in my sight thou art stayned with thy wickednesse saieth the LORDE thy God Saye not now I am not vnclene and I haue not folowed the goddes Loke vpō thyne owne waies in the woddes valleis dennes so shalt thou knowe what thou hast done Thou art like a swift Dromedary that goeth easely his waye and thy wantonnes is like a wilde Asse that vseth the wildernesse and that snoffeth and bloweth at his wil. Who can tame the All they that seke the shal not fayle but fynde the in thyne owne vnclennes Thou kepest thy fote from nakednes and thy throte from thurste and thinkest thus in thy self tush I wil take no sorowe I wil loue the straunge goddes hange vpon them Like as a thefe that is taken with the dede commeth to shame euē so is the house of Israel come to confucion the comon people their kinges and rulers their prestes and prophetes For they saye to a stock thou art my father and to a stone thou hast begotten me yee they haue turned their back vpon me not their face But in the tyme of their trouble when they saye stonde vp and helpe vs I shal answere thē Where are now thy goddes that thou hast made the byd them stonde vp and helpe the in the tyme of nede For loke how many cities thou hast o Iuda so many goddes hast thou also Wherfore thē wil ye go to lawe with me seinge ye all are synners agaynst me saieth the LORDE It is but lost laboure that I smyte youre children for they receaue not my correction You re owne swearde destroyeth youre prophetes like a deuouringe lyon Yf ye be the people of the LORDE then herkē vnto his worde Am I thē become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel or a londe that hath no light Wherfore saieth my people then we are fallē of and we wil come no more vnto the Doth a mayden forget hir raymēt or a bryde hir stomacher ▪ And doth my people forget me so lōge Why boostest thou thy wayes so hylie to optayne fauoure there thorow when thou hast yet stained them w t blasphemies Vpon thy wynges is founde the bloude of poore and innocent people and that not in corners and holes only but opēly in all these places Yet darrest thou saye I am giltlesse Tush his wrath can not come vpō me Beholde I wil reason with y e because thou darrest saye I haue not offended O how euel wil it be for the to abyde it when it shall be knowne how oft thou hast gone bacwarde For thou shalt be confounded as wel of Egipte as of the Assirians Yee thou shalt go thy waye from thē smyte yine hondes together vpon thy heade Because the LORDE shal bringe that confidence and hope of thine to naught and thou shalt not prospere with all The III. Chapter COmonly when a man putteth awaye his wife and she goeth from him and marieth with another then the question is shulde he resorte vnto her eny more after that Is not this felde then defyled and vnclene But as for the thou hast played the harlot with many louers yet turne agayne to me saieth the LORDE Lift vp thine eyes on euery syde and loke yf thou be not defyled Thou hast waited for them in the stretes and as a murtherer in the wildernesse Thorow thy whordome and shamefull blasphemies is the londe defyled This is the cause that the rayne and euenynge dew hath ceased Thou hast gotten the an whores foreheade and canst not be ashamed Els woldest thou saye vnto me O my father thou art he that hast brought me vp and led me fro my youth Wilt thou then put me awaye and cast me of foreuer Or wilt thou withdrawe thy self clene fro me Neuertheles thou speakest soch wordes but thou art euer doinge worse and worse The LORDE sayde also vnto me in the tyme of Iosias the kinge Hast thou sene what that shrēkinge Israel hath done how she hath runne vp vpon all hie hilles and amonge all thick trees and there played the harlot hast thou sene also when she had done all this how I sayde vnto her that she shulde turne agayne vnto me and yet she is not returned Iuda that vnfaithfull sister of hirs also sawe this Namely that affter I had well sene the aduoutrye of the shrenkinge harlot Israel I put her awaye and gaue her a byll of deuorcement For all this hir vnfaithfull sister Iuda was not ashamed but wente backe and played the whore also Yee and the noyse of hir whordome hath defyled the whole lōde For she hath committed hir aduoutrie with stones and stockes Neuerthelesse hir vnfaithfull sister Iuda is not turned vnto me agayne with hir whole herte but faynedly saieth the LORDE And the LORDE sayde vnto me The bacslyder Israel is more rightuous thē the vnfaithfull Iuda and therfore go preach these wordes towarde the north saye Thou shrenkinge Israel turne agayne saieth the LORDE and I will not turne my face from you for I am merciful saieth the LORDE I will not allwaye beare displeasure agaynst the but on this condicion that thou knowe thy greate blasphemy Namely that thou hast vnfaithfully forsaken the LORDE thy God hast made thy silf partaker of straunge goddes vnder all grene trees but hast had no wil to heare my voyce saieth the LORDE O ye shrenkinge children turne agayne saieth the LORDE and I wil be maried with you For I will take one out of the citie and two out of one generacion from amōge you and bringe you out of Sion and will geue you hyrdmē after myne owne mynde which shal fede you with lernynge and wyszdome Morouer when ye be increased and multiplied in the londe then saieth the LORDE there shall nomore boost be made of the arke of the LORDES Testament No man shall thinke vpon it nether shall eny man make mencion of it for from thence forth it shall nether be visited ner honoured with giftes Then shall Ierusalem be called the LORDES seate and all Heithen shal be gathered vnto it for the name of the LORDE sake which shal be set vp at Ierusalem And from that tyme forth they shall folowe nomore the ymaginacion of their owne frauwerde herte Thē those y t be of the house of Iuda shal go vnto the house of Israel And they shal come together out of the north in to the same londe that I haue geuen youre fathers I haue shewed also how I toke the vp beinge but a childe and gaue the a pleasaunt londe for thine heretage yee and a goodly hooste of the Heithen and how I commaunded the that thou shuldest call me father only and not to shrencke fro me But like as a woman fayleth hir louer so are ye vnfaithfull vnto me o ye house of Israel saieth the LORDE And therfore the voyce of the children of Israel was herde on euery side wepinge and waylinge
broken downe for the corne shal be destroied O what a sighinge make the catell the bullockes are very euel likynge because they haue no pasture and the shepe are fameszshed awaye O LORDE to the will I crie for the fyre hath consumed the goodly pastures of the wyldernesse and the flame hath brent vp all the trees of the felde Yee the wylde beestes crie also vnto the for the water ryuers are dryed vp and the fyre hath consumed the pastures of the wyldernesse The II. Chapter BLowe out y e trompet in Sion crie vpō my holy hill y t all soch as dwel in the londe maye trēble at it for y e daie of the LORDE commeth is harde at honde a darcke daye a gloomynge daye a cloudy daye yee a stormy daye like as the mornynge spredeth out vpō the hilles Namely a great mightie people soch as haue not bene sens y e begynnynge nether shal be after them for euermore Before him shal be a consumynge fyre behynde him a burnynge flame The londe shal be as a garden of pleasure before him but behinde him shal it be a very waist wildernesse there is no man that shal escape him They are to loke vpon like bayrded horses runne like horse men They skyppe vp vpon y e hilles as it were the sounde of charettes as the flame of fyre that consumeth the strawe and as a mightie people redy to the batell The folke shal be afrayed of him all faces shal be as blacke as a pot These shal rūne like giauntes leape ouer the walles like men of warre Euery mā in his goinge shal kepe his araie not go out of his Path. There shal not one dryue another but ech shal kepe his owne waye They shal breake in at the wyndowes not be hurte They shal come into the cite runne vpon the walles They shal clymme vp vpon the houses slyppe in at the wyndowes like a thefe The earth shal quake before him yee the heauens shal be moued the Sonne Moone shal be darckened and the starres shal withdrawe their shyne The LORDE shal shewe his voyce before his hoost for his hoost is greate stronge mightie to fulfill his commaundement This is y e greate and maruelous fearfull daye of the LORDE And who is able to abyde it Now therfore saieth the LORDE Turne you vnto me with all youre hertes with fastinge wepynge and mournynge rente youre hertes not youre clothes Turne you vnto the LORDE youre God for he is gracious mercifull longe sufferynge of greate compassion redy to pardone wickednes Then no doute he also shal turne forgeue after his chastenynge he shall let youre increase remayne for meat drynck offerynges vn to the LORDE youre God Blowe out with the trōpet in Sion proclame a fastynge call the congregacion gather the people together warne the congregacion gather the elders bringe the children suclynges together Let y e brydegrome go forth of his chābre the bryde out of her closet Let the prestes serue the LORDE betwixte the porch y e aulter wepinge sayenge be fauourable o LORDE be fauourable vnto thy people let not thine heretage be brought to soch confucion lest the Heithen be lordes therof Wherfore shulde they saye amonge the Heithen where is now their God Then shal the LORDE be gelous ouer his londe spare his people yee y e LORDE shal answere saye vnto his people Beholde I wil sende you corne wyne oyle so that ye shal haue plenty of them I wil nomore geue you ouer to be a reprofe amonge the Heithen Agayne as for him of the north I shal dryue him farre from you shute him out in to a drye and waist londe his face towarde the east see and his hynder partes towarde the vttemost see The stynke of him shall go vp and his fylthy corrupcion shal fall vpon himself because he hath dealte so proudly Feare not o londe but be glad and reioyse for the LORDE wil do greate thinges Be not ye afrayed nether o ye beastes of the felde for the pastures shal be grene and the trees shal beare their frute the fygetrees vinyardes shal geue their increase Be glad then o ye children of Sion and reioyse in the LORDE youre God for he hath geuen you the teacher of rightuousnes he it is y t shal sende you downe shuwers of rayne early and late in the first moneth so that y e garners shal be full of corne and the presses plenteous in wyne and oyle And as for the yeares that y e greszshopper locuste blasstinge caterpiller my greate hoost which I sent amonge you haue eaten vp I shal restore them to you agayne so that ye shal haue ynough to eate and be satisfied and prayse the name of the LORDE youre God that so maruelously hath dealte with you And my people shall neuer be confounded eny more Ye shall well knowe that I am in the myddest of Israel and that I am youre God yee and that there is none other and my people shall nomore be brought to confucion After this will I poure out my sprete vpon all flesh yo r sonnes yo r doughters shal prophecy yo r olde mē shal dreame dreames youre yonge men shal se visions Yee in those dayes I will poure out my sprete vpon seruauntes and maydens I will shewe wonders in heauen aboue and tokēs in the earth beneth bloude and fyre and the vapoure off smoke The Sonne shal be turned in to darcknesse y e Moone in to bloude before y e greate notable daye off the LORDE come And the tyme shal come y t who so euer calleth on the name of the LORDE shal be saued For vpon the mount Sion at Ierusalem there shal be a saluacion like as the LORDE hath promised yee amonge the other remnaunt whom the LORDE shall call The III. Chapter FOr take hede In those dayes at y e same tyme when I turne agayne the captyuite of Iuda Ierusalē I shal gather all people together brynge thē in to the valley of Iosaphat and there wil I reason with thē because of my people heretage of Israel whō they haue scatred aboute in the nacions parted my lōde yee they haue cast lottes for my people the yonge mē haue they set in the brodel house solde the Damsels for wyne y t they might haue to drīke Thou Tirus and Sidō and all ye borders of the Philistynes what haue ye to do with me Will ye defye me well yf ye will nedes defye me I shall recōpence you euen vpon youre heade y t right shortly for ye haue takē awaye my syluer golde my fayre goodly Iewels brought them in to youre gods houses The children also of Iuda and Ierusalem haue ye solde vnto the Grekes that ye
all the apparell be vnweyed because the metall was so moch Morouer Salomon made all the apperell that belonged vnto the house of the LORDE namely a golden altare a golden table that the shewbred laye on fyue candelstickes on the righte hande and fyue candelstickes on the lefte before the quere of pure golde w t floures lampes and snoffers of golde therto flat peces charges basens spones and censours of pure golde And the hokes of y e dores on the insyde of the house in the most holy and in the dores of the house of the teÌ„ple of the LORDE were of golde Thus all the worke that kynge Salomon made in y e house of the LORDE was fynisshed And Salomon brought in that his father Dauid had sanctified of syluer and golde and ornamentes and layed it amonge the treasures of the house of the LORDE The VIII Chapter THen gathered kynge Salomon all y e Elders in Israel together all the rulers of the trybes and prynces of the fathers amonge the children of Israel vnto Ierusalem to brynge vp the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE out of the cite of Dauid that is Sion And there resorted vnto kynge Salomon all the men in Israel at the feast in the moneth Ethanim that is y e seuenth moneth And whan all y e Elders of Israel came the prestes toke the Arke of the LORDE and broughte it vp and the Tabernacle of witnesse and all the ornamentes of the Sanctuary that were in the Tabernacle This dyd the prestes and the Leuites And kynge Salomon and all the congregacion of Israel y t were gathered vnto him wente with him before the Arke and offred shepe and bullockes so many that they coulde not be nombred ner tolde So the prestes broughte the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt vnto hir place euen in to y e Quere of the house in the most holy vnder y e wynges of the Cherubins For y e Cherubins spred out their wynges in the place where the Arke stode and couered the Arke and the staues therof from aboue And the staues were so loÌ„ge that y e knoppes of them were sene from the Sanctuary before y e quere but on the outsyde were they not sene and they were there vnto this daye And in the Arke there was nothinge but onely the two tables of stone which Moses had layed therin at Horeb whan y e LORDE made a couenaunt with the children of Israel what tyme as they were departed out of the londe of Egipte But whan the prestes wente out of the Sanctuary a cloude fylled the house of the LORDE so y t the prestes coulde not stonde execute the office for the cloude for the glory of the LORDE fylled the LORDES house Then sayde Salomon The LORDE sayde that he wolde dwell in a darke cloude I haue buylded an â—ouse to be an habitacion vnto the a seate y t thou mayest dwell there for euer And y e kynge turned his face blessed all the congregacion of Israel And all the coÌ„gregacion of Israel stode he sayde Praysed be the LORDE God of Israel which promised by his mouth vnto my father Dauid and by his haÌ„de hath fulfylled it and sayde Sence the daye y t I broughte my people of Israel out of Egipte haue I chosen no cite amoÌ„ge all the trybes of Israel to buylde me an house that my name might be there But Dauid haue I chosen to be ouer my people of Israel And in dede my father Dauid was mynded to buylde an house vn to the name of the LORDE God of Israel neuertheles the LORDE sayde vnto my father Dauid Where as thou wast mynded to buylde an house vnto my name thou hast done well that thou art so aduysed Howbeit thou shalt not buylde the house but thy sonne which shal come out of thy loynes he shal buylde an house vn to my name And the LORDE hath perfourmed his worde that he spake For I am come vp in my father Dauids steade and syt vpon the seate of Israel as the LORDE sayde and haue buylded an house vnto the name of the LORDE God of Israel and there haue I ordeyned a place for the Arke wherin is the LORDES couenaunt which he made with oure fathers whan he broughte them out of y e londe of Egipte And Salomon stode before the altare of the LORDE in the presence of the whole congregacion of Israel and helde out his handes towarde heauen and sayde O LORDE God of Israel there is no god like the nether aboue in heauen ner beneth vpoÌ„ earth thou that kepest couenauÌ„t and mercy for all thy seruauntes that walke before y e with all their hert thou that hast kepte promes with my father Dauid thy seruaunt With thy mouth thou saydest it and with thy hande hast thou fulfylled it as it is come to passe this daye Now LORDE God of Israel make good vnto my father Dauid y e seruaunt that which thou hast promysed him and sayde Thou shalt not wante a man before me to syt vpon the seate of Israel yf thy childreÌ„ kepe their waye so y t they walke before me like as thou hast walked before me Now thou God of Israel let y e worde be verified which thou hast promysed vnto my father Dauid thy seruaunt For thynkest thou y t God dwelleth vpon earth Beholde the heauens and the heauens of all heauens maye not contayne the how shulde then this house do it that I haue buylded But turne the vnto the prayer of thy seruaunt and to his supplicacion O LORDE my God that thou mayest heare the thankesgeuynge and prayer which thy seruaunt maketh before the this daye so that thine eyes be open ouer this house night and daye euen ouer this place wherof thou saydest My name shall dwell there That thou mayest heare the prayer which thy seruauÌ„t maketh in this place heare the intercession of y e seruaunt of thy people of Israel which they shall make here in this place of thy habitacion in heauen and whan thou hearest it be gracious Whan eny maÌ„ synneth agaynst his neghboure and taketh vpon him an ooth wherwith he byndeth himselfe and y e ooth commeth before thine altare in this house then heare thou in heaueÌ„ and se that thy seruauntes haue right to condemne the vngodly and to brynge his waye vpon his owne heade and to iustifie the righteous to geue him acordinge to his righteousnes Whan thy people of Israel is smytten before their enemies whyle they haue synned agaynst the and yf they turne vnto the and knowlege thy name make their prayer and intercession vnto the in this house theÌ„ heare thou them in heauen and be mercifull vnto the synne of thy people of Israel and brynge them agayne into the londe y t thou hast geuen vnto their fathers Whan the heauen is shut vp so y t it rayneth not for so moch as they haue synned agaynst the and
courte and dores in the courte and ouerlayed y e dores with brasse And the lauer set he on the righte syde towarde the south east And Hiram made cauldrous shouels and basens So Hiram fynished the worke which he made for kynge Salomon in the house of God namely the two pilers with the roundels and knoppes aboue vpon both the pilers and both the wrythen ropes to couer both the roundels of y e knoppes aboue vpō the pilers and the foure hundreth pomgranates on both the wrythē ropes two rowes of pomgranates on euery rope to couer the roundels of the knoppes that were aboue vpon the pilers He made the stoles also and y e kettels vpon the stoles and a lauer and twolue bullockes there vnder And pottes shouels fleshokes and all their vessels made Hiram Abif of pure metall for kynge Salomon vnto the house of the LORDE In the coaste of Iordane dyd the kynge cause them to be molten in thicke earth betwene Suchoth and Zaredatha And Salomon made all these vessels which were so many that the weight of y e metall was not to be soughte out And Salomen made all the ornamentes for the house of God namely the golden altare the tables and the shewbreds theron the candelstickes with their lampes of pure golde to burne before the Quere acordinge to the maner and the floures and the lampes and the snoffers were of golde all these were of pure golde And the knyues basens spones and pottes were of pure golde And the intraunce and his dores within vnto the Most holy and the dores of the house of the temple were of golde Thus was all y e worke fynished which Salomon made in the house of the LORDE The V. Chapter ANd Salomon broughte in all y t his father Dauid had sanctified namely syluer and golde and all maner of ornamentes and layed them in the treasures of the house of God Thē gathered Salomon all the Elders in Israel together all y e heades of the trybes prynces of the fathers amōge the childrē of Israel vnto Ierusalē to brynge vp the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE out of the cite of Dauid that is Sion And there resorted vnto the kynge all the men in Israel at the feast that is in the seuenth moneth and all y e Elders in Israel came And y e Leuites toke the Arke broughte it vp with the Tabernacle of witnesse and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle and y e prestes and Leuites broughte them vp As for kynge Salomon and all the cōgregacion of Israel that was gathered vnto him before the Arke they offred shepe and oxen so many that no man coulde nombre ner reken them Thus the prestes broughte the Arke of y e couenaunt of the LORDE vnto hir place in to the quere of the house euen in to y e Most holy vnder the wynges of the Cherubins so that the Cherubins spred out their wynges ouer the place of the Arke and the Cherubins couered the Arke and the staues therof from aboue And the staues were so longe y t the knoppes of them were sene from the Arke before the quere but on the outsyde were they not sene And it was there vnto this daye And there was nothinge in the Arke saue the two tables which Moses put therin at Horeb whan the LORDE made a couenaunt with the childrē of Israel what tyme as they were departed out of Egipte And whan the prestes wente out of the Sanctuary for all y e prestes that were founde sanctified them selues because the courses were not kepte the Leuites with all those that were vnder Asaph Heman Iedithun and their children and brethren beynge clothed in lynnen songe with Cymbales psalteries and harpes and stode towarde the east parte of the altare and an hundreth twentye prestes with them which blewe w t trompettes And it was as yf one dyd trompet and synge as though a voyce had bene herde of praysinge and geuynge thankes vnto the LORDE And whan the voyce arose from y e trompettes cymbales and other instrumentes of musick and from praysinge the LORDE because he is gracious and because his mercy endureth for euer the house of the LORDE was fylled on the ynsyde with a cloude so y t the prestes coulde not stonde to mynister for the cloude for the glory of the LORDE fylled the house of God The VI. Chapter THen sayde Salomon The LORDE sayde that he wolde dwell in a darck cloude I haue buylded an house to be an habitacion vnto the a seate y t thou mayest dwell there for euer And the kynge turned his face and blessed all the congregacion of Israel for the whole cōgregacion of Israel stode he sayde Praysed be the LORDE God of Israel which promysed by his mouth vnto my father Dauid and with his hande hath fulfylled it whā he sayde Sēce the tyme that I broughte my people out of the londe of Egipte I haue chosen no cite in all y e trybes of Israel to buylde an house for my name to be there nether haue I chosen eny man to be prynce ouer my people of Israel But Ierusalem haue I chosen for my name to be there Dauid haue I electe to be prynce ouer my people of Israel And whan my father Dauid was mynded to buylde an house vnto the name of the LORDE God of Israel the LORDE sayde vnto Dauid my father Where as thou wast mynded to buylde an house vnto my name thou hast done well howbeit thou shalt not buylde the house but thy sonne which shall come out of thy loynes shal buylde the house vnto my name Thus hath y e LORDE now perfourmed his worde that he spake for I am come vp in my father Dauids steade and syt vpon the seate of Israel euen as the LORDE sayde haue buylded an house vnto the name of y e LORDE God of Israel in it haue I put y e Arke wherin is the couenaunt of y e LORDE which he made with the childrē of Israel And he stode before the altare of the LORDE in the presence of the whole congregacion of Israel and spred out his handes for Salomon had made a brasen pulpit and set it in the myddes of the courte fyue cubites longe and fyue cubites brode and thre cubites hye vpon the same stode he and fell downe vpon his knees in the presence of the whole cōgregacion of Israel and helde out his handes towarde heauē and sayde O LORDE God of Israel there is no god like the nether in heauen ner vpon earth thou that kepest couenaunt and mercy for thy seruauntes that walke before the with all their hert Thou hast kepte promes w t my father Dauid thy seruaunt With thy mouth thou saydest it and with thy hande hast thou fulfylled it as it is come to passe this daye Now LORDE God of Israel make good vnto my father Dauid y i seruaunt that which thou hast promysed
for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce Wilt thou take thy pastyne w t him as with a byrde or geue him vnto thy maydens that thy companyons maye hew him in peces to be parted amonge the marchaunt men Canst thou fyll the nett w t his skynne or y e fysh paÌ„nyer with his heade Darrest thou laye honde vpon him It is better for the to considre what harme might happeÌ„ the there thorow and not to touch him For when thou thynkest to haue holde vpon him he shall begyle the Euery man also that seyth him shall go backe And why there darre none be so bolde as to rayse him vp The XLI Chapter WHo is able to stonde before me Or who hath geuen me eny thynge afore hande that I am bounde to rewarde him agayne All thinges vnder heauen are myne I feare him not whether he threaten or speake fayre Who lifteth him vp and stripeth him out of his clothes or who taketh him by the bytt of his brydle Who openeth the dore of his face for he hath horrible tethe rounde aboute His body is couered with scales as it were with shyldes lockte in kepte and well coÌ„pacte together One is so ioyned to another that no ayre can come in Yee one hangeth so vpon another and sticke so together that they can not be sundered His nesinge is like a glisteringe fyre and his eyes like the mornynge shyne Out of his mouth go torches and fyre brandes out off his nostrels there goeth a smoke like as out â—ff an hote seetinge pott His breth maketh the coales burne the flame goeth out of his mouth In his necke remayneth strength and before his face sorowe is turned to gladnesse The membres of his body are ioyned so strayte one to another and cleue so fast together that he can not be moued His hert is as harde as a stone aÌ„d as fast as the styth ye that the hammer man smyteth vpon When he goeth the mightiest off all are afrayed and the wawes heuy Yff he drawe out the swearde there maye nether speare ner brest plate abyde him He setteth as moch by a strawe as by yroÌ„ and as moch by a rotten stocke as by metall He starteth â—ot awaye for him that bendeth the bowe â—s for slynge stones he careth as moch for stubble as for them He counteth the hammer no better then a strawe he laugheth him to scorne that shaketh the speare He treadeth the golde in the myre like y e sharpe potsherdes He maketh the depe to seeth and boyle like a pott and stereth the see together like an oyntment The waye is light after him the depe is his walkynge place Vpon earth is there no power like vnto his for he is so made that he feareth not Yff a man will coÌ„sidre all hye thinges this same is a kynge ouer all the children off pryde The XLII Chapter THeÌ„ Iob answered the LORDE and sayde I knowe that thou hast power of all thinges and that there is no thought hyd vnto the. For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete but it shall be knowne Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely seynge these thinges are so hye and passe myne vnderstondinge O herken thou vnto me also and let me speake answere me vnto the thinge that I will axe the. I haue geuen diligent eare vnto the and now I se y e with myne eyes Wherfore I geue myne owne self y e blame and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes Now wheÌ„ the LORDE had spoken these wordes vnto Iob he sayde vnto Eliphas y e Themanite I am displeased with the thy two frendes for ye haue not spoken the thinge y t is right before me like as my seruaâ—â—â— Iob hath done Therfore take vij oxen 〈…〉 seuen rammes and go to my seruaunt 〈…〉 offre vp also for youre selues a brent offeâ—â—â—â—â—ge and lat my seruaunt Iob praye for 〈…〉 Him will I accepte and not deale with 〈…〉 after youre foolishnesse in that ye hau◠〈…〉 spokeÌ„ y e thinge which is right like as my 〈…〉 Iob hath done So Eliphas the Themanite Bald 〈…〉 Suhite and Sophar the Naamathite 〈…〉 their waye and did acordynge as the 〈…〉 commaunded them The LORDE also 〈…〉 the personne off Iob and the LORâ—◠〈…〉 turned him vnto Iob wheÌ„ he prayed for 〈…〉 frendes Yee the LORDE gaue Iob twyse 〈◊〉 moch as he had afore And theÌ„ came there vnto him all his 〈…〉 thren all his sisters with all them that 〈…〉 bene off his acquaÌ„tauÌ„ce afore and ate 〈…〉 with him in his house wondringe at him aÌ„d 〈◊〉 comfortinge him ouer all the trouble 〈…〉 the LORDE had brought vpon him 〈…〉 maÌ„ gaue him a shepe and a Iewell of 〈…〉 And the LORDE made Iob richer the◠〈…〉 was before for he had xiiij M. shepe vi 〈…〉 camels a M. yock oxeÌ„ and a M. asses 〈…〉 had children also vij sonnes and iij. doughâ—ters The first he called Daye the seconde 〈◊〉 pouerte the thirde All plenteousnes In the londe were none founde so fayre as 〈…〉 doughters of Iob their father gaue 〈…〉 enheritaunce amonge their brethren After this lyued Iob xl yeares so that he sawe his children his childers children vnto the fourth generacion And so he dyed beinge olde of a perfecte age The ende of the boke of Io◠〈◊〉 The Psalter The first psalme O Blessed is y e man y t goeth 〈…〉 in the councell of y e vngodâ—◠〈…〉 y t abydeth not in the waye 〈…〉 synners sytteth not in y e 〈…〉 of the scornefull But 〈…〉 lyteth in the lawe of y e LORDE exercyse 〈◊〉 himself in his lawe both â—aye and night 〈…〉 Soch a maÌ„ is like a tre plated 〈◊〉 y e water sydâ—de y t briÌ„geth forth his frute in due season His leeues shal not fall off aÌ„d loke what 〈◊〉 he doth it shal prospere As for the 〈◊〉 it is not so with them but they are 〈◊〉 dust which y e wynde scatereth 〈…〉 of the grounde Therfore the vngod 〈◊〉 all not be able to stonde in the iudgmeÌ„t 〈◊〉 the synners in the congregacion off â—ightuous For the LORDE aloweth y e 〈◊〉 of the rightuous but the waye of the 〈◊〉 shal perishe The II. A psalme of Dauid THy do the HeitheÌ„ grudge why do the people ymagyn vayne thinges The kynges of the earth stoÌ„de vp 〈◊〉 rulers are come together agaynst 〈◊〉 LORDE aÌ„d agaynst his anoynted Let 〈◊〉 breake their bondes a sunder and cast 〈…〉 their yocke from vs. Neuerthelesse 〈◊〉 that dwelleth in heauen shall laugh theÌ„ 〈◊〉 scorne yee euen the LORDE himselff shall haue them in derision Then shal he 〈…〉 vnto them in his wrath and vexe them in 〈…〉 dispeasure Yet haue I set my 〈◊〉 vpon my holy hill of Sion As for me 〈…〉 preach the lawe wherof the LORDE 〈…〉 sayde vnto me Thou art my sonne 〈◊〉 daye haue I begotten the. Desyre off 〈◊〉 and I shall geue the the Heithen for 〈◊〉 enheritaunce Yee the
my God lighten myne eyes that I slepe not in death Lest myne enemie saye I haue preuayled agaynst hiÌ„ for yf I be cast downe they that trouble me will reioyse at it But my trust is in thy mercy and my hert is ioyfull in thy sauynge health I wil synge of the LORDE that dealeth so louyngly with me Yee I wil prayse the name of the LORDE the most hyest The XIII A psalme of Dauid THe foolish bodyes saye in their hertes Tush there is no God They are corrupte aÌ„d become abhominable in their doynges there is not one â— doth good The LORDE loked downe froÌ„ heaueÌ„ vpoÌ„ the children of men to se yf there were eny that wolde vnderstonde seke after God But they are all gone out of the waye they are alltogether become vnprofitable there is none that doth good no not one Their throte is an open sepulcre with their tonges they haue disceaued the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes Their mouth is full of cursinge and bytternes their fete are swift to shed bloude Destruccion wretchednes are in their wayes aÌ„d the waye of peace haue they not knowne there is no feare off God before their eyes How can they haue vnderstondinge y t worke myschefe eatinge vp my people as it were bred call not vpoÌ„ y e LORDE Therfore shal they be brought in greate feare for God stondeth by the generacion of the rightuous As for you ye haue made a mocke at the couÌ„cell of the poore because he putteth his trust in the LORDE Oh y t the sauynge health were geuen vnto Israel out off Sion Oh that the LORDE wolde delyuer his people out of captiuyte TheÌ„ shulde Iacob reioyse and Israel shulde be right glad The XIIII A psalme of Dauid LORDE who shall dwell in thy tabernacle who shal rest vpoÌ„ y i holy hill Euen he y t ledeth an vncorrupte life that doth the thinge which is right aÌ„d that speaketh the treuth from his herte He y t vseth no disceat in his tonge he that doth no euell to his neghboure slaundreth not his neghbours He y t setteth not by the vngodly but maketh moch of theÌ„ that feare the LORDE he y t sweareth vnto his neghboure dispoynteth him not He that geueth not his money vpon vsury and taketh no rewarde agaynst the innoceÌ„t Who so doth these thiÌ„ges shal neuer be remoued The XV. A psalme of Dauid PReserue me o God for in the do I trust I haue sayde vnto y e LORDE thou art my God my goodes are nothinge vnto the. All my delyte is vpon the sanctes that are in the earth and vpon soch like But they y t runne after another shall haue greate trouble Their drynk offerynges of bloude wil not I offre nether make mencion of their name in my mouth The LORDE himself is my good and my 〈◊〉 thou manteynest my enheritauÌ„ce 〈…〉 is fallen vnto me in a fayre ground◠〈…〉 a goodly heretage I wil thanke 〈…〉 for geuynge me warnynge my 〈…〉 so haue chastened me in the night 〈…〉 Afore honde sawe I God allwayes 〈…〉 me for he is on my right honde that I shulde not be moued Therfore dyd my hert reioyce my tunge was glad my flesh also shall rest in hope For why thou shalt not leaue my souâ—e in hell nether shalt thou suffre thy saynte to se corrupcion Thou hast shewed me the wayes off life thou shalt make me full of ioye w t thy countenaunce At thy right hande there is pleasure and ioye for euermore The XVI A psalme of Dauid HEare y e right O LORDE coÌ„sidre my coÌ„â—playnte herken vnto my prayer thaâ— goeth not out of a fayned mouth Leâ— my sentence come forth froÌ„ thy presence and loke vpon the thinge that is equall Thoâ— hast proued visited myne herte in the nighâ— season thou hast tried me in the fyre hasâ— founde no wickednes in me for I vtterly puâ—â—posed that my mouth shulde not offende Because of the wordes of thy lippes I haue kepte me froÌ„ the workes of men in y e wayâ— off the murthurer Oh ordre thou my goynâ—ges in thy pathes that my fote steppes slippe not For vnto the I crie heare me o Godâ— enclyne thine eares to me and herkeÌ„ vnto my wordes Shewe y i maruelous louinge kindnesse thou that sauest them which put their trust in the from soch as resist thy right honde Kepe me as the apple of an eye defende me vnder the shadowe of thy wynges From the vngodly that trouble me fro myne enemies which compasse my soule rounde aboute Which manteyne their owne welthynesse with oppression their mouth speaketh proude thinges They lye waytinge in o r waye on euery syde turnynge their eyes downe to the grounde Like as a lyon that is gredy of his pray as it were a lyons whelpe lurckynge in his denne Vp LORDE dispoynte him cast him downe delyuer my soule with thy swerde from the vngodly FroÌ„ the men of thy honde o LORDE from the men off the worlde which haue their porcion in this life whose belies thou fyllest with thy treasure They haue children at their desyre and leaue the reste of their substauÌ„ce for their babes But as forme I will beholde thy presence in rightuousnes and when thy glory appeaâ—â— shal be satisfied 〈◊〉 XVII A psalme of Dauid when he is delyuered from the honde off Saul 〈…〉 loue the o LORDE my streÌ„gth 〈…〉 The LORDE is my suco r my refuge 〈◊〉 my Sauio r my god my helper iÌ„ whoÌ„ 〈…〉 my buckler y e horne of my health my proteccioÌ„ I wil prayse y e LORDE call vpon him so shal I be safe fro myne enemies The sorowes of death coÌ„passed me the brokes of vngodlynes made me afrayed The paynes of hell came aboute me the snares of death toke holde vpoÌ„ me Yet in my trouble I called vpoÌ„ the LORDE coÌ„playned vnto my God So he herde my voyce out off his holy teÌ„ple my coÌ„playnte came before hiÌ„ yee eueÌ„ in to his eares TheÌ„ the earth trembled quaked the very fouÌ„dacioÌ„s of the hilles shoke were remoued because he was wrothe There weÌ„te a smoke out of his nostrels aÌ„d a coÌ„sumynge fyre out of his mouth so y e coales were kyndled at it He bowed the heaueÌ„s came downe it was darcke vnder his fete He rode vpoÌ„ the Cherubins dyd fle he came flyenge with the wynges of the wynde He made darcknesse his pauylion rounde aboute hiÌ„ with darcke water thicke cloudes to couer him At the brightnes off his presence the cloudes remoued with hale stones coales of fyre The LORDE also thondred out of y e heaueÌ„ the heyth gaue his thondre w t hale stones coales of fyre He sent out his arowes scatred theÌ„ he cast sore lighteninges destroyed theÌ„ The springes of waters were sene the foundacioÌ„s of the rouÌ„de worlde were discouered
For they persecute him whom thou hast smytten besyde thy woundes they haue geuen him moo Let them fall froÌ„ one wickednesse to another not come into thy rightuousnesse Let theÌ„ be wyped out of y e boke of the lyuinge not be written amonge the rightuous As for me I am poore in heuynesse let thy helpe defende me o God That I maye prayse y e name of God with a songe magnifie it with thankesgeuynge This shal please the LORDE better then a bullocke that hath hornes hoffes O considre this be glad ye that be in aduersite seke after God yo r soule shal lyue For the LORDE heareth the poore despyâ—â— not his presoners Let heauen earth praise him the see all that moueth therin For God wil saue Sion buylde the cities of Iuda that men maye dwell there haue theÌ„ in possession The sede of his seruauntes shal iÌ„heret it they that loue his name shal dwell therin The LXIX A psalme of Dauid HAist the o God to delyuer me to helpe me o LORDE Let theÌ„ be shamed confounded that seke after my soule let them be turned backwarde put to confucioÌ„ that wysh me euell Let them soone be brought to shame y t crie ouer me there there But let all those that seke the be ioyfull glad in the and let all soch as delyte in thy sauynge health saye alwaye y e LORDE be pray 〈…〉 As for me I am poore in misery 〈…〉 to helpe me Thou art my helpe my redemer my God oh make no 〈◊〉 tarienge The LXX psalme IN the o LORDE is my trust let me neuer be put to coÌ„fucioÌ„ but rydde me delyuer me thorow thy rightuousnesse â–ª encline thine eare vnto me helpe me Be thou my stronge holde where vnto I maye allwaye fle thou that hast promised to helpe me for thou art my house of defence my castell Delyuer me o my God out of y e haÌ„de of the vngodly out of the hande of theâ— rightuous cruell man For thou o LORDE God art the thinge that I loÌ„ge for thou art my hope euen fro my youth I haue â—eaned vpoÌ„ y e euer sens I was borne thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe therfore is my prayse allwaye of the. I am become a wonder vnto the multitude but my sure trust is in the. Oh let my mouth be fylled with thy prayse honoure all the daye loÌ„ge Cast me not awaye in myne olde age forsake me not when my strength fayleth me For myne enemies speake agaynst me they that laye wayte for my soule take their coâ—â—cell together sayenge God hath forsakeÌ„ him pÌ„ersecute him take him for there is none to helpe him Go not farre fro me o God my God haist the to helpe me Let them be coÌ„founded perish that are agaynst my soule let theÌ„ be couered with shame dishonoure that seke to do me euell As for me I wil pacieÌ„tly abyde allwaye wil euer encrease thy prayse My mouth shal speake of thy rightuousnesse sauynge health all the daye loÌ„ge for I knowe no ende therof Let me go in o LORDE God I wil make mencion of thy power and rightuousnesse only Thou o God hast lerned me fro my youth vp vntill now therfore wil I tell of y e wonderous workes Forsake me not o God in myne olde age when I am gray headed vntill I haue shewed thyne arme vnto childers children thy power to all them that are yet for to come Thy rightuousnes o God is very hie thou that doest greate thinges o God who is like vnto the O what greate troubles aduersite hast thou shewed me yet didest thou turne refresh me yee broughtest me from the depe of the earth agayne Thou hast brought me to greate honoure comforted me on euery syde Therfore wil I prayse the thy faith fulnesse o God playeÌ„ge vpon the lute vnto the wil I synge vpon the harpe o thou holy one of Israel My lippes wolde fayne synge prayses vnto the so wolde my soule whom thou hast delyuered My tonge talketh of thy rightuousnesse all the daye longe for they are confounded brought vnto shame y t sought to do me euel The LXXI A psalme of Salomon GEue the kinge thy iudgmeÌ„t o God and thy rightuousnesse vnto the kynges sonne That he maye gouerne thy people acordinge vnto right and defende thy poore That the mountaynes maye brynge peace and the litle hilles rightuousnes vnto the people He shal kepe the symple folke by their right defende the childreÌ„ of the poore and punysh the wrongeous doer Thou shalt be feared as longe as y e Sonne and the Moone endureth from one generacion to another He shal come downe like the rayne in to a flese of woll and like the droppes that water y e earth In his tyme shal rightuousnesse florish yee and abundauÌ„ce of peace so longe as the Moone endureth His dominion shal be from the one see to the other and from the floude vnto the worldes ende They that dwell in the wildernes shal knele before him his enemies shal licke the dust The kynges of the see and of the Iles shal brynge presentes y e kinges of Araby Saba shall offre giftes All kynges shal worshipe him all HeitheÌ„ shal do him seruyce For he shal deliuer the poore wheÌ„ he crieth the nedy y t hath no helpe He shall be fauorable to the symple poore he shal preserue the soules of soch as be in aduersite He shal deliuer their soules from extorcion wronge deare shal their bloude be in his sight He shal lyue vnto him shal be geueÌ„ of y e golde of Arabia Prayer shal be made euer vnto him daylie shal he be praysed There shal be an heape of corne in the earth hye vpon the hilles his frute shal shake like Libanus shal be grene in the cite like grasse vpoÌ„ the earth His name shal endure for euer his name shal remayne vnder the sonne amonge the posterites which shal be blessed thorow him all the Heithen shal prayse him Blessed be the LORDE God euen the God of Israel which only doth woÌ„derous thinges And blessed be the name of his maiesty for euer and all londes be fulfilled with his glory Amen Amen Here ende the prayers of Dauid the sonne of Iesse The LXXII A psalme of Asaph O How louynge is God vnto Israel to soch as are of a clene hert Neâ—erthelesse my fete were allmost gone my treadinges had wel nye slipte And why I was greued at y e wicked to se the vngodly in soch prosperite For they are in no parell of death but stonde fast like a palace They come in no misfortune like other folke nether are they plaged like other men And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde ouerwhelmed with cruelte
him vpō his holy hill for the LORDE oure God is holy The XCIX psalme O Be ioyfull in God all ye lōdes serue the LORDE w t gladnes come before his presence w t ioye Be ye sure y t the LORDE he is God It is he y t hath made vs not we oure selues we are but his people the shepe of his pasture O go youre waye in to his gates thē with thankesgeuynge in to his courtes w t prayse be thākfull vnto him speake good of his name For the LORDE is gracious his mercy is euerlastinge and his treuth endureth from generacion to generacion The C. psalme A thākesgeuynge of Dauid MY songe shal be of mercy and iudgment yee vnto the o LORDE wil I synge O let me haue vnderstondinge in the waye of godlynesse vntill the tyme that thou come vnto me so shal I walke in my house w t an innocent herte I wil take no wicked thinge in honde I hate the synne of vnfaithfulnesse it shal not cleue vnto me A frowarde herte shal departe fro me I wil not knowe a wicked personne Who so preuely slaundreth his neghboure him wil I destroye Who so hath a proude loke an hye stomacke I maye not awaye with him Myne eyes shal loke for soch as be faithfull in the londe y t they maye dwell with me and who so ledeth a godly life shal be my seruaunt There shall no disceatfull personne dwell in my house he that telleth lyes shal not tary in my sight I shal soone destroye all the vngodly of the londe that all wicked doers maye be roted out of the cite of the LORDE The CI. psalme HEare my prayer o LORDE and let my criēge come vnto the. Hyde not thy face fro me in the tyme of my trouble enclyne thine eares vnto me when I call O heare me and that right soone For my dayes are consumed awaye like smoke my bones are brent vp as it were a fyre brande My hert is smyttē downe and wythered like grasse so that I forget to eate my bred For the voyce of my gronynge my bone wil scarse cleue to my flesh I am become like a Pellicane in the wildernes and like an Oule in a broken wall I wake and am euen as it were a sparow sittinge alone vpon the house toppe Myne enemies reuyle me all the daye longe they laugh me to scorne and are sworne together against me I eate ashes with my bred and mengle my drynke with wepynge And that because of y e indignacion and wrath for thou hast taken me vp and cast me awaye My dayes are gone like a shadowe and I am wythered like grasse But thou o LORDE endurest for euer and thy remembraunce thorow out all generacions Arise therfore and haue mercy vpon Sion for it is tyme to haue mercy vpon her yee the tyme is come And why thy seruauntes haue a loue to hir stones it pitieth them to se her in the dust The Heithen shal feare thy name o LORDE and all the kynges of the earth thy maiesty For the LORDE shal buylde vp Sion and shal apeare in his glory He turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore destitute and despyseth not their desyre This shal be written for those y t come after that the people which shal be borne maye prayse the LORDE For He loketh downe from his Sanctuary out of the heauen doth the LORDE beholde the earth That he maye heare the mournynges of soch as be in captinyte and delyuer the children of death That they maie preach the name of the LORDE in Sion and his worshipe at Ierusalem When the people are gathered together and the kyngdomes also to serue y e LORDE He hath brought downe my strength in my iourney and shortened my dayes Yet wil I saye O my God take me not awaye in y e myddest of myne age as for thy yeares they endure thorow out all generacions Thou LORDE in the begynnynge hast layed y e foundacion of the earth and the heauens are the workes of thy hondes They shal perishe but thou shalt endure they all shall wexe olde as doth a garment as a vesture shalt thou chaunge thē and they shal be chaunged But thou art the same and thy yeares shal not fayle The children of thy seruauntes shall contynue their sede shal prospere in y e sight The CII A psalme of Dauid PRayse the LORDE o my soule all that is within me prayse his holy name Prayse the LORDE o my soule forget not all his benefites Which forgeueth all thy synnes and healeth all thy infirmities Which saueth thy life from destruccion and crowneth the with mercy louynge kyndnesse Which satisfieth thy desyre with good thinges makynge the yonge and lusty as an Aegle The LORDE executeth rightuousnesse and iudgment for all them y t suffre wronge He shewed his wayes vnto Moses and his workes vnto the children of Israel The LORDE is full of compassion and mercy longe sufferinge and of greate goodnesse He wil not allwaye be chydinge nether wil he kepe his anger for euer He hath not dealt with vs after oure synnes ner rewarded vs acordinge to oure wickednesses For loke how hye the heauē is in comparison of the earth so greate is his mercy also towarde them that feare him Loke how wyde the east is from the west so farre hath he set oure synnes from vs. Yee like as a father pitieth his owne children euen so is the LORDE mercifull vnto thē that feare him For he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust That a man in his tyme is but as is grasse florisheth as a floure of the felde For as soone as the wynde goeth ouer it it gone and the place therof knoweth it nomore But the mercifull goodnesse of y e LORDE endureth for euer and euer vpon them y t feare him and his rightuousnesse vpon their childers children Soch as kepe his couenaunt and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them The LORDE hath prepared his seate in heauē and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all O prayse the LORDE ye angels of his ye that be mightie instrēgth fulfillinge his commaundement that mē maye heare the voyce of his wordes O prayse the LORDE all ye his hoostes ye seruauntes of his that do his pleasure O speake good of the LORDE all ye workes of his in euery place of his dominion prayse thou the LORDE o my soule The CIII psalme PRayse the LORDE o my soule O LORDE my God thou art become exceadinge glorious thou art clothed with maiesty and honoure Thou deckest thy self with light as it were w t a garment thou spredest out the heauen like a curtayne Thou voltest it aboue with waters thou makest the cloudes thy charet and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde Thou makest thine angels spretes and thy ministers flammes of fyre Thou hast layed y e
praysed be the Lord whych hath not geuen vs ouer for a praye vnto their teeth Oure soule is escaped eueÌ„ as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler the snare is broken and we are delyuered Oure helpe standeth in the name of the Lorde which hath made heauen and earth ¶ The .cxxv. Psalme ¶ The churche or congregacyon is in safetye when the Lorde defendeth it and shal be prosperous when he fauoreth it and purgeth the wycked theroute The songe of the steares THey that put their trust in the Lorde are euen as the mount Syon which may not be remoued but standeth fast for euer The hylles stande about Ierusalem eueÌ„ so standeth the Lorde rounde about his people from this tyme forth for euermore That the rodd of the vngodly come not into the lot of the ryghtuous lest y e ryghtuous put their hande vnto wyckednesse Do well O Lorde vnto those y t be good and true of herte As for soche as turne backe vnto their awne wyckednesse the Lorde shall leade theÌ„ forth with the euyll doers but peace be vpoÌ„ Israel ¶ The .cxxvj. Psalme ¶ He descrybeth the gladnes of the people returning agayne from Babylon vnder the fygure herof the reioysynge of the Christen whom the sonne of God hath made fre from the captiuyte of synne and deeth The songe of the steares VVhen the Lorde turneth agayne the captyuyte of Sion then shall we be lyke vnto them that dreame Then shall oure mouth be fylled wyth laughter and oure tonge with ioye Then shall it be sayd amonge the HeatheÌ„ the Lorde hath done greate thinges for theÌ„ Yee the Lorde hath done greate thynges for vs all ready wherof we reioyse Turne oure captyuyte O Lorde as the ryuers in the south They y t sowe in teares shall reape in ioye He that now goeth in his waye wepynge beareth forth good sede shal come agayne with ioye bringe his sheaues with hym ¶ The .cxxvij. Psalme ¶ By the only liberalyte gyft of God is the house and housholde geuen the cytye defended â— meate mynystred chyldren those toward and thryftye obtayned The songe of the steares EXcept the Lorde buylde the house their labour is but lost that buylde it Except the Lorde kepe the cytye the watchman waketh but in vayne It is but lost labour that ye rise vp early and take no rest but eate the bredde of carefulnesse for loke to whom it pleaseth him he geueth it in slepe Lo chyldren and the frute of the wombe are an herytage gift y t coÌ„meth of y e Lorde Lyke as the arowes in the hande of the gyaunt euen so are the yonge children Happy is the man that hath his quyuer full of them they shal not be ashamed when they speake with their enemyes in the gate ¶ The .cxxviij. Psalme ¶ He that feareth God shall do well and fortunately at all ceasons The songe of the steares BLessed are all they that feare y e Lorde and walke in hys wayes For thou shalt eate the laboures of thyne awne handes O well is the happy art thou Thy wyfe shal be as y e frutefull vyne vpoÌ„ the walles of thy house Thy chyldren lyke the Olyue braunches rounde aboute thy table Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lorde The Lorde shall so blesse the out of SioÌ„ that thou shalt se Ierusalem in prosperyte all thy lyfe longe Yee that thou shalt se thy chylders chyldren and peace vpon Israel ¶ The .cxxix Psalme ¶ Althoughe the wycked do longe and greatly persecute the godly yet shall they not preuayle ouer them yee they shall at the length perish when the godly shal be in safetye The songe of the steares MAny a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp maye Israel now saye Yee many a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp but they haue not ouercome me The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made longe forowes But the rightuous Lorde hath hewen 〈◊〉 yocke of the vngodly in peces Let them be confounded turned bacâ—â—ward as many as haue euyl will at a * 〈◊〉 Let them be euen as the haye vpon 〈◊〉 house toppes whych wythereth afore it 〈◊〉 pluckte vp Wherof the mower fylleth not his hanâ—â— nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues 〈◊〉 bosome So y t they which go by saye not so 〈◊〉 as y e Lorde prospere you we wish you 〈◊〉 lucke in the name of the Lorde ¶ The .cxxx. Psalme ¶ An earnest prayer of him that is oppressed with â—â—â—uersitie for his sinnes that surely hopeth to 〈◊〉 of God bothe forgeuenes of his synnes delyuraâ—â—â— from hys aduersytyes The songe of the steares OVt of the a * depe call I vnto 〈◊〉 O Lorde Lorde heare my voyâ—â— â–ª Oh let thyne eares 〈…〉 well the voyce of my complayâ—â—â— If thou Lord wylt be extreme to 〈◊〉 what is done a mysse Oh Lorde who 〈◊〉 abyde it But there is mercy wyth the that 〈◊〉 mayest be feared I loke for the Lord my soule doth waâ— for hym and in his worde is my trust My soule doth paciently abyde y e Lorâ—â— from the one mornynge to the other Let Israel trust in the Lorde for with 〈◊〉 Lorde there is mercy pleÌ„teous redempâ—â—â—â— And he shal redeme Israel froÌ„ al his synn◠¶ The .cxxxj. Psalme ¶ He sheweth y t he was not proude but meake 〈◊〉 The songe of the steares LOrde I am not hye mynded I haue 〈◊〉 proude lokes I do not exercyse my selfe in greaâ—â— matters which are to hye for me But I refrayne my soule kepe it 〈◊〉 lyke as a childe that is weened from his 〈◊〉 yee my soule is eueÌ„ as a weenâ—ed 〈◊〉 Let Israel trust in the Lorde â–ª from 〈◊〉 tyme forth for euermore ¶ The .cxxxij. Psalme ¶ He sheweth that the prosperyty 〈◊〉 of Christes kynâ—â—dome dureth euer that God is 〈◊〉 allwaye present 〈◊〉 his churche and congregacyon Thys doth he 〈◊〉 the fygure of Dauid of the â—â—aâ—cke abydyng in 〈◊〉 The songe of the steares LOrde remeÌ„bre Dauid al his trouâ—â—â— How he swore vnto the Lorde 〈◊〉 vowed a vowe vnto the almyghtye 〈◊〉 of Iacob I wyll not come within y e taberâ—â—â—cle of my house nor clyme vp in my bedde â–ª I wyll not suffre myne eyes to slepe 〈◊〉 myne eye lyddes to â—â—omber Vntyll I fynde out a place for y e 〈◊〉 an habytacyoÌ„ for the mightye one of 〈◊〉 shalt eate the laboures of thine owne hondes o well is the happie art thou Thy wife shal be as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house Thy children like the olyue braunches rouÌ„de aboute y e table Lo thus shal y e maÌ„ be blessed y t feareth the LORDE The LORDE shal so blesse the out of Sion that thou shalt se IerusaleÌ„ in prosperite all thy life longe Yee that thou shalt se thy childers childreÌ„ peace vpoÌ„ Israel The CXXVIII psalme MAny a tyme haue they fought
agaynst me fro my youth vp maye Israel now saie Yee many a tyme haue they fought agaiÌ„st me fro my youth vp but they haue not ouercome me The plowers plowed vpoÌ„ my backe made loÌ„ge forowes But the rightous LORDE hath hewen y e yocke of y e vngodly in peces Let them be confounded turned backwarde as many as haue euell will at Sion Let theÌ„ be eueÌ„ as the haye vpon the house toppes which wythereth afore it be pluckte vp Wherof the mower fylleth not his hande nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues his bosome So that they which go by saye not so moch as the LORDE prospere you we wish you good lucke in the name of the LORDE The CXXIX psalme OVt of the depe call I vnto the o LORDE LORDE heare my voyce Oh let thine eares considre well the voyce of my complaynte Yf thou LORDE wilt be extreme to marcke what is done amysse Oh LORDE who maye abyde it But there is mercy with the that thou mayest be feared I loke for the LORDE my soule doth wayte for him and in his worde is my trust My soule doth paciently abyde the LORDE froÌ„ the one mornynge to the other Let Israel trust in the LORDE â–ª for with the LORDE there is mercy and plenteous redempcion And he shal redeme Israel from all his synnes The CXXX A psalme of Dauid LORDE I am not hye mynded I haue no proude lokes I do not exercise myself in greate matters which are to hye for me But I refrayne my soule and kepe it lowe like as a childe y t is weened from his mother yee my soule is euen as a weened childe Let Israel trust in the LORDE froÌ„ this tyme forth for euermore The CXXXI Psalme LORDE remembre Dauid and all his trouble How he swore vnto y e LORDE vowed a vowe vnto y e mightie one of Iacob I wil not come within the tabernacle of my house ner clymme vp iÌ„ to my bedde I wil not suffre myne eyes to slepe ner myne eye lyddes to sloÌ„ber Vntill I fynde out a place for the LORDE an habitacioÌ„ for the mightie one of Iacob Lo we herde of the same at Ephrata fouÌ„de it in y e wod We wil go in to his tabernacle â–ª fall downe before his fotestole Arise o LORDE in to thy restinge place thou y e arke of y e streÌ„gth Let thy prestes be clothed with rightuousnesse and let thy sayntes reioyse For thy seruaunte Dauids sake turne not awaye the presence of thine anoynted The LORDE hath made a faithfull ooth vnto Dauid he shal not shrenke from it Of the frute of thy body shal I set vpon thy seate Yf thy children wil kepe my couenaunt my testimony y t I shal lerne theÌ„ their childreÌ„ also shal syt vpoÌ„ thy seate for euermore For the LORDE hath chosen SioÌ„ to be an habitacioÌ„ for him self hath he chosen her This shal be my rest here wil I dwel for I haue a delite therin I will blesse hir vytales w t increase wil satisfie hir poore with bred I wil decke hir prestes with health hir sayntes shal reioyse be glad There shall I make the horne of Dauid to florish I haue ordened a lanterne for myne anoynted As for his enemies I shal clothe theÌ„ w t shame but vpon himself shal his crowne florish The CXXXII A psalme of Dauid BEholde how good ioyfull a thinge it is brethreÌ„ to dwell together in vnite It is like y t precious oyntment vpon the heade that ranne downe vnto the beerd eueÌ„ vnto Aarons beerd weÌ„te downe to the skyrtes of his clothinge Like the dewe of Hermon which fell vpon the hill of Sion For there the LORDE promised his blessynge and life for euermore The CXXXIII psalme BEholde O prayse the LORDE all 〈◊〉 seruauntes of the LORDE ye that 〈◊〉 night stoÌ„de in the house of the LORDE 〈◊〉 lift vp youre handes in the Sanctuaâ—◠〈◊〉 prayse the LORDE The LORâ—◠〈…〉 heauen earth blesse the out 〈…〉 The CXXXIIII psalâ—â— â–ª O Prayse y e name 〈…〉 o ye seruauÌ„te◠〈…〉 in y e 〈…〉 of the house of 〈…〉 LORDE for the 〈…〉 For I knowe y t y e LORDE is greate y t o r LORDE is aboue all goddes What so euer y e LORDE pleaseth y t doth he in heaueÌ„ in earth in the see in all depe places He bryngeth forth the cloudes from the endes of the worlde he turneth y e lighteniÌ„ges vnto rayne bringiÌ„ge the wyndes out of their treasuries Which smote the firstborne of Egipte both of man and beest He hath sent tokens and wonders in to the myddest of the o thou londe of Egipte vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes Which smote dyuerse nacions slewe mightie kynges Sihon kynge of y e Amorites Og the kynge of Basan and all the kyngdomes of CanaaÌ„ And gaue their loÌ„de for an heretage for an heretage vnto Israel his people Thy name o LORDE endureth foreuer so doth thy memoriall o LORDE from one generacion to another For the LORDE wil aueÌ„ge his people be gracious vnto his seruauÌ„tes As for the ymages of the HeitheÌ„ they are but syluer and golde the worke of mens haÌ„des They haue mouthes speake not eyes haue they but they se not They haue eares and yet they heare not nether is there eny breth iÌ„ their mouthes They that make them are like vnto them so are all they that put their trust in theÌ„ Prayse the LORDE ye house of Israel prayse the LORDE ye house of Aaron Prayse the LORDE ye house of Leui ye that feare y e LORDE prayse the LORDE Praysed be the LORDE out of Sion which dwelleth at IerusaleÌ„ Halleluya The CXXXV psalme O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer O geue thaÌ„kes vnto the God of all goddes for his mercy endureth for euer O thanke the LORDE of all lordes for his mercy endureth for euer â—hich only doth greate wonders for his 〈…〉 endureth for euer Which by his 〈…〉 soome made the heauens for his mercy 〈…〉 for euer Which layed out the earth 〈…〉 waters for his mercy endureth for 〈…〉 hath made greate lightes for 〈…〉 for euer The Sonne 〈…〉 his mercy endureth for 〈…〉 the starres to gouerne 〈…〉 endureth for euer 〈…〉 their firstborne 〈…〉 for euer And 〈…〉 them for 〈…〉 reed see in to partes for his mercy endureth for euer And made Israel to go thorow y e myddest of it for his mercy endureth for euer But as for Pharao and his hoost he ouer threwe them in the reed see for his mercy endureth for euer Which led his people thorow the wyldernesse for his mercy endureth for euer Which smote greate kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Yee and slewe mightie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Sihon kynge of the Amorites
my mountaytaines wyll I treade them vnder fote Wherthorow his yocke shall come from you his burthen shal be taken from youre shulders This deuyce hath God taken thorow the whole worlde and thus is his honde stretched out ouer all people For yf the LORDE of hoostes determe a thinge who wyl dysanulle it And yf he stretch forth his honde who wil holde it in agayne The same yeare that kynge Achas dyed God threatned by Esay on this maner Reioyse not thou whole Palestina as though y e rod of him y t beateth the were broken For out of y e serpentes rote there shal waxe a kâ—c katrice the frute shal be a fyrie worme But the poore shall fede of the best thinges and the symple shal dwell in safetie Thy rotes wil I destroye w t honger and it shall slaye y e remnaunt Mourne ye portes wepe ye Cities And feare thou o whole Palestina for that shal come froÌ„ the North a smoke whose power no man maye abyde Who shall then maynteyne the messages of the Gentyles But the LORDE stablisheth Syon the poore of my people shall put their trust in him The XV. Chapter THis is y e heuy burtheÌ„ vpoÌ„ Moab Ar of Moab was destroyed as me thought in the night season The walles of Moab perished in the night vanished awaye They weÌ„te to Baith and Dibon in the hie places for to wepe Moab did mourne froÌ„ Nebo to Medba All their heades were colled and al their beardes shauen In their stretes were they gyrded aboute with sack cloth In all the toppes of their houses stretes was there nothinge but mournynge and wepingâ— Hesebon and Eleale cried that their voyce was herde vnto Iahaz The worthies also of Moab bleared and cried for very sorow of their myndes Wo is my hert for Moabs sake They fled vnto the cite of Zoar which is like a fayre fruteful bullock they went vp to Luhith wepinge The waye toward Horonaim was ful of lamentacion for y e hurte The waters of Nimrim were dried vp the grasse was wythred the herbes destroyed what necessary grene thinge there was besyde In like maner the thinge y t was left them of their substaunce they caried it by water to Araby The crie went ouer the whole londe of Moab from Eglaim vnto Beer was there nothinge but mournynge The waters of Dimon were full of bloude for y e enemie had sent thither a bonde of men which as a lyon layde waite for the remnaunt of the londe and for them y t were escaped The xvj Chapter THen sent the lordes of the loÌ„de a maÌ„ of warre from the rocke that lieth toward the deserte vnto the hill of the doughter Sion For as for the doughters of Moab they were as it had bene a trymblinge byrde y t is put out of hir nest by the fery of Arnon which messaunger sayde gather youre councel come together couer vs with youre shadowe in the myddaye as the night doth hyde the chased bewraye not theÌ„ that are fled let the persecuted Moabites dwel amoÌ„ge you be oure open refuge agaynst the destroyer for the aduersary oppresseth vs the robber vndoeth vs the tyraunte dryueth vs out of oure londe But y e Trone of youre kingdome is ful of grace therfore he that sytteth vpon it w t faitfulnesse treuth in the house of Dauid knowe the thinge do his diligence to helpe shortly â–ª acordinge to Equite and rightuousnes As for Moabs pride shal they answere it is wel knowne And all though they be excellent proude arrogant hie mynded yet is their strength nothinge like And therfore Moab complayneth vnto Moab wher thorow they come all to mourne now y t they be smytten they take their deuyce beneth by the bryckwall and make their coÌ„playnte The suburbes also of Hesebon were made waist the princes of the Gentyles hewed downe y e vynyardes of Sibma which were planted with noble grapes and spred vnto Iazer and went vnto the ende of the deserte whose braunches stretched their selues forth beyonde the see Therfore I mourned for Iazer for y e vynyardes of Sibma w t greate sorow I poured my teares vpon Hesebon Eleale for all their songes were layde downe in their haruest gatheringe of their grapes Myrth and chere was gone out of y e felde vynyardes in so moch that no man was glad ner sunge There weÌ„te no treader in to the wynepresse their mery chere was layde downe Wherfore my bely roÌ„bled as it had bene a lute for Moabs sake myne inwarde membres for the bryckwalles sake For it happened thus also wheÌ„ Moab sawe that she was turned vpsyde downe she went vp an hie in to hir sanctuary to make hir prayer there but she might not 〈◊〉 helped This is the deuyce which the LORDE toke in honde at that tyme agaynst Moab But now the LORDE sayeth thus In thre yeare shal y e power of Moab w t their poÌ„pe which is greate be minished like as y e burtheÌ„ of an hyred seruaunte And as for y e remnaunt of them they shal be lesse then a fewe and not rekened moch worth The xvij Chapter THis is the heuy burtheÌ„ vpoÌ„ Damascus Beholde Damascus shal be nomore a cite but an heape of broken stones The cities of Aroer shal be waist The catel shal lie there nomaÌ„ shal fraye theÌ„ awaye Ephraim shal no more be stroÌ„ge Damascus shal no more be a kyngdome And as for y e glory of y e remnaunt of y e Sirians it shal be as the glory of the childreÌ„ of Israel saieth y e LORDE of hoostes At that tyme also shal y e glory of Iacob be very poore his fatnes leane It shal happeÌ„ to theÌ„ as when one sheareth in haruest which cutteth his handful w t the sickle when one gathreth y e sheaues together in the valley of Rephaim there remayneth yet some ears ouer Or as wheÌ„ one shaketh an olyue tre which fyndeth but two or thre olyue beries aboue in the toppe and foure or fyue in the braunches Thus the LORDE God of Israel hath spoken Then shal man coÌ„uerte agayne vnto his maker turne his eyes to the holy one of Israel And shal not turne to the aulters that are y e worke of his owne hoÌ„des nether shal he loke vpon groaues ymages which his fyngers haue wrought At the same tyme shal their stronge cities be desolate like as were once y e forsakeÌ„ plowes corne which they forsoke for feare of y e children of Israel So shalt thou o Damascus be desolate because thou hast forgotteÌ„ God y e Sauioure hast not called to remeÌ„braunce y e rock of thi streÌ„gth Wherfore thou hast also set a fayre plaÌ„te grafted a straunge braunch In the daye when thou diddest plante it it was greate and gaue soone the frute of thi sede But in the daye of haruest thou shalt reape
maner of corne by water Thou wast the comon marcket of al people Sidō is sory for it yee and all y e power of the see cōplaneth and saieth O y t I had neuer traueled with childe that I had neuer borne eny y t I had nether norished boye ner brought vp doughter As soone as Egipte perceaueth it she wil be as sory as Tirus it self Go ouer the see Mourne ye y t dwel in the Iles. Is not that the glorious cite which hath bene of longe antiquite whose natyues dwellinge farre of commende her so greatly ▪ Who hath deuysed soch thinges vpon Tirus the crowne of al cities whose marchaūtes and captaynes were the highest and principal of the worlde Euē the LORDE of hoostes hath deuysed it that he maye put downe al pompe and minish all the glory of the worlde Go thorow thy londe o thou doughter of the see as men go ouer the water and there is not a gyrdle more Thus the LORDE that remoueth the kingdomes and hath taken in hande agaynst that mightie Canaan to rote it out hath stretched out his honde ouer the see and sayde From hence forth shalt thou make no more myrth o thou doughter Sidon for thou shalt be put downe of the Cethēs Stonde vp therfore and go where the enemie wil carie the where thou shalt also haue no rest Beholde for thyne ensample The Caldees were soch a people that no man was like them Assur buylded them he set vp his castels palaces and broke them downe agayne And therfore mourne ye shippes of the see for youre power shal be throwne downe After that shal the lxx yeares of Tirus euen as longe as their kinges life was beforgotten And after lxx yeares it shal happē to Tirus as with an harlot that playeth vpon a lute Take thy lute saie men to her and go aboute the citie thou art yet an vnknowne wensche make pastyme with dyuerse balettes wherby ▪ thou mayest come in to acquantaunce Thus shal it happen after lxx yeares The LORDE shal uiset the citie of Tirus and it shal come agayne to hyr Marchaundyse and shal occupie with al the Kingdomes that be in the worlde But all hir occupiēge and wynnynge shal be halowed vnto the LORDE For then shal they laye vp nothinge behinde them nor vpon heapes but the marchaūdise of Tirus shal belōge vnto the citisens of the LORDE to the fedinge and susteninge of the hūgrie and to the clothinge of the aged The xxiiij Chapter BEholde y e LORDE shal waist and plage the worlde he shal make the face of the earth desolate scatre abrode y e inhabitours therof Then shal the prest be as the people the master as the seruaunt the dame like the mayde the seller like the byer he that lēdeth vpon vsury like him y t boroweth vpō vsury the creditoure as the detter Yee miserably shal y e worlde be waysted clene destroyed For y e LORDE hath so determed in himself The earth shal be heuye and decaye The face of y e earth shal perish fal awaye the proude people of y e worlde shal come to naught For y e earth is corrupte of hir indwellers For why they haue offended y e lawe chaunged the ordinaūces and made the euerlastinge testamēt of none effecte And therfore shal the curse deuoure the earth for they y t dwel therō haue synned wherfore they shal be brent also and those that remayne shal be very few The swete wyne shal mourne the grapes shal be weake and all y t haue bene mery in harte shal sighe The myrth of tabrettes shal be layde downe the chere of the ioyful shal ceasse and the pleasure of lutes shal haue an ende there shal no more wyne bedronke with myrth the beer shal be bytter to thē that drinke it the wicked cities shal be broken downe all houses shal be shut that no man maye come in In the stretes shal there be lift vp a crie because of wyne all mens chere shal vanish awaye and all ioye of the earth shal passe Desolacion shal remayne in the cities and the gates shal be smytten with waistnesse For it shal happen vnto all londes and to all people like as when a mā smyteth downe y e olyues y t are left vpon the tre or seketh after grapes when the wyne gatheringe is out And those same that remayne shal lift vp their voyce and be glad shal magnifie the glory of the LORDE euen from the see prayse the name of the LORDE God of Israel in the valeis and Ilōdes We heare songes sunge to the prayse of the rightuous frō al the endes of the worlde Therfore I must speake O my vnfrutfulnesse o my pouerte Wo is me all is ful of synneres which offende of purpose and malice And therfore o thou that dwellest vpon the earth there is at hōde for the feare pyt and snare Who so escapeth the terrible crie shal fall in to the pyt And yf he come out of the pyt he shal be takē with the snare For the wyndowes aboue shal be opened and the foundacion of the earth shal moue The earth shal geue a greate crack it shal haue asore ruyne and take an horrible fall The earth shal stacker like a dronken man and be takē awaye like a tent Hir misdedes shal lie so heuye vpō her y t she must fall and neuer rise vp agayne At the same tyme shal the LORDE mustre together the hie hooste aboue and y e kynges of the worlde vpon the earth These shal be coupled together as prisoners be and shal be shut in one warde and punished innumerable daies The Moone and the Sonne shal be ashamed when the LORDE of hoostes shal rule them at Ierusalem vpon the mount Sion before and with his excellent councel The xxv Chapter O LORDE thou art my God I wil prayse the and magnifie y e name For thou bringest marvelous thinges to passe acordinge to thine olde councels truly and stedfastly Thou makest of townes heapes of stone and of head cities broken walles The palaces of the wicked destroyest thou out of the citie that they shal neuer be buylded againe Therfore the very rude people must magnifie the and the cities of the cruel heithen must feare the. For thou art the poore mans helpe a strēgth for the neadful in his necessite Thou art a defence agaynst euel wether a schadowe agaynst the hete But vnto the presumptuous thou art like a strōge whyrle wynde that casteth downe the boostinge of the vngodly thou kepest men from heate with the shadow of the cloudes thou cuttest of the braunches of tyrauntes Morouer the LORDE of hoostes shal once prepare a feast for all people vpō the hill A plenteous costly pleasaunt feast of fat and welfed beastes of swete and most pure thinges Vpon the hill shal he take awaye the syde vale y t hāgeth before y e face of
