Job 5 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ Name me one els, yf thou canst fynde eny: yee loke aboute the, vpon eny of the holy men. ² As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt. ³ I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed: ⁴ that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them: ⁵ that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle, ⁶ nether commeth sorow out of ye groude: ⁷ but it is man, that is borne vnto mysery, like as the byrde for to fle. ⁸ But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God: ⁹ which doth thinges, that are vnsearcheable, and marueles without nobre: ¹⁰ Which geueth rayne vpo the earth, and poureth water vpon all thinges: ¹¹ which setteth vp them of lowe degre, and sendeth prosperite, to those that are in heuynesse: ¹² Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode: ¹³ which compaseth ye wyse in their owne craftynesse, and ouertroweth the councell of the wicked: ¹⁴ In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night. ¹⁵ And so he delyuereth the poore from the swearde, from their mouth, and from the hode of the cruell: ¹⁶ that the poore maye haue hope, & that the mouth of the oppressoure maye be stopped. ¹⁷ Beholde, happie is the man, whom God punysheth: therfore, despyse not thou ye chastenynge of the Allmighty. ¹⁸ For though he make a wounde, he geueth a medicyne agayne: though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne. ¹⁹ He delyuereth the out of sixe troubles, so that in the seuenth there can no harme touch the. ²⁰ In the myddest of honger he saueth ye from death: and when it is warre, from the power of the swearde. ²¹ He shall kepe the from the perlous tonge so that when trouble commeth, thou shalt not nede to feare. ²² In destruccion and derth thou shalt be mery, and shalt not be afrayed for the beastes of the earth: ²³ But the castels in the londe shal be confederate with the, & the beastes of the felde shall geue the peace: ²⁴ Yee thou shalt se, that thy dwellynge place shalbe in rest: thou shalt beholde thy substaunce, and be nomore punyshed for synne. ²⁵ Thou shalt se also, that thy sede shall encreace, and that thy posterite shalbe as the grasse vpon the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy graue in a fayre age, like as ye corne sheeues are brought in to the barne in due season. ²⁷ Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.

¹⁷ And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life. ¹⁸ Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde. ¹⁹ In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.

⁵ And he bad him go forth, and sayde: Loke vp vnto heauen, and tell ye starres: Canst thou nombre them? And he sayde vnto him: Euen so shal thy sede be.

¹⁵ and thou shalt departe vnto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good age.

⁸ and fell sicke and dyed in a good age, whan he was olde, & had lyued ynough and was gathered vnto his people.

¹ When Rachel sawe that she bare no children vnto Iacob, she had enuye at hir sister, & saide vnto Iacob: Geue me childre also, or els I am but deed.

⁷ Then was Iacob sore afrayed, and wyst not what waye to turne himself, & deuyded the people that was with him, and the shepe, and the oxen, & the Camels in to two droues, ⁸ & sayde: Yf Esau come vpon the one droue, and smyte it, the other shal escape. ⁹ Iacob sayde morouer: O God of my father Abraha, God of my father Isaac, LORDE thou that saydest vnto me: Departe agayne to thine owne londe and to thy kynred, and I wyl do the good: ¹⁰ I am to litle for all the mercies and all the trueth that thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt (for I had no more but this staff whan I wente ouer this Iordan, and now am I become two droues) ¹¹ delyuer me from ye hande of my brother, fro the hade of Esau, for I am afrayed of him, lest he come and smyte me the mother with the children. ¹² Thou saydest: I wyll do the good, and wyll make thy sede as the sonde of ye see, which can not be nombred for multitude.

⁷ But God sent me hither before you, yt he might let you remayne vpon earth, and to saue youre lyues by a greate delyueraunce.

⁷ But amonge all the childre of Israel there shall not a dogg quatch wt his tonge, fro men vnto catell, yt ye maye knowe, how yt the LORDE hath put a differece betwixte Egipte & Israel.

⁵ Worshipe them not, and serue them not: for I the LORDE thy God am a gelouse God, vysitinge ye synne of the fathers vpon the children, vnto ye thirde and fourth generacion, of them that hate me:

⁶ I wil geue peace in youre londe, so that ye shall slepe, and no man shall make you afrayed. I wyl ryd euell beestes out of youre londe, and there shall no swerde go thorow youre londe.

⁹ And I wyl turne me vnto you, and wyl cause you to growe and increase, and wyl set vp my couenanut with you.

¹³ and yt thou kepe the comaundementes of ye LORDE, & his ordinaunces, which I comaunde the this daye, yt thou mayest prospere?

¹⁵ Cursed be he, that maketh eny carued Idoll or molten ymage (an abhominacion of the LORDE, a worke of the handes of ye craftesman) and putteth it in a secrete place. And all the people shal answere and saye, Amen. ¹⁶ Cursed be he, that curseth his father and mother. And all the people shall saye, Amen. ¹⁷ Cursed be he, yt remoueth his neghbours mark. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ¹⁸ Cursed be he, that maketh a blynde man go out of his waye. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ¹⁹ Cursed be he, that wresteth ye righte of ye straunger, of the fatherlesse, & wedowe. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²⁰ Cursed be he, that lyeth with his fathers wife, to vncouer his fathers couerynge. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²¹ Cursed be he, yt lyeth wt eny maner beest. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²² Cursed be he, yt lyeth wt his sister, which is the doughter of his father or of his mother. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²³ Cursed be he, yt lyeth with his mother in lawe. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²⁴ Cursed be he that slayeth his neghboure secretly. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²⁵ Cursed be he, that receaueth giftes to slaye the soule of innocent bloude. And all the people shal saye, Amen. ²⁶ Cursed be he, that contynueth not in all ye wordes of this lawe, to do them. And all ye people shal saye, Amen.

⁴ Blessed shalbe the frute of thy body, the frute of thy grounde, and the frute of thy catell, and the frute of thine oxen, and the frute of thy shepe.

⁶ Blessed shalt thou be wha thou goest in, and blessed whan thou goest out.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at the noone daye, as ye blynde gropeth in darknesse, and shalt not prospere in thy waye.And thou shalt suffre vyolence and wronge all thy lifelonge, & no man shal helpe ye.

³³ The frute of yi londe and all yi laboure, shall a nacion eate, which thou knowest not: and thou shalt but onely be he that shalbe oppressed and suffre wronge, all the dayes of thy life.

