wives unto others and their fields to them that shall inherit them for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to * Isa 56.11 Ch. 6.13 covetousness from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsly 11 For they have * Ch. 6 1◠healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying * Ezek. 13.10 Peace peace when there is no peace 12 Were they * Chap. 3.3 and 6.15 ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore shall they fall among them that fall in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down saith the LORD 13 ¶ ‖ Or In gathering I will consume I will surely consume them saith the LORD there shall be no grapes * Isa 5.1 〈◊〉 on the vine nor figs on the * Mat. 21 1◠Luk. 13 ◠c. fig-tree and the leaf shall fade and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them 14 Why do we sit still assemble your selves and let us enter into the defenced cities and let us be silent there for the LORD our God hath put us to silence and given us * Ch. 9.15 23.15 water of ‖ Or poison gall to drink because we have sinned against the LORD 15 We * Ch. 14.10 looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from * Ch. 4.15 Dan the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones for they are come and have devoured the land and †Heb. the fulness thereof all that is in it the city and those that dwell therein 17 For behold I will send serpents cockatrices among you which will not be * Ps 58.4.5 charmed and they shall bite you saith the LORD 18 ¶ When I would comfort my self against sorrow my heart is faint †Heb. upon in me 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people †Heb. because of the countrey of them that are far off because of them that dwell in a far countrey Is not the LORD in Zion is not her king in her why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities 20 The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am black astonishment hath taken hold on me 22 Is there no * Ch 46.11 balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people †Heb. gone up recovered CHAP. IX 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold sins 9 and for their judgement 12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity 17 He exhorteth to mourn for their destruct on 22 and to trust not in themselves but in God 25 He threatneth both Jews and Gentiles †Heb. Who will give my head c. OH * Isa 22.4 Chap. 4.19 that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and assembly of treacherous men 3 And they bend their tongues like their howe for lies but they are are valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me saith the LORD 4 * Ch. 12.6 Mic. 7.5 6. Take ye heed every one of his ‖ Or friend neighbour and trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbour will walk with slanders 5 And they will ‖ Or mock deceive every one his neighbour and will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lies and weary themselves to commit iniquity 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit they refuse to know me saith the LORD 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will melt them and try them for how shall I do for the daughter of my people 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh * Psal 12.2 120.3 deceit one speaketh * Psal 28.3 peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but †Heb. in the midst of him in heart he layeth ‖ Or wait for him his wait 9 ¶ * Chap. 5.9 29. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing and for the ‖ Or pastures habitations of the wilderness a lamentation because they are ‖ Or desolate burnt up so that none can pass through them neither can men hear the voice of the cattel †Heb. from the fowl even to c. both the fowl of the heavens and the breast are fled they are gone 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps and * Chap. 10.22 a den of dragons and I will make the cities of Judah †Heb. desolation desolate without an inhabitant 12 ¶ Who is the wise man that may understand this and who is be to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken that he may declare it for what the land perisheth and is burnt up like a wilderness that none passeth through 13 And the LORD saith Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked therein 14 But have walked after the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination of their own heart and after Baalim which their fathers taught them 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will feed them even this people * Chap. 8.14 23.15 with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink 16 I will * Levit. 26.33 scatter them also among the heathen whom neither they nor their fathers have known and I will send a sword after them till I have consumed them 17 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts Consider ye and call for the mourning-mourning-women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come 18 And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eye-lids gush out with waters 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion How are we spoiled we are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land because our dwellings have cast us out 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD O ye women and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and every one her neighbour lamentation 21 For death is come up into our
LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time 16 And said * Ps 105.9 Ecclus 44 21. Luke 1.72 Heb. 6.13 By my self have I sworn saith the LORD for because thou hast done this thing hast not withheld thy son thine onely son 17 That in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the sea †Heb. lip shore and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies 18 * Chap. 12.3 18.18 Ecclus 44.22 Act. 3.25 Galat. 3.8 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba 20 ¶ And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham saying Behold Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor 21 Huz his first-born and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram 22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and â—idlaph and Bethuel 23 And Bethuel begat * Called Rom. 9.10 Rebecca Rebekah these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor Abrahams brother 24 And his concubine whose name was Reumah she bare also Tebah and Gaham and Thahath and Maachah CHAP. XXIII 1 The age and death of Sarah 3 The purchase of Machpelah 19 where Sarah was buried ANd Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old these were the years of the life of Sarah 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah to weep for her 3 ¶ And Abraham stood up from before his dead and spake unto the sons of Heth saying 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you give me a possession of a burying place with you that I may bury my dead out of my sight 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham saying unto him 6 Hear us my lord thou art †Heb. a prince of God a mighty prince amongst us in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre but that thou mayest bury thy dead 7 And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land even to the children of Heth. 8 And he communed with them saying If it be your minde that I should bury my dead out of my sight hear me and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar 9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he hath which is in the end of his field for †Heb. full money as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you 10 And Ephron dwelt amongst the children of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the †Heb. ears audience of the children of Heth eveâ— of all that went in at the gates of his city saying 11 Nay my lord hear me the field give I thee and the cave that is therein I give it thee in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee bury thy dead 12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land 13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land saying But if thou wilt give it I pray thee hear me I will give thee money for the field take it of me and I will bury my dead there 14 And Ephron answered Abraham saying unto him 15 My lord hearken unto me the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver what is that betwixt me thee bury therefore thy dead 16 And Abraham hearkned unto Ephron and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth four hundred shekels of silver currant money with 〈◊〉 merchant 17 ¶ And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah which was before Maâ—ure the field and the cave which was therein and all the trees that were in the field that were in all the borders round about were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth before all that went in at the gate of his city 19 And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan 20 And the field and the cave that is therein were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the sons of Heth. CHAP. XXIV 1 Abraham sweareth his servant 10 The servants journey 12 His prayer 14 His signe 15 Rebekah meetech him 18 fulfilleth his signe 22 receiveth jenwels 23 sheweth her kindred 25 and inviteth him home 26 The servant blesseth God 29 Laban entertaineth him 34 The servant sheweth his message 50 Laban and Bethuel approve it 58 Rebekah consenteth to go 62 Isaac meeteth her ANd Abraham was old and †Heb. â—one into days well stricken in age and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house that ruled over all that he had * Chap. 47.29 Put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD the God of heaven and the God of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites amongst whom I dwell 4 But thou shalt go unto my countrey and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son Isaac 5 And the servant said unto him Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest 6 And Abraham said unto him Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again 7 ¶ The LORD God of heaven which took me from my fathers house and from the land of my kindred and which spake unto me and that sware unto me saying * Chap. 12.7 13.15 15.18 25.4 Unto thy seed will I give this land he shall send his angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence 8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee then thou shalt be clear from this my oath onely bring not my son thither again 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and sware to him concerning that matter 10 ¶ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed ‖ Or and. for all the good of his master were in his hand and he arose and went to Mesopotamia unto the city of Nahor 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening even the time †Heb. that women which draw water go forth that women go out to draw water
