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
vp their heade nomore and the londe was in rest fortye yeares as loÌ„ge as Gedeon lyued And Ierubaal the sonne of Ioas weÌ„te dwelt in his house And Gedeon Had thre score ten sonnes which were come out of his thye for he had many wyues And his concubyne which he had at SicheÌ„ bare him a sonne also whom he called Abimelech And Gideon the sonne of Ioas dyed in a good age was buried at Aphra in y e sepulcre of his father Ioas the father of the Esrites But whan Gedeon was deed the childreÌ„ of Israel turned backe and wente awhoringe after Baalim and made a couenaunt w t Baal Berith y t he shulde be their God And y e childreÌ„ of Israel thoughte not on y e LORDE their God which had delyuered them froÌ„ the hande of their enemies rounde aboute and they shewed not mercy vnto the house of Ierubaal Gedeon acordinge to all the good that he had done vnto Israel The IX Chapter ABimelech the sonne of Ierubaal wente vnto SicheÌ„ to his mothers brethren spake vnto them to all the kynred of his mothers fathers house and sayde I praye you speake in the eares of all the men at Sichem What is better for you that threscore and ten men all children of Ierubaal shulde be lordes ouer you or that one man shulde be lorde ouer you Remembre also that I am youre bone and youre flesh Then spake his mothers brethreÌ„ all these wordes for him in y e eares of all y e men at Sichem And their hert enclyned to Abimelech for they thoughte He is oure brother and gaue him thre score and ten syluerlinges out of y e house of Baal Berith And w t them Abimelech hyred men that were vagabundes and of light condicions which folowed him And he came to his fathers house vnto Aphra and slew his brethren the children of Ierubaal euen thre score men and teÌ„ vpon one stone But Iotham the yongest sonne of Ierubaal remayned ouer for he was hydd And all the men of Sichem and all the house of Millo gathered them selues together and wente and made Abimelech kynge by the Oke that stondeth at Sichem Whan this was tolde Iotham he wente and stode vpon the toppe of mount Grisim and lifte vp his voyce cried and sayde Heare me ye men of Sichem that God maye heare you also The trees wente to anointe a kinde ouer them and sayde vnto the Olyue tre Be thou oure kynge But the Olyue tre answered them Shall I go and leaue my fatnesse which both God and men commende in me and go to be puft vp aboue the trees Then sayde the trees vnto the fygge tre Come thou and be kynge ouer vs. But the fygge tre sayde vnto theÌ„ Shal I leaue my swetnes and my good frute and go to be puft vp aboue the trees Then sayde the trees vnto the vyne Come thou and be oure kinge But the vyne sayde vnto them Shal I leaue my swete wyne which reioyseth God and men and go to be puft vp aboue the trees TheÌ„ sayde all the trees vnto the thorne buszshe Come thou and be kynge ouer vs. And the thorne buszshe sayde vnto the trees Yf it be true y t ye anoynte me to be kynge ouer you theÌ„ come and put youre trust vnder my shadowe Yf no then go fyre out of the thorne buszshe coÌ„sume y e Ceder trees of LibanoÌ„ Yf ye haue done right now and iustly y t ye haue made Abimelech to be kynge and yf ye haue done well vnto Ierubaal and to his house and haue done vnto him as he deserued vnto you Which euen my father foughte for youre sakes and ioperde his lyfe to delyuer out of the Madianites haÌ„de eueÌ„ you which are rysen vp this daye agaynst my fathers house haue slaine his childreÌ„ thre score personnes ten vpon one stone and haue made you a kynge euen Abimelech the sonne of his handmaide ouer the men at Sichem for so moch as he is youre brother Yf ye haue done right now and iustly vnto Ierubaal and his house this daye then reioyse ouer Abimelech and let him reioyse ouer you Yf no then go fyre out from Abimelech and coÌ„sume the men of Sichem and the house of Millo And fyre go out also froÌ„ the men of Sichem and from the house of Millo and consume Abimelech And IothaÌ„ whan he had spoken this out fled and gat him out of the waye and wente vnto Ber and dwelt there because of his brother Abimelech Now whan Abimelech had reigned thre yeare ouer Israel God sent an euell mynde betwene Abimelech and the men of Sichen for the men of Sichem despysed Abimelech and rehearsed the wrâ—nge done to the sonnes of Ierubaal and their bloude and layed it vpon Abimelech their brother which slewe them and vpon the men of Sichem that strengthed his hande therto that he mighte slaye his brethren And the men of Sichem set an hyndâ—â— watch vpon the toppes of the mountaynes and spoyled all them that walked nye them by the waye and it was tolde Abimelech But there came Gaal the sonne of Ebed and his brethren and entred in to Sichem and the men of Sichem put their trust in him and weÌ„te out in to the felde and gathered their vynyardes and pressed them and made a daunse and wente in to their gods house and ate and dranke and cursed Abimelech And Gaal y e sonne of Ebed sayde Who is Abimelech and what is Sichem that we shulde serue him Is he not the sonne of Ierubaal and hath set Sebul his seruauÌ„t ouer the men of Hemor the father of Sichem â–ª Wherfore shulde we serue him Wolde God the people were vnder my haÌ„de y t I mighte put downe Abimelech And it was tolde Abimelech Increace thine hooste and departe For Sebul the chefe ruler of the cite whan he herde the wordes of Gaal y e sonne of Ebed he was wroth fully displeased and sente message secretly to Abimelech and caused to saye vnto him Beholde Gaal the sonne of Ebed and his brethren are come to Sichem and make the cite to be agaynst the. Arise therfore by nyght thou and thy people that is with the and laye wayte for theÌ„ in the felde and tomorow whan the Sonne aryseth get the vp soone and fall vpon the cite and yf he and the people that is with him come out vnto the theÌ„ deale with him as thyne hande fyndeth Abimelech stode vp by night and all the people that was with him and layed wayte for Sichem with foure companies of men of warre And Gaal the sonne of Ebed weÌ„ out and stode at the dore of the gate of the cite But Abimelech gat him vp out of the hinder watch and the people that was with him Now whan Gaal sawe the people he sayde vnto Sebul Beholde there commeth a people downe from the toppe of y e mount Sebul saide vnto him Thou seist y e shadowe of the mountaines
Ramath And he put of his clothes prophecied likewise before Samuel fell downe naked all that daye and all that nighte Here of came the prouerbe Is Saul also amonge the prophetes The XX. Chapter DAuid fled froÌ„ Naioth in Ramath and came spake before Ionathas What haue I done What trespace haue I made What haue I synned in y e sighte of thy father y t he seketh to kyll me He sayde vnto him God forbyd thou shalt not dye Beholde my father doth nothinge nether greate ner small but he sheweth it before myne eares Wherfore shulde my father theÌ„ hyde this fro me It shal not be so TheÌ„ sware Dauid agayne and sayde Thy father knoweth well y t I haue founde fauoure in y e sighte therfore shal he thynke Ionathas shal not knowe of this lest it greue him Verely as truly as the LORDE lyueth and as truly as y e soule lyueth there is but one steppe betwene me death Ionathas sayde vnto Dauid I wil do for the what so euer thy hert desyreth Dauid sayde vnto him Beholde tomorow is the new Mone that I shulde syt at the table with the kynge Let me hyde my selfe therfore in the felde vnto the thirde daye at euen Yf thy father then axe after me saye Dauid prayed me y t he mighte runne to Bethleem vnto his cite for all his kynred haue there a yearly sacrifice Yf he saye then It is good theÌ„ stondeth it well with y e seruaunt But yf he be wroth thou shalt perceaue that he intendeth euell Do mercy therfore vpon thy seruaunt for with me y e seruaunt hast thou made a couenaunt in the LORDE But yf there be eny trespace in me then slaye me thy selfe for why woldest thou brynge me vnto thy father Ionathas sayde That be farre from the that I shulde perceaue my father to intende eny euell agaynst the and shulde not tell the. Dauid sayde Who shal brynge me worde yf thy father geue the an harde answere Ionathas sayde vnto Dauid Come let vs go forth in to the felde And they wente out both in to y e felde And Ionathas sayde vnto Dauid LORDE God of Israel yf I perceaue by my father tomorow or on the thirde daye that it goeth well with Dauid sende not vnto the and shewe the before thine eares then let the LORDE do this and that vnto Ionathas But yf my father delyte in euell agaynst the I wil shewe it before thine eares also and let y t go that thou mayest departe in peace And the LORDE be with the as he hath bene with my father Yf I do it not then do thou no mercy of the LORDE on me while I lyue no not whan I dye and plucke thy mercy fro my house for euer And whan the LORDE roteth out y e enemies of Dauid euery one out of the londe then let Dauid rote out Ionathas also with his house and the LORDE requyre it of the hande of Dauids enemies And Ionathas proceaded further and sware vnto Dauid he loued him so well for he loued him euen es his owne soule and Ionathas sayde vnto him Tomorow is y e new Mone and thou shalt be axed after for thou shalt be wanted where thou wast wonte to sit But on the thirde daye come downe soone go in to y e place where thou hydest the on the worckdaye set the downe by the stone of Asel then wyl I shute thre arowes on y t side as though I wolde shute at a marck and beholde I wil sende the boye and saye vnto him Go seke y e arowes Yf I saye now vnto the lad Lo the arowes lye hitherwarde behynde y e fetch them then come thou for it is peace and there is no parell as truly as the LORDE lyueth But yf I saye vnto the lad beholde the arowes lye yonderwarde before the then go thou thy waye for the LORDE hath let the go As for that which thou and I haue spokeÌ„ together the LORDE is betwene me and the for euer Dauid hid himself in the felde And whaÌ„ the new Mone came the kynge sat him downe at the table to eate Whan the kynge had set him downe in his place as he was wonte by the wall Ionathas stode vp but Abner sat him downe besyde Saul And Dauid was myssed in his place And Saul spake nothinge that daye for he thoughte There is somwhat happend vnto him that he is not cleane On the seconde daye of the new Mone whan Dauid was myssed in his place Saul saide vnto Ionathas his sonne Wherfore is not the sonne of Isai come to the table nether yesterdaye ner to daye Ionathas answered Saul He prayed me that he mighte go vnto Bethleem and sayde Let me go for oure kynred hath a sacrifyce to do in the cyte and my brother hath sent for me himselfe yf I haue founde fauoure now in thy syghte I wyll go and se my brethren therfore is he not come to the kynges table Then was the kynge wroth at Ionathas and sayde vnto him Thou wicked and vnthrifte I knowe how that thou hast chosen the sonne of Isai to the shame of thy selfe and of y e shamefull mother For as longe as y e sonne of Isai lyueth vpoÌ„ earth nether thou ner thy kingdome shal prospere Sende now therfore and cause him to be fetched vnto me for he is a childe of death Ionathas answered his father Saul and sayde vnto him Wherfore shal he dye what hath he done Then shot Saul the iauelynge at him that he might smite him TheÌ„ perceaued Ionathas that his father was vtterly determed to kyll Dauid and he rose vp from y e table in a wrothfull displeasure and ate no bred y t same seconde daye of the new Mone for he was vexed because of Dauid that his father had done him soch dishonor. On the morow wente Ionathas forth in to the felde at the tyme appoynted of Dauid and a litle boy with him and sayde vnto y e boy Runne and seke me the arowes which I shute Whan the boy ranne he shot an arowe ouer him And whan the boy came to the place whither Ionathas had shot y e arowe Ionathas cryed after him and sayde The arowe lyeth yonder warde before the. And he cryed after him agayne haist the and stonde not styll Then the boy gathered vp Ionâ—thas arowes and brought them to his lorde And the boy knewe nothinge onely Ionathas and Dauid knewe of y e matter Then Ionathas gaue his boy his wapeÌ„s and sayde vnto him Go thy ways and cary them in to the cite And whan the boy was gone Dauid arose from the place towarde the south and fell vpon his face to the grouÌ„de and worshipped thre tymes and they kissed one another and wepte together But Dauid most specially And Ionathas saide vnto Dauid Go thy waye in peace What soeuer we both haue sworne spokeÌ„ together in the name of the LORDE the LORDE be witnesse betwene me
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
the house of Ieroboam which caused Israel to synne but walked in them The groue at Samaria stode styll also For of the people of Ioahas there were no mo lefte but fyftye horsmen ten charettes and ten thousande fote men for the kynge of Syria had destroyed them and made them as the dust in the barne What more there is to saye of Ioahas and all that he dyd and his power beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel And Ioahas fell on slepe with his fathers and was buried in Samaria Ioas his sonne was kinge in his steade In the seuen and thirtieth yeare of Ioas kynge of Iuda was Ioas the sonne of Ioahas kynge ouer Israel at Samaria sixtene yeare And he dyd that which was euell in the sighte of the LORDE and departed not from all the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which made Israel for to synne but walked in them What more there is to saye of Ioas and what he dyd his power how he foughte with Amasias kynge of Iuda beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel And Ioas fell on slepe with his fathers and Ieroboam sat vpoÌ„ his seate And Ioas was buried in Samaria w t the kynges of Israel As for Eliseus he fell in to a sicknes wherof he dyed And Ioas the kynge of Israel came downe vnto him and wepte for him and saide My father my father the charet man of Israel and his horsmen Eliseus sayde vnto him Take the bowe and the arowes And whan he had taken the bowe and the arowes he sayde vnto the kynge of Israel Bende the bowe with thine hande And he bent it with his haÌ„de And Eliseus layed his hande vpon the kynges hande and sayde Open that wyndowe towarde the Easâ— And he opened it And Eliseus saide Shâ—â—â— And he shot He sayde one arowe of the saluacion of the LORDE one arowe of saluacioÌ„ agaynst the Syrians and thou shalt smyâ—â— the Syrians at Aphek tyll they be brought to naughte And he sayde Take y e arowes And whâ—â— he had taken them he sayde vnto the kynge of Israel Smyte the earth And he smote thre tymes and stode still Then was them â–ª of God wroth at him and sayde Yf thou haddest smytten fyue or sixe times thou shuldest haue smytten y e Syrians tyll thou had dest vtterly brought them to naughte But now shalt thou smyte them thre tymes Whan Eliseus was deed and buried the men of warre of the Moabites fell in to the londe the same yeare And it fortuned y t they buryed a certaine man But whaÌ„ they sawe the men of warre they cast the man in to Eliseus graue And whan he was therin and touched Eliseus bones he reuyued and stode vpon his fete So Hasael the kynge of Syria oppressed Israel as longe as Ioahas lyued But the LORDE was gracious vnto them and had mercy vpon them and turned him to them for his couenauntes sake with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and wolde not destroye theÌ„ nether dyd he cast them out from his presence vnto this houre And Hasael the kinge of Syria dyed and Benadad his sonne was kynge in his steade But Ioas turned backe and toke out of the hande of Benadad the sonne of Hasael the cyties which he had takeÌ„ in battaill out of the hande of his father Ioahas Thre tymes dyd Ioas smyte him and broughte the cities of Israel agayne The XIIII Chapter IN the seconde yeare of Ioas y e sonne of Ioahas kynge of Israel was Amasias the sonne of Ioas kynge of Iuda made kynge fyue and twenty yeare olde was he whan he was made kynge reigned nyne and twentye yeare at IerusaleÌ„ His mothers name was Ioadan of Ierusalem And he dyd that which was righte in the sighte of the LORDE yet not as his father Dauid but euen as his father Ioas did so dyd he also for y e hye places were not put downe but the people offred and brent inceÌ„se yet vpon the hye places Now whan he had gotten the power of the kyngdome he smote his seruauntes which had smytteÌ„ the kynge his father but the children of y e deed slayers slewe he not acordinge to y t which is wrytteÌ„ in the boke of the lawe of Moses where the LORDE hath coÌ„maunded sayde The fathers shal not dye for the children the children shal not dye for the fathers but euery one shal dye for his awne synne Ten thousande of the Edomites smote he also in the Salt valley and wanne Sela in battayll and called it Iatheel vnto this daye Then sent Amasias messaungers vnto Ioas the sonne of Ioahas the sonne of Iehu kynge of Israel sayenge Come hither let vs se one another But Ioas y e kynge of Israel sent vnto Amasias the kynge of Iuda sayenge The hawthorne that is in Libanus sent to the Ceder tre in Libanus sayenge Geue thy doughter vnto my sonne to wife But a wylde beest of the felde ranne ouer y e hawthorne and trode it downe Thou hast smytteÌ„ the Edomites therfore is thine hert waxen proude Take the prayse and byde at home why stryuest thou for mysfortune y t thou mayest fall and Iuda with the Howbeit Amasias consented not Then weÌ„te Ioas the kynge of Israel vp and they sawe one another he and Amasias the kynge of Iuda at Beth Semes which lyeth in Iuda But Iuda was smytten before Israel so that euery one fled in to his tente And Ioas the kynge of Israel toke Amasias the kynge of Iuda the sonne of Ioas the sonne of Ochosias at Beth Semes and came to Ierusalem and brake downe y e wall of Ierusalem from y e porte of Ephraim vnto the corner porte euen foure hundreth cubites loÌ„ge and toke all the golde and syluer and ornamentes that were founde in the house of the LORDE and in y e treasures of the kynges house the children also to pledge departed agayne to Samaria What more there is to saie of Ioas what he dyd and of his power how he foughte with Amasias the kynge of Iuda beholde it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Israel And Ioas fell on slepe with his fathers and was buried at Samaria amonge y e kynges of Israel And Ieroboam his sonne was kynge in his steade But Amasias the sonne of Ioas kynge of Iuda lyued after the death of Ioas the sonne of Ioahas kynge of Israel fiftene yeare What more there is to saye of Amasias it is wrytten in the Cronicles of the kynges of Iuda And they conspyred agaynst him at Ierusalem but he fled vnto Lachis And they sent after him vnto Lachis and slewe him there And they broughte him vpon horses he was buried at Ierusalem with his fathers in y e cite of Dauid And all the people of Iuda toke Asarias in his sixtenth yeare and made him kynge in steade of Amasias his father He buylded
Assaph the sonne of Barachias and of the children of Merari their brethren Ethan the sonne of Cusaia and with them their brethren of the seconde course namely Zacharias Iaesiel Semiramoth Iehiel Vnni Eliab Benaia Maeseia Mathithia Elipheleia Mikneia Obed Edom Ieiel the dore kepers For Heman Assaph and Ethan were syngers with brasen belles makynge a loude noyse but Zacharias Iaesiel Semiramoth Iehiel Vnni Eliab Maeseia Benaia with Phalteries to Alamoth Mathithia Elipheleia Mikneia Obed Edom Ieiel Asasia with harpes to synge aboue them on hye Chenania the ruler of the Leuites was the master of Musick to teach them for to synge for he was a man of vnderstondinge And Barachias and Elcana were the dorekepers of the Arke But Sachamia Iosaphat Nathaneel Amasai Zacharias Benaia Elieser the prestes blewe the trompettes before y e Arke of God And Obed Edom and Iehia were dorekepers of the Arke So Dauid and the Elders of Israel and the captaynes ouer thousandes wente vp to fetch the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE out of the house of Obed Edom w t ioye And whan God had helped the Leuites y t bare the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt there were offred seuen bullockes seuen raÌ„mes And Dauid had a lynneÌ„ garment vpoÌ„ him and so had all the Leuites y t bare the Arke and y e syngers and Chenania the master of Musick w t the syngers Dauid had an ouerbody cote of lynnen vpon him also Thus all Israel brought vp the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE with myrth with trompettes tabrettes loude Cymbales with psalteries and harpes Now whan the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE came in to the cite of Dauid Michol y e doughter of Saul loked out at awyndowe whaÌ„ she sawe kynge Dauid daunsynge playenge she despysed him in hir hert The XVII Chapter ANd whaÌ„ they brought in the Arke of God they set it in y e Tabernacle that Dauid had pitched for it and offred burnt offerynges thank offerynges before God And whaÌ„ Dauid had ended the burnt offerynges and thank offerynges he blessed the people in the name of the LORDE distributed vnto euery man in Israel both vnto man and woman a cake of bred and a pece of flesh and a meece of potage And he appoynted before the Arke of y e LORDE certayne Leuites to mynister that they shulde geue prayse thankes and loauinges vnto the LORDE God of Israel namely Assaph the first Zacharias the seconde Ieâ—el Semiramoth Iehiel Mathithia Eliab Benaia Obed Edom and Iehiel with psalteries and harpes But Assaph with loude Cymbales Benaia and Iehasiel the prestes with tabrettes allwaye before the Arke of y e couenaunt of God At the same tyme ordeyned Dauid first of all to geue thaÌ„kes vnto the LORDE by Assaph and his brethren O geue thankes vnto the LORDE call vpon his name tell the people what thinges he hath done O let youre songes be of him prayse him and let youre talkynge be of all his wonderous workes Geue his holy name a good reporte let y e hert of them reioyce that seke the LORDE O seke the LORDE and his strength seke his face euermore RemeÌ„bre his maruelous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgmeÌ„tes of his mouth Ye sede of Israel his seruaunt ye children of Iacob his chosen He is the LORDE oure God his iudgmeÌ„tes are in all londes Be myndefull euer of his couenauÌ„t what he hath commaunded in to a thousande generacions Which he made with Abraham his ooth vnto Isaac And he comfirmed the same vnto Iacob for a perpetuall lawe and to Israel for an euerlastinge couenaunt And sayde Vnto the wyl I geue y e londe of Canaan y e metelyne of yo r inheritaunce WhaÌ„ they were yet but small fewe in noÌ„bre and straungers in the same londe And they wente from one nacion to another from one realme to another people He suffred no man to hurte them and reproued euen kynges for their sakes Touch not myne anoynted do my prophetes no harme O synge vnto y e LORDE let all y e earth be tellynge of his saluacion from daye to daye Declare his holynes amoÌ„ge the HeytheÌ„ his wonderous workes amonge y e people For the LORDE is greate and can not worthely be praysed and more to he had in awe then all goddes As for all the goddes of the HeytheÌ„ they are but Idols but it is the LORDE that made the heauens Thankesgeuynge and worshipe are before him strength and ioye is in his place Ascrybe vnto the LORDE ye kynreds of nacions ascrybe vnto the LORDE worshipe and strength Ascrybe vnto the LORDE the honoure of his name brynge presentes and come before him and worshipe y e LORDE in y e bewtye of holynes Let the whole earth stoÌ„de in awe of him he hath made the compase of the worlde so fast that it can not be moued Let the heauens reioyse and let the earth be glad and let it be tolde amonge the Heythen that the LORDE reigneth Let the See make a noyse and the fulnesse therof let the felde be ioyfull and all that therin is Let all the trees in the wod leape for ioye before the LORDE for he commeth to iudge the earth O geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer And saye Helpe vs O God oure Sauioure and gather vs together and delyuer vs from the Heythen that we maye geue thankes vnto y e holy name and synge prayses vnto the in thy Psalmes Praysed be the LORDE God of Israel from euerlastinge to euerlastinge and let all people saye Amen And Prayse be vnto the LORDE So he lefte Assaph and his brethren there before the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE to mynister allwaye before the Arke euery daye his daye worke But Obed Edom and their brethren eight and threscore and Obed Edom the sonne of Iedithun and Hossa to be dore kepers And Sadoc y e prest his brethreÌ„ the prestes lefte he before the habitacion of the LORDE vpon the hye place at GibeoÌ„ to offre burntsacrifices daylie vnto the LORDE vpon the altare of burnt offerynges in the mornynge in the euenynge as it is wrytten in the lawe of the LORDE which he coÌ„maunded vnto Israel And with them Heman Iedithun and y e other chosen which were named by name to geue thankes vnto the LORDE because his mercy endureth for euer And with them Heman Iedithun to stryke vpon the tabrettes and Cymbales and the musicall instrumentes of God As for the childreÌ„ of Iedithun he made them dorekepers So all the people departed euery one to his house and Dauid returned also to blesse his house The XVIII Chapter IT fortuned whaÌ„ Dauid dwelt in his house he sayde vnto y e prophet Nathan Beholde I dwell in a house of Ceder and the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE is amonge the curtaynes