⁵¹ And they shal eate vp ye frute of thy catell, & the frute of thy londe, tyll they haue destroyed the, and shall leaue the nothinge in corne, wyne, oyle, in the frute of ye oxen and shepe, vntyll they haue broughte the to naughte:

²⁷ Yf the wrath of the enemies were not gathered, lest their enemies shulde be proude, & might saie: Oure hande is hye, and: The LORDE hath not done all this.

³⁹ Se now that I I am, and that there is none other God but I.I can kyll and make alyue: what I haue smytten, that can I heale: and there is noman able to delyuer out of my hande.

² and saide: The LORDE came from Sinai, and rose vp vnto the from Seir. He appeared fro mount Paran, and came wt many thousande sayntes. At his righte hande is there a lawe of fyre for them: ³ O how loued he the people? All his sayntes are in his hande, they shall set them selues downe at thy fete, and receaue of thy wordes.

²⁷ that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge, and vnder the armes of the worlde. And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the, and saye: Be destroyed.

³ And whan Israel sowed eny thinge, ye Madianites and Amalechites, and the children towarde the south came vp vpon them, and pitched their tetes agaynst them, ⁴ and destroyed the increase of the londe downe vnto Gasa, & let nothinge remayne ouer of the beestes in Israel, nether shepe, ner oxen, ner asses. ⁵ For they came vp with their catell and tentes, as it had bene a greate multitude of greshoppers (so that nether they ner their camels mighte be nombred) and fell in to the londe, that they mighte destroye it. ⁶ Thus was Israel exceadinge small before the Madianites. Then cried the children of Israel vnto the LORDE.

¹¹ And there came an angell of the LORDE, & sat him downe vnder an Oke at Aphra, which belonged vnto Ioas the father of ye Esrites, and his sonne Gedeon was throsshinge wheate in the barne, that he mighte flye awaye before the Madianites.

⁶ The Lorde slayeth, and geueth life: he ledeth vnto hell, and bryngeth out agayne. ⁷ The LORDE maketh poore and maketh riche: He bryngeth lowe and exalteth. ⁸ He taketh vp the neady out of the dust, and lifteth vp ye poore out of the myre, that he maye set them amonge the prynces, and to let them inheret the seate of honoure: for the foundacions and corners of the worlde are the LORDES, and he hath set the compase of the earth theron.

⁸ He taketh vp the neady out of the dust, and lifteth vp ye poore out of the myre, that he maye set them amonge the prynces, and to let them inheret the seate of honoure: for the foundacions and corners of the worlde are the LORDES, and he hath set the compase of the earth theron. ⁹ He shall preserue the fete of his sayntes, but ye vngodly shal be put to sylece in darcnesse. For there is no ma that can do oughte of his owne power.

⁹ And loke well: yf it go the waie of hir awne coaste BethSemes, the hath he done vs all this greate euell: Yf no, then shal ye knowe that his hande hath not touched vs, but yt it is happened vnto vs by chauce.

⁸ Then was Saul very wroth, and yt worde displeased him sore, and he sayde: They haue ascrybed ten thousande vnto Dauid, and but one thousande vnto me: what shal he haue more but the kyngdome? ⁹ And from that daye forth, Saul loked sowerly vpo Dauid.

³ Now whan Dauid with his men came to the cite, and sawe that it was brent wt fyre, and that their wyues, sonnes & doughters were led awaye captyue,

³¹ And whan it was tolde Dauid, that Achitophel was in the cofederacy with Absalom, he sayde: LORDE turne thou Achitophels councell to foolishnes.

³⁴ but yf thou goest agayne in to the cite, and sayest vnto Absalom: I am thy seruaunt O kynge euen as I was thy fathers seruaunt, so wyll I now be thy seruaunt, Then shalt thou brynge Achitophels councell to naughte.

²³ Whan Achitophel sawe that his coucell wente not forth, he sadled his asse, gat him vp, and wete home in to his cite and put his house to poynte, and hanged him selfe, and dyed, and was buried in his fathers graue.

⁶ And the raues broughte him bred and flesh in the mornynge and in the euenynge, and he dranke of the ryuer.

²¹ This is it that the LORDE hath spoken agaynst him: He hath despysed ye and mocked the O virgin thou doughter Sion: he hath shake his heade at the O doughter Ierusalem.

¹¹ Therfore dyd the LORDE cause the rulers of the hoost of the kynge of Assur to come vpo the, which toke Manasses presoner with bodes, and bounde him with cheynes, & broughte him vnto Babilon. ¹² And whan he was in trouble, he made intercession before the LORDE his God, and humbled him selfe greatly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayed and besoughte him. Then herde he his prayer, and broughte him agayne to Ierusalem to his kyngdome. And Manasses knewe that the LORDE is God.

¹⁵ Neuertheles whan or enemies herde yt we had gotten worde of it, God broughte their councell to naughte, and we turned all againe to the wall, euery one vnto his labor.

⁴ And the kynge sayde: Who is in ye courte? (for Aman was gone in to ye courte without before ye kinges house, yt he might speake vnto ye kinge to hange Mardocheus on ye tre, yt he had prepared for him.) ⁵ And the kinges seruauntes saide vnto him: Beholde, Ama stodeth in the courte. The kynge saide: Let him come in. ⁶ And wha Ama came in, ye kinge saide vnto him: What shal be done vnto ye ma, whom the kynge wolde fayne brynge vnto worshippe? But Hama thought in his hert: Whom shulde the kynge els be glad to brynge vnto worshippe, but me? ⁷ And Aman sayde vnto the kynge: Let the man vnto whom the kynge wolde be glad to do worshippe, be broughte hither, ⁸ that he maye be araied with the royall garmentes which the kynge vseth to weere: and the horse that the kynge rydeth vpon, and that the crowne royall maye be set vpon his heade. ⁹ And let this rayment and horse be delyuered vnder the hande of one of the kynges prynces, that he maye araye the man withall (whom the kynge wolde fayne honoure) and cary him vpon the horse thorow the strete of the cite, and cause it to be proclamed before him: Thus shal it be done to euery man, whom the kynge wolde fayne honoure. ¹⁰ The kynge sayde: Make haist, and take (as thou hast sayde) the raymet and the horse, and do euen so with Mardocheus ye Iewe that sitteth before the kynges gate, and let nothinge fayle of all that thou hast spoken. ¹¹ Then toke Aman the rayment and the horse, and arayed him, and broughte him on hor?backe thorow the strete of the cite, and proclamed before him: Euen thus shall it be done vnto euery man whom the kynge is disposed to honoure.