sonne the Secretary And Rabsaches sayde vnto them Te◠Ezechias that the greate kinge of Assiria sayeth thus vnto him What presumpcion is this that thou trustest vnto Thou thinkest peraduēture that thou hast councel power ynough to mayntene this warre or els wher to trustest thou that thou castest thi self of fro me lo Thou puttest thy trust in a broken staff of rede I meane Egipte which he that leaneth vpon it goeth in to his honde shuteth him thorow Euen so is Pharao the kinge of Egipte vnto all thē that trust in him But yf thou woldest saye to me We trust in y e LORDE oure God A goodly god indede whose hie places aulteres Ezechias toke downe and commaunded Iuda and Ierusalem to worshipe only before the aulter Abyde the thou hast made a condicion with my lorde the kinge of the Assiriās that he shulde geue the two thousande horses Art thou able to set mē there vp Seinge now that thou canst not resist the power of the smallest prynce that my LORDE hath how darrest thou trust in y t charettes and horse men of Egipte Morouer thinkest thou y t I am come downe hither to destroye this londe with out the LORDES will The LORDE sayde vnto me go downe in to that londe that thou mayest destroye it Then sayde Eliachim Sobna Iohah vnto Rabsaches Speake to vs thy seruauntes we praye the in the Sirians language for we vnderstonde it well And speake not to vs in the Iewes tunge lest the folcke heare which lieth vpon the wall Then answered Rabsaches Thinke ye y t the kinge sent me to speake this only vnto you Hath he not sent me to thē also that lie vpō the wall that they be not cōpelled to eate their owne donge and drinke their owne stale with you And Rabsaches stode stiff cried with a loude voyce in the Iewes tūge and sayde Now take hede how the greate kinge of the Assiriās geueth you warnynge Thus saieth the kinge Let not Ezechias disceaue you for he shal not be able to delyuer you Morouer let not Ezechias comforte you in the LORDE when he saieth The LORDE with out doute shal defende vs shal not geue ouer this cite in to the hondes of the kinge of the Assiriās beleue him not But thus saieth the kinge of Assiria opteyne my fauoure enclyne to me So maye euery mā enioye his vynyardes and fygetrees and drinke the water of his cisterne vnto the tyme that I come myself bringe you in to a londe y t is like youre owne wher in is wheat and wyne which is both sowen with sede and planted with vynyardes Let not Ezechias disceaue you when he sayeth vnto you the LORDE shal delyuer us Might the goddes of the Gentiles kepe euerymans londe from the power of the kinge of the Assirians Wher is the God of hemath Arphad Where is the God of Sepharnaim And who was able to defende Samaria out of my honde Or which of all the goddes of the lōdes hath deliuered their countre out of my power so that the LORDE shulde delyuer Ierusalem fro my honde Vnto this Ezechias messaungers helde their tunges and answered not one worde for the kinge had charged them that they shulde geue him none answere So came Eliachim Elchias sonne the presidēt Sobna the scrybe and Ioah Asaphs sonne the Secretary vnto Ezechias with rente clothes tolde him the wordes of Rabsaches The xxxvij Chapter WHen Ezechias herde that he rente his clothes put on a sack cloth went in to the temple of the LORDE But he sent Eliachim the Presidēt Sobna the scrybe w t the eldest prestes cloothed in sack vnto the Prophet Esay the sonne of Amos they sayde vnto him Thus saieth Ezechias this is the daye of trouble of plage of wrath like as when a childe cometh to the byrth but the woman hath no power to bringe it forth The LORDE thy God no doute hath well considered the wordes of Rabsaches whom his lorde y e kinge of the Assirians hath sent to defie blaspheme the lyuynge God with soch wordes as the LORDE y e God hath herde rightwell And therfore lift vp y e prayer for the remnaunt that yet are left So the seruauntes of kinge Ezechias came to Esay And Esay gaue them this answere Saie thus vnto youre lorde thus saieth the LORDE Be not afrayde of the wordes that thou hast herde wherwith the kinge of Assiriās seruauntes haue blasphemed me Beholde I will cause a wynde go ouer him as soone as he heareth it he shal go agayne in to his countre there will I distroye him with the swerde Now when Rabsaches returned he founde y e kinge of Assiria layenge sege to Lobna for he had vnderstonde that he was departed from Lachis For there came a rumoure y t Taracha kinge of Ethiopia was come forth to warre agaynst him And when the kinge of Assiria herde y t he sent other messaungers to kinge Ezechias with this commaundement Saye thus to Ezechias kinge of Iuda Let not thy God disceaue the in whom thou hopest sayest Ierusalē shal not be geuē in to the hondes of the kinge of Assiria For thou knowest well how the kinges of Assiria haue handled all the londes that they haue subuerted hapest thou to escape Were the people of the Gētiles whom my progenitours cōquered deliuered at eny tyme thorow their goddes As namely Gozan Haran Rezeph the childrē of Eden which dwell at Thalassar Where is the kinge of Hemath the kinge of Arphad the kinge of the citie Sepharnaim Ena and Aua Now when Ezechias had receaued y e lettre of the messaungers red it he went vp into the house of the LORDE opened the lettre before y e LORDE And Ezechias prayed before the LORDE on this maner O LORDE of hoostes thou God of Israel which dwellest vpō Cherubin Thou art the God that only is God of all the kingdomes of the worlde for thou only hast created hauē earth Encline thine eare LORDE cōsidr◠open thine eyes o LORDE se and pondre all the wordes of Sēnacherib which hath sent his embassage to blaspheme the the lyuynge God It is true o LORDE that the kinges of Assiria haue cōquered all kingdomes londes cast their goddes in the fyre Notwithstōdinge those were no goddes but the workes of mens hondes of wodd or stone therfore haue they destroyed them Delyuer vs then o LORDE oure God from the hondes of Sennacherib y t all kingdomes of the earth maye knowe that thou only art y e LORDE Then Esay the sonne of Amos sent vnto Ezechias sayenge Thus saieth y e LORDE God of Israel Where as thou hast made thy prayer vnto me as touchinge Sennacherib this is the answere that the LORDE hath geuen concernynge him Despised art thou mocked o doughter of Sion he hath shaken his heade at the o doughter
tyme wil come that euery thinge which is in thine house and all that thy progenitours haue layde vp in stoare vnto this daye shal be caried to Babilon and nothinge left behinde This sayeth the LORDE Yee and parte of thy sonnes that shal come of the and whom thou shalt get shal be caried hence and become gelded chamberlaines in the kinge of Babilons courte Then sayde Ezechias to Esay Now God prospere his owne councel which thou hast tolde me He sayde morouer So that there be peace and faithfulnesse in my tyme. The xl Chapter BE of good chere my people be of good chere saieth youre God Conforte Ierusalem and tell her that hir trauale is at an ende that hir offence is pardoned that she hath receaued of the LORDES honde sufficient correction for all hir synnes A voyce crieth Prepare y e waye for the LORDE in the wyldernesse make straight y e path for oure God in the deserte Let all valleis be exalted and euery mountayne and hill be layde lowe What so is croked let it be made straight and let the rough places be made playne feldes For the glory of the LORDE shal apeare all flesh shal se it for why y e mouth of the LORDE hath spoken it The same voyce spake Now crie And I sayde what shal I crie Then spake it that all flesh is grasse and that all the bewtie the rof is as the floure of the felde When the grasse is wytthered the floure falleth awaye Euen so is the people as grasse when the breath of the LORDE bloweth vpon them Neuerthelesse whether the grasse wyther or the floure fade awaye Yet the worde of oure God endureth for euer Morouer the voyce cried thus Go vp vnto the hill o Sion thou that bringest good tidinges lift vp thy voyce with power o thou preacher Ierusalem Lift it vp without feare and say vnto the cities of Iuda Beholde youre God beholde the LORDE euen the almightie sha◠come with power beare rule with his arme Beholde he bringeth his treasure with him and his workes go before him He shal fede his flock like an hirdman He shal gather the lambes together with his arme and carie them in his bosome shal kindly intreate those that beare yonge Who hath holden the waters in his fist Who hath measured heauen with his spanne ▪ and hath comprehended all the earth of y e worlde in thre fyngers Who hath weyed the mountaynes and hilles Who hath refourmed the mynde of the LORDE Or who is of his councel to teach him At whom hath he asked coūcel to make him vnderstōde and to lerne him the waye of iudgment to teach him science and to enstructe him in the waye of vnderstōdinge Beholde all people are in cōparison of him as a droppe to a bucket full and are counted as the leest thinge y t the balaunce weyeth Beholde y e Iles are in comparison of him as the shadowe of the Sonne beame Libanus is not sufficiēt to ministre fyre for his offringe and all the beastes therof are not ynough to one sacrifice All people in comparison of him are rekened as nothinge yee vayne vanite and emptynesse To whom then will ye licke God or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him Shal the caruer make him a carued ymage and shal the goldsmyth couer him with golde or cast him in to a fourme of syluer plates Morouer shal the ymage maker y t the pooreman which is disposed maye haue somthinge to set vp also seke out and chose a tre that is not rotten and carue therout an ymage y t moueth not Knowe ye not this Herde ye neuer of it Hath it not bene preached vnto you sence the begynnynge Haue ye not bene enfourmed of this sence the foundacion of y e earth was layde That he sytteth vpon the Circle of the worlde and that all the inhabitours of the worlde are in cōparison of him but as greshoppers That he spredeth out the heauēs as a coueringe that he stretcheth them out as ▪ a tent to dwell in That he bringeth princes to nothinge and the iudges of the earth to dust so that they be not planted nor sowen agayne nether their stocke rooted agayne in the earth For as soone as he bloweth vpon them they wither fade awaye like the strawe in a whirle wynde To whom now wil ye licken me whom shal I be like saieth the holyone Lift vp youre eyes an hie and considre Who hath made those thinges which come out by so greate heapes and he can call them all by their names For there is nothinge hyd vnto the greatnesse of his power strength and might How maye then Iacob thinke or how maye Israel saye My wayes are hyd from the LORDE and my God knoweth not of my iudgmentes Knowest thou not or hast thou not herde that the euerlastinge God the LORDE which made all the corners of the earth is nether weery nor faynt and that his wisdome can not be comprehended but that he geueth strength vnto the weery and power vnto the faynte Children are weery and faynt and the strongest men fall But vnto them that haue the LORDE before their eyes shal strength be encreased Aegles wynges shal growe vpon them When they runne they shal not fall and when they go they shal not be weery The xlj Chapter BE still ye I londes and herken vnto me Be stronge ye people Come hither and shew youre cause we will go to the lawe together Who rayseth vp y e iuste from the rysinge of the Sonne and calleth him to go forth Who casteth downe the people and subdueth the kinges before him that he maye throwe them all to the groūde with his swearde and scatre them like stuble with his bowe He foloweth vpon them and goeth safely himself and cometh in no footpath with his fete Who hath made created and called the generacions from the begynnynge Euen I the LORDE which am the first and with the last Beholde ye Iles that ye maye feare and ye endes of the earth that ye maye be abasshed draw nye and come hither Euery man hath exorted his neghboure and brother and bydden him be stronge The Smyth conforted the moulder the Ironsmyth the hammerman sayenge It shal be good that we fasten this cast worke and then they fastened it with nales that it shulde not be moued And thou Israel my seruaunt Iacob my electe sede of Abrahā my beloued whom I led from the endes of the earth by the honde For I called the from farre saide vnto the Thou shalt be my seruaunt I haue chosen the will not cast y e awaye be not afrayde for I wil be with ye. Lake not behinde y e for I wil be thy God to strēgth y e helpe y e to kepe y e with this right hōde of myne Beholde all they that resist the shal come to confucion and shame
for Ierusalēs sake I will not ceasse vntill their rightuousnes breake forth as y e shyninge light their health as a burnynge lampe Then shal the Gētiles se thy rightuousnesse all kinges thy glory Thou shalt be named with a new name which the mouth of y e LORDE shal shewe Thou shalt be a crowne in the honde of the LORDE and a glorious garlāde in the hōde of thy God From this tyme forth thou shalt neuer be called the forsakē thy lōde shal nomore be called the wildernesse But thou shalt be called Hephziba that is my beloued y e londe Beula that is a maried womā for y e LORDE loueth y e thy lōde shal be inhabited And like as yonge mā taketh a doughter to mariage so shal God mary himself vnto y e sonnes And as a brydegrome is glad of his bryde so shal God reioyse ouer the. I wil set watchmē vpō thy walles o Ierusalem which shall nether ceasse daye nor night to preach y e LORDE And ye also shall not kepe him close nor leaue to speake of hī vntill Ierusalē be set vp made the prayse of the worlde The LORDE hath sworne by his right honde by his stronge arme that frō hence forth he wil not geue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies ner y e wyne wherī thou hast laboured to be drynke for y e straungers But they that haue gathered in the corne shal eate it geue thankes to the LORDE they that haue borne in the wyne shall drynke it in the court of my Sanctuary Stōde back departe a sunder ye y t stonde vnder y e gate make rowme ye people repayre the strete take awaye y e stones set out a tokē for the people Beholde y e LORDE proclameth in the endes of the worlde tel y e doughter Siō se thy Saluaciō cometh beholde he bringeth his treasure w t him his workes go before him For they whō y e LORDE delyuereth shal be called the holy people as for the thou shalt be named the greatly occupied and not the forsaken The lxiij Chapter WHat is he this that cometh from Edom with stayned reade clothes of Bosra which is so costly cloth cometh in so neēbly with all his strēgth I am he y t teacheth rightuousnes am of power to helpe Wherfore thē is thy clothinge reade thy raymēt like his y t treadeth in y e wyne presse I haue troddē the presse my self alone of all people there was not one with me Thus haue I trodē downe myne enemies in my wrath and set my fete vpō them in my indignacion And their bloude sprange vpō my cloothes so haue I stayned all my rayment For the daye of vengeaūce that I haue takē in honde the yeare of my delyueraunce is come I loked aboute me and there was no mā to shewe me eny helpe I fel downe and no man helde me vp Thē I helde me by myne owne arme my feruētnesse susteyned me And thus haue I troden downe the people in my wrath and bathed them in my displeasure In so moch that I haue shed their bloude vpon the earth I will declare the goodnesse of the LORDE yee and the prayse of the LORDE for all that he hath gyuen vs for the greate good y t he hath done for Israel which he hath gyuen them of his owne fauoure acordinge to the multitude of his louynge kindnesses For he sayde These no doute wil be my people and no shrēkinge children and so he was their Sauioure In their troubles he forsoke thē not but the angel that went forth from his presence delyuered them Of very loue kindnesse that he had vnto them redemed he them He hath borne them and caried them vp euer sence the worlde begāne But after they prouoked him to wrath and vexed his holy minde he was their enemie and fought agaynst them him self Yet remēbred he the olde tyme of Moses his people How he brought them from the water of the see as a shepherde doth with his shepe how he had geuen his holy sprete amonge them how he had led Moses by the right honde with his glorious arme how he had deuyded the water before them wherby he gat him self an euerlastinge name how he led them in the depe as an horse is led in the playne that they shulde not stomble The sprete of the LORDE led them as a tame beast goeth in the felde Thus o God hast thou led thy people to make thy self a glorious name with all Loke downe then from heauē and beholde the dwellinge place of thy sanctuary thy glory How is it y t thy gelousy thy strength the multitude of thy mercies and thy louynge kyndnesse wyl not be entreated of vs Yet art thou o r father For Abraham knoweth vs not nether is Israel acquanted with vs. But thou LORDE art oure father and redemer and thy name is euer lastinge O LORDE wherfore hast thou led vs out of thy waye wherfore hast thou hardened oure hertes that we feare the not Be at one with vs agayne for thy seruauntes sake y t are of the generaciō of thy heretage Thy people hath had but litle of thy Sanctuary in possessiō for oure enemies haue takē it in And we are become euen as we were from the beginnynge but thou art not their LORDE for they haue not called vpon thy name The lxiiij Chapter O That thou woldest cleue the heauen in sonder come downe that the mountaynes might melt awaye at thy presence like as at an hore fyre and that the malicious might boyle as the water doth vpon the fyre Wherby thy name might be knowne amōge thine enemies y t the Gētiles might trēble before ye. That thou mightest come downe with thy wonderous straunge workes then shulde the hilles melt at thy presence For sence the begynnynge of the worlde there was none excepte thou o God that herde or perceaued nether hath eny eye sene what thou dost for thē that put their trust in the. Thou helpest him that doth right with cherefulnesse and them that thynke vpon thy wayes But lo thou art angrie for we offende and haue bene euer in synne and there is not one whole We are all as an vnclene thinge all oure rightuousnesses are as the clothes stayned with the floures of a woman we fall euerychone as the leaf for oure synnes carie vs awaye like the wynde There is no man that calleth vpon thy name that stondeth vp to take holde by the. Therfore hydest thou thy face from vs and consumest vs because of oure synnes But now o LORDE thou father of ours we are the claye and thou art oure potter and we all are the worke of thy hondes Be not to sore displeased o LORDE and kepe not oure offences to lōge in thy remembraunce but considre that we all are thy people
them awaye eueÌ„ as thou hast plucked me because of all my wickednesse For my sorow is very greate and my herte is heuy The II. Chapter ALas how hath y e LORDE darckened the doughter of Sion so sore in his wrath As for the honoure of Israel he hath casten it downe from heauen How happeneth it that he remembred not his owne fote stole when he was angrie The LORDE hath cast downe all the glory of Iacob without eny fauoure All the stronge places of the doughter Iuda hath he broken in his wrath throwne them downe to the grounde hir kyngdome hir prynces hath he suspended In the wrath of his indignacion he hath broken all the horne of Israel he hath with draweÌ„ his right honde from the enemie yee a flame of fyre is kyndled in Iacob hath consumed vp all rounde aboute He hath bent his bowe like an enemie he hath fastened his right honde as an aduersary and euery thinge that was pleasauÌ„t to se he hath smyten it downe He hath poured out his wrath like a fyre in to the tabernacle of the doughter â—ion The LORDâ— is become like as it were an enemie he hath cast downe Israel all his places yee all his stronge holdes hath he destroyed and fylled the doughter of Iuda w t moch sorow and heuynesse Hir tabernacle which was like a garden of pleasure hath he destroyed hir hie soleÌ„pne feastes hath he put downe The LORDE hath brought it so to passe that the hie solempne feastes and Sabbathes in Sion are clene forgotteÌ„ In his heuy displeasure hath he made the kynge prestes to be despised The LORDE hath forsaken his owne aulter is wroth with his owne Sanctuary hath geuen the walles of their towres in to the hondes of the enemie Their enemies made a noyse in the house of the LORDE as it had bene in a solempne feast daye The LORDE thought to breake downe the walles of the doughter Sion he spred out his lyne drewe not in his honde till he had destroyed them Therfore mourne the turrettes and the broken walles together Hir portes are casten downe to the grounde hir barres are broken smytten in sonder hir kynge prynces are caried awaye to the GeÌ„tiles They haue nether lawe ner prophetes ner yet eny vision from the LORDE The Senatours of the doughter Sion sit vpon the grounde in sylence they haue strowed aszshes vpon their heades and gyrded them selues with sackcloth The maydens of Ierusalem hange downe their heades to the grounde Myne eyes begynne to fayle me thorow wepinge my body is disquieted my leueris poured vpon the earth for the greate hurte of my people seynge the children and babes dyd swowne in the stretes of the cite Euen when they spake to their mothers where is meate and drynke for whyle they so sayde they fell downe in the stretes of the cite like as they had bene wounded and some dyed in their mothers bosome What shal I saye of the O thou doughter Ierusalem to whom shall I lickeÌ„ the To whom shal I coÌ„pare the o thou doughter Sion to comforte the withall Thy hurte is like a mayne see who maye heale the Thy prophetes haue loked out vayne folish thinges for the they haue not shewed the of thy wickednesse to kepe the from captiuyte but haue ouerladen the and thorow falsede scatred the abrode All they that go by the clappe their hondes at the hissinge and wagginge their heades vpon the doughter Ierusalem and saye is this the cite that men call so fayre wherin the whole londe reioyseth All thine enemies gape vpon the whisperinge and bytinge their teth sayenge let vs deuoure for the tyme that we loked for is come we haue founde and sene it The LORDE hath fulfilled the thinge that he was purposed to do and perfourmed that he had deuysed longe agoo he hath destroyed and not spared He hath caused thine aduersary to tryumphe ouer the and set vp the horne of thine enemie Let thine hert crie vnto the LORDE O thou cite of the doughter Sion let thy teares ruÌ„ne downe like a ryuer daye night rest not let not the aple of thine eye leaue of Stonde vp and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night poure out thine heâ—â— like water before the LORDE lift vp thine hondes for the lyues of thy yonge children that dye of honger in the stretes Beholde O LORDE considre why hast thou gathered me vp so clene Shal the women then eate their owne frute euen children of a spanne longe Shal the prestes and prophetes be slayne thus in the Sanctuary of the LORDE Yonge olde lye behinde the stretes vpon the grounde my maydens yonge men are slayne with the swearde whom thou in the daye of thy wrothfull indignacion hast put to death Yee euen thou hast put them to death not spared them My neghbours that are rounde aboute me hast thou called as it were to a feast daye so that in the daye of the LORDES wrath none escaped nether was eny left behinde Those that I had brought vp norisshed hath myne enemy destroyed The III. Chapter I Am the maÌ„ that thorow the rodd of his wrath haue experieÌ„ce of misery He droue me forth and led me yee into darcknesse but not in to light Agaynst me only he turneth his honde layeth it euer vpon me My flesh my skynne hath he made olde and my bones hath he brussed He hath buylded rounde aboute me closed me in with gall and trauayle He hath set me in darcknesse as they that be deed for euer He hath so hedged me in that I can not get out hath layed heuy lynckes vpon me Though I crie call piteously yet heareth he not my prayer He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones made my pathes croked He layeth waite for me like a Bere and as a lyon in a hole He hath marred my wayes and brokeÌ„ me in peces he hath layed me waist altogether He hath bent his bowe and made me as it were a marck to shute at The arowes of his quyuer hath he shot euen in to my reynes I am laughed to scorne of all my people they make songes vpon me all y e daye loÌ„ge He hath fylled me with bytternesse geuen me wormwod to drynke He hatâ— smytten my teth in peces rolled me in the dust He hath put my soule out of rest I forget all good thinges I thought in myself I am vndone there is no hope for me in the LORDE O remembre yet my mysery and my trouble the wormwod and the gall Yee thou shalt remeÌ„bre them for my soule melteth awaye in me Whyle I coÌ„sidre these thinges in my hert I get a hope
to be an abhominacion curse and synne like as it hath happened vnto oure fathers also because of all their wickednesse and departynge from the. O Israel heare the commaundementes of life pondre them well with thine eares that thou mayest lerne wysdome But how happeneth it Israel that thou art in thyne enemies lōde thou art waxen olde in a straūge countre and defyled with the deed Why art thou become like them that go downe to their graues Euē because thou hast forsaken the well of wysdome For yf thou haddest walked in the waye of God truly thou shuldest haue remayned still safe ī thine owne londe O lerne then where discrecion is where vertu is where vnderstōdinge is that thou mayest knowe also frō whence cōmeth longe life a necessary lyuynge the light of the eyes quyetnes Who euer foūde out hir place or who came euer in to hir treasures Where are y e prynces of the Heithen become and soch as ruled the beestes vpon the earth They that had their pastyme with the foules of the ayre they that hoorded vp syluer and golde wherin men trust so moch and made no ende of their gatheringe What is worth of them that coyned siluer and were so carefull and coude not bringe their workes to passe They be roted out and gone downe to hell and other men are come vp in their steade Yonge men haue sene light and dwelt vpon earth but the waye of reformacion haue they not knowne ner vnderstonde the pathes therof nether haue their children receaued it yee right farre is it frō thē It hath not bene herde of in the lōde of Canaan nether hath it bene sene at Theman The Agarenes sought after wisdome but that which is earthly like as the marchauntes of the lōde do They of Theman are connynge also they laboure for wisdome vnderstondinge but y e waye of true wisdome they knowe not nether do they thynke vpon the pathes therof O Israel how greate is the house of God and how large is the place of his possession Greate is he and hath none ende hye and vnmeasurable What is become of those famouse giauntes that were so greate of bodyes and so worthy men of warre Those had not the LORDE chosen nether haue they founde the waye of reformacion therfore were they destroyed and for so moch as they had no wisdome they perished because of their foolishnesse Who hath gone vp in to heauen to take wisdome there brought her downe frō the cloudes Who hath gone ouer the see to fynde her hath chosen her aboue golde and so brought her hither No man knoweth the wayes of wisdome nether is there eny y t can seke out hir pathes But he that woteth all thynges knoweth her he hath founde her out with his foreknowlege This same is he which prepared the earth at the begynnynge fylled it with all maner of foules beestes When he sendeth out the light it goeth whē he calleth it agayne it obeyeth hī w t feare The starres kepe their watch geue their light yee and y t gladly When he calleth them they saye here we be And so with chearfulnes they shewe light vnto him y t made thē This is oure God ād there shall none other be cōpared vnto him It is he y t hath founde out all wisdome and hath geuen her vnto Iacob his seruaunt to Israel his beloued Afterwarde dyd he shewe himself vpon earth and dwelt amonge men The IIII. Chapter THis is the boke off the commaundemētes of God and the lawe y e endureth for euer All they y t kepe it shall come to life but soch as forsake it shall come to death Turne the o Iacob and take holde of it walke by this waye thorow his brightnesse and shyne Geue not thyne honoure to another and thy worshipe to a straunge people O Israel how happie are we seīge that God hath shewed vs soch thynges as are pleasaūt vnto him Be of good cheare thou people of God o thou awnciēt Israel Now are ye solde amonge the Heithen howbeit not for youre vtter destruccion but because ye prouoked God the LORDE to wrath and displeasure therfore were ye delyuered vnto vnto youre enemies For ye displeased the euerlastinge God that made you offerynge vnto deuels and not God Ye haue forgottē him that brought you vp ād youre nurse haue ye greued o. Ierusalem When she sawe that the wrath off God was commynge vpon you she sayde Herkē o ye that dwell aboute Sion for God hath brought me into greate heuynesse ād why I se the captyuyte of my people of my sonnes and doughters which the euerlastynge God will brynge vpon them With ioye dyd I norish them but now must I leaue them with wepynge and sorow Let no man reioyce ouer me wyddowe ād forsaken which for the synnes off my children am desolate of euery man For why they departed from the lawe of God they wolde not knowe his rightuousnes ner walke in the waye off his cōmaundementes and as for the pathes off the treuth and godlynesse they had no lust to go in them O ye dwellers aboute Sion come and let vs call to remembraunce the captiuyte that the euerlastinge God hath brought vpon my sonnes and my doughters He hath brought a people vpon them from farre an vncurteous people and of a straunge lāguage which nether regarde the olde ner pyte the yonge These haue caried awaye the deare beloued of my wyddowes leauynge me alone both desolate and childlesse But alas what can I helpe you Now he y t hath brought these plages vpon you delyuer you also frō the hondes of youre enemies Go youre waye O my children go youre waye for I am desolate and forsaken I haue put of the clothinge of peace and put vpon me the sack cloth off prayer and for my tyme I will call vpon the most hyest Be off good cheare o my children crie vnto the LORDE and he shal delyuer you from the power of the prynces youre enemies For verely I haue euer a good hope off youre prosperous health yee a very gladnesse is come vpon me from the holy one because of the mercy that ye shall haue off oure euerlastinge Sauioure With mournynge and wepinge dyd I let you go fro me but with ioye and perpetuall gladnesse shall the LORDE brynge you agayne vnto me Like as the neghbours of Sion sawe youre captyuite from God Euē so shal they also se shortly youre health in God which shal come on you with greate honoure and euerlastinge worshipe O my children suffre paciētly the wrath that shal come vpon you For the enemie hath persecuted the but shortly thou shalt se his destruccion and shalt treade vpon his necke My derlinges haue gone rough harde wayes for they are led awaye as a flocke that is scatred abrode with the enemies But be of good cōforte o my children crie vnto the LORDE For he that
Therfore beare thine owne shame thou that in synne hast ouercome thy sisters seinge thou hast done so abhominably that they were better then thou Be ashamed therfore I saye and beare thine owne confucion thou that makest thy sisters good women As for their captiuyte namely the captiuyte of Sodoma and hir dougters the captiuyte of Samaria and hir doughters I wil bringe them agayne so will I also bringe agayne thy captiuyte amōge them that thou mayest take thine owne confucion vpon the and be ashamed of all that thou hast done and to comforte them Thus thy sisters namely Sodoma and hir doughters Samaria and hir doughters with y e self thy doughters shal be brought agayne to youre olde estate Whē thou wast in thy pryde and before thy wickednesse came to light thou woldest not heare speake of thy sister Sodoma vntill the tyme that the Sirians with all their townes and the Philistynes with all that lye rounde aboute them brought the to shame and confucion that thou mightest beare thine owne fylthynes and abhominacion saieth the LORDE For thus saieth the LORDE God I shulde by right deale with the as thou hast done Thou hast despysed the ooth and broken the couenaunte Neuertheles I wil remembre the couenaunt that I made with them thy youth in so moch that it shall be an euerlastinge couenaunt So that thou also remembre thy wayes and be ashamed of thē then shalt thou receaue of me thy elder and yonger sisters whom I wil make thy doughters and that besyde thy couenaunt And so I wil renue my couenaunt with the y t thou mayest knowe that I am the LORDE that thou mayest thincke vpō it be ashamed and excuse thine owne confucion nomore when I haue forgeuen the all that thou hast done saieth the LORDE God The XVII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man put forth a darcke speakynge and a parable vnto the house of Israel and saye Thus saieth the LORDE God There came a greate Aegle with greate wynges yee w t mightie longe wynges and full of fethers of dyuerse colours vpon the mount of Libanus and toke a braunch from a Cedre tre and brake of the toppe of his twygge and caried it in to the londe of Canaan and set it in a cite of marchauntes He toke also a braunch of the londe and planted it in a frutefull grounde he brought it vnto greate waters set it as a will ye tre therby Then dyd it growe and was a greate wyne stocke but lowe by the grounde thus there came of it a vyne and it brought forth blossomes spred out braunches But there was another Aegle a greate one which had greate wynges and many fethers and beholde y e rotes of this vyne had an hūger after him and spred out his braunches towarde him to water his frutes Neuertheles it was plāted vpon a good grounde besyde greate waters so that by reason it shulde haue brought out braunches and frute and haue bene a goodly vyne Speake thou therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Shal this vyne prospere shal not his rotes be pluckte out his frute broken of his grene braunches wythereed and fade awaye yee without ether stronge arme or many people shal it be plucked vp by the rotes Beholde it was planted shall it prospere therfore Shall it not be dryed vp and withered yee euen in the shutinge out of his blossomes as soone as y e east wynde bloweth Morouer the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Speake to that frauwarde housholde knowe ye not what these thinges do signifie Tell them Beholde the kinge of Babilon came to Ierusalem and toke the kinge his prynces and ledde them to Babilon He toke of the kinges sede and made a couenaunt with him and toke an ooth of him The prynces of the londe toke he with him also that the londe might be holden in subieccion and not to rebelle but kepe the couenaunt and fulfill it But he fell from him sent his Embassitours in to Egipte that he might haue horses moch people Shulde that prospere Shulde he be kepte safe that doth soch thinges Or shulde he escape that breaketh his couenaunt As truly as I lyue saieth the LORDE God He shal dye at Babilon in y e place where the kinge dwelleth that made him kinge whose ooth he hath despised and whose couenaunt he hat broken Nether shall Pharao with his greate hoost and multitude of people maynteyne him in the warre when they cast vp diches and set vp bulworkes to destroye moch people For seinge he hath despysed the ooth and broken the couenaunt where as he yet gaue his honde thervpon and done all these thinges he shall not escape Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God As truly as I lyue I will bringe myne ooth that he hath despysed and my couenaunt that he hath broken vpon his owne heade I wil cast my net aboute him and catch him in my yarne To Babilon will I cary him there will I punysh him because of the greate offence that he made me As for those y t fle from him out of y e hoost they shal be slayne with the swearde The residue shal be scatred towarde all the wyndes and ye shal knowe that I the LORDE haue spoken it Thus saieth the LORDE God I will also take a braunch from an hie Cedre tre and will set it and take the vppermost twygge that yet is but tendre and plante it vpon an hie hill Namely vpon the hie hill of Sion will I plante it that it maye bringe forth twygges and geue frute and be a greate Cedre tre so that all maner of foules maye byde in it and make their nestes vnder the shadowe of his braunches And all the trees of the felde shall knowe that I the LORDE haue brought downe the hie tre and set the lowe tre vp that I haue dryed vp the grene tre and made the drye tre to florish Euen I the LORDE y t spake it haue also brought it to passe The XVIII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me on this maner what meane ye by this comon prouerbe that ye vse in the londe of Israel sayenge The fathers haue eaten soure grapes and the childrēs teth are set on edge As truly as I lyue saieth y e LORDE God ye shal vse this by worde nomore in Israel Beholde all soules are myne Like as the father is myne so is y e sonne myne also The soule that synneth shal dye Yf a man be godly and do the thinge that is equall right he eateth not vpon the hilles he lifteth not his eyes vp to the Idols of Israel he defyleth not his neghbours wife he medleth w t no menstruous woman he greueth no body he geueth his detter his pledge agayne he taketh none other mans good by violēce he parteth his mete with the hongrie he clotheth the naked he lendeth
felde Yee vnto BabiloÌ„ shalt thou go there shalt thou be delyuered and there the LORDE shal lowse the from the honde off thine enemies Now also are there many people gathered together agaynst the sayenge what Sion is cursed we shall se oure lust vpon her But they knowe not the thoughtes off the LORDE they vnderstonde not his councell that shall gather them together as the sheeues in the barne Therfore get the vp o thou doughter Sion and throsshe out the corne For I wil make thy horne yron and thy clawes brasse that thou mayest grynde many people their goodes shalt thou appropriate vnto the LORDE and their substaunce vnto the ruler off the whole worlde The V. Chapter AFter that shalt thou be robbed thy selff o thou robbers doughter they shal laye sege agaynst vs and smyte the iudge off Israel with a rodde vpon the cheke And thou Bethleem Ephrata art litle amonge the thousandes off Iuda Out off the shal come one vnto me which shall be y e gouernoure iÌ„ Israel whose outgoinge hath bene from the begynnynge and from euerlastinge In the meane whyle he plageth them for a season vntill the tyme that she which shall beare haue borne then shall the remnaunt of his brethren be conuerted vnto y e children of Israel He shal stonde fast and geue fode in the strength of the LORDE and in the victory of the name of y e LORDE his God and when they be conuerted he shall be magnified vnto the farthest partes of the worlde Then shal there be peace so that the Assirian maye come in to oure londe and treade in oure houses We shall brynge vp seuen shepherdes and viij prynces vpoÌ„ them these shal subdue the londe of Assur w t the swerde and the londe of Nymrod with their naked weapens Thus shal he delyuer vs from the AssiriaÌ„ when he commeth within oure lande and setteth his fote within oure borders And the remnaunt of Iacob shal be amonge the multitude of people as the dew of the LORDE and as the droppes vpon the grasse that tarieth for no man and waiteth of no body Yee the residue of Iacob shal be amonge the Gentiles and the multitude off people as the lyon amonge the beestes of y e wodde and as the lyons whelpe amonge a flocke of shepe which when he goeth thorow treadeth downe teareth in peces and there is no man that can helpe Thyne honde shal be lift vp vpon thine enemies and all thine aduersaries shal perish The tyme shal come also sayeth the LORDE that I wil take thine horses from the destroye thy charettes I will breake downe the cities off thy londe and ouerthrowÌ„e all thy stronge holdes All witchcraftes will I rote out of thyne hande there shall no mo soythsayenges be within the. Thine Idols and thyne ymages will I destroye out of y t so that thou shalt nomore bowe thy self vnto the workes of thyne owne hondes Thy groues wil I plucke vp by the rotes breake downe thy cities Thus will I be aueÌ„ged also vpon all Heithen that will not heare The VI Chapter HErken now what the LORDE sayeth Vp reproue the mountaynes and let the hilles heare thy voyce O Heare the punyshment of the LORDE ye mountaynes and ye mightie foundacioÌ„s of y e earth for the LORDE wil reproue his people aÌ„d reason with Israel O my people what haue I done vnto the or wherin haue I hurte the geue me answere Because I brought the froÌ„ the londe of Egipte and delyuered the out of the house of bondage Because I made Moses Aaron and Miriam to lede the Remembre o my people what Balach the kynge of Moab had ymagined agaynst the aÌ„d what answere that Balaam the sonne of Be or gaue him from Sethim vnto Galgal y t ye maye knowe the louynge kyndnesses of y e LORDE What acceptable thynge shal I offre vnto the LORDE shall I bowe mykne to the hye God Shal I come before him w t brent offeringes and with calues of a yeare olde Hath the LORDE a pleasure in many thousand rammes or innumerable streames of oyle Or shal I geue my firstborne for myne of fences and the frute of my body for the synne of my soule I wil shewe the O maÌ„ what is good and what the LORDE requyreth off the Namely to do right to haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse to be lowly and to walke with thy God that thou mayest be called a cite of the LORDE that thy name maye be rightuousnesse Heare o ye trybes who wolde els geue you soch warnynge Shulde I not be displeased for the vnrightuous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is minished Or shâ—lde I iusâ—fie the false balaunces and the bagge of disceatfull weightes amonge those that be full off riches vnrightuously gotten where the citesyns deale with falsede speake lyes and haue disceatfull tunges in their mouthes Therfore I will take in honde to punysh the and to make the desolate because of thy synnes Thou shalt eate not haue ynough yee thou shalt bringe thy self downe Thou shalt fle but not escape aÌ„d those y t thou woldest saue wil I delyuer to the swerde Thou shalt sowe but not reape thou shalt presse out olyues but oyle shalt thou not haue to anoynte thy self withall thou shalt treade out swete must but shalt drynke no wyne Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri all the customes of the house of Achab ye folowe their pleasures therfore wil I make the waist cause y e inhabiters to be abhorred O my people thus shalt thou beare thine owne shame The VII Chapter WO is me I am become as one that goeth a gleenynge in the haruest There are no mo grapes to eate yet wolde I fayne with all my herte haue of the best frute There is not a godlyman vpoÌ„ earth there is not one rightuous amoÌ„ge meÌ„ They laboure all to shed bloude euery maÌ„ hunteth his brother to death yet they saye they do well when they do euell As the prince wil so sayeth the iudge y t he maye do him a pleasure agayne The greate maÌ„ speaketh what his herte desyreth y e hearers alowe him The best off theÌ„ is but as a thistle and the most rightuous of them is but as a bâ—ere in the hedge But when the daye of thy preachers commeth y t thâ—u shalt be vysited theÌ„ shal they be waisted awaye Let no man beleue his frende ner put his confideÌ„ce in a prince Kepe the porte of thy mouth from her y t lieth in thy bosome for y e sonne shal put his father to dishonoure the doughter shal ryse agaynst her mother y e doughter in lawe agaynst hir mother in lawe and a mans foes shal be euen they of his owne housholde Neuerthelesse I wil loke vp vnto y e LORDE I wil paciently abyde God my sauioure my God shal heare me
that tyme hath kepte himself They that be fallen in to harme are soch as haue workes saith vnto the Most mightie Knowe this therfore that they which be left behynde are more blessed then they that be deed This is the meanynge of the vision Where as thou sawest a man commynge vp from the depe of the see y e same is he whom God the Hyest hath kepte a greate season which by his owne self shall delyuer his creature he shal ordre theÌ„ that are left behynde And where as thou sawest y t out of his mouth there came a blast of wynde fyre storme how y t he lift vp nether swerde ner weapen but y t the ruszshinge in of him destroyed the whole multitude y t came to fight agaynst him it signifieth that the dayes come whan God wyll delyuer theÌ„ y t are vpon earth in a traunce of mynde shall he come vpon theÌ„ y t dwell in the earth And one shal vndertake to fight agaynst another one cite agaynst another one place agaynst another one people agaynst another one realme agaynst another Whan this commeth to passe then shal the tokens come that I shewed the before and theÌ„ shal my sonne be declared whoÌ„ thou sawest clymme vp as a maÌ„ And whan all y e people heare his voyce euery man shal in their owne loÌ„de leaue the battayll y t they haue one agaynst another and an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together as they that be willinge to come and to ouer come him by fightinge But he shal stoÌ„de vpon the toppe of the mount Sion Neuertheles Sion shall come shall be shewed beynge prepared buylded for all men like as thou sawest the hill grauen forth without eny haÌ„des But my sonne shal rebuke the people y t are come for their wickednes with the tempest and for their euell ymaginacions and their paynes wherwith they shal be punyshed are lickened vnto the flamme and with out eny laboure shal he destroye them euen by the lawe which is coÌ„pared vnto the fyre And where as thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable people vnto hiÌ„ those are the ten trybes which were caried awaye presoners out of their owne londe in the tyme of Oseas the kynge whom Salmanasar the kinge of Assiria toke presoner and caried them ouer y e water and so came they in to another londe But they gaue them this councell y t they shulde leaue the multitude of the HeitheÌ„ and to go forth in to a farther countre where neuer mankynde dwelt that they might there kepe their statutes which they neuer kepte in their owne lande And so they entred in at the narow passages of the water of Euphrates and God shewed tokens for theÌ„ and helde styll the floude tyll they were passed ouer for thorow that countre there was a greate waye namely of a yeare and an half iourney for the same region is called Asareth Then dwelt they there vnto the latter tyme and when they come forth agayne y e Hyest shall holde styll the sprynges of the streame agayne that they maye go thorow therfore sawest thou the multitude with peace And they that be left behynde of thy people are those that be founde within my border Now whan he destroyeth the multitude that is gathered together he shal defeÌ„de his people that remayne and then shal he shew them greate wonders Then sayde I O LORDE LORDE shew me this wherfore haue I sene the man commynge vp from the depe of the see And he sayde vnto me Like as thou caÌ„st nether seke out ner knowe these thinges that are in the depe of the see euen so maiest thou not se my sonne or those that be with him but in the tyme of the daye This is the interpretacion of the dreame which thou sawest therfore thou onely art here lightened for thou hast forsaken thine owne lawe and applied thy diligence vnto myne and sought it Thy life hast thou ordred in wyszdome and hast called vnderstondinge thy mother and therfore haue I shewed the y e treasure of the Hyest After thre dayes I wil shew the more and talke with the at more large yee heuy and wonderous thinges wyl I declare vnto the. Then wente I forth in to y e felde geuynge prayse and thankes greatly vnto God because of his wonders which he dyd in tyme and because he gouerneth the same and soch 〈◊〉 is in tyme and there I satt thre dayes The XIIII Chapter VPon the thirde daye I satt vnder an oke tre then came there a voyce vnto me out of the bush sayde Eszdras Eszdras And I sayde here I am LORDE and stode vp vpon my fete TheÌ„ spake he vnto me In the bush dyd I appeare vnto Moses talked w t him whaÌ„ my people serued in Egipte and I sent him and led my people out of Egipte brought him vpoÌ„ y e mount Sion where I helde him by me a longe season and tolde him my wonderous workes and shewed him y e secretes of the tymes and the ende and commaunded him sayeÌ„ge These wordes shalt thou declare not hyde theÌ„ And now I saye vnto the that thou laye vp in thine hert the dreames that thou hast sene and the interpretacions which I haue shewed the for thou shalt be receaued of all thou shal be turned and remayne w t my councell and with soch as be like the vntyll y e tymes be ended For the worlde hath lost his youth and the tymes begynne to waxe olde For the tyme is deuyded in to twolue partes and ten partes of it are gone all ready and half of the tenth parte yet remayneth there that which is after y e half of y e tenth parte Therfore prepare and ordre thy house and refourme thy people comforte soch of thou as be in trouble and tell now of the destruccion let go from the mortall thoughtes cast awaye the burthens of man put of the weake nature laye vp in some place y e thoughtes that are most heuy vnto the and haist the to flyt from these tymes for soch euell wickednesse as thou hast now sene happeÌ„ shal they do yet moch worse For the weaker that the worlde and the tyme is the more shal 〈…〉 wickednesse increase in them that dwell vpoÌ„ earth For the trueth is fled farre awaye lesynge is hard at hande For now haâ—â—teth the vision to come that thou hast sene Then answered I and sayde Beholde LORDE I wyl go as thou hast commaunded me and refourme the people which are present But they y t shal be borne afterwarde who wyl exhorte or rebuke theÌ„ Thus the worlde is set in darcknes and they y t dwel therin are without light for thy lawe is kyndled becâ—use no man knoweth the thinges that are done of the or that shal be done Yf I haue fouÌ„de grace before the sende the holy goost in to me and I shall wryte all that hath bene done
Iewes And when they helde the thankesgeuyng ▪ at Ierusalem for the victory they brent those that had set fyre on the portes of the temple namely Calisthenes which was fled in to an house and so they gat a worthy rewarde for their wickednesse As for that most vngracious Nicanor which had brought a thousande marchaūtes to bye the Iewes he was thorow y e helpe of the LORDE brought downe euen of them whom he regarded not in so moch that he put of his glorious raymēt fled by see and came alone to Antioche w t greate shame dishono r which he gat thorow the destruccion of his hoost Thus he y t promysed the Romaynes to paye thē their tribute when he toke Ierusalem beganne now to saye planely that God was y e defender of the Iewes therfore not possible to wounde them because they folowed y e lawes which God had made The IX Chapter AT the same tyme came Antiochus agayne with dishonoure out of Persis For when he came to Persepolis and vndertoke to robbe the temple and to subdue the cite the people ranne together and defended them selues in so moch y t he and his were fayne to fle with shame And so after that flight it happened that Antiochus came agayne with dishonoure But when he came to Egbathana he gat knowlege what was happened vnto Nicanor Timotheus Now as he was auauncinge himself in his wrath he thought he was able to avenge the iniury that was done to them vpon the Iewes and therfore commaunded to make ready his charet haistinge on his iourney without ceassinge the iudgmēt of God prouokynge him because he had spokē so proudly that he wolde come to Ierusalem and make it a graue of the Iewes But the LORDE God of Israel that seith all thinges smote him with an invisible plage which no man coude heale For as soone as he had spoken these wordes there came vpon him an horrible payne of his bowels a sore grefe of the tharmes And y t was but right for he had martired other mens bowels with dyuerse and straūge tormentes how be it he wolde in no wyse ceasse from his malice Yee he was yet the prouder and more malicious agaynst the Iewes But whyle he was commaundinge to make haist in the matter it happened y t he fell downe violently from the charet so y t it brussed his body dyd him greate payne And so he that thought he might commaunde y e floudes of the see so proude was he beyonde the condiciō of man and to weye the hye mountaynes in a payre of scoales was now brought downe to the grounde caried vpon an horszlytter knowlegynge y e manyfest power of God vpon him so that y t wicked body of his was full of wormes which in his payne fell quyck out of his flesh In so moch y t his hoost was greued with the smell and styncke of him Thus he that a litle afore thought he might reach to the starres of heauen him might no man now abyde ner beare for the vehemence of styncke Therfore he beynge brought from his greate pryde begāne for to come to y e knowlege of him self for the punyshment of God warned him his payne increased euer more more And when he him self might not abyde his owne styncke he sayde these wordes It is reason to be obedient vnto God that a man desyre not to be like vnto him This wicked personne prayed also vnto the LORDE of whom he shulde haue optained no mercy And as for the cite that he came vnto so haistely to brynge it downe to the grounde to make it a graue for deed men now he desyreth to delyuer it fre And as touchinge y e Iewes whom he had iudged not worthy to be buried but wolde haue cast thē out for to be deuoured of the foules and wylde beastes sayenge that he wolde haue destroyed both olde and yonge Now he promiseth to make thē like y e citesyns of Athens And where as he had spoyled the holy temple afore now he maketh promyse to garnish it with greate giftes to increase the holy ornamētes and of his owne rentes to beare the costes and charges belonginge to the offerynges yee and that he wolde also become a Iewe him self to go thorow euery place of the worlde and to preach the power of God But when his paynes wolde not ceasse for the righteous iudgmet of God was come vpon him out of a very despayre he wrote vnto the Iewes a lettre of intercession cōteyninge these wordes The kynge and prynce Antiochus wysheth vnto the vertuous citesyns of the Iewes moch health and good prosperite Yf ye and youre children fare well and yf all thinges go after youre mynde we geue greate thankes In my sicknesse also do I remembre you louyngly for as I came out of Persia and was taken with sore disease I thought it necessary to care for the comon wealth Nether despare I in my self but haue a good hope to escape this sicknes But considerynge that my father led an hoost some tyme in y e hyer places shewed who shulde raigne after him that yf there happened eny cōtrouersy or eny harde thinge were declared they in the londe might knowe their chefe lorde y t there shulde be no insurreccion Agayne when I pondre by my self how that all y e mightie men and neghbours rounde aboute are layēge waite and loke but for oportunyte to do harme I haue ordened that my sonne Antiochus shall raigne after me whom I oft commended to many of you when I was in the hyer kyngdomes and haue wrytten vnto him as it foloweth herafter Therfore I praye you and requyre you to remembre the benefites that I haue done vnto you generally and in especiall For I hope that he shall be of sober louynge behauoure and yf he folowe my deuyce he shal be indifferent vnto you Thus that murthurer and blasphemer of God was sore smyttē and like as he had intreated other men so he dyed a myserable death in a straunge countre vpon a mountayne And his body dyd Philippe that wēte with him cary awaye which fearynge the sonne of Antiochus wente in to Egipte to Ptolomy Philometor The X. Chapter MAchabeus now his company thorow the helpe of the LORDE wanne the temple and the cite agayne destroyed the aulters and chapels that the Heithē had buylded thorow the stretes clensed the temple made another aulter of bricke stone and after ij yeares they offered sacrifices set forth the incense the lightes and shewe bred When that was done they fell downe flat vpon the grounde and besought the LORDE that they might come nomore in to soch trouble but yf they synned eny more agaynst him he him self to chasten them with mercy and not to come in the hondes of those aleauntes and blasphemous men Now vpon the same daye that y e straungers poluted the temple it happened that
last enemye that shal be destroyed is death for he hath put all thinges vnder his fete But whā he sayeth that all thinges are put vnder him it is manifest that he is excepted which put all thinges vnder him Whan all thinges shal be subdued vnto him then shal the sonne himselfe also be subiecte vnto him which put all thinges vnder him that God maye be all in all Or els what do they which are baptised ouer y e deed yf the deed ryse not at all Why are they then baptysed ouer the deed And why stonde we in ioperdy euery houre By oure reioysinge which I haue in Christ Iesu o LORDE I dye daylie That I haue foughte with beestes at Ephesus after y e maner of men what helpeth it me yf the deed ryse not agayne Let vs eate and drynke for tomorow we shal dye Be not ye disceaued Euell speakinges corruppe good maners Awake righte vp and synne not for some haue not y e knowlege of God This I saye to youre shame But some man mighte saye How shal the deed aryse And with what maner off body shal they come Thou foole y t which thou sowest is not quyckened excepte it dye And what sowest thou thou sowest not y e body that shal be but a bare corne namely of wheate or of some other But God geueth it a body as he wil and vnto euery one of y e sedes his owne body All fleszhe is not one maner of fleszhe but there is one maner fleszhe of men another of beastes another of fiszhes another of byrdes And there are heauenly bodies and there are earthy bodies but the heauenly haue one glory and y e earthy another The Sonne hath one clearnes the Moone hath another clearnesse and the starres haue another clearnesse for one starre excelleth another in clearnesse Euen so the resurreccion of the deed It is sowne in corrupcion and shal ryse in vncorrupcion It is sowne in dishonoure shal ryse in glory It is sowne in weaknesse and shal ryse in power It is sowne a naturall body shal ryse a spirituall body Yf there be a naturall body there is a spirituall body also As it is wrytten The first man Adam was made in to a naturall life and the last Adā in to a spiritual life Howbeit the spirituall body is not the first but y e naturall and then the spirituall The first man is of the earth earthy y e seconde mā is frō heauē heauēly As the earthy is soch are they also that are earthy and as y e heauenly is soch are they also y t are heauenly And as we haue borne the ymage of the earthy so shal we beare the ymage of the heauenly also This I saye brethren that flesh bloude can not inheret y e kyngdome of God nether shal corrupcion inheret vncorrupcion Beholde I saye vnto you a mystery We shal not all slepe but we shal all be chaunged and that sodenly and in the twinklynge of an eye at the tyme of the last trompe For the trompe shal blowe and the deed shal ryse vncorruptible and we shal be chaunged For this corruptible must put on vncorrupcion and this mortall must put on immortalite But whan this corruptible shal put on vncorrupcion and this mortall shal put on immortalite thē shal the worde be fulfylled that is wryttē Death is swalowed vp in victory Death where is thy stynge Hell where is y e victory The stynge of death is synne The strength of synne is the lawe But thankes be vnto God which hath geuē vs the victory thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ. Therfore my deare brethrē be ye stedfast vnmoueable allwaye riche in the worke of the LORDE for as moch as ye knowe that youre laboure is not in vayne in the LORDE The XVI Chapter COncernynge the gadderynge that is made for the sayntes as I haue ordeyned in the congregacions of Galacia euen so do ye also Vpon some Sabbath daye let euery one of you put aside by himselfe and laye vp what so euer he thinketh mete that the colleccion be not to gather whan I come Whan I am come whom so euer ye shal alowe by youre letters thē wyll I sende to brynge youre liberalite vnto Ierusalem Neuertheles yf it be mete that I go thither also they shal go with me But I wil come vnto you whan I go thorow Macedonia for thorow Macedonia wyl I take my iourney With you peraduēture wil I abyde or els wynter that ye maye brynge me on my waye whither so euer I go I wyl not se you now in my passage for I hope to abyde a whyle with you yf the LORDE shal suffre me But I wil tary at Ephesus vntyll whitsontyde For a greate and frutefull dore is opened vnto me and there are many aduersaries Yf Timotheus come se that he be without feare with you for he worketh y e worke of the LORDE as I do Let no man therfore despyse him but conuaye him forth in peace that he maye come vnto me for I loke for him with the brethren As for brother Apollo be ye sure that I greatly desyred him to come vnto you with the brethrē And his mynde was not at all to come at this tyme but he wyl come whā he hath oportunyte Watch ye stonde fast in the faith quyte you like men and be stronge let all youre thinges be done in loue But brethren ye knowe the house off Stephana that they are the first frutes in Achaia and that they haue appoynted thē selues to mynister vnto the sayntes I exhorte you to be obedient vnto soche and to all that helpe and laboure I am glad of the cōmynge of Stephana and Fortunatus and Achaicus For loke what was lackynge vnto me on youre parte y t haue they suppleed they haue refreszhed my sprete and youres Knowe them therfore that are soch The congregacions of Asia salute you Aquila and Priscilla salute you moch in the LORDE and so doth the cōgregacion that is in their house All the brethren salute you Salute ye one another with an holy kysse The salutacion of me Paul w t myne awne hande Yf eny mā loue not the LORDE Iesus Christ the same be Anathema Maharan Matha The grace of the LORDE Iesus Christ be with you My loue be with you all in Christ Iesu. Amen The first Epistle to the Corinthians sent out of Asia by Stephana and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus The seconde Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Corinthians The summe of this Epistle Chap. I. The consolacion of God in trouble The loue of Paul towarde the Corinthians and his excuse that he came not vnto them Chap. II. He sheweth the cause of his absence and exorteth thē to forgeue the man that was fallen and to receaue him agayne with loue Chap. III. He prayseth the preachinge of the Gospell aboue the preachinge of the lawe Chap. IIII. A
where the ouerbody cote ioyneth together that the brestlappe might be festened by his rynges vnto y e rynges of the ouerbody cote with a yalowe lace that it might lye close vpon y e ouerbody cote and not be lowsed from y e ouerbody cote as the LORDE commaunded Moses And he made the tunycle vnto the ouerbody cote wrought all of yalow sylke the hole therof aboue in the myddest a bonde foldē together rounde aboute the hole that it shulde not rente And beneth vpon y e hemme of it they made pomgranates of yalow sylke scarlet purple whyte twyned sylke they made belles of pure golde which they put betwixte y e pomgranates rounde aboute vpon the hemme of the tunycle a bell a pomgranate a bell a pomgranate rounde aboute to do seruyce in as the LORDE commaunded Moses And they made albes also wrought of whyte sylke for Aaron his sonnes y e myter of whyte sylke and the goodly bonettes of whyte sylke and breches of twyned whyte lynnen and the girdle of nedle worke euen of whyte twyned sylke yalow sylke scarlet and purple as the LORDE commaunded Moses They made the fore heade plate also to y e holy crowne of pure golde and wrote therin with grauen worke the holynes of the LORDE and festened a yalowe lace theron to tye 〈◊〉 vnto the myter aboue as the LORDE cōmaunded Moses Thus the whole worke of y e Habitacion of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse was fynished And the childrē of Israel dyd all that the LORDE cōmaunded Moses brought the Habitacion vnto Moses the Tabernacle all the apparell therof the buttons bordes barres pilers sokettes y e couerynge of reed slrynnes of rammes the couerynge of doo slrynnes the vayle y e Arke of wytnesse w t the staues therof the Mercyseate the table all his apparell the shewbred the candilsticke w t the lampes prepared and all his apparell oyle for the lightes the golden altare the anoyntinge oyle incense the hanginge in the Tabernacle dore the brasen altare his brasen gredyron w t his staues ▪ all his apparell y e lauer w t his foote the hangynges of y e courte w t the pilers sokettes therof y e hanginge in the courte gate w t his pilers nales all the ordynaunce fo◠the seruyce of the Habitacion of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse y e mynistringe vestimētes of Aarō y e prest to do seruyce in y e Sanctuary the garmētes of his sonnes y t they might execute y e prestes office Acordinge to all that y e LORDE cōmaunded Moses euē so dyd the childrē of Israel in all this seruyce And Moses sawe all y e worke y t they dyd it euē as y e LORDE had commaunded and he blessed them The XL. Chapter ANd y e LORDE spake vnto Moses sayde In the fyrst daye of the first moneth shalt thou set vp y e Habitaciō of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and shal put the Arke of wytnes therin and hange the vayle before y e Arke And thou shalt bringe in the table and garnish it and brynge in the cādilsticke and put the lampes theron And y e goldē altare of incense shalt thou set before y e Arke of wytnesse hange vp the hanginge in the dore of the Habitaciō But the altare of burnt offeringes shalt thou set before the dore of the Habitacion of the Tabernacle of wytnesse the lauer betwixte the Tabernacle of wytnesse and the altare and put water therin set the courte rounde aboute and hange vp the hanginge in the courte gate And thou shalt take the anoyntynge oyle and anoynte the Habitacion and all that is there in and shalt consecrate it and all y e apparell therof that it maye be holy And thou shalt anoynte the altare of burnt offerynges and all his vessels and consecrate it that it maye be most holy The lauer also his fote shalt thou anoynte consecrate And thou shalt brynge Aaron his sonnes vnto the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse and wash them with water put the holy vestimentes vpon Aaron and anoynte him and consecrate him that he maye be my prest And thou shalt brynge his sonnes also and put the albes vpon them and anoynte them as thou hast anoynted their father y t they maye be my prestes And this anoyntinge shall they haue for an euerlastinge presthode amonge their posterities And Moses dyd all as the LORDE cōmaunded him Thus was the Tabernacle set vp in the seconde yeare vpon the first daye of the first moneth And whan Moses reared it vp he fastened y e sokettes and the bordes and barres and set vp the pilers and spred out the tent ouer the Habitacion and put the couerynge of the tent aboue an hye as the LORDE commaunded him And he toke the wytnesse and layed it in the Arke and put y e staues in the Arke and set the Mercyseate aboue vpon the Arke and brought the Arke in to the Habitacion and hanged the vayle before the Arke of wytnesse as the LORDE commaunded him And he set the table in the Tabernacle of wytnesse in the corner of the Habitacion vpon the north syde without the vayle and prepared bred theron before y e LORDE as the LORDE commaunded him And he set in the candilsticke also euen ouer agaynst the table in the corner of the Habitacion vpon the south syde and put the lampes theron before y e LORDE as the LORDE commaunded him And the golden altare set he in also before the vayle and brent swete incense theron as the LORDE commaunded him And hanged vp the hangynge in the Tabernacle dore As for the altare of burnt offerynges he set it before the dore of the Habitacion of y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and offred burnt offerynges and meate offerynges theron as the LORDE commaunded him And the Lauer set he betwixte the Tabernacle of wytnesse and y e altare and put water therin to wash withall And Moses Aaron and his sonnes washed their hādes and fete ther at for they ought to wash thē whan they wente in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse or whan they wente vnto the altare as the LORDE commaunded him And he set vp the courte rounde aboute the Habitacion and the altare and hanged vp y e hanginge in y e courte gate Thus Moses fynished the whole worke Then a cloude couered y e Tabernacle of wytnesse and the glory of the LORDE fylled the Habitacion And Moses coulde not go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse whyle the cloude abode theron and the glory of y e LORDE fylled the Habitacion And whan the cloude remoued from the Habitacion then wente the children of Israel forth as oft as they toke their iourney But yf the cloude remoued not then toke not they their iourney tyll the daie that it remoued for in the daye tyme was the cloude of the LORDE vpon the Habitacion
smytten before youre enemies Whan I tolde you this ye wolde not heare were dishobedient vnto the worde of the LORDE and were presumptuous and wente vp to y e mountaines Then the Amorites that dwelt vpon the moūtaynes came out against you and chaced you as Bees do and smote you at Seir euen vnto Horma Now whan ye came againe and wepte before the LORDE he wolde not heare youre voyce and enclyned not his eares vnto you So ye abode in Cades a longe season The II. Chapter THen turned we vs and toke oure iourney to the wildernesse euen the waye to the reed see as the LORDE sayde vnto me and compassed mount Seir a longe season And y e LORDE saide vnto me Ye haue cōpassed this mountayne now lōge ynough turne you Northwarde and commaūde the people and saye Ye shal go thorow y e coastes of youre brethren the children of Esau which dwell at Seir they shal be afrayed of you But take diligente hede to youre selues that ye prouoke them not for I wyl not geue you one fote bredth of their londe For mount Seir haue I geuen to the children of Esau to possesse Ye shal bye meate of them for moneye that ye maye eate And water shal ye bye of them for money that ye maye drynke For the LORDE thy God hath blessed the in all the workes of thy hondes He hath considered thy iourneyes thorow this greate wyldernesse and this fortye yeares hath the LORDE thy God bene with the so that thou hast wanted nothinge Now whan we were departed from o r brethren the children of Esau that dwelt vpon mount Seir by the waye of the felde from Elath Ezeon gaber we turned vs wente by the waye of the wyldernesse of y e Moabites Then sayde the LORDE vnto me Thou shalt not vexe the Moabites ner prouoke thē vnto battayll for I wil not geue the of their londe to possesse For Ar haue I geuen vnto the children of Lot in possession The Emims dwelt there before tyme which were a greate stronge people hye of stature as the Enakims and were taken for giauntes like as y e Enakims And y e Moabites called them Emims The Horites also dwelt in Seir afore tyme y e children of Esau droue them out and destroyed them before them dwelt in their steade like as Israel dyd in y e lōde of his possession that the LORDE gaue them Get you vp now go ouer the ryuer Sared And we wente ouer The tyme that we were goinge frō Cades Barnea tyll we came ouer the ryuer Sared was eight thirtye yeares tyll all the men of warre were waysted out of the hoost as the LORDE sware vnto them The hande of the LORDE also was agaynst them to destroye thē out of the hoost tyll they were consumed And whan all the men of warre were cōsumed so y t they were deed amonge the people the LORDE spake vnto me and sayde This daie shalt thou go thorow the coast of y e Moabites by Ar shalt come nye vnto y e children of Ammon whom thou shalt not vexe ner prouoke For I wyll not geue the of the lōde of the childrē of Ammon to possesse for I haue geuē it vnto the childrē of Lot in possession It was takē for a lōde of giauntes also giauntes dwelt therin afore tyme. And y e Ammonites calle thē Samsumims which was a people that was greate many and of hye stature as the Enakims And these y e LORDE destroyed before thē and let them possesse the same so that they dwelt in their steade Like as he dyd with the childrē of Esau which dwell vpō mount Seir whan he destroyed the Horites before them and let them possesse the same so that they haue dwelt in their steade vnto this daye And the Caphthorims came out of Caphther and destroyed y e Auims y t dwelt at Hazarim euen vnto Gaza there dwelt they in their steade Get you vp now and departe and go ouer the ryuer Arnon Beholde I haue geuē Sihon y e kynge of the Amorites at Heszbon in to thy hande go to and conquere and prouoke him vnto battayll This daye wyll I begynne so that all naciōs vnder all the heauen shal feare drede y e In so moch y t whā they heare of the they shal tremble and quake for thy commynge Then sent I messaungers from y e wyldernesse of the East vnto Sihon the kynge at Heszbon w t peaceble wordes and caused to saye vnto him I wil go but thorow y e lōde I wil go a longe by the hye waye I wil nether turne to the righte hāde ner to y e lefte Thou shalt sell me meate for money that I maye eate water shalt thou sell me for money that I maye drinke Onely let me go thorow by fote as the children of Esau which dwell at Seir dyd vnto me and the Moabites that dwell at Ar vntyll I be come ouer Iordane in to the londe which the LORDE oure God shal geue vnto vs. But Sihon the kynge at Heszbon wolde not let vs go by him for the LORDE y i God herdened his mynde made his hert tough that he mighte delyuer him in to thy hādes as it is come to passe this daye And y e LORDE sayde vnto me Beholde I haue begonne to delyuer Sihon with his londe before the go to and cōquere and possesse his lōde And Sihō came out w t all his people to fight agaynst vs at Iahza But the LORDE oure God delyuered him in to oure handes so that we smote him with his children and all his people Then toke we all his cities at the same tyme and destroyed vtterly all the cities men wemen and children and let none remayne saue the catell which we caught to oure selues the spoyle of the cities that we wanne from Aroer which lyeth vpon the ryuer syde of Arnon and from the cite on the ryuer vnto Gilead There was no cite that coulde defende it selfe from vs the LORDE oure God delyuered vs all before vs. But vnto the londe of the children of Ammon thou camest not ner to all that was on the ryuer Iabok ner to y e cities vpō y e mountaines ner vnto what so euer the LORDE oure God forbad vs. The III. Chapter ANd we turned vs wente vp y e waie vnto Basan And Og y e kynge of Basan came out w t all his people to fight agaynst vs at Edrei But the LORDE sayde vnto me Be not afrayed of him for I haue delyuered him all his people w t his londe in to thy hande thou shalt do w t him as thou dyddest w t Sihon kynge of y e Amorites which dwelt at Heszbon Thus y e LORDE oure God delyuered Og y e kynge of Basan in to oure handes also with all his people so that we smote him tyll there
was nothinge left ouer vnto him Then wanne we at the same tyme all his cities there was not one cite that we toke not from him euen thre score cities the whole region of Argob in the kyngdome of Og at Basan All these cities were strōge with hye walles gates and barres besyde many other vnwalled townes And we vtterly destroyed them as we dyd with Sihon the kynge at Heszbon All the cities destroyed we vtterly and the men wemen and children But all the catell and spoyle of the cities caughte we for oure selues Thus toke we at the same tyme the londe out of the honde of the two kynges of the Amorites beyonde Iordane from the ryuer of Arnon vnto mount Hermon which the Sidons call Sirion but the Amorites call it Senir all the cities vpon the playne and all Gilead and all Basan vnto Salcha and Edrei the cities of the kyngdome of Og at Basan For onely Og the kynge of Basan remayned ouer of the giauntes Beholde his yron bed is here at Rabath amonge the children of Ammon nyne cubites longe and foure cubites brode after the cubite of a man This londe conquered we at the same tyme from Aroer that lyeth on y e ryuer of Arnon And vnto the Rubenites and Gaddites I gaue halfe mount Gilead with the cities therof but y e remnaunt of Gilead all Basan the kyngdome of Og gaue I vnto the halfe trybe of Manasse The whole region of Argob with all Basan was called the giauntes londe Iair the sonne of Manasse toke all the region of Argob vnto the coastes of Gessuri and Maachati and Basan called he Hauoth Iair after his awne name vnto this daye But vnto Machir I gaue Gilead And vnto the Rubenites and Gaddites I gaue one parte of Gilead vnto the ryuer of Arnon at the myddes of the ryuer is y e border and vnto the ryuer Iabok which is the border of the children of Ammon the felde also and Iordane which is the coaste from Cinereth vnto the see in the felde namely y e Salt see vnder mount Pisga Eastwarde And I commaunded you at the same tyme and sayde The LORDE youre God hath geuen you this londe to take possession of it Go youre waye forth therfore harnessed before youre brethren the children of Israel all ye that be mete for the warre As for youre wyues and children and catell for I knowe that ye haue moch catell let them remayne in youre cities which I haue geuen you vntyl the LORDE youre God haue broughte yo r brethren to rest also as well as you that they also maye take possession of the londe which y e LORDE youre God shal geue thē beyonde Iordane and then shal ye turne agayne to youre awne possession which I haue geuen you And I warned Iosua at the same tyme and sayde Thine eyes haue sene all that the LORDE youre God hath done vnto these two kynges euē so shal the LORDE do also vnto all y e kyngdomes whither thou goest Feare them not for the LORDE youre God shal fighte for you And I besoughte the LORDE at the same tyme sayde O LORDE LORDE thou hast begonne to shewe y e seruaunte thy greatnesse and thy mightie hāde For where is there a God in heauen earth that can do after y e workes and after thy power O let me go se y t good londe beyonde Iordane y t goodly hye countre and Libanus But the LORDE was angrie with me for youre sakes and wolde not heare me but sayde vnto me Be content speake nomore to me of this matter Get the vp to the toppe of mount Pisga and lifte vp thine eyes towarde the west and towarde the north and towarde the south and towarde y e east and beholde it with thine eies for thou shalt not go ouer this Iordane And geue Iosua his charge and corage him and bolde him for he shal go ouer Iordane before the people and shal deuyde vnto them the londe that thou shalt se. And so we abode in the valley ouer agaynst the house of Peor The IIII. Chapter ANd now herken Israel vnto the ordinaūces and lawes which I teach you that ye do them y t ye maye lyue and come in take possession of the londe which the LORDE God of yo r fathers geueth vnto you Ye shal put nothinge vnto the worde which I commaunde you nether do oughte there from that ye maye kepe the commaundementes of the LORDE youre God which I commaunde you Youre eyes haue sene what the LORDE hath done w t Baal Peor all them that walked after Baal Peor hath the LORDE thy God destroied from amonge you But ye that cleue vnto the LORDE yo r God are all aliue this daye Beholde I haue taughte you ordinaūces and lawes soc◠as the LORDE my God commaunded me that ye shulde do euē so in the londe in to y e which ye shal come to possesse it Kepe them now therfore and do them for that is youre wyszdome and vnderstondinge in the sight of all nacions which whā they haue herde all these ordinaunces shall saye O what a wyse and vnderstondinge folke is this and how excellent a people For where is there so excellent a nacion that hath goddes so nye him as the LORDE oure God is nye vnto vs as oft as we call vpon him And where is there so excellent a nacion that hath so righteous ordinaunces and lawes as all this lawe which I laye before you this daye Take hede to thy selfe now and kepe well thy soule that thou forget not the thinges which thine eyes haue sene and that they departe not out of thy hert all the dayes of thy life And thou shalt teach them thy children and thy childers children the daye whā thou stodest before the LORDE thy God by mount Horeb whan the LORDE sayde vnto me Gather me the people together that I maye make them heare my wordes which they shal lerne that they maye feare me all the dayes of their life vpon earth that they also maye teach their children And ye came nye stode vnder y e mount But the mount burnt euen vnto the myddes of heauen and there was darknesse cloudes and myst And y e LORDE spake vnto you out of the myddes of the fyre The voyce of his wordes ye herde neuerthelesse ye sawe no ymage but herde the voyce onely And he declared vnto you his couenaunt which he cōmaunded you to do namely the ten verses and wrote them vpon two tables of stone And the LORDE commmaūded me at the same time to teach you ordinaunces lawes that ye might do therafter in the londe in to the which ye go to possesse it Kepe well youre soules therfore for ye sawe no maner of ymage in the daye whā the LORDE spake vnto you out of the fyre vpon mount Horeb that ye destroye not youre selues and make you