ouerthrowe and to spye out the londe Then toke Hanun the seruauntes of Dauid and shoue them cut the halfe of their garmentes of eueÌ„ by the loynes so let theÌ„ go And they wente their waye sent men to tell Dauid Neuertheles he sent to mete them for y e men were put to greate shame and the kynge sayde Abyde at Iericho tyll youre beerdes be growne and then come agayne Whan the childreÌ„ of Ammon sawe that they stynked in y e sighte of Dauid both Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousande taleÌ„tes of syluer to hyre charettes and horsmen out of Mesopotamia out of Maecha and out of Zoba and hyred two and thirtie thousande charettes y e kynge of Maecha with his people which came pitched their tentes before Medba And the children of Ammon gathered them selues together out of their cities and came to the battayll Whan Dauid herde that he sent Ioab thither with all the hoost of the men of armes And the childreÌ„ of Ammon were gone forth and prepared them selues to the battayll before the gate of the cite But the kynges y t were come kepte them asyde in the felde Now whaÌ„ Ioab sawe that the battayll was agaynst him both before and behynde he chose of all the best yonge men in Israel and prepared him selfe agaynst y e Syrians As for y e residue of the people he put them vnder the hande of Abisai his brother that they shulde prepare them selues agaynst the children of Ammon and he sayde Yf y e SyriaÌ„s be to mightie for me helpe thou me but yf the childreÌ„ of Ammon be to stroÌ„ge for y e I shall helpe the take a good corage vnto the and let vs quyte oure selues manly for oure people and for the cities of oure God neuertheles the LORDE do what pleaseth him And Ioab made him forth with y e people that was with him to fighte agaynst y e Syrians they fled before him And whan the children of Ammon sawe y t the Syrians fled they fled also before Abisai his brother and wente in to the cite And Ioab came to Ierusalem But whan the Syrians sawe that they were smytteÌ„ before Israel they sent messaungers and broughte forth y e Syrians which were beyonde the water And Sophach the chefe captayne of Hadad Eser wente before them WhaÌ„ this was tolde Dauid he gathered all Israel together and wente ouer Iordane And whan he came at them he set y e battayll in araye agaynst them And Dauid prepared him selfe to y e battayll agaynst y e Syrians they foughte with him but y e SyriaÌ„s fled before Israel And Dauid slewe of the Syrians seuen thousande charettes fortye thousande fote men And Sophach the chefe captayne slewe he also And whan Hadad Esers seruauntes sawe that they were smytteÌ„ before Israel they made peace w t Dauid his seruauntes And the Syrians wolde helpe the childreÌ„ of Ammon nomore The XXI Chapter ANd whan y e yeare came aboute what tyme as y e kynges vse to go forth Ioab broughte the power of the hoost destroyed the londe of the children of Ammon and came and layed sege vnto Rabba But Dauid abode at Ierusalem And Ioab smote Rabba and brake it downe And Dauid toke their kynges crowne from his heade and founde the weighte of a talent of golde theron precious stones And it was set vpoÌ„ Dauids heade And very moch spoyle caried he out of the cite As for the people that were therin he broughte theÌ„ forth parted them in sunder w t sawes hokes betels of yron Thus dyd Dauid vnto all y e cities of the childreÌ„ of Ammon And Dauid departed againe with the people vnto Ierusalem Afterwarde arose there warre at Gasar with the Philistynes Then Sibechai y e Husathire smote Sibai which was one of the children of Rephaim and he subdued him And there arose warre agayne w t the Philistynes TheÌ„ Elhamah y e sonne of Iair smote Lahemi y e brother of Goliath y e Gathite whose speares staff was life a weeuers lâ—me Afterwarde was there a battayll at Gath where there was a man of a greate stature y t had sixe fyngers and sixe toes which make foure and twentye And he was borne also of Rapha and spake despytefully vnto Israel But Ionathas the sonne of Simea Dauids brother smote him These were the childreÌ„ of Rapha at Gath fell thorow y e hande of Dauid and of his seruauntes The XXII Chapter ANd Sathan stode agaynst Israel entysed Dauid to nombre Israel And Dauid sayde vnto Ioab to y e rulers of the people Go yo r waye nombre Israel from Berseba vnto Dan and brynge me the nombre of theÌ„ that I maye knowe it Ioab sayde The LORDE make his people an hundreth tymes mo then they are now But my lorde O kynge are they not all my lordes seruauntes Why doth my lorde then axe therafter Wherfore shal there a trespace come vpon Israel Neuertheles the kynges worde preuayled agaynst Ioab And Ioab wente forth and walked thorow all Israel and came to Ierusalem and delyuered vnto Dauid y e nombre of the people that was tolde And of all Israel there were a thousande tymes a thousande and an hundreth thousande men that drue out the swerde and of Iuda foure hundreth thousande and seueÌ„tye thousande men which drue out the swerde As for Leui and Ben Iamin he nombred them not amonge these for the kynges worde was abhominable vnto Ioab But this displeased God righte sore for he smote Israel And Dauid sayde vnto God I haue synned greuously that I haue done this But now take awaye the trespace of thy seruaunt for I haue done very vnwysely And the LORDE spake vnto Gad Dauids Seer sayde Go speake to Dauid saye Thus saieth the LORDE Thre thinges laye I before the chose y e one of them y t I maye do it vnto the. And whaÌ„ Gad came to Dauid he spake vnto him Thus sayeth the LORDE Chose y e ether thre yeare derth or thre monethes to flye before thine aduersaries before the swerde of thine enemies y t it maye ouertake the or thre dayes y e swerde of the LORDE pestileÌ„ce in the londe y t the angell of the LORDE maye destroye in all y e coastes of Israel Loke now what answere I shal geue vnto him y t sent me Dauid sayde vnto Gad I am in greate trouble yet wyl I rather fall in to y e hande of the LORDE for his mercy is exceadynge greate I wil not fall in to the handes of men Then dyd the LORDE cause pestilence to come in to Israel so that there fell of Israel thre score ten thousande meÌ„ And God sent the angell to IerusaleÌ„ for to destroye it And euen in the destruccion the LORDE considered and he repeÌ„ted of the euell and sayde vn to the angell y e destroyer It is ynough holde now thy hande The angell of the
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
him sayde Thou shalt not want a man before me to syt vpon the seate of Israel yf thy children kepe their waye so y t they walke in my lawe like as thou hast walked before me Now LORDE God of Israel let y i worde be verified which thou hast promysed vnto Dauid thy seruaunt For thinkest thou that God in very dede dwelleth amonge men vpon earth Beholholde the heauen and y e heauens of all heauens maye not coÌ„teyne the how shulde then this house do it which I haue buylded But turne the vnto the prayer of thy seruaunt and to his supplicacioÌ„ O LORDE my God that thou mayest heare the thankesgeuynge and prayer which thy seruaunt maketh before the so that thine eyes be open ouer this house daye and night euen ouer this place wherin thou saydest thou woldest set thy name that thou mayest heare the prayer which thy seruaunt shall make in this place Heare now therfore the intercession of thy seruaunt and of thy people of Israel what so euer they shall desyre in this place heare thou it from the place of thy habitacion eueÌ„ from heauen and whan thou hearest it be mercifull Whan eny maÌ„ synneth agaynst his neghboure and an ooth be put vpon him which he ought to sweare and the ooth commeth before thine altare in this house then heare thou from heauen and se y t thy seruaunt haue righte so that thou rewarde the vngodâ—y and recoÌ„pence him his waye vpon his awne heade and to iustifye the righteous and to geue him acordinge to his righteousnes Whan thy people of Israel is smytteÌ„ before their enemies whyle they haue synned agaynst the and yf they turne vnto the and knowlege thy name and make their prayer and intercession before the in this house theâ— heare thou them from heauen and be mercifull vnto the synne of thy people of Israel brynge them agayne in to the londe y t thou hast geuen them and their fathers Whan the heauen is shut vp so that it rayne not for so moch as they haue synned agaynst the and yf they make their prayer in this place and knowlege thy name and turne from their synnes whan thou hast brought them lowe heare thou them then in heauen and be mercifull vnto the synne of thy seruauntes and of thy people of Israel that thou mayest teach them the good waye wherin they shulde walke and let it rayne vpon thy londe which thou hast geuen thy people to possesse Whan a derth or pestilence or drouth â—â—â—blastinge or greshopper or catirpiller is in the londe Or whan their enemye layeth sege to their portes in the loÌ„de or whan eny other plage or disease happeneth who so euer theÌ„ maketh his prayer or peticion amonge eny maner of men or amonge all thy people of Israel yf eny man fele his plage and disease and spredeth out his handes vnto this house heare thou then from heauen euen from y e seate of thy habitacion and be mercifull and geue euery man acordinge to all his wayes in so moch as thou knowest his hert for thou onely knowest the hert of the children of men that they maye feare the and all waye walke in thy wayes as longe as they lyue in the londe which thou hast geuen vnto oure fathers And whan eny straunger which is not of thy people of Israel commeth out of a farre countre because of thy greate name and mightie hande and out stretched arme and commeth to make his prayer in this house heare thou him then from heaueÌ„ euen from the seate of thy habitacion and do all for y e which that straunger calleth vpoÌ„ the that all the nacions vpon earth maye knowe thy name and feare the as thy people of Israel do and that they maye knowe how y t this house which I haue buylded is named after thy name Whan thy people go forth to y e battayll agaynst their enemies the waye that thou shalt sende them and shall praye vnto the towarde the waye of this cite which thou hast chosen and towarde the house that I haue buylded vnto thy name heare thou theÌ„ their prayer and peticion from heauen and helpe them to their righte Whan they synne agaynst the for there is no man that synneth not and thou be wroth at them and geue them ouer before their enemyes so that they cary them awaye captyue in to a countre farre or nye and yf they turne within their hertes in the londe where they are presoners and so conuerte and make their intercession vnto the in the londe of their captiuyte and saye We haue synned and done amysse and haue bene vngodly and so turne them selues vnto y e with all their hert and with all their soule in the londe of their captiuyte wherin they are presoners and make their prayer towarde the waye of their owne londe which thou gauest vnto their fathers and towarde the ciâ—e which thou hast chosen and towarde the house that I haue buylded vnto thy name then heare thou their prayer and supplicacion from heauen euen from the seate of thy dwellynge and helpe them to their righte and be mercifull vnto thy people that haue synned agaynst the. My God let thine eyes now be opeÌ„ and let thine eares geue hede vnto prayer in this place Aryse now O LORDE God vnto thy restinge place thou and the Arke of thy strength Let thy prestes O LORDE God be clothed with health and let thy sayentes reioyse ouer this good LORDE God turne not awaye the face of thine anoynted thinke vpon the mercies of thy seruaunt Dauid The VII Chapter ANd whaÌ„ SalomoÌ„ had ended his praier there fell a fyre from heauen and coÌ„sumed the burnt offerynge and the other offeringes And the glory of the LORDE fylled the house so that y e prestes coulde not go in to the house of the LORDE while y e glory of the LORDE filled y e LORDES house And all the children of Israel sawe the fyre fall downe and the glory of the LORDE ouer the house and they fell on their knees w t their faces to the grounde vpon the pauement and worshipped and gaue thankes vnto the LORDE because he is gracious and because his mercy endureth for euer As for the kynge and all the people they offred before the LORDE For kynge Salomon offred two and tweÌ„tye thousande bullockes and an hundreth thousande and twentye thousande shepe so both the kynge and all the people dedicated the house of God But the prestes stode in their watches the Leuites with the musicall instrumentes of the LORDE which kynge Dauid had caused to make for to geue thankes vnto the LORDE because his mercy endureth for euer w t psalmes of Dauid thorow their hande And the prestes blewe trompettes ouer agaynst them and all Israel stode And Salomon halowed the myddelmost courte which was before the house of the LORDE for there prepared he the burnt offerynges and the fat of the slayne offeringes for the
of God at Ierusalem in the seconde moneth beganne Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec and the remnaunt of their brethren the prestes and Leuites and all they that were come out of the captiuyte vnto Ierusalem and appoynted the Leuites frō twentye yeare olde and aboue to se that the worke of the house of the LORDE wēte forwarde And Iesua stode with his sonnes and brethren and Cadmiel with his sonnes and the children of Iuda to furthur the workmen of the house of God namely the childrē of Henadad with their children and their brethren the Leuites And whan the buylders layed the foundacion of the temple of the LORDE the prestes stode in their araye with trompettes And the Leuites the children of Asaph with Cimbales to prayse y e LORDE with the Dytie of Dauid kynge of Israel And they sunge together geuynge prayse thankes vnto y e LORDE because he is gracious and because his mercy endureth for euer vpon Israell And all the people shouted londe in praysinge the LORDE because the foundacion of y e house of the LORDE was layed Neuertheles many of the olde prestes and Leuites and awncient fathers which had sene the house afore in his foundacion and this was now before their eyes wepte loude But many shouted with ioye so that the noyse gaue a greate sounde in so moch that the people coulde not knowe y e ioyfull sounde for the noyse of the wepinge in the people for the people shouted loude so that the noyse was herde farre of The IIII. Chapter BVt whan the aduersaries of Iuda and Ben Iamin herde that the children of the captiuyte buylded the tēple vnto the LORDE God of Israel they came to Zorobabel to the pryncipall fathers and sayde vnto them We wyl buylde with you for we seke the LORDE youre God like as ye do And we haue done sacrifice vnto him sence the tyme that Assar Hadon the kynge of Assur broughte vs vp hither But Zorobabel and Iesua and the other awnciēt fathers of Israel answered them It is not mete for vs and you to buylde the house of oure God but we wyl buylde alone vnto the LORDE God of Israel as Cyrus the kynge of Persia hath commaunded vs. Then the folke of the londe hyndered the people of Iuda and made them afrayed to buylde and hyred councelers aganst them and hyndered their deuyce as longe as Cyrus the kynge of Persia lyued vntyll the reigne off Darius kynge off Persia. But whan Ahasuerus was kynge in the begynnynge off his reigne wrote they vnto him a complaynte agaynst them of Iuda and Ierusalem And in the tyme of Artaxerses wrote Bisellam Mithridath Tabeel and the other of their councell vnto Artaxerses the kynge of Persia. But the scripture of y e letter was wrytten in the Syrians speach and was interpretated in the langage of the Syrians Rehum y e chaunceler and Simsai the scrybe wrote this letter agaynst Ierusalem to Artaxerses the kynge We Rehum the chaunceler and Simsai the scribe and other of the councell of Dina off Arphasath off Tarplat off Persia off Arach of Babilon of Susan of Deha and of Elam and other of the people whom the greate and noble Asnaphar broughte ouer and set in the cities of Samaria and other on this syde the water and in Canaan And this is y e summe of the letter that they sent vnto kynge Artaxerses Thy seruauntes the men on this syde the water and in Canaan Be it knowne vnto y e kynge that the Iewes which are come vp from the to vs vnto Ierusalē in to that sedicious wicked cite buylde the same and make vp y e walles of it brynge it out of y e foundacion Be it knowne now therfore vnto y e kynge y t yf this cite be buylded the walies made vp agayne thē shal not they geue tribute toll and yearly custome and their deuyce shal do y e kynge harme But now that we all are therby which destroyed the temple we wolde no longer se the kynges dishonoure Therfore sent we out and caused the kynge to be certified therof That it maye be soughte in y e Cronicles of thy progenitours and so shalt thou fynde in the same Cronicles and perceaue that this cite is sedicious and noysome vnto kynges and londes and that they cause other also to rebell of olde and for the same cause was this cite destroyed Therfore do we certifie the kynge that yf this cite be buylded and the walles therof made vp thou shalt kepe nothinge on this syde the water by the reason of it Then sent y e kynge an answere vnto Rehum the chaunceler and Simsai the Scrybe and to the other of their councell that dwelt in Samaria and vnto the other beyonde y e water Peace and salutacion The letter which ye sent vnto vs hath bene opēly red before me and I haue commaunded to make search and it is founde that this cite of olde hath made insurreccion agaynst kynges how y t vpro r and rebellion hath bene commytted therin There haue bene mightie kynges also at Ierusalē which haue reigned ouer all that is beyonde the water and toll tribute and yearly custome was geuen vnto them Do ye now after this commaundemēt forbyd the same men that the cite be not builded tyll I haue geuē cōmaundemēt Take hede now that ye be not necligent here in lest the kynge haue harme there thorow Now whā kynge Artaxerses letter was red before Rehum the chaunceler and Simsai the Scrybe and their councell they wente vp in all the haist to Ierusalem vnto the Iewes and forbad them with the arme and auctorite Then ceassed the worke of the house of God at Ierusalem and continued so vnto the seconde yeare of Darius kynge of Persia. The V. Chapter THe prophetes Aggeus and Zachary y e sonne of Iddo prophecied vnto y e Iewes that were in Iuda and Ierusalē in the name of the God of Israel Then gat vp Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec and beganne to buylde the house of God at Ierusalem and with them the prophetes of God which strengthed thē At the same tyme came to thē Thathnai the debite on this syde the water and Sethar of Bosen and their councelers and sayde thus vnto them Who hath commaunded you to buylde this house and to make vp the walles therof Then tolde we them the names of the men that made this buyldinge But the eye of their God came vpon the Elders of the Iewes that they were not inhibyte tyll the matter was brought before Darius and tyll there came a wrytinge therof agayne This is the summe of the letter y t Thathnaithe Debyte on this syde the water and Sethar of Bosen and their councellers of Apharsach which were on this syde the water sent vnto kynge Darius And these are the wordes that they sent vnto him Vnto Darius the kynge all peace