¹⁰ So they hanged Aman on the galowe that he had made for Mardocheus. Then was the kynges wrath stylled.

²⁵ and how Hester wente and spake to the kynge, that thorow letters his wicked deuyce (which he ymagyned agaynst the Iewes) might be turned vpon his awne heade, and how he and his sonnes were hanged on the tre.

¹⁵ the Sabees came in violetly, and toke them all awaye: yee they haue slayne the seruauntes with the swearde, and I only ranne my waye, to tell the.

¹⁷ In the meane season whyle he was yet speakinge, there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made thre armies, and fell in vpon the camels, which they haue caried awaye, yee and slayne the seruauntes with the swearde: and I only am gotte awaye, to tell the.

¹⁹ ad sodenly there came a mightie greate wynde out off the South, and smote the iiij. corners of the house: which fell vpon thy children, so that they are deed: and I am gotten awaye alone, to tell the.

³ Then sayde the LORDE vnto Sathan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how that he is an innocent & vertuous man soch one as feareth God, and eschueth euell, and that there is none like him in the londe? But thou mouedest me agaynst him, to punysh him: yet is it in vayne, for he contynueth still in his godlynesse.

¹⁰ The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke.

¹⁰ The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke. ¹¹ The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.

¹⁸ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaythfulnesse amonge his owne seruauntes, and proude disobedience amonge his angels.

⁴ Whe thy sonnes synned agaynst him, dyd not he punysh the for their wickednesse? ⁵ Yff thou woldest now resorte vnto God by tymes, and make thine humble prayer to ye Allmightie: ⁶ yf thou woldest lyue a pure and a godly life: shulde he not wake vp vnto the immediatly, & geue the the bewtie of rightuousnesse agayne?

⁸ Enquere of them that haue bene before the, search diligently amonge thy forefathers: ⁹ Namely, yt we are but of yesterdaye, and considre not, that oure dayes vpon earth are buth a very shadow. ¹⁰ They shall shewe the, they shall tell the, yee they will gladly confesse the same.

¹⁰ He doth greate thinges, soch as are vnsearcheable, yee and wonders without nombre.

⁷ where as (notwithstondinge) thou knowest that I am no wicked person, & that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thine honde.

⁷ Wilt thou fynde out God with thy sekynge? wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the Allmightie? ⁸ He is hyer the heaue, what wilt thou do? Deper the hell, how wilt thou then knowe him? ⁹ His length exceadeth the length of the earth, and his bredth ye bredth of the see.

² Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wy?dome shal perish with you.

⁶ The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperite, & they that maliciously medle agaynst God, dwel without care: yee God geueth all thinges richely with his honde.

¹⁶ With him is strength and wy?dome: he knoweth both the disceauer, and him that is disceaued. ¹⁷ He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes.

²⁵ and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.

¹ Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries.

⁸ hast thou herde the secrete councell of God, that all wy?dome is to litle for ye? ⁹ What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same? ¹⁰ With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.

¹⁵ Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight.

¹⁷ I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:

⁴ Why destroyest thou thy self with anger? Shal ye earth be forsaken, or the stones remoued out of their place because of ye?

⁶ The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him.

⁸ For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare. ⁹ His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.

¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion. ¹⁶ His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe. ¹⁷ His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes: ¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde. ¹⁹ He shall nether haue children ner kyn?folkes amonge his people, no ner eny posterite in his countre:

²¹ Soch are now the dwellynges of the wicked, and this is ye place of him that knoweth not God.

¹⁵ The riches yt he deuoureth, shall he perbreake agayne, for God shal drawe them out of his bely.

⁷ Wherfore do wicked me lyue in health and prosperite, come to their olde age, & increase in riches? ⁸ Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the.

² Maye a man be copared vnto God in wy?dome, though he seme to himself, for to be like him?

²¹ Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well.

²⁷ The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses.

¹⁸ The vngodly is very swyft: O yt his porcio also vpo earth were swyfter then ye runnynge water, which suffreth not ye shipma to beholde the fayre & pleasaut vyniardes.

⁵ The giauntes & worthies yt are slayne, & lye vnder ye worlde wt their copanions: ⁶ yee & all they which dwell beneth in the hell are not hyd fro him, & the very destruccion it self ca not be kepte out of his sight. ⁷ He stretcheth out ye north ouer the emptie, & hageth ye earth vpo nothinge. ⁸ He byndeth ye water in his cloudes, that they fall not downe together. ⁹ He holdeth back his stole, that it caa not be sene, and spredeth his cloudes before it. ¹⁰ He hath copased the waters wt certayne boundes, vntill the daye & night come to an ende. ¹¹ The very pilers of heaue treble & quake at his reprofe. ¹² He stilleth the see with his power, & thorow his wy?dome hath he set forth ye worlde. ¹³ With his sprete hath he garnished the heaues, & with his hande hath he wounded the rebellious serpet. ¹⁴ This is now a shorte summe of his doynges. But who is able sufficiently to rehearce his workes? Who can perceaue and vnderstonde ye thondre of his power?

⁸ What hope hath ye Ypocrite, though he haue greate good, and though God geue him riches after his hertes desyre?

¹⁴ Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred.

²⁶ when he set the rayne in ordre, and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe:

¹¹ For whe I had wayted till ye made an ende of youre talkynge, & herde youre wy?dome, what argumetes ye made in youre communicacion: ¹² yee when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I founde not one of you that made eny good argument agaynst Iob, or that directly coude make answere vnto his wordes:

²⁹ Yf he delyuer & graunte pardo, who will iudge or condemne? But yf he hyde awaye his countenaunce, who wil turne it aboute agayne, whether it be to the people or to eny man?

²⁸ together for to rayne, so that they poure downe and droppe vpon men.

⁵ when God sendeth out his voyce: greate thinges doth he, which we can not coprehende.

²⁶ yt it watereth & moystureth ye drye & baren grounde: ²⁷ to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, & in the wildernes where no ma remayneth? ²⁸ Who is the father of rayne? Or, who hath begotten the droppes of dew?

³ For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete, but it shall be knowne? Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely, seynge these thinges are so hye, and passe myne vnderstondinge.

