charettes of iron all the people that were with him from of Haroseth of the gentiles vnto the ryuer of Kison 14 And Debora sayd vnto Barak Vp for this is the day in which the Lorde hath deliuered Sisara into thyne hand Is not the Lorde gone out before the And so Barak went downe froÌ„ mount Thabor and ten thousande men after him 15 But the Lorde destroyed Sisara and all his charettes and all his heaste with the edge of the sworde before Barak so that Sisara lyghted downe of his charet and fled away on his feete 16 But Barak folowed after the charettes and after the hoast euen vnto Harâ—seth of the gentiles And all the hoast of Sisara fell vpon the edge of the sworde and there was not a man left 17 Howebeit Sisara fled away on his seete to the tent of Iael the wife of Haber the Kenite for there was peace betweene Iabin the king of Hazor and the houshoulde of Haber the Kenite 18 And Iael went out to meete Sisara and sayd vnto him Turne in my lorde turne in to me feare not And whan he had turned in vnto her into her tent she couered him with a mantell 19 And he sayd vnto her Geue me I pray thee a litle water to drincke for I am thirstie And she opened a bottle of milke and gaue him drincke couered him 20 And agayne he sayd vnto her Stande in the doore of the tent and whan any man doth come and enquere of thee whether ther be any man here thou shalt say naye 21 Then Iael Habers wyfe toke a nayle of the tent an hammer in her hande and went softly vnto him and smote y e nayle into the temples of his head and fastened it into the ground for he slumbred sore and was wery and so he died 22 And beholde as Barak folowed after Sisara Iael came out to meete him said vnto him Come and I will shewe thee the man whom thou sekest And when he came in to her tent behold Sisara lay dead and the nayle was in his temples 23 And so God brought Iabin the kyng of Chanaan into subiection that day before the children of Israel 24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered and preuayled against Iabin the kyng of Chanaan vntil they had destroyed Iabin king of Chanaan The .v. Chapter 1. The song and thankesgeuing of Deborah and Barak after the victorie 1 THen Debora and Barak the sonne of Abinoam sange the same day saying 2 Prayse ye the Lord for the auengyng of Israel and for the people that became so willing 3 Heare O ye kinges hearken O ye princes I euen I will syng vnto the Lord I will prayse the Lord God of Israel 4 Lorde whan thou wentest out of Seir whan thou departedst out of the fielde of Edom the earth trembled and the heauens rayned the cloudes also dropped water 5 The mountaynes melted before the Lord euen as dyd Sinai before y e Lord God of Israel 6 In the dayes of Samgar the sonne of Anath in the dayes of Iael the hye wayes were vnoccupied and the trauelers walked thorowe bye wayes 7 The inhabitants of the townes were gone they were gone in Israel vntyll I Debora came vp which came vp a mother in Israel 8 They chose new goddes and then had they the enemie in the gates was there a shielde or speare seene among fourtie thousande of Israel 9 My heart loueth the gouerners of Israel and them that are willyng among the people O prayse ye the Lord. 10 Speake ye that ryde on fayre asses ye that dwell by Middin and that walke by the wayes 11 For the noyse of the archers among the drawers of water ceassed there shall they speake of the righteousnes of the Lorde his righteousnesse in his vnfensed townes in Israel Then shal the people of the Lorde go downe to the gates 12 Vp Debora vp get thee vp and sing a song * Arise Barac and leade thy captiuitie captiue thou sonne of Abinoam 13 Then shall they that remayne haue dominion of the proudest of the people The Lord hath geuen me dominion ouer the mightie 14 Out of Ephraim was there a roote of them agaynst Amelek and after thee Beniamin among thy people Out of Machir came rulers and out of Zabulon they that handell the penne of the writer 15 And of Isachar there were princes with Debora and Isachar and also Barak he was sent on foote into the valley for the diuisions of Ruben were great thoughtes of heart 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepe foldes to heare the bleatinges of the flockes for the diuisions of Ruben were great thoughtes of heart 17 Gilead also abode beyonde Iordane and why doth Dan remayne in shyppes Aser coÌ„tinued on the sea shore and taried in his decayed places 18 But the people of Zabulon haue ieoparde their lyues euen vnto the death lyke as dyd Nephthalim in the hye places of the fielde 19 The kynges came and fought then fought y e kynges of Chanaan in Thanach by the waters of Megiddo and wan no money 20 They fought from heauen euen the starres in their tourses fought agaynst Sisara 21 The ryuer of Kison swept them away that auncient ryuer the ryuer Kison O my soule thou hast marched valiauntly 22 Then were the horse hoofes smitten asunder by the meanes of the praunsings that their mightie men made 23 Curse ye the citie of Meros sayd the angel of the Lord curse the inhabitants therof because they came not to helpe the Lord to helpe the Lord against the mightie 24 Iael the wyfe of Haber the Kenite shal be blessed aboue other women blessed shall she be aboue other women in the tent 25 * He asked water and she gaue him mylke she brought foorth butter in a lordly dysshe 26 She put her hande to the nayle her ryght hande to the smythes hammer with the hammer smote she Sisara smote his head wounded him and pearsed his temples 27 He bowed him downe at her feete he fell downe and lay styll At her feete he bowed him selfe fell And wheÌ„ he had sunke downe he lay there destroyed 28 The mother of Sisara loked out at a wyndowe and cryed thorowe the lattesse Why is his charret so long a commyng Why tary the wheeles of his charettes 29 Al the wyse ladyes aunswered her yea and her owne wordes aunswered her selfe 30 Surely they haue found they deuide the spoyles euery man hath a damsell or two Sisara hath a pray of diuers couloured garmentes euen a pray of rayment dyed with sundry colours and that are made of nedle worke rayment of diuers colours and of nedle worke on both sydes which is meete for him that is chiefe in distributing of y e spoyles 31 So perishe all thine enemies O Lord But they that loue him let them be as y e
kynges wyll bryng presentes vnto thee 30 Put to rebuke the companie of speare * men a multitude of bulles amongest the people lyke vnto calues vntyll that they brought vnder foote come with peeces of siluer for tribute scatter the people that delyght in warre 31 Then shal princes come out of Egypt Ethiopia in all haste shall stretch out her handes vnto the Lorde 32 Sing vnto the Lord O ye kingdomes of the earth O syng psalmes vnto the Lorde Selah 33 Who rydeth vpon the most hyghest eternall heauens lo he sendeth out a mightie voyce in his voyce 34 Acknowledge the Lorde to be mightie his maiestie is ouer Israel might in the cloudes 35 O Lorde thou art terrible out of thy holy places the God of Israel geueth myght and strength vnto his people Blessed be the Lorde ¶ The argument of the .lxix. Psalme ¶ Dauid as in a figure setteth foorth lyuely Christes passion declaryng withall that Gods people shal be saued and his enemies destroyed For he complayneth very vehemently of his greeuous afflictions humbly requestyng to be delyuered of them He wisheth euyll successe and a wretched ende vnto his aduersaries he reioyceth and prayseth God and calleth vpon heauen and earth to do the same Finally he prophecieth of the prosperitie of Christes Churche ¶ To the chiefe musition vpon Sosanim a psalme of Dauid 1 SAue me O Lorde for waters haue entred in vnto my soule 2 I am ouer the head in deepe myre where I feele no grounde I plunge in deepe waters where the streame ouerwhelmeth me 3 I am weery of crying my throte is drye my syght fayleth me through the long attendaunce that I haue geuen vpon my Lorde 4 They that hate me without a cause are mo then the heere 's of my head they that are myne enemies and woulde destroy me giltlesse are mightie I payde them the thynges that I neuer toke 5 God thou knowest my folly and my faultes are not hyd from thee 6 Let not them that trust in thee O Lorde God of hoastes be for my cause ashamed let not those that seke thee be through me confounded O Lorde of Israel 7 For thy sake haue I suffered reprofe shame hath couered my face I am become a straunger vnto my brethrē euen an aliaunt vnto my mothers children 8 For the zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen vpon me 9 And I wept chastenyng my soule with fastyng and that was turned to my reproofe 10 Also I put on sackcloth for my garment and they iested at me 11 They that sit in the gate speake agaynst me and they that drynke strong drynke make songes vpon me 12 But I make my prayer vnto thee O God in an acceptable tyme heare me O Lord in the multitude of thy mercie according to the trueth of thy saluation 13 Take me out of the myre that I sincke not oh let me be delyuered from them that hate me out of the deepe waters 14 Let not the water fludde drowne me neither let the deepe swalowe me vp let not the pyt shut her mouth vpon me 15 Heare me O God for thy louyng kindnesse is comfortable turne thee vnto me accordyng vnto the multitude of thy mercies 16 And hyde not thy face from thy seruaunt for I am in trouble O haste thee and heare me 17 Draw nigh vnto my soule redeeme it for myne enemies sake oh redeeme me 18 Thou hast knowen my reproofe my shame and my dishonour myne aduersaries are all in thy syght 19 Reproofe hath brokē my heart a peeces I am full of heauinesse I loked for some to haue pitie on me but there was none and for some that shoulde comfort me but I coulde fynde none 20 They gaue me for meate gall to eate and when I was thirstie they gaue me vineger to drynke 21 Let their table be as a snare before them and in steade of aboundaunce of peace let it be a meanes of destruction 22 Let their eyes be blynded that they see not and euer bowe downe their loynes 23 Powre out thine indignation vpon them and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them 24 Let their habitation be desolate and let no man dwell in their tabernacles 25 For they persecute hym whom thou hast smitten and they talke of the griefe of them whom thou hast wounded 26 Let them fall from one wickednesse to another and let them not enter into thy ryghteousnesse 27 Let them be wyped out of the booke of the lyuyng and not to be written among the ryghteous 28 As for me I am afflicted and in heauinesse thy sauing helpe O Lorde shal defende me 29 I wyll prayse the name of the Lorde with a song and magnifie hym with a solemne confession 30 And it wyll please God better then a bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes 31 The humble wyll consider this and be glad such as seke after God and your soule shall lyue 32 For God heareth the poore dispiseth not his prisoners 33 Let heauen and earth prayse hym the sea and all that moueth therin 34 For the Lorde wyll saue Sion and builde the cities of Iehuda that men may dwel there and haue it in possessiō 35 The posteritie also of his seruauntes shall inherite it and they that loue his name shall dwell therin ⧠The argument of the .lxx. psalme ¶ Dauid desireth God to helpe hym with all speede and to take avengeaunce of his enemies He also discribeth the ioy of the godly who seeth hym delyuered ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid to reduce in remembraunce 1 HAste thee O Lorde to delyuer me make haste to helpe me O God 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seke after my soule let them be turned backwarde and be put to confusion that wishe me euyll 3 Let them be returned backwarde for a rewarde of their shamyng other which say there there 4 But let all those that seke thee be ioyfull and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy saluation say alway the Lorde be magnified 5 As for me I am poore and in miserie hasten thee vnto me O Lorde thou art my ayde and my delyuerer O God make no long tarying ¶ The argument of the .lxxj. Psalme ¶ The prophete beyng assured of Gods ayde desireth to be delyuered of his wicked and cruell enemies agaynst whose malice he complayneth before the face of God And forsomuch as euen from his youth he hath put his trust in God he prayeth that nowe in his olde age he be hearde and helped to the intent that God may be praysed for his deliueraunce Wherfore after he hath vttered his enemies thoughtes and prophecied of their destruction he sayth that he wyll go to warre trustyng in the power of God who before tyme hath restored hym out of sundry afflictions and temptations vnto a better state and condition then
out thy spirite they be recreated and thou reuiuest the face of the earth 31 The glorious maiestie of God shal endure for euer God wyll reioyce in his workes 32 He beholdeth the earth it trembleth he toucheth the hilles and they smoke 33 I wyll syng vnto God as long as I liue I will sing psalmes vnto my Lord so long as I shall be 34 My meditations of hym shal be very pleasaunt for all my ioy shal be in God 35 As for sinners they shal be consumed out of the earth and the vngodly shall come to an ende blesse thou God O my soule and prayse you the Lorde The argument of the .cv. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to acknowledge God to call vpon God for helpe to seeke God and to preache God but especially he moueth the Israelites to remember the promises that God made to their forefathers Abraham Isahac Iacob and also the benefites that he had bestowed on them aboue all other nations For God had such care of them beyng pilgrimes in forraine lands that he would not suffer any once to touch them yea he rebuked kinges for their sakes and he preserued them in famine and other aduersitie as Ioseph was solde into Egypt but it had a good successe The entring of the children of Israel into Egypt is set foorth and what happened vnto them whyles they were there Likewise their ioyfull departing out of Egypt their doyng by the way in the wyldernesse and at length their entring into the lande of promise where God placed them that they should kepe his commaundementes is most amply declared 1 COnfesse you it vnto God call vppon his name cause the people to vnderstande his deuises 2 Sing vnto hym sing psalmes vnto him talke you of all his wonderous workes 3 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God 4 Seeke God and his strength seeke his face euermore 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgementes of his mouth 6 O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob he is God our Lord his iudgementes are in all the earth 7 He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt for he promised a worde to a thousande generations euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham and of his othe vnto Isaac 8 And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt 9 Saying vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan the lot of your inheritaunce 10 When they were a fewe men in number and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it and when they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 11 He suffred no man to do them wrong yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes 12 Touche not mine annoynted and triumph not ouer my prophetes 13 Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande and he made all maner of foode to fayle 14 But he had sent a man before them euen Ioseph who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt 15 Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes the iron entred into his soule 16 Vntill the tyme came that his cause was knowen the worde of the Lorde tryed hym 17 The king sent and caused hym to be let go yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym 18 He made him Lorde of his house and ruler of all his substaunce 19 That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde and teache his senatours wysdome 20 Israel also came into Egypt Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham. 21 And he encreased his people exceedinglye and made them stronger then their enemies 22 Whos 's heart so turned that they hated his people and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes 23 Then he sent Moyses his seruaunt and Aaron whom he had chosen they did their message workyng his signes among them and wonders in the lande of Cham. 24 He sent darknes it was darke and they went not from his wordes 25 He turned their waters into blood and slue their fishe 26 Their lande brought foorth frogges yea euen in their kinges chaumbers 27 He spake the worde and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes and of lyce in all their quarters 28 He gaue them haylestones for rayne and flambes of fire in their lande 29 He smote their vines also figge trees and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes 30 He spake the worde and the grashoppers came caterpillers innumerable 31 And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande and deuoured the fruite of their grounde 32 He smote al the first borne in their land euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence 33 He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde there was not one feeble person in their tribes 34 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were smytten with dread of them 35 He spred out a cloude to be a couering and fire to geue light in the night season 36 The people required and he brought quayles and he filled them with the bread of heauen 37 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that streames ranne in drye places 38 For he remembred his holy worde spoken◠vnto Abraham his seruaunt 39 And he brought foorth his people with gladnes and his chosen with a ioyfull noyse 40 And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people 41 To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes and obserue his lawes Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cvi. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all men to prayse God and to do iustly He maketh his prayer acknowledging his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the forefathers of the Israelites who not considering the great benefites of God rebelled against God at the red sea Afterwarde in the wyldernes they did tempt God Core Dathan and Abiram conspiring against Moyses and Aaron were swalowed vp of the earth They worshipped a calfe made of golde They murmured against them that viewed the land of promise abhorring to heare of it They sacrifised to Baal Peor They grudged at God for lacke of water Finally when they came to the holy lande they committed idolatrie and al kinde of wickednes of life so that they were geuen vp vnto their enemies handes but God most mercyfully deliuered them for his promise sake ¶ Prayse ye the Lorde 1 COnfesse you it vnto god for he is gratious and his mercy endureth foreuer 2 Who can expresse the valiaunt actes of God who can publishe abrode all his prayse 3 Blessed are they that kepe iudgement and do iustice at all times 4 Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people O visite me with thy saluation 5 That I may see the
power wisdome and goodnesse which appeareth in all his workes and benefites but especially in that he had set foorth by Moyses his lawe and commaundementes 1 PRayse ye the Lorde for it is a good thyng sing psalmes vnto our Lorde for it is a pleasaunt thing his praise is to be desired 2 God buildeth vp Hierusalem he wyll gather together the Israelites that were banished 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart he wrappeth vp their sorowes 4 He counteth the number of the starres he geueth vnto them all names 5 Great is our Lorde and great is his power his vnderstandyng is infinite 6 God setteth vp the meeke he bringeth the vngodly downe to the grounde 7 Syng ye vnto God with a confession syng psalmes vpon the Harpe vnto our Lorde 8 Who couereth the heaueÌ„ with cloudes who prepareth rayne for the earth who maketh grasse to growe vppon the mountaynes 9 He geueth vnto cattell their foode euen vnto Rauens which call for it 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse he delighteth not in the legges of a man 11 God delyghteth in them that feare him and in them that put their trust in his mercie 12 Prayse God O Hierusalem prayse thy Lorde O Sion 13 For he maketh fast the barres of thy gates he blesseth thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders he fylleth thee with good corne 15 He sendeth foorth his commaundement vpon the earth his word runneth very swiftly 16 He geueth snowe so whyte as wooll he scattereth the hoare frost like asshes 17 He casteth foorth his yse lyke fragmentes who is able to abide his frost 18 He sendeth foorth his worde and melteth them he bloweth with his winde and the waters flowe 19 He declareth his worde vnto Iacob his statutes ordinaunces vnto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with euery nation neither haue they the knowledge of his iudgementes Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the cxlviij psalme ¶ The prophete calleth vpon all creatures which be in heauen or earth to prayse God but especially vpon the people of God who haue greater cause geuen them for to do it then other 1 PRayse ye the Lorde prayse ye God out of heauen prayse ye hym on hygh aboue 2 Prayse hym all ye his angels prayse hym all ye his hoast 3 Prayse ye hym sunne and moone praise hym all ye starres that geue lyght 4 Prayse ye hym all ye heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens 5 Euen they shoulde prayse the name of God for he commaunded and they were created 6 He hath set them sure for euer and euer he hath geuen them a lawe which shall not be broken 7 Prayse ye God from the earth ye dragons and all deepes 8 Fire and hayle snowe and vapours stormie wynde fulfyllyng his worde 9 Mountaynes and all hylles fruitfull trees and all Cedars 10 Beastes and all cattell wormes and fethered foules 11 Kynges of the earth and all people princes and all iudges of the earth 12 Young men and maydens olde men with children shoulde prayse the name of God for his name only is most excellent and his maiestie aboue earth and heauen 13 He hath exalted the horne of his people the prayse of all his saintes euen of the children of Israel a people that is most nye vnto him Prayse ye the Lord. ¶ The argument of the .cxlix. Psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth the children of Israel to expresse a ioy towardes God by praysyng hym by syngyng vnto hym and by playing on musicall instrumentes partly for that God is pleased with them partly also for that God hath geuen them a victorie ouer the heathen their enemies 1 PRayse ye the Lorde syng vnto God a newe song he ought to be praysed in the congregation of saintes 2 Israel shoulde reioyce in his maker the children of Sion shoulde be ioyfull in their kyng 3 They shoulde prayse his name in a daunce they shoulde sing psalmes vnto hym vpon a tabret and a harpe 4 For God hath a pleasure in his people he wyll beautifie the afflicted with saluation 5 The saintes shal be ioyful with glory they shal expresse a ioyfull noyse in their beddes 6 The hygh promotions of the Lorde shal be in their mouth and a two edged sworde in their handes 7 That they may take auengement of the heathen and correction of the nations 8 That they may bynde their kynges in chaynes and their nobles with iron fetters 9 That they may execute the iudgement prescribed this honour shal be to all his saintes Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cl. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth generally all lyuyng creatures to prayse the mightinesse and greatnesse of God He wylleth men to do it with instrumentes of musicke 1 PRayse ye the Lorde prayse ye the Lord in his sanctuarie praise ye him in the firmament of his power 2 Prayse ye hym in his strength prayse ye hym in his excellent greatnesse 3 Prayse ye hym in the sounde of a trumpet prayse ye hym vpon a Lute and an Harpe 4 Prayse ye hym with a tabret and a daunce prayse ye him vpon the stringes and vpon the Organes 5 Prayse ye hym vpon the well tuned Cimbales prayse ye hym vpon the loude Cimbales 6 Euery thyng that draweth breath ought to prayse the Lorde Prayse ye the Lorde T. B. ⧠The ende of the Psalter ¶ Numerus secundum Hebreos cxx Ad dominum 〈◊〉 xxv Ad te domine 〈◊〉 xxvâ— Ad te domine clâ—mâ—â—â— cxxâ—ii Ad te 〈◊〉 xâ— Aâ—seâ—e domino lxxâ—iii Aâ—endite pâ—pâ—le xliâ— Aâ—dâ— heâ—â—nes i. â—tu◠〈◊〉 xxxii Beâ—ti 〈…〉 xâ—i Beâ—t◠〈…〉 cx◠〈…〉 qui. cxix Beâ—ti in mâ—lati cxxâ—iii Beati omnes 〈◊〉 xxxiiii Beâ—â—dâ— dâ—minum lxxxâ— Benediâ— câ— Beâ—edâ— omniâ— â— câ— Benediâ—â—te omnia ii Benedictus dominus Bâ—um 〈…〉 xâ—i xâ— cxâ— xâ—x â—x 〈…〉 i. cxi 〈…〉 ii cxxxviii Con◠〈◊〉 lxxv Consiâ—e◠〈…〉 câ— Conâ—iter 〈…〉 câ— câ— câ— cxxxvi xâ— câ— câ— De◠〈…〉 De◠〈◊〉 meus â—iiiâ— â–ª De◠〈…〉 â—lvi Deâ— noste◠〈…〉 l. Deâ— dâ—um lâ— De◠〈…〉 lx Deâ— repâ— lxâ—ii Dâ—s deu meus ad te lâ—ii Deus 〈…〉 lâ— De◠〈◊〉 â—rium lxxii Deus â—diâ—m lxxâ— Deus â—enerunt lxâ— Deus sâ— lxxâ— Deus 〈…〉 â–ª â—ii Deus 〈◊〉 câ— Deus laudem cxâ—i Diâ—i quoniâ—m xâ—iii Dâ—lâ—gaâ— te cx Dixit Dominus domino xiiii Dâ—xit insipicus i. â—i Dixit insipicus ii xxxix Dixiâ— cuâ— diâ—m xxxvi Dixit iniustâ— iii. Domine 〈◊〉 vi Domine ac â—n fâ—ore i. xâ—iii Domine ne in fuâ—ore ii Dâ—mâ—ne deus meus in te viii Domâ—ne dominus noster xv Domâ—ne quis habitabit xxi Domine in virtute lxxxvâ— â–ª Dâ—mâ—ne deus salutis xc Domine â—efugâ—m cii Domine exaâ—di cxxxi Domine 〈◊〉 est exal cxxxix Domine 〈…〉 â—li Domine 〈…〉 â—ii Dâ—m◠〈…〉 xxâ—i Domin◠〈…〉 xâ—ii Domin◠〈◊〉 xxxâ— Domâ—nus 〈…〉 xâ— Dominâ— repâ— decoreÌ„ Dominus
to them that worship thee 34 Yet for thy names sake we beseche thee geue vs not vp for euer breake not thy couenaunt 35 And take not away thy mercie from vs for thy beloued Abrahams sake for thy seruaunt Isaacs sake and for thy holy Israels sake 36 To whom thou hast spoken and promised that thou wouldest multiplie their seede as the starres of heauen as the sande that lyeth vpon the sea shore 37 For we O Lord are become lesse then any people and be kept vnder this day in all the worlde because of our sinnes 38 So that nowe we haue neither prince duke prophet burnt offering sacrifice oblation incense nor sanctuarie before thee 39 Neuerthelesse in a contrite heart and an humble spirite let vs be receaued that we may obtayne thy mercie 40 Like as in the burnt offering of rammes and bullockes and like as in thousandes of fat lambes so let our offering be in thy sight this daye that it may please thee for there is no confusion vnto thē that put their trust in thee 41 And now we folowe thee with al our heart we feare thee and seke thy face 42 Put vs not to shame but deale with vs after thy louing kindnesse and according to the multitude of thy mercies 43 Deliuer vs by thy miracles O Lorde and get thy name an honour that all they which do thy seruauntes euyl may be confounded 44 Let them be ashamed thorow thy almightie power and let their strength be broken 45 That they may knowe how that thou only art the Lorde God and honour worthy throughout all the worlde 46 And the kinges seruauntes that put them in ceassed not to make the ouen hot with wild fire drie straw pitche towe and fagottes 47 So that the flambe went out of the ouen vpon a fourtie and nyne cubites 48 Yea it toke away and brent vp those Chaldees that it gat holde vpon beside the ouen 49 But the angell of the Lorde came downe into the ouen to Azaria and his felowes and smote the flambe of the fire out of the ouen 50 And made the middes of the ouen as it had ben a colde winde blowing so the fire neither touched them greeued them nor dyd them hurt 51 Then these three as out of one mouth praysed honoured and blessed God in the fornace saying 52 Blessed be thou O Lorde God of our fathers for thou art prayse and honour worthy yea to be magnified for euermore 53 Blessed be the holy name of thy glorie for it is worthy to be praysed magnified in all worldes 54 Blessed be thou in the holy temple of thy glorie for aboue all thinges thou art to be praysed yea and more then worthy to be magnified for euer 55 Blessed be thou in the throne of thy kingdome for aboue al thou art worthy to be well spoken of and to be more then magnified for euer 56 Blessed be thou that lokest thorow the deepe and sittest vpon the Cherubims for thou art worthy to be praysed and aboue all to be magnified for euer 57 Blessed be thou in the firmament of heauen for thou art prayse and honour worthy for euer 58 O all ye workes of the Lorde speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 59 O ye angels of the Lorde speake good of the Lord prayse him and set hym vp for euer 60 O ye heauens speake good of the Lord prayse hym and set him vp for euer 61 O all ye waters that be aboue the firmament speake good of the Lorde prayse hym and set him vp for euer 62 O all ye powers of the Lorde speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 63 O ye sunne and moone speake good of the Lord prayse him and set hym vp for euer 64 O ye starres of heauen speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 65 O ye showres and deaw speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 66 O all ye windes of God speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set hym vp for euer 67 O ye fire and heate speake good of the Lorde prayse hym and set him vp for euer 68 O ye winter and sommer speake good of the Lord prayse hym and set him vp for euer 69 O ye deawes and frostes speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 70 O ye frost and colde speake good of the Lorde prayse hym and set him vp for euer 71 O ye yee and snowe speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set hym vp for euer 72 O ye nightes and dayes speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 73 O ye light and darkenesse speake good of the Lord prayse him and set hym vp for euer 74 O ye lightninges and cloudes speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set hym vp for euer 75 O let the earth speake good of the Lorde yea let it prayse him and set him vp for euer 76 O ye mountaynes and hilles speake good of the Lorde prayse hym and set hym vp for euer 77 O all ye greene thinges vpon the earth speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set hym vp for euer 78 O ye welles speake good of the Lord prayse him and set hym vp for euer 79 O ye seas and fluddes speake good of the Lord prayse hym and set him vp for euer 80 O ye whales and all that moue in the waters speake good of the Lord prayse him and set him vp for euer 81 O all ye foules of the ayre speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 82 O all ye beastes and cattel speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 83 O ye children of men speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set hym vp for euer 84 O let Israel speake good of the Lord prayse him and set him vp for euer 85 O ye priestes of the Lord speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 86 O ye seruauntes of the Lord speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 87 O ye spirites and soules of the righteous speake good of the Lorde prayse him and set him vp for euer 88 O ye holy and humble men of heart speake ye good of the Lord prayse him and set him vp for euer 89 O Anania Azaria and Misael speake ye good of the Lorde prayse ye him set him vp for euer which hath deliuered vs from the hell kept vs from the hande of death ridde vs from the middest of the burning flambe and saued vs euen in the middest of the fyre 90 O geue thankes therefore vnto the Lorde for he is kinde hearted and his mercie endureth for euer 91 O all deuout men speake ye good of the Lorde the God of all goddes O prayse him and geue
after and the people which shal be borne shall prayse the Lorde 17 For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie out of heauen did God beholde the earth 18 That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie and delyuer the children of death 19 That they may declare y e name of God in Sion and his prayse at Hierusalem 20 When people were gathered together kyngdomes to serue God he afflicted my strength in the way he shortened my dayes 21 But I say O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age as for thy yeres they endure throughout all generations 22 Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth and the heauens are the worke of thy handes 23 They shall perishe but thou wylt remayne styll they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them and they shal be chaunged 24 But thou art and thy yeres can not fayle the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell and their seede shal be maynteyned in thy syght ¶ The argument of the .ciii. psalme ¶ The prophete stirreth vp hym selfe and all that is within hym to blesse God for such benefites as both he hym selfe and all the Israelites haue at his handes receaued in that he pardoneth their sinne redeemeth them from death and maketh his holy wyll knowen vnto them beyng men miserable and of a short lyfe Finally he calleth vpon angels and all sortes of men with all their power to blesse God who is kyng of heauen and earth 1 BLesse God O my soule and all that is within me prayse his holy name 2 Blesse God O my soule and forget not all his benefites 3 Who forgeueth all thy wickednesse and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Who redeemeth thy lyfe from destruction and crowneth thee with mercie and louyng kyndnesse 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued 6 God executeth iustice and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He made his wayes knowen vnto Moyses his workes vnto the children of Israel 8 God is full of compassion and pitie loth to be angry and exceedyng great in mercie 9 He vseth not to continue in chydyng neither reserueth he his anger for euer 10 He dealeth not with vs accordyng to our sinnes nor rewardeth vs according to our wickednesse 11 For accordyng to the hyghnesse of heauen aboue the earth his mercie preuayleth to them that feare hym 12 Loke howe farre distaunt the east is from the west so farre a sunder setteth he our sinnes from vs. 13 Yea lyke as a father pitieth his owne children euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym 14 For he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde 16 For the winde passeth ouer it and it is no more seene and the place therof knoweth it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer vpon them that feare hym and his righteousnesse vpon childers children 18 Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them 19 God hath prepared his seate in heauen and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all 20 Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word 21 Blesse God all ye his hoastes you his ministers that do his pleasure 22 Blesse God all you his workes in all places of his dominion O my soule blesse thou God The argument of the .ciiij. psalme ¶ The prophete blesseth God the creatour and gouernour of all thinges by whose prouidence man beast hath the vse of the ayre cloudes angels earth hilles valleys bread drinke trees sunne moone day nyght and sea 1 MY soule blesse thou God O God my Lord thou art become exceeding great thou hast put on glory and maiestie 2 Who is decked with light as it were with a garment spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne 3 Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters and maketh the cloudes his charriot and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde 4 He maketh his angels spirites and his ministers a flaming fire 5 He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations that it can neuer moue at any tyme. 6 Thou coueredst it with the deepe lyke as with a garment the waters stande vpon the hilles 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace 8 The hilles mount aloft and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth 10 Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles to flowe into the riuers 11 All beastes of the fielde drinke therof and the wylde asses quench their thirst 12 The foules of the ayre haue their habitation nigh vnto them singing out of the midst of the bowes of trees 13 He watereth the hilles from aboue the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes 14 He causeth grasse to growe for cattell * and hearbes for the vse of man 15 That he may bryng foorth foode out * of the earth both wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make hym haue a chearefull countenaunce also bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of God be satisfied euen the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherin the birdes make their nestes in the fyrre trees the storke buyldeth 18 The high hilles are a refuge for goates and so are the stonie rockes for comes 19 He hath made the moone for certayne seasons and the sunne knoweth his goyng downe 20 Thou makest darknes and it is night wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode 21 The Lions do roare after a pray and in seeking their meate of God 22 When the sunne ariseth they recoyle backe and lay them downe to rest in their dennes 23 Man goeth foorth to his worke and to do his seruice vntyll the euening 24 O God howe manyfolde are thy workes thou hast made them al in wisdome the earth is ful of thy ryches 25 So is the sea it selfe large and wyde in compasse wherein are thinges creeping innumerable both small and great beastes 26 There go the shippes and there is that Leuiathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therin 27 These wayte all vpon thee that thou mayest geue them meate in due season 28 When thou geuest it them they gather it and when thou openest thyne hand they are filled with that which is good 29 When thou hydest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their spirite they dye and are turned agayne to their dust 30 When thou sendest