12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham I pray thee send me good speed this day and shew kindness unto my master Abraham 13 Behold * Verse 43. I stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water 14 And let it come to pass that the damsel to whom I shall say Let down thy pitcher I pray thee that I may drink and she shall say Drink and I will give thy camels drink also let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master 15 ¶ And it came to pass before he had done speaking that behold Rebekah came out who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother with her pitcher upon her shoulder 16 And the damsel was †Heb. good of countenance very fair to look upon a virgin neither had any man known her and she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up 17 And the servant ran to meet her and said Let me I pray thee drink a little water of thy pitcher 18 And she said Drink my lord and she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand and gave him drink 19 And when she had done giving him drink she said I will draw water for thy camels also until they have done drinking 20 And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran again unto the well to draw water and drew for all his camels 21 And the man wondring at her held his peace to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not 22 And it came to pass as the camels had done drinking that the man took a golden ‖ Or jewel for the forehead ear-ring of hall a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold 23 And said Whose daughter art thou tell me I pray thee is there room in thy fathers house for us to lodge in 24 And she said unto him I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah which she bare unto Nahor 25 She said moreover unto him We have both straw and provender enough and room to lodge in 26 And the man bowed down has head and worshipped the LORD 27 And he said Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth I bring in the way the LORD led me to the house of my masters brethren 28 And the damsel ran told them of her mothers house these things 29 ¶ And Rebekah had a brother and his name was Laban and Laban ran out unto the man unto the well 30 And it came to pass when he saw the ear-ring and bracelets upon his sisters hands and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying Thus spake the man unto me that he came unto the man and behold he stood by the camels at the well 31 And he said Come in thou blessed of the LORD wherefore standest thou without for I have prepared the house room for the camels 32 ¶ And the man came into the house and he ungirded his camels and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash his feet and the mens feet that were with him 33 And there was set meat before him to eat but he said I will not eat until I have told mine errand And he said Speak on 34 And he said I am Abrahams servant 35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly and he is become great and he hath given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and men-servants and maid-servants and camels and asses 36 And Sarah my masters wife bare a son to my master when she was old and unto him hath he given all that he hath 37 And my master made me swear saying Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell 38 But thou shalt go unto my fathers house and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son 39 And I said unto my master Peradventure the woman will not follow me 40 And he said unto me the LORD before whom I walk will send his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred and of my fathers house 41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath when thou comest to my kindred and if they give not the◠one thou shalt be clear from my oath 42 And I came this day unto the well and said O LORD God of my master Abraham if now thou do prosper my way which I go 43 * Vers 13. Behold I stand by the well of water and it shall come to pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and I say to her Give me I pray thee a little water of thy pitcher to drink 44 And she say to me Both drink thou and I will also draw for thy camels let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my masters son 45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart Behold Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went down unto the well and drew water and I said unto her Let me drink I pray thee 46 And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her shoulder and said Drink and I will give thy camels drink also so I drank and she made the camels drink also 47 And I asked her and said Whose daughter art thou And she said The daughter of Bethuel Nahors son whom Milcah bare unto him and I put the ear-ring upon her face and the bracelets upon her hands 48 And I bowed down my head and worshipped the LORD and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had led me in the right way to take my masters brothers daughter unto his son 49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master tell me and it not tell me that I may turn to the right hand or to the left 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said The thing proceedeth from the LORD we cannot speak unto thee bad or good 51 Behold Rebekah is before thee take her and go and let her be thy masters sons wife as the LORD hath spoken 52 And it came to pass that when Abrahams servant heard their words he worshipped the LORD bowing himself to the earth 53 And the servant brought forth †Heb. vessels jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekah he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things 54 And they did eat and drink he and the men that were with him and tarried all night and they rose up in the morning and he said * Vers 56. and 59. Send me away unto my master 55 And her
midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the men-children alive 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them Why have ye done this thing have saved the men-children alive 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women for they are lively and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty 21 And it came to pass because the midwives seared God that he made them houses 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people saying Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river and every daughter ye shall save alive CHAP. II. 2 Moses is born 3 and in an ark cast into the flags 5 He is found and brought up by Pharachs daughter 11 He slayeth an Egyptian 13 He reproveth an Hebrew 15 He fleeth into Midian 21 He marrieth Zipporah 22 Gershom is born 23 God respecteth the Israelites cry ANd there went * Chap. 6.20 Num. 26.59 a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived and bare a son and when she saw him that he was a goodly childe she * Act. 7.20 Heb. 11.23 hid him three moneths 3 And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the childe therein and she said it in the dags by the rivers brink 4 And his sister stood afar off to wit what would be done to him 5 ¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash her self at the river and her maidens walked along by the rivers tide and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it 6 And when she had opened it she faw the childe and behold the babe wept And she had compassion on him and said This is one of the Hebrews children 7 Then said his sister to Pharaohs daughter Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the childe for thee 8 And Pharaohs daughter said unto her Go. And the maid went and called the childes mother 9 And Pharaohs daughter said unto her Take this childe away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages And the woman took the childe and nursed it 10 And the childe grew and she brought him unto Pharaohs daughter and he became her son And she called his name ‖ That is drawn out Moses and the said Because I drew him out of the water 11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew one of his brethren 12 And he looked this way and that way and when he saw that there was no man he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand 13 And when he went out the second day behold two men of the Hebrews strove together and he said to him that did the wrong Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow 14 And he said Who made thee †Heb. a man a prince a prince and a judge over us intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian And Moses seared and said Surely this thing is known 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing he sought to slay Moses But Moses sled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well 16 Now the ‖ Or prince priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their fathers flock 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock 18 And when they came to Reuel their father he said How is it that you are come so soon to day 19 And they said An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock 20 And he said unto his daughters And where is he why is it that ye have left the man Call him that he may eat bread 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter 22 And she bare him a son and he called his name * Chap. 18.3 Gershom for he said I have been a stranger in a strange land 23 ¶ And it came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage 24 And God heard their groaning and God remembred his * Gen. 15.14 c 46.4 covenant with Abraham with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel and God †Heb. knew had respect unto them CHAP. III. 1 Moses keepeth Jethro's flock 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush 9 He sendeth him to deliver Israel 14 The name of God 15 His message to Israel NOw Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the back-side of the desert and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a * Act 7 30. flame of fire our of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed 3 And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses And he said Here am I. 5 And he said Draw not nigh hither * Jos 5.15 Act. 7.33 put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground 6 Moreover he said * Mat 22.32 Act. 7.32 I am the God of thy father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God 7 ¶ And the LORD said I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters for I know their sorrows 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large unto a land â—owing with milk and honey unto the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizziteâ— and the Hivites and the Jebuâ—ites 9 Now therefore behold the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them 10 Come now