the childreÌ„ of Israel like as Moses had sayde vnto theÌ„ Aboute a fortye thousande men ready harnessed to the warre wente before the LORDE to the battayll vpon y e felde of Iericho In that daye the LORDE made Iosua greate in the sighte of all Israel and like as they feared Moses so stode they in awe of him all his life longe And the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua Commaunde the prestes which beare the Arke of witnesse that they come vp out of Iordane So Iosua coÌ„maunded the prestes sayde Come vp out of Iordane And whan the prestes y t bare the Arke of the couenauÌ„t of y e LORDE were come out of Iordane and trode with the soles of their fete vpon the drye londe y e water of Iordane came agayne in to his place and flowed like as afore tyme vpon all his banckes It was y e tenth daye of the first moneth whan the people came vp out of Iordane they pitched their tentes in Gilgall vpon y e East syde of y e cite of Iericho And y e twolue stones which they had taken out of Iordane dyd Iosua set vp at Gilgall saide vnto the children of Israel Whan youre children axe their fathers herafter saie What meane these stones Ye shall tell theÌ„ saye Israel weÌ„te drye thorow Iordane what tyme as y e LORDE yo r God dryed vp y e water of Iordane before you vntyll ye were ouer like as the LORDE yo r God dyd in the reed see which he dryed vp before vs y t we mighte go thorow that all the people vpon earth mighte knowe the haÌ„de of the LORDE how mightie it is to the intent that ye shulde allwaye feare the LORDE youre God The V. Chapter NOw whan all the kynges of y e Amorites that dwelt beyonde Iordane westwarde and all the kynges of y e Cananites by the see syde herde how y e LORDE had dryed vp the water of Iordane before the children of Israel tyll they were come ouer their hert fayled them nether was there eny more corage in them at the presence of the children of Israel At the same tyme sayde y e LORDE vnto Iosua Make the knyues of stone circumcyse the children of Israel agayne the seconde tyme. Then Iosua made him knyues of stone and circumcysed the childreÌ„ of Israel vpon the toppe of the foreszkynnes And the cause why Iosua circumcysed all the males of the people y t were come out of Egipte is this for all the men of warre dyed in y e wildernesse by the waye after they were departed out of Egipte for all the people that came forth were circumcysed But all the people that were borne in y e wyldernesse by the waye after they departed out of Egipte were not circumcysed for the children of Israel walked fortye yeares in the wyldernesse vntyll all the people of the men of warre that came out of Egipte were consumed because they herkened not vnto the voyce of the LORDE like as the LORDE sware vnto them that they shulde not se the londe which the LORDE sware vnto their fathers to geue vnto vs euen a londe that floweth with mylke honye their children which were come vp in their steade dyd Iosua circumcyse for they had the foreszkynne and were not circumcysed by the waye And whan all the people were circumcysed they abode in their place eueÌ„ in y e teÌ„tes tyll they were whole And y e LORDE saide vnto Iosua To daie haue I turned y e shame of Egipte awaye from you the same place was called Gilgall vnto this daye And whyle the children of Israel laye thus at Gilgall they kepte Easter the fourtenth daye of the moneth at eueÌ„ in the felde of Iericho And they ate of the corne of the loÌ„de the seconde daye of the Easter namely vnleuended bred fyrmentye of y t yeare eueÌ„ the same daye And vpon the morow the Manna fayled whan they ate of the corne of y e londe so that the children of Israel had nomore Manna but ate of the corne of the londe of Canaan the same yeare And it fortuned that whaÌ„ Iosua was by Iericho he lifte vp his eyes was awarre that there stode a maÌ„ agaynst him and had a naked swerde in his hande And Iosua weÌ„te to him sayde vnto him Art thou one of vs or of oure enemies He sayde No but I am the prynce of the LORDES hoost and now am I come Then fell Iosua downe to the earth vpon his face worshipped him and sayde vnto him What sayeth my LORDE vnto his seruaunt And the prynce ouer the LORDES hoost sayde vnto him Put y e shues of y e fete for the place whervpoÌ„ thou stondest is holy And Iosua dyd so The VI. Chapter AS for Iericho it was shut kepte because of the childreÌ„ of Israel so that no man mighte go out ner in But the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua Beholde I haue geuen Iericho with y e kynge and men of warre therof in to y e hande Let all the men of warre go once rounde aboute y e cite and do so sixe dayes But vpon the seuenth daye let the prestes take the seuen trompettes of the yeare of Iubilye before the Arke and go the same seuenth daye seuen tymes abouâ—â— the cite and let the prestes blowe the trompettes And whan the horne of the yeare of Iubilye bloweth and maketh a sounde so that ye heare the trompettes all the people shal make a greate shoute then shal the walles of the cite fall downe and y e people shal fall in euery one straight before him Then Iosua the sonne of Nun called y e prestes and sayde vnto them Beare ye thâ— Arke of the couenaunt and let seuen prestes take the seuen trompettes of the yeare of Iubilye before the Arke of the LORDE But vnto the people he sayde Get you hence and go rouÌ„de aboute the cite and let him that is harnessed go before the Arke of the LORDE Whan Iosua had spoken this vnto the people the seuen prestes bare the seuen trompettes of the yeare Iubilye before the Arke of the LORDE and wente blew the trompettes and the Arke of the LORDES couenauÌ„t folowed after them and who so was harnessed wente before the prestes that blewe the trompettes and the multitude folowed the Arke And all was full of y e noyse of the trompettes But Iosua commaunded the people and sayde Ye shall make no shoute ner let youre voyce be herde nother shall ye geue one worde out of youre mouth vntyll the daye y t I saye vnto you Make a shoute then make a shoute So the Arke of the LORDE wente once rounde aboute the cite and came agyne in to y e hooste remayned therin for Iosua vsed to ryse vp early in the mornynge And the prestes bare the Arke of the LORDE so dyd the seuen prestes beare the seuen trompettes of the yeare of Iubilye before y e Arke
t fetters and made him to grynde in the preson But the heer of his heade beganne to growe agayne where it was shauen of Whan y e prynces of the Philistynes were gathered together to make a greate sacrifice vnto Dagon their god and to be ioyfull they sayde Oure god hath delyuered Samson o r enemye in to o r hande Like wyse whan y e people sawe him they praysed their god sayde Oure god hath delyuered in to oure handes oure enemye y t destroyed oure londe slewe many of vs. Now whan their hert was ioyfull they sayde Let vs fetch Samson that he maye make some pastyme before vs. Then fetched they Samson out of the preson he made pastyme before them And they set him betwene two pilers But Samson sayde vnto the lad y t led him by the hande Let me touche the pilers wher vpon the house stondeth y t I maye leane ther vnto As for y e house it was full of men wemen All the prynces of the Philistynes were there also and vpon the rofe were aboute a thre thousande men and wemen which behelde what pastyme Samson made The XVII Chapter THere was a man vpō mount Ephraim named Micha which sayde vnto his mother The thousande and hundreth syluerlinges which thou hast taken vnto the sworne and spoken of before myne eares beholde y e same money is by me I haue taken it vnto me Then sayde his mother The blessinge of the LORDE haue thou my sonne So he gaue his mother the thousande hundreth syluerlinges agayne And his mother saide That money haue I sanctified vnto the LORDE w t my hande for my sonne to make a molten ymage therfore I geue it the agayne Neuertheles he delyuered y e money agayne vnto his mother Then toke his mother two hundreth syluerlinges put them forth to y e goldsmyth which made a molten ymage y t was afterwarde in Michas house And thus the man Micha had a gods house made an ouerbody cote Idols and fylled y e handes of one of his sonnes y t he mighte be his prest At y t tyme was there no kynge in Israel euery man dyd the thinge y t was righte in his awne eyes There was a yōge man of Bethleem Iuda amōge the kynreds of Iuda and he was a Leuite and was a straunger there The same wente out of the cite of Bethleem Iuda to walke whither he coulde And whā he came vp to mount Ephraim vnto the house of Micha to go on his iourney Micha axed him Whence cōmest thou He answered him I am a Leuite of Bethleem Iuda and am walkynge where I can Micha sayde vnto him Tary with me thou shalt be my father and my prest I will geue the euery yeare ten syluerlinges and thy appoynted raymēt and meate and drynke and the Leuite wēte on And the Leuite agreed to abyde with the man and he helde the yonge mā as one of his owne sonnes And Micha fylled the Leuites hande that he mighte be his prest and so he was in Michas house And Micha sayde I am sure the LORDE wyll do me good now that I haue a Leuite to my prest The XVIII Chapter AT that tyme was there no kynge in Israel And y e trybe of y e Danites soughte them an enheritaunce to dwell in for vnto that daie there was no enheritaunce fallen vnto them amonge the trybes of Israel And the childrē of Dan sent out of their kynreds fyue captaynes which were men of armes from Zarga and Esthaol to spye and search out the londe And they sayde vnto them Go youre waie and search out the londe And they came vp to mount Ephraim in to y e house of Micha and taried there all nighte And whyle they were there w t Michas huszsholde they knewe y e voyce of the yonge man the Leuite and sayde vnto him Who broughte y e hither What makest thou here and why woldest thou come hither He answered thē Thus thus hath Micha done vnto me hath hyred me to be his prest They sayde vnto him O axe at God y t we maye perceaue whether oure iourney which we go shal prospere well or not The prest answered them Go youre waye in peace youre iourney y t ye go is before the LORDE Then the fyue men wente their waye came vnto Lais and sawe that the people which was therin dwelt sure euen as y e Sidonians at rest and carelesse and that there was no lorde in the londe to vexe them and were farre from the Sidoniās and had nothinge to do with eny man And they came to their brethrē to Zarga and Esthaol And their brethren saide vnto them How is it w t you They sayde Arise let vs go vp vnto them for we haue sene the londe y t it is a very good londe make haist therfore be not slacke to go that ye maye come to take possession of the londe Whan ye come ye shall come to a carelesse people and the londe is wyde for God hath delyuered this place in to yo r hande where nothinge wanteth of all y t is vpon earth Then wente there thence out of the kynreds of Dan from Zarga and Esthaol sixe hundreth men ready wapened to y e battayll and wente vp and pitched at Kiriath Iearim in Iuda therfore called they the sam◠place y e hoost of Dan vnto this daye which is behinde Kiriath Iearim And frō thence they wēte vp vnto moūt Ephraim and came to the house of Micha Then answered the fyue men that wēte out to spye the londe of Lais sayde vnto their brethren Knowe ye not that in these houses there is an ouerbody cote Idols molten ymages Now maye ye loke what ye haue to do They departed thence and came to the house of the yonge man the Leuite in Michas house and saluted him frēdly But the sixe hundreth men which were of y e children of Dan stode ready harnessed before y e gate And the fyue men that were gone one to spye y e londe wēte vp and came thither and toke the ymage the ouerbody cote the molten Idols In the meane whyle stode y e prest at the gate with the sixe hundreth readye harnessed Now whā these were come in to Michas house and toke the ymage the ouerbody cote and the molten Idols the prest sayde vnto them What do ye They answered him Holde thy peace and laye thine hande vpon thy mouth and go with vs y t thou mayest be oure father prest Is it better for the to be prest in one mans house then amonge a whole trybe kynred in Israel This pleased the prest well he toke both the ouerbody cote and the Idols and the ymage and came in amonge the people And whan they turned them and wente thence they sent their children and catell and soch precious thynges as they had before them Whan they were come farre now from the house of Micha the
men in Ben Iamin which all drue the swerde For whan the childreÌ„ of Ben Iamin sawe that they were smitten the men of Israel gaue them rowme to flye For they trusted to the watch which they had sett by Gibea And the watch made haist also brake forth vnto Gibea and wente vpon it and smote all the cite with the edge of y e swerde They were appoynted betwene them selues the men of Israel and the hynder watch to fâ—ll vpon them with the swerde whan the smoke of the cite arose Now whan the men of Israel turned them in the battayll and Ben Iamin beganne to smyte the wounded in Israel vpon a thirtie men and thoughte they are smytten before vs like as in the battayll afore then beganne there a piler of smoke to arise vp from the cite And Ben Iamin loked behinde them and beholde the flamme of y e cite wente vp vnto heauen And the men of Israel turned them and were fearce vpon y e men of Ben Iamin for they sawe that the euell wolde happen vnto them And they turned them before the men of Israel in the waye to the wyldernesse but the battayll folowed vpon them And them of the cite destroyed they amoÌ„ge them And they compased Ben Iamin rounde aboute and folowed vpon them vnto Menuah and trode them downe tyll afore Gibea eastwarde And there fell of Ben Iamin eightene thousande men which were all men of armes Whan the remnaunt of Ben Iamin sawe that they turned them and fled towarde the wildernesse vnto the stonye rocke of Rimon But in the same strete they slewe fyue thousande men and folowed vpon them vnto Gideom and slewe two thousande of theÌ„ and so there fell the same daye of Ben Iamin fyue and twenty thousande men which drue y e swerde and were all meÌ„ of armes Onely sixe hundreth men turned backe and fled towarde the wyldernesse vnto the stonye rocke of Rimon and abode in the rocke of Rimon foure monethes And the men of Israel came agayne to the children of Ben Iamin and smote them that were in the cite with y e edge of the swerde both meÌ„ and catell and all that was founde and what soeuer was fouÌ„de in the cite they cast it in to the fyre The XXI Chapter THe men of Israel had sworeÌ„ at Mispa and sayde Noman shal geue his doughter to the Ben Iamites to wife And the people came to the house of God in Silo abode there before God vntill the euenynge and lifte vp their voyce and wepte sore and sayde O LORDE God of Israel wherfore is this come to passe in Israel this daye But on the morow the people gat theÌ„ vp early and builded there an altare and offred burnt offeringes and deed offerynges And the children of Israel sayde Where is there eny maÌ„ of the trybes of Israel that is not come vp with the congregacion vnto the LORDE For there was a greate ooth made that who so came not vp to Mispa vnto the LORDE shulde dye the deeth And the children of Israel were sory for Ben Iamin their brother and sayde This daye is there one trybe lesse in Israel How wyll we do that the remnaunt maye haue wyues For we haue sworne by the LORDE that we wyl not geue theÌ„ wyues of oure doughters And they saide Where is there eny maÌ„ of the trybes of Israel that is not come vp to the LORDE vnto Mispa And beholde there was not one man of the citesyns of Iabes in Gilead Then sent the congregacion twolue thousande men of armes thither and commaunded them and sayde Go youre waye and smite the citesyns of Iabes in Gilead with the swerde the wemen also and the children but so that ye do after this maner Se that ye damne all them that are males and all the wemen that haue lyen with men And amonge the citesins of Iabes in Gilead they fouÌ„de foure hundreth damsels which were virgins and had lyen with noman those they broughte in to the hoost vnto Silo which lyeth in the londe of Canaan Then sent the whole congregacion and caused to talke with the children of Ben Iamin which were in the stonie rocke of RimoÌ„ and called vnto them frendly So the children of Ben Iamin came agayne at the same tyme and thy gaue them wemen which they had of the wemen of Iabes in Gilead and founde no mo after that maner Then were the people sory for Ben Iamin that y e LORDE had made a gappe in the trybes of Israel And the Elders of the congregacioÌ„ sayde What wil we do that the remnaunt maye haue wyues also for the wemeÌ„ in Ben Iamin are destroied and they sayde The enheritaunce of them of Ben Iamin that are escaped must nedes remayne that there be not a trybe destroyed out of Israel we can not geue them oure doughters to wiues For the children of Israel haue sworne and sayde Cursed be he that geueth a wyfe to the Ben Iamites And they sayde Beholde there is a yearly feast of the LORDE at Silo which lieth on the northsyde of the Gods house and on the eastside of the strete as a maÌ„ goeth from Bethel vnto Sichem and lieth on the south side of Liboâ—a And they commaunded the children of Ben Iamin sayde Go youre waye and wayte in the vynyardes And whan ye se that the doughters of Silo go forth by coÌ„panyes to daunse get you out of the vynyardes and euery man take him a wyfe of the doughters of Silo and go youre waye in to the loÌ„de of Ben Iamin As for their fathers and brethren whan they come to lawe with vs we wyll saye vnto them Be fauourable to them for they haue not taken theÌ„ in battaill but ye gaue theÌ„ not vnto them by time and it is youre faute The children of Ben Iamin did so and acordinge to their nombre toke them wyues from the daunse whom they caught by violence and wente their waye dwelt in their awne inheritaunce and buylded cities and dwelt therin The children of Israel also gat them vp from thence at the same time euery one to his trybe and to his kinred and departed theÌ„ce euery man to his awne inheritaunce At y t time was there no kynge in Israel and euery man dyd y e thinge y t was right in his awne eies The ende of the boke of the Iudges called Iudicum The boke of Ruth What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Elimelech departeth from Bethleem with his wife and two sonnes in to the londe of the Moabites where the father dyeth and both the sonnes Ruth the wife of the one sonne goeth home with hir mother in lawe Chap. II. Ruth gathereth vp eares of corne in the felde of Boos hir houszbandes kynsmaÌ„ Chap. III. Ruth lyeth her downe in the barne at Boos fete and he geueth her good wordes and ladeth her with sixe measures of barlye Chap. IIII. Boos marieth Ruth which beareth him Obed Dauids graundfather The
first Chapter IN y e tyme whan the Iudges ruled there was a derth in the londe And there wente a mā from Bethleē Iuda to take his iourney in to the londe of the Moabites w t his wife and two sonnes which man was called Eli Melech and his wife Naemi his two sonnes the one Mahelon and the other Chilion these were Ephrates of Bethleem Iuda And whan they came in to the londe of y e Moabites they dwelt there And Eli Melech Naemis huszbande dyed she was left behinde w t hir two sonnes which toke Moabitish wyues the one was called Arpa the other Ruth And whan they had dwelt there ten yeare they dyed both Mahelon and Chilion so that the woman remayned desolate of both hir sonnes and hir huszbande Then gat she her vp w t both hir sonnes wyues wente agayne out of the lōde of y e Moabites for she had herde in the londe of the Moabites y t the LORDE had visited his people geuen them bred so she departed from y e place where she was both hir sonnes wyues w t her And as they wēte by the waye to come agayne in to the londe of Iuda she sayde vnto both hir sonnes wyues Go yo r waye turne backe ether of you to hir mothers house the LORDE shewe mercy vpon you as ye haue done on thē y t are deed on me The LORDE graunte you y t ye maie fynde rest ether of you in hir huszbādes house whom ye shal get and she kyssed them Then lift they vp their voyce and wepte sayde vnto her We wil go with the vnto y e people But Naemi sayde Turne agayne my doughters why wolde ye go with me How can I haue children eny more in my body to be youre huszbandes Turne agayne my doughters and go youre waye for I am now to olde to take an huszbande And though I shulde saye I hope this night to take an huszbande to brynge forth children yet coulde ye not tary tlll they were growne vp for ye shulde be to olde so that ye coulde haue no huszbandes No my doughters therfore am I sory for you for y e hāde of the LORDE is gone forth ouer me Then lifte they vp their voyce and wepte yet more and Arpa kyssed hir mother in lawe and turned backe againe but Ruth abode styll by her Neuertheles she sayde Beholde thy syster in lawe is turned backe vnto hir people and to hir god turne thou againe also after thy sister in lawe Ruth answered Speake not to me therof that I shulde forsake the and turne backe from the whither so euer thou goest thither wil I go also and loke where thou abydest there wil I abide also Thy people is my people thy God is my God Loke where thou diest there wil dye and euen there wil I also be buried The LORDE do this and that vnto me death onely shal departe vs. Now whan she sawe that she was stedfastly mynded to go with her she spake nomore to her therof So they wente on both together till they came vnto Bethleem And whan they were come in to Bethleem the whole cite was moued ouer them and sayde Is not this Naemi Neuerthelesse she sayde vnto them call me not Naemi but Mara for the Allmightie hath made me very sory I departed full but the LORDE hath brought me home agayne emptye Why call ye me then Naemi whā the LORDE hath broughte me lowe and the Allmightie hath made me sory It was aboute the tyme of the begynninge of the barlye haruest whan Naemi and his sonnes wife Ruth y e Moabitysse came agayne from the londe of the Moabites vnto Bethleem There was a kinsman also of y e kynred of Eli Melech Naemis huszbande whose name was Boos which was an honest man The II. Chapter ANd Ruth the Moabitisse saide vnto Naemi Let me go in to y e felde gather eares of corne after him in whose sight I shal finde fau◠She sayde vnto her Go y t waie my doughter She wēte on came gathered after y e reapers in y e feld And it fortuned that the same felde was the enheritaunce of Boos which was of the kynred of Elimelech and beholde Boos came from Bethleem and sayde vnto the reapers The LORDE be with you They answered The LORDE blesse the. And Boos sayde vnto his yongman which had the ouersight of y e reapers Whose damsell is this The yonge man that was set ouer y e reapers answered and sayde It is the damsell the Moabitisse which came agayne with Naemi from the londe of the Moabites And she sayde Let me plucke vp and gather I praie the betwene the sheues after the reapers and thus is she come and hath stonde here euer sence the mornynge and within a litle whyle she wolde haue bene gone home agayne Then sayde Boos vnto Ruth Hearest thou my doughter Thou shalt not come vpon another mans londe to gather and go not awaye from hence but tary with my dāsels and loke where they reape in y e felde go thou after them for I haue cōmaunded my seruauntes that no man touch the. And yf thou be a thyrst go thy waye to the vessell drynke where my seruauntes drawe Then fell she downe vpon hir face and bowed hir self downe to the earth and sayde vnto him How haue I founde this fauoure in y e sighte that thou woldest knowe me which am yet a straunger Boos answered and sayde vnto her It is tolde me alltogether what thou hast done vnto thy mother in lawe after thy huszbādes death how that thou hast left y e father and thy mother and thy natiue countre and art come to a people whom thou hast not knowne afore The LORDE recompence the thy doinge and thy rewarde be parfecte w t the LORDE God of Israel vnto whom thou art come to put thy trust vnder his wynges She sayde let me fynde fauoure syr before thyne eyes for thou hast comforted me and spoken frendly vnto thy handmaydē where as I am not yet like one of y e handmaydēs Boos sayde vnto her Whan it is eatinge tyme come hither and eate of the bred and dyppe thy morsell in the vyneger And she sat hir downe besyde the reapers And he set parched come before her and she ate was satisfyed and lefte ouer And whā she rose to gather Boos commaunded his seruauntes and sayde Let her gather betwene the sheues also and do her no dishonestye and cast of the sheues vnto her and let it lye that she maye gather it vp and se that noman reproue her for it So she gathered in the felde vntyll euen and she shaked out what she had gathered and it was allmost an Epha of barlye and she toke it vp and came in to the cite and shewed hir mother in lawe what she had gathered She toke forth also and gaue her of that which was left wherof she was satysfyed Thē sayde hir
they stode vp and wēte their waye y t nighte The XXIX Chapter THe Philistynes gathered all their armies together at Aphek But Israel pitched at Ain in Iesrael And the prynces of the Philistynes wēte forth with hundreds and with thousandes but Dauid and his men wēte behynde with Achis Thē sayde the prynces of the Philistynes What shal these Hebrues do Achis saide vnto thē Is not this Dauid y e seruaunt of Saul kynge of Israel which hath bene with me now yeares and dayes I haue founde no euell in him sence the tyme that he fell to me vnto this daye Neuertheles the prynces of y e Philistynes were wroth at him sayde vnto him Let the man turne backe agayne abyde in his place which thou hast appoynted him that he go not downe with vs to y e batayll and become oure aduersary in y e felde For wherin coulde he better do his lorde a pleasure thē in the heades of these men Is not this Dauid of whom they sunge in the daunce Saul hath smyttē his thousande but Dauid his ten thousande Then Achis called Dauid and sayde vnto him As truly as the LORDE lyueth I take the for an honest man and thy out goynge and ingoynge with me in y e hoost pleaseth me well and no euell haue I marked in the sence y e tyme that thou camest to me vnto this daye But thou pleasest not the prynces Returne now therfore and go y e waye in peace that thou do no euell in the sighte of the prynces of y e Philistynes Dauid sayde What haue I done what hast thou marked in thy seruaunt sence y e tyme that I haue bene in y e presence vnto this daye that I shulde not come and fighte agaynst the enemies of my lorde the kynge Achis answered and sayde vnto Dauid I knowe well that thou pleasest myne eyes euē as an angell of God But the prynces of y e Philistynes haue sayde Let him not go vp with vs vnto the batayll Get the vp therfore tomorow by tymes and y e lordes seruauntes which are come with the. And whan ye haue gotten you vp early in the mornynge whan it is lighte go yo r waye So Dauid his men gat them vp early to go their waye in the mornynge and to come agayne in to the londe of the Philistynes But the Philistynes wente vp towarde Iesrael The XXX Chapter NOw whan Dauid came to Siclag on the thirde daie with his men the Amalechites had fallē in on y e south parte and at Siclag and had smytten Siclag and burned it with fyre and had caried awaye the wemē out of it both small greate Neuertheles they had slayne no man but dryuen thē thence and were goynge on their waye Now whan Dauid with his men came to the cite and sawe that it was brent w t fyre and that their wyues sonnes doughters were led awaye captyue Dauid and the people that was with him lefte vp their voyce and wepte so longe tyll they coulde wepe nomore For Dauids two wyues also were caried awaye captyue Ahinoam y e Iesraelitisse and Abigail Nabals wife of Carmel And Dauid was very soroufull for the people wolde haue stoned him for y e soule of all the people was in greate heuynes euery one ouer his sonnes and doughters Neuertheles Dauid strengthed him selfe in the LORDE his God sayde vnto Abiathar y e prest the sonne of Ahimelech Bringe me hither the ouerbody cote And whan Abiathar had broughte the ouerbody cote vnto Dauid Dauid axed at the LORDE and sayde Shal I folowe vpon the men of warre and shal I ouertake them He sayde Yee folowe vpō them thou shalt ouertake them and shalt rescue the pray Then wente Dauid his waye and the sixe hūdreth men that were with him And whan they came to the ryuer of Besor some stode styll But Dauid and the foure hundreth men folowed after As for the two hūdreth men that stode styll they had bene slowe to go ouer the ryuer of Besor And they founde a man of Egipte vpon the felde him they broughte vnto Dauid gaue him bred to eate and water to drynke and gaue him a quantite of fygges two quantities of rasyns And whan he had eaten his sprete came to him againe for in thre dayes and thre nightes he had eatē no bred and dronke no water Dauid sayde vnto him Whose art thou whence art thou He sayde I am a childe of Egipte an Amalechites seruaunt my master hath forsaken me because I was sicke thre dayes a goo We fell her in towarde y e south syde of Chrethus and vpon Iuda and towarde y e south parte of Caleb haue burned Siclag with fyre Dauid sayde vnto him Wilt thou bringe me downe to these men of warre He sayde◠Sweare vnto me by God y t thou shalt not slaye me ner delyuer me in to my masters hāde and I wil brynge the downe to these mē of warre And he broughte thē downe and beholde they were scatred vpon all y e grounde eatinge and drynkynge and kepynge holy daye and were makinge mery chere because of all the greate spoyles that they had taken out of the londe of the Philistynes and of Iuda And Dauid smote them from y e morow tyll the euen agaynst the nexte daye so that there escaped none excepte foure hundreth yonge men which rode vpon camels fled So Dauid rescued all that the Amalechites had taken and his two wyues there myssed nothinge nether small ner greate nether sonnes ner doughters ner spoyles and what so euer they had taken Dauid broughte all agayne And Dauid toke the shepe and oxē and droue y e catell before him And they sayde This is Dauids spoyle And whan Dauid came to the two hundreth men which had bene slowe to folowe after Dauid and abode at the ryuer of Besor they wente forth to mete Dauid and the people y t was with him And Dauid came to the people and saluted them frendly Then answered soch men as were euell Belials men amonge them that had gone with Dauid and sayde Seynge they wente not w t vs they shal haue none of the spoyles that we haue rescued but let euery mā toke his wife his children and be goynge Then sayde Dauid Ye shall not do so my brethren with that which y e LORDE hath geuen vs and hath preserued vs and delyuered these men of warre which were come agaynst vs in to oure hādes Who shulde cōsente vnto you herin like as the porcion is of them that wente downe to the battayll so shal y e porcion be of them also that a bode w t the stuffe shal be deuyded a lyke From that tyme forth hath this bene an ordinaunce lawe in Israel vnto this daye And whan Dauid came to Siclag he sent of the spoyle vnto the Elders in Iuda his neghbours and sayde Beholde there haue ye the blessynge out
was with him to fighte agaynst the Syrians and they fled before him And whan the children of Ammon sawe that the Syrians fled they fled also before Abisai wente in to the cite So Ioab turned agayne from the children of Ammon came to Ierusalem And whan the Syrians sawe y t they were smytten before Israel they came together And Hadad Eser sent broughte out y e Syrians beyonde the water and conueyed their power in Sobath the chefe captayne of Hadad Eser wente before theÌ„ Whan this was tolde Dauid he gathered all Israel together wente ouer Iordane and came to Helam the Syrians prepared them selues against Dauid to fighte with him howbeit the Syrians fled before Israel And Dauid slewe of the Syrians seueÌ„ hundreth charettes fortye thousande horsmeÌ„ Sobath the chefe captayne smote he also so that he dyed there Whan the kynges which were vnder Adad Eser sawe that they were smytten before Israel they made peace with Israel and were subdued vnto them And the Syrians were afrayed to helpe the children of Ammon eny more The XI Chapter ANd whan y e yeare came aboute what tyme as y e kynges vse to go forth Dauid sent Ioab and his seruauÌ„tes with him and all Israel to destroye the children of Ammon and to laye sege vnto Rabba but Dauid abode at Ierusalem And aboute the eueÌ„tyde it fortuned that Dauid arose from his restinge place wente vp to y e toppe of the kynges palace and from y e toppe he sawe a woman waszshinge hir selfe and the woman was of a very fayre bewtye And Dauid sent and caused to axe what woman it was and sayde Is not that Bethseba the doughter of Eliam the wife of Vâ—ias the Hethite And Dauid sent messauÌ„gers and caused for to fetch her And whaÌ„ she was come in vnto him he laye with her Neuertheles she halowed hir selfe from hir vnclennes and turned a gayne vnto 〈◊〉 house And the womaÌ„ was with childe and sent and caused to tell Dauid and to saye I am with childe Dauid sent vnto Ioab sayeÌ„ge Sende me Vrias y e Hethite And Ioab sent Vrias vnto Dauid And whan Vrias came to him Dauid axed him yf it stode well with Ioab and with the people and with the battayll And Dauid sayde to Vrias Go downe in to thy house and wash thy fete And whan Vrias wente out of the kynges palace the kynges gifte folowed him And Vrias layed him downe to slepe before the kynges palace gate where all his lordes seruauntes laye wente not downe in to his house Whan worde came to Dauid Vrias is not gone downe in to his house Dauid sayde vnto him Camest thou not ouer the felde Why wentest thou not downe in to thy house Vrias sayde vnto Dauid The Arke and Israel Iuda abyde in the tentes And Ioab my lorde and my lordes seruauntes lye in y e felde and shal I go in to my house to eate and drynke and to lye with my wife As truly as thou lyuest and as truly as thy soule lyueth I wyll not do this thinge Dauid sayde vnto Vria Abyde here then to daye tomorow wil I let the go So Vrias abode at Ierusalem the same daye and the nexte also And Dauid called him to eate drynke before him made him dronken And at euen he wente to lye him downe for to slepe vpon his couche with his lordes seruauntes and wente not downe in to his house On the morow wrote Dauid a letter vnto Ioab sent it by Vrias After this maner wrote he in the letter Set Vrias in y e sorest parte of y e batayll turne you behynde him y t he maye be slayne Now whaÌ„ Ioab layed sege to the cite he set Vrias in y e place where he knewe y t the mightiest men of Aâ—mes were And whan the men of the cite fell out and foughte agaynst Ioab there fell certayne of y e people of Dauids seruauntes And Vrias the Hethite dyed also Then sent Ioab and caused to tell y e kynge all the matter concernynge the battayll and coÌ„maunded the messaunger and sayde Whan thou hast tolde y e kynge all the matter concernynge the batayll and seist that he is wroth and yf the kynge saye vnto the Wherfore came ye so nye the cite with the batayll Knowe ye not how they vse to shute from the wall Who smote Abimelech the sonne of Ierubaall Dyd not a womaÌ„ cast a pece of a mylstone vpoÌ„ him from the wall so that he dyed at Thebez Why came ye so nye the wall Then shalt thou sayâ— Thy seruaunt Vrias the Hethite is deed also The messaunger wente his waye and came and tolde Dauid all together wherfore Ioab had sent him And the messaunger sayde vnto Dauid The men preuayled against vs and fell out vnto vs in to y e felde and we were vpon them harde at the dore of y e porte And the archers shot from the wall vpon thy seruauntes and slewe certayne of the kynges seruauntes and thy seruaunt Vrias the Hethite is deed also Dauid sayde vnto the messaunger Thus shalt thou saye vnto Ioab Let not y t vexe the for the swerde consumeth now one now another Go forth with the battayll against the cite that thou mayest destroye it and coÌ„forte the men And whan Vrias wife herde that Vrias was deed she mourned for hir huszbande But whaÌ„ she had made an ende of mournynge Dauid sent and caused her be fetched vnto his palace and she became his wyfe and bare him a sonne Neuertheles this dede y t Dauid dyd displeased the LORDE The XII Chapter ANd the LORDE sent Nathan vnto Dauid Whan he came to him he tolde him There were two men in one cite the one riche the other poore The riche man had very many shepe and oxen but the poore man had nothinge saue one litle shepe which he had boughte and norished it so that it grewe vp with him and his children together It ate of his bred and dranke of his cuppe and slepte in his lappe and he helde it as a doughter But whan there came a straunger vnto the riche man he spared to take of his awne shepe oxen to prepare oughte for the straunger that was come vnto him and toke the poore mans shepe and prepared it for the man that was come vnto him TheÌ„ was Dauid wroth with greate displeasure agaynst that man and sayde vnto Nathan As truly as the LORDE lyueth the man that hath done this is the childe of death The shepe also shal he make good foure folde because he hath done soch a thinge and not spared it Then sayde Nathan vnto Dauid Thou art euen the man Thus sayeth the LORDE the God of Israel I haue anoynted the to be kynge ouer Israel and delyuered the out of the hande of Saul and haue geven the y i lordes house and his wyues in to thy lappe and the house of Israel and Iuda
e beholde here am I let him do with me as it pleaseth him And the kynge saide vnto Sadoc y e prest O thou Seer turne agayne to y e cite with peace and Ahimaas thy sonne with the and Ionathas the sonne of Abiathar beholde I wyl tary in the playne of the wyldernes tyll the message come from you and tell me So Sadoc and Abiathar broughte the Arke of God agayne to Ierusalem and remayned there But Dauid wente vp to mount Olyuete and wepte his heade was couered And all the people that was with him had euery man his heade couered and wente on and wepte And whan it was tolde Dauid that Achitophel was in the coÌ„federacy with Absalom he sayde LORDE turne thou Achitophels councell to foolishnes And whan Dauid came vp to the toppe of the mount where the vse was to worshippe God Chusai the Arachite met him with his cote rent and earth vpon his heade And Dauid sayde vnto him Yf thou go with me thou shalt be chargeable vnto me but yf thou goest agayne in to the cite and sayest vnto Absalom I am thy seruaunt O kynge euen as I was thy fathers seruaunt so wyll I now be thy seruaunt Then shalt thou brynge Achitophels councell to naughte So is Sadoc and Abiathar y e prestes with the and all that thou hearest out of the kynges house tell it vnto Sadoc and Abiathar the prestes Beholde their two sonnes are with theÌ„ Ahâ—maas the sonne of Sadoc and Ionathas the sonne of Abiathar by them mayest thou sende me worde what thou hearest So Chusai Dauids frende came in to the cite And Absalom came to Ierusalem The XVI Chapter ANd whan Dauid was gone a lytle by from the toppe of the mount beholde Siba the seruauÌ„t of Mephiboseth met him with a couple of asses sadled wheron were two hundreth loaues of bred and an hundreth quantities of rasyns and an huÌ„dreth quantities of fygges and a bottell of wyne Then sayde the kynge vnto Siba What wilt thou do herewith Siba sayde The asses shal be for the kynges housholde to ryde vpon and the loaues and fygges for the yonge men to eate and the wyne shall be for them to drynke whan they are weery in the wyldernes The kynge sayde Where is thy lordes sonne Siba sayde vnto the kynge Beholde he abyde that IerusaleÌ„ for he saide To daye shal y e house of Israel restore my fathers kiÌ„gdome vnto me The kynge saide vnto Siba Beholde all that Mephiboseth hath shal be thine Siba sayde with reuerence Let me finde grace in thy sight my lorde O kynge But whan kynge Dauid came to Bahurim beholde there wente out a man of the kynred of the house of Saul whose name was Semei the sonne of Gera which wente forth and cursed and caststones at Dauid and at all kynge Dauids seruauntes and all the people and all the mightie men men were at his righte hande and at his lefte Thus sayde Semei whan he cursed Get the forth get the forth thou bloudy hounde thou man of Belial The LORDE hath rewarded the for all the bloude of the house of Saul y t thou becamest kynge in his steade Now hath the LORDE geuen the kyngdome in to y e hande of Absalom thy sonne and beholde now stickest thou in thine owne myschefe for thou art a bloudy hounde But Abisai the sonne of Zeru Ia sayde vnto the kynge Shall this deed dogg curse my lorde the kynge I wyl go and take the heade awaye from him The kynge saide Ye children of Zeru Ia what haue I to do w t you Let him curse on for the LORDE hath commaunded him Curse Dauid Who can saye now Why doest thou so And Dauid sayde vnto Abisai and to all his seruauntes Beholde my sonne which came of my body seketh after my lyfe how moch more now the sonne of Iemini Let him curse on for the LORDE hath commaunded him peraduenture the LORDE shall consydre my aduersyte and recompence me good for his cursynge this daye So Dauid wente on his waye with his men But Semei wente on by the mount besyde him and cursed and caststones at him threwe clottes of earth And the kynge came in and all the people that was with him weery and refreshed him selfe there But Absalom and all the people of the men of Israel came to Ierusalem and Achitophel with him Whan Chusai the Arachite Dauids frende came in to Absalom he sayde vnto Absalom God saue the kynge God saue the kynge Absalom sayde vnto Chusai Is this thy mercy vnto thy frende Why art thou not gone with thy frende Chusai sayde vnto Absalom Not so but loke whom the LORDE choseth and this people and all the men in Israel his wyl I be and byde with him Secondly whom shulde I serue Shulde I not do seruyce before his sonne Like as I haue serued in the presence of thy father so wyll I do seruyce before the also And Absalom sayde vnto Achitophel Geue vs youre councell what we shal do Achitophel sayde vnto Absalom Go lye with thy fathers concubynes whom he hath lefte to kepe the house so shall all Israel heare that thou hast made thy father to stynke and the hande of all them that are with y e shal be the bolder Then made they a tente vnto Absalom vpon the house toppe And Absalom laye with his fathers concubâ—â—â— in the sighte of all Israel At that tyme whan Achitophel 〈◊〉 councell that was euen as yf a man 〈◊〉 councell at God So were all the councels of Achitophel both with Dauid and 〈◊〉 Absalom The XVII Chapter ANd Achitophel sayde vnto Absalom I wil chose out twolue thousande 〈◊〉 and wyl get me vp and persue 〈◊〉 by nighte and fall vpoÌ„ him whan he is feble and weery When I vexe him theÌ„ so that all the people which is by him flieth I wil 〈◊〉 the kynge onely and brynge all the people vnto the agayne So whan euery man is brought vnto the as thou desyrest then shal all the people be in peace Absalom thoughâ— that good and so dyd all the Elders in Isâ—rael But Absalom sayde I praye you call Chusai the Arachite also and let vs heaâ—â— what he sayeth therto And whaÌ„ Chusai came in to Absalom Absalom saide vnto him Thus hath Achitophel spoken Saye thou now shal we do it or not Then sayde Chusai vnto Absalom It is no good councell y t Achitophel hath geuen at this tyme. And Chusai sayde morouer Thou knowest thy father well and his men that they are stronge and of a wrothfull stomack euen as a Beer that is robbed of hir yonge ones in the felde Thy father also is a man of warre and wyl not be necligeÌ„t with the people Beholde he hath now peraduenture hyd hymselfe in some caue or in some place Yf it came to passe then that it chaunced euell at the first there shulde come a rumo r and saye There is a slaughter done in the people
of Assiria haue destroyed the Heythen and their londe with the swerde and haue cast their goddes in the fyre for they were not Goddes but y e worke of mēs hondes wodd and stone therfore haue they destroyed them But now O LORDE helpe thou vs out of his hande that all the kyngdomes vpon earth maye knowe that thou LORDE art God alone Then sent Esay the sonne of Amos vnto Ezechias sayenge Thus sayeth the LORDE God of Israel Where as thou hast made thy prayer vnto me concernynge Sennacherib y e kynge of Assiria I haue herde it This is it that the LORDE hath spoken agaynst him He hath despysed y e and mocked the O virgin thou doughter Sion he hath shakē his heade at the O doughter Ierusalem Whom hast thou despysed blasphemed Ouer whom hast thou lifte vp thy voyce Euē agaynst y e holy one in Israel hast thou lifte vp thine eyes thou hast blasphemed y e LORDE by thy messaungers and sayde Thorow the multitude of my charettes haue I gone vp to the toppes of the mountaynes vpon the sydes of Libanus I haue hewen downe his hye Ceders and his chosen Pyne trees and am come to the vttemost habitacion of the wod of Carmel that belongeth vnto it I haue dygged and dronke vp the straunge waters and with y e soles of my fete haue I dryed vp the See But hast thou not herde how that I haue done this longe agoo and haue prepared it from the begynnynge Now haue I caused it for to come that contencious stronge cities mighte fall in to a waist heape of stones they that dwell therin shal be faynte and fearfull and a shamed and shal be as the grasse vpon the felde and as y e grene herbe and hay vpon the house toppes that wythereth afore it be growne vp I knowe thy habitacion thy out and ingoynge and that thou ragest agaynst me For so moch then as thou ragest agaynst me and seynge thy presumpcion is come vp to myne eares therfore wyll I put a rynge in thy nose and a brydle bytt in thy lippes and wyll brynge the agayne euen the same waye thou camest And let this be a token vnto the O Ezechias In this yeare eate y t which is fallen ▪ in the seconde yeare soch as groweth of it selfe In y e thirde yeare sowe and reape and plante vynyardes and eate the frute therof And the doughter Iuda which is escaped remayneth shall from hence forth take rote beneth and beare frute aboue For the remnaunt shal go forth from Ierusalem they y t are escaped shall go out fro mount Sion The gelousy of the LORDE Zebaoth shall brynge this to passe Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE concernynge y e kynge of the Assyrians He shall not come in to this cite and shall shute no arowe therin nether shal there come eny shylde before it nether shall he dygge eny backe aboute it but shal go agayne the waye that he came and shall not come in to this cite sayeth the LORDE and I wyll defende this cite to helpe it for myne awne sake and for my seruaunt Dauids sake And in the same nighte wente the angell of the LORDE and smote in the hoost of the Assyrians an hundreth and fyue and foure score thousande men And whan they gatt them vp in the mornynge beholde all laye full of deed coarses So Sennacherib the kinge of Assyria brake vp and departed and returned and abode at Niniue And as he worshipped in y e house of Nesrach his god his awne sonnes Adramalech and Sarazer smote him with the swerde and fled in to y e londe of Ararat And Asarhadon his sonne was kynge in his steade The XX. Chapter AT that tyme was Ezechias deedsicke And the prophet Esay y e sonne of Amos came to him sayde vnto him Thus sayeth y e LORDE Set thine house in ordre for thou shalt dye not lyue And he turned his face to the wall and prayed vnto y e LORDE and sayde Remembre O LORDE that I haue walked faithfully before the with a perfecte hert and haue done y t which is good in thy syghte And Ezechias wepte sore But whan Esay was not gone out of halfe the cite y e worde of y e LORDE came to him sayde Turne back tell Ezechias y e prynce of my people Thus sayeth y e LORDE God of thy father Dauid I haue herde thy praier considered y e teares Beholde I wil heale y e on the thirde daye shalt thou go in to y e house of the LORDE fiftene yeares wil I adde vnto y e life wyll delyuer the this cite from the kynge of Assyria this cite wil I defende for myne awne sake and for my seruaūt Dauids sake And Esay sayde Bringe hither a quantite of fygges And whan they broughte them they layed them vpon the sore and it was healed Ezechias sayde vn to Esay Which is y e token that the LORDE wyll heale me and that I shal go vp in to the house of y e LORDE on the thirde daye Esay sayde This token shalt thou haue of the LORDE that the LORDE shal do acordynge as he hath sayde Shall the shadowe go ten degrees forwarde or shal it turne ten degrees backwarde Ezechias sayde It is an easy thinge for the shadowe to go ten degrees downewarde y t is not my mynde but that it go ten degrees backwarde Then cryed the prophet Esay vnto the LORDE and the shadowe wente backe ten degrees in Achas Dyall which he was descended afore At the same tyme Merodach Baladan the sonne of Baladan kynge of Babilon sent letters and presentes vnto Ezechias for he had herde that Ezechias had bene sicke And Ezechias reioysed with them shewed them all the house of rotes the syluer golde spyces and the best oyle and the house of ordinaunce and all that was founde in his treasures There was nothinge in his house and in all his domynion but Ezechias shewed it them Then came Esay the prophet vnto kynge Ezechias and sayde vnto him What haue these men sayde and whence came they vnto the Ezechias sayde They came to me out of a farre countre euen from Babilon He sayde What haue they sene in thyne house Ezechias sayde They haue sene all that is in my house and there is nothynge in my 〈◊〉 but I haue shewed it them Then sayde Esay vnto Ezechias Heare the worde of the LORDE Beholde the tyme commeth that it shall all be caryed awaye vnto Babilon and whatsoeuer thy fathers haue layed vp vnto this daye and there shall nothinge be lefte sayeth the LORDE Yee and the children which come of the whom thou shalt beget shal be taken awaye to be chamberlaynes in the kynge of Babilons palace Ezechias sayde vnto Esay It is good that the LORDE hath spoken And he sayde morouer Let there be peace yet and faithfulnesse in my tyme. What more there is to saye
dorekepers were appointed towarde the foure wyndes towarde the East towarde the West towarde the North towarde y e South But their brethreÌ„ were in their vyllages that they might come allwaye on the seuenth daye to be with them for vnto these foure maner of chefe dorrkepers were the Leuites committed And they had the ouersight of the chestes and treasures in y e house of God In the nighte season also remayned they aboute the house of God for their dewtye was to geue attendaunce to open euery mornynge And some of them had the ouersight of the mynistrynge vessell for they bare the vessell out and in And some of theÌ„ were appoynted ouer the vessell and ouer all the holy vessell ouer the fine wheate floure ouer y e wyne ouer the oile ouer the frankencense ouer the swete odoures but some of y e prestes children made the incense Vnto Mathithia one of the Leuites the fyrst sonne of Sallum the Corahite were y e pannes coÌ„mytted And certayne of the Kahathites their brethren were appointed ouer the shewbred to prepare it euery Sabbath daye These are the heades of the singers amoÌ„ge the fathers of the Leuites chosen out ouer the chestes for daye and night were they in worke withall These are the heades of y e fathers amonge y e Leuites in their kinreds These dwelt at Ierusalem At Gibeon dwelt Ieiel the father of Gibeon his wiues name was Maecha and his fyrst sonne Abdon Zur Cis Baal Ner Nadab Gedor Ahaio Sacharia Mikloth Mikloth begat Simeam And they dwelt also aboute their brethren at Ierusalem amonge theirs Ner begat Cis Cis begat Saul Saul begat Ionathas Malchisua Abinadab Esbaal The sonne of Ionathas was Meribaal Meribaal begat Micha The children of Micha were Pithon Melech and Thaherea Ahas begat Iaera Iaera begat Alemeth Asmaueth and Simri Simri begat Moza Moza begat Binea whose sonne was Raphaia whose sonne was Eleasa whose sonne was Azel Azel had sixe sonnes whose names were Asrikam Bochru Iesmael Searia Obadia Hanan These are the children of Azel The XI Chapter THe Philistynes foughte agaynst Israel And they of Israel fled before the Philistynes and y e wounded fell vpon mount Gilboa And the Philistynes folowed vpon Saul and his sonnes and smote Ionathas Abinadab and Malchisua y e sonnes of Saul And the battayll was sore agaynst Saul And the archers came vpon him so that he was wounded of the archers Then sayde Saul vnto his weapenbearer Drawe out thy swerde and thrust it thorow me that these vncircumcysed come not and deale shamefully with me Neuertheles his weapenbearer wolde not for he was sore afrayed Then toke Saul his swerde and fell therin Whan his weapenbearer sawe that Saul was deed he fell vpon his swerde also and dyed Thus died Saul and his thre sonnes and all his housholde together And whan the men of Israel which were in y e valley sawe that Saul and his sonnes were deed they lefte their cities and fled and the Philistynes came and dwelt therin On the morowe came the Philistynes to spoyle the slayne and founde Saul and his sonnes lyenge vpon mount Gelboa and stryped him out and toke his heade and his harnesse and sent it aboute in to y e londe of the Philistynes and caused it to be shewed before their Idoles and the people And his weapens layed they in the house of their god and styckte vp his heade vpon the house of Dagon But whan all they of Iabes in Gilead herde of euery thinge that the Philistynes had done vnto Saul they gat them vp as many as were men of armes and toke the body of Saul and of his sonnes and broughte them vnto Iabes and buryed their bones vnder the Oke at Iabes and fasted seuen dayes Thus dyed Saul in his trespace which he commytted agaynst the LORDE because he kepte not the worde of the LORDE because he axed councell at the soythsayer and axed not at the LORDE therfore slewe he him turned the kyngdome vnto Dauid The XII Chapter ANd all Israel resorted to Dauid vnto Hebron and sayde Beholde we are y e bone and thy flesh And afore tyme whan Saul reigned thou leddest Israel out and in So the LORDE thy God hath sayde vnto the Thou shalt kepe my people of Israel and thou shalt be the prynce ouer my people of Israel And all the Elders of Israel came to the kynge vnto Hebron And Dauid made a couenaunt with them at Hebron before the LORDE And they anoynted Dauid to be kynge ouer Israel acordynge to the worde of the LORDE by Samuel And Dauid and all Israel weÌ„te vnto Ierusalem that is Iebus for the Iebusites dwelt in the loÌ„de And the citesyns of Iebus saide vnto Dauid Thou shalt not come in hither Howbeit Dauid waÌ„ne y e castell of SioÌ„ which is y e cite of Dauid And Dauid sayde who so euer smyteth y e Iebusites first shal be a prynce captayne TheÌ„ Ioab y e sonne of Zerâ—ia clymmed vp first was made captayne So Dauid dwelt in y e castell therfore was it called y e cite of Dauid And he buylded y e cite rouÌ„de aboute fro Millo forth on euery syde As for y e remnaunt of y e cite Ioab buylded it repayred it And Dauid weÌ„te forth grewe the LORDE Zebaoth was w t him These are y e chefe amoÌ„ge y e mightie meÌ„ of Dauid which dealt valeauntly w t him in his kyngdome w t all Israel to make him kynge acordinge to the worde of y e LORDE ouer Israel And this is y e nombre of Dauids mightie men Iesabeam the sonne of Hachmoni the chefest amoÌ„ge thirtie He lifte vp his speare smote thre C. at one tyme. After him was Eleasar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite and he was amoÌ„ge the thre mightie This man was w t Dauid whaÌ„ they blasphemed the Philistynes gathered theÌ„ selues there to y e batayll And eueÌ„ ther â–ª was there a pece of londe full of barly the people fled before the Philistynes And they stode in the myddes of the londe and rescued it and smote the Philistynes And the LORDE gaue a greate health And thre of the chefest thirtie weÌ„te downe to the rocke vnto Dauid in to the caue of Adullam But the Philistynes hoost laye in the valley of Rephain As for Dauid he was in the castell And the Philistynes people were then at Bethleem And Dauid was desyrous and sayde O that some wolde geue me to drynke of the water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate TheÌ„ brake those thre in to the Philistynes hoost and drue of the water out of the well at Bethleem vnder the gate and caried it and broughte it vnto Dauid Neuertheles he wolde not drynke it but poured it vnto the LORDE and sayde God let this be farre fro me y t I shulde do it and drynke the bloude of these men in y e parell of their life for with the
thou hast made Oh what is man y t thou art so myndfull of him ether the sonne of maÌ„ that thou visitest him After thou haddest for a season made him lower theÌ„ the angels thou crownedest him with hono r glory Thou hast set him aboue the workes off thy hondes thou hast put all thinges in subieccion vnder his fete All shepe and oxen yee and the beastes of the felde The foules of the ayre the fysh of the see and what â—o walketh thorow the wayes of the see O LORDE oure gouernoure how wonderfull is thy name in all the worlde The IX A psalme of Dauid I Wil geue thaÌ„kes vnto the o LORDE with my whole herte I wil speake of all thy maruelous workes I wil be glad reioyse in the yee my songes wil I make of thy name o thou most hyest Because thou hast dryueÌ„ myne enemies abacke they were discoÌ„fited perished at thy presence For thou hast manteyned my right and my cause thou syttest in the Trone that art the true iudge Thou rebukest the Heithen and destroyest the vngodly thou puttest out their name for euer and euer The enemies swerdes are come to an ende thou hast ouerthrowen their cities their memoriall is perished with theÌ„ But y e LORDE endureth for euer he hath prepared his seate vnto iudgmeÌ„t He gouerneth y e worlde with rightuousnes ministreth true iudgmeÌ„t vnto the people The LORDE is a defence for the poore a defence in the tyme of trouble Therfore they y t knowe thy name put their trust in y e for thou LORDE neuer faylest theÌ„ that seke the. O prayse the LORDE which dwelleth in Sion shewe y e people of his doinges And why he maketh inquysicion for their bloude and remembreth them he forgetteth not the complaynte of the poore Haue mercy vpoÌ„ me o LORDE considre the trouble that I am in amoÌ„ge myne enemies thou that liftest me vp from y e gates of death That I maye she we all thy prayses within the portes off the doughter Sion and reioyse in thy sauynge healâ—h As for the Heithen the are sunckeÌ„ doâ—ne in the pytte that they made in the same nette which they spred out priuely is their owne fote takeÌ„ Thus y e LORDE is knowne to execute true iudgment wheÌ„ the vngodly is trapped in the workes of his owne handes Sela. The wicked must be turned vnto hell and all the Heithen y t forget God But the poore shal not allwaye be out of remembraunce the pacieÌ„t abydinge of soch as be in trouble shall not perish for euer Vp LORDE let not man haue the vpper haÌ„de let the HeitheÌ„ be coÌ„demned before the. O LORDE set a scolemaster ouer theÌ„ that the HeitheÌ„ maye knowe them selues to be but meÌ„ Sela Here the Hebrues begynne the x. psalme WHy art thou gone so farre of o LORDE wilt thou hyde thyselff in tyme of trouble Whyle y e vngodly hath the ouer hande the poore must suffre persecucion O that they were taken in the ymaginacions which they go aboute For the vn godly maketh boost of his owne hertes desyre the cuvetous blesseth him self and blasphemeth the LORDE The vngodly is so proude and full of indignacioÌ„ that he careth not nether is God before his eyes His wayes are allwaye filthie thy iudgmentes are farre out of his sight he defyeth all his enemies For he sayeth in his herte Tush I shal neuer be cast downe there shal no harme happeÌ„ vnto me His mouth is full of cursynge fraude and disceate vnder his toÌ„ge is trauayle sorow He sytteth lurkynge in the gardens that he maye pryuely murthur the innocent his eyes are set vpoÌ„ the poore He lyeth way â—inge secretly as it were a lyon in his denne He lurketh that he maye rauysh the poore yee to rauish the poore when he hath gotten him in to his nett Then smyteth he then oppresseth he casteth downe the poore with his auctorite For he sayeth in his herte Tush God hath forgotten he hath turned a waye his face so y t he will neuer se it Aryse o LORDE God lift vp thine honde and forget not the poore Wherfore shulde the wicked blaspheme God and saye in his herte Tush he careth not for it This thou seist for thou considrest the mysery and sorowe The poore geueth himselff ouer in to thy hande and committeth him vnto the for thou art the helper of the frendlesse Breake thou y e arme off the vngodly and malycious search out the wickednesse which he hath done that he maye perish The LORDE is kynge for euer ye Heithen shal perish out off his londe LORDE thou hearest the desyrous longinge off the poore their herte is sure that thine eare herkeneth therto Helpe the fatherlesse and poore vnto their right that the vngodly be nomore exalted vpon earth The X. A psalme of Dauid IN the LORDE put I my trust how will ye then saye to my soule that she shulde fle as a byrde vpon youre hill For â—o the vngodly haue beÌ„t their bowe and made redy their arowes in the quyuer that they maye priuely shute at them which are true of herte The very foundacion haue they cast downe what caÌ„ the rightuous theÌ„ do withall But the LORDE is in his holy temple the LORDES seate is in heauen He coÌ„sidereth it with his eyes his eye lyddes beholde the children of men The LORDE seith both the rightuous and vngodly but who so deliteth in wickednes him his soule abhorreth Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares fyre brymstone storme and tempest this rewarde shal they haue to drynke For the LORDE is rightuous aÌ„d he loueth rightuousnes his countenaunce beholdeth the thiÌ„ge y t is iust The XI A psalme of Dauid HElpe LORDE for there is not one saynte more very fewe faithfull are there amonge the children off men Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbo r they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte O that the LORDE wolde rote out all disceatfull lippes aÌ„d the tonge that speaketh proude thinges Which saye Oure toÌ„ge shulde preuayle we are they that ought to speake who is lorde ouer vs Now for the troubles sake off the oppressed because of the complaynte of the poore I wil vp sayeth the LORDE I wil helpe theÌ„ and set theÌ„ at rest The wordes of the LORDE are pure wordes eueÌ„ as y e syluer which from earth is tried and purified vij tymes in the fyre Kepe theÌ„ therfore o LORDE and preserue vs froÌ„ this generacion for euer And why when vanite and ydylnes getteth the ouer hande amonge the children of men all are full of y e vngodly The XII A psalme of Dauid HOw longe wilt thou forget me o LORDE for euer how longe wilt thou hyde thy face fro me Oh how loÌ„ge shall I seke councell in my soule how longe shall I be so vexed in my herte how longe shal myne enemie triumphe ouer me Considre aÌ„d heare me o LORDE
at y i chiding o LORDE at the blastinge breth of thy displeasure He sent downe frō the heyth to fetch me toke me out of greate waters He delyuered me fro my stronge enemies and fro my foes which were to mightie forme They preuented me in the tyme of my trouble but y e LORDE was my defence He brought me forth also into lyberte delyuered me because he had a fauo r vnto me The LORDE shall rewarde me after my rightuous dealynge acordinge to the clēnesse of my hōdes shal he recōpense me For I haue kepte the wayes of the LORDE haue not behaued myself wickedly agaynst my God I haue an eye vnto all his lawes cast not out his commaundemētes fro me Vncorrupte will I be before hī wil eschue myne owne wickednes Therfore shal y e LORDE rewarde me after my rightuous dealinge acordinge vnto y e clēnesse of my hōdes in his eye sight With the holy thou shalt be holy w t y e innocēt thou shalt be innocēt With the clene thou shalt be clene with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde For thou shalt saue the poore oppressed brīge downe the hye lokes of the proude Thou lightest my cādle o LORDE my God thou makest my darcknesse to be light For in the I can discōfit an hoost of mē yee in my God I cā leape ouer the wall The waye of God is a perfecte waye the wordes of the LORDE are tried in the fyre he is a shylde of defence for all them that trust in him For who is God but the LORDE Or who hath eny strength but oure God It is God that hath gyrded me with strēgth and made my waye vncorrupte He hath made my fete like hartes fete and set me vp an hye He teacheth myne hondes to fight and maketh myne armes to breake euen a bowe off stele Thou hast geuē me the defence of thy health thy right hande vpholdeth me and thy louynge correccion maketh me greate Thou hast made rowme ynough vnder me for to go that my fote steppes shulde not slyde I will folowe vpon myne enemies and take them I will not turne till they be discomfited I will smyte them they shall not be able to stonde but fall vnder my fete Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto y e batell thou hast throwē them all downe vnder me that rose vp agaynst me Thou hast made myne enemies to turne their backes vpon me thou hast destroyed thē y t hated me They cried but there was none to helpe thē yee euen vnto the LORDE but he herde thē not I will beate them as small as the dust before the wynde I will cast them out as y e claye in the stretes Thou shalt delyuer me from the stryuinges of the people thou shalt make me the heade of the Heithē A people whom I haue not knowne shall serue me As soone as they heare of me they shall obeye me but the straunge childrē dyssemble with me The straunge children are waxē olde and go haltinge out of their pathes The LORDE lyueth ād blessed be my helper praysed be the God of my health Euē y e God which seyth that I be auenged and subdueth the people vnto me It is he that delyuereth me fro my cruell enemies thou shalt lift me vp from them that ryse agaynst me thou shalt ryd me from the wicked man For this cause I wil geue thankes vnto y e o LORDE amonge the Gentiles and synge prayses vnto thy name Greate prosperite geueth he vnto his kynge and sheweth louinge kyndnesse vnto Dauid his anoynted yee vnto his sede for euermore The XVIII A psalme of Dauid THe very heauēs declare the glory off God ād the very firmamēt sheweth his hādye worke One daye telleth another and one night certifieth another There is nether speach ner lāguage but their voyces are herde amōge thē Their soūde is gone out in to all londes and their wordes in to the endes of the worlde In thē hath he sett a tabernacle for y e Sōne which cōmeth forth as a brydegrome out of his chambre reioyseth as a giaunte to rūne his course It goeth forth frō the one ende of the heauen and runneth aboute vnto the same ende agayne there maye no mā hyde himself frō the heate therof The lawe of the LORDE is a perfecte lawe it quickeneth the soule The testimony of y e LORDE is true geueth wisdome euen vnto babes The statutes of the LORDE are right reioyse the herte y e cōmaundemēt of y e LORDE is pure and geueth light vnto the eyes The feare of the LORDE is cleane endureth for euer the iudgmentes of the LORDE are true and rigtuous alltogether More pleasunt are they then golde yee then moch fyne golde sweter then hony the hony combe These thy seruaunt kepeth for kepinge of them there is greate rewarde Who can tell how oft he offendeth Oh clēse thou me fro my secrete fautes Kepe thy seruaūte also from presumptuous synnes lest they get the dominion ouer me so shal I be vndefyled innocēt frō the greate offence Yee the wordes of my mouth the meditaciō of my herte shal be acceptable vnto the o LORDE my helper and my redemer The XIX A psalme of Dauid THe LORDE heare the in the tyme off trouble the name of the God of Iacob defende the. Sende the helpe frō the Sanctuary strength y e out of Sion Remembre all thy offerynges and accepte thy brent sacrifice ▪ Sela. Graunte the thy hertes desyre fulfill all thy mynde We will reioyse in thy health triūphe in y e name of the LORDE oure God the LORDE perfourme all thy peticiōs Now knowe I that the LORDE helpeth his anoynted and will heare him frō his holy heauen mightie is the helpe of his right hōde Some put their trust in charettes some in horses but we wil remēbre y e name of the LORDE oure God They are brought downe and fallen but we are rysen and stonde vp right Saue LORDE helpe vs o kynge when we call vpon the. The XX. A psalme of Dauid LORDE how ioyfull is the kynge in y e strength O how exceadinge glad is he of thy sauynge health Thou hast geuen him his hertes desyre hast not put him frō the request of his lippes ▪ Sela. For thou hast preuēted him w t liberall blessinges set a crowne of golde vpon his heade He asked life of the thou gauest him a longe life euē foreuer euer His honoure is greate in thy sauynge health glory and greate worshipe shalt thou laye vpon him For thou shalt geue him euerlastīge felicite make him glad w t the ioye of y e coūtenaūce And why ▪ because the kinge putteth his trust in the LORDE in the mercy of the most hiest he shal not myscary Let all thine enemies fele
in the deare tyme. Let oure soule paciently abyde the LORDE for he is oure helpe and shilde So shal oure herte reioyse in him because we haue hoped in his holy name Let thy mercifull kyndnesse o LORDE be vpon vs like as we put oure trust in the. The XXXIII A psalme of Dauid I Wil allwaye geue thankes vnto the LORDE his prayse shal euer be in my mouth My soule shall make hir boast in the LORDE the poore oppressed shal heare therof and be glad O prayse y e LORDE with me and let vs magnifie his name together I sought the LORDE and he herde me yee he delyuered me out of all my feare They that haue an eye vnto him shal be lightened their faces shall not be ashamed This poore man cried vnto the LORDE and he herde him yee and delyuered him out of all his troubles The angell of the LORDE pitcheth his tente rounde aboute them that feare him and delyuereth them O taist and se how frendly the LORDE is blessed is the man y t trusteth in him O feare the LORDE ye y t be his sayntes for they that feare him lacke nothinge The rich shal want and suffre hunger but they which seke the LORDE shal wāt no maner of thinge that is good Come hither o ye children herken vnto me I wil teach you the feare of the LORDE Who so listeth to lyue wolde fayne se good dayes Let him refrayne his tonge from euell and his lippes that they speake no gyle Let him eschue euell and do good Let him seke peace ensue it For the eyes of the LORDE are ouer the rightuous and his eares are open vnto their prayers But the face of the LORDE beholdeth them that do euel to destroye the remembraunce of them out of the earth When the rightuous crie the LORDE heareth them and delyuereth thē out of all their troubles The LORDE is nye vnto them y t are contrite in hert wil helpe soch as be of an hūble sprete Greate are y e troubles of the rightuous but the LORDE delyuereth them out of all He kepeth all their bones so y t not one of them is broken But miszfortune shal slaye the vngodly and they that hate y e rightuous shal be giltie The LORDE delyuereth the soules of his seruaūtes and all they that put their trust in him shal not offende The XXXIIII A psalme of Dauid STryue thou with them o LORDE that stryue w t me fight thou agaynst them that fight agaynst me Laye honde vpon the shylde and speare and stonde vp to helpe me Drawe out thy swearde and stoppe the waye agaynst them that persecute me saye vnto my soule I am y i helpe Let them be cōfounded and put to shame that seke after my soule let thē be turned back and brought to confucion that ymagin myschefe for me Let thē be as y e dust before the wynde and the angell of the LORDE scaterynge thē Let their waye be darcke and slippery and the angell of the LORDE to persecute them For they haue pryuely laied their nett to destroye me without a cause yee and made a pitte for my soule which I neuer deserued Let a sodane destrucciō come vpon him vnawarres and y e nett that he hath layed priuely catch him self that he maye fall in to his owne myschefe But let my soule be ioyfull in the LORDE and reioyse in his helpe All my bones shal saie LORDE who is like vnto the which delyuerest y e poore from those that are to stronge for him yee the poore and the nedy from his robbers False witnesses are rysen vp laye to my charge thinges that I knowe not They rewarde me euell for good to the greate discomforth of my soule Neuertheles when they were sick I put on a sack cloth I humbled my soule with fastinge and my prayer turned in to myne owne bosome I behaued myself as though it had bene my frende or my brother I wēte heuely as one y e mourneth for his mother But in my aduersite they reioyse and gather them together yee y e very lame come together agaynst me vnawarres makynge mowes at me ceasse not With y e gredy scornefull ypocrites they gnaszshed vpon me with theirteth LORDE whan wilt thou loke vpō this O restore my soule from y e wicked rumoure of thē my dearlinge from the lyons So wil I geue y e thankes in the greate congregacion prayse the amonge moch people O let thē not triūphe ouer me that are myne enemies for naught O let them not wyncke w t their eyes that hate me without a cause And why their comonynge is not for peace but they ymagin false wordes agaynst y e outcastes of the londe They gape vpon me w t their mouthes sayenge there there we se it with oure eyes This thou seist o LORDE holde not thy tonge thē go not farre fro me o LORDE Awake LORDE and stonde vp auenge thou my cause my God and my LORDE Iudge me o LORDE my God acordinge to thy rightuousnesse y t they triūphe not ouer me O let thē not saye in their hertes there there so wolde we haue it O let them not saye we haue ouercome him Let them be put to confucion and shame that reioyse at my trouble let thē be clothed with rebuke and dishonoure that boost thē selues agaynst me Let them also be glad and reioyse that fauoure my rightuous dealinge yee let them saye allwaye blessed be y e LORDE which hath pleasure in the prosperite of his seruaunt And as for my tonge it shall be talkynge of thy rightuousnes and of thy prayse all the daye longe The XXXV A psalme of Dauid MY hert sheweth me the wickednesse of the vngodly that there is no feare of God before his eyes For he dyssembleth before his face so longe till his abhominable synne be founde out The wordes of his mouth are vnrightuousnesse and disceate he wil not be lerned to do good He ymagineth myschefe vpon his bedde he will come in no good waye ner refuse the thinge that is euell Thy mercy O LORDE reacheth vnto the heauen and thy faith fulnesse vnto the cloudes Thy rightuousnesse stondeth like the stronge mountaynes thy iudgment like the greate depe Thou LORDE preseruest both mē the beestes How precious is thy mercy O God that the children of men maye put their trust vnder y e shadowe of thy wynges They shal be satisfied with the plēteousnesse of thy house and thou shalt geue them drynke of the ryuer of thy pleasures For by the is y e well of life in thy light shall we se light O sprede forth thy louynge kyndnesse vnto them that knowe the thy rightuousnes vnto thē that are true of hert O let not the fote of pryde ouertake me O let not the hande of y e vngodly cast me downe As for wicked doers they fall they
