Proverbs 24 Cross References - Great

¹ Be not thou gelous ouer wycked men, and desyre not to be amonge them. ² For ther herte ymagyneth to do hurte, and theyr lyppes talke of myschefe. ³ Thorow wysdome is an house buyled, and wyth vnderstandynge is it sett vp. ⁴ Thorow discrecion shalt the chambers be fylled with all costly and pleasaunt ryches. ⁵ A wyse man is euer stronge, yee, a man of vnderstanding encreaseth of strength. ⁶ For with discrecyon must warres be taken in hande, & where as are many that can geue councell, there is the victory. ⁷ Wysdom is to hye a thinge for a fole, for he darre not open his mouth in the gate. ⁸ He that ymagyneth myschefe, maye welbe called an vngracious personne. ⁹ The thought of the foolysh is synne, & the scornefull is an abhominacion vnto men. ¹⁰ If thou be ouersene and negligent in tyme of nede, then is thy strength but smal. ¹¹ Deliuer them that go vnto death, & are led awaye to be slayne, & be not neglygent therin yf thou be able to do them good. ¹² If thou wilt saye: I knewe not of it. Thinkest thou that he which made the hertes, doth not considre it? & that he which regardeth thy soule, seeth it not? Shall not be recompence euery man according to his worckes? ¹³ My sonne, thou eatest hony & the swete hony combe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth. ¹⁴ Euen so shall the knowledge of wysdome be vnto thy soule, assone as thou hast gotten it. And thow shalt haue longe dayes, yee, thy hope shall not be in vayne. ¹⁵ Laye no preuy wayte (o wicked man) vpon the house of the ryghteous & disquiete not his restyng place. ¹⁶ For a iust man falleth seuen tymes, & ryseth vp agayne, but the vngodly fall into wyckednes. ¹⁷ Reioyce not thou at the fall of thyne enemye, & lett not thyne herte be glad when he stombleth. ¹⁸ Lest the Lord (when seith it) be angrye, and turne hys wrath from hym vnto the. ¹⁹ Let not thy wrath & gelousy moue the, to folowe the wycked & vngodly. ²⁰ And why? the wicked shall haue no posterite, and the candle of the vngodly shall be put out. ²¹ My sonne, feare thou the Lord & the kynge, & kepe no company wt them that slyde backe from his feare: ²² for theyr destruccion shall come sodenly, & who knoweth the aduersyte that maye come from them both? ²³ These are also the sayenges of the wyse. It is not good, to haue respecte of any persone in iudgement. ²⁴ He that sayeth to the vngodly: thou arte ryghteous hym shall the people curse, yee, the comentie shall abhorre him. ²⁵ But they that rebuke the vngodly, In them doth God delite, & a ryche blessyng shall come vpon them. ²⁶ Euery man shall kysse his lyppes, that geueth a good answere. ²⁷ Fyrst make vp thy worck that is without, & loke well vnto that which thou hast in the felde & then buylde thyne house. ²⁸ Be no false witnesse agaist thy neyghbour & speake no falshode wt thy lyppes. ²⁹ Saye not: I will handle him, euen as he hath dealte wt me, & wyll rewarde euery man accordinge to his dedes. ³⁰ I went by the felde of the slouthfull, & by the vyneiarde of the foolysh man. ³¹ And lo, it was all couered wt nettels, & stode full of thystles, & the stone wall was broken downe. ³² Thys I sawe, & considered it well: I loked vpon it, & toke it for a warnyng. ³³ Yee, slepe on styll a lytle, slombre a lytle, folde thy handes together yet a lytle: ³⁴ so shall pouerte come vnto the as one that trauayleth by the waye, & necessite lyke a weapened man.

¹⁰ And so Lot lyftynge vp hys eyes, beholde all the contre of Iordane, which was a plenteous contre of water euery where, before the Lord destroyed Sodome & Gomorra, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypte as thou commest vnto Zoar. ¹¹ Than Lot chose all the playne countrey of Iordane & toke hys iourney from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other. ¹² Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan: and Lot abode in the cyties of the playne, & tented vntyll Sodome. ¹³ But the men of Sodome were wicked, and exceadynge synners before the Lorde.

¹ And there came .ij. angels to Sodome at euen. And Lot sat at the gate of Sodome. And Lot seinge them, rose vp to mete them, and he bowed him selfe to the grounde wt his face. ² And he sayde: my Lordes, turne in I praye you in to youre seruauntes house & tary all nyghte & washe youre fete & ye shall ryse vp early to go on youre wayes. Whych sayde: nay, but we wyll byde in the streates all nyghte. ³ And he in maner dyd euen compelle them violently. And they turnynge in vnto him entred in to his house, & he made them a feaste & did bake swete bred, & they did eat ⁴ And before they went to rest, the men of the cytie (euen the men of Sodome) compassed the house rounde aboute both olde & yonge, all the people from all quarters. ⁵ And they callynge vnto Lot, sayde vnto him: where are the men which came into the thys nyght? brynge them out vnto vs & we will knowe them. ⁶ And Lot went out at the doores vnto them and shut the dore after hym ⁷ and sayde: naye for goddes sake brethren, do not so wyckedly. ⁸ Beholde I haue two daughters which haue knowne no man, them will I brynge out nowe vnto you: & do with them as it semeth good in your eyes. Only vnto these men do nothinge, for therfore came they in vnder the shadowe of my rofe. ⁹ And they sayde: stonde back. And they sayde: he came in as one to sciourne, & wyll he be nowe a iudge? we wyll suerly deale worse with the than with them. And they preased sore vpon the man, euen Lot: & came to breake vp the doore, ¹⁰ but the men put forth their hande & pulled Lot in to the house to them and shut to the doore. ¹¹ And the men that were at the doore of the house, they smote with blyndnesse both small & greate: so that they faynted and coulde not fynde the doore.

⁹ O shutt not vp my soule with the synners, ner my lyfe with the bloudthurstye.

¹ A Psalme of Dauid. Fret not thy self because of the vngodly: nether be thou enuyous agaynst the euell doers.

⁷ Holde the styll in the Lorde, & abyde pacyently vpon him: but greue not thy selfe at hym, whose waye doth prospere agenst the man that doth after euell councels.

³ And why I was greued at the wicked, I do se also the vngodly in soch prosperite.

¹¹ yf they entise the, & saye: come with vs, we will laye wayte for bloude, & lurcke preuely for the innocent without a cause: ¹² we shall swalowe then vp lyke the hell, & deuoure them quycke and hole, as those that go downe into the pyt. ¹³ So shall we fynde all maner of costelye ryches, & fill our houses wt spoyles. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among vs: & let vs haue all one purse. ¹⁵ My sonne, walke not thou with them: refrayne thy fote from their waye.

³¹ Folowe not a wicked man, and chose none of hys wayes:

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wyse men, shalbe wyse: but whoso is a companyon of fooles, shalbe hurte.

¹⁷ Let not thyne herte be gelous to folowe synners, but kepe the styll in the feare of the Lord all the daye longe:

¹⁹ Let not thy wrath & gelousy moue the, to folowe the wycked & vngodly.

¹⁹ The dedes of the flesshe are manyfeste, which are these: aduoutery, fornicacion, vnclennes, wantannes, ²⁰ worshypping of ymages, witchcraft, hatred, variaunce, zele, wrathe, stryfe, sedicyons, sectes, ²¹ enuyinge, murther, dronkennes, glottonye, and soche lyke: of the which I tell you before as I haue told you in tyme past, that they which commyt soch thinges shall not be inheritours of the kyngdome of God.

⁵ Ether do ye thynke that the scripture sayth in vayne. The sprete the dwelleth in vs, lusteth euen contrary to enuy: ⁶ but geueth more grace.

⁹ And Dauid hauing knowlege that Saul imagened myschef against him, sayd, to Abiathar the preast: Bryng the Ephod.

⁶ and thought it to lyttell to laye handes onely on Mardocheus: for they had shewed him the nacion of Mardocheus, wherfore he sought to destroye all the Iewes, that were thorow out the whole empyre of Ahasuerus, and that were of the nacion of Mardocheus. ⁷ In the fyrst moneth (that is the moneth Nisan) in the twelueth yeare of kyng Ahasuerus they cast Phur (that is a lott) before Haman from daye to daye, and from moneth to moneth, to the twelueth moneth that is the moneth Adar.

³⁵ He conceaueth trauayle, and beareth vanyte, and theyr bodye bryngeth forth disceate.

¹⁴ Beholde he trauayleth with myschefe, he hath conceaued sorow, and brought forth vngodlynesse.

⁷ He sytteth lurkinge in the theuish corners of the stretes, & priuely in his lurkynge dennes doth he murthur the innocent: his eyes are set agaynst the poore.

³ O plucke me not awaye with the vngodly and wicked doers which speake frendly to their neyghbours, but ymagine myschefe in their hertes.

⁴ He ymagyneth myschefe vpon hys bedd, and hath set hym selfe in no good waye, nether doth he abhore any thyng that is euell.

⁴ That they maye preuely shote at him which is perfecte: sodenly do they hit him & feare not. ⁵ They courage them selues in myschefe, and commune amonge them selues, how they maye laye snares: and saye, that no man shall se them. ⁶ They ymagin wickednes, & practyse it that they kepe secrete amonge them selues, euery man in the depe of his hert.

² Which ymagin myschefe in their hertes: and stere vp strife all the daye longe.

¹⁴ he is euer ymagenynge myschefe, and frowardnesse in hys herte, & causeth discorde.

⁸ He that ymagyneth myschefe, maye welbe called an vngracious personne.

⁴ No man regardeth ryghteousnes, and no man iudgeth truly. Euery man hopeth in vayne thynges, and ymagineth disceate conceaueth weerynesse, and bryngeth forth euell.

³ yet they saye they do well when they do euel. As the prince will, so sayeth the iudge: that he maye do him a pleasure agayne. The greate man speaketh what his herte desireth: & the hearers alowe him.

³ Then assembled together the chefe prestes & the scrybes & the elders of the people vnto the palace of the hye preste, (whych was called Cayphas) ⁴ and helde a counsell, that they myght take Iesus by suttelte, and kyll him.

²⁰ Pylate spake agayne to them wyllynge to let Iesus losse, ²¹ But they cryed, sayinge: Crucifye hym, Crucifye hym.

¹⁰ and sayde. O full of all suttelty and disseytfulnesse, thou chylde of the deuyll, thou enemy of all righteousnes: wilt thou not cease to peruerte the strayght wayes of the Lorde?

²⁶ For so shall thy name be magnified for euer, of men that shall saye: the Lorde of Hostes is the God of Israell: and the house of thy seruaunt shall be stablyshed before the.

¹ Wysdome hath buylded her selfe an house, & hewen out seuen pyllers:

¹ Wyse women vpholde theyr house, but a folysh wyfe plucketh it downe.

¹² But (as for oure God) He made the earth wt his power, and with his wysdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discrecyon hath he spred out the heauens.

⁹ For we are Goddes labourers, ye are Goddes husbandrye, ye are Goddes buyldyng:

⁷ so that ye be rotyd and buylte in hym, and stablysshed thorow fayth, as ye haue learned: and therin be plenteous with geuynge thankes.

²² And Salomons breed for one daye was .xxx. quarters of manchet floure, and thre skore quarters of meale: ²³ ten stalled oxen, and .xx. out of the pastures, and a hundred shepe, besyde hertes, buckes, and wilde goates and capons. ²⁴ For he ruled in all the region on the other side Euphrates, from Thiphsah to Aza; ouer all the kynges on the other syde the ryuer. And he had peace with all hys seruauntes on euery syde. ²⁵ And Iuda and Israel dwelt without feare, euery man vnder hys vyne and vnder hys fygg tre, from Dan to Beerseba, all the dayes of Salomon. ²⁶ And Salomon had .xl.M. stalles of horses for charrettes, and .xij.M. horsmen. ²⁷ And the officers prouyded vytayle for kyng Salomon and for all that came out of any place to kynge Salomons table, euery man hys moneth, so that there lacked nothyng. ²⁸ Barlye also and straw for the horses and mules, brought they vnto the place where the offycers were, euery man in hys offyce.

