Genesis 19 Cross References - Bishops

¹ And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde ² And he sayde: Oh my Lordes, turne in I praye you, into your seruauntes house, and tary all nyght, and washe your feete, and ye shall ryse vp early to go in your wayes. Whiche sayde, nay: but we wyll byde in the streates all nyght ³ And he preassed vpon them exceedinglye: and they returnyng in vnto hym, entred into his house, & he made them a feast, and did bake vnleuened bread, and they did eate ⁴ And before they went to rest, the men of the citie [euen] the men of Sodome compassed the house rounde about, both olde and young, all people fro [all] quarters ⁵ And they callyng vnto Lot, sayde vnto hym: Where are the men whiche came in to thee this nyght? bryng them out vnto vs, that we may knowe them ⁶ And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doores after hym ⁷ And sayde: Nay, for Gods sake brethren, do not [so] wickedly ⁸ Behold, I haue two daughters whiche haue knowen no man, them wyll I bryng out nowe vnto you, and do with them as it [seemeth] good in your eyes: only vnto these men do nothyng, for therefore came they vnder the shadowe of my roofe ⁹ And they sayde, stande backe: And they said agayne, he came in as one to soiourne, and wyll he be nowe a iudge? we wyll surely deale worse with thee then with them. And they preassed sore vpon the man [euen] Lot, and came to breake vp the doore ¹⁰ But the men put foorth their hande, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the doore ¹¹ And the men that were at the doore of the house they smoke with blyndenesse both small and great, so that they were weryed in sekyng the doore ¹² And the men sayde vnto Lot: Hast thou here any besides? sonne in lawe, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bryng them out of this place ¹³ For we wyl destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the face of God: for the Lorde hath sent vs to destroy it ¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which maried his daughters, saying: Stande vp, get ye out of this place, for the Lorde wyll ouerthrowe this citie. But he seemed as though he had mocked, vnto his sonnes in lawe ¹⁵ And when the mornyng arose, the angels caused Lot to speede him, saying: Stande vp, take thy wyfe, and thy two daughters which be at hande, lest thou perishe in the sinne of the citie ¹⁶ And as he prolonged the tyme, the men caught both him, his wife, and his two daughters by the handes, the Lorde beyng mercyfull vnto hym: and they brought hym foorth, and set hym without the citie ¹⁷ And when he had brought them out, he sayde: Saue thy selfe, and loke not behynde thee, neither tary thou in all this playne [countrey] Saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou perishe ¹⁸ And Lot sayde vnto them: Oh not so my Lordes ¹⁹ Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye ²⁰ Beholde here is a citie by to flee vnto, euen yonder litle one: Oh let me escape thyther: Is it not a litle one, and my soule shall lyue ²¹ And he sayde to hym: See, I haue receaued thy request as concernyng this thing, that I wyll not ouerthrowe this citie for the whiche thou hast spoken ²² Haste thee, and be saued there: for I can do nothyng tyl thou be come thyther, and therfore the name of the citie is Soar ²³ And the sonne was nowe rysen vpon the earth, and Lot was entred into Soar ²⁴ Then the Lorde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorrhe brymstone and fire, from the Lorde out of heauen ²⁵ And ouerthrewe those cities, and all that plaine region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grewe vpon the earth ²⁶ But Lots wyfe folowyng him, loked behynde her, & was turned into a piller of salt ²⁷ Abraham rysyng vp early, gote hym to the place where he stoode before the presence of God, and loked towarde Sodome and Gomorrhe, and towarde all the lande of that playne countrey ²⁸ And behelde, and lo the smoke of the countrey arose, as the smoke of a furnesse ²⁹ And it came to passe, that when God destroyed the cities of that region, he thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrewe the cities, in one of the whiche Lot dwelled ³⁰ And Lot departed out of Soar, and dwelled in the mountayne with his two daughters: for he feared to tary in Soar, but dwelled in a caue, he and his two daughters ³¹ And the elder said vnto the younger: our father is olde, and there is not a man in the earth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde ³² Come, let vs geue our father wine to drynke, and lye with hym, that we may saue seede of our father ³³ And so they gaue their father wine to drinke that night: and the elder daughter went and lay with her father, and he perceaued it not neither when she laye downe, neyther when she rose vp ³⁴ And on the morowe the elder sayde vnto the younger: beholde, yesternight lay I with my father: let vs make hym drynke wyne this nyght also, & go thou and lye with hym, that thou mayest rayse vp seede of our father. And they made their father drynke wyne that nyght also ³⁵ And the younger arose, and laye with hym: & he perceaued it not, neither whe she lay downe, neither whe she rose vp ³⁶ Thus were both the daughters of Lot with chylde by their father ³⁷ And the elder bare a sonne, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day ³⁸ And the younger bare a sonne also, & called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the chyldren of Ammon vnto this day

¹ And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day ² And he lift vp his eyes and loked, and loe, three men stoode by hym: And when he sawe them, he ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed hym selfe towarde the grounde ³ And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt ⁴ Let a litle water, I pray you, be fet, and washe your feete, and refreshe your selues vnder the tree ⁵ And I wyll fet a morsell of bread to comfort your heartes withall, and then shall you go your wayes: for euen therefore are ye come to your seruaunt. And they sayde: do euen so as thou hast sayde

²² And the men departed thence, & went to Sodomeward: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lorde

³² The straunger dyd not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him that went by the way

² Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: For therby some hauyng lodged Angels, were vnawares therof

⁴ Let a litle water, I pray you, be fet, and washe your feete, and refreshe your selues vnder the tree

¹⁷ And when he had lyft vp his eyes, he sawe a wayfaryng man in the streate of the citie: And the olde man sayde, Whyther goest thou? and whence commest thou ¹⁸ He aunswered hym: We come from Bethlehem Iuda towarde the syde of mount Ephraim, from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehem Iuda, and go nowe to the house of the Lorde, and there is no man that receaueth me to house ¹⁹ We haue strawe and prouender for our asses, and bread and wyne for me and thy handmayde, and for the lad that is with thy seruaunt: & we lacke nothing ²⁰ The olde man sayd: Peace be with thee, all that thou lackest shalt thou fynde with me: Only abyde not in the streate [all nyght] ²¹ And so he brought him into his house, and gaue fodder vnto the Asses: and they wasshed their feete, and dyd eate and drynke

²⁸ And they drewe nye vnto the towne which they went vnto, and he made as though he would haue gone further ²⁹ And they constrayned hym, saying: abyde with vs, for it draweth towarde nyght, and the day is farre passed. And he went in to tary with them

¹⁵ And when she was baptized, and her householde, she besought vs, saying: Yf ye haue iudged me to be faythfull to the Lorde, come into my house, and abyde there. And she constrayned vs

⁶ And Abraham went apace into the tent vnto Sara, & sayde: Make redy at once three peckes of fine meale, kneade [it] and make cakes vpon the hearth ⁷ And Abraham runnyng vnto his beastes, fet a calfe tender and good, and gaue it vnto a young man, and he hasted to make it redy at once ⁸ And he toke butter and mylke, and the calfe which he had prepared, and set it before them, and stoode hym selfe by them vnder the tree: & they dyd eate

⁸ The chylde grewe, and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isahac was weaned

¹⁵ Seuen dayes shal ye eate vnleauened bread, so that euen the first day ye put away leauen out of your house: For who so euer eateth leauened bread from the first daye vntyll the seuenth daye, that soule shalbe rooted out of Israel

³⁹ And they baked vnleauened cakes of the dowgh whiche they brought out of Egypt, for it was not sowred: For they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tary, nether had they prepared for them selues any prouision of meate

¹⁹ And Gedeon went in, and made redy a kyd, and sweete cakes of an Epha of floure, and put it with the fleshe in a basket, and put the broth in a pot, and brought it out vnto him vnder the Oke, and presented it

²⁴ The woman had a fat calfe in the house, and she hasted and killed it, and tooke floure and kneded it, and did bake vnleauened bread thereof

⁸ And it fell on a day, that Elisa came to Sunem, where was a great woman, that toke him in for to eate bread: And so it came to passe, that from that tyme foorth (as oft as he came that way) he turned in thyther to eate bread

²⁹ And Leui made hym a great feast in his owne house. And there was a great companie of publicanes, and of other that sate [at meate] with them

⁸ I saye vnto you, though he wyll not ryse and geue hym, because he is his friende: yet because of his importunitie he wyll ryse, and geue hym as many as he needeth

²³ And the Lorde sayde to the seruaunt: Go out into the hye wayes & hedges, and compell them to come in, that my house may be fylled

² There they made hym a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with hym

⁸ Therefore let vs kepe holy day, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse, but with the vnleauened bread of purenesse and trueth

¹⁴ For the loue of Christe constrayneth vs, because we thus iudge, that yf one dyed for all, then were all dead

¹³ But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde

²⁰ And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous

² And the whole congregation of the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron in the wyldernesse

² Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill, neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number, for to peruert iudgement

¹⁶ For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme

¹⁸ An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe

¹ Loke through Hierusalem, beholde and see, seeke through her streetes also within, yf ye can fynde one man that doth equall and ryght, or seketh for the trueth, and I shall spare that citie, saith the Lorde ² For though they can say, the Lorde lyueth: yet they sweare to deceaue ³ Wheras thou (O Lorde) lokest only vpon faith and trueth: Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce, thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction, they made their faces harder then a stone, and woulde not amende ⁴ Therfore I thought in my selfe: peraduenture they are so simple & foolishe that they vnderstande nothyng of the Lordes way, and iudgementes of their God ⁵ Therfore will I go vnto their heades and rulers, and talke with them, if they knowe the way of the Lord, and iudgementes of their God: But these [in lyke maner] haue broken the yoke, and burst the bondes in sunder ⁶ Wherfore a lion out of the wood hath hurt them, and a woolfe in the euenyng shall destroy them, the Leoparde doth lye lurkyng by their cities, to teare in peeces all them that come therout: for their offences are multiplied, and their departyng away is encreased

³¹ The prophetes teache falsely, and the preachers receaue giftes, and my people hath pleasure therein: what wyll come thereof at the last

³ Yet they say they do wel, when they do euyll: the prince asketh, and the iudge [iudgeth] for a rewarde, therfore the great man speaketh out of the corruption of his soule, and so they wrappe it vp

²⁰ But the chiefe priestes & elders perswaded the people, that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and destroy Iesus ²¹ The deputie aunswered, and saide vnto them: Whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let loose vnto you? They saide, Barabbas ²² Pilate sayde vnto them: What shall I do then with Iesus, whiche is called Christe? They all sayde vnto hym: let hym be crucified ²³ The deputie sayde: What euyll hath he done? But they cryed the more, saying: let hym be crucified ²⁴ When Pilate sawe that he coulde preuayle nothyng, but that more busynesse was made, he toke water, and washed his handes before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this iust person, see ye to it ²⁵ Then aunswered all the people, and sayde: His blood be on vs, and on our chyldren

¹⁵ Their feete are swyft to shed blood

²² Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for it is abhomination

¹³ If a man also lye with mankinde after the maner as with women kynde, they haue both committed an abhomination: let them dye, their blood be vpon them

²² And as they were makyng their heartes mery, beholde, the men of the citie which were wicked, beset the house rounde about, and thrust at the doore, & spake to the man of the house, the olde man, saying: Bring foorth the man that came into thyne house, that we may knowe him

⁹ Except the Lorde of hoastes had left vs a small remnaunt, we shoulde haue ben as Sodoma, & lyke vnto Gomorra

⁹ Their very countenaunce bewrayeth the, yea they declare their owne sinnes [themselues] as Sodome, they hide it not: Wo be to their owne soules, for they haue rewarded euyll vnto them selues

³ This is the cause that the rayne and euenyng deawe hath ceassed: Thou hast gotten thee an whores forehead, and wylt not be ashamed

¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they had committed abhomination? Truly nay, they be past shame, and therefore they shall fall among the slayne: and in the houre when I shall visite them, they shalbe brought downe saith the Lorde

⁴⁹ Behold, the sinnes of thy sister Sodoma were these: Pryde, fulnesse of meate, and aboundaunce of idlenesse, these thinges had she and her daughters: besides that, they strengthed not the hande of the poore and needie

⁵¹ Neither hath Samaria done halfe of thy sinnes, yea thou hast exceeded them in thyne abhominations, and hast iustified thy sisters in all thyne abhominations whiche thou hast done