in water and be unclean until the even 17 And every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation shall be washed with water and be unclean until the even 18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the even 19 ¶ And if a woman have an issue and her issue in her flesh be bloud she shall be †Heb. in her separation put apart seven days and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 23 And if it be on her bed or on any thing whereon she sitteth when he toucheth it he shall be unclean until the even 24 And if any man lie with her at all and her flowers be upon him he shall be unclean seven days and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean 25 And if a woman have an issue of her bloud many days out of the time of her separation or if it run beyond the time of her separation all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation she shall be unclean 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water be unclean until the even 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue then she shall number to her self seven days and after that she shall be clean 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness that they die not in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue and of him whose seed goeth from him and is defiled therewith 33 And of her that is sick of her flowers and of him that hath an issue of the man and of the woman and of him that lieth with her which is unclean CHAP. XVI 1 How the high priest must enter into the hâ—ly place 11 The sin-offering for himself 15 The sin-offering for the people 20 The scape-goat 29 The yearly feast of the expâ—ations ANd the LORD spake unto Moses after * Chap. 10.2 the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered before the LORD and died 2 And the LORD said unto Moses Speak unto Aaron thy brother that he * Ex. 30.10 Hebr. 9.7 come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark that he die not for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place with a young bullock for a sin-offering and a ram for a burnt-offering 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh and shall be girded with the linen girdle and with the linen mitre shall he be attired these are holy garments therefore shall he wash his flesh in water and so put them on 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt-offering 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself and * Hebr. 9.7 make an atonement for himself and for his house 7 And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the †Heb. Azazâ—l scape-goat 9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORDS lot †Heb. went up fell and offer him for a sin-offering 10 But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scape-goat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scape-goat into the wilderness 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself 12 And he shall take a censer-full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the vail 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony that he die not 14 And * Hebr. â— 13 10.4 he shall take of the bloud of the bullock and * Cha. 4. â— sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat east-ward and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the bloud with his finger seven times 15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his bloud within the vail and do with that bloud as he did with the bloud of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat and before the mercy seat 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that †Heb. dwelleth remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness 17 * Luk. 1 1â— And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place until he come out and have made an atonement for himself and for his houshold and for all the congregation of Israel 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD and make an atonement for it and shall take of the bloud of the bullock of the bloud of the goat put it upon the horns of the altar round about 19 And he shall sprinkle of the bloud upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel
commanded Moses CHAP. V. 1 The anclean are removed out of the camp 5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses 11 The trial of jealousie ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every * Lev. 13.3 leper and every one that hath an * Lev. 15.2 issue and whosoever is defiled by the * Lev. 21.1 dead 3 Both male and female shall ye put out without the camp shall ye put them that they defile not their camps in the midst whereof I dwell 4 And the children of Israel did so and put them out without the camp as the LORD spake unto Moses so did the children of Israel 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Speak unto the children of Israel * Levit. 6.3 When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the LORD and that person be guilty 7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompense his trespass * Levit. 6.5 with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth part thereof and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed 8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto set the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD even to the priest beside the ram of the atonement whereby an atonement shall be made for him 9 And every ‖ Or leave-offering offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel which they bring unto the priest shall be his 10 And every mans hallowed things shall be his whatsoever any man giveth the priest it shall be * Levit. 10.13 his 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them If any mans wife go aside and commit a trespass against him 13 And a man lie with her carnally and it he hid from the eyes of her husband and be kept close and she be defiled and there be no witness against her neither she be taken with the manner 14 And the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be defiled or if the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be not defiled 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest and he shall bring her offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barly-meal he shall pour no oyl upon it nor put frankincense thereon for it is an offering of jealousie an offering of memorial bringing iniquity to remembrance 16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and uncover the womans head and put the offering of memorial in her hands which is the jealousie-offering and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman If no man have lien with thee and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness ‖ Or being in the power of thy husband †Heb. under thy husband with another in stead of thy husband be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another in stead of thy husband and if thou be defiled and some man hath lien with thee beside thine husband 21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing and the priest shall say unto the woman The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD doth make thy thigh to †Heb. fall rot and thy belly to swell 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot And the woman shall say Amen amen 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book and he shall blot them out with the bitter water 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousie-offering out of the womans hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD and offer it upon the altar 26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering even the memorial thereof and burn it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water then it shall come to pass that if she be defiled and have done trespass against her husband that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter and her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot and the woman shall be a curse among her people 28 And if the woman be not defiled but be clean then she shall be free and shall conceive seed 29 This is the law of jealousies when a wise goeth aside to another in stead of her husband and is defiled 30 Or when the spirit of jealousie cometh upon him and he be jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before the LORD and the priest shall execute upon her all this law 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity and this woman shall bear her iniquity CHAP. VI. 1 The law of the Nazarices 22 The form of blessing the people ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When either man or woman shall ‖ Or make themselves Nazarites separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the LORD 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vineger of wine or vineger of strong drink neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes or dried 4 All the days of his ‖ Or Nazariteship separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the †Heb. vine of the wine vine-tree from the kernels even to the husk 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no * Judg. 13.5 1 Sam. 1.11 rasour come upon his head until the days be fulfilled in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother for his brother or for his sister when they die because the †Heb. separation consecration of his God is upon his head 8 All the days of his separation