²⁵ Ouer the kynges treasures was Azmaueth the sonne of Adiel. And ouer the treasures of the feldes, in the cyties & villages & castelles, was Iehonathan, the sonne of Uziahu. ²⁶ And ouer the worckmen in the feldes that tylled the ground, was Ezri the sonne of Chelub. ²⁷ And the ouersyght of the vineyardes had Semei the Ramathite. Ouer the increase also of the vineyardes, & ouer the winesellers was Sabdi the Hasiphunite. ²⁸ And ouer the oliuetrees & mulberytrees that were in the valeyes, was Baal Hanan the Gederite. And ouer the treasure of oyle, was Ioas: ²⁹ ouer the oxen that fed in Saron, was Setari the Saronite. And ouer the oxen that were in the valeyes was Saphat the sonne of Adlai. ³⁰ Ouer the camelles, Obil the Ismaelyte. And ouer the Asses was Iohadtahu the Meronothite. ³¹ Ouer the shepe, was Iazis the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance of kynge Dauid.

² Moreouer, I haue prepared wt all my myghte for the house of God: golde for vessels of golde, syluer fer them of syluer, brasse for thynges of brasse, yron for thynges of yron, & wood for thynges of wood: and onix stones, and stones to be sett, glystringe stones and of diuerse coloure, and all maner of preciouse stones, and marble stones in great aboundance. ³ And because I haue lust to the house of my God: ⁴ I haue of myne owne propre good, of golde and syluer whych I haue seuerally geuen to the house of my God, besyde all that I haue prepared for the holy house: euen thre thousande talentes of golde of Ophir, and seuen thousande talentes of tryed syluer: to ouerlaye the walles of the houses withall: ⁵ the golde for thynges of golde syluer for them of syluer, & for all maner of worcke by the handes of artifycers. And whosoeuer is willing, maye this daye consecrate hys hande vnto the Lorde. ⁶ And so the auncient fathers and the Lordes of the trybes of Israel, the captaynes of thousandes and hundredes, with the Lordes that were rulers ouer the kynges worke, were wyllynge ⁷ and gaue for the seruyce of the house of God, fyue thousande talentes of Golde, and ten thousande peces of golde: and ten thousande talentes of syluer, and .xviij. thousande talentes of brasse, and an hundred thousande talentes of yron. ⁸ And they with whom preciouse stones were founde gaue them to the treasure of the house of the Lord, by the hande of Ichiel the Gersonite. ⁹ And the people reioysed, whan they were so wyllynge to geue their goodes, and wyth a perfecte hert they offred vnto the Lorde. And Dauid the kynge reioysed wyth great gladnesse.

¹⁸ And Salomon made all these vesselles in greate aboundaunce, for the weight of brasse coulde not be rekened. ¹⁹ And Salomon made all the vesselles that were for the house of God: the golden aulter also & the tables to sett the shewbred vpon ²⁰ Moreouer, the candelstickes with their lampes (to burne after the maner before the quere) and that of precious golde: ²¹ and the floures and the lampes, and the snoffers made he of golde, and that perfecte golde: ²² and the dressynge knyues, basens, spones and censers of pure golde. And the dore of the temple, and the ynner dores within the place moost holye, and the ynner dores of the temple, were gylted. And so was all the worcke that Salomon made for the house of the Lorde fynisshed.

⁴ And he did that which was right in the syght of the Lorde, accordynge to all, as dyd hys father Amaziahu. ⁵ And it came to passe, that he sought God in the dayes of zachariahu (which mayntened the feare of God) & as longe as he sought the Lorde, God made hym to prospere. ⁶ And he went to batell agaynst the Philistines, and brake downe the wall of Geth, & the wall of Iabne, and the wall of Asdob, & buylt cyties about Asdod & among the Philistines. ⁷ And God holpe him against the Philistines, and agaynst the Arabiens that dwelt in Gurbaal and Hammehunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites gaue tribute to Uzia, and his name spredde abroade euen to the entryng in of Egypte: for he played the man exceadingly. ⁹ Moreouer Uzia buylt towres in Ierusalem by the corner gate, & by the valeye gate, and at the turninge of the wall, and made them stronge. ¹⁰ And he buylt towres in the wyldernesse, and digged many welles: For he had moche catell, in the valeys and playnes, plowmen and vynedressers in the mountaynes and in Charmel, for he loued husbandrye: ¹¹ And Uzia had an host of fyghtynge men that went out to warre in the armye accordynge to the nombre of theyr office vnder the hande of Ieiel the scrybe & Maasiahu the ruler, & vnder the hande of Hananiahu which was one of the kynges Lordes.

³⁹ For the chyldren of Israel & the chyldren of Leui shall brynge vp the heueofferynges of the corne, wyne and oyle vnto the store houses, there as are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the preastes that minister, & the porters and syngers, that we forsake not the house of oure God.

⁵ & had made him a great chambre, & there had they afore tyme layed the offeringes, frankencense, vessell, & the tythes of corne, and wyne and oyle (accordyng to the commaundement geuen to the Leuites, syngers and porters) and the heueofferynges of the preastes: ⁶ But in all this tyme was not I at Ierusalem: for in the two & thyrtie yeare of Artaxerses kyng of Babylon, came I vnto the kyng, and after certayne dayes optayned I lycence of the kyng ⁷ to come to Ierusalem. And I gat knowlege of the euell that Eliasib dyd vnto Tobia, in that he had made him a chambre in the court of the house of God, ⁸ and it greued me sore, & I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobia out of the chambre, ⁹ and commaunded them to clense the chambres. And thither brought I agayne the vessels of the house of God, with the meatoffering, and the incense. ¹⁰ And I perceaued, that the porcions of the Leuites were not geuen them, and that euery one fled to his land, euen the Leuites and syngers that executed the worke. ¹¹ Then reproued I the rulers, & sayd? why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, & set them in their place. ¹² Then brought all Iuda the tythes of corne, & wyne and oyle vnto the treasure. ¹³ And I made treasurers ouer the treasure, euen Selemiah the preast, & Zadoc the scrybe, and of the Leuites, Phadaia, & vnder their hand was Hanan the sonne of Zacur the sonne of Mathania: for they were counted faythfull, and their office was to distribute the porcions vnto their brethren.

²¹ That I maye sende prosperite to those that loue me, and to encrease their treasure.

⁶ The house of the ryghteous is full of ryches, but the increase of the vngodly are nye destruccion.

¹⁵ A man that hath a mouth of vnderstandynge hathe many precyous stones and costly Iewels.

²⁰ In a wyse mannes house, there is greate treasure and oyle: but a foolysh body spendeth vp all.

²³ Se that thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy selfe, & loke well to thy flockes. ²⁴ For ryches abyde not alwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer. ²⁵ The heye groweth, the grasse commeth vp, & herbes are gathered in the mountaynes. ²⁶ The lambes shall clothe the and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry. ²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy housholde, and to susteyne thy maydens.

⁵² Then sayde he vnto them. Therfore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kyngedome of heauen, is lyke vnto a man that is an housholder, which bryngeth forth out of his treasure, thinges newe and olde.

⁷ They wyll go from strength, and vnto the God of Goddes appeareth euery one of them in Sion.

¹⁴ I can geue councell, and I conferre thinges: I haue vnderstanding, I haue strength.

²⁹ The waye of the Lorde geueth a courage vnto the godly, but it is a feare for wycked doers.

²² A wyse man wynneth the citye of the myghtye: and as for the strength that they trust in, he bryngeth it downe.

¹⁹ Wysdome geueth more corage vnto the wyse, then ten myghtie men of the citye:

¹⁴ There was a lytle citie, & a fewe men within it: so there came a greate kyng and beseged it, and made greate bulwarkes agaynst it. ¹⁵ And in the citie there was founde a poore man, (but he was wyse) which with hys wysdome delyuered the citye: yet was there no body, that had eny respect vnto soch a simple man. ¹⁶ Then sayde I: wysdome is better then strength. Neuertheles, a symple mans wysdome is despised, & hys wordes are not herde. ¹⁷ A wyse mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the cryenge of a captayne amonge fooles. ¹⁸ For wysdome is better then harnesse: but one vnthryst alone destroyeth moch good.

³¹ But vnto them that haue the Lord before theyr eyes, shall strength be encreased. Aegles wynges shall growe vpon them. When they runne they shall not fall: and when they go, they shall not be weery.

¹¹ strengthed with all myght, thorowe hys glorious power, vnto all pacience and longe sufferynge with ioyfulnes

¹⁴ Where no good councell is, there the people decaye: but where as many are that can geue councell, there is wealth,

²² Unaduysed thoughtes shall come to naught, but where as men are that canne geue councell, there is stedfastnesse.

¹⁸ Thorowe councell, the thynges that men deuyse go forwarde: and wt discrecion ought warres to be taken in hande.

³¹ Or what kyng goinge to make batayle agaynst another kinge, sytteth not downe fyrst, and casteth in his mynde, whether he be able with ten thousande, to mete him, that commeth agaynst him with .xx. thousande?

²⁵ Euery man that proueth masteries, abstayneth from all thynges. And they do it to obtayne a crowne that shall perysshe: but we to obtayne an euerlasting crowne. ²⁶ I therfore so runne, not as at an vncertayne thyng. So fyght I, not as one that beateth the ayer: ²⁷ but I tame my body, & brynge it into subieccyon, lest by anye meanes it come to passe, that whan I haue preached to other, I my selfe shulde be a cast awaye.

¹⁰ Finally my brethren, be stronge thorowe the Lorde and thorowe the power of his myght. ¹¹ Put on all the armoure of God, that ye maye stande agaynst the assautes of the deuyll. ¹² For we wrestle not agaynst bloude and flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldy rulers, euen gouerners of the darcknes of thys worlde, agaynst spretuall craftynes in heauenly thynges. ¹³ Wherfore take vnto you the whole armoure of God, that ye maye be able to resyste in the euyll daye, and stande perfecte in all thinges. ¹⁴ Stande therfore, and youre loynes gyrd with the trueth, hauynge on the brest plate of ryghtewesnes, ¹⁵ & hauynge shoes on youre fete, that ye maye be prepared for the Gospell of peace. ¹⁶ Aboue all, take to you the shylde of fayth, wherwith ye maye quenche all the fyrie dartes of the wycked. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of saluacyon, and the swearde of the sprete, which is the worde of God. ¹⁸ And praye all wayes with all maner of prayer and supplicacyon in the sprete: and watch ther vnto with all instance and supplycacyon for all saynctes ¹⁹ and for me, that vtteraunce maye be geuen vnto me that I maye open my mouth frely, to vtter the secretes of my Gospell ²⁰ (wherof I am messenger in bondes) that therin I maye speake frely, as I ought to speake.

¹¹ But thou man of God, flye soch thynges. Folowe ryghtewesnes, godlynes, fayth, loue, pacience, meaknes. ¹² Fyght the good fyght of fayth. Laye, hande on eternall lyfe, wher vnto thou art also called, and hast professed a good professyon before many witnesses.

⁷ I haue fought a good fyght, I haue fulfylled my course, I haue kept the fayth.

⁴ Hys chyldren were without prosperite, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to delyuer them.

⁷ when I wente thorowe the cytie vnto the gate, and when they set me a chayre in the strete: ⁸ when the yonge men (as soone as they sawe me) hid them selues, and when the aged arose, and stode vp vnto me, ⁹ when the Princes left of their talkinge, and layed their hande to their mouth: ¹⁰ when the myghty kepte still their voyce, and when their tonge cleued to the rofe of their mouthe. ¹¹ When all they that herde me, called me happye: and when all they that sawe me, spake good of me. ¹² For I deliuered the poore when he cried, and so did I the fatherlesse and him that had none to holde him. ¹³ He that shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, and the wyddowes herte praysed me. ¹⁴ And why? I put vpon me ryghteousnes, which couered me as a garment, and equyte was my crowne. ¹⁵ I was an eye vnto the blynde, and a fote to the lame, ¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckte the spoyle out of his teth. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely that I shuld haue dyed in my nest: and that my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see. ¹⁹ For my roote was spred out by the watersyde, and the dewe laye vpon my corne. ²⁰ Myne honour encreased more and more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hand. ²¹ Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with sylence they taryed for my councell. ²² If I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge them. ²³ They wayted for me as for the rayne: and gaped vpon me, as the grounde doth to receaue the latter shower. ²⁴ When I laughed, they knewe well it was not earnest: and the lyght of my countenaunce wolde they not put out. ²⁵ When I agreed vnto theyr waye, I was the chefe, and sat as a kynge with hys armye aboute hym. And whan they were in heuynes, I was theyr comfortoure.

²¹ Dyd I euer lyfte vp my hande to hurte the fatherlesse? yee, in the gate where I sawe my selfe to be in auctorite:

⁵ His wayes are allway greuous, thy iudgementes are farre aboue out of his syght, & therfore defyeth he all his enemyes.

