Proverbs 14 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ A wyse woma vpholdeth hir house, but a foolish wife plucketh it downe. ² Who so feareth the LORDE, walketh in the right path: & regardeth not him that abhorreth the wayes of the LORDE. ³ In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe, but ye lippes of ye wyse wilbe warre of soch. ⁴ Where no oxen are, there the crybb is emptie: but where the oxen laboure, there is moch frute. ⁵ A faithfull wytnesse wyl not dyssemble, but a false recorde wil make a lye. ⁶ A scornefull body seketh wy?dome, & fyndeth it not: but knowlege is easy to come by, vnto him that wil vnderstonde. ⁷ Se yt thou medle not with a foole, & do as though thou haddest no knowlege. ⁸ The wy?dome of him that hath vnderstondinge is, to take hede vnto his waye, but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth. ⁹ Fooles make but a sporte of synne, but there is fauourable loue amoge the rightuous. ¹⁰ The herte of him that hath vnderstondinge wil nether dispare for eny sorow, ner be to presumptuous for eny sodane ioye. ¹¹ The houses of the vngodly shalbe ouerthrowne, but the tabernacles of ye righteus shal florishe. ¹² There is a waye, which some men thinke to be right, but the ende therof ledeth vnto death. ¹³ The herte is soroufull euen in laughter, and the ende of myrth is heuynesse. ¹⁴ An vnfaithfull personne shal be fylled with his owne wayes, but a good ma wyl bewarre of soch. ¹⁵ An ignoraut body beleueth all thinges, but who so hath vnderstondinge, loketh well to his goinges. ¹⁶ A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously. ¹⁷ An vnpacient man handeleth foolishly, but he that is well aduysed, doth other wayes. ¹⁸ The ignoraut haue foolishnes in possessio, but the wyse are crowned with knowlege. ¹⁹ The euell shal bowe them selues before ye good, and the vngodly shal wayte at the dores of the rightuous. ²⁰ The poore is hated euen of his owne neghbours, but the riche hath many frendes. ²¹ Who so despyseth his neghbor, doth amysse: but blessed is he that hath pyte of the poore. ²² They that ymagin wickednes, shalbe disapoynted: but they that muse vpo good thinges, vnto soch shal happen mercy and faithfulnesse. ²³ Diliget labor bryngeth riches, but where many vayne wordes are, truly there is scarcenesse. ²⁴ Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse. ²⁵ A faithfull wytnesse delyuereth soules, but a lyar dysceaueth them. ²⁶ The feare of the LORDE is a stroge holde, for vnto his he wyl be a sure defence. ²⁷ The feare of the LORDE is a well of life, to auoyde the snares of death. ²⁸ The increase and prosperite of the comons is the kynges honoure, but the decaye of the people is the confucio of the prynce. ²⁹ Pacience is a token of wi?dome, but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse. ³⁰ A mery herte is the life of the body, but rancoure consumeth awaye the bones. ³¹ He that doth a poore man wroge, blasphemeth his maker: but who so hath pitie of the poore, doth honoure vnto God. ³² The vngodly is afrayed of euery parell, but the rightuous hath a good hope eue in death. ³³ Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned. ³⁴ Rightuousnes setteth vp the people, but wyckednesse bryngeth folke to destruccion. ³⁵ A discrete seruaunt is a pleasure vnto ye kynge, but one yt is not honest, prouoketh him vnto wrath.

¹¹ And all the people that was in the gate with the Elders, saide: We are witnesses. The LORDE make the woman that commeth in to thy house, as Rachel and Lea ( which both haue buylded vp the house of Israel) that she maye be an ensample of vertue in Ephrata, and haue an honorable name in Bethleem.

³¹ And he thoughte it but a small matter to walke in the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat: and toke Iesabel the doughter of Eth Baal kynge of Sidon to wife, and wente and serued Baal, and worshiped him.

²⁴ Who so of Achab dyeth in ye cite, him shal the dogges eate vp: and who so dyeth in the felde, the foules vnder the heauen shall eate him vp. ²⁵ So cleane solde to do myschefe in ye sighte of the LORDE hath no man bene, as Achab: for his Iesabel hath so disceaued him,

¹ Athalia the mother of Ochosias, wha she sawe that hir sonne was deed, gat her vp, and destroyed all the kynges sede.

¹³ A foolish restlesse woman, full of wordes, and soch one as hath no knowlege, ¹⁴ sytteth in the dores of hir house vpo a stole aboue in the cite, ¹⁵ to call soch as go by and walke straight in their wayes.

¹³ An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner vnder ye house toppe, then with a braulinge woman in a wyde house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman.

³ Thorow wy?dome an house shalbe buylded, & wt vnderstondinge it shalbe set vp. ⁴ Thorow discrecion shal ye chabers be fylled wt all costly & pleasaunt riches.

¹⁰ Who so fyndeth an honest faithful woma, she is moch more worth the perles. ¹¹ The herte of hir husbande maye safely trust in her, so that he shal haue no nede of spoyles. ¹² She wil do him good & not euel all ye dayes of hir life. ¹³ She occupieth woll & flax, & laboureth gladly wt hir handes. ¹⁴ She is like a marchauntes shippe, that bryngeth hir vytayles from farre. ¹⁵ She is vp in ye night season, to prouyde meate for hir housholde, & foode for hir maydens. ¹⁶ She considreth lode, & byeth it, and wt the frute of hir handes she planteth a vynyarde. ¹⁷ She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength, and courageth hir armes. ¹⁸ And yf she perceaue that hir houswifrie doth good, hir candle goeth not out by night. ¹⁹ She layeth hir fyngers to the spyndle, & hir hande taketh holde of ye rocke. ²⁰ She openeth hir hande to ye poore, yee she stretcheth forth hir hades to soch as haue nede. ²¹ She feareth not yt the colde of wynter shal hurte hir house, for all hir housholde folkes are duble clothed. ²² She maketh hir self fayre ornametes, hir clothige is whyte sylke & purple. ²³ Hir hu?bade is moch set by in ye gates, whe he sytteth amonge ye rulers of ye londe. ²⁴ She maketh cloth of sylke & selleth it, and delyuereth a gyrdle vnto ye marchaut. ²⁵ Stregth and honoure is hir clothinge, & in the latter daye she shal reioyse. ²⁶ She openeth hir mouth with wy?dome, & in hir toge is the lawe of grace. ²⁷ She loketh wel to the wayes of hir housholde, & eateth not hir bred with ydilnes. ²⁸ Hir children arise & call hir blessed, & hir hu?bande maketh moch of her. ²⁹ Many daughters there be yt gather riches together, but thou goest aboue the all. ³⁰ As for fauor, it is disceatfull, and beutie is a vayne thinge: but a woman that feareth the LORDE, she is worthy to be praysed. ³¹ Geue her of the frute of hir handes, and let hir owne workes prayse her in the gates.

⁶ Salomo saide: Thou hast done greate mercy vnto my father Dauid thy seruaunt. Like as he walked before the in faithfulnes and righteousnes, and in a true hert with the, & this greate mercy hast thou layed vp for him, and geuen him a sonne to syt vpon his seate, as it is now come to passe.

¹ In the lode of Hus there was a man called Iob: an innocent and vertuous man, soch one as feared God, and eschued euell.

⁴ Thus he that calleth vpo God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neghboure: the godly & innocent man is laughed to scorne.

²⁸ And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.

²¹ Let innocency and rightuous dealinge wayte vpon me, for my hope is in the.

¹ Blessed is the man yt feareth the LORDE, & hath greate delite in his commaundementes.

³ Haue mercy vpo vs (o LORDE) haue mercy vpon vs, for we are vtterly despysed. ⁴ Oure soule is fylled wt the scornefull reprofe of the welthy, & with ye despitefulnesse of the proude.

¹⁵ whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous.

¹² A foole bryngeth vp a slaunder of his neghboure, but a wyse man wil kepe it secrete.

¹⁷ The path of ye righteous eschueth euell, & who so loketh well to his wayes, kepeth his owne soule.

¹ Better is the poore that lyueth godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.

⁶ A poore man ledynge a godly life, is better then the riche that goeth in frowarde wayes.

¹³ Lat vs heare the conclucion of all thinges: Feare God, and kepe his comaundementes, for that toucheth all men:

⁵ I made a couenaunt of life and peace wt him: this I gaue him, that he might stonde in awe of me: and so he dyd feare me, ad had my name in reuerence. ⁶ The lawe of treuth was in his mouth, and there was no wickednesse founde in his lippes. He walked with me in peace ad equyte, and dyd turne many one awaye from their synnes.

¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me: and he that despyseth you, despyseth me: but who so despyseth me, despyseth him yt sent me.

¹⁴ All these thinges herde the Pharises, which were couetous, and they mocked hi.

³¹ So the congregacions had rest thorow out all Iewry, and Galile, and Samaria, & were edified, and walked in the feare of the LORDE, and were fylled with the comforte of the holy goost.

²² They sayde: Cornelius the captayne, a iust man and one that feareth God, and of good reporte amoge all the people of the Iewes, was warned by an holy angell, to sende for the in to his house, and to heare wordes of the.

³⁵ but in all people he yt feareth him, and worketh righteousnes, is accepted vnto him.

⁴ Or despysest thou the riches of his goodnesse, pacience, and loge sufferinge? Knowest thou not, that ye louynge kyndnesse of God leadeth the to repentaunce? ⁵ But thou after thine harde and impenitent hert, heapest vnto thy selfe a treasure of wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and of the openynge of the righteous iudgment of God,

² For there shalbe me which shal holde of the selues, couetous, boasters, proude, cursed speakers, dishobedient to their elders, vnthankfull, vngoostly, ³ vnkynde, truce breakers, false accusers, ryatours, fearce, despysers of them which are good,

³ Let go yor greate boostinge of hye thynges, let go out of youre mouth that olde byworde: for the LORDE is a God yt knoweth all thinges, & he hath set all workes in order.

²¹ He shall kepe the from the perlous tonge so that when trouble commeth, thou shalt not nede to feare.

³ O that the LORDE wolde rote out all disceatfull lippes, ad the tonge that speaketh proude thinges.

¹⁸ Shewe thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce, helpe me for thy mercies sake.

¹ Why boastest thou thy self (thou Tyraunt) that thou canst do myschefe? ² Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.

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

⁶ The talkynge of the vngodly is, how they maye laye wayte for bloude, but the mouth of ye righteous wil delyuer them.

⁶ A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll.

²⁴ He yt is proude & presumptuous, is called a scornefull ma, which in wrath darre worke maliciously.

⁸ He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him.

²⁵ He that is of a proude stomacke, stereth vp strife: but he that putteth his trust in ye LORDE, shalbe well fedd.

²⁰ I desyred also to knowe the treuth, as touchinge the ten hornes that he had vpon his heade, and this other which came vp afterwarde, before whose face there fell downe thre: which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, and loked with a grimmer visage then his felowes.

⁹ For yf thou knowlegest Iesus with thy mouth, that he is the LORDE, and beleuest in thine hert, that God hath raysed him vp from the deed, thou shalt be saued. ¹⁰ For yf a man beleue from the hert, he shalbe made righteous: and yf a ma knowlege with the mouth, he shal be saued.

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.

¹⁸ For they speake ye proude wordes of vanite, vnto ye vttemost, and entyse thorow wantannes vnto ye luste of the flesh, euen them that were cleane escaped, and now walke in erroure:

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the wordes of my pacience, therfore wil I kepe the from the houre of temptacion, which will come vpon all the worlde, to tempte them that dwell vpo the earth.

¹¹ And they ouercame him by the bloude of the lambe, and by the worde of their testimony, and they loued not their lyues vnto the deeth.

⁵ And after that, I loked, and beholde, the temple of the Tabernacle of testimony was open in heauen, ⁶ and the seuen angelles came out of the temple, which had the seuen plages, clothed in pure and bryght lynne, and hauynge their brestes gyrded with golden gerdelles.

²³ There is plenteousnesse of fode in the feldes of the poore, & shalbe increased out of measure.

⁶ Therfore haue I geuen you ydle teth in all youre cities, & scarcenesse off bred in all youre places: yet will ye not turne vnto me, sayeth the LORDE.

⁹ For it is wrytten in the lawe off Moses: Thou shalt not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take thought for the oxen? ¹⁰ Or sayeth he it not alltogether for oure sakes? For no doute it is wrytte for oure sakes. For he that eareth, shulde eare vpon hope: and he yt throssheth, shulde trosshe vpon hope, yt he mighte be partaker of his hope. ¹¹ Yf we haue sowne vnto you spiritual thinges, is it a greate thige yf we reape yor bodely thiges?

¹⁶ Thou shalt beare no false wytnesse agaynst thy neghboure.

¹ Thou shalt not accepte a vayne tale, that thou woldest manteyne the vngodly, and be a false wytnesse.

¹³ Then came the two men of Belial, and stode before him, and testyfyed agaynst Naboth in ye presence of the people, and sayde: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the kynge. Then broughte they him out of the cite, and stoned him to death.

¹² And all the prophetes prophecied likewyse, and sayde: Go vp vnto Ramoth in Gilead, thou shalt prospere right well, & the LORDE shal delyuer it in to the kynges hande. ¹³ And the messaunger that wente to call Micheas sayde vnto him: Beholde, The wordes of ye prophetes are with one acorde good before the kynge, let thy worde therfore be as their worde, and speake thou good also. ¹⁴ Micheas sayde: As truly as the LORDE liueth, loke what the LORDE sayeth vnto me, yt wyl I speake.

¹⁹ a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

¹⁷ A iust man will tell the trueth, & shewethe thinge yt is right: but a false wytnesse disceaueth.