dominion over the mighty 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek after thee Benjamin among thy people out of Machir came down governours and out of Zebulun they that †Heb. draw with the pen c. handle the pen of the writer 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah even Issachar and also Barak he was sent on †Heb. his feet foot into the valley ‖ Or. in the divisions See for the divisions of Reuben there were great †Heb. impressions thoughts of heart 16 Why abodest thou among the sheep-folds to hear the bleatings of the flocks ‖ Or in for the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan and why did Dan remain in ships Asher continued on the sea ‖ Or port shore and abode in his ‖ Or creeks breaches 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that †Heb. exposed to reâ—râ—aâ—â— jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field 19 The kings came and fought then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo they took no gain of money 20 They fought from heaven the stars in their †Heb. paths courses fought against Sisera 21 The river of Kishon swept them away that ancient river the river Kishon O my soul thou hast troden down strength 22 Then were the horse-hoofs broken by the means of the ‖ Or traâ—â—plines or plungings pransings the pransings of their mighty ones 23 Curse ye Meroz said the angel of the LORD curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the LORD to the help of the LORD againd the mighty 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be blessed shall she be above women in the tent 25 He asked water and she gave him milk she brought forth butter in a lordly dish 26 She put her hand to the nail and her right hand to the workmens hammer and †Heb. she hammered with the hammer she smote Sisera she smote off his head when she had pierced and stricken through his temples 27 †Heb. between At her feet he bowed he fell be lay down at her feet he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell down †Heb. destroyed dead 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cryed through the lattess Why is his chariot so long in coming why tarry the wheels of his chariots 29 Her wife ladies answered her yea she returned †Heb. her words answer to her self 30 Have they not sped have they not divided the prey †Heb. to thâ— head of a man to every man a damsel or two to Sâ—sera a prey of divers colours a prey of divers colours of needle-work of divers colours of needle-work on both sides meet for the necks of them that take the spoil 31 So let all thine enemies perish O LORD but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might And the land had rest fourty years CHAP. VI. 1 The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian 8 A prophet rebuketh them 11 An angel sendeth Gideon for their deliverance 17 Gideons present is consumed with fire 24 Gideon destroyeth Baals altar and offereth a sacrifice upon the altar Jehovah-shalom 28 Joash defendeth his son and calleth him Jerubbaal 33 Gideons army 36 Gideons signs ANd the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years 2 And the hand of Midian †Heb. â—o is strong prevailed against Israel and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains and caves and strong holds 3 And so it was when Israel had sown that the Midianites came up and the Amalekites and the children of the cast even they came up against them 4 And they encamped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth till thou come unto Gaza and left no sustenance for Israel neither ‖ Or Sâ—â—â— sheep nor ox nor ass 5 For they came up with their cattel and their tents and they came as grashoppers for multitude for both they and their camels were without number and they entred into the land to destroy it 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites and the children of Israel cryed unto the LORD 7 ¶ And it came to pass when the children of Israel cryed unto the LORD because of the Midianites 8 That the LORD sent †Heb. a man a prophet a prophet unto the children of Israel which said unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage 9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all that oppressed you and drave them out from before you and gave you their land 10 And I said unto you I am the LORD your God * 2 King 1â— 35 38. Jer. 10.2 fear not the gods of 〈◊〉 Amorites in whose land ye dwell but ye have not obeyed my voice 11 ¶ And there came an angel of the LORD and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite and his son * Hebr. 11.32 called Gedeon Gideon threshed wheat by the wine-press †Heb. to cause it to sâ—ee to hide it from the Midianites 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him and said unto him The LORD is with thee thou mighty man of valour 13 And Gideon said unto him Oh my lord if the LORD be with us why then is all this befaln us and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of saying Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt but now the LORD hath forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites 14 And the LORD looked upon him and said Go in this thy might and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites have not I sent thee 15 And he said unto him Oh my lord wherewith shall I save Israel behold †Heb. my thousand is the meanest my family is poor in Manasseh and I am the least in my fathers house 16 And the LORD said unto him Surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man 17 And he said unto him If now I have found grace in thy sight then shew me a signe that thou talkest with me 18 Dâ—pâ—rt not hence I pray thee until I come unto thee and bring forth my †present ‖ Or meat-â—ffâ—â—ing and set it before thee And he said I will tarry until thou come again 19 And Gideon went in and made ready †Heb. a kid of the goats a kid and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour the flesh
what is in his mouth what he saith 6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom Absalom spake unto him saying Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner shall we do after his †Heb. word saying If not speak thou 7 And Hushai said unto Absalom The counsel that Ahithophel hath †Heb. counselled given is not good at this time 8 For said Hushai thou knowest thy father and his men that they be mighty men and they be †Heb. bitter of sâ—ul chafed in their minds as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field and thy father is a man of war and will not lodge with the people 9 Behold he is hid now in some pit or in some other place and it will come to pass when some of them be †Heb. faln overthrown at the first that whosoever heareth it will say There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom 10 And he also that is valiant whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man and they which be with him are valiant men 11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee from Dan even to Beer-sheba as the sand that is by the sea for multitude and †Heb. that thy face or presence go c. that thou go to battel in thine own person 12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one 13 Moreover if he be gotten into a city then shall all Israel bring rope to that city and we will draw it into the river until there be not one small stone found there 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better then the counsel of Ahithophel for the LORD had †Heb. commanded appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom 15 ¶ Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel and thus and thus have I counselled 16 Now therefore send quickly and tell David saying Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness but speedily pass over lest the king be swallowed up and all the people that are with him 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel for they might not be seen to come into the city and a wench went and told them and they went and told king David 18 Nevertheless a lad saw them and told Absalom but they went both of them away quickly and came to a mans house in Bahurim which had a well in his court whither they went down 19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the wells mouth and spread ground corn thereon and the thing was not known 20 And when Absaloms servants came to the woman to the house they said Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan And the woman said unto them They be gone over the brook of water And when they had sought and could not finde them they returned to Jerusalem 21 And it came to pass after they were departed that they came up out of the well and went and told king David and said unto David Arise and pass quickly over the water for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you 22 Then David arose and all the people that were with him and they passed over Jordan by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan 23 ¶ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not †Heb. done followed he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his house to his city and †Heb. gave charge concerning his house put his houshold in order and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father 24 Then David came to Mahanaim and Absalom passed over Jordan he and all the men of Israel with him 25 ¶ And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab which Amasa was a mans son whose name was Ithra an Israelite that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash sister to Zeruiah Joabs mother 26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead 27 ¶ And it came to pass when David was come to Mahanaim that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim 28 Brought beds and ‖ Or cups basons and earthen vessels and wheat and barley and flour and parched corn and beans and lentiles and parched pulse 29 And honey and butter and sheep and cheese of kine for David and for the people that were with him to eat for they said The people is hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness CHAP. XVIII 1 David viewing the armies in their march giveth them charge of Absalom 6 The Israelites are sore smitten in the wood of Ephaim 9 Absalom hanging in an oak is slain by Joab and cast into a pit 18 Absaloms place 19 Ahimaaz and Cushi bring tiâ—ings to David 33 David mourneth for Absalom ANd David numbred the people that were with him and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them 2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab and a third part under the hand of Aâ—â—shai the son of Zeruiah Joabs brother and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gâ—ttite and the king said unto the people I will surely go forth with you my self also 3 But the people answered Thou shalt not go forth for if we flee away they will not †Heb. set their heart on us care for us neither if half of us die will they care for us but now thou art †Heb. as ten thousand of us worth ten thousand of us therefore now it is better that thou †Heb. be to succour succour us out of the city 4 And the king said unto them What seemeth you best I will do And the king stood by the gate-side and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands 5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai saying Deal gently for my sake with the young man even with Absalom And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom 6 ¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel and the battel was in the wood of Ephraim 7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men 8 For the battel was there scattered over the face of all the countrey and the wood †Heb. multiplied to devour devoured more people that day