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
litle hilles like yonge shepe What ayled the o thou see that thou fleddest and thou Iordan that thou turnedest backe Ye mountaynes that ye stripped like rammes and ye litle hilles like yonge shepe The earth trembled at the presence of the LORDE at the presence of the God of Iacob Which turned the harde rocke in to a stondinge water the flynt stone in to a sprynginge well Here the Hebrues begynne the CXV psalme Not vnto vs o LORDE not vnto vs but vnto thy name geue the prayse for thy louinge mercy and faithfulnes Wherfore shal the Heithen saye where is now their God As for oure God he is in heauen he doth what soeuer it pleaseth him Their ymages are but syluer and golde euen the worke of mens hoÌ„des They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they but they se not They haue eares and heare not noses haue they but they smell not They haue handes and handle not fete haue they but they can not go nether can they speake thorow their throte They that made them are like vnto them and so are all soch as put their trust in them But let Israel trust in y e LORDE for he is their sucoure defence Let the house of Aaron put their trust in y e LORDE for he is their sucoure defence They that feare the LORDE let theÌ„ put their trust in the LORDE for he is their sucoure and defence The LORDE is myndefull of vs blesseth vs he blesseth y e house of Israel he blesseth y e house of Aaron Yee he blesseth all them that feare the LORDE both small greate The LORDE encrease you more more you and youre childreÌ„ For ye are y e blessed of the LORDE which made heauen earth All the whole heauens are the LORDES but the earth hath he geueÌ„ vnto y e childreÌ„ of men The deed prayse not the o LORDE nether all they that go downe in to sylence But we will prayse the LORDE from this tyme forth for euermore Halleluya The CXIIII psalme I Am wel pleased y t the LORDE 〈…〉 herde y e voyce of my prayer 〈…〉 he hath enclyned his eare 〈…〉 therfore wil I call vpoÌ„ him as long 〈…〉 The snares of death coÌ„pas◠〈…〉 aboute the paynes of hell gat◠〈…〉 me I founde trouble and heuy 〈…〉 called I vpon y e name of the LORDE o LORDE delyuer my soule Gracious is y e LORDE rightuous yee oure God is mercifull The LORDE preserueth y e symple I was brought downe and he helped me Turne agayne then vnto thy rest o my soule for the LORDE hath geuen the thy desyre And why thou hast delyuered my soule from death myne eyes from teares and my fete from fallinge I wil walke before y e LORDE in the londe of the lyuynge The CXV psalme This psalme do the Hebrues ioyne vnto it that goeth before and it is with them the CXVI â–ª psalme I Beleued and therfore haue I spokeÌ„ but I was sore troubled I sayde in my haist All men are lyers What rewarde shal I geue vnto y e LORDE for all the benefites y t he hath done vnto me I wil receaue the cuppe of saluacioÌ„ and call vpon the name of the LORDE I wil paye my vowes in the presence of all his people right deare in the sight of y e LORDE is the death of his sayntes O LORDE I am thy seruaunt I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handmayden thou hast broken my bondes in sonder I wil offre the the sacrifice of thankes geuynge and wil call vpon the name of the LORDE I wil paye my vowes vnto the LORDE in the sight of all his people in the courtes of the LORDES house eueÌ„ in the myddest of the o Ierusalem Halleluya The CXVI psalme O Prayse the LORDE all ye Gentiles laude him all ye people For his mercifull kyndnes is euer more and more towarde vs the trueth of the LORDE endureth for euer Halleluya The CXVII psalme O Geue thankes vnto the LORDE for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Let Israel now confesse y t his mercy endureth for euer Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer Yee let theÌ„ now that feare the LORDE confesse that his mercy endureth for euer I called vpon the LORDE in trouble and the LORDE herde me 〈◊〉 large The LORDE is my helper I wil 〈…〉 what man doeth vnto me The 〈…〉 is my helper I shal se my desyre 〈…〉 enemies It is better to trust 〈…〉 then to put eny confidence in 〈…〉 is better to trust in the LORDE 〈…〉 confideÌ„ce in prynces All Heithen compased me rounde aboute but in the name of the LORDE wil I destroye theÌ„ They kepte me in on euery syde but in the name of the LORDE I wil destroye them They came aboute me like bees were as hote as the fyre in the thornes but in the name of the LORDE I wil destroye them They thrust at me that I might fall but the LORDE was my helpe The LORDE is my streÌ„gth my songe is become my saluacion The voyce of ioye myrth is in the dwellynges of y e rightuous for y e right hande of the LORDE hath gotteÌ„ the victory The right hande of the LORDE hath the preemynence the right haÌ„de of the LORDE hath gotteÌ„ the victory I wil not dye but lyue and declare the workes of the LORDE The LORDE hath chastened correcte me but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death Open me the gates of rightuousnes â–ª y t I maye go in there thorow geue thaÌ„kes vnto the LORDE This is the dore of the LORDE the rightuous shall entre in thorow 〈◊〉 I thanke the y t thou hast herde me are become my saluacioÌ„ The same stone which the buylders refused is become the headestone in the corner This was the LORDES doinge it is maruelous in o r eyes This is the daye which the LORDE hath made â–ª let vs reioyse and be glad in it Helpe now o LORDE o LORDE sende vs now prosperite Blessed be he that coÌ„meth in the name of the LORDE we wish you good lucke ye that be of the house of the LORDE God is the LORDE hath shewed vs light O 〈◊〉 the solempne feast with grene braunches 〈◊〉 vnto the hornes of y e aulter Thou art 〈◊〉 God I wil thanke the thou art my 〈◊〉 and I wil prayse the. O geue thankes 〈◊〉 to the LORDE for he is gracious his mâ—â—â—cy endureth for euer The CXVIII psalme Aleph BLessed are those y t be vndefiled in thâ— waye which walke in the lawe of 〈◊〉 LORDE Blessed are they that kepe his tâ—â—â—timonies seke him with their whole hertâ— â–ª Which walke in his wayes do no wiâ—kednesse Thou hast geuen strayte chaâ—â—â— to kepe thy commaundementes O thâ—â— my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statâ—â—tes So shulde I not be confounded
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
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
LORDE Beholde the daies come saieth the LORDE y t the cite of y e LORDE shal be enlarged from the towre of Hananeel vnto y e gate of the corner wall From thence shal the right measure be taken before her vnto the hill toppe of Gareb and shal come aboute Gaatha and the whole valley of the deed carcases and of the ashes all Seremoth vnto the broke of Cedron and from thence vnto the corner of the horsgate towarde y e east where as the Sanctuary of the LORDE also shal be set And when it is now buylded set vp of this fashion it shall neuer be broken ner cast downe eny more The XXXII Chapter THese wordes spake the LORDE vnto Ieremy in the tenth yeare of Sedechias kinge of Iuda which was y e xviij yeare of Nabuchodonosor what tyme as the kinge of Babilons hooste layed sege vnto Ierusalem But Ieremy the prophet laye bounde in y e courte of the preson which was in the kinge of Iudaes house where Sedechias the kinge of Iuda caused him to be layed because he had prophecied of this maner Thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I will delyuer this cite in to the hondes of the kinge of Babilon which shal take it As for Sedechias the kinge of Iuda he shal not be able to escape the Caldees but surely he shall come in to the hondes of the kinge of Babilon which shall speake with him mouth to mouth and one of them shall loke another in the face And Sedechias shal be caried vnto Babilon and there shall he be vntill the tyme that I vyset him saieth the LORDE But yf thou takest in hōde to fight agaynst the Caldees thou shalt not prospere And Ieremy sayde Thus hath the LORDE spoken vnto me Beholde Hananeel the sonne of Sellum thine Vncles sonne shall come vnto the and requyre the to redeme y e londe that lieth in Anathot vnto thy self for by reason of kynred it is thy parte to rede me it and to bye it out And so Hananeel myne Vncles sonne came to me in the courte of the preson acordinge to the worde of the LORDE and sayde vnto me Bye my londe I praye the that lieth in Anothot in the countre of Ben Iamyn for by heretage thou hast right to lowse it out for thy self therfore redeme it Then I preceaued that this was the commaundement of the LORDE and so I lowsed the londe from Hananeel of Anathot myne Vncles sonne and weyed him there the moneye euen seuen sycles and ten syluer pens I caused him also to make me a writinge and to seale it and called recorde there by and weyed him there the money vpon the waightes So I toke the euydence with the copie when it was orderly sealed and red ouer and I gaue the euydence vnto Baruch the sonne of Nerias the sonne of Maasia in the sight of Hananeel my cosen and in the presence of the witnesses that be named in the euydence and before all the Iewes that were therby in the courte of the preson I charged Baruch also before them saienge The LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel commaundeth the to take this sealed euydence with the copie and to laye it in an erthen vessell that it maye longe continue For the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel hath determed that houses feldes and vynyardes shal be possessed agayne in this londe Now when I had delyuered the euydence vnto Baruch y e sonne of Nerias I besought the LORDE sayenge O LORDE God It is thou that hast made heauen and earth with thy greate power and hie arme and there is nothinge to harde for ye. Thou shewest mercy vpon thousandes thou recompēcest the wickednes of the fathers in to the besome of the children that come after them Thou art the greate and mightie God whose name is the LORDE of hoostes greate in councell and infinite in thought Thine eyes loke vpon all the wayes of mens children to rewarde euery one after his waye and acordinge to the frutes of his inuencions Thou hast done greate tokens and wonders in the londe of Egipte as we se this daye vpon the people of Israel and vpon those men to make thy name greate as it is come to passe this daye Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the londe of Egipte with tokens with wondres with a mightie honde with a stretched out arme and with greate terriblenes and hast geuen them this londe like as thou haddest promysed vnto their fathers Namely that thou woldest geue them a lōde that floweth with mylke and honye Now when they came therin and possessed it they folowed not thy voyce and walked not in thy lawe but all that thou commaundedest them to do that haue they not done and therfore come all these plages vpon them Beholde there are bulworckes made now agaynst the cite to take it and it shal be wonne of the Caldees that besege it with swearde with honger and death and loke what thou hast spoken that same shal come vpon them For lo all thinges are present vnto the Yet sayest thou vnto me o LORDE God and commaundest me that I shall loose a pece of londe vnto my self and take witnesses therto and yet in the meane season the cite is delyuered in to the power of the Caldees Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me sayenge Beholde I am the LORDE God of all flesh Is there eny thinge then to harde for me Therfore thus sayde the LORDE beholde I shal delyuer this cite in to the power of the Caldees and in to the power of Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon they shall take it in For the Caldees shall come and wynne this cite and set fyre vpon it and burne it with the gorgeous houses in whose parlers they haue made sacrifice vnto Baal and poured drynke offeringes vnto straunge goddes to prouoke me vnto wrath For seinge the children of Israel and the children of Iuda haue wrought wickednes before me euer from their youth vp what haue they els done but prouoked me with the workes of their owne hondes saieth the LORDE Or what hath this cite bene els but a prouokinge of my wrath euer sence the daye that I buylded it vnto this houre Wherin I cast it out of my sight be cause of the greate blasphemies of the childrē of Israel and Iuda which they haue done to prouoke me yee they their kinges their prynces their prestes their prophetes whole Iuda and all the citesyns of Ierusalem When I stode vp early and taught them and instructe them they turned their backes to me and not their faces They wolde not heare to be refourmed and correcte They haue set their goddes in y e house that is halowed vnto my name to defyle it They haue buylded hie places for Baal in the valley of the children of Ennon to vowe their sonnes and doughters vnto Moloch which I neuer commaūded them nether came it
Chapter FOr the which cause the LORDE oure God hath perfourmed his deuyce wherof he certified vs and oure heades that ruled in Ierusalē yee and oure kynges oure princes with all Israel and Iuda And soch plages hath y e lorde brought vpō vs as neuer came to passe vnder the heauē like as it is fulfilled in Hierusalem acordinge as it is written in the lawe of Moses that a man shulde eate y e flesh of his owne sonne the flesh of his owne doughter Morouer he hath delyuered them in to the hondes of all the kinges y t are rounde aboute vs to be confounded and desolate scatred thē abrode in all londes naciōs Thus are we brought beneth not aboue for we haue synned against the LORDE o r God not bene obedient vnto his voyce Therfore y e LORDE o r God is rightuous we with o r fathers as reason is are brought to opē shame as it is to se this daye And as for these plages y t are come vpon vs allready y e LORDE had deuyced thē for vs yet wolde we not praye vnto y e LORDE oure God y t we might euery mā turne frō his vngodly wayes So y e LORDE hath caused soch plages to come vpon vs for he is rightuous in all his workes which he hath cōmaunded vs which we also haue not done ner harkened vnto his voyce for to walke in y e cōmaundemētes of y e LORDE y t he had geuē vnto vs. And now o LORDE God of Israel thou that hast brought thy people out of the londe of Egipte with a mightie honde with tokens and wōdres with thy greate power ād outstretched arme and hast gotten thy selff a name as it is come to passe this daye O LORDE oure God we haue synned we haue done wickedly we haue behaued oure selues vngodly in all thy rightuousnesses Turne thy wrath frō vs we beseke the for we are but a few left amonge the Heithen where thou hast scatred vs. Heare o r prayers o LORDE oure peticiōs bringe vs out of captiuyte for thine owne sake get vs fauoure in the sight of thē which haue led vs awaye y t all lōdes maye knowe that thou art the LORDE oure God and that Israel and his generacion calleth vpon thy name O LORDE loke downe frō thy holy house vpon vs enclyne thine eare heare vs. For the deed y t be gone downe to their graues whose soules are out of their bodies ascribe vnto the LORDE nether prayse ner rigtuous-makynge but the soule that is vexed for the multitude of hir synnes which goeth on heuely and weakely whose eyes begynne to fayle yee soch a soule ascrybeth prayse and rightuousnesse vnto the LORDE O LORDE we poure out oure prayers before the and requyre mercy in thy sight O LORDE oure God not for eny godlynesse off oure forefathers but because thou hast sent out thy wrath indignacion vpon vs acordinge as thou dydest threaten vs by thy seruaūtes the prophetes sayenge Thus sayeth the LORDE Bowe downe youre shulders and neckes and serue the kynge of Babilon so shal ye remayne still in the londe that I gaue vnto youre fathers Yff ye will not do this ner heare the voyce of y e LORDE youre God to serue the kynge of Babilon I shall destroye you in the cities of Iuda within Ierusalem and without I will also take from you the voyce off myrth and the voyce of ioye the voyce of the brydegrome and the voyce of the bryde ād there shal no man dwell more in the londe But they wolde not herken vnto thy voyce to do the kynge of Babilon seruyce and therfore hast thou perfourmed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruauntes the prophetes namely that the bones of oure kynges and the bones of oure fathers shulde be trāslated out of their place And lo now are they layde out in the heate of y e Sonne in the colde of y e night ād deed in greate mysery w t hunger w t swearde w t pestilence are clene cast forth As for the tēple wherin thy name was called vpon thou hast layde it waist as it is to se this daye y t for the wickednes of the house of Israel the house of Iuda ▪ O LORDE o r God thou hast intreated vs after all thy goodnes acordinge to all y e greate louinge mercy of thyne like as thou spakest by thy seruaunte Moses in the daye when thou didest cōmaūde him to wryte thy lawe before the children of Israel sayenge Yf ye will not herkē vnto my voyce thē shal this greate multitude be turned in to a very smal people for I wil scatre thē abrode Not withstōdinge I am sure that this folke will not heare me for it is an hardnecked people But in y e lōde of their captiuyte they shall remembre them selues lerne to knowe y t I am the LORDE their God when I geue thē an herte to vnderstōde eares to heare Then shal they prayse me in the lōde of their captiuyte thynke vpon my name Then shall they turne them frō their harde backes from their vngodlynes Then shal they remembre the thynges y t happened vnto their forefathers which synned agaynst me So will I bringe them agayne in to the londe which I promised w t an ooth vnto their fathers Abrahā Isaac Iacob they shal be lordes of it yee I wil increace thē and not minysh thē And I wil make another couenaūt with them soch one as shal endure for euer namely y t I will be their God and they shal be my people and I wil nomore dryue my people the children off Israel out of the londe y t I haue geuē thē The III. Chapter ANd now o LORDE allmightie thou God of Israel o r soule y t is in trouble o r sprete y t is vexed crieth vnto the heare vs o LORDE haue pite vpon vs for thou art a mercifull God be gracious vnto vs for we haue synned before ye. Thou endurest for euer shulde we thē vtterly perishe ▪ O LORDE almightie thou God of Israel Heare now y e prayer of y e deed Israelites of their childrē which haue synned before y e not herkened vnto the voyce of the LORDE their God for the which cause these plages hange now vpō vs. O LORDE remēbre not y e wickednes of o r forefathers but thinke vpō thy power name now at this tyme for thou art y e LORDE o r God y e o LORDE wil we prayse For thou hast put y e feare ī o r hartes to y e intēt y t we shulde call vpon y e name prayse y e in oure captiuyte and y t we might turne from the wickednesse of oure forefathers y t synned before the. Beholde we are yet this daye in oure captiuyte where as thou hast scatred vs
