of thy yeres to come therfore wyll I make thee a reproche among the heathen and to be a mockyng in all landes 5 Whether they be nye or farre from thee they shall laugh thee to scorne thou that hast gotten thee so foule a name and art full of trouble 6 Beholde the rulers of Israel euery one in thee was redy to his power to shed blood 7 In thee haue they dispised father and mother in thee haue they oppressed the straunger in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse 8 Thou hast dispised my holy thynges and defiled my Sabbathes 9 Tale tellers are there in thee to shed blood in thee are such as eate vpon the hylles and in thee they commit abhomination 10 In thee they discouered their fathers shame in thee they haue humbled her that was set apart for pollution 11 Euery man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbours wife and abhominably defiled his daughter in lawe in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister euen his fathers daughter 12 Yea giftes haue ben receaued in thee to shed blood thou hast taken vsurie and encrease thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion and forgotten me saith the Lorde God 13 Beholde I haue smitten my handes vpon thy couetousnesse that thou hast vsed and vpon the blood which hath ben shed in thee 14 Is thy heart able to endure or may thy handes be strenghthened in the dayes that I shal haue to do with thee Euen I the Lorde that speake it wyll bryng it also to passe 15 I wyll scatter thee among the heathen strawe thee about in the landes and wyll cause thy filthinesse to ceasse out of thee 16 Yea and thou shalt be thine owne inheritaunce in the sight of the heathen that thou mayest knowe that I am the Lorde 17 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me saying 18 Thou sonne of man the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse all they are brasse tinne iron and lead in the middest of the furnace euen drosse of siluer are they 19 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God Forasmuch as ye all are turned into drosse therfore beholde I wyll bryng you together vnto Hierusalem 20 Lyke as they gather siluer brasse iron tinne and lead into the middest of the furnace and the fire is blowne there vnder to melt them euen so wyll I gather you in mine anger in my wrath and let you remayne there and cause you to melt 21 I wyll bryng you together and blowe the fire of my wrath vpon you and ye shal be molten in the middest therof 22 Lyke as the siluer is molten in the furnace so shall ye also be molten therin that ye may knowe howe that I the Lord haue powred my wrath vpon you 23 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me saying 24 Thou sonne of man tell her Thou art an vncleane lande which is not rayned vpon in the day of wrath 25 There is a conspiracie of her prophetes in the middest therof as a roring lion rauenyng his pray they deuour soules they haue taken the riche and pretious thynges they haue made her many widowes in the middest therof 26 Her priestes haue broken my lawe and defiled my holy thynges they put no difference betweene the holy vnholy neither discerne they betweene the cleane vncleane they turne their eyes from my Sabbathes and I am defiled among them 27 Thy rulers in thee are lyke woolues rauenyng the pray to shed blood and destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre 28 As for her prophetes they daube with vntempered morter they see vanities and diuine lyes vnto them saying The Lorde saith so wheras the Lorde hath not spoken 29 The people in the lande vsed wicked extortion and robbery they vexe the poore and needy and oppresse the straunger agaynst right 30 And I sought among them for a man that woulde make vp the hedge and set hym selfe in the gap before me in the landes behalfe that I shoulde not destroy it but I coulde fynde none 31 Therfore haue I powred out my cruel displeasure vpon them and consumed them in the fire of my wrath their owne wayes wyll I recompence vpon their heades saith the Lorde God The .xxiii. Chapter 4 Of the fornication that is to say of the idolatrie of Samaria and Hierusalem vnder the name of Aholah and Aholibah 11 In comparison of Samaria he sheweth that the fornication of Hierusalem is the filthier 22 The destruction of Hierusalem is prophecied 36 The adulterie of both the whores is founde out 47 Their destruction 1 THe worde of the Lord came vnto me saying 2 Thou sonne of man there were two women the daughters of one mother 3 And they committed fornication in Egypt they played the harlottes in their youth there were their breastes pressed and there they bruised the teaâ—es of their virginitie 4 The names of them were Aholah the elder and Aholibah her sister and they were mine and they bare sonnes and daughters thus were their names Samaria is Aholah and Hierusalem Aholibah 5 Aholah played y e harlot when she was mine and she was set on fire with her louers the Assyrians her neighbours 6 Which were clothed with blewe silke both captaynes and princes they were all pleasaunt young men and horsemen rydyng vpon horses 7 Thus she committed her whordome with them beyng all chosen men of Asshur with all on whom she doted and defiled her selfe with all their idols 8 Neither left she the fornication that she vsed with the Egyptians for in her youth they lay with her they bruised the brestes of her maydenhead and powred their whordome vpon her 9 Wherfore I deliuered her into the handes of her louers euen into y e handes of the Assyrians vpon whom she doted 10 These discouered her shame toke her sonnes daughters and slue her with the sworde an euyll name had she among women
whirlewind with charets horsemen and with many shippes he shall enter into the countreys and shall ouerflowe and passe through 41 He shall enter also into the pleasaunt land and many countreys shal be ouerthrowen but these shall escape out of his hande euen Edom and Moab and the chiefe of the chyldren of Ammon 42 He shall stretche foorth his hande also vpon the countreys and the lande of Egypt shall not escape 43 But he shall haue power ouer the treasures of golde and of siluer ouer all the pretious thinges of Egypt and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in his passing by them 44 Neuerthelesse the tidinges out of the east and the north shall trouble him therfore he shal go foorth with great wrath to destroy and roote out many 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace betweene the seas in the glorious and holy mountaine yet he shall come to his ende none shal helpe him The .xii. Chapter 2 He prophecieth the resurrection of the dead 9 The darknesse of the prophecie of Daniel 1 AND at that tyme shal Michael stande vp the great prince which standeth for the chyldren of thy people for there shal be a tyme of trouble suche as neuer was since there began to be a nation vnto that same tyme and at that tyme thy people shal be deliuered euery one that shal be found written in the booke 2 And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shal awake some to euerlasting life some to shame perpetuall contempt 3 They that be wyse shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament and they that turne many to righteousnesse as the starres for euer and euer 4 But thou O Daniel shut vp the wordes and seale the booke till the time of the ende many shall go about here and there and knowledge shal be encreased 5 Then I Daniel looked and beholde there stoode other two the one on this side of the banke of the riuer and the other on that side of the banke of the riuer 6 And one sayde vnto the man clothed in linnen whiche was ouer the waters of the riuer When shal the ende of these wonders be 7 And I hearde the man clothed in linnen which was ouer the waters of the riuer when he held vp his right hand and his left hande vnto heauen and sware by hym that liueth for euer that it shall tary for a tyme tymes and a halfe and when he shall haue accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these thinges shal be finished 8 Then I hearde it but I vnderstoode it not then sayde I O my Lord what shall be the ende of these thinges 9 And he saide Go thy way Daniel for the wordes are closed vp and sealed tyll the tyme of the ende 10 Many shal be purified made white and tryed but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shal haue vnderstanding but the wyse shall vnderstande 11 And from the tyme that the dayly sacrifice shal be taken away and the abhominable desolation set vp there shal be a thousande two hundred and ninetie dayes 12 Blessed is he that wayteth and commeth to the thousande three hundred and fiue and thirtie dayes 13 But go thou thy way tyll the ende be for thou shalt rest and stande vp in thy lot at the ende of the dayes The ende of the prophecie of Daniel T. C. L. ⧠The booke of the prophete Osea The first Chapter 1 The tyme wherein Osea prophecied 2 The idolatrie of the people 10 The calling of the gentiles 11 Christe is the head of all people 1 THE worde of the Lorde came vnto Osea the sonne of Beeri in the dayes of Ozea Ioathan Ahas and Hezekias kynges of Iuda and in the tyme of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas kyng of Israel 2 When the Lord spake first vnto Osea he sayd vnto hym Go take vnto thee a wife of fornications and chyldren of fornications for the lande hath committed great fornication departing from the Lorde 3 So he went and toke Gomer the daughter of Deblaim whiche conceaued and bare him a sonne 4 And the Lorde sayde vnto hym Call his name Iezrahel for I wyll shortlye auenge the blood of Iezrahel vpon the house of Iehu and wyll bryng the kyngdome of the house of Israel to an ende 5 And in that day wyll I also breake the bowe of Israel in the valley of Iezrahel 6 And she conceaued agayne and bare a daughter and the Lorde sayde vnto hym Call her name Loruhamah that is not obtayning mercy for I wyll no more haue pitie vpon the house of Israel but I wyll vtterly take them away 7 Yet I wyll haue mercy vpon the house of Iuda and wil saue them euen thorowe the Lorde their God and wil not saue them by bowe sworde battell horses or horsemen 8 Nowe when she had wayned Loruhamah she conceaued againe and bare a sonne 9 Then sayd he Call his name Loammi that is not my people for ye are not my people therefore I wyll not be your God 10 Yet the number of the chyldren of Israel shal be as the sand of the sea which can neither be measured nor tolde and in the place where it was sayde vnto them Ye are not my people it shall be saide vnto them Ye are the chyldren of the liuing God 11 Then shall the children of Iuda and the chyldren of Israel be gathered together and appoynt them selues one head and they shall come vp out of the lande for great shal be the day of Iezrahel The .ii. Chapter 1 The people is called to repentaunce 5 He sheweth their idolaterie and threatneth them except they repent 1 TEll your brethren that they are my people and your sisterne that they haue obtayned mercy 2 As for your mother ye shall chyde with her and reproue her for she is not my wyfe neither am I her husbande let her therefore put away her whordome from her face and her adulterie from her brestes 3 Lest I strip her naked and set her euen as she came into the worlde and make her as a wyldernesse and as a drye lande and slay her for thyrste 4 And I wyll haue no pitie vpon her chyldren for they be the children of fornication 5 Their mother hath played the harlot and she that bare them is come to confusion for she sayde I wyll go after my louers that geue me my bread and my water my wooll and flaxe my oyle and my drinke 6 Therefore beholde I wyll stop thy way with thornes and make a hedge that she shall not finde her pathes 7 And though she runne after her louers yet shall she not ouertake them she shall seeke them but not finde them Then shall she say I wyll go and returne to my first husbande for at that tyme it was