¹³ He had children also: vij. sonnes and iij. doughters. ¹⁴ The first he called Daye, the seconde, pouerte: the thirde, All plenteousnes. ¹⁵ In all the londe were none founde so fayre, as the doughters of Iob, & their father gaue them enheritaunce amonge their brethren. ¹⁶ After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion.

¹⁶ After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion. ¹⁷ And so he dyed, beinge olde & of a perfecte age.

² Lest he hantch vp my soule like a lyon, & teare it in peces, whyle there is none to helpe.

¹⁵ He hath grauen and dygged vp a pytte, but he shal fall himself in to ye pytte yt he hath made. ¹⁶ For his vnhappynes shall come vpon his owne heade, & his wickednes shall fall vpon his owne pate.

¹⁵ As for the Heithen, the are suncke downe in the pytte that they made: in the same nette, which they spred out priuely, is their owne fote take. ¹⁶ Thus ye LORDE is knowne to execute true iudgment, whe the vngodly is trapped in the workes of his owne handes.

¹⁸ But the poore shal not allwaye be out of remembraunce, the paciet abydinge of soch as be in trouble shall not perish for euer.

¹⁴ This thou seist, for thou considrest the mysery and sorowe: The poore geueth himselff ouer in to thy hande, and committeth him vnto the, for thou art the helper of the frendlesse.

¹⁷ LORDE, thou hearest the desyrous longinge off the poore: their herte is sure, that thine eare herkeneth therto.

¹ The foolish bodyes saye in their hertes: Tush, there is no God. They are corrupte, ad become abhominable in their doynges, there is not one yt doth good.

³ All my delyte is vpon the sanctes that are in the earth, and vpon soch like.

²⁶ With the clene thou shalt be clene & with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde.

¹¹ For they inteded myschefe agaynst the, & ymagined soch deuyces, as they were not able to perfourme.

¹³ His soule shall dwell at ease, and his sede shall possesse the londe.

³ Though an hoost of men were layed agaynst me, yet shal not my hert be afrayed: and though there rose vp warre against me, yet wil I put my trust in him.

²⁰ Let the lyenge lippes be put to sylence, which cruelly, di?danedly & despitefully speake agaynst the rightuous.

¹⁰ The LORDE bryngeth the councell of the Heithen to naught, and turneth the deuyces of the people. ¹¹ But the coucell of the LORDE endureth, and the thoughtes of his hert from generacion to generacion.

¹⁹ That he maye delyuer their soules from death, and to fede them in the deare tyme.

¹⁹ Greate are ye troubles of the rightuous, but the LORDE delyuereth them out of all.

⁷ For they haue pryuely laied their nett to destroye me without a cause, yee and made a pitte for my soule, which I neuer deserued. ⁸ Let a sodane destruccio come vpon him vnawarres, and ye nett that he hath layed priuely, catch him self, that he maye fall in to his owne myschefe.

¹⁰ All my bones shal saie: LORDE, who is like vnto the? which delyuerest ye poore from those that are to stronge for him, yee the poore and the nedy from his robbers.

⁵ Comitte thy waye vnto ye LORDE, set thy hope in him, and he shal brynge it to passe.

¹⁷ For the armes of ye vngodly shalbe broken, but the LORDE vpholdeth the rightuous.

¹⁹ They shal not be cofounded in ye perlous tyme, & in ye dayes of derth they shall haue ynough.

³⁵ Hope thou in the LORDE, & kepe his waye: & he shal so promote the, that thou shalt haue the lode by enheritauce, & se, when the vngodly shall perishe. ³⁶ I myself haue sene the vngodly in greate power, & florishinge like a grene baye tre:

⁵ O LORDE my God, greate are yi wonderous workes which thou hast done: & in thy thoughtes towarde vs there maye none be lickened vnto the.

⁷ No man maye deliuer his brother, ner make agrement for him vnto God.

¹⁵ And call vpo me in the tyme of trouble, so wil I heare the, that thou shalt thanke me.

²¹ O cast thy burthen (or care) vpon the LORDE, he shal norish the, and not leaue the rightuous in vnquietnesse.

⁴ Sela. This shal God sende, for his mercy and faithfulnesse sake. I lye with my soule amonge the cruell lyons:

¹¹ They shal fall in to the swerde, & be a porcio for foxes. But ye kynge shal reioyse in God: all they that sweare by hym, shal be commeded, for the mouth of lyers shalbe stopped.

⁹ Thou visetest the earth, thou watrest it, and makest it very plenteous. ¹⁰ The ryuer of God is full of waters, thou preparest man his corne, ad thus thou prouydest for the earth. ¹¹ Thou watrest hir forowes, thou breakest the harde clottes therof, thou makest it soft with ye droppes of rayne, and blessest the increase of it.

²⁵ Poure out thy indignacion vpon them, & let thy wrothfull displeasure take holde of them.

⁴ He shal kepe the symple folke by their right, defende the childre of the poore, and punysh the wrongeous doer.

¹² For he shal deliuer the poore whe he crieth, & the nedy yt hath no helpe. ¹³ He shall be fauorable to the symple & poore, he shal preserue the soules of soch as be in aduersite.

¹⁶ There shalbe an heape of corne in the earth hye vpon the hilles, his frute shal shake like Libanus,

¹⁸ His name shal endure for euer, his name shal remayne vnder the sonne amonge the posterites, which shalbe blessed thorow him, & all the Heithen shal prayse him.

³ And why. I was greued at ye wicked, to se the vngodly in soch prosperite. ⁴ For they are in no parell of death, but stonde fast like a palace. ⁵ They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men. ⁶ And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse. ⁷ Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst. ⁸ Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes. ⁹ They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set the in a slippery place, that thou maiest cast the downe headlynges & destroye the. ¹⁹ O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende? ²⁰ Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh, so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite.

⁴ The earth is weake & all that is therin, but I beare vp hir pilers.

¹ I cried vnto God with my voyce, yee euen vnto God cried I with my voyce, & he herde me. ² In the tyme of my trouble I sought the LORDE, I helde vp my hondes vnto him in the night season, for my soule refused all other comforte.

¹⁰ For thou art greate, thou doest wonderous thinges, thou art God alone.

⁷ For we consume awaye in thy displeasure, and are afrayed at thy wrothfull indignacion. ⁸ Thou settest oure mi?dedes before the, and oure secrete synnes in the light of thy countenaunce. ⁹ For when thou art angrie, all or dayes are gone, we brynge or yeares to an ende, as it were a tayle that is tolde.

