the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the street of the water-gate and in the street of the gate of Ephraim 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so and there was very great gladness 18 Also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of God and they kept the feast seven days and on the eighth day was †Heb. a restraint a solemn assembly according unto the manner CHAP. IX 1 A solemn fast and repentance of the people 4 The Levites make a religious confession of Gods goodness and their wickedness NOw in the twenty and fourth day of * Chap. 8.2 this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasling and with sackclothes and earth upon them 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all †Heb. strange children strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers 3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God 4 ¶ Then stood up upon the ‖ Or seaffold stairs of the Levites Jeshua and Bani Kadmiel Shebaniah Bunni Sherebiah Bani and Chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God 5 Then the Levites Jeshua and Kadmiel Bani Hashabniah Sherebiah Hodijah Shebaniah and Pethabiah said Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise 6 Thou even thou art LORD alone * Gen. 1.1 thou hast made heaven the heaven of neavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee 7 Thou art the LORD the God who didst choose * Gen. 11.31 12.1 Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Caldees and gavest him the name of * Gen. 17.5 Abraham 8 And foundest his heart * Gen. 15 6. faithful before thee and madest a * Gen. 12.7 and 15.18 and 17.7 â— covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites the Hittites the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Jebusites and the Girgashites to give it I say to his seed and hast performed thy words for thou art righteous 9 * Ex. 3.7 14.10 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heardest their cry by the Red sea 10 And * Ex. 7.8 9 10 12 and 14 chap. shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them so didst thou get thee a name as it is this day 11 * Ex. 14.21 22. And thou didst divide the sea before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecuters thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the * Ex. 15.10 mighty waters 12 Moreover thou * Ex. 13 21 leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give them light in the way wherein they should go 13 * Ex. 19.20 20.1 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgements and †Heb. laws of truth true laws good statutes and commandments 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws by the hand of Moses thy servant 15 And * Ex. 15.14 15. gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger and * Ex. 17.6 Num 20.9 c. broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promisedst them that they should * Deu. 1.8 go in to possess the land †Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them which thou hadst sworn to give them 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardned their necks and hearkned not to thy commandments 17 And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardned their necks and in their rebellion appointed * Nu. 14.4 a captain to return to their bondage but thou art †Heb. a God of pardons a God ready to pardon graciou and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest them not 18 Yea * Ex. 32.4 when they had made them a molten calf and said This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt and had wrought great provocations 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness the * Ex. 13.22 Nu. 14.14 1 Cor. 10.1 pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire by night to shew them light and the way wherein they should go 20 Thou gavest also thy * Nu. 11.17 good spirit to instruct them and withheldest not thy * Ex. 16.15 Jos 5.12 manna from their mouth and gavest them * Ex. 17.6 water for their thirst 21 Yea fourty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing their * Deu. 8.4 clothes waxed not old and their feet swelled not 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations and didst divide them into corners so they possessed the land of * Nu. 21.21 c. Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it 24 So the children went in and possessed the land and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites and gavest them into their hands with their kings and the people of the land that they might do with them †Heb. according to their will as they would 25 And they took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all goods ‖ Or â—iâ—â—â—rns wells digged vineyards and olive-yards and †Heb. tree of food fruit-trees in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backs and slew thy * 1 Kin. 19.10 prophets with testified against them to turn them to thee they wrought great provocations
that hate him 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him and in my name shall his horn 〈◊〉 exalted 25 I will set 〈◊〉 â—and also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers 26 He shall cry unto me Thou art my Father my God and the rock of my salvation 27 Also I will make him my first-born higher then the kings of the earth 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven 30 It his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgements 31 If they †Heb. profane my statutes break my statutes and keep not my commandments 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes 33 Nevertheless my loving kindness †Heb. I will not make void from him will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faâ—thfulness †Heb. to lie to fail 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness †Heb. if I lie that I will not lie unto David 36 * 2 Sam. 7.16 Luke 1.33 Joh. 12.34 His seed shall endure for ever his throne as the sun before me 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven Selah 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred thou hast been wroth with thine anointed 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant thou hast profaned his câ—own by casting it to the ground 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges thou hast brought his strong holds to ruine 41 All that pass by the way spoil him he is a reproach to his neighbours 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoyce 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battel 44 Thou hast made his †Heb. brightness glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortned thou hast covered him with shame Selah 46 How long LORD wilt thou hide thy self for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire 47 Remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men in vain 48 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah 49 Lord where are thy former loving kindnesses which thou * 2 Sam. 7 1â— swarest unto David in thy truth 50 Remember Lord the reproach of thy servants how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people 52 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached O LORD wherewith they have reproached the foot-steps of thine anointed 52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore Amen and amen PSAL. XC 1 Moses setting forth Gods providence 3 complains of humane fragility 7 divine chastisements 10 and brevity of life 12 He prayeth for the knowledge and sensible experience of Gods good providence ¶ ‖ Or a prayer being a psalm of Moses A Prayer of Moses the man of God LOrd thou hast been our dwelling-place †Heb. in generation and generation in all generations 2 Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God 3 Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men 4 * 2 Pet. 3.8 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday ‖ Or when he hath passed them when it is past and as a watch in the night 5 Thou carriest them away as with a floud they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which ‖ Or is changed groweth up 6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up in the evening it is cut down and withereth 7 For we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance 9 For all our days are †Heb. turned away passed away in thy wrath we spend our years ‖ Or as a meditation as a tale that is told 10 †Heb. as for the days of our years in them are seventy years The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we flie away 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath 12 So teach us to number our days that we may †Heb. cause to come apply our hearts unto wisdom 13 Return O LORD how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants 14 O satisfie us early with thy mercy that we may rejoyce and be glad all our days 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands establish thou it PSAL. XCI 1 The state of the godly 3 Their safety 9 Their habitation 11 Their servants 14 Their friend with the effects of them all HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall †Heb. lodge abide under the shadow of the Almighty 2 I will say of the LORD He is my refuge and my fortress my God in him will I trust 3 Sureâ—y he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noysom peâ—tilâ—nâ—e 4 He shall â—over thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou tâ—â—â—â— his truth shall be thâ— shâ—â—ld and buâ—â—ler 5 Tâ—oâ— shalt noâ—â—e afraid for the terrour by night nor for the arrow that flâ—â—th â—y day 6 Noâ— for the pestilâ—nce that walketh in darkness nor for the destruction that wasteth at noâ—n-day 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Onely with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked 9 Because thou hast made the LORD which is my refuge even the most High thy habitation 10 There shall no evil befal thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 * Mat. 4.6 Luke 4.10 For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and ‖ Or asp adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet 14 Because he hath
11 for his kingdom 14 for his providence 17 for his saving mercy ¶ Davids psalm of praise I Will extol thee my God O King and I will bless thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I bless thee and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised †Heb. and of his greatness there is no searth and his greatness is unsearchable 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous †Heb. thines or words works 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will †Heb. declare 〈◊〉 declare thy greatness 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness 8 * Exod. 34.6 7. Nu. 14.18 Psal 86.5 15. and 102.8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and †Heb. great in mercy of great mercy 9 The LORD is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works 10 All thy works shall praise thee O LORD and thy saints shall bless thee 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom 13 Thy kingdom is †Heb. a kingdom of all ages an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down 15 The eyes of all ‖ Or look unto thee wait upon thee and thou-givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and ‖ Or merciful or bâ—â—â—tiful holy in all his works 18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever PSAL. CXLVI 1 The psalmist voweth perpetual praises to God 3 He exborteth not to trust in man 5 God for his power justice mercy and kingdom is onely worthy to be trusted †Heb. Hal e lessujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise the LORD O my soul 2 While I live will I praise the LORD I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being 3 * Psal 118.8 9. Put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no ‖ Or salvation help 4 His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the LORD his God 6 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever 7 Which executeth judgement for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the LORD looseth the prisoners 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blinde the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down the LORD loveth the righteous 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers he relieveth the fatherless and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down 10 * Exod. 15.18 The LORD shall reign for ever even thy God O Zion unto all generations Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLVII 1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his care of the church 4 his power 6 and his mercy 7 to praise him for his providence 12 to praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom 15 for his power over the meteors 19 and for his ordinances in the church PRaise ye the LORD for it is good to sing praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their †Heb. griefs wounds 4 He telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and of great power †Heb. of his understanding there is no number his understanding is infinite 6 The LORD listeth up the meek he casteth the wicked down to the ground 7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving sing praise upon the harp unto our God 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds who prepareth rain for the earth who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains 9 * Job 38.41 Psal 104.27 28. He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy 12 Praise the LORD O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion 13 For he hath strengthned the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy children within thee 14 †Heb. who maketh thy border peace He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the †Heb. fat of wheat finest of the wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wool he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who can stand before his cold 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow 19 He sheweth †Heb. his words his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgements unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgements they have not known them Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLVIII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the celestial 7 the terrestrial 11 and the rational creatures to praise God †Heb. Hallelujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise ye the LORD from the heavens praise him in the heights 2 Praise ye him all his angels praise ye him all his hosts 3 Praise ye him sun and moon praise him all ye stars of light 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD for he commanded and they were created 6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever he hath made a decree which shall not pass 7 Praise the LORD from the earth ye dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapour stormy wind fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattel creeping things and †Heb. birds of wing flying fowl 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the earth 12 Both young