better with me then nowe 8 And she dyd not knowe that I gaue her corne and wine and oyle and multiplied her siluer and golde which they bestowed on Baal 9 Therefore wyll I returne and take away my corne in the tyme thereof and my wine in the season thereof and fet agayne my wooll and my flaxe whiche I gaue her to couer her shame 10 And nowe wyll I discouer her shame euen in the sight of her louers and no man shall deliuer her out of my handes 11 Moreouer I wyll take away all her myrth her holy dayes her newe moones her Sabbathes and all her solempne feastes 12 I wyll destroy her vineyardes and figtrees whereof she sayde These are my rewardes that my louers haue geuen me I wyll make them as a wood and wylde beastes shall eate them vp 13 I wyll visite vpon her the dayes of Baal wherein she burned incense to hym and decked her selfe with eareringes and iewels she folowed her louers and forgate me saith the Lorde 14 Wherefore beholde I wyll allure her and bryng her into the wildernesse and speake frendly vnto her 15 From thence wyll I geue her her vineyardes agayne yea and the valley of Achor for an entry of hope and she shall sing there as in the dayes of her youth and as in the day when she came vp out of the lande of Egypt 16 And at that day saith the Lord thou shalt call me O my husbande and shalt call me no more Baal 17 For I wyll take away those names of Baal from her mouth yea she shall neuer remember their names any more 18 Then wyll I make a couenaunt for them with the beastes of the fielde with the foules of the ayre and with euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth As for bowe sworde and battayle I wyll destroy out of the lande and wyll make them to sleepe safely 19 And I wyll marry thee vnto myne owne selfe for euer yea euen to my selfe wyll I marry thee in righteousnes in iudgement in louing kindnesse and mercy 20 In faythfulnesse also wyll I marry thee vnto my selfe and thou shalt know the Lorde 21 At the same tyme wyll I shewe my selfe gratious vnto the heauens saith the Lorde and the heauens shall helpe the earth 22 And the earth shall helpe the corne wine and oyle and they shall helpe Iezrahel 23 And I wyll sowe her for my selfe in the earth and wyll haue mercy vpon her that had not obtayned mercy And to them whiche were not my people I wyll say Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God ¶ The .iii. Chapter 1 The Iewes shal be cast of for their idolatrie 5 Afterwarde they shall returne to the Lorde 1 THen sayd the Lorde to me Go yet and loue a woman beloued of her husbande and yet an adultresse according to the loue of the Lorde towarde the chyldren of Israel and yet they haue respect to straunge gods and loue the wine pottes 2 So I gat her for fifteene siluerlinges and for an homer and an halfe of barley 3 And sayde vnto her Thou shalt bide with me a long season thou shalt not play the harlot thou shalt be to no oother man and I wyll be so vnto thee 4 For the chyldren of Israel shall sit a great whyle without kyng without prince without sacrifice without image without Ephod and without Theraphim 5 But afterward the chyldren of Israel shal be conuerted and seeke the Lord their God and Dauid their kyng and in the latter dayes they shall worship the Lorde and his louing kindnesse ¶ The .iiij. Chapter A complaynt against the people and the priestes of Israel 1 HEare the worde of the Lorde O ye chyldren of Israel for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitauntes of the lande for there is no trueth there is no mercy there is no knowledge of God in the lande 2 But swearing lying manslaughter theft and adulterie hath gotten the ouer hande and one bloodgiltinesse foloweth another 3 Therfore shall the lande mourne and all they that dwell therein shal be rooted out the beastes of the fielde the foules of the ayre and the fisshes in the sea shal be consumed 4 Yet let no man rebuke or reproue another for thy people are as they that are at controuersie with the priest 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day tyme and the prophete with thee in the night and I wyll bryng thy mother to destruction 6 My people perishe for lacke of knowledge because thou hast refused knowledge therfore wyll I refuse thee also so that thou shalt no more be my priest and forsomuche as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God I wyll also forget thy chyldren 7 The more they increased in multitude the more they sinned against me therfore wyll I chaunge their honour into shame 8 * They eate vp the sinnes of my people and encourage them in their wickednesse 9 Thus the priest is become lyke the people Wherfore I wyll punishe them for their wicked wayes and rewarde them according to their owne imaginations 10 They shal eate and not haue inough they haue vsed whordome but shall not prosper they haue forsaken the Lorde and not regarded him 11 Whordome wine and newe wine take the heart away 12 My people aske counsell at their stockes and their staffe teacheth them for the spirite of fornication hath caused them to go astray and they haue committed fornication against their God 13 They make sacrifices vpon the tops of the mountaines and burne their incense vpon the hilles yea vnder the okes poplars and elmes for there are good shadowes therfore your daughters are become harlots and your spouses haue broken their wedlocke 14 I wyll not punishe your daughters for beyng defiled and your spouses that became whoores seeing the fathers themselues haue medled with harlots and sacrificed with whoores but the people that wyll not vnderstande must be punished 15 Though thou Israel play the harlot yet let not Iuda sinne come not ye vnto Gilgal neither go ye to Bethauen neither sweare ye The Lorde liueth 16 For Israel is rebellious like an vnrulye heyffer nowe the Lorde wyll feede them as a lambe in a large place 17 Ephraim is become partaker of idols let hym alone 18 Their drunkennesse stinketh they haue committed whordome their rulers loue to say with shame Bryng ye 19 The winde hath bounde them vp in her winges and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices ¶ The .v. Chapter 1 Against the priestes and rulers of Israel 13 The helpe of man is in vayne 1 O Ye priestes heare this take heede O thou housholde of Israel geue eare O thou house of the king for iudgement is against you because you are become as a snare on Mizphah and a spread net vpon the mount of Thabor 2 They kyll sacrifices by heapes and turne
south and in the playne countreys 8 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Zachari saying 9 Thus saith the Lord of hoastes Execute true iudgement shew mercie louing kindnes euery man to his brother 10 Do the wydow the fatherlesse the straungers and poore no wrong and leâ— no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart 11 Neuerthelesse they would not take heede but turned their backes stopped their eares that they should not heare 12 Yea they made their heartes as an Adamant stone lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them 13 And thus is it come to passe that like as he cryed and they would not heare euen so they cryed I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes 14 But scattred them among al the nations whom they knew not Thus the land was made so desolate after them that there trauayled no man in it neither to nor fro for that plesaunt lande was vtterly layd waste The .viij. Chapter 2 Of the returne of the people vnto Hierusalem and of the mercie of God toward them 16 Of good workes 20 The calling of the Gentiles 1 SO the word of the lord of hoastes came vnto me saying 2 Thus saith the lorde of hoastes I was in great ielousie for Sion yea I haue ben very ielous for her with great wrath 3 Thus saith the Lord I wyl returne vnto Sion wyll dwell in the middest of Hierusalem so that Hierusalem shal be called A faithful and true citie the hil of the Lorde of hoastes an holy hill 4 Thus saith the lord of hoastes There shal yet olde men olde women dwel againe in the streetes of Hierusalem yea such as go with staues in their handes for very age 5 The streetes of the citie also shal be ful of young boyes and damsels playing in the streetes thereof 6 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes If the residue of this people thinke it to be vnpossible in â—theirâ— eyes in these dayes shoulde it therfore be vnpossible in my sight saith the Lorde of hoastes 7 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Beholde I wyll deliuer my people from the countryes of the east and west 8 And wyl bring them againe that they may dwel in the middest of Hierusalem they shal be my people and I wyl be their God in trueth and righteousnesse 9 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Let your hands be strong ye that now heare these wordes by the mouth of the prophetes