⁵ O Lord, how glorious are thy workes: thy thoughtes are very depe. ⁶ An vnwyse man doth not well considre this, and a foole doth not vnderstande it.

⁶ A scornefull body seketh wysdome, and fyndeth it not: but knowledge is easy to come by, vnto hym that wyll vnderstande.

²⁴ The waye of lyfe leadeth vnto heauen, that a man shulde beware of hell beneth.

²⁴ Wysdome shyneth in the face of him that hath vnderstandynge, but the eyes of fooles wandre thorowe out all landes.

²² Se that thou robbe not the poore, because he is weake, & oppresse not the simple in iudgment:

⁸ Be thou an aduocate, for the dombe and stande in iudgement thy selfe, to speake for all soch as be socourles in this transitorye worlde. ⁹ Open thy mouth, defende the thynge that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

²¹ makynge a man to synne in the worde, and that toke hym in a snare which reproued them in the open place: and they that haue turned the cause of the ryghteous to naught.

¹⁰ But they owe him euell will, that reproueth them openly: and who so telleth them the playne trueth, they abhorre hym.

¹² as for the multitude of youre wyckednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them ryght well. Enemyes are ye of the ryghteous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgement.

¹⁵ Hate the euell, and loue the good: set vp ryght agayne in the porte: and (no doute) the Lorde God of Hoostes shalbe mercyfull vnto the remnaunt of Ioseph.

¹⁴ The naturall man perceaueth not the thinges that belonge to the sprete of God. For they are but folyshnes vnto him. Nether can he perceaue them, because they are spretually examined.

⁴⁴ The kynge sayde moreouer to Semei: thou remembrest all the wyckednesse which thyne hert knoweth, and that thou dyddest to Dauid my father. The Lorde also shall brynge thy wyckednesse vpon thyne awne heed:

¹¹ For they intended myschefe agaynst the, and ymagined soch a deuyce, as they are not able to perfourme.

¹⁸ an herte that goeth aboute wyth wycked ymaginacyons fete that be swyfte in rennynge to do myschefe,

²² Without doute they erre that ymagyne wyckednes, but they that muse vpon good thynges, vnto soche shall happen mercy and faythfulnesse

² For ther herte ymagyneth to do hurte, and theyr lyppes talke of myschefe.

⁹ The thought of the foolysh is synne, & the scornefull is an abhominacion vnto men.

⁷ Howbeit, his meanyng is not so nether thynketh his hert of thys fasshyon. But he ymagineth onely, how he may rote out and destroye moch people, ⁸ for he sayeth are not my Prynces all Kynges? ⁹ Is not Calno as easye to wynne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquere Hamath then Arphad? Or is it lyghter to ouercome Damascus then Samaria? ¹⁰ As who say: I were able to wynne the Kyngdome of the Idolaters and their goddes: but not Ierusalem & Samaria. ¹¹ Shal I not do vnto Ierusalem & their ymages, as I dyd vnto Samaria and their ydoles? ¹² Wherfore the Lord sayeth: Assone as I haue perfourmed my whole worcke vpon the hyll of Syon and Ierusalem, then wyll I vyset the noble and stoute hart of the kynge of Assyria, with hys proude lookes. ¹³ For he standeth thus in his awne conceate: This do I thorowe the power of myne awne hande, and thorow my wysdome: For I am wyse, I am he that remoue the landes of the people: I robbe their treasures: and (lyke one of the worthyes) I dryue them from their hye seates.

⁷ These are the perlous weapons of the churlysh, these be his shamefull councels: that he maye begyle the poore with disceatfull wordes: yee, euen there as he shulde geue sentence with the poore.

¹⁰ Moreouer, thus sayeth the Lord God: At the same tyme shal many thinges come into thy mynde, so that thou shalt ymagyn myschefe, ¹¹ and saye: I wyll vp to yonder playne lande, seinge they syt at ease, & dwell so safely (for they dwell all without any walles they haue nether barres nor dores)

¹¹ There come oute of the soch as Imagin myschefe, & geue vngracious councell agaynst the Lorde.

³⁰ backbyters, haters of God, dysdaynfull, proude, boasters, bringers vp of euyll thynges, disobedyent to father and mother,

⁵ But God sawe that the malyce of man was greate in the erth, and all the ymaginacyon of the thoughtes of hys hert was onely euell euery daye.

²¹ And the Lorde smelled a swete (or quyete) sauoure. And the Lorde sayde in his herte: I wyll not proceade to curse the grounde any more for mannes sake, for the ymagynacyon of mans hert is euel euen from hys youth. Neyther wyl I adde to smite any more euery thynge liuynge, as I haue done,

¹¹³ I hate them that ymagen euell thynges, but thy lawe do I loue.

¹⁰ Cast out the scornefull man, and so shall stryfe go out wt hym: yee, variaunce & sclaunder shall cease.

⁷ for he doth as a man that pescribeth a mesure to the in his herte. He sayth vnto the: eate & dryncke, where as his herte is not wt the.

⁸ Wycked people bringe a cytie in decaye, but wyse men set it vp agayne.

⁷ Let the vngodly man forsake his owne wayes, & the vnryghtuous hys owne ymagynacyons, and turne agayne vnto the Lorde: so shall he be mercyfull vnto hym: and to oure God, for he is very ready to forgeue.

¹⁴ O Ierusalem, wash thyne hert from wickednesse, that thou mayest be helped. How long shal thy noysom thoughtes remayne with the?

²⁸ But I say vnto you that whosoeuer loketh on another mans wyfe to lust after her, hath commytted aduoutrye with her all ready in hys hert.

⁴ And when Iesus sawe their thoughtes, he sayde. Wherfore thyncke ye euyll in youre heartes?

¹⁹ For out of the herte proceade euill thoughtes; murders, breakynge of wedlocke, whordoms, theftes, falsewitnesse, blasphemies.

²² Repente therfore of thys thy wyckednes, & praye God, that the thought of thyne herte maye be forgeuen the.

⁵ wherewith we ouerthrowe councels and euery hye thynge that exalteth it selfe agaynst the knowledge of God, and brynge into captiuyte all ymaginacion to the obedience of Christ,

¹ And Dauid sayde in his hert: I shall perishe one daye or other by the hand of Saul. Therfore is there nothing better for me, then to flee and saue my selfe in the land of the Philistines, and Saul shall cease & seke me nomore in all the coastes of Israel, & so shall I escape out of his hand.

⁵ But now that the plage is come vpon the, thou art greued: now that it hath touched thy selfe, thou art faynt harted.

²⁸ Knowest thou not, or hast thou not hearde, that the euerlastynge God, the Lorde which made all the corners of the earth, is nether weery nor faynt? and that his wysdome cannot be comprehended: ²⁹ but that he geueth strength vnto the weery, and power vnto the faynte? ³⁰ Children are weery and faynt, and the strongest men fall. ³¹ But vnto them that haue the Lord before theyr eyes, shall strength be encreased. Aegles wynges shall growe vpon them. When they runne they shall not fall: and when they go, they shall not be weery.

⁴⁶ Be not faynte herted, and feare not at euery rumoure that shalbe herde in the lande: for euery yeare bringeth new tydinges, & in the yere folowynge newe tydinges, & robbynge in the lande and Lorde vpon Lorde.

⁸ For his disciples were gone awaye vnto the towne, to bye meate.

¹ Therfore, seyng that we haue soch an offyce, euen as God hath had mercy on vs, we go not out of kynde:

¹³ Wherfore I desyre, that ye faynt not because of my tribulacions that I suffre for youre sakes: which is youre prayse.

³ Consyder therfore, how that he endured such speakinge agaynst hym of synners lest ye shuld be weryed and faynte in your mindes. ⁴ For ye haue not yet resysted vnto bloud, striuynge agaynst synne. ⁵ And haue forgotten the exhortacion, which speaketh vnto you as vnto children? my sonne, despyse not thou the chastening of the Lord, nether faynt, when thou art rebuked of hym:

³ & hast suffred. And hast pacience: and for my names sake hast labored, and hast not faynted.

¹³ I knowe thy workes, & where thou dwellest, euen where Sathanas seat is, and thou kepest my name, & hast not denyed my fayth. And in my dayes Antipas was a faythfull wytnes of myne, whych was slayne amonge you, where Sathan dwelleth.

⁸ Then sayde Abisai to Dauid: God hath deliuered thyne enemye into thyne hande this daye. Now therfore, lett me smyte hym once with my speare to the erth, & I wyll not smyte hym the seconde tyme. ⁹ And Dauid sayde to Abisai: destroye him not. For who can laye his hande on the Lordes anoynted, & be gyltlesse?

¹⁷ I brake the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckte the spoyle out of his teth.

⁴ Delyuer the out caste & poore: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

⁶ Doth not this fastynge rather please me, that thou loose him out of bondage, that is in thy daunger: that thou breake the ooth of wycked bargaynes, that thou lett the oppressed go fre, and take from them all maner of burthens: ⁷ to deale thy bread to the hongry, & bringe the poore wandringe, home into thy house, when thou seest the naked that thou couer him, and hyde not thy face from thy neyghboure.

³¹ And it chaunced, that ther came downe a certayne Preste that same waye, & when he sawe him, he passed by. ³² And lyke wyse a Leuite, when he went nye to the place, came and loked on him, & passed by.

²³ And they cryed wyth loude voyces, requiryng that he myght be crucyfyed. And the voyces: of them and of the hye Prestes preuayled. ²⁴ And Pylate gaue sentence, that it shuld be as they requyred ²⁵ and he let losse vnto them, hym that (for insurreccyon & morther) was cast into preson, whom they had desyred, and he delyuered vnto them Iesus, to do wt hym what they wolde.

¹⁷ Then all the Grekes toke Softenes the chefe ruler of the Synagoge, and smote hym before the iudges seate, And Gallio cared for none of those thynges.

³¹ As they went about to kyll him, tidinges came vnto the hye captayne of the soudyers, that all Ierusalem was moued. ³² Which immediatly toke soudiers and vndercaptaynes, and ranne downe vnto them. When they sawe the vpper captayne and the soudiers: they lefte smytinge of Paul.

¹⁰ And when there arose greate debate, the captayne (fearyng, lest Paul shulde haue bene pluckte a sondre of them) commaunded the soudyers to go downe, and to take hym from amonge them, and to brynge hym into the castell.

²³ And he called vnto hym two vnder captaynes sayinge: make ready two hundred soudiers to go to Cesarea, and horssmen threscore, and ten: and speare men two hundred, at the thyrde houre of the nyghte. ²⁴ And delyuer them beastes, that they maye sett Paul on, and brynge hym safe vnto Felix the hye debyte ²⁵ and he wrote a letter after thys maner. ²⁶ Claudius Lysias vnto the most myghty rular Felix, sendeth, gretynges. ²⁷ Thys man was taken of the Iewes, and shuld haue bene kylled of them. Then came I with soudyers, and reskued hym, and perceaued that he was a Romayn. ²⁸ And when I wold haue knowen the cause, wherfore they accused hym, I broughte hym forth into theyr councell. ²⁹ There perceaued I that he was accused of questions of their lawe. But was not gyltye of eny thynge worthy of death or of bondes. ³⁰ And when it was shewed me, how that Iewes layde wayte ther for him, I sent hym strayght waye to the, and gaue commaundement to hys accusars, that the thynges, which they haue agaynst hym, they shulde tell before the: fare well. ³¹ Then the soudyers (as it was commaunded them) toke Paul, and brought hym by night to Antipatras. ³² On the morow they left the horssmen to go with hym, and returned vnto the castle. ³³ Whych when they came to Cesarea, (and delyuered the epistle to the debyte) presented Paul also before him. ³⁴ When the debite had redde the lettre, he asked of what countre he was. And when he vnderstode that he was of Cilicia ³⁵ I wyll heare the (sayde he) when thyne accusars are come also: and he commaunded hym to be kepte in Herodes iudgement hall.

¹⁶ Herby perceaue we loue: because he gaue his lyfe for vs: & we ought to geue oure liues for the brethren. ¹⁷ But whoso hath thys worldes good and seyth hys brother haue neade: and shutteth vp his compassion from him: how dwelleth the loue of God in hym?

⁶ The Lord kylleth, and maketh alyue: bryngeth downe to the graue and fetcheth vp agayne.

⁷ But the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel: loke not on his fashyon, or on the heyght of hys stature, because I haue refused hym: for God seyth not as man seyth. For man loketh on the outwarde apperaunce but God beholdeth the harte.