knowledge aright * Verse 28. Ch. 12.23 13.16 but the mouth of fools †Heb. belcheth or bubbleth poureth out foolishness 3 * Job 34.21 Chap. 5.21 Jer. 16.17 32.19 Heb. 4.13 The eyes of the LORD are in every place beholding the evil and the good 4 †Heb. the healing of the tongue A wholesom tongue is a tree of life but perversness therein is a breaâ—h in the spirit 5 * Ch. 10.1 A fool despiseth his fathers instruction but he that regardeth reproof is prudent 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble 7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge but the heart of the foolish doth not so 8 * Ch. 21.27 Isa 1.11 66.3 Jer. 6.20 7 22. Amos 5.22 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD but the prayer of the upright is his delight 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness 10 ‖ Or instruction Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way and he that hateth reproof shall die 11 * Job 26.6 Hell and destruction are before the LORD how much more then the hearts of the children of men 12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him neither will he go unto the wise 13 * Ch. 17.22 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken 14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast 16 * Ps 37.16 Chap. 16.8 1 Tim. 6.6 Better is little with the fear of the LORD then great treasure and trouble therewith 17 * Ch. 17.1 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is then a stalled ox and hatred therewith 18 * Ch. 26.21 29.22 A wrathful man stirreth up strife but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife 19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns but the way of the righteous †Heb. is raised up as a causey is made plain 20 * Ch. 10.1 A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish man despiseth his mother 21 * Ch. 10.23 Folly is joy to him that is †Heb. void of heart destitute of wisdom but a man of understanding walketh uprightly 22 * Ch. 11.14 Without counsel purposes are disappointed but in the multitude of counsellours they are established 23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken †Heb. in his season in due season how good is it 24 * Phil. 3.20 Col. 3.1 2. The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath 25 * Chap. 12.7 14.11 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud but he will establish the border of the widow 26 * Ch. 6.18 The thought of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD but the words of the pure are †Heb. words of pleasantness pleasant words 27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house but he that hateth gifts shall live 28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things 29 * Ps 34.16 The LORD is far from the wicked but * Ps 145.18 he heareth the prayer of the righteous 30 The light of the eyes rejoyceth the heart and a good report maketh the bones fat 31 The ear that heareth the reproof of â—ife abideth among the wise 32 He that refuseth ‖ Or correction instruct on despiseth his own soul but he that ‖ Or obeâ—eth heareth reproof †Heb. possesseth an heart getteth understanding 33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom and * Ch. 18.12 before honour is humility CHAP. XVI THe * Verse 9. Ch. 19.21 20.24 Jer. 10.23 ‖ Or disposings preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the LORD 2 * Chap. 21.2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes but the LORD weigheth the spirits 3 * Psal 37.5 and 55.22 Mat. 6.25 Luk. 12.22 1 Pet. 5.7 †Heb. roll Commit thy works unto the LORD and thy thoughts shall be established 4 The LORD hath made all things for himself * Job 21.30 yea even the wicked for the day of evil 5 * Chap. 6.17 8.13 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD though hand joyn in hand he shall not be †Heb. held innocent unpunished 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil 7 When a mans ways please the LORD he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him 8 * Ps 37.16 Chap. 15.16 Better is a little with righteousness then great revenues without right 9 * Verse 1. A mans heart deviseth his way but the LORD directeth his steps 10 †Heb. Divination A divine sentence is in the lips of the king his mouth transgresseth not in judgement 11 * Lev. 19.36 Chap. 11.1 A just weight and balance are the LORDS †Heb. all the stones all the weights of the bag are his work 12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him that speaketh right 14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death but a wise man will pacifie it 15 In the light of the kings countenance is life and * Chap. 19.12 his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain 16 * Chap. 8.11 How much better is it to get wisdom then gold and to get understanding rather to be chosen then silver 17 The high-way of the upright is to depart from evil he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul 18 * Chap. 11.2 18.12 Pride goeth before destruction an haughty spirit before a fall 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly then to divide the spoil with the proud 20 ‖ Or He that understandeth a matter He that handleth a matter wisely shall finde good and whoso * Psal 2.12 34.8 and 125.1 Isa 30.18 Jer. 17.7 trusteth in the LORD happy is he 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning 22 * Ch. 13.14 Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it but the instruction of fools is folly 23 The heart of the wise †Heb. maketh wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips 24 Pleasant words are as an honey-comb sweet to the soul and health to the
loveth pureness of heart ‖ Or and hath grace in his lips for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend 12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge and he overthroweth ‖ Or the matters the words of the transgressour 13 * Chap. 26.13 The slothful man saith There is a lion without I shall be slain in the streets 14 * Chap. 2. â—6 and 5.3 and 7.5 and 23.27 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a childe but * Chap. 13.24 and 19.18 and 23.13 and 29.15 17. the rod of correction shall drive it far from him 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want 17 Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise and apply thine heart unto my knowledge 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them †Heb. in thy belly within thee they shall withal be fitted in thy lips 19 That thy trust may be in the LORD I have made known to thee this day ‖ Or trust thou also even to thee 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth that thou mightest answer the words of truth ‖ Or to those that send thee to them that send unto thee 22 Rob not the poor because he is poor * Zech. 7 10. neither oppress the afflicted in the gate 23 * Job 31.21 Ch. 23.11 For the LORD will plead their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them 24 Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go 25 Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul 26 * Ch. 6.1 11.15 Be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are sureties for debts 27 If thou hast nothing to pay why should he take away thy bed from under thee 28 * Deut. 19.14 27.17 Ch. 23.10 Remove not the ancient ‖ Or bound land-mark which thy fathers have set 29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before †Heb. obscure men mean mâ—n CHAP. XXIII WHen thou sittest to eat with a ruler consider diligently what is before thee 2 And put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite 3 Be not desirous of his dainties for they are deceitful meat 4 * 1 Tim. 6.9 10. Labour not to be rich cease from thine own wisdom 5 †Heb. wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for riches certainly make themselves wings they flie away as an eagle towards heaven 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye neither desire thou his dainty meats 7 For as he thinketh in his heart so is he Eat and drink saith he to thee but his heart is not with thee 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words 9 Speak not in the ears of a fool for he will despise the wisdom of thy words 10 * Deut. 19.14 27.17 Chap. 22.28 Remove not the old ‖ Or bound land-mark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless 11 * Job 31.21 Chap. 22.23 For their redeemer is mighty he shall plead their cause with thee 12 Apply thine heart unto instruction and thine ears to the words of knowledge 13 * Chap. 13.24 19.18 and 22.15 Withhold not correction from the childe for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not die 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell 15 My son if thine heart be wise my heart shall rejoyce ‖ Or even I will rejoyce even mine 16 Yea my reins shall rejoyce when thy lips speak right things 17 * Psal 37.1 73.3 Chap. 3.31 24.1 Let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long 18 * Ch. 24.14 For surely there is an ‖ Or reward end and thine expectation shall not be cut off 19 Hear thou my son and be wise and guide thine heart in the way 20 * Rom. 13.13 Eph. 5.18 Be not amongst wine-bibbers amongst riotous eaters †Heb. of their flesh of flesh 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags 22 * Chap. 1.8 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old 23 Buy the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction and understanding 24 * Ch. 10.1 15.20 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoyce and he that begetteth a wise childe shall have joy of him 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad and she that bare thee shall rejoyce 26 My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways 27 * Ch. 22.14 For an whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit 28 * Ch. 7.11 She also lieth in wait ‖ Or as a robber as for a prey and increaseth the transgressours among men 29 * Isa 5.11 Who hath wo who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes 30 They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixt wine 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup when it moveth it self aright 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like ‖ Or a cockatrice an adder 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things 34 Yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down †Heb. in the heart of the sea in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast 35 They have stricken me shalt thou say and I was not sick they have beaten me and †Heb. I knew it not I felt it not when shall I awake I will seek it yet again CHAP. XXIV BE not thou * Ps 37.1 c. and 73.3 Ch. 23.17 Verse 19. envious against evil men neither desire to be with them 2 * Psal 10 7. For their heart studieth destruction their lips talk of mischief 3 Through wisdom is an house builded and by understanding it is established 4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches 5 A wise man †Heb. is in strength is strong yea a man of knowledge †Heb. strengthneth might increaseth strength 6 * Chap. 20.18 11.14 and 15.22 For by wise
your glory 4 Without me they shall bow down under the priseners and they shall fall under the slain * Ch. 5.25 and 9.12 For all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still 5 ¶ ‖ Or Wo to the Assyrian O †Heb. Asâ—ur Assyrian the rod of mine anger ‖ Or thâ—uth and the staff in their hand is mine indignation 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and †Heb. to lar them a treading to tread them down like the mire of the streets 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few 8 * 2 Kin. 18.24 33. and 19 10 c. For he saith Are not my princes altogether kings 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish is not Hamath as Arphad is not Samaria as Damascus 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria 11 Shall I not as I have done unto Samaria and her idols so do to Jerusalem and her idols 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed his whole work * 2 Kin. 19.31 upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem I will †Heb. visit upon punish the fruit †Heb. of the treatness of the heart of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks 13 For he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it and by my wisdom for I am prudent and I have removed the bounds of the people and have robbed their treasures and I have put down the inhabitans ‖ Or like many people like a valiant man 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people and as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered all the earth and there was none that moved the wing or opened the mouth or peeped 15 Shall the ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it ‖ Or as if 〈◊〉 rod should shake them that lift it up as if the rod should shake it self against them that lift it up or as if the staff should lift up ‖ Or that which is not wood it self as if it were no wood 16 Therefore shall the Lord the LORD of hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his holy One for a flame and it shall burn devour his thorns and his briers in one day 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field †Heb. from the soul and even to the flesh both soul and body and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be †Heb. number few that a childe may write them 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him that smote them but shall stay upon the LORD the holy One of Israel in truth 21 The remnant shall return even the remnant of Jacob unto the might God 22 * Ro. 9.27 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea yet a remnant †Heb. in or amongst of them shall return * Ch. 28.22 the consumption decreed shall overflow ‖ Or in with righteousness 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption even determined in the midst of all the land 24 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts O my people that dwellest in Zion be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod ‖ Or but be shall lift up his staff for thee and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of * Exod. 14. Egypt 25 For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of * Judg. 7 2â— Chap. 9.4 Midian at the rock of Oreb and as his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt 27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden †Heb. shall remove shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing 28 He is come to Aiath he is passed to Migron at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages 29 They are gone over the passage they have taken up their lodging at Geba Ramah is afraid Gibeah of Saul is fled 30 †Heb. Cryst â—ill with thy voice Lift up thy voice O daughter of Gallim cause it to be heard unto Laish O poor Anathoth 31 Madmenah is removed the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion the hill of Jerusalem 33 Behold the Lord the LORD of hosts shall top the bough with terrour and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron and Lebanon shall fall ‖ Or mightily by a mighty one CHAP. XI 1 The peaceable kingdom of the branch out of the root of Jesse 10 The victorious restauration of Israel and vocation of the Gentiles ANd there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of * Act. 13. â—3 Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD 3 And shall make him of †Heb. sent or smell quick understanding in the fear of the LORD and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes neither reprove after the hearing of his ears 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and ‖ Or argue reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall * Job 4.9 2 Thes 2.8 smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loyns and faithfulness the girdle of his reins 6 * Ch. 65 2â— The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the