sende thee vnto and whatsoeuer I commaunde thee that shalt thou speake 8 Be not afrayde of their faces for I am with thee to deliuer thee saith the Lorde 9 And with that the Lorde stretched out his hande and touched my mouth and the same Lorde sayde vnto me Beholde I put my wordes in thy mouth 10 And beholde this day do I set thee ouer the people and kyngdomes that thou mayest roote out breake of destroy and make waste and that thou mayest builde vp and plant 11 After this the Lorde spake vnto me saying Ieremie what seest thou And I sayd I see a rod of an Almond tree 12 Then sayde the Lorde vnto me thou hast seene ryght for I wyll make haste speedyly vpon my worde to performe it 13 It happened afterwarde that the Lorde spake to me agayne and sayde what seest thou and I sayde I do see a seethyng pot lokyng from out of the north 14 Then sayde the Lorde vnto me Out of the north shall come a plague vpon all the dwellers of the lande 15 For lo I wyll call all the kinredes of the kingdomes of the north saith the Lorde and they shall come and euery one shall set his seate in the gates of Hierusalem and in all their walles rounde about and in all cities of Iuda 16 And through them shall I declare my iudgement vpoÌ„ all the wickednesse of those men that haue forsaken me that haue burnt incense vnto straunge gods and worshipped the workes of their owne handes 17 And therfore girde vp thy loynes arise and tell them all that I geue thee in commaundement Feare them not lest I destroy thee before them 18 For beholde this day do I make thee a strong â—ensed towne an iron pyller and a brasen wall agaynst the whole lande agaynst the kinges and mightie men of Iuda agaynst the priestes and people of the lande 19 They shall fight agaynst thee but they shall not be able to ouercome thee for I am with thee to deliuer thee saith the Lorde The .ij. Chapter 2 God rehearseth his benefites done vnto the Iewes 8 Agaynst priestes and prophetes or preachers that contempne and dispise God 12 The Iewes are destroyed because they forsoke God and because they ranne a whore huntyng after idols 1 MOreouer the worde of the Lorde came vnto me saying 2 Go thy way crye in the eares of Hierusalem and say Thus saith the Lorde I remember thee the kindnesse of thy youth and the loue of thy despousyng in that thou folowedst me through the wildernesse in an vntylled lande 3 Israel was an halowed thyng vnto the Lorde and was his first fruites All they that deuour Israel shall offende misfortune shall fall vpon them saith the Lorde 4 Heare therfore the worde of the Lord O thou house of Iacob and all the generations of the house of Israel 5 Thus saith the Lorde What vnfaithfulnesse founde your fathers in me that they went so farre away fro me fallyng to lightnesse and beyng so vayne 6 They thought not in their heartes where is the Lord that brought vs out of the lande of Egypt that led vs thorowe the wildernesse through a desert rough lande through a drye and deadly lande yea a lande that no man had gone through and wherin no man had dwelt 7 And when I had brought you into a pleasaunt fertile lande that ye myght enioy the fruites all the commodities of the same ye went foorth and defiled my lande and brought mine heritage to abhomination 8 The priestes them selues sayde not Where is the Lord They that had the lawe in their handes knewe me not the sheepheardes offended agaynst me the prophetes did prophecie in Baal and folowed such thinges as shal bryng them no profite 9 Wherfore I am constrayned saith the Lorde yet agayne to contende in iudgement with you and with your childers children 10 Go into the Isles of Cethim and loke well sende vnto Cedar take diligent heede and see whether such thynges be done there 11 Whether the gentiles them selues haue chaunged their gods which yet are no gods in deede but my people hath chaunged their honour for a thyng that may not helpe them 12 Be astonished O ye heauens be afraide and abashed at such a thyng saith the Lorde 13 For my people hath done two euils they haue forsaken me the well of the water of lyfe and digged them pittes yea vile and broken pittes that can holde no water 14 Is Israel a bonde seruaunt or one of the housholde why is he theÌ„ so spoyled 15 They rore and crye vpon him as lions they haue made his lande waste his cities are so burnt vp that there is no man dwellyng in them 16 Yea the children of Noph Taphnes shall cracke their crowne 17 Commeth not this vnto thee because thou hast forsaken the Lorde thy God euen when he led thee by the way 18 And what hast thou nowe to do in the streete of Egypt to drynke water out of Nilus Either what makest thou in the way to Assyria to drynke water of the fludde 19 Thine owne wickednesse shall reproue thee and thy turnyng away shall condempne thee that thou mayest knowe and vnderstand howe euyll and hurtfull a thyng it is that thou hast forsaken the Lorde thy God and hast not feared me saith the Lorde God of hoastes 20 I haue euer broken thy yoke of olde and burst thy bondes yet sayest thou I wyll no more transgresse but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon all hye hylles and among all greene trees 21 Wheras I planted thee a noble vine and wholly a right seede * howe art thou turned then into a bitter vnfruitfull and straunge grape 22 Yea and that so sore that though thou washe thee with Nitrus and make thy selfe to sauour with that sweete smellyng hearbe of Borith yet in my sight thou art stayned with thy wickednesse saith the Lorde thy God 23 Howe sayest thou nowe I am not vncleane and I haue not folowed Baalim Loke vpon thine owne wayes in the valleys what thou hast done Thou art like a swift dromedarie that goeth easyly her way 24 And thy wantonnesse is lyke a wylde Asse that vseth the wildernesse and that snuffeth and bloweth at her wyll who can tame her All they that seeke her shall not fayle but fynde her in her moneth 25 Kepe thy foote from nakednesse and thy throte from thirst and thou thinkest in thy selfe tushe I wil take no sorowe for I haue loued the straungers and them wyll I folowe 26 Lyke as a theefe that is taken with the deede commeth to shame euen so is the house of Israel come to confusion the common people their kynges and rulers their priestes and prophetes 27 For they say to a stocke Thou art my father to a stone Thou hast begotten me yea they haue turned their backe vpon me and not their face but
the Lordes vengeaunce is come yea he shall rewarde her agayne 7 Babylon hath ben in the Lordes hande a golden cuppe that maketh all landes drunken of her wine haue all people drunken therfore are they out of their wittes 8 But sodaynly is Babylon fallen and destroyed mourne for her bryng plasters for her woundes yf she may peraduenture be healed agayne 9 We woulde haue made Babylon whole say they but she is not recouered therfore wyll we let her alone and go euery man into his owne countrey for her iudgement is come into heauen and is gone vp to the cloudes 10 The Lorde hath brought foorth our righteousnesse and therfore come on we wyll shewe in Sion the worke of the Lorde our God 11 Make sharpe the arrowes and multiplie your shieldes for the Lorde shall rayse vp the spirite of the kyng of the Medes which hath alredy a desire to destroy Babylon this shal be the vengeaunce of the Lorde the vengeaunce of his temple 12 Set vp tokens vpon the walles of Babylon make your watch strong set your watchmen in araye yea holde priuie watches and yet for all that shall the Lorde go foorth with his deuice which he hath taken vpon them that dwell in Babylon 13 O thou that dwellest by the great waters O thou that hast so great treasure and riches thine ende is come and the reckenyng of thy wynnynges 14 The Lorde of hoastes hath sworne by hym selfe that he wyll ouerwhelme thee with men lyke grashoppers in number whiche with a courage shall crye alarum alarum agaynst thee 15 Yea euen the Lorde of hoastes that with his power made the earth with his wisdome prepared the round world and with his discretion spread out the heauens 16 Assoone as he letteth his voyce be hearde the waters in the ayre waxe fierce he draweth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth he turneth the lightnynges to rayne he bryngeth the wyndes out of their secrete places 17 If they be esteemed by their wisdome all men are become fooles confounded be all the casters of images for the thing that they make is but deceipt and hath no breath 18 Vayne is it and an erronious worke and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe 19 The portion of Iacob is none such but he that made all thinges whose name is the Lorde of hoastes he is the rodde of his enheritaunce 20 Thou hast ben mine hammer and weapons for warre for with thee haue I broken the people in peeces and with thee haue I destroyed kyngdomes 21 Through thee I haue beaten to powder horse and horsemen yea the charrettes and such as sate vpon them 22 Through thee I haue broken man and woman olde and young bacheler and mayden 23 Through thee I haue destroyed the sheepheard and his flocke the husbandman and his cattell the princes and the rulers 24 Therfore wyll I rewarde the citie of Babylon and all the inhabitauntes of Chaldea with all the euyll which they haue done vnto Sion yea that ye your selues shall see it saith the Lorde 25 Beholde I come vpon thee thou noysome hyll saith the Lorde thou that destroyest all landes I wyll stretch out my hand ouer thee and cast thee downe from the stony rockes and wyll make thee a burnt hyll 26 So that neither corner stones shal be taken any more out of thee but waste and desolate shalt thou lye for euermore saith the Lorde 27 Set vp a token in the lande blowe the trumpets among the heathen prouoke the nations agaynst her call the kyngdomes of Ararat Menni and Ascanez agaynst her set the prince agaynst her bryng as great a sort of terrible horses agaynst her as yf they were grashoppers 28 Prepare against them the people of the Medes with their kynges princes and all their chiefe rulers yea and the whole lande that is vnder hym 29 The lande also shall shake and be afrayde when the deuice of the Lorde shall come foorth agaynst Babylon to make the lande of Babylon so waste that no man shal dwel any more therin 30 The worthyes of Babylon shall leaue the battayle and kepe them selues in strong holdes their strength hath failed them they shal be lyke women their dwellyng places shal be burnt vp their barres shal be broken 31 One purseuaunt shall meete another yea one poste shall come by another to bryng the kyng of Babylon tidinges that his citie is taken on euery syde 32 The foordes occupied the fennes burnt vp and the souldiers sore afrayde 33 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel The daughter of Babylon hath ben in her tyme lyke as a threshyng floore but shortly shall her haruest come 34 Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon hath deuoured and destroyed me he hath made me an emptie vessell he swalowed me vp lyke a dragon and fylled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out 35 My substaunce wherof he hath spoyled me and the thyng that was left me which he hath caryed away crye out against Babylon saith the daughter that dwelleth in Sion yea and my blood also agaynst the Chaldees saith Hierusalem 36 Therfore thus saith the Lorde Beholde I wyll defende thy cause and auenge thee I wyll drynke vp her sea and drye vp her water sprynges 37 Babylon shall become an heape of stones a dwellyng place for dragons a fearefulnesse and wonderyng and no man shall dwell there 38 They shall rore together lyke lions and as the young lions when they be angry so shall they bende them selues 39 In their heate I shall geue them a dinner and they shal be drunken for ioy then shall they sleepe an euerlastyng sleepe and neuer wake saith the Lorde 40 I shall cary them downe to be slayne lyke sheepe lyke weathers and goates 41 O howe was Sesach wonne O howe was the glorie of the whole lande taken howe happeneth it that Babylon is so wondred at among the heathen 42 The sea is risen ouer Babylon hath couered her with her great waues 43 Her cities are layde waste the lande lyeth vnbuilded and voyde it is a lande where no man dwelleth and where no man trauayleth through 44 Moreouer I wyll visite Bell at Babylon the thyng that he hath swalowed vp that same shall I plucke out of his mouth the gentiles also shall runne no more vnto hym yea and the walles of Babylon shall fall 45 O my people come out of Babylon that euery man may saue his life from the fearfull wrath of the Lorde 46 Be not faynt hearted and feare not at euery rumoure that shal be hearde in the lande for euery yere bryngeth newe tidinges and in the yere folowing newe tidinges and robbyng in the lande and lorde vpon lorde 47 And lo the tyme commeth that I will visite the images of Babylon and the whole lande shal be confounded yea and her slayne shall lye in the middest of her 48 Heauen and
earth with all that is therin shal reioyce ouer Babylon when the destroyers shal come vpon her from the north saith the Lorde 49 Like as Babylon hath beaten downe and slayne many out of Israel so shall there fall many and be slayne in all her kingdome 50 Ye that haue escaped the sworde haste you stande not styl remember the Lord a farre of and thynke vpon Hierusalem 51 For we are ashamed to heare the blasphemies our faces were couered with shame because the straunge aliauntes came into the sanctuarie of the Lorde 52 Wherfore beholde saith the Lorde the tyme commeth that I wyll visite the images of Babylon and through the whole lande they shall mourne and fall 53 Though Babylon clymed vp into heauen and kept her power on hye yet shall I sende her destroyers saith the Lorde 54 A piteous crye shal be hearde from Babylon and a great miserie from the lande of the Chaldees 55 When the Lorde destroyeth Babylon wheÌ„ he driueth out the high stomacke and proude boastyng wherwith they haue ben as furious as the waues of the great water fluds and made great crakes with their wordes 56 For the destroyers shall come vpon her euen vpon Babylon which shall take their worthies and breake their bowes for the God of recompence euen the Lorde shall sufficiently recompence them 57 Yea saith the Lorde I wyll make their princes their wisemen their chiefe rulers their nobles and their worthies drunken so that they shall sleepe an euerlastyng sleepe and neuer wake thus saith the kyng whose name is the Lorde of hoastes 58 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde of hoastes The thicke wall of Babylon shal be broken and her hye gates shal be burnt vp the thyng that the Gentiles the people haue wrought with great trauayle labour shall come to naught and be consumed in the fire 59 This is the charge that Ieremie the prophete gaue vnto Saraiah the sonne of Neriah the sonne of Maasiah when he went towarde Babylon with Zedekiah the kyng of Iuda in the fourth yere of his raigne nowe this Saraiah was a peaceable prince 60 Ieremie wrote in a booke al the miserie that shoulde come vpon Babylon yea and all these sermons that be written agaynst Babylon 61 And gaue Saraiah this charge When thou commest vnto Babylon see that thou reade these wordes 62 And say O Lord thou art determined to roote out this place so that neither people nor cattell shall dwell there any more but to lye waste for euer 63 And when thou hast read out the booke bynde a stone to it and cast it in the middest of Euphrates 64 And say Euen thus shall Babylon sincke be thrust downe with the burthen of trouble that I wyll bryng vpon her so that she shall neuer come vp agayne Thus farre are the preachynges of Ieremie The .lij. Chapter 1 He repeateth the takyng of Zedekiah 4 Hierusalem is taken of the Chaldees 10 Zedekias sonnes are kylled before his face and his eyes put out 13 The citie is burned 14 The temple is spoyled and robbed 25 They that were left in Hierusalem are caryed to Babylon 31 Kyng Iehoakim is brought foorth of prison and fed like a kyng 1 ZEdekiah was one and twentie yeres olde wheÌ„ he was made king and raigned eleuen yeres in HierusaleÌ„ his mothers name was Hamutal Ieremies daughter of Libna 2 He liued wickedly before the Lorde euen as Iehoakim did 3 For the Lorde was angry at Hierusalem and Iuda so long tyll he had cast them out of his presence and Zedekiah fell from the kyng of Babylon 4 But in the ninth yere of his raigne in the tenth moneth the tenth day of the moneth it happened that Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon with all his hoast came before Hierusalem and besieged it and made bulwarkes rounde about it 5 And this besiegyng of the citie endured vnto the eleuenth yere of kyng Zedekiah 6 And in the fourth moneth the ninth day of the moneth there was a great hunger in the citie that there were no more victuals for the people of the lande 7 So all the souldiers brake away and fled out of the citie by night through the way of the port betweene the two walles by the kynges garden Nowe the Chaldees had compassed the citie rounde about yet went these men their way through the wildâ—rnesse 8 And so the Chaldees folowed vpon them and toke Zedekiah the kyng in the fielde of Iericho when his hoast was runne from hym 9 So they caryed the kyng away prisoner to Reblath vnto the kyng of Babylon in the lande of Hemath where he gaue iudgement vpon hym 10 The kyng of Babylon also caused Zedekias sonnes to be slayne before his face yea and put all the princes of Iuda to death at Reblath 11 Moreouer he put out the eyes of Zedekiah caused hym to be bounde with two chaynes to be caryed vnto Babylon and let him lye in prison tyl he dyed 12 Nowe the tenth day of the fifth moneth in the nineteenth yere of Nabuchodonozor kyng of Babylon Nabuzaradan the chiefe captayne and the kyng of Babylons seruauntes came vnto Hierusalem 13 And burnt vp the house of the Lorde he burnt vp also the kynges palace all the houses and all the gorgeous buildinges in Hierusalem 14 And the whole hoast of the Chaldees that were with the chiefe captayne brake downe all the walles of Hierusalem rounde about 15 As for the poore people and such folke as was yet left in the citie which also were fallen to the kyng of Babylon yea and what people as yet remayned Nabuzaradan the chiefe captayne caryed them away prisoners 16 But the poore people of the countrey did Nabuzaradan the chiefe captayne leaue in the lande to occupie the vineyardes and fieldes 17 The Chaldees also brake the brasen pyllers that were in the house of the Lord yea the seate and the brasen lauer that was in the house of the Lorde and caryed all the mettall of them vnto Babylon 18 They toke away also the chalderns shouels fleshhokes sprinklers spoones and all the brasen vessels that was occupied in the seruice 19 With the basons cole pannes sprinklers pottes candlestickes spoones and cuppes wherof some were of golde and some of siluer 20 The chiefe captayne toke also the two pillers the lauer the twelue brasen bullockes that stoode vnder the seat which king Solomon made in the house of the Lorde and all the vessels conteyned so much mettal that it might not be waied 21 For euery piller was eyghteene cubites hye and the rope that went about it was twelue cubites and foure fingers thicke and rounde 22 Nowe vpon the rope were brasen knoppes and euery knoppe was fiue cubites hye and vpon the knoppes were hoopes and pomgranates round about of cleane brasse 23 After this maner were both the pillers fashioned with y e pomgranates wherof there were an hundred ninetie and sixe which hanged vpon the hoopes rounde
come foorth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet 17 Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche the aulter and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen Where is their God 18 And then the Lorde wyll be ielous ouer his lande wyll spare his people 19 Yea the Lorde wyll aunswere and say to his people Beholde I wyll sende you corne and wine and oyle and wyll satisfie you therwith and wyll not geue you ouer any more to be a reproche among the heathen 20 And I wyll remoue farre of from you the northen armie and I wyll driue him into a lande barren and desolate with his face towardes the east sea and his hinder partes towardes the vttermost sea and his stinch shall arise and his corruption shall ascende because he hath exalted him selfe to do this 21 Feare not O thou lande be glad and reioyce for the Lorde wyll do great thinges 22 Be not afrayde ye beastes of the fielde for the fruitfull places of the desert are greene for the tree beares her fruite the figge tree and the vine yeelde their strength 23 Be glad then ye children of Sion and reioyce in the Lorde your God for he hath geuen you moderate rayne he wyll sende downe for you the rayne euen the first rayne the latter rayne in the first moneth 24 And the barnes shal be fylled with corne and the presses shall ouerflowe with wine and oyle 25 And I wyll restore to you the yeres which the grashopper the canker worme the locust and the caterpiller haue deuoured my great armie which I sent amongst you 26 And you shall eate in plentie and be satisfied and shall prayse the name of the Lorde your God which hath dealt wonderously with you and my people shall not be ashamed any more 27 And you shall knowe that I am in the middle of Israel and that I am the Lorde your God and none but I and my people shall neuer be ashamed 28 And it shall come to passe after this I wyll powre out my spirite vpon all fleshe and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your olde men shall dreame dreames your young men shall see visions 29 Also in those dayes vpon the seruauntes and vpon the handmaydens wyll I powre out my spirite 30 And I will shewe wonders in heauen and in earth blood and fire and pillers of smoke 31 The sunne shal be turned into darknesse and the moone into blood before that great and terrible day of the Lord come 32 But whosoeuer shall call on the name of the Lord shal be saued for there shal be deliueraunce in mount Sion and in Hierusalem as the Lord hath promised and also in the remnaunt whom the Lorde shall call The .iij. Chapter Of the iudgement of God agaynst the enemies of his people 1 FOr beholde in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda Hierusalem 2 I wyll also gather all the gentiles and cause them to come into the valley of Iehosaphat and I will pleade with them there for my people and heritage Israel which they haue scattered amongst the nations and haue parted my lande 3 And thei haue cast lottes for my people and chaunged the boy for an harlot and solde the gyrle for wine that they might drynke 4 And what haue you to do with me O Tyre and Sidon and all the coastes of Palestine wyll ye render me recompence and if you recompence me I shal swiftly and speedyly returne your recompence vpon your owne heades 5 For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde my pleasaunt pretious thinges haue caryed them into your temples 6 You haue solde also the children of Iuda and the children of Hierusalem to the Gretians that you might send them farre from their owne countrey 7 Beholde I will rayse them out of that place whither you haue solde them and wyll returne your recompence vpon your owne heades 8 And I wyll sell your sonnes and your daughters into the handes of the children of Iuda and they shall sell them vnto the Sabeans to a nation that dwelleth farre of for the Lorde hath spoken it 9 Publishe this thyng among the gentiles proclayme warre wake vp the mightie men let all the men of warre drawe neare and come vp 10 Breake your plowe shares into swordes and your sithes into speares let the weake say I am strong 11 Assemble your selues and come all you heathen and gather your selues together rounde about there shall the Lord cast downe thy mightie men 12 Let the heathen arise and come vp to the valley of Iehosaphat for there will I sit to iudge all nations rounde about 13 Put in your sithes for y e haruest is ripe come ye and descende for the wine presse is full yea the presses ouerflowe for their wickednesse is multiplied 14 O people people come into the valley of finall iudgement for the day of the Lorde is at hande in the valley of finall iudgement 15 The sunne and the moone shal be darkned and the starres shall withdrawe their light 16 The Lord also shall rore out of Sion and out of Hierusalem shall he geue his voyce the heauens and the earth shall shake but the Lorde wyll be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel 17 So shall you knowe that I am the Lorde your God dwellyng in Sion my holy mountayne then shall Hierusalem be holy and there shall no straungers passe through here any more 18 And in that day shall the mountaynes drop downe sweete wine and the hylles shall flowe with mylke all the riuers of Iuda shall runne with water and a fountayne shall come out of the house of the Lorde and shall water the valley of Sittim 19 Egypt shal be waste and Edom shal be a desolate wildernesse for the iniuries done to the children of Iuda because they haue shed innocent blood in their lande 20 But Iuda shal dwel for euermore and Hierusalem from generation to generation 21 I wil also clense the blood of them that I haue not clensed and the Lord dwelleth in Sion ⧠The booke of the prophete Amos. The first Chapter 1 The condition and state of Amos and the time of his prophecie 3 The worde of the Lorde against Damascus the Philistines ▪ Cyrus Idumea and Ammon 1 THe wordes of Amos who was among the sheepheardes at Thecua whiche he sawe vpon Israel in the dayes of Ozia king of Iuda and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas king of Israel two yere before the earth quake 2 And he sayde The Lord shal roare out of Sion and vtter his voyce from Hierusalem and the dwelling places of the sheepheardes shall mourne the top of Charmel shall
can haue knowledge of thy vnderstandyng and meanyng except thou geue wisdome and sende thy holy ghost from aboue 18 For so the wayes of them which liued on the earth were refourmed and men haue learned the thynges that are pleasaunt vnto thee and were preserued through wisdome The .x. Chapter The deliueraunce of the ryghteous and destruction of the enemies commeth through wisdome 1 SHe preferred the first fourmed father of the worlde that was created alone and brought hym out of his fall 2 And gaue him power to rule all thynges 3 But when the vnrighteous went away in his wrath from her he perished by the furious desire to murther his brother 4 For whom when the water destroyed the whole worlde wisdome agayne preserued it her selfe gouernyng the iust man by no costly worke of wood 5 Moreouer when the nations were confounded or ioyned together in their malicious confederacie she founde out the righteous and preserued hym faultlesse vnto God and kept hym strong agaynst the loue of his sonne 6 She preserued the ryghteous when he fled from the vngodly that perished what tyme as the fire fell downe vpon the fiue cities 7 Like as yet this day the vnfruitfull waste and smokyng lande geueth testimonie of their wickednesse yea the vnripe vntymely fruites that growe vpon the trees and for a token of a remembraunce of the vnfaythfull soule there standyng a pyller of salt 8 For all such as regarded not wisdome gat not only this hurt that they knewe not the thynges which were good but also left behynde them vnto men a memoriall of their foolishnesse so that in the thynges wherin they sinned they coulde not be hyd 9 But as for such as toke heede vnto wisdome she hath deliuered them from sorowe 10 When the ryghteous fled because of his brothers wrath wisdome led hym the ryght way shewed hym the kyngdome of God gaue hym knowledge of holy thynges made hym riche in his labours brought to passe the thynges that he went about 11 In the disceiptfulnesse of such as defrauded hym she stoode by hym and made hym riche 12 She saued hym from the enemies and defended him from the deceauers In a strong battayle she gaue hym the victorie that he myght knowe howe that the feare of God is stronger then all thynges 13 When the ryghteous was solde she forsoke hym not but delyuered hym from sinne She went downe with hym into the dungeon 14 And fayled hym not in the bandes till she had brought hym the scepter of the realme and power agaynst those that oppressed hym As for them that had accused hym she declared them to be lyers and brought hym to perpetuall worshyp 15 She deliuered the ryghteous people and faultlesse seede from the nations that oppressed them 16 She entred into the soule of the seruaunt of the Lorde and stoode by hym in wonders and tokens agaynst the dreadfull kynges 17 She gaue the ryghteous the reward of their labours and led them foorth a marueylous way on the day tyme she was a shadowe vnto them and a lyght of starres in the nyght season 18 She brought them through the red sea and caryed them through the great water 19 But she drowned their enemies in the sea but brought them out of the bottome of the deepe 20 So the ryghteous toke the spoyles of the vngodly praysed thy holy name O Lorde and magnified thy victorious hande with one accorde 21 For wisdome openeth the mouth of the dumbe and maketh the tongues of babes to be eloquent The .xj. Chapter 1 The miracles done for Israel 13 The vengeaunce of sinners 28 The great power and mercie of God 1 SHe ordered their workes in the handes of the holy prophete 2 So that they went through the wildernesse that was not inhabited and pitched their tentes in the waste desert 3 They stoode agaynst their enemies and were auenged of their aduersaries 4 When they were thirstie they called vpon thee and water was geuen them out of the most hye rocke their thirst was quenched out of the harde stone 5 For by the thynges wherthrough their enemies were punished were the children of Israel helped in their neede 6 For in steede of a fountaine of the perpetuall runnyng flud all troubled with gorie blood 7 In reproche of the commaundement published to murther the infantes thou gauest vnto them aboundaunce of water and that not loked for neither 8 Declaryng by that thirst then howe thou hadst punished thine aduersaries 9 For when they were tryed and nurtured with fatherly mercie they knewe howe the vngodly were iudged and punished in the wrath of God 10 For these hast thou exhorted as a father and proued them but vnto the other thou hast ben a boystuous kyng layed harde to their charge and condempned them 11 Whether they were absent or present their punishment was a lyke 12 For their griefe was double and mournyng for the remembraunce of thynges past 13 For when they perceaued that their punishmentes dyd them good they thought vpon the Lorde 14 For whom in his castyng out before as an abiect they had denied with derision him in the ende when they sawe what happened they wondered at for they were of another thirst then was the iust 15 But for the foolishe deuises of their wickednesse wherwith being deceaued they worshipped serpentes that had not the vse of reason and vile beastes thou sentest a multitude of vnreasonable beastes vpon them for reuengeaunce 16 That they myght knowe that loke wherewithall a man sinneth by the same also shall he be punished 17 For vnto thy almightie hande that made the worlde of naught it was not vnpossible to sende among them an heape of beares or wood lions 18 Or cruell beastes of a straunge kynde such as are vnknowen or spout fire or cast out a smokyng breath or shoote horrible sparkes out of their eyes 19 Which myght not only destroy them with hurtyng but also kyll them with their horrible syght 20 Yea without these beastes might they haue ben slayne with one wynde being persecuted by the reuengeaunce and scattered abroade through the breath of thy power Neuerthelesse thou hast ordered all thinges in measure number and wayght 21 For thou hast euer had great strength and myght and who may withstande the power of thyne arme 22 For why lyke as the small thyng that the ballaunce wayeth so is the worlde before thee yea as a drop of the mornyng deawe that falleth downe vpon the earth 23 But thou hast mercie vpon all for thou hast power of all thynges and makest thee as though thou sawest not the sinnes of men because they shoulde amende 24 For thou louest all the thynges that are and hatest none of them whom thou hast made for thou wouldest not haue made any thyng yf thou hadst hated it 25 Yea howe
vnto the beast who is able to warre with hym 5 And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth that spake great thynges and blasphemies and power was geuen vnto hym to do .xlij. monethes 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie agaynst God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen 7 And it was geuen vnto hym to make warre with the saintes to ouercome them And power was geuen him ouer all kinredes and tongues and nations 8 And al y t dwel vpon the earth worshipped him whose names are not writteÌ„ in the booke of lyfe of y e lambe which was killed from the beginnyng of the world 9 If any man haue an eare let hym heare 10 He that leadeth into captiuitie shall go into captiuitie He that kylleth with a sworde must be kylled with a sworde Here is the patience and the fayth of the saintes 11 And I behelde another beast commyng vp out of the earth and he had two hornes lyke a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragon 12 And he dyd all that y e first beast coulde do in his presence he caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed 13 And he dyd great wonders so that he made fyre come downe from heauen on the earth in the syght of men 14 And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast saying to them that dwelt on the earth that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde and dyd lyue 15 And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast that the image of the beast shoulde speake and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast shoulde be kylled 16 And he made all both smal great rich poore free bonde to receaue a marke in their right hand or in their forheads 17 And that no man myght bye or sell saue he that had the marke or y e name of the beast other y e number of his name 18 Here is wisdome Let hym that hath witte count y e number of the beast For it is the number of a man his number is sixe hundred threescore and sixe ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter 1 The notable companie of the lambe 6 One angel announceth the Gospel 8 Another the fall of Babylon 9 And the thirde warneth to flee from the beast 13 Of their blessednesse which dye in the Lorde 18 Of the Lordes haruest 1 AND I loked and lo a lambe stoode on the mount Sion and with hym an hundreth fourtie and foure thousande hauyng his fathers name written in their foreheades 2 And I hearde a voyce from heauen as the sounde of many waters and as the voyce of a great thunder And I hearde the voyce of harpers harpyng with their harpes 3 And they song as it were a newe song before the throne and before the foure beastes the elders and no man coulde learne that song but the hundreth and fourtie foure thousande which were redeemed from the earth 4 These are they which were not defiled with womeÌ„ for they are virgins These folowe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth These were redeemed froÌ„ men beyng the first fruites vnto God and to the lambe 5 And in their mouthes was founde no guile For they are without spot before the throne of God 6 And I sawe another angell flee in the middes of heauen hauyng the euerlastyng Gospell to preache vnto them that sit and dwel on the earth and to all nations and kinredes and tongues and people 7 Saying with a loude voyce Feare God and geue honour to hym for the houre of his iudgement is come and worshippe hym that made heauen and earth and the sea and fountaynes of water 8 And there folowed another angell saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great citie for she made all nations drinke of the wyne of the wrath of her fornication 9 And the thirde angell folowed them saying with a loude voyce If any man worshippe the beast and his image and receaue his marke in his foreheade or on his hande 10 The same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God yea of the pure wyne which is powred in y e cup of his wrath And he shal be punisshed in fyre brimstone before the holy angels and before the lambe 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore And they haue no rest day nor nyght which worship the beast and his image and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name 12 Here is the pacience of the saintes Here are they that kepe the commaundementes of God and the fayth of Iesus 13 And I hearde a voyce from heauen saying vnto me write Blessed are the dead which hereafter dye in the Lorde Euen so sayth the spirite that they rest from their laboures and their workes folowe them 14 And I loked and beholde a whyte cloude and vpon the cloude one sittyng lyke vnto the sonne of man hauyng on his head a golden crowne and in his hande a sharpe sickle 15 And another angell came out of the temple crying with a loude voyce to hym that sate on the cloude Thrust in thy sickle reape for the time is come to reape for the haruest of y e earth is ripe 16 And he that sate on the cloude thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped 17 And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen hauâ—ng also a sharpe sickle 18 And I sawe another angell came out from the aulter which had power ouer fyre and cryed with a loude crye to hym that had the sharpe sickle and sayde Thrust in thy sharpe sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyarde of y e earth for her grapes are ripe 19 And the angell thrust in his sharpe sickle on the earth and cut downe the grapes of the vineyarde of the earth and cast them into the great wynefat of the wrath of God 20 And the wynefat was troden without the citie and blood came out of the fat euen vnto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand sixe hundreth furlonges â–ª ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 Seuen angels haue the seuen last plagues 3 The song of them that ouercome the beast 7 The seuen vials full of Gods wrath 1 AND I sawe another signe in heauen great marueylous seuen angels hauyng the seuen last plagues for in them is fulfylled the wrath of God 2 And I sawe as it were a glassie sea mingled with fyre and them that had gotten the victorie of the beast and of his image and of his marke and of the number of his name stande on y e glassie sea hauyng the harpes of God 3 And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God and the song of the lambe