²³ And thou Capernaum, which art lift vp vnto heauen, shalt be brought downe to hell: For if the mightie workes which haue ben done in thee had ben done among them of Sodome, they had remayned vntyll this day ²⁴ Neuerthelesse, I say vnto you, that it shalbe easier for the lande of Sodome in the day of iudgement, then for thee

²³ And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes ²⁴ Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues

²⁶ Wherefore God gaue them vp vnto shamefull lustes: For euen their women dyd chaunge the naturall vse, into that which is agaynst nature ²⁷ And likewise also, the men left the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one with another, and men with men wrought fylthynesse, and receaued to them selues the rewarde of their errour (as it was accordyng

⁹ Knowe ye not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceaued: neither fornicatours, nor idolatours, nor adulterers, nor weaklinges, nor abusers of them selues with mankinde

¹⁰ To whoremongers, to them that defyle them selues with mankynde, to manstealers, to lyers, to periured, and yf there be any other thyng that is contrarie to wholsome doctrine

¹³ But the euyll men and deceauers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceauyng and deceaued

⁷ Euen as Sodome and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in lyke maner defiled them selues with fornication, and folowed straunge fleshe, are set foorth for an ensample, and suffer the payne of eternall fyre

²³ And this man the maister of the house went out, and sayd vnto them: Oh, nay my brethren, do not so wickedly, seyng that this man is come into myne house, do not so vnmeete a thyng

⁴ And before they went to rest, the men of the citie [euen] the men of Sodome compassed the house rounde about, both olde and young, all people fro [all] quarters

¹⁷ There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whore keper of the sonnes of Israel

²³ Then sayd Dauid: Ye shall not do so my brethren with that which the Lord hath geuen vs, who hath preserued vs, and delyuered the company that came against vs, into our handes ²⁴ For who will hearke vnto you in this matter? But as his parte is that goeth downe and fighteth, so shall his parte be that tarryeth by the stuffe: they shall parte alyke

²⁶ And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation

²⁴ Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues

⁹ Knowe ye not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceaued: neither fornicatours, nor idolatours, nor adulterers, nor weaklinges, nor abusers of them selues with mankinde ¹⁰ Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunckardes, nor cursed speakers, nor pyllers, shall inherite the kingdome of God ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are wasshed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are iustified in the name of the Lord Iesus, and by the spirite of our God

⁵ And I wyll fet a morsell of bread to comfort your heartes withall, and then shall you go your wayes: for euen therefore are ye come to your seruaunt. And they sayde: do euen so as thou hast sayde

³¹ And the elder said vnto the younger: our father is olde, and there is not a man in the earth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde ³² Come, let vs geue our father wine to drynke, and lye with hym, that we may saue seede of our father ³³ And so they gaue their father wine to drinke that night: and the elder daughter went and lay with her father, and he perceaued it not neither when she laye downe, neyther when she rose vp ³⁴ And on the morowe the elder sayde vnto the younger: beholde, yesternight lay I with my father: let vs make hym drynke wyne this nyght also, & go thou and lye with hym, that thou mayest rayse vp seede of our father. And they made their father drynke wyne that nyght also ³⁵ And the younger arose, and laye with hym: & he perceaued it not, neither whe she lay downe, neither whe she rose vp ³⁶ Thus were both the daughters of Lot with chylde by their father ³⁷ And the elder bare a sonne, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day ³⁸ And the younger bare a sonne also, & called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the chyldren of Ammon vnto this day

³⁷ Ruben said vnto his father: slay my two sonnes, yf I bring hym not to thee agayne: deliuer him to my hande, and I will bring him to thee agayne

²² And Aaron aunswered, Let not the wrath of my Lorde waxe fierce: thou knowest the people that they are [euen] set on mischiefe

¹⁵ And the bryer sayde vnto the trees: If it be true that ye will annoynt me kyng ouer you, then come and put your trust vnder my shadow: If no, the fyre come out of the bryer, & waste the Cedar trees of Libanon

²⁴ Behold, here is my daughter a mayden, and this mans concubine, them I wyll bryng out nowe vnto you, and humble them, & do with them what seemeth you good: but vnto this man do not so abhominable a thing

⁷ To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe

⁶ For he wist not what he saide, for they were afrayde

⁸ And not rather (as men speake euyll of vs, and as some affirme that we say) let vs do euyll, that good may come therof? Whose dampnation is iuste

⁶ And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do

¹² Abram dwelled in the lande of Chanaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the playne, and pitched his tent vntill Sodome

¹⁴ He aunswered: Who made thee a man of aucthoritie and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kyll me, as thou kylledst the Egyptian? And Moyses feared and sayde: Of a suretie this thyng is knowen

¹⁶ And yf any man sayde vnto hym, Let them burne the fat according to the custome, and then take as much as thyne hearte desireth: Then he would aunswere hym, Yea, thou shalt geue it me nowe: and if thou wilt not, I wyll take it with violence

⁴⁴ And the Philistine sayde to Dauid: Come to me, and I wyll geue thy fleshe vnto the foules of the ayre, and to the beastes of the fielde

¹⁷ Now therefore take heede, & see what thou shalt do: for surelie euyll will come vpon our maister and al his housholde, for he is so wicked, that a man can not speake to him

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

¹⁶ A wyse man feareth, and departeth from euyll: but the foole is angry, and counteth hym selfe sure

¹² It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse

³ The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both

³ Among all thinges that come to passe vnder the sunne, this is a miserie, that it happeneth vnto all alike: This is the cause also that the heartes of men are full of wickednesse, and madde foolishnesse is in their heartes as long as they liue, vntyll they dye

¹³ The beginning of his talking is foolishnesse: & the last worde of his mouth is starke madnesse

⁵ If thou commest nye them, they say, touche me not, for I am holyer then thou: All these men when I am angry, shalbe turned to smoke and fire that shall burne for euer

¹² Fye for shame, howe abhominable thinges do they? and yet they be not ashamed, yea they knowe of no shame: Wherefore in the tyme of their visitation they shal fal among the dead bodies, and be ouerthrowne, saith the Lorde

¹⁹ Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation, so that the countenaunce of his face chaunged vpon Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace, one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat ²⁰ And he charged the most valiaunt men of warre that were in his armie, to bind Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hot firie fornace ²¹ So these men were bounde in their coates, hosen, head attire, with their other garmentes, and cast into the mids of the hot firie fornace ²² Therefore, because the kinges commaundement was straite, & the fornace was exceeding hot, the men that put in Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, the flamble of the fire destroyed them

⁶ Geue not that which is holy, vnto dogges, neyther caste ye your pearles before swyne, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning agayne, all to rent you

²⁶ And the next day he shewed hym selfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one agayne, saying: Sirs, ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one to another ²⁷ But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust hym awaye, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a iudge ouer vs ²⁸ Wylt thou kyll me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday

⁷ And iust Lot, vexed with ye vncleane conuersatio 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

²⁸ And the Lorde shall smyte thee with madnesse, and blyndnesse, and dasing of heart ²⁹ Thou shalt grope at noone dayes as the blinde gropeth in darknesse, & shal not prosper in thy wayes: Thou shalt be oppressed with wrong, & be poulled euermore, & no man shall succour thee

¹⁸ And when they came downe to him, Elisa prayed vnto the Lord, and sayde: Smyte this people I pray thee with blindnesse. And he smote them with blindnesse, according to the worde of Elisa

¹⁵ The labour of the foolishe is greeuous vnto them, whyle they know not howe to go into the citie

¹⁰ Thou art weerie for the multitude of thyne owne wayes, yet saydest thou neuer, there is no hope: Thou hast had the life that thy handes wrought, and therefore thou art carelesse

³⁶ Why gaddest thou so much hither and thither, to chaunge thy wayes? for thou shalt be confounded aswell of Egypt as thou wast of the Assyrians

¹¹ And nowe beholde, the hande of the Lorde is vpon thee, and thou shalt be blynde, and not see the sunne for a season. And immediatly, there fell on hym a myste, and a darcknesse, and he went about, seekyng [them] that shoulde leade hym by the hande

¹ And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation

¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which maried his daughters, saying: Stande vp, get ye out of this place, for the Lorde wyll ouerthrowe this citie. But he seemed as though he had mocked, vnto his sonnes in lawe

¹⁷ And when he had brought them out, he sayde: Saue thy selfe, and loke not behynde thee, neither tary thou in all this playne [countrey] Saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou perishe

²² Haste thee, and be saued there: for I can do nothyng tyl thou be come thyther, and therfore the name of the citie is Soar

²⁶ And he spake vnto the congregation, saying: Depart I pray you from the tentes of these wicked men, and touche nothyng of theirs, lest ye perishe in all their sinnes

²² But Iosuah had sayde vnto the two men that had spyed out the countrey: Go into the harlottes house, and bryng out thence the woman and all that she hath, as ye sware vnto her ²³ And the young men that were spyes, went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and mother, & her brethren, and all that she had: and they brought out all her kynred, & put them without the hoast of Israel

³⁹ And I wyll geue them one heart and one way, that they may feare me al the dayes of their lyfe: that they and their chyldren after them may prosper

⁷ And iust Lot, vexed with ye vncleane conuersatio of the wicked, deliuered he

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

⁴ And I hearde another voyce from heauen say: Come awaye from her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sinnes, and that ye receaue not of her plagues

¹⁵ And God sent the angell into Hierusalem to destroy it: And as he was about to destroy, the Lorde behelde, and had compassion on the euyll, & sayde to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, let nowe thyne hand ceasse. And the angel of the Lorde stoode by the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite ¹⁶ And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the angell of the Lorde stand betweene the earth and heauen, hauing a drawen sword in his hand, stretched out toward Hierusalem: Then Dauid and the elders of Israel whiche were clothed in sacke, fell vpon their faces

⁵ God wyll trye the righteous: but his soule abhorreth the vngodly, and hym that delighteth in wickednes ⁶ Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke

¹¹ [But] wo be vnto the wicked, for it shalbe euyll with hym: for he shalbe rewarded after his owne workes

¹⁰ Moreouer, thinkest thou that I am come vp hyther to destroy this lande without the Lordes wyll? The Lorde sayd vnto me, Go vp agaynst this lande and destroy it

³⁶ Thus the angell of the Lorde went foorth, and slue of the Assyrians hoaste an hundred fourescore and fiue thousande: and when men arose vp early in the mornyng, beholde they were slayne, and all lay full of dead bodyes

⁵ And to the other he sayd, that I might here, Go ye after hym through the citie, and sinite, let your eye spare none, neither haue ye any pitie ⁶ Kyll and destroy both olde men and young, maydens, children, and women: but as for all those that haue the marke vpon them, see that ye touche them not, and begyn at my sanctuarie. Then they began at the auncient men which were before the house

⁴¹ The sonne of man shall sende foorth his Angels, and [they] shall gather out of his kyngdome, all thynges that offende, and them which do iniquitie ⁴² And shall cast them into a furnesse of fyre: There shalbe waylyng and gnasshyng of teeth

⁴⁹ So shall it be at the ende of the world: The Angels shall come foorth, and seuer the bad from among the iuste ⁵⁰ And shall cast them into a furnesse of fyre: there shalbe waylyng and gnasshyng of teeth

²³ And immediatly the Angel of ye Lorde smote hym, because he gaue not God ye honour, & he was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost

⁸ And not rather (as men speake euyll of vs, and as some affirme that we say) let vs do euyll, that good may come therof? Whose dampnation is iuste ⁹ What then? Are we better [then they?] No, in no wise. For we haue alredy proued, howe that both Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinne

⁴ Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth

¹ And I hearde a great voyce out of the temple, saying to ye 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 ye east should be prepared

²¹ But he that regarded not the worde of the Lord, left his seruauntes and his beastes in the fielde

³¹ And he called vnto Moyses and Aaro by nyght, saying: Ryse vp, and get you out from amongst my people, both you and also the chyldren of Israel: and go, and serue the Lorde as ye haue sayde

²¹ Seperate your selues from among this congregation, that I may consume them at once

⁴⁵ Get you from among this congregation, that I may consume the quickly. And they fell vpon their faces

¹⁰ And so the postes went from citie to citie in the lande of Ephraim & Manasse, euen vnto Zabulon: but they laughed them to scorne, and mocked them

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his wordes, and misvsed his prophetes, vntill the wrath of the Lorde arose against his people, and till there was no remedie

¹ He that is stifnecked and wyll not be refourmed, shall sodaynly be destroyed without any helpe