are cast downe are not able to stoÌ„de The XXXVI A psalme of Dauid FRett not thy self at the vngodly be not thou envious agaynst the euell doers For they shall soone be cut downe like y e grasse be wythered euen as y e grene herbe Put thou thy trust in y e LORDE be doinge good so shalt thou dwell in the londe verely it shal fede the. Delyte thou in the LORDE he shal geue the thy hertes desyre CoÌ„mitte thy waye vnto y e LORDE set thy hope in him and he shal brynge it to passe Yee he shall make thy rightuousnesse as cleare as the light thy iust dealinge as the noone daye Holde the still in y e LORDE and abyde pacieÌ„tly vpon him but greue not thy self at one that hath prosperite and lyueth in abhominacion Leaue of from wrath let go displeasure let not thy gelousy moue the also to do euell For wâ—â—ed doers shal be roted out but they that pacieÌ„tly abyde the LORDE shal enheret the londe Suffre yet a litle whyle y e vngodly shal be clene gone thou shalt loke after his place he shal be awaye But the meke spreted shal possesse the earth haue pleasure in moch rest The vngodly layeth wayte for the iust gnaszsheth vpon him w t his tethe But y e LORDE laugheth him to scorne for he seith y t his daye is coÌ„minge The vngodly drawe out the swerde bende their bowe to cast downe y e symple poore and to slaye soch as go y e rightwaye Neuertheles their swerde shal go thorow their owne hert and their bowe shal be brokeÌ„ A small thinge y t the rightuous hath is better then greate riches of the vngodly For the armes of y e vngodly shal be broken but the LORDE vpholdeth the rightuous The LORDE knoweth the dayes of the godly their enheritauÌ„ce shal endure for euer They shal not be coÌ„founded in y e perlous tyme in y e dayes of derth they shall haue ynough As for y e vngodly they shall perishe wheÌ„ y e enemies of y e LORDE are in their floures they shal coÌ„sume yee euen as the smoke shal they coÌ„sume awaye The vngodly * boroweth and paieth not agayne but the rightuous is mercifull liberall Soch as be blessed of him shal possesse the londe they whom he curseth shal be roted out The LORDE ordreth a good mans goinge hath pleasure in his waye Though he fall he shal not be hurte for the LORDE vpholdeth him w t his haÌ„de I haue bene yonge now am olde yet sawe I neuer the rightuous forsakeÌ„ ner his sede to seke their bred The rightuous is euer mercifull leÌ„deth geÌ„tly therfore shal his sede be blessed Fle froÌ„ euell do y e thinge that is good so shalt thou dwell for euer For y e LORDE loueth y e thinge y t is right he forsaketh not his sayntes but they shal be preserued for euermore as for the sede of the vn godly it shal be roted out Yee the rightuous shal possesse y e loÌ„de dwell therin for euer The mouth of the rightuous is exercised in wyszdome his toÌ„ge talketh of iudgment The lawe of his God is in his hert therfore shal not his fotesteppes slyde The vn godly seyth the rightuous goeth aboute to slaye him But the LORDE wil not leaue him in his hoÌ„des ner coÌ„demnâ— him when he is iudged Hope thou in the LORDE kepe his waye he shal so prâ—mote the that thou shalt haue the loÌ„de by enheritauÌ„ce se when the vngodly shall perishe I myself haue sene the vn godly in greate power florishinge like a grene baye tre but when I wente by lo he was gone I sought him but he coude no where be founde Kepe innocency and take hede vnto the thinge that is right for that shall brynge a man peace at the last As for the traÌ„sgressours they shal perishe together and the vn godly shal be roted out at y e last The helpe of the rightuous commeth of the LORDE he is their strength in the tyme of trouble The LORDE shal stoÌ„de by them and saue them he shal delyuer them from the vn godly and helpe theÌ„ because they put their trust in him The XXXVII A psalme of Dauid PVt â—e not to rebuke Oh LORDE in thine anger Oh chasteÌ„ me not in thy heuy displeasure For thy arowes stick fast in me and thy honde presseth me sore There is no whole parte in my body be cause of thy displeasure there is no rest in my bones by reason of my synnes For my wickednesses are gone ouer my heade and are like a sore burthen to heuy forme to beare My woundes styncke are corrupte thorow my folishnesse I am brought in to so greate trouble and misery that I go mournynge all the daye longe For my loynes are clene dried vp and there is no whole parte in my body I am feble and sore smytteÌ„ I roare for the very disquietnes of my hert LORDE thou knowest all my desyre my gronynge is not hyd from the. My hert paunteth my strength hath fayled me the light of myne eyes is gone fro me My louers frendes stonde lokynge vpon my trouble and my kynsmen are gone a farre of They that sought after my life and to do me euell spake of lyes and ymagined disceate all the daye longe As for me I was like a deaf maÌ„ and herde not and as one that were domme not openynge his mouth I am become as a man that heareth not and that can make no resistaunce w t his mouth For in the O LORDE is my trust thou shalt heare me O LORDE my God My desyre is y t myne enemies triumphe not ouer me for yf my fote slippe they reioyse greatly against me I am redy to suffre trouble and my heuynesse is euer in my sight For I coÌ„fesse my wickednesse my synne greueth me But myne enemies lyue and are mightie and they that hate me without a cause are many in nombre They that rewarde me euell for good speake euell of me because I folowe the thinge that good is Forsake me not O LORDE my God O go not farre fro me Haist the to helpe me O LORDE my succoure The XXXVIII A psalme of Dauid I Sayde I wil kepe my waies that I offended not in my tonge And so I shut my mouth whyle the vngodly layed wayte for me I helde my tonge I was domme I kepte sylence yee eueÌ„ from good wordes but it was payne and grefe to me My hert was hote within me whyle I was thus musynge the fyre kyndled so that I spake with my tonge LORDE let me knowe myne ende and the nombre of my dayes that I maye be certified what I wante Beholde thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are
God of Abraham for God is farre farre hyer exalted then the mightie lordes of the earth The XLVII A psalme of the children of Corah GReate is y e LORDE hyelie to be praysed in y e cite of o r God eueÌ„ vpoÌ„ his holy hill The hill of Sion is like a fayre plaÌ„te wherof all the londe reioyseth vpon the north syde lyeth the cite of the greate kinge God is well knowne in hir palaces y t he is the defence of the same For lo kynges are gathered and gone by together They marveled to se soch thinges they were astonâ—ied sodeÌ„ly cast downe Feare came there vpon theÌ„ sorowe as vpoÌ„ a woman in hir trauayle Thou shalt breake y e shippes of the see thorow the east wynde Like as we haue herde so se we in the cite of the LORDE of hoostes in the cite of o r God God vpholdeth the same for euer Sela. We wayte for thy louynge kyndnesse o God in the myddest of thy temple O God acordinge vnto thy name so is y e prayse vnto the worldes ende thy right hoÌ„de is full of rightuousnes Oh let the mouÌ„t Sion reioyse y e doughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgmeÌ„tes Walke aboute Sion go rounde aboute her and tell hir towres Marke well hir walles set vâ— hir houses that it maye be tolde them y t come after For this God is o r God for euer euer and he shal allwaie be o r gyde The XLVIII A psalme of the children of Corah O Heare this all ye people pondre it well all ye that dwell vpoÌ„ the earth Hye lowe riche poore one w t another My mouth shal speake of wyszdome and my hert shal muse of vnderstondinge I wil encline myne eare to the parable shewe my darcke speach vpon the harpe Wherfore shulde I feare the euell dayes wheÌ„ the wickednesse of my heles coÌ„paseth me rounde aboute They that put their trust in their good boost them selues in the multitude of their riches No man maye deliuer his brother ner make agrement for him vnto God For it costeth more to redeme their soules so that he must let that alone for euer Yee though he lyue loÌ„ge se not y e graue For it shal be sene y t soch wyse meÌ„ shal dye perishe together as well as the ignoraunt and foolish leaue their goodes for other Loke what is in their houses it coÌ„tinueth still their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another are called after their owne names vpon the earth Neuerthelesse maÌ„ abydeth not in soch hono r but is coÌ„pared vnto y e brute beastes becoÌ„meth like vnto theÌ„ This waie of theirs is very foolishnesse yet their posterite prayse it w t their mouth Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe death shal gnawe vpon them the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the moâ—â—nynge by tymes their streÌ„gth shal consumâ— hell shal be their dwellinge But God shal deliuer my soule from the power of hell when he receaueth me Sela. O be not thou afrayed whan one is made riche thâ— glory of his hense increased For he 〈◊〉 cary nothingâ— awaye w t him when he dyeâ— nether shal his pompe folowe him 〈◊〉 he lyueth he is counted an happie 〈◊〉 so loÌ„ge as he is in prosperite meÌ„ speake good of him But wheÌ„ he foloweth his fathers generacion he shal neuer se light eny more When a man is in honoure and hath no vnderstoÌ„dinge he is compared vnto the brute beastes and becommeth like vnto them The XLIX A psalme of Asaph THe LORDE euen the mightie God hath spokeÌ„ called the worlde from the rysinge vp of the sonne vnto the goinge downe of the same Out of Sion â—peareth the glorious beutie of God Oure God shal come and not kepe sylence there goeth befoâ—â— him a consumynge fyre and a mightie tempest rounde aboute him He shal call the heauens from aboue and the earth that he maye iudge his people Gather my sayntes together vnto me those y t set more by the couenaunt then by eny offeringe And the heauens shal declare his rightuousnesse for God is iudge himself Sela. Heare o my people let me speake let me testifie amonge you o Israel I am God euen thy God I reproue the not because of thy sacrifice y e burnt offeringes are allwaye before me I wil take no bullockes out of thy house ner gotes out of thy foldes For all the beestes of the felde are myâ—e and thousandes of catell vpon the hilles I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes and the wilde beastes of the felde are in â—y sight Yf I be hongrie I wil not tell â—he for y e whole worlde is myne and all that â—herin is Thynkest thou that I wil eate â—he flesh of oxen or drynke the bloude of goaâ—es Offre vnto God prayse and thankesgeuynge and paye thy vowes vnto the most â—yest And call vpoÌ„ me in the tyme of trouâ—le so wil I heare the that thou shalt thanâ—e me But vnto the vngodly sayeth God Why doest thou preach my lawes and taâ—est my couenaunt in thy mouth Where â—s thou hatest to be refourmed and castest â—y wordes behynde the Yf thou seist a â—hefe thou runnest with him and art partaâ—er with the aduouterers Thou lettest yeâ—outh speake wickednesse thy tonge payneth disceate Thou syttest and speakest aâ—aynst thy brother yee and slaundrest thine â—wne mothers sonne This thou doest whyâ—e I holde my tonge and thinkest me to be eâ—eÌ„ soch one as thy self but I wil reproue the set my self agaynst the. O considre this 〈◊〉 that forget God lest I plucke you awaie 〈◊〉 there be none to delyuer you Who so â—â—reth me thaÌ„kes and prayse he honoureth me this is the waye wherby I wil shewe him the sauynge health of God The L. A psalme of Dauid HAue mercy vpon me o God after thy goodnes acordinge vnto thy greate mercies do awaye myne offences Wash me well fro my wickednesse clense me fro my synne For I knowlege my fautes and my synne is euer before me Agaynst the only agaynst the haue I synned and done euell in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saynges and shuldest ouer come when thou art iudged Beholde I was borne in wickednesse and in synne hath my mother conceaued me But lo thou hast a pleasure in the treuth â–ª and hast shewed me secrete wyszdome O reconcile me with Isope and I shal be clene wash thou me and I shal be whyter then snowe Oh let me heare of ioye and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken maye reioyse Turne thy face fro my synnes and put out all my myszdedes Make me a clene hert o God and renue a right sprete within me Cast me not awaie from thy presence and take not thy holy sprete fro me O geue me the comforte of thy helpe agayne and stablish me with thy fre sprete Then
yee as a tottringe wall shal ye be like a broken hedge Their deuyce is only how to put him out their delyte is iÌ„ lyes they geue good wordes w t their mouth but curse w t their herte Sela. Neuertheles my soule abydeth only vpon God for he is my God He only is my streÌ„gth my saluacion my defence so y t I shal not fall In God is my health my glory my might in God is my trust O put yo r trust in him allwaye ye people poure out yo r hertes before him for God is oure hope Sela. As for men they are but vayne meÌ„ are disceatfull vpoÌ„ the weightes they are al together lighter then vainte itself O trust not in wronge robbery geue not yo r selues vnto vanite yf riches increase set not yo r herte vpon them God spake once a worde twyse haue I herde the same that power belongeth vnto God That thou LORDE art mercifull that thou rewardest euery man acordinge to his workes The LXII A psalme of Dauid O God thou art my God early wil I seke the. My soule thursteth for the my flesh longeth after the in a bareÌ„ drie loÌ„de where no water is Thus do I loke for the in thy SaÌ„ctuary that I might beholde y e power glory For thy louynge kyndnesse is better then life my lyppes shal prayse the. As loÌ„ge as I liue wil I magnifie the lift vp my hondes in thy name My soule is satisfied eueÌ„ as it were with marry fatnesse when my mouth prayseth the with ioyfull lippes In my bedde wil I remembre y e wheÌ„ I wake my talkynge shal be of the. For thou hast bene my helper vnder the shadowe of y e wynges wil I reioyse My soule hangeth vpon the thy right honde vp holdeth me They seke after my soule but in vayne for they shal go vnder the earth They shal fall into the swerde be a porcioÌ„ for foxes But y e kynge shal reioyse in God all they that sweare by hym shal be commeÌ„ded for the mouth of lyers shal be stopped The LXIII A psalme of Dauid HEare my voyce o God in my coÌ„playnte preserue my life froÌ„ feare of y e enemie Hyde me from the gatheringe together of y e frowarde froÌ„ y e heape of wicked doere Which whette their tuÌ„ges like a swerde shute w t their venimous wordes like as w t arowes That they maye preuely hurte y e innoceÌ„t sodeÌ„ly to hit him w t out eny feare They haue deuysed myschefe and commoned amonge them selues how they maye laye snares tush saye they who shall se them They ymagin wickednesse and kepe it secrete amonge them selues euery man in y e depe of his herte But God shall sodenly shute with an arowe y t they shall be wounded Yee their â—wne tunges shall make them fall In so moch that who so seyth theÌ„ shal laugh theÌ„ to scorne And all men that se it shal saye this hath God done for they shal perceaue y t it is his worke The rightuous shal reioyse in the LORDE and put his trust in him and all they y t are true off herte shal be glad therof The LXIIII. A psalme of Dauid THou o God art praysed in Sion and vnto the is the vowe perfourmed Thou hearest the prayer therfore coÌ„meth all flesh vnto the. Oure myszdedes preuayle agaynst vs oh be thou mercyfull vnto â—ure synnes Blessed is the man whoÌ„ thou chosest and receauest vnto the that he maye dwell in thy courte he shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house euen off thy holy temple Heare vs acordinge vnto thy woÌ„derfull rightuousnesse o God oure saluacioÌ„ thou that art the hope of all the endes of y e earth and off the brode see Which in his strength setteth fast the mouÌ„taynes is gyrded aboute with power Which stilleth y e ragiÌ„ge of the see the roaringe off his wawes and the woodnes of the people They that dwell in y e vttemost partes are afrayed at thy tokens thou makest both the mornynge and euenynge starres to prayse ye. Thou visetest the earth thou watrest it and makest it very plenteous The ryuer of God is full of waters thou preparest man his corne aÌ„d thus thou prouydest for the earth Thou watrest hir forowes thou breakest the harde clottes therof thou makest it soft with y e droppes of rayne and blessest the increase of it Thou crownest the yeare with thy good and thy fotesteppes droppe fatnesse The dwellinges of the wildernes are fatt also y t they droppe withall the litle hilles are pleasaunt on euery syde The foldes are full of shepe the valleys stonde so thicke with corne y t they laugh and synge The LXV A psalme off Dauid O Be ioyfull in God all ye loÌ„des synge prayses vnto the hono r of his name make his prayse to be glorious Saye vnto God O how wonderfull are thy workes thorow the greatnesse of thy power shal thine enemies be confouÌ„ded O y t all the worlde wolde worshipe the synge of the and prayse thy name Sela. O come hither and beholde the workes of God which is so wonderfull in his doinges amonge the children of men He turned the see in to drye loÌ„de so that they wente thorow the water on fote therfore wil we reioyse in him He ruleth with his power for euer his eyes beholde the people the rennagates shal not be able to exalte them selues Sela. O magnifie o r God ye people make y e voyce off his prayse to be herde Which holdeth o r soule in life and suffreth not oure fete to slippe For thou o God hast proued vs thou hast tried vs liâ—â— as syluer is tried Thou hast brought vs in to captiuyte and layed trouble vpon o r loâ—nes Thou hast suffred men to ryde ouer o r heades we weÌ„te thorow fyre and water 〈◊〉 thou hast brought vs out and refreshed 〈◊〉 Therfore will I go in to thy house w t 〈◊〉 offeringes to paye the my vowes which I promised w t my lippes and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble I wil offre vnto the fatte brentsacrifices with the smoâ—e of raÌ„mes I will offre bullockes and goateâ— Sela. O come hither and herkeÌ„ all ye that feare God I wil tell you what he hath done for my soule I called vnto hiÌ„ w t my mouth and gaue him prayses with my tuÌ„ge Yff I enclyne vnto wickednes with my herte y e LORDE wil not heare me Therfore God hath herde me aÌ„d considred the voyce off my prayer Praysed be God which hath not cast out my prayer ner turned his mercy fro me The LXVI psalme GOd be mercifull vnto vs blesse vs shewe the light off his countenauÌ„ce apon vs. Sela. That we maye knowe y e waye vpoÌ„ earth y e sauynge health amonge all Heithen Let the people prayse the o God yee let all people prayse the. O let the people reioyse and be
glad that thou iudgest the folke rightuously and gouernest the nacions vpoÌ„ earth Let the people prayse the o God let all people prayse the. God euen oure owne God geue vs his blessinge that the earth maye bringe forth hir increase God blesse vs and let all the endes of y e worlde feare him The LXVII A psalme of Dauid LEt God aryse so shal his enemies be scatered and they that hate him shal fle before him Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou dryue them awaye and like as waxe melteth at the fyre so shall the vngodly perish at the presence off God But the rightuous shal be glad reioyse before God they shal be mery ioyful Oh synge vnto God synge prayses vnto his name magnifie him y e rydeth aboue the heaueÌ„s whose name is y e LORDE reioyse before hiÌ„ He is a father of y e fatherlesse he is a defender of widdowes eueÌ„ God in his holy habitacioÌ„ He is the God y t maketh meÌ„ to be of one mynde in a house bryngeth y e presoners out of captiuite in due season but letteth y e rennagates coÌ„tinue in scarcenesse O God when thou weÌ„test forth before y e people wheÌ„ thou weÌ„test thorow y e wildernes Sela. The earth shoke y e heauens dropped at the presence of God in Sinai at y e presence of God which is y e God of Israel Thou o God sendest a gracious rayne vpon thyne enheritauÌ„ce refreshest it when it is drye That thy beastes maye dwell therin which thou of thy goodnes hast prepared for the poore The LORDE shal geue the worde w t greate hoostes of EuaÌ„gelistes Ringes w t their armies shal fle they of y e housholde shal deuyde y e spoyle Yf so be y t ye lye amoÌ„ge the pales the doues fethers shal be couered with syluer hir winges of the colo r of golde When the All mightie setteth kynges vpoÌ„ the earth it shal be cleare euen in the darcknesse The hill of Basan is Gods hill the hill of Basan is a pleÌ„teous hill Why hoppe ye so ye greate hilles It pleaseth God to dwell vpoÌ„ this hill yeâ— the LORDE wil abyde in it for euer The charettes of God are many M. tymes a thousande the LORDE is amoÌ„ge them in the holy Sinai Thou art gone vp an hye thou hast led captyuite captyue receaued giftes for meÌ„ Yee euen for thy enemies that they might dwell with the LORDE God Praysed be the LORDE daylie eueÌ„ y e God which helpeth vs poureth his benefites vpoÌ„ vs. Sela. The God y t is o r Sauio r eueÌ„ God the LORDE by whoÌ„ we escape death The God that smyteth his enemies vpoÌ„ the heades vpon the hayrie scalpes soch as go on still in their wikednes The LORDE hath sayde some wil I bringe agayne from Basan some wil I bringe agayne froÌ„ the depe of the see That thy fote maye be dipped in the bloude of thine enemies that thy dogges maye licke it vp It is well seâ—e o God how thou goest how thou my God and kynge goest in the Sanctuary The syngers go before and then the mynstrells amonge the maydens with the tymbrels O geue thankes vnto God the LORDE in the congregacion for the welles of Israel There litle Beniamin the prynces of Iuda the prynces of ZabuloÌ„ and the prynces of Nephthali beare rule amoÌ„ge them Thy God hath coÌ„mitted streÌ„gth vn to the stablish the thinge o God that thou hast wrought in vs. For thy teÌ„ples sake at Ierusalem shal kynges brynge presentes vnto the. Reproue the beestes amonge the redes the heape of bulles with the calues those that dryue for money Oh scaâ—re the people that delyte in batayle The prynces shal come out of Egipte the Morians loÌ„de shal stretch out hir hondes vnto God Synge vnto God o ye kyngdomes of the earth o synge prayses vnto the LORDE Sela. Which sytteth in the heauens ouer all froÌ„ the begynnge Lo he shal sende out his voyce yee and that a mightie voyce Ascrybe ye the power vnto God his glory is in Israel and his might in the cloudes God is wonderfull in his Sanctuary he is the God of Israel he will geue strength and power vnto his people Blessed be God The LXVIII A psalme of Dauid HElpe me o God for the waters are come in eueÌ„ vnto my soule I sticke fast in the depe myre where no grounde is I am come in to depe waters and the floudes wil drowne me I am weery of crienge my throte is drye my sight fayleth me for waytinge so longe vpon my God They y t hate me without a cause are mo then the hayres of my heade â–ª they that are myne enemies wolde destroye me giltlesse are mightie I am fayne to paye the thinges y t I neuer toke God thou knowest my symplenesse and my fautes are not hyd from the. Let not them that trust in the o LORDE God of hoostes be ashamed for my cause let not those y t seke the be confounded thorow me o God oâ— Israel And why for thy sake do I suffre reprofe shame couereth my face I am become a straunger vnto my brethren and an aleaunt vnto my mothers children For the zele of thine house hath euen eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked the is fallen vpon me I wepte and chastened my self w t fastinge and that was turned to my reprofe I put on a sacke cloth and therfore they iested vpon me They that satt in the gate spake agaynst me and the dronckardes made songes vpon me But LORDE I made my prayer vnto the in an acceptable tyme Heare me o God with thy greate mercy sure helpe Take me out of the myre y t I syncke not Oh let me be delyuered froÌ„ theÌ„ y t hate me out of y e depe waters 〈…〉 floude drowne me that the 〈…〉 not vp y t the pitte shut not hir mouth vpon me Heare me o LORDE for thy louynge kyndnesse is confortable turne the vnto me acordinge vnto y e greate mercy Hyde not thy face from thy seruauÌ„t for I am in trouble O haist y e to helpe me Drawe nye vnto my soâ—le and saue it Oh delyuer me because of 〈◊〉 enemies Thou knowest my reprofe my shame my dishono r my aduersaries are all in thy sight The rebuke breaketh my hert maketh me heuy I loke for some to haue pitie vpon me but there is no man for some to coÌ„forte me but I fynde none They gaue me gall to eate wheÌ„ I was thurstie they gaue me vyneger to drynke Let their table be made a snare to take them selues withall an occasion to fall a rewarde vnto them Let their eyes be blynded that they se not euer bowe downe their backes Poure out thy indignacion vpon them let thy wrothfull displeasure take holde of them Let their habitacion be voyde no man to dwell in their tentes
that they which hate me maye se it and be ashamed because thou LORDE hast helped me comforted me The LXXXVI A psalme of the children of Corah HIr foundacions are vpoÌ„ the holy hilles the LORDE loueth the gates of Sion more theÌ„ all y e dwelliÌ„ges of Iacob Very excelleÌ„t thiÌ„ges are spokeÌ„ of y e thou cite of God â–ª Sela. I wil thinke vpoÌ„ Rahab â—abiloÌ„ so that they shal knowe me Yee the Philistynes also they of Tyre with the Morians Lo there was he borne And of Sion it shal be reported that he was borne in her euen the most hyest which hath buylded her The LORDE shal cause it be preached written amonge the people that he was borne there Sela. Therfore the dwellinge of all syngers daunsers is in the. The LXXXVII A psalme of the children of Corah O LORDE God my Sauyo r I crie daye night before the Oh let my prayer entre in to thy presence encline thine eare vnto my callynge For my soule is full of trouble my life draweth nye vnto hell I am couÌ„ted as one of theÌ„ that go downe vnto the pytte I am eueÌ„ as a maÌ„ that hath no streÌ„gth Fre amoÌ„ge the deed like vnto theÌ„ y t lye in the graue which be out of remembrauÌ„ce and are cutt awaye from thy honde Thou hast layed me in the lowest pytte in y e darcknesse and in the depe Thy indignacion lieth hard vpon me and thou vexest me with all thy floudes Sela. Thou hast put awaye myne acquaÌ„taunce farre fro me made me to be abhorred of them I am so fast in preson that I can not get forth My sight fayleth for very trouble LORDE I call daylie vpoÌ„ the and stretch out my hondes vnto the. Doest thou shewe wonders amonge the deed Can the physiciaÌ„s rayse them vp agayne that they maye prayse the Maye thy louynge kyndnes be shewed in the graue or thy faithfulnesse in destruccion Maye thy wonderous workes be knowne in the darcke or thy righteousnes in the londe where all thinges are forgotteÌ„ Vnto the I crie o LORDE and early coÌ„meth my prayer before the. LORDE why puttest thou awaye my soule Wherfore hydest thou thy face fro me My strength is gone for very sorow and misery with fearfulnesse do I beare thy burthens Thy wrothfull displeasure goeth ouer me the feare of the oppresseth me They come rounde aboute me daylie like water and compase me together on euery syde My louers and freÌ„des hast thou put awaye fro me and turned awaye myne acquantaunce The LXXXVIII A psalme of Ethan the Esrahite MY songe shal be allwaye of the louynge kyndnesse of the LORDE w t my mouth wil I euer be shewinge thy faithfulnesse froÌ„ one generacion to another For I haue sayde mercy shal be set vp for euer thy faithfulnesse shalt thou stablish in the heauens I haue made a couenaunâ— with my chosen I haue sworne vnto Dauiâ— my seruaunt Thy sede wil I stablish for eâ—uer and set vp thy Trone from one generacion to another Sela. O LORDE the very heaueÌ„s shal prayse thâ— wonderous workes yee thy faithfulnes in y e congregacion of the sayntes For who is he amonge the cloudes that maye be coÌ„pared vnto the LORDE Yee what is he amonge the goddes that is like vnto the LORDE God is greatly to be feared in the councell of the sayntes to be had in reuerence of all theÌ„ that are aboute him O LORDE God of hoostes who is like vnto the in power thy trueth is rounde aboute the. Thou rulest the pryde of the see thou stillest the wawes therof wheÌ„ they arise Thou breakest the proude like one that is wounded â–ª thou scatrest thine enemies abrode with thy mightie arme The heaueÌ„s are thine the earth is thine thou hast layed the foundacioÌ„ of the rouÌ„de worlde and all that therin is Thou hast made the north and the south Tabor and Hermon shal reioyse in thy name Thou hast a mightie arme stronge is thy hande and hye is thy right hande Rightuousnes and equite is the habitacion of thy seate mercy and trueth go before thy face Blessed is the people o LORDE that can reioyse in the and walketh in the light of thy countenaunce Their delite is in thy name all the daye longe and thorow thy rightuousnesse they shal be exalted For thou art the glory of their strength thorow thy fauoure shalt thou lift vp oure hornes The LORDE is oure defence and the holy one of Israel is oure kynge Thou spakest somtyme in visioÌ„s vnto thy sayntes and saydest I haue layed helpe vpon one that is mightie I haue exalted one chosen out of the people I haue founde Dauid my seruauÌ„t with my holy oyle haue I anoynted him My honde shal holde him fast and my arme shal strength him The enemie shal not ouercome him and the sonne of wickednesse shal not hurte him I shal smyte downe his foes before his face and plage them that hate him My trueth also my mercy shal be with him and in my name shal his horne be exalted I wil set his honde in the see and his right honde in the floudes He shal call me thou art my father my God and the strength of my saluacion And I wil make him my firstborne â—yer then the kinges of the earth My mercy wil I kepe for him for euermore and my couenaunt shall stonde fast with him His sede wil I make to endure for euer yee and his Trone as the dayes of heauen But yf his childreÌ„ forsake my lawe and walke not in my iudgmentes Yf they breake myne ordinaunces and kepe not my commaundementes I wil vyset their offences with the rodde and their synnes with scourges Neuerthelesse my louynge kyndnesse wil I not vtterly take from him ner suffre my trueth to fayle My couenaunt wil I not breake ner disanulle the thinge y t is gone out of my lippes I haue sworne once by my holynesse that I wil not fayle Dauid His sede shal endure for euer and his seate also like as the Sonne before me He shal stonde fast for euermore as the Moone and as the faithfull witnesse in heauen Sela. But now thou forsakest and abhorrest thyne anoynted and art displeased at him Thou hast turned backe the couenaunt of thy seruaunt and cast his crowne to the grounde Thou hast ouer throwne all his hedges and brokeÌ„ downe his stronge holdes Al they that go by spoyle him he is become a rebuke vnto his neghbours Thou settest vp the right haÌ„de of his enemies and makest all his aduersaryes to reioyse Thou hast taken awaye the strength of his swerde and geuest him not victory in the battayll Thou hast put out his glory and cast his Trone downe to the grounde The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened and couered him with dishonoure Sela. LORDE how longe wilt thou hyde thy self For euer shal thy wrath burne like fyre O remembre how shorte my tyme
is hast thou made all men for naught What man is he that lyueth and shal not se death Maye a maÌ„ delyuer his owne soule from the honde of hell Sela. LORDE where are thy olde louynge kyndnesses which thou sworest vnto Dauid in thy trueth RemeÌ„bre LORDE the rebuke that y e multitude of the people do vnto thy seruauntes how I haue borne it in my bosome Wher w t thine enemies blaspheme the slauÌ„der y e fotesteppes of y e anoynted Thankes be to the LORDE for euermore Amen Amen The LXXXIX psalme A prayer of Moses the man of God LORDE thou art oure refuge from one generacion to another Before the mountaynes were brought forth or euer the earth the worlde were made thou art God from euerlastinge and worlde with out ende Thou turnest man to destruccion Agayne thou sayest come agayne ye children of men For a thousande yeares in thy sight are but as yesterdaye that is past and like as it were a night watch As soone as thou scatrest them they are euen as a slepe and fade awaye sodenly like the grasse In the mornynge it is grene and groweth vp but in the euenynge it is cutt downe and wythered For we consume awaye in thy displeasure and are afrayed at thy wrothfull indignacion Thou â—ettest oure miszdedes before the and oure secrete synnes in the light of thy countenaunce For when thou art angrie all o r dayes are gone we brynge o r yeares to an ende â–ª as it were a tayle that is tolde The daye of oure age are iij. score yeares ten though men be so stronge that they come to iiij score yeares yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe so soone passeth it awaye we are gone But who regardeth the power of thy wrath thy fearfull terrible displeasure O teach vs to nombre oure dayes that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wyszdome Turne the agayne o LORDE at the last and be gracious vnto thy seruauntes O satisfie vs with thy mercy and that soone so shal we reioyse and be glad all the dayes of oure life Comforte vs agayne now after the tyme that thou hast plaged vs and for the yeares wherin we haue suffred aduersite Shewe thy seruauntes thy worke their children thy glory And the glorious maiesty of the LORDE oure God be vpon vs O prospere thou the worke of oure hondes vpon vs o prospere thou oure hondy worke The XC psalme WHo so dwelleth vnder y e defence of the most hyest abydeth vnder y e shadowe of y e allmightie He shal saye vnto y e LORDE o my hope my stronge holde my God in whoÌ„ I wil trust For he shal deliuer the froÌ„ the snare of the hunter froÌ„ the noysome pestilence He shal couer the vnder his wynges that thou mayest be safe vnder his fethers his faithfulnesse and trueth shal be thy shylde and buckler So y t thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night ner for arowe that flyeth by daye For the pestileÌ„ce that crepeth in y e darcknesse ner for the sicknesse y t destroyeth in the noone daye A thousande shal fall besyde the and ten thousande at thy right honde but it shal not come nye the. Yee with thyne eyes shalt thou beholde and se the rewarde of the vngodly For thou LORDE art my hope thou hast set thy house of defence very hye There shal no euell happen vnto the nether shal eny plage come nye thy dwellinge For he shall geue his angels charge ouer the to kepe the in all thy wayes They shal beare the in their hondes that thou hurte not thy fote agaynst a stone Thou shalt go vpoÌ„ the Lyon and Adder the yonge Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou treade vnder thy fete Because he hath set his loue vpon me I shal delyuer him I shal defende him for he hath knowne my name When he calleth vpon me I shall heare him yee I am with him in his trouble wher out I wil delyuer him and brynge him to honoure With loÌ„ge life wil I satisfie him shewe him my saluacion The XCI psalme IT is a good thinge to geue thankes vnto the LORDE and to synge prayses vnto y e name o most hyest To tell of thy louynge kyndnesse early in the mornynge and of thy trueth in the night season Vpon an instrumeÌ„t of ten strynges vpon the luâ—e and with a songe vpon the harpe For thou LORDE hast made me glad thorow thy workes â–ª and I wil reioyse ouer the operacion of thy hondes O LORDE how glorious are thy workes thy thoughtes are very depe An vnwyse man wil not knowe this a foole wil not vnderstoÌ„de it That the vngodly are grene as the grasse and that all the workes of wickednes do florish to be destroyed for euer But thou LORDE o most hyest abydest worlde without ende For lo thy enemies o LORDE lo thy enemies shal perishe and all the workers of wickednes shal be scatred abrode But my horne shal be exalted like the horne of an Vnicorne shal be anoynted with fresh oyle Myne eye also shal se his lust of myne enemies myne eare shall heare his desyre of the wicked y t ryse vp agaynst me The rightuous shal florish like a palme tre and growe like a Cedre of Libanus Soch as be planted in the house of the LORDE be frutefull plenteous grene That they maye shewe how true the LORDE my streÌ„gth is and that there is no vnrightuousnesse in him The XCII psalme THe LORDE is kynge and hath put on glorious apparell the LORDE hath put on his apparell gyrded himself with streÌ„gth he hath made the rounde worlde so sure that it can not be moued From that tyme forth hath y e seate bene prepared thou art from euerlastinge The floudes aryse o LORDE the floudes lift vp their noyse y e floudes lift vp their wawes The wawes of the see are mightie rage horribly but yet the LORDE that dwelleth on hye is mightier Thy testimonies o LORDE are very sure holynesse becommeth thyne house for euer The XCIII psalme O LORDE God to whom vengeaunce beloÌ„geth thou God to whom vengeaunce belongeth shewe thy self Arise thou iudge of the worlde rewarde the proude after their deseruynge LORDE how longe shal the vngodly how longe shal the vngodly tryumphe How longe shal all wicked doers speake so diszdaynedly and make soch proude boastynge They smyte downe thy people o LORDE and trouble thine heretage They murthur the widdowe and the straunger and put the fatherlesse to death And yet they saie Tush the LORDE seyth not the God of Iacob regardeth it not Take hede ye vnwise amonge the people o ye fooles when wil ye vnderstonde He that planted the eare shal he not heare he that made the eye shal not he se He that nurtureth the Heithen and teacheth a man knowlege shal not he punysh The LORDE
knoweth the thoughtes of men that they are but vayne Blessed is the maÌ„ whom thou lernest o LORDE and teachest him in thy lawe That thou mayest geue him pacience in tyme of aduersite vntill the pytte be dygged vp for the vngodly For the LORDE wil not fayle his people nether wil he forsake his inheritaunce And why iudgment shal be turned agayne vnto rightuousnesse and all soch as be true of hert shal folowe it Who ryseth vp with me agaynst the wicked who taketh my parte agaynst the euell doers Yf the LORDE had not helped me my soule had allmost bene put to sylence When I sayde my fote hath slipped thy mercy o LORDE helde me vp In y e multitude of the sorowes that I had in my herte thy comfortes haue refreshed my soule Wilt thou haue eny thinge to do with the stole of wickednesse which ymagineth myschefe in the lawe They gather them together agaynst the soule of the rightuous condemne the innocent bloude But the LORDE is my refuge my God is the streÌ„gth of my confideÌ„ce He shal recompence theÌ„ their wickednesse and destroye them in their owne malice yee the LORDE oure God shal destroye them The XCIIII psalme O Come let vs prayse the LORDE let vs hertely reioyse in the strength of oure saluacion Let vs come before his presence with thaÌ„kesgeuynge shewe oure self glad in him w t psalmes For the LORDE is a greate God and a greate kynge aboue all goddes In his honde are all y e corners of the earth and the strength of the hilles is his also The see is his for he made it and his hondes prepared the drie loÌ„de O come let vs worshipe and bowe downe oure selues Let vs knele before the LORDE oure maker For he is oure God as for vs we are the people of his pasture and the shepe of his hoÌ„des To daye yf ye wil heare his voyce hardeÌ„ not youre hertes as wheÌ„ ye prouoked in tyme of temptacion in the wildernes Where yo r fathers teÌ„pted me proued me and sawe my workes XL. yeares longe was I greued with that generacion sayde they euer erre in their hertes they verely haue not knowne my wayes Therfore I sware vnto theÌ„ in my wrath that they shulde not enter in to my rest The XCV psalme O Synge vnto the LORDE a new songe synge vnto the LORDE all the whole earth Synge vnto y e LORDE prayse his name be tellynge of his saluacion from daye to daye Declare his honoure amonge the HeitheÌ„ and his wonders amonge all people For y e LORDE is greate and can not worthely be praysed he is more to be feared then all goddes As for all y e goddes of the HeitheÌ„ they be but Idols but it is the LORDE that made the heaueÌ„s Thankesgeuynge and worshipe are before him power and honoure are in his Sanctuary Ascrybe vnto the LORDE o ye kinredes of the Heithen ascrybe vnto the LORDE worshipe and strength Ascrybe vnto the LORDE the honoure of his name brynge presentes and come in to his courte O worshipe the LORDE in the beutye of holynesse let the whole earth stonde in awe of him Tell it out amonge the HeitheÌ„ that the LORDE is kynge and that it is he which hath made the rounde worlde so fast that it can not be moued and how that he shal iudge the people rightuously Let the heaueÌ„s reioyse and let the earth be glad let the see make a noyse yee all that therin is Let the felde be ioyfull and all that is in it let all the trees of the wodd leape for ioye Before the LORDE for he commeth for he coÌ„meth to iudge the earth yee with rightuousnesse shal he iudge the worlde and y e people with his trueth The XCVI psalme THe LORDE is kynge the earth maye be glad therof yee the multitude of the Iles maie be glad therof Cloudes and darcknesse are rounde aboute him rightuousnesse and iudgment are the habitacion of his seate There goeth a fyre before him to burne vp his enemies on euery syde His lightenynges geue shyne vnto the worlde the earth seyth it is afraied The hilles melt like wax at the presence of y e LORDE at the presence of the LORDE of the whole earth The very heauens declare his rightuousnes all people se his glory CoÌ„founded be all they that worshipe ymages and delite in their Idols worshipe him all ye goddes Sion heareh of it and reioyseth yee all y e doughters of Iuda are glad because of thy iudgmentes o LORDE For thou LORDE art the most hyest ouer all the earth thou art exalted farre aboue all goddes O ye that loue the LORDE se that ye hate the thinge which is euell the LORDE preserueth the soules of his sayntes he shal delyuer theÌ„ from the honde of the vngodly There is spronge vp a light for the rightuous and a ioyfull gladnesse for soch as be true herted Reioyse therfore in the LORDE ye rightuous and geue thankes for a remembraunce of his holynesse The XCVII psalme O Synge vnto the LORDE a new songe for he hath â—one maruelous thinges With his owne right honde and with his holy arme hath he gotten the victory The LORDE hath declared his sauynge health and his rightuousnes hath he openly shewed in the sight of the HeitheÌ„ He hath remembred his mercy and trueth towarde the house of Israel so that all the endes of the worlde se the sauynge health of oure God Shewe youre self ioyfull vnto the LORDE all ye londes synge reioyse and geue thankes Prayse the LORDE vpon the harpe synge to the harpe with a psalme of thankesgeuynge With trompettes also shawmes O shewe youre selues ioyfull before the LORDE the kynge Let the see make a noyse and all y t therin is yee the whole worlde all that dwell therin Let the floudes clappe their hondes and let all the hilles be ioyfull together Before the LORDE for he is come to iudge the earth Yee with rightuousnes shall he iudge the worlde and the people with equite The XCVIII psalme THe LORDE is kynge be the people neuer so vnpacient he sytteth vpon the Cherubins be the earth neuer so vnquiete The LORDE is greate in Sion hye aboue all people O let men geue thaÌ„kes vnto thy greate wonderful name for it is holy The kynges power loueth iudgment thou preparest equite thou executest iudgmeÌ„t rightuousnes in Iâ—cob O magnifie the LORDE o r God fâ—ll downe before his fote stole for he his holy Moses Aaron amonge his prestes Samuel amonge soch as call vpoÌ„ his name these called vpon the LORDE he herde theÌ„ He spake vnto theÌ„ out of the cloudy piler for they kepte his testimonies the lawe that he gaue them Thou herdest theÌ„ o LORDE o r God thou forgauest theÌ„ o God punyshedst their owne invencions O magnifie the LORDE oure God and worshipe
The CV psalme Halleluya O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Who can expresse y e noble actes of the LORDE or shewe forth all his prayse Blessed are they that allwaye kepe iudgment and do rightuousnes Remembre vs o LORDE acordinge to the fauoure that thou bearest vnto thy people o vyset vs w t thy sauinge health That we might se the pleasure of thy chosen that we might reioyse in the gladnesse of thy people and geue thankes with thine enheritaunce We haue synned with oure fathers we haue done amysse we haue dealt wickedly Oure fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egipte they kepte not thy greate goodnesse in remeÌ„braunce but were dishobedieÌ„t at the see eueÌ„ at the reed see Neuertheles he helped theÌ„ for his names sake that he might make his power to be knowne He rebuked the reed see and it was dried vp so he led theÌ„ thorow the depe as in a wildernesse Thus he saued them from the honde of the hater delyuered them from the honde of the enemie As for those y t troubled them the waters ouerwhelmed theÌ„ there was not one of theÌ„ left Then beleued they in his worde and songe prayse vnto him But within a whyle they forgat his workes wolde not abyde his councell A lust came vpoÌ„ them in the wildernesse so that they tempted God in the deserte Yet he gaue them their desyre and sent theÌ„ ynough at their willes They angred Moses in the teÌ„tes and Aaron the saynte of the LORDE So the earth opened swalowed vp Dathan and couered the congregacioÌ„ of Abiram The fyre was kyndled in their company the flame brent vp the vngodly They made a calfe in Horeb and worshipped the molteÌ„ ymage Thus they turned his glory into the similitude of a calfe y t eateth haye They forgat God their Sauio r which had done so greate thinges in Egipte Wonderous workes in the londe of Ham and fearfull thinges in the reed see So he sayde he wolde haue destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stonde before him in y e gappe to turne awaie his wrothfull indignacion lest he shulde destroye theÌ„ Yee they thought scorne of y t pleasaunt londe and gaue no credence vnto his worde But murmured in their tentes and herkened not vnto the voyce of the LORDE Then lift he vp his honde agaynst them to ouerthrowe them in the wildernes To cast out their sede amonge the nacions and to scater them in the londes They ioyned themselues vnto Baal Peor and ate the offeringes of the deed Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inveÌ„cions and the plage was greate amonge them Then stode vp Phineas and excuted iustice so the plage ceased And that was counted vnto him for rightuousnesse amonge all posterites for euermore They angerd him also at the waters of strife so that Moses was punyshed for their sakes Because they prouoked his sprete and he tolde theÌ„ planely with his lippes Nether destroyed they the Heithen as the LORDE commaunded them But were mengled amonâ—ge the Heithen and lerned their workes In so moch that they worshipped their ymages which turned to their owne decaye Yee they offred their sonnes their doughters vnto deuels And shed the innocent bloude of their sonnes and of their doughters whom they offred vnto the ymages of Canaan so that the londe was defyled wiâ—â— bloude Thus were they stayned w t theâ—â— owne workes and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions Therfore was the wrath of the LORDE kyndled agaynst his people in so moch that he abhorred his owne enheritaunce And gaue them ouer in to the honde of the HeitheÌ„ and they that hated them were lordes ouer them Their enemies oppressed theÌ„ and had them in subieccion Many a tyme dyd he delyuer them but they prouoked him with their owne inveÌ„cions and were brought downe for their wickednesse Neuerthelesse wheÌ„ he sawe their aduersite he herde their complaynte He thought vpoÌ„ his couenaunt and pitied theÌ„ â–ª acordinge vnto the multitude of his mercies Yee he made all those y t had led them awaye captiue to pitie them Delyuer vs o LORDE oure God gather vs from amoÌ„ge the Heithen that we maye geue thankes to thy holy name make oure boast of thy prayse Blessed be the LORDE God of Isâ— He sheweth his people the power of his workes that he maye geue them the heretage of the Heithen The workes of his hoÌ„des are verite iudgment all his coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes are true They stonde fast for euer euer are done in trueth equite He sent redempcion vnto his people he hath commaunded his couenaunt for euer holy reuerent is his name The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wyszdome a good vnderstondinge haue all they that do therafter the prayse of it endureth for euer The CXI psalme Halleluya BLessed is the man y t feareth the LORDE hath greate delite in his commaundementes His sede shall be mightie vpon earth the generacion of the faithfull shal be blessed Riches pleÌ„teousnesse shal be in his house his rightuousnes endureth for euer Vnto the godly there ariseth vp light in the darcknesse he is merciful louynge rightuous Wel is him that is mercifull lendeth gladly poÌ„dreth his wordes w t discrecion For he shal neuer be moued the rightuous shal be had in an euer lastinge remembraunce He wil not be afrayed for eny euell tydinges his herte stondeth fast beleueth in y e LORDE His herte is stablished he wil not shrencke vntill he se his desyre vpon his enemies He hath sparsed abrode geueÌ„ to the poore his rightuousnes remayneth for euer his horne shal be exalted w t honor. The vngodly shal se it it shal greue him he shall gnash w t his â—â—th consume awaye the desyre of the vn godly shal perish The CXII psal Halleluya PRayse the LORDE O ye seruauntes O prayse the name of the LORDE Blessed be the name of the LORDE froÌ„ this tyme forth for euermore The LORDES name is worthy to be praysed froÌ„ the rysinge vp of the Sonne vnto the goinge downe of the same The LORDE is hye aboue all Heithen and his glory aboue the heaueÌ„s Who is like vnto the LORDE oure God y t hath his dwellinge so hye which humbleth himself to beholde that is in heauen and earth Which taketh vp the symple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the myre That he maye set him amonge the prynces euen amonge the prynces of his people Which maketh the baren woman to kepe house and to be a ioyfull mother of children Halleluya The CXIII psalme WHen Israel came out of Egipte the house of Iacob from amonge that straunge people Iuda was his SaÌ„ctuary Israel his dominion The see sawe that and fled Iordan turned backe The mountaynes stripped like rammes the
hongrie The LORDE lowseth men out of preson the LORDE geueth sight to the blynde The LORDE helpeth theÌ„ vp that are fallen the LORDE loueth the righteous The LORDE careth for the straungers he defendeth y e fatherlesse and wyddowe as for the waye of y e vngodly he turneth it vpsyde downe The LORDE thy God o Sion is kynge for euermore and thorow out all generacions Halleluya The CXLVI psalme O Prayse the LORDE for it is a good thinge to synge prayses vnto o r God yee a ioyfull and pleasaunt thinge is it to be thankfull The LORDE shal buylde vp IerusaleÌ„ gather together y e outcastes of Israel He healeth the contrite in herte and byndeth vp their woundes He telleth the nombre of the starres and calleth them all by their names Greate is o r LORDE and greate is his power yee his wyszdome is infinite The LORDE setteth vp y e meke bryngeth y e vngodly downe to y e grouÌ„de O synge vnto y e LORDE w t thankesgeuynge synge prayses vpoÌ„ y e harpe vnto o r God Which couereth y e heauen w t cloudes prepareth rayne for y e earth maketh y e grasse to growe vpon the mountaynes Which geueth foder vnto y e catell fedeth y e yonge rauens y t call vpoÌ„ him He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse nether delyteth he in eny maÌ„s legges But the LORDES delyte is in them that feare him and put their trust in his mercy The CXLVII psalme This psalme do the hebrues ioyne vnto it that goeth before PRayse y e LORDE o IerusaleÌ„ prayse 〈◊〉 God o Sion For he maketh fast 〈◊〉 baries of y e gates blesseth y e 〈…〉 within ye. He maketh peace in y e bordâ—â—◠〈◊〉 fylleth y e with y e flo r of wheate He 〈◊〉 synde y e forth his coÌ„maundemeÌ„t vpoÌ„ earth 〈…〉 LORDE ruÌ„neth swiftly He geueth snowe scatereth y e horefrost like ashes 〈◊〉 He forth his yse like morsels who is ghtuous and de his frost He sendeth out â—â—cently he â—emelteth them he bloweth w t hi◠〈◊〉 preserueth y e waters flowe He sheweth 〈◊〉 shalt thou unIacob his statutes 〈…〉 and equi rael He hath not dealt 〈◊〉 Yf wyszdome then nether haue they 〈◊〉 and y e soule delyte in es Halleluya 〈◊〉 councell preserue the The 〈…〉 shal kepe the. That â—Pâ—est be delyuered froÌ„ y e euell waye â—om the man y t speaketh fâ—owarde thines from soch as leave the hye strete and ualkei y e wayes of darcknesse which reioyse 〈◊〉 doynge euell and delyte i wicked thinges whose wayes are croked and their pathes slaunderous that thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman and from her that is not thine owne which geueth swete wordes forfaketh the huszbande of hir youth and for getteth the couenaunt of hir God For hir house is enclyned unto death and hir pathes unto hell All they that go in unto her come not agayne nether take they holde of the wave of life That thou mayest walke in y e good waye and kepe tha pathes of the righuous For the iust shal dwell in the lende and the inno Let them prayse the name of the LORDE for his name only is excellent and his prayse aboue heauen and earth He exalteth the horne of his people all his sayntes shal prayse him the children of Israel euen the people that serueth him Halleluya The CXLIX psalme Halleluya O Synge vnto y e LORDE a new songe let the coÌ„gregacion of sayntes prayse him Let Israel reioyse in him that made him and let the children of Sion be ioyfull in their kynge Let them prayse his name in the dauÌ„ce let them synge prayses vnto him with tabrettes and harpes For the LORDE hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the mekcharted Let the sayntes be ioyfull with glory let them reioyse in their beddes Let the prayses of God be in their mouth and sharpe swerdes in their handes To be auenged of the Heiâ—heÌ„ to rebuke the people To bynde their â—â—nges in cheynes their nobles with lyncâ—â—â—â— of yron That they maye be auenged 〈…〉 as it is written Soch honoure haue 〈…〉 sayntes Halleluya The CL. psalme Halleluya 〈◊〉 Prayse the LORDE in his Sanctuâ—â—◠〈…〉 prayse him in the firmament of 〈…〉 power Prayse him in his noble 〈…〉 him in his excelleÌ„t greatnesse 〈…〉 in the sounde of the trompet 〈…〉 â—poÌ„ the lute and harpe Pray 〈…〉 â—ymbals and daunse prayse him 〈…〉 and pype Prayse him 〈…〉 cymbals prayse him 〈…〉 cymbals Let 〈…〉 y t hath breth 〈◊〉 LORDE 〈◊〉 The Prouerbes of Salomon What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. The wysdome of God calleth vs by the mouth of SalomoÌ„ exorteth vs and geueth vs warnynge to eschue the wicked whose vn godly coÌ„uersacion in worde and worke and punyshment also of the same is here descrybed Chap. II. How wisdome maye be gotten and what profit commeth of it Chap. III. He exorteth us to the feare of God and to pacience he commendeth wyszdome â— requyreth us to cleue vnto the same Chap. IIII. A fatherly exortacion vnto wisdome with the profit therof and how we ought to refrayne the meÌ„bres of oure body froÌ„ euell Chap. V. He exorteth vnto wyszdoÌ„e and to be warre of harlottes he telleth what harme mâ—ye folowe therout wheÌ„ men medle with soch hâ— teacheth men louyngly to cleue vnto their mâ—ried wyues and descrybeth the ende of the vnâ—godly Chap. VI. He warneth men to bewarre of sâ—â—â—tishipe exorteth the slouthfull to laboure sheweth the wikednesse of false tonges and requyreth men to bewarre of aduoutry because it is more perloâ—s then theft or felony Chap. VII He exorteth vnto wiszdome sheweth the condicions of harlottes and what hurt happeneth vnto soch as enclyne to the prouocacioÌ„s and desyres of the flesh Chap. VIII Wyszdome calleth men swetely vnto her and telleth them what treasure and power she hath A coÌ„mendacion and prayse of wiszdome wherout euery maÌ„ is exorted to cleue vnto her Chap. IX Wyszdome crieth vpoÌ„ the ignorauÌ„t and promiseth them greate thinges The foolish maner of a light woman Chap. X. From this chapter forth vnto the XXXI there are described many swete louely and wyse sentences which teach men wyszdome and what profit commeth of it Agayne how men maye auoyde foolishnesse and the hurte therof Chap. XXXI Wyszdome warneth us to bewarre of euell women and descrybeth the coÌ„uersacion maner behauoure of an honest maried wyfe These are the prouerbes of Salomon the sonne of Dauid kynge of Israel to lerne wyszdome nurtoure vnderstondinge prudence rightuousnesse iudgment and equite That the very babes might haue wyt and that yonge men might haue knowlege and vnderstondinge By hearinge the wyse maÌ„ shal coÌ„me by more wysdome and by experience he shal be more apte to vnderstonde a parable and the interpretacion therof the wordes of the wyse and the darcke speaches of the same The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome But
hilles and exalted aboue al litle hilles And alheitheÌ„ shal prease vnto him and the multitude of people shall go vnto him speakinge thus one to another vp let us go to the hill of the LORDE and to the house of y e God of Iacob y t he maye shewe us his waye and y t we maye walke in his pathes For y e lawe shal come out of Syon and the worde of God from Ierusalem and shal geue sentence amonge the heithen and shal reforme the multitude of people So that they shal breake their swerdes and speares to make sythes sycles sawes therof From that tyme forth shal not one people lift vp wapen agaynst another nether shal they lerne to fight from thensforth It is to the that I crie o house of Iacob vp let us walke in the light of the LORDE But thou art scatred abrode with thy people o house of Iacob for ye go farre beyonde yo r fathers whether it be in Sorcerers whom ye haue as the phylistynes had or in calkers of mens byrthes wherof ye haue to many As soone as youre londe was ful of syluer and golde and no ende of youre treasure so soone as youre londe was ful of stronge horses and no ende of youre charettes Inmediatly was it ful of Idols also euen workes of youre owne hondes which ye youre selues haue facioned and youre fyngers haue made There kneleth the man there falleth the man downe before them so y t thou canst not bringe him awaye from thence And therfore get y e soone in to some rock vnd hyde the in the grounde from the sight of the fearful iudge and from y e glory of his Magestie Which casteth downe y e high lokes of presumptuous personnes and bryngeth lowe the pryde of maÌ„ and he only shall be exalted in y e daye For the daye of y e LORDE of hostes shal go ouer all pryde presumpcioÌ„ vpon all theÌ„ that exalte theÌ„ selues and shal bringe them all downe vpoÌ„ all high stoute Cedre trees of Libanus and vpon all the okes of Basan vpon all high hilles and vpon all stoute mountaynes vpon all costly towres and vpon all stronge walles vpon all shippes of the see and vpon euery thinge y t is glorious and pleasaunt to loke vpon And it shall bringe downe the pryde of man and laye mans presumptuousnesse full lowe and the LORDE shal only haue the victory in that daye But the Idols shal utterly be roted out Men shal crepe in to holes of stone and in to caues of the earth from the sight of the fearfull iudge and from the glory of his magesty what tyme as he shal make him vp to shake the earth Then theÌ„ shal maÌ„ cast awaye his goddes of syluer and golde which he neuertheles had made to honoure theÌ„ vnto Molles and Backes that he maye the better crepe in to the caues and rockes and in to the cliffes of hard stones from y e sight of the fearful iudge and from the glory of his Magesty The thirde Chapter EVery man can eschue a persone moued in anger for what doth he wysely â–ª Euen so shal y e LORDE of hoostes take awaye froÌ„ IerusaleÌ„ Iuda all possessioÌ„s power all meat and drinke y e captayne and the soudyare y e iudge and the prophete the wyse and the aged maÌ„ the worshipful of fiftie yeare olde and the honorable the Senatours and men of vnderstondinge the masters of craftes and oratours And I shal geue you children to be youre prynces saieth the LORDE and babes shall haue the rule of you One shall euer be doinge violence and wronge to another The boye shal presume agaynst the elder and the vyle persone agaynst the honorable Yee one shal take a frende of his own kynred by y e bosome and saye thou hast clothinge thou shalt be oure heade for thou mayest kepe us from this fall and parell Then shall he sweare and saye I can not helpe you Morouer there is nether meate ner clothinge in my house make me no ruâ—ler of the people For Ierusalem and Iuda must decaye because that both their wordes and councels are agaynst the LORDE they prouoke the presence of his magestyrs to anger The chaunginge of their countenaunce bewrayeth them yee they declare their owne synnes them selues as the Sodomites hyde theÌ„ not Wo be vnto their soules for they shal be heuely rewarded Then shal they saye O happie are the godly for they maye enioye the frutes of their studies But wo be to y e vngodly and vnrightuous for they shal be rewarded after their workes O my people rybaudes oppresse y e and women haue rule of the. O my people thy leders deceaue the and treade out the waye of thy footsteppes The LORDE is here to comon of the matter and stondeth to geue iudgment with the people The LORDE shal come forth to reason with the Senatours and prynces of his people and shal saye thus vnto them It is ye thÌ„at haue burnt vp my vynyearde the robbery of the poore is in youre house Wherfore do ye oppresse my people and marre y e faces of the innocentes thus shal the God of hoostes reuyle them Morouer thus saieth y e LORDE Seinge the doughters of Sion are become so proude and come in with stretched out neckes and with vayne wanton eyes seinge they come in trippinge so nycely with their fete Therfore shal the LORDE shaue the heades of the doughters of Sion and make their bewtie bare in that daye In that daye shal the LORDE take awaye the gorgiousnes of their apparel and spanges cheynes partlettes and colares bracelettes and hooues y e goodly floured wyde and broderd raymeÌ„t brusshes and headbandes rynges and garlaÌ„des holy daye clothes and vales kerchâ—es and pynnes glasses and smockes bonettes and taches And in steade of good smell there shal be stynck amonge them And for their gyrdles there shal be lowse bondes And for welâ—set hayre there shal be baldnesse In steade of a stomacher a sack cloth and for their bewty wythrednesse and sonneburnynge Their husbondes and their mightie men shall perish with the swerde in batell The fourth Chapter AT that tyme shall their gates mourne and complayne and they shal syt as desolate folâ—k vpon the earth Then shal seuen wyues take holde of one man and saye we will laye all oure meat and cloothinge together in comon only that we maye be called thy wyues and that this shamefull reprofe maye be takeÌ„ from us After that tyme shal the braunch of y e LORDE be beutiful and mightie and y e frute of the earth shal be fayre and pleasaunt for those Israelites that shall springe therof Then shall the remnaunt in Sion and the remnaunt at Ierusalem be called holy namely all soch as are written amonge the lyuynge at Ierusalem what tyme as the LORDE shall wash awaye the desolacion of the doughters of
dwelleth vpon the hill of Syon And therfore yf they saye vnto you aske councel at the soythsayers witches charmers and coniurers then make them this answere Is there a people enywhere that aâ—eth not councel at his God whether it be concernynge the dead or the lyuynge Yf eny man want light let him loke vpon the lawe and the testimony whether they speake not after this meanynge Yf he do not this he stombleth and suffreth huÌ„ger And yf he suffre honger he is out of pacience and blasphemeth his kynge and his God Then loketh he vpwarde and downewarde to the earth and beholde there is trouble and darcknesse vexacion is rounde aboute him and the cloude of erroure And out of soch aduersite shall he not escape The jx Chapter EVen like as in tyme past it hath bene well sene that y e londe of Zabulon and the londe of Nepthali where thorow the see waye goeth ouer Iordane in to the londe of Galilee was at the first in litle trouble but afterward sore vexed Neuertheles y e people that haue dwelt in darcknesse shal se a greate light As for them that dwel in the londe of the shadowe of death vpon them shal the light shyne Shalt thou multiplie the people and not increase the ioye also They shal reioyse before the euen as men make mery in haruest and as men that haue gotten the victory when they deale the spoyle For thou shalt breake the yocke of the peoples burthen the staff of hys shulder and the rod of his oppressoure as in y e daye at MadiaÌ„ Morouer all temerarious and sedicious power yee where there is but a cote fyled w t bloude shal be burnt and fede the fyre For vnto us a childe shal be borne and vnto us a sonne shal be geueÌ„ VpoÌ„ his shulder shal the kyngdome lye and he shal be called w t his owne name The woÌ„derous geuer of councel the mightie God the euerlastinge father the prynce of peace he shal make no ende to encrease the kyngdome and peace and shal syt vpon the seate of Dauid and in his kyngdome to set vp the same to stablish it with equyte and rightuousnesse from thence forth for euermore This shal the gelousy of the LORDE of hoostes bringe to passe The LORDE sent a worde in to Iacob the same is come in to Israel All the people also of Ephraim and they that dwel in Samaria can saye with pryde and hie stomackes on this maner The tyle worcke is fallen downe but we will buylde it with harder stones The Molbery tymbreys broken but we shal set it vp agayne with Cedre Neuertheles the LORDE shal prepare Rezin the enemie agaynst theÌ„ and so ordre their aduersaries that y e Sirians shal laye holde vpon them before and the Philistynes behynde and so deuoure Israel with open mouth After all this the wrath of the LORDE shal not ceasse but yet his hande shable stretched out still For the people turneth not vnto him that chastiseth them nether do they seke the LORDE of hoostes Therfore the LORDE shal rote out of Israel both heade and tale braunch and twygge in one daye By the heade is vnderstonde the Senatoure and honorable man and by y e tale the prophet that preacheth lyes For all they which enfourme the people that they be in a right case soch be disceauers Soch as men thynke also to be perfecte amonge these are but cast awaye Therfore shal the LORDE haue no pleasure in their yonge meÌ„ nether fauoure their fatherlesse and wydowes For thei are altogether ypocrites and wicked and all their mouthes speake foly After all this shal not the LORDES wrath ceasse but yet his honde shal be stretched out still For the vngodly burne as a fyre in the bryers and thornes And as it were out of a fyre in a wod or a redebush so ascendeth the smoke of their pryde For this cause shal y e wrath of the LORDE of hoostes fall vpon the londe and the people shal be consumed as it were with fyre no man shal spare his brother Yf a man do turne him to the right honde he shal famesh or to the lefte hande to eat he shal not haue ynough Euery man shal eate the flesh of his owne arme Manasses shal eate Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses and they both shal eate Iuda After all this shal not the LORDEs wrath ceasse but yet shal his honde be stretched out still The tenth chapter WO be vnto you y t make vnrightuous lawes and devyse thinges which be to harde for to kepe wherthorow the poore are oppressed on euery syde and the innoceÌ„tes of my people are there with robbed of iudgment that wyddowes maye be youre praye and that ye maye robbe the fatherlesse What will ye do in tyme of the visitacion and destruction that shal come from farre To whom will ye renne for helpe or to whom will ye geue youre honoure that he maye kepe it that ye come not amonge the presoners or lye amonge the deed After all this shal not the wrath of the LORDE ceasse but yet shal his honde be stretched out still Wo be also vnto Assur which is a staff of my wrath in whose honde is the rod of my punyshment For I shal sende him amonge those ypocritish poeple amonge the people that haue deserued my disfauoure shal I send him that he maye utterly robbe them spoyle them and treade them downe like the myre in the strete Howbeit his meanynge is not so nether thinketh his harte of this fashion But he ymagineth only how he maye ouerthrowe and destroye moch people for he saieth are not my princes all kynges Is not Calno as easie to wynne as Charchamis Is it harder to conquere Antiochia then Arphad Or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus theÌ„ Samaria As who say I were able to wynne the kingdome of the Idolaters and their goddes but not Ierusalem and Samaria Shal I not do vnto Ierusalem and their ymages as I dyd vnto Samaria and their ymages Wherfore the LORDE saieth As soone as I haue perfourmed my whole worcke vpon the Hyl of Syon and Ierusalem theÌ„ will I also vyset the noble and stoute kynge of Assiria with his wysdome and pryde For he stondeth thus in his owne coÌ„ceate This do I thorow the power of myne owne honde and thorow my wisdome For I am wyse I am he that remoue the londes of the people I robbe their prynces and like one of the worthies I dryue them from their hie seates My honde hath founde out the hoostes of the people as it were a nest And like as egges that were layde here and there are gathered together So do I gather all countrees And there is no man y t darre be so bolde as to touch a fether that â–ª darre open his mouth or once whisper But doth the axe boost itself agaynst him y t heweth therwith or doth the sawe make eny krakinge agaynst
him that ruleth it That were euen like as yf the rod dyd exalte it self agaynst him that beareth it or as though y e staff shulde magnifie it self as who saye it were no wodd Therfore shal the LORDE of hoostes sende him pouerte in his riches and burne vp his power as it were with a fyre But the light of Israel shal be y t fyre and his Sanctuary shal be the flame and it shal kyndle and burne vp his thornes and breyers in one daye yee all the glory of his woddes and feldes shal be consumed with body and soule As for himself he shal be as one chased awaye The trees also of his felde shal be of soch a nombre that a childe maye tell them After y t daye shal the remnaunt of Israel and soch as are escaped out of the house of Iacob seke no more coÌ„forte at him that smote them but shal conforte themselues with faithfulnesse and treuth in the LORDE the holy one of Israel The remnaunt yee and the Posteryte of Iacob shal coÌ„uerte vnto God the mighty one For though thy people o Israel be as the sonde of the see yet shal but the remnaunt of them only conuerte vnto him Perfecte is the iudgmeÌ„t of him that floweth in rightuousnesse and therfore y e LORDE of hoostes shal perfectly fulfil the thinge that he hath determyned in the myddest of the whole worlde Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes Thou my people that dwellest in Sion be not afrayde for the kinge of the Assirians He shal wagg his staff at the yee and beate the with the rodd as the EgiptiaÌ„s dyd sometyme But soone after shal my wrath and my indignacion be fulfylled agaynst their blasphemies Morouer the LORDE of hoostes shal prepare a scourge for him like as was the punyshmeÌ„t of MadiaÌ„ vpoÌ„ y e mount of Oreb And he shal lift vp his rod ouer the see as he dyd somtyme ouer the Egiptians Their shal his burthen be taken from thy shulders and his yock from thy neck yee the same yock shal corrupte for very fatnesse He shal come to Aiath and go thorow toward Migron But at Machmas shal he muster his hooste and go ouer y e foorde Gaba shal be their restinge place Rhama shal be afrayde Gabea Saul shal fle awaye The voyce of y e noyse of thy horses o doughter Gallim shal be herde vnto lais and to Anathoth which also shal be in trouble Madmena shal tremble for feare but the citesyns of Gahim are maÌ„ly yet shal he remayne at Nob that daye After that shal he lift vp his honde agaynst the mount Sion and agaynst the hill of Ierusalem But se the LORde God of hoostes shal take awaye the proude from thence w t feare He shal hew downe the proude and fel the hie mynded The thornes of the wod shal be rooted out w t yron and Libanus shal haue a mightie fal The xj Chapter AFter this there shal come a rod forth of y e Kynrede of Iesse and a blossome out of his rote The sprete of the LORDE shal light vpon it the sprete of wysdome and vnderstondinge the sprete of councel and strength y e sprete of knowlege and of the feare of God and shal make him feruent in the feare of God For he shal not geue senteÌ„ce after the thinge y t shal be brought before his eies nether reproue a matter at the first hearinge but with rightousnesse shal he iudge the poore and with holynes shal he refourme the symple of the worlde He shal smyte y e worlde with y e staff of his mouth with y e breath of his mouth shal he slaye the wicked Rightuousnesse shal be the gyrdle of his loynes treuth and faithfulnesse the gyrdinge vp of his raynes TheÌ„ shal y e wolfe dwel with the laÌ„be and the leopâ—rde shal lye downe by the gote Bullokes lyons and catel shal kepe company together so that a litle childe shal dryue them forth The cowe and the Bere shal fede together and their yongones shal lye together The lyoÌ„ shal eate strawe like the oxe or the cowe The childe whyle he sucketh shal haue a desyre to the serpentes nest and wheÌ„ he is weened he shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne No man shal do euel to another no man shal destroâ— another in all the hill of my Sanctuary For the earth shal be ful of y e knowlege of y e LORDE euen as though the water of the see flowed ouer the earth Then shal the Gentiles enquere after the rote of Iesse which shal be set vp for a token vnto the Gentiles for his dwellinge shal be glorious At the same tyme shal the LORDE take in honde agayne to conquere y e remnaunt of his people which are lefft alyue From the AssiriaÌ„s Egiptians Arabians Morians Elamites Caldeyes AntiochiaÌ„s and IloÌ„des of the see And he shal set vp a tokeÌ„ amonge the Gentiles and gather together y e dispersed of Israel yee and the outcastes of Iuda from the foure corners of y e worlde The hatred of Ephraim and y e enmyte of Iuda shal be clene rooted out Ephraim shal beare no euel wil to Iuda and Iuda shal not hate Ephraim but they both together shal flye vpoÌ„ the shulders of the Philistynes toward the West and spoyle them together that dwell toward the East The Idumytes and the Moabites shal let their hoÌ„des fall and the Ammonites shal be obedient vnto them The LORDE also shal cleue the tunges of the EgipciaÌ„s see and with a mightie wynde shal he lift vp his honde ouer Nilus and shal smyte his seueÌ„ streames and make men go ouer drye shod And thus shal he make a waye for his people y t remayneth from the Assirians like as it happened to y e Israelites what tyme they departed out of the londe of Egipte The xij Chapter SO that then thou shalt saye O LORDE I thanke the for thou wast displeased at me but thou hast refrayned thy wrath and hast mercy vpon me Beholde God is my health in whom I trust and am not afrayde For the LORDE God is my strength and my prayse he also shal be my refuge Therfore with ioye shal ye drawe water out of the welles of the Sauioure and then shal ye saye Let vs geue thankes vnto the lorde and call vpon his name and declare his councels amonge the people and kepe them in remembraunce for his name is excelleÌ„t O synge praises vnto the LORDE for he doth greate thinges as it is knowne in all the worlde Crie out and be glad thou that dwellest in Sion for greate is thy prince the holy one of Israel The XIII Chapter THis is y e heuy burtheÌ„ of BabiloÌ„ which Esaye the sonne of Amos dyd se. Make some tokeÌ„s to the hie hilles call vnto them holde vp youre hoÌ„de that the prynces maye go in at the