⁵ A righteous man abhorreth lyes, but the vngodly shameth both other and himself.

²⁵ A faithfull wytnesse delyuereth soules, but a lyar dysceaueth them.

⁵ A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, and he that speaketh lyes shal not escape.

⁹ A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, & he yt speaketh lyes shal perishe.

¹⁸ Open thou myne eyes, & so shal I spie out wonderous thinges in yi lawe.

⁹⁸ Thou thorow thy commaundement hast made me wyser the myne enemies, for it is euer by me. ⁹⁹ I haue more vnderstondinge then all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my studye. ¹⁰⁰ Yee I am wyser then the aged, for I kepe thy comaundementes.

⁹ They are all playne to soch as wil vnderstode, & right to the that fynde knowlege.

²⁴ Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

² A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.

¹² Yf thou seyest a man yt is wyse in his owne conceate, there is more hope in a foole then in hi.

²⁰ Yf eny man want light, let him loke vpon the lawe and the testimony, whether they speake not after this meanynge.

⁹ therfore shal the wise be confounded, they shalbe afrayed and taken: for lo, they haue cast out the worde of the LORDE: what wy?dome can then be amonge them?

²² The eye is the light of the body. Yf thyne eye then be syngle, all thy body shalbe ful of light: ²³ But and yf thyne eye be wycked, all thy body shalbe full of darckenes: Wherfore yf the light that is in the, be darckenes, how greate then shall that darckenes be?

²⁵ At ye same tyme Iesus answered, and sayde: I prayse the (O father and LORDE of heauen and earth) that thou hast hid these thinges from the wyse and prudent, and opened the vnto babes. ²⁶ Euen so father, for so it pleased the. ²⁷ All thinges are geuen ouer vnto me of my father: and no ma knoweth the sonne, but the father: nether knoweth eny man the father, saue the sonne, and he to whom the sonne wil open it.

¹¹ He answered and sayde vnto the: Vnto you it is geuen to knowe the mystery of the kingdome of heauen, but vnto them it is not geuen. ¹² For whoso hath, vnto him shal be geue, and he shal haue abundaunce. But who so hath not, from him shalbe taken awaye, eue that he hath.

²¹ in as moch as they knewe, that there is a God, and haue not praysed him as God ner thanked him, but became vayne in their ymaginacions, and their foolish hert was blynded. ²² Whan they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles: ²³ and turned ye glory of the incorruptible God in to ye symilitude of ye ymage of a corruptible ma, & of byrdes, & of foure foted, & of crepinge beestes ²⁴ Wherfore God likewyse gaue them vp vnto their hertes lustes in to vnclennes, to defyle their awne bodies in them selues, ²⁵ which turned the trueth of God vnto a lye, & worshipped and serued the creature more then the maker, which is blessed for euer. Amen. ²⁶ Therfore God gaue the vp vnto shamefull lustes. For their wemen chaunged the naturall vse in to the vnnaturall: ²⁷ likewyse ye me also lefte the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one on another, and man with man wrought fylthines, and receaued in them selues the rewarde of their erroure, as it was acordinge. ²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,

³¹ Agayne, Israel folowed the lawe of righteousnes, and attayned not vnto the lawe of righteousnes. ³² Why so? Euen because they soughte it not out of faith, but as it were out of the deseruynge of workes. For they haue stombled at the stomblinge stone.

¹⁸ Let no ma disceaue himselfe. Yf eny man thinke himselfe wyse amoge you, let him become a foole in this worlde, that he maye be wyse. ¹⁹ For the wyssdome off this worlde is foolishnes with God. For it is wrytten: He compaseth the wyse in their craftynesse.

² Neuertheles yf eny ma thinke yt he knoweth eny thinge, he knoweth not yet how he oughte to knowe.

⁵ Yf eny of you lacke wyssdome, let him axe of God, which geueth to all men indifferentlie, and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geue him.

³ This first vnderstonde, that in the last dayes there shal come mockers, which wyll walke after their awne lustes, ⁴ & saye: Where is the promes of his commynge? For sence the fathers fell on slepe, euery thinge contynueth as it was from the begynnynge of ye creature. ⁵ This they knowe not (and that wylfully) how that the heauens were afore tyme also, and the earth out of the water, & was in the water by the worde of God,

⁶ Forsake ignorauce, and ye shal lyue: and se that ye go in the waye of vnderstondinge.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wyse men, shal be wyse: but who so is a copanyo of fooles, shal be hurte.

²⁷ My sonne, heare nomore the doctrine yt leadeth the awaye from the wordes of vnderstondinge.

¹¹ But now haue I wrytte vnto you, yt ye shulde haue nothinge to do with them: (Namely,) yf there be eny man that is called a brother, and is an whoremonger, or couetous, or a worshipper of ymages, ether a raylar, or a dronkarde, or an extorcioner, with soch shal ye not eate.

¹¹ and haue no fellishippe with ye vnfrutefull workes of darknes, but rather rebuke the.

¹⁰ The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wy?dome, a good vnderstondinge haue all they that do therafter: the prayse of it endureth for euer.

⁵ O that my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statutes.

³⁴ O geue me vnderstondinge, and I shal kepe yi lawe, yee I shal kepe it with my whole herte. ³⁵ Lede me in the path of thy commaundemetes, for that is my desyre,

⁷³ Thy hades haue made me and fashioned me, O geue me vnderstondinge, that I maye lerne thy commaundementes.

⁸ Oh let me heare thy louynge kyndnesse by tymes in the mornynge, for in the is my trust: shewe thou me the waye that I shulde walke in, for I lift vp my soule vnto the.

⁹ Then shalt thou vnderstonde rightuousnesse, iudgment and equite, yee and euery good path.

²⁰ I walke in ye waye of rightuousnes, & in the strete of iudgment.

¹⁸ The laboure of the vngodly prospereth not, but he that soweth rightuosnes, shal receaue a sure rewarde.

²⁰ Lift vp youre eyes, and beholde the, that come from the North: Like a fat flocke shal they fall vpon the.

¹⁹ & wil saye vnto my soule: Soule, thou hast moch goodes layed vp in stoare for many yeares, take now thine ease, eate, drinke, and be mery. ²⁰ But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared?

²² So then as concernynge the conuersacion in tyme past laye from you that olde man which marreth himselfe thorow disceauable lustes:

¹⁷ Wherfore be not ye vnwyse, but vnderstonde what the wil of the LORDE is,

⁹ For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge, ¹⁰ that ye mighte walke worthy off the LORDE, to please him in all thinges, and to be frutefull in all good workes, and growe in the knowlege of God:

¹³ But the euell men and disceauers shal waxe worse and worse, disceauynge and beynge disceaued.

¹⁵ And for so moch as thou hast knowne holy scripture of a childe, the same is able to make ye wyse vnto saluacion thorow the faith in Christ Iesu. ¹⁶ For all scripture geue by inspiracion of God, is profitable to teach, to improue, to amende, and to instructe in righteousnes, ¹⁷ that a man off God maye be perfecte, and prepared vnto all good workes.

¹³ So can no fountayne geue bothe salt water and fresshe also. If eny man be wyse and endued with learnynge amonge you, let him shewe the workes of his good couersacion in meknes that is coupled with wissdome.

¹⁶ How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?

⁷ where is there soch one as Iob, yt drinketh vp scornefulnes like water? ⁸ which goeth in ye company of wicked doers, & walketh wt vngodly me? ⁹ For he saieth: Though a ma be good, yet is he naught before God.

²² O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege?

⁴ So shalt thou fynde fauor and good vnderstondinge in ye sight of God and men.

³⁵ For who so fyndeth me, fyndeth life, and shal optayne fauoure of the LORDE.

²³ A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

² A good man is acceptable vnto the LORDE, but ye wicked wyl he condempne.

¹⁵ Good vnderstondinge geueth fauoure, but harde is the waye of the despysers.

¹⁸ Like as one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes out of a preuy place, euen so doth a dyssembler with his neghboure, ¹⁹ And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.

²⁰ Soch is the waye also of a wyfe yt breaketh wedlocke, which wypeth hir mouth like as wha she hath eate, & sayeth: As for me, I haue done no harme.

¹⁷ For the kyngdome of God is not meate and drynke, but righteousnes, & peace, and ioye in the holy goost. ¹⁸ He that in these thinges serueth Christ, pleaseth God, & is comended of me.

¹⁸ how that they tolde you yt their shulde be begylers in the last tyme, which shulde walke after their awne vngodly lustes.

²¹ And they sayde one to another: This haue we deserued against oure brother, in that we sawe the anguysh of his soule, whan he besought vs, and we wolde not heare him: therfore cometh now this trouble vpon vs.

¹⁰ And she was full of heuynes in hir herte, and prayed vnto the LORDE, and wepte,

²⁷ But whan she came to the man of God vpon ye mount, she helde him by his fete. And Gehasi stepte to her, to put her awaye. But ye man of God sayde: Let her alone, for hir soule is in heuynes, and the LORDE hath hyd it fro me, and not shewed it me.

² O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces: ³ for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull. ⁴ For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.

¹¹ Therfore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my sprete, in ye bytternesse of my mynde will I talke.

¹⁸ He will not let my sprete be in rest, but fylleth me wt bytternesse.

¹ it greueth my soule to lyue. Neuerthelesse, now will I put forth my wordes: I wil speake out of the very heuynesse off my soule,

¹⁴ The secrete of the LORDE is amonge them that feare him, and he sheweth them his couenaunt.

¹³ A mery herte maketh a chearfull countenaunce, but an vnquyet mynde maketh it heuy.

¹⁴ A good stomacke dryueth awaye a mas disease, but wha ye sprete is vexed, who maye abyde it?

¹⁴ Now when the sprete toke me vp, and caried me awaye, I wente with an heuy and a soroufull mynde, but the honde off ye LORDE comforted me right soone.

³³ And he toke with him Peter & Iames, & Ihon, and begane to waxe fearefull, & to be in an agonye, ³⁴ & sayde vnto the: My soule is heuy eue vnto ye death: tary ye here and watch.

²⁷ Now is my soule heuy, and what shal I saye? Father, helpe me out of this houre. But therfore am I come in to this houre.

¹⁸ I wil not leaue you cofortles, I come vnto you.

²³ Iesus answered, and sayde vnto him: He that loueth me, wyl kepe my worde, and my father wyl loue him: and we wyl come vnto him, and wyll make oure dwellynge with him.

⁷ And ye peace of God, which passeth all vnderstodinge, kepe youre hertes and myndes in Christ Iesu.

⁸ whom ye haue not sene, and yet loue him: in whom now ye beleue, though ye se him not. Euen so shal ye reioyce also with vnoutspeakable and glorious ioye,

¹⁷ Let him yt hath eares, heare, what the sprete saith vnto the cogregacions: To him that ouercommeth, wil I geue to eate mana that is hyd, and wil geue him a whyte stone, & in the stone a newe name wrytte, which no man knoweth, sauinge he that receaueth it.

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?

¹⁵ He leeneth him vpo his house, but he shal not stonde: he holdeth him fast by it, yet shal he not endure.

³⁴ For the congregacion of Ypocrites is vnfrutefull, & the fyre shal consume the houses of soch, as are gredy to receaue giftes.

¹⁴ All his comforte and hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very fearfulnesse shall brynge him to the kynge. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion.

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

²⁶ There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heauen shall declare his wickednesse, & the earth shal take parte agaynst him. ²⁸ The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken awaye and perish, in the daye of the LORDES wrath.

²⁸ For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly:

¹³ sayege: This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God, & the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of ye Allmightie. ¹⁴ Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred. ¹⁵ Loke whom he leaueth behinde him, they shal dye & be buried, & no man shall haue pite of his wyddowes. ¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money. ¹⁸ His house shal endure as the moth, & as a bothe that the watch man maketh. ¹⁹ When the rich man dyeth, he carieth nothinge with him: he is gone in ye twincklynge of an eye. ²⁰ Destruccion taketh holde vpo him as a water floude, & ye tepest stealeth him awaye in the night season. ²¹ A vehement wynde carieth him hence, & departeth: a storme plucketh him out of his place. ²² It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof. ²³ Than clappe me their hodes at him, yee and ieast of him, whe they loke vpon his place.

² His sede shall be mightie vpon earth, the generacion of the faithfull shalbe blessed. ³ Riches & pleteousnesse shalbe in his house, & his rightuousnes endureth for euer.

³ Thy wife shalbe as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house.

³³ The curse of the LORDE is in the house of the vngodly, but he blesseth the dwellinges of the righteous.

²⁸ He that trusteth in his riches, shal haue a fall, but ye rightuous shal florish as the grene leaf.

⁷ Or euer thou canst turne the aboute, the vngodly shal be ouerthrowne, but the house of the righteous shal stode.

¹² The rightuous enfourmeth the house of the vngodly, but ye vngodly go on still after their owne wickednesse.

²⁰ In a wyse mans house there is greate treasure and plenteousnesse, but a foolish body spendeth vp all.

¹¹ The LORDE shal euer be thy gyde, and satisfie the desyre of thine hert, and fyl yi bones with marry. Thou shalt be like a freshwatred garden, and like the founteyne of water, that neuer leaueth runnynge. ¹² Then the places that haue euer bene waist, shalbe buylded of the: there shalt thou laye a foundacion for many kynreds. Thou shalt be called the maker vp of hedges, and ye buylder agayne of ye waye of the Sabbath.

⁴ I wil bringe it forth (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) so yt it shal come to the house of the thefe, & to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: & shal remayne in his house, & cosume it, with the tymbre & stones therof.