²² Nowe therefore see that ye be no mockers, lest your punishment increase: For I hearde of the Lorde of hoastes, that there shall come a short ende vpon the whole earth

¹² They haue denied the Lorde and sayde, It is not he [that loketh vpon vs] tushe, there shall no misfortune come vpon vs, we shall see neither sworde nor hunger ¹³ As for the warning of the prophetes, it is but wynde, yea there is not the worde of God in them: such thynges shall happen vnto them selues ¹⁴ Wherfore thus saith the Lorde God of hoastes, Because ye speake such wordes, beholde, the wordes that are in thy mouth wyll I turne to fire, and make the people to be wood, that the fire may consume them

⁷ O Lord, if I am deceaued, then hast thou deceaued me, thou enforcedst me, and hast preuayled: dayly am I despised and laughed to scorne of euery man

⁶ Flee away from Babylon, euery man saue his lyfe, that ye be not rooted out with her wickednesse: for the tyme of the Lordes vengeaunce is come, yea he shall rewarde her agayne

⁴⁹ Then sayde I, Ah Lorde God, they say of me, Doth not he speake parables

¹⁸ The birth of Iesus Christe was on this wise. When as his mother Marie was betrouthed to Ioseph (before they came together) she was founde with chylde of the holy ghost

²⁴ He sayde vnto them: Geue place, for the maide is not dead, but slepeth. And they laughed hym to scorne

⁴² As he was yet a commyng, the fiende rent hym, and tare hym: And Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite, and healed the chylde, and deliuered hym to his father

²⁸ Lykewyse also as it was in the dayes of Lot: they dyd eate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they buylded ²⁹ But euen the same day that Lot went out of Sodome, it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all ³⁰ Euen thus shall it be, in the day when the sonne of man shalbe reuealed

¹¹ And their wordes seemed vnto them fayned thynges, neither beleued they them

³² And when they hearde of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, and other sayde, we wyll heare thee agayne of this matter

³ For when they shal say peace & safetie, then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them, as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde, and they shall not escape

⁴ And I hearde another voyce from heauen say: Come awaye from her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sinnes, and that ye receaue not of her plagues ⁵ For her sinnes are gone vp to heauen, and God hath remembred her wickednesse ⁶ Rewarde her euen as she rewarded you, and geue her double accordyng to her workes, and powre in double to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you ⁷ And as much as she glorified her selfe & lyued wantonly, so much powre ye in for her of punishement & sorowe: for she said in her heart, I sit being a queene, and am no wydowe, and shall see no sorowe ⁸ Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and sorowe, and hunger, and she shalbe brent with fire: for strong is the Lorde whiche shall iudge her

²⁴ Speake vnto the congregation, and say: Get you away from about the tabernacle of Corah, Dathan, & Abiram ²⁵ And Moyses rose vp, and went vnto Dathan and Abiram: and the elders of Israel folowed hym ²⁶ And he spake vnto the congregation, saying: Depart I pray you from the tentes of these wicked men, and touche nothyng of theirs, lest ye perishe in all their sinnes ²⁷ And so they gate them from the tabernacle of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, on euery syde: And Dathan & Abiram came out, & stoode in the doore of their tentes, with their wiues, their sonnes, and their litle children

⁴ Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber ⁵ Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the [hunter] and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler

²⁴ Stryue to enter in at the strayte gate: for many I say vnto you, wyll seke to enter in, and shall not be able ²⁵ When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begyn to stande without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lorde, Lorde, open vnto vs: and he shall aunswere, and say vnto you, I knowe you not whence ye are

² For he saith: I haue heard thee in a tyme accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I suckoured thee. Beholde, nowe is that accepted tyme, beholde nowe is that day of saluation

⁷ Wherfore, as the holy ghost saith: Today yf ye wyll heare his voyce ⁸ Harden not your heartes, as in the prouokyng, in the day of the temptation in the wyldernesse

⁶ And the Lorde passed by before hym, and cryed, Lorde, Lorde, God, strong, mercyfull and gracious, long suffering, and aboundaunt in goodnes & trueth

¹⁸ The Lorde is long yer he be angrie, and of great mercy, and suffreth iniquitie and sinne, and leaueth no man innocent, and visiteth the vnrighteousnesse of the fathers vpon the chyldren, in the thirde and fourth generations

³¹ (For the Lorde thy God is a mercifull God) he wyll not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the appoyntment of thy fathers, which he sware vnto them

²² But Iosuah had sayde vnto the two men that had spyed out the countrey: Go into the harlottes house, and bryng out thence the woman and all that she hath, as ye sware vnto her

³⁴ O geue thankes vnto the Lorde, for he is good, for his mercie endureth euer

¹² What man is he that listeth to liue: [and] woulde fayne see good dayes

⁵ For thou Lorde art good and gracious: and of great mercy vnto all them that call vpon thee

¹⁵ But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy: long yet thou be angry, plenteous in goodnes and trueth

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

¹³ Yea lyke as a father pitieth [his owne] children: euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym

¹ Confesse you [it] vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer

⁸ Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen

¹ Confesse you [it] vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer

⁴ The merciful and gratious God: hath so left a remembraunce of his meruaylous workes

¹ O confesse you [it] vnto God, for he is gratious: and his mercie endureth for euer

⁶⁰ (119:4) I made haste and I made no delay: for to kepe thy commaundementes

¹ Confesse you [it] vnto the Lord, for he is gratious: and his mercy [endureth] for euer

⁹ In their troubles, he was also troubled with them, and the angell that went foorth from his presence deliuered them: of very loue and kindnesse that he had vnto them, he redeemed them, he hath borne them and caried them vp euer since the worlde began

²² [namely] it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed

¹⁸ Who is such a God as thou, that pardonest wickednesse, and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thyne heritage? He kepeth not his wrath for euer: for his delite is to haue compassion ¹⁹ He shall turne againe, and be merciful to vs, he shall put downe our wickednesses, and cast all our sinnes into the bottome of the sea

³⁵ But loue ye your enemies, & do good, and lende, lokyng for nothyng agayne: and your rewarde shalbe great, and ye shalbe the chyldren of the hyest: for he is kynde vnto the vnkynde, & to the euyll ³⁶ Be ye therfore mercifull, as your father also is mercifull

¹³ And the publicane standyng a farre of, woulde not lyft vp his eyes to heauen, but smote vpon his brest, saying: God be mercifull to me a sinner

⁴⁴ No man can come to me, except the father, whiche hath sent me, drawe hym: And I wyll rayse hym vp at the last day

¹⁵ For he sayth to Moyses: I wyll shewe mercy to whom I shewe mercy: And wyll haue compassion, on whom I haue compassion ¹⁶ So then it is not of the wyller, nor of the runner: but of the mercy of God

¹⁸ So hath he mercy on whom he wyll, and whom he wyll, he hardeneth

³ Blessed be God, the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, whiche is the father of mercies, & the God of al comfort

⁴ But God which is ryche in mercie, for his great loue wherwith he loued vs ⁵ Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickned vs together with Christ, by grace are ye saued

⁵ Not of workes which [be] in ryghteousnesse wrought, but accordyng to his mercie, he saued vs by the fountayne of regeneration and renuyng of the holy ghost

¹⁰ And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar

¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which maried his daughters, saying: Stande vp, get ye out of this place, for the Lorde wyll ouerthrowe this citie. But he seemed as though he had mocked, vnto his sonnes in lawe ¹⁵ And when the mornyng arose, the angels caused Lot to speede him, saying: Stande vp, take thy wyfe, and thy two daughters which be at hande, lest thou perishe in the sinne of the citie

²⁶ But Lots wyfe folowyng him, loked behynde her, & was turned into a piller of salt

¹¹ Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: And Michol Dauids wyfe tolde it him, saying: If thou saue not thy selfe this night, to morowe thou shalt be slayne

³ When he sawe that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beerseba in Iuda, and left his seruaunt there

¹ I will lift vp myne eyes vnto the hilles: from whence my helpe shall come

⁶ Get you away, saue your liues, and be lyke vnto the heath in the wyldernesse

⁷ But when he sawe many of the Pharisees, and Saducees come to his baptisme, he sayde vnto them. O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the anger to come

¹⁶ Then let them which be in Iurie, flee into the mountaynes ¹⁷ And let hym which is on the house toppe, not come downe to fet any thyng out of his house ¹⁸ Neither let hym which is in the fielde, returne backe to fetche his clothes

⁶² Iesus sayde vnto hym: No man that putteth his hande to the plowe, and loketh backe, is apt to the kyngdome of God

³¹ At that day, he which is on the house [top,] and his stuffe in the house, let him not come downe to take it out: And let not him that is in the fielde, turne backe agayne lykewyse, to the thynges that he left behynde ³² Remember lottes wyfe

¹³ Brethren I count not my selfe as yet that I haue attained: but this one thing [I say] I forget those thinges which are behynde, and endeuour my selfe vnto those thynges which are before ¹⁴ And I prease towarde the marke, for the price of the hye callyng of God in Christe Iesus

³ Howe shall we escape, yf we neglect so great saluation? which at the first began to be preached of the Lorde, and was confirmed vnto vswarde, by them that hearde it

²⁶ And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh. Whiche aunswered: I will not let thee go, except thou blesse me

¹¹ But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and saide: Beholde, I thought with my selfe, he would surely come out, and stande and call on the name of the Lord his god, & put his hand on the place, that he may heale the leprosie ¹² Are not Abana and Pharphar riuers of Damasco, better then all the waters of Israel? If I washe me also in them, shal I not be cleansed? And so he turned him, and departed with displeasure

¹¹ Thus saith the Lorde, euen the holy one and maker of Israel: Aske me of thinges for to come concerning my sonnes, and put me in remembraunce as touching the workes of my handes

⁶ Then came he to Simon Peter. And Peter sayde vnto hym: Lorde, doest thou wasshe my feete ⁷ Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: What I do, thou wotest not nowe, but thou shalt knowe hereafter ⁸ Peter sayth vnto hym: Thou shalt neuer wasshe my feete. Iesus aunswered hym: If I wasshe thee not, thou hast no part with me

¹³ Then Ananias aunswered: Lorde, I haue heard by many, of this man, how much euyll he hath done to thy saintes, at Hierusalem

¹⁴ But Peter sayde, Not so Lorde: For I haue neuer eaten any thyng that is common or vncleane

¹³ Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion

¹⁷ And then my wrath wyll waxe hot against them in that day, & I wil forsake them, & wyll hide my face from them, and they shalbe consumed, and much aduersitie and tribulations shall come vpon them, so that then they wyll say: Are not these troubles come vpon me, because God is not with me

¹ And Dauid sayd in his heart, I shall perishe one day by the hand of Saul: therefore is there nothing better for me, then to flee and saue my self in the land of the Philistines, and Saul shall ceasse and seeke me no more in all the coastes of Israel, and so shall I escape out of his hand

⁹ And they shal aunswere: Because they forsoke the Lorde their God, whiche brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and haue taken hold vpon other gods, and haue worshipped them, and serued them: therfore hath the Lorde brought vpon them all this euyll