wryte thou vp this sight for it wylbe longe or it come to passe Vpon this was I Daniel very faynte so that I laye sicke certayne dayes but whan I rose vp I wente aboute the kynges busynesse and marueled at the vision neuerthelesse no man knewe of it The IX Chapter IN the first yeare off Darius the sonne off Ahasuerus which was of the sede off the Medes was made kynge ouer the realme of the Caldees Yee euen in the first yeare off his raigne I Daniel desyred to knowe the yearly nombre out of the bokes wherof the LORDE spake vnto Ieremy the prophet that Ierusalem shulde lie waist lxx yeares ād I turned me vnto God the LORDE for to praye and make myne intercessiō with fastinge sack cloth ād ashes I prayed before the LORDE my God and knowleged sayenge O LORDE thou greate fearfull God thou that kepest couenaunt and mercy with them which loue the and do thy commaundementes We haue synned we haue offended we haue bene disobedient and gone backe yee we haue departed from all thy preceptes and iudgmentes We wolde neuer folowe thy seruauntes the prophetes that spake in thy name to oure kynges and prynces to oure forefathers and to all the people off the londe O LORDE rightuousnesse belongeth vnto the vnto vs pertayneth nothynge but open shame as it is come to passe this daye vnto euery man of Iuda and to them that dwell at Ierusalem Yee vnto all Israel whether they be farre or nye thorow out all londes wherin thou hast strowed them because of the offences that they had done agaynst the. Yee o LORDE vnto vs to oure kinges prynces to oure forefathers euen to vs all that haue offended the belongeth open shame But vnto the o LORDE oure God pertayneth mercy and forgeuenesse As for vs we are gone backe from him and haue not obeyed the voyce of the LORDE oure God to walke in his lawes which he layed before vs by his seruauntes the prophetes yee all Israel haue transgressed and gone backe from thy lawe so that they haue not herkened vnto thy voyce Wherfore the curse and ooth that is written in the law of Moses the seruaūt of God against whom we haue offended is poured vpon vs. And he hath perfourmed his wordes which he spake agaynst vs agaynst oure iudges that iudged vs to bringe vpon vs soch a greate plage as neuer was vnder heauen like as it is now come to passe in Ierusalem Yee all this plage as it is written in the lawe of Moses is come vpon vs. Yet made we not oure prayer before the LORDE oure God that we might turne agayne from oure wickednesse and to be lerned in thy verite Therfore hath y e LORDE made haist to bringe this plage vpon vs for the LORDE oure God is rightuous in all his workes which he doth for why we wolde not harken vnto his voyce And now o LORDE oure God thou that with a mightie honde hast brought thy people out of Egipte to get thy self a name which remayneth this daye we haue synned o LORDE done wickedly agaynst all thy rightuousnes yet let thy wrothfull displeasure be turned awaye I beseke the from thy cite Ierusalem thy holy hill And why for oure synnes sake and for the wickednesse of oure forefathers is Ierusalem and thy people abhorred of all them that are aboute vs. Now therfore O oure God heare the prayer of thy seruaunt and his intercession O let thy face shyne ouer thy sanctuary that lieth waist O my God enclyne thine eare and herken at the leest for thine owne sake open thine eyes beholde how we be desolated yee and the cite also which is called after thy name For we do not cast oure prayers before the in oure owne rightuousnesse no but only in thy greate mercies O LORDE heare O forgeue LORDE O LORDE considre tary not ouerlonge but for thine owne sake do it O my God for thy cite and thy people is called after thy name As I was yet speakinge at my prayers knowleginge myne owne synnes and y e synnes of my people makinge so myne intercession before the LORDE my God for the holy hils sake of my God yee whyle I was yet speakinge in my prayer beholde the mā Gabriel whom I had sene afore in the vision came flyenge to me and touched me aboute y e offeringe tyme in the euenynge He infourmed me and spake vnto me O Daniel sayde he I am now come to make the vnderstonde it For as soone as thou begannest to make thy prayer it was so diuysed and therfore am I come to shewe the. And why for thou art a man greatly beloued Wherfore pondre the matter wel that thou mayest lerne to vnderstonde the vision Lxx. wekes are determed ouer thy people ouer thy holy cite that the wickednesse maye be consumed that the synne maye haue an ende that the offence maye be reconciled and to bringe in euerlastinge rightuousnesse to fulfill y e visions and the prophetes and to anoynte the most holy one Vnderstōde this then and marcke it well that from the tyme it shal be concluded to go and repayre Ierusalem agayne vnto Christ or the anoynted prynce there shal be seuen wekes Then shall the stretes walles be buylded agayne lxij wekes but with harde troublous tyme. Afther these lxij wekes shal Christ be slayne they shal haue no pleasure in him Then shal there come a people with the prynce and destroye the cite and the sanctuary and his ende shal come as the water floude But the desolacion shall continue till the ende of the batell He shall make a stronge bonde with many for the space of a weke and when the weke is half gone he shal put downe the slayne and meat offringe And in the temple there shal be an abhominable desolaciō till it haue destroyed all And it is concluded y t this waistinge shal continue vnto the ende The X. Chapter IN the thirde yeare of kinge Cirus of Persia there was shewed vnto Daniel otherwise called Balthasar a matter yee a true matter but it is yet a longe tyme vnto it He vnderstode the matter well and perceaued what the vision was At the same tyme I Daniel mourned for the space of thre wekes so that I had no lust to eate bred as for flesh and wyne there came none within my mouth No I dyd not ones anoynte my self till the whole thre wekes were out Vpon the xxiiij daye of the first moneth I was by the greate floude called Tigris I lift vp myne eyes and loked and beholde a man clothed in lynnynge whose loynes were gyrded vp with fyne golde of Araby his body was like the Chrisolite stone his face to loke vpon was like lightenynge his eyes as the flame of fyre his armes and fete were like fayre glisteringe metall but the voyce of his wordes was like y e voyce of a multitude
alonge season but se that thou playest not the harlot and loke thou medle with none other man then wil I kepe my self for the. Thus the childreÌ„ of Israel shal syt a greate whyle without kinge and prynce without offerynge and aulter without prest and reuelacion But afterwarde shal the children of Israel conuerte and seke the LORDE their God and Dauid their kinge and in y e latter dayes they shal worshipe the LORDE and his louynge kyndnesse The IIII. Chapter HEare y e worde of the LORDE o ye children of Israel For the LORDE must punysh theÌ„ y t dwel in the londe And why There is no faith fulnesse there is no mercy there is no knowlege of God in the loÌ„de but swearinge lyeÌ„ge maÌ„slaughter the ft and aduoutry haue gotten the ouerhande one bloud giltynesse foloweth another Therfore shal the londe be in a miserable case and all they that dwell therin shal mourne The beastes in the felde the foules in y e ayre and the fishes in the see shall dye Yet is there none that wil chasteÌ„ nor reproue another The prestes which shulde refourme other meÌ„ are become like the people Therfore stomblest thou in y e daye tyme â–ª the prophet with the in the night I wil bringe thy mother to sylence why my people perish because they haue no knowlege Seinge then that thou hast refused vnderstondinge therfore wil I refuse y e also so that then shalt nomore be my prest And for so moch as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God I wil also forget thy childreÌ„ The more they increased in multitude the more they synned agaynst me therfore wil I chaurge their honoure in to shame They eate vp the synnes of my people corage them in their wickednesse Thus the prest is become like the people Wherfore I will punysh them for their wicked wayes rewarde them acordinge to their owne ymaginacions â–ª They shal eate not haue ynough They haue vsed whordome therfore shall they not prospere why they haue forsaken the LORDE not regarded him Whordome wyne and dronckennesse take the herte awaye My people axe councel at their stockes their staffe must tell them For an whorish mynde hath disceaued them so y t they coÌ„mitte fornicacion agaynst their God They make sacrifice vpon the hie mountaynes burne their incense vpon the hilles yee amonge the okes groues buszshes for there are good shadowes Therfore yo r doughters are become harlottes and youre spouses haue brokeÌ„ their wedlocke I wil not punish yo r doughters for beinge defyled yo r brydes that became whores seinge the fathers themselues haue medled with harlottes and offered with vnthriftes but the people that wil not vnderstonde must be punyshed Though thou Israel art disposed to playe y e harlot yet shuldest not thou haue offended o Iuda thou shuldest not haue runne to Galgala ner haue gone vp to BethaueÌ„ nor haue sworne the LORDE lyueth For Israel is gone backe like a waÌ„ton cowe The LORDE therfore shal make hir fede as y e laÌ„be y t goâ—eth astraye And where as Ephraim is become partaker of Idols wel let him go Their dronckeÌ„nesse hath put theÌ„ backe brought them to whordome Their rulers loue rewardes brynge saye they to their owne shame A wynde shall take holde of their fethers they shal be coÌ„founded in their offeringes The V. Chapter HEare this o ye prestes take hede o thou housholde of Israel geue eare o thou kingly house for this punyshment wil come vpon you that are become a snare vnto Myspa and a spred net vnto the mount of Thabor They kyll sacrifices by heapes to begyle the people therwith therfore wil I punysh them all I knowe Ephraim well ynough Israel is not hyd fro me for Ephraim is become an harlot and Israel is defyled They are not mynded to turne vnto their God for they haue an whorish herte so y t they can not knowe the LORDE But the pryde of Israel wil be rewarded him in his face yee both Israel and Ephraim shal fall for their wickednesse and Iuda with them also They shall come with their shepe bullockes to seke y e LORDE but they shal not fynde him for he is gone from them As for the LORDE they haue refused him and brought vp bastarde children a moneth therfore shall deuoure them with their porcions Blowe with the shawmes at Gabea and with the trumpet in Rama crie out at Bethauen vpon the yonside of Ben Iamin In the tyme of y e plage shal Ephraim be layed waist therfore dyd I faithfully warne the trybes of Israel Yet are the prynces of Iuda become like them that remoue the londemarckes therfore wil I poure out my wrath vpon them like water Ephraim is oppressed and can haue no right of the lawe for why they folowe y e doctrynes of men Therfore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moth to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse and Iuda his disease Ephraim wente vnto Assur and sent vnto kinge Iareb yet coude not he helpe you ner ease you of youre payne I am vnto Ephraim as a lyon and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iuda Euen I I wil spoyle them go my waye I wil take them with me and no man shal rescue them I wil go and returne to my place till they waxe faynt and seke me The VI. Chapter IN their aduersite they shall seke me and saye come let vs turne agayne to the LORDE for he hath smytten vs and he shal heale vs He hath wounded vs he shal bynde vs vp agayne after two dayes shal be quycken vs in the thirde daye he shal rase vs vp so that we shal lyue in his sight Then shal we haue vnderstondinge endeuoure oure selues to knowe the LORDE He shal go forth as the sprynge of the daye and come vnto vs as the euenynge and mornynge rayne vpon the earth O Ephraim what shal I do vnto the O Iuda how shal I intreate the seynge youre loue is like a mornynge cloude like a dew y t goeth early awaye Therfore haue I cut downe the prophetes letten them be slayne for my wordes sake so that thy punyshment shal come to light For I haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse and not in offerynge Yee in the knowlege of God more then in burnt sacrifice But euen like as Adam dyd so haue they broken my couenaunt and set me at naught Galaad is a cite of wicked doers of malicious people and bloudshedders The multitude of the prestes is like an heape of theues murtherers bloud thurstie for they haue wrought abhominacion Horrible thinges haue I sene in the house of Israel there playeth Ephraim the harlot and Israel is defyled but Iuda shall haue an haruest for himself when I returne the captiuyte of my people The VII
geuē of y e LORDE God of Israel So Eszdras the hie prest brought the lawe vnto the whole multitude to man and woman to all prestes y t they might heare the lawe in the new moone of the seuenth moneth And he red in y e floore y t is before y e holy porte of y e tēple from the mornynge early vntill the euenynge before men wemen And they applied their mynde all vnto the lawe And Eszdras the prest reder of y e lawe stode vp vpon a scaffolde of wodd which was made therfore vpon his right hande there stode by him Mathathias Samus Ananias Azarias Vrias Ozechias Balsamus Vpon his lefte hāde stode Faldeus Misael Malachias Abuschas Sabus Nabadias Zachary Then toke Eszdras y e boke before the whole multitude for he was y e pryncipall and had in most hono r of thē all And whā he had red out y e lawe they stode all straight vp vpon their fete So Eszdras praysed the LORDE the most hye God the Allmightie God of hoostes And all y e people answered Amen helde vp their hādes fell downe flat vpon the earth praysed y e LORDE Iesus Beneas Sarebias Iaddimus Accubus Sabbatheus Calithes Azarias Ioradus Ananias Philias the Leuites which taught the lawe of the LORDE red the lawe of the LORDE in the cōgregacion euery man sett those before y t vnderstode the lawe Then spake Atharathes vnto Eszdras the hye prest reder to the Leuites y t taught the multitude sayenge This daye is holy vnto the LORDE all they y t had herde the lawe wepte ▪ So Eszdras sayde Departe yo r waye then eate the best drynke the swetest sende giftes vnto them y t haue nothinge for this daye is holy vnto the LORDE and be not ye sory Then wente they their waye euerychone ate and dronke and were mery sent rewardes vnto thē y t had nothinge y t they also might eate with gladnesse for they were exceadingly reioysed thorow the wordes that were red vnto them in the lawe And so they were all gathered together at Ierusalem to holde the feast acordinge to the couenaunt of y e LORDE God of Israel The ende of the thirde boke of Eszdras The IIII boke of Eszdras What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. God reproueth the people for their vnthankfulnes and rehearseth vnto them his owne louynge mercy that he maye bringe thē agayne yf they wyl not amende he wil chose another people Chap. II. The Synagoge cōplayneth vpō hir children ▪ The callynge of the Heithen Chap. III. Eszdras sheweth of the excellent workes of God done vnto the people and hath a frendly contencion with God because he suffreth the Babilonians to haue the dominion ouer them where as they yet are sinners also Chap. IIII. The angel rebuketh Eszdras for takinge in hāde to seke out the grounde of Gods iudgment and instructeth him with fayre symilitudes Chap. V. A communicaciō of Eszdras and the angel together Chap. VI. The angel enfourmeth Eszdras and answereth him to his questions Chap. VII The angel sheweth Eszdras many secrete matters and thinges for to come Chap. VIII Eszdras prayeth for the people that God wyll rather loke vpon his owne louynge mercy and the godlynes of few thē vpon the wycked synnes of many Chap. IX Tokens of the tyme and punyshment for to come Visions are shewed vnto Eszdras Chap. X. A communicacion betwixte Eszdras and the woman that appeared vnto him Chap. XI XII.XIII Of certayne visions and the interpretacions therof Chap. XIIII God appeareth vnto Eszdras in the bush talketh with him and cōmaundeth him what he shal doo Chap. XV. God sheweth Eszdras the punyshmēt that he wyl sende vpon the synfull people and commaundeth him to tell them the same Chap. XVI Punyshment vpon the Heithen and how the people of God shal behaue them selues therin The first Chapter THe seconde boke of y e prophet Eszdras y e sonne of Saraias the sonne of Azarias y e sonne of Helchia y e sonne of Sallū the sonne of Sadoc the sonne of Achitob the sonne of Amerias the sonne of Azarias the sonne of Maraioth the sonne of Sarahias the sonne of Vzi the sonne of Boccus the sonne of Abisu the sonne of Phineas the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron of the trybe of Leui which was presoner in the lande of the Meedes in the raigne of Artaxerses kynge of Persia. And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me sayenge Go thy waye shew my people their synfull dedes their children their wickednesses which they haue done against me that they maye tell their childers childrē the same for the synnes of their fathers are increased in them And why they haue forgotten me haue offred vnto straunge goddes Am not I euen he that brought them out of the lande of Egipte from the house of bondage But they haue prouoked me vnto wrath despysed my councels Pull thou out then the hayre of thy heade and cast all euell ouer them for they haue not bene obedient vnto my lawe It is a people without lernynge nourtoure How longe shal I forbeare them vnto whom I haue done so moch good Many kynges haue I destroyed for their sakes Pharao w t his seruaūtes and all his power haue I smytten downe and slayne All y e nacions haue I destroyed and roted out before them and in y e east haue I brought two landes and people to naught euen Tyre Sydon and haue slayne all their enemies Speake thou therfore vnto them sayenge Thus sayeth the LORDE I led you thorow the see and haue geuen you sure stretes sence the begynnynge I gaue you Moses to be youre captayne and Aaron to be the prest I gaue you light in a piler of fyre greate wōders haue I done amōge you yet haue ye forgotten me sayeth the LORDE Thus sayeth the allmightie LORDE I gaue you quales to eate and tentes for youre sucoure Neuertheles ye murmured and ascrybed not y e victory of youre enemies vnto my name yee this same daie do ye yet murmoure Where are the benefites that I haue done for you Whan ye were hongrie in the wildernes dyd ye not crie vnto me Why hast thou brought vs in to this wildernes to kill vs It had bene better for vs to haue serued y e Egipcians then to dye in this wildernesse Thē had I pitie vpon youre mourninges and gaue you Manna to eate Ye ate angels foode Whā ye were thyrstie dyd not I hew y e hardstone caused water ynough to flowe thereout For the heate I couered you with y e leaues of the trees A good pleasaunt fatt londe gaue I you I cast out the Cananites the Pheresites and Philistynes before you What shal I do more for you saieth the LORDE Thus sayeth the Allmightie LORDE Whan ye were in the wildernes in the water of the Amorites beynge a
in to Raguel which receaued them ioyfully And whan Raguel loked vpon Tobias he sayde vnto Anna his wife How like is this yonge man vnto my sisters sonne And whan he had spoken this he saide whence be ye good brethren They saide Of the trybe of Nephtali out of the captiuyte of Niniue Then sayde Raguel vnto them knowe ye my brother Tobias They saide yee we knowe him well And whan he had spoken moch good of him the angell sayde vnto Raguel Tobias of whom thou axest is this yonge mās father Then Raguel bowed him self downe and wepte toke him aboute the neck and kyssed him and sayde Gods blessynge haue thou my sonne for thou art the sonne of a good vertuous man And Anna his wyfe and Sara his daughter wepte also Now whā they had talked together Raguel bad kyll a wether and to make a feast And whā he prayed thē to sytt downe to dyner Tobias sayde I wil nether eate ner drinke here this daye excepte thou first graunte me my peticion promyse me to geue me thy daughter Sara Whan Raguel herde this he was astonnyed for he knew what had happened vnto the other seuen men that wēte in vnto her and he begannne to feare that it shulde chaunce vnto him also in like maner And whyle he stode so in doute and gaue the yonge man no answere the angell sayde vnto him Feare not to geue him thy daughter for vnto this man that feareth God belōgeth thy daughter to wife therfore might none other haue her Thē sayde Raguel I doute not but God hath accepted my prayers and teares in his sight and I trust he caused you to come vnto me for the same intent that this daughter of myne might be maried in hir owne kynred acordinge to the lawe of Moses And now dowte thou not but I wil geue her vnto the So he toke the righthande of his daughter and gaue her in to the right hāde of Tobias and sayde The God of Abrahā the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob be with you ioyne you together and fulfill his blessynge in you And they toke a letter and made a wrytinge of the mariage And then made they mery and praysed God And Raguel called Anna his wife vnto him and bad her prepare another chamber and thither he brought Sara his daughter and she wepte Then sayde he vnto her Be of good cheare my daughter the LORDE of heauen geue the ioye for the heuynesse that thou hast suffred The VIII Chapter NOw after y t they had supped they brought the yōge man in to her Thē thought Tobias vpon the wordes of the angell and toke out of his bagg a pece of the leuer of the fish and layed it vpon the hote coales So the angell Raphael toke holde of the deuell and sent him awaye and bounde him in the wyldernes of the hyer Egipte Thē spake Tobias vnto the virgin and sayde Vp Sara let vs make oure prayer vnto God to daye tomorow and ouermorow for these thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure selues with God and whan the thirde holy night is past we shall ioyne together in y e deutye of mariage For we are the children of holy men and we maye not come together as the Heithen y t knowe not God Then stode they vp both together and be sought God earnestly y t he wolde preserue them And Tobias sayde O LORDE God of o fathers praysed be thou of heauē earth of the see welles floudes of all the crea tures that be therin Thou maydest Adam of the moulde of the earth gauest him Eua for an helper And now LORDE thou knowest that it is not because of voluptuousnes that I take this sister of myne to wyfe but onely for the loue of childen in whom thy name be blessed for euer And Sara sayde haue mercy vpon vs O LORDE haue mercy vpon vs and let vs both come whole and sounde to a good age And aboute the cocke crowe it happened that Raguel called his seruauntes and they wēte with him to make a graue For he sayde it is chaunced vnto him peraduēture as it dyd vnto the other seuen men that wente in vnto her Now whā they had made the graue Raguel came agayne to his wyfe and sayde vnto her sende one of thy maydēs to loke yf he be deed that I maye burye him afore it be light daye So she sent a mayden to se which whan she came in to the chamber she founde them whole and sounde slepynge together And so she came agayne brought good tydinges Then Raguel and Anna his wife praysed y e LORDE and sayde Praysed be thou o LORDE God of Israel For it is not happened vnto vs as we thought For thou hast dealte mercifully with vs and put awaye from vs the enemye that persecuted vs and hast shewed mercy vnto yonder two beloued O LORDE cause thē to magnifie the more perfectly and to offre the the sacrifice of thy prayse and of their health that all people maye knowe y t thou onely art God in all the earth And immediatly Raguel commaunded his seruauntes to fyll the graue that they had made with earth afore it was light and bade his wife prepare a feast to make ready all thinges that were necessary for meate to soch as wente by y e waye He caused two fatt kyne also and foure wethers to be slayne meates to be prepared for all his neghbours and frendes And Raguel charged Tobias to remayne with him two wekes As for all the good y t he had he gaue Tobias y e one half of it and made this wrytinge that the half which remayned shulde fall vnto Tobias after their death The IX Chapter THen Tobias called vnto him the angell whom he thought to haue bene a man and sayde vnto him Brother Azarias I praye the herkē vnto my wordes Yf I shulde geue myself to be y e seruaunt I shal not deserue y e prouydence Neuertheles I beseke the that thou wylt take the beastes and the seruauntes and go vnto Gabelus in Rages the cite of the Meedes and delyuer him his handwrytinge and receaue the money of him and praye him to come to my mariage For thou knowest thy self that my father telleth y e dayes and yf I tary one daye to longe he wyl be sory in his mynde Now seist thou how earnestly Raguel hath requyred me so that I can not saye him nay Then toke Raphael foure of Raguels seruauntes and two Camels wente vnto Rages the cite of the Medes and whan he had founde Gabelus he gaue him his handwrytynge receaued all y e money He tolde him also of Tobias y e sonne of Toby how all thīges had happened caused him to come w t him to y e mariage Now whan he came in to the house of Raguel he foūde Tobias syttinge at y e table he leape vp they kyssed one another and Gabelus wepte and praysed