come to pass that as he cried and they would not hear so * Pro. 1.28 Isa 1.15 Jer. 11.11 and 14.12 they cried and I would not hear saith the LORD of hosts 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not thus the land was desolate after them that no man passed through nor returned for they laid the †Heb. land of desire pleasant land desolate CHAP. VIII 1 The restauration of Jerusalem 9 They are encouraged to the building by Gods favour to them 16 Good works are required of them 18 Joy and enlargement are promised AGain the word of the LORD of hosts came to me saying 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts * Ch. 1.16 I was jealous for Zion with great jealousie and I was jealous for her with great fury 3 Thus saith the LORD I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem and every man with his staff in his hand †Heb. for multitude of days for very age 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof 6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts If it be ‖ Or hard or difficult marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days should it also be marvellous in mine eyes saith the LORD of hosts 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will save my people from the east-countrey and from †Heb. the countrey of the going down of the sun the west-countrey 8 And I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and they shall be my people and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness 9 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts Let your hands be strong ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid that the temple might be built 10 For before these days ‖ Or the hire of man became nothing c. there was no * Hag. 1.6 hire for man nor any hire for beast neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction for I set all men every one against his neighbour 11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days saith the LORD of hosts 12 For the seed shall be †Heb. of peace prosperous the vine shall give her fruit and the ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things 13 And it shall come to pass that as ye were a curse among the heathen O house of Judah and house of Israel so will I save you and ye shall be a blessing fear not but let your hands be strong 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts As I thought to punish you when your fathers provoked me to wrath saith the LORD of hosts and I repented not 15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah fear ye not 16 ¶ These are the things that ye shall do * Eph. 4.25 Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour †Heb. judge truth and the judgement of peace execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour and love no false oath for all these are things that I hate saith the LORD 18 ¶ And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me saying 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts The fast of the fourth moneth and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness and cheerful †Heb. solemn or set times feasts therefore love the truth and peace 20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts It shall yet come to pass that there shall come people and the inhabitants of many cities 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying * Isa 2.3 Mic. 4.1 2. Let us go ‖ Or continually †Heb. going speedily †Heb. to intreat the face of the LORD to pray before the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts I will go also 22 Yea many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to pray before the LORD 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts In those days it shall come to pass that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that god is with you CHAP. IX 1 God defendeth his Church 9 Zion is exhorted to rejoyce for the coming of Christ and his peaceable kingdom 12 Gods promises of victory and defence THe burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach and Damascus shall be the rest thereof when the eyes of man as of all the tribes of Israel shall be toward the LORD 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby Tyrus and Zidon though it be very * Ezek. 28 â— c. wise 3 And Tyrus did build her self a strong hold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets 4 Behold the Lord will cast her out and he will smite her power in the sea and she shall be devoured with fire 5 Ashkelon shall see it and fear Gaza also shall see it and be very sorrowful and Ekron for her expectation shall be ashamed and the king shall perish from Gaza and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited 6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines 7 And I will take away his †Heb. â—â—oudâ— bloud out of his mouth and his abominations from between his teeth but he that remaineth even he shall be for our God and he shall be as a governour in Judah and Ekron as a Jebusite 8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army because of him that passeth by and because of him that returneth and no oppressour shall pass through them any more for now have I seen with mine eyes 9 ¶ * Isa 62.11 Mat. 21.5 Joh. 12.15 Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion shout O daughter of Jerusalem behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and ‖ Or savine himself having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the fole of an ass 10 And I will cut off the chariot from
Prou. 9.1 THE HOLY BIBLE Containing the old TESTAMENT and the New Newly translated out of the Original Tongues And with the former Translations diligently Compared and revised by his Majesties speciall command Appointed to be read in Churches Cambridge Printed by John Field̄ Printer to the Vniversitiē 1668 ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA Iohn Chantry sculpsit To the most High and Mighty Prince JAMES by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. The Translatours of the Bible wish Grace Mercy and Peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. GReat and manifold were the blessings most dread Sovereign which Almighty God the Father of all mercies bestowed upon us the people of England when first he sent Your Majesties Royal Person to rule and reign over us For whereas it was the expectation of many who wished not well unto our Sion that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star Qu. Elizabeth of most happy memory some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this land that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk and that it should hardly be known who was to direct the unsettled State the appearance of Your Majesty as of the Sun in his strength instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists and gave unto all that were well affected exceeding cause of comfort especially when we beheld the Government established in Your Highness and Your hopeful Seed by an undoubted Title and this also accompanted with peace and tranquility at home and abroad But amongst all our joys there was no one that more filled our hearts then the blessed continuance of the Preaching of Gods sacred Word amongst us which is that inestimable treasure which excelleth all the riches of the earth because the fruit thereof extendeth it self not onely to the time spent in this transitory world but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal happiness which is above in heaven Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground but rather to take it up and to continue it in that state wherein the famous Predecessour of Your Highness did leave it nay to go forward with the confidence and resolution of a man in maintaining the truth of Christ and propagating it far and near is that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your Majesties loyal and religious people unto You that Your very name is precious among them their eye doth behold You with comfort and they bless You in their hearts as that sanctified Person who under God is the immediate Authour of their true happiness And this their contentment doth not diminish or decay but every day increaseth and taketh strength when they observe that the zeal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not flack or go backward but is more and more kindled manifesting it self abroad in the furthest parts of Christendom by writing in defence of the Truth which hath given such a blow unto that man of sin as will not be healed and every day at home by religious and learned discourse by frequenting the house of God by hearing the Word preached by cherishing the Teachers thereof by caring for the Church as a most tender and loving nursing Father There are infinite Arguments of this right Christian and religious affection in Your Majesty but none is more forcible to declare it to others then the vehement and perpetuated desire of the accomplishing and publishing of this work which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty For when Your Highness had once out of deep judgement apprehended how convenient it was that out of the original sacred Tongues together with comparing of the Labours both in our own and other foreign Languages of many worthy men who went before us there should be one more exact Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English tongue Your Majesty did never desist to urge and to excite those to whom it was commended that the Work might be hastned and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner as a matter of such importance might justly require And now at last by the mercy of God and the continuance of our Labours it being brought unto such a conclusion as that we have great hope the Church of England shall reap good fruit thereby we hold it our duty to offer it to Your Majesty not onely as to our King and Sovereign but as to the principal Mover and Authour of the Work Humbly craving of Your most sacred Majesty that since things of this quality have ever been subject to the censures of ill-meaning and discontented persons it may receive approbation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is whose allowance and acceptance of our Labors shall more honour and encourage us then all the calumniations and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us So that if on the one side we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad who therefore will malign us because we are poor instruments to make Gods holy Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness or if on the other side we shall be maligned by self-conceited brethren who run their own ways and give liking unto nothing but what is framed by themselves and hammered on their anvile we may rest secure supported within by the truth and innocency of a good conscience having walked the ways of simplicity and integrity as before the Lord And sustained without by the powerfull protection of Your Majesties Grace and Favour which will ever give countenance to honest and Christian endeavours against bitter censures and uncharitable imputations The Lord of heaven and earth bless Your Majesty with many and happy days that as his heavenly hand hath enriched Your Highness with many singular and extraordinary graces so You may be the wonder of the world in this latter age for happiness and true felicity to the honour of that great God and the good of his Church through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour The Names and Order of all the Books of the Old and New Testament with the number of their Chapters GEnesis hath chapters 50 Exodus 40 Leviticus 27 Numbers 36 Deuteronomie 34 Joshua 24 Judges 21 Ruth 4 I. Samuel 31 II. Samuel 24 I. Kings 22 II. Kings 25 I. Chronicles 29 II. Chronicles 36 Ezra 10 Nehemiah 13 Esther 10 Job 42 Psalms 150 Proverbs 31 Ecclesiastes 12 The Song of Solomon 8 Isaiah 66 Jeremiah 52 Lamentations 5 Ezekiel 48 Daniel 12 Hosea 14 Joel 3 Amos 9 Obadiah 1 Jonah 4 Micah 7 Nahum 3 Habakkuk 3 Zephaniah 3 Haggai 2 Zechariah 14 Malachi 4 The Books called Apocrypha I. ESdras hath chapters 9 II. Esdras 16 Tobit 14 Judith 16 The rest of Esther 6 Wisdom of Solomon 19 Ecclesiasticus 51 Baruch with the Epistle of Jeremiah 6
So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem and saw not the kings face 29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab to have sent him to the king but he would not come to him and when he sent again the second time he would not come 30 Therefore he said unto his servants See Joabs field is †Heb. near my place near mine and he hath barley there go and set in on fire and Absaloms servants set the field on fire 31 Then Joab arose and came to Absalom unto his house and said unto him Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire 32 And Absalom answered Joab Behold I sent unto thee saying Come hither that I may send thee to the king to say Wherefore am I come from Geshur it had been good for me to have been there still now therefore let me see the kings face and it there be any iniquity in me let him kill me 33 So Joab came to the king and told him and when he had called for Absalom he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king and the king kissed Absalom CHAP. XV. 1 Absalom by fair speeches and courtesies stealeth the hearts of Israel 7Vnder pretence of a vow he obtaineth leave to go to Hebron 10 He maketh there a great conspiracy 13 David upon the news fleeth from Jerusalem 19 Ittai would not leave him 24 Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the ark 30 David and his company go up mount Olivet weeping 31 He curseth Abithophels counsel 32 Hushai is sent back with instructions ANd it came to pass after this that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him 2 And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate and it was so that when any man that had a controversy †Heb. to come came to the king for judgement then Absalom called unto him and said Of what city art thou And he said Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel 3 And Absalom said unto him See thy matters are good and right but ‖ Or none will hear thee from the king downward there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee 4 Absalom said moreover O that I were made judge in the land that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me and I would do him justice 5 And it was so that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance he put forth his hand and took him and kissed him 6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgement so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel 7 ¶ And it came to pass after fourty years that Absalom said unto the king I pray thee let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the LORD in Hebron 8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria saying If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve the LORD 9 And the king said unto him Go in peace So he arose and went to Hebron 10 ¶ But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel saying Assoon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet then ye shall say Absalom reigneth in Hebron 11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem that were called and they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing 12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite Davids counsellour from his city even from Giloh while he offered sacrifices and the conspiracy was strong for the people increased continually with Absalom 13 ¶ And there came a messenger to David saying The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom 14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem Arise and let us flee for we shall not else escape from Absalom make speed to depart lest he overtake us suddenly and †Heb. thrustâ— bring evil upon us and smite the city with the edge of the sword 15 And the kings servants said unto the king Behold thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall †Heb. choose appoint 16 And the king went forth and all his houshold †Heb. at his feet after him and the king left ten women which were concubines to keep the house 17 And the king went forth and all the people after him and tarried in a place that was far off 18 And all his servants passed on beside him and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites six hundred men which came after him from Gath passed on before the king 19 ¶ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite Wherefore goest thou also with us return to thy place and abide with the king for thou art a stranger and also an exile 20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday should I this day †Heb. make thee wander in going make thee go up and down with us seeing I go whither I may return thou and take back thy brethren mercy and truth be with thee 21 And Ittai answered the king and said As the LORD liveth and as my lord the king liveth surely in what place my lord the king shall be whether in death or life even there also will thy servant be 22 And David said to Ittai Go and pass over And Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men and all the little ones that were with him 23 And all the countrey wept with a loud voice and all the people passed over the king also himself passed over the brook ‖ Called Job 18 1â— Ceâ—â—â— Kidron and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness 24 ¶ And so Zadok also and all the Levites were with him bearing the ark of the covenant of God and they set down the ark of God and Abiathar went up until all the people had done passing out of the city 25 And the king said unto Zadok Carry back the ark of God into the city if I shall finde favour in the eyes of the LORD he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation 26 But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him 27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest Art not thou a * 1 Sam. 9.9 seer return into the city in peace and your two sons with you Ahimaaz thy son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar 28 See I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness until there come word from you to certifie me 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem and they tarried there 30 ¶ And David went up by the ascent of mount Oliver †Heb going up and weeping and wept as he went up and had his head covered and he went bare-foot and all the peâ—ple that was
