Proverbs 22 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ A good name is more worth then greate riches, and louynge fauor is better then syluer and golde. ² Whether riches or pouerte do mete vs, it commeth all of God. ³ A wyse man seyth the plage and hydeth himself, but the foolish go on still and are punyshed. ⁴ The ende of lowlynes & the feare of God, is riches, honor, prosperite and health. ⁵ Speares and snares are in ye waye of the frowarde, but he yt wil kepe his soule, let him fle fro soch. ⁶ Yf thou teachest a childe in his youth what waye he shulde go, he shall not leaue it when he is olde. ⁷ The rich ruleth the poore, and ye borower is seruaunt to ye lender. ⁸ He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him. ⁹ A louynge eye shalbe blessed, for he geueth of his bred vnto ye poore. ¹⁰ Cast out ye scornefull man, and so shal strife go out wt him, yee variaunce and slaunder shal cease. ¹¹ Who so delyteth to be of a clene herte and of gracious lyppes, ye kynge shal be his frende. ¹² The eyes of ye LORDE preserue knowlege, but as for ye wordes of ye despyteful, he bryngeth them to naught. ¹³ The slouthfull body sayeth: there is a lyo wt out, I might be slayne in ye strete. ¹⁴ The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall. ¹⁵ Foolishnes sticketh in the herte of ye lad, but ye rod of correccion driueth it awaye. 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. ¹⁷ My sonne, bowe downe thine eare, and herken vnto the wordes of wy?dome, applye yi mynde vnto my doctryne: ¹⁸ for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth: ¹⁹ that thou mayest allwaye put yi trust in the LORDE. ²⁰ Haue not I warned ye very oft with councell and lerninge? ²¹ yt I might shewe ye the treuth and that thou wt the verite mightest answere them yt laye eny thinge against ye? 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. 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. ²⁶ Be not thou one of them yt bynde ther hande vpo promyse, and are suertie for dett: ²⁷ for yf thou hast nothinge to paye, they shal take awaye thy bed from vnder the. ²⁸ Thou shalt not remoue the lande marcke, which thy fore elders haue sett. ²⁹ Seist thou not, yt they which be diligent in their busines stonde before kynges, and not amonge the symple people?

⁴⁷ and the kynges seruauntes are gone in to wysh good lucke vnto ouer lorde kynge Dauid, and haue sayde: Thy God make Salomon a better name then thy name is, and make his seate greater then thy seate. And they haue wy?shed the kynge good lucke vpon the bed.

¹ A good name is more worth then a precious oyntment, and the daye of death is better the ye daye of byrth.

²⁰ Neuertheles, reioyce not ye in this, that the spretes are subdued vnto you: but reioyse, that youre names are wrytten in heauen.

¹⁰ and delyuered him out of all his troubles, and gaue him fauoure ad wyssdome i the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him prynce ouer Egipte and ouer all his house.

³ Yee and I beseke the my faithfull yock felowe, helpe the wemen, which haue laboured with me in the Gospell, with Clement & with my other helpers, whose names are in the boke of life.

³⁹ And these all thorow faith optayned good reporte, and receaued not ye promes:

⁷ The LORDE maketh poore and maketh riche: He bryngeth lowe and exalteth.

¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies?

¹⁹ Vngodly men are ye He hath no respecte vnto the personnes of ye lordly, & regardeth not the rich more the poore. For they be all the worke of his hondes.

¹ O heare this, all ye people: pondre it well, all ye that dwell vpo the earth. ² Hye & lowe, riche & poore, one wt another.

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

¹³ The poore and the lender mete together, the LORDE lighteneth both their eyes.

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 The eye can not saye vnto the hande: I haue no nede of the: or agayne the heade vnto the fete, I haue no nede of you:

² Yf ther come in to yor copany a ma wt a golde rynge and in goodly aparell, & ther come in also a poore man in vyle raymet, ³ & ye haue a respecte to him yt weareth the gaye clothinge & saye vnto hi: Sit thou here i a good place, & saye vnto ye poore, stonde thou there or sit here vnder my fote stole: ⁴ are ye not parciall in youre selues, and haue iudged after euyll thoughtes? 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?

²⁰ Now who so feared the worde of the LORDE amonge Pharaos seruauntes, caused his seruauntes & catell to flye in to the houses: ²¹ but loke whose hertes regarded not the worde of ye LORDE, left their seruauntes and catell in the felde.

⁷ & behelde the simple people: & amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole

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) ²³ so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo.

¹⁶ Who so is ignoraunt (sayeth she) let him come hither, and to the vnwyse she sayeth: ¹⁷ stollen waters are swete, & the bred that is preuely eaten, hath a good taist. ¹⁸ But they cosider not that death is there, and that hir gestes go downe to hell.

¹⁶ A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

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

¹ He that is stiffnecked & wyll not be refourmed, shal sodenly be destroyed wt out eny helpe.

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.

¹⁵ Whan ye therfore shal se the abhominacion of desolacion (wher of it is spoke by Daniel the prophet) stonde in the holy place (who so readeth it, let him marck it well) ¹⁶ the let the which be in Iewry, flye vnto ye moutaynes: ¹⁷ and let him which is on the house toppe, not come downe to fet eny thinge out of his house: ¹⁸ and let him which is in ye felde, not turne back to fetch his clothes.

² For ye youre selues knowe perfectly, that the daye of the LORDE shal come euen as a thefe in the nighte. 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. ⁴ But ye brethren are not in darknes, that that daye shulde come on you as a thefe. ⁵ Ye are alltogether children of lighte, and children of the daye. We are not of the night, nether of darknesse. ⁶ Therfore let vs not slepe as do other, but let vs watch, and be sober.

¹⁸ yt by two immutable thinges (in the which it is vnpossible yt God shulde lye) we mighte haue a stronge consolacion: euen we, which are fled to holde fast the hope that is set before vs,

⁷ By faith Noe honoured God, after yt he was warned of thinges which were not sene, & prepared the Arke, to ye sauinge of his housholde: thorow the which Arke he condemned the worlde, and became heyre of the righteousnes, which commeth by faith.

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.

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

¹⁶ Vpon hir right hande is longe life, & vpon hir left hande is riches & honor.

²¹ Who so foloweth rightuousnesse and mercy, fyndeth both life, rightuousnesse and honor.