¹ (18:1a) I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength ² (18:1b) 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 ³ (18:2) I wyll call vpon God, who is most worthy to be praysed: so I shall be safe from myne enemies ⁴ (18:3) The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare ⁵ (18:4) The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me ⁶ (18:5) 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 ⁷ (18:6) The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth ⁸ (18:7) In his anger a smoke ascended vp: and a fire out of his mouth dyd cosume, and euery cole therof dyd set a fire ⁹ (18:8) He bowed the heauens also, and he came downe: and it was darke vnder his feete ¹⁰ (18:9) He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde ¹¹ (18:10) 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 ¹² (18:11) His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng ¹³ (18:12) God also thundred out of heauen: and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde, haylestones, and coles of fire ¹⁴ (18:13) He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them ¹⁵ (18:14) 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 ¹⁶ (18:15) He hath sent downe from aboue to fetch me: he hath taken me out of many waters ¹⁷ (18:16) He hath deliuered me from my strong enemie: and from them which hate me, for they were to stout for me ¹⁸ (18:17) They preuented me in the day of my trouble: but God was vnto me a sure stay ¹⁹ (18:18) He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie: he brought me foorth, because he had a fauour vnto me ²⁰ (18:19) God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me ²¹ (18:20) Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God ²² (18:21) For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me ²³ (18:22) And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse ²⁴ (18:23) Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght ²⁵ (18:24) With the holy thou wylt be holy: with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect ²⁶ (18:25) With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde ²⁷ (18:26) For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude ²⁸ (18:27) Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght ²⁹ (18:28) For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men: and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall ³⁰ (18:29) 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 ³¹ (18:30) For who is a Lorde besides God: or who hath any strength besides our Lorde ³² (18:31) It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne ³³ (18:32) He hath made my feete lyke Hartes feete: and he hath set me vp on hygh ³⁴ (18:33) He hath taught my handes to fyght: and myne armes to breake a bowe of steele ³⁵ (18:34) Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased ³⁶ (18:35) Thou hast made me roomth inough for to go on: so that my feete haue not slypt ³⁷ (18:36) I haue pursued myne enemies and onertaken them: neither dyd I returne backe vntyll I had destroyed them ³⁸ (18:37) I smote them downe, and they are not able to aryse: they haue taken such a fall vnder my feete ³⁹ (18:38) Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me ⁴⁰ (18:39) Thou hast geuen me myne enemies neckes: and I haue destroyed them that hated me ⁴¹ (18:40) They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them ⁴² (18:41) I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates ⁴³ (18:42a) Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me ⁴⁴ (18:42b) assoone as they hearde of me, they obeyed me ⁴⁵ (18:43) Children of a straunger haue made a lie vnto me: the heartes of the children of a straunger hath fayled them, and they feared in their [strong] holdes ⁴⁶ (18:44) God lyueth, and he [is] my strength most worthy of blisse: and the Lorde of my saluation ought to be magnified ⁴⁷ (18:45) It is God that hath geuen me power to take auengeaunce: and he hath subdued the people vnder me ⁴⁸ (18:46) It is he that is the aucthour of my deliuerie from myne enemies: and he hath set me vp aboue them that rose agaynst me, he hath ridde me from the wicked man ⁴⁹ (18:47) For this cause I wyll acknowledge thee O God among the gentiles: and syng psalmes vnto thy name ⁵⁰ (18:48) Who hath wonderfull oft deliuered his kyng: and he hath done mercifully vnto Dauid his annoynted, and vnto his seede for euermore

¹ I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me [his eare]: and heard my crying ² He brought me also out of an horrible pyt, out of the dirtie mire: and set my feete vpon a rocke, and directed my goynges ³ And he hath put a newe song in my mouth: euen a thankesgeuyng vnto our Lorde ⁴ Many shall see it, and feare: and shall put their trust in God ⁵ Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in God: and turned not vnto the proude, and to such as decline to lyes ⁶ O God my Lord, great are thy wonderous workes which thou hast done: & none can count in order thy benefites towarde vs, yf I woulde declare them and speake of them, they shoulde be mo then I am able to expresse ⁷ Thou wouldest haue no sacrifice or offeryng, but thou hast opened myne eares: thou hast not required burnt offerynges and sacrifice for sinne ⁸ Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest ⁹ I haue declared thy righteousnes in a great congregatio: lo I wil not refraine my lippes O God thou knowest [it. ¹⁰ I haue not hyd thy ryghteousnesse within my heart: my talkyng hath ben of thy trueth and of thy saluation. (40:11) I haue not concealed thy louyng mercie and trueth: from the great congregation ¹¹ (40:12) Withdrawe not thou thy mercie from me O God: let thy louyng kyndnesse and thy trueth alway preserue me ¹² (40:13) For innumerable troubles are come about me, my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me that I am not able to loke vp: yea they are mo in number then the heeres of my head, & my heart hath fayled me ¹³ (40:14) O God let it be thy pleasure to deliuer me: make haste O God to helpe me ¹⁴ (40:15) Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seke after my soule to destroy it: let them be dryuen backwarde & be put to rebuke that wyshe me euyll ¹⁵ (40:16) Let them be desolate in recompence of their shame: that say vnto me, fye vpon thee, fye vpon thee ¹⁶ (40:17) Let all those that seeke thee be glad and ioyfull in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say alway God be magnified ¹⁷ (40:18) As for me I am afflicted and needye, but God careth for me: thou art my ayde and delyuerer, O my God make no long tarying

⁷ What, wyll the Lorde forsake me for euer? wyll he be no more intreated to be fauourable ⁸ Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah ¹⁰ And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest [may graunt] me yeres ¹¹ I dyd call to remebraunce the workes of God almightie: for thy wonders done a great whyle a goe came into my mynde

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

¹ Confesse you [it] vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer 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 felicitie of thy chosen, that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people: [and] that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce ⁶ We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly ⁷ Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea ⁸ Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen ⁹ And he rebuked the red sea, and it was dryed vp: so he led them through the deepe, as through a wyldernesse ¹⁰ And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them: & redeemed them from the hande of the enemie ¹¹ As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them: there was not one of them left remayning ¹² Then beleued they his wordes: and song prayse vnto him ¹³ But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes: they woulde not wayte for his counsell ¹⁴ And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse: and they tempted God in the desert ¹⁵ And he gaue them their desire: and sent leannes withal into their soule ¹⁶ They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes: [and] at Aaron the saint of God ¹⁷ So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram ¹⁸ And the fire was kindled in their company: the flambe brent vp the vngodly ¹⁹ They made a calfe in Horeb: and worshipped the moulten image ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay ²¹ (106:21a) They forgat God their sauiour, who had done so great thynges in Egypt ²² (106:21b) wonderous workes in ye land of Cham, [and] terrible thinges at the red sea ²³ (106:22) Wherfore he appointed to destroy them, had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym: to turne away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them ²⁴ (106:23) Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired: they gaue no credite vnto his worde ²⁵ (106:24) But they murmured in their tentes: they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God ²⁶ (106:25a) Then lift he vp his hand against them, to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse ²⁷ (106:25b) to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations, and to scatter them in sundry landes ²⁸ (106:26) They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor: they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead ²⁹ (106:27) And they prouoked the [Lorde] vnto anger with their owne inuentions: and a plague fell mightily amongst them ³⁰ (106:28) Then stoode vp Phinehes, he executed iustice: and so the plague ceassed ³¹ (106:29) And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse: in generation and generation for euermore ³² (106:30) They also prouoked [God] at the waters of strife: and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes ³³ (106:31) For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite: so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes ³⁴ (106:32) Moreouer, they destroyed not the Heathen: as God commaunded them ³⁵ (106:33) But they were mingled amongst the Heathen: and learned their workes ³⁶ (106:34) Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols: whiche were to the a snare ³⁷ (106:35) Yea they sacrifised their sonnes: and their daughters vnto deuils ³⁸ (106:36) And they shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters: whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan, and the lande was defiled with blood ³⁹ (106:37) Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions ⁴⁰ (106:38) Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce ⁴¹ (106:39) And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen: and they that dyd hate them, were lordes ouer them ⁴² (106:40) Their enemies oppressed them: and brought them into subiection vnder their hande ⁴³ (106:41) Many a time dyd [God] deliuer them, but they rebelled [against hym] with their owne inuentions: and were brought downe for their wickednes ⁴⁴ (106:42) Neuerthelesse, he did beholde them in their aduersitie: in geuing eare to their complaint ⁴⁵ (106:43) And he remembred his couenaunt: and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies ⁴⁶ (106:44) Yea he made all those that led them away captiue: to pitie them ⁴⁷ (106:45) Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse ⁴⁸ (106:46) Blessed be God the Lord of Israel from world to world without end: and let all people say, so be it. Prayse ye the Lord

¹ I haue loued: because God hath hearde my voyce [and] my prayers ² Because he hath enclined his eare vnto me: therfore I wyll call vpon hym as long as I lyue ³ The snares of death compassed me rounde about: and the paynes of hell toke holde on me. (116:4a) I founde anguishe and heauinesse ⁴ (116:4b) but I called vpon the name of God: [saying] O God, I beseche thee deliuer my soul ⁵ Gratious is God and ryghteous: our Lorde is mercifull ⁶ God gardeth the simple: I was brought to the extremitie, and he preserued me ⁷ Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee ⁸ For [thou O Lorde] hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng ⁹ I wyll walke before the face of God: in the lande of the lyuyng ¹⁰ (116:10a) I beleued, therfore I wyll speake: I was sore afflicted ¹¹ (116:10b) insomuch that I said in my rashnesse euery man is a lyer ¹² (116:11) What rewarde shal I geue vnto God: for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me ¹³ (116:12) I wyll take the cuppe of saluation: and I wyll call vpon the name of God ¹⁴ (116:13) I wyll pay my vowes nowe vnto God: in the presence of all his people ¹⁵ (116:14) The death of his saintes: is precious in the eyes of God ¹⁶ (116:15) It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder ¹⁷ (116:16) I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng: and I wyll call vpon the name of God ¹⁸ (116:17a) I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people ¹⁹ (116:17b) in the courtes of Gods house, euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem. Prayse ye the Lorde

²⁵ And his disciples came to hym, and awoke hym, saying: Lorde saue vs, we peryshe ²⁶ And he sayth vnto them: Why are ye fearefull, O ye of litle fayth? Then he arose, and rebuked the windes, and the sea: and there folowed a great calme

¹⁹ He aunswereth hym, and sayth: O faythlesse nation, howe long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? Bryng hym vnto me

³¹ What shall we then say to these thynges? If God be on our syde, who can be agaynst vs

¹⁴ Neuerthelesse, the grace of our Lorde was exceedyng aboundaunt, with faith and loue, which is in Christe Iesus ¹⁵ This is a faythfull saying, and by all meanes worthy to be receaued, that Christe Iesus came into the worlde to saue synners, of whom I am chiefe ¹⁶ Notwithstandyng, for this cause was mercie shewed vnto me, that in me the first, Iesus Christe myght shewe all long sufferyng, to the example of them which shoulde beleue on hym to lyfe euerlastyng

³⁰ And Lot departed out of Soar, and dwelled in the mountayne with his two daughters: for he feared to tary in Soar, but dwelled in a caue, he and his two daughters

¹⁷⁵ (119:7) Let my soule lyue, and it shall prayse thee: and thy iudgementes shalbe an ayde vnto me

⁵ Put thy trust in God with all thine heart: & leane not vnto thine owne wit ⁶ In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall order thy goynges ⁷ Be not wise in thine owne conceipt: but feare the Lorde, and depart from euyll

³ Encline your eares and come vnto me, take heede [I say] and your soule shall lyue: For I wyll make an euerlastyng couenaunt with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid

⁶ Or shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, & the people be not afrayde? or shall there be euyll in a citie, and the Lorde hath not done it

⁷ If thou do well, shalt thou not receaue? and yf thou doest not well, lyeth not thy sinne at the doores? Also vnto thee shall his desire be, and thou shalt haue dominion ouer hym

² And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng

²⁴ If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein

⁸ Therefore take you now seuen oxen, and seuen rammes, and go to my seruaunt Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruaunt Iob shall pray for you: him wyll I accept, and not deale with you after your foolishnesse, in that ye haue not spoken of me the thing which is right, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done ⁹ So Eliphas the Themanite, and Bildad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite, went and did according as the Lorde commaunded them: the Lorde also accepted the person of Iob

¹⁵ The eyes of God [are] ouer the righteous: and his eares [are open] vnto their prayers

¹⁷ (102:15) He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer

¹⁹ He wyll fulfyll the desire of them that feare hym: he will also heare their crye, and he wyll saue them

¹⁰ Thus hath the Lorde sayde vnto his people, seyng they haue had such a lust to wander abrode, and haue not refrayned their feete: therfore the Lorde hath no pleasure in them, but he wyll nowe bring againe to remembraunce all their misdeedes, and punishe all their sinnes

²⁰ A bruised reede shall he not breake, and smokyng flaxe shall he not quenche, tyll he sende foorth iudgement vnto victorie

¹⁷ Wherfore, in all thinges it became him to be made lyke vnto his brethren, that he myght be mercyfull, and a faythfull hye priest in thynges concernyng God, for to purge the peoples sinnes

¹⁵ For we haue not an hye priest whiche can not be touched with the feelyng of our infirmities: but was in all poyntes tempted lyke as we are, and [yet] without sinne ¹⁶ Let vs therfore come boldly vnto the throne of grace, that we may obteyne mercie, and fynde grace to helpe in time of neede

² [These] made warre with Bera kyng of Sodome, and with Birsa kyng of Gomorrhe, and with Sinab kyng of Adma, and with Semeber kyng of Seboiim, and with the kyng of Bela, the same is Soar