7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha and against his house even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands in being like the house of Jeroboam and because he killed him 8 ¶ In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah two years 9 And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza †Heb. which was over steward of his house in Tirzah 10 And Zimri went in and smote him and killed him in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his stead 11 ¶ And it came to pass when he began to reign assoon as he sat on his throne that he slew all the house of Baasha he left him not one that pisseth against a wall ‖ Or both his kinsmen and his friends neither of his kinsfolks nor of his friends 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha according to the word of the LORD which he spake against Baasha †Heb. by the hand of by Jehu the prophet 13 For all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son by which they sinned and by which they made Israel to sin in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 15 ¶ In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah and the people were encamped against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines 16 And the people that were encamped heard say Zimri hath conspired and hath also slain the king wherefore all Israel made Omri the captain of the host king over Israel that day in the camp 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon and all Israel with him and they besieged Tirzah 18 And it came to pass when Zimri saw that the city was taken that he went into the palace of the kings house and burnt the kings house over him with fire and died 19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD in walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make Israel sin 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his treason that he wrought are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 21 ¶ Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king and half followed Omri 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath so Tibni died Omri reigned 23 ¶ In the thirty and one year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel twelve years six years reigned he in Tirzah 24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver and built on the hill and called the name of the city which he built after the name of Shemer owner of the hill †Heb. Shomâ—roâ— Samaria 25 ¶ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD and did worse then all that were before him 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might that he shewed are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 28 So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria and Ahab his son reigned in his stead 29 ¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him 31 And it came to pass †Heb. was it a light thing c. as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians and went and served Baal and worshipped him 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria 33 And Ahab made a grove and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger then all the kings of Israel that were before him 34 ¶ In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his first-born and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub * Josh 6.25 according to the word of the LORD which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun. CHAP. XVII 1 Elijah having trophesied against Ahab is sent to Cherith where the ravens feed him 8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath 17 He raiseth the widows son 24 The woman believeth him ANd †Heb. Elijahu Luk. 4.25 he is called Elias Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of Gilead said unto Ahab * Ecclus 48.3 Jam. 5.17 As the LORD God of Israel liveth before whom I stand there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word 2 And the word of the LORD came unto him saying 3 Get thee hence and turn thee east-ward and hide thy self by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan 4 And it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook 7 And it came to pass †Heb. at the end of days after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land 8 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto him saying 9 Arise get thee to * Luk. 4.26 called Sarepta Zarephath which belongeth to Zidon and dwell there behold I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath and when he came to the gate of the city behold the widow woman was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said Fetch me I pray thee a little water in a vessel that I may drink 11 And as she was going to fetch it he called to her and said Bring me
drieth up 12 So man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more they shall not awake nor â—e raised out of their sleep 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave that thou wouldest keep me secret until thy wrath be past that thou wouldest appoint me a set time and remember me 14 If a man die shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come 15 Thou shalt call and I will answer thee thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands 16 * Psal 139.2 3. For now thou numbrest my steps dost thou not watch over my sin 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and thou sowest up mine iniquity 18 And surely the mountain falling †Heb. faleth cometh to nought and the rock is removed out of his place 19 The waters wear the stones thou †Heb. over flowest washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth and thou destroyest the hope of man 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him and he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendest him away 21 His sons come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are brought low but he perceiveth it not of them 22 But his deth upon him shall have pain and his soul within him shall mourn CHAP. XV. 1 Eliphaz reproveth Job of impiety in justifying himself 1â— He proveth 〈◊〉 tradition the unquietness of wicked men THen answered Eliphaz the Temanit and said 2 Should a wise man utter †Heb. knowledge of wind vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east-wind 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches wherewith he can do no good 4 Yea †Heb. thou makest 〈◊〉 thou castest off fear and restrainest ‖ Or speech prayer before God 5 For thy mouth †Heb. teacheth uttereth thine iniquity and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee and not I yea thine own lips testifie against thee 7 Art thou the first man that was born or wast thou made before the hills 8 * Rom. 11 3â— Hast thou heard the secret of God and dost thou restrain wisdom to thy self 9 What knowest thou that we know not what understandest thou which is not in us 10 With us are both the gray-headed and very aged men much elder then thy father 11 Are the consolations of God small with thee is there any secret thing with thee 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away and what do thine eyes wink at 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth 14 * 1 King 8 4â— 2 Chr. 6.36 Chap. 14.4 Psal 14.3 Prov 20.9 1 John 1.8 What is man that he should be clean and he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous 15 * Ch. 4.18 Behold he putteth no trust in his saints yea the heavens are not clâ—an in his sight 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water 17 I will shew thee hear me and that which I have seen I will declare 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers and have not hid it 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed among them 20 The wicked man travelleth with pain all his days and the number of years is hidden to the oppressour 21 †Heb. a sound of fears A dreadful sound is in his ears in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him 22 He beleeveth not thâ—t he shall return out of darkness and he is waited for of the sword 23 He wandreth abroad for bread saying Where is it he knoweth that the day or darkness is ready at his hâ—â—d 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid they shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battel 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God and strengthneth himself against the Almighty 26 He runneth upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his bucklers 27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness and maketh collops of fat on his flanks 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabiteth which are ready to become heaps 29 He shall not be rich neither shall his subâ—tance continue neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth 30 He shall not depart out of darkness the flame shall dry up his branches and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity for vanity shall be his recompence 32 It shall be ‖ Or cut off accomplished before his time and his branch shall not be green 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery 35 * Psa 7.14 Isa 50. â— They conceive mischief and bring forth ‖ Or. iniquity vanity and their belly prepareth deceit CHAP. XVI 1 Job reproveth his friends of unmercifulness 7 He sheweth the pitifulness of his case 17 He maintaineth his innocency THen Job answered and said 2 I have heard many such things ‖ Or troublesome * Ch. 13.4 miserable comforters are ye all 3 Shall †Heb. words of wind vain words have an end or what emboldneth thee that thou answerest 4 I also could speak as ye do if your soul were in my souls stead I could heap up words against you and shake mine head at you 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief 6 Though I speak my grief is not asswaged and though I forbear †Heb. what goeth from me what am I eased 7 But now he hath made me weary thou hast made desolate all my company 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles which is a witness against me and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face 9 He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me he gnasheth upon me with his teeth mine enemy sharpneth his eyes upon me 10 They have gaped up on me with their mouth they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully they have gathered themselves together against me 11 God †Heb. hath shut me up hath delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked 12 I was at ease but he hath broken me asunder he hath also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark 13 His archers compass me round about he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare he poureth out my gall upon the ground 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach he runneth upon me like a giant 15 I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the duâ—t 16 My face is foul with weeping