²⁹ And yf any man ryse to persecute the, & to seke thy soule, the soule of my Lorde shall be bound as in the bondell of the lyuing wt the Lord thy God. And the soules of thy enemyes shal God cast out, euen as out of the mydle of a slyng.

¹¹ For he shall reward the worckes of man, and cause euery man to fynde accordynge to his wayes.

⁹ Oh let the wyckednes of the vngodly come to an ende: but guyd thou the iust.

³ Thou hast proued & visyted myne herte in the nyght season: thou haste tryed me and shalt fynde no wyckednesse in me: for I am vtterly purposed, that my mouth shall not offende.

²¹ If we haue forgotten the name of oure God, & holden vp our handes to eny straung God. Shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert.

¹² And that thou Lorde art mercyfull: for thou rewardest euery man accordynge to hys worcke.

⁹ For thou (O God) hast proued vs: thou also hast tryed vs like as siluer is tryed.

³ He wyll not suffre thy fote to be moued, and he that kepeth the, wyll not slepe.

⁸ The Lorde shall preserue thy goynge out and thy commynge in, from thys tyme forth for euer more.

²¹ For euery mans wayes are open in the syght of the Lorde, and he pondreth all theyr goynges.

² Euery man thynketh hys awne waye to be ryght: but the Lorde iudgeth the hertes.

⁸ If thou seyst the poore to be oppressed and wrongeously dealt withall, so that equite & the ryght of the lawe is wrasted in the lande: maruell not thou at soch a thyng, for one greate man kepeth touch with another, & the myghtie men are in auctorite ouer the pore.

¹⁰ Euen I the Lorde searche out the grounde of the herte, and trye the reynes, & rewarde euery man accordynge to his wayes, and accordynge to the frute of his workes.

¹⁹ Thou art the greate and mightye God, whose name is the Lorde of hoostes: greate in councell, and excellent in worcke. Thyne eyes loke vpon all the wayes of mens chyldren, to reward euery one after his waye: & according to the frutes of his inuencions.

²³ but hast magnifyed thy selfe aboue the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of hys house were brought before the: that thou, and thy Lordes? with thy quene and concubynes, myght dryncke wyne therout. And hast praysed the Idoles of syluer and gold, copper and yron, of wodd and stone. As for the God in whose hande consysteth thy breth and all thy wayes: thou hast not loued hym.

²⁷ For the sonne of man shall come in the glory of his father, wt his angels: & then shall he rewarde euery man accordinge to his dedes.

²⁸ For in hym we lyue, moue, and haue oure beinge, as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde: For we are also his generacion,

⁶ which wyll reward euery man accordynge to hys dedes:

¹⁶ at the daye when the Lord shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, accordynge to my Gospell.

⁵ Therfore iudge nothinge before the tyme vntyll the Lorde come, whych wyll lyghten thinges that are hyd in darcknes, and open the counsels of the hertes. And then shall euery man haue prayse of God.

¹⁰ For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ, that euery man maye receaue the workes of hys body accordynge to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

¹² For the worde of God is quycke, and myghty in operacion, and sharper then eny two edged swearde: & entreth through, euen vnto the diuidynge a sonder of the soule and the sprete, and of the ioyntes and the mary: and is a discerner of the thoughtes and of the intentes of the herte: ¹³ nether is ther eny creature that is not manifest in the syght of him: But all thinges are naked and open vnto the eyes of him, of whom we speake.

¹⁸ & and am a lyue, and was deed. And beholde I am a lyue for euermore & haue the keyes of hell & of deeth.

¹⁸ And vnto the messenger of the congregacyon of Thyatira wryte. Thys sayth the sonne of God, which hath eyes lyke vnto a flamme of fyre, & hys fete are lyke brasse:

²³ And I wyll kyll her chyldren with deeth. And all the congregacyons shall knowe, that I am he which searcheth the reynes & hertes. And I wyll geue vnto euery one of you acordynge vnto hys workes.

¹² And I sawe the deed, both gret and small stonde before God: And the bokes were opened, and another boke was opened, which is the boke of lyfe, & the deed were iudged of those thynges whych were written in the bokes accordyng to their dedes: ¹³ and the see gaue vp her deed which were in her, and deeth and hell deliuered vp the deed, which were in them: & they were iudged euery man accordyng to his dedes. ¹⁴ And deeth and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the seconde deeth. ¹⁵ And whosoeuer was not founde wrytten in the boke of lyfe, was cast into the lake of fyre.

¹² And beholde, I come shortly, and my rewarde is wyth me, to geue euery man accordynge as his dedes shalbe.

¹⁰ More to be desyred are they then golde, yee then moche fyne golde: sweter also then hony, and the hony combe.

¹⁰³ O how swete are thy wordes vnto my throte? Yee sweter than hony vnto my mouth.

¹⁶ If thou findest hony, eate so moch as is sufficient for the: lest thou be ouerfull, & perbrake it out agayne.

²⁷ Lyke as it is not good to eate to moch hony, euen so he that will search out hye thynges, it shall be to heuy for hym.

¹¹ Thy lippes, O my spouse, droppe as the hony combe, yee mylcke and hony is vnder thy tong, and the smell of thy garmentes is lyke the smell of Libanus.

¹ I Am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse: I haue gathered my Myrre with my spyce. I haue eaten hony with my hony combe, I haue dronke my wyne with my mylke. Eate, O ye frendes, dryncke and be mery, O ye beloued.

¹⁵ Butter and hony shall he eate, that he maye knowe to refuse the euell, and chose the good.

⁴ Thys Iohn had hys rayment of camels heer. And a gyrdell of a skynne about hys loynes. His meat was locustes and wylde hony.

¹⁰ More to be desyred are they then golde, yee then moche fyne golde: sweter also then hony, and the hony combe. ¹¹ Moreouer, by them is thy seruaunt taught, & in kepynge of them there is greate rewarde.

¹¹¹ Thy testymonies haue I claymed as myne heritage for euer: and why? they are the very ioye of my hert.

¹ My sonne, yf thou wilt receaue my wordes, and kepe my commaundementes by the, ² that thou wylt enclyne thyne eare vnto wysdome, applye thyne hert then to vnderstandynge. ³ For yf thou cryest after wisdome, and callest for knowledge: ⁴ yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure, ⁵ then shalt thou vnderstande the feare of the Lorde, and fynde the knowledge of God.

¹⁰ Yf wysdome entre into thyne herte, and thy soule delyte in knowledge:

¹³ Well is him that findeth wysdome, and opteyneth vnderstandinge: ¹⁴ for the getting of it is better then any marchaundise of syluer, and the profet of it is better then golde. ¹⁵ Wysdome is more worth then precious stones: and all the thinges that thou canst desire are not to be compared vnto her. ¹⁶ Upon her ryght hande is longe lyfe, and vpon her left hande is riches and honour. ¹⁷ Her wayes are pleasaunt wayes and all her pathes are peaceable. ¹⁸ She is a tree of lyfe to them that laye hold vpon her, and blessed is he that kepeth her fast.

¹⁸ for thou shalt be excellent yf thou kepe it in thine herte, & practise it in thy mouth:

¹⁸ for the ende is not yet come, & thy pacient abydynge shall not be in vayne.

¹⁶ When I had founde thy wordes, I dyd eate them vp gredely: they haue made my herte ioyfull & glad. For thy name was called vpon me, O Lorde God of Hostes.

²¹ Iesus sayd vnto hym, yf thou wilt be perfecte go & sell that thou hast, & geue to the poore, & shall haue treasure in heauen, & come & folowe me.

²⁵ But who so loketh in the parfayt lawe of libertye, and contynueth therin (yf he be not a forget full hearer, but a doar of the worke) the same shalbe happye in his dede.

¹¹ And as they were goinge vp into the cytie, they mett wyth damoselles that came out to drawe water, and sayd vnto them: is there here a sear?

¹⁸ And the kyng sayde to Doeg: turne thou, and fall vpon the preastes. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and ranne vpon the preastes, and slue that same daye foure skore & fyue persones, that dyd weare a lynnen Ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob the cytie of the preastes smote he wyth the edge of the swerde, both men & wemen, children and sucklynges, oxen and asses and shepe.

²⁰ Now therfore kyng, thou mayest come downe according to all the lust of thy soule: come downe, & oure parte shalbe to delyuer hym into the kynges hande. ²¹ And Saul sayde: Blessed are ye in the Lord: for ye haue compassion on me. ²² Go I praye you, & ordre the matter well, know & se his haunte, where hys fote hath bene, and who hath sene him there: for it is tolde me, that he is very sottel, & worketh craftely. ²³ Se therfore, & know all the lourkyng places, where he hideth him self, and come ye agayne to me with the certentye, & I will go wyth you. And yf he be in the land, I will serche him out thorow out all the thousandes of Iuda.

⁸ For he lyeth waytinge secretly (euen as a lyon, lurketh he in his denne) that he maye rauish the poore. ⁹ He doth rauish the poore, when he getteth him in to his nett. ¹⁰ He falleth downe & humbleth him selfe, that the congregacyon of the poore maye fall in to the hande of his captaynes.

³² The lawe of his God is in his hert, and his goynges shall not slyde.

⁶ They holde all together, & kepe them selues close: & marcke my steppes, whan they laye wayte for my soule.

³ For lo, they lye waytynge for my soule: the myghty men are gathered together against me without any offence or faute of me (O Lord.)

⁵ The proude haue layed a snare for me: and spred a net abroad with coardes: yee, & set trappes in my waye Sela.

¹¹ yf they entise the, & saye: come with vs, we will laye wayte for bloude, & lurcke preuely for the innocent without a cause:

²⁸ Thou shalt not remoue the lande marcke, which thy fore elders haue sett.

¹⁸ And my people shall dwell in the ynnes of peace, and in sure dwellinges in safe places of conforte.

¹⁹ But I am (as a meke lambe an oxe) that is caryed awaye to be slayne, not knowynge, that they had deuysed soch a councell agaynst me, sayeng: We wyll destroye his meate with wodd, & dryue him out of the land, of the lyuyng: that his name shall neuer be thought vpon.

⁴ and helde a counsell, that they myght take Iesus by suttelte, and kyll him.

²⁴ But their layinge awayte was knowen of Saul. And they watched the gates daye and nyght to kyll him.

¹⁶ Whan Pauls systers sonne hearde of theyr layinge awayte, he went, and entred into the castell, and tolde Paul.

³ and desyred fauour agaynst hym, that he wolde sende for hym to Ierusalem: and they layde awayte for hym in the waye, to kyll hym.

¹⁰ And Dauid sayde furthermore: as sure as the Lorde lyueth, the Lorde shall smyte him or his daye shall come to dye, or he shall descende into battell, & there perishe.

⁴ Then sayd Saul vnto his harnesberer draw out thy swerde, & thrust me thorowe therwyth, lest these vncircumcised come, & thrust me thorowe and make a mockynge stocke of me. But hys harnesberer wolde not, for he was sore afrayed. And Saul toke a swerde, and fell vpon it.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the galowes, that he had made for Mardocheus. Then was the kynges wrath pacified.

¹⁹ He shall delyuer the in syxe troubles, and in the seuenth there shall no euell come to the.

¹⁶ For his trauayll shall come vpon his awne head & his wickednes shall fall vpon hys awne pate.

¹⁹ Greate are the troubles of the ryghteous but the Lorde delyuereth hym out of all.

²⁴ Though he fall, he shal not be cast awaye, for the Lord vpholdeth him with his hande.

⁵ Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that maye do hurt, O thou false tonge.

¹⁷ An vngodly messaunger falleth into myschefe, but a faythfull ambassadour is wholsome.

³² The vngodly is cast awaye for hys iniquitye, but the ryghteous hath a good hope euen in death.

¹⁴ Well is him that standeth alwaye in awe: as for him that hardeneth his herte, he shall fall in to myschefe. ¹⁵ Lyke as a roarynge lyon and an hongrye beare, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore people. ¹⁶ Where the prince is without vnderstandynge, there is greate oppressyon and wronge: but yf he be soch one as hateth couetousnesse, he shall longe raygne. ¹⁷ He that by vyolence sheddeth eny mans bloude, shall be a rennagate vnto hys graue, and no man shall be able to souccoure hym. ¹⁸ Who so leadeth a godly & an innocent lyfe, shalbe saued: but he that goeth froward wayes, shall once haue a fal.

² The vyrgyn Israel shall fall, & neuer ryse vp agayne: she shalbe cast downe vpon her awne grounde, and no man shall helpe her vp.