²⁵ And when he sawe that he coulde not preuayle agaynst hym, he smote hym vpon the hucklebone of his thigh, and the hucklebone of Iacobs thigh loosed out of ioynt as he wrastled with him ²⁶ And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh. Whiche aunswered: I will not let thee go, except thou blesse me ²⁷ And he sayde vnto hym: what is thy name? He aunswered: Iacob ²⁸ He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled

¹⁰ And nowe suffer me, that my wrath may waxe whot against them, and consume them: and I wyll make of thee a mightie people

¹⁴ Let me alone, that I may destroy them, & put out the name of them from vnder heauen, and I wyll make of thee a mightie nation, & greater then they be

¹ Whosoeuer sitteth vnder the couer of the most highest: he shal abide vnder the shadowe of the almightie ² I wyll say vnto God, thou art my hope and my fortresse: my Lorde, in whom I wyll trust ³ For he wyll delyuer thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the noysome pestilence ⁴ He wyll couer thee vnder his wynges, & thou shalt be safe vnder his fethers: his faythfulnesse shalbe thy shielde and buckler ⁵ Thou shalt not be afrayde of any terrour of the nyght: nor of any arrowe that sleeth by day ⁶ Nor of any pestilence that walketh in the darknesse: nor of any deadly fyt that destroyeth at hygh noone ⁷ A thousande shall fall beside thee, and ten thousande at thy ryght hande: but it shall not come nygh thee ⁸ Thou only with thine eyes shalt beholde: & see the rewarde of the vngodly ⁹ For thou O God art my hope: thou hast set thine habitation very hygh ¹⁰ There shall no euyll lyght on thee: neither shall any plague come nye thy dwellyng

⁵ Wo shall my heart be for Moabs sake, they shall flee vnto the citie of Zoar, which is lyke a faire young bullocke of three yere olde, for they shall all go vp to Luith weepyng: euen so by the way towarde Horonaim they shall make lamentation for their vtter destruction

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

³⁴ Whiche aforetyme were hearde from Hesbon to Eleale, and Iahaz, whiche lyfted vp their voyce from Zoar vnto Horonaim, that bullocke of three yere olde: the waters also of Nemrim shalbe dryed vp

⁵ And he coulde there shewe no mightie worke: but layde his handes vpon a fewe sicke folke, and healed them

¹³ If we be vnfaythful, he abideth faithfull, he can not denie hym selfe

² In the hope of eternall lyfe, which God that can not lye, promised before the worlde began

²³ Howe all the lande is burnt vp with brimstone and salt, and that it is neither sowen, nor beareth, nor any grasse groweth therin, lyke as in the place of ye ouerthrowyng of Sodome, Gomor, Adama, and Zeboim, which the Lorde ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger

¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house, and it shalbe none of his, and brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation

⁶ Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke

¹⁹ And Babylon that glory of kingdomes, and beautie of the Chaldees honour shalbe destroyed, euen as God destroyed Sodome and Gomor

¹⁶ Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling

¹⁸ Like as Sodom, Gomor, and the cities that lay there about, were turned vpside downe, saith the Lorde: so shalt no body dwell in Idumea, and no man shall haue his habitation there

⁴⁰ Like as God destroyed Sodome and Gomorre, with the cities that lay there about saith the Lorde: so shall no man dwell there also, neither shall any man haue there his habitation

⁶ The sinne of the daughter of my people, is become greater then the wickednesse of Sodome, that sodaynely was destroyed, and not taken with handes

⁴⁹ Behold, the sinnes of thy sister Sodoma were these: Pryde, fulnesse of meate, and aboundaunce of idlenesse, these thinges had she and her daughters: besides that, they strengthed not the hande of the poore and needie ⁵⁰ But they were hautie, and committed abhomination before me, therefore I toke them away as I sawe good

⁸ Howe shall I geue thee vp Ephraim? [howe] shal I deliuer thee Israel? howe shall I make thee as Adama? [howe] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentinges are kindled within me

¹¹ I haue ouerthrowen you, as God ouerthrewe Sodoma and Gomorra: and ye were as a fire brande pluckt out of the burning: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde

⁹ Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lord of hoastes the God of Israel, Moab shalbe as Sodoma, & Ammon as Gomorra, euen the breeding of nettles, and salt pittes, & a perpetuall wildernesse: The residue of my folke shal spoyle them, the remnaunt of my people shall haue them in possession

²⁸ Lykewyse also as it was in the dayes of Lot: they dyd eate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they buylded ²⁹ But euen the same day that Lot went out of Sodome, it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all

⁶ And turned their cities of Sodome & Gomorrhe into asshes, ouerthrewe the, dampned them, and made of them an ensample vnto those that after shoulde lyue vngodly

³ All these were ioyned together in the vale of Siddim, where [nowe] the salt sea is

³⁴ (107:32) He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein

³⁸ The censers of these sinners agaynst their owne soules: let them make of them brode plates for a coueryng of the aulter: For they offered them before the Lorde, and therfore they are halowed, and they shalbe a signe vnto the children of Israel

¹⁴ A backe slydyng heart shalbe fylled with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from hym

³⁸ And the iuste shall lyue by fayth: And yf he withdrawe hym selfe, my soule shall haue no pleasure in hym

²² And the men departed thence, & went to Sodomeward: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lorde ²³ And Abraham drewe neare, and said: Wylt thou also destroye the righteous with the wicked ²⁴ If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein ²⁵ That be farre from thee that thou shouldest do after this maner, and slaye the ryghteous with the wicked, & that the ryghteous should be as the wicked, that be farre from thee: Shall not the iudge of all the worlde do accordyng to ryght ²⁶ And the Lorde sayde: If I fynde in Sodome fiftie ryghteous within the citie, I wyll spare all the place for their sakes ²⁷ And Abraham aunsweryng, sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto the Lorde, whiche am but dust and asshes ²⁸ If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie ryghteous, wylt thou destroy all the citie for [lacke] of fiue? And he saide: If I fynde there fourtie and fiue I wyl not destroy them ²⁹ And he proceaded to speake vnto hym agayne, and sayde: What yf there shall be fourtie founde there? He aunswered: I wyll not do it for fourties sake ³⁰ He sayde vnto hym agayne: O let not my lord be angry that I speake: What yf there shall thirtie be founde there? And he sayde: I wyll do nothyng yf I fynde thirtie there ³¹ He sayde agayne: O see I haue taken vppon me to speake nowe also vnto my Lord: What if there shalbe twentie founde there? He aunswered, I wyll not destroy [them] for twenties sake ³² And he sayde: O let not my Lorde be angry, and I wyll speake yet but this once: What if ten shalbe found there? He aunswered, I wil not destroy [them] for tennes sake ³³ And the Lorde went his way assoone as he had left communyng with Abraham, and Abraham [also] turned vnto his place

³ Thou shalt heare my voyce betymes O God: I wyll early in the morning direct [a prayer] vnto thee, and I wyll looke [for helpe from thee.

¹ I will stande vpon my watche, and set me vpon the towre, & will loke, and see what he will say vnto me, and what I shall aunswere to him that rebuketh me

¹ Wherfore we ought to geue the more earnest heede to the thynges which we haue heard, lest at any tyme we should let them slippe

² And he opened the bottomlesse pit, and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great fornace, and the sunne and the ayre were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit

¹⁰ The same shall drynke of the wyne of the wrath of God: yea, of the pure wyne which is powred in ye cup of his wrath: And he shalbe 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

⁹ And they shal bewayl her, & the kinges of the earth shall lament for her, which haue committed fornication with her, & haue lyued wantonly with her, when they shal see the smoke of her burnyng

¹⁸ And cryed, when they sawe the smoke of her burnyng, saying: what citie is lyke vnto this great citie

³ And agayne they sayde Alleluia: and her smoke rose vp for euermore

⁸ But the fearefull and vnbeleuing, and the abhominable, and murtherers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, & all lyers, shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brymstone: which is the seconde death

¹ And God remebred 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

²² And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull

⁵ It is not for thy righteousnesse sake, or for thy right heart, that thou goest to possesse their lande: But for the wickednesse of these nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, eue to perfourme the worde whiche the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers. Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob

¹⁴ Thinke vpon me O my God herein, and wype not out my mercie that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices therof

²² And I said vnto the Leuites, that they should clense them selues, and that they shoulde come and kepe the gates, to halowe the Sabboth day: Thinke vpon me O my God concerning this also, and spare me, according to thy great mercie

⁷ (25:5) Oh remember not thou the sinnes and offences of my youth: but accordyng to thy mercie euen of thy goodnesse O God remember me

⁸ (105:7a) He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations:

⁴² (105:38) For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt

⁴ Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation

²³ Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe: for his mercy endureth for euer

²⁰ God preserueth all those that loue him: but he wyll bring to nothyng such as be vngodly

³¹ Then shall ye remember your owne wicked wayes, and your imaginations which were not good: so that ye shalbe irksum in your owne eyes for your sinnes and abhominations ³² But I wyl not do this for your sakes, saith the Lorde God, be ye sure of it: therefore O ye house of Israel, be ashamed and confounded of your owne wayes

²² And Abram aunswered the kyng of Sodome: I haue lyft vp my hande vnto the Lord the hye God, possessour of heauen and earth

¹⁹ Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye

⁴ Unstable as water, thou shalt not be the chiefest, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bedde: for then defiledst thou my couche with goyng vp

³ And the south, and the playne of the valley of Iericho, the citie of palme trees [euen] vnto Zoar

³⁶ Why gaddest thou so much hither and thither, to chaunge thy wayes? for thou shalt be confounded aswell of Egypt as thou wast of the Assyrians ³⁷ Yea thou shalt go thy way from them, and smite thine handes together vpon thy head, because the Lorde shall bring that confidence and hope of thine to naught, & thou shalt not prosper withal

⁸ A double mynded man, [is] vnstable in all his wayes

¹ And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde

⁴ But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme

² And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: beholde, nowe the Lorde hath restrayned me, that I can not beare, I pray thee go in to my mayde, it may be that I may be builded by her: and Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai

⁴ And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceaued. And when she sawe that she had conceaued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes

²⁸ And behelde, and lo the smoke of the countrey arose, as the smoke of a furnesse

⁸ And Iudas sayde vnto Onan: Go in to thy brothers wyfe, and marrie her, that thou mayest stirre vp seede vnto thy brother ⁹ And when Onan perceaued that the seede shoulde not be his, therfore when he wet in to his brothers wyfe, he spylled it on the grounde, & gaue not seede vnto his brother

¹⁴ And she put her widowes garmentes of from her, and couered her with a vayle, and disguysed her selfe, and sate her downe in an open place, whiche is by the way syde to Thimnath, for because that she sawe Selah was growen, and she was not geuen vnto hym to wyfe ¹⁵ When Iuda sawe her, he thought it had ben an harlot, because she had couered her face ¹⁶ And he turned to her vnto the way, & sayde, Come I praye thee, let me lye with thee. (For he knewe not that it was his daughter in law.) And she answered: What wylt thou geue me for to lye with thee ¹⁷ Then sayde he: I wyll sende thee a kyd from the flocke. She sayde: Then geue me a pledge tyll thou sende it ¹⁸ He sayde: What pledge shall I geue thee? She sayde: Thy signet, thy bracelet, and thy staffe that is in thyne hande. And he gaue it her, and laye by her: and she was with chylde by hym ¹⁹ And she gate her vp, and went, and put her vayle from her, and put on her wydowes rayment ²⁰ And Iudas sent the kyd by his friende Adulam, for to receaue his pledge againe from the womans hand: but he founde her not ²¹ Then asked he the men of the same place, saying: where is the harlot that sate openly by ye wayes syde? They aunswered: There is no harlot here ²² He came therfore to Iuda againe, and sayde vnto hym, I can not fynde her: and also the men of the place sayde, that there was no harlot there ²³ And Iuda sayde: Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: beholde, I sent the kyd, & thou hast not found her ²⁴ And it came to passe, after three monethes one tolde Iuda, saying: Thamar thy daughter in lawe hath played the harlot, and with playing the harlot is become great with chylde. And Iuda sayde: Bryng her foorth, that she may be brent ²⁵ And when they brought her foorth, she sent to her father in lawe, saying: By the man vnto whom these thynges [pertaine] am I with chylde: And saide also, Loke I pray thee whose are these, this seale, and this bracelet, and this staffe ²⁶ And Iuda acknowledged them, and saide: She hath ben more righteous then I, because I gaue her not Selah my sonne. And he lay with her no more ²⁷ But when the tyme was come that she shoulde be deliuered, beholde there was two twynnes in her wombe ²⁸ And when she trauayled, the [one] put out his hande, & the mydwyfe toke & bounde a red [threede] about it, saying: this is come out first ²⁹ And he plucked his hand backe againe, and beholde, his brother came out. And she sayde: Wherefore hast thou rent a rent vppon thee? and called his name Phares ³⁰ Afterward came out his brother, that had the red threede about his hande: and his name was called Zarah

⁵ If brethren dwell together, and one of them dye, and haue no chylde, the wyfe of the dead shall not marry without vnto a straunger: but his kinsman shall go in vnto her, & take her to wife, and occupie the rowme of his kinsman

¹ In that day, seuen women shall take holde of one man, saying: we wyll finde our selues meate and apparell: only let vs be called by thy name, to take our shamefull reproofe [from vs.