²⁶ And who soeuer heareth of me these sayinges, & doth the not, shalbe lyckened vnto a folysh ma, which buylt his housse apon the sonde: ²⁷ Now whan abudaunce of rayne desceded, & the wyndes blewe, & bet vpon yt housse, it fell, and great was the fall of it.

¹⁵ Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

²⁵ There is a waye yt men thinke to be right, but the ende therof leadeth vnto death.

¹² The generacion that thynke them selues cleane, shal not be clensed from their fylthynesse.

¹³ Enter in at the strayte gate: for wyde is the gate, and broade is the waye, that leadeth to destruccion: & many there be, which go in therat. ¹⁴ But strayte is the gate, and narowe ys the waye, which leadeth vnto lyfe, and fewe there be that fynde it.

²⁴ Stryue ye to entre in at the strayte gate, for many (I saye vnto you) shal seke to come in, and shal not be able.

²¹ What frute had ye at that tyme in those thinges, wherof ye are now ashamed? For the ende of soch thinges is death.

³ But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.

⁶ (Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue.

²² And se that ye be doers of ye worde & not heares only, deceauinge youre awne selues.

⁴ But at ye last she is as bitter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde.

² in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou?

¹⁰ & loke what so euer myne eyes desyred, I let them haue it: & wherin so euer my herte delyted or had eny pleasure, I with helde it not fro it. Thus my hert reioysed in all yt I dyd, and this I toke for the porcion of all my trauayle. ¹¹ But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.

⁵ It is better to geue eare to the chastenynge of a wyse man, then to heare the songe of fooles. ⁶ For the laughinge of fooles is like ye crackynge of thornes vnder a pott. And yt is but a vayne thinge.

⁹ Be glad then (O thou yonge man) in thy youth, and lat thine hert be mery in thy yonge dayes: folowe the wayes of thine owne hert, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shal bringe the in to iudgment for all these thinges.

²⁵ But Abraha saide: Remebre sonne, yt thou hast receaued good in yi life, & contrary wyse Lazarus receaued euell. But now is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

⁹ Suffre affliccions: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge, and youre ioye to heuynes.

⁷ And as moche as she gloryfied her selfe and lyued wantanly, so moch poure ye in for her of punysshmet, and sorowe, for she sayeth in her herte: I syt beinge a quene, and am no wyddowe, and shall se no sorowe. ⁸ Therfore shal her plages come at one daye, death, and sorowe, and honger, and she shalbe bret with fyre: for stronge is the LORDE God which shal iudge her.

³¹ Therfore shal they eate ye frutes of their owne waye, and be fylled wt their owne councels: ³² for ye turnynge awaye of ye vnwyse shal slaye the, & ye prosperi of fooles shalbe their owne destruccio.

¹⁴ Euery man shal enioye good acordinge to the innocency of his mouth, and after the workes of his hades shal he be rewarded.

¹⁰ The herte of him that hath vnderstondinge wil nether dispare for eny sorow, ner be to presumptuous for eny sodane ioye.

¹⁹ Thine owne wickednesse shal reproue the, and thy turnynge awaye shal condemne the: that thou mayest knowe and vnderstonde, how euel and hurtful a thinge it is, yt thou hast forsaken the LORDE thy God, and not feared him, saieth the LORDE God of hoostes.

⁵ Wherfore then is this people and Ierusalem gone so farre backe, that they turne not againe? They are euer the longer the more obstinate, and will not be conuerted.

⁵ Thus saieth the LORDE: Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, ad that taketh flesh for his arme: and he, whose herte departeth from ye LORDE.

³¹ Therfore wil I poure out my cruell displeasure vpon them, and burne them in the fyre of my wrath: their owne wayes will I recompence vpo their heades, saieth the LORDE God.

¹⁶ For Israel is gone backe, like a waton cowe. The LORDE therfore shal make hir fede, as ye labe yt goeth astraye.

⁶ which starte a backe from ye LORDE, and nether seke after the LORDE, ner regarde him.

¹⁴ But whosoeuer shal drynke of the water that I shal geue him, shal neuer be more a thyrst: but the water that I shal geue him, shalbe in him a well of water, which spryngeth vp in to euerlastinge life.

¹² For oure reioysinge is this, euen the testimony of oure conscience, that in synglenes & godly purenesse, not in fleshlye wyssdome, but in the grace of God, we haue had oure conuersacion in the worlde, but most of all with you.

⁴ Let euery man proue his owne worke, and the shal he haue reioysinge in his awne selfe, and not in another.

⁸ He that soweth vpon the flesh, shal of the flesh reape destruccion: But he that soweth vpon ye sprete, shal of the sprete reape life euerlastinge.

¹² Take hede brethren, that there be not in eny of you an euell hert of vnbeleue, to departe from the lyuynge God:

²⁰ For yf they (after they haue escaped from the fylthynes of the worlde, thorow the knowlege of ye LORDE and Sauioure Iesus Christ) are yet tangled agayne therin and ouercome, then is the latter ende worse vnto them then the begynnynge. ²¹ For it had bene better for them, not to haue knowne the waye of righteousnes, then after they haue knowne it, to turne from the holy commaundemet, that was geuen vnto them. ²² It is happened vnto them acordynge vnto the true prouerbe: ye dogg is turned to his vomyte agayne: and ye sowe that was wasshed, vnto hir walowynge in the myre.

²⁶ Podre the path of thy fete, so shal all yi wayes be sure.

⁸ The wy?dome of him that hath vnderstondinge is, to take hede vnto his waye, but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth.

³ A wyse man seyth the plage and hydeth himself, but the foolish go on still and are punyshed.

¹² A wyse man seynge the plage wyl hyde him self, as for fooles they go on still, and suffer harme.

¹³ Therfore the wyse must now be fayne to holde his tuge, so wicked a tyme is it.

⁷ which was with Sergius Paulus the ruler of the countre, a ma of vnderstondinge. The same called Barnabas and Saul vnto him, and desyred to heare ye worde of God.

¹⁸ For they yt are soch, serue not the LORDE Iesu Christ, but their awne belly: & thorow swete preachinges & flateringe wordes, they disceaue ye hertes of ye innocentes. ¹⁹ For youre obedience is published amonge all men, therfore am I glad of you.But yet I wolde haue you wyse in that which is good, & symple in euell.

¹⁴ that we be nomore children, waueringe & caried aboute with euery wynde of doctryne thorow the wickednes of men and craftynes, wherby they laye awayte for vs to disceaue vs.

¹ Dearly beleued, beleue not ye euery sprete, but proue the spretes, whether they be of God. For many false prophetes are gone out in to the worlde.

⁹ Esau sayde: I haue ynough my brother, kepe that thou hast.

¹⁸ Vpon the thirde daye he sayde vnto the: Yf ye wil lyue, the do thus, for I feare God:

² The sent Iesabel a messaunger vnto Elias, sayenge: The goddes do this & that vnto me, yf I tomorow aboute this tyme, make not thy soule as one of these.

¹⁰ The sent Benadab vnto him sayege: The goddes do this and yt vnto me, yf the dust of Samaria shalbe ynough, for euery one of my people to brynge me an handfull therof. ¹¹ But ye kynge of Israel answered, & sayde: Tell him, Let not him yt putteth on ye harnes, make his boast like him yt hath put it of

¹⁸ He sayde: Take them alyue, whether they be come forth for peace, or for warre.

¹⁵ For the olde Debytes that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had take of the bred and wyne, and fortye Sycles of syluer: Yee and their seruauntes had oppressed the people. But so dyd not I, and that because of the feare of God.

²¹ Dyd I euer lyft vp my honde to hurte the fatherlesse? Yee in the gate where I sawe my self to be in auctorite: ²² The let myne arme fall fro my shulder, & myne arme holes be broken from the ioyntes. ²³ For I haue euer feared ye vengeaunce & punyshmet of God, & knew very well, yt I was not able to beare his burthe.

¹⁴ Let him eschue euell, and do good: Let him seke peace & ensue it.

¹²⁰ My flesh trebleth for feare of the, and I am afrayed of thy iudgmetes.

⁷ Be not wyse in thine owne conceate, but feare ye LORDE and departe from euell:

²² Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed)

⁶ With louynge mercy & faithfulnesse synnes be forgeuen, and who so feareth ye LORDE eschueth euell.

¹⁴ Well is him that stodeth allwaye in awe: as for him that hardeneth his herte, he shal fall in to mischefe.

⁹ Yf a wyse man go to lawe with a foole (whether he deale with him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest.

¹³ The begynnynge of his talkynge is foolishnes, and the last worde of his mouth is greate madnesse.

¹⁷ This Herode had sent forth, and taken Ihon, and put him in preson, because of Herodias his brother Philippes wife, for he had maried her. ¹⁸ Neuertheles Ihon sayde vnto Herode It is not laufull for the to haue yi brothers wife. ¹⁹ But Herodias layed wayte for him, and wolde haue slayne him, and coude not.

²⁴ She wente forth, and sayde vnto hir mother: what shal I axe? She sayde: Ihon baptistes heade. ²⁵ And immediatly she wete in to the kinge with haist, and sayde: I will that thou geue me straight waye in a platter the heed of Ihon the baptist.

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharises yt were with him, herde this, and sayde vnto him: Are we then blynde also?

²² Abstayne fro all suspicious thinges.

⁶ that he shulde laye hondes onely on Mardocheus: for they had shewed him ye people of Mardocheus, but he sought to destroye the people of Mardocheus, and all the people that were in the whole empyre of Ahasuerus.

⁵ The kynge Ahasuerus spake & saide vnto quene Hester: What is he that? Or where is he yt darre presume in his mynde to do soch a thinge after that maner? ⁶ Hester sayde: The enemye and aduersary is this wicked Aman. As for Ama, he was exceadingly afraied before ye kynge & ye quene.

¹⁸ an herte yt goeth aboute wt wicked ymaginacios, fete that be swift in rennynge to do myschefe,

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

²⁹ Pacience is a token of wi?dome, but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse.

¹⁸ An angrie man stereth vp strife, but he yt is pacient stilleth discorde.

³² A pacient man is better then one that is stroge: and he that can rule him selfe, is more worth then he yt wynneth a cite.

²⁴ Make no fredshipe with an angrie wylfull man, and kepe no company wt ye furious:

²² An angrie man stereth vp strife, and he that beareth euell wyll in his mynde, doth moch euell.

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

⁷ These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous, these be his shameful councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes, yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore.

²⁶ For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them. ²⁷ And like as a net is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that, which they haue gotten with falsede and disceate. Herof cometh their greate substaunce and riches, ²⁸ herof are they fat and welthy, and are runne awaye fro me with shamefull blasphemies. They ministre not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesses cause, they iudge not the poore acordinge to equite. ²⁹ Shulde I not punysh these thinges, saieth the LORDE? Shulde I not be avenged of all soch people, as these be?

¹⁹ Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

³⁵ The wyse shal haue honor in possession, but shame is the promocio that fooles shal haue.

⁷ The chefe poynte of wy?dome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wy?dome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge. ⁸ Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure. ⁹ She shal make the a gracious heade, and garnish the with ye crowne of glory.

²⁹ Who so maketh disquyetnesse in his owne house, he shal haue wynde for his heretage, and the foole shal be seruaunt to the wyse. ³⁰ The frute of the rightuous is as the tre of life, a wyse man also wynneth mens soules.

¹⁹ O LORDE, my strength, my power, and refuge in tyme off trouble. The Gentiles shall come vnto the from the endes off the worlde, and saye: Verely oure fathers haue cleued vnto lies, their Idols are but vayne and vnprofitable.

¹⁷ but what so euer goeth out of oure owne mouth, that wil we do: We will do sacrifice, and offre oblacions vnto the Quene off heauen: like as we and or forefathers, oure kynges and oure heades haue done in the cities off Iuda, and in the stretes and feldes of Ierusalem. For then had we plenteousnesse off vytales, then were we in prosperite, and no my?fortune came vpon vs.

³ The wyse (soch as haue taught other) shal glister, as the shyninge of heauen: and those that haue instructe the multitude vnto godlynesse, shalbe as the starres, worlde without ende.

²⁹ Wo vnto you scrybes and Pharises, ye ypocrites, which buylde the tombes of the prophetes, and garnysh the sepulcres of the righteous, ³⁰ and saye: Yf we had bene in oure fathers tyme, we wolde not haue bene partakers with them in the bloude of the prophetes. ³¹ Therfore ye be wytnesses vnto youre selues, that ye are the children of them, which slew the prophetes. ³² Go to, fulfyll ye also the measure of youre fathers.

⁸ From hence forth there is layed vp for me a crowne of righteousnes, which the LORDE the righteous iudge shal geue me in yt daye: Howbeit not vnto me onely, but vnto all them that loue his comynge.

¹⁸ and knowe, that ye were not redemed wt corruptible syluer and golde, from youre vayne conuersacion (which ye receaued by the tradicios of the fathers)

⁴ & whan the chefe shepherde shal appeare, ye shal receaue the vncorruptible crowne of glory.

⁶ But Ioseph was gouernoure in the lande, and solde corne vnto all the people in the lande. Now wha his brethre came to him, they fell downe to the grounde before him vpon their faces.

²⁸ They answered: Thy seruaunt oure father is in good health, and is yet alyue. And they bowed them selues, and fell downe before him.

⁸ The called Pharao for Moses & Aaron, & sayde: Praye the LORDE for me, yt he maye take awaye the frogges fro me & fro my people, & I will let ye people go, yt they maye do sacrifice vnto the LORDE.