an heape of sorowes miseries Wo be to the multitude of moch people that russh in like the see and to the heape of folke that renne ouer all like greate waters For though so many people increase as the flowinge waters and though they be armed yet they fle farre of and vanish awaye like the dust with the wynde vpon an hill and as the whyrle wynde thorow a storme Though they be fearful at night yet in the morninge it is gone with theÌ„ This is their porcion that do vs harme and heretage of them that robbe vs. The xviij Chapter WO be to the londe of flienge shippes which is of this syde y e floude of Ethiopia which sendeth hir message ouer the see in shippes of redes vpoÌ„ y e water and sayeth go soone and do yo r message vnto a straunge and harde folke to a fearful people to a people y t is further then this to a desperate and pylled folke whose londe is deuyded from vs with ryuers of water Yee all ye y t fyt in the compasse of the worlde and dwell vpon the earth when the token shal be geuen vpoÌ„ the mountaynes then loke vp and when the home bloweth then herken to for thus hath y e LORDE sayde vnto me I layde me downe and pondred the matter in my house at the noone daye when it was hote and there fel a myslinge shower like a dew as it happeneth in haruest But the frutes were not yet ripe cut of and the grapes were but yonge and grene Then one smote of the grapes with an hoke yee he hewed downe also the buwes and the braunches dyd cast theÌ„ awaye And thus they were layde waist for the foules of the mountaynes and for y e beastes of the earth together So y t the foules sat ther vpon and the beastes of the earth wyntered there Then shal there be a present brought vnto the LORDE of hoostes euen that harde folke that fearful folke and that further is theÌ„ this y t desperate and pylled folke whose londe is deuyded from vs with floudes of water vnto the place of the name of the LORDE of hoostes euen vnto the hill of Sion The xix Chapter THis is the heuy burthen vpon Egipte Beholde the LORDE wil ryde vpon a swifte cloude and come in to Egipte And the goddes of Egipte shal trymble at his coÌ„mynge and the hert of Egipte shal quake within her For thus saieth the LORDE I wil stere vp the Egiptians one agaynst a nother amonge them selues so that one shal be euer agaynst his brother and neghboure yee one cite agaynst another and one kyngdome agaynst another And Egipte shal be choked in hir self WheÌ„ they axe councel at their goddes at their Prophetes at their soythsayers and witches then will I bringe their councel to naught I wil delyuer Egipte also in to the hondes of greuous rulers and a cruel kinge shal haue the rule of them The water of the see shal be draweÌ„ out Nilus shal synke awaye be dronke vp The ryuers also shal be drawen out the welles shal decreace and drie awaye Rede and rush shal fayle the grasse by the waters syde or vpon y e ryuers bancke yee and what so euer is sowen by the waters shal be wythered destroyed brought to naught The fyshers shall mourne all soch as cast angles in the water shal complayne they that sprede their nettes in the water shal be faynt harted Soch as laboure vpon flax sylcke shal come to pouerte they also that weeue fyne workes All the poundes of Egipte all the policie of their Moates diches shal come to naught Yee the vndiscrete prynces of Zoan the councel of the wyse Senatours of Pharao shal turne to foolishnesse Those that darre boast saye of Pharaos behalfe I am come of wyse people I am come of y e olde regall Progeny But where are now thy wyse meÌ„ Let them tel the shewe the what the LORDE of hoostes hath taken in honde agaynst Egypte Fooles are those prynces of Zoan proude are the prynces of Noph yee they dysceaue Egypte mith the nobilite of their stocke For the LORDE hath made Egypte dronckeÌ„ with the sprete of erroure and they shal vse it in all matters eueÌ„ like as a dronkeÌ„ maÌ„ goeth spewinge aboute For Egipte shal lacke good councel so y t they shal not knowe what to do nether beginnynge nor ende nether vpon the loÌ„de nor water TheÌ„ shal y e EgiptiaÌ„s be like vnto womeÌ„ afrayde astoÌ„â—ed at the liftinge vp of the hoÌ„de which y e LORDE of hoostes shal lifte vp ouer them The londe of Iuda also shal make the Egiptians afrayde who so doth but speake vpon it shal put them in feare And that be cause of the councel which y e LORDE of hoostes hath devysed agaynst them Then shal the fyue cities of Egipte speake with the Canaanites tâ—nge ande sweare by the LORDE of hoostes Heliopolis shal be one of them At the same tyme shal the LORDE of hoostes haue an aulter in the myddest of the londe of Egipte with this title ther by Vnto the LORDE This shal be a token or testimony vnto the LORDE of hoostes in the londe of Egipte when they shal crie vnto him because of those that oppresse them that he shal sende them a captayne and a Sauioure to delyuer them Morouer Egipte shal be bought vnto the LORDE and the Egiptians also shal knowe the LORDE at the same tyme they shal do him reuerence with peace offringes and with meat offringes they shal promyse him offringes yee paye him also Thus the LORDE shal smyte Egipte heale it agayne so shal they turne to y e LORDE and he also shal haue mercy vpoÌ„ them and saue them Then shal there be a comon waye out of Egipte in to Assiria The Assirians shal come in to Egipte and the Egypcians in to Assiria The Egipcians also and the Assirians shal both haue one Gods seruyce Then shal Israel with honoure be the thirde to Egipte and Assur And the LORDE of hoostes shal blesse them sayenge Blissed is my people of the Egipcians Assur is the worke of my hoÌ„des but Israel is myne enheritaunce The xx Chapter THe same yeare that Harthan came to Aschod where SargeÌ„ the kinge of the Assirians sent him what tyme as he also be seged Aschdod waÌ„ne it y e same season TheÌ„ spake the LORDE vnto Esaye y e sonne of Amos sayenge go and lowse of y t sack cloth froÌ„ thy loynes and put of y e shues from thy fete And so he dyd goinge naked barefote Then sayde the LORDE where as my seruaunt Esaye goeth naked and barefote it is a token and signifienge of the thinge that after thre yeare shal come vpoÌ„ Egipte and Ethiopia For euen thus shal the kinge of the Assâ—rians driue both yonge and olde as prisoners naked and barefote out of Egipte and
it shal happen vnto him as to an vntymely frute before the haruest come Which as soone as it is sene is by and by deuoured or euer it come well in a mans honde And then shal the LORDE of hoostes be a ioyful crowne and a glorious garlāde vnto the remnaunt of his people Vnto the lowly he shal be a sprete of iudgment and vnto them that dryue awaye the enemies from y e gates he shal be a sprete of strēgth But they go wronge by y e reason of wyne they fall and stacker because of strōge drynke Yee euē the prestes and prophetes them selues go amisse they are dronken with wyne and weake braned thorow stronge drynke They erre in seinge and in judgmēt they fayle For all tables are so ful of vomyte and fylthynes y t no place is clene What is he amonge them y t can teach instructe or enfourme the childrē which are weened from suck or taken from the brestes of eny other fashion then Commaunde y t maye be commaunded byd y t maye be byddē forbyd that maye be forbyddē kepe backe y t maye be kepte backe here a litle there a litle And therfore the LORDE also shal speake w t lispinge lippes and w t a straunge lāguage vnto this people to whom he spake afore of this maner This shal bringe rest yf one refresh the weery ye this shal bringe rest But they had no will to heare And therfore the LORDE shal answere their stubbournes Cōmaunde y t maye be cōmaunded byd y t maye be bydden forbyd y t maye be forbyddē kepe backe y t maye be kepte backe here a litle there a litle That they maye go forth fall backwarde be brussed snared and taken Wherfore heare the worde of the LORDE ye mockers that rule the LORDEs people which is at Ierusalē For ye cōforte yo r selues thus Tush death we are at a poynte as for hell we haue made a cōdicion with it that though there breake out eny sore plage it shal not come vpon vs. For with disceate wil we escape and with nymblenes will we defende o r selues Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil laye a stone in Sion a greate stone a costly corner stone for a sure foundacion y t who so putteth his trust in him shal not be confouded Rightuousnes wil I set vp agayne in y e balaunce and iudgment in the weightes The tēpest of hale shal take awaye yo r refuge that ye haue to disceaue withal and y e ouerflowinge waters shal breake downe yo r strōge holdes of dissimulaciō Thus the appoyntmēt that ye haue made w t death shal be done awaye and the cōdicion that ye made with hell shal not stōde When the greate destructiō goeth thorow it shal all to treade you It shal take you quyte awaye before it For it shal go forth early in the mornynge and contynue only y t daye and y t night And the very feare only shal teach you when ye heare it For y e bedde shal be so narow y t a mā cā not lye vpon it And the coueringe to small that a mā maye not wynde him self therin For the LORDE shal steppe forth as he dyd vpon the mount Perazim and shal take on as he dyd vpō the dale of Gabaon that he maye bringe forth his deuyce his straunge deuyce and fulfil his worke his wonderful worcke And therfore make no mockes at it that youre captiuyte increase not for I haue herde the LORDE of hoostes saye that there shal come a soden destruction and plage vpon the whole earth Take hede and heare my voyce pondre and merck my wordes wel Goeth not the husbonde man euer in due season earnestly to his londe he moweth ploweth his grounde to sowe And whē he hath made it playne he soweth it with fitches or comyn He soweth y e wheate and Barlye in their place Milium and Rye also in their place And y t he maye do it right his God teacheth him and sheweth him For he treadeth not the fitches out with a wayne nether bringeth he the cart here and there ouer the comyn but he throssheth y e fitches out with a flale and the comyn with a rod. As for the wheate he gryndeth it to make bred therof In as moch as he can not bringe it to passe w t treadinge out For nether the brussinge that the cart wheles make ner his beastes can grynde it This and soch like thinges come of the LORDE of hostes which is maruelous in councel and greate in rightuousnesse The xxix Chap. WO vnto the o Ariel Ariel thou cite that Dauid wāne Take yet some yeares and let some feastes yet passe ouer then shal Ariel be beseged so that she shal be heuy and sorouful and shal be vnto me euen as a lyon For I wil laye sege to the rounde aboute and kepe y e in with towers and graue vp dykes agaynst ye. And thou shalt be brought lowe and speake out of the earth and thy wordes shal go humbly out of y e grounde Thy voyce shal come out of the earth like the voyce of a witch and thy talkinge shal groane out of the myre For the multitude of thine enemies shal be like mealdust And the nombre of Tyrauntes shal be as y e dust that the wynde taketh awaye sodenly Thou shalt be visited of the LORDE of hoostes with thondre earth quake and with a greate crack with the whyrle wynde tempest and with the flame of a consumynge fyre But now the multitude of all the people that went out agaynst Ariel the whole hooste the stronge holdes and sege is like a dreame which apeareth in the night It is like as when an hungrie man dreameth that he is eatynge and when he awaketh he hath nothinge like as when a thurstie man dreameth that he is drinkinge and when he awaketh he is faynt and his soule vnpacient So is the multitude of all people that mustre them selues agaynst the hill of Sion But ye shal be at youre wittes ende ye shal be abasshed ye shal stackre and rele to and fro Ye shal be dronken but not of wyne Ye shal fall but not thorow dronkenes For the LORDE shal geue you an hard slepinge sprete and holde downe youre eyes namely yo r prophetes and heades which shulde se them shal he couer And all visions shal be vnto you as the wordes that stonde in a sealed lettre when one offreth it to a man that is lerned and sayeth rede vs this lettre Thē he answereth I cā not rede it for it is shutt But yf it be geuē to one y t is not lerned or sayde vnto him rede this lettre Then sayeth he I can not rede Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE For so moch as this people draweth nye me w t their mouth and prayseth me highly with their lippes where as there herte neuertheles is farre fro me and the feare
which they owe vnto me that turne they to mens lawes and doctrynes therfore wil I also shewe vnto this people a maruelous terrible and greate thinge Namely this I wil destroye the wisdome of their wise and the vnderstoÌ„dinge of their lerned men shal perish Wo be vnto them that seke so depe to hyde their ymaginacion be fore the LORDE which rehearce their couÌ„cels in y e darknes and saye who seith vs or who knoweth vs Which ymaginacion of yours is euen as when the potters claye taketh advisemeÌ„t as though the worke might saye to y e worke master make me not or as when an erthen vessel saieth of the potter he vnderstondeth not Se ye not that it is hard by that Libanus shal be turned in to Charmel and that Charmel shal be taken as a wodde Then shal deaf men vnderstonde the wordes of the boke and the eyes of the blynde shal se without eny cloude or darknes The oppressed shal holde a mery feast in the LORDE and the poore people shal reioyse in the holy one of Israel Then shal the furious people ceasse and y e mockers shal be put awaye and all they y t do wronge shal be rooted out soch as laboure to drawe meÌ„ vnto synne and y t disceaue him which reproueth them in the gate soch as turne good personnes to vanite And therfore the LORDE euen the defender of Abraham saieth thus vnto the house of Iacob Now shal not Iacob be ashamed nor his face coÌ„founded when he seith amonge his children whom my hondes haue made soch as halowe my name amonge them that they maye sancifie the holy one of Iacob and feare the God of Israel and that they which afore tyme were of an erroneous sprete haue now vnderstondinge and y t soch as before coude not speake are now lerned in my lawe The xxx Chapter WO be to those shrenkinge children saieth the LORDE which seke councel but not at me which take a webbe in honde but not after my will that they maye heape one synne vpon another They go downe in to Egipte and axe me no councel to seke helpe at the power of Pharao and coÌ„forte in the shadowe of the EgipciaÌ„s But Pharaos helpe shal be youre coÌ„fucion and the comforte in the Egipcians shadowe shal be youre owne shame You re rulers haue bene at Zoan and yo r messaungers came vnto Hanes But ye shal all be ashamed of the people y t maye not helpe you which shal not bringe you strength or comforte but shame and confucion Youre beastes haue borne burthens vpoÌ„ their backes towarde the South thorow the waye that is ful of parell and trouble because of the lyoÌ„ and lyones of the Cockatrice and shutynge dragon Yee the Mules bare youre substaunce and the Camels brought yo r treasure vpon their croked backes vnto a people that can not helpe you For the Egipcians helpe shal be but vane and lost Therfore I tolde you also y t youre pryde shulde haue an ende Wherfore go heÌ„ce and write them this in their tables and note it in a booke that it maye remayne by their posterite and be stil kepte For it is an obstinate people vnfaithful children children that will not heare the lawe of the LORDE They darre saye to the prophetes Intro mitte youre selues with nothinge and vnto y e Soythsayers tell us of nothinge for to come but speake frendly wordes vnto vs and preach vs false thinges Treade out of the waye go out of the path turne the holy one of Israel from vs. Therfore thus saieth the holy one of Israel In as moch as ye haue cast of youre bewtie and conforted youre selues with power and nymblenesse and put youre confidence therin therfore shal ye haue this myschefe agayne for youre destruction and fall like as an hie wall that falleth because of some rift or blast whose breakinge cometh sodenly And youre destruction shal be like as an ertheÌ„ pot which breaketh no man touchinge it yee and breaketh so sore that a man shal not fynde a sheuer of it to fetch fyre in or to take water with all out of the pyt For the LORDE God euen the holy one of Israel hath promised thus With stilsittinge and rest shal ye be healed In quyetnesse and hope shal youre strength lie Notwithstondinge ye regarde it not but ye will saie No for thus are we coÌ„strayned to fle vpoÌ„ horses And therfore shall ye fle we must ryde vpon swift beastes and therfore youre persecutours shal yet be swifter A thousand of you shal fle for one or at the most for fyue which do but only geue you euell wordes vntil ye be desolate as a ship mast vpon an hie mountayne and as a beaken vpon an hill Yet stondeth the LORDE waitinge that he maye haue mercy vpon you and lifteth him self vp that he maye receaue you to grace For the LORDE God is rightuous Happie are all thei that wate for him For thus o thou people of Sion and ye citisens of Ierusalem shal ye neuer be in heuynes for doutlesse he will haue mercy vpon the. As soone as he heareth the voyce of thy crie he will helpe the. The LORDE geueth you the bred of aduersite and the water of trouble But thine instructer fleyth not farre from the yf thine eyes loke vnto thine instructer and thine eares harken to his worde that crieth after the and saieth This is the waye go this and turne nether to the right honde nor the leffte Morouer yf ye destroye the syluer workes of youre Idols and cast awaye the golden coapes that ye deckt them withall as fylthynes and saie get you hence TheÌ„ wil he geue rayne to the sede that ye shal sowe in the earth and geue you breade of the encrease of the earth so that all shal be plenteous and abundaunt Thy catel also shal he fede in the brode medowes yee thyne oxeÌ„ and Muâ—es that till the grounde shal eate good fodder which is pourged w t y e fanne Goodly ryuers shal flowe out of all his mountaynes and hilles In the daye of the greate slaughter when the towers shal fall the Moone shal shyne as the Sonne and y e SoÌ„ne shyne shal be seueÌ„ folde and haue as moch shyne as in seuen dayes beside In that daye shal the LORDE bynde vp y e brussed sores of his people and heale their woundes Beholde the glory of the LORDE shal come from farre his face shal burne that no man shal be able to abyde it his lippes shal wagge for very indignacion and his tunge shal be as a consumynge fyre His breath like a vehement floude of water which goeth vp to the throte That he maye take awaye y e people which haue turned them selues vnto vanite and the brydle of erroure that lieth in other folkes chawes But ye shal synge as the vse is in y e night of the holy solempnite Ye shal
reioyse from youre hert as they that come with the pipe when they go vp to the mount of the LORDE vnto y e rock of Israel The LORDE also shal set vp the power of his voyce and declare his terrible arme with his angrie countenaunce yee and the flame of the consumynge fyre with earth quake tempest of wynde and hale stones Then shal the Assirian feare also because of the voyce of the LORDE which shal smyte him with the rodde And the same rodde which the LORDE wil sende vpon him shal moue the whole foundacion with trompet with noyse of warre and batell to destroye For he hath prepared the fyre of payne from the begynnynge yee euen for kynges also This hath he made depe wyde y e norishinge therof is fyre and wodde innumerable which the breath ofte LORDE kyndleth as it were a match of brymstone The xxxj Chapter WO vnto them that go downe in to Egipte for helpe and trust in horses and conforte them selues in Charettes because they be many and in horse mē because they be lustie and stronge But they regarde not the holy one of Israel and they aske no question at the LORDE Where as he neuertheles plageth y e wicked and yet goeth not from his worde whā he steppeth forth and taketh the victory agaynst the housholde of the frauwerde and against the helpe of euel doers Now the Egiptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not sprete And as soone as the LORDE stretcheth out his honde then shal the helper fall and he that shulde haue bene helped and shal altogether be destroyed For thus hath the LORDE spokē vnto me Like as the Lyon or lyōs whelpe roareth vpon the pray that he hath gotten and is not afrayde though y e multitude of shepardes crie out vpon him nether abashed for all the heape of them So shal the LORDE of hoostes come downe from the mount Sion and defende his hill Like as byrdes flotre aboute their nestes so shal the LORDE of hoostes kepe saue defende and deliue Ierusalem Therfore o ye childrē of Israel turne agayne like as ye hahaue exceaded in youre goinge back For in y t daye euery man shal cast out his Idols of syluer and golde which ye haue made with youre synful hondes Assur also shal be slayne with the swerde not w t a mans swerde ▪ A swerde shal deuoure him but not a mans swerde And he shal fle from the slaughter and his seruauntes shal be taken prisoners ▪ He shal go for feare to his stronge holdes and his prynces shal fle from his badge This hath y e LORDE spokē whose light burneth in Sion and his fyre in Ierusalem The xxxij Chapter BEholde the kinge shal gouerne after y e rule of rightuousnes and y e princes shal rule acordinge to the balaunce of equite He shal be vnto mē as a defence for the wynde and as a refuge for the tempest like as a ryuer of water in a thurstie place and y e schadowe of a greate rock in a drie lōde The eyes of the seinge shall not be dymme and the eares of them that heare shal take diligēt hede The hert of the vnwise shal attayne to knowlege and the vnparfite tūge shal speake planely and distinctly Then shal the nygarde be no more called gentle ner the churle lyberall But the churle wil be churlishly mynded and his hert wil worke euell and playe the ypocrite and ymagyn abhominaciōs agaynst God to make the hungrie leane and to with holde drinke from the thurstie These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous these be his shameful councels that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges and commeth vp with honesty Vp ye rich and ydle cities harken vnto my voyce Ye careles cities marcke my wordes After yeares and dayes shal ye be brought in feare o ye carelesse cities For Haruest shal be out and the grape gatheringe shal not come O ye rich ydle cities ye that feare no parell ye shal be abashed and remoued when ye se the barennesse the nakednesse and preparinge to warre Ye shal knock vpō youre brestes because of the pleasaunt felde and because of the fruteful vynyarde My peoples felde shal bringe thornes and thistels for in euery house is voluptuousnes in the cities wilfulnes The palaces also shal be broken and the greatly occupide cities desolate The towers and bulwerckes shal be become dennes for euermore the pleasure of Mules shal be turned to pasture for shepe Vnto the tyme that y e sprete be poured vpon vs from aboue Then shal the wildernesse be a fruteful felde the plenteous felde shal be rekened for a wodde Then shal equyte dwel in the deserte and rightuousnesse in a fruteful londe And the rewarde of rightuousnesse shal be peace and hir frute rest and quietnesse for euer And my people shal dwel in the ynnes of peace in my tabernacle and pleasure where there is ynough in thē all And whē the hale falleth it shal fall in the wodde and in the citie O how happy shal ye be whē ye shal safely sowe youre sede besyde all waters dryue thither the fete of youre oxē asses The xxxiij Chapter THerfore wo vnto the o robber shalt not thou be robbed also and vnto the that laiest wait as who saye there shulde no waite be layde for the Wo vnto the which doest hurte euen so shalt thou be hurt also And as thou layest waite so shal wait be layde for the also LORDE be merciful vnto vs we wait for the. Thine arme is at a poynte to vyset vs but be thou oure health in the tyme of trouble Graūte that the people maye fle at the anger of thy voyce that at thy vpstondinge the Gentiles maye be scatred abrode and that their spoyle maye be gathered as the greshoppers are comonly gathered together in to the pyt Stonde vp LORDE thou that dwellest on hie Let Siō be fylled with equyte and rightuousnesse Let treuth and faithfulnesse be in hir tyme power health wisdome knowlege the feare of God are hir treasure Beholde their aungels crie with out the messaungers of peace wepe bytterly The stretes are waist there walketh no man therin the appoyntmen is broken the cities are despised they are not regarded the desolate earth is in heuynes Libanus taketh it but for a sporte that it is hewen downe Saron is like a wyldernes Basā Charmel are turned vpside downe And therfore saieth y e LORDE I wil vp now wil I get vp now wil I aryse Ye shal conceaue stubble and beare strawe youre sprete shal be the fyre that it maye consume you the people shal be burnt like lyme as thornes burne that are hewen of cast in the fyre Now herken to ye that are farre of how
I do with them cōsidre my glory ye that be at honde The synners at Sion are a frayde a sodane fearfulnesse is come vpon the ypocrytes What is he amonge us saye they that will dwell by that consumynge fyre which of vs maye abyde that euerlastinge heate He that ledeth a godly life saye I speaketh the treuth He that abhorreth to do violence and disceate he that kepeth his hōde that he touch no rewarde which stoppeth his eares that he heare no councel agaynst the innocent which holdeth downe his eyes that he se no euel He it is that shal dwel on hie whose sauegarde shal be in the true rocke to him shal be geuen the right true meat drynke His eyes shal se the kynge in his glory in the wyde worlde and his herte shal delite in the feare of God What shal then become of the scrybe of the Senatoure what of him that teacheth childrē There shalt thou not se a people of a straunge tūge to haue so diffused a lāguage that it maye not be vnderstonde nether so straunge a speache but it shal be perceaued There shal Sion be sene the head citie of oure solempne feastes There shal thine eyes se Ierusalem that glorious habitation the tabernacle that neuer shal remoue whose nales shal neuer be taken out worlde without ende whose coardes euerychone shal neuer corruppe for the glorious Magesty of the LORDE shal there be present amōge vs. In that place where fayre broade ryuers streames are shal nether Gallye rowe ner greate shippe sale For the LORDE shal be oure capteyne the LORDE shal be oure lawe geuer The LORDE shal be oure kinge he himself shal be oure Sauioure There are the coardes so layd abrode that they cā not be better The mast set vp of soch a fashion that no bāner ner sale hāgeth therō but there is dealed greate spoyle yee lame men runne after the pray There lieth no mā that saieth I am sick but all euel is taken awaye from the people that dwel there The xxxiiij Chapter COme ye Heithen heare take hede ye people Herkē thou earth all that is therin thou rounde cōpasse al that groweth ther vpon for the LORDE is angrie with al people his displeasure is kindled agaynst all the multitude of them to curse them to slaye them So that their slayne shal be cast out their bodies stincke that euē the very hilles shal be wet with the bloude of them All the starres of heauen shal be consumed the heauen shal folde together like a roll all the starres therof shall fall like as the leaues fall from the vynes and fygetrees For my swearde saieth he shal be bathed in heauen shal immediatly come downe vpon Idumea and vpon the people which I haue cursed for my vengeaunce And the LORDES swearde shal be full of bloude be rustie with the fatnesse bloude of lambes and gootes with the fatnesse of neeres of the wethers For the LORDE shal kyl a great offringe in Bosra and in the londe of Idumea There shal the Vnicornes fall with the Bulles that is with the giauntes and their londe shal be washed with bloude their grounde corrupte with fatnesse Vnto the also o Sion shal come the daye of the vengeaunce of God and the yeare when as thyne owne iugdmentes shal be recompensed Thy floudes shal be turned to pytch and thine earth to brymstone therwith shal the londe be kyndled so that it shal not be quenched daye ner night But smoke euermore so forth to lie waist And no man shal go thorow thy londe for euer But Pellicanes Storkes great Oules and Rauens shall haue it in possession dwell therein For God shal sprede out the lyne of desolacion vpon it weye it with the stones of emptynes When kinges are called vpō there shal be none and all princes shal be awaye Thornes shal growe in their palaces nettels thistles in their stronge holdes y t the dragons maye haue their pleasure therin that they maye be a courte for Estriches There shal straunge visures and monstruous beastes mete one another the wylde kepe company together There shal the lamia lye haue hir lodginge There shall the hedghogge buylde digge be there at home and bringe forth his yongeones There shal the kytes come together ech one to his like Seke thorow the scripture of the LORDE rede it There shal none of these thinges be left out there shal not one ner soch like fayle ▪ For what his mouth commaundeth that same doth his sprete gather together or fulfilleth Vpon whom so euer y e lot fallet or to whom he dealeth it with the line those shal possesse the enheritaunce from generacion to generacion and dwel therin The xxxv Chapter BVt the deserte wildernesse shal reioyse y e waist grounde shal be glad and florish as the lilly She shal florish pleasauntly and be ioyful and euer be geuynge of thankes more and more For y e glory of libanus the bewty of Charmel Sarō shal be geuen her These shal knowe the honoure of the LORDE and the magesty of oure God And therfore strength y e weake hōdes and conforte the feble knees Saye vnto them that are of a fearful hert Be of good chere and feare not Beholde youre God cometh to take vengeaunce to rewarde God cometh his owne self and wil delyuer you Then shal the eyes of the blinde be lightned and the eares of the deaff opened Then shal the lame man leape as an herte the domme mās tūge shal geue thankes In the wildernesse also there shal welles springe and floudes of water in the deserte The drie grounde shal turne to ryuers and the thurstie to springes of water Where as dragons dwelt afore there shal growe swete floures and grene russhes There shal be footpathes comon stretes this shal be called the holy waye No vnclene person shal go thorow it for the LORDE himself shal go with thē that waye and the ignoraūt shal not erre There shal be no lyon and no rauyshinge beast shall come therin nor be there but men shal go there fre and safe And the redemed of the LORDE shal conuerte and come to Sion with thankesgeuinge Euerlastinge ioye shal they haue pleasure gladnesse shal be amōge them And as for all sorow and heuynes it shal vanish awaye The xxxvj Chapter IN the xiiij yeare of kinge Ezechias came Sennacherib kinge of the Assirians downe to laye sege vnto all the stronge cities of Iuda And the kinge of the Assiriās sent Rabsaches from Lachis toward Ierusalem agaynst kinge Ezechias with a greuous hooste ▪ which set him by the condite of the ouerpole in the waye that goeth thorow y e fullers lōde And so there came forth vnto him Eliachim Helchias sonne the presydent Sobna the scribe and Ioah Asaphs
might not helpe or had I not power to delyuer lo at a worde I driÌ„ke vp the see of water floudes I make drie loÌ„de so y t for want of water the fish corruppe and die of thurst As for heauen I clooth it with darcknesse and put a sack vpon it The LORDE God hath geueÌ„ me a wel lerned tuÌ„ge so that I can conforte them which are troubled yee y t in due season He waked myne eare vp by tymes in y e mornynge as y e scolemasters do y t I might herkeÌ„ The LORDE God hath opened myne eare therfore caÌ„ I not saye naye ner wtdrawe myself but I offre my backe vnto y e smyters and my chees to the nyppers I turne not my face froÌ„ shame aÌ„d spittinge for the LORDE God helpeth me therfore shal I not be coÌ„founded I haue hardened my face like a flynt stone for I am sure that I shal not come to confucion Myne aduocate speaketh for me who wil then go with me to lawe Let vs stoÌ„de one agaynst another yf there be eny that wil reason with me let him come here forth to me Beholde the LORDE God stondeth by me what is he that can condempne me lo they shal be all like as an olde cloth which y e mothes shal eate vp Therfore who so feareth the LORDE amoÌ„ge you let him heare the voyce of his seruauÌ„t Who so walketh in darcknesse no light shyneth vpoÌ„ him let him hope in the LORDE and holde him by his God But take hede ye haue all kyndled a fyre and gyrded youre selues with the flame Ye walke in the glistriÌ„ge of youre owne fyre and in the flame that ye haue kyndled This cometh vnto you fro my honde namely y t ye shal slepe in sorowe The li. Chapter HErken vnto me ye that holde of rightuousnes ye that seke the LORDE Take hede vnto the stone wherout ye are hewen and to the graue wherout ye are digged Considre Abraham youre father Sara that bare you how that I called him alone prospered him wel encreased him how the LORDE conforted SioÌ„ and repayred all hir decaye makinge hir deserte as a Paradise and hir wildernesse as the garden of the LORDE Myrth and ioye was there thankes geuynge and y e voyce of prayse Haue respecte vnto me then o my people and laye thine eare to me for a lawe and an ordinaunce shal go forth fro me to lighten the Gentiles It is hard by that my health my rightuousnesse shal go forth and the people shal be ordred with myne arme The Ilondes that is y e Gentiles shal hope in me and put their trust in myne arme Lift vp youre eyes toward heaueÌ„ and loke vpon the earth beneth For the heauens shal vanish awaye like smoke and the earth shall teare like a clothe they that dwel therin shal perish in like maner But my health endureth for euer and my rightuousnes shall not ceasse Therfore hercken vnto me ye y t haue pleasure in rightuousnes thou people that bearest my lawe in thine herte Feare not the curse of men be not afrayde of their blasphemies reuylinges for wormes mothes shal eat theÌ„ vp like clothe woll But my rightuousnesse shal endure for euer my sauynge health from generacion to generacion Wake vp wake vp be stronge O thou arme of the LORDE wake vp lyke as in tymes past euer and sence the worlde beganne Art not thou he that hast wounded that proude lucifer and hewen the dragon in peces Art not thou euen he which hast dried vp the depe of the see which hast made playne the see grounde that the delyuered might go thorow That the redemed of the LORDE which turned agayne might come with ioye vnto SioÌ„ there to endure for euer â–ª That myrth and gladnesse might be with them that sorowe wo might fle from theÌ„ Yee I I am eueÌ„ he that in all thiÌ„ges geueth you consolacion What art thou then that fearest a mortall maÌ„ y e childe of man which goeth awaye as doeth the floure And forgettest the LORDE that made the that spâ—ed out the heauens and layde the foundacion of the earth But thou art euer afrayde for the sight of thyne oppressoure which is ready to do harme Where is the wrath of the oppressoure It cometh on fast it maketh haist to apeare It shal not perish y t it shulde not be able to destroye nether shal it fayle for faute of norishinge I am the LORDE y i God that make the see to be still and to rage whose name is the LORDE of hoostes I shal put my worde also in thy mouth and defende the with the turnynge of my hondeâ— that thou mayest plante the heauens and laye the foundacions of the earth and saye vnto Sion thou art my people Awake Awake and stonde vp o Ierusasalem thou that from the honde of the LORDE hast dronkeÌ„ out the cuppe of his wrath thou that hast supped of and sucked out the slombringe cuppe to the botome For amonge all the sonnes whom thou hast begotten there is not one that maye holde the vp and not one to lede the by the honde of all the sonnes that thou hast norished Both these thinges are happened vnto the but who is sory for it Yee destruction waistinge hunger swerde but who hath conforted the Thy sonnes lie comfortles at y e heade of euery strete like a takeÌ„ venyson are ful of y e teâ—rible wrath of y e LORDE punyshmeÌ„t of thy God And therfore thou miserable dronkeÌ„ howbeit not w t wyne Heare this Thus saieth thy LORDE thy LORDE God y e defender of his people Beholde I wil take y e sloÌ„briÌ„ge cuppe out of thy hoÌ„de eueÌ„ y e cuppe w t the dregges of my wrath y t froÌ„ hence forth thou shalt neuer drinke it more wil put it iÌ„ their hoÌ„de that trouble the which haue spoken to thy soule stoupe downe that we maye go ouer the make thy body eaueÌ„ with the grounde and as the strete to go vpon The lij Chapter VP Sion vp take thy strength vnto the put on thine honest rayment o IerusaleÌ„ thou citie of the holy one For from this tyme forth there shal no vncircumcised ner vncleane person come in the. Shake the froÌ„ the dust arise stonde vp o IerusaleÌ„ Pluck out thy neck from the boÌ„de o thou captyue doughter Sion For thus saieth the LORDE Ye are solde for naught therfore shal ye be redemed also without eny money For thus hath the LORDE sayde My people weÌ„te downe afore tyme in to Egipte there to be straungers Afterwarde dyd the kinge of the Assirians oppresse theÌ„ for naught And now what profit is it to me saieth y e LORDE y t my people is frely caried awaye brought in to heuynes by their rulers and my name euer still blasphemed saieth the LORDE But
y t my people maye knowe my name I my self will speake in that daye Beholde here am I. O how bewtiful are the fete of the Embassitoure y t bringeth the message froÌ„ the mountayne proclameth peace y t briÌ„geth the good tydinges preacheth health saieth vnto Sion Thy God is the kinge Thy watchmeÌ„ shal lift vp their voyce w t loude voyce shal they preach of him for they shal se him present wheÌ„ the LORDE shal come agayne to Sion Be glad o thou desolate IerusaleÌ„ reioyse together for the LORDE will coÌ„forte his people he wil delyuer IerusaleÌ„ The LORDE wil make bare his holy arme shewe it forth in the sight of all the GeÌ„tiles all the endes of the earth shal se the sauynge health of oure God Awaye Awaye get you out froÌ„ thence touch no vncleane thinge Go out from amonge soch And be cleane ye that beare the vessell of the LORDE But ye shal not go out with sedicioÌ„ ner make haist as they that fle awaye for the LORDE shal go before you aÌ„d the God of Israel shal kepe the watch Beholde my seruaunt shal deale wysely therfore shal he be magnified exalted greatly honoured Like as y e multitude shal woÌ„dre vpon him because his face shal be so deformed not as a mans face his bewtie like no man Euen so shal the multitude of the GeÌ„tiles loke vnto him y e kinges shal shut their mouthes before him For they y t haue not bene tolde of him shal se him and they y t herde nothinge of him shal beholde him The liij Chapter BVt who geueth credence vnto oure preachinge Or to whoÌ„ is the arme of the LORDE knowne He shal growe before the LORDE like as a brauÌ„ch as a rote in a drie grounde He shal haue nether bewty ner fauoure When we loke vpon him there shal be no fayrnesse we shal haue no lust vnto him He shal be the most symple despised of all which yet hath good experience of sorowes infirmities We shal reken him so symple so vyle that we shal hyde oure faces froÌ„ him Howbeit of a treuth he only taketh awaye oure infirmite beareth oure payne Yet we shal iudge him as though he were plaged and cast downe of God where as he notwithstoÌ„dinge shal be wouÌ„ded for oure offences smytten for oure wickednes For the payne of o r punyshmeÌ„t shal be layde vpoÌ„ him w t his stripes shal we be healed As for vs we go all astraye like shepe euery one turneth his owne waye But thorow him the LORDE pardoneth all o r synnes He shal be payned troubled aÌ„d shal not opeÌ„ his mouth He shal be led as a shepe to be slayne yet shal he be as still as a lambe before the shearer not open his mouth He shal be had awaye his cause not herde wtout eny iudgment Whose generacion yet no man maye nombre when he shal be cut of froÌ„ the grounde of the lyvinge Which punyshment shal go vpon him for the transgression of my people His graue shal be geueÌ„ him with the coÌ„demned his crucifienge with the theues Where as he dyd neuer violence â—er vnright nether hath there bene eny disceatfulnesse in his mouth Yet hath it pleased y e LORDE to smyte him with infirmite that when he had made his soule an offeringe for synne he might se a loÌ„ge lastinge sede And this device of the LORDE shal prospere in his honde With trauayle and laboure of his soule shal he optayne greate riches My rightuous seruaunt shall with his wisdome iustifie delyuer the multitude for he shal beare awaye their synnes Therfore wil I geue him the multitude for his parte he shal deuyde the stroÌ„ge spoyle because he shal geue ouer his soule to death shal be rekened amonge the transgressours which neuertheles shal take awaye y e synnes of the multitude and make intercession for the myszdoers The liiij Chapter THerfore be glad now thou bareÌ„ that bearest not Reioyce synge be mery thou y t art not with childe For the desolate hath moo children then the maried wife saieth the LORDE Make thy tente wyder sprede out the hanginges of thine habitacioÌ„ spare not laye forth thy coardes and make fast thy stakes for thou shalt breake out on the right syde and on the left thy sede shal haue y e GeÌ„tiles in possession aÌ„d dwel in the desolate cities Feare not for thou shalt not be confouÌ„ded Be not ashamed for thou shalt not come to confucion Yee thou shalt forget the shame off thy youth and shalt not remembre the dishonoure of thy wedo wheade For he that made the shal be thy LORDE husbonde whose name is the LORDE of hoostes thine avenger shal be euen the holy one off Israel the LORDE of the whole worlde For the LORDE shal call the beinge as a desolate soroufull woman and as a yonge wife that hath broken hir wedlocke saieth thy God A litle while haue I forsaken the but w t greate mercifulnes shal I take the vp vnto me WheÌ„ I was angrie I hid my face from the for a litle season but thorow euerlastinge goodnesse shal I pardon the saieth the LORDE thine avenger And this must be vnto me as the water of Noe For like as I haue sworne y t I wil not bringe the water off Noe eny more vpoÌ„ the worlde So haue I sworne y t I wil neuer be angrie w t the ner reproue the The mountaynes shall remoue the hilles shal fall downe but my louynge kyndnesse shal not moue and the bonde off my peace shal not fall downe froÌ„ y e saieth y e LORDE thy merciful louer Beholde thou poore vexed despised I wil make thy walles of precious stones y e foundacioÌ„ of Saphires thy wyndowes off Cristall thi gates of fyne cleare stone y e borders of pleasauÌ„t stones Thy childreÌ„ shal all be taught of God I wil geue theÌ„ plenteousnes of peace In rightuousnes shalt thou be grounded be farre froÌ„ oppression for the which thou nedest not be afrayed nether for hynderauÌ„ce for it shal not come nye the. Beholde y e aleâ—unt y t was farre froÌ„ the shal dwell w t the he y t was somtyne a straunger vnto the shal be ioyned w t the Beholde I make the smyth y t bloweth the coles in the fyre he maketh a weapon after his hondy worke I make also the waister to destroye but all the weapens y t are made agaynst the shal not prospere And as for all tunges y t shal resiste the in iudgmeÌ„t thou shalt ouer come theÌ„ coÌ„demne them This is the heretage of the LORDES seruauntes the rightuousnes that they shal haue of me saieth the LORDE The lv Chapter COme to the waters all ye
a man goeth forth wrothfully to recōpence his enemies to be avenged of his aduersaries Namely that he might recompence and rewarde the I lōdes wherthorow the name of the LORDE might be feared from the risynge of the Sōne and his magesty vnto the goinge downe of the same For he shal come as a violent waterstreame which the wynde of the LORDE hath moued But vnto Sion there shal come a redemer and vnto them in Iacob that turne from wickednesse saieth the LORDE I will make this conuenaunt with them sayeth y e LORDE My sprete that is come vpon the the wordes which I haue put in y t mouth shal neuer go out of thy mouth nor out of y e mouth of thy childrē no ner out of y e mouth of thy childers childrē from this tyme forth for euer more The lx Chapter ANd therfore get the vp by tymes for thy light cometh the glory of y e LORDE shal ryse vp vpō ye. For lo while y e darknesse cloude couereth the earth the people the LORDE shal shewe the light his glory shal be sene in the. The Gentiles shal come to thy light kynges to the brightnes y t springeth forth vpō ye. Lift vp thine eyes loke rounde aboute the All these gather thē selues come to the. Sonnes shal come vnto y e from farre doughters shal gather thē selues to the on euery side When thou seist this thou shalt maruel exceadingly and thine hert shal be opened when the power of the see shal be cōuerted vnto the that is whē the strength of the Gentiles shal come vnto the. The multitude of Camels shal couer y e the Dromedaries of Madiā and Epha All they of Saba shal come bringinge golde incense shewinge the prayse of the LORDE All the catel of Cedar shal be gathered vnto y e the rāmes of Nabaioth shal serue the to be offred vpō myne aulter which I haue chosen in the house of my glory which I haue garnished But what are these that fle here like the cloudes and as the doues flienge to their wyndowes The Iles also shal gather thē vnto me and specially the shippes of y e see that they maye bringe the sonnes from farre and their syluer and their golde with them vnto the name of the LORDE thy God vnto the holy one of Israel that hath glorified the. Straūgers shal buylde vp thy walles and their kīges shal do the seruyce For when I am angrie I smyte the and when it pleaseth me I pardon the. Thy gates shal stonde open still both daye and night and neuer be shut that the hooste of the Gentiles maye come and that their kinges maye be brought vnto the. For euery people kingdome that serueth not the shal perish and be distroyed w t the swerde The glory of libanus shal come vnto the The Fyrre trees Boxes Cedres together to garnish the place of my Sanctuary for I wil glorifie the place of my fete Morouer those shal come knelinge vnto the y t haue vexed the all they that despised y e shal fall downe at y e fote Thou shalt be called the cite of the LORDE the holy Sion of Israel Because thou hast bene forsakē and hated so that noman went thorow the I wil make the glorious for euer and euer ād ioyful thorow out all posterities Thou shalt sucke the mylck of the Gentiles and kinges brestes shal fede the. And thou shalt knowe that I the LORDE am thy Sauioure and defender the mighty one of Iacob For brasse wil I geue the golde and for yron syluer for wod brasse and for stones yron I wil make peace thy ruler and rightuousnes thyne officer Violence and robbery shal neuer be herde of in thy londe nether harme and destruction with in thy borders Thy walles shal be called health thy gates the prayse of God The Sonne shal neuer by thy daye light ād the light of the Moone shal neuer shyne vnto the but y e LORDE himself shal be thy euerlastinge light thy God shal be thy glory Thy Sonne shal neuer go downe thy Moone shal not be taken awaye for the LORDE himself shal be thy euerlastinge light ād thy sorouful dayes shal be rewarded ye. Thy people shal be all godly possesse the londe for euer the floure of my plantinge the worke of my hondes wherof I wil reioyce The yongest leest shal growe in to a thousande the symplest in to a stronge people I the LORDE shal shortly bringe this thinge to passe in his tyme. The lxj Chapter THe sprete of the LORDE God is w t me for y e LORDE hath anoynted me sent me to preach good tydīges vnto the poore y t I might bynde vp y e wounded hertes y t I might preach delyueraunce to y e captyue open the preson to thē that are bounde y t I might declare y e acceptable yeare of y e LORDE the daye of y e avēgeaunce of oure God that I might comforte all them that are in heuynesse that I might geue vnto them y t mourne in Sion bewty in the steade of asshes ioyful oyntmēt for sighinge pleasaunt raymēt for an heuy mīde That they might be called excellent in rightuousnesse a plātinge of the LORDE for him to reioyce in They shal buylde the lōge rough wildernes set vp y e olde deserte They shal repayre the waist places soch as haue bene voyde thorow out many generaciōs Straūgers shal stōde fede yo r catel the Aleauntes shal be yo r plowmē reapers But ye shal be named the prestes of the LORDE mē shall call you the seruaūtes of oure God Ye shall enioye the goodes of y e Gētiles tryūphe in their substaūce For yo r greate reprofe shame shal they haue ioye y t ye maye haue parte w t thē For they shal haue dubble possession ī their lōde euerlastinge ioye shal be w t them For I the LORDE which loue right ād hate robbery though it were offred me shal make their workes ful of faithfulnes make an euerlastinge couenaunt with them Their sede also and their generacion shal be knowne amōge the Gentiles and amōge the people All they that se them shall knowe that they are the hie blessed sede of y e LORDE And therfore I am ioyful in the LORDE my soule reioyseth in my God For he shall put vpon me the garmēt of health couer me with the mātle of rightuousnes He shal decke me like a brydegrome as a bryde that hath hir apparell vpō her For like as y e grounde bringeth forth frute as the gardē shuteth forth sede So shal the LORDE God cause rightuousnes and the feare of God to florish forth before all the Heithen The lij Chapter FOr Sions sake therfore wil I not holde my tūge
LORDE that it shal no more be called Tophet ▪ or the valley of the children of Ennon but the valley of the slayne for in Tophet they shal be buried because they shal els haue no rowme Yee y e deed bodies of this people shal be eaten vp of the foules of the ayre wilde beastes of the earth no man shal fraye them awaie And as for the voyce of myrth gladnesse of the cities of Iuda Ierusalem the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde I will make them ceasse for the londe shal be desolate The VIII Chapter AT the same tyme saieth the LORDE the bones of the kinges of Iuda the bones of his princes the bones of the prestes and prophetes yee and the bones of the citisens of Ierusalē shal be brought out of their graues and layed agaynst the Sonne the Moone and all the heauenly hooste whom they loued whom they serued whom they ranne after whom they sought worshipped They shal nether be gathered together ner buried but shal lye vpō the earth to their shame and despisinge And all they that remayne of this wicked generacion shal desyre rather to dye thē to lyue where so euer they remayne where as I scatre them saieth the LORDE of hoostes This shalt thou saye vnto them also Thus saieth the LORDE Do men fall so that they arise not vp agayne And turne they so farre awaye y t they neuer conuerte Wherfore then is this people and Ierusalem gone so farre backe that they turne not againe ▪ They are euer the longer the more obstinate and will not be conuerted For I haue loked and considered but there is no mā that speaketh a good worde there is no man that taketh repētaunce for his synne that will so moch as saye wherfore haue I done this But euery man as soone as he is turned backe runneth forth still like a wilde horse in a battayl The Storke knoweth his apoynted tyme the Turtledoue y e Swalow and the Crane cōsidre the tyme of their trauayle but my people will not knowe the tyme of the punyshment of the LORDE How darre ye saye then we are wise we haue the lawe of the LORDE amonge vs Beholde the disceatfull penne of the scrybes setteth forth lies therfore shal the wise be confounded they shal be afrayed and taken for lo they haue cast out the woorde of the LORDE what wyszdome can then be amonge them Wherfore I will geue their wyues vnto aleauntes and their feldes to destroyers For from the lowest vnto the hyest they folowe all shamefull lucre and from the prophet vnto the prest they deale all with lies Neuertheles they heale the hurte of my people with swete wordes sayenge peace peace where there is no peace at all Fye for shame how abhominable thinges do they And yet they be not ashamed yee they knowe of no shame Wherfore in the tyme of their visitacion they shal fall amonge the deed bodies saieth the LORDE Morouer I will gather them in saieth the LORDE so that there shal not be one grape vpon the vyne nether one fyge vpon the fyge tre and the leaues shal be plucte of Then will I cause them to departe and saye why prolonge we the tyme Let vs gather oure selues together and go in to the stronge cite there shall we be in rest For the LORDE oure God hath put vs to sylence and geuen vs water myxte with gall to drynke because we haue synned agaynst him We loked for peace and we fayre not the better we wayted for the tyme of health and lo here is nothinge but trouble Then shall the noyse of his horses be herde from Dan the whole londe shall be afrayed at the neyēge of his stronge horses for they shal go in and deuoure the londe with all that is in it the cities and those that dwell therin Morouer I will sende Cockatrices serpētes amonge you which will not be charmed and they shal byte you sayeth the LORDE Sorowe is come vpon me and heuynes vexeth my herte for lo the voyce of the criēge of my people is herde from a farre countre Is not the LORDE in Sion Is not he kinge in her Wherfore then haue they greued me shall the LORDE saye with their ymages and foolish straunge fashions The haruest is gone the Sōmer hath an ende and we are not helped I am sore vexed because of the hurte of my people I am heuy and abashed for there is no more Triacle at Galaad and there is no Phisician that cā heale the hurte of my people The IX Chapter O Who will geue my heade water ynough a well of teares for myne eyes that I maye wepe night ād daye for the slaughter of my people Wolde God that I had a cotage some where farre from folke that I might leaue my people and go from thē for they be all aduoutrers and a shrenckinge sorte They bēde their tūges like bowes to shute out lies As for the treuth they maye nothinge awaye with all in the worlde For they go from one wickednes to another and holde nothinge of me saieth the LORDE Yee one must kepe himself from another no man maye safely trust his owne brother for one brother vndermyneth another one neghboure begyleth another Yee one dissembleth with another and they deale with no treuth They haue practised their tunges to lye and taken greate paynes to do myschefe They haue set their stole in the myddest of disceate and for very dissemblinge falsede they wil not knowe me saieth the LORDE Therfore thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes beholde I wil melte them and trie thē for what shulde I els do to my people Their tunges are like sharpe arowes to speake disceate With their mouth they speake peaceably to their neghboure but preuely they laye waite for him Shulde I not punysh them for these thinges saieth the LORDE Or shulde I not be auenged of eny soch people as this Vpon the mountaynes will I take vp a lamentacion and soroufull crie and a mournynge vpon the fayre playnes of the wildernes Namely how they are so brente vp that no man goeth there eny more Yee a man shal not heare one beast crie there Byrdes and catell are all gone from thēce I will make Ierusalem also an heape of stones and a denne of venymous wormes And I wil make the cities of Iuda so waist that no man shal dwell therin What man is so wise as to vnderstonde this Or to whom hath the LORDE spoken by mouth that he maye shewe this and saye O thou londe why perishest thou so Wherfore art thou so brent vp and like a wildernesse that no mā goeth thorow Yee the LORDE himself tolde the same vnto them that forsoke his lawe and kepte not the thynge that he gaue them in commaundement nether lyued therafter but folowed the wickednes of their owne hertes and
Iamin from the playne feldes from the mountaynes and from the wildernesse which shall bringe burnt offringes sacrifices oblacions and incense and offre vp thankesgeuynge in the house of the LORDE But yff ye will not be obedient vnto me to halowe the Sabbath so that ye will beare youre burthens thorow the gates off Ierusalem vpon the Sabbath Then shall I set fyre vpon the gates off Ierusalem ād it shal burne vp the houses off Ierusalem and no man shal be able to quench it The XVIII Chapter This is another communicacion that God had with Ieremy sayenge ARise and go downe in to the Potters house and there shall I tell the more off my mynde Now when I came to the Potters house I founde him makinge his worke vpon a whele The vessel that the Potter made off claye brake amonge his hōdes So he beganne a new and made a nother vessell acordinge to his mynde Then sayde the LORDE thus vnto me Maye not I do w t you as this Potter doth O ye house off Israel saieth the LORDE Beholde ye house off Israel ye are in my honde euen as the claye in the Potters honde When I take in honde to rote out to destroye or to waist awaye eny people or kīgdome yff that people agaynst whom I haue thus deuysed cōuerte from their wickednes Immediatly I repente off the plage that I deuysed to bringe vpon thē Agayne Whē I take in honde to buylde or to plante a people or a kingdome yff the same people do euell before me and heare not my voyce Immediatly I repente of the good that I deuysed to do for them Speake now therfore vnto whole Iuda and to them that dwell at Ierusalem Thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I am deuysinge a plage for you and am takinge a thinge in honde agaynst you Therfore let euery man turne from his euell waye take vpon you the thinge that is good and do right But they saye No more of this we will folowe oure owne ymaginacions and do euery mā acordinge to the wilfulnesse of his owne mynde Therfore thus saieth the LORDE Axe amonge the Heithen yf eny man hath herde soch horrible thinges as the doughter of Sion hath done Shal not y e snowe y t melteth vpon the stony rockes of Libanus moysture the feldes Or maye the springes off waters be so grauen awaye that they runne no more geue moystnesse ner make frutefull But my people hath so forgotten me y t they haue made sacrifice vnto vayne goddes And whyle they folowed their owne wayes they are come out of the hie strete and gone in to a fote waye not vsed to be troden Where thorow they haue brought their londe in to an euerlastinge wildernesse and scorne So y t who so euer trauayleth ther by shal be abashed and wagge their heades With an East wynde will I scatre thē before their enemies And when their destruction cōmeth I will turne my backe vpō them but not my face Then sayde they come let vs ymagin somthinge agaynst this Ieremy Yee this dyd euen the prestes to whom y e lawe was commytted the Senatours y t were the wyfest and the prophetes which wanted not y e worde off God Come sayde they let vs cut out his tūge and let vs not regarde his wordes Considre me o LORDE and heare the voyce of myne enemies Do they not recompence euell for good when they dygg a pyt for my soule Remembre how that I stode before the to speake for thē ād to turne awaye thy wrath from them Therfore let their childrē dye of hunger and let them be oppressed with the swearde Let their wyues be robbed of their childrē and be come wyddowes let their huszbōdes be slayne let their yonge men be kylled with the swearde in the felde Let the noyse be herde out of their houses when the murtherer cōmeth sodenly vpon them For they haue digged a pit to take me and layed snares for my fete Yet LORDE thou knowest all their coūcell that they haue deuysed to slaye me And therfore forgeue them not their wickednes and let not their synne be put out of thy sight but let them be iudged before the as the giltie This shalt thou do vnto thē in y e tyme of thy indignacion The XIX Chapter MOrouer thus saide the LORDE vnto Ieremy Go thy waye and bye the an erthen pytcher and bringe forth the Senatours and chefe prestes in to the valley of the children off Ennon which lieth before the porte that is made of brick shewe them there the wordes that I shall tell the and saye thus vnto them Heare the worde of the LORDE ye kinges of Iuda ād ye citesyns of Ierusalem Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Beholde I will bringe soch a plage vpon this place that y e eares of all that heare it shal glowe And that because they haue forsakē me and vnhalowed this place and haue offred in it vnto straunge goddes whō nether they their fathers ner the kinges off Iuda haue knowne They haue filled this place also w t the bloude of innocentes for they haue set vp an aulter vnto Baal to burne their children for a burnt offringe vnto Baal which I nether commaunded ner charged them nether thought once there vpon Beholde therfore y e tyme cōmeth saieth the LORDE y t this place shal nomore be called Tophet ner y e valley of y e childrē of Ennō but y e valley of slaughter For in this place wil I slaye the Senatours of Iuda Ierusalē kill thē downe w t the swearde in y e sight of their enemies ād of them that seke their lyues And their deed carcases wil I geue to be meate for the foules of the ayre and beestes of the felde And I wil make this cite so desolate ād despysed that who so goeth there by shal be abaszhed geast vpon her because of all hir plages I will fede them also w t the flesh of their sonnes their doughters Yee euery one shal eate vp another in the beseginge straytnesse wher w t their enemies y t seke their lyues shal kepe thē in And the pitcher shalt thou breake in the sight of the mē y t shal be w t the and saye vnto thē Thus saieth the LORDE off hoostes Euē so wil I destroye this people cite as a Potter breaketh a vessel that can not be made whole agayne In Tophet shal they be buried for they shal haue none other place Thus wil I do vnto this place also saieth the LORDE and to thē y t dwell there in yee I wil do to this cite as vnto Tophet For the houses of Ierusalē the houses of the kinges of Iuda are defyled like as Tophet because off all the houses in whose parlers they dyd sacrifice vnto all the hooste of heauē and poured out drynke offringes
haue geuen you and to heare the wordes of my seruauntes the prophetes whom I sent vnto you rysynge vp tymely and still sendinge Yf ye will not folowe thē I saye then will I do to this house as I dyd vnto Silo and will make this cite to be abhorred of all the people of the earth And the prestes the prophetes and all the people herde Ieremy preach these wordes in the house of the LORDE Now when he had spoken out all the wordes that the LORDE commaunded him to preach vnto all the people then the prestes the prophetes and all the people toke holde vpon him and sayde thou shalt dye How darrest thou be so bolde as to saye in the name of the LORDE it shal happen to this house as it dyd vnto Silo and this cite shal be so waist that no man shal dwell there in And when all the people were gathered aboute Ieremy in the house of the LORDE the prynces of Iuda herde of this rumoure they came soone out of the kinges Palace in to the house of the LORDE and sat them downe before the new dore of the LORDE Then spake the prestes and the prophetes vnto the rulers to all the people these wordes This man is worthy to dye for he hath preached agaynst this cite as ye youre selues haue herde with youre eares Then sayde Ieremy vnto the rulers and to all the people The LORDE hath sente me to preach agaynst this house agaynst this cite all the wordes that ye haue herde Therfore amende youre wayes and youre advysementes and be obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE youre God so shal the LORDE repēt of the plage y t he had deuysed agaynst you Now as forme I am in youre hondes do with me as ye thinke expediēt and good But this shall ye knowe yf ye put me to death ye shal make youre selues this cite all the inhabitours there of giltie of innocent bloude For this is of a treuth that the LORDE hath sente me vnto you to speake all these wordes in youre eares Then sayde the rulers and the people vn the prestes and prophetes This man maye not be condemned to death for he hath preached vnto vs in the name of the LORDE oure God The Elders also of the londe stode vp sayde thus vnto all the people Micheas the Morascite which was a prophet vnder Ezechias kinge of Iuda spake to all the people of Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Sion shal be plowed like a felde Ierusalē shal be an heape of stones the hill of the LORDES house shal be turned to an hie wod Dyd Ezechias y e kinge of Iuda the people of Iuda put him to deeth for this No verely but rather feared y e LORDE made their praier vnto him For the which cause also y e LORDE repented of the plage y t he had deuysed agaynst them Shulde we then do soch a shamefull dede agaynst oure soules There was a prophet also that preached stiffly in the name of the LORDE called Vrias the sonne of Semeia of Cariathiarim this mā preached also agaynst this cite agaynst this lōde acordinge to all as Ieremy saieth Now when Ioachim the kinge with all the estates prynces had herde his wordes the kinge went aboute to slaye him When Vrias perceaued that he was afrayed fled departed in to Egipte Then Ioachim the kinge sent seruauntes in to the lōde of Egipte Namely Elnathā the sonne of Achbor certayne men w t him in to Egipte which fetched Vrias out of Egipte brought him vnto kinge Ioachim that slewe him with the swearde cast his deed body in to y e comō peoples graue But Ahicam the sonne of Saphan helped Ieremy that he came not in to the hondes of the people to be slayne The XXVII Chapter IN the begynnynge of the reigne of Ioachim the sonne of Iosias kynge of Iuda came this worde vnto Ieremy from the LORDE which spake thus vnto me Make the bondes chaynes and put them aboute thy neck sende thē to the kinge of Edom the kinge of Moab the kinge of Amon the kinge of Tirus to the kinge of Sidon that by the messaungers which shal come to Ierusalem vnto Sedechias the kinge of Iuda and byd them saye vnto their masters Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel speake thus vnto yo r masters I am he that made the earth the men y e catell that are vpon the grounde with my greate power outstretched arme haue geuen it vnto whom it pleased me And now will I delyuer all these londes in to the power of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon my seruaunt The beestes also of the felde shal I geue him to do him seruyce And all people shal serue him his sonne and his childes children vntil the tyme of the same lōde be come also Yee many people greate kinges shal serue him Morouer that people kingdome which wil not serue Nabuchodonosor and that wil not put their neckes vnder y e yock of the kinge of Babilon the same people will I viset with swearde with honger with pestilence vntill I haue consumed them in his hondes saieth the LORDE And therfore folowe not youre prophetes soythsayers expounders of dreames charmers witches which saye vnto you ye shal not serue the kinge of Babilon For they preach you lies to bringe you farre from youre londe that I might cast you out destroye you But the people that put their neckes vnder the yock of the kinge of Babilon serue him those I willet remayne still in their owne lōde saieth the LORDE they shal occupie it dwell there in All these thinges tolde I Sedechias the kinge of Iuda and sayde Put youre neckes vnder the yock of the kinge of Babilon and serue him his people that ye maye lyue Why wilt thou and thy people perish with the swearde with honger with pestilence like as the LORDE hath deuysed for all people that wil not serue the kinge of Babilon Therfore geue no eare vnto those prophetes that tell you Ye shall not serue the kinge of Babilon for they preach you lies nether haue I sent them saieth the LORDE how be it they are bolde falsely for to prophecie in my name that I might y e sooner dryue you out that ye might perish with yo r preachers I spake to the prestes also and to all the people Thus saieth the LORDE Heare not the wordes of those prophetes that preach vnto you saye Beholde the vessels of the LORDES house shall shortly be brought hither agayne from Babilon For they prophecie lies vnto you Heare them not but serue the kinge of Babilon y t ye maye lyue Wherfore will ye make this cite to be destroyed But yf they be true prophetes in very dede and yf the worde of
vexed of all kingdomes to be cursed abhorred laughed to scorne put to confucion of all the people amonge whom I haue scatred them that because they haue not bene obedient vnto my commaundementes saieth the LORDE which I sent vnto them by my seruauntes the prophetes I stode vp early and sent vnto them but they wolde not heare saieth the LORDE Heare therfore the worde of the LORDE all ye presoners whom I sent from IerusaleÌ„ vnto Babilon Thus hath the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel spoken of Achab y e sonne of Colaias of Sedechias the sonne of Maasia which prophecie lies vnto you in my name Beholde I wil delyuer them in to the honde of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon that he maye slaye them before youre eyes And all y e presoners of Iuda that are in Babilon shal take vpoÌ„ them this terme of cursinge and saye Now God do vnto the as he dyd vnto Sedechias Achab whom the kinge of Babilon rosted in the fyre because they synned shamefully in Israel For they haue not onely defiled their neghbours wyues but also preached lyenge wordes in my name which I haue not commaunded them This I testifie assure saieth the LORDE But as for Semeia the Nehelaâ—â—te thou shalt speake vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Because thou hast sealed lettres vnder thy name vnto all the people that is at Ierusalem to Sophonias the sonne of Maasia the prest yee and sent them to all the prestes where in thou wrytest thus vnto him The LORDE hath ordened the to be prest in steade of Ioiada the prest that thou shuldest be the chefe in the house of the LORDE aboue all prophetes preachers that thou mightest put them in preson or in y e stockes How happeneth it then that thou hast not reproued Ieremy of Anathot which neuer leaueth of his prophecienge And beside all this he hath sent vs worde vnto Babilon and tolde vs planely that oure captiuyte shal longe endure that we shulde buylde vs houses to dwell therin to plante vs gardens that we might enioye the frutes therof Which lettre Sophonias the prest dyd rede and let Ieremy the prophet heare it Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ieremy sayenge Sende worde to all them that be in captiuyte on this maner Thus hath the LORDE spoken concernynge Semeia y e Nehelamite Because that Semeia hath prophecied vnto you without my commyssion brought you in to a false hope therfore thus the LORDE doth certifie you Beholde I wil vyset Semeia the Nehelamite his sede so that none of his shall remayne amonge this people none of them shall se the good y t I will do for this people saieth the LORDE For he hath preached falsely of the LORDE The XXX Capter THese are the wordes that the LORDE shewed vnto Ieremy saienge Thus saieth the LORDE God of Israel Wryte vp diligently all the wordes that I haue spoken vnto the in a boke For lo the tyme commeth saieth the LORDE that I will bringe agayne the presoners of my people of Israel and Iuda saieth the LORDE For I will restore them vnto the londe that I gaue to their fathers and they shall haue it in possession Agayne these wordes spake the LORDE coÌ„cernynge Israel and Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE We heare a terrible crie feare and disquietnesse For what els doth this signifie that I se Namely that all stronge men smyte euery man his honde vpon his loynes as a woman in the payne of hir trauayle Who euer sawe a man trauayle with childe Enquere therafter se. Yee all their faces are maruelous pale Alas for this daye which is so dredefull that none maye be lickened vnto it and alas for the tyme of Iacobs trouble from the which he shall yet be delyuered For in that daye saieth the LORDE I will take his yock from of thy neck breake thy bondes They shall nomore serue straunge goddes vnder him but they shall do seruyce vnto God their LORDE and to Dauid their kinge whom I will rayse vp vnto them And as for the o my seruaunt Iacob feare not saieth y e LORDE and be not afrayed o Israel For lo I will helpe the also from farre thy sede from the londe of their captiuyte And Iacob shall turne agayne he shal be in rest and haue a prosperous life and no man shall make him afrayed For I am with the to helpe the saieth the LORDE And though I shal destroye all the people amonge whom I haue scatred the yet will I not destroye the but correcke the and that with discrecion For I knowe that thou art in no wise without faute Therfore thus saieth y e LORDE I am sory for thy hurte and woundes There is no man to medle with thy cause or to bynde vp thy woundes there maye no man helpe the. All thy louers haue forgotten the and care nothinge for the. For I haue geuen the a cruell stroke and chastened the roughly and that for the multitude of thy myszdedes for thy synnes haue had the ouer hande Why makest thou mone for thy harme I my self haue pite of thy sorowe but for the multitude of thy myszdedes and synnes I haue done this vnto the. And therfore all they that deuoure the shal be deuoured and all thine enemies shal be led in to captiuyte All they that make the waist shal be waisted them selues and all those that robbe the will I make also to be robbed For I will geue the thy health agayne and make thy woundes whole saieth the LORDE because they reuyled the as one cast awaye vnd despised o Sion For thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I will set vp Iacobs tentes agayne and defende his dwellinge place The cite shal be buylded in hir olde estate and the houses shal haue their right foundacion And out of them shall go thankesgeuynge and the voyce of ioye I will multiplie them and they shall not mynishe I shall endue them with honoure and no man shall subdue them Their children shal be as a fore tyme and their congregacion shal coÌ„tinue in my sight And all those that vexe them will I viset A captayne also shall come of them and a prynce shall springe out from the myddest of them him will I chalenge to my self and he shall come vnto me For what is he that geueth ouer his herte to come vnto me saieth the LORDE Ye shal be my people also and I wil be youre God Beholde on the other syde shall the wrath of the LORDE breake out as a stormy water as a mightie whyrle wynde and shal fall vpoÌ„ the heades of the vngodly The terrible displeasure of the LORDE shall not leaue of vntill he haue done perfourmed the intent of his herte which in the latter dayes ye shal vnderstonde At the same tyme saieth the LORDE shal I be the God of all