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

¹⁵ For thus saieth the hie and excellet, euen he that dwelleth in euerlastingnesse, whose name is the holyone: I dwel hie aboue and in the sanctuary, & with him also, yt is of a cotrite and huble sprete: yt I maye heale a troubled mynde, and a cotrite herte.

³³ Seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heauen and the righteousnes therof, so shal all these thynges be ministred vnto you.

⁸ For bodely exercyse profyteth litle, but godlynes is profytable vnto all thinges, as a thinge which hath promyses of the life that is now, and of the life for to come.

⁶ but geueth more grace.

¹⁰ Cast downe youre selues before the LORDE, and he shal lift you vp.

¹³ be ye sure then, that the LORDE youre God shall nomore dryue out all these nacions before you, but they shall be vnto you a snare and net, and prickes in youre sydes, and thornes in youre eyes, vntyll he haue destroyed you from the good lode, which the LORDE youre God hath geuen you.

⁸ For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare.

⁶ Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares, fyre, brymstone, storme and tempest: this rewarde shal they haue to drynke.

²⁶ With the clene thou shalt be clene & with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde. ²⁷ For thou shalt saue the poore oppressed, & brige downe the hye lokes of the proude.

¹ Who so dwelleth vnder ye defence of the most hyest, & abydeth vnder ye shadowe of ye allmightie:

³ He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his life: but who so speaketh vnaduysed, fyndeth harme.

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

¹⁹ The waye of ye slouthfull is full of thornes, but ye strete of the rightuous is well clensed.

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

¹⁶ Who so kepeth the comaundemet, kepeth his owne soule: but he yt regardeth not his waye, shal dye.

¹⁸ We knowe, that whosoeuer is borne off God, synneth not: but he that is begotte of God, kepeth himselfe, & yt wicked toucheth him not.

²⁰ But ye derlye beloued, edifye youre selues in youre most holy faith, prayenge in the holy goost, ²¹ and kepe youre selues in the loue of God, lokinge for the mercy of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.

¹⁹ For I knewe him that he wil comaunde his children and his housholde after him, to kepe the waye of ye LORDE, and to do after right and conscience, that the LORDE maye bringe vpo Abraham what he hath promised him.

⁹ Take hede to thy selfe now, and kepe well thy soule, that thou forget not the thinges which thine eyes haue sene, and that they departe not out of thy hert all the dayes of thy life. And thou shalt teach them thy children and thy childers children,

⁷ & shalt whet them vpon yi children, and shalt talke of them, wha thou syttest in thyne house, & whan thou walkest by the waie: whan thou lyest downe, & wha thou rysest vp.

²⁸ therfore haue I geuen him ouer vnto the LORDE, as longe as he is lent vnto the LORDE. And they worshipped ye LORDE there.

²⁶ But the childe Samuel wente and grewe vp, & was accepted of the LORDE & of me.

² And now lo, there goeth youre kynge before you. As for me, I am waxen olde and graye heered, and my sonnes are with you: and I haue gone before you fro my youth vp vnto this daye. ³ Beholde, here am I: answere ye agaynst me before the RORDE and his anoynted, yf I haue taken eny mans oxe or asse, yf I haue done eny man violence or wronge, If I haue oppressed eny ma, yf I haue receaued a gifte of eny mans hande, and kepte it secretly, I wil restore it you agayne.

³ Which we haue herde and knowne, and soch as oure fathers haue tolde vs. ⁴ That we shulde not hyde them from the children of the generacions to come: but to shewe the honoure of the LORDE, his might and wonderfull workes that he hath done. ⁵ He made a couenaunt with Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe, which he comaunded oure forefathers to teach their children. ⁶ That their posterite might knowe it, and the children which were yet vnborne.

⁴ And ye fathers, prouoke not youre children vnto wrath, but brynge the vp in the nourtoure and informacion of the LORDE.

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.

¹ And there cried a woman amoge the wyues of the prophetes children vnto Eliseus, and sayde: Thy seruaunt my hu?bade is deed, and thou knowest that thy seruaunt feared the LORDE. Now commeth the man that he was detter vnto, and wyll take awaye both my children to be bonde seruauntes.

⁴ But some saide: Let vs borowe money of the kinge vpo vsury for oure londes and vynyardes. ⁵ Now are oure brethrens bodies as oure awne bodies, and their children as oure children: els shulde we subdue oure sonnes and doughters vnto bondage, and some of oure doughters are subdued allready, and no strength is there in oure handes, and other men shal haue oure londes and vynyardes.

²³ The poore maketh supplicacion and prayeth mekely, but the riche geueth a rough answere.

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:

² Then shal the prest be as the people, the master as the seruaunt, the dame like the mayde, the seller like the byer, he that ledeth vpon vsury, like him yt boroweth vpo vsury, the creditoure, as the detter.

⁶ Thus sayeth the LORDE: For thre & foure wickednesses of Israel, I wil not spare him: because he hath solde the rightuous for money, and the poore for shues.

¹ Heare this worde, o ye fat kyne, that be vpon the hill of Samaria: ye that do poore me wronge, and oppresse the nedy: ye that saye to youre lordes: brynge hyther, let vs drynke.

¹¹ For so moch the as ye oppresse ye poore, and robbe him of his best sustenaunce: therfore, where as ye haue buylded houses off square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Maruelos pleasaunt vynyardes shall ye plante, but the wyne of the shal ye not drynke: and why? ¹² as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them right well. Enemies are ye off the rightuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgment.

⁴ Heare this, O ye yt oppresse the poore, and destroye the nedy in ye londe, sayenge:

⁶ We shall set vp false waightes, yt we maye get the poore vnder vs with their money, and the nedy also for shues: yee let vs sell the chaffe for corne.

²⁵ Now wha he had nothinge to paye his lorde comaunded him to be solde, & his wife & his childre, & all yt he had, & payment to be made.

⁶ But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges?

¹ Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you.

⁴ Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth.

⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.

³ That the rodd of the vngodly come not into the lott of the rightuous, lest the rightuous put their honde vnto wickednesse.

³ In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe, but ye lippes of ye wyse wilbe warre of soch.

⁴ For thou shalt breake the yocke of the peoples burthen: the staff of hys shulder, and the rod of his oppressoure, as in ye daye at Madia.

⁵ Wo be also vnto Assur, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose honde is the rod of my punyshment.

²⁹ Reioyse not (thou whole Palestina) as though ye rod of him yt beateth the were broken: For out of ye serpentes rote, there shal waxe a kockatrice, & the frute shalbe a fyrie worme.