which are in these dayes that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hoastes is layde that the temple may be builded 10 For before these dayes neither men nor cattaile could winne any thing neither might any man come in and out in reste for trouble but I let euery man go against his neighbour 11 Neuerthelesse I wyl now intreate the residue of this people no more as afore time saith the Lorde of Hoastes 12 For the seede shal prosper the vine shal geue her fruite the grounde shall geue her encrease and the heauens shal geue their deawe and I shall cause the remnaunt of this people to haue all these in possession 13 And it shal come to passe that like as ye were a curse among the heathen O ye house of Iuda and ye house of Israel euen so wyll I deliuer you that ye shal be a blessing feare not but let your handes be strong 14 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Like as I thought to punishe you what time as your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath saith the Lorde of hoastes and spared not 15 Euen so am I determined now in these dayes for to do well vnto the house of Iuda HierusaleÌ„ therfore feare ye not 16 Now the thinges that ye shall do are these Speake euery man the trueth vnto his neighbour execute iudgement truely peaceably within your portes 17 And let none of you imagine euil in his heart against his neighbour and loue no false othes for all these are y e thinges that I hate saith the Lorde 18 And the word of the Lorde of hoastes came vnto me saying 19 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes The fast of the fourth moneth the fast of the fifth the fast of the seuenth and the fast of the tenth shal be ioy gladnesse and prosperous hie feastes vnto the house of Iuda onely loue the trueth peace 20 Thus saith the lord of hoastes There shal yet come people and the inhabiters of many cities 21 And they that dwell in one citie shall go to another saying Vp let vs go and pray before the Lorde let vs seeke the Lorde of hoastes I wyll go with you 22 Yea much people and mightie nations shal come to seeke the lorde of hoastes at Hierusalem to pray before the Lorde 23 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes In that time shall ten men out of al maner of language of the Gentiles take one Iewe by the hemme of his garment and say We wyll go with you for we haue heard that God is among you The .ix. Chapter 1 The conuertion of the Gentiles 9 The comming of Christe sitting on an Asse 1 THe burden of the word of the lord in the lande of Hadrach Damascus shal be his rest when the eyes of man euen of all the tribes of Israel shal be towards the Lorde 2 The borders of Hemath shal be harde therby Tyrus also and Sidon for they are very wyse 3 Tyrus shall make her selfe strong heape vp siluer as the sand and golde as the clay of the streetes 4 Beholde the Lorde shall spoyle her he shall smite downe her power in the sea and she shal be consumed with fire 5 This shall Ascalon see and be afraide Gaza shal be very sory so shal Accaron also because her hope is come to confusion For the king of Gaza shall perishe and at Ascalon shall no man dwell 6 Straungers shall dwel at Asdod and as for the pride of the Philistines I shal roote it out 7 Their blood wyl I take away from their mouth their abhominatioÌ„s from betweene their teeth Thus they that shal be left shal be for our God he shal be as a prince in Iuda and Accaron like as a Iebusite 8 And I wyll pitche a campe about myne house against the armie against him that passeth by against him that returneth and no oppressour shall come vpon them any more For now I haue seene with myne eyes 9 Reioyce thou greatly O daughter Sion be glad O daughter Hierusalem For lo the king commeth vnto thee euen the righteous and sauiour lowly simple is he he rydeth vpon an Asse and vpon the foale of an Asse 10 I wyl roote out the charrets from Ephraim and the horse from Hierusalem the battaile bowes shal be destroyed he shal
that do sinne and vnrighteousnesse are the enemies of their owne soule 11 Wherefore I tell you the trueth and wyll hide no secret saying from you 12 When thou prayedst with teares and buriedst the dead and leftest thy dynner and hyddest the dead in thyne house vpon the day time that thou mightest bury them in the night I offred thy prayer before the Lorde 13 And because thou wast accept and beloued of God it was necessary that temptation should trye thee 14 And nowe hath the Lorde sent me to heale thee and to delyuer Sara thy sonnes wyfe from the euill spirite 15 For I am Raphael an angell one of the seuen that stande before the Lorde 16 When they heard this they were sore afrayde and trembled and fell downe vpon their faces vnto the grounde 17 Then saide the angell Peace be with you feare not 18 For where as I haue ben with you it is the wil of God geue prayse thankes vnto him 19 You thought that I did eate drinke with you but I vse meate that is inuisible and drinke that can not be seene of men 20 Now therfore is the time that I must turne againe vnto him that sent me but be ye thankefull vnto God and tell out all his wonderous workes 21 And when he had spokē those wordes he was taken away out of their sight so that they could see him no more 22 Then fell they downe flat vpon their faces by the space of three houres and praysed God and when they rose vp they tolde all his wonderous workes ¶ The .xiii. Chapter A thankes geuing of Tobias who exhorteth all to prayse the Lorde 1 THen olde Tobias opened his mouth praysed the Lorde sayde Great art thou O lord for euermore and thy kingdome world with out end 2 For thou scourgest and healest thou leadest vnto hell bringest out againe and there is none that may escape thyne hande 3 O geue thankes vnto the Lorde ye children of Israel and prayse him in the sight of the heathen 4 For among the heathen which knowe him not hath he scattered you to the intent that ye should shew forth his marueilous workes and cause them for to knowe that there is none other God almightie but he 5 He hath chastened vs for our misdeedes for his owne mercie sake shall he saue vs. 6 Consider then how he hath dealt with you and prayse him with feare dread and magnifie the euerlasting king in your workes 7 I wyll prayse him euen in the lande of my captiuitie for he hath shewed his maiestie vnto a sinfull people 8 Turne you therfore O ye sinners and do righteousnesse before God and be ye sure that he wyll shew his mercy vpon you 9 As for me and my soule we wyll reioyce in God 10 O prayse the Lorde all ye his chosen hold the dayes of gladnesse be thankefull vnto him 11 O Hierusalem thou citie of God the lorde hath punished thee for the workes of thyne owne handes 12 O prayse the Lord in thy good thinges geue thankes to the euerlasting God that he may build vp his tabernacle againe in thee that he may call againe vnto thee all such as be in captiuitie and that thou mayest haue ioy for euermore 13 With a faire light shalt thou shyne and all the endes of the worlde shall honour thee 14 The people shall come vnto thee from farre they shall bring giftes and worship the Lorde in thee and thy land shal they haue for a sanctuary for they shall call vpon the great name in thee 15 Cursed shall they be that despise thee and all that blaspheme thee shal be condempned But blessed shall they be that builde thee vp 16 As for thee thou shalt reioyce in thy children for they all shal be blessed and gathered together vnto the Lorde 17 Blessed are all they that loue thee and that be glad of thy peace 18 Prayse thou the Lorde O my soule for the Lorde our God hath deliuered his citie Hierusalem from all her troubles 19 I wyll count my selfe happy if my seede remayne to see the clearenes of Hierusalem 20 The gates of Hierusalem shal be builded with Saphir and Smaragde and all the compasse of her walles with precious stones 21 All her streates shal be paued with white and fayre stone and in all streates shall Halleluia be song 22 Praysed be the Lorde which hath exalted her that his kingdome may be vpon her for euermore Amen The .xiiii. Chapter 5 Lessons of Tobias to his sonne 6 He prophecieth the destruction of Niniue 7 And the restoring of Hierusalem and the temple 13 The death of Tobias and his wyfe 16 Tobias the younger his age and death 1 ANd so Tobias made an end of speaking And after that Tobias had gotten his sight againe he lyued fouretie two yeres sawe his childers children 2 Nowe when he was an hundred and two yeres olde he dyed and was buried honorably in Niniue 3 For when he was sixe and fiftie yeres of age he lost the sight of his eyes and when he was three score yeres olde he gate his sight againe 4 The residue of his lyfe led he in ioy and increased well in the feare of God and departed in peace 5 But in the houre of his death he called vnto him his sonne Tobias and seuen young springaldes his sonnes children and saide vnto them 6 The destruction of Niniue is at hand for the word of the Lord can not fayle and our brethren that are scattered out of the lande of Israel shall come thyther agayne 7 And the whole lande of it that hath ben waste shall be filled and the house of God that was brent in it shal be builded againe and all such as feare God shall returne thyther 8 The heathen then also shall forsake their idols and come to Hierusalem and dwell there 9 And all the kinges of the earth shal be glad in her and worship the Lord God of Israel 10 And therefore my children heare your father serue the Lorde in the trueth seeke after his wyll to do the thing that pleaseth him 11 Commaunde your children that they do right geue almes be mindefull of God and euer to be thankefull vnto him in trueth and with all their power 12 Heare me now therefore my children and abyde not here but in what day so euer ye haue buryed your mother by me in one sepulchre get you from hence 13 For I see that the wickednesse of it shall bring it to destruction and end 14 After the death of his mother Tobias departed away from Niniue with his wife and children and with his childers children and came againe to his father and mother in lawe 15 And founde them whole and in a good age and toke the care of them and he closed their eyes and was heyre vnto all Raguels goodes and sawe the fyft generation and his childers children 16 And ninetie and nine yeres beyng ended