²⁷ Then sent Pharao & called for Moses & Aaron, & sayde vnto them: Now haue I synned, ye LORDE is righteous, but I & my people are vngodly. ²⁸ Yet praye ye vnto the LORDE, that the thonder & hayle of God maye ceasse, then wyl I let you go, that ye shal tary here no longer.

⁸ The shal all these thy seruauntes come downe vnto me, & fal at my fote, & saye: Get the out, thou & all the people that are vnder the. After that wyl I departe. And he wete fro Pharao wt a wroth full displeasure.

³⁶ And who so euer remayneth of thy house, shall come and worshipe him for a syluer peny and for a pece of bred, and shall saye: I praye the leaue me to one prestes parte, that I maye eate a morsell of bred.

¹² Iosaphat sayde: The worde of ye LORDE is with him. So the kynge of Israel & Iosaphat, and ye kynge of Edom wente downe vnto him.

⁷ And the kynge arose fro the bancket & fro ye wyne in his displeasure, and wente in to the palace garden. And Aman stode vp, and besoughte quene Hester for his life: for he sawe yt there was a mischauce prepared for him of the kynge allready. ⁸ And whan the kynge came agayne out of the palace garden in to ye parler where they had eaten, Aman had layed him vpon the bed that Hester sat vpon. Then saide the kinge: wyl he force the quene also besyde me in the house? As soone as that worde wente out of the kynges mouth, they couered Amans face.

¹⁴ Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe, death shal gnawe vpon them, & the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the mornynge by tymes: their stregth shal consume, & hell shalbe their dwellinge.

²⁹ Who so maketh disquyetnesse in his owne house, he shal haue wynde for his heretage, and the foole shal be seruaunt to the wyse.

¹⁴ Morouer those shal come knelinge vnto the, yt haue vexed the: & all they that despised ye, shal fall downe at yi fote. Thou shalt be called the cite of the LORDE, the holy Sion of Israel.

⁹ I will beare the punishment of the LORDE (for why, I haue offended him) till he syt in iudgment vpon my cause, and se that I haue right. He wil bringe me forth to the light, and I shal se his rightuosnesse. ¹⁰ She that is myne enemy shall loke vpon it, & be confounded, which now saieth: Where is thy LORDE God? Myne eyes shal beholde her, when she shalbe troden downe, as the claye in the stretes.

¹⁶ This shal the Heithen se, and be a?shamed for all their power: so that they shal laye their honde vpon their mouth, and stoppe their eares. ¹⁷ They shal licke the dust like a serpent, & as the wormes of the earth, yt tremble in their holes. They shalbe afrayed of the LORDE oure God, & they shal feare ye.

³ Ye shal treade downe ye vngodly: for they shalbe like the asshes vnder the soles of youre fete, in the daye yt I shal make, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.

³⁹ and came and besoughte them, and prayed the to departe out of the cite.

⁹ Beholde, I shal geue some of the congregacion of Sathan, which call them selues Iewes and are not, but do lye: Beholde: I wil make them, that they shal come & worshippe before thy fete: and shal knowe that I haue loued the.

² And all the kynges seruauntes that were in the gate, bowed their knees, and dyd reuerence vnto Aman: for the kinge had so comaunded. But Mardocheus bowed not the knee, and worshipped him not.

¹⁰ Neuertheles he refrained himselfe: and wha he came home, he sent, and called for his fredes, and Seres his wyfe, ¹¹ and tolde them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, all together how the kynge had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken aboue the prynces and seruauntes of the kynge.

²¹ Eue so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my mysery, ye are afrayed. ²² Dyd I desyre you, to come hyther? Or, to geue me eny off youre substaunce? ²³ To delyuer me me from the enemies honde, or to saue me from the powers off the mightie?

¹³ He hath put my brethren farre awaye fro me, and soch as were of myne acquauntaunce, are become straugers vnto me. ¹⁴ Myne owne kyn?folkes haue forsaken me, and my frendes haue put me out of remembraunce.

¹⁰ they abhorre me, they fle farre fro me & stayne my face wt spetle.

¹⁵ The rich mas goodes are his stroge holde, but pouerte oppresseth the poore.

⁴ Riches make many frendes, but the poore is forsake of his owne frendes.

⁶ The multitude hageth vpo greate men, & euery man fauoureth him that geueth rewardes. ⁷ As for the poore, he is hated amonge all his brethren: yee his owne frendes forsake him, & he that geueth credece vnto wordes, getteth nothinge.

¹³ Dyd I euer thynke scorne to do right vnto my seruautes and maydens, when they had eny matter agaynst me? ¹⁴ But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him? ¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies?

⁵ loke vnto the heaue, & beholde it: cosidre ye cloudes, how they are hyer then thou. ⁶ Yf thou synnest, what dost thou vnto him? Yf thine offences be many, how gettest thou his fauoure?

²⁴ For he hath not despysed ner abhorred the myserable estate of the poore: he hath not hyd his face fro me, but whe I called vnto him, he herde me.

¹ Blessed is he, yt considreth ye poore: ye LORDE shal delyuer him in the tyme of trouble. ² The LORDE shal preserue him, and kepe him alyue: he shal make him to prospere vpon earth, and shal not delyuer him into ye wil of his enemies.

⁵ Wel is him that is mercifull, & lendeth gladly, & podreth his wordes wt discrecion.

⁹ He hath sparsed abrode, & geue to the poore, his rightuousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted wt honor.

²⁴ Some man geueth out his goodes, and is the richer, but ye nygarde (hauynge ynough) wil departe from nothinge, and yet is euer in pouerte. ²⁵ He that is lyberall in geuynge, shal haue plenty: and he that watereth, shalbe watered also himself.

³¹ He that doth a poore man wroge, blasphemeth his maker: but who so hath pitie of the poore, doth honoure vnto God.

⁵ Who so laugheth ye poore to scorne, blasphemeth his maker: and he yt is glad of another mans hurte, shal not be vnpunyshed.

³ Where vngodlynes is, there is also di?dayne: & so there foloweth shame & dishonor.

¹⁷ He yt hath pitie vpon the poore, ledeth vnto ye LORDE: & loke what he layeth out, it shalbe payed him agayne.

²⁷ He that geueth vnto the poore, shal not wante: but he that turneth awaye his eyes from soch as be in necessite, shall suffre greate pouerte himself.

¹ Sende thy vytayles ouer the waters, and so shalt thou fynde the after many yeares. ² Geue it awaye amonge seuen or eight, for thou knowest not what misery shal come vpo earth.

⁷ It pleaseth not me, till thou deale thy bred to the hongrie, & brynge the poore fatherlesse home in to thy house, when thou seist the naked that thou couer him, and hyde not thy face fro thine owne flesh. ⁸ Then shal thy light breake forth as ye mornynge, and thy health florish right shortly: thy rightuousnesse shal go before the, and ye glory of the LORDE shal embrace the. ⁹ Then yf thou callest, the LORDE shal answere the: yf thou criest, he shal saye: here I am. Yee yf thou layest awaye thy burthens, and holdest thy fyngers, and ceasest from blasphemous talkinge, ¹⁰ yf thou hast compassion vpon the hongrie, and refre?shest ye troubled soule: Then shal thy light springe out in the darknesse, and thy darknesse shalbe as the noone daye.

²⁷ Wherfore (o kinge) be contet with my councel, that thou mayest lowse thy synnes with rightuousnesse, ad thyne offences with mercy to poore people: for soch thinges shall prolonge thy peace.

³⁴ Then shal the kynge saye vnto them that shalbe on his right honde: Come hither ye blessed of my father, inheret ye ye kingdome, which is prepared for you from the begynnynge of the worlde. ³⁵ For I was hongrie, and ye gaue me meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me drynke: I was harbourlesse, and ye lodged me: ³⁶ I was naked, & ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye vysited me: I was in preson, and ye came vnto me. ³⁷ Then shal the righteous answere him, & saye: LORDE, whe sawe we the hogrie, and fed the? Or thirstie, and gaue the drynke? ³⁸ When sawe we the herbourlesse, and lodged the? Or naked, and clothed ye? ³⁹ Or whe sawe we ye sicke or in preson, and came vnto the? ⁴⁰ And the kynge shal answer and saye vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you: Loke what ye haue done vnto one of the least of these my brethren, the same haue ye done vnto me. ⁴¹ Then shal he saye also vnto them that shalbe on the left hande: Departe fro me ye cursed in to the euerlastinge fyre, which is prepared for the deuell and his angels. ⁴² For I was hogrie, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstye, and ye gaue me no drynke: ⁴³ I was herbourlesse, and ye lodged me not: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sicke and in preson, and ye vysited me not. ⁴⁴ Then shal they also answere hi, and saye: LORDE, when sawe we the hogrie, or thyrstie, or herbourlesse, or naked, or sicke, or in preson, and haue not mynistred vnto the? ⁴⁵ The shal he answere them, and saye: Verely I saye vnto you: Loke what ye haue not done vnto one of the leest of these, the same haue ye not done vnto me. ⁴⁶ And these shal go in to euerlastinge payne, but the righteous in to euerlastinge life.

³⁰ Who so euer axeth of the, geue him: and who so taketh awaye thyne, axe it not agayne. ³¹ And as ye wolde that men shulde do vnto you, euen so do ye vnto them likewyse. ³² And yf ye loue them that loue you, what thake haue ye therfore? For synners also loue their louers. ³³ And yf ye do good for youre good doers, what thanke haue ye therfore? For synners also do euen the same. ³⁴ And yf ye lende vnto them, of who ye hope to receaue what thake haue ye ther fore? For synners also lende vnto synners, that they maye receaue as moch agayne. ³⁵ But rather loue ye yor enemies, do good, and lende, lokynge for nothinge therof agayne: so shal yor rewarde be greate, and ye shalbe the children of the Hyest, for he is kynde, euen to the vnthankfull and to the euell. ³⁶ Be ye therfore mercifull, as youre father also is mercifull.

⁹ And vnto certayne which trusted in the selues, that they were perfecte, and despysed other,he spake this symilitude:

³⁵ I haue shewed you all thinges, how that so labouringe ye oughte to receaue the weake, and to remembre the worde of the LORDE, how that he sayde: It is more blessed to geue, then to receaue.

¹² that ye faynte not, but folowe them which thorow faith and paciece inheret the promyses.

⁵ Harken my deare beloued brethre. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, which are ryche in faith, and heyres of the kyngdom which he promysed to the that loue him? ⁶ But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges?

¹⁴ What a vayleth it my brethre, though a man saye he hath faith, when he hath no dedes? Can faith saue him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of dayly fode, ¹⁶ & one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace, God sende you warmnes and fode: notwithstodinge ye geue them not tho thinges which are nedfull to the body: what helpeth it them?

¹⁷ But he yt hath this worldes good, & seyth his brother haue nede, and shutteth vp his hert fro him, how dwelleth the loue of God in him? ¹⁸ My litle children, let vs not loue with worde nether with tonge, but with ye dede, and with the trueth. ¹⁹ Hereby knowe we, that we are of the verite, and can quyete oure hertes before him. ²⁰ But yf oure hert condemne vs, God is greater the oure hert, and knoweth all thinges. ²¹ Dearly beloued, yf oure hert condemne vs not, then haue we a fre boldnes to God warde. ²² And what so euer we axe, we shal receaue it: because we kepe his comaundemetes, and do those thinges, which are pleasaunt in his sighte.

²⁷ and sayde: Praysed be the LORDE the God of my master Abraham, which hath not withdrawen his mercy and his trueth fro my master, for the LORDE hath brought me the waye to my masters brothers house.

⁸ the LORDE sayde vnto Dauid my father: Where as thou wast mynded to buylde an house vnto my name, thou hast done well:

¹⁰ All the wayes of the LORDE are very mercy & faithfulnesse, vnto soch as kepe his testament and couenaunt.

⁷ That he maye dwell before God for euer: Oh let thy louynge mercy & faithfulnes preserue him.

²⁹ where as thou hast now to geue him. Intende no hurte vnto thy neghboure, seynge he hopeth to dwell in rest by the.

¹⁷ An vnpacient man handeleth foolishly, but he that is well aduysed, doth other wayes.

²² It is a mans worshipe to do good, & better it is to be a poore ma, then a dyssembler.

⁷ These are the perlous weapons of the cuvetous, these be his shameful councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatful workes, yee euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore. ⁸ But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges, and commeth vp with honesty.

⁷ Blessed are the mercifull: for they shall obteyne mercy.

¹⁷ For the lawe was geuen by Moses, grace and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

¹⁰ He yt wynketh with his eye, wil do some harme: but he that hath a foolish mouth, shalbe beaten.

²⁴ A diliget hande shal beare rule, but the ydle shal be vnder tribute.

¹⁹ He yt tylleth his londe, shal haue plenteousnesse of bred: but he that foloweth ydilnesse, shal haue pouerte ynough.

³ For where moch carefulnesse is, there are many dreames: & where many wordes are, there men maye heare fooles.

²⁷ Laboure not for the meate which perisheth but yt endureth vnto euerlastinge life, which the sonne of ma shal geue you: For him hath God the father sealed.

¹⁰ And whan we were wt you, this we warned you of, that yf there were eny which wolde not worke, ye same shulde not eate. ¹¹ For we heare saye, that there are some which walke amonge you inordinatly, and worke not at all, but are busy bodies. ¹² But them that are soche, we commaunde and exhorte by oure LORDE Iesus Christ, that they worke with quyetnes, and eate their awne bred.

¹³ Besydes this they are ydell, and lerne to runne aboute fro house to house. Not onely are they ydell, but also tryflinge & busybodies, speakynge thinges which are not comly.