¹⁴ yee, euen they that sweare in the execrable calfe of Samarya, & saye: as truly as thy God lyueth at Dan, and as truly as thy God lyueth at Bersaba. These shall fall, and neuer ryse vp agayne.

⁸ O thou enemye of myne, reioyce not at my fall, for I shall get vp agayne: & though I sytt in darcknesse, yet the Lorde is my lyght. ⁹ I wyll beare the punishement of the Lord (for why, I haue offended him) tyll he syt in iudgement vpon my cause, & se that I haue right. He wyll bryng me forth to the lyght, & I shall se his rightuousnesse. ¹⁰ She that is myne enemy shal loke vpon it, & be confounded, which now saieth. Where is thy Lord God? Myne eyes shall beholde her, when she shalbe troden downe, as the claye in the stretes.

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

⁸ Brethren, I wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia. For we were greued out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despayred euen of lyfe. ⁹ Also we receaued an answer of deeth in oure selues, that we shuld not put oure trust in our selues: but in God, whych rayseth the deed to lyfe, ¹⁰ and whych delyuered vs from so great a deeth: and doth delyuer. On whom we trust, that yet hereafter he wyll delyuer,

⁸ We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie: but not vtterly without somwhat. ⁹ We suffre persecucion: but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe: neuerthelesse we perysshe not. ¹⁰ We all wayes beare aboute in the bodye, the dyinge of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesu myght also appeare in oure bodye. ¹¹ For we which lyue, are alwayes delyuered vnto deeth for Iesus sake, that the lyfe also of Iesu myght appere in oure mortall flesshe ¹² So then, deeth worketh in vs, but lyfe in you.

²³ They are the mynisters of Chryst (I speake as a foole) I am more. In labours more aboundante: In strypes aboue measure: In preson more plenteouslye: In deeth ofte. ²⁴ Of the Iewes fyue tymes receaued I euery tyme .xl. strypes saue one. ²⁵ Thryse was I beaten wt roddes, I was once stoned, I suffered thryse shypwracke. Nyght and daye haue I bene in the deepe see. ²⁶ In iorneying often: in parels of waters: in parels of robbers: in ieopardyes of myne awne nacyon: in ieopardyes among the hethen: in parels in the citie: in parels in wildernes: in parels in the see: in parels amonge false brethren: ²⁷ in laboure & trauayle: in watchinges often: in honger and thyrst: in fastynges often: in colde and nakednes:

³ For when they shall saye, peace and all thynges are safe, then shall soden destruccyon come vpon them (as sorowe commeth vpon a woman traualynge with chylde) & they shall not scape:

²⁰ Reioyce ouer her thou heauen, and ye holy Apostles and Prophetes: for God hath geuen your iudgement on her. ²¹ And a mighty angell toke vp a stone lyke a gret milstone and cast it into the see, saying: with such vyolence shall that gret citie Babylon be cast, & shalbe founde no more.

²⁵ And when theyr hertes were merye, it fortuned, that they sayde: sende for Samson, that he maye make vs laugh. And they fette Samson oute of the preson house, and he played before them, and they set hym betwene the pyllers.

⁵ And when kynge Dauid came to Bahurim: beholde, thence cam out a man of the kynred of the house of Saul, named Semei the sonne of Gera, and he cam out cursynge. ⁶ And he cast stones at Dauid, and at all the seruauntes of kynge Dauid: And all the people also and all the men of warre were on hys ryght hande, and on hys lefte, ⁷ And thus sayde Semei whan he cursed: come forthe, come forth thou bloude sheder, and thou man of Belyall. ⁸ The Lorde hath brought vpon the all the bloude of the house of Saul, in whose steade thou hast raygned, and the Lord hath delyuered the kyngdom into the hande of Absalom thy sonne. And beholde thou art come to thy mischeffe, because thou art a bloudesheder. ⁹ Then sayde Abisai the sonne of Zaruia vnto the kynge: why doth thys deed dogg cursse my Lorde the kynge? let me go nowe, and take of the heed of hym. ¹⁰ And the kynge sayde: what haue I to do wyth you ye sonnes of Zaruia: let hym cursse: for the Lorde hath bydden hym cursse Dauid, Who dare then saye: Wherfore hast thou done so? ¹¹ And Dauid sayde to Abisai, and to all his seruauntes, beholde, my sonne whych cam of myne awne bodye, seketh my lyfe. How moche more then maye thys sonne of Iemini do it? Suffre him to cursse for the Lord hath bydden him: ¹² haplye the Lorde wyll loke on my wepyng eyes & wretchednesse, & do me good for hys curssynge this daye. ¹³ And as Dauid and his men went by the waye, Semei went alonge on the hylles syde ouer agaynst hym, & curssed as he went, and threwe stones at him, and cast dust. ¹⁴ And the kynge and all that were with him cam werye, and refresshed them selues there.

²⁹ Haue I euer reioysed at the hurte of myne enemy? Or was I euer glad, that any harme happened vnto him? Oh no.

¹⁵ But in myne aduersyte they reioysed, and gathered them together: Yee the very abiectes came together agaynst me vnawares, makynge mowes at me, and ceassed not.

¹⁹ O let not them that are myne enemyes triumphe ouer me vngodlye nether: let them wyncke with theyr eyes, that hate me without a cause.

¹⁰ Namely, whyle they saye daylie vnto me: where is now thy God?

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

¹² Thou shalt nomore se the daye of thy brother, thou shalt nomore beholde the tyme of hys captiuite: thou shalt nomore reioyse ouer the children of Iuda, in the daye of theyr destruccyon, thou shalt tryumphe nomore in the tyme of theyr trouble.

⁶ reioyseth not in iniquyte: but reioyseth in the trueth, ⁷ suffreth all thynges, beleueth all thynges, hopeth all thynges, endureth all thynges.

²¹ And thou (O daughter Edom) that dwellest in the lande of Huz, be glad and reioyce: for the cuppe shall come vnto the also, whych whan thou suppest of, thou shalt be droncken. ²² Thy synnes is well punyshed, (O thou daughter Syon) he shall not suffre the to be caryed awaye eny more. But thy wyckednes (O daughter Edom) shall he vyset, and for thy synnes sake, he shall lede the into captyuite.

¹⁵ and sore displeased at the carelesse Heathen: for where as I was but alytle angry, they dyd theyr beste that I myght destroye them ¹⁶ Therfore thus sayeth the Lord: I wyl turne me agayne in mercye toward Ierusalem, so that my house shalbe buylded in it, sayeth the Lorde of hoostes, yee, and the plommet shalbe layed abroade in Ierusalem, sayeth the Lorde of hoostes.

²⁶ And he spake vnto the congregacion, saying: departe from the tentes of these wicked men, and touche nothing of theirs: lest ye perysh in all their synnes.

¹ Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the councel of the vngodly, ner stonde in the waye of sinners, & hath not sytt in the seate of the scornefull.

⁴ I haue not dwelt with vayne personnes, nether wyll I haue fellishipe with the disceatfull. ⁵ I haue hated the congregacyon of the wicked, and will not syt amonge the vngodly.

¹¹⁵ Awaye fro me ye wycked, I will kepe the commaundementes of my God.

¹ Be not thou gelous ouer wycked men, and desyre not to be amonge them.

¹⁷ Wherfore come out from amonge them, and separate youre selues from them (sayth the Lorde) and touche none vncleane thynge: so wyll I receaue you,

¹¹ And haue no fellyshyppe with the vnfrutefull workes of darcknes but rather rebuke them.

² For men shalbe louers of theyr awne selues, coueteous, boasters, proude, cursed speakers, dysobedient to fathers and mothers, vnthankfull, vngodly, ³ vnkynde, trucebreakers, falseaccusars, riatours, fearce, despisers of them which are good, ⁴ traytours, heady, hye mynded, gredy vpon volupteousnes more then the louers of God, ⁵ hauynge a symilitude of godlynesse, but haue denyed the power therof: and soch abhorre.

⁴ And I herde another voyce from heauen saye, come awaye from her my people, that ye be not partakers of her synnes, and that ye receaue not of her plages. ⁵ Yee, the light of the vngodly shall be put out? and the sparke of hys fyre shall not burne. ⁶ The lyght shalbe darcke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

¹⁷ How oft shall the candle of the wycked be put out? how oft commeth their destruccion vpon them? O what sorowe shal God geue them for their parte in hys wrath?

¹⁷ The wycked shall be turned vnto hell, & all people that forget God:

⁶ Upon the vngodly he shall rayne snares, fyre, and brymstone, storme & tempest: thys shalbe theyr porcyon to dryncke.

⁹ The lyght of the ryghteous maketh ioyfull, but the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.

²⁰ Whoso curseth hys father & mother: his lyght shalbe put out in the myddest of darcknes.

¹¹ But wo be to the vngodly and vnryghteous, for they shalbe rewarded after theyr worckes.

¹² but the children of the kyngdome shalbe cast out into vtter darcknes: there shalbe weping and gnasshing of teth.

⁸ So the folysshe sayde vnto the wyse: geue vs of youre oyle: for oure lampes are gone out.

¹³ They are the ragynge waues of the see, fomynge out their awne shame. They are wandrynge sterres, to whom is reserued the myst of darcknes for euer.

³¹ And Israel sawe that mightye power which the Lord shewed vpon the Egipcians: and the people feared the Lorde, and beleued the Lorde and his seruaunt Moses.

¹ And Corah the sonne of Iezehar the sonne of Cahath the sonne of Leui, and Dathan & Abiram the sonne of Eliab, and On the sonne of Peleth, the sonne of Ruben: ² rose vp before Moses, with other men of the children of Israel, two hundred and fiftye, which were captaynes of the multitude great and famous men in the congregacion: ³ & they gathred them selues together agaynst Moses and Aaron, & sayde vnto them: ye make moche to do, seynge all the multitude are holy euery one of them, and the Lorde is amonge them: Why heaue ye your selues vp aboue the congregacyon of the Lorde?

⁵ & sayd vnto him: behold, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in thy wayes. Now therfore make vs a kinge to iudge vs, as all other nacions haue. ⁶ But the thyng displeased Samuel, when they sayde: geue vs a king to iudge vs. And Samuel prayed vnto the Lorde. ⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel: heare the voyce of the people in all that they saye vnto the. For they haue not cast the awaye, but me: that I shulde not raygne ouer them.

¹² And for all that, when you sawe that Nahas the kyng of the chyldren of Ammon cam agaynst you, ye sayde vnto me: not so but a kyng shall raigne ouer vs, when yet the Lorde youre God was youre kynge. ¹³ Nowe therfore, beholde, the kinge whom ye haue chosen, and whom ye haue desyred: lo, the Lord hath set a kynge ouer you. ¹⁴ Yf ye wyll feare the Lorde & serue hym, and heare hys voyce, & not disobeye the worde of the Lorde: both ye & the kynge that raygneth ouer you, shall folowe the Lorde youre God: ¹⁵ Yf ye wyll not herken vnto the voyce of the Lord, but disobeye the Lordes mouth: then shall the hande of the Lorde be vpon you and on youre fathers. ¹⁶ Nowe also stande, and se thys great thynge, whych the Lord will do before your eyes: ¹⁷ is it not now wheatheruest? I will call vnto the Lorde, and he shall sende thunder and rayne: that ye maye perceaue and se, howe that youre wickednes is great, which ye haue done in the syght of the Lorde, in askynge you a kynge. ¹⁸ And so, Samuel called vnto the Lorde, and the Lorde sent thunder and rayne the same daye. And all the people feared the Lorde and Samuel exceadyngly. ¹⁹ And all the people sayde vnto Samuel: praye for thy seruauntes vnto the Lord thy God, that we dye not: for we haue synned in askynge vs a kynge, besyde all the synnes that euer we dyd.

⁶ And he sayde vnto his men: the Lorde kepe me from doing that thing vnto my master the Lords anoynted, to laye mine hande vpon hym, seyng he is the anoynted of the Lorde.