for the very feare of the Lord my God 15 Let vs sing a song of thankesgeuing vnto the Lorde a newe song of prayse wyll we sing vnto our God 16 Lorde Lorde thou art a great God mightie in power whom no man may ouercome 17 All thy creatures must serue thee For thou spakest but the worde and they were made thou sentest thy spirite and they were created and no man can withstand thy voyce 18 The mountaynes shall mooue from the foundations with the waters the stony rockes shall melt before thee like waxe 19 But they that feare thee shal be great with thee in all thinges 20 Wo vnto the people that rise vp against my generation for the almightie Lorde wyll auenge him selfe of them and in the day of iudgement wyll he visite thē 21 For he shall geue fire and wormes in their fleshe that they may burne and feele it for euermore 22 After this it happened that after the victorie all the people came to Hierusalem to geue prayse and thankes vnto the Lorde And when they were purified they offred all their burnt sacrifices and their vowes and their promised offeringes 23 And Iudith offered all Holophernes weapons and all the iewels that the people had geuen her and the canapie that she toke from his bed and hanged them vp vnto the Lorde 24 The people were ioyfull as the vse is and this ioy with Iudith by reason of the victorie endured three monethes 25 So after these dayes euery man went home againe and Iudith was in great reputation at Bethulia and right honourably taken in al the land of Israel 26 Vnto her vertue also was chastitie ioyned so that after her husbande Manasses dyed she neuer knewe man all the dayes of her life 27 Vpon the hye solempne dayes she went out with great worship 28 She dwelt in her husbandes house an hundred and fiue yeres and left her handmayden Abra free 29 And dyed and was buried beside her husbande in Bethulia And all the people mourned for her seuen dayes 30 So long as she liued there was none that troubled Israel and many yeres also after her death 31 The day wherein this victorie was gotten was solemply holden reckened of the Iewes in the number of the holy dayes and it is yet greatly holden of the Iewes euer since vnto this day The ende of the booke of Iudith ⧠The rest of the Chapters of the booke of Hester whiche are neither founde in the Hebrue nor in the Chalde The .xj. Chapter after the Latin ¶ The dreame of Mardocheus 1 MArdocheus the sonne of Iari the sonne of Semei the sonne of Cis of the tribe of Beniamin 2 A Iewe which had his dwelling in the citie of Susis a man of great reputation and excellent among all them that were in the kynges court 3 Neuerthelesse he was one of the prisoners whom Nabuchodonosor the kyng of Babylon had caryed away from Hierusalem vnto Babylon with Iechonias the kyng of Iuda 4 In the seconde yere of the raigne of great Artaxerxes in the first day of the moneth Nisan had this Mardocheus suche a dreame 5 He thought he heard a great tempest horrible thunderclappes earthquakes and great vprore in the lande 6 And that he sawe two great dragons redie to fight one against another 7 Their crye was great At the whiche roaring crye all the heathen were vp to fight against the righteous people 8 And the same day was full of darkenesse and very vncleare full of trouble and anguishe yea a great fearefulnesse was there in the lande 9 The righteous were amased for they feared the plague and euyll that was deuised ouer them and were at a poynt with them selues to dye So they cryed vnto God 10 And whyle they were crying the litle well grewe into a great riuer and into many waters 11 And with that it was day and the sunne rose vp agayne And the lowly were exalted and deuoured the glorious and proude 12 Nowe when Mardocheus had seene this dreame he awoke mused stedfastly in his heart what God would do and so he desired to know al the matter and his mind was thervpon vntil night ¶ The .xij. Chapter ¶ Mardocheus vttereth the treason deuised against the kyng and is therefore rewarded of hym 1 AT the same tyme dwelt Mardocheus with Bagatha and Thara in the kynges court the kynges chamberlaynes and porters of the palace 2 But when he hearde their deuice and had diligently considered their imaginations he perceaued that they went about to lay their cruell handes vpon the kyng Artaxerxes and so he certified the kyng thereof 3 Then caused the kyng to examine the two gelded with tormentes And when they had graunted it they were put to death 4 This the kyng caused to be put in the Chronicles for an euerlasting remembraunce and Mardocheus wrote vp the same matter 5 So the king commaunded that Mardocheus shoulde remayne in the court and for this faythfulnes of his he gaue hym a rewarde 6 But Aman the sonne of Amadathu the Agagite whiche was holden in great honour and reputation in the kynges court vndertoke to hurt Mardocheus and his people because of the two chamberlaynes that were put to death The .xiij. Chapter 1 The copie of the letters of Artaxerxes agaynst the Iewes 9 The prayer of Mardocheus 1 THe great kyng Artaxerxes whiche raigneth from India vnto Ethiopia ouer an hundred and twentie and seuen landes sendeth his frendly salutation vnto all the princes and deputies of the countrey whiche be subiect vnto his dominion 2 When I was made lorde ouer many people and had subdued the whole earth vnto my dominion my minde was not with crueltie and wrong to exalt my selfe by the reason of my power but purposed with equitie alway and gentlenes to gouerne those that be vnder my iurisdiction and wholly to set them in a peaceable lyfe and thereby to bryng my kyngdome vnto tranquilitie that men might safely go thorowe on euery side and to renue peace agayne whiche all men desire 3 Nowe when I asked my counsellours howe these thinges myght be brought to a good ende there was one by vs excellent in wisdome whose good wyll trueth and faythfulnesse hath oft ben shewed and proued whiche was also the principall and next vnto the kyng Aman by name 4 Whiche certified vs howe that in all landes there was scattered abrode a rebellious folke that made statutes and lawes against all other people haue alway despised the proclaymed commaundementes of kynges and howe that for this cause it were not to be suffred that suche rule should continue by you and not to be put downe 5 Seeing nowe we perceaue the same that this people alone are contrary vnto euery man vsing straunge and other maner of lawes and withstande our statutes and doynges and go about to stablyshe shrewde matters that our kyngdome shoulde neuer come to good estate and stedfastnesse 6 Therefore haue we commaunded
myght any thyng endure yf it were not thy wyll or howe coulde any thyng be preserued except it were called of thee 26 But thou sparest all for they are thine O Lorde thou louer of soules ¶ The .xij. Chapter 2 The mercy of God towarde sinners 14 The workes of God are vnreprouable 19 God geueth leasure to repent 1 FOr thy vncorruptible spirite O Lorde is in all thinges 2 Therfore chastenest thou them measurably that go wrong and warnest them by putting them in remembraunce in what thinges they haue offended that leauing their wickednesse they may beleue on thee O Lorde 3 As for those olde inhabiters of thy holy lande thou mightest not away with them 4 For they committed abhominable workes against thee as witchcraft sorcerie and wicked sacrifices 5 They slue their owne chyldren without mercy they dyd eate vp the bowels of mens fleshe and deuoured the blood in abhominable bankets and had their mad fanaticall priestes 6 And the fathers were the chiefe murderers of the soules destitute of helpe these doers thou wouldest destroy by the handes of our fathers 7 That the lande whiche thou louest aboue all other might be a meete dwelling for the chyldren of God 8 Neuerthelesse thou sparedst them also as men and sendedst the forerunners of thyne hoast euen hornettes to destroy them out by litle and litle 9 Not that thou wast vnable to subdue the vngodly vnto the righteous in battayle or with cruell beastes or with one rough worde to destroy them together 10 But thy mynde was in punishing them by litle litle to geue them place for amendement knowing well that it was an vnrighteous nation and wicked of nature and that their thought might neuer be altered 11 For it was a cursed seede from the beginning yet hast thou not pardoned their sinnes wherein they offended for that thou fearest any man 12 For who will stand against thy iudgement or who wyll blame thee for the nations that perishe whom thou hast made or who wyll come before thy face to be reuenged for the vnrighteous men 13 For there is none other God but thou that carest for all thinges that thou mayest declare howe that thy iudgement is not vnright 14 There dare neither king nor tiraunt in thy sight require accomptes of them whom thou hast destroyed 15 Forsomuche then as thou art righteous thy selfe thou ordrest all thinges righteously thinking it vnseemely for thy power to condempne hym that hath not deserued to be punished 16 For thy power is the beginning of righteousnesse and because thou art Lorde of all thinges it maketh thee to be gracious vnto all 17 For when men thinke thee not to be of a full strength thou declarest thy power and reprouest the boldnesse of the wyse 18 But thou mastring thy power doest iudge with equitie and ordrest vs with great fauour for thou mayest vse power when thou wylt 19 By suche workes nowe hast thou taught thy people that the iust man shoulde be louing and hast made thy chyldren to be of a good hope because thou geuest roome to repentaunce for sinnes 20 For insomuche as thou hast punished and with such deliberation and obtestation the enemies of thy seruauntes whiche were worthy to dye where through thou gauest them tyme and place of amendement that they might turne from their wickednesse 21 With howe great circumspection then punishest thou thyne owne chyldren vnto whose fathers thou hast sworne made couenauntes of good promises 22 So where as thou doest chasten vs thou punishest our enemies a thousande tymes more to the intent that when we punishe we should diligently thinke of thy goodnesse and when we our selues are punished we shoulde hope for mercy 23 Wherefore where as men haue liued dissolutely and vnrighteously thou hast punished them sore with their owne abhominations 24 For they went astray very long in the wayes of errour held the beastes whiche euen their enemies