¹⁰ For God is not vnrighteous, that he shulde forget youre worke and laboure of loue, which ye shewed in his name, whan ye mynistred vnto the sayntes, and yet mynister. ¹¹ Yee and we desyre, that euery one of you shewe the same diligence, to the stablyshinge of hope euen vnto the ende,

¹⁰ For it shal be sene, yt soch wyse me shal dye & perishe together, as well as the ignoraunt and foolish, & leaue their goodes for other. ¹¹ Loke what is in their houses, it cotinueth still: their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another, & are called after their owne names vpon the earth, ¹² Neuerthelesse ma abydeth not insoch honor, but is copared vnto ye brute beastes, & becometh like vnto the. ¹³ This waie of theirs is very foolishnesse, & yet their posterite prayse it wt their mouth.

²² Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

¹¹ Wy?dome is better then riches, yee moch more worth then the eye sight. ¹² For wy?dome defendeth as well as moneye, and the excellent knowlege and wy?dome geueth life vnto him that hath it in possession.

⁶ Let treuth and faithfulnesse be in hir tyme: power, health, wisdome, knowlege & the feare of God are hir treasure.

⁹ And I saye vnto you: Make you frendes with the vnrighteous Mammon, yt whan ye shal haue nede, they maye receaue you in to euerlastinge Tabernacles.

¹⁹ There was a certayne riche man, which clothed him self with purple and costly lynnen, and fared deliciously euery daye. ²⁰ And there was a poore man named Lazarus which laye at his gate full of sores, ²¹ and desyred to be fylled with the crommes, that fell from the riche mans table. Yet came the dogges, and licked his sores. ²² But it fortuned, that the poore man dyed, and was caried of the angels in to Abrahams bosome. The riche man dyed also, and was buried. ²³ Now whan he was in the hell, he lift vp his eyes in the payne, and sawe Abraham afarre of, and Lazarus in his bosome: ²⁴ and he cried, and sayde: Father Abraham, haue mercy vpon me, and sende Lazarus, that he maye dyppe the typpe of his fynger in water, & coole my tonge, for I am tormeted in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraha saide: Remebre sonne, yt thou hast receaued good in yi life, & contrary wyse Lazarus receaued euell. But now is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

⁵ A faithfull wytnesse wyl not dyssemble, but a false recorde wil make a lye.

²¹ And haue testifyed both vnto the Iewes & to the Grekes the repentaunce towarde God, and faith towarde oure LORDE Iesus.

²⁶ Wherfore I take you to recorde this daye, that I am pure from the bloude of all men: ²⁷ For I haue kepte nothinge backe, but haue shewed you all the councell off God.

¹⁶ But ryse vp, and stonde vpon thy fete, for therfore haue I appeared vnto the, that I mighte ordeyne the to be a mynister and witnesse of it that thou hast sene, and that I wyll yet cause to appeare vnto the. ¹⁷ And I wil delyuer the from the people, and from the Heythen, amonge who I wil now sende the, ¹⁸ to ope their eyes, that they maye turne from the darknesse vnto the lighte, and from the power of ye deuell vnto God, that they maye receaue forgeuenesse of synnes, and the enheritaunce with them that are sanctified by faith in me. ¹⁹ Wherfore (O kynge Agrippa) I was not faithlesse vnto ye heauely vision, ²⁰ but shewed it first vnto them at Damascon, and at Ierusale, and in all the coastes of Iewry, and to the Heythen, that they shulde do pennaunce, and turne vnto God, and to do the righte workes of pennaunce.

¹ The sprete speaketh euydently, that in ye latter tymes some shal departe from the faith, and shal geue hede vnto spretes of erroure, and deuelish doctrynes, of them ² which speake false thorow ypocrysie, and haue their coscience marked with an whote yron, ³ forbyddinge to mary, and comaundynge to abstayne fro the meates, which God hath created to be receaued wt geuynge thankes of them which beleue and knowe the trueth.

³ This first vnderstonde, that in the last dayes there shal come mockers, which wyll walke after their awne lustes,

⁴² & yf the God of my father the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isaac had not bene on my syde, thou haddest latten me go awaye emptye. But God hath loked vpon myne aduersite and laboure, and rebuked the yesterdaye.

⁷ The angell of the LORDE pitcheth his tente rounde aboute them that feare him, and delyuereth them. ⁸ O taist and se how frendly the LORDE is, blessed is the man yt trusteth in him. ⁹ O feare the LORDE, ye yt be his sayntes: for they that feare him, lacke nothinge. ¹⁰ The rich shal want and suffre hunger, but they which seke the LORDE, shal wat no maner of thinge, that is good. ¹¹ Come hither (o ye children) herken vnto me, I wil teach you the feare of the LORDE.

⁶ For he shal neuer be moued, the rightuous shal be had in an euerlastinge remembraunce. ⁷ He wil not be afrayed for eny euell tydinges, his herte stondeth fast, & beleueth in ye LORDE. ⁸ His herte is stablished, he wil not shrencke, vntill he se his desyre vpon his enemies.

¹³ Yee he blesseth all them that feare the LORDE, both small & greate. ¹⁴ The LORDE encrease you more & more: you, and youre childre.

⁷ Be not wyse in thine owne conceate, but feare ye LORDE and departe from euell: ⁸ so shal thy nauel be whole, and thy bones stronge.

²⁵ Thou neddest not to be afrayed of eny sodane feare, nether for the violent russhinge in of the vngodly, when it commeth. ²⁶ For the LORDE shal be besyde the, & kepe thy fote yt thou be not taken.

¹⁰ The name of ye LORDE is a stronge castell, ye righteous flyeth vnto it, and shalbe saued.

²³ The feare of the LORDE preserueth the life, yee it geueth pleteousnes, without the visitacio of any plage.

¹⁸ It is good for the to take holde of this, & not to let yt go out of thy hande. For he yt feareth God shal escape them all.

²⁰ So go now my people in to thy chabre, and shut the doore to the, and suffre now ye twicklinge of an eye, till the wrath be ouerpast ²¹ For beholde, the LORDE wil go out of his habitacion, & vyset the wickednes of the that dwell vpon earth. He wil discouer the bloude that she hath deuoured, she shal neuer hyde the, that she hath murthured.

¹¹ And ye LORDE answered me: Lede not I the then vnto good? Come not I to the, when thou art in trouble: and helpe ye, when thine enemie oppresseth the?

³⁹ And I will geue them one herte and one waye, that they maye feare me all the daies of their life, that they and their children after them maye prospere. ⁴⁰ And I will set vp an euerlastinge couenaunt with them, Namely: that I will neuer ceasse to do them good, and that I will put my feare in their hertes, so that they shall not runne awaye fro me.

¹⁶ But they that feare God, saye thus one to another: The LORDE cosidreth and heareth it. Yee it is before him a memoriall boke written for soch as feare the LORDE, and remembre his name. ¹⁷ And in the daye that I wil make (saieth ye LORDE of hoostes) they shalbe myne owne possession: and I will fauoure them, like as a man fauoureth his owne sonne, that doth him seruyce. ¹⁸ Turne you therfore, and considre what difference is betwixte the rightuous and vngodly: betwixte him that serueth God, ad him that serueth him not.

² But vnto you that feare my name, shall the Sone of rightuousnesse aryse, & health shalbe vnder his winges. Ye shal go forth, & multiplie as ye fat calues.

⁵ Yet in my trouble I called vpo the LORDE, & coplayned vnto my God.

¹⁰ Yf wy?dome entre in to thine herte, and yi soule delyte in knowlege: ¹¹ then shal councell preserue the, and vnderstondinge shal kepe the. ¹² That thou mayest be delyuered fro ye euell waye, and from the man yt speaketh frowarde thinges. ¹³ From soch as leaue the hye strete, and walke i ye wayes of darcknesse: ¹⁴ which reioyse in doynge euell, and delyte i wicked thinges: ¹⁵ whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous. ¹⁶ That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne: which geueth swete wordes, ¹⁷ forsaketh the hu?bande of hir youth, and forgetteth the couenaunt of hir God. ¹⁸ For hir house is enclyned vnto death, and hir pathes vnto hell.

¹⁴ The lawe is a wel of life vnto the wyse, that it maye kepe him from the snares of death.

⁵ Speares and snares are in ye waye of the frowarde, but he yt wil kepe his soule, let him fle fro soch.

²⁶ And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett, and hir handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her, but the synner will be taken wt her.

⁶ And he sayde vnto me: it is done I am Alpha and Omega, the begynnynge, and the ende. I wil geue to him that is a thyrst of the well of the water of life fre.

¹² But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew.Therfore had they indignacio at the children of Israel,

²² Then Pharao commauded all his people and sayde: All the sonnes that are borne, cast in to the water, but let all the doughters lyue.

²⁰ As for Iuda and Israel, they were in nombre as the sonde of the see, and ate and dronke, and were mery. ²¹ Thus was Salomo lorde ouer all the kyngdomes (from the water of the londe of the Philistynes, vnto the border of Egipte) which broughte him giftes, and serued him as longe as he lyued.

²⁷ and the childre of Israel mustured, and prouyded them selues with vytailes, and wete to mete them, and pitched their tetes ouer against them, like two litle flockes of goates but the londe was full of the Syrians.

³² At the same time beganne the LORDE to be greued at Israel. For Hasael smote them in all the borders of Israel ³³ from Iordane Eastwarde, and all the londe Gilead of the Gaddites, Rubenites and Manassytes, from Aroer that lyeth on the ryuer by Arnon, and Gilead and Basan.

⁷ For of the people of Ioahas there were no mo lefte, but fyftye horsmen, ten charettes, and ten thousande fote men: for the kynge of Syria had destroyed them, and made them as the dust in the barne.

³ But Moses was a very meke man, aboue all men vpon earth.

⁸ Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure.

¹¹ A wyse man putteth of displeasure, & it is his honor to let some fautes passe.

²⁴ Make no fredshipe with an angrie wylfull man, and kepe no company wt ye furious: ²⁵ lest thou lerne his wayes, and receaue hurte vnto thy soule.

⁸ Be not haistie to go to the lawe, lest happlie thou ordre yi self so at ye last, yt thy neghbor put ye to shame.

²⁸ He that can not rule himself, is like a cite, which is broken downe, and hath no walles.

⁶ in yt a foole sytteth in greate dignite, & the rich are sett downe beneth:

¹⁹ Then was Nabuchodonosor full off indignacion, so that ye countenaunce of his face chaunged vpo Sidrac, Misac & Abdenago. Therfore he charched and commaunded, that the ouen shulde be made seuen tymes hoter, then it was wote to be: ²⁰ and spake vnto the strongest worthies that were in his hooste, for to bynde Sidrac, Misac and Abdenago, and to cast them in to the hote burnynge ouen. ²¹ So these men were bounde in their cotes, hosen, shues with their other garmentes, ad cast in to the hote burnynge ouen: ²² for the kinges commaundement was so strate, and the ouen was exceadynge hote. As for the men that put in Sydrac, Misac and Abdenago, the flame off the fyre destroyed them. ²³ And these thre men Sydrac, Misac and Abdenago fell downe in ye hote burnynge ouen, beinge fast bounde. ²⁴ Then Nabuchodonosor the kynge marueled, and stode vp in all haist: he spake vnto his councel and sayde: dyd not ye cast these thre men bounde in to the fyre? They answered, and sayde vnto the kynge: Yee o kynge. ²⁵ He answered and sayde: lo, for all that, yet do I se foure men goinge lowse in the myddest off the fyre, and nothinge corrupte: and the fourth is like an angel to loke vpon.

¹⁶ Then Herod perceauynge yt he was disceaued of the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth, and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem, and in all the coastes there of, as many as were two yere olde and vnder, accordynge to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men.

²⁹ Take my yock vpon you, and lerne of me, for I am meke and lowlye of hert, & ye shal fynde rest vnto youre soules:

⁴ Loue is pacient & curteous, loue envyeth not, loue doth not frowardly, is not puft vp, dealeth not dishonestly, ⁵ seketh not hir awne, is not prouoked vnto anger, thynketh not euell,

¹⁷ But the wissdom that is fro aboue, is fyrst pure, the peasable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good frutes, without iudgynge, and without simulacion: ¹⁸ yee, and the frute of rightewesnes is sowen in peace, of the that mayntene peace.

² As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt.

¹⁰ The vngodly shal se it, & it shal greue him: he shall gnash wt his teth & consume awaye, & the desyre of the vngodly shal perish.

⁸⁰ O let my herte be vndefyled in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.

⁸ so shal thy nauel be whole, and thy bones stronge.

²³ Kepe thine hert with all diligence, for there vpon hangeth life.

⁴ A stedfast woman is a crowne vnto hir hu?bonde: but she that behaueth herself vnhonestly, is a corrupcion in his bones.

²² A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull mide dryeth vp ye bones.

⁹ And the Patriarkes had indignacion at Ioseph, and solde hi in to Egipte. And God was with him,

²⁹ beynge full of all vnrighteousnes, whordome, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuye, murthur, strife, disceate, euell codicioned whisperers,

⁷ For God hath not geuen vs the sprete of feare, but of power, and of loue, and of right vnderstondynge.

⁵ Ether do ye thinke yt the scripture sayth in vayne. The sprete yt dwelleth in you, lusteth euen contrary to enuie:

¹³ Dyd I euer thynke scorne to do right vnto my seruautes and maydens, when they had eny matter agaynst me? ¹⁴ But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him? ¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies? ¹⁶ When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne?

⁵ Now for the troubles sake off the oppressed, & because of the complaynte of the poore, I wil vp (sayeth the LORDE) I wil helpe the, and set the at rest.