thinges doth no hert vnderstonde but he vnderstandeth euery hert and who vnderstandeth his wayes No man seyth his storme and the most parte of his workes are secrete Who wil declare the workes of his righteousnes Or who shal be able to abyde them for the couenaunt is farre from some and the tryenge out of men is in the fulfillynge He that is humble of hert thinketh vpon soch thinges but an vnwyse and erroneous man casteth his mynde vnto foolish thinges My sonne herken thou vnto me lerne vnderstādinge and marck my wordes with thine hert I wyll geue the a sure doctrine planely shal I enstrucke the. God hath sett his workes in good ordre from the begynninge and parte of them hath he sundered from the other He hath garnyshed his workes from euerlastinge and their begynnynges acordinge to their generacions None of thē hyndered another nether was eny of them dishobedient vnto his worde After this God loked vpō the earth and fylled it with his goodes With all maner of lyuinge beastes hath he couered the grounde and they all shal be turned vnto earth agayne The XVII Chapter BOd shope man of the earth and turned him vnto earth agayne He gaue him the nombre of dayes and certayne tyme yee and gaue him power of the thinges that are vpō earth He clothed him with strength and made him after his owne licknes He made all flesh to stonde in awe of him so that he had the dominion of all beastes foules He made out of him an helper like vnto him self and gaue them discrecion and tonge eyes and eares and a hert to vnderstande and fylled them with instruccion vnderstandinge He created for them also the knowlege of the sprete fylled their hert with vnderstandinge and shewed them good and euell He sett his eye vpō their hertes declaringe vnto them his greate and noble workes that they shulde prayse his holy name together reioyse of his wonders be tellinge of his noble actes Besydes this he gaue them instruccion and the lawe of life for an heretage He made an euerlastinge couenaunt with them and shewed them his righteousnes iudgmentes They sawe his glory with their eyes and their eares herde the maiesty of his voyce And he saide vnto them bewarre of all vnrighteous thinges He gaue euery man also a commaundement concernynge his neghboure Their waies are euer before him and are not hyd from his eyes He hath sett a ruler vpon euery people but Israel is y e LORDES porcion All their workes are as the Sonne in y e sight of God his eyes are allwaye lokynge vpon their wayes All their vnrighteousnesses are manifest vnto him all their wickednesses are open in his sight The mercy y t a man sheweth is as it were a purse w t him and a mans good dede preserueth him as the apple of an eye At the last shall he awake rewarde euery man vpon his heade as he hath deserued and shal turne them together in to the nethermost partes of the earth But vnto them that wyll repent he hath geuē the waye of righteousnes As for soch as be weake he comforteth thē suffreth them and sendeth them the porcion of y e verite O turne then vnto the LORDE forsake thy synnes make thy prayer before the LORDE do the lesse offence turne agayne vnto the LORDE forsake thine vnrighteousnes be an vtter enemy to abhominacion lerne to knowe the righteousnes and iudgmentes of God stonde in the porcion that is sett forth for the in the prayer of the most hye God Go in to the porcion of the holy worlde with soch as be lyuinge and geue thankes vnto God Who wil prayse the LORDE in the hell Abyde not thou in the erroure of the vngodly but geue him thākes before death As for y e deed thankfulnesse perisheth from him as nothinge Geue thou thankes in thy life yee whyle thou art lyuynge whole shalt thou geue thankes and prayse God and reioyse in his mercy O how greate is the louynge kyndnesse of the LORDE and his mercifull goodnes vnto soch as turne vnto him For all thinges maye not be in man why the sonne of man is not immortall and he hath pleasure in the vanyte of wickednes What is more cleare thē the Sonne yet shal it fayle Or what is more wicked then the thinge that flesh and bloude hath ymagined and that same shall be reproued The LORDE seyth the power of the hye heauen and all are but earth and aszshes The XVIII Chapter HE that lyueth for euermore made all thinges together God onely is righteous remayneth a victorious kynge for euer Who shal be able to expresse the workes of him Who hath sought out the grounde of his noble actes Who shal declare the power of his greatnesse Or who will take vpon him to tell out his mercy As for the wonderous workes of y e LORDE there maye nothinge be taken from them nothinge maye be put vnto them nether maye the grounde of them be founde out But whan a man hath done his best he must begynne agayne and whan he thinketh to be come to an ende he must go agayne to his laboure What is man Wherto is he worth What good or euell can he do Yf the nombre of a mans dayes be allmost an hundreth yeare it is moch Like as the droppes of rayne are vnto y e see and as a grauell stone is in comparison of the sonde so are these few yeares to the dayes euerlastinge Therfore is y e LORDE pacient with them and poureth out his mercy vpon them He sawe and perceaued the thoughtes and ymaginacions of their harte that they were euell therfore heaped he vp his mercifull goodnes vpon them and shewed them the waie of righteousnes The mercy that a mā hath reacheth to his neghboure but y e mercy of God is vpon all flesh He chasteneth he teacheth and nourtureth yee euen as a shepherde turneth agayne his flock so doth he all them that receaue chastenynge nurtoure and doctryne Mercifull is he vnto them that stonde in awe of his iudgmentes My sonne whan thou doest good make no grudginge at it and what so euer thou geuest speake no discomfortable wordes Shal not the dew coole the heate Euen so is a worde better then a gift Is not a frendly worde a good honest gift but a gracious man geueth them both A foole shal cast a man in the tethe and that roughly a gift of the nygarde putteth out y e eyes Get the righteousnes before thou come to iudgmēt Lerne before thou speake and go to phisick or euer thou be sick examen and iudge thy self before the iudgment come and so shalt thou fynde grace in the sight of God Humble thy self afore thou be sick and in tyme of thy disease shewe thy conuersacion Let not to praye allwaye and stonde not in feare to be refourmed
kyndled Like as an whole ornament of pure golde set with all maner of precious stones and as an olyue tre that is frutefull as a Cypres tre which groweth vp an hye Whan he put on the garment of honoure was clothed withall bewtye whan he wente to the holy altare to garnysh the couerynge of the Sanctuary whan he toke y e porcions out of the prestes hande he himself stode by the herth of the altare and his brethren rounde aboute in ordre As the braunches of Cedre tre vpon the mount Libanus so stode they rounde aboute him And as the braunches of the olyue tre so stode all y e sonnes of Aaron in their glory And y t he might sufficiently perfourme his seruyce vpon the altare garnysh the offrynge of the hyest God he stretched out his hande and toke of the drynk offerynge poured in of the wyne so he poured vpon the botome of the aulter a good smell vnto the hyest prynce Then beganne y e sonnes of Aaron to synge and to blowe with trompettes to make a greate noyse for a remembraūce prayse vnto the LORDE Then were the people afrayed fell downe to the earth vpō their faces to worshipe the LORDE their God to geue thankes to Allmightie God They sunge goodly also with their voyces so that there was a pleasaunt noyse in y e greate house of the LORDE And the people in their prayer besought the LORDE the Hyest that he wolde be mercyfull tyll the honoure of y e LORDE were perfourmed Thus ended they their mynistracion and seruyce Then wente he downe and stretched out his handes ouer the whole multitude of the people of Israel that they shulde geue praise thankes out of their lippes vnto y e LORDE and to reioyse in his name He beganne yet once also to praye that he might openly shew the thankesgeuynge before the Hyest namely thus O geue prayse thankes ye all vnto the LORDE oure God which hath euer done noble and greate thinges which hath increased oure dayes from o r mothers wombe and dealt with vs acordinge to his mercy that he wyl geue vs the ioyfulnes of hert peace for oure tymes in Israel Which faithfully kepeth his mercy for vs euermore allwaye delyuereth vs in due season There be two maner of people that I abhorre fro my hert as for the thirde whom I hate it is no people They that syt vpon the mountayne of Samaria the Philistynes the foolish people that dwell in Sichimis I Iesus the sonne of Sirac Eleazarus of Ierusalem haue tokened vp these informacions and documētes of wyszdome and vnderstādinge in this boke and poured out the wyszdome out of my hert Blessed is he that exerciseth him self therin and who so taketh soch to hert shal be wyse Yf he do these thinges he shal be stronge in all For the light of the LORDE ledeth him The LI. Chapter A prayer of Iesus the sonne of Sirac I Thanke the O LORDE and kynge and praise the O God my Sauioure I wil yelde prayse vnto y e name for thou art my defender and helper hast preserued my body from destruccion from y e snare of traytorous tōges and from the lippes that are occupied with leyes Thou hast bene my helper from soch as stode vp agaynst me and hast delyuered me after the multitude of thy mercy and for thy holy names sake Thou hast delyuered me from the roaringe of them that prepared them selues to deuoure me out of y e handes of soch as sought after my life from the multitude of them y t troubled me wente aboute to set fyre vpon me on euery syde so y t I am not brent in the myddest of the fyre From the depe of hell from an vncleane tōge from lyenge wordes from the wicked kynge and from an vnrighteous tonge My soule shal prayse y e LORDE vnto death for my life drew nye vnto hell They cōpased me rounde aboute on euery syde there was no mā to helpe me I loked aboute me yf there were eny man that wolde socoure me but there was none Then thought I vpon thy mercy O LORDE and vpon thy actes that thou hast done euer of olde namely y t thou delyuerest soch as putt their trust in the and ryddest them out of y e handes of the Heithen Thus lift I vp my prayer from the earth and prayed for delyueraunce from death I called vpon the LORDE my father that he wolde not leaue me w t out helpe in the daye of my trouble in the tyme of the proude I praysed thy name contynually yeldinge honoure and thākes vnto it and so my prayer was herde Thou sauedest me from destruccion and delyueredest me frō y e vnrighteous tyme. Therfore wil I aknowlege and praise the and magnifie y e name of the LORDE Whā I was yet but yonge or euer I wēte astraye I desyred wyszdome openly in my prayer I came therfore before the temple sought her vnto the last Then florished she vnto me as a grape that is soone rype My hert reioysed in her then wente my fote the right waye yee from youth vp sought I after her I bowed downe myne eare and receaued her I founde me moch wyszdome and prospered greatly in her Therfore wyll Iascrybe the glory vnto him that geueth me wyszdome for I am aduysed to do therafter I will be gelous to cleue vnto the thinge y t is good so shal I not be cōfounded My soule hath wrestled with her and I haue bene diligent to be occupied in her I lift vp myne handes an hye then was my soule lightened thorow wiszdome that I knowleged my foolishnes I ordred my soule after her she I were one hert from the begynninge and I founde her in clennesse And therfore shal I not be forsaken My hert longed after her and I gat a good treasure Thorow her y e LORDE hath geuen me a new tonge wherwith I wil praise him O come vnto me ye vnlerned dwell in y e house of wyszdome withdrawe not youre selues from her but talke comon of these thinges for youre soules are very thirstie I opened my mouth and spake O come bye wyszdome without money bowe downe youre neck vnder hir yock and youre soule shall receaue wyszdome She is harde at hande is content to be founde Beholde with youre eyes how that I haue had but litle laboure and yet haue founde moch rest O receaue wyszdome and ye shall haue plenteousnes of syluer and golde in possession Let youre mynde reioyse in his mercy be not ashamed of his prayse Wyrke his worke by tymes he shal geue you youre rewarde in due tyme. The ende of Ecclesiasticus other wyse called Iesus the sonne of Syrac The prayer of Azarias and the songe of y e thre children after Theodotios translacion which wordes are wryten in y e thirde chapter of Daniel after the olde text in Latyn
Arodi and Areli The children of Asser Iemna Iesua Iesui Bria Sera their sister The children of Bria Heber and Malchiel These are the children of Silpa whom Laban gaue vnto Lea his doughter and she bare vnto Iacob these sixtene soules The childreÌ„ of Rachel Iacobs wife Ioseph and Ben Iamin And vnto Ioseph in y e lande of Egipte were borne Manasses and Ephraim whom Asnath the doughter of Potiphar prest of On bare vnto him The children of Ben Iamin Bela Becher Asber Gera NaamaÌ„ Ehi Ros Mupim Hupim and Ard. These are the children of Rachel which were borne vnto Iacob fourtene soules alltogether The children of Dan Husim The childreÌ„ of Nephtali Iahzeel Guni Iezer Sillem These are the children of Bilha whom Laban gaue vnto his doughter Rachel she bare Iacob these seuen soules All the soules y t came w t Iacob in to Egipte which proceaded out of his loynes besyde the wyues of his childreÌ„ are alltogether sixe sixtie soules And Iosephs childreÌ„ which were borne vnto him in Egipte were two soules so that all the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egipte were seuentye And he sent Iuda before him vnto Ioseph to shew him the waye to Gosen they came in to the lande of Gosen Then Ioseph bended his charett fast and wente vp to mete Israel his father vnto Gosen And whan he sawe him he fell aboute his neck wepte sore vpon his neck Then sayde Israel vnto Ioseph Now am I content to dye for so moch as I haue sene thy face that thou art yet alyue Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren to his fathers house I will go vp tell Pharao saye vnto him My brethreÌ„ and my fathers house are come vnto me out of the lande of Canaan and are kepers of catell for they are men that deale with catell their small greate catell and all that they haue haue they brought with them Now yf Pharao call you and saye what is youre occupacioÌ„ then ye shal saye Thy seruauntes are men y t haue dealt w t catell from oure youth vp hytherto both we oure fathers that ye maye dwell in the lande of Gosen for the Egipcians abhorre all kepers of catell The XLVII Chapter THen came Ioseph and tolde Pharao sayde My father and my brethren their small greate catell all y t they haue are come out of y e lande of Canaan beholde they are in the lande of Gosen And he toke fyue of his brethren presented them vnto Pharao Then sayde Pharao vnto his brethren What is youre occupacion They answered Thy seruauntes are kepers of catell we and oure fathers also And they sayde morouer vnto Pharao We are come to dwell with you in the lande for y e seruauÌ„tes haue no pasture for their catell so sore doth the derth oppresse the lande of Canaan Now therfore let y e seruauntes dwell in the lande of Gosen Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto the the lande of Egipte is open before the let them dwell in the best place of the lande se y t they dwell euen in the lande of Gosen And yf thou knowest that there be men of actiuyte amoÌ„ge theÌ„ make theÌ„ rulers of my catell Ioseph brought in Iacob his father also set him before Pharao And Iacob thanked Pharao But Pharao axed Iacob How olde art thou Iacob sayde The tyme of my pylgremage is an huÌ„dreth and thirtie yeares litle and euell is the tyme of my pilgremage and attayneth not vnto the tyme of my fathers in their pylgremages And Iacob thanked Pharao and weÌ„te out from him So Ioseph prepared dwellinges for his father and his brethren gaue them a possession in the lande of Egipte euen in the best place of the lande namely in the lande of Raemses as Pharao coÌ„maunded And he made prouysion for his father and his brethren and all his fathers house with bred euen as yonge children There was no bred in all the londe for the derth was very sore so y t the lande of Egipte the lande of Canaan were fameshed by y e reason of the derth And Ioseph broughâ— together all the money that was founde in Egipte and Canaan for y e corne that they bought And he layed vp all the money in Pharaos house Now whan money fayled in the lande of Egipte and Canaan all the Egipcians came vnto Ioseph saide Geue vs bred Why suffrest thou vs to dye before y t because weare without money Ioseph saide Brynge hither youre catell so wil I geue you for youre catell seynge ye are without money Then brought they their catell vnto Ioseph And he gaue theÌ„ bred for their horses shepe oxen and Asses So he fed them with bred y t yeare for all their catell Whan y t yeare was ended they came vnto him the next yeare sayde vnto him We wil not hyde it from o r lorde y t not onely the money but all the catell also is spent vnto o r lorde there is nothinge left more for o r lorde but onely o r body oure lande Wherfore suffrest thou both vs to dye and oure londe Take vs and oure laÌ„de for bred that we and oure lande maye be bonde vnto Pharao geue vs sede that we maye lyue and not dye y t the lande become not a wildernesse So Ioseph toke all the lande of Egipte in for Pharao for the Egipcians solde euery man his lande because y e derth was so mightie vpon them and so the loÌ„de became Pharaos with the people that wentâ— out and in at his cities from one syde of Egipte vnto the other excepte the prestes londe that toke he not in For it was ordened of Pharao for the prestes that they shulde eate that which was appoynted them which he gaue them therfore they neded not to sell their londes Then sayde Ioseph vnto the people Beholde I haue taken possession of you and youre lande this daye for Pharao Beholde there haue ye sede sowe the londe and of the corne ye shall geue the fifth parte vnto Pharao foure partes shal be youres to sowe the londe for youre sustenaunce and for youre houses and children They sayde Let vs but lyue fynde grace before the oure lorde we wyl gladly be Pharaos seruauntes So Ioseph made theÌ„ a lawe vnto this daye ouer the Egipcians londe to geue Pharao the fifth parte excepte the prestes londe which was not bonde vnto Pharao So Israel dwelt in Egipte in the londe of Gosen and had it in possession and grew and multiplied exceadingly And Iacob lyued seuentene yeare in the lande of Egipte so that his whole age was an huÌ„dreth and seuen and fourtye yeares Now whan the tyme came that Israel shulde dye he called Ioseph his sonne and sayde vnto him Yf I haue founde grace in thy sight then laye thine honde vnder my â—hye y t thou shalt shewe mercy and
people synge a songe of thankesgeuynge vnto the LORDE and come to Marath where the bytter water is made swete Chap. XVI The LORDE sendeth quayles and the Manna to the vnpacient people Chap. XVII Water cōmeth out of the stonye rocke They fight agaynst Amaleck Chap. XVIII Iethro bryngeth Moses his wife and children and geueth him a good councell Chap. XIX The LORDE appeareth vnto Moses vpon mount Sinai Moses sheweth the people Chap. XX. The LORDE geueth Moses the two tables of the commaundementes vnto the people Chap. XXI Lawes and statutes concernynge bodely thinges Of murthur theft and other mo Chap. XXII Of theft Of hurte that is done with wyll or vnawarres Of thinges geuē to kepe Of borowynge and pledges Chap. XXIII Many dyuerse lawes statutes Chap. XXIIII Of the boke and bloude of the couenaunt Chap. XXV XXVI The LORDE cōmaundeth Moses to make the Sanctuary and the thinges belonginge therto Chap. XXVII Of the altare and the apparell therof Of the courte of the habitaciō Of the oyle and lampes Chap. XXVIII How the prestes were arayed and consecrated Chap. XXIX The consecratinge of Aaron of his sonnes and of the altare Chap. XXX Of the altare of incense and the brasen lauer the anoyntinge oyle and incense Chap. XXXI The workmen are called The kepynge of the Sabbath The two tables of wytnes are geuen Moses Chap. XXXII They make the golden calf Moses in his displeasure breaketh the tables and punysheth the transgressours Chap. XXXIII The people mourne Moses pitcheth the tabernacle and the LORDE talketh with him Chap. XXXIIII Moses receaueth other tables of the LORDE with certaine lawes The people are afrayed at the brightnes of his face Chap. XXXV Certaine statutes cōcerninge th◠Tabernacle The workemen are appoynted Chap. XXXVI What the thinges be that they made Chap. XXXVII The tabernacle of witnesse with the staues Cherubins the table candelsticke Chap. XXXVIII The altare of brēt offerīges with the thinges belonginge therto Chap. XXXIX Of the prestes garmentes Chap. XL. The LORDE commaundeth Moses to set vp the tabernacle to order the apparell therof The first Chapter THese are y e names of the childrē of Israel that came with Iacob in to Egipte euery one came in w t his house Ruben Simeon Leui Iuda Isachar Zabulō Ben Iamin Dan Nephtali Gad and Aser And of all the soules that came out of the loynes of Iacob there were seuentie As for Ioseph he was in Egipte all ready Now whā Ioseph was deed and all his brethren and all they that lyued at that tyme the children of Israel grewe and increased and multiplied and became exceadinge mightie so y t the lande was full of them Thē came there a new kynge ouer Egipte which knewe nothinge of Ioseph and sayde vnto his people Beholde the people of the children of Israel are many mightier then we Vp let vs deale wysely with them y t there be not so many of them For yf there shulde ryse vp eny warre agaynst vs they might ioyne them selues also vnto oure enemies and ouercome vs so get them out of the lande And he set worke masters ouer them to kepe them vnder with burthens For they buylded the cities Phiton and Raemses for treasuries vnto Pharao But the more they vexed them the more they multiplied and grew Therfore had they indignaciō at the children of Israel and the Egipcians compelled the children of Israel without mercy to do seruyce and made their lyues bytter vnto them with greuous laboure in claye and brycke and with all maner of bondage in y e felde and with all maner of laboure which they layed vpon them without mercy And the kynge of Egipte sayde vnto the mydwyues of the Hebrueswemen Of the which one was called Siphra and the other Pua Whan ye helpe the wemen of the Hebrues and se vpon the stole that it is a sonne then slaye him but yf it be a doughter let her lyue Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them but let the children lyue Then the kynge of Egipte called the mydwyues and sayde vnto them Wherfore do ye this that ye let the children lyue The mydwyues answered Pharao The wemen of the Hebrues are not as the wemen of Egipte for they are sturdy wemen or euer the mydwyues come at them they are delyuered Therfore God dealt well with the mydwyues And the people multiplied and became exceadinge mightie And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God he made them houses Then Pharao commaūded all his people and sayde All the sonnes that are borne cast in to the water but let all the doughters lyue The II. Chapter ANd there wente forth a man of the house of Leui and toke a doughter of Leui. And the wife conceaued and bare a sonne And whan she sawe y t it was a proper childe she hyd him thre monethes And whan she coude hyde him no longer she toke an Arke of redes and dawbed it ouer with slyme and pitch and layed the childe therin and set it amonge the redes by the waters brynke But his sister stode a farre of to wete what wolde come of him And Pharaos doughter came downe to wash herself in the water And hir maydens walked by the water syde and whan she sawe the Arke amonge the redes she sent one of hir maydens and caused it to be fett And whan she opened it she sawe y e childe and beholde the babe wepte Then had she pytie vpon it and sayde It is one of the Hebrues children Then sayde his syster vnto Pharaos doughter Shal I go and call the a nurse of the Hebrues wemen to nurse y e the childe Pharaos doughter sayde vnto her Go thy waye The mayde wente and called the childes mother Then sayde Pharaos doughter vnto her Take this childe and nurse it for me I wyll geue y e thy rewarde The woman toke the childe and nursed it And whan the childe was growne she brought it vnto Pharaos doughter and it became hir sonne and she called him Moses For she sayde I toke him out of the water Vpon a tyme whan Moses was greate he wente forth vnto his brethren and loked vpon their burthens and sawe that an Egipciā smote one of his brethren y e Hebrues And he loked rounde aboute him and whan he sawe that there was no man he slew the Egipcian and buried him in the sonde The next daye he wente forth also and sawe two men of the Hebrues stryuynge together and sayde to the vngodly Wherfore smytest thou thy neghboure But he sayde Who made the a ruler or iudge ouer vs Wilt thou slaye me also as thou slewest the Egipcian Thē was Moses afrayed and sayde How is this knowne And Pharao herde of it and sought for Moses to slaye him But Moses fled from Pharao and kepte him in the lande of Madian and sat him downe by a wells syde The prest Madian had seuen doughters