despised for gods deceaued as chyldren of no vnderstanding 25 Therefore hast thou sent them thy iudgement in scorne as to chyldren voyde of reason 26 As for such as wyll not be refourmed by those scornes and rebukes they shall feele the worthy punishment of God 27 For looke in what thinges they disdayned when they suffred for their sakes whom they counted gods seyng them selues punished in the same they perceaued that he was in deede the true God whom before they had denyed to knowe and therefore came extreme dampnation vpon them ¶ The .xiij. Chapter 1 All thinges be vayne except the knowledge of God 10 Idolaters and idols are mocked 1 SVrely vayne are all men by nature which were ignoraunt of God and coulde not out of the good things that are seene knowe hym that of hym selfe is euerlasting neither toke so muche regarde of the workes that are made as therby to knowe who was the craftesman of them 2 But some toke the fire some the winde or swift ayre some the course of the starres some the running water some toke sunne and moone or the lightes of heauen for gods that rule the worlde 3 But though they had such pleasure in their beautie that they thought them to haue ben gods yet should they haue knowen howe muche more fayrer he is that made them For the maker of beautie hath ordayned al these thinges 4 Or if they marueyled at the power and worke of them they shoulde haue perceaued therby how much he which made these thinges is mightier then they 5 For by the greatnesse of the beautie and of the creatures the maker therof compared with them may playnely be knowen 6 Notwithstanding they are the lesse to be blamed that seeke God and woulde finde him yet peraduenture misse 7 For they being occupied in his works do seeke hym diligently and are perswaded by the sight because the things are beautifull that are seene 8 Howebeit yet neither are they to be excused 9 For if their vnderstanding and knowledge be so great that they can discerne the world and the creatures why do they not rather finde out the Lorde therof 10 But miserable are they and among the dead is their hope that call them gods whiche are but the workes of mens handes golde siluer and the thing that is founde out by cunning the similitude of beastes or any vayne stone that hath ben made by hande of olde 11 Or as whē a carpenter cutteth downe a tree meete for the purpose and pareth of al the barke cunningly and so by arte comely maketh a vessell profitable to the vse of life 12 And with that whiche is cut of from his worke doth dresse his meate to fyll his belly 13 And as for the other part that is left whiche is profitable for nothing for it is a crooked peece of wood and full of knobbes he carueth it diligently by leasure and according to the knowledge of his
where thou hast scatered vs. 14 Heare our prayers O Lorde and our petitions bring vs out of captiuitie for thyne owne sake get vs fauour in the sight of them which haue led vs away 15 That all landes may know that thou art the Lorde our God and that Israel and his generation calleth vpon thy name 16 O Lorde loke downe from thy holy house vpon vs encline thyne eare and heare vs. 17 Open thyne eyes and beholde for the dead that be gone downe to their graues whose soules are out of their bodies ascribe vnto the Lorde neither prayse nor righteousnes 18 But the soule that is vexed for the multitude of her sinnes which goeth on heauyly and weakly whose eyes begin to faile yea such a soule ascribeth prayse and righteousnes vnto the Lorde 19 For we poure out our prayers before thee and require mercie in thy sight O Lorde our God not for any godlynes of our fathers 20 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation vpon vs according as thou diddest threaten vs by thy seruauntes the prophetes saying 21 Thus saith the Lorde Bowe downe your shoulders and neckes and serue the king of Babylon so shall ye remaine still in the lande that I gaue vnto your fathers 22 But if ye wyll not heare the voyce of the Lorde your God to serue the king of Babylon 23 I wyll destroy you in the cities of Iuda within Hierusalem and without I wyll also take from you the voyce of mirth and the voyce of ioy the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride and there shal no man dwel more in the lande 24 But they would not hearken vnto thy voyce to do the king of Babylon seruice and therefore hast thou perfourmed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruauntes the prophetes namely that the bones of our kinges and the bones of our fathers should be translated out of their places 25 And lo nowe are they layde out in the heate of the sunne and in the colde of the night and dead in great miserie with hunger with sword with pestilence and are cleane cast foorth 26 As for the temple wherein thy name was called vpō thou hast layd it waste as it is to see this day and that for the wickednesse of the house of Israel and the house of Iuda 27 O Lorde our God thou hast intreated vs after all thy goodnes and according to all that great louing mercie of thyne 28 Lyke as thou spakest by thy seruaunt Moyses in the day when thou diddest commaunde him to write thy lawe before the children of Israel saying 29 If ye wyl not hearkē vnto my voyce then shall this great multitude be turned into a very small people among the nations for I wyll scatter them abrode 30 Notwithstanding I am sure that this folke wyl not heare me for it is an hard necked people but in the lande of their captiuitie they shall remember them selues 31 And learne to know that I am the Lorde their God when I geue them an heart to vnderstande and eares to heare 32 Then shal they prayse me in the lande of their captiuitie and thinke vpon my name 33 Then shal they turne them from their harde backes and from their vngodlines then shall they remember the thinges that happened vnto their fathers which sinned against me 34 So wyll I bring them againe into the lande which I promysed with an oth vnto their fathers Abraham Isahac and Iacob and they shal be lordes of it yea I wyll encrease them and not minishe them 35 And I wyll make an other couenaunt with them such one as shall endure for euer namely that I will be their God and they shal be my people and I will no more dryue my people the children of Israel out of the lande that I haue geuen them The .iii. Chapter 1 The people continueth in their prayer begun for their deliueraunce 9 He prayseth wysdome vnto the people shewing that so great aduersities came vnto them for the despising therof 36 Only God was the finder of wysdome 37 Of the incarnation of Christ 1 ANd nowe O Lorde almightie thou God of Israel our soule that is in trouble and our spirite that is vexed cryeth vnto thee 2 Heare vs O Lord and haue pitie vpon vs for thou art a mercifull God be gracious vnto vs for we haue sinned before thee 3 Thou endurest for euer shoulde we then vtterly perishe 4 O Lorde almightie thou God of Israel heare nowe the prayer of the dead Israelites and of their children whiche haue sinned before thee and not hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde their God for the whiche cause these plagues hang nowe vpon vs. 5 O Lord remember not the wickednesse of our forefathers but thinke vpon thy power and name nowe at this time 6 For thou art the Lorde our God and thee O Lorde will we prayse 7 For thou hast put thy feare in our heartes to the intent that we should call vpon thy name and prayse thee in our captiuitie that we might turne from the wickednesse of our forefathers that sinned before thee 8 Behold we are yet this day in our captiuitie where as thou hast scattered vs to be an abhomination curse and subiect to exactions like as it hath happened vnto our fathers also because of al their wickednesse and departing from thee 9 O Israel heare the commaundementes of lyfe ponder them well with thyne cares that thou maiest learne wisdome 10 But howe happeneth it Israel that thou art in thyne enemies lande thou art waxen olde in a straunge countrey and defiled with the dead 11 Why art thou become lyke them that go downe to their graues 12 Euen because thou hast forsaken the well of wysdome 13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God truely thou shouldest haue remayned still safe in thyne owne lande 14 O learne then where is wysdome where vertue is where vnderstanding is that thou mayest knowe also from whence commeth long continuaunce and lyfe the light of the eyes and quietnesse 15 Who euer founde out her place or who came euer into her treasures 16 Where are the princes of the heathen become and such as ruled the beastes vpon the earth 17 They that had their pastime with the foules of the ayre they that hoorded vp siluer gold wherin men trust so much and made no end of their gathering 18 What is become of them that coyned siluer and were so carefull and coulde not bring their workes to passe 19 They be rooted out and gone downe to hell and other men are come vp in their steades 20 Young men haue seene light and dwelt vpon earth but the way of reformation haue they not knowen 21 Nor vnderstande the pathes thereof neither haue their children receaued it yea right farre is it from them 22 It hath not ben heared of in the land of Chanaan neither hath it