³¹ Then shal the Assirian feare also, because of the voyce of the LORDE, which shal smyte him with the rodde.

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

¹³ But now they haue plowed them wickednesse, therfore shal they reepe synne, and eate the frute of lyes. Seinge thou puttest thy cofidence in thine owne wayes, and leanest to ye multitude of thy worthies:

⁷ Be not disceaued, God wil not be mocked. For what soeuer a man soweth, that shal he reape. 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.

⁷ Whan one of thy brethre is waxed poore in eny cite within thy londe, which ye LORDE yi God shal geue ye, thou shalt not harden thine hert, ner withdrawe thine hande from thy poore brother: ⁸ but shalt open thine hande vnto him, and lende him, acordinge as he hath nede. ⁹ Bewarre, that there be not a poynte of Belial in thine hert, that thou woldest saye: The seuenth yeare, the yeare of Fredome is at honde. For yf thou lokest not fredly vpo thy poore brother, and geuest him nothinge then shall he crye ouer the vnto the LORDE, and it shall be synne vnto the: ¹⁰ But thou shalt geue him, and let it not greue thine hert that thou geuest him. For because of it, shall the LORDE thy God blesse the in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande vnto. ¹¹ The londe shal neuer be without poore, therfore commaunde I the and saye, that thou open thine hande vnto thy brother, which is neady and poore in thy londe.

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:

¹⁶ When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne? ¹⁷ Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherles hath had no parte with me? ¹⁸ (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.) ¹⁹ Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment, ²⁰ whose sydes thanked me not, because he was warmed wt ye woll of my shepe?

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. ³ The LORDE shal refresh him, when he lyeth sick vpon his bedd, yee thou makest his bed in all his sicknesse.

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

²⁵ He that is lyberall in geuynge, shal haue plenty: and he that watereth, shalbe watered also himself.

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

¹³ Who so stoppeth his eare at the criege of the poore, he shal crie himself and not be herde.

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.

⁸ But the liberall person ymagineth honest thinges, and commeth vp with honesty.

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. 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.

¹⁵ Or haue I not power, to do as me listeth with myne owne? Is thine eye euell, because I am good?

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.

²² theft, coueteousnes, wickednes, disceate, vnclennes, a wicked eye, blasphemy, pryde, foolishnes.

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. ³⁷ Iudge not, and ye shal not be iudged. Condepne not, and ye shal not be condempned. Forgeue, and ye shal be forgeuen. ³⁸ Geue, and to you shalbe geue. A good measure, pressed downe, shaken together, & runynge ouer, shal me geue into youre bosome. For with what measure ye meete, with the same shal it be measured to you agayne.

¹³ But wha thou makest a feast, call the poore, the crepell, the lame, the blynde,

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.

¹ I do you to wit (brethren) the grace of God, which is geue in the congregacions of Macedonia. ² For their reioysinge was most abundaunt, whan they were tryed by moch trouble: & though they were exceadinge poore, yet haue they geue exceadinge richely, and that in synglenesse.

⁶ This I thynke: that he which soweth litle, shal reape litle also: and he yt soweth plenteously,shal likewyse reape plenteously, ⁷ euery one acordynge as he hath purposed in his hert, not grudgingly, or of compulsion. For God loueth a chearfull geuer. ⁸ God is able to make you riche in all grace, yt ye in all thinges hauynge sufficiet to the vttemost, maye be riche to all maner of good workes. ⁹ As it is wrytte: He hath sparsed abrode & geue to ye poore, his righteousnes remayneth for euer. ¹⁰ He that geueth sede vnto the sower, shal mynistre bred also for fode, and shal multiplye youre sede, and increase the frutes of yor righteousnes, ¹¹ that in all thinges ye maye be made riche vnto all singlenesse, which causeth thorow vs, thankesgeuynge vnto God.

¹⁸ That they do good: that they be rich in good workes: that they geue and distribute with a good wyll: ¹⁹ gatherynge vp treasure for them selues, a good foundacion, agaynst ye tyme to come, that they maye laye honde on eternall life.

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.

¹⁶ To do good and to destribute forget not, for wt soch sacrifices God is pleased.

⁹ Be ye herberous one to another without grudginge,

⁹ And Sara sawe the sonne of Agar the Egipcian (whom she had borne vnto Abraham) that he was a mocker, ¹⁰ and sayde vnto Abraham: Cast out this bonde mayden and hir sonne, for this bonde maydes sonne shall not be heyre wt my sonne Isaac.

¹ Bvt whan Saneballat herde that we builded ye wall, he was wroth, & toke greate indignacio & mocked ye Iewes ² & saide before his brethre & the mightie men of Samaria: What do the impotet Iewes? shall they be thus suffred? shall they offre? shal they perfourme it in one daie? shal they make ye stones whole againe, yt are brought to dust, & brent? ³ And Tobias the Ammonite beside him saide: Let the builde on, yf a foxe go vp, he shall breake downe their stonye wall.

²⁸ And one of the children of Ioiada the sonne of Eliasib ye hye prest, had made a cotracte wyth Saneballath the Horonite: but I chaced him fro me.

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 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.

²⁰ Where no wodd is, there the fyre goeth out: and where the bacbyter is taken awaye, there the strife ceaseth. ²¹ Coles kyndle heate, and wodd ye fyre: euen so doth a braulinge felowe stere vp variaunce.

¹⁷ Yf he heare not them, tell it vnto the congregacion. Yf he heare not the cogregacion, holde him as an Heithen and Publican.

⁵ to delyuer him vnto Sathan for the destruccion of the flesh, that the sprete maye be saued in the daye of the LORDE Iesus. ⁶ Youre reioysinge is not good. Knowe ye not that a litle leuen sowereth the whole lompe of dowe.

¹³ As for them that are without, God shal iudge them. Put awaye fro you him that is euell.