countenance a backbiting tongue 24 * Ch. 19.13 21.9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the hous-top then with a brawling woman and in a wide house 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul so is good news from a far countrey 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring 27 It is not good to eat much honey so for men to search their own glory is not glory 28 * Chap. 16.32 He that bath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls CHAP. XXVI 1 Observations about fools 1â— about sluggards 17 and about contentious busie-bodies AS snow in summer and as rain in harvest so honour is not seemly for a fool 2 As the bird by wandring as the swallow by flying so the curse causless shall not come 3 * Ps 72. â— Cha. 10.13 A whip for the horse a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fools back 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him 5 Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in †Heb. his own eyes his own conceit 6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh ‖ Or violence damage 7 The legs of the lame †Heb. are lifted up are not equal so is a parable in the mouth of fools 8 ‖ Or as be that putteth a precious stone in an heap of stones As he that bindeth a stone in a sling so is he that giveth honour to a fool 9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard so is a parable in the mouth of fools 10 ‖ Or a great man grieveth all and he hireth the fool he hireth also transgressours The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth transgressours 11 * 2 Pet. 2.22 As a dog returneth to his vomit so a fool †Heb. iterateth his folly returneth to his folly 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool then of him 13 * Ch. 22.13 The slothful man saith There is a lion in the way a lion is in the streets 14 As the door turneth upon his hinges so doth the slothful upon his bed 15 * Ch. 19.24 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom ‖ Or he is weary it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit then seven men that can render a reason 17 He that passeth by and ‖ Or is enraged meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears 18 As a mad man who casteth †Heb. flames or sparks fire-brands arrows and death 19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour and saith Am not I in sport 20 †Heb. without wood Where no wood is there the fire goeth out so * Ch. 22.10 where there is no ‖ Or whisperer tale-bearer the strife †Heb. is silent ceaseth 21 * Ch. 15.18 29.22 As coals are to burning coals and wood to fire so is a contentious man to kindle strife 22 * Ch. 18.8 The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds and they go down into the †Heb. chambers innermost parts of the belly 23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross 24 He that hateth ‖ Or is known dissembleth with his lips and layeth up deceit within him 25 When he †Heb. maketh his voice gracious speaketh fair beleeve him not for there are seven abominations in his heart 26 ‖ Or hatred is covered in secret Whos 's hatred is covered by deceit his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation 27 * Psal 7.15 16. and 9.15 Eccles 10.8 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone it will return upon him 28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruine CHAP. XXVII 1 Observations of self-love 5 of true love 11 of care to avoid offences 13 and of the houshold care * Jam. 4.13 c. BOast not thy self of †Heb. to morrow-day to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth 2 Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips 3 A stone is †Heb. heaviness heavy and the sand weighty but a fools wrath is heavier then them both 4 †Heb. wrath is cruelty and anger an overflowing Wrath is cruel and anger is outragious but who is able to stand before ‖ Or jealousie envy 5 Open rebuke is better then secret love 6 * Ps 141.5 Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are ‖ Or earnest or frequent deceitful 7 The full soul †Heb. treadeth underfoot loatheth an honey-comb but * Job 6.7 to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet 8 As a bird that wandreth from her nest so is a man that wandreth from his place 9 Ointment and perfume rejoyce the heart so doth the sweetness of a mans friend †Heb. from the counsel of the soul by hearty counsel 10 Thine own friend and thy fathers friend forsake not neither go into thy brothers house in the day of thy calamity for * Ch. 17.17 and 18.24 better is a neighbour that is near then a brother far off 11 * Ch. 10.1 23.24 My son be wise and make my heart glad that I may answer him that reproacheth me 12 * Ch. 22.3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself but the simple pass on and are punished 13 * Ch. 20.16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him for a strange woman 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice rising early in the morning it shall be counted a curse to him 15 * Ch 19.13 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious womon are alike 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind and the ointment of his right hand which bewrayeth it self 17 Iron sharpneth iron so a man sharpneth the countenance of his friend 18 Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured 19 As in water face answereth to face so the heart of man to man 20 Hell and destruction are †Heb. not never full so * Eccles â— 8 the eyes of man are never satisfied 21 * Ch. 17.3 As the fining-pot for silver and the furnace for gold so is a man to his praise 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a morter among wheat with a pestil yet will not his foolishness dâ—part from him 23 Be
Ch. 59.3 †Heb. blouds bloud 16 ¶ Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes * 1 Pet. 3.11 cease to do evil 17 Learn to do well seek judgement ‖ Or rightâ—â—â— relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow 18 Come now and let us reason together saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool 19 If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land 20 But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it 21 ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot it was full of judgement righteousness lodged in it but now murderers 22 Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water 23 Thy princes are rebellious and companions of theeves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they * Jer. 5.28 Zech. 7 1â— judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them 24 Therefore saith the Lord the LORD of hosts the mighty One of Israel Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies 25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee and †Heb. according to pureness purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellours as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousnes the faithful city 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgement and ‖ Or they that return of her her converts with righteousness 28 ¶ And the * Job 31.3 Ps 1.6 5.6 73.27 92.9 and 104.35 †Heb. breaking destruction of the transgressours and of the sinners shall be together and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden that hath no water 31 And the strong shall be as tow ‖ Or and his work and the maker of it as a spark and they shall both burn together and none shall quench them CHAP. II. 1 Isaiah prophesieth the coming of Christs kingdom â— Wickedness is the cause of Gods forsaking 10 He exhorteth to fear because of the powerful effect of Gods majesty THe word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem 2 And * Mic. 4 â— c. it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the LORD house shall be ‖ Or prepared established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it 3 And many people shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem 4 And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares and their spears into ‖ Or sithes pruning-hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more 5 O house of Jacob come ye and let us walk in the light of the LORD 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob because they be replenished ‖ Or more then the east from the east and are sooth-sayers like the Philistines and they ‖ Or abound with the children c. please themselves in the children of strangers 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold neither is there any end of their treasures their land is also full of horses neither is there any end of their chariots 8 Their land also is full of idols they worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made 9 And the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself therefore forgive them not 10 ¶ Enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for fear of the LORD and for the glory of his majesty 11 The * Chap. 5.15 lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of Bashan 14 And upon all the high mountains and upon all the hills that are lifted up 15 And upon every high towre and upon every senced wall 16 And upon all the ships of Tarthish and upâ—n all †Heb. pictures of dâ—sire pleasant pictures 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of men shall be made low and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day 18 And ‖ Or the idols shall utterly pass away the idols he shall utterly abolish 19 And they shall go into the * Hoâ— 10.8 Lu. 23.30 Rev. 6.16 9.6 holes of the rocks and into the caves of †Heb. the â—ust the earth for fear of the LORD and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth 20 In that day a man shall cast †Heb. the idols of his silvâ—r c. his idols of silver and his idols of gold ‖ Or which they made for him which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks for fear of the LORD and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth 22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of CHAP. III. 1 The great confusion which cometh by sin 9 The impudeney of the people 12 The oppression and covetousâ—â—es of the culers 16 The judgements which shall be joy the pride of the women FOr behold the LORD the LORD of hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water 2 The mighty man and the man of war the judge and the prophet and the prudent and the ancient 3 The captain of fifty and †Heb. amâ—â— emiâ—eâ—t in counterance the honourable man and the counsellour and the cunning artificer and ‖ Or skilful of speâ—ck the eloquent oratour 4 And I will give * â—â—â—â—es 1â— 16 children to be their