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
for his mercy endureth for euer And Og the kynge of Basan for his mercy endureth for euer And gaue awaye their londe for an heretage for his mercy endureth for euer Euen for an heretage vnto Israel his seruaunt for his mercy endureth for euer Which remeÌ„breth vs wheÌ„ we are in trouble for his mercy endureth for euer Which geueth foode vnto all flesh for his mercy endureth foreuer O geue thankes vnto the God of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer The CXXXVI psalme BY the waters of Babilon we sat downe and wepte when we remeÌ„bred Sion As for oure harpes we hanged them vp vpon the trees that are therin TheÌ„ they that led vs awaye captyue requyred of vs a songe and melody in o r heuynes â–ª synge vs one of the songes of Sion How shal we synge the LORDES songe in a strauÌ„ge loÌ„de Yf I forget the o Ierusalem let my right hande be forgotten Yf I do not remembre the let my tonge cleue to the rofe of my mouth yee yf I preferre not Ierusalem in my myrth Remembre the childreÌ„ of Edom o LORDE in the daye of Ierusalem how they sayde downe with it downe with it eueÌ„ to the grounde O doughter BabiloÌ„ thou shalt come to misery thy self yee happie shal he be that rewardeth y e as thou hast serued vs. Blessed shal he be that taketh thy children and throweth them agaynst the stones The CXXXVII A psalme of Dauid I Wil geue thaÌ„kes vnto the o LORDE with my whole hert euen before the goddes wil I synge prayses vnto the. I wil worshippe towarde thy holy teÌ„ple and prayse thy name because of thy louynge kyndnesse and treuth for thou hast magnified thy worde acordynge vnto thy greate name When I call vpoÌ„ the thou hearest me and endewest my soule with moch streÌ„gth All the kynges of the earth shal prayse the o LORDE when they heare the wordes of thy mouth Yee they shal synge in the wayes of the LORDE that greate is the glory of the LORDE For though the LORDE be hye yet hath he respecte vnto y e lowly as for y e proude he beholdeth him afarre off Though I walke iÌ„ y e myddest of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thine haÌ„de vpoÌ„ the furiousnes of myne enemies y e righthande shal saue me The LORDE shal make good for me yee thy mercy o LORDE endureth for euer despyse not then the worke of thine owne handes The CXXXVIII A psalme of Dauid O LORDE thou searchest me out and knowest me Thou knowest my downe syttinge my vprisynge thou vnderstoÌ„dest my thoughtes afarre of Thou art aboute my path aboute my bedd spyest out all my wayes For lo there is not a worde iÌ„ my toÌ„ge but thou o LORDE knowest it alltogether Thou hast fashioned me behinde before layed thine hoÌ„de vpon me Soch knowlege is to wonderfull excelleÌ„t for me I can not atteyne vnto it Whither shal I go then from thy sprete Or whither shal I fle from thy presence Yf I clymme vp in to heauen thou art there yf I go downe to hell thou art there also Yf I take the wynges of the mornynge remayne in the vttemost parte of the see Euen there also shal thy honde lede me and thy right hande shal holde me Yf I saye peradueÌ„ture the darcknesse shal couer me then shal my night be turned to daye Yee the darcknesse is no darcknesse with the but the night is as cleare as the daye the darcknesse light are both alike For my reynes are thyne thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe I wil geue thaÌ„kes vnto the for I am woÌ„derously made maruelous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth right well My bones â—re not hyd from the though I be made secretly and fashioned beneth in the earth Thine eyes se myne vnparfitnesse they stonâ—e all writteÌ„ iÌ„ thy boke my dayes were fashiâ—ned when as yet there was not one of them How deare are y e couÌ„cels vnto me o God O how greate is the summe of them Yf I tell them they are mo in nombre then the ende when I wake vp I am present with â—he Wilt thou not slaye y e wicked oh God â—hat the bloudethyrstie mighte departe froâ—â—e For they speake vnright of the thine â—â—emies exalte them selues presumptuously I hate them o LORDE that hate the I maye not awaye with those that ryse vp â—gaynst the Yee I hate them right sore â—â—erfore are they myne enemies Trye me â—o God and seke the grounde of myne hert proue me examen my 〈…〉 well yf there be eny waye 〈…〉 me lede me in the waye 〈…〉 The CXXXIX A psalme of Dauid â–ª DElyuer me o LORDE from the 〈◊〉 men oh preserue me from the wicked men Which ymagin myschefe in their hertes stere vp strife all the daye longe They sharpen their tonges like a serpent Adders poyson is vnder their lippes Sela. Kepe me o LORDE from the hande of the vngodly preserue me from the wicked men which are purposed to ouerthrowe my goinges The proude haue layed a snare for me spred a nett abrode with coardes yee sett trappes in my waye Sela. But my sayenge is vnto the LORDE thou art my God heare the voyce of my prayer o LORDE O LORDE God thou strength of my health thou hast couered my heade in y e daye of battayll Let not y e vngodly haue his desyre o LORDE let him not haue his purpose lest they be to proude Sela. Let the myschefe of their owne lippes fall vpon y e head of theÌ„ y t coÌ„pase me aboute Let hote burnynge coales fall vpoÌ„ theÌ„ let theÌ„ be cast in to the fyre and in to the pytt that they neuer ryse vp agayne A man full of wordes shal not prospere vpon earth a malicious wicked person shal be hunted awaye and destroyed Sure I am that the LORDE wil auenge the poore and manteyne the cause of the helplesse The rightuous also shal geue thaÌ„kes vnto thy name the iust shal continue in thy sight The CXL A psalme of Dauid LORDE I call vpon the haist the vnto me and consider my voyce wheÌ„ I crie vnto the. Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the inceÌ„se and let the liftinge vp of my haÌ„des be an euenynge sacrifice Set a watch o LORDE before my mouth yee a watch at the dore of my lippes O let not myne hert be enclyned to eny euell thiÌ„ge to be mynded as the vngodly or wicked men lest I eate of soch thinges as please theÌ„ Let the rightuous rather smyte me frendly and reproue me so wil I take it as though he had poured oyle vpoÌ„ my heade it shal not hurte my heade yee I wil praye yet for theâ— wickednesse Their iudges stoÌ„ble at the stone yet heare they my wordes y t they be ioyfull Oure bones lye scatered before y e pytt like as when one graueth and dyggeth
stondeth vpon the is like Carmel The hayre of thy heade is like the kynges purple folden vp in plates O how fayre and louely art thou my derlynge in pleasures Thy stature is like a date tre and thy brestes like the grapes I sayde I wil clymme vp in to the date tre and take holde of his braunches Thy brestes also shal be as the vyne grapes the smell of thy nostrels like the smell of apples and thy thâ—â—â—te like the best wyne This shal be pure cleare for my loue his lippes and teth shal haue their pleasure There wil I turne me vnto my loue and he shal turne him vnto me O come on my loue let vs go forth in to the felde and take â—â—re lodginge in the vyllages In the mornynge wil we ryse by tymes and go se the vynyarde yf it be spronge forth yf the grapes be growne yf the pomgranates be shoâ—â— out There wil I geue the my brestes There shal the Mandragoras geue their smell besyde oure dores There o my loue haue I kepte vnto the all maner of frutes both new and olde The VIII Chapter O That I might fynde the without kysse y e whom I loue as my brother which suckte my mothers brestes that thou woldest not be offended yf I toke the and brought the in to my mothers house that thou mightest teach me and that I might geue the drynke of spyced wyne and of the swete sappe of my pomgranates His left hande lyeth vnder my heade his right hande embraceth me I charge you o ye daughters of IerusaleÌ„ 〈◊〉 ye wake not vp my loue ner touch her 〈◊〉 she be content herself What is she this 〈◊〉 coÌ„meth vp from the wildernes and 〈◊〉 vpon hir loue I am the same that 〈◊〉 the vp amonge the aple trees where thy â—â—ther beare y e where y e mother brought 〈◊〉 in to the worlde O set me as a seale vpoÌ„ thine hert and as â—eale vpon thine arme for loue is mightie the death gelousy as the hell Hir coaâ—â— are of fyre and a very flamme of the LORâ—E so y t many waters are not able to quench 〈◊〉 nether maye y e streames drowne it Yee 〈◊〉 man wolde geue all the good of his houâ—â— for loue he shulde counte it nothinge When oure loue is tolde oure yonge sister â—hose brestes are not yet growne what shal â—e do vnto her Yf she be a wall we shal â—ylde a syluer bollworke there vpon Yf she 〈◊〉 a tower we shal festen her with bordes of â—edre tre Yf I be a wall my brestes like towres then am I as one that hath founde fauoure in his sight Salomon had a vynyarde at Baal Hamon this vynyarde delyuered he vnto the kepers y t euery one for the frute therof shulde geue him a thousande peces of syluer But my vynyarde o Salomon geueth the a thousande and two hundreth to y e kepers of the frute Thou that dwellest in the gardens O let me heare thy voyce that my companyons maye herken to the same O get the awaye my loue as a roo or a yonge hert vnto the swete smellinge mouÌ„taynes The ende of Salomons Balettes called Cantica Canticorum Fautes escaped in the pryntinge of this parte Vpon the seconde leaf the seconde syde in the syxte Chapter of Iob the letter A. Within the yoke an egg rede Within the yoke of an egg In the Psalter Vpon the xxxv leaf the seconde syde in the cxxxvi psalme the seconde verse â–ª Vpon the trees rede Vpon the wyll ye trees All the Prophetes in Englishe Esay Ieremy Baruch Ezechiel Daniel Oseas Ioel. Amos. Abdy Ionas Micheas Naum. Abacuc Sophony Aggeus Zachary Malachy The Prophet Esay What Esay conteyneth Chap. I. The prophet rebuketh the people of Israel for their abhominacions Chap. II. The callynge of the Heithen Chap. III. PunyshmeÌ„t of God specially for the pryde of wemen Chap. IIII. Plages to come wyth a promyse of the grace and conforte thorow Christ. Chap. V. The louynge kyndnes of God towarde Israel afore other people Agayne the vnthankfulnes and vnfaithfulnes of them Chap. VI. The sendynge of Esay The harde hertes of the people Chap. VII He rebuketh the kynge for beynge afrayed of the vngodly kynges of the Heithen and because he put not his trust in God He geueth him a tokeÌ„ of grace which he receaueth not Chap. VIII The people forsake God seke helpe at the Heithen Chap. IX He putteth theÌ„ in mynde of the mysery that is past Of the coÌ„mynge and kyngdome of Christ. Punyshment for their pryde Chap. X. Punyshment of vnrighteous rulers The comforte of Israel agaynst the pryâ—â— of the kynge of the Assyrians Chap. XI A prophecie of Christ. Chap. XII A thankesgeuynge of the faithfull people Chap. XIII Punyshment to come vpon Babilon by the Persians Medes Chap. XIIII God will haue mercy on his people He threteneth Palestina Chap. XV. The plage of Moab Chap. XVI The vexacion feare of Moab Chap. XVII PunyshmeÌ„t of Damascus siria Chap. XVIII The callynge of the Heithen Chap. XIX.XX. Plages vpon Egipte Ethiopia Chap. XXI The punyshmeÌ„t of Babilon Duma and Arabia Chap. XXII The punyshment vpon IerusaleÌ„ by SeÌ„nacherib Sobna is put downe Eliachim commeth in his steade Chap. XXIII The punyshment of Tyre of all the cities by the see coast and of the Iles. Chap. XXIIII Of the generall punyshment of the whole earth vnto the ende of the worlde Chap. XXV A thaÌ„kesgeuynge vnto God The callinge of the Heithen Chap. XXVI Men ought to trust onely iÌ„ God Chap. XXVII The punyshment of Leuiathan The goodnes of God The delyueraunce of Israel The callynge of the Heithen Chap. XXVIII The punishment of Ephraim Of mens lawes Of the stone in Sion Chap. XXIX PunyshmeÌ„t vpon Ierusalem for mens lawes and doctrynes Chap. XXX Gods people are punyshed for sekinge helpe at other then him self Chap. XXXI He calleth the people agayne to God and promiseth them defence Chap. XXXII Health vnder the kynge of righteousnes He threateneth the carelesse cities· Chap. XXXIII PunyshmeÌ„t vpon the enemies of Gods people Chap. XXXIIII Gods plage vpon the Heithen Chap. XXXV A coÌ„forte secrete promyse concernynge the callynge of the Heithen Chap. XXXVI Sennacherib the kinge of the Assirians sendeth his hoost to besege IerusaleÌ„ Chap. XXXVII The prayer of Ezechias God coÌ„forteth him by Esay The angel of the LORDE putteth the Assirians hoost to shame Chap. XXXVIII Ezechias is deed sicke God helpeth him vp agayne He thanketh God Chap. XXXIX The kynge of Babilon sendeth Embassitours vnto Ezechias which sheweth them his treasure displeaseth God withall Chap. XL. The delyuerauÌ„ce not onely of Israel out of the captiuyte of Babilon but of all faithfull also in Christ. The vanyte of maÌ„ The excellent power of God Chap. XLI God reasoneth with the Iewes geÌ„tiles reproueth the people of Israel for their vnthankfulnes Chap. XLII The coÌ„mynge power of Christ The praise
in the LORDE is my rightuousnes and strength To him shal mē come but all they that thinke scorne of him shal be confounded And the whole sede of Israel shal be iustified praysed in y e LORDE The xlvj Chapter Neuertheles Bel shal fall Nabo shal be broken whose ymages are a burthē for the beastes and catell to ouerlade thē and to make them weery They shal syncke downe and fall together for they maye not ease them of their burthen therfore must they go in to captiuyte Herken vnto me o house of Iacob and all ye that remayne yet of the housholde of Israel whom I haue borne from youre mothers wombe and brought you vp from yo r byrth till ye were growen I I which shall beare you vnto youre last age I haue made you I will also norish you beare you and saue you Whom will ye make me like in fashion or ymage that I maye be like him Ye fooles no doute wil take out syluer and golde out of youre purses and weye it and hyre a goldsmyth to make a god of it that men maye knele downe and worshipe it Yet must he be taken on mens shulders and borne and set in his place that he maye stonde and not moue Alas that men shulde crie vnto him which geueth no answere and delyuereth not the man that calleth vpon him from his trouble Considre this well and be ashamed Go into youre owne selues O ye runnagates Remembre the thinges which are past sence the begynnynge of the worlde that I am God and that there is els no God yee and y t there is nothinge like vnto me In the begynnynge of a thinge I shewe the ende therof and I tel before thinges that are not yet come to passe With one worde is my deuyce accomplished fulfilleth all my pleasure I call a byrde out of the east and all that I take in honde out of farre countrees As soone as I commaunde I bringe it hither as soone as I thinke to deuyse a thinge I do it Heare me o ye that are of an hie stomack but farre from rightuousnesse I shal bringe forth my rightuousnesse It is not farre and my health shal not tarie longe awaye I wil laye health in Siō and geue Israel my glory The xlvij Chapter BVt as for the O doughter thou virgin Babilon thou shalt syt in the dust Thou shalt syt vpon the groūde and not in atr one o thou mayden of Chaldea Thou shalt nomore be called tender and pleasaūt Thou shalt bringe forth the querne grynede meel put downe thy stomacher make bare thy knees and shalt wade thorow the water ryuers Thy shame shal be discouered ād thy preuyties shal be sene For I wil auenge me of the and no man shal let me saieth oure redemer which is called the LORDE of hoostes the holy one of Israel Syt still holde thy tunge and get the in to some darcke corner O doughter Caldea for thou shalt nomore be called lady of kyngdomes I was so wroth with my people y t I punyshed myne enheritaunce and gaue them in to thy power Neuertheles thou shewdest them no mercy but euen the very aged men of thē didest thou oppresse right sore with thy yock thou thoughtest thus I shal be lady for euer And besyde all that thou hast not regarded these thinges nether cast what shulde come after Heare now therfore thou wilful that syttest so carelesse speakest thus in thine herte I am alone and without me is there none I shal neuer be wydow ner desolate agayne And yet both these thīges shal come to the vpō one daye in the twincklinge of an eye Namely wyddowhead and desolacion They shal mightely fall vpon the for y e multitude of thy witches and for the greate heape of thy coniurers For thou hast conforted thy self in thy disceatfulnes and hast sayde No mā seith me Thyne owne wisdome connynge haue disceaued the In that thou hast sayde I am alone and without me there is none Therfore shal trouble come vpō y e thou shalt not knowe from whēce it shal arise Myschefe shal fall vpō y e which thou shalt not be able to put of A sodane misery shal come vpon the or euer thou be awarre Now go to thy coniurers and to the multitude of thy witches whom thou hast bene acquanted withal from thi youth yf they maye helpe the or strengthē the. Thou hast hither to had many councels of them so let the heauengasers the beholders of starres come on now and delyuer the yee and let thē shewe when these new thinges shall come vpon the. Beholde they shal be like strawe which yf it be kindled with fyre no man maye rydde it for the vehemence of the flame And yet it geueth no zynders to warme a mā by ner cleare fyre to syt by Euen so shal they be vnto the whom thou hast vsed occupide from thy youth Euery one shal shewe y t his erroneous waye yet shall none of them defende the. The xlviij Chapter HEare this O thou house of Iacob ye y t are called by the name of Israel and are come out of one stocke w t Iuda which sweare by the name of the LORDE and beare witnesse by the God of Israel but not w t treuth and right which are called fre men of the holy citie as they that loke for conforth in the God of Israel whose name is the LORDE of hoostes The thinges that I shewed you euer sence the begynnynge Haue I not brought thē to passe immediatly as they came out of my mouth and declared them And they are come Howbeit I knewe that thou art obstinate and that thy neck hath an yron vane and that thy brow is of brasse Neuertheles I haue euer sence the begynnynge shewed the of thinges for to come and declared thē vnto the or euer they came to passe that thou shuldest not saye myne Idol hath done it my carued or cast ymage hath shewed it Heare considre all these thinges whether it was ye that prophecied thē But as for me I tolde the before at the begynnynge new secrete thinges y t thou knewest not of And some done now not of olde time wherof thou neuer herdest before they were brought to passe that thou canst not saye I knewe of them Morouer there be some wherof thou hast nether herde ner knowne nether haue they bene opened vnto thine eares afore tyme For I knew that thou woldest maliciousli offende therfore haue I called the a transgressoure euen from thy mothers wombe Neuertheles for my names sake I haue withdrawen my wrath and for myne honoursake I haue ouersene the so that I haue not rooted the out Beholde I haue pourged the and not for moneye I haue chosen the in the fyre of pouerte And that only for myne owne sake for I geue myne Honoure to none other that thou shuldest not despise