people after Moyses .32 yeres 2688. After Iosuah Othoniel gouerned .8 yeres Iud. 9. then Aod 80. Iud. 3. After Aod Debora fourtie Iudges 4. Then Gedeon other fourtie yeres Iudges 8. 2732. Abimelech gouerned after Gedeon three yeres Iud. 9. then Thola 23. yeres Iud. 10. Thola being deceassed the people were .18 yeres vnder the tyranny of the Ammonites Iud. 10. 2755. Iephte deliuered the people from the hands of the Ammonites gouerned .6 yeres Iud. 12. After Iephte Abessan gouerned .7 yeres Iud. 12. Then Elon 10. yeres Iud. 12. 2833. Abdon gouerned after Elon eyght yeres Iud. 12. Then Sampson .20 yeres Iud. 13. Then Eli fourtie yeres 1. Sam. 4. 2863. After Eli Samuel and Saul gouerned fourtie yeres but the scripture because of Sauls royall dignitie attributeth all this gouernment to him Actes 7. 2943. Dauid raigned after Saul 40. yeres 2. Sam. 5. Solomon his sonne raigned three yeres before the building of the temple which is .480 yeres after the departure out of Egypt 3. Kinges .6 and raigned in all .40 yeres 3. King .11 3004. Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon raigned .17 yeres 3. King 12. Also Abiam his sonne raigned three yeres 3. King 15. Then Asa 41. yeres 3. King .15 3041. Iosaphat raigned after Asa 25. yeres 3. King 15. And Ioram his sonne raigned three yeres with his father and fiue yeres alone 4. King 8. Ochozias raigned after Ioram 7. yeres 2. Chro. 22. 3117. Athalia the mother of Ochozias raigned seuen yeres 4. Reg. 11. Ioas raigned after her fourtie yeres 4. Reg. 12. After him Amasias his sonne raigned .29 yeres .4 Reg. 14. 3180. After Amasias the people were without king eleuen yeres as we may gather by the .14 and 15. chapter of the .4 Reg. Then Azarias raigned .52 yeres 4. Reg. 15. 3â—41 Ioathan raigned after Azarias sixteene yeres 4. Reg. 15. After Ahaz his sonne raigned .16 yeres 4 Reg. 16. And after him Ezechias .29 yeres 4. Reg. 18. 3323. and 3. monethes Manasses the sonne of Ezechias raigned .55 yeres 4. Reg. 21. Amon his sonne two yeres 4. Reg. 21. Then Iosia 31. yeres 4. Reg. 22. And Iehoaz three monethes 4. Reg. 23. 3340. and 6. monethes Eliachim otherwyse called Ioachin raigned eleuen yeres 4. Reg. 23. And after him Iechonias three monethes after which time he was led captiue into Babylon 4. Reg. 23. 3421. and 6. monethes Sedechias raigned .11 yeres and then was slayne the citie of Hierusalem with the temple rased downe and the people led captiue into Babylon where they remayned .70 yeres 4. Re. 25. 3975. and 6. monethes After the 70. yeres of captiuitie Cyrus the first monarke of the Persians set the people at libertie againe and suffered them to returne into their owne lande It was reuealed to Daniel the prophete that there shoulde be 70. weekes of yeres which is 490. yeres reckening from the commaundement geuen to buyld the citie vntill Iesus Christ Dani. 9. And this commaundement was geuen by Darius Longimanus the twentith yere of his empire Nehem. 2. which was .64 yeres after the aforesayde deliueraunce VVherfore reckening the sayde 64. yeres after the deliueraunce and adding therto the .70 weekes aforesayde reuealed vnto Daniel we shall finde that from the sayde deliueraunce vntill the death of Christ there is fiue hundreth fiftie and foure yeres 5510. and 6. monethes From the natiuitie of Christ to this present yere we recken a thousande fiue hundred sixtie eyght from which number if we subtract the yeres from his birth vntil his death which is three and thirtie we shall finde that from the end of the sayd seuentie weekes of Daniel vntil this present yere it is .1535 yeres  All whiche aforesayde beyng well examined and reckened ye shall finde that since the creation of the world to this present yere of .1568 the yeres amount to .5503 yeres and sixe monethes ⧠The order of the bookes of the olde Testament The first part GEnesis Exodus Leuiticus Numerus Deuteronomium The seconde part Iosuah Iudges Ruth First kinges or Samuel 2. Kinges or Samuel 3. Kinges 4. Kinges 1. Cronicle 2. Cronicle 1. Esdras 2. Esdras Hester Iob. The thirde part of the Bible The Psalter The Prouerbes of Solomon Ecclesiastes or Preacher Cantica canticorum Esai Ieremi Lamentation of Ieremi Ezechiel Daniel Osea Ioel. Amos. Abdias Ionas Micheas Nahum Habacuc Sophonias Aggeus Zacharias Malachias The fourth part of the Bible called Apocryphus 3. Esdras 4. Esdras Tobias Iudith Booke of wysdome Ecclesiasticus or the booke of Iesus Syrach The reste of the booke of Hester Baruch The song of the three children The story of Susanna The story of Bel and the Dragon The prayer of Manasses 1. Machabees 2. Machabees The order of the bookes of the newe Testament The fifth part The Gospell S. Matthewe The Gospell S. Marke The Gospell S. Luke The Gospell S. Iohn The actes of the Apostles S. Paules Epistle to the Romanes 1. To the Corinthians 2. To the Corinthians To the Galathians To the Ephesians To the Philippians To the Colossians 1. To the Thessalonians 2. To the Thessalonians 1. Timothe 2. Timothe To Titus To Philemon To the Hebrues The Epistle of S. Iames. 1. Of S. Peter 2. Of S. Peter 1. Of S. Iohn 2. Of S. Iohn 3. Of S. Iohn The Epistle of S. Iude. The reuelation of S. Iohn The first booke of Moyses called in Hebrue of the first worde of the booke Bereschith and in Greke Genesis ⧠The first Chapter 2 The earth and the deapthes 3 Lyght 6 The firmament or heauen 10 The earth and the sea 14 The sunne the moone and the starres 21 Fisshes 24 The beastes of the earth 26 The creation of man 29 God geueth vnto man the power of procreation and subdueth all thynges vnto hym 30 Gods prouision for lyuelode 1 IN the beginnyng GOD created y e heauen and the earth 2 And the earth was without fourme and was voyde darknes was vpon the face of the deepe and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters 3 And God sayde let there be light and there was light 4 And God sawe the lyght that it was good and God deuided the lyght from the darknes 5 And God called the light day and the darknes night and the euenyng the mornyng were the first day 6 And God said let there be a firmament betwene the waters and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters 7 And God made the firmament and set the diuision betwene the waters which were vnder the firmament and the waters that were * aboue the firmament and it was so 8 And God called the firmament the heauen and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day 9 And God saide let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place and let the drye lande appeare and it was so 10 And God called the drie lande y e earth
and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas and God sawe that it was good 11 And God sayde f let the earth bryng foorth both budde and hearbe apt to seede and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth and it was so 12 And the earth brought forth both bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde and tree yeeldyng fruite whiche hath seede in it selfe after his kynde 13 And God sawe that it was good And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day 14 And God sayde let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen that they may deuide the day and the nyght and let them be for signes seasons and for dayes and yeres 15 And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen that they maye geue light vpō the earth and it was so 16 And God made two great lyghtes a greater lyght to rule the day and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght and he made starres also 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heauen to shyne vpon the earth 18 And to rule the day and nyght and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse and God saw that it was good 19 And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day 20 And God sayde let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen 21 And God created great whales and euery lyuyng mouing creature which the waters brought foorth after theyr kynde euery fethered foule after their kynde and God saw that it was good 22 And God blessed them saying Be fruiteful and multiplie and fyll the waters of the sea and let foule multiple in the earth 23 And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day 24 And God sayde let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde cattell worme and beastes of the earth after his kynde and it was so 25 God made the beast of the earth after his kynde and cattell after his kynde and euery thyng that creepeth vpon the earth after his kynde and God sawe that it was good 26 God saide let vs make man in our image after our lykenesse and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea of the foule of the ayre and of cattell of all the earth and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth 27 So God created man in his owne image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them 28 And God blessed them and God sayde vnto them be fruitefull multiplie and replenishe the earth subdue it and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea and foule of the ayre of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth 29 And God sayde beholde I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede which is in the vpper face of all y e earth and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede that they may be meate vnto you 30 To euery beast of the earth also and to euery birde of the aire and to euery such thing that creepeth vpon y e earth which doth liue I haue geuen euery greene hearbe for meate and it was so 31 And God sawe euery thyng that he had made and beholde it was exceedyng good And the euenyng the mornyng were the sixth day ¶ The .ij. Chapter 2 The day of rest is blessed 4 A repeatyng of thynges foretolde in the first 6 The cloude from the earth as a well to water it 7 He rehearseth agayne the fashionyng of man 8 Man in the paradise of pleasure 10 The wood of lyfe the wood of knowledge 11.13.14 The ryuers names 16 God forbyddeth man the tree of knowledge of good and euyll 19 Adam geueth names vnto all lyuyng thynges 22 Woman is created 23 The institution of holy mariage 1 THe heauens also the earth were finisshed all the hoast of them 2 And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made And the seuēth day he rested from all his worke which he had made 3 And God blessed the seuenth daye sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make 4 These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens 5 And euery plant of the fielde before it was in the earth and euery hearbe of the fielde before it grewe For the Lord God had not yet caused it to rayne vppon the earth neither was there a man to tyll the grounde 6 But there went vp a miste from the earth watered the whole face of the grounde 7 The Lorde God also dyd shape man euen dust frō of the grounde breathed into his nosethrylles the breath of lyfe and man was a lyuyng soule 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden and there he put the man whom he had shapen 9 Moreouer out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree that was fayre to syght and pleasaunt to eate The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll 10 And out of Eden there went foorth a flood to water the garden and from thence it was deuided and became into foure heades 11 The name of y e first is Pison the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah where there is golde 12 And the golde of the lande is very good There is also Bdellium and the Onix stone 13 The name of the seconde riuer is Gyhon the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Ethiopia 14 The name of y e thirde ryuer is Hidekel it goeth toward the east side of Assiria the fourth ryuer is Euphrates 15 And the Lord God toke the man and put hym in the garden of Eden that he myght worke it and kepe it 16 And the Lorde God commaunded the man saying eating thou shalt eate of euery tree of the garden 17 But as touching the tree of knowlege of good and euyll thou shalt not eate of it For in what daye so euer thou eatest therof thou shalt dye the death 18 And the Lord God sayde It is not good y t the man should be alone I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym 19 And so out of the grounde the Lorde God had shapen euery beast of the field and euery foule of the ayre and brought it vnto man that he myght see howe he woulde call it For lykewyse as man hym selfe named euery lyuyng thyng euen so was the name therof 20 And the man gaue names to all
God shut hym in rounde about 17 And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth and the waters were increased and bare vp the arke whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth 18 The waters also waxed strong and were encreased exceedyngly vpon the earth and so the arke went vpon the vpper face of the waters 19 And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen were couered 20 Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle so that the mountaynes were couered 21 And all fleshe perished that moued vpon the earth in foule in cattell in beast and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth yea and euery man also 22 So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande dyed 23 And euery substaunce was destroyed that remayned and that was in the vpper part of the grounde both man and cattell and worme and the foule of the heauen they were euen destroyed from of the earth and Noah onlye remayned aliue and they that were with him in the arke 24 But the water preuayled vpon the earth a hundreth and fiftie dayes ¶ The .viii. Chapter 1 The waters of the generall ouerflowyng do decrease 4 The arke resteth vpon a mount 7 The Rauen is sent foorth 8 Noah sendeth foorth a Doue 10 He sendeth it out againe 13 The waters are dryed 16 Noah is bydden to go out of the arke 18. He goeth out 20 He offereth an acceptable sacrifice vnto God 21 The deluge shall be no more The heart of man is euyll 1 AND God remēbred Noah and euery beast and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth and the waters ceassed 2 The fountaynes also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the rayne from heauen was restrayned 3 And the waters from the earth returned goyng and comming agayne and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day the waters were abated 4 And in the seuen moneth in the seuenteenth day of y e moneth the arke rested vpon the mountaynes of Armenia 5 And the waters were goyng and decreasing vntyll the tenth moneth In the tenth moneth and in the first day of the same moneth were the toppes of the mountaynes seene 6 And after the ende of the fourtith day it came to passe that Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made 7 And he sent foorth a Rauen whiche went out goyng foorth and returnyng vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth 8 And agayne he sent foort a Doue from him that he myght see yf the waters were abated from the vpper face of the grounde 9 And the Doue founde no rest for the sole of her foote and she returned vnto him into the arke for the waters were in the vpper face of the whole earth Then he put foorth his hande tooke her and pulled her to him into the arke 10 And he abode yet other seuen dayes and agayne he sent foorth the Doue out of the arke 11 And the Doue came to hym in the euentide and loe in her mouth was an Oliue leafe that she had pluct wherby Noah dyd knowe that the waters were abated vpon the earth 12 And he abode yet other seuen dayes and sent foorth the Doue whiche returned not vnto him any more 13 And it came to passe in the sixe hundreth and one yere in y e first moneth the first day of the moneth the waters were dryed vp from the earth and Noah remoued the coueryng of the arke and looked and beholde the vpper face of the grounde was dryed vp 14 And in the seconde moneth in the seuen and twentie day of the moneth was the earth dryed 15 And God spake vnto Noah saying 16 Go foorth of the arke thou and thy wife thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee 17 And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee of all fleshe both foule and cattell and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth that they may breede in the earth and bring foorth fruite and multiplie vpon earth 18 And so Noah came foorth and his sonnes his wyfe and his sonnes wiues with hym 19 Euery beast also and euery worme euery foule and whatsoeuer crepeth vpon the earth after their kyndes went out of the arke 20 And Noah builded an aulter vnto y e Lorde and tooke of euery cleane beast and of euery cleane foule offred burnt offering on the aulter 21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete or quiet sauour and the Lord sayde in his heart I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake for the imagination of mans heart is euyll euen from his youth neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng as I haue done 22 Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest colde and heate sommer and wynter day and nyght ceasse all the dayes of the earth ¶ The .ix. Capter 6 The title of the sworde The couenaunt of God with Noah that the deluge shal be no more 10 The signe confirming the couenaunt the raynebowe in the cloudes 18 The sonnes of Noah Chanaan 20 Noah an husbandman planteth a vine 22 He is mocked of his sonne beyng ouercome with wyne 25 Chanaan is cursed 26. 27 Sem and Iapheth be blessed 29 The yeres of Noah 1 ANd god blessed Noah and his sonnes saide vnto them be fruitfull and multiplie and replenishe the earth 2 The feare of you the dread of you shal be vpon euery beast of the earth and vpon euery foule of the ayre vpon al that moueth vpon the earth and vpon all the fishes of the sea into your hande are they deliuered 3 Euery thyng that moueth it selfe and that liueth shall be meate for you euen as the greene hearbe haue I geuē you all thinges 4 But flesh in the life therof which is the blood therof shall ye not eate 5 And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it and at the hand of man at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man 6 Who so sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man 7 But be fruitefull and multiplie you breede in the earth and increase therein 8 God spake also vnto Noah to his sonnes with hym saying 9 Beholde I euen I establishe my couenaunt with you and with your seede after you 10 And with euery liuing creature that is with you in foule in cattell in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you of all that go out of the arke whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be 11 And my
presume for to come vp vnto the Lord lest he destroy them 25 And so Moyses went downe vnto the people and tolde them ¶ The .xx. Chapter 3 Let vs haue no straunge gods 7 An othe 8 The sabboth day 12 Parentes 13 To murder 14 To be a whoremaister 15 Theft 16 False witnesse 17 Concupiscence 19 God appeared in lyghtnyng that he might be feared 23 Let there be made no gods of golde and siluer 24 An aulter of earth 1 AND God spake all these wordes and said 2 I am the Lord thy GOD whiche haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt out of y e house of bondage 3 Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my sight 4 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image neyther any similitude that is in heauen aboue eyther in the earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth 5 Thou shalt not bowe downe to them neyther serue them for I the Lord thy God am a gelous God and visite the sinne of the fathers vpon the chyldren vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me 6 And shewe mercy vnto thousandes in them that loue me and kepe my commaundementes 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne 8 Remember the sabboth day that thou sanctifie it 9 Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do 10 But the seuenth day is the sabboth of the Lorde thy God in it thou shalt do no maner of worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruaunt and thy mayde seruaunt thy cattel and the straunger that is within thy gates 11 For in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherfore the Lorde blessed the seuenth day and halowed it 12 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee 13 Thou shalt not kyll 14 Thou shalt not commit adulterie 15 Thou shalt not steale 16 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour 17 Thou shalt not couet thy neyghbours house neyther shalt thou couet thy neyghbours wyfe nor his man seruaūt nor his mayde nor his oxe nor his asse or whatsoeuer thy neighbour hath 18 And all the people saw the thunder and lightning and the noyse of the trumpet and the mountayne smoking And when the people sawe it they remoued and stoode a farre of 19 And said vnto Moyses Talke thou with vs and we wyll heare But let not God talke with vs lest we dye 20 And Moyses sayde vnto the people feare not for God is come to proue you and that his feare may be before your eyes that ye sinne not 21 And the people stoode a farre of and Moyses went into the thicke cloude where God was 22 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Thus thou shalt say vnto the chyldren of Israel Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from out of heauen 23 Ye shall not make therfore with me gods of siluer neyther shall ye make ye gods of golde 24 An aulter of earth thou shalt make vnto me and theron offer thy burnt offeringes and thy peace offeringes thy sheepe and thyne oxen In all places where I shall put the remembraunce of my name thyther I wyll come vnto thee and blesse thee 25 And if thou wylt make me an aulter of stone see thou make it not of hewen stone els if thou lyft vp thy toole vpon it thou hast poluted it 26 Neyther shalt thou go vp by steppes vnto myne aulter that thy shame be not shewed theron ¶ The .xxi. Chapter 2 Of bying of bondmen 7 A daughter sold for a bondwoman 12 Manslaughter 15 A stryker of parentes 16 Theft 17 A slaunderer of his father 18 Brawlers 20 He that smyteth his bondman 22 He that stryketh a woman with chylde 24 The punyshment of lyke for lyke 26 He that pulleth out an eye or striketh out a toothe of bondmen 28 A pushing oxe 33 He that diggeth a pitte where into an oxe falleth 35 An oxe kyllyng another 1 THese are the lawes whiche thou shalt set before them 2 If thou bye a seruaunt that is an Hebrue sixe yeres he shall serue in the seuenth he shall go out free paying nothyng 3 If he came alone he shall go out alone and yf he came maryed his wyfe shall go out with hym 4 And if his maister haue geuen hym a wyfe and she haue borne him sonnes or daughters then the wyfe and her chyldren shal be her maisters and he shall go out alone 5 And yf the seruaunt say I loue my maister my wyfe and my chyldren I wyll not go out free 6 His maister shall bryng hym vnto the iudges and set hym to the doore or the doorepost and his maister shal bore his eare through with a naule and he shal be his seruaunt for euer 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a seruaunt she shal not go out as the men seruauntes do 8 If she please not her maister who hath nowe promised her mariage then shall he let her redeeme her selfe To sell her vnto a straunge nation shall he haue no power seyng he despised her 9 If he haue promysed her vnto his sonne to wyfe he shall deale with her as men do with their daughters 10 And if he take hym another wyfe yet her foode her rayment and duetie of maryage shall he not minishe 11 And if he do not these three vnto her thē shal she go out free pay no money 12 He that smyteth a man that he dye shal be slayne for it 13 If a man lay not awayte but God deliuer him into his hande then I wyll poynt thee a place whither he shal flee 14 If a man come presumpteously vpon his neyghbour to slay hym with guyle thou shalt take him from myne aulter that he dye 15 He that smyteth his father or his mother let hym be slayne for it 16 He that stealeth a man and selleth him if he be proued vppon hym shal be slayne for it 17 And he that curseth his father or mother shal be put to death for it 18 If men stryue together and one smite another with a stone or with his fyste and he dye not but lyeth in his bed 19 If he rise agayne and walke without vpon his staffe then shall he that smote hym go quite saue only he shall beare his charges for leesyng his tyme and shall paye for his healyng 20 And if a man smyte his seruaunt or his mayde with a rod they dye vnder his hande he shal be greeuously punished
the Lorde he is God in heauen aboue and vpon the earth beneath neither is there any other 40 Thou shalt kepe therefore his ordinaunces and his commaundementes which I commaunde thee this day that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayest prolong thy dayes vpon y e earth which the Lorde thy God geueth thee for euer 41 Then Moyses seuered three cities on the other side Iordane towarde the sunne rysyng 42 That he shoulde flee thyther which had kylled his neyghbour vnwares hated hym not in tyme past and therfore shoulde flee vnto one of the same cities and lyue 43 Namely Bezer in the wildernesse euen in the playne countrey of the tribe of Ruben and Ramoth in Gilead of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Basan of the tribe of Manasse 44 And so this is the lawe which Moyses set before the children of Israel 45 These are the witnesse statutes and ordinaunces which Moyses tolde the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt 46 On the other side Iordane in the valley ouer agaynst the house of Peor in the lande of Sehon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon whom Moyses the children of Israel smote after they were come out of Egypt 47 And possessed his lande and the lande of Og kyng of Basan two kynges of the Amorites which were on the other side Iordane towarde the sunne rising 48 From Aroer which is by the bancke of the riuer Arnon vnto mount Sion which is Hermon 49 And all the playne on the other side Iordane eastwarde euen vnto the sea which is in the playne vnder y e springes of the hyll ¶ The .v. Chapter 5 Moyses is the meane betweene God and the people 6 The lawe is repeated 23 The people are afrayde at Gods voyce 29 The Lorde wissheth that the people woulde feare hym 32 They must neither decline to the ryght hande nor left 1 AND Moyses called all Israel and sayde vnto them Heare O Israel the ordinaūces and lawes which I speake in your eares this day that ye may learne them and fulfill them in deede 2 The Lord our God made a couenaunt with vs in Horeb. 3 The Lorde made not this couenaunt with our fathers but with vs euen with vs which are all here alyue this day 4 The Lorde talked with you face to face in the mount out of the middes of the fire 5 And I stoode betweene the Lorde and you the same tyme and shewed you the worde of the Lord For ye were afrayde at the sight of the fire and went not vp into the mount and he sayde 6 I am the Lorde thy God which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt from the house of bondage 7 Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my presence 8 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that which is in heauen aboue and that is in earth beneath and that is in the waters beneath the earth 9 Thou shalt neither bowe thy selfe vnto them nor serue them for I the Lord thy God am a ielouse God visityng the wickednesse of the fathers vpon the children euen vnto the third and fourth generation among them that hate me 10 And shewe mercie vpon thousandes among them that loue me and kepe my commaundementes 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne for the Lorde wyll not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne 12 Kepe the Sabbath day that thou sanctifie it as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour and do all that thou hast to do 14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God thou shalt not do any worke thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter nor thy man seruaunt nor thy mayde nor thine oxe nor thine asse nor any of thy cattell nor the straunger that is within thy gates that thy man seruaunt and thy mayde may rest as well as thou 15 Remember that thou wast a seruaunt in the lande of Egypt and howe that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence through a mightie hande and a stretched out arme For which cause the Lorde thy God commaunded thee to kepe the Sabbath day 16 Honour thy father thy mother as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee that thy dayes may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee 17 Thou shalt not slay 18 Thou shalt not commit adulterie 19 Thou shalt not steale 20 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour 21 Thou shalt not lust after thy neyghbours wyfe thou shalt not couet thy neyghbours house his fielde his seruaunt or his mayde his oxe his asse or ought that thy neyghbour hath 22 These wordes the Lorde spake vnto all your multitude in the mount out of the middes of the fire of the cloude and of the darkenesse with a great voyce and added nothyng and wrote them in two tables of stone and deliuered them vnto me 23 And it came to passe that when ye hearde the voyce out of the middes of the darkenesse for the mountayne dyd burne with fire then ye came vnto me with the captaynes of your tribes and your elders 24 And ye sayde Beholde the Lorde our God hath shewed vs his glorie and his greatnesse and we haue hearde his voyce out of the middes of the fire we haue seene this day that God doth talke with man and he yet lyueth 25 Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye that this great fire shoulde consume vs If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more we shall dye 26 For what fleshe hath it ben that euer hearde the voyce of the lyuyng God speakyng out of the middes of the fire as we haue done and yet dyd lyue 27 Go thou and heare all that the Lorde our God sayth and tell thou vnto vs all that the Lord our God sayth vnto thee and we wyll heare it and do it 28 And the Lorde hearde the voyce of your wordes when ye spake vnto me and the Lorde sayde vnto me I haue hearde the voyce of the wordes of this people which they haue spoken vnto thee they haue well sayde all that they haue spoken 29 Oh that there were such an heart in them that they woulde feare me kepe all my cōmaundementes alway that it myght go well with them and with their childen for euer 30 Go and say vnto them Get you into your tentes agayne 31 But stande thou here by me and I wyll tell thee all the cōmaundementes ordinaunces lawes which thou shalt teache them that they may do them in the lande which I geue thē to possesse 32 Take heede therfore that ye do in deede as the Lord your God hath commaunded you and turne not aside either to the right
is my strength in him will I trust he is my shielde and the horne of my saluation my hie towre and my refuge my sauiour thou hast saued me from wrong 4 I will call on the Lorde which is prayse worthy and so shall I be saued from myne enemies 5 For the panges of death closed me about the fludes of Belial put me in feare 6 The sorowes of hell compassed me about the snares of death ouertoke me 7 In my tribulation did I call vppon the Lorde and crye to my God and he dyd heare my voyce out of his temple and my crye did enter into his eares 8 The earth trembled and quaked the foundations of heauen moued shooke when he was angry 9 Smoke went out at his nosthryls consuming fyre out of his mouth coles were kindled thereat 10 And he bowed heauen came downe and there was darkenesse vnder his feete 11 And he rode vpon Cherub and did flee he was seene vppon the winges of the winde 12 He made darknes a tabernacle rounde about him with waters gathered together in thicke cloudes 13 Through the brightnes of his presence were the coles of fyre kindled 14 The Lorde thundred from heauen he that is most hie put out his voyce 15 He shot arrowes and scattered them to wit lyghtning ouerthrew them 16 The chanels of the sea appeared and the foundatiōs of the world were seene by the reason of y e rebuking of the Lord and through the blasting of the breath of his nosthryls 17 He sent from aboue and toke me he drew me out of many waters 18 He deliuered me from my mightie enemie and from them that hated me for they were to strong for me 19 When they had preuented me in the daye of my calamitie the Lorde stayed me vp 20 For he brought me out into roomth he deliuered me because he had a fauour vnto me 21 The Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse accordyng to the purenes of my hands he recompensed me 22 For I haue kept the wayes of y e Lord and did not wickedly agaynst my God 23 For all his lawes were in my sight his statutes I did not depart therefrō 24 In his sight also haue I ben vpright and haue kept me from myne owne iniquitie 25 And the Lorde did to me againe according to my righteousnesse euen after my purenes in his eye sight 26 With the godly thou shalt be godlie and with the man that is vpright thou shalt be vpright 27 With the pure thou shalt be pure and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward 28 And the poore people thou wilt saue but thyne eyes are vpon the proude to bring them downe 29 For thou art my lyght O Lorde and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse 30 For by thee I shall breake through an hoast of men and by my God wyll I spring ouer a wall 31 God is vncorrupt in his way the word of the Lord is tryed in the fyre he is a shielde to all them that trust in him 32 For who is a God saue the Lord and who is mightie saue our God 33 God strengthneth me in battaile ryddeth the way cleare before me 34 He maketh my feete lyke hyndes feete and setteth me vpon my hie places 35 He teacheth my handes to fight that euen a bowe of steele is broken with myne armes 36 Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation and with thy louing mekenesse thou doest multiplie me 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder me and my legges shall not faile me 38 I haue folowed vpon myne enemies and destroyed them and turned not againe vntill I had consumed them 39 I haue wasted them and wounded them that they shal not be able to aryse yea they shall fall vnder my feete 40 Thou hast gyrded me about with might to battayle and them that rose against me hast thou subdued vnder me 41 And thou hast geuen me the neckes of myne enemies that I might destroye them that hate me 42 They loked about but there was none to saue them euen vnto the Lorde but he heard them not 43 Then did I beate them as small as the dust of the earth I did stampe them as the clay of the streate and did spreade them abrode 44 Thou also hast deliuered me from the discention of my people thou hast kept me to be an head ouer nations the people which I knew not do serue me 45 Straunge childrē dissemble with me at the hearing of the eare they obey me 46 Straunge children wil shrinke away and they shall be smytten with feare in their priuie chamber 47 Let the Lord lyue and blessed be my strength magnified be God euen the force of my saluation 48 It is God that geueth me power to reuenge me bringeth downe the people vnder me 49 He deliuereth me from myne enemies thou also hast lyft me on hie from them that rose against me thou hast delyuered me from the wicked man 50 And therefore I wyll prayse thee O Lorde among the nations and wyll sing vnto thy name 51 He is the towre of saluation for his king and dealeth mercyfully with his annoynted euen with Dauid and with his seede for euermore ¶ The .xxiii. Chapter 1 The last wordes of Dauid 6 The wicked shall be plucked vp as thornes 8 The names and factes of his mighty men 15 He desireth water would not drinke 1 THese also be the last wordes of Dauid Dauid the sonne of Isai said and y e man which was ordayned the annoynted of the God of Iacob and the sweete Psalmist of Israel sayde 2 The spirite of the Lorde spake by me and his word was in my tongue 3 The God of Israel spake to me euen the most mightie of Israel sayde A ruler ouer men being iust ruling in y e feare of God 4 And as the morning lyght when the sunne is vp a morning in which are no cloudes so shal my house be but not as the grasse of the earth is by bryghtnesse and rayne 5 For so shal not my house be with God For he hath made with me an euerlasting couenaunt perfect and sure in all poyntes and this is truly all my health and all my desyre that it growe but not as grasse 6 But the vngodly man shall be as a thorne cleane pluckt vp which can not be taken with handes 7 But the man that shall touche them must be defenced with iron or with the shaft of a speare and they shal be burnt with fire in the same place 8 These be the names of the mightie men whom Dauid had One that sate in the seate of wisedome being chiefest among the princes was Adino of Ezni he slue eyght hundred at one tyme. 9 After him was Eliazar the sonne of Dodo the sonne of Ahohi one of the three worthies with Dauid which defyed the Philistines that were