²¹ Who so despyseth his neghbor, doth amysse: but blessed is he that hath pyte of the poore.

² Whether riches or pouerte do mete vs, it commeth all of God.

¹⁶ Who so doth a poore man wronge to increase his owne riches, geueth (comoly) vnto the rich, and at the last commeth to pouerte himself.

²² Se yt thou robbe not ye poore because he is weake, and oppresse not ye simple in iudgment: ²³ for ye LORDE himself wyl defende their cause, and do violence vnto them yt haue vsed violence.

⁸ Yf thou seyst the poore to be oppressed and wrongeously dealt withall, so yt equite & the right of the lawe is wraisted in the londe: maruell not thou at soch iudgmet, for one greate ma kepeth touch with another, and the mightie helpe the selues together.

⁸ For the poore haue ye allwaye with you, but me haue ye not allwaye.

⁷ Now as ye are riche in all poyntes, in faith and in worde, and in knowlege, and in all diligence, and in youre loue towarde vs, euen so se that ye be plenteous also in this benyuolece. ⁸ This I saye not as commaudynge, but seynge, other are so diligent, I proue youre loue also, whether it be perfecte or no. ⁹ For ye knowe the liberalite of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which though he be riche, yet for youre sakes he became poore, yt ye thorow his pouerte mighte be made riche.

¹⁷ But he yt hath this worldes good, & seyth his brother haue nede, and shutteth vp his hert fro him, how dwelleth the loue of God in him? ¹⁸ My litle children, let vs not loue with worde nether with tonge, but with ye dede, and with the trueth. ¹⁹ Hereby knowe we, that we are of the verite, and can quyete oure hertes before him. ²⁰ But yf oure hert condemne vs, God is greater the oure hert, and knoweth all thinges. ²¹ Dearly beloued, yf oure hert condemne vs not, then haue we a fre boldnes to God warde.

²¹ And this comaundement haue we of him, that he which loueth God, shulde loue his brother also.

¹⁸ LORDE I loke for thy saluacion.

¹⁵ Lo, there is nether coforte ner hope for me, yf he wil slaye me. But yf I shewe and reproue myne owne wayes in his sight,

¹⁸ he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

²⁵ For I am sure, that my redemer lyueth, and that I shall ryse out of the earth in the latter daye: ²⁶ that I shal be clothed againe with this skynne, and se God in my flesh. ²⁷ Yee I my self shal beholde him, not with other but with these same eyes. My reynes are consumed within me,

²⁰ Destruccion taketh holde vpo him as a water floude, & ye tepest stealeth him awaye in the night season. ²¹ A vehement wynde carieth him hence, & departeth: a storme plucketh him out of his place. ²² It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof.

¹¹ For why? thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, nether shalt thou suffre thy saynte to se corrupcion. Thou hast shewed me the wayes off life: thou shalt make me full of ioye wt thy countenaunce. At thy right hande there is pleasure and ioye for euermore.

¹⁵ They haue children at their desyre, and leaue the reste of their substauce for their babes. But as for me, I will beholde thy presence in rightuousnes: and when thy glory appeareth, I shal be satisfied.

⁴ Though I shulde walke now in the valley of the shadowe of death, yet I feare no euell, for thou art with me: thy staffe & thy shepehoke coforte me.

³⁷ but when I wente by, lo, he was gone: I sought him, but he coude no where be founde.

⁹ Or euer youre thornes be sharpe, the wrath shal take them awaye quycke, like a stormy wynde.

¹⁵ Therfore shal his destruccion come hastely vpo him, sodenly shal he be all tobroken, and not be healed.

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

²⁶ Now the interpretacion off the thynge is this: Mane, God hath nombred thy kyngdome, and brought it to an ende: ²⁷ Thetel, Thou art weyed in the balaunce, and art founde to light: ²⁸ Phares, Thy kyngdome is delt in partes, and geuen to the Medes and Perses. ²⁹ Then commaunded Balthasar, to cloth Daniel with purple, to hange a cheyne off golde aboute his necke, and to make a proclamacion concernynge him: that he shulde be the ruler off the thirde parte off his kyngdome. ³⁰ The very same night was Balthasar the kynge off the Caldees slayne,

²⁹ LORDE, now lettest thou thy seruaut departe in peace, acordinge to thy promesse.

²¹ Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them: I go my waye, and ye shal seke me, and shal dye in youre synnes: whither I go, thither can not ye come.

²⁴ Therfore haue I sayde vnto you, that ye shal dye in youre synnes. For yf ye beleue not that I am he, ye shal dye in youre synnes.

²² Therfore whan God wolde shewe wrath, and to make his power knowne, he broughte forth with greate pacience the vessels off wrath, which are ordeyned to damnacion:

⁵⁵ Death is swalowed vp in victory. Death, where is thy stynge? Hell, where is yi victory? ⁵⁶ The stynge of death is synne: The strength of synne is the lawe. ⁵⁷ But thankes be vnto God, which hath geue vs the victory thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therfore my deare brethre, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, & all waye riche in the worke of the LORDE, for as moch as ye knowe, that youre laboure is not in vayne in the LORDE.

⁹ and had concluded in oure selues yt we must nedes dye. But this was done, because we shulde not put oure trust in oure selues, but in God, which rayseth vp the deed to life agayne:

⁸ Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.

²¹ For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.

²³ I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)

³ For whan they shal saye: Tush, It is peace, there is no daunger, then shall soden destruccion come vpo the, euen as the payne of a woman trauaylinge with childe, and they shal not escape.

¹⁸ And the LORDE shal delyuer me from all euell doynge, and shal kepe me vnto his heauenly kyngdome. To whom be prayse for euer and euer, Amen.

¹³ And I herde a voyce from heauen, sayenge vnto me: wryte: Blessed are ye deed, which here after dye in the LORDE. Yee the sprete sayeth, that they rest from their laboures, for their workes folowe them.

²³ He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.

¹⁶ A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

² A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.

²⁸ A rightuous ma museth in his mynde how to do good, but ye mynde of the vngodly ymagineth, how he maye do harme.

¹¹ A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

³ A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.

⁶ Kepe them now therfore and do them: for that is youre wysdome and vnderstondinge in the sight of all nacions, which wha they haue herde all these ordinaunces, shall saye: O what a wyse and vnderstondinge folke is this? and how excellent a people? ⁷ For where is there so excellent a nacion, that hath goddes so nye him, as the LORDE oure God is nye vnto vs, as oft as we call vpon him? ⁸ And where is there so excellent a nacion, that hath so righteous ordinaunces and lawes, as all this lawe which I laye before you this daye.

¹ And yf thou shalt herken vnto ye voyce of the LORDE thy God, to obserue and do all his commaundementes which I comaunde ye this daye, then shall the LORDE thy God set ye an hye aboue all nacions vpo earth, ² and all these blessynges shal come vpon the, and ouertake the, because thou hast bene obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the towne, and blessed in the felde. 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. ⁵ Blessed shal be yi baskett, & thy stoare. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be wha thou goest in, and blessed whan thou goest out. ⁷ And thine enemies that ryse vp agaynst the, shal ye LORDE cause to be smytten before thy face. They shal come out agaynst the one waye, & flye before the seuen wayes. ⁸ The LORDE shal commaunde the blessynge to be with ye in thy cellers, and in all that thou takest in hande, and shal blesse the in ye londe that the LORDE thy God hath geue the. ⁹ The LORDE shal set the vp to be an holy people vnto himselfe (as he hath sworne vnto the) yf thou kepe the commaundementes of the LORDE thy God: ¹⁰ so that all nacions vpon earth shal se, that thou art called after the name of the LORDE: & they shal be afrayed of you. ¹¹ And ye LORDE shal make ye plenteous in goodes, in the frute of yi wombe, in the frute of thy catell, & in the frute of thy grounde, in the londe that the LORDE sware vnto thy fathers, to geue the. ¹² And the LORDE shal open vnto ye his good treasure, euen the heauen, to geue rayne vnto thy londe in due season, and to prospere all the workes of thine handes. And thou shalt lede vnto many nacios, but thou shalt borowe of no man. ¹³ And ye LORDE shal set the before, and not behynde: & thou shalt be aboue onely, and not benethe, yf thou be obedient vnto the commaundementes of ye LORDE thy God, which I commaunde the this daye to kepe and to do them: ¹⁴ & yf thou bowe not asyde from eny of these wordes, which I commaunde ye this daye, either to the righte hande or to the lefte, yt thou woldest walke after other goddes to serue them. ¹⁵ But yf thou wylt not herken vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God, to kepe and to do all his commaundementes and ordinaunces, which I commaunde ye this daie, then shall all these curses come vpon the, and ouertake the. ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the towne, and cursed in ye felde: ¹⁷ cursed shal thy basket be, and thy stoare. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the frute of thy body, the frute of thy londe, the frute of thine oxen, and the frute of thy shepe. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be whan thou goest in, and cursed wha thou goest out. ²⁰ The LORDE shal sende in to the, consuminge, and complayninge, and cursynge, in all that thou takest in hande to do, tyll he haue destroyed the & shortly broughte to the naughte, because of thy wicked inuencions, in that thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ The LORDE shall make the pestylence to byde longe with the, tyll he haue consumed the out of the londe, into the which thou commest to possesse it. ²² The LORDE shall smyte the with swellynge, feuers, heate, burnynge, venome, drouth, and palenesse, & shall persecute the, tyll he haue destroyed the. ²³ Thy heauen, that is ouer thy heade, shalbe of brasse, and the earth vnder the, of yron. ²⁴ The LORDE shall geue thy londe dust for rayne, and asshes from heauen vpon the, vntyll thou be broughte to naught. ²⁵ The LORDE shall cause the be smytten before thine enemyes. Thou shalt come out one waye agaynst them, and seuen wayes shalt thou flye before them, and shalt be scatered amoge all the kyngdomes vpon earth. ²⁶ Thy carcase shalbe meate vnto all maner foules of the ayre, and to all the beestes vpon earth, and there shalbe no man to fraye them awaye. ²⁷ The LORDE shal smyte the with ye botches of Egipte, with the Emorodes, with scalle, and maungynesse, that thou shalt not be healed therof. ²⁸ The LORDE shall smyte the with madnesse, blyndnesse and dasynge of hert. 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. ³⁰ Thou shalt spouse a wife, but another shal lye with her. Thou shalt buylde an house, but another shall dwell therin. Thou shalt plante a vynyarde, but shalt not make it comen. ³¹ Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate therof. Thine asse shalbe violently taken awaye (euen before yi face) and shal not be restored ye againe. Thy shepe shalbe geuen vnto thine enemies, and no man shal helpe the. ³² Thy sonnes and thy doughters shalbe geuen vnto another nacion, and thine eyes shal se it, and dase vpon them all the daye longe, and thy hande shal not be able to delyuer them. 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. ³⁴ And thou shalt be cleane besyde thy selfe for the sighte, which thine eyes shal se. ³⁵ The LORDE shal smyte the with a myscheuous botch in ye knees & legges, so that thou canst not be healed, euen from the sole of thy fote vnto the crowne of thy heade. ³⁶ The LORDE shal brynge the and thy kynge (which thou hast set ouer the) vnto a nacion, whom thou knowest not, nether thy fathers: and there shalt thou serue other goddes, euen wodd and stone: ³⁷ and thou shalt go to waist, and become a byworde, & a laughinge stocke amoge all nacions, whither ye LORDE hath caryed the. ³⁸ Thou shalt cary out moch sede in to ye felde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the greshoppers shal destroye it. ³⁹ Thou shalt plante vynyardes and dresse the, but thou shalt nether drynke of the wyne, ner gather of ye grapes: for ye wormes shal consume it. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt haue Olyue trees in all yi coastes, but shalt not be anoynted with the oyle: for thyne Oliue trees shalbe roted out. ⁴¹ Thou shalt get sonnes and doughters, and yet not haue them: for they shal be caried awaye captiue. ⁴² All thy trees and frutes of thy londe shall be marred with blastinge. ⁴³ The straunger that is with ye, shal clymme vp ouer the, and be allwaye aboue the: but thou shalt come downe alowe, and lye euer beneth. ⁴⁴ He shal lende vnto the, but thou shalt not lende him. He shalbe before, but thou shalt be behynde. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come vpon the, and folowe the, and ouertake ye, tyll thou be destroyed, because thou herkenest not vnto ye voyce of the LORDE yi God, to kepe his commaundemetes and ordinaunces, which he hath commaunded the. ⁴⁶ Therfore shal there be tokens and wonders vpon the, & vpon thy sede for euer, ⁴⁷ because thou hast not serued ye LORDE thy God with a ioyfull and good hert, whan thou haddest abundaunce of all thinges. ⁴⁸ And therfore shalt thou serue thine enemye, which the LORDE shal sende vpon the, in hunger and thyrst, in nakednesse, and neade of all thinge: & he shal put a yocke of yron vpon thy necke, vntyll he haue broughte the to naughte. ⁴⁹ The LORDE shal brynge a nacion vpon the from farre, euen from the ende of ye worlde, as a flyenge Aegle: a people, whose speache thou canst not vnderstonde, ⁵⁰ an harde fauoured people, which regarde not the personne of the olde, ner haue compassion on the yonge. 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: ⁵² and shal laye sege vnto the wt in all thy gates, tyll they cast downe thy hye and stronge walles, wherin thou trustest thorow out all thy londe. And thou shalt be beseged within all thy portes, thorow out all thy londe which the LORDE thy God hath geuen the. ⁵³ Thou shalt eate the frute of thine awne body, the flesh of thy sonnes and of thy doughters, which the LORDE yi God hath geue the, in that straytnesse and sege, wherwith thine enemye shall besege the: ⁵⁴ so that it shal greue the man yt afore hath lyued tenderly and in voluptuousnes amonge you, to loke vpon his brother and vpon his wife yt lyeth in his bosome, and on the sonne that is left ouer of his sonnes, ⁵⁵ lest he shulde geue eny of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, in as moch as there is nothinge left him in that straytnesse and sege, wherwith thine enemye shal besege ye within all thy gates. ⁵⁶ And the woman that afore hath lyued so tenderly and voluptuously amonge you, that she durste not set the sole of hir fote vpon the grounde for tendernes and voluptuousnes, shal be greued to loke vpon hir husbande that lieth in hir bosome, and on hir sonne, and on hir doughter: ⁵⁷ euen because of hir doughters which she hath norished betwixte hir legges in hir lappe, and because of hir sonnes that she hath borne: For she shall eate them secretly for very scarcenesse of all thinges, in the straytnesse and sege, wherwith thine enemye shal besege ye within thy gates. ⁵⁸ Yf thou wilt not be diligent to do all the wordes of this lawe which are wrytten in this boke, that thou mayest feare this glorious and fearfull name, euen the LORDE thy God, ⁵⁹ then shal the LORDE entreate ye wonderously, with plages vpon ye and thy sede, yee with greate and continuall plages, ⁶⁰ with euell and contynuall sicknesses, and shal brynge vpo ye all ye sicknesses of Egipte (wherof thou wast afrayed) and they shal cleue vnto the. ⁶¹ Therto all maner sicknesses and all maner plages, which are not wrytten in the boke of this lawe, shal the LORDE thy God cause to come vpon the, vntyll he haue destroyed the. ⁶² And there shal be left but a fewe people of you, which afore were as the starres of heauen in multitude: because thou hast not herkened vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God. ⁶³ And as ye LORDE reioysed ouer you afore, to do you good, and to multiplye you, eue so shall he reioyse ouer you, to destroye you, and to brynge you to naughte, and ye shalbe waysted from of the londe, whither thou goest now to possesse it. ⁶⁴ For the LORDE shal scater the amonge all nacions, from the one ende of the worlde vnto another, and there shalt thou serue other goddes, whom thou knowest not, ner yet thy fathers, euen wodd and stone. ⁶⁵ And amonge those same nacions shalt thou haue no quyetnesse, nether shal the sole of yi fote haue eny rest: for the LORDE shal geue the there a fearfull hert, and dasynge of eyes, and a troubled soule ⁶⁶ so that thy life shal hage before the: Night and daye shalt thou feare, and shalt haue no trust in thy life. ⁶⁷ In the mornynge thou shalt saye: Who shall geue me the euenynge? And at euen shalt thou saye: Who shal geue me the mornynge? For the very greate feare of thine hert, which shal make the afrayed: and for the sighte of thine eyes which thou shalt se. ⁶⁸ And the LORDE shal brynge the agayne in to Egipte by shippe fulles, euen thorow the waye wherof I sayde vnto ther Thou shalt se it nomore: and there shal ye be solde vnto youre enemies for bonde seruauntes and bonde maidens, and there shalbe no man to bye you.