³⁹ And sayde vnto Iosep: For so moch as God hath shewed ye all this, there is none of soch vnderstondinge & wysdome as thou. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt be ouer my house, and acordinge vnto thy worde shall all my people obeye: onely in the kynges seate wyll I be more then thou. ⁴¹ And he sayde: Beholde, I haue set the ouer the whole lande of Egipte. ⁴² And he toke of his ringe from his hade and gaue it Ioseph in his hade, and clothed him with whyte sylke, and honge a cheyne of golge aboute his neck, ⁴³ and made him ryde vpo the seconde charet: and caused it be proclamed before him, that men shulde bowe their knees vnto him, as to him who Pharao had set ouer the whole lande of Egipte. ⁴⁴ And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I am Pharao: without thy wyll shall no man moue his hande or his fote in all the lade Egipte. ⁴⁵ And he called him Zaphnath Paena, & gaue him a wife, euen Asnath the doughter of Potiphar the prest of On. So Ioseph wente out, for to vyset the lande of Egipte. ⁴⁶ (And he was thirtie yeare olde, whan he stode before Pharao.) And he departed from Pharao, and wente thorow all the lande of Egipte. ⁴⁷ And the londe dyd so those seuen plenteous yeares, and they gathered ⁴⁸ all the foode of the seuen yeares that were in the lande of Egipte, & layed it in the cities. Loke what foode grewe in the felde rounde aboute euery cite, they put it therin. ⁴⁹ So Ioseph layed vp the corne in stoare, and that moch aboue measure, as the sonde of the see: in so moch yt he left of nombrynge of it, for it coude not be nombred. ⁵⁰ And vnto Ioseph there were borne two sonnes (before ye derth came) whom Asnath the doughter of Potiphar prest of On bare vnto him. ⁵¹ And the first called he Manasses: for God (sayde he) hath caused me to forget all my laboure, and all my fathers house. ⁵² The seconde called he Ephraim: for God (sayde he) hath caused me to growe in ye lande of my trouble. ⁵³ Now whan ye seuen plenteous yeares were ended in Egipte, ⁵⁴ then beganne the seuen deare yeares to come, wherof Ioseph had sayde. And there was derth in all landes, but in all the lade of Egipte there was foode. ⁵⁵ Now whan the lande of Egipte beganne to suffre honger also, the people cryed vnto Pharao for bred. But Pharao sayde vnto all ye Egipcians: Go vnto Ioseph, what he sayeth vnto you, yt doo. ⁵⁶ So whan there was derth in all ye lade, Ioseph opened all yt was by him, & solde vnto the Egipcians. Thus ye derth preuayled in the lande, ⁵⁷ & all countrees came to Egipte to bye at Ioseph: for the derth was mightie in all landes.

⁶ which was a quycke scrybe in the lawe of Moses, which the LORDE God of Israel dyd geue. And ye kynge gaue him all that he requyred, acordinge to the hande of the LORDE his God vpon him. ⁷ And there wente vp certayne of the children of Israel, and of the prestes, and of the Leuites, of the syngers, of the porters, and of the Nethinims vnto Ierusalem, in the seuenth yeare of kynge Artaxerses. ⁸ And they came to Ierusalem in the fifth moneth, that is the seuenth yeare of the kynge. ⁹ For vpon the first daye of the first moneth, deuysed he to go vp from Babilon: and on ye first daye of the fifth moneth came he to Ierusalem, acordinge to the good hande of God vpon him: ¹⁰ For E?dras prepared his hert to seke the lawe of the LORDE, and to do it, and to teach the precepte & iudgment in Israel. ¹¹ And this is the summe of the letter, that kynge Artaxerses gaue vnto E?dras the prest, the scrybe, which was a teacher in the wordes of the LORDE and of his statutes ouer Israel.

⁴ Then sayde the kynge vnto me: What is the thy request? Then made I my prayer to the God of heaue, ⁵ and sayde vnto the kynge: yf it please the kynge, and yf thy seruaunt be fauoured in thy sighte, I beseke the sende me in to Iuda vnto ye cite of my fathers buryall, that I maye buylde it. ⁶ And ye kynge sayde vnto me, & so dyd the quene yt sat by him: How loge shal thy iourney cotynue, and wha wilt thou come agayne? And it pleased ye kynge to sende me, and I set him a tyme,

³ For Mardocheus the Iewe was the seconde nexte vnto kynge Ahasuerus, and greate amonge ye Iewes, and accepted amonge the multitude of his brethren, as one yt seketh the welth of his people, and speaketh the best for all his sede.

² My tonge is ye penne of a ready wryter.

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.

³⁵ A discrete seruaunt is a pleasure vnto ye kynge, but one yt is not honest, prouoketh him vnto wrath.

¹³ Righteous lippes are pleasaut vnto kynges, and they loue him yt speaketh ye trueth.

⁴⁶ Then the kynge Nabuchodonosor fell downe vpon his face, and bowed him self vnto Daniel, and commaunded that they shulde offre meatoffrynges and swete odoures vnto him. ⁴⁷ The kynge answerde Daniel, and sayde: Yee off a treuth, youre God is a God aboue all goddes, a LORDE aboue all kynges, and an opener of secretes: seynge thou canst discouer this mysterie. ⁴⁸ So the kynge made Daniel a greate man, and gaue him many and greate giftes. He made him ruler off all the countrees of Babilon, and lorde of all the nobles, that were at Babilon. ⁴⁹ Now Daniel intreated the kynge for Sydrac, Misac and Abdenago, so that he made them rulers ouer all the offyces in the londe off Babilon: but Daniel himself remayned still in the courte by the kynge.

³⁰ So the kynge promoted Sidrac, Misac and Abdenago, in the londe of Babylon.

²⁰ Now as he came nye vnto ye dene, he cried wt a piteous voyce vnto Daniel: Yee ye kige spake, and sayde vnto Daniel: O Daniel, thou seruaunt off the lyuynge God, Is not thy God (whom thou allwaye seruest) able to delyuer the from the lyons? ²¹ Daniel sayde vnto the kynge: O kynge, God saue thy life for euer: ²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lyons mouthes, so that they might not hurte me. For why: myne vngiltynesse is founde out before him. And as for the (o kynge) I neuer offended the. ²³ Then was the kynge exceadinge glad, ad commaunded to take Daniel out off the denne. So Daniel was brought out of the dene, and no maner of hurte was founde vpo him For he put his trust in his God.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in herte: for they shall se God.

²² And they all gaue him wytnesse, and wodred at the gracious wordes, which proceaded out of his mouth, and they saide: Is not this Iosephs sonne?

⁹ for the eyes of the LORDE loke rounde aboute all londes, to strength them yt are in him with all their hert. Thou hast done vnwysely, therfore shalt thou haue warre from hece forth.