because of the truth Selah 5 * Psal 108.6 c. That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and hear me 6 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth 7 Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Judah is my law-giver 8 Moab is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shoe Philistia ‖ Or Triumph thou over me by an ironie triumph thou because of me 9 Who will bring me into the †Heb. city of strength strong city who will lead me into Edom 10 Wilt not thou O God which * Ps 44.9 108.11 hadst cast us off and thou O God which didst not go out with our armies 11 Give us help from trouble for vain is the †Heb. salvation help of man 12 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies PSAL. LXI 1 David fleeth to God upon his former experience 4 He voweth perpetual service unto him because of his promises ¶ To the chief musician upon Negmah A psalm of David HEar my cry O God attend unto my prayer 2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher then I. 3 For thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy 4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever I will ‖ Or make my refute trust in the covert of thy wings Selah 5 For thou O God hast heard my vows thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name 6 †Heb. thou shalt aâ—d days to the days of the king Thou wilt prolong the kings life and his years †Heb. at generation and reberation as many generations 7 He shall abide before God for ever O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him 8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever that I may daily perform my vows PSAL. LXII 1 David professing his confidence in God discourageth his enemies 5 In the same confidence be encourageth the godly 9 No trust is to be put in worldly things 11 Power and mercy belong to God ¶ To the chief musician to Jeduthun A psalm of David ‖ Or onely TRuly my soul †Heb. is silent waiteth upon God from him cometh my salvation 2 He onely is my rock and my salvation he is my †Heb. high place defence I shall not be greatly moved 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man ye shall be slain all of you as a bowing wall shall ye be and as a tottering fence 4 They onely consult to cast him down from his excellency they delight in lies they bless with their mouth but they curse †Heb. in their inward parts inwardly Selah 5 My soul wait thou onely upon God for my expectation is from him 6 He onely is my rock and my salvation he is my defence I shall not be moved 7 In God is my salvation and my glory the rock of my strength and my refuge is in God 8 Trust in him at all times ye people pour out your heart before him God is a refuge for us Selah 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a he to be laid in the balance they are ‖ Or alike altogether lighter then vanity 10 Trust not in oppression and become not vain in robbery if riches increase set not your heart upon them 11 God hath spoken once twice have I heard this that ‖ Or â—reâ—th power belongeth unto God 12 Also unto thee O Lord belongeth mercy for * Job 34.11 Pro. 24.12 Jer. 32.19 Ezek. 7.27 Matth. 16.27 Rom. 2.6 2 Cor. 5.10 Ephes 6.8 Col. 3.25 1 Pet. 1.17 Rev. 22.12 thou rendrest to every man according to his work PSAL. LXIII 1 Davids thirst for God 4 His manner of Hessing God 9 His confidence of his enemies destruction and his own safety ¶ A psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah O God thou art my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and †Heb. weary thirsty land †Heb. without water where no water is 2 To see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary 3 Because thy loving kindness is better then life my lips shall praise thee 4 Thus will I bless thee while I live I will lift up my hands in thy name 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with †Heb. fatness marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips 6 When I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night-watches 7 Because thou hast been my help therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce 8 My soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand upholdeth me 9 But those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth 10 †Heb. they shall make him run cut like water by the hands of the sword They shall fall by the sword they shall be a portion for foxes 11 But the king shall rejoyce in God every one that sweareth by him shall glory but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped PSAL. LXIV 1 David prayeth for deliverance complaining of his enemies 7 He promiseth himself to see such an evident destruction of his enemies as the righteous shall rejoyce at it ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David HEar my voice O God in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity 3 * Psal 11.2 Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows even bitter words 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not 5 They encourage themselves in an evil ‖ Or speeth matter they commune †Heb to hide snares of laying snares privily they say Who shall see them 6 They search out iniquities ‖ Or we are consumed by that which they have throughly searched they accomplish †Heb. a searth searched a diligent search both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart is deep 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow suddenly †Heb. their wound shall be shall they be wounded 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves all that see them shall flee away 9 And all men shall fear and shall declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing 10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD and shall trust in him and all the upright in heart shall glory PSAL. 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poor and sorrowful let thy salvation O God set me up on high 30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving 31 This also shall please the LORD better then an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs 32 The ‖ Or meek humble shall see this and be glad and your heart shall live that seek God 33 For the LORD heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him the seas and every thing that †Heb. creepeth moveth therein 35 For God will save Sion and will build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein PSAL. LXX David soliciteth God to the speedy destruction of the wicked and preservation of the godly ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David to bring to remembrance MAke haste * Ps 40.13 c. O God to deliver me make haste †Heb. to my help to help me O LORD 2 * Ps 35.4.71.13 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say Aha aha 4 Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say continually Let God be magnified 5 But I am poor and needy make haste unto me O God thou art my help and my deliverer O LORD make no tarrying PSAL. LXXI 1 David in confidence of faith and experience of Gods favour prayeth both for himself and against the enemies of his soul 14 He promiseth constancy 17 He prayeth for perseverance 19 He praiseth God and promiseth to do it chearfully IN * Psal 31.1 thee O LORD do I put my trust let me never be put to confusion 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape incline thine ear unto me and save me 3 †Heb. â—e thou to me for a â—â—ck of habitation Be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort thou hast given commandment to save me for thou art my rock and my fortress 4 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the wicked out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man 5 For thou art my hope O Lord GOD thou art my trust from my youth 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb thou art he that took me out of my mothers bowels my praise shall be continually of thee 7 I am as a wonder unto many but thou art my strong refuge 8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age forsake me not when my strength faileth 10 For mine enemies speak against me and they that †Heb. watch or observe lay wait for my soul take counsel together 11 Saying God hath forsaken him persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him 12 O God be not far from me O my God make haste for my help 13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt 14 But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers thereof 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD I will make mention of thy righteousness even of thine onely 17 O God thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works 18 Now also †Heb. unto old aâ—e and trar hairs when I am old and gray-headed O God forsake me not until I have shewed †Heb. thine arm thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come 19 Thy righteousness also O God is very high who hast done great things O God who is like unto thee 20 Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side 22 I will also praise thee †Heb. with the instrument of psaltery with the psaltery even thy truth O my God unto thee will I sing with the harp O thou holy One of Israel 23 My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt PSAL. LXXII 1 David praying for Solomon sheweth the goodness and glory of his in type and in truth of Christs kingdom 18 He blesseth God ¶ A psalm ‖ Or of for Solomon GIve the king thy judgements O God and thy righteousness unto the kings son 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgement 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteousness 4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressour 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass as showres that water the earth 7 In his days shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace †Heb. if I there 〈◊〉 no moon so long as the moon endureth 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall how before him and his enemies shall lick the dust 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts 11 Yea all kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him 12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth the poor also and him that hath no helper 13 He shall spare the poor needy shall save the souls of the needy 14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their bloud be in his sight 15 And he shall live and to him †Heb. one shall give shall be given of the gold of Sheba prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised 16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains the fruit thereof shall 〈◊〉 like Lebanon and they of the city shall 〈…〉 grass of the earth 17 His name †Heb. shall 〈◊〉 shall endure for ever †Heb. shall be as a son to continuâ— his fathâ—â—s name 〈…〉 his name shall be continued
is pleasant unto thy soul 11 Discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keep thee 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man from the man that speaketh froward things 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness 14 Who rejoyce to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked 15 Whose ways are crooked and they froward in their paths 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman * Chap. â— 3 and 7.5 even from the stranger which flattereth with her words 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the covenant of her God 18 For her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead 19 None that go unto her return again neither take they hold of the paths of life 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous 21 * Ps 37. â—9 For the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain in it 22 * Job 18.17 Psal 104.35 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the transgressours shall be ‖ Or pluckt up rooted out of it CHAP. III. 1 An exhortation to obedience 5 to faith 7 to mortification 9 to devotion 11 to patience 13 The happy gain of wisdâ—m 19 The power 21 and the benefits of wisdom 27 An exhortation to charitableness 30 peaceableness 31 and contentedness 33 The cursed state of the wicked My son forget not my law * Deut. 8.1 30.16 but let thine heart keep my commandments 2 For length of days and †Heb. â—ewâ— of life long life and peace shall they add to thee 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee * Ex. 13.9 Deut. 6.8 binde them about thy neck write them upon the table of thine heart 4 * Psal 111.10 So shalt thou sinde favour and ‖ Or good sâ—â—cess good understanding in the sight of God and man 5 ¶ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding 6 * 1 Chr. 28.9 In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths 7 ¶ * Rom. 12.16 Be not wise in thine own eyes fear the LORD and depart from evil 8 It shall be †Heb. medicine health to thy navel and †Heb. aâ—terine or moisâ—â—ng marrow to thy bones 9 * Exed 23.10 and 34.26 Deut. 26.2 c. Mal. 3.10 c. Luke 14.13 Honour the LORD with thy substance and with the first-fruits of all thine increase 10 * Deut. 28.8 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine 11 ¶ * Job 5.17 Hebr. 12.5 Revel 3.39 My son despise not the chastning of the LORD neither be weary of his correction 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth 13 ¶ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and †Heb. the man that craweth out understanding the man that getteth understanding 14 * Job â—3 15 c. Pal. 19.10 Chap. 8.11 10. 16.16 For the merchandise of it is better then the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof them fine gold 15 She is more precious then rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her 16 Length of days is in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her and happy is every one that retaineth her 19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth by understanding hath he ‖ Or pâ—â—sared established the heavens 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew 21 ¶ My son let not them depart from thine eyes keep sound wisdom and discretion 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck 23 * Ps 37.24 91.11 12. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely and thy foot foot shall not stumble 24 When thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid yea thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh 26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken 27 ¶ Withhold not good from †Heb. the owners thereof them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thine hand to do it 28 Say not unto thy neighbour Go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee 29 ‖ Or practise no evil Devise not evil against thy neighbour seeing he dwelleth securely by thee 30 ¶ Strive not with a man without cause if he have done thee no harm 31 ¶ * Ps 37.1 Envy thou not †Heb. a man of violence the oppressour and choose none of his ways 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD * Ps 25.14 but his secret is with the righteous 33 ¶ * Mal. 2.2 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked but he blesseth the habitation of the just 34 ¶ * Jam. 4.6.1 Pet. 5.5 Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly 35 The wise shall inherit glory but shame †Heb. tâ—alteth the fools shall be the promotion of fools CHAP. IV. 1 Solomon to perswade obedience 3 sheweth what instruction he had of his parents 5 To study wisdom 14 and to shun the path of the wicked 20 He exhorteth to faith 23 and sanctification HEar ye children the instruction of a father and attend to know understanding 2 For I give you good doctrine forsake you not my law 3 For I was my fathers son * 1 Chr. 29.1 tender and onely beloved in the sight of my mother 4 * 1 Chr. 28.9 He taught me also and said unto me Let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and live 5 Get wisdom get understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth 6 Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep thee 7 Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding 8 Exalt her and she shall promote thee she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her 9 She shall give to thine head * Chap. 1.9 an ornament of grace ‖ Or she shall compass thee with a crown of glory a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee 10 Hear O my son and receive my sayings and the years of thy life shall be many 11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom I have led thee in right paths 12 When thou goest thy steps shall not be straitned * Psal 91.11 12. and when thou runnest thou shalt