¹⁸ Lest there be amoge you man or woman, or an housholde, or a trybe, which turneth awaye his hert this daye from the LORDE oure God, to go and to serue ye goddes of these nacions: and lest there be amonge you some rote, that beareth gall & wormwodd: ¹⁹ so that though he heare the wordes of this curse, he blesse him selfe yet in his hert, and saye: Tush, it shal not be so euell. I wil walke after the meanynge of myne awne hert, that the dronken maye perishe with the thyrstie. ²⁰ Then shall not the LORDE be mercifull vnto him, but his wrath and gelousy shall smoke ouer soch a man, and all the curses that are wrytten in this boke, shall lighte vpon him: and the LORDE shal put out his name from vnder heauen, ²¹ and shall separate him vnto euell out of all the trybes of Israel, acordinge vnto all the curses of the couenaunt, that is wrytten in the boke of this lawe. ²² So the posterities of youre childre which shal ryse vp after you, and the straungers that come out of farre countrees, shall saye (whan they se the plages of this londe, and the diseases wherwith the LORDE hath smytten it) ²³ that he hath brent vp all their londe with brymstone and salt, so yt it cannot be sowne, ner is frutefull, nether groweth there eny grasse therin, Like as Sodom, Gomor, Adama and Zeboim are ouerthrowne, which the LORDE ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger. ²⁴ Then shall all nacions saye: Wherfore hath the LORDE done thus vnto this londe? What greate wrothfull displeasure is this? ²⁵ Then shalt it be sayde: Euen because they haue forsaken the couenaunt of ye LORDE God of their fathers (which he made with them whan he broughte them out of the londe of Egipte) ²⁶ and they wete, and serued other goddes, and worshipped the, euen soch goddes as they knewe not, and whom he had not deuyded vnto them. ²⁷ Therfore the wrath of the LORDE waxed whote ouer this londe, to brynge vpon it all the curses that are wrytten in this boke. ²⁸ And the LORDE thrust them out of their londe wt greate wrath, indignacion & displeasoure & hath cast them into another londe, as it is come to passe this daye.

⁶ For whan Iosua had sente awaye ye people, and the childre of Israel were gone, euery one to his enheritauce, for to take possession of the londe, ⁷ the people serued the LORDE as longe as Iosua lyued and ye Elders, which lyued longe after Iosua, and yt sawe all the greate workes of the LORDE, which he dyd for Israel. ⁸ Now whan Iosua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the LORDE, was deed (whan he was an hudreth and ten yeare olde) ⁹ they buried him in ye border of his inheritaunce at Timnath Heres vpon mount Ephraim on the north syde of mount Gaas. ¹⁰ And whan all the same generacion was gathered vnto their fathers, there came vp after them another generacion, which knew not the LORDE, ner the workes that he had done for Israel. ¹¹ Then wroughte the children of Israel euell before the LORDE, and serued Baalim, ¹² and forsoke ye LORDE the God of their fathers (which broughte them out of the londe of Egipte) and folowed other goddes & the goddes of the nacions that dwelt rounde aboute them, & worshipped them, & displeased the LORDE: ¹³ for they forsoke ye LORDE euer more and more, and serued Baal and Astaroth. ¹⁴ Then ye wrath of the LORDE waxed whote vpo Israel, & he delyuered the in to ye handes of those yt spoyled the, that they mighte spoyle them, & solde the in to the handes of their enemies roude aboute, & they were not able to withstonde their enemies eny more,

³⁴ A frutefull londe maketh he baren, for the wickednesse of them that dwell therin.

² Go thy waye, crie in the eares of Ierusale, & saye: Thus saieth the LORDE: I remembre the for the kyndnesse of thy youth, and because of thy stedfast loue: in that thou folowdest me thorow the wildernesse, in an vntilled londe. ³ Thou Israel wast halowed vnto te LORDE, and so was his first frutes. All they that deuoured Israel, offended: mi?fortune fell vpon them, saieth the LORDE. ⁴ Heare therfore the worde of the LORDE, O thou house of Iacob, and all the generacion of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus saieth ye LORDE vnto you: What vnfaithfulnesse founde youre fathers in me, that they wente so farre awaye fro me, fallinge to lightnesse, and beinge so vayne? ⁶ They thought not in their hertes: Where haue we left the LORDE, yt brought vs out of the lode of Egipte: yt led vs thorow the wildernesse, thorow a deserte and rough londe, thorow a drie and a deedly londe, yee a londe that no man had gone thorow, and wherein no man had dwelt. ⁷ And when I had brought you in to a pleasaunt welbuylded londe, that ye might enioye the frutes and all the comodities of the same: ye went forth and defyled my londe, & brought myne heretage to abhominacion. ⁸ The prestes the selues saide not once: where is ye LORDE? They yt haue the lawe in their hondes, knowe me not: The shepherdes offende agaynst me. The prophetes do seruyce vnto Baal, & folowe soch thinges as shall bringe them no profit. ⁹ Wherfore I am constrayned (sayeth the LORDE) to make my complaynte vpon you, and vpon youre children. ¹⁰ Go in to the Iles of Cethim, and loke wel: sende vnto Cedar, take diligent hede: and se, whether soch thinges be done there, ¹¹ whether the Gentiles themselues deale so falsly & vntruly with their goddes (which yet are no goddes in dede.) But my people hath geuen ouer their hie honoure, for a thinge that maye not helpe them. ¹² Be astonished (o ye heauens) be afrayde, & abashed at soch a thinge, saieth the LORDE. ¹³ For my people hath done two euels. They haue forsake me the well of the water of life, and digged them pittes, yee vile and broken pittes, that holde no water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? Why is he then so spoyled? ¹⁵ Why do they roare and crie then vpon him, as a lyon? They haue made his londe wayst, his cities are so brent vp, that there is no man dwellinge in them. ¹⁶ Yee the children of Noph and Taphanes haue defyled thy necke. ¹⁷ Cometh not this vnto the, because thou hast forsaken the LORDE thy God, euer sence he led the by the waye? ¹⁸ And what hast thou now to do in ye strete of Egipte? to drinke foule water? Ether, what makest thou in the waye to Assiria? To drinke water of the floude? ¹⁹ Thine owne wickednesse shal reproue the, and thy turnynge awaye shal condemne the: that thou mayest knowe and vnderstonde, how euel and hurtful a thinge it is, yt thou hast forsaken the LORDE thy God, and not feared him, saieth the LORDE God of hoostes. ²⁰ I haue euer broken thy yock of olde, & bursten thy bondes: yet saiest thou, I wil nomore serue, but (like an harlot) thou runnest aboute vpon all hie hilles, & amonge all grene trees: ²¹ where as I planted the out of noble grapes and good rotes. How art thou turned then into a bytter, vnfrutefull, and straunge grape? ²² Yee and that so sore: that though thou wasshest the with Nitrus & makest thiself to sauoure with that swete smellinge herbe of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stayned with thy wickednesse, saieth the LORDE thy God. ²³ Saye not now: I am not vnclene, and I haue not folowed the goddes. Loke vpo thyne owne waies in the woddes, valleis & dennes: so shalt thou knowe, what thou hast done. Thou art like a swift Dromedary, that goeth easely his waye: ²⁴ and thy wantonnes is like a wilde Asse, that vseth the wildernesse, and that snoffeth and bloweth at his wil. Who can tame the? All they that seke the, shal not fayle, but fynde the in thyne owne vnclennes. ²⁵ Thou kepest thy fote from nakednes, and thy throte from thurste, and thinkest thus in thy self: tush, I wil take no sorowe, I wil loue the straunge goddes, & hange vpon them.