³ For he shal deliuer the fro the snare of the hunter, & fro the noysome pestilence. ⁴ He shal couer the vnder his wynges, that thou mayest be safe vnder his fethers: his faithfulnesse and trueth shal be thy shylde and buckler. ⁵ So yt thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night, ner for arowe that flyeth by daye.

⁵ So yt thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night, ner for arowe that flyeth by daye. ⁶ For the pestilece that crepeth in ye darcknesse, ner for the sicknesse yt destroyeth in the noone daye.

⁶ For the pestilece that crepeth in ye darcknesse, ner for the sicknesse yt destroyeth in the noone daye. ⁷ A thousande shal fall besyde the, and ten thousande at thy right honde, but it shal not come nye the.

⁷ A thousande shal fall besyde the, and ten thousande at thy right honde, but it shal not come nye the. ⁸ Yee with thyne eyes shalt thou beholde, and se the rewarde of the vngodly. ⁹ For thou LORDE art my hope, thou hast set thy house of defence very hye. ¹⁰ There shal no euell happen vnto the, nether shal eny plage come nye thy dwellinge.

¹⁰ There shal no euell happen vnto the, nether shal eny plage come nye thy dwellinge.

¹² They shal beare the in their hondes, that thou hurte not thy fote agaynst a stone. ¹³ Thou shalt go vpo the Lyon and Adder, the yonge Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou treade vnder thy fete.

¹³ Thou shalt go vpo the Lyon and Adder, the yonge Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou treade vnder thy fete. ¹⁴ Because he hath set his loue vpon me, I shal delyuer him: I shal defende him, for he hath knowne my name.

¹⁶ With loge life wil I satisfie him, & shewe him my saluacion.

⁶ An vnwyse man wil not knowe this, & a foole wil not vnderstode it. ⁷ That the vngodly are grene as the grasse, and that all the workes of wickednes do florish, to be destroyed for euer.

¹² Blessed is the ma, whom thou lernest (o LORDE) and teachest him in thy lawe.

¹⁶ They angred Moses in the tetes, and Aaron the saynte of the LORDE.

⁴ They wente astraye in the wildernesse in an vntroden waye, & founde no cite to dwell in.

¹⁷ Foolish me were plaged for their offence, & because of their wickednesse.

⁴⁰ Though he suffre the to be euell intreated thorow tyrauntes, or let them wandre out of the waye in the wildernesse: ⁴¹ Yet helpeth he the poore out of misery (at the last) and maketh him an housholde like a flocke of shepe. ⁴² The rightuous wil cosidre this and reioyse, the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped.

⁹ Let his children be vagabundes, and begg their bred: let them seke it, as they that be destroyed. ¹⁰ Let the extorcioner cosume all that he hath, and let straungers spoyle his laboure. ¹¹ Let there be no man to petie, ner to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children. ¹² Let his ende be destruccion, and in the nexte generacion let his name be clene put out. ¹³ Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of the LORDE, and let not the synne of his mother be done awaye. ¹⁴ Let them be allwaye before the LORDE, but as for the memoriall of them selues, let it perish from out of the earth. ¹⁵ And that because his mynde was not to do good, but persecuted the poore helplesse, and him that was vexed at the herte, to slaye him.

³¹ For he stondeth at the right hande of the poore, to saue him from soch as condempne his soule.

² The workes of the LORDE are greate, sought out of all the that haue pleasure therin.

² His sede shall be mightie vpon earth, the generacion of the faithfull shalbe blessed.

⁷ Which taketh vp the symple out of the dust, and lifteth the poore out of the myre.

¹⁵⁵ Health is farre fro the vngodly, for they regarde not thy statutes.

⁷ The LORDE preserueth the from all euell, yee it is the LORDE thath kepeth thy soule. ⁸ The LORDE preserueth thy goinge out and thy comynge in, from this tyme forth for euermore.

³ It is but lost labour that ye ryse vp early, and take no rest, but eate the bred of carefulnesse: for loke to whom it pleaseth him, he geueth it in slepe. ⁴ Lo, children and ye frute of the wombe are an heretage and gift, that cometh of the LORDE. ⁵ Like as the arowes in the hode of the giaute, eue so are the yonge childre. Happie is the ma, yt hath his quyuer full of them: they shal not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.

⁵ Like as the arowes in the hode of the giaute, eue so are the yonge childre. Happie is the ma, yt hath his quyuer full of them: they shal not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.

³ Thy wife shalbe as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house. ⁴ Thy children like the olyue braunches roude aboute yi table. ⁵ Lo, thus shal ye ma be blessed, yt feareth the LORDE. ⁶ The LORDE shal so blesse the out of Sion, that thou shalt se Ierusale in prosperite all thy life longe. Yee that thou shalt se thy childers childre, & peace vpo Israel.

¹⁸ Yf I tell them, they are mo in nombre then the sonde: when I wake vp, I am present with the.

¹² Sure I am, that the LORDE wil auenge the poore, and manteyne the cause of the helplesse.

¹⁰ Thou that geuest victory vnto kynges, and hast delyuered Dauid thy seruaunt from the parell of the swerde.

³ He healeth the contrite in herte, and byndeth vp their woundes.

⁸ Which couereth ye heauen wt cloudes, prepareth rayne for ye earth, & maketh ye grasse to growe vpon the mountaynes.

²² O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege? ²³ O turne you vnto my correccion: lo, I wil expresse my mynde vnto you, and make you vnderstode my wordes.

³ For yf thou criest after wy?dome, & callest for knowlege: ⁴ yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure: ⁵ The shalt thou vnderstonde ye feare of the LORDE, and fynde ye knowlege of God.

¹¹ My sonne, despyse not the chastenynge of ye LORDE, nether faynte when thou art rebuked of him. ¹² For who the LORDE loueth, him he chasteneth: and yet delyteth in him euen as a father in his owne sonne.

³² for the LORDE abhorreth the frowarde, but his secrete is amonge the righteous.

¹⁹ But ye waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse, wherin me fall, or they be awarre.

⁵ Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles.

¹¹ For thorow me yi dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeares of thy life shal be many. ¹² Yf thou be wyse, yi wysdome shal do yi selfe good: but yf thou thynkest scorne therof, it shalbe thine owne harme.

³ The LORDE wil not let the soule of the rightuous suffre hoger, but he putteth ye vngodly fro his desyre.