¹³ And there cam a messenger to Dauid & sayd: the hertes of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom. ¹⁴ And Dauid sayde vnto all his seruauntes that were wt him at Ierusalem: vp, that we maye be gone, for we shall not else escape from Absalom. Make spede, to departe: leste he come sodenlie, and catche vs, & bringe some myscheffe vpon vs, and smyte the cytie with the edge of the swerde. ¹⁵ And the kynges seruauntes sayde vnto him: beholde, thy seruauntes are redye, to do whatsoeuer my Lord the kyng shall apoynte. ¹⁶ And the kynge & all his housholde departed a fote. And he left behinde hym ten concubines, to kepe the house. ¹⁷ And so the kynge & all the people went out a fote, & taryed in a place that was farre of. ¹⁸ And all his seruauntes went about him. And all the Cerethites and all the Phelethites and all the Gethites (euen .vj. hundred men whych were come a fote from Geth) went before the kynge. ¹⁹ Then sayde the kynge to Ithai the Gethite, wherfore commest thou wyth vs? Returne and abide with the kynge, for thou art a straunger, and art remoued from thyne awne place. ²⁰ Thou camest but yesterdaye, and shulde I vnquyet the to daye to go wt vs? I wyll go whether I can. Therfore returne thou, & carye agayne thy brethren. Mercye and truthe. ²¹ And Ithai answered the kynge and sayd: as trulye as God lyueth & as my Lord the kinge lyueth, in what place my Lord the kynge shalbe, whether in deeth or lyfe, euen there also wyll thy seruaunt be. ²² And Dauid the kynge sayde to Ithai: come then and go forwarde. And Ithai the Gethite went forth, & all hys men, & all the chyldren that were wt hym. ²³ And all the countreye wepte wyth a loude voyce, & so dyd all the people that went forth. The kynge also hym selfe passed ouer the broke Kydron. And all the people went towarde the waye that leadeth to the wyldernesse. ²⁴ And Sadock and all the Leuites were wyth him, and bare the arcke of the apoyntment of God. And there they set downe the Arcke of God. And Abiathar went vp, vntill the people were all come ouer, out of the cytie. ²⁵ And the kynge sayde vnto Sadock. Carye the Arcke of God agayne into the cytie. If I shall fynde fauoure in the eyes of the Lorde, he will bringe me agayne, and shewe me both it, & the tabernacle therof. ²⁶ But and yf the Lorde thus saye: I haue no lust vnto the, beholde, here am I, let him do wyth me, what semeth good in his eyes. ²⁷ The kynge sayde also vnto Sadock the preaste: Art not thou a Sear? Returne into the citie in peace. And take your two sonnes wyth you: Ahimaaz thy sonne, and Ionathas the sonne of Abiathar. ²⁸ Beholde, I will tarye in the feldes of the wyldernesse, vntyll there come some worde from you to be tolde me. ²⁹ Sadock therfore and Abiathar caryed the Arcke of God agayne to Ierusalem, and they taryed there. ³⁰ And Dauid went vpon mount olyuet, and wepte as he went, and had his heed couered, & went barefote. And all the people that was wyth hym, had euery man hys heed couered, and as they went vp, they wepte also. ³¹ And one tolde Dauid sayenge: Ahithophel is one of them that haue conspired wyth Absalom. And Dauid sayde. O Lorde, turne the councell of Ahithophel into folyshenes. ³² When Dauid was come to the toppe of the mount he worshypped God: and beholde, Husai the Arachite came agaynst hym with hys coote torne, and hauynge erth vpon his heed. ³³ Unto whome Dauid sayde: yf thou go wyth me, thou shalt be a burthen vnto me. ³⁴ But yf thou returne to the cytie, & saye vnto Absalom: I wyll be thy seruaunt O kynge: (as I haue thus longe bene thy fathers seruaunt, so am I nowe thy seruaunt) thou mayst for my sake destroye the councell of Ahithophel. ³⁵ And thou hast there with the Sadock and Abiathar the Preastes, vnto whom thou shalt shewe all that thou canst heare out of the kynges house. ³⁶ And beholde, they haue there wyth them theyr two sonnes: Ahimaaz Sadockes sonne, and Ionathas Abiathars sonne: by them also shall ye sende me all that ye can heare. ³⁷ And so Husai Dauids frende gat hym to the cytie. And Absalom also entred into Ierusalem.

¹⁶ And so, when all Israel sawe, that the kynge regarded them not, the people answered the kynge with these wordes, sayenge, what porcion haue we in Dauid: we haue no enheritaunce in the sonne of Isai. To youre tentes, O Israel, nowe se to thyne awne house Dauid. And so Israel departed vnto theyr tentes.

² I must kepe the kynges commaundement, and the oth that I haue made vnto God. ³ Be not hastye to go out of hys syght, and se thou continue in no euell thinge: for whatsoeuer it pleaseth hym, that doeth he. ⁴ Lyke as when a kynge geueth a charge, his commaundement is myghtye: Euen so who maye saye vnto him: what doest thou? ⁵ Who so kepeth the commaundement: shall fele no harme: but a wyse mans herte discerneth the tyme & iudgement:

²¹ They saye vnto him, Cesars. Then sayd he vnto them. Geue therfore vnto Cesar, the thinges whych are Cesars: & vnto God, those thinges that are Gods

¹ Let euery soule submyt hym selfe vnto the auctoryte of the hyer powers. For there is no power but of God. ² The powers that be, are ordeyned of God. Whosoeuer therfore resysteth power, resysteth the ordinaunce of God. But they that resyst, shall receaue to them selfe damnacyon. ³ For rulers are not fearfull to them that do good, but to them that do euyll. Wylt thou be without feare of the power? Do well then: and so shalt thou he praysed of the same. ⁴ For he is the mynyster of God, for thy welth. But and yf thou do that which is, euyll, then feare: for he beareth not the sweard for nought: for he is the mynister of God, to take vengeaunce on hym that doth euyll. ⁵ Wherfore, ye must nedes obeye, not onely for feare of vengeaunce: but also because of conscience. ⁶ And euen for this cause paye ye tribute. For they are Goddes mynysters, seruinge for the same purpose. ⁷ Geue to euery man therfore hys duetye: tribute to whom tribute belongeth: custome, to whom custome is due: feare, to whom feare belongeth: honoure, to whom honoure pertayneth.

¹ Warne them that they submytte them selues to rule & power: that they obey the officers: that they be ready vnto euery good worke:

¹³ Submyt youre selues therfore vnto all maner ordinaunce of man for the lordes sake, whether it be vnto the kynge, as vnto the chefe heed: ¹⁴ other vnto rulars, as vnto them that are sent of hym, for the punysshement of euyll doars, but for the laude of them, that do well. ¹⁵ For so is the wyll of God, that wyth well doyng ye maye stoppe the mouthes of foolysh & ignoraunt men: ¹⁶ as fre, & not as hauinge the lybertie for a cloacke of maliciousnes, but euen as the seruauntes of God ¹⁷ Honoure all men. Loue brotherly feleshyppe. Feare God, honoure the kynge.

³¹ And it fortuned that assone as he had made an ende of speakyng all these wordes, ³² the grounde cloue asonder that was vnder them: & the erth opened her mouth, and swalowed them vp, and their houses, ³³ and all the men that were with Corah and all their goodes. And they and all that they had, went downe alyue vnto hell, and the earth closed vpon them: and they peryshed from amonge the congregacion. ³⁴ And all Israel that were aboute them fledd at the crye of them. And they sayd: lest the earthe swalowe vs vp also. ³⁵ And there came oute a fyer from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundred and fyftye men that offred cens.

¹ The Philistines fought agaynst Israel and the men of Israel fledd awaye from the Philistines, & fell downe wounded in mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistynes preased sore vpon Saul & his sonnes, & slewe Ionathas, & Abinadab & Melchisua Sauls sonnes. ³ And whan the battell went sore agaynst Saul, the archers with bowes founde hym, & he was sore afrayed of the archers. ⁴ Then sayd Saul vnto his harnesberer draw out thy swerde, & thrust me thorowe therwyth, lest these vncircumcised come, & thrust me thorowe and make a mockynge stocke of me. But hys harnesberer wolde not, for he was sore afrayed. And Saul toke a swerde, and fell vpon it. ⁵ And when his harnesberer sawe that Saul was deed, he fell lykewyse vpon his swerde, & dyed wyth hym. ⁶ And so Saul dyed, & his thre sonnes, and his harnesberer, and all hys men that same daye togeather. ⁷ And when the men of Israel that were on the other syde of the valeye, & they of the other syde Iordan, heard, that the men of Israel were put to flight, and that Saul and hys sonnes were deed, they left the cyties, & ranne awaye and the Philistines cam, and dwelt in them.

⁷ Where the people of Israel were put to the worsse before the seruauntes of Dauid, & there was a great slaughter that daye, euen of twentye thousande men. ⁸ For the felde was fought there in dyuerse places, all abroade vpon the erthe. And the wodd deuoured moo people that daye, than dyd the swerde.

¹⁶ And the children of Israel fled before Iuda, and God delyuered them into theyr hande. ¹⁷ And Abia & hys people slue a great slaughter of them: there fell downe wounded of Israel .v.C.M. chosen men.

¹¹ But who regardeth the power of thy wrath, for euen therafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

¹⁴ The kynges displeasure is a messaunger of death, but a wyse man will pacifye him.

² The kynge ought to be feared as the roaryng of a lion: who so prouoketh him vnto anger offendeth agenst his awne soule.

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, & can haue no right of the lawe: for why? they folowe the doctrynes of vngodly men.

¹⁰ Where are thy kynges nowe, that shulde helpe the in all thy cyties? Yee, and thy iudges, of whom thou saydest: geue me a kyng and princes? ¹¹ well, I gaue the a kynge in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take hym from the agayne.

¹⁵ Ye shall doo no vnryghteousnes in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauoure the poore nor honoure the myghtye, but in ryghteousnes shalt thou iudge thy neyghboure.

¹⁷ Se that ye knowe no faces in Iudgement: but heare the small as well as the greate, and be afrayed of no man, for the iudgement is Gods. And the cause that is to harde for you, brynge vnto me, and I will heare it.

¹⁹ Wrest not thou the lawe, nor knowe any persone, nether take any rewarde: for gyftes blynde the wyse, & peruerte the wordes of the ryghteous.

⁷ Wherfore nowe, let the feare of the Lorde be vpon you, and take hede, & be doyng the thynge that pleaseth hym. For ther is no vnryghtewesnes wt the Lord oure God: that he shulde haue any respecte of persones, or take rewardes.

² How longe will ye geue wrong iudgement, and accepte the personnes of the vngodly? Sela. ³ Defende the poore and fatherlesse, se that soch as be in nede and necessite haue ryght. ⁴ Delyuer the out caste & poore: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

⁴³ Who so is wyse, wyll pondre these thynges: and they shall vnderstand the louyng kyndnesses of the Lord.

⁶ shal optayn wit to perceaue a parable, & the interpretacyon therof, the wordes of the wyse, & the darcke speaches of the same.

⁵ It is not good to regarde the personne of the vngodly, or to put backe the ryghteous in iudgement.

¹⁷ My sonne, bowe downe thyne eare, and herken vnto the wordes of wysedome, applye thy mynde vnto my doctryne:

²¹ To haue respecte of personnes in iudgement is not good: And why? A man will do wronge, yee, euen for a pece of bread.

¹ Who is wyse? Who hath knowledge to make answere? A mans wysdome maketh hys face to shine: but vnshamefastnes putteth it out of fauoure.

⁹ Who so is wise, shall vnderstand thys: and he that is ryght enstructe, wyll regarde it. For the wayes of the Lorde are ryghteous, soch as be Godly wyll walke in them. As for the wycked, they wyll stomble therin.

²⁴ Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce, but iudge with a ryghtewes iudgement.

²⁰ Then that synne, rebuke openly, that other also maye feare. ²¹ I testifye before God and the Lord Iesus Christ & the electe angels, that thou obserue these thynges without hastynesse of iudgement, & do nothinge parcially.

⁴ are ye not parciall in youre selues, and haue iudged after euyll thoughtes? ⁵ Harken my deare beloued brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of thys worlde, soch as are ryche in faythe, & heyres of the kyngdome, whych he promysed to them that loue hym? ⁶ But ye haue despysed the poore. Do not rych men execute tyrannye vpon you, and draw you before the iudgement seates.

¹⁷ But the wysdome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peasable, gentle, & easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good frutes, without iudging, without simulacion:

¹⁷ And yf so be that ye call on the father, which wythout respect of person iudgeth according to euery mannes worke, se that ye passe the tyme of youre pilgremage in feare.

⁶ Thou shalt not bynder the ryghte of thy poore, in theyr sute. ⁷ Kepe the ferre from a false mater, and the Innocent & ryghteous se thou sley not, for I will not iustifye the wyked.

²⁶ Who so hoordeth vp his corne, shalbe cursed amonge the people: but blessynge shall lyght vpon his head that geueth foode.

¹⁵ The Lorde hateth as well him that iustifieth the vngodly, as him that condempneth the innocent.