is abomination to the LORD but †Heb. a perfect stone a just weight is his delight 2 * Ch. 15.33 16.18 18.12 When pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom 3 * Ch. 13.6 The integrity of the upright shall guide them but the perversness of transgressours shall destroy them 4 * Ch. 10.2 Ezek. 7.19 Zeph. 1.18 Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousness delivereth from death 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall †Heb. rectifie direct his way but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them but * Ch. 5.22 transgressours shall be taken in their own naughtiness 7 When a wicked man dieth his expectation shall perish and the hope of unjust men perisheth 8 * Ch. 21.18 The righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked cometh in his stead 9 An * Job 8.13 hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour but through knowledge shall the just be delivered 10 When it goeth well with the righteous the city rejoyceth and when the wicked perish there is shouting 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked 12 He that is †Heb. destitute of heart void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour but a man of understanding holdeth his peace 13 †Heb. he that walketh being a tale-bearer A tale-bearer revealeth secrets but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter 14 * 1 Kin. 12.1 c. Where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counsellours there is safety 15 He that is surety for a stranger †Heb. shall be sore broken shall smart for it and he that hateth †Heb. those that strike hands suretiship is sure 16 A gracious woman retaineth honour and strong men retain riches 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward 19 As righteousness tendeth to life so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death 20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD but such as are upright in their way are his delight 21 Though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered 22 As a jewel of gold in a swines snout so is a fair woman which †Heb. departeth from is without discretion 23 The desire of the righteous is onely good but the expectation of the wicked is wrath 24 There is that scattereth and yet increaseth and there is that withholdeth more then is meet but it tendeth to poverty 25 * 2 Cor. 9.8 9 10. †Heb. the soul of blessing The liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himself 26 He that withholdeth corn the people shall curse him but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it 27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour * Ps 7.15 16. 9.15 16. 10.2 57.6 but he that seeketh mischief it shall come unto him 28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall but * Ps 1.2 92.12 c. Jer. 17.8 the righteous shall flourish as a branch 29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that †Heb. taketh winneth souls is wise 31 * 1 Pet. 4.18 Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner CHAP. XII WHoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he that hateth reproof is brâ—tish 2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD but a man of wicked devices will he condemn 3 A man shall not be established by wickedness but the * Ch. 10.25 root of the righteous shall not be moved 4 * 1 Cor. 11.7 A vertuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones 5 The thoughts of the righteous are right but the counsels of the wicked are deceit 6 * Chap. 1.11 18. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for bloud but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them 7 * Ps 37.37 Ch. 11.21 The wicked are overthrown and are not but the house of the righteous shall stand 8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom but he that is †Heb. perverse of â—eart of a perverse heart shall be despised 9 He that is despised and hath a servant is better then he that honoureth himself and lacketh bread 10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast but the ‖ Or bowels tender mercies of the wicked are cruel 11 * Chap. 28.19 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding 12 The wicked desireth ‖ Or the fortress the net of evil men but the root of the righteous yeeldeth fruit 13 †Heb. the snare of the wicked is in the transgression of lips * Ch. 18.7 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips but the just shall come out of trouble 14 * Ch. 13.2 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth and the recompense of a mans hands shall be rendred unto him 15 * Ch. 3.7 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes but he that hearkneth unto counsel is wise 16 A fools wrath is †Heb. in that day presently known but a prudent man covereth shame 17 * Ch. 14.5 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness but a false witness deceit 18 * Ps 57.4 and 59.7 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword but the tongue of the wise is health 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil but to the counsellours of peace is joy 21 There shall no evil happen to the just but the wicked shall be filled with mischief 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD but they that deal truly are his delight 23 * Ch. 13.16 15.2 A prudent man concealeth knowledge but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness 24 * Ch. 10.4 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the ‖ Or deceitful slothful shall be under tribute 25 * Ch. 15.13 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop but a good word maketh it glad 26 The righteous is more ‖ Or abundant excellent then his neighbour but the way of the wicked seduceth them 27 The slothful man
of the fear shall fall into the pit and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare for the windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake 19 The earth is utterly broken down the earth is clean dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall †Heb. visit upon punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the kings of the earth upon the earth 22 And they shall be gathered together †Heb. with the gathering of prisoners as prisoners are gathered in the ‖ Or dungeon pit and shall be shut up in the prison and after many days shall they be ‖ Or found wanting visited 23 Then the * Ch. 13.10 Ezek. 32.7 Joel 2.31 and 3.15 moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and ‖ Or there shall be glory before his ancients before his ancients gloriously CHAP. XXV 1 The prophet praiseth God for his judgements 6 for his saving benefits 9 and for his victorious salvation O LORD thou art my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap of a defenced city a ruine a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a dry place even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low 6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined 7 And he will †Heb. swallow up destroy in this mountain the face of the covering †Heb. covered cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all nations 8 He will * 1 Cor. 15.54 swallow up death in victory and the Lord GOD will * Rev. 7.17 and 21.4 wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the LORD hath spoken it 9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the LORD we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest and Moab shall be ‖ Or threshed troden down under him even as straw is ‖ Or threshed in Madmenah troden down for the dunghil 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he shall bring down their pride together with the sports of their hands 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down lay low and bring to the ground even to the dust CHAP. XXVI 1 A song inciting to confidence in God 5 for his judgements 12 and for his favour to his people 20 An exhortation to wait on God IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah We have a strong câ—tâ—â— salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks 2 Open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth the †Heb. truths truth may enter in 3 Thou wilt keep him in †Heb. peace peace perfect peace whose ‖ Or thought or imagination minde is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever for in the LORD JEHOVAH is †Heb. the rock of ages everlasting strength 5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty city he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust 6 The foot shall tread it down even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy 7 The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just 8 Yea in the way of thy judgements O LORD have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the LORD 11 LORD when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy ‖ Or towards thy people at the people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them 12 ¶ LORD thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works ‖ Or for us in us 13 O LORD our God other lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee onely will we make mention of thy name 14 They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish 15 Thou hast increased the nation O LORD thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth 16 LORD in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a †Heb. secret speech prayer when thy chastening was upon them 17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we been in thy sight O LORD 18 We have been with childe we have been in pain we have as it were brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth neither have the inhabitants of the world â—aln 19 Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead 20 ¶ Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were
the king of Assyria and I will defend this city 7 And this shall be a signe unto thee from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken 8 Behold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the †Heb. degrees by or with the sun sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward So the sun returned ten degrees by which degrees it was gone down 9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness 10 I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years 11 I said I shall not see the LORD even the LORD in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world 12 Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherds tent I have cut off like a weaver my life he will cut me off ‖ Or from the thrum with pining sickness from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me 13 I reckoned till morning that as a lion so will he break all my bones from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me 14 Like a crane or a swallow so did I chatter I did mourn as a dove mine eyes fail with looking upward O LORD I am oppressed ‖ Or case me undertake for me 15 What shall I say he hath both spoken unto me and himself hath done it I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul 16 O Lord by these things men live and in all these things is the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover me and make me to live 17 Behold ‖ Or on my peace came great bitterness for peace I had great bitterness but †Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast all my sins behinde thy back 18 For the grave can not praise thee death cannot celebrate thee they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth 19 The living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day the father to the children shall make known thy truth 20 The LORD was ready to save me therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD 21 For Isaiah had said let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaister upon the boyl and he shall recover 22 Hezekiah also had said What is the signe that I shall go up to the house of the LORD CHAP. XXXIX 1 Merodath-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah because of the wonder bath notice of his treasures 3 Isaiah understanding thereof foretelleth the Babylonian captivity AT * 2 Kin. 20.12 c. that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them and shewed them the house of his ‖ Or spicery precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precions ointment and all the house of his ‖ Or jewels †Heb. verssels or instruments armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah shewed them not 3 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said unto him What said these men and from whence came they unto thee And Hezekiah said They are come from a far countrey unto me even from Babylon 4 Then said he What have they seen in thine house And Hezekiah answered All that is in mine house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD of hosts 6 Behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day shall be carried to Babylon nothing shall be left saith the LORD 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken he said moreover For there shall be peace and truth in my days CHAP. XL. 1 The promulgation of the gospel 3 The preaching of John Baptist 9 The preaching of the apostles 12 The prophet by the omnipotency of God 18 and his incomparableness 26 comforteth the people COmfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God 2 Speak ye †Heb. to the heare comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her ‖ Or appointed time warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received of the LORDs hand double for all her sins 3 ¶ * Mat. 3.3 Mar. 1.3 Lu. 3.4 Joh. 1.23 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the LORD make strait in the desert a high-way forour God 4 Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made ‖ Or a strait place strait and the rough places ‖ Or a plain place plain 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it 6 The voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry * Job 14.2 Ps 102.11 and 103.15 Jam. 1.10 1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field 7 The grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it surely the people is grass 8 The grass withereth the flower fadeth but the * Joh. 12.34 1 Pet. 1.25 word of our God shall stand for ever 9 ¶ ‖ Or O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion O Zion that bringest good tidings get thee up into the high mountain ‖ Or O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem O Jerusalem that bringest good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah Behold your God 10 Behold the Lord GOD will come ‖ Or against the strong with strong hand and his arm shall rule for him behold * Ch. 62.11 his reward is with him and ‖ Or recompence for his work his work before him 11 He shall * Ezek. 34.23 Joh. 10.11 feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those ‖ Or that give suck that are with young 12 ¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted
unto us your minde concerning the writings Then began the first who had spoken of the strength of wine 18 And he said thus O ye men how exceeding strong is wine it causeth all men to err that drink it 19 It maketh the minde of the king and of the fatherless childe to be all one of the bond-man and of the freeman of the poor man and of the rich 20 It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth so that a man remembreth neither sorrow nor debt 21 And it maketh every heart rich so that a man remembreth neither king nor governour and it maketh to speak all things by talents 22 And when they are in their cups they forget their love both to friends and brethren and a little after draw out swords 23 But when they are from the wine they remember not what they have done 24 O ye men is not wine the strongest that enforceth to do thus And when he had so spoken he held his peace CHAP. IV. 1 The second declareth the power of a king 14 The third the force of women 33 and of truth 41 The third is judged to be wisest 47 and obtaineth letters of the king to build Jerusalem 58 He praiseth God and sheweth his brethren what he had done THen the second that had spoken of the strength of the king began to say 2 O ye men do not men excel in strength that ‖ Or have the command bear rule over sea and land and all things in them 3 But yet the king is more mighty for he is lord of all these things and hath dominion over them and whatsoever he commandeth them they do 4 If he bid them make war the one against the other they do it if he send them out against the enemies they go and break down mountains walls and towers 5 They slay and are slain and transgress not the kings commandment if they get the victory they bring all to the king as well the spoil as all things else 6 Likewise for those that are no souldiers and have not to do with wars but use husbandry when they have reaped again that which they had sown they bring it to the king and compel one another to pay tribute unto the king 7 And yet he is but one man if he command to kill they kill if he command to spare they spare 8 If he command to smite they smite if he command to make desolate they make desolate if he command to build they build 9 If he command to cut down they cut down if he command to plant they plant 10 So all his people and his armies obey him furthermore he lieth down he eateth and drinketh and taketh his rest 11 And these keep watch round about him neither ‖ Or can may any one depart and do his own business neither disobey they him in any thing 12 O ye men how should not the king be mightiest when in such sort he is obeyed And he held his tongue 13 ¶ Then the third who had spoken of women and of the truth this was Zorobabel began to speak 14 O ye men it is not the great king nor the multitude of men neither is it wine that †Heb. is of force excelleth who is it then that ruleth them or hath the lordship over them are they not women 15 Women have born the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land 16 Even of them came they and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards from whence the wine cometh 17 These also make garments for men these bring glory unto men and without women cannot men be 18 Yea and if men have gathered together gold and silver or any other goodly thing do they not love a woman which is comely in favour and beauty 19 And letting all those things go do they not gape and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her and have not all men more desire unto her then unto silver or gold or any goodly thing whatsoever 20 A man leaveth his own father that brought him up and his own countrey and cleaveth unto his wife 21 He sticks not to spend his life with his wife and remembreth neither father nor mother nor countrey 22 By this also you must know that women have dominion over you do ye not labour and toil and give and bring all to the woman 23 Yea a man taketh his sword and goeth his way to rob and to steal to sail upon the sea and upon rivers 24 And looketh upon a lion and goeth in the darkness and when he hath stoln spoiled and robbed he bringeth it to his love 25 Wherefore a man loveth his wife better then father or mother 26 Yea many there be that have ‖ Or grown desperate run out of their wits for women and become servants for their sakes 27 Many also have perished have erred and sinned for women 28 And now do you not beleeve me is not the king great in his power do not all regions fear to touch him 29 Yet did I see him and Apame the kings concubine the daughter of the admirable ‖ Jos antiq l. 11. c. 4. Rabsaces Themasiu◠Bartacus sitting at the right hand of the king 30 And taking the crown from the kings head and setting it upon her own head she also stroke the king with her left hand 31 And yet ‖ Or hereat for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open month if she laughed upon him he laughed also but if she took any displeasure at him the king was fain to flatter that she might ‖ Or be friends with him be reconciled to him again 32 O ye men how can it be but women should be strong seeing they do thus 33 Then the king and the princes looked one upon another so he began to speak of the truth 34 O ye men are not women strong great is the earth high is the heaven swift is the sun in his course for he compasseth the heavens round about and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day 35 Is he not great that maketh these things therefore great is the truth and stronger then all things 36 All the earth ‖ Or praiseth the truth Athanasius calleth upon the truth and the heaven blesseth it all works shake and tremble at it and with it is no unrighteous thing 37 Wine is wicked the king is wicked women are wicked all the children of men are wicked and such are all their wicked works and there is no truth in them in their unrighteousness also they shall perish 38 As for the truth it endureth and is always strong it liveth and conquereth for evermore 39 With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards but she doeth the things that are just and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things and all men do well like of her works 40 Neither in her judgement is any
come for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities 28 But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me I will tell thee for the evil is sown but the destruction thereof is not yet come 29 If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away then cannot it come that is sown with good 30 For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time and how much shall it yet bring forth until the ‖ Or floor time of threshing come 31 Ponder now by thyself how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed hath brought forth 32 And when the ears shall be cut down which are without number how great a floor shall they fill 33 Then I answered and said How and when shall these things come to pass wherefore are our years few and evil 34 And he answered me saying Do not thou hasten above the most Highest for thy haste is in vain to be above him for thou hast much exceeded 35 Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers saying How long shall I hope on this fashion when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward 36 And unto these things ‖ Or Jeremiel Uriel the archangel gave them answer and said Even when the number of seeds is filled in you for he hath weighed the world in the balance 37 By measure hath he measured the times and by number hath he numbred the times and he doth not move nor stir them until the said measure be fulfilled 38 Then answered I and said O Lord that bearest rule even we all are full of impiety 39 And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth 40 So he answered me and said Go thy way to a woman with childe and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine moneths if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her 41 Then said I No Lord that can she not And he said unto me In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman 42 For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them 43 From the beginning look what thou desirest to see it shall be shewed thee 44 Then answered I and said If I have found favour in thy sight and if it be possible and if I be meet therefore 45 Shew me then whether there be more to come then is past or more past then is to come 46 What is past I know but what is for to come I know not 47 And he said unto me Stand up upon the right side and I shall expound the similitude unto thee 48 So I stood and saw and behold an hot burning oven passed by before me and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked and behold the smoke remained still 49 After this there passed by before me a watery cloud and sent down much rain with a storm and when the stormy rain was past the drops remained still 50 Then said he unto me Consider with thyself as the rain is more then the drops and as the fire is greater then the smoke but the drops and the smoke remain behinde so the ‖ Or measure quantity which is past did more exceed 51 Then I prayed and said May I live thinkest thou until that time or ‖ Or who shall be Manuscript what shall happen in those days 52 He answered me and said As for the tokens whereof thou askest me I may tell thee of them in part but as touching thy life I am not sent to shew thee for I do not know it CHAP. V. 1 The signes of the â—â—mes to come 23 He asketh why God choosing but one people did cast them off 30 He is taught that Gods judgements are unsearchable 46 and that God doeth not all at once NEvertheless as concerning the tokens behold the days shall come that they which dwell upon earth ‖ Or shall be found with great wealth shall be taken in a great number and the way of truth shall be hidden and the land shall be barren of faith 2 But * Matth. 2â— 12 iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou seest or that thou hast heard long ago 3 And the land ‖ Or that thou â—â—eadest upon and seest that thou seest now to have root shalt thou see wasted suddenly 4 But if the most High grant thee to live thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night and the moon thrice in the day 5 And bloud shall drop out of the wood and the stone shall give his voice and the people shall be troubled 6 And even he shall rule whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth and the fowls shall take their flight away together 7 And the Sodomitish sea shall cast out fish and make a noise in the night which many have not known but they shall all hear the voice thereof 8 There shall be a confusion also in many places and the fire shall be oft ‖ Or stoked sent out again and the wilde beasts shall change their places and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters 9 And salt waters shall be sound in the sweet and all friends shall destroy one another then shall wit hide it self and understanding withdraw it sell into his secret chamber 10 And shall be sought of many and yet not be sound then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplyed upon earth 11 One land also shall ask another and say Is righteousness that maketh a man righteous gone through thee And it shall say No. 12 At the same time shall men hope but nothing obtain they shall labour but their ways shall not ‖ Or be dirested prosper 13 To shew thee such tokens I have leave and if thou wilt pray again and weep as now and fast seven days thou shalt hear yet greater things 14 Then I awaked and an extreme fearfulness went through all my body and my minde was troubled so that it sainted 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me comforted me and set me up upon my feet 16 And in the second night it came to pass that Salathiel the captain of the people came unto me saying Where hast thou been and why is thy countenance so heavy 17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity 18 Up then and eat bread and forsake us not as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of cruel wolves 19 Then said I unto him Go thy ways from me
of him come we all and the people also whom thou bast chosen 55 All this have I spoken before thee O Lord because thou madest the world for our sakes 56 As for the other people which also come of Adam thou hast said that they are nothing but be like unto spittle and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel 57 And now O Lord behold these heathen which have ever been reputed as nothing have begun to be lords over us and to devour us 58 But we thy people whom thou hast called thy first-born thy onely begotten and thy fervent lover are given into their hands 59 If the world now be made for our sakes why do we not possess an inheritance with the world how long shall this endure CHAP. VII 4 The way is narrow 12 When it was made narrow 18 All shall die and rise again 33 Christ shall sit in judgement 46 God hath not made paradise in vain 62 and is merciful ANd when I had made an end of speaking these words there was sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore 2 And he said unto me Up Esdras and hear the words that I am come to tell thee 3 And I said Speak on my God Then said he unto me The sea is set in a wide place that it might be deep and great 4 But put the case the entrance were narrow and like a river 5 Who then could go into the sea to look upon it and to rule it if he went not through the narrow how could he come into the broad 6 There is also another thing A city is builded and set upon a broad field and is full of all good things 7 The entrance thereof is narrow and is set in a ‖ Or steep plain dangerous place to fall like as if there were a fire on the right hand and on the left a deep water 8 And one onely path between them both even between the fire and the water so small that there could but one man go there at once 9 If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance if he never shall pass the danger set before it how shall he receive this inheritance 10 And I said It is so Lord. Then said he unto me Even so also is Israels portion 11 Because for their sakes I made the world and when Adam transgressed my statutes then was decreed that now is done 12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow full of sorrow and travel they are but few and evil full of perils and very pain ful 13 For the entrances of the ‖ Or greater elder world were wide and sure and brought immortal fruit 14 If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things they can never receive those that are laid up for them 15 Now therefore why disquietest thou thy self seeing thou art but a corruptible man and why art thou moved whereas thou art but mortal 16 Why hast thou not considered in thy minde this thing that is to come rather then that which is present 17 Then answered I and said O Lord that bearest rule thou hast ordained in thy * Deut 8.1 law that the righteous should inherit these things but that the ungodly should perish 18 Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things and hope for wide for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things and yet shall not see the wide 19 And he said unto me There is no Judge above God and none that hath understanding above the Highest 20 For there be many that perish in this life because they despise