And his disciples came to hym and awoke hym saying Lorde saue vs we peryshe 26 And he sayth vnto them Why are yet fearefull O ye of litle fayth Then he arose and rebuked the windes and the sea and there folowed a great calme 27 But the men marueyled saying What maner of man is this that both wyndes and sea obey hym ☜ 28 And when he was come to the other syde into the countrey of the Gergesenes there met hym two possessed with deuyls which came out of the graues and were very fierce so that no man myght go by that way 29 And beholde they cryed out saying O Iesu thou sonne of God what haue we to do with thee Art thou come hyther to torment vs before the tyme 30 And there was a good way of from them a hearde of many swyne feedyng 31 So the deuyls besought hym saying Yf thou cast vs out suffer vs to go away into the hearde of swyne 32 And he sayde vnto them go Then went they out and departed into the hearde of swyne And beholde y e whole hearde of swyne russhed headlong into the sea and peryshed in the waters 33 Then they that kept them fledde and went theyr wayes into the citie and tolde euery thyng and what was done of the possessed with the deuyls 34 And beholde the whole citie came out to meete Iesus and when they sawe hym they besought hym that he woulde depart out of theyr coastes ¶ The .ix. Chapter ¶ 2 He healeth the paulsie 9 Calleth Matthewe from the custome 11 Aunswereth for his disciples 22 Healeth the woman of the blooddy issue 25 Helpeth Iairus daughter 29 Geueth two blynde men theyr syght 33 Maketh a dumbe man to speake and dryueth out a deuyll 1 AND he entred into a shippe passed ouer came into his owne citie 2 And beholde they brought to him a man sicke of the paulsie lying in a bedde And when Iesus sawe the fayth of them he sayde vnto the sicke of the paulsie Sonne be of good cheare thy sinnes be forgeuen thee 3 And beholde certayne of the Scribes sayde within them selues This man blasphemeth 4 And whē Iesus saw their thoughtes he sayde Wherefore thynke ye euyll in your heartes 5 Whether is easyer to say thy sinnes be forgeuen thee Or to say aryse and walke 6 But that ye may knowe that the sonne of man hath power to forgeue sinnes in earth then sayde he to the sicke of the paulsie Aryse take vp thy bedde and go vnto thyne house 7 And he arose and departed to his house 8 But when the multitudes sawe it they marueyled glorified God which had geuen such power vnto men ☜ 9 ☞ And as Iesus passed foorth from thence he sawe a man named Matthewe syttyng at the receipte of custome he sayth vnto hym folowe me And he arose and folowed hym 10 And it came to passe as Iesus sate at meate in his house beholde many publicans also and sinners came and sate downe with Iesus and his disciples 11 And when the Pharisees sawe it they sayde vnto his disciples Why eateth your maister with publicans and sinners 12 But when Iesus hearde that he sayde vnto them They that be whole nede not the phisition but they that are sicke 13 Go ye and learne what that meaneth I wyll haue mercie and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentaunce ☜ 14 ☞ Then came the disciples of Iohn vnto hym saying Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft but thy disciples fast not 15 And Iesus sayde vnto them Can the chyldren of the bryde chaumber mourne as long as the brydegrome is with them But the dayes wyll come when the brydegrome shall be taken from them and then shall they fast 16 No man putteth a peece of newe cloth in an olde garment for then the peece taketh away somethyng from the garment and the rent is made worse 17 Neither do men put newe wine into olde vessels els the vessels breake and the wyne runneth out and the vessels peryshe But they put newe wyne into newe vessels and both are preserued together ☜ 18 ☞ Whyle he spake these thynges vnto them beholde there came a certayne ruler and worshypped hym saying My daughter is euen nowe dead but come and lay thy hande vpon her and she shall lyue 19 And Iesus arose and folowed hym and so dyd his disciples 20 And beholde a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeres came behynde hym and touched the hemme of his vesture 21 For she sayde within her selfe If I may touche but euen his vesture only I shal be safe 22 But Iesus turned hym about and when he sawe her he saide Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee safe And the woman was made whole from that same houre ☜ 23 And when Iesus came into the rulers house and sawe the minstrels and the people makyng a noyse 24 He sayde vnto them Geue place for the maide is not dead but slepeth And they laughed hym to scorne 25 But when the people were put foorth he went in and toke her by the hande and the mayde arose 26 And the fame of this went abrode into all that lande 27 And when Iesus departed thence two blynde men folowed hym crying and saying O thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy on vs. 28 And whē he was come into the house the blynde came to hym And Iesus sayth vnto them Beleue ye that I am able to do this They sayde vnto hym yea Lorde 29 Then touched he their eyes saying Accordyng to your fayth be it vnto you 30 And their eyes were opened And Iesus straytly charged them saying see that no man knowe of it 31 But they when they were departed spread abrode his name in all that lande 32 As they went out beholde they brought to him a dumbe man possessed with a deuyll 33 And when the deuyll was cast out the dumbe spake and the multitudes marueyled saying that it was neuer so seene in Israel 34 But the Pharisees sayde He casteth out deuils through the prince of deuils 35 And Iesus went about all cities and townes teachyng in their synagogues and preachyng the Gospell of the kyngdome and healyng euery sicknesse and euery disease among the people 36 But when he sawe the multitudes he was moued with compassion on them because they were destitute and scattered abrode euen as sheepe hauing no shephearde 37 Then sayth he vnto his disciples the haruest truely is plenteous but the labourers are fewe 38 Pray ye therfore the lorde of the haruest that he wyl thrust foorth labourers into the haruest ⧠The .x. Chapter ¶ 5 Christe sendeth out his twelue Apostles to preache in Iurie 7 He geueth them charge teacheth them and comforteth them agaynst persecution and trouble 1 ANd when he had called his twelue
be made thee 13 But when thou makest a feast call the poore the feeble the lame the blynde 14 And thou shalt be happy for they can not recompence thee For thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the iust men 15 When one of them that sate at meate also hearde these thynges he sayde vnto hym Happy is he that eateth bread in the kyngdome of God ☜ 16 Then sayde he vnto hym ☞ A certayne man ordayned a great supper and bad many 17 And sent his seruaunt at supper tyme to say to them that were bydden come for all thynges are nowe redy 18 And they all at once began to make excuse The first sayde vnto hym I haue bought a farme I must needes go see it I pray thee haue me excused 19 And another sayde I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen and I go to proue them I pray thee haue me excused 20 And another sayde I haue maryed a wyfe and therfore I can not come 21 And the seruaunt returned shewed his maister these thynges Then was the good man of the house displeased sayde to his seruaunt Go out quickly into the brode streates and lanes of the citie and bryng in hyther the poore and the feeble and the halt and the blynde 22 And the seruaunt sayde Lorde it is done as thou hast commaunded and yet there is rowme 23 And the Lorde sayde to the seruaunt Go out into the hye wayes hedges and compell them to come in that my house may be fylled 24 For I say vnto you that none of those men which were bydden shall taste of my supper ☜ 25 There went a great companie with hym and he returned and sayde vnto them 26 ☞ If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wyfe and chyldren and brethren and sisters yea and his owne lyfe also he can not be my disciple 27 And whosoeuer doth not beare his crosse and come after me can not be my disciple 28 For which of you disposed to buylde a towre sitteth not downe before and counteth the cost whether he haue sufficient to perfourme it 29 Lest after he hath layde the foundation and is not able to perfourme it all that beholde it begyn to mocke hym 30 Saying this man began to buylde and was not able to make an ende 31 Or what kyng goyng to make battell against another kyng sitteth not downe first and casteth in his mynde whether he be able with ten thousande to meete hym that commeth agaynst hym with twentie thousande 32 Or els whyle the other is yet a great way of he sendeth an imbassage and desireth conditions of peace 33 So lykewyse whosoeuer he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he can not be my disciple ☜ 34 Salt is good but if y e salt haue lost the saltnes what shal be seasoned therwith 35 It is neither good for the lande nor yet for the doung hyll but men cast it out at the doores He that hath eares to heare let hym heare ¶ The .xv. Chapter ¶ 2 The pharisees murmure because Christe receaueth sinners 4 The great mercie of God is set foorth in the parable of the lost sheepe 8 and of the peece of siluer lost 12 and of the prodigall sonne 1 THen resorted vnto hym all the publicanes and sinners for to heare hym 2 And the pharisees scribes murmured saying he receaueth sinners and eateth with them 3 But he put foorth this parable vnto them saying 4 What man of you hauyng an hundred sheepe if he loose one of them doth not leaue ninetie and nine in the wildernesse and go after that which is lost vntyll he fynde it 5 And when he hath founde it he layeth it on his shoulders with ioy 6 And assoone as he commeth home he calleth together his louers and neyghbours saying vnto them Reioyce with me for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost 7 I say vnto you that lykewyse ioy shal be in heauen ouer one sinner that repenteth more then ouer ninetie and nine iust persons which neede no repentaunce 8 Either what woman hauyng tenne peeces of siluer yf she loose one doth not lyght a candle and swepe the house and seke diligently tyll she fynde it 9 And when she hath founde it she calleth her louers her neyghbours together saying Reioyce with me for I haue founde the peece which I had lost 10 Lykewyse I say vnto you shall there be ioy in the presence of the Angels of God ouer one sinner that repenteth ☜ 11 ☞ And he sayde A certayne man had two sonnes 12 And the younger of them sayde to his father father geue me the portion of the goodes that to me belongeth And he deuided vnto them his substaunce 13 And not long after when the younger sonne had gathered all that he had together he toke his iourney into a farre countrey and there wasted his goodes with riotous lyuyng 14 And when he had spent all there arose a great dearth in all that lande and he began to lacke 15 And he ioyned hym selfe to a citizen of that countrey and he sent hym to his farme to feede swyne 16 And he woulde fayne haue fylled his belly with the coddes that the swyne dyd eate and no man gaue vnto hym 17 Then he came to hym selfe and sayde Howe many hyred seruauntes at my fathers house haue bread inough and I perishe with hunger 18 I wyll aryse and go to my father and wyll say vnto hym Father I haue sinned agaynst heauen and before thee 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes 20 And he arose and came to his father But when he was yet a great way of his father sawe him had compassion and ranne and fell on his necke and kissed hym 21 And the sonne sayde vnto him Father I haue sinned agaynst heauen and in thy syght and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne 22 But the father saide to his seruauntes bryng foorth the best garment and put it on hym and put a ryng on his hande and shoes on his feete 23 And bryng hyther that fat calfe and kyll it and let vs eate and be mery 24 For this my sonne was dead and is aliue agayne he was lost and is founde And they began to be mery 25 The elder brother was in the fielde and when he came and drewe nye to the house he hearde minstrelsie daunsing 26 And called one of his seruauntes and asked what those thynges meant 27 And he sayde vnto hym thy brother is come and thy father hath kylled the fat calfe because he hath receaued hym safe and sounde 28 And he was angry and woulde not go in Therfore came his father out and entreated hym 29 He aunswered and sayde to his father Lo these many yeres haue I done thee seruice neither brake I at any