¹² Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode: ¹³ which compaseth ye wyse in their owne craftynesse, and ouertroweth the councell of the wicked:

¹⁹ wherthorow the name of the LORDE might be feared, from the risynge of the Sone: and his magesty, vnto the goinge downe of the same. For he shal come as a violent waterstreame, which the wynde of the LORDE hath moued. ²⁰ But vnto Sion there shal come a redemer, and vnto them in Iacob that turne from wickednesse, saieth the LORDE. ²¹ I will make this conuenaunt with them (sayeth ye LORDE): My sprete that is come vpon the, & the wordes which I haue put in yi mouth, shal neuer go out of thy mouth, nor out of ye mouth of thy childre, no ner out of ye mouth of thy childers childre, from this tyme forth for euer more.

¹⁶ The answered Symo Peter and saide: Thou art Christ ye sonne of ye lyuinge God. ¹⁷ And Iesus answered, & saide vnto hi: Blessed art thou Symo ye sonne of Ionas, for flesh & bloude hath not opened yt vnto the, but my father yt is in heaue. ¹⁸ And I saie to ye: Thou art Peter, & vpo this rocke wil I builde my cogregacion: and ye gates of hell shal not preuayle agaynst it.

³⁹ but yf it be of God, ye are not able to destroye it, lest ye be founde to be the men, that wil stryue agaynst God.

⁹ But afore there was in ye same cite a certayne ma, called Simon, which vsed witche craft, and bewitched ye people of Samaria, sayenge, that he was a man which coulde do greate thinges. ¹⁰ And they all regarded him from the leest vnto ye greatest, & sayde: This is the power of God which is greate. ¹¹ But they regarded him, because that of longe tyme he had bewitched them with his sorcery. ¹² Howbeit whan they beleued Philips preachinge of ye kyngdome of God, and of the name of Iesu Christ, they were baptysed both me & weme.

²³ Immediatly the angell of the LORDE smote him, because he gaue not God the honoure: And he was eaten vp of wormes, and gaue vp the goost. ²⁴ But the worde of God grewe, and multiplyed.

⁸ Then the Sorcerer Elimas (for so was his name by interpretacion) withstode the, and soughte to turne awaye the ruler fro the faith. ⁹ But Saul which is also called Paul, beynge full of the holy goost, loked vpon him, ¹⁰ and sayde: O thou childe of the deuell, full of all futtyltie and all disceatfulnesse, and enemye of all righteousnes, thou ceassest not to peruerte the straight wayes of ye LORDE. ¹¹ And now beholde, the hade of the LORDE commeth vpon the, and thou shalt be blynde, and not se the Sonne for a season, And immediatly there fell on him a myst and darknesse, and he wente aboute, and soughte them that shulde lede him by the hande. ¹² Whan the ruler sawe what was done, he beleued, and wodred at the doctryne of the LORDE.

⁸ And then shal that wicked be vttered, whom the LORDE shal cosume with ye sprete of his mouth, & shal destroye with the appearaunce of his commynge:

⁸ But like as Iamnes and Iabres withstode Moses, euen so do these also resist the trueth: me they are of corrupte myndes, and lewde as cocernynge ye faith: ⁹ but they shal preuayle no longer. For their folishnes shalbe manifest vnto all men, as theirs was.

³ And I wil geue power vnto my two wytnesses, and they shal prophesy .M.ijc. and lx. dayes clothed in sacke cloth. ⁴ These are two olyue trees, and two candelstyckes, stondinge before the God of the earth. ⁵ And if eny man wil hurt them, fyre shal procede out of their mouthes, and consume their enemyes. And yf eny ma wil hurt the, this wyse muste he be kylled. ⁶ These haue power to shut heauen, that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesyinge: and haue power ouer waters, to turne them to bloud, and to smyte the earth with all maner plages, as often as they will. ⁷ And when they haue fynisshed their testimony, the beest that cam out of the bottomlesse pytt, shal make warre agaynst the, and shal ouer come them, and kyll the. ⁸ And their bodies shal lye in the stretes of the greate cite, which spiritually is called zodom and Egypte, where oure LORDE is crucified. ⁹ And some of the people and kynredes, and tonges, & of the nacios, shal se their bodies, thre dayes, and an halfe, and shal not suffre their bodies to be put in graues. ¹⁰ And they that dwell vpo the earth, shal reioyce ouer them and be glad, and shal send giftes one to another: for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth. ¹¹ And after thre dayes and an halfe the sprete of life from God, entred in to them. And they stode vp vpon their fete: & greate feare came vpon them which sawe them.

¹⁴ And to the woman were geue two wynges of a greate egle that she might flye in to the wyldernes, in to her place, where she is norysshed for a tyme, two tymes, and halffe a tyme, from the presence of the serpet. ¹⁵ And the dragon cast out of his mouth water after the woma, as it had bene a ryuer, that he might cause her to be caught of ye floud. ¹⁶ And the earth holpe the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And the dragon was wroth with the woma: and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede, which kepe the comaundementes of God, and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ. And I stode on the see sonde.

³² And of the lande that they had searched, they brought vp an euell reporte amonge the childre of Israel, and saide: The lade that we haue gone thorow to spye out, eateth vp the indwellers therof: and all the people that we sawe therin, are men of greate stature. ³³ We sawe giauntes there also, yee giauntes as the children of Enack: and we semed in oure sighte as ye greshoppers, and so dyd we in their sighte.

¹³ The slouthfull sayeth: there is a leoparde in ye waye, and a lyon in ye myddest of the stretes. ¹⁴ Like as the dore turneth aboute vpon the tresholde, euen so doth the slouthfull welter himself in his bedd. ¹⁵ The slouthfull body thrusteth his hode in to his bosome, and it greueth him to put it agayne to his mouth. ¹⁶ The slogarde thinketh him self wyser, then vij. men that sytt and teach.

¹⁹ And whan the LORDE sawe it, he was moued vnto wrath ouer his sonnes and his doughters.

²⁰ And she sayde vnto him: The Philistynes vpon the Samson. Now wha he awoke out of his slepe, he thoughte: I wil go forth as I haue done aforetyme, & ease my selfe, & knewe not yt the LORDE was departed from him. ²¹ But the Philistynes toke him, & put out his eyes, and broughte him downe to Gasa, & bounde him wt fetters, and made him to grynde in the preson.

²⁶ Dyd not Salomon ye kynge of Israel synne ther in? & yet amonge many Heythen was there no kynge like him, & he was deare vnto his God, and God made him kynge ouer all Israel, and the outlandish wemen.

¹² But my people wolde not heare my voyce, & Israel wolde not obeye me.

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. ¹⁹ All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, nether take they holde of the waye of life.