¹ Agayne, the worde of LORDE spake vnto me, sayenge: ² Thou sonne of man, shewe the cite of Ierusalem their abhominacions, ³ and saye: thus saieth the LORDE God vnto Ierusalem: Thy progeny and kynred came out of the londe of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Cethite. ⁴ In ye daye of thy byrth when thou wast borne, ye stringe of thy nauel was not cut of: thou wast not bathed in water to make the clene: Thou wast nether rubbed wt salt, ner swedled in cloutes: ⁵ No man regarded the so moch, as to do eny of these thinges for ye, or to shewe the soch fauoure, but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon ye felde, yee despised wast thou in the daye of thy byrth. ⁶ Then came I by the, and sawe the troden downe in thine owne bloude, & sayde vnto the: thou shalt be pourged from thine owne bloude, fro thine owne bloude (I saye) shalt thou be clensed. ⁷ So I planted the, as the blossome of thy felde: thou art growen vp, & waxe greate: thou hast gotten a maruelous pleasaunt beutie, thy brestes are come vp, thy hayre is goodly growen, where as thou wast naked and bare afore. ⁸ Now when I wente by ye, & loked vpon the: beholde, thy tyme was come, yee eue the tyme to wowe the. Then spred I my clothes ouer the, to couer thy dishonestie: Yee I made an ooth vnto the, & maried my self with the (saieth the LORDE God) & so thou becamest myne owne. ⁹ Then wa?shed I the with water, & pourged thy bloude from the. I anoynted the with oyle, ¹⁰ I gaue the chaunge of raymentes, I made the shues of Taxus lether: I gyrthed ye aboute wt white sylcke, I clothed the with kerchues, ¹¹ I decked the wt costly apparell, I put rynges vpon thy fyngers: a chayne aboute thy necke, ¹² spages vpo thy foreheade, eare rynges vpon thyne eares, & set a beutifull crowne vpon thine heade. ¹³ Thus wast thou deckte with syluer & golde, & thy rayment was of fyne white sylke, of nedle worke & of dyuerse colours. Thou didest eate nothinge but symnels, honny & oyle: maruelous goodly wast thou & beutifull, yee euen a very Quene wast thou: ¹⁴ In so moch, that thy beuty was spoken of amonge the Heithen, for thou wast excellet in my beuty, which I put vpo the, saieth the LORDE God. ¹⁵ But thou hast put confidece in thine owne beuty, & played the harlot, when thou haddest gotten the a name. Thou hast committed whordome, with all that wente by the, & hast fulfilled their desyres: ¹⁶ Yee thou hast taken thy garmetes of dyuerse colours, & deckte thine aulters therwith, where vpon thou mightest fulfill thine whordome, of soch a fashion, as neuer was done, ner shalbe. ¹⁷ The goodly ornametes & Iewels which I gaue the of myne owne golde and syluer, hast thou take, & made the mes ymages therof, and committed whordome withall. ¹⁸ Thy garmentes of dyuerse colours hast thou taken, and deckte them therwith: myne oyle & incense hast thou set before them. ¹⁹ My meate which I gaue the, as symnels, oyle & hony: (to fede the withall) that hast thou set before them, for a swete sauoure. And this came also to passe, saieth the LORDE God: ²⁰ Thou hast take thine owne sonnes & doughters, whom thou haddest begotten vnto me: and these hast thou offred vp vnto them, to be their meate. Is this but a small whordome of thine (thinkest thou) ²¹ that thou slayest my children, and geuest them ouer, to be bret vnto them? ²² And yet in all thy abhominacions and whordome, thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, how naked and bare thou wast at that tyme, & troden downe in thine owne bloude. ²³ After all these thy wickednesses (wo wo vnto the, saieth ye LORDE) ²⁴ thou hast buylded thy stewes and brodel houses in euery place: yee at the heade of euery strete ²⁵ hast thou buylded the an aulter. Thou hast made thy beuty to be abhorred: thou hast layed out thy legges to euery one that came by, and multiplied thine whordome. ²⁶ Thou hast committed fornicacion with the Egipcians thy neghbours, which had moch flesh: & thus hast thou vsed thine whordome, to anger me. ²⁷ Beholde, I will stretch out myne honde ouer the, and wil mynish thy stoare of fode, and delyuer the ouer in to the willes of the Philistynes thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abhominable waye. ²⁸ Thou hast played the whore also with the Assirians, which might not satisfie the: Yee thou hast played the harlot, & not had ynough. ²⁹ Thus hast thou still comitted thy fornicacion from the londe of Canaan vnto the Caldees, and yet thy lust not satisfied. ³⁰ How shulde I circumcide thine herte (saieth the LORDE God) seinge thou doest all these thinges, thou precious whore: ³¹ buyldinge thy stewes at the heade of euery strete, and thy brodel houses in all places? Thou hast not bene as an other whore, yt maketh booste of hir wynnynge: ³² but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir hu?bode. ³³ Giftes are geuen to all other whores, but thou geuest rewardes vnto all thy louers: & offrest them giftes, to come vnto the out of all places, & to committe fornicacio with the. ³⁴ It is come to passe with the in thy whordomes, contrary to the vse of other women: yee there hath no soch fornicacion bene committed after the, seinge that thou profrest giftes vnto other, & no rewarde is geuen the: this is a contrary thinge. ³⁵ Therfore heare the worde of the LORDE, o thou harlot: ³⁶ Thus saieth the LORDE God: For so moch as thou hast spet thy moneye, & discouered thy shame, thorow thy whordome with all thy louers, and with all the Idols of thy abhominacions in the bloude of thy children, whom thou hast geuen them: ³⁷ Beholde therfore, I wil gather together all thy louers, vnto whom thou hast made thy self comon: yee & all them whom thou fauourest, and euery one that thou hatest: and will discouer thy shame before the, that they all maye se thy fylthines ³⁸ Morouer, I wil iudge the as a breaker of wedlocke and a murthurer, and recompence the thine owne bloude in wrath and gelousy. ³⁹ I wil geue the ouer in to their power, that shal breake downe thy stewes, and destroye thy brodel houses: they shal stripe the out of thy clothes, all thy fayre & beutifull Iewels shal they take from the, and so let the syt naked & bare: ⁴⁰ Yee they shal bringe the comon people vpon the, which shal stone the, & slaye the downe with their sweardes. ⁴¹ They shall burne vp thy houses, and punysh the in the sight of many wome. Thus wil I make thy whordome to ceasse, so that thou shalt geue out no mo rewardes. ⁴² Shulde I make my wrath to be still, take my gelousy from the, be content, and nomore to be displeased? ⁴³ seinge thou remembrest not the dayes of thy youth, but hast prouoked me to wrath in all these thinges? Beholde therfore, I wil bringe thine owne wayes vpon thine heade, saieth the LORDE God: how be it, I neuer dyd vnto the, acordinge to thy wickednesse and all thy abhominacions. ⁴⁴ Beholde, all they yt vse comon prouerbes, shall vse this prouerbe also agaynst the: Soch a mother, soch a doughter. ⁴⁵ Thou art euen thy mothers owne doughter, that hath cast of hir hou?bonde and hir children: Yee thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsoke their hu?bodes and their children. Youre mother is a Cethite, and youre father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and hir doughters that dwel vpo thy left honde. But thy yongest sister that dwelleth on ye right hode, is Sodoma and hir doughters. ⁴⁷ Yet hast thou not walked after their wayes, ner done after their abhominacions: But in all thy wayes thou hast bene more corrupte then they. ⁴⁸ As truly as I lyue, saieth the LORDE God: Sodoma thy sister with hir doughters, hath not done so euel, as thou and thy doughters. ⁴⁹ Beholde, the synnes of thy sister Sodoma were these: Pryde, fulnesse of meate, abundaunce and Idilnesse: these thinges had she and hir doughters. Besydes that, they reached not their honde to the poore and nedy, ⁵⁰ but were proude, and dyd abhominable thinges before me: therfore I toke them awaye, when I had sene it. ⁵¹ Nether hath Samaria done half of thy synnes, yee thou hast exceaded them in wickednesse: In so moch that in comparison of all the abhominacions which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women. ⁵² Therfore beare thine owne shame, thou that in synne hast ouercome thy sisters: seinge thou hast done so abhominably, that they were better then thou. Be ashamed therfore (I saye) and beare thine owne confucion, thou that makest thy sisters good women. ⁵³ As for their captiuyte, namely the captiuyte of Sodoma and hir dougters: the captiuyte of Samaria and hir doughters: I wil bringe them agayne, so will I also bringe agayne thy captiuyte amoge them: ⁵⁴ that thou mayest take thine owne confucion vpon the, and be ashamed of all that thou hast done, and to comforte them. ⁵⁵ Thus thy sisters (namely) Sodoma and hir doughters: Samaria and hir doughters with yi self & thy doughters, shalbe brought agayne to youre olde estate. ⁵⁶ Whe thou wast in thy pryde, ⁵⁷ and before thy wickednesse came to light: thou woldest not heare speake of thy sister Sodoma, vntill the tyme that the Sirians with all their townes, and the Philistynes with all that lye rounde aboute them, brought the to shame and confucion: ⁵⁸ that thou mightest beare thine owne fylthynes and abhominacion, saieth the LORDE. ⁵⁹ For thus saieth the LORDE God: I shulde (by right) deale with the, as thou hast done. Thou hast despysed the ooth, and broken the couenaunte. ⁶⁰ Neuertheles, I wil remembre the couenaunt, that I made with the in thy youth, in so moch that it shall be an euerlastinge couenaunt: ⁶¹ So that thou also remembre thy wayes, and be ashamed of the: then shalt thon receaue of me thy elder and yonger sisters, whom I wil make thy doughters, and that besyde thy couenaunt. ⁶² And so I wil renue my couenaunt with the, yt thou mayest knowe, that I am the LORDE: ⁶³ that thou mayest thincke vpo it, be ashamed, and excuse thine owne confucion nomore: when I haue forgeuen the, all that thou hast done, saieth the LORDE God.

¹ Morouer, the worde of ye LORDE came vnto me, & sayde: ² Thou sonne of man, wilt thou not reproue this bloudthurstie cite? Shewe the their abhominacios, ³ & tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: O thou cite, yt sheddest bloude in ye myddest of the, yt thy tyme maye come also: and makest the Idols to defyle the withall. ⁴ Thou hast made thy self gilty, in ye bloude yt thou hast shed: & defyled ye i ye ydols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy daies to drawe nye, & made the tyme of thy yeares to come. Therfore will I make ye to be confounded amoge the Heithe, & to be despised in all the lodes, ⁵ whether they be nye or farre fro the: they shal laugh ye to scorne, thou yt hast gotte the so foule a name, & art full off myschefe. ⁶ Beholde, the rulers of Israel haue brought euery man his power, to shed bloude in the. ⁷ In the haue they despised father & mother, in the haue they oppressed the strauger, in the haue they vexed the wyddowe & the fatherlesse. ⁸ Thou hast despysed my Sactuary, and vnhalowed my Sabbath. ⁹ Murtherers are there in the, that shed bloude, & eate vpon the hilles, and in the they vse vnhappynesse. ¹⁰ In ye haue they discouered their fathers shame, in the haue they vexed women in their sicknesse. ¹¹ Euery ma hath dealte shamefully with his neghbours wife, & abhominably defyled his doughter in lawe. In the hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers doughter: ¹² Yee giftes haue bene receaued in the, to shed bloude. Thou hast taken vsury & encreace, thou hast oppressed thy neghbours by extorcion, and forgotten me, saieth the LORDE God. ¹³ Beholde, I haue smytten my hondes vpo thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the bloude which hath bene shed in the. ¹⁴ Is thy herte able to endure it, or maye thy hondes defende them selues, in the tyme that I shall bringe vpon the? Euen I the LORDE that speake it, will bringe it also to passe. ¹⁵ I will scatre the amonge the Heithen, & strowe the aboute in the lodes, and wil cause thy fylthynesse to ceasse out off the: ¹⁶ yee and I will haue the in possession in the sight of the Heithen, that thou mayest knowe, that I am the LORDE, ¹⁷ And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: ¹⁸ Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is turned to drosse. C All they that shulde be brasse, tynne, yro & leade, are in the fyre become drosse. ¹⁹ Therfore, thus saieth the LORDE God: For so moch as ye all are turned in to drosse, beholde: I will brynge you together vnto Ierusalem, ²⁰ like as syluer, brasse, yron, tynne and leade are put together in the fornace, and the fyre blowen there vnder to melt them: Euen so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignacion. ²¹ I will brynge you together, and kyndle the fyre of my cruell displeasure vnder you, that ye maye be melted therin. ²² Like as the syluer is melted in the fyre, so shall ye also be melted therin: that ye maye knowe, how that I the LORDE haue poured my wrath vpon you. ²³ And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayege:

¹ The abhominacion of Ephraim is come also in to Israel. He is gone backe to Baal, therfore must he dye.

⁴ A frowarde herte shal departe fro me, I wil not knowe a wicked personne. ⁵ Who so preuely slaundreth his neghboure, him wil I destroye: Who so hath a proude loke & an hye stomacke, I maye not awaye with him. ⁶ Myne eyes shal loke for soch as be faithfull in the londe, yt they maye dwell with me: and who so ledeth a godly life, shalbe my seruaunt. ⁷ There shall no disceatfull personne dwell in my house, he that telleth lyes shal not tary in my sight. ⁸ I shal soone destroye all the vngodly of the londe, that all wicked doers maye be roted out of the cite of the LORDE.

⁵ Who so gathereth in Sommer, is wyse: but he that is slogish in haruest, bringeth himself to confucion.

² A discrete seruaut shal haue more rule then the sonnes yt haue no wysdome, and shal haue like heretage wt the brethren.

¹² The kynges disfauor is like ye roaringe of a Lyo, but his fredshpe is like the dewe vpo ye grasse. ¹³ An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.

²⁶ He yt hurteth his father or shuteth out his mother, is a shamefull & an vnworthy sonne.

⁸ A kynge that sytteth in iudgment, and loketh well aboute him, dryueth awaye all euell.

²⁶ A wyse kynge destroyeth ye vngodly, & bryngeth the whele ouer them.

¹¹ Who so delyteth to be of a clene herte and of gracious lyppes, ye kynge shal be his frende.

⁵ Take awaye vngodlinesse fro ye kynge, & his seate shal be stablished wt rightuousnes.

¹² If a prynce delyte in lyes, all his seruauntes are vngodly.

⁴⁵ Who is now a faithfull and wyse seruaut, whom his lorde hath made ruler ouer his houssholde, that he maye geue them meate in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is yt seruaut, whom his lorde (whan he cometh) shal fynde so doynge. ⁴⁷ Verely. I saye vnto you: he shal set him ouer all his goodes. ⁴⁸ But and yf the euell seruaut shal saye in his hert: Tush, it wil be longe or my lorde come, ⁴⁹ and begynne to smyte his felowes, yee and to eate and drynke with the dronken: ⁵⁰ The same seruautes lorde shal come in a daye, wha he loketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of, ⁵¹ and shal hew him in peces and geue him his rewarde with ypocrytes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth.

²¹ Then sayde his lorde vnto hi: wel thou good & faithfull seruaunt, thou hast bene faithfull ouer litle, I wil set the ouer moch: entre thou in to the ioye of thy lorde.

²³ His lorde sayde vnto him: Wel thou good and faithfull seruaut, thou hast bene faithfull ouer litle, I wil set the ouer moch: entre thou in to the ioye of thy lorde.

⁴² The LORDE sayde: How greate a thinge is a faithfull and wyse stewarde, whom his lorde setteth ouer his houssholde, to geue the their dewtye in due season? ⁴³ Blessed is that seruaunt, whom his lorde (whan he cometh) shal fynde so doynge. ⁴⁴ Verely I saye vnto you: he shal set him ouer all his goodes. ⁴⁵ But yf the same seruaut shal saye in his hert: Tush, it wil be longe or my lorde come, and shal begynne to smyte ye seruauntes and maydens, yee & to eate and drynke,& to be dronke: ⁴⁶ the same seruauntes lorde shal come in a daye whan he loketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not aware of, & shal hew him in peces, and geue him his rewarde with the vnbeleuers. ⁴⁷ The seruaunt that knewe his lordes wil and prepared not himself, nether dyd acordinge to his will, shal be beaten with many strypes: ⁴⁸ But he that knewe it not, and yet dyd thinges worthy of strypes, shal be beaten with few strypes. For loke vnto whom moch is geuen, of him shal moch be sought: and loke to whom moch is commytted, of him shal moch be requyred.