Though they escape one daunger yet another shall take them (a) Thou boastest to be of the seede of Abraham but thou art degenerate and folowest the abhominations of the wicked Chanaanites as chyldren do the maners of their fathers Esai â— a. 57. a. (b) When I first brought thee foorth of the lande of Egypt and planted thee in this land to be my Churche (c) These words blood pollution nakednesse and filthynesse â–ª c. are oft tymes repeated to beate downe their pryde and to cause them to consider what they were before God receaued them to mercye fauoured them and couered their shame (d) There was none idolatry so vyle wherwith thou didst not pollute thy selfe (e) This declareth howe the idolaters put their chiefe delite in those thinges which please the eyes and outwarde senses (f) In suche sort as the like hath not ben nor shal be so that they passed all nations in idolatrie (g Meaning by fire reade Leuit. xviâ— b. 4. King xxiii ◠“ Corner of the streete (h) He noteth the great impietie of this people who first falling from God to seeke helpe at straunge nations did also at length embrase their idolatrie thinking therby to make their amitie more sure (i) That is lauished out thy money vppon images to thy shame (k) Egyptians Assyrians Chaldeans whom thou tokest to be thy louers shall come and destroy thee Ezech. xxxiii b (l) I wyll iudge thee to death as the adulterers murtherers 4. King 25. b (m) Of all the heynous offeÌ„ces this shal be the last â–ª or god wyll punishe thee so that thou shalt neuer 〈◊〉 more n As were the Chanaanites and the Hittites and other your predecessours so are you their successours (o) That is of Samaria and Sodom (p That is her cities (q) He alleageth these foure vices pryde excesse idlenesse and coÌ„tempt of the poore as foure principall causes of such abhomination wherfore they were so horriblâ— punished Gen. xix d. (r) Which worshipped the calues in Bethel and Dan. 3. Kyng 12. d. (Å¿) Thou art so wicked that in respect of thee Sodom and Samaria were iust (t) That is as if he had sayde neuer (u) In that thou hast shewed thy selfe worse then they and yet thoughtest to escape punishment (x) Thou wouldest not call her punishment to minde when thou wast aloft to learne by her example to feare my iudgementes (y) That is tyll thou wast brought vnder by the Syrians and the Philistines 2. Chro. 28. c. (z) Reade the eyght vearse (aa) He speaketh here not onlye of Sodom and Samaria but also of the gentiles whom God wyll receaue of his owne free mercy (bb) This declareth the fruites of Gods mercy to wit sorowe and repentaunce for their former lyfe (a) That is Nabuchodonozor who hath great power riches and many countreys vnder him shall come to Hierusalem and take away Iechoniah the kyng as verse .xii. (b) Meaning to Babylon (c) That is Zedekiah who was of the kynges blood was left at Hierusalem made kyng in steade of Iechâ—mas 4. King 24. c. Iere. 37. a. (d This was Zedekias kyngdome (e) That it might not haue power to â—ell against Babylon as vers xiiii “ The Egle. (f) Meaning the kyng of Egypt of whoÌ„ Zedezias â—ought succour against Nabuchodonozor (g) Nabuchodonozor vnderstanded by the first Egle. (h) That is the Babylonians (i) That is Iechonias 4. Kyng 24 c. (f) Because he toke the name of God in vayne brake his oth which he had confirmed by geuing his hand therfore the prophete declareth that God woulde not suffer periurie and infidelitie to escape punishment Ezech. xii b. and .xxxii. a (a) The people murmured at the chastiâ—inges of the Lorde and therefore vsed this prouerbe meaning that their fathers had sinned and they were punished for their transgressions reade Iere. xxxi d. (b) That is if he haue not communicated in the sacrifices of idols (c) Meaning suche as were set apart in tyme of naturall monthlye diseases namely intime of chyldbyrth leprosie and suche like as Leuit. xx c. Esai lviii a. Mat xxv â— Exo. xxii d. Leui. xxv â— Deu. xxiii c Psal xv a. Esai lviii a. Mat xxv â— Exo. xxii d. Leui. xxv â— Deu. xxiii c Psal xv a. Deut 24. c. 4. King 14 c ii Par. 25. a. ii Pet. iii. b. Ez xxxiii b (d) In punishing the fathers with the chyldren “ Considereth or remembreth his iniquities (a) That is Iehohas and Iehoiakim Iosiahs sonnes who for their crueltie and pride are compared vnto lions (b) Meanyng Pharao Necho kyng of Egypt 4. Reg 23. d. (c) Which was Iehoiakim (d) Nabuchodonozor with his great armie which was gathered of diuers nations (e) 〈…〉 â—keth 〈◊〉 the rep◠〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 king in 〈◊〉 blood that in the raâ— his 〈◊〉 â—sours â—salem 〈◊〉 so should 〈◊〉 ben blessed â—cordyng to Gods â—mises and florished 〈◊〉 a fruitâ—ul vine (f) Destruction to come by Zedekiah who was the occasion of the rebellion (a) Of the captiuitie of Ieconiah (b) If ye aske counsayle at me I wyll geue you no aunswere as Exod. xxxi (c) This was a maner of swearyng which was obserued in takyng an othe of all antiquitie and is yet in diuers countreis vsed Rom. x a. Gal. iii. b. Leuit. 18. a. Exo. xx b. Rom. x a. Gal. iii. b. Leuit. 18. a. Exo. xx b. Num. 14. d. (d) Wherby the holy ghost confuteth theÌ„ that say they wyll folowe the religion example of their father not measure their doynges by Gods worde whether they be approuable therby or no â–ª (e) Because they woulde not obey my lawes I gaue them vp to them selues that they shoulde obey their owne fantasies as vearse 39. Rom. 1. d. (f) Causyng their first borne to passe through the fire in sacrifice to Moloche (g) Such offeryng as prouoke God to anger (h) Which signifieth an hye place declaryng that they vaunted them selues of their idolatrie and were not ashamed therof though God had commaunded expresly y t they shoulde haue no aulter lifted vp on hye by stayres Exod. xx â— (i) That is amongst straunge nations (k) I wyll reason and pleade my cause with you my selfe â–ª “ Or cull (l) Your owne consciences shal coÌ„dempne you as worthy to be cut of from the earth (m) That is towarde Hierusalem and Iuda which was south from Babylon (n) That is both strong weake in Hierusalem (o) Because the people said that the prophete spake darkly therfore he desireth the Lord to geue them a playne declaration therof (a) As doctrine is compared to raine euen so here wordes are compared to droppes (b) That is such as seeme to haue an outward shew of righteousnesse by obseruation of y e ceremonies of the lawe (c) Meanyng through all the lande (d) As though thou were in extreme anguishe wherwith thy loynes should breake (e) Because of the great noyse of the armie of the Chaldeans (f) Shalbe as weake as
an armie against them to destroy and to roote out the power of Israel and the remnaunt of Hierusalem to put out their memoriall from that place 36 To set straungers for to inhabite all their quarters and to part their land among them 37 Thus the king toke the other part of the hoast and departed from Antioche a citie of his realme ouer the water Euphrates in the hundreth fourtie and seuen yere and went thorowe the hye countreys 38 And Lysias chose vnto hym Ptolomi the sonne of Doryminius Nicanor and Gorgias mightie men and the kinges friendes 39 These he sent with fourtie thousande footemen and seuen thousande horsemen for to go into the land of Iuda and to destroy it as the king commaunded 40 So they went foorth with all their power and came to Emmaus into the playne fielde 41 When the marchauntes of the countrey hearde the rumour of them they their seruauntes toke very much siluer gold for to bye the children of Israel to be their bondemen There came vnto them also yet mo men of warre on euery syde out of Syria and from the Palestines 42 Now when Iudas and his brethren saw that trouble increased and that the hoast drew nye vnto their borders considering the kinges wordes whiche he commaunded vnto the people namely that they shoulde vtterly waste and destroy them 43 They sayde one to another Let vs redresse the decay of our people let vs fight for our folke for our sanctuarie 44 Then the congregation were soone redy gathered to fight to pray and to make supplication vnto God for mercie and grace 45 As for Hierusalem it lay voyde was as it had ben a wildernesse there went no man in nor out at it and the sanctuarie was troden downe the aliauntes kept the castle there was the habitation of the heathen the mirth of Iacob was taken away the pype and the harpe was gone from among them 46 The Israelites gathered them together came to Maspha before Hierusalem for in Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel 47 So they fasted that day and put sacke-clothes vpon them cast asshes vpon their heades rent their clothes 48 And layde foorth the bookes of the lawe wherout the heathen sought to paynt the lykenesse of their images 49 And brought the priestes ornamentes the firstlinges and the tithes they set there also the Nazarites which had accomplished their vowes before God 50 And cryed with a loude voyce toward heauen saying What shall we do with these and whyther shall we cary them away 51 For thy sanctuarie is troden downe and defiled the priestes are come to heauinesse and dishonour 52 And beholde the heathen are come together for to destroy vs Thou knowest what thinges they imagine against vs. 53 Howe may we stande before them except thou O God be our helpe 54 Then