²¹ And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent

³ And one sayd to another: Come, let vs prepare brycke, and burne them in the fire. And they had brycke for stones, and slyme had they in steade of morter

⁶ None shall approche to any kinred of his fleshe, for to vncouer their nakednesse: I am the Lorde ⁷ The nakednesse of thy father, & the nakednesse of thy mother shalt thou not vncouer, for she is thy mother: therfore shalt thou not discouer her nakednesse

³¹ Looke not thou vpon the wine howe red it is, and what a colour it geueth in the glasse ³² It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder ³³ Thyne eyes shall beholde straunge women, and thyne heart shall vtter lewde thinges

¹⁵ Wo vnto him that geueth his neyghbour drinke, thou ioynest thy heate, and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest see their priuities ¹⁶ Thou art filled with shame for glorie, drinke thou also and be made naked: the cup of the Lordes right hand shalbe turned vnto thee, and shamefull spuyng shalbe for thy glorie

¹⁹ Maister, Moyses wrote vnto vs, yf any mans brother dye, and leaue his wyfe behynde hym, & leaue no chyldren: that his brother shoulde take his wyfe, and rayse vp seede vnto his brother

¹ Wine maketh a man to be scornefull, & strong drinke causeth a man to be vnquiet: who so delighteth therin shall not be wyse

²⁹ Who hath wo? who hath sorowe? who hath strife? who hath brawling? and who hath woundes without a cause ³⁰ Or who hath red eyes? euen they that be euer at the wine, & seeke excesse ³¹ Looke not thou vpon the wine howe red it is, and what a colour it geueth in the glasse ³² It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder ³³ Thyne eyes shall beholde straunge women, and thyne heart shall vtter lewde thinges ³⁴ Yea thou shalt be as though thou layest in the middest of the sea, or slepest vppon the top of the maste of a ship ³⁵ They haue beaten me [shalt thou say] and I was not sicke, they haue stricken me, and I felt it not: When I am well wakened, I wil go to the drinke again

³ Wheras thou (O Lorde) lokest only vpon faith and trueth: Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce, thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction, they made their faces harder then a stone, and woulde not amende

⁴ What is man that thou art myndfull of him? and the sonne of man that thou visitest hym

¹⁶ For a iust man falleth seuen tymes, and ryseth vp agayne: but the vngodly fall into mischiefe

²⁶ And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her

³⁴ Take heede to your selues, lest at any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfettyng and dronkennesse, and cares of this lyfe, and so the daye come vpon you vnwares

¹¹ All these thinges happened vnto them for ensamples: but they are written to put vs in remembraunce, whom the endes of the worlde are come vpon ¹² Wherfore, let hym that thynketh he standeth, take heede lest he fall

⁷ The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer

⁸ Behold, I haue two daughters whiche haue knowen no man, them wyll I bryng out nowe vnto you, and do with them as it [seemeth] good in your eyes: only vnto these men do nothyng, for therefore came they vnder the shadowe of my roofe

⁷ And Adonibezek sayde, Three score and ten kinges hauing their thombes & great toes cut of, gathered their meate vnder my table: As I haue done, so God hath done to me agayne. And they brought him to Hierusalem, and there he died

³³ And Samuel sayde: As thy sworde hath made women chyldlesse, so shall thy mother be chyldlesse aboue other women. And Samuel hewed Agag in peeces before the Lorde in Gilgal

¹⁵ Wo vnto him that geueth his neyghbour drinke, thou ioynest thy heate, and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest see their priuities

² For with what iudgement ye iudge, ye shalbe iudged: And with what measure ye meate, it shalbe measured to you agayne

²⁹ Wo to thee Moab, O people of Chamos ye are vndone: he hath suffered his sonnes to be pursued, & his daughters to be in captiuitie vnto Sehon the kyng of the Amorites

¹ And the children of Israel departed and pitched in the fieldes of Moab, on the other side of Iordane from Iericho ² And Balac the sonne of Ziphor, sawe all that Israel had done to ye Amorites ³ And the Moabites were sore afrayde of the people, because they were many, and they were stroken with feare of the chyldren of Israel ⁴ And Moab sayde vnto the elders of Madian: Nowe shall this companie lycke vp all that are rounde about vs, as an oxe licketh vp the grasse of ye fielde. And Balac the sonne of Ziphor, was kyng of the Moabites at that tyme ⁵ He sent messengers therefore vnto Balaam the sonne of Beor to Pethor, which is by the riuer of the lande of the chyldren of his folke, to call him, saying: Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, and beholde they couer the face of the earth, & dwell ouer against me ⁶ Come nowe therfore I pray thee, and curse me this people, for they are to mightie for me, so peraduenture I myght be able to smyte them, & to driue them out of the lande: For I wote that he whom thou blessest, is blessed, and whom thou cursest is cursed ⁷ And the elders of Moab, and the elders of Madian departed, hauyng the [rewarde] of the southsaying in their hande: And they came vnto Balaam, and tolde hym the wordes of Balac ⁸ He aunswered them: Tary here this nyght, and I wyll bryng you worde, euen as the Lorde shall say vnto me. And the lordes of Moab abode with Balaam ⁹ And God came vnto Balaam, and sayd: What men are these with thee ¹⁰ And Balaam sayd vnto God: Balac the sonne of Ziphor kyng of Moab hath sent vnto me [saying: ¹¹ Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, and couereth the face of the earth: Come nowe therefore, and curse them for my sake, if so peraduenture I may be able to ouercome them in battayle, and to dryue them out ¹² And God said vnto Balaam: Go not thou with them, neither curse the people: for they are blessed ¹³ And Balaam rose vp in the mornyng, and sayd vnto the lordes of Balac, Get you vnto your lande: for the Lord wyll not suffer me to go with you ¹⁴ And the lordes of Moab rose vp, and went vnto Balac and sayde: Balaam would not come with vs ¹⁵ And Balac sent againe a greater companie of lordes, and more honourable then they ¹⁶ Whiche came to Balaam, and tolde hym, Thus sayeth Balac the sonne of Ziphor: Oh let nothyng let thee, but come vnto me ¹⁷ For I wyll greatly promote thee vnto great honour, and wyll do whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me: come I pray thee, curse this people for my sake ¹⁸ And Balaam aunswered and said vnto the seruauntes of Balac: If Balac woulde geue me his house full of syluer and golde, I can not go beyonde the worde of the Lorde my God, to do lesse or more ¹⁹ Nowe therefore I pray thee, tarie ye here this nyght, that I may wit what the Lorde wyll say vnto me more ²⁰ And God came vnto Balaam by night, and sayde vnto hym: If the men come to call thee, ryse vp and go with them: but loke what I say vnto thee, that shalt thou do ²¹ And Balaam rose vp early, and sadled his asse, & went with the lordes of Moab ²² And the wrath of God was kindled, because he went: And the angell of the Lorde stoode in the way to be agaynst hym, as he rode vpon his asse, and his two seruauntes were with hym ²³ And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lord stand in the way, and hauyng his sworde drawen in his hand, the asse turned aside out of the way, and went out into the fielde: And Balaam smote the asse, to turne her into the way ²⁴ But the angell of the Lorde stoode in a path betweene the vineyardes, and there was a wall on the one syde, and another on the other ²⁵ And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde, she thrust her selfe vnto the wall, & crusht Balaams foote agaynst the wall: and he smote her agayne ²⁶ And the angell of the Lord went further, & stoode in a narowe place, where was no way to turne either to the right hande, or to the left ²⁷ And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde, she fell downe vnder Balaam: and Balaam was wroth, & smote the asse with a staffe ²⁸ And the Lorde opened the mouth of the asse, and she sayde vnto Balaam: What haue I done vnto thee, that thou hast smytten me nowe three tymes ²⁹ And Balaam sayd vnto the asse, Because thou hast mocked me: I would also there were a sworde in myne hande, for euen nowe woulde I kyll thee ³⁰ And the asse sayd vnto Balaam: Am not I thine asse, whiche thou hast rydden vpon since the first tyme vnto this day? Was I euer wont to do so vnto thee? He sayde, nay ³¹ And the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, hauing his sworde drawen in his hande: He bowed hym selfe therefore, and fell flat on his face ³² And the angell of the Lorde said vnto him: Wherfore hast thou smytten thine asse these three times? Beholde, I came out to withstande thee, because [thyne heart] hath declined out of the way before me ³³ And the asse saw me, and turned from me now three times: or els if she had not turned fro me, I had surely slayne thee, and saued her aliue ³⁴ Balaam sayde vnto the angell of the Lorde: I haue sinned, for I wyst not that thou stoodest in the way agaynst me: Nowe therefore if it displease thee, I wyll turne home agayne ³⁵ The angell of the Lorde sayde vnto Balaam, Go with the men: but what I say vnto thee, that shalt thou speake. And so Balaam went with the lordes of Balac ³⁶ And when Balac heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meete hym, vnto a citie of Moab, whiche is in the border of Arnon, eue in the vtmost coast ³⁷ And Balac sayd vnto Balaam: Dyd I not sende for thee to call thee? And wherfore camest thou not vnto me: Am I not able in deede to promote thee vnto honour ³⁸ And Balaam made aunswere vnto Balac, Lo, I am come vnto thee, and can I nowe say any thyng at all? The worde that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speake ³⁹ And Balaam went with Balac, and they came vnto a citie of streates ⁴⁰ And Balac offered oxen and sheepe, and sent [thereof] to Balaam, and to the lordes that were with hym ⁴¹ And on the morowe Balac toke Balaam, and brought hym vp into the hye places of Baal, that thence he might see the vtmost part of the people

¹ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lorde that he should blesse Israel, he went not as he dyd twise before to meete a soothsaying: but set his face towarde the wyldernesse ² And Balaam lift vp his eyes, and loked vpon Israel as he lay accordyng to his tribes, and the spirite of God came vpon hym ³ And he toke vp his parable and sayd: Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, and the man whose eyes is open hath sayde ⁴ He hath sayde whiche heareth the wordes of God, and seeth the visions of the almightie, and falleth downe with open eyes ⁵ Howe goodly are thy tentes O Iacob, and thyne habitations O Israel ⁶ Euen as the valleys are they layde abrode, & as gardens by the riuers side, as the tentes whiche the Lorde hath pitched, and as cypres trees beside the waters ⁷ The water droppeth out of his bucket, & his seede shalbe in many waters, and his king shalbe hier then Agag, and his kingdome shalbe exalted ⁸ God brought hym out of Egypt, his strength is as the Unicorne: He shall eate the nations his enemies, & gnawe their bones, and pearce them through with his arrowes ⁹ He couched hym selfe, and lay downe as a Lion, and as an elder Lion: who shall stirre hym vp? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee ¹⁰ And Balac was wroth with Balaam, and smote his handes together, and Balac said vnto Balaam: I sent for thee to curse mine enemies, and behold thou hast blessed them this three tymes ¹¹ Therfore nowe get thee quickly vnto thy place: I thought that I would promote thee vnto honour, but lo the Lord hath kept thee backe from worship ¹² Balaam aunswered vnto Balac: Tolde I not thy messengers whiche thou sendedst vnto me, saying ¹³ If Balac woulde geue me his house full of siluer and golde, I can not passe the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine owne minde: But what the Lorde sayeth, that wyll I speake ¹⁴ And nowe behold, I go vnto my people: Come therfore, and I wyll aduertise thee what this people shall do to thy folke in the latter dayes ¹⁵ And he toke vp his parable and sayd: Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, the man whose eye is open, hath sayde ¹⁶ He hath said that heareth the wordes of God, and hath the knowledge of the most hygh, and beholdeth the vision of the almightie, and that falleth and his eyes are opened ¹⁷ I shall see him, but not nowe, I shall beholde him, but not nigh: There shall come a starre of Iacob, and ryse a scepter of Israel, & shall smyte the coastes of Moab, and vndermine all the chyldren of Seth ¹⁸ And Edom shalbe possessed, & Seir shall fall to the possession of their enemies, and Israel shall do manfully ¹⁹ Out of Iacob shall come he that shall haue dominion, and shall destroy the remnaunt of the citie ²⁰ And when he loked on Amaleck, he toke vp his parable, and said: Amaleck is the first of the nations, but his latter ende shall perishe vtterly ²¹ And he loked on the Kenites, and toke vp his parable, and sayde: Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rocke ²² Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shalbe rooted out, vntyll Assur take thee prisoner ²³ And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Alas, who shall lyue when God doth this ²⁴ The shippes also shall come out of the coast of Chittim, and subdue Assur, and subdue Eber, and he hym selfe shall perishe at the last ²⁵ And Balaam rose vp, and went and returned to his place: and Balac also went his way