is my law * Matth. 10.28 fear ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wool but my righteousness shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation 9 ¶ Awake awake put on strength O arm of the LORD awake as in the ancient days in the generations of old Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the * Psal 74.13 14. Ezek. 29.3 dragon 10 Art thou not it which hath * Exod. 14.21 dried the sea the waters of the great deep that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over 11 Therefore * Chap. 35.10 the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with singing unto Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their head they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning shall flee away 12 I even I am he that comforteth you who are thou that thou shouldest be afraid * Psal 118.6 of a man that shall die and of the son of man which shall be made * Ch. 40.6 1 Pet. 1.24 as grass 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressour as if he ‖ Or made himself ready were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressour 14 The captive exile hastneth that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail 15 But I am the LORD thy God that * Jer. 31.35 divided the sea whose waves roared the LORD of hosts is his name 16 And I have put my words * Chap. 49.2 3. in thy mouth and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say unto Zion Thou are my people 17 ¶ * Chap. 52.1 Awake awake stand up O Jerusalem which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up 19 * Chap. 47.9 These two things †Heb. bapned are come unto thee who shall be sorry for thee desolation and †Heb. breaking destruction and the famine and the sword by whom shall I comfort thee 20 Thy sons have fainted they lie at the head of all the streets as a wilde bull in a net they are full of the fury of the LORD the rebuke of thy God 21 ¶ Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soul Bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over CHAP. LII 1 Christ perswadeth the church to beleeve his free redemption 7 to receive the ministers thereof 9 to joy in the power thereof 11 and to free themselves from bondage 13 Christs kingdom shall be exalted * Chap. 5.17 AWake awake put on thy strength O Zion put on thy beautiful garments O Jerusalem the holy city for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean 2 Shake thy self from the dust arise and sit down O Jerusalem loose thy self from the hands of thy neck O captive daughter of Zion 3 For thus saith the LORD Ye have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD My people went down aforetime into * Gen. 45.6 Egypt to sojourn there and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause 5 Now therefore what have I here saith the LORD that my people is taken away for nought they that rule over them make them to howl saith the LORD and my name continually every day is * Ezek. 36.20 23. Rom. 2.24 blasphemed 6 Therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak behold it is I. 7 ¶ * Nah. 1.15 Ro. 10.15 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion Thy God reigneth 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD shall bring again Zion 9 ¶ Break forth into joy sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem for the LORD hath comforted his people he hath redeemed Jerusalem 10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations and * Ps 98.2 Lu. 3.6 all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God 11 ¶ * 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.4 Depart ye depart ye go ye out from thence touch no unclean thing go ye out of the midst of her be ye clean that bear the vessels of the LORD 12 For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight for the LORD will go before you and the God of Israel will †Heb. gather you up be your rereward 13 ¶ Behold my servant shall ‖ Or prosper deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high 14 As many were astonied at thee his * Ch. 53.3 visage was so marred more then any man and his form more then the son of men 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations the kings shall shut their mouths at him for that * Rom. 15.21 which had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider CHAP. LIII 1 The prophet complaining of incredulity excuseth the scandal of the cross 4 by the benefit of his passion 10 and the good success thereof * Joh. 12.38 Ro. 10.16 WHo hath beleeved our ‖ Or doctrine †Heb. 3◠He bearing report and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him 3 * Ch 52.14 Mar. 9.12 He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and ‖ Or. be bid as it
everlasting love therefore ‖ Or have 〈◊〉 extended loving kindness unto thee with loving kindness have I drawn thee 4 Again I will build thee and thou shalt be built O virgin of Israel thou shalt again be adorned with thy * Ex. 15.20 Judg. 11.34 ‖ Or timbrels tabrets and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria the planters shall plant and shall †Heb. profane them eat them as common things 6 For there shall be a day that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry Arise ye and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God 7 For thus saith the LORD Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise ye and say O LORD save thy people the remnant of Israel 8 Behold I will bring them from the north-countrey and gather them from the coasts of the earth and with them the blinde and the lame the woman with childe and her that travaileth with childe together a great company shall return thither 9 They shall come with weeping and with ‖ Or favours supplications will I lead them I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a strait way wherein they shall not stumble for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my * Ex. 4.22 first-born 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD O ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say He that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger then he 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD for wheat and for wine and for oyl and for the young of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a * Is 58.11 watered garden and they shall not sorrow any more at all 13 Then shall the virgin rejoyce in the dance both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoyce from their sorrow 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the LORD 15 ¶ Thus saith the LORD * Mat. 2.18 A voice was heard in Ramah lamentation end bitter weeping Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not 16 Thus saith the LORD Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded saith the LORD and they shall come again from the land of the enemy 17 And there is hope in thine end saith the LORD that thy children shall come again to their own border 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the LORD my God 19 Surely * Deu. 30. â— after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth 20 Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant childe for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowel †Heb. sound are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the LORD 21 Set thee up way-marks make thee high heaps set thine heart toward the high way even the way which thou wentest turn again O virgin of Israel turn again to these thy cities 22 ¶ How long wilt thou go about O thou backsliding daughter for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth A woman shall compass a man 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall bring again their captivity The LORD bless thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness 24 And there shall dwell in Judah it self and in all the cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with flocks 25 For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished every sorrowful soul 26 Upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me 27 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will sowe the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast 28 And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so will I watch over them to build and to plant saith the LORD 29 * Ezek. â—8 â— In those days they shall say no more The fathers have eaten a sowre grape and the childrens teeth are set on edge 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sowre grape his teeth shall be set on edge 31 ¶ Behold the * Heb. 8. â— days come saith the LORD that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they brake ‖ Or should I have continued an husband unto them although I was an husband unto them saith the LORD 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the LORD I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts * Ch. 24.7 and 20.22 and will be their God and they shall be my people 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the LORD for * Is 54.13 Joh. 6.45 they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the LORD for * Ch. 33.8 Mic. 7.18 Act. 10.43 I will forgive their iniquity I will remember their sin no more 35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD * Gen. 1.16 which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night which divideth * Is 51.15 the sea when the waves thereof roar the LORD of hosts is his name 36 * Is 54. â— Ch. 33.20 If those ordinances depart from before me saith the LORD then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever 37 Thus saith the LORD If * Ch. 33 2â— heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath I will also cast