they blewe out the trumpet also with a loude voyce 55 Then Iudas ordeyned captaynes ouer the people ouer thousandes ouer hundredes ouer fiftie and ouer ten 56 But as for such as builded them houses maried wyues planted them vineyardes and those that were fearfull he commaunded them euery man to go home againe according to the lawe 57 So the hoast remoued and pitched vpon the south side of Emmaus 58 And Iudas sayd Arme your selues be strong O my children make you redy against to morowe in the morning that ye may fight with these people whiche are agreed together to destroy vs and our sanctuarie 59 Better is it for vs to dye in battayle then to see our people and our sanctuarie in such a miserable case 60 Neuerthelesse as thy will is O God in heauen so be it The .iiii. Chapter 1 Iudas goeth against Gorgias which lyeth in wayte 14 He putteth Gorgias his hoast to flight 28 Lysias inuadeth Iurie 29 But Iudas dryueth him out 43 Iudas purifieth the temple and dedicateth the aulter 1 THen toke Gorgias fiue thousand mē of foote and a thousand of the best horsmen and remoued out of the campe by night 2 To come nye where the Iewes hoast lay so to slay them sodenly Nowe the men that kept the castle were the conueyers of them 3 Nowe when Iudas heard this he remoued and al the strong men that were with hym to smyte the chiefe and principall of the kinges hoast at Emmaus 4 For the army was not yet come together 5 In the meane season came Gorgias by night into Iudas tentes and when he founde no man there he sought them in the mountaynes and thought they had ben fled away because of him 6 But when it was day Iudas shewed hym selfe in the fielde with three thousande men only which had neither harnesse nor swordes to their mindes 7 But on the other side they saw that the heathen were mightie and well harnessed and their horsemen about them and all these well expert in feates of warre 8 Then sayde Iudas to the men that were with him Feare not ye the multitude of them be not afrayde of their violent running 9 Remember howe our fathers were deliuered in the red sea when Pharao folowed vpon them with a great hoast 10 Euen so let vs also crye nowe towarde heauen and the Lord shall haue mercie vpon vs and remember the couenaunt of our fathers yea destroy this hoast before our face this day 11 And all the heathen shall knowe that it is God him selfe which deliuereth and saueth Israel 12 Then the heathen lift vp their eyes and when they sawe that they were comming against them 13 They went out of their tentes into the battayle and they that were with Iudas blewe vp the trumpettes 14 So they buckled together and the heathen were discomfited and fled ouer the playne fielde 15 But the hinmost of them were slayne with the sword For they folowed them vnto Assaremoth and into the fieldes of Idumea toward Azot and Iamnia so that there were slayne of them vpon a three thousande men 16 So Iudas turned againe with his hoast 17 And sayd vnto the people Be not greedy of the spoyles we haue yet a battayle to fight 18 For Gorgias and his hoast are here by vs in the mountaynes but stand ye fast against our enemies ouercome them then may ye safely take the spoyles 19 As Iudas was speaking these wordes behold there appeared one part of them vpon the mount 20 But when Gorgias sawe that they of his partie were fled and the tentes brent vp for by the smoke they might vnderstande what was done they perceauing this were very sore afrayde 21 And when they sawe also that Iudas and his hoast were in the fielde redy to stryke battayle 22 They fled euery one into the lande of the heathen 23 So Iudas turned againe to spoyle the tentes where they gat much golde and siluer precious stones purple and great riches 24 Thus they went home and song a Psalme of thankesgeuing
and praysed God in heauen For he is gracious and his mercie endureth for euer 25 And so Israel had a great victorie in that day 26 Now all the heathen that escaped came and tolde Lysias euery thing that had happened 27 Wherfore Lysias was sore afrayde and greeued in his minde because Israel had not gotten such misfortune as he woulde they should neither as the king commaunded 28 The next yere folowing gathered Lysias three score thousande chosen men of foote and fyue thousande horsemen to fight against Hierusalem 29 So they came into Iurie and pitched their tentes at Bethoron where Iudas came against them with ten thousande men 30 And when he sawe so great and mightie an hoast he made his prayer sayde Blessed be thou O sauiour of Israel which diddest destroy y e violent power of the graunt in the hande of thy seruaunt Dauid gauest the hoast of the heathen into the hand of Ionathan the sonne of Saul of his harnesse bearer 31 Put this boast now into the hand of thy people of Israel let them be confounded in their multitude and horsemen 32 Make them afrayde and disâ— the boldnesse of their strength that they may be moued thorowe their destinâ—tion 33 Cast them downe thorowe the sworde of thy louers then shall all they that knowe thy name prayse thee with thankesgeuing 34 So they stroke the battell and there were slayne of Lysias hoast fiue thousande men 35 Then Lysias seyng the discomfyting of his men and the manlinesse of the Iewes howe they were redy either to lyue or to dye lyke men he went vnto Antioch and chose out men of warre that when they were gathered together they might come againe into Iurie 36 Then sayde Iudas and his brethren Behold our enemies are discomfited let vs nowe go vp to clense and to repayre the sanctuarie 37 Vpon this al the hoast gathered them together and went vp into mount Sion 38 Nowe when they sawe the sanctuarie layed wast the aulter defiled the doores brent vp the shrubbes growing in the courtes like as in a wood or vpon mountaynes yea and that the priestes chambers were broken downe 39 They rent their clothes made great lamentation cast asshes vpon their heades 40 Fell downe flat to the grounde vpon their faces made a great noyse with the trumpettes and cryed toward heauen 41 Then Iudas appoynted certayne men to fight against those which were in the castle till they had clensed the sanctuarie 42 So he chose priestes that were vndefiled such as had pleasure in the lawe of God 43 And they clensed the sanctuarie and bare out the defiled stones into an vncleane place 44 And forsomuch as the aulter of burnt offeringes was vnhalowed he toke aduisement what he might do withall 45 So he thought it was best to destroy it lest it shoulde happen to do them any shame for the heathen had defiled it and therfore they brake it downe 46 As for the stones they layed them vp vpon the mountayne by the house in a conuenient place till there came a prophete to shewe what shoulde be done with them 47 So they toke whole stones according to the lawe and buylded a newe aulter such one as was before 48 And made vp the sanctuarie within and without halowed the house and the courtes 49 They made newe holy ornamentes brought the candlesticke the aulter of incense and the table into the temple 50 The incense layed they vpon the aulter lighted the lampes whiche were vpon the candelsticke that they might burne in the temple 51 They set the shew bread vpon the table and hanged vp the vayle and finished all the workes which they had begun to make 52 And vpon the twentie and fifth day of the nynth moneth whiche is called the moneth of Casleu in the hundred fourtie and eyght yere 53 They rose vp betimes in the morning for to do sacrifice according to the lawe vpon the newe burnt offring aulter that they had made 54 After the time and season that the heathen had defiled it the same day was it set vp againe with songues pypes harpes and cymbales 55 And all the people fel vpon their faces worshipping and thanking the God of heauen whiche had geuen them the victorie 56 So they kept the dedication of the aulter eyght dayes offring burnt sacrifices and thanke offeringes with gladnesse 57 They deckt the forefrunt of the temple also with crownes and shieldes of gold and halowed the portes and celles and hanged doores vpon them 58 Thus there was very great gladnesse among the people because the blasphemie of the heathen was put away 59 So Iudas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel ordeyned that the time of the dedication of the aulter shoulde be kept in his season from yere to yere by the space of eyght dayes from the twentie and fifth day of the moneth Casleu with myrth and gladnesse 60 And at the same time buylded they vp the mount Sion with hye walles and strong towres round about lest the gentiles shoulde come and treade it downe as they did afore 61 Therfore Iudas set men of warre in it to kepe it and made it strong for to defend Bethsura that the people might haue a refuge against the Edomites 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Chapter 3 Iudas vanquisheth the heathen that go about to destroy Israel and is holpen of his brethren Simon and Ionathas 50 He ouerthroweth the citie of Ephron because they denied him passage thorowe it 1 IT happened also that when the heathen rounde about hearde howe that the aulter the sanctuarie were set vp in their old estate it displeased them very sore 2 Wherfore they thought to destroy the generation of Iacob that was among them in so much that they began to slay and to persecute certayne of the people 3 Then Iudas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabathane for they dwelt rounde about the Israelites where he slue and spoyled a great multitude of them 4 He thought also vpon the malice and vnfaythfulnesse of the children of Bean how they were a snare and stoppe vnto the people and howe they layed wayte for them in the hye way 5 Wherfore he shut them vp into towres and came vnto them besieged them and destroyed them vtterly brent vp their towres with all that were in them 6 Afterward went he against the children of Ammon whereof he founde a mightie power and a great multitude of people with Timothi their captayne 7 So he stroke many battayles with them which were destroyed before hym 8 And when he had slayne them he wan Gazer the citie with the townes belonging therto and so turned againe into Iurie 9 The heathen also in Galaad gathered them together against the Israelites that were in their quarters to slay them but they fled to the castle of Dathemam 10 And sent letters vnto Iudas and his brethren