the law of God that is set before them 21 For God hath given strait commandment to such as came what they should do to live even as they came and what they should observe to avoid punishment 22 Nevertheless they were not obedient unto him but spake against him and imagined vain things 23 And deceived themselves by their wicked deeds and said of the most High that he is not and knew not his ways 24 But his law have they despised and denied his covenants in his statutes have they not been faithful and have not performed his works 25 And therefore Esdras for the empty are empty things and for the full are the full things 26 Behold the time shall come that these tokens which I have told thee shall come to pass and the bride shall appear and she coming forth shall be seen that now is withdrawn from the earth 27 And whosoever is delivered from the aforesaid evils shall see my wonders 28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him and they that remain shall rejoyce within four hundred years 29 After these years shall my sun Christ die and all men that have life 30 And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days like as in the ‖ Or first beginning former judgements so that no man shall remain 31 And after seven days the world that yet awaketh not shall be raised up and that shall die that is corrupt 32 And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her and so shall the dust those that dwell in silence and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed unto them 33 And the most High shall appear upon the seat of judgement and misery shall pass away and the long-suffering shall have an end 34 But judgement onely shall remain truth shall stand and saith shall wax strong 35 And the work shall follow and the reward shall be shewed and the good deeds shall be of force and wicked deeds shall bear no rule 36 Then said * Gen. 1â— 23 Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites and * Ex. 32.11 Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness 37 And Jesus after him for Israel in the time of ‖ Or Acâ—or Achan 38 And Samuel and * 2 Sam. 24.17 David for the destruction and * 2 Chr. 6.14 Solomon for them that should come to the sanctuary 39 And * 1 Kings 17.21 18.42.45 Helias for those that received rain and for the dead that he might live 40 And * 2 Kings 19.15 Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib and many for many 41 Even so now seeing corruption is grown up and wickedness increased and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly wherefore shall it not be so now also 42 He answered me and said This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide therefore have they prayed for the weak 43 But the day of doom shall be the end of this time and the beginning of the immortality for to come wherein corruption is past 44 Intemperancy is at an end infidelity is cut off righteousness is grown and truth is sprung up 45 Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed nor to
and he that buildeth as he that shall not dwell therein 43 He that soweth as if he should not reap so also he that planteth the vineyard as he that shall not gather the grapes 44 They that marry as they that shall get no children and they that marry not as the widowers 45 And therefore they that labour labour in vain 46 For strangers shall reap their fruits and spoil their goods overthrow their houses and take their children captives for in captivity and famine shall they get children 47 And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery the more they deck their cities their houses their possessions and their own persons 48 The more will I be angry with them for their sin saith the Lord. 49 Like as an whore envieth a right honest and vertuous woman 50 So shall righteousness hate iniquity when she decketh her self and shall accuse her to her face when he cometh that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth 51 And therefore be ye not like thereunto nor to the works thereof 52 For yet a little and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth and righteousness shall reign among you 53 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned for God shall burn coals of fire upon his head which saith before the Lord God and his glory I have not sinned 54 Behold the Lord knoweth all the works of men * Luke 16.15 their imaginations their thoughts and their hearts 55 Which spake but the word Let the earth be made * Gen. 1.1 and it was made Let the heaven be made and it was created 56 In his word were the stars made and he knoweth the * Psal 147.4 number of them 57 He searcheth the deep and the treasures thereof he hath measured the sea and what it containeth 58 He hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters and with his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters 59 He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault upon the waters hath he founded it 60 In the desert hath he made springs of water and pools upon the tops of the mountains that the flouds might pour down from the high rocks to water the earth 61 He made man and put his heart in the midst of the body and gave him breath life and understanding 62 Yea and the Spirit of Almighty God which made all things and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth 63 Surely he knoweth your inventions and what you think in your hearts even them that sin and would hide their sin 64 Therefore hath the Lord exactly searched out all your works and he will put you all to shame 65 And when your sins are brought forth ye shall be ashamed before men and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day 66 What will ye do or how will you hide your sins before God and his angels 67 Behold God himself is the judge fear him leave off from your sins and forget your iniquities to meddle no more with them for ever so shall God lead you forth and deliver you from all trouble 68 For behold the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you and they shall take away certain of you and feed you ‖ Or being unable to refâ—â—â— being idle with things offered unto idols 69 And they that consent unto them shall be had in derision and in reproach and troden under foot 70 For there shall be in every place and in the next cities a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord. 71 They shall be like mad-men sparing none but still spoiling and destroying those that fear the Lord. 72 For they shall waste and take away their goods and cast them out of their houses 73 Then shall they be known who are my chosen and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire 74 Hear O ye my beloved saith the Lord behold the days of trouble are at hand but I will deliver you from the same 75 Be ye not afraid neither doubt for God is your guide 76 And the guide of them who keep my commandments and precepts saith the Lord God let not your sins weigh you down and let not your iniquities lift up themselves 77 Wo be unto them that are bound with their sins and covered with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes and the path thereof covered with thorns that no man may travel through 78 It is ‖ Or shut out left undressed and is cast into the fire to be consumed therewith ¶ TOBIT CHAP. I. 1 Tobit his stock and devotion in his youth 9 His marriage to and captivity 13 His preferment 16 alms and charity in burying the dead 19 for which be is aâ—â—used and fleeth 22 and after returneth to Nineveb THe book of the ‖ Or. â—â—ts words of Tobit son of Tobiel the son of Ananiel the son of Aduel the son of Gabael of the seed of Alael of the tribe of Nephthali 2 Who in the time of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was led captive out of * 2 Kings 17.3 This be which is at the right hand of that city which is called ‖ Or Kâ—â—â—s of Nephthali in Galilee Judg. 4.6 properly Nephthali in Galilee above Aser 3 I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the way of truth and justice and I did many alms-deeds to my brethren and my nation who came with me to Nineveh into the land of the Assyrians 4 And when I was in mine own countrey in the land of Israel being but young all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel that all the tribes should sacrifice there where the temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages 5 Now all the tribes which together revolted and the house of my father Nephthali sacrificed ‖ Or to the power of Baal or the god Baal unto the * 1 King 12.30 heifer Baal 6 But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts as it was ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree * Exod. 22.29 Deut. 11.6 having the first-fruits and tenths of increase with that which was first shorn and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron 7 The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of ‖ Or Levi. Aaron who ministred at Jerusalem another tenth part I sold away and went and spent it every year at Jerusalem 8 And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet as Debora my fathers mother had commanded me because I was left an orphan by my father 9 Furthermore when I was come to the age of a man I married Anna of mine * Numb 36.7 own kindred and of her I begat Tobias 10 And when we were
all the woman died also 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she for seven had her to wife 34 And Jesus answering said unto them The children of this world marry and are given in marriage 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage 36 Neither can they die any more for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection 37 Now that the dead are raised * Exod. 3.6 even Moses shewed at the bush when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jâ—â—ob 38 For he is not a God of the dead but of the living for all live unto him 39 ¶ Then certain of the scribes answering said Master thou hast well said 40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all 41 And he said unto them * Matth. 22.42 How say they that Christ is Davids son 42 And David himself saith in the book of psalms * Psal 110.1 the LORD said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand 43 Till I make thine enemies thy foâ—tstool 44 David therefore calleth him Lord how is he then his son 45 ¶ Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples 46 * Matth. 23.5 Beware of the scribes which desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the markets and the highest seats in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts 47 Which devour widows houses and for a shew make long prayers the same shall receive greater damnation CHAP. XXI 1 Christ commendeth the poor widow 5 He foretelleth the destruction of the temple and of the city Jerusalem 25 The signs also which shall be before the last day 34 He exhorteth them to be watchful ANd he looked up * Mark 12.41 and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury 2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two ‖ See Mark 12.42 mites 3 And he said Of a truth I say unto you that this poor widow hath cast in more then they all 4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had 5 ¶ * Matth. 24.1 And as some spake of the temple how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts he said 6 As for these things which ye behold the days will come in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down 7 And they asked him saying Master but when shall these things be and what signe will there be when these things shall come to pass 8 And he said Take heed that ye be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draweth near go ye not therefore after them 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions be not terrified for these things must first come to pass but the end is not by and by 10 * Matth. 24.7 Then said he unto them Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven 12 But before all these they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons being brought before kings and rulers for my names sake 13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony 14 * Matth. 10.19 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what ye shall answer 15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist 16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolks and friends and some of you shall they cause to be put to death 17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake 18 * Matth. 10.30 But there shall not an hair of your head perish 19 In your patience possess ye your souls 20 * Matth. 24.15 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies then know that the desolation thereof is nigh 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains and let them which are in the midst of it depart out and let not them that are in the countreys enter thereinto 22 For these be the days of vengeance that all things which are written may be fulfilled 23 But wo unto them that are with childe and to them that give suck in those days for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be troden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled 25 ¶ * Matth. 24.29 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring 26 Mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory 28 And when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh 29 And he spake to them a parable Behold the fig-tree and all the trees 30 When they now shoot forth ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand 31 So likewise ye when ye see these things come to pass know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand 32 Verily I say unto you This generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away 34 ¶ And take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth 36 Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man 37 And in the day-time he was teaching in the temple and at night he went out and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives 38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple for to hear him CHAP. XXII 1. The Jews conspire against Christ. 3 Satan prepareth Judas to betray him 7 The apostles prepare the pasâ—â—over 19 Christ instituteth his holy supper 21 covertly