the generacions of Israel they shal be my people The XXXI Chapter THus saieth the LORDE The people of Israel which escaped in y e wildernes from the swearde founde grace to come in to their rest Euen so shal the LORDE now also apeare vnto me from farre and saye I loue the with an euerlastinge loue therfore do I sprede my mercy before the. I will repayre the agayne o thou doughter of Israel that thou mayest be fast and sure Thou shalt take thy tabrettes agayne go forth with them that lede the daunce Thou shalt plante vynes agayne vpon y e hilles of Samaria and the grape gatherers shall plante and synge And when it is tyme the watchmen vpon the mount of Ephraim shall crie Arise let vs go vp vnto Sion to ouâ—e LORDE God â–ª for thus saieth the LORDE Reioyce with gladnes because of Iacob crie vnto the heade of the Gentiles speake out synge and saye The LORDE shall delyuer his people the remnaunt of Israel make them whole Beholde I will bringe them agayne from out of the north loÌ„de and gather them from the endes of the worlde with the blynde and lame that are amonge them with the women that be greate with childe and soch as be also delyuered and the company of them that come agayne shal be greate They departed from hence in heuynes but with ioye will I bringe them hither agayne I will lede them by the ryuers of water in a straight waye where they shall not stomble For I will be Israels father and Epraim shal be my firstborne Heare the worde of the LORDE o ye Gentiles preach in the Iles that lie farre of and saye he that hath scatred Israel shall gather him together agayne and shall kepe him as a shepherde doth his flocke For the LORDE shall redeme Iacob and ryd him from the honde of the violent And they shal come reioyce vpon the hill of Sion shall haue plenteousnes of goodes which the LORDE shall geue them Namely wheate wyne oyle yonge shepe and calues And their conscience shal be as a well watred garden for they shall nomore be hongrie Then shal the mayde reioyce in the daunce yee both yonge and olde folkes For I will turne their sorow in to gladnesse and will comforte them and make them ioyfull euen from their hertes I will poure plenteousnes vpon the hertes of the prestes and my people shal be satisfied with good thinges saieth the LORDE Thus saieth the LORDE The voyce of heuynes wepynge and lamentacion came vp in to heauen euen of Rachel mournynge for hir children and wolde not be comforted because they were awaye But now saieth the LORDE leaue of from wepynge and crienge witholde thyne eyes from teares for thy laboure shal be rewarded saieth the LORDE And they shall come agayne out of the londe of their enemies Yee euen thy posterite shall haue consolacion in this saieth the LORDE that thy children shall come agayne in to their owne londe Morouer I herde Ephraim that was led awaye captyue complayne on this maner O LORDE thou hast correcte me and thy chastenynge haue I receaued as an vntamed calfe Conuerte thou me and I shal be conuerted for thou art my LORDE God Yee as soone as thou turnest me I shall refourme my self and when I vnderstonde I shall smyte vpon my thee For verely I haue coÌ„mitted shamefull thinges O let my youth beare this reprofe and confucion Vpon this complaynte I thought thus by my self is not Ephraim my deare sonne Is he not the childe with whom I haue had all myrth and pastyme For sence the tyme that I first coÌ„moned with him I haue him euer in remembraunce therfore my very herte dryueth me vnto him gladly and louyngly will I haue mercy vpon him saieth the LORDE Get the watchmen prouyde teachers for the set thine herte vpon the right waie that thou shuldest walke and turne agayne o thou doughter of Israel turne agayne to these cities of thyne How longe wilt thou go astraie o thou shreÌ„kinge doughter For the LORDE will worke a new thynge vpon earth A woman shall compasse a man For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel It will come therto that when I haue brought Iuda out of captiuyte these wordes shal be herde in y e londe and in his cities The LORDE which is the fayre brydegrome of rightuousnesse make the frutefull o thou holy hill And there shall dwell Iuda and all hir cities the shepherdes and huszbonde men For I shall fede the hongrie soule and refresh all faynte hertes When I herde this I came agayne to my self and mused like as I had bene waked out of a swete slepe Beholde saieth the LORDE the dayes come that I will sowe the house of Israel and the house of Iuda with men and with catell Yee it shall come therto that like as I haue gone aboute in tymes past to râ—te them out to scatre them to breake them downe to destroye them and chasteÌ„ them Euen so will I also go diligently aboute to buylde them vp agayne and to plante them saieth the LORDE Then shall it no more be sayde y e fathers haue eaten a sower grape and the childrens teth are set on edge for euery one shal dye for his owne myszdede so that who so eateth a sower grape his teth shal be set on edge Beholde the dayes come saieth the LORDE y t I will make a new couenaunt with y e house of Israel with y e house of Iuda not after the couenaunt that I made with their fathers when I toke them by the honde led them out of the londe of Egipte which couenaunt they brake wherfore I punyshed them sore saieth the LORDE But this shal be the couenaunt that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes saieth the LORDE I will plante my lawe in the inwarde partes of them and write it in their hertes and wil be their God and they shal be my people And from theÌ„ce forth shall no man teach his neghboure or his brother and saye knowe the LORDE But they shall all knowe me from the lowest vnto the hyest saieth the LORDE For I will forgeue their myszdedes and wil neuer remembre their synnes eny more Thus saieth the LORDE which gaue the sonne to be a light for the daye and the Moone and starres to shyne in the night which moueth the see so that the floudes therof waxe fearce his name is the LORDE of hoostes Like as this ordinaunce shal neuer be taken out of my sight saieth the LORDE So shal the sede of Israel neuer ceasse but all waye be a people before me Morouer thus saieth the LORDE like as the heauen aboue can not be measured and as the foundacions of the earth beneth maye not be sought out So will I also not cast out the whole sede of Israel for that they haue commytted saieth the
neuer yet put out off one vessell in to another y t is she neuer wente awaye in to captyuyte therfore hir taist remayneth and hir sauoure is not yet chaunged But lo the tyme commeth saieth the LORDE that I shall sende hir trussers to trusse her vp to prepare and season hir vessels yee hir tankerdes rattell and shake to fro And Moab shal be ashamed off Chamos like as Israel was ashamed off Bethel wherin she put hir trust Wherfore do ye thinke thus we are mightie and stronge men off warre Moab shal be destroyed and hir cities brente vp hir chosen yonge men shall be slayne saieth the kinge whose name is the LORDE off hoostes The destruction off Moab commeth on a pace and hir fall is at honde All hir neghbours shall mourne for her and all they that knowe hir name shal saye O how happeneth it that the stronge staff and the goodly rod is thus broken And thou doughter DiboÌ„ come downe from thy glory and syt in pouerte For he that destroyeth Moab shall come vp to the also and breake downe thy stronge holdes And thou that dwellest in Aroer get the to y e strete loke aboute the axe them that are fled and escaped and saye what thynge is happened O Moab is confounded and ouercome Mourne and crie tell it out at Arnon that Moab is destroyed And mysery shall come vpon the playne londe Namely vpoÌ„ holon and Iaza vpon Mephat and DiboÌ„ vpon Nâ—bo and the house of Diplathaim vpon Cariatharim and Bethgamul vpon Bethniaon and Carioth vpon Bosra and all the cities in the loÌ„de off Moab whether they lye farre or neare The horne of Moab shal be smytteÌ„ downe hir arme broken saieth the LORDE Make hir dronken for she magnified hir self aboue the LORDE that men maye clappe their hondes at hir vomyte and that she also maye be laughed to scorne O Israeli â–ª shalt thou not laugh him to scorne when he is taken amoÌ„ge theues Yee because off thy wordes that thou hast spoken agaynst him thou shalt be dryuen awaye Ye Moabites shal leaue the cities and dwell in rockes off stone and become like doues that make their nestes in holes As for Moabs pryde we haue herde off it she is very hie mynded I knowe hir stoutnesse hir boostinge hir arogaÌ„cy and the pryde off hir stomack saieth the LORDE For hir furiousnes maye nether vpholde her w t strength ner dede Therfore shal there mournynge be made for Moab and euery maÌ„ shal crie for Moabs sake a lamentacion shal be made to the men that stonde vpon the wall So will I mourne for the also o Iazer and for the O thou vynyarde off Sybma Thy wyne brauÌ„ches shal come ouer y e see and the braunches off Iazer but vnto the see the destroyer shall breake in to thy haruest and grape gatheringe Myrth and cheare shal be taken awaye from the tymbre felde and from the whole londe off Moab There shall be no swete wyne in the presse the treader shall haue no stomacke to crie yee there shall be none to crie vnto him which afore tyme were herde from hesebon to Eleale and Ioaz which lifted vp their voyce from Zoar vnto Horonaim that bullock off thre yeare olde The waters also off Nemrim shal be dried vp Morouer I will make Moab ceasse saieth the LORDE from the offringes and censinge that she hath made vnto hir goddes in hie places Wherfore my herte mourneth for Moab like a crowde playenge an heuy songe and for the mens sake off the bricke wall my herte mourneth also euen as a pype that pipeth a dolefull songe for they shal be very fewe and destroyed All heades shall be shauen and all beerdes clipped off all hondes bounde and all loynes gyrded aboute with sack cloth VpoÌ„ all the house toppes and stretes off Moab there shal be mournynge For I will breake Moab like an vnprofitable vessell saieh the LORDE O how fearfull is she O how mourneth she O how doth Moab hange downe hir heade and is ashamed Thus shall Moab be a laughinge stocke and had in derision off all them that be rounde aboute her For thus saieth the LORDE Beholde the enemie shal come flyenge as an Aegle and sprede his wynges vpon Moab They shall clymme ouer the walles and wynne the stronge holdes Then the mighty mens hertes in Moab shal be like the herte off a woman trauelinge with childe And Moab shal be made so desolate that she shal nomore be a people because she hath set vp her selfe agaynst the LORDE Feare pyt and snare shall come vpoÌ„ the o Moab saieth the LORDE Who so escapeth the feare shal fall in the pyt and who so getteth out off the pyt shall betaken in the snare For I will bringe a yeare off visitacion vpon Moab saieth the LORDE They that are able to fle shall stonde vnder the shadowe off Hesebon For there shall go a fyre out off Hesebon and a flame from Sion shall burne vp that proude people off Moab both before and behynde Wo be vnto the o Moab for thou people off Chamos shalt perish Yee thy sonnes and doughters shall be led awaye captyne Yet at the last will I bringe Moab out off captiuyte agayne saieth the LORDE Thus farre off the plage off Moab The XLIX Chapter AS concerninge the Ammonites thus the LORDE saieth Hath Israel no children or is he without an heyre Why hath youre kynge then taken Gad in wherfore doth his people dwell in his cities Beholde therfore the tyme commeth saieth y e LORDE that I will brynge a noyse off warre into Rabath off the Ammonites Lahel shal be desolate and hir cities brent vp and the Israelites shall be lordes ouer those that had theÌ„ in possession afore saieth the LORDE Hesebon shall mourne for it shal be roted out off the grounde saieth the LORDE The cities off Rabath shall crie out and gyrde them selues with sack cloth they shall mourne and runne aboute the walles for their kynge shall be led awaye presoner yee his preestes and prynces with him Wherfore trustest thou in the water streames that flowe to and fro o thou fearce doughter and thynkest thou art so safe by reason off thy treasure that no man shal come to the Beholde I will brynge a feare vpon the saieth the LORDE God off hoostes from all those that be aboute the so that ye shall be scatred euery man from another and no maÌ„ shall gather them together agayne that be fled But after that I will bringe the Ammonites also out off captyuyte agayne Vpon the Edomites hath the LORDE off hoostes spoken on this maner Is there no more wyszdome in Theman Is there no more good councell amonge his people Is their wyszdome then turned clene to naught Get you hence turne youre backes crepe downe into the depe O ye citesyns off Dedan For I will bringe destructioÌ„ vpon Esau yee and the daye off his visitacion Yff the
grape gatherers came vpon the shulde they not leaue some grapes Yff the night robbers came vpon the shulde they not take so moch as they thought were ynough But I will make Esau bare and discouer his secretes so that he shall not be able to hyde them His sede shal be waisted awaye yee his brethren and his neghbours aÌ„d he himselff shall not be left behinde Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse children behinde the and I will kepe them and thy wydowes shall take their comforth in me For thus hath the LORDE spoken Beholde they that men thought were vnmete to drinke of the cuppe haue dronken with the first and thynkest thou then to be fre No no thou shalt nether be quyte no fre but thou must drynke also For why I haue sworne by my selff saieth the LORDE that Bosra shall become a wyldernesse an open shame a laughinge stocke and cursynge and hir cities shal be a continuall deserte For I am perfectly infourmed of the LORDE that he hath sent a message all ready vnto the Hiethen Gather you together and go forth agaynst them make you ready to the battayle for lo I will make the but small amonge the Heithen and litle regarded amonge men Thy hie stomack the pryde of thy herte haue disceaued y e because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rockes and haue the hie mountaynes in possession Neuertheles though thy nest were as hie as the Aegles yet wil I cast the downe saieth the LORDE Morouer Idumea shall be a wildernesse who so goeth by it shal be abashed and wondre at all hir miserable plages Like as Sodom Gomor and the cities that laye there aboute were turned vpsyde downe saieth y e LORDE so shal no body dwell in Idumea and no man shal haue his habitacion there Beholde like as the Lyon coÌ„meth vp from the pleasaunt medowes of Iordane vnto y e grene pastures of EthaÌ„ so wil I dryue him make him runne agaynst her But who is the yonge man that I will ordene therto Who is like vnto me What is he that will stryue with me What shepherde maye stonde in my hondes Therfore heare the councell of the LORDE that he hath taken vpon Idumea his purpose that he hath deuysed vpon the cite syns of Theman The leest of the flocke shal teare them in peces loke what fayre thynge they haue they shal make it waist them selues also At the noyse of their fall y e earth shal quake the crie of their voyce shal be herde vnto the reed see Beholde y e enemie shall come and fle vp hither like as it were an Aegle sprede his wynges vpon Bosra Then shal the hertes of the worthies in Edom be as the herte of a woman trauelinge of childe Vpon Damascus Hemath and Arphad shall come confucion for they shall heare euell tydinges they shal be tossed to and fro like the see that can not stonde still Damascus shal be sore afrayde shal fle tremblinge shal come vpon her Sorowe and payne shal ouer take her as a woman trauelinge of childe But how shulde so worshipfull and glorious a cite be forsaken Heare therfore hir yonge men shal fall in the stretes and all hir men of warre shal be takeÌ„ awaye in that tyme saieth the LORDE of hoostes I will kyndle a fyre in the walles of Damascus which shal coÌ„sume the palace of Benadad As for Cedar and the kyngdome of Hasor whom Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon smote downe the LORDE hath spoken thus vpon them Arise and get you vp vnto Cedar and destroye the people towarde the easte Their tentes and their flockes shal they take awaye yee their hanginges and their vessell Their Camels also shall they carie awaye with them They shall come aboute them on euery syde with a fearfull crie Fle get you soone awaye crepe in to caues that ye maye dwell there O ye inhabitours of Hasor saieth the LORDE for Nabuchodonosor y e kinge of Babilon hath holden a councel concernynge you concluded his deuyce agaynst you Arise get you vp agaynst yonder rich carelesse people saieth the LORDE which haue nether gates ner dore barres that dwell not together Their Camels shal be stollen the droues of their catell dryuen awaye Morouer these that be shauen wil I scatre towarde all the wyndes bringe them to destruction Yee that thorow their owne familiers saieth the LORDE Hasor also shall be a dwellinge for Dragons and an euerlastinge wildernesse so that no body shal dwell there and no man shal haue there his habitacion These are the wordes that the LORDE spake to the prophet Ieremy concernynge Elam in the begynnynge of the reigne of Sedechias kinge of Iuda Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Beholde I wil breake the bowe of Elam and take awaye their strength and vpon Elam I wil bringe the foure wyndes from y e foure quarters of heauen wil scatre them agaynst the same foure wyndes And there shal be no people but some of Elam shal fle vnto them For I wil cause Elam be afrayed of their enemies of them that seke their lyues wil bringe vpoÌ„ them the indignacion of my wrath saieth the LORDE And I wil persecute them with the swearde so longe til I haue brought them to naught I wil set my stole in Elam I wil destroye both the kinge y e prynces from thence saieth the LORDE But in processe of tyme I wil bringe Elam out of captiuyte agayne saieth the LORDE The L. Chapter THe wordes y t the LORDE spake vnto the prophet Ieremy concernynge Babilon the londe of the Caldees Preach amonge the Gentiles let youre voyce be herde make a tokeÌ„ crie out kepe no sylence but saye Babilon shal be wonne Bel shalhe coÌ„founded and Merodach shal be ouercome Yee their goddes shal be brought to shame and their ymages shall stonde in feare For out of the north there shal come a people agaynst her which shal make hir londe so waist that no body shal dwell therin nether man ner beast for they shall fle and departe from thence In those dayes at that tyme saieth the LORDE the childreÌ„ of Israel shall come they the children of Iuda wepinge makinge haist shal seke the LORDE their God They shall axe the waye to Sion thyther shall they tuâ—â—e their faces come and hange vpon the in a couenaunt that neuer shal be broken My people hath bene a lost flocke my shepherdes haue disceaued them haue made them go astraye vpon the hilles They haue gone from the mountayne to the litle hill forgotten their folde All they y t came vpon them haue deuoured theÌ„ their enemies sayde We haue made no faute agaynst them for they haue displeased the LORDE yee euen the LORDE which is the bewtie of their rightuousnes y e defended their fathers Yet shal ye fle from Babilon
was xij cubites foure fingers thick and rounde Now vpon the rope were brasen knoppes euery knoppe was fyue cubites hie vpon the knoppes were whopes pomgranates rounde aboute of clene brasse After this maner were both the pilers fashioned with the pomgranates wherof there were an hundreth and xcvj which hanged vpon the whoopes rounde aboute The chefe captayne also toke Sarias y t hie preâ—â— Sophonias that was chefe next him and the thre kepers of the treasury He toke out of the cite a chamberlayne which was a captayne of the souldyers seuen men that were the kinges seruauntes which were founde in the cite Sepher a captayne that vsed to muster the men of warre with lx men of the countre that were taken in the cite These Nabusaradan the chefe captayne toke caried them to the kinge of Babilon vnto Reblatha and the kinge of Babilon caused them to be put to death at Reblatha in the londe of Hemath And thus Iuda was ledde awaye captyue out of his owne londe This is the summe of the people whom Nabuchodonosor ledde awaye captyue In the seuenth yeare of his reigne he caried awaye of y e Iewes thre thousande thre and twenty In the xviij yeare Nabuchodonosor caried awaye from Ierusalem eight hunderth xxxij personnes In the xxiij yeare of Nabuchodonosor Nabusaradan the chefe captayne toke awaye seuen hundreth xlv Iewes presoners The whole summe of all the presoners is foure thousande and 〈◊〉 hundreth In the xxxvij yeare after that Ioachiâ— the kinge of Iuda was caried awaye in the xxv daye of the xij Moneth Euilmerodach kinge of Babilon the same yeare y t he reigned gaue Ioachim the kinge of Iuda his pardon and let him out of preson and spake louyngly to him And set his trone aboue y e trones of the other kinges that were with him in Babilon He chaunged also the dothes of his preson yee and he att with him all his life longe And he had a coÌ„tinuall lyuynge geuen him of the kinge of Babilon euery daye a certayne thinge alowed him all the dayes of his life vntill he dyed The ende of the prophet Ieremy The Lamentatacions of Ieremy And it came to passe after Israel was brought in to captiuyte and Ierusalem destroyed that Ieremy the prophet sat wepinge mournynge and makinge his mone in Ierusalem so that w t an heuy herte he sighed sobbed sayenge The first Chapter ALas how sitteth the cite so desolate y t some tyme was full of people how is she become like a wedowe which was the lady of all nacions How is she brought vnder tribute that ruled all londes She wepeth sore in the night so that y e teares runne downe hir chekes for amonge all hir louers there is none that geueth her eny comforte yee hir nexte frendes abhorre her are become hir enemies Iuda is taken presoner because she was defyled for seruynge so many straunge goddes she dwelleth now amonge the Heithen She fyndeth no rest all they that persecuted her toke her and so she dwelleth amonge hir enemies The stretes of Sion mourne because no man commeth more to the solempne feastes All hir gates are desolate hir prestes make lamentacion hir maydens are carefull and she herself is in greate heuynesse Hir enemies are fallen vpon hir heade haue put her to shame because the LORDE hath chastened her for hir greate wickednes hir children are ledde awaye captiue before their enemie All the bewtie of the doughter of Sion is awaye hir prynces are become like wethers that fynde no pasture They are dryueÌ„ awaye before their enemie so that they haue no more power Now doth Ierusalem remembre the tyme of hir misery disobedience yee the ioye pleasure y t she hath had in tymes past seynge hir people is brought downe thorow the power of their enemie there is no man for to helpe her hir enemies stoÌ„de lokinge at her and laugh hir Sabbath dayes to scorne Ierusalem synned euer more more therfore is she come in decaye All they that had her in honoure despise her for they haue sene hir fylthinesse Yee she sigheth and is a shamed of herselfe Hir skyrtes are defyled she remeÌ„bred not what wolde folowe therfore is hir fall so greate and there is no maÌ„ to comforte her O LORDE coÌ„sidre my trouble for myne enemie hath the vpper honde The enemie hath put his honde to all the precious thinges that she had yee euen before hir eyes came the Heithen in and out of the Sanctuary whom thou neuertheles hast forbydden to come within thy congregacion All hir people seke their bred with heuynes loke what precious thinge euery man hath that geueth he for meate to saue his life Considre O LORDE and se how vyle I am become O ye all that go fore by beholde and se yf there be eny sorowe like vnto myne wherwith the LORDE hath troubled me in the daye of his fearefull wrath From aboue hath he sent downe a fyre in to my bones and chastened me he hath layed a not for my fete and throwne me wyde open he hath made me desolate so that I must euer be mournynge The yocke of my transgression is come at the last with his honde hath he taken it vp and put it aboute my neck My strength is gone the LORDE hath delyuered me into those hondes wherout I can not quyte myself The LORDE hath destroyed all the mightie men that were in me He hath proclamed a feast to slaughter all my best meÌ„ The LORDE hath troden downe the doughter of Iuda like as it were in a wyne presse Therfore do I wepe and myne eyes gusshe out of water for the coÌ„forter that shulde quycken me is farre fro me My children are dryuen awaye for why the enemie hath gotten the ouer honde Sion casteth out hir hoÌ„des and there is no man to comforte her The LORDE hath layed the enemies rounde aboute Iacob and Ierusalem is as it were a menstruous womaÌ„ in the myddest of them The LORDE is rightuous for I haue prouoked his countenaunce vnto anger O take hede all ye people and considre my heuynes My maydens and my yonge men are led awaye in to captiuyte I called for my louers but they begyled me for my prestes and councelers but they perished euen while they sought for meate to saue their lyues Considre O LORDE how I am troubled my wombe is disquieted my herte turneth aboute in me and I am full of heuynes The swearde hurteth me without and within I am like vnto death They heare my mournynge but there is none that wil comforte me All myne enemies haue herde of my trouble and are glad therof because thou hast done it But thou shalt brynge forth the tyme when they also shal be like vnto me From the shall come all their aduersite thou shalt plucke
agayne Namely that the mercies of the LORDE are not clene gone that his louynge kyndnesse ceasseth not His faithfulnes is greate and renueth it self as the mornynge The LORDE is my porcion saieth my soule therfore wil I hope in him O how good is the LORDE vnto theÌ„ that put their trust in him and to the soule that seketh after him O how good is it with stilnesse to wate and tarie for the health of the LORDE O how good is it for a man to take the yock vpon him from his youth vp He sitteth alone he holdeth him still â–ª and dwelleth quietly by him self He layeth his face vpon the earth yf per case there happen to be eny hope He offreth his cheke to the smyter he will be content with reproues For the LORDE wil not forsake for euer But though he do cast of yet acordinge to y e multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne For he doth not plage cast out the children of men from his herte To treade all the presoners of the earth vnder his fete To moue the iudgment of man before the most highest To condemne a man in his cause The LORDE hath no pleasure in soch thinges What is he then that saieth there shulde somthinge be done without the LORDES coÌ„maundement Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euell and good Wherfore them murmureth the lyuinge man let him murmoure at his owne synne Let vs loke well vpon oure owne waies remembre oureselues and turne agayne to y e LORDE Let vs lift vp oure hertes with oure hondes vnto the LORDE that is in heauen We haue bene dyssemblers haue offended wilt thou therfore not be intreated Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath persecuted vs thou hast slayne vs without eny fauoure Thou hast hyd thy self in a cloude that oure prayer shulde not go thorow Thou hast made vs outcastes and to be despysed amonge the Heithen All oure enemies gape vpon vs. Feare and snare is come vpon vs yee despite and destruccion Whole ryuers of water guszshe out of myne eyes for the greate hurte of my people Myne eyes runne and can not ceasse for there is no rest O LORDE when wilt thou loke downe froÌ„ heauen and considre Myne eye breaketh my herte because of all the doughters of my cite Myne enemies hunted me out sharpely like a byrde yee and that with out a cause They haue put downe my life in to a pitte and layed a stone vpon me They poured water vpon my heade then thought I now am I vndone I called vpon thy name O LORDE out of the depe pitte Thou hast herde my voyce hast not turned awaye thine eares fro my sighinge and crienge Thou hast enclyned y i self vnto me wheÌ„ I called vpon the haist sayde feare not Thou O LORDE hast mayntened the cause of my soule and hast redemed my life O LORDE thou hast sene my blasphemers take thou my cause vpon the. Thou hast well considred how they go aboute to do me harme that all their councels are agaynst me Thou hast herde their despytefull wordes O LORDE yee and all their ymaginacions agaynst me The lippes of myne enemies their deuyces that they take agaynst me all the daye longe Thou seist also their sittinge downe and their rysinge vp they make their songes of nothinge but of me Rewarde them O LORDE acordinge to the workes of their hondes Geue them y e thinge that their owne herte is afrayed of euen thy curse Persecute them O LORDE with thy indignacion rote them out from vnder the heauen The IIII. Chapter O How is the golde become so dymme How is the goodly coloure of it so sore chaunged and the stones of y e Sanctuary thus scatred in the corner of euery strete The children of Sion that were allwaye in honoure clothed with y e most precious golde how are they now becomme like the erthen vessels which be made with the potters honde The Lamyes geue their yonge ones sucâ— w t bare brestes but the doughter of my people is cruel and dwelleth in the wyldernesse like the Estriches The tonges of the suckinge children cleue to y e rofe of their mouthes for very thurst The yonge children axe bred but there is noman that geueth it them They that were wonte to fayre delicatly perishe in the stretes they that afore were brought vp in purple make now moch of donge The synne of the doughter of my people is become greater then y e wickednesse of Sodome that sodeÌ„ly was destroyed and not taken with hondes Hir absâ—â—yners or Nazarees were whyter then y e snowe or mylke their coloure was fresh read as the Corall their beutie like the Saphyre But now their faces are very black In so moch that thou shuldest not knowe them in the stretes Their skynne cleueth to their bones It is wythered and become like a drye stock They that be slayne with the swearde are happier then soch as dye of honger and perishe awaye famishinge for the frutes of the felde The womeÌ„ which of nature are pitefull haue sodden their owne children with their hondes that they might be their meate in y e miserable destruccion of the doughter of my people The LORDE hath perfourmed his heuy wrath he hath poured out the furiousnes of his displeasure He hath kindled a fyre in Sion which hath consumed the foundacions therof Nether the kinges of the earth ner all y e inhabitours of the worlde wolde haue beleued that the enemie aduersary shulde haue come in at the gates of the cite of IerusaleÌ„ Which neuertheles is come to passe for y e synnes of hir prophetes and for the wickednes of hir prestes that haue shed innocentes bloude within her So that these blynde men weÌ„te stomblinge in the stretes and stayned themselues w t bloude which els wolde touche no bloudy cloth But they cried vnto euery maÌ„ fle the staynynge awaye get you heÌ„ce touch it not Yee sayde they ye must be brent ye must dwell amonge the Gentiles byde no longer here The countenaunce of the LORDE hath banyshed them shal neuer loke more vpon them For they them selues nether regarded the prestes nor pitied their elders Wherfore yet oure eyes fayle vs whyle we loke for vayne helpe seynge we be euer waitynge vpon a people that can do vs no good They laye so sharpe waite for vs that we can not go safe vpon the stretes for oure ende is come oure dayes are fulfilled oure ende is here Oure persecuters are swifter then the Aegles of the ayre they folowed vpon vs ouer the mountaynes and layed wait for vs in y
amonge you shall lade his shulders in the darcke and get him awaye He shal breake downe the wall to carie stuff there thorow He shal couer his face that he se not the grounde with his eyes My lyne will I sprede out vpon him and catch him in my net and carie him to Babilon in the loÌ„de of the Caldees which he shal not se yet shal he dye there As for all his helpers and all his hoostes that be aboute him I will scatre them towarde all the wyndes and drawe out a swearde after them So when I haue scatred them amonge the Heithen and strowed them in the londes they shal knowe that I am y e LORDE But I will leaue a litle nombre of them from the swearde hunger pestilence to tell all their abhominacions amonge the Heithen where they come that they maye knowe how that I am the LORDE Morouer the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thou sonne of man with a fearfull treÌ„blinge shalt thou eate thy bred with carefulnesse sorowe shalt thou drynke thy water And vnto the people of the londe speake thou on this maner Thus saieth the LORDE God to them that dwell in Ierusalem and to the londe of Israel Ye shall eate youre bred with sorowe and drynke youre water with heuynesse Yee the londe with the fulnesse therof shal be layde waist for y e wickednesse of them that dwell therin And the cities that now be well occupied shal be voyde and the londe desolate that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE Yet came the worde of the LORDE vnto me agayne sayenge Thou sonne of man what maner of byworde is that which ye vse in the londe of Israel sayenge Tush seynge that the daies are so slacke in commynge all the visioÌ„s are of none effecte Tell them therfore thus saieth the LORDE God I wil make that byworde to ceasse so that it shall nomore be comonly vsed in Israel But saye this vnto them The daies are at honde that euery thinge which hath bene prophecied shal be fulfilled There shall no vision be in vayne nether eny prophecie fayle amonge the children of Israel For it is I the LORDE that speake it and what so euer I y e LORDE speake it shal be perfourmed and not be slacke in commynge Yee euen in youre dayes O ye frauwarde housholde will I deuyse some thinge bringe it to passe saieth the LORDE God And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Beholde thou sonne of man The house of Israel saye in this maner Tush as for the vision that he hath sene it will be many a daye or it come to passe Is it farre of yet the thinge that he prophecieth Therfore saye vnto them Thus saieth the LORDE God All my wordes shal nomore be slacke Loke what I speake that same shal come to passe saieth the LORDE The XIII Chapter THe worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayeÌ„ge Thou sonne of man Speake prophecie agaynst those prophetes that preach in Israel sayeth thou vnto them that prophecie out of their owne herâ—es Heare the worde of the LORDE thus saieth the LORDE God Wo be vnto those folish prophetes that folowe their owne sprete and speake where they se nothinge O Israel thy prophetes are like the foxes vpon the drie felde For they stonde not in the gappes nether make they an hedge for the house of Israel that meÌ„ might abyde the parell in the daye of the LORDE Vayne thinges they se tell lies to mayntene their preachinges withall The LORDE saye they hath spokeÌ„ it when in very dede the LORDE hath not sent them Vayne visioÌ„s haue ye sene spokeÌ„ false prophecies when ye saye the LORDE hath spoken it where as I neuer sayde it Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Because youre wordes be vayne ye seke out lies Beholde I wil vpon you saieth y e LORDE Myne hondes shal come vpon the prophetes that loke out vayne thinges and preach lies they shal not be in the councell of my people ner written in the boke of the house of Israel nether shal they come in the londe of Israel that ye maye knowe how that I am the LORDE God And that for this cause they haue disceaued my people tolde them of peace where no peace was One setteth vp a wall they dawbe it with lowse claye Therfore tell them which dawbe it with vntempered morter that it shall fall For there shal come a greate shuwer of rayne greate stones shall fall vpon it a fore storme of wynde shal breake it so shal y e wall come downe Shal it not then be sayde vnto you where is now the morter that ye dawbed it withall Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God I will breake out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wynde so that in myne anger there shal come a mightie shuwer of rayne hale stones in my wrath to destroye withall As for y e wall that ye haue dawbed with vntempered morter I wil breake it downe make it eauen with the grounde so that the foundacion therof shal remoue it shal fall yee ye youre selues shall perish in the myddest therof to lerne you for to knowe that I am the LORDE Thus wil I perfourme my wrath vpon this wall vpon them that haue dawbed it with vntempered morter and then will I saye vnto you The wall is gone the dawbers are awaye These are the prophetes of Israel which prophecie vnto the cite of Ierusalem loke out visions of peace for them where as no peace is saieth the LORDE God Wherfore o thou sonne of meÌ„ set thy face agaynst the doughters of y e people which prophecie out of their owne hertes speake thou prophecie agaynst them saye Thus saieth the LORDE God Wo be vnto you that sowe pilowes vnder all arme holes and bolsters vnder the heades both of yonge and olde to catch soules withall For when ye haue gotten the soules of my people in youre captiuyte ye promyse them life and dishonoure me to my people for an handfull of barly for a pece of bred when ye kyll the soules of them that dye not promyse life to them that lyue not Thus ye dyssemble with my people y t beleueth yo r lies Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde I wil also vpoÌ„ the pillowes wherwith ye catch the soules in flyenge theÌ„ will I take from youre armes let the soules go that ye catch in flyenge You re bolsters also wil I teare in peces delyuer my people out of youre honde so that they shal come nomore in youre hoÌ„des to be spoyled ye shal knowe that I am the LORDE Seinge y t with youre lyes ye discomforte the herte of the rightuous whom I haue not discomforted Agayne For so moch as ye corage the honde of the wicked so that he maye not turne from his wicked waye
might brynge theÌ„ farre froÌ„ y e borders of the â—rowne countrees Beholde therfore I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue solde them will rewarde you euen vpon youre heade You re sonnes youre doughters will I sell thorow the hondes of the childreÌ„ of Iuda so they shal geue them forth to sell vnto theÌ„ of Saba a people of a farre couÌ„tre for the LORDE himself hath sayde it Crie out these thinges amonge the Gentiles proclame warre wake vp the giauntes let them drawe nye let theÌ„ come vp all the lusty warryours of theÌ„ Make you sweardes of youre ploweshares and speares of youre syckles sythes Let y e weake man saye I am stronge Mustre you and come all ye HeitheÌ„ rouÌ„de aboute gather you together there shall the LORDE laye all thy giauntes to the grounde Let the people aryse and get them to the valley of Iosaphat for there wil I syt and iudge all HeitheÌ„ rouÌ„de aboute Laye to youre sythes for the haruest is rype come get you downe the wynepresse is full yee the wynepresses runne ouer for their wickednesse is waxen greate In the valley appoynted there shal be many many people for the daye of the LORDE is nye in y e valley appoynted The Sonne and Moone shall be darckened the starres shal withdrawe their light The LORDE shal roare out of Sion crie out of IerusaleÌ„ that the heauens the earth shal quake withall But the LORDE shal be a defence vnto his owne people aÌ„d a refuge foâ— the childreÌ„ of Israel Thus shal ye knowe y t I the LORDE youre God dwell vpoÌ„ my holy mount of Sion Then shal IerusaleÌ„ be holy there shal no straungers go thorow her eny more Then shal the mouÌ„taynes droppe swete wyne the hylles shall flowe with mylcke All the ryuers of Iuda shal haue water ynough out of the LORDES house there shal flowe a sprynge to water y e broke of Sitim but Egipte shal be layed waist EdoÌ„ shal be desolate because they haue dealte so cruelly with the childreÌ„ of Iuda and shed innocent bloude in their londe Agayne Iuda shal be inhabited for euermore IerusaleÌ„ from generacion to generacioÌ„ for I wil not leaue their bloude vnauenged And the LORDE shal dwell in Sion The ende of the prophet Ioel. The Prophet Amos. What Amos conteyneth Chap. I. He prophecyeth agaynst Damascus Gasa Tyre Edom and Ammon Chap. II. Punyshment vpoÌ„ Moab Iuda and Israel Chap. III. God warneth before he punysh Chap. IIII. He sheweth them their wickednesse and the plages fo the same and exorteth theÌ„ to amende Chap. V. He complayneth for the captyuyte off Israel Chap. VI. He reproueth the welthy ydyll and delicate people tellinge them their destruccion Chap. VII The punyshment off the people shewed by dyuerse visions Chap. VIII A vision agaynst the covetous people and false waightes The hunger of Gods worde Chap. IX Plages vpon Iuda The power off God The receauynge off the Heithen Conuersion off the Iewes The first Chapter THese are the sermons that were shewed vnto Amos which was one of the shepherdes at Thecua vpon Israel in the tyme of Osias kynge of Iuda in the tyme of IeroboaÌ„ y e sonne of Ioas kynge of Israel two yeare before y e earthquake And he sayde The LORDE shal roare out off Sion shewe his voyce froÌ„ IerusaleÌ„ so that y e pastures of the shepherdes shal be in a miserable case y e toppe of Charmel dryed vp Thus sayeth the LORDE for thre foure wickednesses of Damascus I will not spare her because they haue throszhed Galaad w t yroÌ„ fâ—ales But I wil sende a fyre in to y e house of Hazael the same shal consume the palaces of Benadab Thus wil I breake the barres off Damascus rote out the inhabiter froÌ„ the felde of Auen and him y t holdeth the scepter out of y e pleasunt house so y t the people shal be dryuen out of fayre Siria â–ª sayeth the LORDE Thus saieth the LORDE For thre foure wickednesses of Gaza I wil not spare her because they make the presoners yet more captyue haue dryuen theÌ„ in to the loÌ„de of Edom. Therfore wil I sende a fyre in to y e walles of Gaza which shal deuoure hir houses I wil rote out theÌ„ y t dwell at Asdod him y t holdeth the scepter of Ascalon and stretch out myne honde ouer Accaron that the remnaunt of the Philistines shal perish saieth the LORDE Thus sayeth the LORDE For thre and foure wickednesses off the cite off Tyre I will not spare her because they haue increased y e captiuyte of the Edomites and haue not remembred the brotherly couenaunt Therfore will I sende a fyre into the walles off Tyre that shal consume hir pallaces Thus sayeth the LORDE For thre and foure wickednesses of Edom I wil not spare him because he persecuted his brother with the swerde destroyed his mothers wombe bare hatred very longe and so kepte indignacion all waye by him Therfore will I sende a fyre in to ThemaÌ„ which shal deuoure the pallaces of Bosra Thus sayeth the LORDE For thre aÌ„d foure wickednesses of the children off Ammon I will not spare them because they rypte vp the womeÌ„ greate with childe in Galaad to make the borders of their londes the wyder Therfore I wil kyndle a fyre in the walles of Rabbath that shall consume hir palaces with a greate crie in the daye of batel in tempest and in the daye off storme so that their kynge shal go in to captiuyte he and his priÌ„ces together sayeth the LORDE The II. Chapter THus sayeth the LORDE For thre and foure wickednesses off Moab I will not spare him because he brent the bones off the kynge of Edom to asshes Therfore will I sende a fyre in to Moab which shal coÌ„sume y e pallaces of Carioth so y t Moab shal perish with a noyse and the sounde of a shawme I will rote out the iudge from amoÌ„ge them and slaye all his prynces with him sayeth the LORDE Thus sayeth the LORDE for thre aÌ„d foure wickednesses of Iuda I wil not spare him because he hath cast asyde the lawe of the LORDE and not kepte his commaundementes for why they wolde nedes be disceaued with the lyes that their forefathers folowed Therfore will I sende a fyre in to Iuda which shal consume the palaces of Ierusalem Thus sayeth the LORDE For thre foure wickednesses of Israel I wil not spare him because he hath solde the rightuous for money and the poore for shues They treade vpon poore mens heades in the dust of the earth croke the wayes off the meke The sonne and the father go to the harlot to dishonoure my holy name they lye besyde euery aulter vpon clothes taken to pledge and in the house of their goddes they drynke the wyne of the oppressed Yet
destroyed I the Amorite before them that was as hie as the Cedre trees and as stronge as the okes notwithstōdinge I destroyed his frute frō aboue and his rote from vnder Agayne I brought you out of the londe of Egipte and led you xl yeares thorow the wyldernesse that ye might haue the Amoriters londe in possession I raysed vp prophetes amonge youre children and absteyners amonge youre yōge men Is it not so o ye children of Israel sayeth the LORDE But ye gaue the absteyners wyne to drynke yee ye cōmaunded the prophetes sayenge Prophecy not Beholde I wil crasshe you in sonder like as a wayne crassheth y t is full of sheaues so that y e swifte shall not escape nether the stronge be able to do eny thynge no the giaunte shal not saue his owne life The archer shall not abyde and the swifte off fote shall not escape The horsmā shal not saue his life he that is as māly of stomack as a giaunte shall in that daye be fayne to runne his waye naked sayeth the LORDE The III. Chapter HEare what the LORDE speaketh vn to you o ye children of Israel namely vnto all y e trybes whō I brought out of Egipte and sayde You only haue I accepted from all the generacions off the earth therfore will I vyset you in all youre wickednesses Maye twaine walke together excepte they be agreed amonge them selues Doth a lyon roare in the wodde excepte he haue a pray Or crieth a lyons whelpe out of his denne excepte he haue gotten somthīge Doth a byrde fall in a snare vpō y e earth where no fouler is Taketh a man his snare vp from the grounde afore he catche somwhat Crie they out Alarum with the trompet in the cite and the people not afrayed Commeth there eny plage in a cite without it be the LORDES doinge Now doth the LORDE God no maner of thinge but he telleth his secrete before vnto his seruauntes y e prophetes When a lyon roareth who will not be afrayed Seynge then that the LORDE God himself speaketh who will not prophecy Preach in the palaces at Asdod and in the palaces off the londe off Egipte and saye gather you together vpon the moūtaynes off Samaria so shall ye se greate murthur and violent oppression amonge them for why they regarde not the thinge that is right sayeth the LORDE they gather together euell gotten goodes and laye vp robbery in their houses Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE God This londe shal be troubled and beseged roūde aboute thy strength shal be plucte from the and thy palaces robbed Thus saieth the LORDE like as an hyrdeman taketh two legges or a pece off an eare out off the Lyons mouth Euen so the children of Israel that dwell in Samaria hauynge their couches in the corner and their beddes at Damascus shal be plucte awaye Heare and beare recorde in the house of Iacob sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes that when I begynne to vyset the wickednesse of Israel I will vyset y e aulters at Bethel also so that the hornes of the aulter shal be broken of fall to the groūde As for the wynter house and sommer house I will smyte them downe and the houses of yuery yee and many other houses shal perish and be destroyed sayeth the LORDE The IIII. Chapter HEare this worde o ye fat kyne that be vpon the hill of Samaria ye that do poore mē wronge and oppresse the nedy ye that saye to youre lordes brynge hyther let vs drynke Therfore the LORDE hath sworne by his holynesse The dayes shall come vpon you that ye shal be lift vp vpō speares and youre posterite caried awaye in fyssher pannes Ye shall get you out at the gappes one after another and in Armon shal ye be cast awaye sayeth the LORDE Ye came to Bethel for to worke vngraciousnes and haue increased youre synnes at Galgal Ye brought youre sacrifices in the mornynge and youre tythes vnto the thirde daye Ye made a thākofferinge off leuen ye promised frewillofferinges and proclamed them Soch lust had ye o ye children of Israel sayeth the LORDE God Therfore haue I geuen you ydle teth in all youre cities scarcenesse off bred in all youre places yet will ye not turne vnto me sayeth the LORDE Whē there were but thre monethes vnto y e haruest I withelde the rayne from you yee I rayned vpō one cite and not vpō another one pece off grounde was moystured with rayne and the grounde that I rayned not vpon was drye Wherfore two yee thre cities came vnto one to drynke water but they were not satisfied yet will ye not turne vnto me sayeth y e LORDE I haue smyten you with drouth and blastinge and loke how many orchardes vinyardes fygetrees and olyuetrees ye had y e catirpiller hath eaten them vp But yet will ye not turne vnto me sayeth the LORDE Pestilence haue I sent amōge you as I dyd in Egipte youre yonge men haue I slayen w t y e swerde and caused youre horses be taken captyue I made the stynckinge sauoure of youre tentes to come vp in to youre nostrels Yet wil ye not turne vnto me sayeth the LORDE Some off you haue I ouerthrowen as I ouerthrewe Sodome Gomorre so that ye were as a brande plucte out of the fyre Yet will ye not turne vnto me sayeth the LORDE Therfore thus will I handle the agayne O Israel ye euen thus will I handle the. Make the ready then to mete thy God o Israel For lo he maketh the mountaynes he ordeneth the wynde he sheweth man what he is aboute to do he maketh the mornynge and the darcknesse he treadeth vpō the hye places off the earth y e LORDE God of hoostes is his name The V. Chapter HEare this words o ye house of Israel and why I must make this mone for you The vyrgin Israel shall fall neuer ryse vp agayne she shall be cast downe vpon hir owne grounde and no man shal helpe hir vp For thus sayeth y e LORDE God Where as there dwelt a M. in one cite there shal be left scarce an C. therin and where y e re dwelt an C. there shal scarce ten be left for the house off Israel Neuertheles thus sayeth the LORDE vnto y e house of Israel Seke after me ād ye shal lyue but seke not after Bethel Come not at Galgal and go not to Bersaba for Galgal shall be caried awaye captyue and Bethel shal come to naught Seke the LORDE y t ye maye lyue lest the house of Ioseph be brent with fyre and cōsumed and lest there be none to quench Bethel Ye turne the lawe to wormwod and cast downe rightuousnes vnto the grounde The LORDE maketh the vij starres and the Oryons he turneth the night into daye and off the daye he maketh darcknesse He calleth y e waters of the see and poureth them out vpon the playne grounde the LORDE is his name Herayseth
destruccion vpon the mightie people bryngeth downe the stronge holde but they owe him euel will y t reproueth them openly and who so telleth thē the playne treuth they abhorre him For so moch thē as ye oppresse y e poore and robbe him of his best sustenaunce therfore whereas ye haue buylded houses off square stone ye shall not dwell in them Maruelōs pleasaunt vynyardes shall ye plante but the wyne of thē shal ye not drynke and why as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes I knowe them right well Enemies are ye off the rightuous ye take rewardes ye oppresse the poore in iudgment Therfore the wyse must now be fayne to holde his tūge so wicked a tyme is it Seke after the thinge that is good not euell so shall ye lyue yee the LORDE God off hoostes shal be with you acordinge to youre owne desyre Hate the euell and loue the good set vp right agayne in the porte no doute the LORDE God of hoostes shall be mercifull vnto the remnaunt of Ioseph Yff no sayeth the LORDE God the God of hoostes there shal be mourninge in all stretes yee they shal saye ī euery strete alas alas They shall call the housbonde man to lamentaciō and soch as can mourne to mournynge In all vynyardes there shal be heuynesse for I will come amonge you sayeth the LORDE Wo be vnto them that desyre the daye off y e LORDE Wherfore wolde ye haue it As for that daye of the LORDE it shal be darcke ād not cleare Yee like as when a mā rūneth frō a lyon and a Beer meteth with him or whē he commeth into the house and leeneth his honde vpon the wall a serpent byteth him ▪ Shall not the daye of the LORDE be darcke and not cleare shal it not be cloudy and no shyne in it I hate and abhorre youre holy dayes ād where as ye cense me when ye come together I will not accepte it And though ye offre me brentofferinges and meatofferinges yet haue I no pleasure therin As for youre fat thankofferynges I wil not loke vpon them Awaye with that noyse of thy songes I wil not heare thy playes of musick but se that equyte flowe as the water and rightuousnesse as a mightie streame O ye house of Israel gaue ye me offeringes and sacrifices those xl yeares longe in the wyldernesse Yet haue ye set vp tabernacles to youre Moloch and ymages of youre Idols Yee ād the starre of youre god Rempha figures which ye made to worshipe them Therfore wil I cause you be caried awaye beyonde Damascus sayeth the LORDE whose name is the God off hoostes The VI. Chapter WO be to the proude welthy in Siō to soch as thinke thē so sure vpon y e mount of Samaria which holde them selues for the best of the worlde and rule the house of Israel euē as they list Go vnto Calne and se and from thence get you to Hemath the greate cite and so go downe to Gath of the Philistines be they better at ease then these kyngdomes or the border of the ir londe wyder then yours Ye are taken out for the euel daye euen ye that syt in the stole of wylfulnesse Ye that lye vpon beddes off yuery and vse youre wantonnesse vpon youre couches ye that eate the best lambes of y e flocke and the fattest calues off the droaue ye that synge to the lute and in playenge off instrumentes compare youre selues vnto Dauid ye that drynke wyne out of goblettes anoynte youreselues with the best oyle but no man is sory for Ioseps hurte Therfore now shall ye be the first of them that shal be led awaye captyue and the lusty chere of the wylfull shall come to an ende The LORDE God hath sworne euen by himself sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes I hate the pryde of Iacob and I abhorre his palaces and I wil geue ouer the cite w t all that is therin so that though there remayne ten men in one house they shal dye So their nexte kynszfolckes and the deed buriers shall take them and cary awaye their bones and saye vnto him that is in the ynnermer house is there yet eny mo by y e And he shal answere they are all gone holde thy tunge shall he saye for they wolde not remembre the name of the LORDE Beholde the LORDE is mynded to smyte the greate houses so that they shall decaye ād the litle houses that they shall cleue a sunder Who can runne with horses or plowe w t oxen vpon the harde rockes off stone For why ye haue turned true iudgment in to bytternesse and the frute of rightuousnesse in to wormwod Yee euen ye that reioyse in vayne thynges ye that saye haue not we optayned hornes in oure owne strength Well take hede o ye house off Israel sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes I will brynge a people vpō you which shall trouble you from the waye that goeth towarde Hemath vnto the broke in the medowe The VII Chapter THe LORDE God shewed me soch a vision beholde there stode one that made greszshoppers euen when the corne was shutynge forth after the kynge had clipte his shepe Now when they vndertoke to eate vp all the grene thinges in y e lōde I sayde O LORDE God be mercifull I beseke the who shulde els helpe vp Iacob that is brought so lowe So the LORDE was gracious therin and the LORDE sayde well it shall not be Agayne y e LORDE shewed me this vision beholde the LORDE God called the fyre to punysh withall and it deuoured the greate depe yee it consumed a parte allredy Then sayde I O LORDE God holde thy ne honde for who shulde els helpe vp Iacob that is brought so lowe So the LORDE was merciful therin and the LORDE God sayde well it shal not be Morouer he shewed me this vision beholde the LORDE stode vpon a plastered wall a masons trowell in his hōde And the LORDE sayde vnto me Amos what seist thou I answered a masons trowell Then sayde the LORDE beholde I will laye the trowell amōge my people of Israel and will nomore ouersee them but the hye hilchapels off Isaac must be layed waist and the churches off Israel made desolate and as for the house of Ieroboam I will stonde vp agaynst it with the swerde Vpon this sent Amasias the prest to Bethel vnto Ieroboam the kinge of Israel sayenge Amos maketh the house off Israel to rebell agaynst the the londe cā not awaye with his wordes For Amos sayeth Ieroboam shall dye with the swerde and Israel shall be led awaye captyue out of their owne londe And Amasias sayde vnto Amos Get the hence thou that cāst se so well and fle in to the londe of Iuda get the there thy lyuynge and prophecy there and prophecy nomore at Bethel for it is the kynges chapel and the kynges courte Amos answered and
that dwell at Lachis which is an occasion of y e synne of y e doughter of Sion for in the came vp the wickednesses of Israel Yee she sent hir coursers in to the londe of Geth The houses of lies will disceaue the kynges of Israel And as for the o thou that dwellest at Morassa I shal brynge a possessioner vpon the ād the plage of Israel shal reach vnto Odolla Make the balde and shaue the because of thy tender children Make the cleane balde as an Aegle for they shal be caried awaye captyue from the. The II. Chapter WO vnto them that ymagyn to do harme and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes to perfourme it in y e cleare daye for their power is agaynst God When they covet to haue londe they take it by violence they robbe men off their houses Thus they oppresse a mā for his house euery man for his heretage Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE Beholde agaynst this housholde haue I deuysed a plage wherout ye shal not plucke youre neckes Ye shal nomore go so proudly for it will be a perlous tyme In that daye shall this terme be vsed and a mournynge shal be made ouer you on this maner We be vtterly desolate the porcion off my people is translated Whan wil he parte vnto vs the londe that he hath taken from vs Neuerthelesse there shal be noman to deuyde the thy porcion in the congregacion off the LORDE Tush holde youre tunge saye they It shall not fall vpon this people we shall not come so to confucion sayeth the house off Iacob Is the sprete off the LORDE so clene awaye or is he so mynded Treuth it is my wordes are frendly vnto them that lyue right but my people doth the contrary therfore must I take parte agaynst them for they take awaye both cote and cloke from the symple Ye haue turned youre selues to fight the women off my people haue ye shot out frō their good houses and taken awaye my excellent giftes from their children Vp get you hence for here shall ye haue no rest Because off their Idolatry they are corrupte and shall myserably perish Yff I were a fleshly felowe and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might syt bebbinge and bollynge and be droncken O that were a prophet for this people But I will gather the in dede o Iacob and dryue the remnaunt off Israel all together I shall cary them one with another as a flocke in the folde and as the catell in their stalles that they maye be disquieted of other men Who so breaketh the gappe he shall go before They shall breake vp the porte and go in and out at it Their kynge shall go before them and the LORDE shal be vpon the heade of them The III. Chapter HEare o ye heades of the house of Iacob and ye leders of the house of Israel Shulde not ye knowe what were laufull and right But ye hate the good and loue the euell ye plucke of mens skynnes and the flesh from their bones Ye eate the flesh of my people ād flay of their skynne ye breake their bones ye choppe them in peces as it were in to a cauldron ād as flesh into a pot Now the tyme shall come that when they call vnto the LORDE he shall not heare them but hyde his face from them because that thorow their owne ymaginaciōs they haue dealte so wickedly And as concernynge the prophetes that disceaue my people thus the LORDE sayeth agaynst them When they haue eny thinge to byte vpon then they preach that all shal be well but yf a man put not some thinge in to their mouthes they preach of warre agaynst him Therfore youre vision shal be turned to night youre prophecyenge to darcknesse The Sonne shall go downe ouer those prophetes the daye shal be darcke vnto them Then shall the vision seers be ashamed y e sayth sayers confounded yee they shal be fayne all the packe of thē to stoppe their mouthes for they haue not Gods worde As for me I am full of strength of y e sprete of y e LORDE full of iudgment boldnesse to shewe the house of Iacob their wickednesse the house of Israel their synne O heare this ye rulers of the house of Iacob and ye iudges of the house off Israel ye that abhorre the thinge that is laufull and wraist asyde the thinge that is straight Ye that buylde vp Sion with bloude and Ierusalem with doynge wronge O ye iudges ye geue sentence for giftes O ye preastes ye teach for lucre O ye prophetes ye prophecy for money Yet wil they be takē as those that holde vpon God and saye Is not the LORDE amonge vs Tush there can no misfortune happen vs. Therfore shal Sion for youre sakes be plowed like a felde Ierusalē shall become an heape of stones and the hill of y e temple shal be turned to an hye wodde The IIII. Chapter BVt in the latter dayes it wil come to passe that the hill off the LORDES house shal be set vp hyer thē eny moūtaynes or hilles Yee the people shall preese vnto it and the multitude off the Gentiles shal haist them thither sayēge Come let vs go vp to the hill of the LORDE to the house of the God of Iacob that he maye teach vs his waye and that we maye walke in his pathes For the lawe shall come out off Sion ād the worde of God from Ierusalem and shall geue sentence amonge the multitude off the Heithen and refourme the people off farre coūtrees so that of their swerdes they shal make plowshares and sythes off their speares One people shall not lift vp a swerde agaynst another yee they shall nomore lerne to fight but euery man shal syt vnder his vinyarde and vnder his fyge tre and no man to fraye him awaye for the mouth off y e LORDE of hoostes hath spoken it Therfore where as all people haue walked euery man in y e name of his owne god we will walke in the name of oure God for euer and euer At the same tyme sayeth the LORDE will I gather vp the lame and the outcastes and soch as I haue chastened and will geue yssue vnto the lame and make of y e outcastes a greate people and the LORDE himself shal be their kynge vpon the mount Sion frō this tyme forth for euermore And vnto the O thou tower of Eder thou stronge holde off the doughter Sion vnto the shal it come euē the first lordshipe and kyngdome of the doughter Ierusalē Why thē art thou now so heuy is there no kynge in the are thy councelers awaye that thou art so payned as a woman in hir trauayle And now o thou doughter Sion be sory let it greue the as a wife laboringe with childe for now must thou get the out off the cite and dwell vpon the playne
O thou enemie of myne reioyce not at my fall for I shal get vp agayne and though I syt in darcknesse yet y e LORDE is my light I will beare the punishment of the LORDE for why I haue offended him till he syt in iudgment vpon my cause and se that I haue right He wil bringe me forth to the light and I shal se his rightuosnesse She that is myne enemy shall loke vpon it be confounded which now saieth Where is thy LORDE God Myne eyes shal beholde her when she shal be troden downe as the claye in the stretes The tyme wil come that thy gappes shal be made vp and the lawe shal go abrode and at that tyme shal they come vnto the from Assur vnto the stroÌ„ge cities and from the stronge cities vnto the ryuer from the one see to the other from the one mountayne to the other Notwtstondinge the londe must be waisted because of them that dwell therin and for the frutes of their owne ymaginacions Therfore fede thy people with thy rodde the flocke of thine heretage which dwell desolate in the wodde that they maye be fedde vpon the mount of Charmel Basan Galaad as afore tyme. Maruelous thinges will I shewe them like as when they came out of Egipte This shal the Heithen se and be aszshamed for all their power so that they shal laye their honde vpon their mouth and stoppe their eares They shal licke the dust like a serpent as the wormes of the earth y t tremble in their holes They shal be afrayed of the LORDE oure God they shal feare ye. Where is there soch a God as thou that pardonest wickednes and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thine heretage He kepeth not his wrath for euer And why his delyte is to haue compassion he shal turne agayne be mercyfull to vs he shal put downe oure wickednesses cast all oure synnes in to the botome of the see Thou shalt kepe thy trust with Iacob and thy mercy for Abraham like as thou hast sworne vnto oure fathers longe agoo The ende of the prophet Micheas The Prophet Naum. What Naum conteyneth Chap. I. He prayseth the power and goodnesse of God he reproueth the Niniuites because they despysed the councell and punyshment of God Chap. II. He descrybeth vnto them the terryblenesse of the plage Chap. III. He reproueth the abhominacions of the malicious cite and â—â—heweth them of their punyshment This is the heuy burthen of Niniue which Naum of Elchos dyd wryte as he sawe it The first Chapter THe LORDE is a gelous God and a taker of vengeaunce yee a taker of veÌ„geaunce is y e LORDE and wrothfull The LORDE taketh vengeaunce of his enemies and reserueth displeasure for his aduersaries The LORDE suffreth longe he is of greate power so innocent that he leaueth no man fautlesse before him The LORDE goeth forth in tempest and stormy wether the cloudes are the dust of his fete WheÌ„ he reproueth the see he dryeth it vp turneth all the floudes to drye londe Basan is desolate Charmel and the pleasure of Libanus waisteth awaye The mountaynes tremble for him the hilles consume At the sight of him the earth quaketh yee the whole worlde and all that dwell therin Who maye endure before his wrath Or who is able to abyde his grymme displeasure His anger taketh on like fyre and the harde rockes burst in sunder before him Ful gracious is the LORDE and a stronge holde in tyme of trouble he knoweth theÌ„ that put their trust in him when the floude renneth ouer and destroyeth the place and when the darcknesse foloweth still vpon his enemies What do ye ymagin then agaynst the LORDE on this maner Tush when he hath once made an ende there shal come nomore trouble For like as the thornes that sticke together and as the drye strawe so shal the dronckardes be consumed together euen when they be full There come out of y e soch as ymagin myschefe and geue vngracious councell agaynst the LORDE Therfore thus saieth the LORDE Let theÌ„ be as wel prepared yee and as many as they can yet shal they be hewen downe and passe awaye And as for the I wil vexe the but not vtterly destroie the. And now wil I breake his rodde from thy backe and burst thy bondes in sonder But the LORDE hath geuen a commaundement coÌ„cernynge the that there shall come nomore sede of thy name The carued and casten ymages will I rote out of the house of thy god Thy graue shal I prepare for the and thou shalt be confounded The II. Chapter BEholde vpon the mountaynes come the fete of him that bryngeth good tydinges preacheth peace O Iuda kepe thy holy dayes perfourme thy promyses for Belial shal come nomore in the he is vtterly roted out The scaterer shal come vp agaynst the laye sege to the castell Loke thou wel to the stretes make thy loynes stronge arme thy self with all thy myght for the LORDE shal restore agayne the glory of Iacob like as y e glory of Israel The destroyers haue broken them downe marred the wyne braunches The shylde of his giauntes glistereth his men of warre are clothed in purple His charettes are as fyre when he maketh him forwarde his archers are wel deckte trimmed The charettes rolle vpon the stretes welter in the hye wayes They are to loke vpon like cressettes of fyre and go swyftly as the lightenynge When he doth but warne his giauntes they fall in their araye haistely they clymme vp the walles yee the engyns of the warre are prepared all ready The water portes shal be opened and the kinges palace shall fall The quene hir self shal beled awaye captyue and hir gentilwomen shal mourne as the doues grone within their hertes Niniue is like a pole full of water but then shal they be fayne to fle Stonde stoÌ„de shal they crie there shal not one turne backe Awaye with the syluer awaye with the golde for here is no ende of treasure There shal be a multitude of all maner costly ornamentes Thus must she be spoyled emptied clene striped out that their hertes maye be melted awaye their knees treÌ„ble all their loynes be weake and their faces blacke as a pot Where is now the dwellinge of the lyoÌ„s and the pasture of the lyons whelpes where the lyon and the lyonesse wente with the whelpes and no man frayed them awaye But the lyon spoyled ynough for his yonge ones and deuoured for his lyonesse he fylled his dennes with his pray his dwellinge place with that he had rauyszshed Beholde I wil vpon the saieth the LORDE of hoostes and wil set fyre vpon thy charettes that they shal smoke withall and the swerde shal deuoure thy yonge lyons I wil make an ende of thy spoylinge from out of the earth the voyce of thy messaungers shall nomore be herde The
clothinge In the same daye also wil I vyset all those that treade ouer the thresholde so proudly which fyll their lordes house w t robbery and falsede At y e same tyme saieth the LORDE there shall be herde a greate crie from the fyshporte and an howlinge from y e other porte and a greate murthur from the hilles Howle ye that dwel in the myll for all the marchaunt people are gone and all they that were laden with syluer are roted out At the same tyme wil I seke thorow Ierusalem with lanternes and vyset them that contynue in their dregges and saye in their hertes Tush the LORDE wil do nether good ner euell Their goodes shal be spoyled and their houses layed waist They shall buylde houses and not dwel in them they shal plante vynyardes but not drynke the wyne therof For the greate daye of the LORDE is at honde it is harde by commeth on a pace Horrible is y e tydinges of the LORDES daye then shall the giaunte crie out for that daye is a daye of wrath a daye of trouble heuynesse a daye of vtter destruccion mysery a darcke glomynge daye a cloudy stormy daye a daye of the noyse of trompettes and shawmes agaynst the stronge cities and hie towres I wil bringe y e people into soch vexacion that they shal go aboute like blinde meÌ„ because they haue synned agaynst the LORDE Their bloude shal be shed as the dust their bodies as the myre Nether their syluer ner their golde shal be able to delyuer theÌ„ in that wrothfull daye of the LORDE but the whole londe shal be coÌ„sumed thorow the fyre of his gelousy for he shall soone make clene ryddaunce of all them that dwell in the londe The II. Chapter COme together and gather you O ye frauwerde people or y e thinge go forth that is concluded or the tyme be passed awaye as the dust or the fearfull wrath of the LORDE come vpon you yee or the daye of the LORDES sore displeasure come vpon you Seke the LORDE all yee meke harted vpon earth ye that worke after his iudgmeÌ„t seke rightuousnesse seke lowlynesse that ye maye be defended in the wrothfull daye of y e LORDE For Gaza shal be destroyed Ascalon shall be layed waist They shal cast out Aszdod at the noone daye and Accaron shal be pluckte vp by the rotes Wo vnto you y t dwel vpon the see coost ye murthurous people the worde of y e LORDE shal come vpon you O Canaan thou londe of the Philistynes I wil destroye the so that there shal no man dwel in the eny more as for the see coost it shal be hyrdmens cotages shepe foldes yee it shal be a porcion for soch as remayne of the house of Iuda to fede ther vpon In y e houses of Ascalon shal they rest towarde night for the LORDE their God shal vyset theÌ„ turne awaye their captyuite I haue herde the despite of Moab the blasphemies of the children of Ammon how they haue shamefully intreated my people and magnified them selues within the borders of their londe Therfore as truly as I lyue saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel Moab shal be as Sodome Ammon as Gomorra euen drie thorne hedges salt pittes and a perpetuall wyldernes The residue of my folke shall spoyle them the remnaunt of my people shall haue them in possession This shal happen vnto them for their pryde because they haue dealte so shamefully with the LORDE of hoostes people and magnified them selues aboue them The LORDE shall be grymme vpon them and destroye all the goddes in the londe And all the Iles of the Heithen shal worshipe him euery man in his place Ye MoriaÌ„s also shal perish with my swerde Yee he shall stretch out his honde ouer the north and destroye Assur As for Niniue he shal make it desolate drye and waist The flockes and all the beastes of the people shall lye in the myddest of it pellicanes and storckes shall abyde in the vpper postes of it foules shal synge in the wyndowes and rauens shal syt vpon the balckes for the bordes of Cedre shal be ryueÌ„ downe This is the proude and carelesse cite that sayde in hir herte I am and there is els none O how is she made so waist y t the beestes lye therin Who so goeth by mocketh her and poynteth at her with his fynger The III. Chapter WO to the abhominable fylthie and cruel cite which wil not heare ner be refourmed Hir trust is not in the LORDE nether wil she holde her to hir God Hir rulers within her are as roaringe lyons hir iudges are as wolues in the euenynge which leaue nothinge behynde them till the morow Hir prophetes are light personnes and vn faithfull men hir prestes vnhalowe the Sanctuary and do wronge vnder the pretence of the lawe But the iust LORDE that doth no vnright was amonge them euery mornynge shewinge them his lawe clearly and ceassed not But the vngodly will not lerne to be aszshamed Therfore wil I rote out this people and destroye their towres yee and make their stretes so voyde that no man shall go therin Their cities shall be brokeÌ„ downe so that no body shal be left ner dwel there eny more I sayde vnto them O feare me and be coÌ„tent to be refourmed That their dwellinge shulde not be destroyed and that there shulde happen vnto them none of these thinges wherwith I shal vyset theÌ„ But neuertheles they stonde vp early to folowe the filthynes of their owne ymaginacions Therfore ye shal waite vpon me saieth the LORDE vntil the tyme that I stonde vp for I am determed to gather the people and to bringe the kingdomes together that I maye poure out myne anger yee all my wrothfull displeasure vpon them For all the worlde shal be consumed with the fyre of my gelousy And then wil I clense the lippes of the people that they 〈◊〉 euerychone call vpon the name of the LORDE and serue him with one shâ—lder Soâ—â— as I haue subdued and my children also whom I haue scatred abrode shal brynge me presentes beyonde the waters of Ethiopia In that tyme shalt thou nomore 〈◊〉 founded because of all thy ymaginacionâ— wher thorow thou haddest offended me for I wil take awaye the proude boosters of thine honoure from the so that thou shalt no more tryumphe because of my holy hâ—ll In the also wil I leaue a smal poore symple people which shal trust in the name of the LORDE The remnaunt of Israel shal do no wickednes ner speakelyes nether shal there eny disceatful tunge be founde in their mouthes For they shal be fed and take their rest and no man shal make them afrayed Geue thâ—â—kes o doughter SioÌ„ be ioyful o Israel reioyce be glad from thy whole herte o doughter Ierusalem for the LORDE hath taken awaye thy punyshment and turned
