Psalms 144:12 Cross References - Bishops

¹² That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners [stones] grauen after the fashion as a palace is

¹⁵ In al the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren

¹⁴ God wyll encrease you more and more: both you and also your children ¹⁵ Ye are the blessed of God: which made heauen and earth

⁴ Like as arrowes be in the hande of the strong: euen so are the chyldren of youth ⁵ Happy is the man that hath filled his quiuer with them: they shall not be ashamed when they speake with their enemies in the gate

³ Thy wyfe shalbe as a fruitfull vine: vpon the sides of thyne house. (128:4) Thy chyldren [shalbe] like oliue braunches: rounde about thy table

¹⁰ Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles ¹¹ The heart of her husbande may safely trust in her, so that he shall fall into no pouertie ¹² She wyll do hym good, and not euill, all the dayes of her lyfe ¹³ She occupieth wooll and flaxe, and laboureth gladly with her handes ¹⁴ She is like a marchauntes ship, that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre ¹⁵ She is vp in the nyght season, to prouide meate for her housholde, and foode for her maydens ¹⁶ She considereth lande, and byeth it: and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde ¹⁷ She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes ¹⁸ And yf she perceaue that her huswiferie doth good, her candell goeth not out by nyght ¹⁹ She layeth her fingers to the spindle, & her hande taketh holde of the distaffe ²⁰ She openeth her hande to the poore, yea she stretcheth foorth her handes to such as haue neede ²¹ She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurt her housholde, for all her housholde folkes are clothed with scarlet ²² She maketh her selfe faire ornametes, her clothyng is white silke and purple ²³ Her husbande is much set by in the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers of the lande ²⁴ She maketh cloth of silke, and selleth it: and deliuereth girdles vnto the marchaunt ²⁵ Strength and honour is her clothing, and in the latter day she shall reioyce ²⁶ She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and in her tongue is the lawe of grace ²⁷ She loketh well to the wayes of her housholde: and eateth not her bread with idlenesse

⁸ Our sister is but young and hath no brestes: what shall we do for our sister when she shalbe spoken for ⁹ If she be a wall, we shall builde a siluer bulwarke thervpon: yf she be a doore, we shall fasten her with boordes of Cedar tree

¹⁶ Moreouer the Lord hath said, seing the daughters of Sion are waxen proude, & walke with stretched foorth neckes, and wanton lokes, goyng and trippyng nicely, and tinckelyng with their feete ¹⁷ Therfore shall the Lorde shaue the heades of the daughters of Sion, and shall discouer their filthinesse ¹⁸ In that day shall the Lord take away the gorgiousnesse of the attire about their feete, & the caules, and the rounde tires [after the fashion of the moone. ¹⁹ The sweete perfumes, and the bracelettes, and the mufflers ²⁰ The bonnettes, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablettes, and the earynges ²¹ And rynges, and nose iewels ²² The costly apparell, and the vayles, and the wimples, & the crispyng pinnes ²³ And the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoodes, and the lawnes ²⁴ And in steade of good smell there shalbe stincke, and in steade of their girdle a rent, and for well set heere there shalbe baldnesse, in steade of a stomacher a sacke cloth, & [sunne] burnyng for beautie

³ For I shall powre water vpon the drye grounde, and riuers vpon the thirstie: I shall powre my spirite vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thy stocke ⁴ They shall growe together lyke as the grasse, and as the willowes by the waters side ⁵ One shal say, I am the Lordes: another shall call hym selfe after the name of Iacob: the thirde shall subscribe with his hande vnto the Lorde, and geue hym selfe vnder the name of Israel

² The chyldren of Sion that were alway in honour, and clothed with the most precious golde: howe are they nowe become lyke the earthen vessels, whiche be made with the potters hande

³ Whose apparel shal not be outward with brayded heere, & hanging on of gold, eyther in putting on of gorgeous apparel ⁴ But let the hid man whiche is in the heart, be without all corruption, so that the spirite be at rest and quiet, whiche [spirite] is before god a thing much set by ⁵ For after this maner in the olde tyme dyd the holy women, whiche trusted in God, tyre them selues, and were obedient vnto theyr husbandes ⁶ Euen as Sara obeyed Abraham, and called hym Lorde, whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afrayde for any terrour