²⁷ The feare of ye LORDE maketh a loge life, but ye yeares of ye vngodly shal be shortened.

¹⁶ A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haist, but a discrete man forgeueth wronge.

¹⁸ A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.

³⁰ There is no wy?dome, there is no vnderstondinge, there is no councell agaynst the LORDE.

¹⁶ For a iust ma falleth seuen tymes, & ryseth vp agayne, but ye vngodly fall in to wickednes.

⁸ All thinges are so harde, yt no ma can expresse them. The eye is not satisfied wt sight, the eare is not fylled wt hearinge.

²² For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,

¹⁵ Like as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thither agayne, and carieth nothinge awaye with him of all his laboure. ¹⁶ This is a miserable plage, yt he shal go awaye euen as he came. What helpeth it him then, yt he hath labored in the wynde? ¹⁷ All the daies of his life also must he eate in the darcke, with greate carefulnesse, sicknesse & sorow.

⁹ Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.

⁵ Morouer vpon all the dwellinges of the hill of Sion and vpon their whole congregacion, shal the LORDE prouyde a cloude and smoke by daye, and the shyninghe of a flammynge fyre by night, for all their glory shalbe preserued. ⁶ And Ierusalem shall be a tabernacle for a shadowe because of hete in the daye tyme, a place and refuge where a man maye kepe him for wether and rayne.

¹⁰ take youre councel together, yet must youre councel come to nought: go in honde withal, yet shal it not prospere. Excepte Emanuel: (that is God) be with

⁶ The shal ye wolfe dwel with the labe, and the leoparde shal lye downe by the gote. Bullokes, lyons and catel shal kepe company together, so that a litle childe shal dryue them forth. ⁷ The cowe and the Bere shal fede together, and their yongones shal lye together. The lyo shal eate strawe like the oxe, or the cowe. ⁸ The childe whyle he sucketh, shal haue a desyre to the serpentes nest, and whe he is weened, he shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne. ⁹ Noman shal do euel to another, no man shal destro another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shalbe ful of ye knowlege of ye LORDE, euen as though the water of the see flowed ouer the earth.

³² Who shall then maynteyne the messages of the Gentyles? But the LORDE stablisheth Syon, & the poore of my people shall put their trust in him.

³ And Egipte shalbe choked in hir self. Whe they axe councel at their goddes, at their Prophetes, at their soythsayers and witches: then will I bringe their councel to naught.

²⁶ the Moone shal shyne as the Sonne and ye Sone shyne shalbe seuefolde, and haue as moch shyne, as in seuen dayes beside. In that daye shal the LORDE bynde vp ye brussed sores of his people, and heale their woundes.

¹⁶ He it is, that shal dwel on hie, whose sauegarde shalbe in the true rocke, to him shalbe geuen the right true meat & drynke.

⁹ There shalbe no lyon, and no rauyshinge beast shall come therin nor be there, but men shal go there fre and safe.

³⁶ Thus the angel went forth, and slewe of the Assirians hooste, an clxxxv. thousande. And when men arose vp early (at Ierusale:) Beholde, all laye ful of deed bodies.

²⁸ Knowest thou not, or hast thou not herde, that the euerlastinge God, the LORDE which made all the corners of the earth, is nether weery nor faynt, and that his wisdome can not be comprehended:

¹ Be still (ye Ilondes) and herken vnto me. Be stronge ye people, Come hither, and shew youre cause, we will go to the lawe together.

²¹ Stonde at youre cause (saieth the LORDE) and bringe forth youre strogest grounde, counceleth the kinge of Iacob. ²² Let the goddes come forth them selues, and shewe vs the thinges ye are past, what they be: let the declare the vnto vs, yt we maye take them to herte, and knowe them herafter. ²³ Ether, let the shewe vs thinges for to come, and tel vs what shalbe done herafter: so shal we knowe, that they be goddes. Shewe somthinge, ether good or bad, so wil we both knowlege ye same, & tel it out.

³ For I shal poure water vpon the drie grounde, and ryuers vpon the thurstie. I shal poure my sprete vpon thi sede, and myne encrease vpo thy stocke. ⁴ They shal growe together, like as the grasse, and as the Willies by the waters side.

⁷ It is I yt created the light and darcknes, I make peace and trouble: Yee euen I the LORDE do all these thinges.

¹⁷ but all the weapens yt are made agaynst the, shal not prospere. And as for all tunges, yt shal resiste the in iudgmet, thou shalt ouercome the, & codemne them. This is the heretage of the LORDES seruauntes, & the rightuousnes that they shal haue of me, saieth the LORDE.

¹⁰ We grope like ye blynde vpon ye wall, we grope euen as one yt hath none eyes. We stomble at ye noone daye, as though it were toward night: in ye fallinge places, like men yt are half deed.

⁸ The LORDE hath sworne by his right honde & by his stronge arme, that fro hence forth he wil not geue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, ner yi wyne (wheri thou hast laboured) to be drynke for ye straungers.

²⁵ The wolff and the lambe shal fede together, and the lyon shal eate haye like the bullocke. But earth shalbe the serpetes meate. There shal no man hurte ner slaye another, in all my holy hill, saieth the LORDE.

²⁴ They thinke not in their hartes: O let vs feare the LORDE oure God, that geueth vs rayne early and late, when nede is: which kepeth euer still the haruest for vs yearly.

¹³ At his voyce the waters gather together in the ayre, he draweth vp ye cloudes from the vttemost partes of ye earth: he turneth lighteninge to rayne, and brigeth forth the wyndes out of their treasuries:

¹ O Lorde, thou art more rightuous, then that I shulde dispute with the: Neuertheles, let me talke with the in thinges reasonable. How happeneth it, that the waye off the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so wel with them, which (with out eny shame) offede and lyue in wickednesse? ² Thou plantest them, they take rote, they growe, and bringe forth frute. They boost moch off the, yet doest thou not punysh them. ³ But thou LORDE (to whom I am well knowne) thou that hast sene, & proued my herte, take them awaye, like as a flock is caried to the slaughter house, and apoynte them for the daye off slaughtinge.

²² Are there eny amonge the goddes of the Gentiles, that sende rayne, or geue the showers of heauen? Dost not thou it o LORDE oure God, in who we trust? Yee LORDE, thou dost all these thinges.