backe thine enemies The kinge of Israel euen the LORDE himself is with the so that 〈…〉 nomore to feare eny myszfortune In that tyme it shall be sayed to Ierusaâ—lem feare not and to Sion let not thine hâ—ndes be slacke for the LORDE thy God is with the it is he that hath power to saue he hath a special pleasure in the and a maruelous loue towarde the yee he reioyseth ouer the 〈◊〉 gladnesse Soch as haue bene in heuynâ—sse wil I gather together and take out of thy congregacion as for the shame and 〈◊〉 that hath bene layed vpon the it shal be fâ—â—re from the. And lo in y t tyme wil I destroyâ— all those that vexe the I wil helpe the 〈◊〉 and gather vp the cast a waye yee I wil get them honoure and prayse in all loÌ„des where they haue bene put to shame At y e same tyme wil I bringe you in and at the same tyme wil I gather you I wil get you a name and a good reporte amonge all people of the earth when I turne backe youre captiuyte before youre eyes saieth the LORDE The ende of the prophet Sophony The Prophet Aggeus What Aggeus conteyneth Chap. I. He exorteth the people to buylde vp the teÌ„ple and reproueth theiâ— loÌ„ge tarieÌ„ge Chap. II. He geueth the rulers a corage Of the ornameÌ„tes and glory of the seconde temple wherby is vnderstoÌ„de the church of the faith full The first Chapter In the seconde yeare of kynge Darius in the vj. moneth the first daye of the moneth came the worde of the LORDE by the prophet Aggeus vnto Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel y e prynce of Iuda and to Iesua the sonne of Iosedec the â—ye prest sayenge Thus speaketh the LORDE of hoostes and saieth This people doth saye The tyme is not yet come to buylde vp the LORDES house Then spake the LORDE by the prophet Aggeus sayed Ye yo r selues can fynde tyme to dwell in syled houses and shal this house lye waist Considre now youre owne wayes in youre hertes saieth y e LORDE of hoostes ye sowe moch but ye bringe litle in Ye eate but ye haue not ynough ye drinke but ye are not fylled ye decke youre selues but ye are not warme he y t earneth eny wage putteth it in a broken purse Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes CoÌ„sidre youre owne wayes in youre hertes get you vp to the mountayne fetch wod buylde vp to the house that it maye be acceptable vnto me and that I maye shewe myne honoure saieth the LORDE Ye loked for moch and lo it is come to litle though ye brynge it home yet do I blowe it awaye And why so saieth the LORDE of hoostes EueÌ„ because that my house lyeth so waist and ye renne euery man vnto his owne house Wherfore the heauen is forbyddeÌ„ to geue you eny dew and the earth is forbydden to geue you encrease I haue called for a drouth both vpoÌ„ the londe vpon the mountaynes vpon corne vpon wyne vpon oyle vpon euery thinge that the grounde bryngeth forth vpon men and vpon catell yee and vpon all handy laboure Now when Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel Iesua the sonne of Iosedec the hye prest with the remnaunt of the people herde the voyce of the LORDE their God the wordes of the prophet Aggeus like as the LORDE their God had sent him the people dyd feare the LORDE Then Aggeus the LORDES angel sayed in the LORDES message vnto the people I am w t you saieth the LORDE So the LORDE waked vp the sprete of Zorobabel the prynce of Iuda and the sprete of Iesua the sonne of Iosedec the hye prest and the sprete of the remnaunt of all the people y t they came laboured in the house of the LORDE of hoostes their God The II. Chaptyr VPon the xxiiâ—j daye of the sixte moneth in the secoÌ„de yeare of kinge Darius the xxi daye of the seuenth moneth came the worde of the LORDE by the prophet Aggeus sayenge speake to Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel prynce of Iuda and to Iesua the sonne of Iosedec the hye prest and to the residue of y e people saye Who is left amoÌ„ge you that sawe this house in hir first beuty But what thinke ye now by it Is it not in youre eyes eueÌ„ as though it were nothinge Neuerthelesse be of good chere o Zorobabel saieth the LORDE be of good conforte o Iesua thou sonne of Iosedec hye prest take good hartes vnto you also all ye people of the londe saieth the LORDE of hoostes and do acordinge to the worde for I am with you saieth the LORDE of hoostes like as I agreed with you when ye came out of the londe of Egypte my sprete shal be amonge you feare ye not For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Yet once more will I shake heaueÌ„ and earth the see and the drye loÌ„de Yee I will moue all Heithen the comforte of all Heithen shall come so wil I fyll this house with honoure saieth the LORDE of hoostes The syluer is myne the golde is myne saieth the LORDE of hoostes Thus y e glory of the last house shal be greater theÌ„ the first saieth the LORDE of hoostes in this place wil I geue peace saieth the LORDE of hoostes The xxiiij daye of the ix moneth in these conde yeare of kinge Darius came the worde of the LORDE vnto the prophet Aggeus sayenge Thus saieth y e LORDE God of hoostes Axe the prestes concernynge the lawe saye Yf one beare holy flesh in his cote lappe with his lappe do touch the bred potage wyne oyle or eny other meate shall he be holy also The prestes answered saide No. Then sayde Aggeus Now yf one beynge defyled with a deed carcase touch eny of the se shall it also be vnclene The prestes gaue answere sayed yee it shall be vnclene TheÌ„ Aggeus answered and sayde Euen so is this people this nacion before me saieth y e LORDE and so are all the workes of their hoÌ„des yee and all that they offre is vnclene And now I praye you coÌ„sidre from this daye forth and how it hath gone with you afore or euer there was layed one stone vpoÌ„ another in the temple of the LORDE that when ye came to a corne heape of xx busshels there were scarceten and that when ye came to the wyne presse for to poure out L. pottes of wyne there were scarce xx For I smote you with heate blastinge hale stones in all the labours of youre hondes yet was there none of you that wolde turne vnto me saieth the LORDE Considre then from this daye forth and afore namely from the xxiiij daye of the ix moneth vnto the daye that the foundacion of the LORDES temple was layed Marck it well Is not the sede yet in the barne haue not the vynes the fygetrees
the pomgranates and olyue trees bene yet vnfrutefull but frō this daye forth I shal make them to prospere Morouer the xxiiij daye of the moneth came the worde of the LORDE vnto Aggeus agayne sayenge Speake to Zorobabel the prynce of Iuda and saye I will shake both heauen and earth and ouerthrowe the seate of the kingdomes yee destroye the mightie kingdome of the Heithē I wil ouerthrowe the charettes and those that syt vpon them so that both horse and man shal fall downe euery man thorow his neghbours swerde And as for the o Zorobabel saieth the LORDE of hoostes thou sonne of Salathiel my seruaunt I wil take the saieth the LORDE at the same tyme and make the as a seale◠for I haue chosen the saieth the LORDE of hoostes The ende of the prophet Aggeus The Prophet Zachary What Zachary conteyneth Chap. I. He exorteth the people not to be disobedient to the voyce of God as their forefathers were but to conuerte and he sheweth them ioyfull thinges in visions Chap. II. Visions signifienge the delyueraunce out of the captiuyte of Babilon and the redempcion in Christ. Chap. III. A vision in Iesua signifienge the LORDE Iesus oure hye prest Chap. IIII. Another vision wherin Zorobabel is conforted with his litle nombre of people The right mystery herof belongeth vnto Chap. V. The wrath of God for the Christ ▪ synnes of the people Chap. VI. A vision wherin is declared the almighty power of God which geueth peace or warre at his pleasure Chap. VII What the true fast is namely to kepe iudgment and iustice a man to do good to his neghboure to defende the widdowe and the fatherlesse to do no man wronge c. Chap. VIII Cause of all the wrath of God yet yf men wil turne he is mercifull Chap. IX The ioyfull callinge of the Heithē Chap. X. Thorow corporal promises the prophet ledeth men vnto the promises that are fulfilled in Christ and threateneth punyshment vnto the false prophetes and shepherdes Chap. XI Of secrete mysteries and of the destrucciō of the secōde temple God is a good shepherde Chap. XII The punyshment which the LORDE deuysed for Israel Chap XIII Of welles and clensynge which belonge to the tyme of Christ. Chap. XIIII The plage of the Iewes The takynge vp of Ierusalem the church of God The first Chapter IN the eight moneth of the secōde yeare of kinge Darius came the worde of the LORDE vnto Zachary the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophet sayenge The LORDE hath bene sore displeased at youre forefathers And saye thou vnto them thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Turne you vnto me saieth the LORDE of hoostes and I wil turne me vnto you saieth the LORDE of hoostes Be not ye like youre forefathers vnto whom the prophetes cried afore tyme sayēge Thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes Turne you from youre euell wayes from youre wicked ymaginacions But they wolde not heare ner regarde me saieth the LORDE What is now become of youre forefathers and the prophetes are they yet still alyue But dyd not my wordes statutes which I cōmaunded by my seruauntes y t prophetes touch yo r forefathers Vpō this they gaue answere sayde like as y e LORDE of hoostes deuysed to do vnto vs acordinge to o r owne wayes ymaginacions euen so hath he dealte with vs. Vpon the xxiiij daye of the xj moneth which is the moneth Sebat in the seconde yeare of Darius came the worde of the LORDE vnto Zachary the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophete sayenge I sawe by night and lo there sat one vpon a reade horse and stode still amonge the Myrte trees that were beneth vpon the grounde and behynde him were there reade spreckled and whyte horses Then sayde I O my LORDE what are these And the angel that talked with me sayed vnto me I will shewe the what these be And the man that stode amōge the Myrte trees answered sayde These are they whom the LORDE hath sent to go thorow the worlde And they answered the angel of the LORDE that stode amonge the Myrte trees and sayde We haue gone thorow the worlde and beholde all the worlde dwell at case and are carelesse Then the LORDES angel gaue answere and sayde O LORDE of hoostes how longe wilt thou be vnmercifull to Ierusalē and to the cities of Iuda with whom thou hast bene displeased now these lxx yeares So the LORDE gaue a louynge and a confortable answere vnto the angel that talked with me And the angel that commoned with me sayde vnto me Crie thou and speake thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes I am exceadynge gelous ouer Ierusalem and Sion and sore displeased at the carelesse Heithen for where as I was but a litle angrie they dyd their best that I might destroye them Therfore thus saieth the LORDE I wil turne me agayne in mercy towarde Ierusalem so that my house shal be buylded in it saieth the LORDE of hoostes yee and the plommet shal be layed abrode in Ierusalem saieth the LORDE of hoostes Crie also and speake thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes My cities shall be in good prosperite agayne the LORDE shall yet conforte Sion and chose Ierusalem Then lift I vp myne eyes and sawe and beholde foure hornes And I sayde vnto the angel that talked with me what be these he answered me These are y e hornes which haue scatred Iuda Israel and Ierusalem abrode And y e LORDE shewed me iiij carpenters Then sayde I what wil these do He answered sayde Those are the hornes which haue so strowed Iuda abrode that no man durst lift vp his heade But these are come to fraye them awaye and to cast out y e hornes of the Gentiles which lift vp their horne ouer the londe of Iuda to scatre it abrode The II. Chapter I Lift vp myne eyes agayne loked and beholde a man with a measure lyne in his honde Then saide I whether goest thou And he sayde vnto me To measure Ierusalem that I maye se how longe and how brode it is And beholde the angel that talked w t me wente his waye forth Then wēte there out another angel to mete him sayde vnto him Runne speake to this yongeman saye Ierusalem shal be inhabited without eny wal for y e very multitude of people catell y t shal be therin Yee I myself saieth the LORDE wil be vnto her a wall of fyre rounde aboute wil be honoured in her O get you forth O fle from the londe of y e north saieth the LORDE ye whom I haue scatred in to the foure wyndes vnder heauē saieth the LORDE Saue thy self o Sion thou that dwellest with y e doughter of Babilon for thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes With a glorious power hath he sent me out to the Heithē which spoyled you for who so toucheth you shal touche the aple of his
owne eye Beholde I will lift vp myne honde ouer them so that they shal be spoyled of those which afore serued them ye shal knowe that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me Be glad reioyce o doughter of Sion for lo I am come to dwell in the myddest of the saieth the LORDE At the same tyme there shal many Heithen cleue to the LORDE shal be my people Thus wil I dwel in the myddest of the thou shalt knowe that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me vnto the. The LORDE shall haue Iuda in possession for his parte in the holy grounde shal chose Ierusalem yet agayne Let all flesh be still before the LORDE for he is rysen out of his holy place The III. Chapter ANd he shewed me Iesua y e hye prest stondinge before the angel of the LORDE and Satan stode at his right honde to resiste him And the LORDE sayde vnto Satan The LORDE reproue the thou Satan yee the LORDE that hath chosen Ierusalem reproue the. Is not this a brande takē out of the fyre Now Iesua was clothed in vnclene rayment and stode before the angel which answered sayde vnto those y t stode before him take awaye y e foule clothes from him And vnto him he sayde Beholde I haue takē awaye thy synne from the wil decke the with chaunge of raymēt He sayde morouer set a fayre myter vpon his heade So they set a fayre myter vpon his heade put on clothes vpon him and the angel of y e LORDE stode there Then the angel of the LORDE testified vnto Iesua spake thus sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Yf thou wilt walke in my wayes kepe my watch thou shalt rule my house kepe my courtes I wil geue the place amōge these that stonde here Heare o Iesua thou hye prest thou thy frendes that dwell before the for they are wōderous people Beholde I will bringe forth the braunch of my seruaunt for lo the stone that I haue layed before Iesua vpon one stone shal be vij eyes Beholde I will hewe him out saieth the LORDE of hoostes and take awaye the synne of that londe in one daye Then shall euery man call for his neghboure vnder the vyne vnder y e fygetre saieth the LORDE of hoostes The IIII. Chap. ANd y e angel that talked with me came agayne waked me vp as a man that is raysed out of his slepe sayde vnto me What seist thou And I sayde I haue loked and beholde a candelsticke all of golde with a boll vpon it his vij lampes therin vpon euery lampe vij stalkes And ij olyue trees therby one vpon the right syde of the boll the other vpon the left syde So I answered spake to the angel y t talked with me sayenge O my lorde what are these The angel that talked with me answered sayde vnto me knowest thou not what these be And I sayde No my lorde He answered sayde vnto me This is the worde of the LORDE vnto Zorobabel sayenge Nether thorow an hoost of men ner thorow strēgth but thorow my sprete saieth y e LORDE of hoostes What art thou thou greate mountayne before Zorobabel thou must be made eauen And he shal bringe vp the first stone so that men shall crie vnto him good lucke good lucke Morouer the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge The hondes of Zorobabel haue layed y e foundacion of this house his hondes also shal fynishe it that ye maye knowe how that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me vnto you For he that hath bene despysed a litle season shal reioyce whē he seyth the tynne weight in Zorobabels honde The vij eyes are the LORDES which go thorow the hole worlde Then answered I sayde vnto him What are these two olyue trees vpon the right and left syde of the candilsticke I spake morouer sayde vnto him what be these ij olyue braunches which thorow y e two golden pipes emptie them selues in to the golde He answered me sayde knowest thou not what these be And I sayde No my lorde Then sayde he These are the two olyue braunches that stonde before the ruler of the whole earth The V. Chapter SO I turned me liftynge vp myne eyes loked beholde a flyenge boke And he sayde vnto me what seist thou I answered I se a flyenge boke of xx cubites longe x. cubites brode Then sayde he vnto me This is the curse y t goeth forth ouer the whole earth For all theues shal be iudged after this boke all swearers shal be iudged acordinge to the same I wil bringe it forth saieth the LORDE of hoostes so y t it shal come to the house of the thefe to the house of him that falsely sweareth by my name shal remayne in his house cōsume it with the tymbre stones therof Thē the angel that talked with me wente forth sayde vnto me lift vp thine eyes se what this is y t goeth forth And I sayde what is it He answered this is a measure goinge out He sayde morouer Euen thus are they y t dwell vpon the whole earth to loke vpon And beholde there was lift vp a talent of leade lo a woman sat in the myddest of the measure And he sayde This is vngodlynesse So he cast her in to the myddest of the measure threwe y e lompe of leade vp in to an hole Then lift I vp myne eyes loked beholde there came out ij women the wynde was in their wynges for they had wynges like the wynges of a Storke they lif◠vp the measure betwixte the earth the heauen Then spake I to the angel y t talked w t me whyther wil these beare the measure And he sayde vnto me in to the londe of Synear to buylde them an house which when it is prepared the measure shall be set there in his place The VI. Chapter MOrouer I turned me liftynge vp myne eyes loked beholde there came iiij charettes out frō betwixte two hilles which hilles were of brasse In the first charet were reade horse In the secōde charet were blacke horse In y e thirde charet were whyte horse In y e fourth charet were horses of dyuerse colours stronge Then spake I and sayde vnto the angel that talked with me O lorde what are these ▪ The angel answered sayde vnto me These are the iiij wyndes of the heauen which be come forth to stōde before the ruler of all y e earth That with the blacke horse wente in to the londe of the north the whyte folowed thē and the sprekled horses wente forth towarde the south These horses were very stronge wente out and sought to go and take their iourney ouer the whole earth And he sayde get you hence and go thorow the worlde So they wēte thorow out the
worlde Then cried he vpon me and spake vnto me sayenge Beholde these that go towarde y e north shal still my wrath in the north countre And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Take of the presoners that are come from Babilon namely Heldai Tobias and Idaia come thou the same daye and go in to the house of Iosias the sonne of Sophony Then take golde and syluer and make crownes therof and set them vpon the heade of Iesua the sonne of Iosedec the hie prest and speake vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Beholde the man whose name is the braunch he that shall springe vp after him shal buylde vp the temple of the LORDE yee euen he shall buylde vp the temple of the LORDE He shal beare the prayse he shall syt vpon the LORDES trone and haue the dominacion A prest shall he be also vpon his trone a peaceable councell shal be betwixte them both And the crownes shal be in the temple of the LORDE for a remembraunce vnto Helem Tobias Idaia and Hen the sonne of Sophony And soch as be farre of shal come and buylde the temple of the LORDE that ye maye knowe how that the LORDE of hoostes hath sent me vnto you And this shal come to passe yf ye wil herken diligently vnto the voyce of the LORDE youre God The VII Chapter IT happened also in the fourth yeare of kynge Darius that the worde of the LORDE came vnto Zachary in the fourth daye of the ix moneth which is calleth Casleâ— what tyme as Sarasar and Rogomelech and the men that were with them sent vnto Bethel for to praye before y e LORDE and that they shulde saye vnto the prestes which were in the house of the LORDE of hoostes and to the prophetes Shulde I wepe in the fyfte moneth and absteyne as I haue done now certayne yeares Then came the worde of the LORDE of hoostes vnto me sayenge Speake vnto all the people of the londe and to the prestes and saye when ye fasted and mourned in the v vij moneth now this lxx yeares dyd ye fast vnto me When ye ate also and dronke dyd ye not eate and drinke for youre owne selues Are not these the wordes which the LORDE spake by his prophetes afore tyme when Ierusalem was yet inhabited and welthy she and the cities rounde aboute her when there dwelt meÌ„ both towarde the south and in the playne countrees And the worde of the LORDE came vnto Zachary sayenge Thus saieth y e LORDE of hoostes Execute true iudgment shewe mercy and louynge kyndnesse euery man to his brother Do the wyddowe the fatherlesse the straunger and poore no wronge and let no man ymagen euell agaynst his brother in his hert Neuertheles they wolde not take hede but turned their backes and stopped their eares that they shulde not heare yee they made their hertes as an Adamant stone lest they shulde heare the lawe wordes which the LORDE of hoostes sent in his holy sprete by the prophetes afore tyme. Wherfore the LORDE of hoostes was very wroth at them And thus is it come to passe that like as he spake and they wolde not heare euen so they cried and I wolde not heare saieth the LORDE of hoostes but scatered them amonge all Gentiles whom they knewe not Thus the londe was made so desolate y t there traualed no man in it nether to ner fro for that pleasaunt londe was vtterly layed waist The VIII Chapter SO the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes I was in a greate gelousy ouer Sion yee I haue bene very gelous ouer her in a greate displeasure thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes I wil turne me agayne vnto Sion and wil dwel in the myddest of Ierusalem so that Ierusalem shal be called a faithfull and true cite the hill of the LORDE of hoostes yee an holy hill Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes There shall yet olde men and women dwel agayne in the stretes of Ierusalem yee and soch as go with staues in their hondes for very age The stretes of the cite also shal be full of yonge boyes and damselles playnge vpon the stretes Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes yf the residue of this people thynke it to be vnpossible in these dayes shulde it therfore be vnpossible in my sight sayeth the LORDE of hoostes Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes Beholde I wil delyuer my people from the londe of the east and west and wil brynge them agayne that they maye dwel at Ierusalem They shal be my people and I will be their God in trenth and rightuousnesse Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes let youre hondes be stronge ye that now heare these wordes by the mouth of the prophetes which be in these dayes that the foundacion is layed vpon the LORDE of hoostes house that the temple maye be buylded For why before these dayes nether men ner catel coude wynne eny thinge nether might eny man come in and out in rest for trouble but I let euery man go agaynst his neghboure Neuerthelesse I wil now intreate the residue of this people nomore as afore tyme saieth the LORDE of hoostes but they shal be a sede of peace The vynyarde shal geue hir frute the grounde shal geue hir increase and the heauens shal geue their dew and I shal cause the remnaunt of this people to haue all these in possession And it shall come to passe that like as ye were a curse amonge the Heithen O ye house of Iuda and ye house of Israel Euen so wil I delyuer you that ye shal be a blessynge feare not but let youre hoÌ„des be stronge For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes like as I deuysed to punysh you what tyme as youre fathers prouoked me vnto wrath sayeth the LORDE of hoostes and spared not Euen so am I determed now in these dayes for to do wel vnto the house of Iuda and Ierusalem therfore feare ye not Now the thinges that ye shal do are these Speake euery man the treuth vnto his neghboure execute iudgment truly and peaceably within youre portes none of you ymagyn euell in his hert agaynst his neghboure and loue no false oothes for all these are the thinges that I hate sayeth the LORDE And the worde of the LORDE of hoostes came vnto me sayenge thus sayeth the LORDE of hoostes The fast of the fourth moneth the fast of the fifth the fast of the seuenth and the fast of the tenth shal be ioye and gladnesse prosperous hye feastes vnto the house of Iuda Only loue the treuth and peace Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes There shall yet come people and the inhabiters of many cities and they that dwell in one cite shal go to another sayenge â–ª Vp let vs go and praye before the LORDE â—â—t vs seke the LORDE of hoostes I wil go with you
and with him ij C. and l. men Of the sonnes of Zachnes Iechonias Zecholi and with him ij C. and l. men Of the sonnes of Salamaasias Gotholie and lxx with him Of the sonnes of Zaphacia Zarias Miheli and with him lxxx Of the sonnes of Iob Abdias Ieheli and with him ij C. and xij men Of the sonnes of Bania Salimoth the sonne of Iosaphia and with him an C. and lx men Of the sonnes of Beer Zachary Bebei and with him ij C. and viij men Of the sonnes of Esead Iohannes Ezechan and with him Cx. men Of the sonnes of Adonicā those that were the last and these are their names Eliphalam y e sonne of Gebel and Semeias with him lxx men All these called I together by the water Thia where we pitched oure tentes thre dayes and there I mustered them As for the sonnes of the prestes and Leuites I founde none there Then sent I vnto Eleazar Eccelom and Masman Malobam and Enaathan and Samea and Ioribimathan Eunagan Zachary Mosollamū these were the leders and men of experiēce I sent them worde that they shulde come vnto Loddeus which was by the place of the treasury commaunded them that they shulde speake vnto Loddeus and to his brethren to those that were in the treasury to sende vs soch mē as might execute the prestes office in the house of the LORDE oure God And w t the mightie hāde of oure LORDE God they brought vnto vs mē of good experience from amōge the sonnes of Moolius the sonne of Leui y e sonne of Israel Sebebeiam the sonnes his brethrē Aszbin Anim of whom there were xviij From amōge the children of the sonnes of Cananeus their sonnes were xx men And of them y t serued in the temple whom Dauid had ordeyned and the pryncipall men that ministred for the worke vnto the Leuites in the temple ij C. and xx men whose names are all tokened vp in wrytinge Then commaunded I a fastynge vnto y e yonge men before the LORDE y t I might desyre of him a prosperous iourney a good waye for vs yee for vs for oure children and for the catell because of the layenges awayte I durst not require of the kynge men of horse of fote to conveye vs safely agaynst oure enemies for we had sayde vnto the kynge that y e power of the LORDE oure God shulde be with them that seke him w t their whole hert And therfore we besought God oure LORDE earnestly because of these thinges and he was mercifull vnto vs and herde oure prayer And I separated from amonge y e rulers of the people from y e prestes of y e temple xij men Sebeia Asania ten men of their brethren with them And I weied thē the golde the syluer all y e prestly ornamētes of the house of o r God which the kynge his coūcell his prynces whole Israel had geuē And whan I had weyed it I gaue thē an Cl. talētes in syluer an C. talentes of syluer vessell an C. talentes of golde of goldē vessell seuē tymes twentie and vessels of other metall yee of good metall xij glisteringe as the golde saide vnto thē ye also are holy vnto the LORDE the vessels are holy the golde the syluer is promised vnto the LORDE the God of o r fathers Be diligent now kepe it vntill the tyme y t ye delyuer it to the rulers of the people to y t prestes to the Leuites to y e pryncipall mē of the cities of Israel in Ierusalem in the chambre of the house of oure God So y e prestes the Leuites which receaued of me the golde the syluer the vessell brought it to Ierusalē in to the tēple of the LORDE And from Thia we brake vp the xij daye of the first moneth tyll we came to Ierusalē And whan the thirde daye was past the weyed golde syluer was delyuered in y e house of the LORDE the fourth daye vnto Marimoth the sonne of Ior the prest w t him was Eleazar y e sonne of Phineas and with thē were Iosabdus y e sonne of Iesnet Medias the sonne of Banus certayne of the Leuites to the nombre to the waighte the waight of them was writtē vp the same tyme. As for those that were come out of captiuyte they offred sacrifice vnto the LORDE the God of Israel euē xij oxen for all Israel lxxxvj rammes lxxij shepe xij goates for synne xij kyne for a thankofferinge all to the sacrifice of the LORDE And y e kinges cōmission delyuered they vnto y e stewardes and debytes of the kynge and to the vndershreues in Celosyria and Phenices Now whan these thinges were done the rulers came vnto me and sayde The generacion of Israel the prynces y e prestes and Leuites the straunge people and indwellers of the londe haue not put awaye their vnclennesse from the Cananites Hethites Pheresites from the Moabites Egipcians Edomites For both they and their sonnes haue mengled them selues with the daughters of them the holy sede is mixte with the outlandish Heithen sens the begynnynge of their raigne haue the rulers and heades bene partakers of their wickednesse As soone as I had herde these thinges immediatly I rent my holy garmentes and pulled out y e hayre of my heade my beerd sat me downe soroufull heuy So all they that were moued thorow the worde of the God of Israel came vnto me and I sat still full of heuines vntill the euenynge sacrifice Then stode I vp frō fastinge hauynge rente clothes the holy garmēt kneled downe vpon my knees helde out my hādes vnto y e LORDE sayde O LORDE I am confounded ashamed before thy face for oure synnes are become many vpon oure heades o r wickednesses are exalted vnto the heauē for sens y e tyme of o r fathers we are in greate sinne vnto this daye And for the synnes of vs o r fathers we w t oure brethren w t oure prestes haue bene deliuered vnto the kinges of the earth in to the swerde in to captiuite became a spoyle with confucion shame vnto this daie And now O LORDE God how greate is the mercy y t we haue gottē of the in y t thou hast left vs a rote a name in the place of thy Sanctuary to discouer oure light in the house of y e LORDE o r God geuē vs meate at all tymes of o r ministracion And whan we were in captiuyte we were not forsaken of the LORDE oure God but he made the kynges of Persia gracious fauourable vnto vs so y t they gaue vs vytayles meate yee leue to buylde vp the tēple of oure LORDE God agayne to repayre the waisted places of Sion and to dwell in Iewry Ierusalem And now O LORDE what
you euerlastinge rest for he is nye at hande that shal come in the ende of the worlde Be ready to the rewarde of the kyngdome for the euerlastinge light shall shyne vpon you for euermore Fle the shadowe of this worlde receaue the ioyfulnes of youre glory I testifie my sauioure openly O receaue the gift y t is geuen you and be glad geuynge thankes vnto him that hath called you to the heauenly kyngdome Aryse vp and stonde fast beholde the nombre of those that be sealed in the feast of the LORDE which are departed from the shadowe of the worlde and haue receaued glorious garmeÌ„tes of the LORDE Take thy nombre O Sion and shutt vp thy purified which haue fulfilled the lawe of the LORDE The nombre of thy children whom thou longedest for is fulfilled beseke the power of the LORDE that thy people which haue bene called from the begynnynge maye be halowed I Eszdras sawe vpon the mount Sion a greate people whom I coude not nombre they all praysed the LORDE with songes of thankesgeuynge And in the myddest of theÌ„ there was a yonge maÌ„ of an hye stature mâ—re excellent then all they and vpon euery one of their heades he sett a crowne and was euer hygher and hygher which I marueled at greatly So I axed y e angell sayde Syr what are these He answered and sayde vnto me These be they that haue put of the mortall clothinge and put on the immortall and haue testified knowleged the name of God Now are they crowned and receaue the rewarde Then sayde I vnto the angell what yonge personne is it that crowneth them geueth them the palmes in their handes So he answered and sayde vnto me It is y e sonne of God whom they haue knowleged in the worlde Then beganne I greatly to commende them that stode so stifly for the name of the LORDE And so the angell sayde vnto me Go thy waye and tell my people what maner of thinges and how greate wonders of the LORDE thy God thou hast senâ— The III. Chapter IN the thirtie yeare of the fall of the cite I was at Babilon laye troubled vpoÌ„ my bed my thoughtes came vp ouer my hert for I sawe y e desolacion of Sion the plenteous wealth of them y t dwelt at Babilon my sprete was sore moued so that I begaÌ„ne to speake fearfull wordes to the most hyest and sayde O LORDE LORDE thou spakest at the begynnynge whan thou plantedst y e earth and that thy self alone and gauest commaundement vnto y e people and a body vnto Adam which was a creature of thy handes and hast brethed in him the breth of life and so he lyued before the and thou leddest him in to paradyse which gardeÌ„ of pleasure thy right hande had planted or euer the earth was made And vnto him thou gauest commaundemeÌ„t to loue y e waye which he transgressed immediatly thou appoyntedest death in him and in his generacions Of him came nacions trybes people kynreddes out of nombre And euery people walked after their owne wil and dyd nyce thinges before the and as for thy commaundementes they despysed them But in processe of tyme thou broughtest the water floude vpon those that dwelt in the worlde and destroydest them And like as the death was in Adam so was the water floude also in these Neuertheles one of them thou leftest namely Noe with his housholde of whom come all righteous meÌ„ And it happened that whan they y t dwelt vpon the earth beganne to multiplie and had gotten many children and were a greate people they beganne to be more vngodly then the first Now whan they all lyued so wickedly before the thou didest chose the a man from amonge them whose name was Abram Him thou louedest and vnto him only thou shewdest thy wyll and maydest an euerlastinge couenaunt with him promisinge him that thou woldest neuer forsake his sede And vnto him thou gauest Isaac vnto Isaac also thou gauest Iacob and Esau. As for Iacob thou didest chose him and put backe Esau. And so Iacob became a greate multitude And it happened that whaÌ„ thou leddest his sede out of Egipte thou broughtest theÌ„ vp to the mount Sion bowinge downe the heauens settinge fast the earth mouynge the grounde makynge the depthes to shake and troublynge the worlde And thy glory wente thorow foure portes of fyre and earth quakes and wyndes and colde that thou mightest geue the lawe vnto the sede of Iacob and diligence vnto the generacioÌ„ of Israel And yet tokest thou not awaye from theÌ„ that wicked hert that thy lawe might brynge forth frute in them For the first Adam bare a wicked hert transgressed and was ouercome and so be all they y t are borne of him Thus remayned weaknes with the lawe in the hert of the people with the wickednesse of the rote so that the good departed awaye and the euell abode still So the tymes passed awaye and the yeares were brought to an ende Then didest thou rayse the vp a seruaunt called Dauid whom thou commaundedst to buylde a cite vnto thy name and to offre vp incense and sacrifice vnto the therin This was done now many yeares Then the inhabiters of the cite forsoke the and in all thinges dyd eueÌ„ as Adam and all his generacions had done for they also had a wicked hert And so thou gauest thy cite ouer in to the handes of thine enemies Are they of Babilon then better and more righteous then thy people y t they shal therfore haue the domynion of Sion For whan I came there and sawe their vngodlynes and so greate wickednesse that it coude not be noÌ„bred yee whan my soule sawe so many euell doers in y e xxx yeare my hert fayled me for I sawe how thou suffrest them in soch vngodlynes and sparest y e wicked doers but thine owne people hast thou roted out and preserued thine enemies this hast thou not shewed me I can not perceaue how this happeneth Do they of Babilon then better then they of Sion Or is there eny other people y t knoweth the sauynge the people of Israel Or what generacion hath so beleued y e couenauÌ„tes as Iacob And yet their rewarde appeareth not and their labo hath no frute For I haue gone here and there thorow the HeitheÌ„ I se y t they be rych wealthy thynke not vpon y e commaundementes Weye thou therfore oure wickednesse now in y e balaunce and theirs also that dwell in the worlde and so shal thy name be nowhere founde but in Israel Or where is there a people vpon earth y t hath not synned before the Or what people hath so kepte thy commaundementes Thou shalt fynde that Israel by name hath kepte thy preceptes but not the other people and Heithen The IIII. Chapter ANd the angell that was sent vnto me whose name was Vriel gaue me answere and sayde Thy
well The V. Chapter THen answered Tobias his father sayde father all that thou hast commaunded me wil I do and that diligently But how I shal requyre this money I can not tell Nether doth he knowe me ner I him What token shal I geue him ▪ And as for the waye thither I neuer knew it Then his father answered him and sayde I haue his handwritinge by me which whan thou shewest him immediatly he shall paye the. But go thy waye now get the some faithfull man to go with y e for an hyre that thou mayest receaue y e money whyle I am yet lyuynge Then wente Tobias out vpon the strete he founde a fayre yonge man stondinge gyrded vp and as it were one ready to take his iourney And he knew not that it was an angell of God but saluted him and sayde From whence art thou thou good yonge man He answered Of the children of Israel And Tobias sayde vnto him knowest thou the waye that ledeth vnto the countre of y e Medes He answered I knowe it well and all those stretes haue I gone oft tymes and haue lodged with oure brother Gabelus that dwelleth in Rages a cite of y e Medes which lyeth vpon the mount Egabthanis Tobias sayde vnto him I praye the tary for me tyll I haue tolde my father these thinges Then wēte Tobias in and tolde his father all At y e which his father marueled prayed that he wolde come in vnto him Now whan the angell came in he saluted him and sayde ioye be with the for euermore And olde Tobias saide what ioye can I haue that syt here in darcknes se not the light of heauen The yonge man sayde vnto him Be of good cheare God shal helpe the shortly And Tobias sayde vnto him Canst thou brynge my sonne to Gabelus vnto the cite of Rages in Media And whan thou commest agayne I shal paye the thy hyre And the angell sayde vnto him I shal lede thy sonne and brynge him to the agayne Then Tobias answered him Tell me I praye the of what house or of what trybe art thou The angell Raphael sayde vnto him Axest thou after the kynred of an hyrelinge or sekest thou a gyde for thy sonne to go with him But that I make the not carefull I am Azarias the sonne of greate Hananias And Tobias answered Thou art come of a greate kynred but I praye y e be not displeased that I desyred to knowe thy kynred The angell sayde vnto him Thy sonne shal I lede forth safely and brynge him whole to the agayne Then answered Tobias and sayde well go on youre waie and God be in youre iourney and his angell beare you company So whan they had prepared all thinges y t they wolde take with them in their iourney Tobias bad his father his mother fare well and they wente on their waye both together Now whan they were gone his mother beganne to wepe and sayde The staff of oure age hast thou taken awaye and sent him from vs. Wolde God that money had neuer bene for the which thou hast sent him awaye Yf we had bene content w t o r pouerte this had bene greate riches vnto vs that we sawe oure sonne here Then sayde Tobias vnto her wepe not oure sonne shall come to vs agayne safe and sounde thine eyes shall se him For I trust that y e good angell of God shal beare him cōpany and ordre well all the thinges that he doth so that he shal come to vs agayne with ioye At these wordes his mother left of frō wepynge helde hir tonge The VI. Chapter SO Tobias wente on his waye and a dogg folowed him and y e first night they abode by the water of Tigris Then wente he out to wash his fete and beholde there came forth an horrible fish to deuoure him Of whom Tobias was afrayed and cried with a loude voyce sayenge LORDE he commeth vpon me And the angell sayde vnto him Take him by the cheke blade and drawe him to the. And he dyd so and drew him vpō the londe and the fish beganne to leape at his fete Thē sayde the angell vnto him Take out the bowels of this fish and as for the hert the gall and the leuer kepe them by the. For these thinges are necessary and good for medicyne Tobias dyd so and rosted the fish and they toke him with them in their iourney the residue they salted as moch as was sufficient for them till they came to Rages Then Tobias axed the angell and sayde vnto him I praye y e brother Azarias tell me wher to are these thinges good of the fish that thou hast bydden me kepe The angell answered him and sayde Yf thou layest a pece of the hert vpon the coales the smoke therof dryueth awaye all maner of euell spretes whether it be from man or from woman so that from thence forth y e same shal come nomore vnto them The gall is good to anoynte or to strake y e eyes withall where as there is eny blemish in them so shal they be whole And Tobias sayde vnto him where wilt thou that we remayne The angell answered and saide Here is a nye kinsman of thine one Raguel by name which hath a daughter called Sara hath nether sonne ner daughter but her All his good belōgeth vnto the and thou must mary his daughter and therfore desyre her at her father and he shal geue her the to wife Then answered Tobias sayde As I vnderstonde she hath bene maried vnto seuen huszbandes and they all are deed and I haue herde saye that the deuell slew them I am afrayed therfore lest soch thinges happen vnto me also which yf it came to passe seinge I am the onely sonne of my father and my mother I shulde brynge thē in their age w t sorow to their graues Then sayde y e angell Raphael vnto him Heare me and I will tell the what they be of whom the deuell hath power Namely they that receaue mariage of soch a fashiō that they shut God out from thē and from their hert and geue them selues to their owne lust euen as it were an horse and Moole which haue no vnderstondinge vpon soch hath y e deuell power But whan thou takest her and art come in to the chamber witholde thy self from her thre dayes and geue thy diligence vnto nothinge but vnto prayer with her And in the first night rost the leuer of the fish and the deuell shal be dryuē awaye The secōde night shalt thou be receaued in to the company of the holy patriarkes The thirde night shalt thou opteyne the blessinge of God so that whole children shal be borne of you After the thirde night take the mayden in the feare of God and more for the desyre of children then for eny fleshly lust that in the sede of Abraham thou mayest optayne the blessinge in children The VII Chapter THen wente they
thine herte vpon them For dreames haue disceaued many a mā and they fayled that put their truste therin The lawe shal be fulfilled without lyes wyszdome is sufficient to a faithfull mouth A wyse man y t is well instructe vnderstonstondeth moch he y t hath good experiēce can talke of wyszdome He y t hath no experiēce knoweth litle he y t erreth causeth moch wickednes Whan I was yet in erroure I lerned moch also yee I was so lerned that I coude not expresse it all and came oft in parell of death therouer tyll I was delyuered from it Now I se that they which feare God haue the right sprete for their hope stōdeth in him that can helpe thē Who so feareth the LORDE stōdeth in awe of no man and is not afrayed for the LORDE is his hope and comforte Blessed is the soule of him y t feareth the LORDE In whō putteth he his trust who is his strēgth For the eyes of the LORDE haue respecte vnto them that loue him He is their mightie proteccion strōge grounde A defence for the heate a refuge for the hote noone daye a sucore for stomblynge an helpe for fallynge He setteth vp the soule and lighteneth y e eyes He geueth health life and blessynge He that geueth an offeringe of vnrighteous good his offerynge is refused and the scornefull dealinges of the vnrighteous please not God God hath no delyte in the offerynges of y e vngodly nether maye synne be reconcyled in the multitude of oblacions Who so bryngeth an offerynge out of y e goodes of y e poore doth euē as one y t kylleth y e sonne before y e fathers eyes The bred of the nedefull is the life of the poore he y t defraudeth him therof is a man of bloude Who so robbeth his neghbo r of his lyuinge doth as greate synne as though he slew him to death He that defraudeth y e laborer of his hyre is a bloude shedder Whā one buyldeth and another breaketh downe what profit haue they then but laboure Whan one prayeth another curseth whose voyce wyl the LORDE heare He that washeth himself because of a deed body then toucheth the deed agayne what doth his waszshinge So is it with a man that fasteth for his synnes and doth them agayne who wil heare his prayer Or what doth his fastynge helpe him The XXXV Chapter WHo so kepeth the lawe bryngeth offerynges ynough He that holdeth fast the commaundement offreth the right health offrynge He y t is thankfull recompenseth offreth fyne floure Who so is mercifull geueth allmes y t is the right thank offrynge God hath pleasure whā one departeth frō synne to forsake vnrighteousnes recōcileth vs w t him Thou shalt not appeare emptye before y e LORDE for all soch is done because of y e cōmaundemēt The offeringe of y e righteous maketh y e aulter fatt a swete smell is it before y e Hyest The offerynge of the righteous is acceptable vnto God shal neuer be forgottē Geue God his hono with a chearfull eye kepe not backe the firstlinges of y e handes In all thy giftes shew a mery countenaunce halowe thy tithes vnto God w t gladnes Geue vnto God acordinge as he hath enriched prospered their loke what thine hande is able y t geue w t a chearfull eye for the LORDE recompenseth geueth y e seuē tymes as moch againe Geue no vnrighteous giftes for soch wil not he receaue Bewarre of wrongeous offeringes for y e LORDE is a righteous iudge regardeth no mans personne He accepteth not the personne of the poore but he heareth y e prayer of y e oppressed He despyseth not y e desyre of y e fatherles ner y e wyddow whan she poureth out hir prayer before him Doth not God se y e teares y t renne downe y e chekes of the wyddow Or heareth he not the complaynte ouer soch as make her to wep◠▪ Who so serueth God after his pleasure shal be accepted his prayer reacheth vnto the cloudes The prayer of him y t humbleth himself goeth thorow y e cloudes tyll she come nye She wyl not be comforted ner go hir waye tyll y e hyest God haue respecte vnto her geue true sentēce perfourme y e iudgmēt And y e LORDE wil not be slack in cōmynge ner tary longe tyll he haue smyttē in sonder y e backes of y e vnmercyfull auenged himself of y e Heithen tyll he haue takē awaye y e multitude of y e cruell brokē the cepter of the vnrighteous tyll he geue euery man after his workes rewarde them as they haue deserued tyll he haue delyuered his people mayntened their cause reioysed them in his mercy O how fayre a thinge is mercy in the tyme of anguysh trouble It is like a cloude of rayne y t cōmeth in y e tyme of a drouth The XXXVI Chapter HAue mercy vpon vs O LORDE thou God of all thinges Haue respecte vnto vs shew vs the light of thy mercies sende y e feare amōge y e Heithē straūgers which seke not after the y t they maye knowe how y t there is no God but thou and y t they maye shew thy wonderous workes Lift vp thine hande ouer the outlādish Heithen y t they maye lerne to knowe thy might power Like as thou art halowed in vs before them so brynge to passe y t thou mayest be magnified also in them before vs y t they maye knowe the like as we knowe the. For there is none other God but onely thou O LORDE Renue the tokens chaunge the wonderous workes Shewe thine hāde and thy right arme gloriously Rayse thy indignacion poure out thy wrath Take awaye the aduersary smyte the enemye Make y e tyme shorte remembre thy couenaunt that y e wonderous workes maye be praysed Let the wrath of the fyre consume them that lyue so careles and let them perish that do y e people hurte Smyte in sonder the heade of the prynces that be oure enemies and saye there is none other but we Gather all y e trybes of Iacob together againe y t they maie knowe how y t there is none other God but onely thou y t they maie shew thy wonderous workes and be thy people heretage like as from the begynninge O LORDE haue mercy vpon the people y t hath y e name vpō Israel whom thou hast lickened to a first borne sonne O be merciful vnto Ierusalē the cite of thy Sanctuary y e cite of thy rest Fyll Sion with thy vnspeakeable vertues y i people w t thy glory Geue wytnes vnto y e creature whom thou maydest from the begynnynge and rayse vp the prophecies y t haue bene shewed in thy name Rewarde them y t wayte for the y t thy prophetes maye be founde faithfull O LORDE heare the prayer
thou ashamed and accepte no personne to offende Namely of these thinges be not ashamed Of the lawe of God of the couenaunt of iudgmeÌ„t to brynge the vngodly from his vngodlines vnto righteousnes and to make him a good man to deale faithfully w t neghbo companyon to distribute the heretage vnto y e frendes to be diligent to kepe true measure and weight to be content whether thou gettest moch or litle to deale truly w t temporall goodes in byenge and sellynge to brynge vp children with diligence to correcke an euell seruaunt to kepe that thine is froÌ„ an euell wife to set a lock where many handes are what thou delyuerest and geuest out to be kepte to tell it and to weye it to wryte vp all the out geuynge and receauynge to enfourme y e vnlerned and vnwyse Of the aged that are iudged of the yonge Yf thou be diligeÌ„t in these thinges truly thou shalt be lerned and wyse and accepted of all men The daughter maketh y e father to watch secretly and the carefulnes that he hath for her taketh awaye his slepe yee in the youth lest she shulde ouergrowe him And whan she hath an huszbande lest she shulde be hated lest she shulde be defyled or rauyshed in hir virginyte or gotten with childe in hir fathers house Or whan she commeth to the man lest she behaue herself not right or coÌ„contynue vnfrutefull Yf thy daughter be wanton kepe her strately lest she cause thine enemies laugh the to scorne the whole cite to geue y t an euell reporte and so â—hou be fayne to heare thy shame of euery man and be confounded before all y e people Beholde not euery bodies bewtye haue not moch dwellynge amonge wemen For like as the worme and moth commeth out of clothinge so doth wickednes come of wemen It is better to be with an euell man then w t a frendly wife y t putteth one to shame and rebuke I wyl remembre the workes of the LORDE and declare the thinge y t I haue sene In y e wordes of y e LORDE are his workes The SoÌ„ne ouerloketh all thiÌ„ges w t his shine all his workes are full of y e clearnes therof Hath not the LORDE brought to passe that his sayntes shulde tell out all his woÌ„derous workes which the allmightie LORDE hath stablyshed All thinges endure in his glory He seketh out the grounde of the depe and the hert and he knoweth all their ymaginacion wyszdome For y e LORDE knoweth all scyence and he loketh in to y e token of the time He declareth the thinges y t are past and for to come discloseth thinges that are secrete No thought maye escape him nether maye eny worde be hyd from him He hath garnyshed the hye excellent workes of his wyszdome and he is froÌ„ euerlastinge to euerlastinge Vnto him maye nothinge be added nether can he be mynished he hath no nede also of eny councell O how amiable are all his workes as a sparke to loke vpon They lyue all and endure for euer and whan so euer nede is they are all obedient vnto him They are all dubble one agaynst another he hath made nothinge that hath faute or blemysh He hath stablyshed the goodes of euerychone and who maye be satisfied with his glory whan he seith it The XLIII Chapter THe glory of the heyth is the fayre and cleare firmament the bewtye of the heauen in his glorious clearnes The sonne whan it appeareth declareth the daye in y e goinge out of it a maruelous worke of the Hyest At noone it burneth y e earth and who maye abyde for the heate therof Who so kepeth an ouen whan it is hote thre tymes more doth the Sonne burne vpon y e mountaynes whan it bretheth out the fyrie beames and shyneth with the brightnes of it it blyndeth the eyes Greate is the LORDE that made it and in his commaundement he causeth it to renne haistely The Moone also is in all and at conuenient season it sheweth the tymes and is a token of the tyme. The token of the solempne feast is taken of the Moone a light that mynisheth and increaseth againe The Moneth is called after the Moone it groweth wonderously in hir chaunginge The armye of heauen also is in the Heith in the firmament of heauen it geueth a cleare and glorious shyne This is the clearnes of the starres the bewtifull apparell of heauen the apparell that the LORDE lighteneth in the heyth In his holy worke they continue in their ordre and not one of them fayleth in his watch Loke vpon y e rayne bowe and prayse him that made it very bewtifull is it in his shyne He compaseth the heauen aboute with his clearnes glory the handes of the Hyest haue beÌ„ded it Thorow his commaundement he maketh the snowe to fall the thonder of his iudgment to smyte hastely Thorow his commaundement the treasures are opened and the cloudes fle as the foules In his power hath he strengthened the cloudes and brokeÌ„ the hayle stones The mountaynes melt at y e sight of him the wynde bloweth accordinge to his wyll The sounde of his thonder beateth y e earth and so doth the storme of the north the whirle wynde also lighteth downe as a fethered foule casteth out and spredeth the snow abrode and as the greshoppers that destroye all so falleth it downe The eie marueleth at y e bewtye of the whytenesse therof and the hert is afraied at the raine of it He poureth out the frost vpon earth like salt and whan it is frosen it is as sharpe as the prycke of a thistle Whan the colde northwynde bloweth harde Christall commeth of the water He lighteth downe vpon all the gatheringes together of water and putteth on y e waters as a brest plate He deuoureth the mountaynes and burneth the wyldernesses and loke what is grene he putteth it out like fyre The medycine of all these is whan a cloude commeth hastely and whan a dew commeth vpon the heate it shal be refreszshed agayne In his worde he stylleth the wynde In his councell he setteth the depe and the LORDE Iesus planted it They that sayle ouer the see tell of his parels and harmes and whan we heare it with oure eares we maruell therat For there be strauÌ„ge wonderous workes dyuerse maner of nyce beestes and whall fishes Thorow him are all thinges set in good ordre and perfourmed in his worde all thinges endure I speake moch but I can not sufficiently attayne vnto it for he himself onely is the perfeccion of all wordes We shulde prayse the LORDE after all o power for he is greate in all his workes The LORDE is to be feared yee very greate is he and maruelous is his power Prayse the LORDE and magnifie him as moch as ye maye yet doth he farre farre exceade all prayse O magnifie him w t all youre power and laboure earnestly
y t they haue borne false wytnes agaynst me beholde I must dye where as I neuer dyd eny soch thinges as these men haue maliciously inuented agaynst me And y e LORDE herde hir voyce For whē she was led forth to death y e LORDE raised vp y e sprete of a yōge childe whose name was Daniel which cried w t a loude voice I am clene frō this bloude Thē all y e people turned thē towarde him saide What meane these wordes y t thou hast spokē ▪ Daniel stode in y e myddest of thē sayde Are ye soch fooles O ye childrē of Israel y t ye cā not discerne Ye haue here condēned a daughter of Israel vnto death and knowe not the trueth wherfore Go syt on iudgment agayne for they haue spoken false witnesse agaynst her Wherfore the people turned agayne in all the haist And the elders that is the principall heades sayde vnto him come sit downe here amonge vs and shewe vs this matter seynge God hath geuen the as greate honoure as an elder And Daniel sayde vnto them Put these two asyde one from another and then shal I heare them When they were put a sunder one from another he called one of them and sayd vnto him O thou olde canckerde carle that hast vsed thy wickednesse so longe thine vngracious dedes which thou hast done afore are now come to light For thou hast geuen false iudgmentes thou hast oppressed the innocent and letten the giltie go fre where as yet the LORDE saieth The innocent and righteous se thou slaye not Wel than yf thou hast sene her tel me vnder what tre sawest thou them talkynge together He answered Vnder a Molbery tre And Daniel sayde very wel Now thou leist euen vpon thine heade Lo the messaunger of the LORDE hath receaued the sentence of him to cut y e in two Then put he him asyde and called for the other and sayde vnto him O thou sede of Canaan but not of Iuda Fayrnesse hath disceaued the and lust hath subuerted thine herte Thus dealte ye afore with the daughters of Israel and they for feare consented vnto you but the daughter of Iuda wolde not abyde youre wickednesse Now tell me than vnder what tre didest thou take them speakinge together He answered vnder a pomgranate tre Then sayde Daniel vnto him very wel now thou leyst also euen vpō thine heade The messaunger of the LORDE stondeth waytinge with the swerde to cut the in two and to slaye you both With that all the whole multitude gaue a greate shoute and praysed God which allwaye delyuereth them y t put their trust in him And they came vpon the two elders whom Daniel had conuicte with their owne mouth that they had geuen false witnesse and dealte with them euen likewyse as they wolde haue done with their neghbouresse Yee they dyd acordinge to the lawe of Moses and put them to death Thus the innocent bloude was saued the same daye Thē Helchias his wife praysed God for their daughter Susanna with Ioachim hir huszbonde and all y e kinrede that there was no dishoneste founde in her From that daye forth was Daniel had in greate reputaciō in the sight of y e people The ende of the story of Susanna The story of Bel which is the xiiij Chapter of Daniel after the Latin THere was at Babilon an ymage called Bel and there were spent vpon him euery daye xij cakes xl shepe and sixe greate pottes of wine Him dyd the kynge worshipe himself and wente daylie to hono r him but Daniel worshiped his owne God And the kynge sayde vnto him Why dost not thou worshipe Bel he answered and sayde Because I maye not worshipe thinges that be made w t hondes but the lyuynge God which made heauen and earth and hath power vpon all flesh The kynge sayde vnto him thinkest thou not y t Bel is a lyuynge God Or seist thou not how moch he eateth and drynketh euery daye Daniel smyled and sayde O kynge disceaue not thyselfe This is but made of claye within and of metall without nether eateth he euer eny thinge Then the kynge was wroth and called for his prestes and sayde vnto them Yf ye tell me not who this is that eateth vp these expenses ye shal dye But yf ye can certifie me that Bel eateth them then Daniel shall dye for he hath spoken blasphemy agaynst Bel. And Daniel sayde vnto the kynge let it so be acordinge as thou hast sayde The prestes of Bel were lxx besyde their wyues and children And the kynge wente with Daniel in to the temple of Bel. So Bels prestes sayde Lo we wil go out set thou y e meate there O kynge poure in the wyne then shutt the dore fast and seale it with thine owne signet and tomorow when thou commest in yf thou fyndest not that Bel hath eaten vp all we wil suffre death or els daniel that hath lyed vpon vs. The prestes thought them selues sure ynough for vnder y e altare they had made a preuy intraunce there wente they in euer and ate vp what there was So when they were gone forth the kynge set meates before Bel. Now Daniel had cōmaunded his seruauntes to bringe aszshes and these he siffted thorow out all the temple that the kynge might se. Then wente they out sparre the dore sealinge it with y e kynges signet and so departed In y e night came the prestes with their wyues and children as they were wonte to do and ate and dronke vp all In the mornynge be tymes at the breake of the daye the kynge arose Daniel with him And the kynge sayde Daniel are the seales whole yet He answered Yee o kynge they be whole Now as soone as he had opened the dore the kinge loked vnto y e altare and cried with a loude voyce Great◠art thou o Bel and with the is no disceate Then laughed Daniel and helde the kynge that he shulde not go in and sayde Beholde the pauement marcke well whose fotesteppes are these The kynge sayde I se the fotesteppes of men women and children Therfore the kynge was angrie and toke the prestes with their wyues and childrē they shewed him y e preuy dores where they came in ate vp soch thinges as were vpon y e altare For the which cause y e kynge slewe them delyuered Bel in to Daniels power which destroyed him and his temple And in that same place there was a greate dragon which they of Babilon worshipped And y e kynge sayde vnto Daniel sayest thou y t this is but a god of metall also lo he liueth he eateth drinketh so y t thou cāst not saye that he is no lyuinge God therfore worshipe him Daniel sayde vnto y e kinge I wil worshipe the LORDE my God he is y e truelyuynge God as for this he is not the God of life But geue me leaue o kynge
ye be baptysed Neuertheles to syt vpon my right honde on my left is not myne to geue but vnto theÌ„ for whoÌ„ it is prepared of my father Whan the ten herde that they disdayned at the two brethren But Iesus called them vnto him and sayde Ye knowe that y e prynces of the worlde haue domynacion of the people and the greatest exercise power amonge theÌ„ It shal not be so amonge you But who so euer wyl be greate amonge you let him be youre mynister who soeuer wyl be chefe let him be youre seruaunt Euen as the sonne of man came not to be serued but to do seruyce and to geue his life to a redeÌ„pcion for many And when they departed from Iericho moch people folowed him and beholde two blyndemen sat by the waye syde And when they herde that Iesus passed by they cried sayde O LORDE thou sonne Dauid haue mercy vpon vs. But y e people rebuked theÌ„ that they shulde holde their peace Neuertheles they cried the more sayde O LORDE thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon vs. And Iesus stode styll and called them and sayde What wil ye y t I shal do vnto you They sayde vnto him LORDE that oure eyes maye be opened And Iesus had compassion vpon them and touched their eyes immediatly their eies receaued sight And they folowed him The XXI Chapter NOw whan they drew nye vnto Ierusalem and were come to Bethphage vnto mount Oliuete Iesus sent two of his disciples and sayde vnto them Go in to the towne that lyeth before you anone ye shal fynde an Asse bounde and hiâ— foale with her lowse them and brynge theÌ„ vnto me And yf eny man saye ought vnto you saye ye the LORDE hath nede of theÌ„ And straight waye he wil let them go But all this was done that the thinge might be fulfylled which was spoken by the prophet sayenge Tell the doughter of Sion beholde thy kynge commeth vnto y e meke syttinge vpon an Asse and a foale of y e Asse vsed to the yocke The disciples wente and dyd as Iesus commaunded them and brought the Asse and the foale layed their clothes vpon them and set him theron But many of the people spred their garmentes in the waye other cut downe braunches from the trees and strawed them in the waye As for the people that wente before and that came after they cryed and sayde Hosianna vnto the sonne of Dauid Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the LORDE Hosianna in the height And whan he was come into Ierusalem all the cite was moued and sayde Who is this And the people sayde This is Iesus y e prophet of Nazareth out of Galile And Iesus wente in to the teÌ„ple of God and cast out all them that bought and solde in the teÌ„ple and ouerthrew the tables of the money chaungers and the seates of them that solde doues and sayde vnto them It is wrytteÌ„ My house shal be called y e house of prayer but ye haue made it a denne of murthurers The blynde also and y e lame came vnto him in the temple and he healed them But whan the hye prestes and the scrybes sawe the wonders that he dyd and the children crienge in the temple and sayengeâ— Hosianna vnto the sonne of Dauid they disdayned and sayde vnto him Hearest thou what these saye Iesus sayde vnto them Yee Haue ye neuer red Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast ordeyned prayse And he left them there and wente out of the cite vnto Bethania and there abode ouer night But in the mornynge as he returned in to the cite he huÌ„gred And in the waye he sawe a fygge tre and came vnto it and founde nothinge theron but leaues onely and sayde vnto it Neuer frute growe on the from hence forth And immediatly the fygge tre wythred awaye And whan his disciples sawe that they marueyled and sayde How is y e fygge tre wythred awaye so soone Iesus answered and sayde vnto them Verely I saye vnto you Yf ye haue faith doute not ye shal not onely do this with the fygge tre but yf ye shal saye vnto this mountayne Avoyde and cast thy self in to the see it shal be done And what soeuer ye axe in prayer yf ye beleue ye shal receaue it And when he was come in to the teÌ„ple the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge sayde By what auctorite doest thou these thinges and who gaue the this auctorite Iesus answered and sayde vnto them I wil axe a worde of you also which yf ye tell me I in like wyse wyl tell you by what auctorite I do these thinges The baptime of IhoÌ„ wheÌ„ce was it from heaueÌ„ or of men Then thought they amoÌ„ge them selues and saide Yf we saye it was from heaueÌ„ then shal he saye vnto us Why dyd ye not then beleue him But yf we saye it was of men theÌ„ feare we the people For euery maÌ„ helde Ihon for a prophet And they answered Iesus sayde We can not tell Then sayde he vnto them Nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges But what thinke ye A certayne man had two sonnes and came to the first and sayde Go thy waye my sonne worke to daye in my vynyarde He answered and sayde I wil not but afterwarde he repented and wente He came also vnto the secoÌ„de and sayde likewyse And he answered and saide I wil syr And weÌ„te not Whether of them twayne dyd the wil of the father They sayde vnto him the first Iesus sayde vnto theÌ„ Verely I saye vnto you The publicans and harlottes shal come in to the kyngdome of God before you For Ihon came vnto you and taught you y e right waye and ye beleued him not but the publicans harlottes beleued hiÌ„ As for you though ye sawe it yet were ye not moued with repeÌ„taunce that ye might afterwarde haue â—â—leued him Heare another parable There was a certayne houszholder which planted a vynyarde and hedged it rouÌ„de aboute and dygged a wyne presse in it and built a tower and let it out vnto huszbandmen and wente in to a straunge countre Now whaÌ„ the tyme of the frute drew neare he sent his seruauÌ„tes to the huszbandmen to receaue the frutes of it Then the huszbandmen caught his seruauntes one they bett another they kylled the thirde they stoned Agayne he sent other seruauntes moo then the first and they dyd vnto them in like maner At the last he sent his owne sonne vnto them and sayde they wyl stoÌ„de in awe of my sonne But wheÌ„ the huszbandmeÌ„ sawe the sonne they sayde amonge theÌ„selues This is the Heyre come let us kyl hym and take his inheritauÌ„ce vnto oure selues And they caught him and thrust him out of the vynyarde slew him Now wheÌ„
The XII Chapter SIxe dayes before Easter came Iesus vnto Bethanye where Lazarus was which was deed whom Iesus 〈◊〉 from the deed There they made him a supper and Martha serued But Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him Then toke Mary a pounde of oyntment of pure and costly Nardus and anoynted Iesus fete dryed his fete with hir heer The house was full of the sanoure of the oynment Then sayde one of his disciples Iudas Iscarioth Symons sonne which afterwarde betrayed him Why was not this oyntment solde for thre hundreth pens and geuen to the poore This sayde he not that he cared for the poore but because he was a thefe and had the bagge and bare that which was geuē Then sayde Iesus Let her alone this hath she kepte agaynst the daye of my buryenge For the poore haue ye allwaye with you but me haue ye not allwaye Then moch people of the Iewes had knowlege that he was there and they came not for Iesus sake onely but also y t they might se Lazarus whom he had raysed from the deed But y e hye prestes were aduysed to put Lazarus to death also because y t for his sake many of the Iewes wēte awaye and beleued on Iesus Vpon the nexte daye moch people which were come vnto the feast whan they herde that Iesus came towarde Ierusalem they toke braunches of palme trees and wēte out to mete him and cryed Hosianna Blessed be he that in the name of the LORDE commeth kynge of Israel Iesus gat a yonge Asse and rode theron As it is wryttē Feare not thou doughter of Sion beholde thy kynge cōmeth rydinge vpō an Asses foale Neuertheles his disciples vnderstode not these thinges at the first but whan Iesus was glorified then remēbred they that soch thinges were wryttē of him and that they had done soch thinges vnto him The people that was with him whan he called Lazarus out of y e graue and raysed him from the deed commended the acte Therfore the people met him because they herde that he had done soch a miracle But the pharises sayde amonge them selues Ye se that we preuayle nothinge beholde all y e worlde runneth after him There were certayne Grekes amonge thē that were come vp to Ierusalē to worshipe at the feast the same came vnto Philippe which was of Bethsaida out of Galile prayed him and sayde Syr we wolde fayne se Iesus Philippe came tolde Andrew And agayne Philippe and Andrew tolde Iesus Iesus answered thē and sayde The houre is come that the sonne of man must be glorified Verely verely I saye vnto you Excepte the wheatcorne fall in to the grounde and dye it bydeth alone But yf it dye it beyngeth forth moch frute He that loueth his life shal lose it and he that hateth his life in this worlde shal kepe it vnto life euerlastinge He that wyl serue me let him folowe me And where I am there shal my seruaunt be also and he that serueth me him shal my father honoure Now is my soule heuy and what shal I saye Father helpe me out of this houre But therfore am I come in to this houre Father glorifye thy name Then came there a voyce from heauen I haue glorified it and wyl glorifye it agayne Then sayde the people that stode by and herde It thondereth Other sayde An angell spake vnto him Iesus answered and sayde This voyce came not because of me but for youre sakes Now goeth the iudgment ouer the worlde Now shal the prynce of this worlde be thrust out And I whan I am life vp from the earth wyl drawe all vnto me But this he sayde to signifye what death he shulde dye Then answered him the people We haue herde in the lawe that Christ endureth for euer and how sayest thou then that the sonne of man must be lift vp Who is this sonne of man Then sayde Iesus vnto them The light is yet a litle whyle with you walke whyle ye haue the light that the darknesse fall not vpō you He that walketh in the darknesse woteth not whither he goeth Beleue ye on the light whyle ye haue it that ye maye be the children of light These thinges spake Iesus and departed awaye and hyd himself from them And though he had done soch tokens before thē yet beleued they not on him that the sayenge of Esay the prophet might be fulfylled which he spake LORDE who beleueth oure preachinge Or to whom is the arme of the LORDE opened Therfore coulde they not beleue for Esay saide agayne He hath blynded their eyes and hardened their hert that they shulde not se with the eyes ner vnderstonde with the hert shulde be conuerted and he shulde heale them This sayde Esay whan he sawe his glory and spake of him Neuertheles many of the chefe rulers beleued on him but because of the Pharises they wolde not be aknowne of it lest they shulde be excommunicate For they loued more the prayse with men then with God Iesus cryed and sayde He that beleueth on me beleueth not on me but on him that sent me And he that seyth me seyth him y t sent me I am come a light in to the worlde that whosoeuer beleueth on me shulde not byde in darknesse And he that heareth my wordes and beleueth not I iudge him not for I am not come to iudge the worlde but to saue the worlde He that refuseth me and receaueth not my wordes hath one allready that iudgeth him The worde that I haue spoken that shall iudge him at the last daye For I haue not spoken of myself but the father that sent me hath geuen me a commaundement what I shulde do and saye And I knowe that his commaundement is life euerlastinge Therfore loke what I speake that speake I euē so as the father hath sayde vnto me The XIII Chapter BEfore the feast of Easter whan Iesus knewe that his tyme was come that he shulde departe out of this worlde vnto y e father as he loued his which were in the worlde euen so loued he them vnto the ende And after supper whan the deuell had allready put into y e hert of Iudas Iscarioth Symons sonne to betraye him Iesus knowinge that the father had geuen all thinges in to his handes that he was come from God and wente vnto God he rose from supper and layed asyde his vpper garmentes and toke a towell and gyrde it aboute him Afterwarde poured he water in to a basen and beganne to wash the disciples fete and dryed them with the towell y t he was gyrded withall Then came he vnto Symon Peter and y e same sayde vnto him LORDE shalt thou washe my fete Iesus answered and sayde vnto him What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt knowe it herafter Thē sayde Peter vnto him Thou shalt neuer
sawe the grace of God he was glad and exorted them all that with purpose of hert they wolde contynue in the LORDE For he was a good man full of the holy goost and faith And there was a greate multitude of people added vnto the LORDE But Barnabas departed vnto Tharsus to seke Saul And whaÌ„ he had fouÌ„de hiÌ„ he brought hiÌ„ to Anthioche It chauÌ„ced that a whole yeare they were there coÌ„uersaunte together in the coÌ„gregacioÌ„ taughte moch people so that the disciples at Antioche were first called Christen In those dayes came there prophetes froÌ„ Ierusalem vnto Antioche And one of them whose name was Agabus stode vp and declared by the sprete a greate derth that shulde come ouer the whole compasse of the earth which came to passe vnder the Emperoure Claudius But the disciples coÌ„cluded euery one acordinge to his abylite to sende an handreachinge vnto y e brethren that were in Iewry which thinge they also dyd and sent it by the handes of Barnabas and Saul The XII Chapter AT the same tyme layed kynge Herode handes vpon certayne of the congregacion to vexe them As for Iames the brother of Ihon him he slewe with the swerde And whan he sawe that it pleased the Iewes he proceaded farther to take Peter also But it was Easter Now whan he had taken him he put him in preson and delyuered him vnto foure quaternions of soudyers to kepe him and thought after Easter to bringe him forth to the people And Peter was kepte in the preson But prayer was made without ceassinge of the congregacion vnto God for him And whan Herode wolde haue broughte him out vnto the people in the same nighte slepte Peter betwene two soudiers bounde with two cheynes And the kepers before the dore kepte the preson And beholde the angell of the LORDE was there presente and a lighte shyned in the habitacion and he smote Peter on the syde and waked him vp and sayde Aryse vp quyckly And the cheynes fell of from his hondes And the angell sayde vnto him Gyrde the and put on thy shues And he dyd so And he sayde vnto him Cast thy mantle aboute the and folowe me And he wente out and folowed him and wyst not that it was trueth that was done by y e angell but thoughte he had sene a vision Neuertheles they wente thorow the first and seconde watch and came to the yron gate that ledeth vnto the cite which opened to theÌ„ by his awne acorde And they wente out and passed thorow one strete and immediatly the angell departed from him And whan Peter was come to himself he sayde Now I knowe of a trueth that y e LORDE hath sent his angell and delyuered me out of the honde of Herode and from all the waytinge for of the people of the Iewes And as he considered the thinge he came to the house of Mary the mother of one Ihon which after his syrname was called Marke where many were gathered together and prayed As Peter knocked at the entry dore there came forth a damsell to herken named Rhoda And whan she knewe Peters voyce she opened not the entrye for gladnes but raÌ„ne in and tolde that Peter stode before y e entrye But they sayde vnto her Thou art mad Neuertheles she abode by it that is was so They sayde it is his angell But Peter contynued knockinge Whan they opened the dore they sawe him and were astonnyed But he beckened vnto them with the hande to holde their peace tolde them how the LORDE had broughte him out of the preson And he sayde Shewe this vnto Iames and to the brethren And he departed and weÌ„te in to another place Whan it was daye there was not a litle a doo amoÌ„ge the soudyers what was become of Peter Whan Herode had called for him and founde him not he caused the kepers to be examyned and commaunded theÌ„ to be caried awaye and he wente downe froÌ„ Iewry vnto Cesarea and there abode But he was displeased with theÌ„ of Tyre and SidoÌ„ Neuertheles they came vnto him with one accorde and made intercession to Blastus the kynges chamberlayne and desyred peace because their countre was norished by the kynges londe But vpon a daye appoynted Herode put on y e kyngly apparell sat him downe vpon the iudgment seate and made an oracion vnto them As for the people they cried therto This is a voyce of God and not of a man Immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote him because he gaue not God the honoure And he was eaten vp of wormes and gaue vp the goost But the worde of God grewe and multiplyed As for Barnabas and Saul they came agayne to Ierusalem and delyuered the handreachinge and toke with them Ihon whose syrname was Marke The XIII Chapter THere were at Antioche in the congregacion prophetes and teachers as Barnabas and Simon called Niger and Lucius of Cyren and Manahen Herodes the Tetrachas norsfelowe and Saul As they serued y e LORDE and fasted the holy goost sayde Separate me out Barnabas and Saul for the worke where vnto I haue called them Then fasted they and prayed and layed the handes on them and let them go And they beynge sent of the holy goost came vnto Seleucia from thence they sayled vnto Cypers And whan they were come in to the cite Salamin they shewed the worde of God in the synagoges of y e Iewes And they had Ihon to their mynister And whan they had gone thorow out the yle vnto the cyte of Paphos they founde a certayne Sorcerer and false prophete a Iewe whose name was Bariesu which was with Sergius Paulus the ruler of the countre a maÌ„ of vnderstondinge The same called Barnabas and Saul vnto him and desyred to heare y e worde of God Then the Sorcerer Elimas for so was his name by interpretacion withstode theÌ„ and soughte to turne awaye the ruler froÌ„ the faith But Saul which is also called Paul beynge full of the holy goost loked vpon him and sayde O thou childe of the deuell full of all suttylâ—ie and all disceatfulnesse and enemye of all righteousnes thou ceassest not to peruerte the straight wayes of y e LORDE And now beholde the haÌ„de of the LORDE commeth vpon the and thou shalt be blynde and not se the Sonne for a season And immediatly there fell on him a myst and darknesse and he wente aboute and soughte them that shulde lede him by the hande Whan the ruler sawe what was done he beleued and woÌ„dred at the doctryne of the LORDE Whan Paul and they that were with him were departed by shippe froÌ„ Paphos they came to Perga in the londe of Pamphilia But Ihon departed from them and wente agayne to Ierusalem Neuertheles they wandred thorow from Perga and came to Antioche in the londe of Pisidia and weÌ„te in to the synagoge vpon the Sabbath daye and sat downe But after the lecture of the lawe and