Beelzebub the god of Ekrom as though there had ben no God in Israel whose word thou mightest seeke after therfore thou shalt not come downe of the bed on which thou art gone vp but shalt dye the death 17 And so he dyed according to the worde of the Lorde which Elias had spoken And Iehoram his brother began to raigne in his steade in the second yere of Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat king of Iuda because he had no sonne 18 The rest of the wordes that concerne Ahazia what thinges he dyd are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Israel The .ij. Chapiter 8 Elias deuideth the waters with his cloke 11 He is taken vp into heauen 13 Elisa taketh his cloke and deuideth Iordane 20 The bitter and venemous waters are healed 23 The children that mocke Elisa are rent in peeces with beares 1 AND it chaunced that whē the Lord would take vp Elias into heauen by a whorle wind Elias went with Elisa from Gilgal 2 And Elias saide vnto Elisa Tary here I praye thee for the Lorde hath sent me to Bethel Elisa saide vnto him As the Lorde lyueth and as thy soule liueth I will not leaue thee And they came downe to Bethel 3 And the children of the prophetes that were at Bethel came out to Elisa and saide vnto him knowest thou not how that the Lord wyll take away thy maister from thy head this day He saide I knowe it also holde you your peace 4 And Elia saide vnto him Elisa tary here I praye thee for the Lorde hath sent me to Iericho He saide As the Lorde lyueth and as thy soule lyueth I will not leaue thee And so they came to Iericho 5 And the children of the prophetes that were at Iericho came to Elisa and said vnto him Knowest thou not that the Lorde wil take away thy maister from thy head this day He aunswered I know it also holde ye your peace 6 And Elias said vnto him Tary I pray thee here for the Lorde hath sent me to Iordane He saide As the Lord liueth as thy soule lyueth I wyll not leaue thee And so they two went together 7 And fiftie men of the sonnes of the prophetes came stoode on the other syde a farre of and they two stoode by Iordane 8 And Elias toke his mantell wrapt it together and smote the waters and they were deuided parte the one way and part the other so that they two went ouer through the drye lande 9 And it fortuned that assoone as they were ouer Elias saide vnto Elisa Aske what I shal do for thee yer I be taken away from thee And Elisa saide I pray thee let thy spirite be double vpon me 10 And he said Thou hast asked an hard thing Neuerthelesse if thou see me whē I am taken away from thee thou shalt haue it so yf thou do not it shall not be 11 And it fortuned that as they went walking and talking beholde there appeared a charet of fyre and horses of fyre parted them both a sunder and Elias went vp through the whorle winde into heauen 12 And Elisa sawe and cryed O my father O my father the charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof And he sawe him no more and he toke his owne clothes and rent them in two peeces 13 He toke vp also the mantell of Elias that fell from him and went backe againe and stoode by Iordanes syde 14 And toke the mantel of Elias that fel from him and smote the waters he said Where is the Lord God of Elias he him selfe And when he had smitten the waters they parted this waye and that waye and Elisa went ouer 15 And when the childrē of the prophetes which were at Iericho sawe him from a farre they sayde The spirite of Elias doth rest on Elisa And they came to meete him and fel to the grounde before him 16 And saide vnto him See now there be with thy seruauntes fiftie strong men let thē go we pray thee seeke thy maister yf happly the spirite of the Lorde hath taken him vp and cast him vpon some mountaine or into some valley And he saide Ye shall send none 17 And when they laye vpon him tyll he was ashamed he said Send They sent therefore fiftie men which sought him three dayes but found him not 18 And when they came againe to him which taryed at Iericho he saide vnto them Did I not saye vnto you that ye should not go 19 And the men of the citie saide vnto Elisa beholde sir the dwelling of this citie is pleasaunt as thou thy selfe seest but the water is naught the grounde barren 20 He saide Bring me a new cruse and put salt therein And they brought it to him 21 And he went vnto the spring of the waters and cast the salt in thyther and saide thus saith the Lord I haue healed these waters there shall not come hencefoorth either death or barennesse 22 So the waters were healed vnto this day according to the saying of Elias which he spake 23 And he went vp from thence vnto Bethel And as he was going vp the way there came litle children out of the citie and mocked him saide vnto him Go vp thou balde head go vp thou balde head 24 And he turned backe and loked on them and cursed them in the name of the Lorde And there came two shee beares out of the wood and tare fourtie and two children of them 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he turned againe to Samaria ¶ The .iii. Chapter 1 The raigne of Iehoram 6 He and Iehosaphat go to warre against Moab which rebelled 13 Elisa reproueth him ▪ 17 and geueth their hoast water 24 The Moabites are ouercome 27 Their king sacrificeth his sonne 1 NOW Iehoram the sonne of Ahab began to raigne vpon Israel in Samaria the eyghtteenth yere of Iehosaphat king of Iuda and raigned twelue yeres 2 And he wrought euil in the sight of the Lorde but not lyke his father and lyke his mother for he put away the images of Baal that his father had made 3 Neuerthelesse he cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne and departed not therefrom 4 And Mesa king of Moab was a lorde of sheepe and rendered vnto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambes and an hundred thousand rammes with the wooll 5 But when Ahab was dead it fortuned that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel 6 And king Iehoram went out of Samaria the same season and numbred all Israel 7 And went sent to Iehosaphat the king of Iuda saying The king of Moab hath rebelled against me wilt thou come with me against Moab in battell He aunswered I will come vp for as I am so art thou and as my people be so are thy people thy horses as myne 8
Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth and put my soule in myne handes 15 Lo though he slay me yet wyl I trust in him but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight 16 He shal be my saluation for there may no hypocrite come before him 17 Heare diligently my wordes and ponder my sayinges with your eares 18 Beholde now haue I prepared my iudgement and knowe that I shal be founde righteous 19 What is he that wyll go to lawe with me if I now holde my tongue I dye 20 Neuerthelesse graunt me two thinges and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee 21 Withdrawe thyne hande from me and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde 22 Then call and I wyll aunswere or let me speake and geue me then an aunswere 23 How many are my misdeedes and sinnes let me knowe my transgressions and offences 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thyne enemie 25 Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble 26 For thou layest sharply to my charge and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth 27 Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes and lokest narowly vnto all my pathes and makest the print thereof in the heeles of my feete 28 And I as a rotten thing do consume away as a garment that is motheaten ¶ The .xiiii. Chapter 1 Iob describeth the shortnes and miserie of the lyfe of man 14 Hope sustaineth the godly 22 The condition of mans lyfe 1 MAn that is borne of woman hath but a short time to lyue and is full of miserie 2 He commeth vp and is cut downe like a floure He fleeth as it were a shadow and neuer continueth in one state 3 Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one and bringest me into thy iudgement 4 Who can make it cleane that commeth of an vncleane thing no bodye 5 The dayes of man surely are â—eceâ—â—â—ned the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee thou hast appoynted him his bondes which â—e can not go beyonde 6 Go from him that he may rest vntill his day come which he loketh for lyke as an hireling doth 7 For if a tree be cut downe there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe 8 Though the roote of it be waxen olde and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde 9 Yet when it getteth the sent of water it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes lyke as a tree that is planted 10 But as for man when he is dead perished and consumed away what becommeth of him 11 As the waters passe from the sea and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp 12 So man after he is asleepe ryseth not he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more nor rise out of his sleepe 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me 14 May a 〈◊〉 man lyue againe â–ª All the dayes of my lyfe wyll I wayte still till my chaunging shall come 15 Thou shalt call me and I shall aunswere thee despise not thou the worke of thyne owne handes 16 For now thou numbrest all my goinges and geuest no delay vnto my sinne 17 Myne iniquitie is sealed vp as it were in a bagge and thou addest punishement vnto my wickednesse 18 The mountaines fal away at the last the rockes are remoued out of their place 19 The waters pearse through the very stones by litle litle the floodes washe away the grauell and earth so shalt thou destroy the hope of man 20 Thou preuaylest still against him so that he passeth away thou chaungest his estate and puttest him from thee 21 And whether his children come to worship or no he can not tell And if they be men of lowe degree he knoweth not 22 But while his fleshe is vpon him it must haue sorowe and his soule shall mourne within him The .xv. Chapter 1 Eliphaz reprehendeth Iob because he ascribeth wysdome and purenes to him selfe 16 He describeth the curse that falleth on the wicked reckoning Iob to be one of that number 1 THen aunswered Eliphaz the Themanite and saide 2 Shalla wyse mans aunswere be as the winde and fill a mans belly as it were with the winde of the east 3 Shall he reproue with a worde that is nothing worth speake the thinges which can do no good 4 Surely thou hast cast of feare and restrainest prayer before God 5 For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie 6 Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee and not I yea thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee 7 Art thou the first man that euer was borne or wast thou made before 〈…〉 8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God and doest thou restraine wysdome to thee 9 What knowest thou that we knowe not And what vnderstandest thou but we can the same 10 With vs are both olde and aged men yea such as haue liued longer then thy father 11 Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God with thee is a lying worde 12 Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes 13 That thy minde is so pufte vp against God and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth 14 What is man that he should be cleane and he which is borne of a woman whereby he might be righteous 15 Beholde he doth not trust his 〈◊〉 yea the very heauens are not cleane in his sight 16 How much more then an abhominable and vyle man which drincketh wickednesse like water 17 I will tel thee heare me and I will shewe thee that I haue seene 18 Which wyse men haue tolde and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers 19 Vnto whom alone the earth was geueÌ„ and no straunger went among them 20 The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen 21 A feareful sounde is euer in his eares and when he is in peace the destroyer shall come vpon him 22 He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes 23 He wandreth abrode for bread where it is knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande 24 Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde and compasse him about as is a king in the middest of an armie 25 For he hath stretched out his hande against God and armed him selfe against the almightie 26 He runneth proudly vpon him with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him 27 Where as he couereth his face with fatnesse and maketh his body well lyking 28 Therefore shall his
perfectnesse of Iod. 13 The reward of the wicked and of the tirauntes 1 AND Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable saying 2 As God lyueth whiche hath taken away my iudgement and the almightie that hath vexed my minde 3 Whyle my breath is in me and the winde that God hath geuen me is in my nostrels 4 My lippes shall talke of no vanitie and my tongue shall speake no disceite 5 God forbyd that I should graunt your cause to be right As for me vntill myne end come will I neuer go fro myne innocentie 6 My righteous dealing kepe I fast which I will not forsake my heart shal not reproue me of my dayes 7 Therfore myne enemie shal be founde as the vngodly and he that taketh part against me as the vnrighteous 8 For what hope hath the hypocrite though he haue great good if God take away his soule 9 Will God heare his crye when trouble commeth vpon him 10 Hath he such pleasure and delite in the almightie that he dare alway call vpon God 11 I wil teache you in the name of God and the thing of the almightie will I not kepe from you 12 Behold all ye your selues haue seene it why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie 13 Saying This is the portion that the wicked haue of God and the heritage that tyrauntes shall receaue of the almightie 14 If he get many children they shall perishe with the sworde and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread 15 His remnaunt shal be buried in death and his widowes shall not weepe 16 Though he heape vp siluer as the dust and prepare rayment as the clay 17 He may well prepare it but the godly shall put it on and the innocent shall deale out the money 18 He buyldeth his house as the moth as a booth that the watchman maketh 19 When the riche man sleepeth he shall not be gathered to his fathers they opened their eyes and he was gone 20 Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season 21 A vehement east winde caryeth him hence and he departeth a storme hurleth him out of his place 22 God shal cast vpon him and not spare though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande 23 Then clap men their handes at hym and hisse at him out of his place The .xxviii. Chapter 1 Iob sheweth that the wysdome of God is vnsearcheable 1 THere is a place wher siluer is brought out of and where golde is tryed 2 Where yron is digged out of the grounde stones resolued to me tall 3 The darkenesse shall once come to an ende he can seke out the grounde of all thinges the stones the darke and the shadowe of death 4 He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant and the waters forgotten of the foote beyng hygher then man are gone away 5 Out of the same earth commeth bread and vnder it as it were fire is turned vp 6 The stones of it are a place of Saphires and the dust of it is golde 7 There is a way that the birdes knowe not that no vultures eye hath seene 8 Wherin the lions whelpes walke not and where no lion commeth 9 There putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes 10 Riuers flowe out of the rockes loke what is pleasaunt his eye seeth it 11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light 12 Where then is wysdome founde and where is the place of vnderstanding 13 Veryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue 14 The deepe sayth She is not in me the sea sayth She is not with me 15 She can not be gotten for golde neither may the price of her be bought with any siluer 16 No wedges of gold of Ophir no precious Onir stones no Saphires may be valued with her 17 No neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it nor her exchaunge shal be for the plate of fine golde 18 No mention shal be made of Corall nor of the Gabis for wisdome is more pretious then pearles 19 The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde 20 Whence then commeth wysdome and where is the place of vnderstanding 21 She is hid from the eyes of all men liuing yea from the foules of the ayre 22 Destruction and death say We haue hearde the fame therof with our eares 23 But God seeth her way and knoweth her place 24 For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen 25 When he wayed the windes and measured the waters 26 When he made a decree for the rayne and a way for the lightninges of the thunder 27 Then dyd he see her then declared he her prepared her and knewe her 28 And vnto man he sayd To feare the Lorde is wysdome and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding The .xxix. Chapter 1 Iob complayneth of the prosperitie of the time past 7. His auctoritie 12 iustice and equite 1 SO Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable saying 2 O that I were as I was in the monethes by past and in the daies when God preserued me 3 When his light shined vpon my head when I went after the same light and shining euen through the darknesse 4 As it stoode with me when I was young when God prospered my house 5 When the almightie was yet with me when my children stoode about me 6 When my wayes ranne ouer with butter and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle 7 When I went out to the gate euen to the iudgement seate and when I prepared my seate in the streete 8 The young men saw me and hid them selues and the aged arose and stoode vp 9 The princes left of their talking and layed their hand to their mouth 10 The mightie kept still their voyce and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth 11 When the eare heard me it blessed me when the eye sawe me it gaue witnesse to me 12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed and the fatherlesse and hym that had none to helpe hym 13 The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce 14 And why I put vpon me righteousnesse which couered me as a garment and equitie was my crowne 15 I was an eye to the blinde and a foote to the lame 16 I was a father to the poore and when I knewe not the cause I sought it out diligently 17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man and pluckt the
it and swadled it with the darke 10 When I gaue it my commaundement making doores and barres for it 11 Saying Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues 12 Hast thou geueÌ„ the morning his charge since thy dayes and shewed the day spring his place 13 That it might take holde of the corners of the earth and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it 14 They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale and all stand vp as a garment 15 The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light and the arme of the proude shal be broken 16 Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe 17 Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death 18 Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is If thou hast knowledge of all this 19 Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth where is the place of darkenesse 20 That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof and know the pathes to their houses 21 Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be 22 Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle 23 Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble against the time of battaile and warre 24 By what way is the light parted and into what land breaketh the east winde 25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder 26 To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth 27 To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth 28 Who is the father of the rayne or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe 29 Out of whose wombe came the yee Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre 30 That the waters are hidde as with a stone and lye congealed aboue the deepe 31 Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres or loose the bandes of Orion 32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time canst thou also guide Arâ—turus with his sonnes 33 Knowest thou the course of heauen that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth 34 Moreouer canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee 35 Canst thou send the lightninges also that they may go their way and be obedient vnto thee saying Lo here are we 36 Who hath put wysdome in the reynes or who hath geuen the heart vnderstanding 37 Who numbreth the cloudes in wysdome who stilleth the vehement waters of the heauen 38 To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse the clots to clots to cleaue fast together 39 Wylt thou hunt the pray for the lion or fill the appetite of the lions whelpes 40 When they couche in their places and tarie in the couert to lye in wayte 41 Who prouideth meate for the rauen when his young ones crye vnto God and flee about for lacke of meate The x◠〈◊〉 1 The bountie and prouidence of God which extendeth euen to beastes geueth man full occacion to put his confidence in God 1 KNowest thou the time wheÌ„ the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue 2 Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth 3 They lye downe they calue their young ones and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine 4 Yet their young ones grow vp and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne They go foorth and returne not againe vnto them 5 Who letteth the wylde asse to go free or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule 6 Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house and the vntilled land to be their dwelling 7 They force not for the multitude of people in the citie neither regarde the crying of the driuer 8 But seeke their pasture about the mountaines and folowe the greene grasse 9 Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice or abide still by thy cribbe 10 Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes 11 Mayst thou trust him because he is strong or commit thy labour vnto him 12 Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne or carry any thing vnto thy barne 13 Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche 14 For she leaueth her egges in the earth and heateth them in the dust 15 She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete or broken with some wâ—lde beaste 16 So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers and laboureth in vaine without any feare 17 And that because God hath taken wysdome from her hath not geuen her vnderstanding 18 When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder 19 Hast thou geueÌ„ the horse his strength or learned him to ney coragiously 20 Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull 21 He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete he reioyceth cherefully in his strength and runneth to meete the harnest men 22 He layeth aside all feare his stomacke is not abated neither starteth he backe for any sworde 23 Though the quiuers rattle vpon him though the speare and shielde glister 24 Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes 25 But when the trumpettes make most noyse he saith â—ushe for he smelleth the battaile a farre of the noyse of the captaines and the shouting 26 Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke slieth toward the south 27 Doth the Egle mount vp and make his nest on hye at thy coÌ„maundement 28 He abydeth in stony rockes and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of mouÌ„taines 29 From whence he seeketh his praye and loketh farre about with his eyes 30 His young ones also sucke vp blood and where any dead body lyeth there is he ¶ The .xl. Chapter 2 How weake mans power is being compared to the workes of God 10 whose power appeareth in the creation and gouerning of the great beastes 1 MOreouer the Lorde spake vnto Iob and saide 2 Shall he whom the almightie wyl chasten contend with him Should not he which disputeth with God geue him an aunswere 3 Then Iob aunswered the Lorde saying 4 Beholde I am vyle what shall I aunswere thee therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth 5 Once haue I spoken but I wyll
not leaue my soule in hell neither wylt thou suffer thyne holy one to see corruption 11 Thou wylt cause me to knowe the path of lyfe in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there be pleasures for euermore The argument of the .xvii. psalme Dauid prayeth God to delyuer hym from his enemies which were many mightie and cruell He taketh God for a witnesse of his innocencie trustyng to see his face at the day of resurrection A prayer of Dauid HEare thou O God of iustice be attentiue vnto my complaynt geue eare vnto my prayer not proceeding out of fayned lyppes 2 Let iudgement come foorth for me from thy face and let thine eyes loke vpon equitie 3 Thou hast proued myne heart thou hast visited it in the nyght season thou hast tryed me and founde no wickednesse for I purposed that nothyng shoulde scape my mouth 4 As touchyng other mens workes through the wordes of thy lyppes I haue kept me from the way of the violent 5 O holde thou vp my goynges in thy pathes that my footesteppes slyp not 6 I call vpon thee O God for thou wilt heare me incline thine eare to me hearken vnto my wordes 7 Shewe thy marueylous louyng kindnesse thou that art the sauiour of them that trust in thee from such as ryse vp agaynst thy ryght hande 8 Kepe me as the apple of an eye hyde me vnder the shadowe of thy wynges from the face of the vngodly that go about to destroy me from myne enemies that compasse me rounde about to take away my soule 9 They haue inclosed them selues in their owne fat with their mouth they speake proude thynges 10 They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde where our way lyeth they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow me downe on the grounde 11 His doynges be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places 12 Aryse O God preuent his commyng make hym to bowe delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly which is thy sworde 13 â—Deliuer thou me O God from men â—which be thy hande from men from the worlde whose portion is in this lyfe whose bellyes thou fyllest with thy prime treasure 14 Whose children haue aboundaunce they leaue enough of that they haue remaynyng to their babes 15 But as for me I will beholde thy face in ryghteousnesse I shal be satisfied when I awake vp after thy lykenesse ¶ The argument of the .xviij. Psalme Dauid declareth that he wyll at all tymes trust in God and call vpon hym for helpe because God hath with his mightie arme and wonderfull meanes deliuered hym from cruell enemies which dyd set vpon hym lyke fiendes of hell He imputeth this Gods fauour towardes hym to proceede of that he loued Gods worde ryght dealyng and honest companie Thus encouraged with Gods presence and ayde he maketh sure count not only to ouerrunne and destroy his enemies and rebelles but also to subdue vnto hym other nations of the heathen that God amongst them also may be praysed To the chiefe musition the seruaunt of God and of Dauid who spake vnto God the wordes of this song in the day that God deliuered him from the hande of all his enemies and from the hande of Saul And he sayde 1 I Wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength God is my stony rocke my fortresse and my delyuerer my Lorde my castell in whom I wyll trust my buckler the horne of my saluation my refuge 2 I wyll call vpon God who is most worthy to be praysed so I shall be safe from myne enemies 3 The panges of death haue compassed me about and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare 4 The panges of a graue haue compassed me about the snares of death ouertoke me 5 But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde he hearde my voyce out of his temple and my crye came before his face euen vnto his eares 6 The earth trembled and quaked the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke because he was wroth 7 In his anger a smoke ascended vp and a fire out of his mouth dyd coÌ„sume and euery cole therof dyd set a fire 8 He bowed the heauens also and he came downe and it was darke vnder his feete 9 He ridde vpon the Cherub and he dyd flee he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde 10 For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse and for his pauilion rounde about hym he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre 11 His cloudes haylestones and coles of fire fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng 12 God also thundred out of heauen and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde haylestones and coles of fire 13 He shot out his arrowes and scattered them he cast foorth much lyghtnynges and destroyed them 14 And the bottomes of waters appeared and the foundations of the rounde worlde were discouered at thy chidyng O God at the blast of the breath of thine anger 15 He hath sent downe from aboue to fetch me he hath taken me out of many waters 16 He hath deliuered me from my strong enemie and from them which hate me for they were to stout for me 17 They preuented me in the day of my trouble but God was vnto me a sure stay 18 He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie he brought me foorth because he had a fauour vnto me 19 God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me 20 Because I had kept the wayes of God and had not wickedly shronke from my God 21 For all his lawes were before me and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me 22 And I was sounde pure towardes hym and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse 23 Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght 24 With the holy thou wylt be holy with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect 25 With the cleane thou wylt be cleane and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde 26 For thou hast saued the people oppressed and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude 27 Thou also hast lyghtened my candell God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght 28 For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall 29 The way of the Lorde is a perfect way the worde of God is tryed in the fire he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym 30 For who is a Lorde besides God or who hath any strength besides our Lorde 31 It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre and he hath made my way playne 32 He hath made
God for I haue called vpon thee let the vngodlye be put to confusion and be put to scilence in the graue 18 Let the lying lippes be put to scilence which speake against y e righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine contempt 19 Howe plentifull is thy goodnes which thou hast layde vp for them that feare thee and whiche thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee before the sonnes of men 20 Thou hydest them priuily in thyne owne presence from the raginges of all men thou kepest them secretly as in a tabernacle from the strife of tongues 21 Blessed be God for he hath shewed me marueylous great kindnes in a strong citie 22 And when I fled with al haste I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes neuerthelesse thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee 23 Loue God all ye his saintes for God preserueth them that are faythfull and rewardeth most aboundauntly the proude doer 24 All ye that put your trust in God be ye of a good courage and he wyll comfort your heart The argument of the .xxxij. psalme ¶ Dauid teacheth mans felicitie to consist in the forgeuenes of his sinnes when God imputeth them not vnto him that confesseth them from the bottome of his heart vnfaynedly without all hypocrisie He exhorteth the wicked to haue asense and feeling of their sinnes and so putting their trust in God shall obtayne mercy ¶ A wyse instruction of Dauid 1 BLessed is he whose wickednes is forgeuen and whose sinne is couered 2 Blessed is y e man vnto whom God imputeth no vnrighteousnes in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For whyle I helde my tongue my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer Selah 5 Therfore I haue made knowen my faultes vnto thee and my righteousnes haue I not hid I sayd I will confesse my wickednes vnto God and thou forgauest the vnrighteousnes of my sinne Selah 6 For this shall euery one that is godly make his prayer vnto thee in the time when thou mayest be founde so that in the great water fluddes they shal not come nye hym 7 Thou art my refuge thou wylt preserue me from trouble thou wylt compasse me about with songes of deliueraunce Selah 8 I will geue thee wise instructions and teach thee in the way wherin thou shalt go I wil guyde thee with mine eye 9 Be ye not lyke a horse or lyke a mule whiche haue no vnderstanding whose mouthes must be holden with bit and brydle lest they fall vpon thee 10 Great plagues remaine for the vngodly but who so putteth his trust in God mercy imbraceth him on euery side 10 Be glad in God reioyce O ye righteous be ioyfull also all ye that be vpright of heart The argument of the .xxxiij. psalme ¶ Dauid exhorteth all men to prayse God in calling to remembraunce his goodnes trueth promises power and prouidence for whatsoeuer he saieth or promiseth he perfourmeth it Gods power appeareth by thinges created his prouidence in disapoyntyng mens deuises God seeth and knoweth al thinges and taketh care of all God deliuereth those that feare him and is their ayde and buckler in all distresses 1 REioyce in God O ye righteous for prayse becommeth well the iust 2 Confesse it to god with the harpe sing psalmes vnto hym with the viall and with the instrument of ten stringes 3 Sing vnto him a new song do it cunningly make a sweete noyse with your musicall instrumentes alowde 4 For the word of God is right and euery worke of his done in fayth 5 He loueth righteousnes iudgement the earth is ful of the goodnes of God 6 By the worde of God are the heauens made and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape and layeth vp the deepe as treasures 8 Let all the earth feare God let all they that dwell in the worlde stande in awe of him 9 For he spake and it was he commaūded and it was brought to passe 10 God bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to naught and maketh the deuises of the people to be of none effect 11 The counsayle of God shall endure for euer and the thoughtes of his heart from generation to generation 12 Blessed is the nation that hath God to be their Lorde that people hath he chosen to be an inheritaunce for him 13 God looketh downe from heauen and beholdeth all the chyldren of men from the place where he resteth he eyeth diligently euery dweller on the earth 14 He fashioneth their heartes together he vnderstandeth al their workes 15 A king is not saued by the multitude of an hoast a man of great myght escapeth not by much strength 16 A horse for to saue is vanitie and he can deliuer none by his great strength 17 Beholde the eye of God is vpon them that feare hym and vpon them that wayteth after his mercy 18 To deliuer their soules from death and to preserue their liues in dearth 19 Our soule wayteth after God he is our ayde and shielde 20 For our heart shall reioyce in him because we haue put our trust in his holy name 21 Let thy louing kindnes O God be vppon vs like as we haue put our trust in thee The argument of the .xxxiiii. psalme ¶ Dauid setteth foorth the exceeding goodnes of God towardes the innocent and iust and towardes those that worship hym feare hym and trust in hym for God heareth them whensoeuer they call vpon hym in their necessitie he is present with them in helping deliuering and defending them Agayne he ordereth so seuerely the wicked that he bringeth them to desolation that no remembraunce be left once of them ¶ Of Dauid when he chaunged his behauiour before Abimelech whiche droue him away and he departed 1 I Wyll alway blesse God his prayse shall euer be in my mouth 2 My soule shal glory in God the humble shall heare therof and be glad 3 Magnifie God with me and let vs exalt his name all together 4 Carefully I sought God he hearde me yea he deliuered me out of all my feare 5 Let them turne their eyes on him and make speede to come vnto hym and their faces shall not be ashamed 6 Lo this same poore man hath cryed and God hath hearde hym and saued hym out of all his troubles 7 The angell of God campeth rounde about them that feare hym and deliuereth them 8 O taste and see how gracious God is blessed is the man that trusteth in him 9 Feare God ye that be his saintes for they that feare him lacke nothing 10 Young Lions do lacke and suffer hunger but they whiche seeke God shall want no maner of