³ For the lippes of an harlot are a droppinge hony combe, and hir throte is softer then oyle. ⁴ But at ye last she is as bitter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde. ⁵ Hir fete go downe vnto death, and hir steppes pearse thorow vnto hell. ⁶ She regardeth not the path of life, so vnstedfast are hir wayes, that thou canst not knowe them. ⁷ Heare me therfore (o my sonne) and departe not fro the wordes of my mouth. ⁸ Kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye ye dores of hir house. ⁹ That thou geue not thine honor vnto another, and thy yeares to the cruell. ¹⁰ That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, & that thy labours come not in a straunge house. ¹¹ Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes) ¹² and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion? ¹³ Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me? ¹⁴ I am come almost in to all mysfortune, in the myddest of the multitude and congregacion. ¹⁵ Drinke of the water of thine owne well, and of the ryuers that runne out of thine owne spriges. ¹⁶ Let yi welles flowe out a brode, that there maye be ryuers of water in the stretes. ¹⁷ But let them be only thine owne, & not straungers with the. ¹⁸ Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ Louynge is the hynde, and frendly is the Roo: let her brestes alwaye satisfie the, and holde the euer content with hir loue. ²⁰ My sonne, why wilt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosome of another woma? ²¹ For euery mas wayes are open in the sight of the LORDE, and he podereth all their goinges. ²² The wickednesses of the vngodly shal catch himself, and with the snares of his owne synnes shal he be trapped. ²³ Because he wolde not be refourmed, he shal dye: and for his greate foolishnesse he shal be destroyed.

²⁴ that they maye kepe the fro the euell woman, & from the flaterynge tonge of the harlott: ²⁵ yt thou lust not after her beuty in thine herte, & lest thou be take wt hir fayre lokes. ²⁶ An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life. ²⁷ Maye a man take fyre in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent? ²⁸ Or can one go vpon hote coales, and his fete not be hurte? ²⁹ Euen so, who so euer goeth in to his neghbours wife, and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.

⁵ that she maye kepe ye fro ye strauge woma, & fro ye harlot which geueth swete wordes. ⁶ For out of the wyndowe of my house I loked thorow the trelies, ⁷ & behelde the simple people: & amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole ⁸ goinge ouer the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde the harlottes house ⁹ in the twylight of of the euenynge, when it begane now to be night and darcke. ¹⁰ And beholde, there mett him a woma in an harlottes apparell ¹¹ (a disceatfull, waton & an vnstedfast woma: whose fete coude not abyde in ye house, ¹² now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner) ¹³ she caught ye yoge ma, kyssed him & was not ashamed, sayege: ¹⁴ I had a vowe to paye, & this daye I perfourme it. ¹⁵ Therfore came I forth to mete the, that I might seke thy face, and so I haue founde the. ¹⁶ I haue deckte my bed with coueringes & clothes of Egipte. ¹⁷ My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes and Cynamom. ¹⁸ Come, let vs lye together, & take oure pleasure till it be daye light. ¹⁹ For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of. ²⁰ He hath taken the bagg of moneye with him, who can tell whe he cometh home? ²¹ Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him. 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) ²³ so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo. ²⁴ Heare me now therfore (o my sonne) and marcke the wordes of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes, & be not thou disceaued in hir pathes. ²⁶ For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne. ²⁷ Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.

²⁷ For an whore is a depe graue, and an harlot is a narow pytt.

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.

⁴ Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an vncleane thinge? No body.

⁵ Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.

²⁴ He that spareth the rodde, hateth his sonne: but who so loueth him, holdeth him euer in nurtoure.

¹⁸ Chaste yi sonne whyle there is hope, but let not yi soule be moued to slaye hi.

¹³ Witholde not correccion from ye childe, for yf thou beatest him wt the rodde, he shal not dye therof. ¹⁴ Thou smytest him wt the rodde, but thou delyuerest his soule from hell.

¹⁵ The rodde and correccion mynistre wy?dome, but yf a childe be not loked vnto, he bryngeth his mother to shame.

¹⁷ Nurtoure thy sonne with correccion, and he shal comforte the, yee he shal do the good at thine hert.

⁶ That which is borne of flesh, is flesh: & that which is borne of the sprete, is sprete.

³ amonge whom we also had oure conuersacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesh, and dyd the wyll of the flesh and of the mynde, and were naturally the children of wrath, euen as well as other.

¹⁰ And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he lerneth vs vnto yt which is profitable, that we mighte receaue of his holynes. ¹¹ No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby.

¹⁹ And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them. ²⁰ His bely coude neuer be fylled, therfore shall he perish in his couetousnesse. ²¹ He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere. ²² Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde. ²³ For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him: ²⁴ so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe. ²⁵ The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him. 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. ²⁹ This is the porcion that ye wicked shal haue of God, and the heretage that he maye loke for of the LORDE.

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.

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.

³ One poore man oppressinge another by violence, is like a contynuall rayne that destroyeth ye frute.

²² He that will be rich all to soone, hath an euell eye, and considereth not, that pouerte shall come vpon him.

² When they covet to haue londe, they take it by violence, they robbe men off their houses. Thus they oppresse a ma for his house, & euery man for his heretage. ³ Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE: Beholde, agaynst this housholde haue I deuysed a plage, wherout ye shal not plucke youre neckes: Ye shal nomore go so proudly, for it will be a perlous tyme.

⁹ Thus saieth ye LORDE of hoostes: Execute true iudgment: shewe mercy and louynge kyndnesse, euery man to his brother: ¹⁰ Do the wyddowe, the fatherlesse, the straunger, and poore no wronge: and let no man ymagen euell agaynst his brother in his hert. ¹¹ Neuertheles they wolde not take hede, but turned their backes, and stopped their eares, that they shulde not heare. ¹² yee they made their hertes as an Adamant stone, lest they shulde heare the lawe & wordes, which the LORDE of hoostes sent in his holy sprete by the prophetes afore tyme. Wherfore the LORDE of hoostes was very wroth at them. ¹³ And thus is it come to passe, that like as he spake and they wolde not heare: euen so they cried, and I wolde not heare (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) ¹⁴ but scatered them amonge all Gentiles, whom they knewe not. Thus the londe was made so desolate, yt there traualed no man in it nether to ner fro, for that pleasaunt londe was vtterly layed waist.

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.