Namely that I wolde geue them a londe which floweth with mylke and hony as ye se it is come to passe vnto this daye Then answered I and sayde Amen It is euen so LORDE as thou sayest Then the LORDE sayde vnto me agayne Preach this in y e cities off Iuda and rounde aboute Ierusalem and saye Heare the wordes off this coÌ„uenaunt that ye maye kepe them For I haue diligently exorted youre fathers euer sence the tyme that I brought them out off the Londe off Egipte vnto this daye I gaue them warnynge by tymes sayenge herken vnto my voyce Neuertheles they wolde not obeye me nor enclyne their eares vnto me but folowed the wicked ymaginacioÌ„s of their owne hertes And therfore haue I accused them as transgressours of all the wordes off this conuenaunt that I gaue them to kepe which they notwithstoÌ„dinge haue not kepte And the LORDE sayde vnto me It is fouÌ„de out that whole Israel and all the citisens off Ierusalem are gone backe They haue turned them selues to the blasphemies off their fore fathers which had no lust to heare my worde Euen likewise haue these also folowed straunge goddes and worshipped them The house off Israel and Iuda haue broken my couenaunt which I made w t their fathers Therfore thus saieth the LORDE Beholde I will sende a plage amonge you which ye shal not be able to escape and though ye crie vnto me I will not heare you TheÌ„ shal the townes off Iuda and the citisens of Ierusalem go and call vpon their goddes vnto whom they made their oblacioÌ„s but they are not able to helpe them in tyme off their trouble For as many cities as thou hast o Iuda so many goddes hast thou also And loke how many stretes there be in the o Ierusalem so many shameful aulters haue ye set vp to offre vpon them vnto Baal But praye not thou for this people byd nether prayse ner prayer for them for though they crie vnto me in their trouble yet will I not heare them O thou beloued why doest thou so shamefull greate blasphemies in my house euen as though that holy flesh might absolue the specially when thou hast made thy boost off thy wickednes The LORDE called the a grene olyue tre a fayre one a frutefull one a goodly one but now that there is a contrary reporte off the abrode he will burne the vp aÌ„d destroye thy braunches For the LORDE off hoostes that plaÌ„ted the hath deuysed a plage for the o thou house of Israel Iuda for y e euel that ye haue done to prouoke him to wrath in that ye dyd seruyce vnto Baal This o LORDE haue I lerned of the and vnderstonde it for thou hast shewed me their ymaginacions But I as a meke lambe was caried awaye to be slayne not knowinge that they had deuysed soch a councel agaynst me sayenge We will destroye his meate with wod and dryue him out of the londe of the lyuynge that his name shal neuer be thought vpon Therfore I will beseke the now o LORDE of hoostes thou rightuous iudge thou that tryest the reynes and the hertes let me se the auenged of them for vnto the haue I committed my cause The LORDE therfore spake thus of the citesens of Anothot that sought to slaye me sayeÌ„ge Preach not vnto vs in the name of the LORDE or els thou shalt dye of oure hondes Thus I saye spake the LORDE of hoostes Beholde I will viset you You re yonge meÌ„ shal perish with the swearde yo r sonnes and youre doughters shal vtterly dye of honger so that none shal remayne For vpon the citesyns off Anathot wil I bringe a plage and the yeare of their visitacion The XII Chapter O LORDE thou art more rightuous then that I shulde dispute with the Neuertheles let me talke with the in thinges reasonable How happeneth it that the waye off the vngodly is so prosperous and that it goeth so wel with them which with out eny shame offeÌ„de and lyue in wickednesse Thou plantest them they take rote they growe and bringe forth frute They boost moch off the yet doest thou not punysh them But thou LORDE to whom I am well knowne thou that hast sene proued my herte take them awaye like as a flock is caried to the slaughter house and apoynte them for the daye off slaughtinge How longe shall the londe mourne and all the herbes off the felde perish for the wickednes off them that dwell therin The catell and the byrdes are gone yet saye they tush God will not destroye vs vtterly Seinge thou art weery in runnynge with the fote men how wilt thou then runne w t horses In a peaceable sure londe thou mayest be safe but how wilt thou do in the furious pryde of Iordane For thy brethren aÌ„d thy kynred haue altogether despised the and cried out vpon the in thine absence Beleue them not though they sâ—eake fayre wordes to the. As for me saye I I haue forsaken myne owne dwellinge place and left myne heretage My life also that I loue so wel haue I geuen in to the hoÌ„des of myne enemies Myne heretage is become vnto me as a Lyon in the wod It cried out vpon me therfore haue I forsaken it Myne heretage is vnto me as a spreckled byrde a byrde of dyuerse coloures is vpon it Go hence and gather all the beastes of the felde together that they maye eate it vp Dyuerse hyrdmeÌ„ haue broken downe my vynyarde and troden vpon my porcion Of my pleasaunt porcion they haue made a wildernes deserte They haue layed it waist and now that it is waist it sigheth vnto me Yee the whole londe lieth waist and no man regardeth it The distroyers come ouer the heeth euery waye for the swearde off the LORDE shal consume from the one ende of y e loÌ„de to the other and no flesh shal haue rest They shal sowe wheat and reepe thornes They shal take heretage in possession but it shal do them no good And ye shal be confounded of youre owne wynnynges because of the greate wrath of the LORDE Thus saieth the LORDE vpon all myne euel neghbours that laye honde on myne heretage which I haue geuen my people of Israel Beholde I wil plucke them namely Israel out of their londe and put out the house of Iuda from amonge them And wheÌ„ I haue rooted theÌ„ out I wil be at one with theÌ„ agayne and wil haue mercy vpon them and brynge them agayne euery man to his owne heretage and in to his loÌ„de And yf they namely that trouble my people wil lerne y e wayes of them to sweare by my name The LORDE lyueth like as they lerned my people to sweare by Baal theÌ„ shal they be rekened amoÌ„ge my people But yf they wil not obeye theÌ„ will I rote out the same folke and destroye them saieth the LORDE The XIII
led you awaye hath you yet in remembrauÌ„ce and like as ye haue bene mynded to swarne from yo r God so shal ye now endeuoure youre selues x. tymes more to turne agayne and to seke him For he that hath brought these plages vpoÌ„ you shal brynge you euerlastinge ioye agayne with youre health Take a good herte vnto the o IerusaleÌ„ for he which gaue y e that name exorteth the so to do The wicked doers that now put the to trouble shall perish and soch as haue reioysed at thy fall shal be punyshed The cities whom thy children serue and that haue caried awaye thy sonnes shal be correcte For like as they be now glad of y i decaye so shal they mourne in their owne destruccion The ioye off their multitude shal be taken awaye aÌ„d their cheare shal be turned to sorowe For a fyre shal fall vpon them from the euerlastinge God longe to endure and it shal be inhabited of deuels for a greate season The V. Chapter O Ierusalem loke aboute the towarde the east and beholde the ioye that commeth vnto the from God For lo thy sonnes whom thou hast forsakeÌ„ and that were scatred abrode come gathered together from the east and west reioysinge in the worde of the holy one vnto the honoure off God Put of thy mournynge clothes o Ierusalem and thy sorow and decke the with the worshipe and honoure that commeth vnto the from God with euerlastinge glory God shal put the cloake off rightuousnesse vpon the and set a crowne off euerlastinge worshipe vpon thine heade for vpon the will God declare his brightnes that is vnder the heauen Yee an euerlastinge name shal be geuen the of God with peace of rightuousnesse y e honoure of Gods feare Arise o Ierusalem stoÌ„de vp on hye loke aboute the towarde the east and beholde thy children gathered from the east vnto the west which reioyce in the holy worde hauynge God in remembraunce They departed from the on fote and were led awaye of their enemies but now shal the LORDE bringe them caried with honoure as children off y e kyngdome For God is purposed to brynge downe all stoute mouÌ„taynes yee and all hye rockes to fyll the valleys so to make them eauen with the grounde y t Israel maye be diligeÌ„t to lyue vnto y e honoure of God The woddes all pleasauÌ„t trees shal ouershadowe Israel at the coÌ„maundement of God For hyther shal God brynge Israel with ioyfull myrth and in the light of his magesty with the mercy and rightuousnesse that coÌ„meth of himselff A copie off the epistle that Ieremy the prophet did sende vnto the Iewes which were led awaye presoners by the kynge of BabiloÌ„ Wherin he certifieth them of the thinge that was coÌ„maunded him of God The VI. Chapter BEcause of the synnes that ye haue done agaynst God ye shal be led awaye captyue vnto Babilon euen off Nabuchodonosor the kynge of Babilon So when ye be come in to Babilon ye shall remayne there many yeares and for a longe season namely vij generacions after that wil I bringe you awaye peaceably from theÌ„ce Now shal ye se in BabiloÌ„ goddes of golde of syluer of wodd and of stone borne vpon mens shulders to cast out a fearfulnes before the Heithen But loke that ye do not as the other be not ye afrayed and let not the feare of them ouercome you Therfore when ye se the multitude of people worshippinge them behinde before saye ye in youre hertes O LORDE it is thou that oughtest only to be worshipped Myne angel also shal be with you and I myself wil care for youre soules As for the tymbre of those goddes y e carpeÌ„ter hath polisshed them yee gylted be they layed ouer with syluer yet are they but vayne thinges can not speake Like as a wench y t loueth peramours is trymly deckte euen so are these made hanged w t golde Crownes of golde verely haue their goddes vpon their heades so the prestes themselues take the golde and syluer from them put it to their owne vses yee they geue of the same vnto harlottes aÌ„d trymme their whores withall Agayne they take it from the whores and decke their goddes therwith Yet can not these goddes delyuer them selues from rust and mothes WheÌ„ they haue couered them with clothynge off purple they wype their faces for the dust of the temple wherof their is moch amoÌ„ge theÌ„ One hath a sceptre in his honde as though he were iudge of the countre yet can he not slaye soch as offende him Another hath a swearde or an axe in his honde for all that is he nether able to defende him selfe from batayll ner fâ—o murtherers By this ye maye vnderstonde that they be no goddes therfore se y t ye nether worshipe them ner feare them For like as a vessel y t a man vseth is nothinge worth when it is broken euen so is it with their goddes When they be set vp in the temple their eyes be full of dust thorow the fete of those that come in And like as y e dores are shut in rouÌ„de aboute vpoÌ„ him y t hath offended the kinge Or as it were a deed body kepte besyde the graue Euen so the prestes kepte the dores with barres and lockes lest their goddes be spoyled with robbers They set vp caÌ„dels before theÌ„ yee verely and y t many wherof they can not se one but euen as blockes so stonde they in the temple It is sayde y t the serpentes and wormes which come off the earth gnawe out their hertes eatinge them their clothes also and yet they fele it not Their faces are blacke thorow the smoke y t is in the temple The oules swalowes byrdes fle vpon them yee and the cattes runne ouer their heades By this ye maye be sure that they are not goddes therfore feare them not The golde that they haue is to make them beutifull for all that excepte some body dight off their rust they wil geue no shyne and when they were cast into a fourme they felt it not They are bought for money and haue no breth off life within them They must be borne vpon mens shulders as those that haue no fete wherby they declare vnto men that they be nothynge worth Confounded be they then that worshipe them For yf they fall to the grounde they can not ryse vp agayne of theÌ„selues Yee though one helpe them vp and set them right yet are they not able to stonde alone but must haue proppes set vnder them like deed men As for the thinge that is offred vnto them their prestes sell it aÌ„d abuse it yee the prestes wyues take therof but vnto the sicke and poore they geue nothinge of it the women with childe the meÌ„struous laye hondes of their offerynges By this ye maye be sure that they are not goddes therfore be not ye afrayde of them From whence coÌ„meth it theÌ„
mercy to those that wil repente Chap· III. The mercifull loue of God towarde the same vnthankful people Chap. IIII. The synnes of the prestes and of the people with reprofe for the same Chap. V. Against the prestes that disceaue the people Chap. VI. The vnthankfulnes of the People Agayne the louynge kyndnesse of God Chap. VII No medycine can helpe so sore are they wounded with ydolatry Chap. VIII Idolatry in Samaria and Israel Chap. IX Punyszhment vpon Israel for Idolatry Chap. X. The vnthankfulnesse of Israel The calfe in Samaria for the which and soch like abhominacions he telleth them of destruccion Cha. XI.XII. God calleth them agayne with rehearsinge his benefites done to them afore Chap. XIII He sheweth them their wickednesse and punyszhment for the same Chap. XIIII He crieth and exorteth the people to conuerte promisynge swetely and louyngly to receaue them This is the worde of the LORDE that came vnto Oseas the sonne of Beeri in the dayes of Osias Ioathan Achas Ezechias kinges of Iuda and in the tyme of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas kynge of Israel The first Chapter FIrst when the LORDE spake vnto Oseas he saide vnto him Go thy waye take an harlot to thy wife and get childreÌ„ by her for the â—ode hath coÌ„mitted greate whordome agaynst the LORDE So he wente and toke Gomer y e doughter of Deblaim which conceaued and brought forth a sonne And the LORDE sayde vnto him call his name Iesrael for I wil shortly auenge the bloude of Iesrael vpon the house of Iehu and will bringe the kingdome of the house of Israel to an ende Then will I breake the bowe of Israel in the valley of Iesrael She conceaued yet agayne and bare a doughter And he sayde vnto him Call hir name Loruhama that is not opteyninge mercy ofr I wil haue no pyte vpon the house of Israel but forget them and put them clene out of remembraunce Neuerthelesse I wil haue mercy vpon the house of Iuda wil saue them euen thorow the LORDE their God But I wil not delyuer them thorow eny bow swearde batel horses or horsmen Now when she had weened Loruhama she conceaued agayne bare a sonne Then sayde he call his name Lo Ami that is to saye not my people For why ye are not my people therfore will not I be yours And though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see which can nether be measured ner tolde Yet in the place where it is sayde vnto them ye be not my people euen there shall it be thus reported of them they be y e childreÌ„ of the lyuynge God Then shal the children of Iuda and the childreÌ„ of Israel be gathered together agayne chose them selues one heade and then departe out of the londe for greate shal be the daye of Iesrael The II. Chapter TEll youre brethren that they are my people and youre sisteren that they haue optayned mercy As for youre mother ye shal chyde with her and reproue her for she is not my wife nether am I hir huszboÌ„de vnlesse she put awaye hir whordome out of my sight and hir aduoutry from hir brestes Yf no I shal strype her naked set her euen as she came in to y e worlde Yee I shal laye hir waist and make her like a wildernesse and slaye her for thyrste I shal haue no pite also vpon hir children for they be the children of fâ—rnicacion Their mother hath broken hir wedlocke and she that bare them is come to coÌ„fucion For she sayde I wil go after my louers that geue me my water and my bred my woll my flax my oyle and my drynke But I will hedge hir waye with thornes and stoppe it that she shal not fynde hir fotestoppes and though she runne after hir louers yet shall she not get them she shal seke them but not fynde them Then shal she saye well I will go turne agayne to my first huszbonde for at y t tyme was I better at ease then now But this wolde she not knowe where as I yet gaue her corne wyne oyle syluer and golde which she hath hanged vpon Baal Wherfore now will I go take my corne wyne agayne in their season and fet agayne my woll and my flax which I gaue her to couer hir shame And now will I dyscouer hir foolishnesse euen in the sight of hir louers and no man shal delyuer her out of my hondes Morouer I wil take awaye all hir myrth hir holy dayes hir newmoones hir Sabbathes and all hir solempne feastes I will destroye hir vynyardes and fyge trees though she saieth lo here are my rewardes that my louers haue geuen me I wil make it a wodde and the wylde beestes shall eate it vp I will punysh her also for the dayes of Baal wherin she censed him deckynge him with hir earynges and cheynes when she folowed hir louers and forgat me saieth the LORDE Wherfore beholde I wil call her againe bringe her in to a wildernes and speake frendly vnto her there wil I geue her hir vynyardes agayne yee and the valley of Achor also to shewe hir hope comforte Then shal she synge there as in the tyme of hir youth like as in the daye when she came out of the londe of Egipte Then saieth the LORDE she shal saye vnto me O my houszbande shal call me nomore Baal for I wil take awaye those names of Baal from hir mouth yee she shal neuer remembre their names eny more Then will I make a couenaunt with them with the wylde beastes with the foules of the ayre with euerythinge that crepeth vpon the earth As for bowe swerde and batel I will destroye soch out of the londe wil make them to slepe safely Thus wil I mary the vnto myne owne self for euermore yee euen to my self wil I mary the in rightuousnesse in equyte in louynge kyndnesse and mercy In faith also will I mary the vnto my self thou shalt knowe the LORDE At the same tyme wil I shewe my self frendly and gracious vnto y e heauens saieth the LORDE the heauens shal helpe the earth and the earth shal helpe the corne wyne and oyle and they shal helpe Iesrael I wil sowe them vpoÌ„ earth for a sede to myne owne self wil haue mercy vpon her y t was without mercy And to theÌ„ which were not my people I wil saye thou art my people And he shal saye thou art my God The III. Chapter THen sayde y e LORDE to me Go yet y e waye wowe an aduouterous womaÌ„ whoÌ„ thy neghboure loueth as y e LORDE doth the childreÌ„ of Israel how be it they haue respecte to straunge goddes and loue the wyne kannes So I gat her for xv syluerlinges and for an Homer and an half of barlye sayde vnto her Thou shalt byde with me
inuencions I wil dryue them out of my house I will loue them nomore for all their prynces are vnfaithfull Ephraim is hewen downe their rote is dryed vp so y t they shal bringe nomore frute yee and though they bringe forth eny yet wil I slaye euen the best beloued frute of their body My God shall cast them awaye for they haue not bene obediēt vnto him therfore shal they go astraye amonge the Heithen The X. Chapter ISrael was a goodly vyne but he hath brought forth vnprofitable frute yee the more frute he had the mo aulters he made y e more good I dyd to their londe the more frendshipe shewed they to their ymages Their herte is deuyded therfore wil they be destroyed The LORDE shall breake downe their ymages he shal destroye their aulters Then shal they saye we haue no kinge for why we haue not feared the LORDE And what shal then the kinge do to vs They comon together and sweare vayne oothes they be cōfederate together therfore groweth their punyshment as the wedes in the forowes of the londe They that dwell in Samaria haue worshipped the calfe of Bethauē therfore shall the people mourne ouer them yee and the prestes also that in their welthynesse reioysed with them and why it shal passe awaye from them It shal be brought to the Assirian for a present vnto kinge Iareb Ephraim shal receaue full punishment Israel shal be confounded for his owne ymaginacions Samaria w t his kinge shall vanish awaye as the scomme vpon the water The hye places of Auen where Israel do synne shal be cast downe thistles and thornes shal growe vpon their aulters Then shal they saye to y e mountaynes couer vs and to the hilles fall vpon vs. O Israel thou hast synned as Gabaa dyd afore tyme where they remayned shulde not the batel then come vpon the wicked children as wel as vpon the Gabaonites I wil chasten them euen after myne owne desyre the people shal be gathered together ouer them whē I punysh them for their greate wickednesse Ephraim was vnto me as a cow that is vsed to go to plowe therfore I loued him and fell vpon his fayre neck I droue Ephraim Iuda plowed Iacob played the huszbōde man that they might sowe vnto rightuousnes and reape the frutes of weldoynge y t they might plowe vp their fresh londe and seke the LORDE till he came and lerned them rightuousnes But now they haue plowed them wickednesse therfore shal they reepe synne and eate the frute of lyes Seinge thou puttest thy cōfidence in thine owne wayes and leanest to y e multitude of thy worthies there shal growe a sedicion amonge thy people All y e strōge cities shal be layed waist euen as Salmana was destroyed with his familiers thorow him that was auenged of Baal in the daye of batel where y e mother perished with hir childrē Euen so shal it go with you o Bethel because of youre malicious wickednes Like as the mornynge goeth awaye so shal the kinge of Israel passe The XI Chapter WHen Israel was yōge I loued him and called my sonne out of the londe of Egipte But y e more they were called the more they wente backe offerynge vnto Idols and censynge ymages I lerned Ephraim to go and bare them in myne armes but they regarded not me that wolde haue helped them I led them with coardes of frendshipe with bondes of loue I was euen he that layed the yocke vpon their neckes I gaue them their fodder myself y t they shulde not go agayne in to Egipte And now is Assur their kinge For they wolde not turne vnto me Therfore shal y e swearde begynne in their cities the stoare that they haue lickened vnto shall be destroyed and eaten vp and that because of their owne ymaginacions My people hath no lust to turne vnto me their prophetes laye the yocke vpon thē but they ease them not of their burthen What greate thinges haue I geuen the o Ephraim how faithfully haue I defended the o Israel haue I dealt with the as with Adama or haue I intreated the like Seboim No my hert is otherwise mynded Yee my mercy is to feruent therfore haue I not turned me to destroye Ephraim in my wrothful displeasure For I am God and no man I am euen that holy one in the myddest of the though I came not within the cite The LORDE roareth like a lyon that they maye folowe him Yee as a lyon roareth he that they maye be afrayed like the children of the see that they maye be scarred awaye from Egipte as men scarre byrdes frayed awaye as doues vse to be from the Assiriās londe and that because I wolde haue them tary at home saieth the LORDE But Ephraim goeth aboute me with lies and the house of Israel dyssembleth Only Iuda holdeth him with God and with the true holy thinges The XII Chapter EPhraim kepeth the ayre and foloweth after the east wynde he is euer increasinge lyes destruction They be confederate with the Assirians their oyle is caried in to Egipte The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda and wil punysh Iacob After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions shal he recompence them He toke his brother by the hele when he was yet in his mothers wombe and in his strength he wrestled with God He stroue with the Angel and gat the victory so that he prayde and desyred him He fande him at Bethel there he talked w t vs. Yee the LORDE God of hoostes euen y e LORDE him self remembred him Then turne to thy God kepe mercy and equyte and hope still in thy God But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion Ephraim thinketh thus Tush I am rich I haue good ynough In all my workes shal not one fawte be founde that I haue offended Yet am I the LORDE thy God euē as when I brought the out of the londe of Egipte and set the in thy tentes and as in the hye feast dayes I haue spokē thorow the prophetes and shewed dyuerse visions and declared my self by the ministracion of y e prophetes But at Galaad is the abhominacion they are fallen to vanyte At Galgal they haue slayne oxen and as many heapes of stones as they had in their lōde forowes so many aulters haue they made Iacob fled into the londe of Siria and Israel serued for a wife and for a wife he kepte shepe By a prophet the LORDE brought them out of Egipte and by a prophet he preserued thē But Ephraim hath prouoked him to displeasure thorow his abhominacions therfore shal his bloude be poured vpon him self and the LORDE his God shal rewarde him his blasphemies The XIII Chapter THe abhominacion of Ephraim is come also in to Israel He is gone backe to Baal therfore must he dye And now they synne more