²⁷ He that geueth vnto the poore, shall not lacke: but he that turneth awaye hys eyes from soch as be in necessyte, shall suffre greate pouerte hymselfe.

¹⁰ Accuse not a seruaunt vnto hys master, lest he speake euell of the, and thou be hurte.

²⁰ Wo be vnto them that call euell good, and good euell, which make darcknesse lyght, & lyght darcknesse, that make sowre swete, & swete sowre.

²³ These geue sentence with the vngodly for rewardes, but comdempne the iust cause of the ryghteous.

²⁴ And they shall go forth and loke vpon the caryons of them that haue transgressed agaynst me. For their wormes shall not dye, nether shall their fyre be quenched, & all flesh shall abhorre them.

¹³ For from the leest vnto the most, they hange all vpon couetousnesse, & from the prophete vnto the prest, they go all aboute with falsheed and lyes. ¹⁴ And besyde that, they heale the hurt of my people with swete wordes, sayeng: peace, peace, when there is no peace at all.

¹⁰ Wherfore, I wyll geue theyr wyues vnto aleauntes, and theyr feldes to destroyers. For from the lowest vnto the hyest, they folowe all filthy lucre: & from the Prophete vnto the preste, they deale all wt lyes. ¹¹ Neuerthelesse, they heale the hurte of my people very slenderlye, sayenge: peace, peace, where there is no peace at all.

²² Seing that with youre lyes ye discomforte the herte of the ryghteous, whom I haue not discomforted: Agayne: For so moch as ye corage the hande of the wycked, so that he maye not turne from his wicked waye, and lyue:

¹⁷ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thyne hart, but shalt in any wyse rebuke thy neyghbour: that thou bere not synne for hys sake.

¹³ I haue tolde him, that I wyll iudge hys house for euer. For the wickednes which he knoweth. For when the people cursed hys sonnes for the same wickednes, he hath not corrected them.

¹⁹ And therfore shalt thou saye vnto him thus sayth the Lorde: hast thou kylled, & gotten possession? And thou shalt speake vnto him sayeng: thus sayth the Lorde in the place where dogges lycked the bloud of Naboth, shall dogges licke euen thy bloud also. ²⁰ And Ahab sayde to Elia: hast thou founde me, o thou myne enemye? He answered: I haue founde the: for thou art euen solde to worcke wickednesse in the syght of the Lorde.

⁷ and I aduised so in my mynde, that I rebuked the councelers, and the rulers, and sayde vnto them: Euery one of you is to chargeable vnto hys brother. And I brought a greate congregacyon agaynst them, ⁸ and sayd vnto them we (after oure abilite) haue bought our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen. And wyll ye sell your brethren agayne vnto the heathen, after that they haue bene solde vnto vs? Then helde they theyr peace, and coulde fynde nothynge to answere. ⁹ And Nehemia sayde: It is not good that ye do. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of God, because of the rebuke of the heathen that are our enemyes?

⁸ and it greued me sore, & I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobia out of the chambre, ⁹ and commaunded them to clense the chambres. And thither brought I agayne the vessels of the house of God, with the meatoffering, and the incense. ¹⁰ And I perceaued, that the porcions of the Leuites were not geuen them, and that euery one fled to his land, euen the Leuites and syngers that executed the worke. ¹¹ Then reproued I the rulers, & sayd? why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, & set them in their place.

¹⁷ Then reproued I the rulers in Iuda, & sayde vnto them: what euell thyng is this that ye do, & breake the Saboth daye?

²⁵ Then I reproued them, & cursed them, & smote certayne men of them, & made them bare, and toke an ooth of them by God: Ye shal not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, nether shall ye take their daughters vnto youre sonnes, or for youre selues.

²⁸ And one of the children of Iehoiada the sonne of Eliasib the hye preast, had made a contracte with Sanabalat the Horonite: but I chaced him from me.

¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckte the spoyle out of his teth. ¹⁸ Therfore, I thought verely that I shuld haue dyed in my nest: and that my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see.

²³ He that folowynge my precepts rebuketh a man? shall fynde more fauoure at the last, then he that flatreth hym.

⁴ For Iohn sayd vnto him: it is not lawfull for thou to haue her.

²⁰ Then that synne, rebuke openly, that other also maye feare.

² preache thou the worde, be feruent, in season & oute of season. Improue, rebuke, exhorte wt all longe sufferynge and doctryne.

¹³ Thys wytnes is true: wherfore rebuke thou them sharply, that they maye be sounde in the fayth,

¹⁵ These thynges speake, and exhorte, and rebuke, with all feruentnes of commaundynge. Se that no man despyse the.

³⁸ Then sayde Pharao vnto hys seruauntes: where shall we fynde soch a man as thys is, in whom is the sprete of God? ³⁹ And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: for as moche as God hath shewed the all thys, there is no man of vnderstondynge or of wysdome lyke vnto the. ⁴⁰ Thou therfore shalt be ouer my house, and accordynge to thy worde shall all my people be ruled, only in the kynges seate wyll I be aboue the. ⁴¹ And Pharao sayde agayne vnto Ioseph: beholde, I haue sett the ouer all the lande of Egypte. ⁴² And he toke of hys rynge from hys hande, and put it vpon Iosephs hande, and arayed hym in cloth of raynes, and put a golden cheyne aboute hys necke, ⁴³ and sett hym vpon the best charett that he had, saue one. And they cryed before hym: Bowe the knee, and Pharao made hym ruler ouer all the lande of Egypte. ⁴⁴ And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: I am Pharao, wythout the shall no man lyfte vp hys hande or fote in all the lande of Egypte. ⁴⁵ And he called Iosephs name Zaphnath Paena. And he gaue hym to wyfe Asnath the daughter of Putiphar preast of On. Than went Ioseph abrode in the lande of Egypte. ⁴⁶ And he was thyrtye yeare olde when he stode before Pharao kynge of Egypte. And Ioseph departynge from the presence of Pharao, went thorowe out all the lande of Egypte. ⁴⁷ And in the seuen plenteous yeares they made sheues ⁴⁸ and gathered vp all the foode of the seuen plenteous yeares which were in the lande of Egypte, and layed vp the same in the cyties. The foode of the feldes that grewe rownde aboute euery cyte, layed he vp in the same. ⁴⁹ And Ioseph layde vp corne in stoore, lyke vnto the sande of the see, in multitude out of mesure, vntyll he left nombrynge: For it was wythout nombre. ⁵⁰ And vnto Ioseph were borne two sonnes (before the yeares of hunger came) whych Asnath the daughter of Putiphar preast of On, bare vnto hym. ⁵¹ And Ioseph called the name of the fyrst sonne Manasse, for God (sayde he) hath made me forgett all my laboure and all my fathers housholde. ⁵² The name of the seconde called he Ephraim, for God (sayd he) hath caused me to growe in the lande of my trouble. ⁵³ And when the seuen yeares of plenteousnes that was in the lande of Egypte were ended, ⁵⁴ then came the seuen yeares of derth accordyng as Ioseph had sayde. And the derth was in all landes: but in all the lande of Egypte was there yet foode. ⁵⁵ And when the lande of Egypt also began to hunger, the people cryed to Pharao for bread. And Pharao sayde vnto all the Egypcyans, goo vnto Ioseph, and what he sayth to you, that doo. ⁵⁶ And the derth was thorow out all the land. And Ioseph opened all that was in the cyties, and solde vnto the Egypcyans. For the hunger waxed sore in the lande of Egypte. ⁵⁷ And all countrees came to Egypte to Ioseph for to bye corne: because that the hunger was so sore in all landes.

²⁵ How stedfast are the wordes of treuth?

²³ A ioyfull thynge is it, to a man when his counsell is folowed: and very pleasunt is a worde spoken in due season.

¹ A Man maye well purpose a thynge in hys herte, but the answere of the tonge commeth of the Lorde.

¹¹ A worde spoken in due season, is lyke apples of golde in a graued worke of syluer. ¹² The correccion of the wyse is to an obedient eare, a golden cheine & a Iewell of golde.

⁴⁶ Then the kynge Nabuchodonosor fell downe vpon his face, & bowed him selfe vnto Daniel, and commaunded that they shuld offre meatofferinges and swete odoures vnto hym. ⁴⁷ The kynge answered Daniel, and sayde: yee, of a trueth 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 hym many & greate gyftes. He made him ruler of all the countrees of Babylon, and Lord of all the nobles, that were at Babylon.

¹⁷ And Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them: Geue to Cesar the thinges that belonge to Cesar: and to God, the thynges whych perteyne to God. And they meruelled at hym. ¹⁸ There came also vnto hym the Saduces, whych saye that ther is no resurreccyon. And they asked hym sayinge:

³² And the Scrybe sayde vnto him: well master, thou hast sayd the truthe, for ther is one God, & ther is none but he. ³³ And to loue hym wyth all the herte, and wyth all the mynde, & wyth all the soule, & wyth all the strength: and to loue a mans neyghbour as hym selfe, is a greater thynge, then all burt offerynges and sacrifyces. ³⁴ And when Iesus sawe that he answered discretly, he sayde vnto hym: Thou art not farre from the kyngdome of God. And no man after that, durst aske hym any questyon.

¹⁷ And the kynge commaunded them to bryng great stones, weighty stones and hewed stones for the foundacion of the house. ¹⁸ And Salomons masons and the masons of Hiram dyd hewe them, wt the workmen of the corners. And so they prepared both tymbre & stones for the buildyng of the house.

⁷ And the house was buylt of stone, made perfecte allready before it was brought thyther, so that there was neither hammer, ner axe, ether any tole of yron heard in the house, whyle it was in buyldinge.

²⁸ Which of you disposed to buylde a toure, sytteth not downe before, and counteth the cost, whether he haue sufficient to performe it? ²⁹ lest after he hath layde the foundacyon, and is not able to performe it, all that beholde it, begynne to mocke hym, ³⁰ sayinge: this man beganne to buylde, & was not able to make an ende?

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bere false witnesse agenst thy neyghboure.

¹ Thou shalt not accept a vayne tale, nether shalt put thyne hande with the wyked to be an vuryghteous witnesse.

⁹ Then answered Doeg the Edomite which also stode by the seruauntes of Saul, and sayde: I saw the sonne of Isai, when he cam to Nob, to Ahimelech the sonne of Ahitob, ¹⁰ which asked councell of the Lorde for hym & gaue hym vitayles, & the swerde of Goliath the Philistine also.

⁹ And she wrote in the letter, sayenge: proclayme a fast, and set Naboth on hye amonge the people, ¹⁰ and set two vnthriftes before him, to beare witnesse agaynst him, sayenge: thou dydest blaspheme God and the kyng. And then carye hym out, and stone hym to deeth. ¹¹ And the men of his cyte: that is to saye, which dwelt in his cytie, did as Iezabel had sent vnto them, and as it was written in the letter whych she had sent vnto them. ¹² They proclamed fastyng, and set Naboth among the chefe of the people, ¹³ & there came in two men (the children of Belial) and sate before him. And the two vnthriftie persones wytnessed agaynst Naboth, in the presence of the people, sayeng: Naboth dyd blaspheme God and the kyng, And they caried hym out of the cytie, and stoned hym wyth stones that he dyed.

³ And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan: hast thou not consydered my seruaunt Iob? for there is none lyke him in the land. For he is a perfect and iust man, soch a one as feareth God, and exchueth euell, & contynueth styll in hys godlynesse. And thou mouedest me agaynst him, that I shulde punysh him for naught.

⁷ For they haue pryuely layed theyr net to destroye me without a cause, yee euen without a cause haue they made a pytte for my soule.

¹¹ False witnesse dyd ryse vp: they layed to my charge, thynges that I knowe not.

¹ To the chaunter, an exortacyon of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomyte came to Saul, and shewed him, sayinge: Dauid is come to the house Ahymelech. Why boastest thou thy self, thou Tyraunt, that thou canst do myschefe?

⁵ A faythfull wytnesse wyll not dissemble, but a false recorde wyll make a lye.

⁵ A false witnes shall not remayne vnpunysshed: and he that speaketh lyes shall not escape.

⁹ A false witnes shall not remayne vnpunyshed: and he that speaketh lyes shall peryshe.

²⁸ A false wytnes shall peryshe: but he that is a true man boldely speaketh that he hathe heard.

¹⁸ Who so beareth false wytnesse against his neyghboure, he is a very clubb, a swearde, & a sharpe arowe.