¹² He sayde also vnto him that had bydden him: Wha thou makest a dyner or a supper, call not thy frendes, ner thy brethren, ner thy kynsfolkes, ner yi riche neghbours, lest they call the agayne, and recompece be made ye. ¹³ But wha thou makest a feast, call the poore, the crepell, the lame, the blynde, ¹⁴ then art thou blessed, for they can not recompece ye. But it shalbe recompensed the in the resurreccion of the righteous.

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.

¹³ For ther shalbe iudgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy, & mercy reioiseth against iudgment.

¹ Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you. ² Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten. ³ Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes: ⁴ Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth. ⁵ Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter.

¹² O teach vs to nombre oure dayes, that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wy?dome.

³ rightuousnesse, iudgment and equite.

² that thine eare maye herken vnto wysdome, applie thine herte then to vnderstodinge. ³ For yf thou criest after wy?dome, & callest for knowlege: ⁴ yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure: ⁵ The shalt thou vnderstonde ye feare of the LORDE, and fynde ye knowlege of God.

¹ My sonne, forget not my lawe, but se yt thine hert kepe my comaundemetes.

⁴ he taught me also, sayenge: let thine herte receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes, and thou shalt lyue. ⁵ Get the wy?dome, get the vnderstondinge, forget not ye wordes of my mouth, & shreke not from them. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shal preserue the: loue her, and she shal kepe the. 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.

¹ My sonne, geue hede vnto my wysdome, & bowe thine eare vnto my prudece: ² yt thou mayest regarde good councell, and that thy lippes maye kepe nurtoure.

³³ O geue eare vnto nurtoure, be wyse, and refuse it not. ³⁴ Blessed is ye man that heareth me, watchinge daylie at my gates, & geuynge attendaunce at the postes of my dores.

¹² Applie thine herte vnto lernynge, and thine eare to the wordes of knowlege.

²⁵ I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege, and to seke out sciece, wisdome and vnderstondinge: to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the erroure of dotinge fooles.

⁹ All these thinges haue I considered, and applied my mynde vnto euery worke that is vnder the Sonne: how one man hath lordshipe vpon another to his owne harme.

¹⁶ When I applied my mynde to lerne wy?dome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde (and that of soch a fashion, yt I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner night)

³ Enclyne youre eares, & come vnto me, take hede & youre soule shal lyue. For I will make an euerlastinge couenaunt with you, eue the sure mercies of Dauid.

⁵ Whyle he yet spake, beholde, a bright cloude ouershadowed them: and lo, there came a voyce out of the cloude, saienge: This is my deare sonne, in whom I delyte, heare him.

¹⁸ For I am full of wordes, & the sprete that is within me, copelleth me. ¹⁹ Beholde, I am as the new wyne which hath no vente, & bursteth the new vessels in sunder.

¹⁰ More pleasunt are they then golde, yee then moch fyne golde: sweter then hony & the hony combe.

¹³ With my lippes wil I be tellynge out all the iudgmentes of thy mouth.

¹⁰³ O how swete are thy wordes vnto my throte? Yee more the hony vnto my mouth.

¹¹¹ Thy testimonies haue I claymed as myne heretage for euer: & why? they are the very ioye of my herte.

¹⁶² I am as glad of thy worde, as one yt fyndeth greate spoyles.

¹⁷¹ My lippes shall speake of thy prayse, seynge thou hast taught me thy statutes.

¹⁰ Yf wy?dome entre in to thine herte, and yi soule delyte in knowlege:

¹⁷ Hir wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all hir pathes are peaceable.

⁶ Geue eare, for I wil speake of greate matters, & open my lippes to tell thinges that be right.

¹³ In ye lippes of him yt hath vnderstodinge a ma shal fynde wysdome, but ye rodde belogeth to ye backe of ye foolish.

²¹ The lippes of the rightuous fede a whole multitude, but fooles shal dye in their owne foly.

⁷ A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.

²¹ Who so hath a wyse vnderstondinge, is called to councell: but he yt can speake fayre, getteth more riches.

¹³ My sonne, thou eatest hony & ye swete hony cobe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth. ¹⁴ Euen so shall ye knowlege of wysdome be vnto yi soule, as soone as thou hast gotte it. And there is good hope, yee yi hope shal not be in vayne.

¹¹ A worde spoken in due season, is like apples of golde in a syluer dyshe.

¹⁶ When I had founde thy wordes, I at them vp gredely: they haue made my hert ioyfull & glad. For I call vpon thy name, o LORDE God off hoostes.

⁷ For the prestes lippes shulde be sure knowlege, that men maye seke the lawe at his mouth, for he is a messaunger of the LORDE of hoostes.

³⁸ He that beleueth on me, as the scripture sayeth, out of his body shal flowe ryuers of the water of life.

¹⁵ Let vs therfore by him offre allwayes vnto God the sacrifice of prayse: that is to saye, the frute of those lippes which confesse his name.

⁸ Oput yor trust in him allwaye (ye people) poure out yor hertes before him, for God is oure hope.

⁵ Put thy trust in ye LORDE with all thine herte, and leane not vnto thine owne vnderstondinge.

² Beholde, God is my health, in whom I trust, and am not afrayde. For the LORDE God is my strength, and my prayse, he also shalbe my refuge.

⁴ Hope stil in the LORDE, for in the LORDE God is euerlastinge stregth.

⁷ O Blissed is the man, that putteth his trust in the LORDE, and whose hope the LORDE is himself.

²¹ which thorow him beleue on God, that raysed him vp from the deed, and hath geue him the glory, that ye might haue faith & hope in God:

⁶ The wordes of the LORDE are pure wordes: eue as ye syluer, which from earth is tried and purified vij. tymes in the fyre.

¹² Though I shewe the my lawe neuer so moch, they counte it but straunge doctrine.

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.

¹⁹ We haue also a sure worde of prophecie, and ye do well that ye take hede thervnto, as vnto a lighte that shyneth in a darke place vntyll the daye dawne, and the daye starre aryse in youre hertes. ²⁰ And this shal ye knowe first, that no prophecie in the scripture is done of eny priuate interpretacion. ²¹ For the prophecie was neuer broughte by the wyll of man, but the holy men of God spake, as they were moued of ye holy goost.

³ I thought it good (after that I had diligently searched out all from the begynnynge) to wryte the same orderly vnto the (good Theophilus) ⁴ that thou mightest knowe the certete of ye wordes, wherof thou art infourmed.

³¹ But these are wrytte, yt ye shulde beleue, yt Iesus is Christ the sonne of God, & that ye thorow beleue might haue life in his name.