⁹ And the Lorde sayd vnto me: Thou shalt not fight agaynst the Moabites, neither prouoke them to battayle: for I wyll not geue thee of their lande to possesse, because I haue geuen Ar vnto the chyldren of Loth to possesse

¹⁹ And when thou commest nye vnto the chyldren of Ammon, thou shalt not lay siege vnto the, nor moue warre against them: For I wyll not geue thee of the lande of the chyldren of Ammon any possession, but I haue geuen it vnto the chyldren of Loth to possesse

³ The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the Lorde, no not in the tenth generation, nor they shall neuer come into the congregation of the Lorde

¹ These are the nations whiche the Lorde left, that he might proue Israel by them: (euen as many of Israel as had not knowen al the warres of Chanaan ² Onely for the learning of the generations of the childre of Israel that he also might teach them warre, onely such as before knewe nothing therof. ³ Of those whom he left, there were fiue lordes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonites, & the Heuites that dwelt in mount Libanon, euen from mount Baal Hermon, vnto one come to Hamath ⁴ Those remayned to proue Israel by, and to wyt whether they would hearken vnto the commaundementes of the Lorde, which he commaunded their fathers by the hande of Moyses ⁵ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites, and Iebusites ⁶ And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues, & gaue their own daughters to their sonnes, and serued their goddes ⁷ And the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, and forgat the Lorde their God, and serued Baalim and Astheroth ⁸ Therfore the Lorde was angry with Israel, and he solde them into the handes of Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel serued Chusan Risathaim eyght yeres ⁹ And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde, the Lorde stirred vp a sauer to the children of Israel, & saued them, euen Othoniel the sonne of Kenes, Calebs younger brother ¹⁰ And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon him, and he iudged Israel, & went out to warre: And the Lorde deliuered Chusan Risathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hande, and his hande preuayled against Chusan Risathaim ¹¹ And the land had rest fourtie yeres: and Othoniel the sonne of Kenes died ¹² And the children of Israel agayne committed wickednes in the sight of the Lorde: And the Lorde strengthed Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickednes before the Lorde ¹³ And this [Eglon] gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and the Amalekites, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the citie of Panlme trees ¹⁴ And so the children of Israel serued Eglon the king of Moab 18 yeres ¹⁵ But when they cryed vnto the Lord, the Lord stirred them vp a sauer, Ahud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Gemini, a man lame of his right hande: and by him the children of Israel sent a present vnto Eglon the king of Moab ¹⁶ But Ahud made him a dagger with two edges, of a cubite length, and he did gyrde it vnto his raymet vpon his right thygh ¹⁷ And caried the present vnto Eglon the king of Moab: (And Eglon was a very fatte man. ¹⁸ And when he had presented the present, he sent the people that bare it away ¹⁹ But he him selfe turned agayne (from the place of grauen images, that was by Gilgal) and sayde: I haue a secret errande vnto thee, O king. Which sayde: Kepe scilence. And all that stoode before hym, went out from him ²⁰ And Ahud came vnto him, and in a sommer parler whiche he had, sate he him selfe alone: and Ahud sayd, I haue a message vnto thee from God. And he arose out of his seate ²¹ And Ahud put foorth his left hande, & toke the dagger from his right thygh, and thrust it into his belly ²² And the hafte went in after the blade: and the fatte closed the haft, so that he might not drawe the dagger out of his belly, but the dyrt came out ²³ Then Ahud gat him out into the porche, and shut the doores of the parler vpon him, and locked them ²⁴ When he was gone out, his seruauntes came: And when they sawe that the doores of the parler were locked, they sayde, Suerly he couereth his feete in his sommer chamber ²⁵ And they taried till they were ashamed, and seyng he opened not the doores of the parler, they toke a key and opened them: And beholde, their Lorde was fallen downe dead on the earth ²⁶ And Ahud escaped whyle they taried and was gone beyonde, to the place of the grauen images, and escaped into Seirath ²⁷ And when he was come, he blewe a trumpet in mount Ephraim: And the childre of Israel went downe with him from the hill, and he went before them ²⁸ And he sayde vnto them, folowe me: for the Lorde hath deliuered your enemies the Moabites into your hande. And they descended after him, and toke the passages of Iordane toward Moab, and suffered not a man to passe ouer ²⁹ And they slue of the Moabites the same time vpon a ten thousande men, which were all fatte, & men of warre, and there scaped not a man ³⁰ So Moab was subdued that day vnder the hande of Israel: And the lande had rest fourescore yeres ³¹ After him was Samgar the sonne of Anath, whiche slue of the Philistines sixe hundred men with an oxe goade, and deliuered Israel also

¹⁰ And moreouer, Ruth the Moabite the wyfe of Mahalo, haue I purchased to be my wyfe, to stirre vp the name of the dead vpon his inheritaunce, & that the name of the dead be not put out fro among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day

¹ After this, now Dauid smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and Dauid toke the bridel of bondage out of the hand of the Philistines ² And he smote the Moabites, and measured them with a lyne, and cast them downe to the grounde, euen with two lynes measured he them, to put them to death, and with one full corde to kepe them alyue: And so became the Moabites Dauids seruauntes, and brought giftes ³ Dauid smote also Hadarezer ye sonne of Rehob king of Zoba, as he went to recouer his border at the ryuer Pherath ⁴ And Dauid toke of his, a thousand and seuen hundred horsemen, and destroyed all the charets, and twentie thousand footemen: but reserued an hundred charets of them ⁵ And when the Syrians of Damascon came to succour Hadarezer king of Zoba, Dauid slue of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men ⁶ And put souldiers in Syria Damascon: And the Syrians became seruautes to Dauid, and brought giftes, and the Lorde saued Dauid, in all that he went vnto ⁷ And Dauid toke the shieldes of golde that belonged to the seruauntes of Hadarezer, & brought them to Hierusalem ⁸ And out of Beta and Berothai, cities of Hadarezer, did Dauid bryng exceeding much brasse ⁹ When Thoi king of Hamath heard how Dauid had smitten all the hoast of Hadarezer ¹⁰ Thoi sent Ioram his sonne vnto king Dauid, to salute him, and to blesse him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and beaten him (for Thoi had great warre with Hadarezer) And [Ioram] brought with him vessels of siluer, vessels of golde, and vessels of brasse ¹¹ Which brasse king Dauid did dedicate vnto the Lorde, with the siluer & golde that he had deditate of al nations which he subdued ¹² Of Syria, of the Moabites, & of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, and of Hamalek, and of the spoyle of Hadarezer sonne of Rehob king of Zoba ¹³ And Dauid gat him a name after that he returned & had smitten of the Syrians in the valley of salt 18 thousand men ¹⁴ And he put a garison in Edom, euen throughout all Edom put he souldiers, and all they of Edom became Dauids seruauntes: And the Lorde kept Dauid whatsoeuer he toke in hand ¹⁵ And Dauid raigned ouer all Israel, and executed iudgement and iustice vnto all his people ¹⁶ And Ioab the sonne of Zaruia was ouer the hoast, & Iehosaphat the sonne of Ahilud was recorder ¹⁷ And Sadoc the sonne of Ahitob, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar were the priestes, & Saraiah was the scribe ¹⁸ And Banaiahu the sonne of Iehoida and the Cherethites, and the Phelethites, and Dauids sonnes, were chiefe rulers

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 And he saide: What way shall we go vp? And he aunswered: The way through the wildernesse of Edom ⁹ And so the king of Israel toke his iourney, and the king of Iuda, and the king of Edom: And when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoast, and for the cattayle that folowed them ¹⁰ And the king of Israel saide: Alas, the Lorde hath called these three kinges together, to deliuer them ouer into the hande of Moab ¹¹ But Iehosaphat said: Is there not here a prophete of the Lorde, that we maye enquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israels seruauntes aunswered and saide: Here is Elisa the sonne of Saphat, which powred water on the handes of Elias ¹² And Iehosaphat saide: The word of the Lorde is with him. And so the king of Israel, & Iehosaphat, and the king of Edom went downe to him ¹³ And Elias saide vnto the king of Israel: What haue I to do with thee? Get thee to the prophetes of thy father, & to the prophetes of thy mother. And the king of Israel saide vnto him, Oh naye: for the Lorde hath called these three kinges together, to deliuer them into the hand of Moab ¹⁴ And Elias saide: As the Lorde of hoastes liueth, in whose sight I stande, and it were not that I regarde the presence of Iehosaphat the king of Iuda, I would not loke towarde thee, nor yet see thee ¹⁵ But now bryng me a minstrell. And when the minstrell played, the hand of the Lorde came vpon him ¹⁶ And he sayde, thus saith the Lorde: Make this valley full of ditches ¹⁷ For thus saith the Lorde: Ye shall see neither wynde nor rayne, yet the valley shall be filled with water, that ye maye drinke, both ye, and your beastes, & your cattayle ¹⁸ And this is yet but a small thing in the sight of the Lorde, forasmuch as he wil geue ouer the Moabites also into your handes ¹⁹ And ye shal smite euery strong towne, and euery goodly citie, and shal fell euery pleasaunt tree, and stop euery well of water, and marre euery good platte of ground with stones ²⁰ And in the morning when the meate offering was offered, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom, and the cuntrey was filled with water ²¹ And when al the Moabites heard that the kinges were come vp to fight against them, they gathered all that was able to put on harnesse, and stoode in the border of the lande ²² And they were vp earlie in the morning, and the sunne shone vpon the water, that the Moabites sawe the water a farre of as red as blood ²³ And they saide, This is the blood of slaughter: The kinges are slaine, & one haue smitten another: Now therefore Moab get thee to the spoyle ²⁴ And when they came to the hoast of Israel, the Israelites stoode vp & smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they folowed vpon them and smote Moab ²⁵ And they ouerthrew the cities, and on euery good parcell of lande cast euery man his stone, and filled it, & they stopt all the welles of water, and feld all the good trees, onely in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof: howbeit they went about it with slinges, & smote it ²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battaile was to sore for him, he toke with him seuen hundred men that drew ye sword, to haue gone through [euen] vnto the king of Edom: but they could not ²⁷ And then he toke his eldest sonne that should haue raigned in his steade, and offered him for a burnt offering vpon the wall: And there was great indigtion against Israel, and they departed from him, and returned to their owne lande

⁶ And the children of Israel wrought wickednesse yet agayne in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Siria, the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsoke the Lorde, and serued not him ⁷ And the Lord was wroth with Israel, and he solde them into the handes of the Philistines, and into the handes of the children of Ammon ⁸ Which from that yere foorth, pilde and oppressed the children of Israel eyghtteene yeres, al that were on the other side Iordane, in the lande of the Amorites whiche is in Gilead ⁹ Moreouer, ye children of Ammon went ouer Iordane to fight agaynst Iuda, Beniamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sore cumbred ¹⁰ And the children of Israel cryed vnto ye Lord, saying: We haue sinned against thee, for we haue forsaken our owne God, and haue carued Baalim ¹¹ And the Lorde sayde vnto the childre of Israel: Dyd not I ryd you from the Egiptians and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines ¹² The Sidonites also, and the Amalekites, & the Maonites dyd oppresse you, and ye cryed to me, and I deliuered you out of their handes ¹³ And for all that, ye haue forsaken me and serued straunge gods, wherfore I will helpe you no more ¹⁴ Go and crye vnto the gods whiche ye haue chosen, and let them saue you in the tyme of your tribulation ¹⁵ And the children of Israel sayde vnto the Lord: We haue sinned, do thou vnto vs whatsoeuer please thee, deliuer vs onely we pray thee this day ¹⁶ And they put away the straunge gods from them, & serued the Lord: And his soule had pitie on the miserie of Israel ¹⁷ Then the children of Ammon gathered together, & pitched in Gilead: And the children of Israel gathered them together, and pitched in Mispah ¹⁸ And the people and lordes of Gilead sayde eche to other: whosoeuer will beginne the battell agaynst the children of Ammon, the same shalbe head ouer all the inhabitauntes of Gilead