¹⁸ Then sayde they: come, let vs ymagin somthinge agaynst this Ieremy. Yee this dyd euen the prestes, to whom ye lawe was commytted: the Senatours, yt were the wysest: and the prophetes, which wanted not ye worde off God. Come (sayde they) let vs cut out his tuge, and let vs not regarde his wordes.

¹⁸ Morouer I herde Ephraim, (that was led awaye captyue) complayne on this maner: O LORDE, thou hast correcte me, and thy chastenynge haue I receaued, as an vntamed calfe. Conuerte thou me, and I shalbe conuerted, for thou art my LORDE God.

³⁴ Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon hath deuoured and distroyed me, he hath made me an emptie vessell. He swalowed me vp like a Dragon, and fylled his bely with my delicates: he hath cast me out,

⁴⁴ Morouer, I wil vyset Bel at Babilo: & the thinge that he hath swalowed vp, that same shal I plucke out of his mouth. The Gentiles also shall runne nomore vnto him, yee and the walles of Babilon shal fall.

⁵ The LORDE is become, like as it were an enemie, he hath cast downe Israel & all his places: yee all his stronge holdes hath he destroyed, and fylled the doughter of Iuda wt moch sorow and heuynesse.

¹⁶ All thine enemies gape vpon the, whisperinge and bytinge their teth, sayenge: let vs deuoure, for the tyme that we loked for, is come: we haue founde and sene it.

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euell and good.

¹⁵ Yf I bringe noysome beestes in to the londe, to waist it vp, and it be so desolate, that no man maye go therin for beestes: ¹⁶ yf these thre men also were in the londe, as truly as I lyue (saieth the LORDE God) they shal saue nether sonnes ner doughters, but be only delyuered them selues: and as for the londe, it shal be waist.

²⁴ And all the trees of the felde shall knowe, that I the LORDE haue brought downe the hie tre, and set the lowe tre vp: that I haue dryed vp the grene tre, and made the drye tre to florish: Euen I the LORDE yt spake it, haue also brought it to passe.

²⁵ Morouer, I wil make a couenaunt of peace with them, and dryue all euell beastes out of the londe: so that they maye dwell safely in the wildernesse, and slepe in the woddes.

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lyons mouthes, so that they might not hurte me. For why: myne vngiltynesse is founde out before him. And as for the (o kynge) I neuer offended the.

¹⁸ Then will I make a couenaunt with them, with the wylde beastes, with the foules of the ayre, & with euerythinge that crepeth vpon the earth. As for bowe, swerde and batel, I will destroye soch out of the londe, & wil make them to slepe safely.

¹ In their aduersite they shall seke me, and saye: come, let vs turne agayne to the LORDE: for he hath smytten vs, and he shal heale vs:

¹¹ Ephraim is like a doue, that is begyled, and hath no herte. Now call they vpon the Egipcians, now go they to the Assirians:

⁷ They haue sowne wynde, therfore shal they reepe a storme. Their sede shal beare no corne, there shal no meel be made of their increase: though yere be, yet shall straungers deuoure it vp.

⁴ They comon together, and sweare vayne oothes: they be cofederate together, therfore groweth their punyshment, as the wedes in the forowes of the londe.

¹⁴ had not I defended him from the graue, and delyuered him from death. O death, I wil be thy death: o hell, I wil be thy stynge.

⁶ Crie they out Alarum with the trompet in the cite, and the people not afrayed? Commeth there eny plage in a cite, without it be the LORDES doinge?

⁷ Whe there were but thre monethes vnto ye haruest, I withelde the rayne from you: yee I rayned vpo one cite, and not vpo another one pece off grounde was moystured with rayne, and the grounde that I rayned not vpon, was drye.

¹² as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them right well. Enemies are ye off the rightuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgment.

⁹ At the same tyme (sayeth the LORDE God) I shall cause ye Sone to go downe at noone, and the londe to be darcke in the cleare daye.

¹ And Ionas prayed vnto the LORDE his God, out of the fysshes bely, ² and sayed: In my trouble I called vnto ye LORDE, and he herde me: out off the bely off hell I cried, and thou herdest my voyce. ³ Thou haddest cast me downe depe in ye middest off the see, and the floude compased me aboute: yee all thy wawes and rowles of water went ouer me, ⁴ I thought that I had bene cast awaye out of thy sight: but I wil yet agayne loke towarde thy holy temple. ⁵ The waters compased me, euen to the very soule: the depe laye aboute me, and the wedes were wrapte aboute myne heade. ⁶ I wente downe to the botome of the hilles, & was barred in with earth for euer. But thou (o LORDE my God) hast brought vp my lyfe agayne out of corrupcion. ⁷ When my soule faynted within me, I thought vpon the LORDE: and my prayer came in vnto the, euen in to thy holy temple.

⁹ And God sayd vnto Ionas: Art thou so angrie for the wylde vyne? And he sayde: yee very angrie am I euen vnto the deeth.

¹⁷ For the fyge trees shal not be grene, & the vynes shal beare no frute. The laboure of ye olyue shalbe but lost, and the londe shall bringe no corne: the shepe shalbe taken out of ye folde, and there shalbe no catell in ye stalles.

¹² Turne you now to the stronge holde, ye that be in preson, & longe sore to be delyuered: And this daye I bringe the worde, that I wil rewarde the dubble agayne.

⁶ Ye shal heare of warres, and of ye noyse of warres: take hede, and be not ye troubled. All these thinges must first come to passe, but the ende is not yet.

⁵¹ He sheweth strength with his arme, and scatreth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hert. ⁵² He putteth downe the mightie from the seate, and exalteth them of lowe degre. ⁵³ He fylleth the hongrie with good thinges, and letteth the riche go emptye.

²¹ Blessed are ye that honger here, for ye shalbe satisfied. Blessed are ye yt wepe here, for ye shal laugh.

⁴ Or thinke ye that ye eightene (vpon whom the tower in Siloe fell and slewe them) were giltie aboue all men that dwell at Ierusalem? ⁵ I tell you naye: but excepte ye amende youre selues, ye shal all perishe likewyse.

²⁰ For it is wrytten in the boke of psalmes: His habitacion be voyde, and noman be dwellinge therin. And: His bisshoprike another take.

¹¹ And whan Peter was come to himself, he sayde: Now I knowe of a trueth, that ye LORDE hath sent his angell, and delyuered me out of the honde of Herode, and from all the waytinge for of the people of the Iewes.