and my sauing helpe he is my refuge so that I can not be remoued 7 In the Lorde is my health and my glory my trust is in the Lorde the fortresse of my force 8 O ye people put your trust in hym alway powre out your heartes before him for the Lorde is our hope Selah 9 As for the chyldren of men they be onlye but vanitie the chyldren of lordes be but a lye vpon the wayghtes they be altogether lighter then vanitie in selfe 10 O trust not in wrong dealing and spoyling geue not your selues vnto vanitie if riches encrease set not your heart vpon them 11 The Lord spake it once but I haue hearde it twise that power and mercy belongeth to thee O Lorde God for thou rewardest euery man according to his worke The argument of the .lxiij. psalme ¶ Dauid beyng in a desert as banished out of his countrey prayeth to God that he may returne to heare his word amongest his people in the sanctuary He confesseth that Gods goodnes passeth all thinges and ingendreth ioy in euery heart He setteth foorth his aduersaries wylynes and mischiefnes telling them beforehande that suche destruction as they would worke vnto him shall fall vpon their owne selues ¶ A psalme of Dauid when he was in the wyldernesse of Iuda 1. Sam. 23. 24. 1 O Lorde thou art my Lorde early in the morning I do seeke thee 2 My soule thirsteth for thee my fleshe also longeth after thee in a baren and drye lande where no water is 3 To see thee euen so as I haue seene thee in the sanctuary that I might beholde thy power and glory 4 For thy louing kindnes is better then life it selfe my lippes shall prayse thee 5 As long as I liue I wyll blesse thee on this maner and in thy name I wyll lyft vp my handes 6 My soule is satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnes and my mouth prayseth thee with ioyfull lippes 7 Haue I not remembred thee in my bed and thought vpon thee when I was waking 8 Because thou hast ben my helper therfore vnder the shadowe of thy wynges do I reioyce 9 My soule cleaueth fast vnto thee thy right hande hath vpholden me 10 And they that seeke my soule to oppresse it shall go vnder the earth 11 Euery one of them shal be killed with the edge of a sworde and they shal be a portion for Foxes 12 But the king shal reioyce in the Lord al they shal glory that sweare by him for the mouth of all them that speake a lye shal be stopped The argument of the .lxiiii. psalme ¶ Dauid maketh his prayer to God against the craftie malitious and false tongues of his aduersaries who wrongfully had accused hym He sheweth their naughtie nature and howe the destruction of suche shal be to Gods glory for the godly seyng it shall prayse God and be glad ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid 1 O Lorde heare my voyce in my prayer preserue my life from feare of the enemie 2 Hyde me from the secrete counsayles of the malitious from the conspiracie of the workers of iniquitie 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword who haue drawne their arrow euen a bitter worde 4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not 5 They courage them selues in mischiefe and coÌ„mune among them selues how they may lay snares and say who shall see them 6 They searche out howe to do wrong they put in practise fully that they haue diligently searched out yea euen the secretes and bottome of euery one of their heartes 7 But the Lorde wyll sodenly shoote at them with a swyft arrowe their plagues shal be apparaunt 8 Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy theÌ„ selues insomuch that who so seeth them shal desire to flee away â—from them 9 And all men that see it shall say this hath God done for they shall well perceaue that it is his worke 10 The righteous wyll reioyce in God and put his trust in hym and all they that be vpright hearted wylbe glad The argument of the .lxv. psalme ¶ Dauid setteth foorth the exceeding goodnes of God partly in that he hath appoynted to be worshipped at Sion to heare those that make their prayers vnto him to forgeue them their sinnes and to endue his people with many spirituall graces and gyftes partly also in that he maketh the ground fruitfull replenishing it with cattell corne and all kinde of fruites aswell in desertes and hilles as in valleys ¶ To the chiefe musition the psalme of Dauid a song 1 O Lorde thou wylt be greatly praysed in Sion and vnto thee shal vowes be perfourmed 2 Thou that hearest a prayer vnto thee shall all fleshe come 3 My misdeedes haue preuayled against me oh be thou mercifull vnto our wicked transgressions 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receauest vnto thee he shall dwell in thy court and we shal be satisfied with the goodnes of thy house euen of thy holy temple 5 Thou wylt heare vs doyng wonderfull thinges in righteousnes O Lorde of our saluation thou art the hope of all endes of the earth and of them that dwell farre of at the sea coast 6 Thou art he who in his strength setleth fast the mountaines and is gyrded about with power 7 Who stilleth the raging of the sea and the noyse of his waues and the vprore of the people 8 They also that dwel in the vtmost partes of the earth be afrayde at thy signes â–ª thou makest them reioyce at the going foorth of the morning and euenyng 9 Thou visitest the earth and thou makest it ouerflowne thou enrichest it greatly the riuer of God is full of water thou preparest their corne for so thou ordaynest it 10 Thou waterest her forowes thou breakest downe her hillockes thou makest it soft with the drops of rayne and blessest the increase of it 11 Thou crownest the yere with thy goodnes and thy cloudes drop fatnes 12 They drop vpon the dwellinges of the wyldernesse and hilles be compassed with ioy 13 The downes be couered with sheepe the valleys stande thicke with corne so that they showte for ioy and also sing The argument of the .lxvj. psalme ¶ The prophete Dauid calleth vpon all men to prayse God for his wonderfull power declared not only in the olde time in drying the red sea that the children of Israel might escape Pharaos handes but also nowe for sauing his people from their enemies and from Pharaos and tirauntes of their dayes He also inciteth other to be thankefull vnto God through his example ¶ To the chiefe musition a song whiche is a psalme 1 DEclare you ioyfull vnto the Lorde all ye of the earth sing psalmes vnto the glory of his name geue glory to his maiestie 2 Say vnto the Lorde oh
stande out for fatnesse and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them 8 They make other dissolute they speake oppression with iniurie they talke proudely and presumptuously 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen and their tongue goeth through the worlde 10 Therfore God his people turneth thither and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full cuppe 11 And they say howe shoulde God perceaue it is there knowledge in the most hyghest 12 Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde do possesse riches 13 Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne and wasshed my handes in innocencie 14 All the day long I haue ben scourged and chastened euery mornyng 15 If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children 16 Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this but it was to paynefull in myne eyes 17 Vntyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God and vnderstood the ende of them 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne they faynt they consume away for very dread 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie 21 Veryly thus was my heart inflamed thus was my reynes pricked 22 So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding I was euen a bruite beast before thee 23 Neuerthelesse I am alway with thee for thou hast holden me by my ryght hande 24 Thou hast guyde me with thy counsayle and after that thou receauedst me with glorie 25 Whom haue I in heauen but thee and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee 26 My fleshe and my heart fayleth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for euer 27 For lo they that kepe them selues a loofe from thee shall perishe thou destroyest euery one that committeth fornication agaynst thee 28 But it is good for me to come neare vnto God wherfore I put my trust in thee O Lorde God that I may declare all thy workes The argument of the .lxxiiii. psalme ¶ The prophete in the name of the people of Israel complayneth of their affliction howe that they be as forsaked of God howe that their temple is set a fire and raced and the worde of God abolished He discribeth the iniuries crueltie outragiousnesse and blasphemies of the enemies He humbly prayeth that these calamities may haue an ende that iust punishment auengeaunce may be taken of the enemies and that they may be defended for his couenaunt sake as his fathers were commyng out of Egypt ¶ A wise instruction to be song of Asaph 1 O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture 2 Remember thy congregation thou hast possest it nowe a long tyme thou hast redeemed the rodde of thine inheritaunce euen mount Sion wherein thou dwellest 3 Lyft vp thy feete for to destroy vtterly euery enemie which hath done euyll in thy sanctuarie 4 Thyne aduersaries roare in the myddest of thy congregations and set vp their banners for signes of victorie 5 He that hewed tymber afore out of * thicke woddes for to builde the temple was esteemed as one offeryng a present to God aboue 6 But nowe they breake downe into peeces all the carued worke therof with axes and hammers 7 They haue set fire on thy holy places they haue defiled the dwellyng place of thy name castyng it downe to the groūd 8 Yea they sayde in their heartes let vs make hauocke of them altogether thus haue they burnt vp all the houses of God in the lande 9 We see not our ensignes there is not one prophete more no not one is there amongst vs that vnderstandeth our case 10 O Lorde shall the aduersarie do this dishonour continually shall the enemie blaspheme thy name for euer 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hande yea thy right hande consume them drawing it out of thy bosome 12 Truely God is my kyng of olde who worketh saluation in the myddest of the earth 13 Thou didst deuide the sea through thy power thou brakest the heades of the dragons in the waters 14 Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in peeces and gauest hym to be meate for the people in wildernesse 15 Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters 16 The day is thine the nyght is thine thou hast prepared the light the sunne 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast ordeyned summer and wynter 18 Remember this O God the enemie hath dishonoured and the foolishe people hath blasphemed thy name 19 O deliuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto a wylde beast forget not the congregation of the poore for euer 20 Loke vpon the couenaunt for darknesse of the earth hath replenisshed houses with iniquitie 21 O let not the simple go away ashamed but let the afflicted needy geue prayse vnto thy name 22 Arise O Lord mayntayne thine owne cause remember the dishonour that the foolishe man doth vnto thee dayly 23 Forget not the voyce of thine enemies the mutteryng of them that hate thee ascendeth vp continually ¶ The argument of the .lxxv. Psalme ¶ The prophete prayseth God and setteth foorth the duetie of a good prince who must administer iustice and equitie purge the earth from corruptnesse of iudgement suppresse the wicked and aduaunce the godly through the great power of God ¶ To the chiefe musition destroy not the psalme of Asaph a song 1 WE do confesse it vnto thee O lord we do confesse it for thy wonderous workes do declare thy name to be at hande 2 When I shall take tyme fyt for the purpose I wyll iudge accordyng vnto ryght 3 The earth wasteth and all the inhabitours therof I haue vpholded the pyllours of it Selah 4 I sayd vnto fooles deale not so madly to the vngodly set not vp your horne 5 Set not vp your horne an high and speake not with a stiffe necke 6 Because promotion commeth neither from the east nor from the west nor yet from the south 7 For God is the iudge it is he that putteth downe one and setteth vp another 8 For in the hande of God there is a cup and the wine is redde it is full mixt and he powreth out the same 9 But the vngodly of the earth do wring out and drynke the dregges therof 10 As for me I wyll euer set foorth in wordes the Lorde I wyll sing psalmes to the God of Iacob 11 And I wyll breake all the hornes of the vngodly but the hornes of the ryghteous shal be exalted ¶ The argument of the .lxxvj. Psalme ¶ The prophete prayseth the countrey of Iurie
that call vpon thee 6 Geue eare O God vnto my prayer and be attentiue vnto the voyce of my humble petitions 7 I call vpon thee in the day of my trouble for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde there is not one that can do as thou doest All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lorde and shall glorifie thy name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges thou art God alone 11 Teache me thy way O God and I wyll walke in thy trueth make my heart all one with thyne that it may feare thy name 12 I wyll acknowledge thee O Lorde my God with all my heart and I wyl glorifie thy name for euer 13 For great is thy mercy towarde me and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest part of hell 14 O God the proude are rysen against me a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule and haue not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy long yer thou be angry plenteous in goodnes and trueth 16 Turne thy face vnto me and haue mercy vpon me geue thy strength vnto thy seruaunt and helpe the sonne of thine handmayde 17 Shewe some good token of thy fauour towardes me that they whiche hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou God hast helped me and comforted me The argument of the .lxxxvij. psalme ¶ The prophete commendeth Sion the citie of God of the holy religion that is in it of the sitation of the great loue that God beareth to it of the noble actes done in it and in auauncing it aboue all the kingdomes of the earth ¶ A psalme the song of the sonnes of Corach 1 GOD loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob for her foundations are vpon the holy hilles 2 Very excellent thinges are spoken of thee O thou citie of God Selah 3 I wyll make mention amongst those that knowe me of Egypt and Babylon behold also of Palestina and Tyre with Ethiopia and it shal be sayde suche a man is borne there 4 But of Sion it shal be reported that very many be borne in her and the most highest him selfe shall establishe her 5 God wyll number in the register of the people euery one that is borne there Selah 6 And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes yea al my fountaines are in thee ¶ The argument of the .lxxxviij. psalme ¶ The prophete after a most lamentable sort desireth God to heare his prayers He complayneth of his great calamities and extreme perilles wherin he was wrapt by sicknes by ieoperdie of death and by the losse of his frendes as one forsaken of God and without al comfort He is loth to die for that then he can not prayse God with the faythful ¶ A song the psalme of the sonnes of Corach to the chiefe musition vpon Mahalath Leannoth a wise instruction of Heman the Ezrahite 1 O God the Lorde of my saluation I crye day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thyne eare vnto my crying 2 For my soule is full of miserie and my life toucheth the graue 3 I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength 4 I am free among the dead like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue whom thou remembrest no more and are cut away from thy hande 5 Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit in darknes and in deepenes 6 Thyne indignation sore presseth me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes Selah 7 Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre fro me and made me to be abhorred of them I am shut vp I can not get foorth 8 My sight fayleth through my affliction O God I haue called dayly vpon thee I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee 9 Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead or shal the dead rise vp againe and acknowledge thee Selah 10 Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue or thy faythfulnes in destruction 11 Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes 12 But vnto thee do I crye O God and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee 13 O God why abhorrest thou my soule and why hidest thou thy face from me 14 I am in miserie I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death I haue suffered thy terrours and I am styll in doubt 15 Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me and thy terrours haue vndone me 16 They came rounde about me dayly lyke water and compassed me altogether on euery syde 17 Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour thou hast hid mine acquaintaunce out of sight The argument of the .lxxxix. psalme ¶ The prophete prayseth the inspeakable goodnes of God for the couenaunt made to him and to the elect people of God for euer He prayseth his great power goodnes and iustice He declareth what promise God hath made to hym of his kingdome and posteritie He complayneth of the great spoyling of his kingdome and of his people He desireth God for his couenauntes sake to deliuer hym out of affliction vpon the consideration that mans life is very short ¶ A wyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite 1 I Wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generatiō to another 2 For I sayde mercy shall for euer endure thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens 3 I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt 4 I wyll establishe thy seede for euer and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation Selah 5 O God the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes 6 For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God and who is like vnto God amongst the children gods 7 God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes and to be feared aboue al them that are about him 8 O God Lorde of hoastes who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde and thy trueth is on euery side thee 9 Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea when her waues aryse thou delayest them 10 Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme 11 The heauens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde and of all the plentie that is therin 12 Thou hast made the north and the south Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name 13 Thou hast a mightie arme thy hand is strong and thy right hand is exalted 14 Iustice and iudgement is the foundation of thy throne
that is weaned from his mother yea my soule is within me as a weaned chylde 3 O Israel repose thou thy trust in God from this time foorth for euermore The argument of the .cxxxij. psalme ¶ The prophete desireth God to remember hym and his great affection towarde religion and to buylde a temple for his arke He sayeth it was declared vnto hym that Sion shoulde be the house of God Dauids petition when he brought the arke thyther God promiseth how that Dauids seede shal raigne after him for euer if they kepe his lawes and that he wyll blesse the citie of Sion and the inhabitauntes thereof with all kynde of felicitie ¶ A song of high degrees 1 O God be mindfull of Dauid with all his affliction 2 Who swore vnto God who made a vowe vnto the most mightie Lorde of Iacob 3 Saying I wyll not enter into the tabernacle of my house nor get vp into my bed 4 I wyll not suffer myne eyes to slepe nor myne eye liddes to slumber 5 Vntill I finde out a place for the temple of God an habitation for the most mightie Lorde of Iacob 6 Beholde we hearde it to be at Ephratha we founde it in the fieldes of the forest 7 We wyll go into his tabernacle and fall downe on our knees before his footestoole 8 Aryse O God for to come into thy resting place thou and the arke of thy strength 9 Let thy priestes be clothed with righteousnes and let thy saintes make a ioyfull noyse 10 For thy seruaunt Dauids sake turne not away from the face of thyne annoynted 11 God hath sworne for a trueth vnto Dauid and he wyll not go from it I wyll place vpon thy throne some of the fruite of thy body 12 If thy chyldren wyll kepe my couenaunt and my testimonies whiche I wyll teache them their chyldren also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore 13 For God hath chosen to be in Sion he had a desire that it might be an habitation for hym 14 This is sayeth he my rest for euer heare I wyll dwell for I haue a desire to it 15 I wyll aboundauntly powre my blessinges vpon her victuals and I wyll satisfie her poore with bread 16 I wyll clothe her priestes with saluation and her saintes shall make an exceeding ioyfull noyse 17 I will make there the horne of Dauid to bud vp I wyll ordayne a light for mine annoynted 18 I wyll clothe his enemies with shame but his crowne shall florishe vppon hym selfe ¶ The argument of the .cxxxiii. Psalme ¶ Dauid declareth howe acceptable a thing is brotherly loue and concorde both to God and man ¶ A song of high degrees made of Dauid 1 BEholde howe good and howe pleasaunt a thing it is that brethren dwel together in vnitie 2 It is lyke vnto a pretious oyntment powred vpon the head which runneth downe vpon the beard euen vpon Aarons beard which also runneth downe vpon the skyrtes of his garmentes 3 It is also like vnto the deawe of Hermon whiche falleth downe vpon the hyll of Sion 4 For God hath commaunded his blessing and life euerlasting to be where is suche concorde ¶ The argument of the .cxxxiiii. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth those that do watche all night in the house of God to lift vp their handes and to prayse God The Priestes and Leuites of duetie watched all night by course in the temple as it appeareth Leuit. viii ¶ A song of high degrees 1 BEholde blesse God all ye the seruauntes of God who in the nyght tyme remayne in the house of God 2 Lyft vp your holy handes and blesse God 3 God who made heauen and earth blesse thee out of Sion The argument of the .cxxxv. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth all them to prayse God who come to the temple for that God hath chosen Iacob to be his inheritaunce and also for that he is able to do what he wyll in heauen earth and sea He rehearseth the workes that God did in deliuering them out of Egypt and in bryngyng them into the lande of Chanaan As for the gods of the Heathen they be but golde and siluer 1 PRayse ye the Lorde prayse ye the name of God prayse it ye seruauntes of God 2 Ye that stande in the house of God in the courtes of the house of our Lord 3 Prayse ye the Lorde for God is gratious sing psalmes vnto his name for it is pleasaunt 4 For the Lorde hath chosen Iacob vnto hym selfe and Israel for his owne possession 5 For I knowe that God is great and that our Lorde is aboue all gods 6 God doth whatsoeuer pleaseth hym in heauen and in earth in the sea and in all deepe places 7 He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses 8 He smote the first borne of Egypt aswell of beast as of man 9 He sent tokens and wonders into the mydst of thee O Egypt against Pharao and all his seruauntes 10 He smote many nations and slue mightie kinges 11 Sihon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Bashan and all the kingdomes of Chanaan 12 And he gaue their lande for an inheritaunce euen for an heritaunce to Israel his people 13 Thy name O God endureth for euer there wil be a remembraunce of thee O God from one generation to another 14 For God wyll iudge his people and he will be pacified beyng displeased with his seruauntes 15 As for the idols of the Heathen they are but siluer and golde the worke of mens handes 16 They haue a mouth and speake not they haue eyes but they see not 17 They haue eares and they heare not yea there is no breath in their mouth 18 They that make them are lyke vnto them and euery one that putteth his trust in them 19 Blesse God ye the house of Israel blesse God ye the house of Aaron 20 Blesse God ye the house of Leui ye that feare God blesse God 21 Blessed be God out of Sion who dwelleth at Hierusalem Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the .cxxxvi. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth men to prayse God aswell for all thinges created by hym as for his benefites peculiarly bestowed vpon the chyldren of Israel in deliuering them out of Egypt and in bringing them into the lande of Chanaan He doth insinuate also ▪ that God is not praysed worthyly except we acknowledge that all his benefites proceede of his free and meere goodnes and not of our desertes 1 COnfesse you it vnto the Lord for he is gratious and his mercie endureth for euer 2 Confesse you it vnto the God of Gods for his mercy endureth for euer 3 Confesse you it vnto the Lorde of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer 4 Who onlye doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer 5 Who by his excellent wysdome made the heauens for his mercy
soule vnto thee 10 Delyuer me O God from myne enemies I hyde my selfe with thee 11 Teache me to do the thyng that pleaseth thee for thou art my Lorde let thy good spirite leade me foorth vnto the lande of ryghteousnesse 12 For thy names sake O God thou wilt cause me to lyue and for thy righteousnesse sake thou wilt bryng my soule out of trouble 13 And of thy goodnesse thou wylt restrayne myne enemies and destroy all them that be aduersaries to my soule for I am thy seruaunt ¶ The argument of the .cxliiij. Psalme ¶ Dauid acknowledgeth it to proceede only of God that he hath ouercome his enemies and hath his subiectes obedient vnto hym He marueyleth that God is so beneficiall vnto hym a man to be esteemed of no valure He desireth God vtterly to vanquishe his aduersaries and that his people may florishe with all kynde of felicitie ¶ Of Dauid 1 BLessed be God my rocke who teacheth my handes to warre and my fingers to fyght 2 My holynesse and my fortresse my refuge and my only deliuerer my buckler in hym I haue put my trust who subdueth my people vnder me 3 O God what is man that thou doest knowe hym what is the sonne of man that thou doest thynke of hym 4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away 5 Bowe thy heauens O God and come downe touche the mountaynes and they shall smoke 6 Cast out terrible lightninges and feare them shoote out thyne arrowes and consume them 7 Sende downe thine hand from aboue deliuer me and take me out of the great waters from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am 8 Whose mouth vttereth vanitie and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood 9 O Lorde I wyll syng a newe song vnto thee and I wyll syng psalmes vnto thee vpon a Lute and vpon an instrument of ten strynges 10 Who geueth victorie vnto kynges who redeemeth Dauid his seruaunt from peryll of the sworde 11 Redeeme me and deliuer me from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am whose mouth vttereth vanitie and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood 12 That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes that our daughters may be as corners stones grauen after the fashion as a palace is 13 That the corners of our houses may be fylled yeeldyng foorth all maner of stoore that our cattell may bring foorth thousandes yea ten thousandes in our streates 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay no leadyng into captiuitie and no complaynyng in our streates 15 Happy are the people that be in such a case blessed is the people who haue God for their Lorde ⧠The argument of the cxlv psalme ¶ Dauid setteth foorth to be talked and song of all ages the wonderous workes of God wherin is declared his goodnesse mercifulnesse power and prouidence God raigneth for euer he aydeth the oppressed and afflicted He feedeth all creatures He is iust and mercifull in all his workes He is present with those that call vpon him and feare him such he heareth and saueth wheras he destroyeth the wicked ¶ The prayse of Dauid 1 I Will magnifie thee O Lord my king and I wyll blesse thy name for euer and euer 2 I wyll blesse thee euery day and I wyll prayse thy name for euer and euer 3 Great is God and most worthy to be praysed and his greatnesse can not be searched out 4 One generation shal praise thy workes vnto another and they shall declare thy mightie power 5 I wyll set foorth in wordes the glorious maiestie of thy excellentnesse and thy wonderous workes 6 I wyll also declare thy greatnesse so that men shall speake of the force of thy terrible actes 7 They shall vtter out of their mouth a memoriall of thyne aboundaunt kyndnesse and they shall syng of thy ryghteousnesse 8 God is gratious and mercifull loth to be angry and great in louing kindnesse 9 God is good vnto euery man and his mercie is ouer all his workes 10 All thy workes shall confesse it vnto thee O God and thy saintes shall blesse thee 11 They shal shewe the glorie of thy kingdome and talke of thy power 12 That they may make knowen to the children of men his manifolde power the glorious maiestie of his kingdome 13 Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 14 God vpholdeth all such as fall and lyfteth vp all those that be bowyng downewarde 15 The eyes of all wayte vpon thee and thou geuest them their meate in due season 16 Thou openest thyne hande and thou satisfiest the desire of euery thing liuing 17 God is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workes 18 God is nye vnto all them that call vpon hym vnto all such as call vpon hym in trueth 19 He wyll fulfyll the desire of them that feare hym he will also heare their crye and he wyll saue them 20 God preserueth all those that loue him but he wyll bring to nothyng such as be vngodly 21 My mouth shall speake the prayse of God and all fleshe shall blesse his holy name for euer and euer The argument of the .cxlvi. psalme ¶ The prophete vttereth his great desire to prayse God he withdraweth men from puttyng their trust in princes pronouncyng that man to be happy who trusteth in God the creatour of all thinges the geuer of ryght to those that suffer wrong the feeder of the hungry the deliuerer of prisoners out of captiuitie and the defendour of straungers fatherlesse and widdowes 1 PRayse ye the Lord prayse thou God O my soule whylest I lyue I wyll prayse God I wyll syng psalmes vnto my Lorde so long as I shal be 2 Put not your trust in princes nor in the sonne of man in whom there is no saluation 3 His spirite shall depart out of hym he shall turne agayne to his earth at that day all his thoughtes shall perishe 4 Blessed is he vnto whom the God of Iacob is an ayde his trust is in God his Lorde 5 Who made heauen and earth the sea and all that therin is who mainteyneth the trueth for euer 6 Who executeth iudgement for those that are oppressed with wrong who geueth foode to the hungry 7 God looseth those that be bounde God geueth syght to the blynde 8 God rayseth them vp that are falling God loueth the ryghteous 9 God taketh strangers into his custodie he releeueth the fatherlesse and the widdowe as for the way of the vngodlye he turneth it vpsyde downe 10 God thy Lorde shall raigne O Sion to the worldes ende throughout all generations Prayse ye the Lorde The argument of the cxlvij. psalme ¶ The prophete exhorteth the children of Israel to prayse God for that by hym they were brought home out of captiuitie He declareth Gods great
woman with open tokens of an harlot onlye her heart was hid 11 She was full of loude wordes and redye to dallie whose feete coulde not abide in the house 12 Nowe is she without nowe in the streates and lyeth in wayte at euery corner 13 She caught hym and kissed him and was not ashamed saying 14 I had a vowe of peace offeringes to pay and this day I perfourme it 15 Therefore came I foorth to meete thee that I might seeke thy face and so haue I founde thee 16 I haue deckt my bed with coueringes of tapessarie and clothes of Egypt 17 My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre Aloes and Cinamon 18 Come let vs take our fill of loue vntyll the morning and let vs solace our selues with the pleasures of loue 19 For the good man is not at home he is gone farre of 20 He hath taken the bagge of money with hym and wyll returne at the appointed solempne feast 21 Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him and with her flattering lippes she entised hym 22 Sodainly he folowed her as it were an oxe led to the slaughter and lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes to be punished 23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon 24 Heare me now therfore O my chylde and marke the wordes of my mouth 25 Let not thyne heart wander in her wayes and be not thou deceaued in her pathes 26 For many one hath she wounded and cast downe yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her 27 Her house is the way vnto hell and bryng men downe into the chaumbers of death The .viii. Chapter 1 Wysdome declareth her excellencie 11 Riches 15 Power 22 Eternitie 32 She exhorteth all to loue and folowe her 1 DOth not wysdome crye doth not vnderstanding put foorth her voyce 2 She standeth in the top of high places by the way in the place of the pathes 3 She cryeth at the gates of the citie at the entrye of the doores 4 It is you O ye men saith she whom I call vnto the chyldren of men do I lyft vp my voyce 5 Take heede vnto knowledge O ye ignoraunt be ye wise in heart O ye fooles 6 Geue eare for I wyll speake of great matters and open my lippes to tell thinges that be right 7 For my mouth shall be talking of the trueth and my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse 8 All the wordes of my mouth are righteous there is no frowardnes nor falsehood in them 9 They are all playne to suche as wyll vnderstande and right to them that finde knowledge 10 Receaue my doctrine and not siluer and knowledge rather then fine golde 11 For wysdome is more worth then pretious stones yea all thinges that thou canst desire may not be compared vnto it 12 I wysdome dwell with counsell and finde out knowledge and vnderstanding 13 The feare of the Lorde abhorreth wickednes pryde disdayne and the euil way and a mouth that speaketh wicked thinges I vtterly abhorre 14 Counsell is mine and direction I am vnderstanding and I haue strength 15 Through me kinges raigne and princes make iust lawes 16 By me princes beare rule and noble men do iudge the earth 17 I am louing vnto those that loue me and they that seeke me early shall finde me 18 Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousnes 19 My fruite is better then golde and pretious stones and mine encrease more worth then fine siluer 20 I wyll guyde thee in the way of righteousnes and in the midst of the pathes of iudgement 21 That I maye stablishe the inhetaunce of them that loue me and encrease their treasure 22 The Lorde him selfe had me in possession in the beginning of his wayes or euer he began his workes aforetime 23 I haue ben ordayned from euerlasting and from the beginning or euer the earth was made 24 When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water 25 Before the foundations of the mountaines were layde yea before all hilles was I borne 26 The earth and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made no not the dust it selfe 27 For when he made the heauens I was present when he compassed the deapthes about 28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue when he fastened the springes of the deepe 29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded when he layde the foundations of the earth 30 I was with him ordring all thinges deliting dayly and reioysyng alway before hym 13 As for the rounde compasse of this worlde I make it ioyfull for my delite is to be among the chyldren of men 32 Therefore hearken vnto me O ye chyldren blessed are they that kepe my wayes 33 O geue eare vnto nurture be wyse and refuse it not Blessed is the man that heareth me watching dayly at my gates and geuing attendaunce at the postes of my doores 34 For whoso findeth me findeth life and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde 35 But whoso offendeth against me hurteth his owne soule and they that hate me are the louers of death ¶ The .ix. Chapter ◠Wysdome calleth all to her feast 7 The scorner wyll not be corrected 10 The feare of God 13 The conditions of an harlot 1 WYsdome hath buylded her house and hewen out seuen pillers 2 She hath kylled her victuals powred out her wine and prepared her table 3 She hath sent foorth her maydens to crye vpon the highest place of the citie 4 Who so is without knowledge let him come hither And to the vnwise she said 5 O come on your way eate my bread and drinke my wine whiche I haue powred out for you 6 Forsake foolishnes and ye shall lyue and see that ye go in the way of vnderstandyng 7 Whoso reproueth a scornefull person getteth him selfe dishonour and he that rebuketh the vngodly stayneth hym selfe 8 Reproue not a scorner lest he owe thee euyll will but rebuke a wyse man and he wyll loue thee 9 Geue a discrete man but an occasion and he wyll be the wyser teache a righteous man and he wyll encrease in knowledge 10 The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome and the knowledge of holy thinges is vnderstanding 11 For thorowe me thy dayes shal be prolonged and the yeres of thy life shall be many 12 If thou be wise thy wysdome shal do thy selfe good but if thou thinkest scorne therof it shal be thine owne harme 13 A foolishe retchlesse woman full of wordes and suche a one as hath no knowledge 14 Sitteth at the doore of her house and in the hye places of the citie 15 To call such as go by and that walke straight in their wayes 16 Who so is ignoraunt sayeth