¹⁵ but sanctifye the LORDE God in youre hertes. Be ready allwayes to geue an answere to euery ma, that axeth you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with mekenes & feare,

¹³ These thinges haue I wrytte vnto you, which beleue on the name of the sonne of God, that ye maye knowe, how that ye haue eternall life, and that ye maye beleue on ye name of the sonne of God.

⁶ Thou shalt not wraist the righte of thy poore in his cause.

¹² For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe. ¹³ He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.

¹⁶ When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne?

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:

¹⁰ Remoue not ye olde lande marke, and come not within ye felde of the fatherlesse: ¹¹ For he yt deliuereth them is mightie, euen he shal defende their cause agaynst the.

²⁹ The people in the londe vseth wicked extorcio and robbery. They vexe the poore and nedy: and oppresse the straunger agaynst right.

¹⁰ Do the wyddowe, the fatherlesse, the straunger, and poore no wronge: and let no man ymagen euell agaynst his brother in his hert.

⁵ I will come & punysh you, & I myself wil be a swift wytnes agaynst the witches, agaynst the aduouterers, agaynst false swearers: yee ad agaynst those, that wrogeously kepe backe the hyrelynges dewty: which vexe the wyddowes & the fatherlesse, & oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.

¹² The LORDE shal be iudge betwene me and the, and auenge me on the, but my hade shal not be vpon the,

¹⁵ The LORDE be iudge, and geue sentence betwene me and the, and cosidre it, and defende my cause, and delyuer me from thy hande.

³⁹ Whan Dauid herde that Nabal was deed, he sayde: Blessed be ye LORDE which hath auenged my rebuke on Nabal, and preserued his seruaunt from euell. And the LORDE hath rewarded Nabal that euell vpon his heade. And Dauid sent, and caused to talke with Abigail, yt he mighte take her to wife.

¹ Stryue thou with them (o LORDE) that stryue wt me, fight thou agaynst them that fight agaynst me.

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

¹ Geue sentence vpon me (o God) & defende my cause agaynst the vnholy people: Oh delyuer me from the disceatfull & wicked man.

⁵ He is a father of ye fatherlesse, he is a defender of widdowes: eue God in his holy habitacio.

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

¹¹ For he yt deliuereth them is mightie, euen he shal defende their cause agaynst the.

¹ Therfore wo vnto the (o robber) shalt not thou be robbed also? and vnto the that laiest wait, as who saye there shulde no waite be layde for the? Wo vnto the which doest hurte, euen so shalt thou be hurt also. And as thou layest waite, so shal wait be layde for the also.

³⁴ but their aveger & redemer is mightie, whose name is the LORDE of hoostes: he shal manteyne their cause, he shal make the londe shake, & iudge them that dwell therin, one with another.

³⁶ Therfore thus saieth the LORDE: Beholde, I wil defende thy cause, & avenge the: I will drynke vp hir see, & drye vp hir water sprynges.

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.

⁸ Seinge thou hast spoyled many Heithen, therfore shall the remnaunt of the people spoyle the: because of mens bloude, & for the wronge done in the londe, in the cite & vnto all them that dwel therin.

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

¹⁴ Set youre selues therfore at large.Beare not a straunge yock with the vnbeleuers. For what fellishippe hath righteousnes with vnrighteousnes? What company hath lighte wt darknesse? ¹⁵ How agreeth Christ with Belial? Or what parte hath the beleuer with the infydele? ¹⁶ How acordeth ye teple of God with ymages? Ye are the temple of the lyuynge God, as sayeth God: I wyl dwell in them, and walke in them, and wyl be their God, & they shalbe my people. ¹⁷ Wherfore come out from amoge them, and separate youre selues (sayeth the LORDE) and touche no vncleane thinge, so wyl I receaue you,

³⁵ But were mengled amonge the Heithen, and lerned their workes.

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

³³ Be not ye disceaued. Euell speakinges corruppe good maners.

¹ My sone, yf thou be suertie for yi neghboure, thou hast fastened thine hode wt another ma: ² yee thou art boude with thine owne wordes, and taken wt thine owne speach. ³ Therfore (my sonne) do this, discharge thy self, for thou art come i to yi neghbours daunger. Go thy waye then soone, & intreate thy neghboure: ⁴ let not thyne eyes slepe, ner thine eye lyddes slomber. ⁵ Saue thy self as a doo fro ye honde, & as a byrde fro the hode of the fouler.

¹⁵ He that is suertye for a straunger, hurteth himself: but he that medleth not with suerteshippe, is sure.

¹⁸ Who so promiseth by the hande, & is suertie for another, he is a foole.

¹³ Take his garment that is suertie for a straunger, & take a pledge of him for the vnknowne mans sake.

²⁶ Yf thou take a garment of thy neghboure to pledge, thou shalt geue it him agayne before the Sonne go downe: ²⁷ for his raymet is his onely couerynge of his skynne: wherin he slepeth. But yf he shall crie vnto me, I wyll heare him: for I am mercifull.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is suertie for a straunger, & take a pledge of him for ye vnknowne mans sake.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not remoue thy neghbours marck, which they of olde tyme haue set in thine enheritaunce, that thou enheretest in the londe, which the LORDE thy God hath geuen the to possesse it.

¹⁷ Cursed be he, yt remoueth his neghbours mark. And all the people shal saye, Amen.

² For some me there be, that remoue other mes londe markes: that robbe them of their catell, and kepe the same for their owne:

¹⁰ Remoue not ye olde lande marke, and come not within ye felde of the fatherlesse:

⁴⁶ (And he was thirtie yeare olde, whan he stode before Pharao.) And he departed from Pharao, and wente thorow all the lande of Egipte.

⁸ Happye are thy people and thy seruauntes, that allwaie stonde before the, and heare thy wy?dome.

²⁸ And Ieroboam was a ma of armes. And whan Salomon sawe that it was a mete yonge man, he set him ouer all the burthens of the house of Ioseph.

⁴ An ydle hande maketh poore, but a quycke laboringe hande maketh riche.

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

¹⁰ What so euer thou takest in hande to do, that do with all thy power: for amoge the deed (where as thou goest vnto) there is nether worke, councell, knowlege ner wy?dome.

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.

¹¹ Be not slouthfull in the busynesse that ye haue in hande. Be feruent in the sprete. Applye youre selues vnto the tyme.

² Preach thou the worde, be feruent, be it in season or out of season: Improue, rebuke, exhorte with all longe sufferynge and doctryne.