¹⁷ Neuertheles he hath not left hi selfe without wytnesse, in yt he hath shewed his benefites, and geuen vs rayne from heauen, and frutefull seasons, fyllynge oure hertes with fode and gladnesse.

¹² Now whan it was daye, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, and made a vowe nether to eate ner drynke, tyll they had kylled Paul. ¹³ They were mo then fortye, which had made this conspyracion. ¹⁴ These came to the hye prestes and Elders, and sayde: We haue bounde oure selues wt a vowe, that we wil eate nothinge, tyll we haue slayne Paul. ¹⁵ Now therfore geue ye knowlege to the vpper captayne and to the councell, that he maye brynge him forth vnto you tomorow, as though ye wolde heare him yet better: As for vs, we are ready to kyll him, or euer he come nye you. ¹⁶ But whan Pauls sisters sonne herde of their layenge awayte, he came, and entred into the castell, and tolde Paul. ¹⁷ So Paul called vnto him one of ye vnder captaynes, and sayde: Brynge this yonge man to the vpper captayne, for he hath somewhat to saye to him. ¹⁸ He toke him, and broughte him to the vpper captayne, and sayde: Paul the presoner called me vnto him, and prayed me to brynge to the this yonge man, which hath somwhat to saye vnto the. ¹⁹ Then the hye captayne toke him by the hande, and wente asyde with him out of the waye, and axed him: What is it, that thou hast to saye vnto me? ²⁰ He sayde: The Iewes are agreed together, to desyre the, to let Paul be broughte forth tomorow before the councell, as though they wolde yet heare him better. ²¹ But folowe not thou their myndes, for there laye wayte for him mo then fortye men off them, which haue bounde them selues with a vowe, nether to eate ner drynke, tyll they haue slayne Paul: and euen now are they redye, and loke for thy promes. ²² Then the vpper captayne let the yonge man departe, and charged him to tell noman, that he had shewed him this.

⁸ But vnto them that are contencious & not obedient vnto the trueth, but obeye vnrighteousnes, shal come indignacion and wrath,

¹⁹ But we knowe, yt, what soeuer the lawe sayeth, it sayeth it vnto them which are vnder the lawe, yt euery mouthe maye be stopped, & yt all the worlde maye be detter vnto God,

³⁸ For sure I am, that nether death ner life, nether angell, ner rule, nether power, nether thinges present, nether thinges to come, ³⁹ nether heyth, ner loweth, nether eny other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesu oure LORDE.

³³ O the depenesse of the riches, both of the wyssdome and knowlege of God? How incomprehensible are his iudgmentes, and his wayes vnsearcheable?

¹⁹ For it is wrytte: I wyl destroye the wyssdome of the wyse, & wil cast away the vnderstondinge of ye prudet. ²⁰ Where are the wyse? Where are ye scrybes? where are ye disputers of this worlde?

¹⁹ For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse.

¹³ There hath yet no teptacion ouertaken you, but soch as foloweth the nature of man. Neuertheles God is faithfull, which shal not suffre you to be tempted aboue youre strength, but shal in the myddes of ye temptacion make a waye to come out, that ye maye beare it.

⁸ Brethren we wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia, for we were greued out off measure passynge strength, so that we euen dispared of life,

¹ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God. To ye sayntes which are Ephesus, & to the that beleue on Iesus Christ.

¹² for the which cause I also suffre these thinges, neuertheles I am not ashamed. For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and am sure that he is able to kepe that which I haue commytted vnto his kepynge agaynst that daye.

⁶ Of this sorte are they which rune fro house to house, & brynge in to bondage weme lade wt synne: which (wemen) are led with dyuerse lustes,

¹ Wherfore seynge we haue so greate a multitude of witnesses aboute vs let vs also laye awaye all yt presseth downe, and the synne that hangeth on, and let vs runne with pacience vnto the batayl that is set before vs,

⁵ and haue forgotten the consolacion, which speaketh vnto you as vnto children: My sonne, despyse not the chastenynge off the LORDE, nether faynte whan thou art rebuked of him: ⁶ for who the LORDE loueth, him he chasteneth, yee and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth. ⁷ Yf ye endure chastenynge, God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes. What sonne is that, whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸ Yf ye be not vnder correccion (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes. ⁹ Morouer seyenge we haue had fathers off oure flesh which corrected vs, & we gaue them reuerence, shulde we not then moch rather be in subieccion vnto ye father of spirituall giftes, yt we mighte lyue? ¹⁰ And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he lerneth vs vnto yt which is profitable, that we mighte receaue of his holynes. ¹¹ No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby.

¹⁵ ad loke well, that no ma be destitute of the grace of God, lest there sprynge vp eny bytter rote, and cause disquyetnes, and therby many be defyled:

⁹ Let the brother of lowe degre reioyce, in yt he is exalted:

¹² Happy is the man that endureth in teptacion, for when he is tryed, he shal receaue the crowne of life, which the LORDE hath promised to them that loue him.

⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, ⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. ⁸ But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou.

⁶ but geueth more grace. ⁷ Submit youre selues to God, and resist the deuell, & he wil flye fro you. ⁸ Drawe nye to God & he wil drawe nye to you. Clense yor hondes ye synners, and pourge youre hertes ye wauerynge mynded. ⁹ Suffre affliccions: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge, and youre ioye to heuynes. ¹⁰ Cast downe youre selues before the LORDE, and he shal lift you vp.

¹¹ Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye haue hearde of ye paciece of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the LORDE made. For the LORDE is very pitifull and mercifull.

³ Blessed be God and the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which acordinge to his greate mercy hath begotten vs agayne vnto a lyuely hope by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ from the deed,

²³ which whan he was reuyled, reuyled not agayne: wha he suffred, he threatened not: but commytted the cause vnto him, that iudgeth righteously:

¹⁹ Wherfore let them that suffer acordynge to the will off God, commytte their soules vnto him with well doynge, as to the faithfull creator.

¹⁰ But ye God of all grace, which hath called you to his euerlastinge glory in Christ Iesu, shal his owne selfe make you perfecte, which suffre a litle season: eue he shal settle, strength, and stablish you.

⁹ The LORDE knoweth how to delyuer the godly out of tentacion, and how to reserue the vniust vnto the daye of iudgment for to be punyshed:

¹⁹ As many as I loue, I rebuke & chasten. Be feruent therfore and repent.