great worshyp 24 Who so is partner with a thiefe hateth his owne soule he heareth blasphemie and telleth it not foorth 25 He that feareth men shall haue a fall but who so putteth his trust in the Lorde is without daunger 26 Many there be that seke the princes fauour but euery mans iudgement commeth from the Lorde 27 The righteous abhorreth the vngodlye and the wicked hateth hym that is in the ryght way The .xxx. Chapter ¶ The purenesse of the worde of God and what we ought to require of God with certayne wonderfull thynges that are in this worlde ' ¶ THE wordes of Agur the sonne of Iake 1 And the prophecie that the same man spake vnto Ithiel euen vnto Ithiel and Vchal 2 SVrely I am more foolishe then any man and haue no mans vnderstandyng 3 I neuer learned wisdome nor had knowledge of holy thynges 4 Who hath clymed vp into heauen and come downe from thence who hath holden the wynde fast in his hande who hath gathered together the waters in a garment who hath establisshed all the endes of the worlde what is his name and what is his sonnes name yf thou canst tell 5 Euery worde of God is pure he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym 6 Put thou nothyng vnto his wordes lest he reproue thee and thou be founde a lyar ' 7 Two thinges haue I required of thee ' denie me them not before I dye 8 Remoue farre fro me vanitie and lyes geue me neither pouertie nor riches only graunt me a necessary lyuyng 9 Lest peraduenture I beyng full shoulde denie thee and say who is the Lorde or beyng oppressed with pouertie fall to stealyng and forswere the name of my God 10 Accuse not a seruaunt vnto his maister lest he speake euyll of thee and thou be hurt 11 There is a generation that curseth their father and doth not blesse their mother 12 There is a generation that thynke them selues cleane and yet is not cleansed from their filthinesse 13 There is a generation that hath a proude loke and doth cast vp their eye lyddes 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes and their chawes as knyues to deuour the poore from of the earth the needy from among men 15 The horse leache hath two daughters crying bryng hyther bryng hyther There be three thynges that are neuer satisfied yea foure thynges sayth neuer hoe 16 The graue the barren wombe and the earth that hath neuer water enough as for fire it sayth neuer hoe 17 Who so laugheth his father to scorne and setteth his mothers commaundement at naught the rauens of the valley picke out his eyes and deuoured be he of the young Egles 18 There be three thynges whiche are wonderfull to me yea foure whiche passe my vnderstandyng 19 The way of an Egle in the ayre the way of a serpent vpon a stone the way of a ship in the middest of the sea and the way of a man with a young woman 20 Such is the way also of a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke which wypeth her mouth lyke as when she hath eaten and sayth as for me I haue done no wickednesse 21 For three thynges the earth is disquieted ' and the fourth may it not abyde ' 22 A seruaunt that beareth rule a foole ' that is full fedde ' 23 A spiteful woman when she is maried and an handmayde that is heire to her maistresse 24 These be foure thynges in the earth the which are very litle but in wisdome they exceede the wyse 25 The emmets are but a weake people which yet gather their meate in the sommer 26 The conies are but a feeble folke yet make their boroughes among the rockes 27 The grashoppers haue not a guide ' yet go they foorth together by heapes ' 28 The spyder laboureth with her ' handes and is in kynges palaces ' 29 There be three thynges that go well ' yea foure are comely in goyng ' 30 A lion whiche is strongest among beastes and shunneth not at the syght of any 31 A grayhounde strong in the hynder partes a ramme also and a king against whom no man aryseth vp 32 If thou hast done foolishly when thou ' wast in hye estate or yf thou hast taken euyll counsayle then lay thine hande vpon thy mouth 33 Who so chirneth mylke bringeth foorth butter and he that rubbeth his nose maketh it bleede Euen so he that forceth wrath bringeth foorth strife The .xxxj. Chapter 2 He exhorteth to chastitie and iustice 10 And sheweth the condicions of a wise and worthy woman 1 THE wordes of king Lamuel and the lesson that his mother taught him 2 WHat my sonne what the sonne of my body and what O my deare beloued sonne Geue not ouer thy strength wayes vnto women which are the destruction euen of kynges 4 O Lamuel it is not for kynges it is not I say for kynges to drynke wine nor princes strong drynke 5 Lest they by drnkyng forget the lawe and peruert the iudgement of all poore mens children 6 Geue strong drynke vnto such as are redy to perishe and wine vnto those that mourne 7 That they may drynke it and forget their miserie and aduersitie 8 Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde 9 Open thy mouth defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght and the cause of the poore and helpelesse 10 Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman she is much more worth then pearles 11 The heart of her husbande may safely trust in her so that he shall fall into no pouertie 12 She wyll do hym good and not euill all the dayes of her lyfe 13 She occupieth wooll and flaxe and laboureth gladly with her handes 14 She is like a marchauntes ship that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre 15 She is vp in the nyght season to prouide meate for her housholde and foode for her maydens 16 She considereth lande and byeth it and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde 17 She girdeth her loynes with strength and fortifieth her armes 18 And yf she perceaue that her huswiferie doth good her candell goeth not out by nyght 19 She layeth her fingers to the spindle her hande taketh holde of the distaffe 20 She openeth her hande to the poore yea she stretcheth foorth her handes to such as haue neede 21 She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurt her housholde for all her housholde folkes are clothed with scarlet 22 She maketh her selfe faire ornamētes her clothyng is white silke and purple 23 Her husbande is much set by in the gates when he sitteth among the rulers of the lande 24 She maketh cloth of silke and selleth it and deliuereth girdles vnto the marchaunt 25 Strength and honour is her clothing and in the latter day she shall reioyce
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdome and in her tongue is the lawe of grace 27 She loketh well to the wayes of her housholde and eateth not her bread with idlenesse 28 Her children arise vp call her blessed and her husbande shall make much of her 29 Many daughters there be that gather riches together but thou goest aboue them all 30 As for fauour it is deceiptfull beautie is a vayne thyng but a woman that feareth the Lorde shal be praysed 31 Geue her of the fruite of her handes and let her owne workes prayse her in the gates A. P. C. The ende of the prouerbes of Solomon ⧠The booke of the preacher otherwise called Ecclesiastes which is Solomon the king ¶ For Solomon is called in scripture by three sundry names The one Solomon that is the maker of peace The seconde Idida that is beloued of God The thirde Ecclesiastes that is a preacher teachyng that true and eternall felicitie consisteth not in any worldly wisdome or aboundaunce of riches or in carnall pleasure which all be but vayne and transitorie but he proueth that true felicitie consisteth in a whole ioynyng our selues to God by pure religion that is with a sincere fayth and the feare of God obseruyng his commaundementes The first Chapter 2 All thynges in this worlde are full of vanitie and of none induraunce 13 All mans wisdome is but follie and griefe 1 THe wordes of the preacher y e sonne of Dauid kyng of Hierusalem 2 All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher all is most vayne I say and but playne vanitie 3 For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne 4 One generation passeth away another commeth but the earth abideth styll 5 The sunne aryseth the sunne goeth downe and returneth to his place that he may there ryse vp agayne 6 The wynde goeth towarde the south and turneth vnto the north fetcheth his compasse whirleth about and goeth foorth and returneth agayne to his circuites from whence he dyd come 7 All fluddes runne into the sea and yet is the sea it selfe not fylled For loke vnto what place the waters runne thence they come to flowe agayne 8 All thinges are so harde to be knowen that no man can expresse them The eye is not satisfied with sight the eare is not fylled with hearyng 9 The thyng that hath ben commeth to passe agayne and the thyng that hath ben done shal be done agayne There is no newe thyng vnder the sunne 10 Is there any thyng wherof it may be sayde lo this is newe for it was long ago in the tymes that haue ben before vs. 11 The thyng that is past is out of remembraunce euen so the thynges that are for to come shal no more be thought vpon among them that come after 12 I my selfe the preacher was kyng of Israel at Hierusalem 13 And dyd applie my mynde to seke out searche for knowledge of all thynges that are done vnder heauen Such trauayle and labour hath God geuen vnto the children of men to exercise them selues therin 14 Thus haue I considered all these thynges that come to passe vnder the sunne and lo they are all but vanitie and vexation of mynde 15 The croked can not be made straight nor the imperfection of thynges can be numbred 16 I communed with myne owne heart saying lo I am come to great estate and haue gotten more wisdome then all they that haue ben before me in Hierusalem 17 Yea my heart had great experience of wisdome knowledge for thervnto I applied my mynde that I myght knowe what were wisdome and vnderstandyng what were errour and foolishnesse and I perceaued that this was also but a vexation of mynde 18 For where much wisdome is there is also great trauayle and disquietnesse and the more knowledge a man hath the more is his care The .ij. Chapter 1 Pleasures sumptuous buildynges riches and possessions are but vanitie 14 The wise and the foole haue both one ende touchyng the bodyly death 1 THen sayde I thus in my heart Nowe go to I will take myne ease and haue good dayes But lo that is vanitie also 2 Insomuch that I saide vnto the man geuen to laughter thou art mad and to mirth what doest thou 3 So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome and to comprehende foolishnesse vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen 4 I made gorgious faire workes I builded my houses and planted vineyardes 5 I made me orchardes and gardens of pleasure and planted trees in them of all maner of fruites 6 I made pooles of water to water the greene and fruitfull trees withall 7 I bought seruauntes and maydens and had a great housholde As for cattel and sheepe I had more substaunce of them then all they that were before me in Hierusalem 8 I gathered together siluer and golde and the chiefe treasures of kynges and landes I haue prouided me men singgers and women singers and the delites of the sonnes of men as a woman taken captiue and women taken captiues 9 And I was greater and in more worship then all my predecessours in Hierusalem For wisdome remayned with me 10 And loke whatsoeuer myne eyes desired I let them haue it and wherin soeuer my heart delited or had any pleasure I withhelde it not from it Thus my heart reioyced in all that I did and this was my portion of all my trauayle 11 But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought and all the labour that I had taken therin lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde and nothing of any value vnder the sunne 12 Then turned I me to consider wisdome errour and foolishnesse for what is he among men that myght be compared to me the kyng in such workes 13 And I sawe that wisdome excelleth foolishnesse as farre as light doth darknesse 14 For a wise man hath his eyes in his head but the foole goeth in darknesse I perceaued also that they both had one ende 15 Then thought I in my mynde yf it happen vnto the foole as it doth vnto me what needeth me then to labour any more for wisdome So I confessed within my heart that this also was but vanitie 16 For the wise are euer as litle in remembraunce as the foolishe for the dayes shall come when all shal be forgotten yea the wise man dyeth as well as the foole 17 Thus began I to be weery of my life insomuch that I coulde away with nothyng that is done vnder the sunne for all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde 18 Yea I was weery of my labour which I had taken vnder the sunne because I shoulde be fayne to leaue
thy gelousie thy strength the multitude of thy mercies and thy louing kindnesse wyll not be intreated of vs 16 Yet art thou our father for Abraham knoweth vs not neither is Israel acquainted with vs but thou Lorde art our father and redeemer and thy name is euerlasting 17 O Lorde wherefore hast thou led vs out of the way wherefore hast thou hardened our heartes that we feare thee not Be at one with vs agayne for thy seruauntes sake and for the generation of thyne heritage 18 Thy holy people haue had but a litle whyle thy sanctuarie in possession for our enemies haue troden downe thy holy place 19 And we were thyne from the beginning when thou wast not their Lorde for they haue not called vpon thy name ¶ The .lxiiij. Chapter 1 The prophete vnder the person of the Iewes bewayleth their exile and banishment ◠Mans righteousnesse is like a cloth defiled 1 O That thou wouldest cleaue the heauens in sunder come downe that the mountaines might melt away at thy presence 2 Like as at an hotte fire and that the malitious might boyle away as the water doth vpon the fire whereby thy name might be knowen among thyne enemies and that the gentiles might tremble before thee 3 When thou wroughtest wonderous straunge workes we looked not for them thou camest downe and the hilles melted at thy presence 4 For since the beginning of the worlde it hath not ben hearde or perceaued neither hath any eye seene another God beside thee whiche doest so muche for them that put their trust in thee 5 Thou helpest hym that doth right with chearefulnesse and them that thinke vpon thee in thy wayes but lo thou hast ben angrie for we offended and haue ben euer in sinne though the worlde hath cleaued to them yet shall we be saued 6 We are all as an vncleane thing and all our righteousnesse are as filthy ragges we fal euerychone as the leafe for our sinnes cary vs away lyke the winde 7 There is no man that calleth vpon thy name that standeth vp to take hold by thee therefore hidest thou thy face from vs and consumest vs because of our sinnes 8 But nowe O Lorde thou father of ours we are thy clay and thou art our potter and we all are the worke of thy handes 9 Be not to sore displeased O Lord and kepe not our offences to long in thy remembraunce but consider that we all are thy people 10 The cities of thy sanctuarie lye waste Sion is a wildernesse and Hierusalem a desert 11 Our holy house whiche is our beautie where our fathers praysed thee is brent vp yea all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away 12 Wylt thou not be intreated O Lorde for all this wylt thou holde thy peace and scourge vs so sore The .lxv. Chapter 1 The reiecting of the Iewes and the calling of the heathen 1 THey seeke me that hitherto haue not asked for me they finde me that hitherto haue not sought me I haue saide I am here I am here I am founde of a people that neuer called vpon my name 2 For thus long haue I euer holden out mine handes to an vnfaythfull people that go not the right way but after their owne imagination 3 To a people that is euer defiyng me to my face they make their oblations in gardens and their smoke vpon aulters of bricke 4 They lurke among the groues and lye in the dennes all night they eate swines fleshe and vncleane broth is in their vessels 5 If thou commest nye them they say touche me not for I am holyer then thou All these men when I am angry shal be turned to smoke and fire that shall burne for euer 6 Beholde it is written before my face and shall not be forgotten but recompenced I shall rewarde it them into their bosome 7 I meane your misdeedes and the misdeedes of your fathers together saith the Lord which haue made their smokes vpon the mountaines and blasphemed me vpon the hilles therefore wyll I measure their olde deedes into their bosome agayne 8 Moreouer thus saith the Lord Like as when newe wine is founde in the cluster and one saith Lose it not for there is blessing therein euen so wyll I do also for my seruauntes sakes that I wyll not destroy them all 9 But I will take a seede out of Iacob and out of Iuda one to take possession of my hill My chosen shall possesse it and my seruauntes shall dwell there 10 Saron shal be a sheepefolde and the valley of Achor shall geue the stalling for the cattell of my people that seeke after me 11 But as for you ye are they that haue forsaken the Lorde and forgotten my holy hyll ye haue set vp an aulter vnto Iupiter and geuen riche drinke offeringes vnto the planets 12 Therfore wyll I number you to the sworde that ye shal be destroyed altogether for that when I called no man gaue me aunswere when I spake ye hearkened not vnto me but dyd wickednesse before mine eyes and chose the thinges that pleased me not 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Beholde my seruauntes shall eate but ye shall haue hunger beholde my seruauntes shall drinke but ye shall suffer thirst beholde my seruauntes shal be merie but ye shal be confounded 14 Beholde my seruauntes shall reioyce for very quietnesse of heart but ye shal crye for sorowe of heart and complaine for vexation of minde 15 Your name shall ye leaue accursed among my chosen for God the Lorde shall slay you and call his seruauntes by another name 16 Who so reioyceth vpon earth shall reioyce in the true God and who so sweareth vpon earth shall sweare in the true God for the olde afflictions shal be forgotten and taken away out of my sight 17 For lo I shall make a newe heauen and a newe earth and as for the olde they shall neuer be thought vpon nor kept in minde 18 But the Lorde saith Be glad and euermore reioyce for the things that I shall do For why beholde I shall make a ioyfull Hierusalem and his people ioyfull 19 Yea I my selfe will reioyce with Hierusalem and be glad with my people and the voyce of weeping and wayling shall not be hearde in her from thencefoorth 20 There shall neither be chylde nor olde man that haue not their full dayes but when the chylde commeth to an hundred yeres olde it shal dye and if he that is an hundred yeres of age do wrong he shal be cursed 21 They shall buylde houses and dwell in them they shall plant vineyardes and eate the fruite of them 22 They shall not buylde and another possesse they shall not plant and another eate but the life of my people shal be like a tree and mine elect shall enioy styll the worke of their handes 23 They shall not labour in vayne nor beget with trouble for
for what shoulde I els do to my people 8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour but priuilie they lay wayte for hym 9 Should I not punishe them for these thinges saith the Lorde or shoulde I not be auenged of any suche people as this 10 Vpon the mountaines wyl I take vp a lamentation and a sorowfull crye and a mourning vpon the faire places of the wildernesse Namely howe they are so brent vp that no man goeth there any more yea a man shall not heare one beast crye there byrdes and cattell are all gone from thence 11 I wyl make Hierusalem also an heape of stones a den of venemous wormes and I wyll make the cities of Iuda so waste that no man shall dwel therin 12 What man is so wise as to vnderstand this or to whom hath the Lorde spoken by mouth that he may shewe this and say O thou lande why perishest thou so wherfore art thou so brent vp and like a wildernesse that no man goeth thorowe 13 Yea the Lorde hym selfe tolde the same vnto them that forsoke his lawe and kept not the thing that he gaue them in commaundement neither liued thereafter 14 But folowed the wickednesse of their owne heartes serued straunge gods as their forefathers taught them 15 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Beholde I wyll feede this people with wormewood and geue them gall to drinke 16 I wyll scatter them also among the heathen whom neither they nor their fathers haue knowen and I wyll send a sworde among them to persecute them vntyll I bring them to naught 17 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Beware of the vengeaunce that hangeth ouer you and call for mourning wiues and sende for wyse women that they come shortly 18 And sing a mourning song of vs that the teares may fall out of our eyes and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water 19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion O howe are we so sore destroyed O howe are we so pitiously confounded We must forsake our owne naturall countrey and we are shut out of our owne lodginges 20 Yet heare the worde of the Lorde O ye women and let your eares regarde the wordes of his mouth that ye may learne your daughters to mourne and that euery one may teache her neighbour to make lamentation 21 Namely thus Death is climing vp in at our windowes he is come into our houses to destroy the chylde before the doore and the young man in the streete 22 But tell thou playnely thus saith the Lord The dead bodyes of men shall lye vpon the ground as the dunge vpon the fielde and as the handfull after the mower and there shal be no man to take them vp 23 Thus saith the Lorde Let not the wise man reioyce in his wisdome nor the strong man in his strength neither the riche man in his riches 24 But who so wyll reioyce let hym reioyce in this that he vnderstandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lorde whiche do mercy equitie and righteousnesse vpon the earth therfore haue I pleasure in suche thinges saith the Lorde 25 Beholde the time commeth saith the Lord that I will visite all them whose foreskinne is vncircumcised and the circumcised 26 The Egyptians the Iewes the Edomites the Ammonites the Moabites and the shauen Madianites that dwel in the wildernesse for all the gentiles are all vncircumcised in the fleshe but all the house of Israel are vncircumcised in the heart ¶ The .x. Chapter 2 The constellations of the starres are not to be feared 5 Of the weakenesse of idols and of the power of God 21 Of euill curates 1 HEare the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto thee O thou house of Israel 2 Thus saith the Lord ye shal not learne after the maner of the heathen and ye shall not be afraide for the tokens of heauen for the heathen are afraide of suche 3 Yea all the customes and lawes of the gentiles are nothing but vanitie They hewe downe a tree in the wood with the handes of the workeman and fashion it with the are 4 They couer it ouer with golde or siluer they fasten it with nailes and hammers that it moue not 5 It standeth as stiffe as the Palme tree it can neither speake nor go one foote but must be borne Be not ye afraide of suche for they can do neither good nor euill 6 But there is none lyke vnto thee O Lorde and great is the name of thy power 7 Who would not feare thee O king of the gentiles for thyne is the dominion for among all the wise men of the gentiles and in all their kingdomes there is none that may be likened vnto thee 8 They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing wood is the teaching of vanitie 9 Siluer is brought out of Tharsis and beaten to plates and gold from Ophir a worke that is made with the hande of the craftesman and they are clothed with yelowe silke and scarlet all these are the worke of cunning men 10 But the Lorde is a true God a liuing God and an euerlasting kyng if he be wroth the earth shaketh all the gentiles may not abide his indignation 11 As for their gods thus shall you say to them they are no gods that made neither heauen nor earth therfore shall they perishe from the earth and from all thinges vnder heauen 12 But as for our God he made the earth with his power and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens 13 At his voyce the waters gathered together in the ayre he draweth vp the cloudes from the vttermost partes of the earth he turneth lightning to raine and bringeth foorth the windes out of their treasures 14 His wisdome maketh all men fooles and confounded be casters of images for that they cast is but a vayne thing and hath no life 15 The vayne craftesmen with their workes that they in their vanitie haue made shall perishe one with another in time of visitation 16 Neuerthelesse Iacobs portion is none such but it is he that hath made all thinges and Israel is the rod of his inheritaunce the Lorde of hoastes is his name 17 Gather vp thy wares out of the land thou that art in the strong place 18 For thus saith the Lorde beholde I wyll now throwe as with a stone sling the inhabiters of this land at this once and I wyll bring trouble vpon them that they shall proue true the wordes that I haue spoken by the prophetes 19 Alas howe am I hurt alas howe paynefull are my scourges vnto me for I consider this sorowe by my selfe and I must suffer it 20 My tabernacle is destroyed and all my cordes are
shall rise vp wholly as a flood and it shal be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Egypt 9 And in that day sayth the Lord God I will euen cause the sunne to go downe at noone and I wil darken the earth in the cleare day 10 And I will turne your feastes into mourning and all your songues into lamentation and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes and baldnesse vpon euery head I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne and the end therof as a bitter day 11 Behold the dayes come sayth the Lord God that I will sende a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor thirst for water but of hearing the worde of the Lorde 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea from the north euen vnto the east shal they run to and fro to seke the worde of the Lord and shall not finde it 13 In that day shall the fayre virgins and the young men perishe for thirst 14 They that swere by the sinne of Samaria that say Thy God O Dan liueth the maner of Beerseba liueth euen they shall fall and neuer rise vp againe The .ix. Chapter 1 Treatninges against the temple 5 The subuertion of the people 7 That they be not able to escape gods iudgementes 10 He reproued the vnkindenesse of Israel 11 The restoring of the church is promised 1 I Saw the Lorde standing vpon the aulter and he sayd Smite the lintel of the doore that the postes may shake cut them in peeces euen the heades of them all and I wil slay the last of them with the sworde he that fleeth of them shall not flee away and he that escapeth of them shall not be deliuered 2 Though they dig into hell thence shall my hande take them though they clime vp to heauen thence will I bring them downe 3 And though they hyde them selues in the top of Charmel I will searche and take them out thence and though they be hyd from my sight in the bottome of the sea thence will I commaunde the serpent and he shall bite them 4 And though they go into captiuitie before their enemies thence wil I commaunde the sworde it shall slay them and I will set myne eyes vpon them for euill and not for good 5 And the Lorde God of hoastes shall touche the land and it shall melt away and all that dwell therin shall mourne and it shal rise vp whole like a flood and shal be drowned as by the flood of Egypt 6 He buyldeth his spheres in the heauen hath layde the foundation of his globe of elementes on the earth he calleth the waters of the sea and poureth them out vpon the open earth the Lorde is his name 7 Are ye not as the Ethiopians vnto me O children of Israel sayth the Lorde haue not I brought vp Israel out of the lande of Egypt the Philistines from Cappadocia and the Syrians from Cyrene 8 Behold the eyes of the Lorde God are vpon the sinful kingdome and I wil destroy it cleane out of the earth neuerthelesse I wil not vtterly destroy the house of Iacob sayth the Lorde 9 For lo I will commaunde and I will sifte the house of Israel among all nations like as corne is sifted in a â—iue yet shall not the least stone fall vpon the earth 10 But all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword which say The euyll shall not come nor hasten for vs. 11 In that day will I rayse vp the tabernacle of Dauid that is fallen downe and close vp the breaches thereof and I will rayse vp his ruines I will buyld it as in the dayes of olde 12 That they may possesse the remnaunt of Edom of all the heathen because my name is called vpon them sayth the Lorde that doeth this 13 Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that the plowman shall touche the mower and the treader of grapes hym that soweth seede and the mountaynes shal drop sweete wine all the hilles shall melt 14 And I wil bring againe the captiuitie of my people of Israel and they shall buyld the wast cities and inhabite them and they shall plante vineyardes and drinke the wine therof they shall also make gardens and eate the fruites of them 15 And I will plant them vpon their land and they shal no more be pulled vp againe out of their lande which I haue geuen them sayth the Lorde thy God ⧠The booke of the prophete Abdias Against Edom and the trust that they had in richesse 1 THe vision of Abdi thus sayth the lord God against Edom We haue hearde a rumor from the Lorde an ambassadour is sent among the heathen arise and let vs ryse vp against her to battayle 2 Behold I haue made thee smal among the heathen thou art vtterly despised 3 The pride of thyne heart hath deceaued thee thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rockes whose habitation is hie that saith in his heart Who shall bring me downe to the grounde 4 Yea though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle and make they nest among the starres thence wil I bring thee downe sayth the Lorde 5 Came theeues to thee or robbers by night how wast thou brought to silence woulde they not haue stollen till they had inough If the grape gatherers came to thee woulde they not leaue some grapes 6 Howe are the thinges of Esau sought vp and his treasures searched 7 All the men of thy confederacie haue driuen thee to the borders the men that were at peace with thee haue deceaued thee and preuailed against thee they that eate thy bread haue layd a wounde vnder thee there is none vnderstanding in him 8 Shal not I in that day saide the lord euen destroy the wise men out of Edom and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau 9 And thy strong men O Theman shal be afraid because euery one of the mouÌ„t of Esau shal be cut of by slaughter 10 For thy crueltie against thy brother Iacob shame shall couer thee and thou shalt be cut of for euer 11 When thou stoodest on the other side in the day that the straungers caried away his substaunce and straungers entred into his gates and cast lottes vpon Hierusalem euen thou wast as one of them 12 But thou shouldest not haue beholden the day of thy brother in the day that he was made a straunger neither shouldest thou haue reioyced ouer the childreÌ„ of Iuda in the day of their destruction thou shouldest not haue spoken proudly in the day of affliction 13 Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people in the day of their destruction neither shouldest thou haue once loked on their affliction in the day of their destructioÌ„ nor haue layd handes on their substaunce in the day of their destruction 14 Neither shouldest thou haue stand in the crosse