accompanied him in to Asia Sopater of Berrea and of Thessalonica Aristarchus and Secundus and Gaius of Derba and Timotheus but of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus These wente before and taried for vs at Troada but we sayled after the Easter dayes from Philippos vnto y e fyfth daye and came to them vnto Troada and taried there seuen dayes Vpon one of the Sabbathes whan the disciples came together to breake bred Paul preached vnto them wyllinge to departe on the morow and contynued the preachinge vnto mydnight And there were many lightes in the chamber where they were gathered together There sat a yonge man named Eutychos in a wyndow and fell in to a depe slepe whyle Paul was speakinge and was ouercome with slepe and fell downe from the thirde lofte and was taken vp deed But Paul wente downe and fell on him and enbraced him and sayde Make nothinge a doo for his soule is in hī Then wente he vp and brake the bred and ate and talked moch with thē tyll the daye brake and so departed As for the yōge man they broughte him alyue and were not a litle conforted But we wente afore in to the shippe and sayled towarde Asson wyllinge there to receaue Paul For so had he appoynted and wolde himselfe go on fote Whan he was come to vs vnto Asson we toke him in and came to Mitylenes and sayled from thence and came on the nexte daye ouer agaynst Chios and on the daye folowinge we aryued at Samos and taried at Tragilion and on the nexte daye came we to Mileton for Paul had determed to sayle ouer by Ephesus that he nede not to spende the tyme in Asia for he haisted to be at Ierusalem vpō the Whitsondaye yf it were possible for him But from Mileton he sent vnto Ephesus and called for the Elders of the congregacion Whan they were come to him he sayde vnto them Ye knowe sence the first daye that I came in to Asia after what maner I haue bene with you at all tyme and serued y e LORDE with all humblenesse of mynde and with many teares and tentacions which happened vnto me by y e layenges of wayte of the Iewes how y t I haue kepte backe nothinge y t was profitable but that I haue shewed you and taughte you openly and priuately from house to house And haue testifyed both vnto the Iewes to the Grekes * the repentaunce towarde God and faith towarde oure LORDE Iesus And now beholde I go bounde in y e sprete vnto Ierusalē not knowinge what shal happen there vnto me but y t the holy goost witnesseth in euery cite and sayeth that bondes and troubles abyde me there But I regarde none of them nether counte I my life bearer then my selfe that I maye fulfyll my course with ioye and the office y t I haue receaued of the LORDE Iesu to testifye the Gospell of the grace of God And now beholde I knowe that ye shal se my face nomore all ye thorow whom I haue gone and preached the kyngdome of God Wherfore I take you to recorde this daye that I am pure from the bloude of all men For I haue kepte nothinge backe but haue shewed you all the councell off God Take hede therfore vnto youre selues and to all the flocke amonge the which the holy goost hath set you to be Bishoppes to fede the congregacion of God which he hath purchaced thorow his owne bloude For this I knowe that after my departinge there shal enter in amonge you greuous wolues which shal not spare the flocke Yee euē from amonge youre awne selues shal men aryse speakynge peruerse doctryne to drawe disciples after them Therfore awake and remembre that by the space of thre yeares I ceassed not to warne euery one off you both nighte and daye with teares And now brethren I commende you vnto God and to y e worde of his grace which is mightie to edifye you and to geue you the enheritaunce amōge all them that are sanctified I haue not desyred syluer golde or rayment off eny off you For ye youre selues knowe that these handes haue mynistred vnto my necessities and them that were with me I haue shewed you all thinges how that so labouringe ye oughte to receaue the weake and to remembre the worde of the LORDE how that he sayde It is more blessed to geue then to receaue And whan he had sayde this he kneled downe and prayed with them all But there was moch wepynge amonge them all and they fell aboute Pauls necke and kyssed him and were sory most of all because of the worde which he had sayde that they shulde se his face nomore And they accōpanied him vnto the shippe The XXI Chapter NOw whan it fortuned that we had launched forth and were departed from them we came with a straight course vnto Coon and on the daye folowinge vnto the Rhodes and from thence vnto Patara And whan we founde a shippe ready to sayle vnto Phenices we wente aborde and set forth But whā we came within the sighte of Cypers we lefte it on the lefte hande and sayled vnto Syria and came vnto Tyre for there the shippe shulde laye forth the ware And whan we had founde disciples we taried there seuen dayes And they tolde Paul thorow the sprete that he shulde not go vp to Ierusalem And it fortuned whā we had fulfilled those dayes we departed and wente oure wayes and they all broughte vs on oure waye with wyues and childrē tyll we were come out of y e cite and wekneled downe vpō the shore and prayed And whan we had taken oure leue one off another we toke shippe but they turned agayne vnto theirs As for vs we ended the course from Tyre and came to Ptolomaida and saluted the brethren and abode with them one daye On the nexte daye we y t were with Paul departed and came vnto Cesarea entred in to the house of Philippe the Euangelist which was one of the seuē and abode with him The same had foure doughters which were virgins and prophecied And as we taried there mo dayes there came downe from Iewry a prophet named Agabus Whā he was come vnto vs he toke Pauls gerdell and bounde his hādes and fete and sayde Thus sayeth y e holy goost The man whose gerdell this is shal the Iewes bynde thus at Ierusalem and shal delyuer him in to the handes of the Heythē Whan we herhe this both we and they that were of the same place besoughte him that he wolde not go vp to Ierusalem Then answered Paul and sayde What do ye wepynge and breakynge my hert For I am redye not onely to be bounde but also to dye at Ierusalem for y e name of the LORDE Iesu. But whā he wolde not be persuaded we ceassed and sayde The will of the LORDE be fulfylled And after those dayes we were ready wente vp to Ierusalem There came with vs
agaynst And whā they had appoynted hī adaye there came many vnto hī in to his lodginge vnto whō he expoūded y e kyngdome of God preached vnto thē of Iesu out of y e lawe and out of the prophetes euē frō mornynge vntyll the euē And some beleued y e thinge y t he sayde but some beleued not But whā they agreed not amōge thē selues they departed whā Paul had spokē one worde Full well hath the holy goost spokē by y e prophet Esay vnto o fathers sayde Go vnto this people and saye With eares ye shal heare not vnderstōde with eyes shal ye se not perceaue For y e hert of this people is waxed grosse they heare hardly w t their eares their eyes haue they closed y t they shulde not once se w t their eyes heare w t their eares vnderstōde ī their hertes and be cōuerted y t I mighte heale thē Be it knowne therfore vnto you y t this saluaciō of God is sent vnto y e Heythē and they shal heare it And whā he sayde y t y e Iewes departed had a greate disputacion amonge thēselues But Paul abode two whole yeares in his owne hyred dwellinge receaued all thē y t came in vnto hī preachinge y e kyngdome of God and teachinge those thinges which concerne the LORDE Iesus with all boldnesse vnforbydden The ende of the Actes of the Apostles wrytten by S. Luke which was present at y e doynges of them The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Romaynes The Summe of this Epistle Chap. I. Paul declareth his loue towarde the Romaynes sheweth what the gospell is with the frute therof and rebuketh the beestlynesse of the flesh Chap. II. He rebuketh the Iewes which as touchinge synne are like the Heythē yee worse then they Chap. III. He sheweth what preferment the Iewes haue and that both the Iewes and Gētiles are vnder synne and are iustified only by the grace of God in Christ. Chap. IIII. He declareth by the exāple of Abrahā that faith iustifieth and not the lawe ner the workes therof Chap. V. The power of faith hope and loue ▪ and how death raigned frō Adā vnto Christ ▪ by whō only we haue forgeuenesse of synnes Chap. VI. For so moch as we be delyuered thorow christ from synne we must fashion oure selues to lyue as the seruauntes of God and not after oure awne lustes The vnlike rewarde of righteousnes and synne Chap. VII Christ hath delyuered vs from the lawe and death Paul sheweth what the flesh and outwarde man is and calleth it the lawe of the membres Chap. VIII The lawe of the sprete geueth life The sprete of God maketh vs Gods children and heyres with Christ. The abundaunt loue of God can not be separated Chap. IX Paul complayneth vpon the hard hertes of the Iewes that wolde not receaue Christ and how the Heythē are chosen in their steade Chap. X. The vnfaithfulnes of the Iewes Two maner of righteousnesses Chap. XI All the Iewes are not cast awaye therfore Paul warneth the Gentiles that be called not to be hye mynded ner to despyse the Iewes for the iudgmētes of God are depe and secrete Chap. XII The swete conuersacion loue and workes of soch as beleue in Christ. Chap. XIII The obedience of men vnto their rulers Loue fulfilleth the lawe It is now no tyme to folowe the workes of darknesse Chap. XIIII The weake ought not to be despysed No man shulde offende anothers conscience Agayne for outward thinges shulde no man condemne another Chap. XV. The infirmite and fraylnesse of the weake ought to be borne with all loue and kyndnesse after the ensample of Christ. Chap. XVI A chapter of salutacions He warneth them to bewarre of mens doctryne and commendeth vnto them certayne godly men that were louers and brethren in the trueth The Epistle of the Apostle S. Paul to the Romaynes The first Chapter PAVL the seruaunte of Iesus Christ called to be an Apostle put aparte to preach the Gospell of God which he promysed afore by his prophetes in y e holy scriptures off his sonne which was begottē of y e sede of Dauid after the flesh and mightely declared to be the sonne of God after the sprete which sanctifieth sence the tyme that he rose agayne from the deed namely Iesus Christ oure LORDE by whom we haue receaued grace and Apostelshippe amonge all Heythen to set vp the obedience of faith vnder his name of whom ye are a parte also which are called of Iesus Christ. To all you that be at Rome beloued of God and sayntes by callynge Grace be w t you and peace frō God oure father and the LORDE Iesus Christ. First I thanke my God thorow Iesus Christ for you all that youre faith is spoken of thorow out all the worlde For God is my witnesse whom I serue in my sprete in the Gospell of his sonne that without ceassynge I make mencion of you besekinge allwayes in my prayers that I mighte once haue a prosperous iourney by the will off God to come vnto you For I longe to se you that I mighte bestowe vpon you some spirituall gifte to strēgth you that is that I mighte be conforted with you thorow yo faith myne which we haue together But I wolde ye shulde knowe brethren how that I haue often tymes purposed to come vnto you but haue bene let hither to that I mighte do some good amonge you like as amonge other Gentyles I am detter both to the Grekes and to the vngrekes to the wyse and to the vnwyse Wherfore as moch as ī me is I am ready to preach the Gospell vnto you at Rome also For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ for it is the power of God which saueth all that beleue theron the Iewe first also the Greke for in it y e righteousnes that is of value before God is opened which cōmeth out of faith ī to faith As it is wryttē The iust shal lyue by his faith For y e wrath of God is declared from heauen vpon all vngodlynes and vnrighteousnes of mē which witholde the trueth of God in vnrighteousnes because that it which maye be knowne of God is manifest with thē For God hath shewed it vnto thē that the inuisible thinges of God that is his euerlastinge power and Godheade mighte be sene whyle they are considered by the workes from the creacion of the worlde so that they are without excuse in as moch as they knewe that there is a God and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him but became vayne in their ymaginacions and their foolish hert was blynded Whan they counted them selues wyse they became fooles and turned y e glory of the incorruptible God in to y e symilitude of y e ymage of a corruptible mā of byrdes of foure foted of crepinge
iudge them that are without Do ye not iudge thē that are within As for them that are without God shal iudge them Put awaye frō you him that is euell The VI. Chapter HOw dare one off you hauynge busynes with another go to lawe before the vnrighteous and not before the sayntes Do ye not knowe that the sayntes shal iudge the worlde Yf the worlde then shal be iudged off you are ye not good ynough to iudge small matters Knowe ye not that we shal iudge the angels how moch more thinges that pertayne to the tēporall life Therfore yf ye haue iudgmentes of temporall matters take them that are despysed in the congregacion and set them to be iudges This I saye to youre shame Is there vtterly no wyse man amōge you What not one at all that can iudge betwene brother brother but one brother goeth to lawe with another and that before the vnbeleuers Now therfore is there vtterly a faute amōge you that ye go to lawe one with another Why rather suffre ye not wronge Why suffre ye not youre selues rather to be defrauded but ye youre selues do wrōge and defraude and that euen the brethrē Knowe ye not that y e vnrighteous shal not inheret the kyngdome of God Be not disceaued Nether whoremongers ner worshippers off ymages ner breakers off wedlocke ner weaklinges nether abusers of them selues with mankynde ner theues nether the couetous ner drōkardes ner cursed speakers ner extorcioners shal inheret the kyngdome of God And soch haue some of you bene but ye are waszhed ye are sanctified ye are made righteous by the name of the LORDE Iesus and by the sprete of oure God I maye do all thinges but all thinges are not profitable I maye do all thinges but I wil be broughte vnder no mās power Meates are ordeyned for y e bely the bely for meates But God shal destroye both it and them The body belongeth not vnto whordome but vnto the LORDE and the LORDE vnto the body God hath raysed vp the LORDE and shal rayse vs vp also by his power Knowe ye not that youre bodies are the mēbres of Christ Shal I now take the membres of Christ and make them the membres of an harlot God forbyd Or do ye not knowe that he which cleueth vnto an harlot is one body For they shal be two sayeth he in one fleszhe But he that cleueth vnto the LORDE is one sprete Fle whordome All synnes y t a man doth are without the body But he that commytteth whordome synneth agaynst his awne body Or knowe ye not that youre body is the temple of the holy goost Whom ye haue of God and are not youre awne For ye are dearly boughte Prayse ye God therfore in yo body in yo sprete which are Gods The VII Chapter AS concernynge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me I answere It is good for a man not to touche a woman Neuertheles to avoyde whordome let euery man haue his awne wife and let euery woman haue hir awne huszbande Let the mā geue vnto the wife due beneuolence likewyse also the wife vnto y e man The wife hath not power ouer hir awne body but the huszbande likewyse the man hath not power ouer his awne body but the wife Withdrawe not yo selues one frō another excepte it be with the consent of both for a tyme that ye maye geue youre selues vnto fastinge and prayer and thē come together agayne lest Sathan tempte you for yo incontynēcye But this I saye of fauoure and not of commaundemēt Howbeit I wolde rather y t all mē were as I am Neuertheles euery one hath his proper gifte of God one thus another so To them verely y t are vnmaried and to wedowes I saye It is good for thē that they abyde also as I do But yf they cannot absteyne let them mary For it is better to mary then to burne But vnto them that are maried commaunde not I but the LORDE that the wife separate not her selfe from the huszbande but yf she separate her selfe y t she remayne vnmaried or be reconcyled to hir huszbande and let not the huszbande put awaye his wife from him As for the other vnto thē saye I not y e LORDE Yf eny brother haue an vnbeleuynge wife and she is content to dwell with him let him not put hir awaye And yf a woman haue an vnbeleuynge huszbande and he is content to dwell with her let her not put him awaye For the vnbeleuynge huszbande is sanctified by the wife and the vnbeleuynge wife is sanctified by the huszbande or els were youre children vncleane but now are they holy But yf the vnbeleuynge departe let him departe A brother or a sister is not boūde in soch cases but God hath called vs in peace For what knowest thou O womā whether thou shalt saue y e mā Or what knowest thou O man whether thou shalt saue the woman But euen as God hath distributed vnto euery one and as the LORDE hath called euery man so let him walke and so orden I in all congregacions Yf eny man be called beynge circumcysed let him take no Heythenshippe vpon him Yf eny man be called in the Heythenshippe let him not be circumcysed Circumcision is nothinge and vncircumcision is nothinge but the kepynge of the commaundementes of God Let euery one abyde in the callynge wherin he is called Art thou called a seruaūt care not for it neuertheles yf thou mayest be fre vse it rather For he that is called in the LORDE beynge a seruaūte is a freman of the LORDE Likewyse he that is called beynge fre is a seruaūt of Christ. Ye are dearly boughte be not ye the seruauntes of men Brethren let euery one wherin he is called therin abyde with God As concernynge virgins I haue no commaundement of the LORDE neuertheles I saye my goodmeanynge as I haue optayned mercy of the LORDE to be faithfull I suppose it is good for y e present necessite for it is good for a man so to be Art thou bounde vnto a wife seke not to be lowsed Art thou lowsed frō a wife seke not a wife But yf thou take a wife thou synnest not And yf a virgin mary she synneth not Neuertheles soch shal haue trouble in the fleszhe But I fauoure you Howbeit this I saye brethren the tyme is shorte Farthermore this is the meanynge y t they which haue wyues be as though they had none and they that wepe be as though they wepte not and they that reioyse be as though they reioysed not they that bye be as though they possessed not they that vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not For the faszhion off this worlde passeth awaye But I wolde that ye shulde be without care He that is syngle careth for the thinges of the LORDE how he maye please the LORDE But he that is
fro me of which sorte are Phigelus and Hermogenes The LORDE geue mercy vnto the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreszhed me and was not aszhamed of my cheyne but whan he was at Rome he soughte me out very diligently and founde me The LORDE graunte vnto him that he maye fynde mercy with the LORDE in that daye And how moch he mynistred vnto me at Ephesus thou knowest very well The II. Chapter THou therfore my sonne be stronge thorow the grace which is in Christ Iesu. And what thinges thou hast herde of me by many witnesses the same commytte thou vnto faithfull men which are apte to teach other Thou therfore suffre affliccion as a good soudyer off Iesu Christ. No maÌ„ that warreth tangleth himselfe with wordly busynesses that because he wolde please him which hath chosen him to be a soudyer And though a man stryue for a mastrye yet is he not crowned excepte he stryue laufully The huszbandman that laboureth must first enioye the frutes Consydre what I saye The LORDE shal geue the vnderstondynge in all thinges Remembre that Iesus Christ beynge of the sede of Dauid rose agayne froÌ„ the deed acordynge to my Gospell wherein I suffre as an euell doer euen vnto bandes but the worde of God is not bounde Therfore suffre I all for the electes sakes that they also mighte optayne the saluacion in Christ Iesu with eternall glory This is a true sayenge Yf we be deed w t him we shal lyue with him also Yf we be pacient we shal also raigne with him Yf we denye him he also shal denye vs Yf we beleue not yet abydeth he faithfull he can not denye himselfe Of these thinges put thou them in remeÌ„braunce and testifye before the LORDE that they stryue not aboute wordes which is to no profit but to peruerte the hearers Study to shewe thy selfe vnto God a laudable workman that nedeth not to be ashamed deuydynge the worde of trueth iustly As for vngoostly and vayne talkynges eschue them for they helpe moch to vngodlynes and their worde fretteth as doth a canker Of whose nombre is Hymeneos Philetus which as concernynge the trueth haue erred sayenge that the resurreccion is past allready and haue destroyed the faith of dyuerse personnes But y e sure grounde of God stondeth fast and hath this seale The LORDE knoweth them that are his and let euery maÌ„ that calleth vpon the name of Christ departe from iniquyte Notwithstondynge in a greate house are not onely vessels of golde and of syluer but also of wod and of earth some for honoure and some to dishonoure But yf a man pourge himselfe from soch felowes he shal be a vessell sanctified vnto honoure mete for the LORDE and prepared vnto all good workes Fle thou the lustes of youth â–ª but folowe righteousnes faith loue peace â–ª with all them that call vpon the LORDâ— with pure hert As for folish questions anâ— soch as teach not put them froÌ„ the for thoâ— knowest that they do but geÌ„der stryfe Thâ— seruaunt of the LORDE ought not to stryue but to be gentle vnto euery man apte to teach one that can forbeare the euell one y t can with mekenesse enfourme â—hem y t 〈◊〉 yf God at eny tyme wyl geue 〈…〉 for to knowe the trueth 〈…〉 agayne from the snare of 〈…〉 are holden in preson of him 〈…〉 The III. Chapter BVT this shalt thou knowe that in the last dayes shal come parelous tymes For there shal be meÌ„ which shal holde of theÌ„ selues couetous boasters proude cursed speakers dishobedient to their elders vnthankfull vngoostly vnkynde truce breakers false accusers ryatours fearce despysers of them which are good traytours heady hye mynded gredy vpon voluptuousnes more then the louers of God hauynge a shyne off godly lyuynge but denyenge the power therof And soch avoyde Of this sorte are they which ruÌ„ne froÌ„ house to house brynge in to bondage wemeÌ„ ladeÌ„ w t synne which wemen are led with dyuerse lustes euer lernynge and are neuer able to come vnto the knowlege of the trueth But like as Iamnes and IaÌ„bres withstode Moses euen so do these also resist the trueth meÌ„ they are of corrupte myndes and lewde as coÌ„cernynge y e faith but they shal preuayle no longer For their folishnes shal be manifest vnto all men as theirs was But thou hast sene the experience of my doctryne my faszhion of lyuynge my purpose my faith my longsufferynge my loue my pacience my persecucions my affliccions which happened vnto me at Antioche at Iconium at Lystra which persecucions I suffred paciently and from theÌ„ all the LORDE delyuered me Yee and all they that wil lyue godly in Christ Iesu must suffre persecucion But the euell men and disceauers shal waxe worse and worse disceauynge and beynge disceaued But contynue thou in the thinges that thou hast lerned which also were coÌ„mytted vnto the seynge thou knowest of whoÌ„ thou hast learned them And for so moch as thou hast knowne holy scripture of a childe the same is able to make y e wyse vnto saluacion thorow the faith in Christ Iesu. For all scripture geueÌ„ by inspiracion of God is profitable to teach to improue to amende and to instructe in righteousnes that a man off God maye be perfecte and prepared vnto all good workes The IIII. Chapter I Testifye therfore before God before the LORDE Iesu Christ which shal come to iudge the lyuynge and â—he deed at â—is appearynge in his kyngdoâ—◠〈…〉 each â—hou the worde be feruent be it 〈…〉 out of season Improue rebuke 〈…〉 all longe sufferynge and 〈…〉 wil come whan they shal not suffre wholsome doctryne but after their awne lustes shal they whose eares ytche get them an heape of teachers and shal turne their eares from the trueth and shal be geuen vnto fables But watch thou in all thinges suffre aduersite do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell fulfyll thine office vnto the vttemost For I am now ready to be offered and the tyme of my departinge is at honde I haue foughte a good fighte I haue fulfylled the course I haue kepte the faith From hence forth there is layed vp for me a crowne of righteousnes which the LORDE the righteous iudge shal geue me in y t daye Howbeit not vnto me onely but vnto all them that loue his coÌ„mynge Make spede to come vnto me at once For Demas hath lefte me and loueth this present worlde and is departed vnto Tessalonica Crescens in to Galacia Titus vnto Dalmacia Onely Lucas is with me Take Marke brynge him with the for he is profitable vnto me to the mynistracion Tichicus haue I sent to Ephesus The cloke that I lefte at Troada with Carpus brynge with the whan thou commest and the bokes but specially the parchemeÌ„t AlexaÌ„der the coppersmyth dyd me moch euell the LORDE rewarde him
and the betwene my sede and y e sede for euer And Ionathas gat him vp and came in to the cite The XXI Chapter DAuid came to Nobe to y e prest Ahimelech And Ahimelech was astonnyed whan he sawe Dauid comminge and sayde vnto him Why commest thou alone and no man is with the Dauid sayde vnto Ahimelech the prest The kinge hath coÌ„mytted a matter vnto me and sayde Let nomaÌ„ knowe wherfore I haue sent the and what I haue commaunded the for I haue appoynted my seruauÌ„tes to mete me here there Yf thou haue now ought vnder thy hande a loafe of bred or fyue geue me the same in my hande or what so euer thou findest The prest answered Dauid and sayde I haue no comen bred vnder my hande but the holy bred yf the yonge men haue onely refrained them selues from wemen Dauid answered the prest and sayde vnto him The wemen were kepte thre dayes from vs whan we departed forth and the yonge mens vessels were holy But this waye is vnholy neuerthelesse it shal be santifyed to daye in the instrumentes Then the prest gaue him of y e holy in so moch as there was none other bred but the shewbredes which were taken vp before the LORDE that there might be other fresh bredes set therin the daye whaÌ„ he toke them awaye But the same daye was there a man spâ—â—red in before the LORDE one of Sauls seruauntes named Doeg an Edomite y e mightiest amonge Sauls hyrdmen And Dauid sayde vnto Ahimelech Is there not a speare or a swerde here vnder thine hande I haue not taken my swerde and weapens with me for the kynges matter requyred haist The prest sayde The swerde of Goliath the Philistyne whom thou smotest in the Oke valley is here wrapped in a cloth behynde the ouerbody cote Yf thou wylt haue it take it for here is els none but it Dauid sayde There is not soch another geue me it And Dauid gat him vp and fled from Saul and came to Achis y e kynge of Gath. But Achis seruauntes sayde vnto him This is Dauid the kynge of the londe of whom they sunge in the daunse and sayde Saul hath smytten his thousande but Dauid his ten thousande And Dauid toke these wordes to hert and was sore afrayed of Achis the kynge of Gath and altered his countenaunce before them and shewed himselfe â—s he had bene madd in their handes and stackered towarde the dores of the gate and his slauerynges ranne downe his beerd Then sayde Achis vnto his seruauntes Beholde ye se that the man is out of his wyt why haue ye brought him vnto me Haue I to fewe madd men that ye haue brought this hither to be madd before me Shulde he come in to my house The XXII Chapter DAuid wente froÌ„ thence fled vnto the caue of Adullam Whan his brethren and all his fathers house herde that they came downe thither vnto him And there gathered vnto him all men that were in trouble and det and sory of hert and he became their heade so that there 〈◊〉 with him vpon a foure hundreth men And Dauid wente from thence towarde Mispa in the londe of the Moabites and sayde vnto the kynge of the Moabites Let my father and my mother go out and in amonge you tyll I se what God wil do with me And he lefte them before the kynge of y e Moabites so that they remayned by him as longe as Dauid was in the castell Neuertheles the prophet Gad sayde vnto Dauid Abyde not in the castell but go y t waye and come in to the londe of Iuda Then departed Dauid and came into the wodd of Hareth And Saul herde that Dauid and the men which were with him were come forth Now whyle Saul dwelt at Gibea vnder a groue in Rama he had a Iauelinge in his hande and all his seruauntes stode by him Then sayde Saul vnto his seruauntes that stode by him Heare ye children of Ieminir Shal the sonne of Isai geue loÌ„des and vynyardes vnto you all make you all captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer huÌ„dreds that ye haue all conspyred agaynst me and there is no maÌ„ that sheweth it before myne eares for so moch as my sonne also hath made a couenaunt with the sonne of Isai There is no man amonge you that letteth it for my sake or y t openeth it vnto myne eares for my sonne hath stered vp my seruauntes against me that he maye laye wayte for me as it is manifest Then answered Doeg y e Edomite which stode besyde Sauls seruauntes and sayde I sawe the sonne of Isai that he came vnto Nobe to Ahimelech y e sonne of Achitob which axed councell at the LORDE for him and gaue him fode the swerde of Goliath the Philistyne Then sent the kynge and caused to call Ahimelech the prest the sonne of Achitob and all his fathers house the prestes that were at Nobe and they came all to the kynge And Saul sayde Heare thou sonne of Achitob He saide Here am I my lorde And Saul sayde vnto him Wherfore haue ye coÌ„spyred agaynst me thou the sonne of Isai that thou hast geuen him bred and a swerde and axed councell at God for him to stere him vp that he mighte laye awayte for me as it is manifest Ahimelech answered the kynge and saide And who is amonge all thy seruauntes like Dauid which is faithfull and hath maried the kynges doughter and goeth in thine obedience is honorably taken in thine house Haue I begonne then first this daye to axe councell at God for him That be farre fro me Let not the kinge laie soch to his seruauÌ„tes charge in all my fathers house for thy seruaunt knewe not of all these thinges nether small ner greate Neuertheles the kynge saide Ahimelech thou must dye y e death thou and all thy fathers house And the kynge sayde to his fote men that stode by him Turne you and slaye the prestes of the LORDE for their hande is with Dauid also Not withstondinge the kynges seruauntes wolde not not laye their handes vpon y e prestes of the LORDE to slaye them Then saide y e kynge vnto Doeg Turne the and slaye the prestes Doeg the Edomite turned him and slewe the prestes so that the same daye there dyed fyue and foure score men which wayre ouerbody cotes of lynnen And Nob the cite of the prestes smote he with the edge of the swerde both men and wemen children and sucklynges oxen and asses and shepe Neuerthelesse there escaped a sonne of Ahimelech the sonne of Achitob whose name was Abiathar and fled after Dauid and tolde him that Saul had slayne y e prestes of the LORDE Dauid sayde vnto Abiathar I knewe well the same daye that Doeg the Edomite was there that he wolde tell Saul I am giltye of the soules of thy fathers house Abyde thou with me and feare not He that layeth wayte for my lyfe shall laye wayte
for thyne also and thou shalt be preserued with me The XXIII Chapter ANd it was tolde Dauid Beholde the Philistynes fight against Cegila and spoyle the barnes Then Dauid axed at the LORDE and sayde Shal I go smyte these Philistynes And the LORDE sayde vnto Dauid Go thy waye thou shalt smyte the Philistynes and delyuer Cegila But y e men that were with Dauid sayde vnto him Beholde we are here in feare in Iewry and shall we go to Cegila vnto the hoost of the Philistynes TheÌ„ Dauid axed at the LORDE agayne And the LORDE answered him and sayde Vp get the downe to Cegila for I wil delyuer the Philistynes in to thy hande So Dauid wente with his men vnto Cegila and foughte agaynst the Philistynes droue awaye their catell and smote them w t a greate slaughter Thus Dauid delyuered them of Cegila For whan Abiathar the sonne of Ahimelech fled vnto Dauid at Cegila he baâ—e downe the ouerbody cote with him TheÌ„ was it tolde Saul that Dauid was come to Cegila and he sayde God hath deliuered him in to my haÌ„de for he is shut fast in now that he is come in to a cite which is kepte w t gates and barres And Saul caused for to call all the people downe to y e battaill vnto Cegila y t they might besege Dauid and his men But whan Dauid perceaued y t Saul inteÌ„ded euell against him he saide vnto Abiathar y e prest * Brynge me hither the ouerbody cote And Dauid sayde O LORDE God of Israel thy seruaunt hath herde that Saul goeth aboute to come for to destroye the cite of Cegila for my sake Shal the citysens of Cegila delyuer me ouer in to his handes And shal Saul come downe as thy seruaunt hath herde Tell thy seruaunt this O LORDE God of Israel And the LORDE saide He shal come downe Dauid sayde Shall the citysens of Cegila delyuer me and my men in to Sauls handes The LORDE sayde Yee TheÌ„ Dauid gat him vp with his meÌ„ of whom there were vpon a sixe hundreth walked whither they coulde Now whan it was tolde Saul that Dauid was escaped from Cegila he let his iourney stonde As for Dauid he remayned in the wildernes in the castell and abode vpon the mount in the wildernes of Siph. But Saul soughte him as longe as he lyued Neuertheles God gaue him not in to his handes And Dauid sawe that Saul was gone forth to seke after his life But Dauid was in the wildernes of Siph in the wodd Then Ionathas the sonne of Saul gat him vp and weÌ„te vnto Dauid in to the wod and strengthed his hande in God and sayde vnto him Feare not my father Sauls hande shal not finde y e and thou shalt be kynge ouer Israel so will I be the nexte vnto the. And y t my father knoweth right well And they made a couenaunt both together before the LORDE And Dauid remayned in the wodd As for Ionathas he wente home agayne But the Siphites wente vp to Saul vnto Gibeath and sayde Is not Dauid hyd with vs in the castell in y e wodd vpon mouÌ„t Hachila which lyeth on the righte hande of the wildernesse Let the kynge come downe now therfore acordinge to all the desyre of his hert and we wyll delyuer him in to the kynges hande Then sayde Saul Blessed be ye of the LORDE that ye haue had pytie vpon me Go youre waye now therfore and be sure that ye maye knowe and se in what place his fete haue bene and who hath sene him there for it is tolde me that he is full of sotiltye Loke well and spye out all the places where he hydeth him and come agayne to me whan ye are sure and I will go with you Yf he be in the londe I wyl enquere after him amonge all the thousandes in Iudâ— Then gat they them vp and wente their waye vnto Siph before Saul But Dauid and his men were in the wyldernes of MaoÌ„ euen in the felde on the righte hande of the wildernes Now whan Saul wente thither with his men to seke him it was tolde Dauid and he gat him downe to the rocke and abode in the wildernesse of Mahon Whan Saul herde that he folowed after Dauid in the wildernesse of Mahon And Saul with his men wente on the one syde of the hyll Dauid w t his men on y e other syde of y e hill But whan Dauid made haist to escape from Saul Saul with his men compased aboute Dauid and his men that he might take theÌ„ Neuertheles there came a messauÌ„ger vnto Saul and sayde Make haist and come for the Philistynes are falleÌ„ in to the londe TheÌ„ Saul turned him from chacynge of Dauid and wente agaynst the Philstynes Therfore is y e place called Sela Mahelkoth And Dauid wente vp from thence and abode in the castell at En Gaddi The XXIIII Chapter NOw whan Saul came agayne from the Philistines it was tolde him Beholde Dauid is in the wyldernes of Engaddi And Saul toke thre thousande chosen men out of all Israel and wente to seke Dauid with his men vpon the stony rockes of the wylde goates And whan he came to the shepe foldes by y e waye there was a caue and Saul wente in to couer his fete But Dauid and his men sat behinde within the caue Then sayde Dauids men vnto him Lo this is the daye wherof the LORDE thy God hath sayde vnto the Beholde I wyll delyuer thyne enemye in to thy hande that thou mayest do w t him what it pleaseth the. And Dauid stode vp cut of the typpe of Sauls garment quyetly Neuertheles it smote him afterwarde in his hert because he had cut of the typpe of Sauls garment and sayde vnto his men The LORDE let that be farre fro me that I shulde do it laye my hande vpoÌ„ my lorde the LORDES anoyntd for he is y e anoynted of the LORDE And Dauid withelde his seruauÌ„tes with wordes suffred theÌ„ not to ryse vp agaynst Saul But whan Saul gat him vp out of the caue and was goinge his waye Dauid rose vp also after him and wente out of the caue and cried behynde Saul sayde My lorde the kynge And Saul loked behynde him And Dauid bowed downe his face to the earth and worshipped and sayde vnto Saul Why herkenest thou vnto the wordes of men that saye Dauid seketh thy mysfortune Beholde thine eyes se this daye that the LORDE gaue the in to my hande in the caue and I was counceled to slaye the Neuertheles thou wast fauoured for I sayde I wil not laye my hande vpon my lorde for he is the LORDES anoynted Beholde my father the typpe of thy garment in my hande that I wolde not slaye the whan I cut of the typpe of thy garment Knowe and se y t there is no euell ner trespace in my hande nether haue I offended the and thou folowest after my soule to take it awaye The
Moabites also fell awaye from Israel whan Achab was deed And Ochosias fell thorow y e grate in his chāber at Samaria and was deed sicke and sent messaungers and sayde vnto them Go youre waye and axe councell at Beelzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recouer from this sicknesse But the angell of y e LORDE sayde vnto Elias the Theszbite Vp go mete the messaungers of the kynge of Samaria and saie vnto them Is there no God in Israel that ye go to axe councell at y e god of Ekron Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE Thou shalt not come from the bed wheron thou lyest but shalt dye the death And Elias wente his waye And whā y e messaunges came to Ochosias agayne he sayde vnto thē Why come ye agayne They sayde vnto him There came vp a man in oure waye and sayde vnto vs Go againe to the kinge that hath sent you and saye vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE Is there no God in Israel y t thou sendest to axe coūcel at Beelzebub y e god of Ekrō Therfore shalt thou not come from y e bed wheron thou lyest but shalt dye the death He sayde vnto them What maner of man was it that mett you and sayde this vnto you They sayde vnto him He had a rough heer vpon him and a letheren gyrdell aboute his loynes He sayde It is Elias the Theszbite And he sent vnto him a captaine ouer fiftye with the same fyftye And whan he came vnto him beholde he sat aboue vpon the moūt He sayde vnto him Thou mā of God the kynge sayeth Thou shalt come downe Elias answered the captayne ouer fyftye and sayde vnto him Yf I be a man of God the fyre fall downe then from heauen and cōsume the and thy fyftie Then fell there fire from heauen and consumed him and his fyftye And agayne he sent another captayne ouer fyftye vnto him with his fyftye which answered and sayde vnto him Thou man of God thus sayeth the kynge Come downe in all the haist Elias answered and saide Yf I be a mā of God y e fire fall downe from heauen and consume the and thy fyftye Then fell the fyre of God from heauen consumed him and his fyftye Agayne he sent vnto him the thirde captayne ouer fyftye with his fyftie Now whan he came to him he kneled to Elias and besoughte him and sayde vnto him Thou man of God let my soule and y e soules of thy seruauntes these fyftye be somwhat worth in thy syghte Beholde the fyre fell downe from heauen and hath consumed the fyrst two captaynes ouer fyftye w t their fyftyes But now let my soule be somwhat worth in thy sighte Then saide the angel of the LORDE vnto Elias Go downe with him and feare him not And he gatt him vp and wente downe with him vnto y e kynge And he sayde vnto him Thus saieth the LORDE Because thou hast sent forth messaūgers and caused to axe councell at Beelzebub the god of Ekron as though there were no God in Israel to axe coūcell at his worde therfore shalt thou not come from the bed wheron thou hast layed the but shalt dye y e death So he dyed acordynge to the worde of the LORDE which Elias sayde And Ioram his brother was kynge in his steade in the seconde yeare of Ioram the sonne of Iosaphat kynge of Iuda for he had no sonne What more there is to saye of Ochosias what he dyd beholde it is wryttē in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel The II. Chapter WHan the LORDE was mynded to take vp Elias in the tempest Elias and Eliseus wente from Gilgall And Elias sayde to Eliseus Tary thou here I praye the for the LORDE hath sent me vnto Bethel But Eliseus sayde As truly as the LORDE liueth and as truly as thy soule lyueth I wyll not forsake the. And whan they came downe vnto Bethel the prophetes children that were at Bethel wēte forth to Eliseus and sayde vnto him Knowest thou not that the LORDE wyl take thy lorde awaye from thy heade this daye He saide I knowe it well holde ye youre peace And Elias sayde vnto him Eliseus tary thou here I praye the for the LORDE hath sent me vnto Iericho Neuerthelesse he sayde as truly as the LORDE lyueth and as truly as thy soule lyueth I wyl not forsake the And whan they came vnto Iericho the prophetes children which were at Iericho stepte forth to Eliseus and sayde vnto him Knowest thou not that the LORDE wyll take y e lorde awaye from thy heade this daie He sayde I knowe it well holde ye yo r peace And Elias sayde vnto him I praie the tary here for y e LORDE hath sent me vnto Iordane But he sayde As truly as the LORDE lyueth and as truly as thy soule lyueth I wil not forsake the. And they wente both together But fyftye men of y e prophetes children wēte forth and stode ouer agaynst thē a farre of but they both stode by Iordane Then toke Elias his cloke and wrapped it together and smote the water which deuyded it selfe on both the sydes so that they wēte dry shod thorow it And whan they were come ouer Elias sayde vnto Eliseus Axe what I shall do for the afore I be taken awaye from the. Eliseus saide That thy sprete maye be vpō me to speake twyse as moch He sayde Thou hast desyred an harde thinge neuertheles yf thou shalt se me whā I am taken awaye from the it shal be so Yf no thē shal it not be And as they were goinge together and he talked there came a fyrie charet with horses of fyre and parted thē both asunder And so wente Elias vp to heauen in the storme But Eliseus sawe it cryed My father my father the charetman of Israel and his horsmē And he sawe him nomore And he toke holde of his clothes and rente them in two peces and toke vp Elias cloke that was fallen from him and turned backe and stode by the shore of Iordane and toke the same cloke of Elias which was fallen from him and smote it in the water and saide Where is now the LORDE God of Elias And he smote it in to the water and then parted it asunder on both the sydes and Eliseus wente thorow And whan the prophetes children which were at Iericho ouer agynst him sawe him they sayde The sprete of Elias resteth vpō Eliseus and so they wēte forth to mete him and worshipped him to the groūde and sayde vnto him Beholde there are fiftye valeaunt mē amonge thy seruauntes let them go and seke thy lorde peraduenture the sprete of the LORDE hath taken him and cast him vpon some mountaine or in some valley But he saide Sende them not Neuertheles they constrayned him tyll he was ashamed and sayde Let them go And they sent fiftye men which soughte him thre dayes but they founde him not and came agayne vnto him And he abode at Iericho and
sayde vnto them Tolde not I you that ye shulde not go And the men of the cite sayde vnto Eliseus Beholde there is good dwellynge in this cite as my lorde seyth but the water is euell and the londe vnfrutefull He sayde Bringe me hither a new vessell put salt in it And they broughte it him Then wēte he forth vnto the well of water and cast the salt therin sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE I haue healed this water from hence forth shal there no deed ner vnfrutefulnes come of it So the water was healed vnto this daye acordinge to the worde of Eliseus which he spake And he wēte vp towarde Bethel And as he was goynge vp by the waye there came litle boyes out of the cite and mocked him sayde Come vp here thou balde heade come vp here thou balde heade And he turned him aboute And whā he sawe them he cursed them in the name of the LORDE Then came there two Beeres out of the wod and tente two and fortye of the children From thence wēte he vp vnto mount Carmel and from it turned he backe to Samaria The III. Chapter IOram the sonne of Achab was kynge ouer Israel at Samaria in y e eightenth yeare of Iosaphat kynge of Iuda raigned xij yeares dyd y t which was euell in y e sighte of y e LORDE but not as his father his mother for he put awaye y e pilers of Baal which his father caused to make Neuertheles he cleued vnto y e synnes of Ieroboā y e sonne of Nebat which made Israel for to synne departed not there frō Mesa y e kynge of the Moabites had many shepe payed tribute vnto the kynge of Israel w t the woll of an hundreth thousande lābes of an hūdreth thousande rāmes But whan Achab was deed the kynge of y e Moabites fell awaye frō the kynge of Israel At y e same tyme wēte kynge Ioram frō Samaria mustered all Israel sent vnto Iosaphat kynge of Iuda sayenge The kynge of the Moabites is fallen awaye fro me come thou w t me to fighte agaynst y e Moabites He sayde I wil come vp I am euen as thou and my people as y e people and my horses as thy horses And sayde morouer Which waye wil we go vp He sayde by the waye in the wyldernesse of Edom. So the kynge of Israel the kynge of Iuda the kynge of Edom wente forth And whan they had gone aboute seuē dayes iourney y e hoost the catell y t were amonge thē had no water Then sayde the kynge of Israel Alas the LORDE hath called these thre kynges to delyuer thē into the hande of the Moabites But Iosaphat sayde Is here no prophet of y e LORDE y t we maye axe coūcell at y e LORDE by him Then answered one of y e kynge of Israels seruauntes saide Here is Eliseus y e sonne of Saphat which poured water vpon Elias handes Iosaphat sayde The worde of y e LORDE is with him So the kynge of Israel Iosaphat and y e kynge of Edom wente downe vnto him But Eliseus sayde vnto the kynge of Israel What hast thou to do w t me go to the prophetes of thy father to y e mothers prophetes The kinge of Israel saide vnto him No for y e LORDE hath called these thre kynges to delyuer them in to the handes of the Moabites Eliseus sayde As truly as the LORDE Zebaoth lyueth before whom I stōde yf I regarded not Iosaphat the kynge of Iuda I wolde not regarde the ner set oughte by ye. So bringe me now a mynstrell And whan the mynstrell played vpō the instrument the hande of the LORDE came vpō him And he sayde Thus sayeth the LORDE Make pittes by this broke For thus sayeth the LORDE Ye shal se nether wynde ner rayne yet shall the broke be full of water that ye and youre housholdes youre catell maie drynke Yee and that is but a small thinge in the sighte of the LORDE And the Moabites shal he delyuer in to youre handes so y t ye shal smyte all the stronge cities and all y e chosen cities shal fell downe all the good trees and stoppe all the welles of water and all the good feldes shall ye make waist with stones On the morow whan the meat offerynge is offered beholde there came water y e waye from Edom and fylled y e londe with water But whan the Moabites herde y t the kynges came vp to fighte agaynst thē they called all y e harnessed men their rulers stode on y e border And whan they rose early in y e mornynge the Sonne wēte vp vpon y e water the Moabites thoughte the water ouer agaynst thēto be euē as reed as bloude they sayde It is bloude y e kynges haue destroyed them selues w t the swerde one hath smytten another Now Moab get the vp to the spoyles But whan they came to the tentes of Israel the Israelites gat vp smote the Moabites they fled before them Neuertheles they came in smote Moab brake downe the cities euery one cast his stone vpon all the good feldes and made them full and stopped all y e welles of water and felled downe all the good trees tyll there remayned but the stones in the brick-wall and they compased them aboute with slynges and smote them But whā the kynge of y e Moabites sawe y t the battayll was to strōge for him he toke to him seuen C. men which drue y e swerde to fall vpon the kynge of Edom neuertheles they were not able Then toke he his first sonne which shulde haue bene kynge in his steade and offred him for a burnt offerynge vpon the wall Then came there a greate wrath ouer Israel that they departed from him and turned agayne in to their londe The IIII. Chapter ANd there cried a woman amōge the wyues of the prophetes children vnto Eliseus and sayde Thy seruaunt my huszbāde is deed and thou knowest that thy seruaunt feared the LORDE Now commeth the man that he was detter vnto and wyll take awaye both my children to be bonde seruauntes Eliseus sayde vnto her What shal I do forthe Tell me what hast thou in the house She sayde Thy handmayden hath nothinge in the house but a pitcher w t oyle He sayde Go y t waye borowe without of all thy neghboures emptye vessels that not a fewe and go in and shut y e dore behynde the with thy sonnes and poure of it in to all y e vessels whan thou hast fylled them delyuer them forth She wente and shut the dore vnto her with hir sonnes which broughte her the vessels and so she poured in And whan the vessels were full she sayde vnto hir sonne Brynge me yet one vessell He sayde vnto her There is not one vessell more here Then stode y e oyle styll And she sent and tolde the
SioÌ„ aÌ„d pourge the bloude out from IerusaleÌ„ w t y e wynde of his smoke and fyre Morouer vpon all the dwellinges of the hill of Sion and vpon their whole congregacion shal the LORDE prouyde a cloude and smoke by daye and the shyninghe of a flammynge fyre by night for all their glory shal be preserued And Ierusalem shall be a tabernacle for a shadowe because of hete in the daye tyme a place and refuge where a man maye kepe him for wether and rayne The V. Chapter NOw well than I will synge my beloued frende a songe of his vynyearde My beloued frende hath a vyneyearde in a very frutefull plenteous grounde This he hedged this he walled rounde aboute and planted it with goodly grapes In the myddest of it buylded he a towre and made a wyne presse therin And afterwarde when he loked y t it shulde bringe him grapes it brought forth thornes I shewe you now my cause o ye Citysens of Ierusalem and whole Iuda Iudge I praye you betwixte me and my wynegardinge What more coude haue bene done for it that I haue not done Wherfore then hath it geuen thornes where I loked to haue had grapes of it Well I shall tell you how I will do w t my vynyarde I will take the hedge from it that it maye perish and breake downe y e wall that it maye be troden vnder fote I will laye it waist that it shall nether be twysted nor â—ut but beare thornes and breares I wil also forbyd y e cloudes that they shal not rayne vpon it As for the vynyarde of the LORDE of hoostes it is the house of Israel and whole Iuda his fayre plantinge Of these he loked for equyte but se there is wronge for rightuousnesse lo It is but misery Wo to you that ioyne one house to another and bringe one londe so nigh vnto another till ye can get no more grounde Wil ye dwell vpon the earth alone The LORDE of hoostes rowneth me thus iÌ„ myne eare shal not many greater and more gorgious houses be so waist that no man shall dwell in theÌ„ And ten akers of vynes shal geue but a Quarte and xxx bushels of sede shal geue but thre Wo be vnto them that ryse vp early to vse them selues in dronkynnes and yet at night are more superfluous with wyne In whose companies are harpes and lutes tabrettes and pâ—pes and wyne But they regarde not the worke of the LORDE and coÌ„sidre not the operacioÌ„ of his hondes Therfore cometh my folck also in captiuyte because they haue no vnderstondynge Their glory shal be myxte with huÌ„ger and their pryde shal be marred for thurste Therfore gapeth hel and openeth hyr mouth marvelous wyde that pryde boostinge and wisdome with soch as reioyse therin maye descende in to it Thus shal man haue a fall he shal be brought lowe and the high lokes of the proude layde downe But the LORDE of hoostes y e holy God shal be exalted and vntouched when he shal declare his equyte and rightuousnesse after this maner Then shal y e lambes eate their apoynted foder and shal fede plenteously in the mountaynes Wo vnto vayne persones that drawe wickednes vnto theÌ„ as it were with a coorde and synne as it were with a cart rope Which vse to speake on this maner let hâ—m make haist now and go forth w t his worke that we maye se it Let the councel of y e holy one of Israel come and drawe me y t we maye knowe it Wo vnto them that call euel good and good euel which make darcknesselight light darcknesse y t make sower swete and swete sower Wo vnto them that are wyse in their owne sight and thinke them selues to haue vnderstoÌ„dinge Wo vnto them y t are connynge men to suppe out wyne and experte to set vp droÌ„keÌ„nesse These gyue sentence with the vngodly for rewardes but condemne the iust cause of the rightuous Therfore like as fyre licketh vp the strawe and as the flame coÌ„sumeth the stubble Euen so when their root is ful their blossome shal vanish awaye like dust or smoke for they despyse the lawe of the LORDE of hoostes and blaspheme the worde of the holy maker of Israel Therfore is the wrath of the LORDE kyndled also agaynst his people and he shaketh his honde at them yee he shal smyte so that the hilles shal tremble And their carcases shal lye in the opeÌ„ stretes like myre After all this the wrath of God shall not câ—asse but he shal stretch his hoÌ„de wyder â–ª And he shal gyue a tokeÌ„ vnto a straunge people and call vnto them in a farre countre and beholde they shal come hastely with spede There is not one faynt nor feble amonge them no not a slogish nor slepery parsone There shal not one of them put of the gyrdle from his loynes ner lowse the lachet of his shue Their arowes are sharpe and their bowes bent Their horse hoofes are like flynt and their cartwheles like a stormy wynde Their crie is as it were of a lyon and the roaringe of them like lyons whelpes They shal roare and haÌ„tch vp the praye and no man shal recouer it or get it from theÌ„ In that daye they shal be so fearce vpon them as the see And yf we loke vnto the londe beholde it shal be all darcknesse and sorowe Yf we loke to heauen beholde it shal be darck with careful desperacion The vj Chapter IN the same yeare y y kynge Osias dyed I â—aâ—e the LORDE sittinge vpon an high and glorious seate and his trayne fylled y e palace From aboue flakred the Seraphins wherof euery one had sex wynges With twayne ech couered his face w t twayne his fete and with twayne dyd he flye They cried also ech one to other on this maner holy holy holy is the LORDE of hoostes The whole worlde is ful of his glory Yee the geastes and dorechekes moued at their crienge and the house was ful of smoke Then I sayde O wo is me For I was astonished that I which am a man of vnclene lippes and dwell amonge people y t hath vnclene lippes also Shulde se y e Kynge and LORDE of hoostes with myne eyes Then flewe one of the Seraphins vnto me hauinge a hote cole in his honde which he had taken from the aulter with the tonges and touched my mouth and sayde lo this hath touched thy mouth thy vnrightuousnes is taken awaye and thy synne forgeuen After this I herde the voyce of the LORDE takinge advysement on this maner Whom shall I sende and who wil be oure messaunger TheÌ„ I sayde here am I sende me And so he sayde go and tel this people ye shall heare in dede but ye shal not vnderstonde ye shal plane lyse and not perceaue Harden the harte of this people stoppe their eares and shut their eyes that they se not w t their
eyes heare not with their eares and vnderstonde not with their hartes and conuerte and be healed Then spake I LORDE how longe he answered vntil the cities be vtterly without inhabitours and y e houses without men till the loÌ„de be also desolate and lye vnbuylded For the LORDE shal take the men farre awaye so that the londe shal lye waist Neuertheles the tenth parte shal remayne therin for it shal conuerte and be fruteful And like wise as the Terebyntes and Oketrees bringe forth their frutes so shal the holy sede haue frute The seuenth Chapter IT happened in the tyme of Ahas the sonne of Ionathas which was the sonne of Ioathan Kynge of Iuda that Rezin the Kinge of Siria and Poca Rome lies sonne Kynge of Israel wente vp toward Ierusalem to besege it but wanne it not Now when the house of Dauid that is Ahas herde worde therof y t Siria and Ephraim were confederate together his herte quaked yee and y e hertes also of his people like as a tre in the felde that is moued with the wynde Then sayde God vnto Esay go mete Ahas thou and thy sonne Sear Iasub at the heade of y e ouer pole in the fote path by the fullers grounde and saye vnto him take hede to thy self and be still but feare not nether be faynt harted for these two tales that is for these two smokynge fyre brandes the wrath and furiousnes of Rezin the Sirian and Romelies sonne because that the Kynge of Siria Ephraim and Romelies sonne haue wekedly conspyred agaynst the sayenge We will go downe in to Iuda vexe theÌ„ and brynge them vnder vs and set a Kynge there euen the sonne of Taball For thus saieth the LORDE God therto It shall not so go forth nether come so to passe for the head citie of y e Sirians is Damascus but the head of Damascus is Rezin And after fyue and threscore yeare shal Ephraim be nomore a people And the chefe citie of Ephraim is Samaria but the head of Samaria is Rome lies sonne And yf ye beleue not there shall no promyse be kepte with you Morouer God spake vnto Ahas sayenge requyre a token of the LORDE thy God whether it be towarde the depth beneth or towarde y e hight aboue TheÌ„ sayde Ahas I will requyre none nether will I tempte the LORDE The LORDE answered Then he are to ye of the house of Dauid Is it not ynough for you that ye be greuous vnto men but ye must greue my God also And therfore the LORDE shal geue you a token of himself Beholde a virgin shal coÌ„ceaue and beare a sonne and shal call his name Emanuel Butter and hony shal he eate y t he maye knowe the euel and chose y e good But or euer that childe come to knowlege to eschue the euel and chose the good The londe that thou art so afrayde for shal be desolate of both hir kynges The LORDE also shal sende a tyme vpon the vpon thy people and vpoÌ„ thy fathers house soch as neuer came sence the tyme y t Ephraim departed from Iuda thorow y e kynge of the Assirians For at the same tyme shal the LORDE whistle for the flyes y t are aboute the water of Egipte and for y e Beyes in the Assirians londe These shall come and shal light all in the valeyes in y e vowtes of stone vpon all grene thinges and in all corners At the same tyme shal the LORDE shaue the hayre of the heade and the fete and the beerd clene of with the rasoure that he shall paye them withall beyonde the water namely with y e kynge of the Assirians At the same tyme shall a man lyue with a cowe and two shepe Then because of the aboundaunce of mylck he shal make butter and eat it So that euery one which remayneth in the londe shal eate butter and hony At the same tyme all vynyardes though there be a thousand vynes in one and were solde for a thousand siluerlinges shal be turned to brears and thornes Like as they shal come in to the londe with arowes and bowes so shal all the londe become brears and thornes And as for all hilles that now are hewen downe thou shalt not come vpoÌ„ them for feare of brears and thornes But the catel shal be dryuen thither and the shepe shal fede there The viij Chapter MOrouer the LORDE sayde vnto me Take the a greate leaf and wryte in it as men do with a penne that he spede him to robbe and haist him to spoyle And Inmediatly I called vnto me faithful wytnesses Vrias the prest and Zacharias y e sonne of Barachias After that went I vnto the prophetisse that now had conceaued and borne a sonne Then sayde the LORDE to me geue him this name Maherschalal haschbas that is a spedierobber an hastie spoyler For why or euer the childe shal haue knowlege to saye Abi and Im y t is father and mother shal y e riches of Damascus and y e substaunce of Samaria be takeÌ„ awaye thorow the kynge of y e Assirians The LORDE spake also vnto me sayenge for so moch as the people refuseth the stiâ—renninge water of Silo and put their delite in Rezin and Romelies sonne Beholde the LORDE shal bringe mightie and great floudes of water vpon them namely y e kynge of the Assirians with all his power Which shall poure out his furyousnes vpoÌ„ euery man and renne ouer all their bankes And shal breake in vpon Iuda increasinge in power till he get him by the throte He shal fyl also the wydenesse of thy londe w t his brode wynges O Emanuel Go together ye people and gather you herken to all ye of farre countrees Mustre you and gather you mustre you and gather you take youre councel together yet must youre councel come to nought go in honde withal yet shal it not prospere Excepte Emanuel that is God be with us For the LORDE chastised me and toke me by y e honde and warned me sayenge vnto me that I shulde not walcke in the waye of this people He sayde morouer rounde with none of theÌ„ who so euer saye yonder people are bounde together Neuertheles feare them not nether be afrayde of them but sanctifie the LORDE of hoostes let him be youre feare and drede For he is the sanctifienge and stone to stomble at y e rock to fall vpon a snare and net to both the houses to Israel and the inhabitours of Ierusalem And many shal stomble fall and be brokeÌ„ vpon him yee they shal be snared and taken Now laye the witnesses together sayde the LORDE and seale the lawe with my disciples Thus I waite vpon the LORDE that hath turned his face from the house of Iacob and I loke vnto him But lo as for me and the children which the LORDE hath geuen me we are a token and a wondre in Israel for the LORDE of hoostes sake which
The cities of thy Sanctuary lye waist Sion is a wildernesse and Ierusalem a deserte Oure holy house which is oure bewty where oure fathers praysed the is brent vp yee all oure cōmodities and pleasures are waysted awaye Wilt thou not be intreated LORDE for all this Wilt thou holde thy peace and scourge vs so sore The lxv Chapter THey shal seke me that hitherto haue not axed for me they shal fynde me that hither to haue not sought me Then shal I saye immediatly to the people that neuer called vpon my name I am here I am here For thus longe haue I euer holden out my hondes to an vnfaithful people that go not the right waye but after their owne ymaginacions To a people that is euer defyenge me to my face They make their oblacions in gardens and their smoke vpon aulters of bricke they lurck amonge the graues and lie in the dennes all night They eate swyne flesh and vnclene broth is in their vessels Yf thou comest nye them they saie touch me not for I am holyer then thou All these men when I am angrie shal be turned to smoke and fyre that shal burne for euer Beholde it is written before my face shal not be forgotten but recōpensed I shal rewarde it them in to their bosome I meane youre mysdedes and the mysdedes of youre fathers together saieth the LORDE which haue made their smokes vpon the mountaynes and blasphemed me vpon the hilles therfore will I measure their olde dedes in to their bosome agayne Morouer thus saieth the LORDE like as when one wolde gather holy grapes men saye vnto him breake it not of for it is holy Euen so will I do also for my seruauntes sakes that I will not destroye them all But I will take a sede out of Iacob and out of Iuda one to take possession of my hill My chosen shal possesse these thinges my seruauntes shall dwell there Saron shal be a shepefolde and the valley of Achor shal geue stallinge for the catell of my people that feare me But as for you ye are they y t haue for saken the LORDE and forgotten my holy hill Ye haue set vp an aulter vnto fortune geuē rich drink offeringes vnto treasure Therfore wil I nombre you with the swerde that ye shall be destroyed all together For when I called no man gaue me answere when I spake ye herkened not vnto me but dyd wickednes before myne eyes and chosed the thinge that pleased me not Therfore thus saieth the LORDE God Beholde my seruauntes shal eate but ye shall haue honger Beholde my seruauntes shall drynke but ye shal suffre thurste Beholde my seruauntes shal be mery but ye shal be cōfounded Beholde my seruauntes shal reioyse for very quietnesse of herte But ye shal crie for sorow of hert and cōplayne for vexacion of mynde Youre name shal not be sworne by amonge my chosen for God the LORDE shal slaye you and call his seruauntes by another name Who so reioyseth vpō earth shall reioyse in the true God And Who so sweareth vpō earth shal sweare in the true God For the olde enemite shal be forgotten and taken awaye out of my sight For lo I shal make a new heauē a new earth And as for the olde they shall neuer be thought vpō ner kepte in mynde but mē shal be glad and euermore reioyse for the thinges that I shall do For why Beholde I shal make a ioyfull Ierusalē yee I myself will reioyse with Ierusalem be glad with my people And the voyce of wepinge and waylinge shall not be herde in her from thēce forth There shall neuer be childe ner olde man that haue not their full dayes But whē the childe cometh to an hūderth yeare olde it shall dye And yf he that is an hūderth yeare of age do wronge he shal be cursed They shal buylde houses and dwel in them they shal plante vynyardes and eate the frute of them They shall not buylde another possesse they shall not plante and another eate But the life of my people shal be like a tre and so shal the worke of their hondes My chosen shal lyue longe they shall not laboure in vayne ner beget w t trouble for they are the hie blessed sede of the LORDE their frutes with them And it shal be that or euer they call I shal answere them Whyle they are yet but thinkinge how to speake I shal heare them The wolff and the lambe shal fede together and the lyon shal eate haye like the bullocke But earth shal be the serpētes meate There shal no man hurte ner slaye another in all my holy hill saieth the LORDE The lxvj Chapter THus saieth the LORDE Heauē is my seate and the earth is my fote stole Where shal now the house stonde y t ye will buylde vnto me And where shal be the place y t I wil dwel in As for these thinges my hōde hath made them all and they are all created saieth the LORDE Which of them shal I then regarde Euē him that is of a lowly troubled sprete and stōdeth in awe of my wordes For who so slayeth an oxe for me doth me so greate dishonoure as he y t kylleth a mā He that kylleth a shepe for me choketh a dogge He that bringeth me meat offringes offreth swynes bloude Who so maketh me a memoriall of Incense prayseth the thinge y t is vnright Yet take they soch wayes in honde and their soule deliteth in these abhominacions Therfore wil I also haue pleasure in laughinge them to scorne and the thinge that they feare wil I bringe vpon thē For when I called no man gaue answere when I spake they wolde not heare But dyd wickednesse before myne eyes chose the thinges that displease me Heare the worde of God all ye that feare the thinge which he speaketh You re brethren that hate you and cast you out for my names sake saye Let the LORDE magnifie himself that we maye se youre gladnesse yet they shal be cōfounded For as touchinge the cite and the temple I heare the voyce of the LORDE that will rewarde and recompēce his enemies like as when a wife bringeth forth a man childe or euer she suffre the payne of the byrth and anguysh of y e trauayle Who euer herde or sawe soch thinges doth the grounde beare in one daye or are the people borne all at once as Sion beareth his sonnes For thus-sayeth the LORDE Am I he that maketh other to beare and beare not my self Am not I he that beareth and maketh baren saieth thy God Reioyse with Ierusalem be glad with her all ye that loue her Be ioyful with her all ye that mourned for her For ye shal sucke cōforte out of hir brestes and be satisfied Ye shal taist and haue delite in the plenteousnesse of hir power For
compased me aboute yee all thy wawes and rowles of water went ouer me I thought that I had bene cast awaye out of thy sight but I wil yee agayne loke towarde thy holy temple The waters compased me euen to the very soule the depe laye aboute me and the wedes were wrapte aboute myne heade I wente downe to the botome of the hilles was barred in with earth for euer But thou o LORDE my God hast brought vp my lyfe agayne out of corrupcion When my soule faynted within me I thought vpon the LORDE and my prayer came in vnto the euen in to thy holy temple They that holde of vayne vanyties wil forsake his mercy But I wil do the sacrifice with the voyce of thankesgeuynge and wil paye that I haue vowed for why saluacion commeth of the LORDE And y e LORDE spake vnto y e fysh and it cast out Ionas agayne vpon the drye londe The III. Chapter THen came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ionas agayne sayenge vp and get the to Niniue that greate cite preach vnto them the preachinge which I bade the. So Ionas arose and wente to Niniue at the LORDES commaundement Niniue was a greate cite vnto God namely off thre dayes iourney And Ionas wente to and entred in to y e cite euen a dayes iourney and cried sayenge There are yet xl dayes and then shal Niniue be ouerthrowen And the people of Niniue beleued God and proclamed fastinge ▪ and arayed them selues in sack cloth as well the greate as the small of them And the tydinges came vnto y e kinge of Niniue which arose out off his seate and dyd his apparell off and put on sack cloth and sate him downe in asshes And it was cried and commaunded in Niniue by the auctorite of the kīge and his lordes sayenge se that nether man or beest oxe or shepe taist ought at all and that they nether fede ner drincke water but put on sack cloth both man and beest and crye mightely vnto God yee se that euery man turne frō his euell waye and from the wickednesse y t he hath in honde Who can tell God maye turne and repēte and cease from his fearce wrath that we perish not And when God sawe their workes how they turned from their wicked wayes he repented on the euell which he sayde he wolde do vnto them and dyd it not The IIII. Chapter WHerfore Ionas was sore discontēt and angrie And he prayed vnto the LORDE and sayde O LORDE was not this my sayenge I praye the when I was yet in my countre therfore I haisted rather to fle vnto Tharsis for I knowe well ynough that thou art a mercifull God full of compassion lōge sufferinge and of greate kyndnesse and repentest when thou shuldest take punyshment And now o LORDE take my life fro me I beseke the for I had rather dye then lyue Then sayde the LORDE art thou so angrie And Ionas gat him out of the cite and sat downe on y e east syde therof and there made him a bothe and sat vnder it in the shadow till he might se what shulde chaunce vnto the cite And the LORDE God prepared a wylde vyne which sprange vp ouer Ionas that he might haue shadowe aboue his heade to delyuer him out of his payne And Ionas was exceadinge glad of the wylde vyne But vpō the nexte morow agaynst the springe of the daye the LORDE ordened a worme which smote the wylde vyne so that it wethered awaye And when the Sōne was vp God prepared a feruent east wynde and the Sonne bete ouer the heade of Ionas that he faynted agayne and wyszshed vnto his soule that he might dye and sayde It is better for me to dye thē to lyue And God sayd vnto Ionas Art thou so angrie for the wylde vyne And he sayde yee very angrie am I euen vnto the deeth And the LORDE sayde thou hast compassion vpon a wylde vyne wherō thou bestowdest no laboure ner may dest it growe which sprange vp in one night and perished in another And shulde not I then haue compassion vpon Niniue that greate cite wherin there are aboue an C. and xx thousande personnes y t knowe not their right hōde frō the lefte besydes moch catell The ende of the prophet Ionas The Prophet Micheas What Micheas conteyneth Chap. I. He reproueth the people off Israel and Iuda for their wickednesse and Idolatry he telleth them their punyshment with mournynge Chap. II. He rehearseth their abhominacions Chap. III. He reproueth the rulers and the prophetes as cause of the peoples misery Chap. IIII. V He prophecyeth of the saluacion off Gods people in Christ of his kyngdome and power of his gospel Chap. VI. Another reprofe Outwarde offeringes are excluded and here is declared what God requyreth off man Chap. VII The summe off the thinges before sayde The litle flocke of the faithfull The first Chapter THis is the worde of the LORDE that came vnto Micheas the Morastite in the dayes of Ioathan Achas and Ezechias kīges of Iuda which was shewed him vpon Samaria and Ierusalem Heare all ye people marcke this well o earth and all that therin is Yee the LORDE God himself be witnesse amonge you euen y e LORDE from his holy temple For why beholde the LORDE shal go out of his place come downe and treade vpon the hie thinges of the earth The moūtaynes shall consume vnder him the valleys shal cleue asunder like as wax cōsumeth at the fyre as y e waters runne downwarde And all this shal be for the wickednesse of Iacob and the synnes of the house of Israel But what is the wickednesse of Iacob Is not Samaria Which are the hye places of Iuda Is not Ierusalē Therfore I shall make Samaria an heape of stones in the felde to laye aboute the vynyarde hir stones shal I cast in to the valley discouer hir foūdaciōs All hir ymages shal be brokē downe all hir wynnynges shal be brent in the fyre yee all hir Idols will I destroye for why they are gathered out of the hyre of an whore in to an whores hyre shal they be turned agayne Wherfore I wil mourne make lamentacion bare naked will I go I must mourne like y e dragōs take sorow as y e Estriches for their woūde is past remedy And why it is come in to Iuda hath touched y e porte of my people at Ierusalē allredy Wepe not lest they at Geth perceaue it Thou at Betaphra welter thy self in the dust and asshes Thou that dwellest at Sephir get the hence with shame The proude shall boost nomore for very sorowe why hir neghboure shall take from her what she hath The rebellious cite hopeth that it shal not be so euell but for all that the plage shal come from the LORDE euen in to the porte of Ierusalem The greate noyse off the charettes shall feare them