with me in the gospel with Clement also and with other my fellow-labourers whose names are in * Rev. 3.5 20.12 21.27 the book of life 4 Rejoyce in the Lord alway and again I say Rejoyce 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at hand 6 Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God 7 And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus 8 Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are ‖ Or venerable honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things 9 Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you 10 But I rejoyced in the Lord greatly that now at the last your care of me ‖ Or iâ— revived hath flourished again wherein ye were also careful but ye lacked opportunity 11 Not that I speak in respect of want for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content 12 I know both how to be aâ—ased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me 14 Notwithstanding ye have well done that ye did communicate with my affliction 15 Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia no church communicated with me as concerning giving and reâ—eiving but ye onely 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once again unto my necessity 17 Not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account 18 But ‖ Or I have received all I have all and abound I am full having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you an odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well-pleasing to God 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus 20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever Amen 21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus The brethren which are with me greet you 22 All the saints salute you chiefly they that are of Cesars houshold 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen ¶ It was written to the Philippians from Rome by Epaphroditus ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the COLOSSIANS CHAP. I. 1 After salutation he thanketh God for their faith 7 confirmeth the â—â—ctâ—â—ne of Epaâ—â—â—as 9 prayeth further for their increase in â—â—ace 14 descriâ—eth the true Christ 21 encourageth them tâ— receive Jesus Christ and commendeth his own ministery PAul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and Timotheus our brother 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which â—â—e at Câ—â—oâ—sâ— Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jâ—sâ—s Christ 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ praying always for you 4 Since wâ— heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have to all the saints 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel 6 Which is come unto you as it is in all the world and bringeth forth fruit as it doth also in you since the day ye heard of it and knew the grace of God in truth 7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow-servant who is for you a faithful minister of Christ 8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit 9 For this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God 11 Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness 12 Giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be pâ—rtakers of the inhâ—ritance of the saints in light 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath tranâ—lated us into the kingdom of †Gr. the Son of his love his dear Son 14 In whom we have redemption through his â—loud even the forgiveness of sins 15 Who is * Heb. 1. â— the image of the invisible God the first-born of every creature 16 For * Joh. 1.3 by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him 17 * Joh. 1.3 1 Cor. 8. â— And he is before all things and by him all things consist 18 And he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning * 1 Cor. 15.20 Rev. 1.5 the first-born from the dead that ‖ Or among all in all things he might have the preeminence 19 For it preased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell 20 And ‖ Or making peace having made peace through the bloud of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven 21 And you that were sometime alienated and enemies ‖ Or by your minde in wicked workâ— in your minde by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven whereof I Paul am made a minister 24 Who now rejoyce in my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behinde of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church 25 Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you ‖ Or fully to pâ—eath the word of God Rom. 15.19 to fulfil the word of God 26 Even * Rom. 16.25 Eph. 3.9 the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ ‖ Or amongst you in you the hope of glory 28 Whom we preach warning every man and teaching
our bodies washed with pure water 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works 25 Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching 26 For * Chap. 6.4 if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaties 28 He that despised Moses law died without mercy * Deut. 19.15 Matth. 18.16 John 8.17 2 Cor. 13.1 under two or three witnesses 29 Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the bloud of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified and unholy thing and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace 30 For we know him the hath said * Deut. 32.35 Rom. 12.19 Vengeance belongeth unto me I will recompense saith the Lord. And again * Deut. 32.36 Psal 50.4 The Lord shall judge his people 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God 32 But call to remembrance the former days in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions 33 Partly whilest ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions and partly whilest ye became companions of them that were so used 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward 36 For ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise 37 For * Hab. 2.3 4. yet a little while he the shall come will come will not tarry 38 Now * Rom. 1.17 Gal. 3.11 the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that beleeve to the saving of the soul CHAP. XI 1 What faith is 6 Without faith we cannot please God 7 The worthy fruits thereof in the fathers in old time NOw faith is the ‖ Or ground or confidence substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report 3 Through faith we understand that * Gen. 〈◊〉 .1 the worlds were framed by the word of God so the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear 4 By faith * Gen. 4.4 Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts and by it he being dead ‖ Or it yet spoken of yet speaketh 5 By faith * Gen. 5.24 Wisd 4.10 Ecclus 44.16 49.14 Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must beleeve that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him 7 By faith * Gen. 6.13 Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet ‖ Or being wary moved with fear prepared an ark te the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world became heir of the righteousness which is by faith 8 By faith * Gen. â—2 4 Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went 9 By saith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange countrey dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God 11 Through faith also * Gen. 17.19 21.2 Sara her self received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a childe when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised 12 Therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the skie in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable 13 These all died †Gr. â—ccording to faith in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them * Gen. 23. 〈◊〉 47.9 1 Chron 29.15 Psal 39.12 119.19 confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth 14 For they that say such things declare plainly the they seek a countrey 15 And truly if they had been mindful of that countrey from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned 16 But now they desire a better countrey that is an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a city 17 By faith * Gen. 22.9 Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his onely begotten son 18 ‖ Or to Of whom it was said * Gen. 21.12 Rom. 9.7 That in Isaac shall thy seed be called 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure 20 By faith * Gen. 27.27 39. Isaac blessed Jacob Esau concerning things to come 21 By faith Jacob when he was a dying * Gen. 48.15 blessed both the sons of Juseph and * Gen. 47.31 worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff 22 By faith * Gen. 50.24 25. Joseph when he died ‖ Or remembred made mention of the departing of the children of Israel gave commandment concerning his bones 23 By faith * Exod. 2.2 Acts 7.20 Moses when he was born was hid three moneths of his parents because they saw he was a proper childe and they were not afraid of the kings * Ex. 1.16 commandment 24 By faith * Ex. 2.11 Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season 26 Esteeming the reproach ‖ Or â—or Christ of Christ greater riches then the treasâ—res in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward 27 By faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible 28 Through faith *
place to the devil 28 Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have ‖ Or to distribute to give to him that needeth 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good ‖ Or to edifie profitably to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice 32 And * 2 Cor. 2.10 Col. 3.12 13. be ye kinde one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you CHAP. V. 2 After general exhortations to love 3 to flee fornication 4 and all uncleanness 7 not to converse with the wicked 15 to walk warily and to be 18 filled with the Spirit 22 he descendeth to the particular duties how wives ought to obey their husbands 25 and husbands ought to love their wives 32 even as Christ doth his church BE ye therefore followers of God a dear children 2 And * Joh. 13.24 15.12 walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour 3 But * Col. 3.5 1 Thes 4.3 c. fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as be cometh saints 4 Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks 5 For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of ‖ Or unbelief disobedience 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them 8 For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret 13 But all things that are ‖ Or discovered reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light 14 Wherefore he saith * Isa 60.1 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light 15 * Col. 4.5 See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise 16 Redeeming the time because the days are evil 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is 18 And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit 19 Speaking to your selves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 21 Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God 22 * Col. 3.18 Tit. 2.5 1 Pet. 3.1 Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 23 For * 1 Cor. 11.3 the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Saviour of the body 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing 25 * Col. 3.19 Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it 26 That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth himself 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the church 30 For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones 31 * Gen 2.24 Mat. 19.5 Mar. 10.7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they * 1 Cor. 6.16 two shall be one flesh 32 This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ the church 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband CHAP. VI. 1 The duty of children to ward their parents 5 of servants toward their masters 10 Our life is a warfare 12 not onely against flesh and bloud but also spiritual enemies 13 The complete armour of a Christian 18 and how it ought to be used 21 Tychicus is commended * Col. 3.10 CHildren obey your parents in the Lord for this is right 2 * Ex. 20.12 Deu. 5.16 Ecclus. 3.8 Mat. 15.4 Mar. 7.10 Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise 3 That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth 4 And * Col. 3.21 ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 * Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.9 1 Pet. 2.18 Servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembing in singleness of your heart as unto Christ 6 Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart 7 With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free 9 And ye masters do the same things unto them ‖ Or moderating forbearing threatning knowing that ‖ Some read both your and their master your master also is in heaven * Wisd 6.7 Ecclus 35.12 Rom. 2.11 neither is there respect of persons with him 10 Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might 11 Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against ‖ Or wicked spirits spiritual wickedness in ‖ Or heavenly high places 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and ‖ Or having overcome all having done all to stand 14 Stand
therefore having your loyns girt about with truth and having on the breast-plate of righteousness 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace 16 Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints 19 * Col. 4.3 2 Thes 3.1 And for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel 20 For which I am an ambassadour ‖ Or in a chain in bonds that ‖ Or thereof therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak 21 But that ye also may know my affairs and how I do Tychichus a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord shall make known to you all things 22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose that ye might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts 23 Peace be to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ ‖ Or with incorruption in sincerity Amen ¶ Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus ¶ The epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the PHILIPPIANS CHAP. I. 3 He testifieth his thankfulness to God and his love toward them for the fruits of their faith and fellowship in his sufferings 9 daily praying to him for their increase in grace 12 He sheweth what good the faith of Christ hath received by his troubles at Rome 21 and how ready he is to glorifie Christ either by his life or death 27 exhorting them to unity 28 and to fortitude in persecution PAul and Timotheus the servants of Jesus Christ to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi with the bishops and deacons 2 Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ 3 I thank my God upon every ‖ Or mention remembrance of you 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now 6 Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you ‖ Or â—â—ill finish it will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ 7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all because ‖ Or you have me in your heart I have you in my heart in as much as both in my bonds and in the defence confirmation of the gospel ye all are ‖ Or partakers with me of grace partakers of my grace 8 For God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ 9 And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all ‖ Or sense judgement 10 That ye may ‖ Or trie approve things that ‖ Or differ are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God 12 But I would ye should understand brethren that the things which hapned unto me have faln out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel 13 So that my bonds ‖ Or for Christ in Christ are manifest in all ‖ Or Cesars court the palace and ‖ Or to all others in all other places 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will 16 The one preach Christ of contention not sincerely supposing to add affliction to my bonds 17 But the other of love knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel 18 What then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but that with all boldness as always so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death 21 For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain 22 But if I live in the flesh this is the fruit of my labour yet what I shall choose I wot not 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you 25 And having this confidence I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith 26 That your rejoycing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again 27 Onely * Eph. 4.1 Col. 1.10 .. 1 Thes â— 12 let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may hear of your affairs that ye stand fast in one spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the gospel 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but also to suffer for his sake 30 Having the same conflict w e ye saw in me now hear to be in me CHAP. II. He exhorteth them to unity and to all humbleness of minde by the example of Christs humility and exaltation 12 to a careful proceeding in the way of salvation that they be as lights to the wicked world 16 and comforts to him their apostle who is now ready to be offered up to God 19 He hopeth to send Timothy to them whâ—m he greatly commendeth 25 as Epaphroditus also whom he presently sendeth to them IF there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies 2 Fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of minde let each esteem other better then themselves 4 Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others 5 Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Jesus 6 Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be