and fasted seuen dayes in lyke maner that I myght fulfyll the three weekes which he tolde me 36 And in the eyght nyght was my heart vexed within me agayne and I began to speake before the hyest 37 For my spirite was greatly set on fire and my soule was in distresse 38 And I sayde O Lorde thou spakest vnto thy creature from the begynnyng euen the first day and saydest Let heauen earth be made And thy worde was a 〈◊〉 worke 39 And 〈…〉 there the spirite and the darkne◠〈◊〉 â—ere yet on euery syde and scilence 〈◊〉 was no mans voyce as yet from thee 40 Then commaundedst thou a fayre lyght to come foorth out of thy treasures that thy worke myght appeare and be seene 41 Vpon the seconde day thou madest the spirite of the firmament and commaundedst it to part asunder and to make a deuision betwixt the waters that the one part myght remayne aboue and the other beneath 42 Vpon the thirde day thou broughtest to passe that the waters were gathered in the seuenth part of the earth Sixe partes hast thou dryed vp kept them to the intent that men myght sowe and occupie husbandry therin 43 Assoone as thy worde went foorth the worke was made 44 For immediatly there was great and innumerable fruite and many diuers pleasures for the taste and floures of vnchaungeable colour and odours of wonderfull smell and this was done the thirde day 45 Vpon the fourth day thou commaundedst that the sunne shoulde geue his shyne and the moone her lyght the starres dydst thou set in order 46 And gauest them a charge to do seruice euen vnto man that was for to be made 47 Vpon the fyft day thou saydest vnto the seuenth part where the waters were gathered that it shoulde bryng foorth diuers beastes foules and fishes and so it came to passe 48 For the dumbe water and without soule brought foorth lyuyng thynges at the commaundement of God that all people myght prayse thy wonderous workes 49 Then dydst thou ordeyne two soules the one thou calledst Enoch and the other Leuiathan 50 And dydst separate the one from the other for the seuenth part namely where the water was gathered together myght not holde them both 51 Vnto Enoch thou gauest one part which was dryed vp the third day that he shoulde dwel in the same part wherin are a thousande hylles 52 But vnto Leuiathan thou gauest the seuenth part namely the moyst hast kept hym to deuour what thou wylt and when 53 Vpon the sixt day thou gauest commaundement vnto the earth that before thee it shoulde bryng foorth beastes cattell and all that creepe 54 And besydes this Adam also whom thou madest lorde of all thy creatures of hym come we all and the people also whom thou hast chosen specially vnto thy selfe 55 All this haue I sayd nowe and spoken before thee that I myght shewe howe that the worlde is made for our sakes 56 As for the other people which also come of Adam thou hast sayde that they are nothyng but be lyke vnto spittle hast lykened the aboundaunce of them vnto a droppe that falleth from a vessell 57 And nowe O Lorde beholde the heathen which haue euer ben reputed as nothyng haue begunne to be lordes ouer vs and to deuour vs 58 But we thy people whom thou hast called thy first borne thy only begotten and thy feruent louer are geuen into their handes and power 59 If the worlde nowe be made for our sakes why haue we not the inheritauÌ„ce of the worlde in possession Howe long shall this endure The .vij. Chapter 5 Without tribulation none can come to felicitie 12 God aduertiseth all in tyme. 28 The commyng and death of Christe 32 The resurrection last iudgement 43 After the which all corruption shall ceasse 48 All fell in Adam 19 The true lyfe 59 The mercies and goodnesse of God 1 AND when I had made an ende of speakyng these wordes there was sent vnto me an angell whiche had ben sent vnto me also the nyghtes afore 2 And he sayde vnto me Vp Esdras and heare the wordes that I am come to tell thee 3 And I sayde Speake on Lorde my God Then sayde he vnto me The sea is set in a wyde place that it myght be deepe and great 4 But put case the entraunce is narowe and small lyke a ryuer 5 Who then coulde go into the sea to loke vpon it and to rule it If he went not through the narowe howe myght he come into the broade 6 Item another A citie is builded and set vpon a broade fielde and is full of all good thynges 7 The entraunce therof is narowe and is set in a daungerous place to fall lyke as yf there were a fire at the ryght hande and a deepe water at the left 8 And as it were only one strayte path betwixt them both euen betweene the fire and the water so small that there coulde but one man go there at once 9 If this citie nowe were geuen to a man for an inheritaunce and he neuer went through the perilous way before howe woulde he receaue his inheritaunce 10 And I sayde It is so Lorde Then sayd he Euen so also is Israels portion 11 And why for their sakes haue I made the worlde and when Adam transgressed my statutes then was the thyng so appoynted as nowe is done 12 Then were the entraunces of the worlde made narowe full of sorowe and trauayle they are but fewe and euyll full of perils and labour 13 For the entraunces of the fore worlde were wyde and sure and brought immortall fruite 14 If then they which are lyuyng enter not diligently through these strayte and brittle thynges they can not receaue the thynges so layde vp in secrete 15 Why disquietest thou thy selfe then seyng thou art but a corruptible man And why art thou moued whereas thou art but mortall 16 And why hast thou not receaued into thyne heart the thinges that are to come rather theÌ„ them that are present 17 Then sayd I O Lorde Lord * thou hast ordayned in thy law that the righteous shoulde inherite these thinges but that the vngodly shoulde perishe 18 Neuerthelesse the righteous shall suffer straite thinges hope for wyde for they that haue liued vngodly suffred strayte thinges shall not see the wyde 19 And he sayde vnto me There is no iudge aboue God and none that hath vnderstanding aboue the hyest 20 For there be many that perishe in this life because they despise the law of God that is set before them 21 For God hath geuen strayte commaundement to such as came so oft as they came what they should do to haue life and what they shoulde kepe to auoyde punishment 22 Neuerthelesse they were not obedient vnto him but spake against hym and imagined vayne thinges 23 And deceaued them selues by wicked deedes and denied the power of the most high regarded
earth shal be left waste and the fieldes thereof shall waxe olde and her wayes and all her pathes shall growe full of thornes because no man shall trauayle there through 34 The virgins shall mourne hauing no bridegromes the women shall make lamentation hauing no husbandes their daughters shal mourne hauing no helpers 35 In the warres shall their bridegromes be destroyed their husbandes shall perish of hunger 36 But ye seruauntes of the Lord heare these thinges and marke them 37 Behold the worde of the Lorde O receaue it beleue not the gods of whom the Lorde spake 38 Behold the plagues drawe nie and are not slacke in tarying 39 Like as a trauayling woman whiche in the nynth moneth bringeth foorth a sonne when the houre of the byrth is come an houre two or three afore that the paynes come vpon her body when the childe commeth to the byrth they tary not the twinckling of an eye 40 Euen so shall not the plagues be slacke to come vpon the earth and the worlde shall mourne and sorowes shall come vpon it on euery side 41 O my people heare my worde make you redy to the battayl and in al euill be euen as pilgrimes vpon earth 42 He that selleth let him be as he that fleeth his way and he that biâ—th as one that will leese 43 Who so occupieth marchaundise as he that winneth not and he that buyldeth as he that shall not dwell therin 44 He that soweth as one that shall not reape he that cutteth the vineyarde as he that shall not gather the grapes 45 They that mary as they that shall get no children and they that mary not as the widdowes 46 And therfore they that labour labour in vayne 47 For straungers shall reape their fruites and spoyle their goodes ouerthrough their houses and take their children captiue for in captiuitie and hunger shall they get children 48 And they that occupie their marchaundise with robberie the more they decke their cities their houses their possessions and their owne persons 49 The more will I punishe them for their sinnes sayth the Lorde 50 Like as an whore enuieth an honest and vertuous woman 51 So shal righteousnesse hate iniquitie when she decketh her selfe and shall accuse her to her face when he commeth that shall bridle the auctour of all sinne vpon earth 52 And therfore be not ye like therevnto nor to the workes therof 53 For or euer it be long iniquite shal be taken away out of the earth and righteousnesse shall raigne among you 54 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned for coles of fire shall burne vpon his head which sayth Before the Lord God and his glorie I haue not sinned 55 Beholde the Lorde knoweth all the workes of men their imaginations their thoughtes and their heartes 56 For he spake but the worde Let the earth be made and it was made Let the heauen be made and it was created 57 In his worde were the starres made and he knoweth the number of them 58 He searcheth the grounde of the deepe and the treasures therof he hath measured the sea and what it conteyneth 59 He hath shut the sea in the middest of the waters and with his worde hath he hanged the earth vpon the waters 60 He spreadeth out the heauen like a vaut vpon the waters hath he founded it 61 In the desert and drye wildernesse hath he made springes of water and pooles vpon the top of the mountaynes that the fluddes might poure downe from the stony rockes to water the earth 62 He made man and put his heart in the middes of the body gaue him breath life and vnderstanding 63 Yea and the spirite of the almightie God which made all thinges and hath searched the ground of al the secretes of the earth 64 He knoweth your imaginations and inuentions and what ye thincke when ye sinne and woulde hyde your sinnes 65 Therfore hath the Lorde searched and sought out all your workes and he shall bewray you all 66 And when your sinnes are brought foorth ye shal be ashamed before men and your owne sinne shal be your accusers in that day 67 What will ye do Or how will ye hyde your sinnes before God and his angels 68 Behold God him selfe is y e iudge feare him leaue of from your sinnes and forget your vnrighteousnesses and meddle no more with them so shall God leade you foorth and deliuer you from al trouble 69 For beholde the heate of a great multitude is kindled ouer you and they shal take away certayne of you and shal slay for meate to the idols 70 And they that consent vnto them shal be had in derision laughed to scorne and troden vnder foote 71 For there shal be in euery place and in the next cities a great insurrection vpon those that feare the Lorde 72 They shall be like mad men they shal spare no man they shall spoyle and wast such as yet feare the Lorde 73 For their goods shall they take from them and shut them out of their houses 74 Then shall it be knowen who are my chosen and they shal be tryed as the golde in the fire 75 Heare O ye my beloued sayth the Lorde behold the dayes of trouble are at hande but I will deliuer you from the same 76 Be not ye afrayde dispaire not for God is your captayne 77 Who so kepeth my commaundementes and preceptes sayth the Lorde God let not your sinnes waygh you downe and let not your vnrighteousnesse be lift vp 78 Wo be vnto them that are bound with their sinnes and couered with their wickednesse lyke as a fielde is hedged in with bushes and the path therof couered with thornes that no man may trauayle through it is shut vp and is cast into the fire for euer to be consumed therewith The ende of the fourth booke of Esdras The booke of Tobias The firste Chapter 1 Tobias parentage 3 His golines 6 His equitie 8 His charitie and prosperitie 23 He fleeth and his goodes are confiscate 25 and after restored 1 TObias was of the tribe citie of Nepthali which lyeth in the hye countreys of Galilee aboue Naasson beside y e way that leadeth to the west hauyng the citie of Sephet vpon the left side 2 Though he was taken prisoner in the dayes of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians neuerthelesse beyng in captiuitie he forsoke not the way of trueth 3 In so much that whatsoeuer he might get he parted it dayly with his felowe prisoners and brethren that were of his kinred 4 And though he were younger then al in the tribe of Nephthali yet did not he behaue him selfe childyshly in his workes 5 And when all the other went to the golden calues whiche Ieroboam the king of Israel had made he alone fled al their companies 6 And gat him to Hierusalem vnto the temple of the Lorde and there worshipped the Lord God of Israel faythfully offering of al his first
the whole multitude of his hoast to be gathered together The .iiii. Chapter 1 The Israelites were afrayde and defended their countrey 5 Eliacim the priest wryteth to Bethulia that they shoulde fortifie them selues 8 They cried to the Lorde and humbled them selues before hym 1 WHen the children of Israel that dwelt in Iurie heard this they were sore afrayde of him 2 There came such trembling also feare vpon them lest he shoulde do vnto the citie of Hierusalem and the temple of the Lord as he had done to other cities and their temples 3 So they sent into all Samaria rounde about vnto Iericho toke in and occupied all the toppes of the mountaynes 4 And made fast the townes with walles and prepared corne for them against the battayle 5 Eliacim also the priest wrote vnto all them that dwelt towarde Esdrelon which lieth ouer against the great fielde by Dothain vnto all those by whom men might haue passage vnto them 6 That they shoulde take in the wayes of the mountaynes whereby there might be any way and passage to Hierusalem and that they shoulde holde diligent watch where any strayte was betwixte the mountaynes 7 And the children of Israel dyd as Eliacim the priest of the Lorde had commaunded them 8 And all the people cryed vnto the Lord earnestly and humbled their soules with fasting and prayers they their wiues 9 The priestes put on heery clothes and layed the young babes before the temple of the Lord and couered the aulter of the Lorde with an heery cloth 10 And with one accorde they cryed vnto the Lorde God of Israel that their children should not be geuen into a pray and their wiues into a spoyle that their cities should not be layed waste and that their sanctuarie shoulde not be vnhalowed and so they to be a shame and rebuke vnto the heathen 11 Then Eliacim the hye priest of the Lord went rounde about al Israel and spake vnto them 12 Saying Be ye sure that the Lord will heare your petitions if ye continue stedfast in fastinges and prayers in the sight of the Lorde 13 Remember Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde which ouerthrewe the Amalechites that trusted in their might and power in their hoast in their shieldes in their charets and horsemen not with weapons but with holy prayers 14 Euen so shall all the enemies of Israel be if ye continue in this worke that ye haue begun 15 So vpon this exhortation they continued in prayer before the Lorde 16 In so much that they whiche offered burnt sacrifices vnto the Lord offred the offringes vnto the Lorde beyng arayed in heery clothes and had asshes vpon their heades 17 And they all besought God from their whole heart that he woulde visite his people of Israel The .v. Chapter 1 Achior the Ammonite doeth declare to Holophernes of the maner of the Israelites 1 AND worde came to Holophernes y e prince of the warre of the Assyrians that the children of Israel prepared them selues to make resistaunce and howe they had stopped the wayes betwixte the mountaynes 2 Then was he exceeding wroth and called all the princes of Moab and the captaynes of Ammon 3 And sayde vnto them Tell me what people is this that kepeth in the mountaynes Or what maner and how great cities theirs are What is their power Or what maner of hoast haue they who is their captayne 4 And why do they despise vs more then all those that dwell in the east and come not foorth to meete vs that they might receaue vs with peace 5 Then Achior the captayne of al the Ammonites aunswered and sayde Syr if it please thee to heare I will tell the trueth before thee concerning this people that dwel in the mountaynes and there shall no vntrueth go out of my mouth 6 This people is of the generation of the Chaldees 7 They dwelt first in Mesopotamia for they woulde not folowe the gods of their fathers that were in the lande of the Chaldees 8 And so forsoke they the custome of their forefathers which had many gods and worshipped one God that made heauen and earth whiche also commaunded them that they shoulde go from thence and dwell at Charan 9 Nowe when there came a dearth into the whole lande they went downe to Egypt and there they dwelt foure hundreth yeres in the whiche they multiplied greatly that their hoast might not be numbred 10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them and yoked them in buylding of his cities with making of clay and brycke they cryed vnto God their Lord which punished the whole lande of Egypt with diuers plagues 11 And when the Egyptians had cast them out the plague ceassed from them and they folowing after them to take them to bring them againe into their bondage 12 Whyle they were flying away the God of heauen opened the sea so that the waters stoode fast vpon both the sides as a wall and these went through the botome of the sea drye shod 13 In the whiche place when an innumerable people of the Egyptians folowed vpon them they were so ouerwhelmed with the waters that there remayned not one to tell them that came after how it happened 14 So when this people was passed through the red sea they came into the wildernesse of mount Sina where neuer man might dwell afore and where the sonne of man had neuer rested 15 There were the bitter waters made sweete for them that they might drinke and fourtie yeres had they meate from heauen 16 Whersouer they went without bow and arrow without buckler or sworde their God fought for them and caused them to haue the victorie 17 Yea no man was able to hurt this people except it were when they departed vnfaythfully from the worshipping of the Lorde their God 18 But as ofte as they worshipped any other beside their God he gaue them ouer to be spoyled to be slayne and to be put to confusion 19 Neuerthelesse as ofte as they were sory for their departing from the worshippe of their God the same God of heauen gaue them power strength to withstande their enemies 20 Moreouer they slue the king of the Chanaanites Iebusites Pherezites Hethites Heuites and Amorites and al the mightie in Hesebon and toke their landes and cities in possession 21 And so long as they sinned not in the sight of their God it went well with them For their God hateth vnrighteousnesse 22 For in times past when they went out of the way which God had geuen them that they shoulde walke in it they were destroyed in diuers battaylles of many nations and many of them were caried away prisoners vnto a strange countrey 23 But now lately they haue turned them selues agayne vnto the Lord their God and are come together agayne out of the countreys where they were scattred abrode and thus haue they conquered these mountaynes and dwel therin and as for Hierusalem where their sanctuarie is
of God but put them selues foorth with vnpatiencie and murmuring against God 25 Perished of the destroyer and were slaine of serpentes 26 And therefore shoulde not we vndertake to be auenged for the thinges that are done vnto vs 27 But to consider that all these punishmentes are farre lesse then our sinnes and misdeedes and beleeuing that this correction commeth vnto vs as to the seruauntes of God for amendement and not for our destruction 28 Then saide Osias and the elders vnto Iudith All that thou speakest is true and no man can reproue thy wordes 29 Pray thou for vs now therefore vnto God for thou art an holy woman and fearest God 30 And Iudith saide vnto them Seing ye know that my wordes are of God 31 Then proue my counsell and deuice if it be of God and beseche God that he wyll bryng my counsell to good ende 32 Thus haue I deuised Ye shall stande this night before the porte and I wyll go foorth with Abra my mayden and pray ye therefore vnto God that he wyll graciously remember his people of Israel within fiue dayes as ye haue saide 33 As for the thing that I go in hande withall aske ye no questions of it and tyll I bring you word againe of it do ye nothing els but pray vnto the Lorde our God for me 34 Then Osias the prince of the people of Iuda saide vnto her Go thy way in peace the Lorde be with thee that we may be auenged of our enemies And so they went from her againe ¶ The .ix. Chapter 1 Iudith humbleth her selfe before the Lorde and maketh her prayers for the delyueraunce of her people 7 Against the pryde of the Assyrians 11 God is the helpe of the humble 1 NOw when they were gone their way Iudith went into her closet put on a heery smocke strawed ashes vpon her head fell downe before the Lorde and cryed vnto him saying 2 O Lorde God of my father Simeon which gauest him a sword for a defence against the enemies that vsed violence in their vncleannesse and that rauished the virgin and put her to shame and confusion 3 Thou that gauest their wyues into a pray and their daughters into captiuitie and all their pray for a spoyle vnto thy seruauntes which bare a zeale vnto thee helpe me wydowe O Lorde my God I beseche thee 4 For thou hast made the first thinges and after that looke what thou hast taken in hande and deuised it came euer to passe 5 For all thy wayes are prepared and thy iudgementes are put in thy euerlasting foreknowledge 6 O looke now vpon the armies of the Assyrians lyke as it was thy pleasure sometime to looke vpon the hoast of the Egyptians when they being weaponed persecuted thy seruauntes and put their trust in their charettes horsemen and in the multitude of their men of warre 7 But thou lookedst vpon their hoast casting a thicke darkenesse before them 8 And when they came into the deepe the waters ouerwhelmed them 9 Euen so Lord let it go with these that trust in the power multitude of their men of warre in their charets arrowes and speares 10 And know not that thou onely art our God which destroyest warres from the beginning and that thou art the Lord. 11 O lyft vp thyne arme now lyke as euer from the beginning and in thy power bryng their power to naught cause their might to fall in thy wrath which make their boast that they wyll vnhallowe and defile thy sanctuarie and to waste the tabernacle of thy name and to cast downe the horne of thyne aulter with their sword 12 Bryng to passe O Lord that the pryde of the enemie may be cut downe with his owne sword 13 That he may be taken with the snare of his eyes in me and that thou mayest smyte him with the lyppes of my loue 14 O geue me a stedfast mynde that I may despyse him and his strength and that I may destroy him 15 This shall bryng thy name an euerlasting remembraunce if the hande of a woman ouerthrowe him 16 For thy power O Lord standeth not in the multitude of men neither hast thou any pleasure in the strength of horses neither was there from the beginning any proude persons that pleased thee but in the prayer of the humble meeke hath thy pleasure ben euermore 17 O thou God of the heauens thou maker of the waters and Lorde of all creatures heare me poore woman calling vpon thee and putting my trust in thy mercy 18 Remember thy couenaunt O Lorde and minister wordes in my mouth and stablishe this deuice in my heart that thy house may continue still in holynes 19 And that all the heathen may knowe that thou art God that there is none other but thou ¶ The .x. Chapter 1 Iudith decketh her selfe and goeth foorth of the citie 11 She is taken of the watch of the Assyrians and brought to Holophernes 1 AND when she had left of crying vnto the lord she rose vp from the place where she had lyen flat before the Lord 2 And called her mayden Abra went downe into her house layed the heery cloth from her put of the garmentes of her wydowhood 3 Washed her body annoynted her selfe with precious thinges of sweete sauour broyded and platted her heere set a coyffe vpon her head and put on such apparell as belongeth vnto gladnesse slippers vpon her feete bracelettes spanges earynges fynger rynges and decked her selfe with all her best aray 4 The Lorde gaue her also a speciall beautie and fairenesse for all this decking of her selfe was not done for any voluptuousnesse but of a ryght discretion and vertue therefore did the Lorde encrease her beautie so that she was exceeding amiable and welfauoured in all mens eyes 5 She gaue her mayden Abra also a bottell of wine a pot with oyle pottage cake bread and cheese went her way 6 Nowe when they came to the porte of the citie they founde Osias and the elders of the citie wayting there 7 Which when they sawe her they were astonied and marueyled greatly at her beautie 8 Neuerthelesse they asked no question at her but let her go saying The God of our fathers geue thee grace and with his power perfourme all the deuice of thy heart that Hierusalem may reioyce ouer thee and that thy name may be in the number of the holy righteous 9 And all they that were there saide with one voyce So be it so be it 10 Iudith made her prayer vnto the Lorde and went out at the porte she and her mayde Abra. 11 And as she was going downe the mountayne it happened that about the spryng of the day the spyes of the Assyrians met with her and tooke her saying whence commest thou or whyther goest thou 12 She aunswered I am a daughter of the Hebrues and am fled from them for I knowe that they shal be geuen vnto you to be spoyled because they
multitude in the wildernesse there was insurrection but thy wrath endured not long 21 For the blamelesse man went in all the haste and toke the battayle vpon hym brought foorth the weapon of his ministration euen prayer and the reconciliation of incense set hym selfe against the wrath and so brought the miserie to an ende declaring therby that he was thy seruaunt 22 For he ouercame not the multitude with bodyly power or force of weapons but with the word he subdued him that vexed alleaging the oth and couenaunt made vnto the fathers 23 For when the dead were fallen downe by heapes one vpon another he stoode in the middest pacified the wrath and parted the way that it might not come to the liuing 24 And why in his long garment was all the beautie and in the foure rowes of the stones was the glory of the fathers grauen and thy maiestie was wrytten in the crowne of his head 25 Vnto these the destroyer gaue place and was afrayde of them for it was inough that they onlye tasted of the wrath ¶ The .xix. Chapter 1 The death of the Egyptians and the great ioy of the Hebrues 11 The meate that was geuen at the desire of the people 17 All the elementes serue to the will of God 1 AS for the vngodly the wrath came vpō them without mercy vnto the ende for he knewe before what shoulde happen vnto them 2 How that when they had consented to let them go and had sent them out with great diligence they would repent and folowe vpon them 3 For whyles they were yet mourning and making lamentation by the graues of the dead they deuised another foolishnesse so that they persecuted them in their fleeing whom they had cast out afore with prayer 4 For the necessitie whiche they had deserued brought them vnto this ende and made them forget the thinges that had already happened that they might by tormentes fulfill their punishment whiche remayned 5 And that thy people might trye a marueylous passage and these might fynde a straunge death 6 For euery creature in his kynde was fashioned agayne of newe seruyng the peculiar offices as was commaunded them that thy children myght be kept without hurt 7 For the cloude ouershadowed their tentes and the drye earth appeared where afore was water so that in the red sea there was a way without impediment and the great deepe became a greene fielde 8 Wherthrough all the people went that were defended with thy hande seyng thy marueylous straunge wonders 9 For as the horses ryght so they neyed and leaped lyke lambes praysyng thee O Lord which hadst deliuered them 10 And why they were yet myndefull of the thynges that were done whyle they dwelt in the straunge lande howe the grounde brought foorth flies in steade of cattell and howe the riuer scrawled with the multitude of frogges in steade of fisshes 11 But at the last they sawe a newe generation of birdes what tyme as they were stirred with lust and desired delicate meates 12 For why the quayles came vp to them from the sea for their comfort but punishmentes came vpon the sinners not without the signes which came before to passe by vehemencie of the thicke lyghtnynges For they suffered worthyly accordyng to their wickednesse because they dealt so churlishly with an hate of straungers 13 For some would not receaue men that came vnto them and were vnknowen and some brought the straungers into bondage that dyd them good 14 Nor only so but yf they had ben any where regarded they coulde not suffer it for they entreated straungers very dispitefully 15 Others that had receaued them with great solempnitie when they were admitted vnto their societie they afflicted them with greeuous labours 16 Therfore were they stricken with blindnesse like as when they that were couered with sodayne darknesse at the doores of the ryghteous sought euery one of them the entraunce of his doores 17 Thus the elementes beyng chaunged agreed among them selues lyke as when tunes are chaunged vpon an instrument of musicke and yet kepe styll a melodie which may easyly be perceaued by the syght of the thynges that are come to passe 18 For the earthy thynges were turned into waterie and the thyng that before swamme in the water nowe went vpon the grounde 19 The fire had power in the water forgetting his owne vertue and the water forgat his owne kynde to quenche the fire 20 Agayne the flambes hurted not the fleshe of the corruptible liuing thynges though they walked therin neither melted they that isie kynde of immortall meate that was of nature apt to melt 21 For in all thynges hast thou promoted thy people O Lord and brought them to honour thou hast not dispised them but alway and in all places hast thou stande by them VV. C. The ende of the booke of wisdome ⧠The booke of Iesus the sonne of Sirach which is called in latine Ecclesiasticus The prologue of Iesus the sonne of Sirach vnto his booke MAny and great men haue declared wisdome vnto vs out of the lawe out of the prophetes and out of other that folowed them in the which thynges Israel ought to be cōmended by the reason of doctrine and wisdome Therfore they that haue it and reade it shoulde not only them selues be wise therthrough but serue other also with teachyng and writyng After that my graundefather Iesus had geuen diligent labour to reade the lawe the prophetes and other bookes that were left vs of our fathers and had well exercised hym selfe therin he purposed also to write some thyng of wisdome and good maners to the intent that they which were wyllyng to learne and to be wise myght haue the more vnderstandyng and be the more apt to leade a good conuersation Wherfore I exhort you to receaue it louyngly to reade it with diligence and to take it in good worth though our wordes be not so eloquent as the famous oratours For the thyng that is written in the Hebrue tongue soundeth not so well when it is translated into another speache Not only this booke of myne but also the lawe the prophetes and other bookes sounde farre otherwise then they do when they are spoken in their owne language Nowe in the thirtie and eyght yere when I came into Egypt in the tyme of Ptolomie Euerges and continued there a long season I founde bookes there left full of great and profounde learnyng Wherfore I thought it good and necessarie to bestowe my diligence and trauayle to interprete this booke And consideryng that I had tyme I laboured and dyd my best to perfourme this booke and to bryng it vnto lyght that the straungers also which are disposed to learne myght apply them selues vnto good maners and lyue accordyng to the lawe of the Lorde The first Chapter 1 Wisdome commeth of God 11 A prayse of the feare of God 29 The meanes to come by wisdome
with God 3 All thynges were made by it and without it was made nothyng that was made 4 In it was lyfe and the lyfe was the lyght of men 5 And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse and the darknesse comprehended it not 6 There was a man sent from God whose name was Iohn 7 The same came for a witnesse to beare witnesse of the lyght that all men through hym myght beleue 8 He was not that lyght but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght 9 That lyght was the true lyght which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde 10 He was in the worlde and the worlde was made by hym and the worlde knewe hym not 11 He came among his owne and his owne receaued hym not 12 But as many as receaued hym to them gaue he power to be the sonnes of God euen them that beleued on his name 13 Which were borne not of blood nor of the wyll of the fleshe nor yet of the wyll of man but of God 14 * And the same word became fleshe and dwelt among vs and we sawe the glory of it as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father full of grace and trueth ☜ 15 ☞ * Iohn beareth witnesse of hym and cryeth saying This was he of whom I spake he that commeth after me is preferred before me for he was before me 16 And of his fulnesse haue all we receaued and grace for grace 17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe 18 * No man hath seene God at any tyme The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father he hath declared hym ☜ 19 ☞ And this is the recorde of Iohn When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem to aske hym What art thou 2◠And he confessed and denyed not and sayde playnely I am not that Christe 21 And they asked hym What then art thou Elias And he sayth I am not Art thou that prophete And he aunswered no. 22 Then sayde they vnto hym What art thou that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs What sayest thou of thy selfe 23 He sayde I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse make strayght the way of the Lorde as sayde the prophete Esaias 24 And they which were sent were of the pharisees 25 And they asked hym and sayde vnto hym Why baptizest thou then yf thou be not Christe nor Elias neither that prophete 26 Iohn aunswered them saying I baptize with water but there standeth one among you whom ye knowe not 27 He it is which though he came after me was before me whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose 28 These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordane where Iohn dyd baptize ☜ 29 ☞ The next day Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym and saith beholde the lambe of God which taketh away the sinne of the worlde 30 This is he of whom I sayde After me commeth a man which is preferred before me for he was before me 31 And I knewe hym not but that he shoulde be declared to Israel therfore am I come baptizing with water 32 And Iohn bare recorde saying I sawe the spirite descende from heauen lyke vnto a doue and abode vpon hym 33 And knewe hym not But he that sent me to baptize with water the same saide vnto me vpon whom thou shalt see the spirite descende and tary styll on hym the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost 34 And I sawe and bare recorde that he is the sonne of God ☜ 35 The next day after Iohn stoode agayne and two of his disciples 36 And he behelde Iesus as he walked by sayth beholde the lambe of God 37 And the two disciples hearde hym speake and they folowed Iesus 38 And Iesus turned about and sawe them folowe hym sayth vnto them What seeke ye They sayde vnto hym Rabbi which is to say yf one interprete it Maister where dwellest thou 39 He sayeth vnto them come and see They came and sawe where he dwelt and abode with hym that day For it was about the tenth houre 40 One of the two which hearde Iohn speake folowed hym was Andrewe Simon Peters brother 41 The same founde his brother Simon first and sayth vnto hym We haue founde Messias which is by interpretation the annoynted 42 And brought hym to Iesus And Iesus behelde hym and sayde Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona thou shalt be called Cephas which is by interpretation a stone 43 The day folowyng Iesus woulde go into Galilee founde Philip and sayth vnto hym folowe me 44 Philip was of Bethsaida the citie of Andrewe and Peter 45 Philip founde Nathanael and sayth vnto hym We haue founde hym of whom Moyses in the lawe and the prophetes dyd write Iesus of Nazareth the sonne of Ioseph 46 And Nathanael sayde vnto hym * Can there any good thyng come out of Nazareth Philip sayth vnto him come and see 47 Iesus sawe Nathanael commyng to hym sayeth of hym Beholde a ryght Israelite in whom is no guile 48 Nathanael sayth vnto hym Whence knewest thou me Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto hym Before that Philip called thee when thou wast vnder the fygge tree I sawe thee 49 Nathanael aunswered and sayde vnto hym Rabbi thou art euen the very sonne of God thou art y e kyng of Israel 50 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Because I sayde vnto thee I saw thee vnder the fygge tree thou beleuest Thou shalt see greater thynges then these 51 And he sayth vnto hym Veryly veryly I say vnto you hereafter shall ye see heauen open and the Angels of God ascendyng descendyng vpon the sonne of man ☜ ¶ The .ij. Chapter ¶ 7 Christe begynneth to worke miracles and turned water into wyne 12 he goeth to Capernaum and so ascendeth to Hierusalem 14 he casteth buyers and sellers out of the temple 19 he forewarneth his death and resurrection 23 and many beleue in hym when they see his miracles 1 AND the thirde day was there a mariage in Cana a citie of Galilee and the mother of Iesus was there 2 And Iesus was called and his disciples vnto the mariage 3 And whē the wyne fayled the mother of Iesus sayth vnto hym they haue no wyne 4 Iesus saith vnto her Woman what haue I to do with thee myne houre is not yet come 5 His mother sayth vnto the ministers Whatsoeuer he sayth vnto you do it 6 And there were set there sixe water pottes of stone after the maner of the purifiyng of the Iewes conteynyng two or three firkins a peece 7 Iesus sayth vnto them fyll the water pottes with water And they fylled them vp to the brym 8 And he sayth vnto them drawe out nowe and beare vnto the gouernour of feast And they bare it 9