⁵⁹ The chefe Prestes and the elders, and all the councell, sought false witnes agaynst Iesus (for to put hym to deeth) ⁶⁰ but founde none: yee, when many false witnesses came, yet founde they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

²³ The debite sayde: what euyll hath he done? But they cryed the more, sayinge: let him be crucifyed.

²⁵ But thys happeneth that the sayinge myght be fulfylled, that is writen in their lawe: they hated me without a cause.

²⁵ Wherfore, put awaye lyinge, & speake euery man truth vnto his neyghboure, for as moche as we are members one of another.

⁹ Lye not one to another, seing that ye haue put of the olde man with hys workes,

⁸ But the fearfull and vnbeleuynge, and the abhominable, and murdrers, & whormongers, and sorcerers, and ydolaters, and all lyars shall haue theyr parte in the lake which burnyth with fyre and brymstone, which is the seconde death.

¹⁵ For wythout shalbe dogges and inchaunters, and whormongers, and mortherers, and ydolaters, & whosoeuer loueth or maketh leasynges.

¹¹ Then thre thousande men of Iuda went downe to the caue of the rocke Etam, and sayde to Samson: wottest thou not that the Philistines are rulers ouer vs? Wherfore then hast thou done thus vnto vs? He answered them as they dyd vnto me, so haue I done vnto them.

²² And Absalom sayde vnto hys brother Amnon nether good ner badd. Howbeit Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced hys syster Thamar. ²³ And it happened after two yere, that Absalom had shepe shearers in the playne of Hazor besyde the trybe of Ephraim, & bad all the kynges sonnes, ²⁴ and cam to the kyng, & sayd: beholde, thy seruaunt hath shepe sherers, let the kynge wt his seruauntes come to thy seruaunte. ²⁵ The king answered Absalom: naye my sonne. We will not go all, ner be chargeable vnto the. And Absalom laye sore vpon hym: howbeit he wolde not go, but blessed hym. ²⁶ Then sayd Absalom: Yf thou wylt not come, then let my brother Amnon go wt vs. And the kynge answered hym: what nedeth it, that he go wyth the? ²⁷ But Absalom made soche instance that he let Amnon, & all the kynges chyldren go with hym. ²⁸ Nowe had Absalom commaunded his younge men, sayenge: marke when Amnons hert is mery wyth wyne & when I byd you smyte Amnon, then kyll hym: and feare not, haue not I bydden you? be bolde therfore, & playe the men.

²² Saye not thou: I wyll recompense euell: but put thy trust in the Lorde, and he shall defende the.

²¹ If thyne enemye honger, feade him: yf he thryst, geue him drinke: ²² for so shalt thou heape coales of fyre vpon hys head, and the Lorde shall rewarde the.

³⁹ But I saye vnto you, that ye resist not euell. But whosoeuer geue the a blowe on the ryght cheke, turne to hym the other also. ⁴⁰ And yf eny man wyll sue the at the law, and take awaye thy coate, let him haue thy clooke also. ⁴¹ And whosoeuer wyll compell the to go a myle, go with him twayne. ⁴² Geue to him that asketh the, and from hym that wolde borowe, turne not thou awaye. ⁴³ Ye haue heard that it is sayde, thou shalt loue thyne neyghbour, and hate thyne enemy. ⁴⁴ But I saye vnto you: loue your enemyes. Blesse them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Praye for them which hurt you and persecute you,

¹⁷ Recompence to no man euyll for euyll. Prouyde afore hande thynges honeste in the syght of all men. ¹⁸ If it be possyble, (as moch as is in you) lyue peaceably with all men. ¹⁹ Dearly beloued, auenge not youre selues, but rather geue place vnto wrath. For it is wrytten: vengeaunce is myne, I wyll rewarde, sayth the Lorde. ²⁰ Therfore, yf thyne enemy honger, fede him: yf he thyrst, geue hym dryncke. For in so doyng thou shalt heape coles of fyre on hys heade. ²¹ Be not ouercome of euyll, but ouercome euyll, with goodnes:

¹⁵ Se that none recompence euyll for euyll vnto eny man: but euer folowe that whych is good, both amonge your selues, and to all men.

⁸ For (as I haue proued by experience) they that plowe iniquytie, & sowe wretchednesse, reape the same.

²⁷ Lo, thys we oure selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is. Herken thou to it also, that thou mayest take hede to thy selfe.

¹⁷ I wyll tell the, heare me: and I wyll shewe the that I haue sene:

²⁵ I haue bene yonge, and nowe am olde: & yet sawe I neuer the rightuous forsaken, ner his sede begginge theyr bread.

⁴² The ryghteous wyll consydre this, and reioyse, & the mouth of all wyckednesse shall be stopped.

⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slougard) consydre herwayes, & lerne to be wyse. ⁷ She hath no guyde, no ouersear nor ruler: ⁸ yet in the Sommer she prouideth her meate, and gathereth her fode to gether in the haruest. ⁹ Howe longe wylt thou slepe, thou slougysh man? When wylt thou aryse out of thy slepe? ¹⁰ Yee slepe on styll a lytle, slomber a lytle, foulde thyne handes together yet a lytle, that thou mayest slepe: ¹¹ so shall pouertye come vnto the as on that trauayleth by the waye, & necessytelke a weapened man. ¹² An vngodly person, a wycked man goeth with a frowarde mouth ¹³ he wyncketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with hys fete, he poynteth with hys fyngers, ¹⁴ he is euer ymagenynge myschefe, and frowardnesse in hys herte, & causeth discorde. ¹⁵ Therfore shall hys destruccyon come hastly vpon him, sodenly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed. ¹⁶ These syxe thynges doth the Lord hate, and the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: ¹⁷ A proude looke a lyinge tonge, handes that shed innocent bloude, ¹⁸ an herte that goeth aboute wyth wycked ymaginacyons fete that be swyfte in rennynge to do myschefe, ¹⁹ a false wytnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and soche one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

³² But whoso committeth aduoutry with a woman, he is a foole and bryngeth his lyfe to destruction.

¹³ In the lyppes of him that hath vnderstandynge, a man shall fynde wisdome, but that rod belongeth to the backe of the folyshe.

¹¹ He that tylleth his lande, shall haue plenteousnesse of bread: but he that foloweth ydylnes: is a very foole.

¹ So I turned me, & considred all the violent wrong that is done vnder the sunne, & beholde, the teares of soch as were oppressed, & there was no man to conforte them, or that wolde delyuer & defende them from the violence of their oppressours. ² Wherfore I iudged those that are deed, to be more happye then soch as be alyue: ³ yee, him that is yet vnborne to be better at ease then they both, because he seyth not the miserable worckes that are done vnder the sunne. ⁴ Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle, & dilygence of labour, that euery man taketh in hande, was done of enuy agaynst his neyboure This is also a vaine thinge, and a vexacion of mynde. ⁵ The foole foldeth his handes together, and eateth vp hys awne fleshe. ⁶ One hande full (sayeth he) is better with rest, then both the handes full with laboure & trauayle of minde. ⁷ Moreouer, I turned me, & beholde yet another vanyte vnder the Sunne. ⁸ There is one man, no mo but hym selfe alone, hauyng nether chylde ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satysfyed with riches, For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne & myserable thinge?

¹⁵ All thinges haue I considred in the tyme of my vanite: that the iust man perisheth for his righteousnes sake, & the vngodly lyueth in hys wyckednesse.

⁹ All these thinges haue I considered, and applied my mynde vnto euery worcke that is vnder the sonne: howe one man hath lordshype vpon another to his awne harme. ¹⁰ For I haue seane often the vngodly brought to ther graues: and yet they haue retorned into the citye ageyne, and came from the place of holy men, which in the citye were growen out of memory as were those also that lyued well. Thys is also a vayne thynge. ¹¹ Because now that euell worckes are not hastely punysshed, the hert of man geueth hym selfe ouer vnto wyckednesse.

¹⁷ Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, & hast eaten of the tree (concernynge the which I commaunded the, sayinge: Thou shalt not eate of it) cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe. ¹⁸ Thorne also & thystle shall it cause to growe vnto the, & thou shalt eate the herbe of the felde. ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread, tyll thou be turned agayne into the grounde, for out of it was thou taken, in asmuch as thou art dust, & into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.

⁴⁰ then let thystles growe in steade of my wheate, & cockle for my barleye. Here ende the wordes of Iob:

²³ The feare of the Lord bringeth a man to lyfe: and he shall rest the hole night in plenteousnes, without visitacyon of anye plage.

⁴ A slouthfull body wyll not go to plowe for colde of the wynter: therfore shall he go a beggyng in sommer, & haue nothynge.

¹³ The slouthfull body sayeth: there is a lyon without, I myght be slayn in the strete.

²¹ for soch as be dronckardes & ryotous shall come to pouerte, & he that is geuen to moch slepe, shall go wt a ragged coate.

¹⁸ Thorow slouthfulnesse the balckes fall downe, & thorow ydle handes it rayneth in at the house.

⁵ Well, now I shall tell you how I wyll do with my vyneyarde: I will take the hedge from it, that it maye perysh, and breake downe the wall, that it maye be troden vnder fote.

³ For thus sayeth the Lorde, to all Iuda & Ierusalem: plowe your lande, and sowe not amonge the thornes.

⁷ Agayne, some fell amonge thornes, and the thornes spronge vp and choaked them.

²² He also that receaued sede into the thornes, is he that heareth the worde: and the care of this worlde, and the dissaytfulnes of ryches, choke vp the worde, and so is he made vnfrutefull.

⁸ But that grounde which beareth thornes and bryars, is reproued, and is nye vnto cursynge: whose ende is to be burned.

¹¹ And all Israel shall heare and feare, and shall do no moare any soche wyckednesse as this is, amonge you.

²¹ And all the men of that cytie shall stone him with stones vnto death. And thou shalt put euell a waye from the, and all Israell shall heare, and feare.

²⁹ O that they were wyse, and vnderstode thys, that they wolde consyder their later ende.

¹⁷ What is man, that thou hast hym in soch reputacyon, & settest somoch by hym?

⁴ Stonde in awe, and synne not: comen with youre awne herte, and in youre chamber, and be styll. Sela.

¹⁹ But Mary kepte all those saienges, and pondered them in her hert.

⁵¹ And he went downe wt them, & came to Nazareth, & was obedient vnto them. But his mother kept all these sayenges together in her hert.

⁶ These weare ensamples to vs that we shuld not lust after euyll thynges, as they lusted.

¹¹ All these thynges happened vnto them for ensamples, but are wrytten to put vs in remembraunce, whom the endes of the worlde are come vpon.

⁵ My mynde is therfore to put you in remembraunce, for as moche as ye once knowe this, how that the Lorde (after that he had delyuered the people out of Egypt) destroyed them which after warde beleued not. ⁶ The angels also which kept not their fyrst estate, but lefte their awne habitacion, he hath reserued in euerlastynge chaynes vnder darcknes vnto the iudgement of the greate daye ⁷ euen as Sodome & Gomore, and the cytyes aboute them (which in lyke maner defyled them selues with fornicacyon, and folowed straunge flesshe) are set forth for an ensample, & suffre the payne of eternall fyre.

⁴ let not thyne eyes slepe, ner thyne eye lyddes slomber. ⁵ Saue thy selfe as a doo from the hande of the huntre, & as a byrde from the hande of the fouler. ⁶ Go to the Emmet (thou slougard) consydre herwayes, & lerne to be wyse. ⁷ She hath no guyde, no ouersear nor ruler: ⁸ yet in the Sommer she prouideth her meate, and gathereth her fode to gether in the haruest. ⁹ Howe longe wylt thou slepe, thou slougysh man? When wylt thou aryse out of thy slepe? ¹⁰ Yee slepe on styll a lytle, slomber a lytle, foulde thyne handes together yet a lytle, that thou mayest slepe: ¹¹ so shall pouertye come vnto the as on that trauayleth by the waye, & necessytelke a weapened man.

¹¹ This also, we knowe the season howe that it is tyme that we shulde now awake out of slepe. For now is oure saluacyon nearer, then when we beleued.

¹⁴ Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest, and stonde vp from deeth, and Chryst shall geue the lyght.

⁶ Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs wacth, & be sober. ⁷ For they that slepe, slepe in the nyght: & they that be droncken, are droncken in the nyght. ⁸ But let vs whych are of the daye, be sober armed wyth the brest plate of fayth and loue, and with hope of saluacyon for an helmet.

⁴ An ydle hande maketh poore, but a quycke labouringe hande maketh ryche.

⁴ The slogarde wolde fayne haue, & cannot get hys desyre: but the soule of the diligent shall haue plenty.