tyme commeth there shal be foure kepte in the tyme whan his tyme begynneth to come that it maye be ended but two shal be kepte vnto y e ende And where as thou sawest thre heades restynge this is the interpretacion In his last shal the Hyest rayse vp thre kyngdomes and call many agayne into theÌ„ they shal haue the dominion of the earth and of those that dwell therin with moch labo r aboue all those y t were before theÌ„ Therfore are they called y e heades of the Aegle for it is they y t shal bringe forth his wickednes agayne y t shal perfourme fynish his last And where as thou sawest that y e greate heade appeared nomore it signifieth that one of them shal dye vpoÌ„ his bed yet with payne for the two that remayne shal be slayne with the swerde For the swerde of the one shal deuoure the other but at the last shal he fall thorow the swerde himself And where as thou sawest two vnderâ—â—â—ges vpon the heade that is on the right syde it signifieth that it is they whoÌ„ the Hyest hath kepte vnto their ende this is a small kyngdome full of trouble The Lyon whoÌ„ thou sawest rysinge vp out of the wodd and roaringe and speakinge vnto the Aegle and rebukynge him for his vnrighteousnesse is the wynde which the Hyest hath kepte for them and for their wickednesse vnto the ende he shal reproue them and rente them asunder before them For he shal sett them lyuynge before the iudgment and shal rebuke them for the residue of my people shal he delyuer with trouble those y t be preserued ouer myne endes and he shal make them ioyfull vntyll the commynge of the daye of iudgment wherof I haue spoken vnto the from the begynnynge This is the dreame that thou sawest and this is the interpretacion Thou only hast bene mete to knowe the secrete of the Hyest Therfore wryte all these thinges y t thou hast sene in a boke and hyde them and teach theÌ„ the wyse in the people whose hertes thou knowest maye compreheÌ„de and kepe these secretes But wayte thou here y i self yet seuen dayes moo that it maye be shewed the what so euer it pleaseth the Hyest to declare vnto the and with that he wente his waye And whan all the people perceaued y t the seuen dayes were past I not come agayne in to y e cite they gathered them alltogether from the least vnto the most came vnto me and sayde what haue we offended the and what euell haue we done agaynst the y t thou forsakest vs syttest here in this place For of all people thou only art left vs as a grape of the vyne and as a candell in a darcke place and as an hauen shippe preserued from y e teÌ„pest Haue we not els aduersite ynough but thou must forsake vs Were it not better for vs that we had bene brent with Sion For we are no better then they y t dyed there and they wepte w t loude voyce Then answered I theÌ„ sayde Be of good coÌ„forte O Israel be not heuy thou house of Iacob for y e Hyest hath you in remeÌ„brauÌ„ce y e Mightie hath not forgotteÌ„ you in teÌ„tacioÌ„ As for me I haue not forsakeÌ„ you nether am I departed from you but am come in to this place to praye because of y e mysery of Israel that I might seke mercy for y e lowe estate of yo r SaÌ„ctuary And now go yo r waye home euery maÌ„ and after these dayes wyl I come vnto you So the people weÌ„te their waye in to the cite like as I commaunded them but I remayned still in the felde seuen dayes as y e angell bad me and I ate onely of the floures of the felde and had my meate of the herbes in those dayes The XIII Chapter ANd it happened after the seueÌ„ dayes y t I dreamed a dreame by night And beholde there arose a wynde from the see that it moued all the floudes therof And I loked and beholde the man was stronge and increased with the cloudes of heauen and whan he turned his countenaunce to coÌ„sider all the thinges trembled that were sene vnder him and whan the voyce wente out of his mouth all they brent that herde him like as the earth whan it feleth the fyre After these I sawe beholde there was gathered together a multitude of meÌ„ out of nombre from the foure wyndes of the heaueÌ„ to fight agaynst y e man that came out from y e see And I loked beholde he graued him self a greate mouÌ„tayne and flew vp vpon it But I wolde haue sene the border or place wherout the hill was grauen I coude not I sawe after these y t all they which came to fight agaynst him were sore afrayed and yet durst they fight Neuertheles whan he sawe the fearsnesse and violence of the people he nether lift vp his hande ner helde swerde ner eny weapen but onely as I sawe he sent out of his mouth as it had bene a blast of fyre and out of his lippes y e wynde of the flamme and out of his toÌ„ge he cast out sparkes and stormes and they were all myxte together the blast of fyre the wynde of the flaÌ„mes and y e greate storme fell with a russhe vpon y e people which was prepared to fight breÌ„t theÌ„ vp euerychone so that of the innumerable multitude there was nothinge sene but onely dust smoke Whan I sawe this I was afrayed Afterwarde sawe I the same man come downe from the mountayne and callinge vnto him another peaceable people and there came moch people vnto him some were glad some were sory some of them were bounde so that they were caried and brought forth Then was I sick thorow greate feare and I awaked and sayde thou hast shewed y e seruaunt all y e woÌ„ders froÌ„ y e begynnynge hast counted me worthy y t thou mightest receaue my prayer shewe me now yet the interpretacion of this dreame For thus I coÌ„sidre in my vnderstandinge Wo vnto them that shal be left in those dayes moch more wo vnto theÌ„ that are not left behynde for they that were not left were in heuynes Now vnderstonde I y e thinges that are layed vp in the latter dayes which shal happen vnto them and to those that are not left behynde Therfore are they come in to greate parells and many necessities like as these dreames declare Yet is it easier y t he which suffreth hurte come in these then to passe awaye as a cloude out of the worlde and now to se y e thinges y t shal happen in y e last Then answered he me and sayde The interpretacion of the sight shall I shewe the and I will open vnto the the thinge y t thou hast requyred For thou hast spoken of them that are left behynde and this is the interpretacion He that taketh awaye the parell in
continued in a good life and holy conuersacion so that they were loued accepted both of God and men and of all the people of the londe The ende of the boke of Tobias The boke of Iudith What this boke conteyneth Chap. I. Of the noble cite Egbathanis Of Nabuchodonosor the kynge of the Assirians of his victory and power Chap. II. The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne of his hoost tyrānye Chap. III. Dyuerse kynges and prynces yelde themselues for feare The tyranny of Holofernes and pryde of the kynge Chap. IIII. The Iewes are afrayed and carefull for Ierusalem and the temple make their londe strōge prepare them selues to the battayll call vpon God and Eliachim the prest comforteth them Chap. V. Holofernes taketh indignacion at the children of Israel because they go aboute to defende them selues Achior beareth wytnesse to the trueth Chap. VI. Achior for tellynge the trueth is takē ▪ and delyuered vnto the people of the Iewes vnto whom he telleth all the matter which moueth the people to crye vpon God Chap. VII Holofernes layeth sege to Bethulia The children of Israel crye vpon God Holofernes taketh the water from them so that they in the cite haue greate thyrst and are vnpacient Osias comforteth them and appoynteth fyue dayes to the grace of God Chap. VIII Iudith reproueth the elders that set◠a tyme to the mercy of God she exorteth the people to amēdemēt to praier rehearseth the benefites of God and telleth them hir deuyce Chap. IX Iudith goeth in to hir oratory and prayeth feruently vnto God for the deliueraūce of hir people Chap. X. Iudith decketh herself of the best fashiō taketh hir maydē with her goeth forth by night in to Holofernes tent Chap. XI Iudith telleth Holofernes the cause of hir cōmynge which pleaseth him well Chap. XII Holofernes commaundeth to intreate hir well and geueth hir liberty to go in and out to hir prayer maketh a greate supper byddeth hir to it and is dronken Chap. XIII Iudith seketh oportunite prayeth vnto God for strēgth smyteth of the heade of drōken Holofernes and bryngeth it in to the cite where the people reioyse and prayse God Chap. XIIII Holofernes heade is stickte vp vpon the walles the children of Israel fall vpon their enemies which take their flight Achior cōmeth in to the nombre of the people of God Chap. XV. Holofernes hoost are out of their wyttes after his death the Israelites folowe vpō thē the other cities of Israel helpe them they wynne greate spoyles cōmēde Iudith Chap. XVI Iudith syngeth prayse vnto the LORDE The people come together vnto Ierusalē to geue thankes and prayse vnto the LORDE How Iudith made hir ende The first Chapter ARphaxat the kynge of the Medes subdued many people vnto his dominion buylded a noble strōge cite which he called Egbathanis The walles of it made he of fre stone foure squared seuētie cubites hye and thirtie cubites brode He made towres therevpon of an hundreth cubites hye But vpon the foure corners euery syde was twentie fote brode He made the portes in the heith like as the towres This kynge trusted in his mightie hoost in his glorious charettes So in y e twolft yeare of his raigne it happened that Nabuchodonosor y e kynge of the Assirians which raigned in the greate cite of Niniue fought agaynst Arphaxat and ouercame hī in y e greate felde called Ragau besyde Euphrates and Tigris and Iadason in the felde of Erioth the kinge of the Elikes Then was the kyngdome of Nabuchodonosor exalted and his hert was lift vp and he sent vnto all them that dwelt in Celicia in Damascus in Libanus and vnto the Heithen that dwelt in Carmel and Cedar and to soch as dwelt in Galile in the greate felde of Eszdrelō to all them that were in Samaria and beyonde the water of Iordane vnto Ierusalem and the whole londe of Iesse vnto the mountaynes of Ethiopia Vnto all these dyd Nabuchodonosor the kynge of y e Assirians sende messaungers But they all w t one consent wolde not agree vnto him and sent the messaungers agayne emptie and put thē awaye without honoure Then Nabuchodonosor the kynge toke indignaciō at all those londes and sware by his trone by his kyngdome that he wolde be auenged of all these countrees The II. Chapter IN the xiij yeare of kynge Nabuchodonosor vpon the xxij daye of y e first moneth it was deuysed in the courte of Nabuchodonosor y e kynge of the Assiriās that he wolde defende himself So he called vnto him all y e elders all his captaynes and men of warre and shewed them his secrete councell and tolde them that his purpose was to brynge the whole earth vnder his domynion Now whan they were all content with this sayenge Nabuchodonosor the kinge called Holofernes the chefe captayne of his warres and saide vnto him Go thy waye forth agaynst all the kyngdomes of the west and specially agaynst those that haue despysed my commaundement Thou shalt spare no realme all stronge cities shalt thou brynge in subieccion vnto me Then Holofernes called together all the captaynes rulers of all the power in Assiria and mustred the soudyers vnto the hoost like as the kynge commaunded him namely an hundreth and twētye thousande fightinge men vpon fote and twolue thousande archers vpon horsebacke All his ordinaunce sent he before with an innumerable multitude of camels so that the hoost was well prouyded for with oxen and small catell and y t without nombre He caused corne to be prepared out of all Syria for his hoost Moch golde and syluer also toke he out of the kynges house So he toke his iourney he and all his hoost with charettes horsmen and archers of whom there were so many that they couered the grounde of the lande like the greshoppers And whan he was gone past the borders of the Assirians he came towarde the greate mountaynes of Ange which lye vpon the left syde of Celicia and so he wente vp in to all their castels and wanne euery strōge holde As for y e welthy cite of Melothus he brake it downe spoyled all the childrē of Tharsis and the Ismaelites which laye towarde the wyldernes and vpon the south syde of y e londe of Chelon He wente ouer Euphrates also and came in to Mesopotamia and brake downe all the hye cities that were there from the broke of Mambre tyll a man come to the see and he toke the borders in from Celicia vnto the coastes of Iaphet towarde the south He caried awaye all the Madianites and spoyled all their goodes who so euer withstode him he slew them with the swerde After this he wente downe in to the felde of Damascus in the tyme of haruest and brent vp all the corne and all the trees and caused the vynes to be cutt downe And the feare of him fell vpon all them that dwelt in y e earth The III. Chapter
vnto the battayll agaynst the Israelites and came on by the hyll syde vnto the topp that loketh ouer agaynst Dothaim from the place which is called Belma vnto Chelmon y t lyeth towarde Eszdrelon Now whan the childrē of Israel sawe so greate a multitude of the Assirians they fell downe flat vpon y e grounde strowed aszshes vpon their heades prayed w t one acorde y t the God of Israel wolde shew his mercy vpon his people And so they toke their weapens sat betwixte the mountaynes in y e narow place kepte the waye daye night But whyle Holofernes was goinge aboute he founde the water springe which from the south syde was conueyed in to the cite by a condyte this cōmaunded he to be directe another waye to cut their condite in sunder There were welles also not farre from the walles which they vsed secretly more for pleasure then for necessite Then wente the Ammonites the Moabites vnto Holofernes and sayde The children of Israel trust nether in speare ner arowe but haue taken in and kepe the mountaynes and hilles That thou mayest ouercome them therfore without y e strykynge of eny battayll sett mē to kepe the welles that they drawe no water out of them so shalt thou destroye thē without swerde or at the least they shall be so feble that they must be fayne to geue ouer the cite which they thinke not able to be wōne for so moch as it lieth in the moūtaynes These wordes pleased Holofernes well and all his men of warre and he set an hundreth men at euery well rounde aboute And whan this watch had endured twentye dayes the Cisternes and all that had water fayled them that dwelt in the cite of Bethulia so that in y e whole cite they had not drynke ynough for one daye for the people had water geuen them daylie in a measure Then came the men and women yonge personnes and children all vnto Osias and sayde all with one voyce God be iudge betwixte vs and the for thou hast dealt euell with vs thou woldest not speake peaceably with the kynge of the Assirians therfore hath God solde vs in their handes and there is no man to helpe vs where as we are brought downe before their eyes in thirst and greate destruccion Therfore gather now together all the people that be in the cite that we maye all yelde oure selues wyllingly vnto y e people of Holofernes for better it is y t we be captyue and prayse the LORDE with oure lyues then to be slayne and perishe and to be laughed to scorne shamed of euery man whan we se oure wyues and children dye before oure eyes We take heauen earth this daye to recorde and the God of oure fathers which punysheth vs acordinge to the deseruynge of oure synnes and geue you warnynge y t ye geue vp the cite now in to y e power of Holofernes hoost that oure ende maye be shorte with the swerde which els shal endure longe for wante of water and for thirst Whan they had spokē out these wordes there was a greate wepynge and howlynge in the whole congregacion and that of euery man and they cryed an whole houre longe vnto God with one voice sayenge we haue synned with oure fathers we haue done amysse we haue dealt wickedly Thou y t art gracious haue mercy vpon vs punysh oure vnrighteousnes with thine owne scourge and geue not those ouer that knowlege the vnto a people which knoweth the not lest they saye amonge the Heithen where is their God And whan they were so weery with this crienge and wepynge that they helde their tunges Osias stode vp with watrye eyes and sayde O take good hertes vnto you deare brethren and be of good cheare and let vs wayte yet these fyue dayes for mercy of the LORDE peraduenture he shal cut awaye his indignacion and geue glory vnto his name But yf he helpe vs not whan these fyue dayes are past we shall do as ye haue sayde The VIII Chapter ANd it happened whan these wordes came to the eares of Iudith a wyddow which was the daughter of Merari the sonne of Idox the sonne of Ioseph the sonne of Osias the sonne of Elai y e sonne of Iammor the sonne of Iedeon the sonne of Raphoim the sonne of Achitob the sonne of Melchia the sonne of Euam y e sonne of Nathania the sonne of Salathiel y e sonne of Symeon the sonne of Ruben And hir huszbande was called Manasses which dyed in the dayes of the barlye haruest For whyle he was byndinge y e sheeues together in the felde the heate came vpon his heade and he dyed at Bethulia his cite and there was he buried beside his fathers Now was Iudith his desolate wyddow thre yeares six monethes And in the hyer partes of hir house she made hirself a preuy chambre where she dwelt beynge closed in with hir maydēs She ware a smock of hayre and fasted all the dayes of hir life excepte the Sabbathes and new moones the solempne dayes that the people of Israel kepte She was a very fayre and beutyfull personne Hyr husbande also had left her greate riches a plenteous housholde greate vnmoueable possessions and many catell This Iudith was a woman of a very good reporte with euery one for she feared the LORDE greatly and there was no body that speake an euell worde of her Whā this Iudith herde how Osias had promised the people that after the fyffte daye he wolde geue vp y e cite vnto the Assirians she sent for the elders Chambri and Charmin and whan they came to her she sayde what thinge is this wherin Osias hath consented y t yf God helpe not within fyue dayes he wil geue ouer the cite to the Assirians What are ye that ye tempte the LORDE This deuyce optayneth no mercy of God but prouoketh him vnto wrath and displeasure Wyl ye set the mercy of y e LORDE a tyme appoynte him a daye after youre wyll Neuertheles for so moch as the LORDE is pacient let vs rather amende oure selues pouringe out teares and besekynge him of grace For God threateneth not as a mā nether wyll he be prouoked vnto wrath as the children of men And therfore let vs hertely fall downe before him and serue him with a meke sprete and with wepynge eyes saye vnto the LORDE that he deale with vs acordinge to his owne wyll and mercy that like as oure hert is now vexed brought lowe thorow the pryde of them it maye so be comforted thorow his grace in so moch as we folowe not the synnes of oure fathers which forsoke their God worshipped other goddes for the which synne they perished with the swerde were spoyled brought to shame of all their enemies As for vs we knowe none other God but onely him for whose cōforte let vs tary with mekenesse He shall requyre and make inquisicion for oure