the wyll of man but holy men of God spake as they were moued by the holy ghost ¶ The .ij Chapter 1 He prophesieth of false teachers and sheweth their punishement 1 THere were false prophetes also among the people euē as there shal be false teachers among you whiche pryuyly shal bryng in damnable heresies euen denying the Lorde that hath bought them and bryng vpō them selues swyft damnation 2 And many shall folowe their damnable wayes by whom the way of trueth shal be euyll spoken of 3 And through couetousnesse shall they with fayned wordes make marchaūdize of you whose iudgement is nowe not farre of and their damnation sleepeth not 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them downe into hell and delyuered them into chaynes of darknesse to be kept vnto iudgement 5 Neither spared the olde worlde but saued Noe the eyght person a preacher of ryghteousnesse and brought in the flood vpon the worlde of the vngodly 6 And turned their cities of Sodome Gomorrhe into asshes ouerthrewe thē dampned them and made of them an ensample vnto those that after shoulde lyue vngodly 7 And iust Lot vexed with y e vncleane conuersatiō of the wicked deliuered he 8 For he beyng ryghteous dwellyng among them in seyng and hearyng vexed his ryghteous soule from daye to daye with their vnlawfull deedes 9 The Lorde knoweth howe to delyuer the godly out of temptation and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement for to be punished 10 But chiefely them that walke after the fleshe in the lust of vncleanenesse and despise auctoritie Presumptious are they and stande in their owne conceyte whiche feare not to speake euyl of them that excell in worship 11 When the Angels whiche are greater both in power and might geue not raylyng iudgement against them before the Lorde 12 But these as bruite beastes ledde with sensualitie and made to be taken and destroyed speake euyll of the thynges that they vnderstande not and shall perishe through their owne corruption 13 And receaue the rewarde of vnryghteousnesse they count it pleasure to lyue deliciouslye for a season Spottes they are and blottes delighting them selues in their deceauynges in feastyng with you 14 Hauyng eyes full of adulterie that can not ceasse from sinne begylyng vnstable soules Heartes they haue exercised with robberie they are cursed chyldren 15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye and are gone astray folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse 16 But was rebuked of his iniquitie The dumbe beast and vsed to the yoke speaking with mans voyce forbad the madnesse of the prophete 17 These are welles without water cloudes that are caryed with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserued for euer 18 For when they haue spoken the great swellyng wordes of vanitie they entice through lustes in the voluptuousnesse of the fleshe them that were cleane escaped from them whiche are wrapped in errour 19 Whyle they promise them libertie where as they them selues are y e bonde seruauntes of corruption For of whom a man is ouercome vnto the same is he brought in bondage 20 For yf they after they haue escaped from the fylthynesse of the worlde thorowe the knowledge of the Lord the sauiour Iesus Christe are yet tangled agayne therein and ouercome then is the later end worse with them then the begynnyng 21 For it had ben better for them not to haue knowen the way of righteousnes then after they haue knowen it to turne from the holy commaundement that was geuen vnto them 22 But the same is happened vnto them that is vsed to be spoken by the true prouerbe The dogge is tourned to his owne vomite againe and the sowe that was wasshed is turned againe to her wallowyng in the myre The .iij. Chapter 1 He sheweth the impietie of them which mocke at Gods promises 7 After what sort the ende of the worlde shal be 8 That they prepare them selues therevnto 16 Who they are which abuse the wrytynges of S. Paul the rest of the scriptures 18 Concludyng with eternall thankes to Christe Iesus 1 THis is the seconde epistle that I now wryte vnto you dearely beloued wherwith I stirre vp warne your pure myndes 2 By puttyng you H. L. in remembraunce that ye may be myndfull of the wordes which were tolde before of the holy prophetes and also the commaundement of vs whiche be Apostles of the Lorde and sauiour 3 This first vnderstande that there shall come in the laste dayes mockers whiche wyll walke after their owne lustes 4 And say Where is the promise of his commyng For sence the fathers dyed all thynges continue a lyke from the begynnyng of the creation 5 For this they knowe not and that wylfully howe that the heauens were of olde and the earth that was of the water and by the water by the worde of God 6 By the which thinges the world that then was perisshed beyng then ouerrunne with water 7 But the heauens and earth whiche are nowe be kept by his worde in store and reserued vnto fire agaynst the day of iudgement and perdition of vngodly men 8 Dearely beloued be not ignoraunt of this one thyng howe that one day is with the Lorde as a thousande yere a thousande yere as one day 9 The Lorde that hath promised is not slacke as some men count slacknesse but is pacient to vswarde forasmuch as he woulde haue no man lost but wyll receaue all men to repentaunce 10 Neuerthelesse the day of the Lorde wyll come as a theefe in the nyght in the which the heauens shal passe away with a noyse and the elementes shall melt with heate the earth also and the workes that are therein shall burne 11 Seyng then that all these thynges shall perisshe what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlynesse 12 Lokyng for and hastyng vnto the cōmyng of the day of God by whom the heauens shall perishe with fire and the elementes shall melt with heate 13 Neuerthelesse we accordyng to his promise loke for a newe heauen and a newe earth wherein dwelleth ryghteousnesse 14 Wherfore dearely beloued seyng that ye loke for such thynges be diligent that ye may be founde of hym in peace without spot and vndefyled 15 And suppose that the long suffering of the Lord is saluatiō euen as our dearely beloued brother Paul also accordyng to the wisedome geuen vnto hym hath written vnto you 16 Yea almost in euery epistle speakyng of such thinges among which are manye thynges harde to be vnderstande which they that are vnlearned and vnstable peruert as they do also the other scriptures vnto their owne destruction 17 Ye therfore beloued seyng ye be warned afore hande beware lest ye with other men be also plucked away through the errour of the wicked and fall from your owne
sinneth hath not seene him neither knowen hym 7 Babes let no man deceaue you He that doeth righteousnes is ryghteous euen as he is righteous 8 He that committeth sinne is of the deuyll for the deuyll sinneth sence the beginning For this purpose appeared the sonne of God to loose the workes of the deuyll 9 Whosoeuer is borne of God sinneth not for his seede remayneth in him and he can not sinne because he is borne of God 10 In this are y e children of God knowē and the chyldren of the deuyll Whosoeuer doth not ryghteousnesse is not of God neither he that loueth not his brother 11 For this is the tidynges that ye heard from the begynnyng that ye shoulde loue one another 12 Not as Cain which was of that wicked and slewe his brother And wherfore slewe he hym Because his owne workes were euyll and his brothers good 13 ☞ Maruayle not my brethren though the worlde hate you 14 We knowe that we are translated from death vnto lyfe because we loue the brethren * He that loueth not his brother abideth in death 15 Whosoeuer hateth his brother is a manslear And ye knowe that no manslear hath eternall life abidyng in hym 16 Hereby perceaue we loue because he layde downe his lyfe for vs we ought to lay downe our lyues for the brethren 17 But who so hath this 〈◊〉 good and seeth his brother haue neede and shutteth vp his compassion from hym◠howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym 18 My babes let vs not loue in worde neither in tongue but in deede and in veritie 19 Hereby we knowe that we are of the trueth and shall assure our heartes before hym 20 For yf our heart condempne vs God is greater then our heart and knoweth all thynges 21 Dearely beloued yf our heart condempne vs not then haue we boldnesse towarde God 22 And whatsoeuer we aske we receaue of hym because we kepe his commaundementes and do those thynges which are pleasyng in his syght 23 And this is his cōmaundement that we beleue on the name of his sonne Iesus Christe and loue one another as he gaue commaundement 24 And he that kepeth his commaundementes dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we knowe that he abideth in vs euen by the spirite which he hath geuen vs. ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 1 Difference of spirites 2 howe the spirite of God may be knowen from the spirite of errour ◠of the loue of God and of our neyghbours 1 DEarly beloued beleue not euery spirite but proue the spirites whether they are of God or not for many false prophetes are gone out into the worlde 2 Hereby shall ye knowe the spirite of God Euery spirite that confesseth that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe is of God 3 And euery spirite which confesseth not that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe is not of God And this is that spirite of antichriste of whom ye haue hearde howe that he shoulde come and euen nowe alredy is he in the worlde 4 Litle chyldren ye are of God haue ouercome them for greater is he that is in you then he that is in the worlde 5 They are of the world therfore speake they of the worlde the world heareth them 6 We are of God He that knoweth God heareth vs he that is not of God heareth vs not Hereby knowe we the spirite of veritie and the spirite of errour 7 Dearely beloued let vs loue one another for loue commeth of God And euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth God 8 He that loueth not knoweth not God for ☞ God is loue 9 In this appeared the loue of God to vs warde because God sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde that we myght lyue through hym 10 Herein is loue not that we loued God but that he loued vs and sent his sonne to be the agreement for our sinnes 11 Dearely beloued yf God so loued vs we ought also to loue one another 12 No man hath seene God at any time If we loue one another God dwelleth in vs and his loue is perfect in vs. 13 Hereby knowe we that we dwell in hym he in vs because he hath geuen vs of his spirite 14 And we haue seene and do testifie that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worlde 15 Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God and he in God 16 And we haue knowen and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in hym 17 Herein is the loue perfect in vs that we shoulde haue boldnesse in the day of iudgement For as he is euen so are we in this worlde 18 There is no feare in loue but perfect loue casteth out feare for feare hath paynefulnesse He that feareth is not perfect in loue 19 We loue hym for he loued vs first 20 If a man say I loue God yet hate his brother he is a lyer For how can he y t loueth not his brother whom he hath seene loue God whō he hath not seene 21 And this commaundement haue we of hym that he which loueth God shoulde loue his brother also ☜ The .v. Chapter 1. Of the fruites of fayth 14.20 The office aucthoritie diuinitie of Christe 21 agaynst images 1 WHosoeuer beleueth that Iesus is Christe is borne of God And euerie one that loueth him which begat loueth hym also which is begotten H. L. of hym 2 By this we knowe that we loue the chyldren of God when we loue God and kepe his commaundementes 3 For this is the loue of God that we kepe his commaundementes and his commaundementes are not greeuous 4 ☞ For all that is borne of God ouercommeth the worlde And this is the victorie that ouercommeth y e worlde euen our fayth 5 Who is it that ouercommeth y e worlde but he which beleueth that Iesus is the sonne of God 6 This Iesus Christe is he that came by water and blood not by water only but by water and blood And it is the spirite that beareth witnesse because the spirite is trueth 7 For there are three which beare recorde in heauen the father the worde and the holy ghost and these three are one 8 And there are three which beare recorde in earth the spirite and water and blood and these three agree in one 9 If we receaue the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater For this is the witnesse of God that is greater which he testified of his sonne 10 He that beleueth on the sonne of God hath the witnesse in hym selfe ☞ He that beleueth not God hath made hym a lyer because he beleued not the recorde that God gaue of his sonne 11 And this is the recorde how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe and this lyfe is in his sonne
that sate on hym hadde a payre of balaunces in his hande 6 And I hearde a voyce in the myddes of the foure beastes saye A measure of wheate for a penie and three measures of barly for a penie and oyle and wine see thou hurt not 7 And when he had opened the fourth seale I hearde the voyce of the fourth beast say come and see 8 And I loked and behold a pale horse his name that sate on him was death and hell folowed after hym and power was geuen vnto them ouer the fourth part of the earth to kyll with sworde with hunger and with death and with the beastes of the earth 9 And when he had opened the fift seale I sawe vnder the aulter the soules of them that were kylled for the worde of God and for the testimonie which they had 10 And they cryed with a loude voyce saying Howe long taryest thou Lorde holy and true to iudge and to auenge our blood on thē that dwell on y e earth 11 And long whyte garmentes were geuen vnto euery one of them and it was sayde vnto them that they should reste yet for a litle season vntyll the number of their felowes and brethren and of them that shoulde be kylled as they were were fulfylled 12 And I behelde when he had opened the sixt seale and loe there was a great earthquake the sunne was as blacke as sackcloth made of heere the moone waxed all euen as blood 13 And the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth euen as a figge tree casteth her vntimely figges when she is shaken of a myghtie wynde 14 And heauen vanished awaye as a scroule when it is roulled together and all mountaynes and yles were moued out of their places 15 And the kynges of the earth and the great men and the ryche men and the chiefe capitaines and the myghtie men and euery bonde man and euery free man hyd them selues in dennes and in rockes of the hylles 16 And sayde to the hylles rockes fall on vs and hyde vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lambe 17 For the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure ⧠The .vij. Chapter 4.9 He seeth the seruauntes of God sealed in their forheades out of all nations and people 15 which though they suffer trouble yet the lambe feedeth them leadeth them to the fountaynes of lyuyng water 17 and God shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes 1 AND after that I sawe foure angels stande on the foure corners of the earth holding the foure wyndes of y e earth that the wynde shoulde not blowe on the earth neither on the sea neither on any tree 2 ☞ And I sawe another angell ascende from the rysing of the sunne which had the seale of the lyuyng God and he cryed with a loude voyce to the foure angels to whom power was geuen to hurt the earth and the sea 3 Saying Hurt not the earth neither the sea neither the trees tyll we haue sealed the seruaūtes of our God in their foreheades 4 And I hearde the number of them which were sealed And there were sealed an C. and xliiii thousande of all the tribes of the chyldren of Israel 5 Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed .xij. thousande Of the tribe of Ruben were sealed .xij. thousande Of the tribe of Gad were sealed .xij. thousande 6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed .xij. thousande Of the tribe of Nephthali were sealed .xij. thousande Of y e tribe of Manasses were sealed .xij. thousande 7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed xij thousande Of y e tribe of Leui were sealed .xij. thousande Of y e tribe of Isachar were sealed .xij. thousande 8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed xii thousande Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed .xii. thousande Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed xii thousand 9 After this I behelde and we a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kinredes and people and tongues stoode before the throne and before the lambe clothed with long whyte garmentes and palmes in their handes 10 And cryed with a loude voyce saying Saluation be ascribed to hym that sitteth vpon the throne of our God and vnto the lambe 11 And all the angels stoode in the compasse of the throne and of the elders of the foure beastes and fell before the throne on their faces and worshypped God 12 Saying Amen Blessyng and glorie and wisedome and thankes honour and power and myght be vnto our God for euermore Amen ☜ 13 And one of the elders aunswered saying vnto me What are these which are arayed in long whyte garmentes and whence came they 14 And he sayde vnto hym Lorde thou wotest And he sayde to me These are they which came out of great tribulation and haue wasshed their long robes and made them whyte by the blood of the lambe 15 Therefore are they in the presence of the throne of God and serue hym daye and nyght in his temple and he that sitteth in the throne wyll dwell among them 16 They shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the sunne lyght on them neither any heate 17 For the lambe which is in the myddes of the throne shall feede them and shall leade them vnto fountaynes of lyuyng water and God shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes ¶ The .viij. Chapter 1 The seuenth seale is opened there is scilence in heauen 6 The foure angels blowe their trumpettes and great plagues folowe vpon the earth 1 AND when he had opened the seuenth seale ther was scilence in heauē about the space of halfe an houre 2 And I sawe the seuen angels standyng before God and to them were geuen seuen trumpets 4 And the smoke of the odours whiche came of the prayers of all sainte◠ascended vp before God out of the angels hande 5 And the angel toke the senser and fylled it with fire of the aulter and cast it into the earth and voyces were made and thundrynges and lyghtnynges earthquake 6 And the seuen angels whiche had the seuen trumpettes prepared them selues to blowe 7 The first angell blewe there was made hayre fire mingled with blood and they were cast into the earth and the thirde part of trees was burnt and all greene grasse was burnt 8 And the seconde angell blewe and as it were a great mountayne burnyng with fire was cast into the sea and the thirde part of the sea turned to blood 9 And the thirde part of the creatures whiche were in the sea and hadde lyfe dyed and the thirde part of shippes were destroyed 10 And the third angell blewe and there fell a great starre from heauen burning as it were a lampe and it fell into the thirde part of the ryuers and into fountaynes of waters ▪ 11 And the 〈◊〉 of the stares is called wormewood and the thirde part was turned to
for it is geuen vnto the gentiles and the holy citie shall they treade vnder foote fourtie and two monethes 3 And I wyl geue power vnto my two witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousande two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth 4 These are two oliue trees and two candle stickes standyng before the God of the earth 5 And yf any man wyll hurt them fyre shal proceade out of their mouthes cōsume their enemies And if any man wil hurt them this wyse must he be kylled 6 These haue power to shut heauen that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng and haue power ouer waters to turne them to blood and to smite the earth with all maner plagues as often as they wyll 7 And whē they haue finished their testimonie the beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shal ouercome them and kyll them 8 And their bodyes shall lye in y e streates of the great citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt where our Lorde was crucified 9 And they of the people and kinredes and tongues and they of the nations shall see their bodyes three dayes and an halfe shall not suffer their bodyes to be put in graues 10 And they that dwell vpon the earth shal reioyce ouer them and be glad and shall sende gyftes one to another for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth 11 And after three dayes and an halfe the spirite of lyfe commyng from God shall enter into them And they shall stande vp vpon their feete great feare shall come vpon thē which sawe them 12 And they shall heare a great voyce from heauen saying vnto them come vp hyther And they shall ascende vp to heauen in a cloude and their enemies shall see them 13 And the same houre shall there be a great earthquake and the tenth part of the citie shall fall and in the earthquake shal be slaine names of men seuen thousande and the remnaunt shal be afraide and geue glorie to the God of heauen 14 The seconde wo is past and beholde the thirde wo wyll come anone ◠And the seuenth angell blewe there were made greate voyces in heauen saying the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes and his Christes and he shall raigne for euermore 16 And the .xxiiii. elders which sit before God on their seates fel vpon their faces and worshipped God 17 Saying we geue thee thankes O Lorde God almyghtie which art and wast and art to come for thou hast receaued thy great myght hast raigned 18 And the nations were angrie and thy wrath is come and the tyme of the dead that they shoulde be iudged and that thou shouldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauntes the prophetes and saintes and to them that feare thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth 19 And the temple of God was opened in heauen and there were seene in his temple the arke of his testament and there folowed lyghtninges and voyces and thundringes and earthquake and much hayle ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 There appeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the sunne 7 Michael fyghteth with the Dragon which persecuteth the woman 11 The victorie is gotten to the comfort of the faythfull 1 AND there appeared a great wonder in heauen A woman clothed with the sunne the moone vnder her feete and vpō her head a crowne of twelue starres 2 And she was with chylde and cryed trauaylyng in birth and payned redy to be delyuered 3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen for beholde a great redde dragon hauing seuen heades and tenne hornes and seuen crownes vpon his heades 4 And his tayle drue the thirde part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth And the dragon stoode before the woman which was redie to be deliuered for to deuoure her chylde assoone as it were borne 5 And she brought foorth a man chylde which shoulde rule all nations with a rodde of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his throne 6 And the woman fled into wildernesse where she had a place prepared of God that they should feede her there a thousande two hundreth and threscore days 7 And there was a battayle in heauen Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels 8 And preuayled not neither was their place founde any more in heauen 9 And the great dragon that olde serpent called the deuyll Satanas was cast out which deceaueth all the world And he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with hym 10 And I hearde a loude voyce saying in heauen Nowe is made saluation strength the kingdome of our God the power of his Christ For the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused them before our God day nyght 11 And they ouercame hym by the blood of the Lambe and by the worde of their testimonie and they loued not their lyues vnto the death 12 Therfore reioyce heauens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the deuyll is come downe vnto you which hath great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme. 13 And when the dragon sawe that he was cast vnto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought foorth the man chylde 14 And to the woman were geuen two winges of a great Egle that she myght flee into the wildernesse into her place where she is norished for a tyme tymes and halfe a tyme from the presence of the serpent 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had ben a fludde that he myght cause her to be caryed away of the fludde 16 And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went and made warre with the remnaunt of her seede which kepe the commaundementes of God haue the testimonie of Iesus Christe 18 And I stoode on the sea sande The .xiij. Chapter 1.8 The beast deceaueth the reprobate 2.4.12 and is confirmed by another 17 The priuiledge of the beastes marke 1 AND I sawe a beast ryse out of the sea hauing seuen heades and ten hornes vpon his hornes ten crownes and vpon his head the name of blasphemie 2 And the beast which I sawe was like a Leoparde and his feete were as the feete of a Beare and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion And the dragon gaue hym his power and his seate and great aucthoritie 3 And I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his deadly wounde was healed And all the world wondred after the beast 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying Who is lyke
saying Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes 4 Who shall not feare thee O Lorde and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy And all gentiles shal come and worship before thee for thy iudgemētes are made manifest 5 And after that I loked and beholde the temple of the tabernacle of testimonie was open in heauen 6 And the seuen angels came out of the temple which had the seuen plagues clothed in pure and bryght lynnen and hauing their brestes girded with golden girdels 7 And one of the foure beastes gaue vnto the seuen angels seuen golden vials full of the wrath of God which lyueth for euermore 8 And the temple was full of the smoke of the glorie of God and of his power and no man was able to enter into the temple tyll the seuen plagues of the seuen angels were fulfylled The .xvi. Chapter ◠The angels powre out their vials full of wrath 6 and what plagues folowe therof 15 Admonition to take heede and watche 1 AND I hearde a great voyce out of the temple saying to y e seuen angels Go your wayes powre out your vials of wrath vpon the earth 2 And the first angell went and powred out his vial vpon the earth and there fell a noysome and a sore botch vpon the men which had the marke of the beast and vpon them which worshipped his image 3 And the second angell shed out his vial vpon the sea and it turned as it were into the blood of a dead man and euery lyuyng thyng dyed in the sea 4 And the thirde angell shed out his viall vpon the ryuers and fountaynes of waters and they turned to blood 5 And I hearde the angell of the waters say Lorde which art and wast thou art ryghteous holy because thou hast geuen such iudgementes 6 For they shed out the blood of saintes and prophetes and therfore hast thou geuen them blood to drynke for they are worthie 7 And I heard another out of the aulter say euen so Lorde God almightie true and ryghteous are thy iudgementes 8 And the fourth angell powred out his viall on the sunne power was geuen vnto hym to vexe men with heate of fyre 9 And men boyled in great heate and blasphemed the name of God whiche hath power ouer these plagues they repented not to geue hym glorie 10 And the fifth angell powred out his viall vpon the seate of the beast and his kyngdome waxed darke they gnewe their tongues for sorowe 11 And blasphemed the God of heauen for their sorowe and for theirs sores and repented not of their deedes 12 And the sixt angell powred out his vial vpon the great riuer Euphrates and the water dryed vp that the wayes of the kynges of y e east should be prepared 13 And I sawe three vncleane spirites like frogges come out of the mouth of y e dragon out of the mouth of the beast out of the mouth of the false prophete 14 For they are the spirites of deuyls workyng miracles to go out vnto the kynges of the earth and of the whole worlde to gather them to the battayle of that great day of God almightie 15 Beholde I come as a theefe Happie is he that watcheth and kepeth his garmentes lest he walke naked and men see his fylthynesse 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrue tongue Armagedon 17 And the seuenth angell powred out his viall into the ayre And there came a great voyce out of the temple of heauen from the throne saying it is done 18 And there folowed voyces thundringes lyghtnynges and there was a great earthquake such as was not sence men were vpon the earth so mightie an earquake and so great 19 And the great citie was deuided into three partes and the cities of all nations fell And great Babylon came in remembraunce before God to geue vnto her the cup of the wyne of the fearcenesse of his wrath 20 Euery I le also fledde away and the mountaynes were not founde 21 And there fell a great hayle as it had ben talentes out of heauen vpon the men and the men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hayle for the plague therof was exceadyng great ⧠The .xvij. Chapter 3 The discription of the great whore 8 her sinnes and punishment 14 The victorie of the lambe 1 AND there came one of the seuē angels which had the seuen vials talked with me saying vnto me Come I wyll shewe vnto thee the iudgement of the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters 2 With whom haue committed fornication the kynges of the earth and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornication 3 So he caryed me away in the spirite into the wildernesse And I sawe a woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast ful of names of blasphemie which had seuen heades and ten hornes 4 And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with golde precious stone and pearles and had a cup of golde in her hande full of abhominations and fylthynesse of her fornication 5 And in her forehead was a name written a misterie great Babylon the mother of whoredome abhominations of the earth 6 And I sawe y e woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus And when I sawe her I wondred with great maruayle 7 And the angell sayde vnto me wherfore maruaylest thou I wyll shewe thee the misterie of the woman and of the beast that beareth her which hath seuen heades and ten hornes 8 The beast that thou seest was and is not and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse pyt and shall go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names are not written in the booke of lyfe from the begynnyng of the world when they beholde the beast that was and is not and yet is 9 And here is a mynde that hath wisdome The seuen heades are seuen mountaynes on whiche the woman sitteth They are also seuen kynges 10 Fyue are fallen one is and another is not yet come And whē he commeth he must continue a short space 11 And the beast that was and is not is euen the eyght and is one of the seuen and shall go into destruction 12 And the ten hornes which thou sawest are ten kynges which haue receaued no kyngdome as yet but shall receaue power as kynges at one houre with the beast 13 These haue one mynde and shal geue their power strength vnto the beast 14 These shall fyght with the lambe and the lambe shall ouercome them For he is Lorde of Lordes and Kyng of Kynges and they that are on his syde are called and chosen and faythfull 15 And he sayde vnto me The waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are people and folke nations and tongues 16 And the ten hornes which
endureth for euer 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Who hath made great lightes for his mercy endureth for euery 8 The sunne to rule in the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moone the starres to gouerne in the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Who smote Egypt with their first borne for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Who deuided the red sea in partes for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to passe through the mydst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 He ouerthrewe Pharao and his hoast in the red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Who led his people through the wyldernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Who smote great kinges for his mercy endureth for euer 18 And he slue mightie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sihon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Bashan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And he gaue away their lande for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 For an heritage vnto Israel his seruaunt for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe for his mercy endureth for euer 24 And he deliuered vs from our aduersaries for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Who geueth foode vnto al creatures for his mercy endureth for euer 26 Confesse you it vnto the Lord of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer The argument of the .cxxxvij. psalme The prophete declareth the great griefe and lamentation of the children of Israel for that they beyng led prisoners vnto Babylon were prouoked to sing as they vsed to do at Sion He protesteth that he can not forget Hierusalem He prayeth God to remember the Idumites who malitiously incensed their enemies against them He prophesieth of the destruction of Babylon 1 BY the waters of Babylon we set downe there also we wept when we remembred Sion 2 We hanged vp our harpes on the Salou trees in the mydst of it 3 For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song and for our waylynges myrth saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion 4 We aunswered howe can we sing one of the songes of God in another lande besides our owne 5 If I forget thee O Hierusalem let my right hande forget her cunning 6 Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I do not remember thee yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth 7 Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem they sayde downe with it downe with it euen to the grounde 8 O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs. 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh throweth thy litle children against the stone The argument of the .cxxxviij. psalme ¶ Dauid thanketh God for his goodnes towardes hym in that he dyd heare hym in aduersitie and deliuered hym from his enemies whereby he trusteth in time to come in all distresses to be helped ¶ Of Dauid 1 I Wyll geue thankes vnto thee O God with my whole heart I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee before the gods 2 I wyll make my lowe obeysaunce towarde thy holy temple and I wyll prayse thy holy name in respect of thy louing kindnes and trueth 3 For thou hast magnified thy name and thy worde aboue all thinges 4 In the day of myne aduersitie I called vpon thee and thou heardest me thou enduedst my soule more and more with strength 5 All the kinges of the earth will prayse thee O God for they haue hearde the wordes of thy mouth 6 Yea they wyll sing of the wayes of God for great is the glory of God 7 For though God be on high yet he will haue respect vnto the lowly and he wyll knowe the proude a farre of 8 If I shall walke in the midst of trouble thou wylt make me to lyue thou wylt stretche foorth thyne hande vpon the furiousnes of mine enemies and thy right hande shall saue me 9 God wyll finishe that he hath begun by me O God thy louing kindnes endureth for euer thou wylt not forsake the workes of thyne owne handes The argument of the .cxxxix. psalme ¶ Dauid falsly accused calleth to witnesse of his innocencie God who knoweth hym throughly and vnto whom nothing is vnknowen of that is sayd done or thought out of whose handes he can not escape in any place Finally he pronounceth that he hateth the wicked to the intent that he may declare that he hath nothing to do with them ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid 1 O GOD thou hast searched me to the quicke and thou hast knowen me 2 Thou knowest my downe sitting mine vprising thou vnderstandest my thoughtes long before they be 3 Thou compassest about my path and my iourney into all coastes and thou vsest all my wayes 4 For there is not a word in my tongue but beholde thou O Lorde knowest it altogether 5 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before and layde thyne hande vpon me 6 The knowledge that thou hast of me is marueylous it is so high that I can not attayne vnto it 7 Whyther can I go from thy spirite or whyther can I flee away from thy face 8 If I ascende vp into heauen thou art there if I lay me downe in hell thou art there also 9 If I take the wynges of the morning and go to dwell in the vttermost part of the sea 10 Euen there also thy hande shall leade me and thy ryght hande shal holde me 11 And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me and the night shal be day for me 12 Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee and the night shal be as lightsome as the day darknesse and lyght to thee are both alike 13 For thou hast my reynes in thy possession thou didst couer me in my mothers wombe 14 I wyll confesse it vnto thee for that thy doynges are to be dreaded I am made after a marueylous sort thy workes be marueylous and that my soule knoweth ryght well 15 The substaunce of my body was not hyd from thee when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe 16 Thyne eyes dyd see me when I was most imperfect and in thy booke * were written euery day of them wherin the partes of my body were shaped and no one of them were knowen vnto thee 17 Howe precious be thy cogitations towardes me O God howe greatly be the summe of them increased 18 I go about to count them I fynde that they