⁶ And sayde vnto him: Come, and be our captayne, that we may fight with the children of Ammon ⁷ Iephthah aunswered the elders of Gilead: Dyd not ye hate me, & expell me out of my fathers house? howe then come you vnto me nowe in time of your tribulation ⁸ And the elders of Gilead sayde vnto Iephthah: Therfore we turne agayne to thee nowe, that thou mayest go with vs, & fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head ouer all the inhabitauntes of Gilead ⁹ And Iephthah sayde vnto the elders of Gilead: If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children of Ammon, then yf the Lorde deliuer them before me, shall I be your head ¹⁰ And the elders of Gilead sayd to Iephthah: The Lorde be witnesse betweene vs, if we do not according to thy wordes ¹¹ Then Iephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and ye people made hym head & captayne ouer them: And Iephthah rehearsed al his wordes before the Lorde in Mispah ¹² And Iephthah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying: What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me, to fight in my lande ¹³ The king of the children of Ammon aunswered vnto ye messengers of Iephthah: Because Israel toke away my lande when they came out of Egypt, euen from Arnon vnto Iabok, and vnto Iordane: Nowe therfore restore those landes agayne with faire meanes ¹⁴ And Iephthah sent messengers agayne vnto the king of the children of Ammon ¹⁵ And sayd vnto him, thus sayth Iephthah: Israel toke not away the lande of Moab, nor the lande of the children of Ammon ¹⁶ But when Israel came vp fro Egypt, and walked thorowe the wildernesse, euen vnto ye red sea, they came to Cades ¹⁷ And Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom, saying, Let me I praye thee go thorow thy lande: But the king of Edo would not agree therto. And in lyke maner they sent vnto the king of Moab: but he woulde not consent. And Israel abode stil in Cades ¹⁸ And then they went along thorowe the wildernesse, and compassed the land of Edom, & the land of Moab, and came along by the east syde of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, and woulde not come within the coast of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab ¹⁹ And then Israel sent messengers vnto Sehon king of the Amorites, & king of Hesbon, and sayde vnto him: Let vs passe we pray thee thorow thy land vnto our owne countrey ²⁰ But Sehon consented not to Israel, that he shoulde go thorowe his coast: but gathered all his people together, & pitched in Iasa, & fought with Israel ²¹ And the Lorde God of Israel deliuered Sehon & all his folke into the handes of Israel, and they smote them: So Israel smote them, and possessed all the land of the Amorites the inhabitauntes of that countrey ²² And they possessed al the coastes of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabok, & from the wildernesse vnto Iordane ²³ So nowe, seyng the Lord God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel, shouldest thou possesse it ²⁴ Nay, but what people Camos thy God dryueth out, that lande possesse thou: Euen so whatsoeuer nation the Lord our God expelleth before vs, that lande ought we to enioy ²⁵ And art thou better then Balac the sonne of Zephor king of Moab? Did he not stryue with Israel and fight against them ²⁶ All the whyle Israel dwelt in Hesbon and her townes, in Aroer and her townes, and in all the cities that be along by ye coastes of Arnon three hundred yeres? Why did ye not recouer them in all that space ²⁷ Wherfore I haue not synned agaynst thee, but thou doest me wrong to warre against me: The Lord therfore whiche is a iudge, be iudge this day betweene the children of Israel, and the children of Ammon ²⁸ Howbeit, the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not vnto the wordes of Iephthah, which he sent him ²⁹ Then the spirite of the Lord came vpo Iephthah, and he passed ouer to Gilead & to Manasses, and came to Mispah that lieth in Gilead, & from thence vnto the children of Ammon ³⁰ And Iephthah vowed a vowe vnto ye Lorde, & sayd: If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into my handes ³¹ Then that thing that commeth out of the doores of my house against me, whe I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shalbe the Lordes, and I will offer it vp for a burnt offering ³² And so Iephthah went vnto the children of Ammon to fight agaynst them, and the Lorde deliuered them into his handes ³³ And he smote them from Aroer tyll thou come to Mennith, euen twentie cities, and so foorth to the playne of the vineyardes, with an exceeding great slaughter: And thus the childre of Ammon were brought vnder, before the children of Israel ³⁴ When Iephthah came to Misphah vnto his house, see, his daughter came out agaynst him with timbrelles and daunces, which was his onely chylde: so that beside her, he had neither sonne nor daughter ³⁵ And when he sawe her, he rent his clotes, & sayde: Alas my daughter, thou hast brought me lowe, & art one of them that troubleth me: For I haue opened my mouth vnto the Lorde, and cannot go backe ³⁶ And she sayde vnto him: My father, if thou haue opened thy mouth vnto the Lorde, then do with me according to it that proceeded out of thy mouth, for as much as the Lorde hath auenged thee of thyne enemies ye children of Ammon ³⁷ And she sayd vnto her father, Do this much for me: Let me alone two monethes, that I may go to the mountaynes and bewayle my virginite, I and my felowes ³⁸ And he sayd, go. And he sent her away two monethes: And so she went with her companions, & lamented her maydenhead vpon the mountaynes ³⁹ And after the ende of two monethes, she turned agayne vnto her father, whiche dyd with her according to his vowe whiche he had vowed, & she had knowne no man: And it grewe to a custome in Israel ⁴⁰ The daughters of Israel came yere by yere to lamet the daughter of Iephthah the Gileadite, foure dayes in a yere

¹ Then Nahas ye Ammonite came vp, & besieged Iabes in Gilead: And all the men of Iabes sayd vnto Nahas, Make a couenaut with vs, and we wilbe thy seruauntes ² And Nahas the Ammonite aunswered them: In this will I make a couenaunt with you, if I may thrust out al your right eyes, and bring that shame vpon all Israel ³ To whom the elders of Iabes sayde: Geue vs seuen dayes respite, that we may sende messengers vnto all ye coastes of Israel: and then if there be no man to deliuer vs, we will come out to thee ⁴ Then came the messengers to Gibea of Saul, and tolde this tydinges in the eares of the people: And all the people lift vp their voyces, and wept ⁵ And beholde, Saul came folowing the cattell out of the fielde, and Saul sayde: what alyeth this people that thei wepe? And they tolde him the tydinges of the men of Iabes ⁶ And the spirite of God came vpon Saul when he heard those tydinges, & he was exceeding angrie ⁷ And toke a yoke of oxen, & hewed them in peeces, and sent them thorowout all the coastes of Israel by the handes of messengers, saying: Whosoeuer cometh not foorth after Saul and after Samuel, so shal his oxen be serued. And the feare of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent ⁸ And whe he numbred them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand men, and the men of Iuda thirtie thousande ⁹ And they sayd vnto the messengers that came: So say vnto the men of Iabes in Gilead, To morowe by that time ye sunne be hotte ye shal haue helpe. And the messengers came, and shewed it to the men of Iabes, which were glad ¹⁰ Therfore the men of Iabes sayde: To morowe we will come out vnto you, and ye shall do with vs all that pleaseth you ¹¹ And on the morowe Saul put the people in three partes, & they came in vpon the hoast in the morning watche, and slue the Ammonites vntill the heate of the day: And they that remayned, were skattered, so that two of them were not left together ¹² And the people sayd vnto Samuel: Who is he that sayde, shal Saul raigne ouer vs? bring those men, that we may slay them ¹³ And Saul sayde: There shall no man dye this day: For to day the Lorde hath saued Israel ¹⁴ Then sayde Samuel vnto the people: Come, that we may go to Gilgal, and renue the kingdome there ¹⁵ And all the people went to Gilgal, and made Saul king there before the Lord in Gilgal, and there they offred peace offringes before the Lorde: And there Saul and al the men of Israel reioyced exceedingly

¹ After this, the king of the children of Ammon dyed, and Hanon his sonne raigned in his steade ² Then saide Dauid: I will shewe kindnesse vnto Hanon the sonne of Nahas, as his father shewed kindnesse vnto me. And Dauid sent to comfort him by the hand of his seruauntes, ouer his father: And Dauids seruauntes came in to the land of the children of Ammon ³ And the princes of the children of Ammon sayde vnto Hanon their lorde: Thinkest thou that Dauid doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comfortours to thee? Hath not Dauid rather sent his seruauntes vnto thee, to searche the citie, and to spie it out, and to ouerthrowe it ⁴ Wherefore Hanon toke Dauids seruauntes, and shaued of the one halfe of their beardes, & cut of their garmetes in the middle, euen hard to the buttockes of them, and sent them away ⁵ When they tolde it vnto Dauid, he sent to meete them (for they were men exceedingly ashamed) and the king said: Tary at Iericho vntill your beardes be growen, and then returne ⁶ And when the children of Ammon sawe that they stancke in the sight of Dauid, they sent & hyred the Syrians of the house of Rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba 20 thousand footemen, and of king Maacha a thousand men, and of Istob twelue thousand men ⁷ And when Dauid heard of it, he sent Ioab and all the hoast of strong men ⁸ And the children of Ammon came out, and put their armie in aray at the entring in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, of Rehob, Istob, and Maacha, were by them selues in the fielde ⁹ Whe Ioab sawe that the front of the battaile was against him before and behinde, he chose of all the choyse of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians ¹⁰ And the rest of the people he deliuered into the hand of Abisai his brother, that he might put them in aray against the children of Ammon ¹¹ And he saide: If the Syrians be stronger then I, thou shalt helpe me: But if the children of Ammon be to strong for thee, I will come and succour thee ¹² Therefore quite thee lyke a man, and let vs be valiaunt for our people and for the cities of our God: And the Lorde do that which is good in his owne eyes ¹³ And Ioab proceeded foorth, & the people that was with him, to fight against the Syrians: but they fled before him ¹⁴ And when the children of Ammon sawe that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abisai, and entred into the citie: And so Ioab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Hierusalem ¹⁵ And whe the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered them together ¹⁶ And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the ryuer, and they came to Helam: & Zoba the captayne of the hoast of Hadarezer went hefore them ¹⁷ And when it was shewed Dauid, he gathered al Israel together, & passed ouer Iordane, and came to Helam: And the Syrians set them selues in aray against Dauid, and fought with him ¹⁸ And the Syrians fled before Israel, and Dauid destroyed seuen hundred charets of the Syrians, & fourtie thousand horsemen, and smote Zoba the captaine of their hoast, which also dyed there ¹⁹ And when all the kinges that were seruauntes to Hadarezer, saw that they fel before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and serued them: and so the Syrians feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more

¹ And that day dyd they read in the booke of Moyses in the audience of the people, and therein was founde written, that the Ammonites, & Moabites shoulde neuer come into the congregation of God ² Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them that he should curse them: and our God turned the curse into a blessing ³ Nowe when they had hearde the law, they separated from Israel euery one that had mixt him selfe therin

²³ In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that maried wyues of Asdod, of Ammon, and of Moab ²⁴ And their children spake halfe in the speach of Asdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, but according to the language of the one people and of the other people ²⁵ Then I reproued them, and cursed them, and smote certayne men of them, and made them bare: and toke an oth of them by God, Ye shall not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, or for your selues ²⁶ Dyd not Solomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? and yet among many heathen was there no king like him, which was deare vnto his God, & God made hym king ouer all Israel: and yet neuerthelesse outlandishe women caused him to sinne ²⁷ Shall we then obey vnto you to do al this great euyll, and to transgresse against our God, and marie straunge wyues ²⁸ And one of the children of Iehoiada the sonne of Eliasib the hye priest, was the sonne in law of Sanaballat the Horonite: but I chased him from me

⁴ They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce ⁵ For they haue conspired all in one minde: & are confederate against thee ⁶ The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec: the Philistines with the inhabitauntes of Tyre ⁸ Assur also is ioyned vnto them: they were a great ayde to the chyldren of Lot. Selah

¹⁴ But they both together shall flee vppon the shoulders of the Philistines towarde the west, and spoyle them together that dwell towarde the east: The Idumites and the Moabites shal come vnder their handes, and the Amonites shalbe obedient vnto them