of hosts in the land of the Caldeans 26 Come against her †Heb. from the and. from the utmost border open her store-houses ‖ Or tread her cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left 27 Slay all her bullocks let them go down to the slaughter wo unto them for their day is come the time of their visitation 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God the vengeance of his temple 29 Call together the archers against Babylon all ye that bend the bowe camp against it round about set none thereof escape recompense her according to her work according to all that she hath done do unto her for she hath been proud against the LORD against the holy One of Israel 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD 31 Behold I am against thee O thou †Heb. tride most proud saith the Lord GOD of hosts for thy day is come the time that I will visit thee 32 And †Heb. tride the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him 33 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together and all that took them caprives held them fast they refused to let them go 34 Their redeemer is strong the LORD of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon 35 ¶ A sword is upon the Caldeans saith the LORD and upon the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise men 36 A sword is upon the ‖ Or. chief stays †Heb. bars liars and they shall dote a sword is upon her mighty men and they shall be dismayed 37 A sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her and they shall become as women a sword is upon her treasures and they shall be robbed 38 A drought is upon her waters and they shall be dried up for it is the land of graven images and they are mad upon their idols 39 Therefore the wilde beasts of the desert with the wilde beasts of the islands shall dwell there and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation 40 * Gen. 19. â—5 Chap. 49. â—8 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof saith the LORD so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein 41 Behold a people shall come from the north and a great nation and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth 42 They shall hold the bowe and the lance they are cruel and will not shew mercy their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses every one put in aray like a man to the battel against thee O daughter of Babylon 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them and his hands waxed feeble anguish took hold of him and pangs as of a woman in travail 44 Behold he shall come up * Chap. 49.39 like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong but I will make them suddenly run away from her and whom a chosen man that I may appoint over her for who is like me and * Job 41.10 Ch. 49.19 who will ‖ Or convent me 〈◊〉 plead appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that will stand before me 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD that he hath taken against Babylon and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the Caldeans surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved and the cry is heard among the nations CHAP. LI. 1 The severe judgement of God against Babylon in revence of Israel 50 Jeremiah delivereth the book of this prophesit to Seraiah to be east into Euptrates in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon THus saith the LORD Behold I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the †Heb 〈◊〉 midst of them that rise up against me a destroying wind 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about 3 Against him that bendeth set the archer bend his bowe and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine and spare ye not her young men destroy ye utterly all her host 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Caldeans and they that are thrust through in her streets 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the LORD of hosts though their land was filled with sin against the holy One of Israel 6 * Ch. 30.8 Rev. 18.4 Fiee our of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time of the LORD vengeance he will render unto her a recompence 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORDS hand that made all the earth drunken the nations have drunken of her wine therefore the nations are mad 8 Babylon is suddenly * Isa 23.9 Rev. 14.8 18.2 faln and destroyed howl for her take balm for her pain if so be she may be healed 9 We would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own countrey for her judgement reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God 11 Make †Heb â—urâ— bright the arrows gather the shields the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes for his device is against Babylon to destroy it because it is the vengeance of the LORD the vengeance of his temple 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon make the watch strong set up the watchmen prepare the †Heb. liers in wait ambushes for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness 14 * Am. 6.8 The LORD of hosts hath sworn †Heb. by his soul by himself saying Surely I will fill thee with men as with caterpillers
pomegranate upon the net-work were an hundred round about 24 ¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the †Heb. threshold door 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch which had the charge of the men of war and seven men of them that †Heb. saw the face of the king were near the kings person which were found in the city and the ‖ Or scribe of the captain of the host principal scribe of the host who mustered the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city 26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of babylon to Riblah 27 And the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two †Heb. souls persons 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred fourty and five persons all the persons were four thousand and six hundred 31 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehosachin king of Judah in the twelfth moneth in the five and twentieth day of the moneth that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lilted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him forth out of prison 32 And spake †Heb. good things with him kindly unto him and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon 33 And changed his prison-garments and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life 34 And for his diet there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon †Heb. the matter of the day in his day every day a portion until the day of his death all the days of his life ¶ The LAMENTATIONS of JEREMIAH CHAP. 1. 1 The miserable estate of Jerusalem by reason of her sin 12 She complaineth of her grief 18 and confesseth Gods judgement to be righteous HOw doth the city sit solitary that was full of people how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces how is she become tributary 2 She * Jer. 13.17 weepeth sore in the * Job 7.3 night and her tears are on her cheeks among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies 3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction and †Heb. for the treateâ— of servitude because of great servitude she dwelleth among the heathen she findeth no rest all her persecutours overtook her between the straits 4 The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts all her gates are desolate her priests sigh her virgins are afflicted and she is in bitterness 5 Her adversaries * Deu. 28.13 14. are the chief her enemies prosper for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her * Jer. 52.28 children are gone into captivity before the enemy 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed her princes are become like harts that finde no pasture and they are gone without strength before the pursuer 7 Jerusalem remembred in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her ‖ Or desirable pleasant things that she had in the days of old when her people fell into the hand of the enemy and none did help her the adversaries saw her and did mock at her sabbaths 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore she †Heb. is become 〈◊〉 removing or wandering is removed all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness yea she sigheth and turneth backward 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts she remembreth not her last end therefore she came down wonderfully she had no comforter O LORD behold my affliction for the enemy hath magnified himself 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her ‖ Or desirable pleasant things for she hath seen that the heathen entred into her sanctuary whom thou didst command that * Deu. 23.3 they should not enter into thy congregation 11 All her people sigh they seek bread they have given their pleasant things for meat ‖ Or to make the soul to come again to relieve the soul see O LORD and consider for I am become vile 12 ¶ ‖ Or It is nothing Is it nothing to you all ye that †Heb. pass by the way pass by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them he hath spread a not for my feet he hath turned me back he hath made me desolate and saint all the day 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand they are wreathed and come up upon my neck he hath made my strength to fall the Lord hath delivered me into their hands from whom I am notable to rise up 15 The Lord hath troden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men the Lord hath troden ‖ Or the wine-press of the viram c. the virgin the daughter of Judah as in a wine-press 16 For these things I weep * Jer. 13.17 and 14.17 Ch. 2.18 mine eye mine eye runneth down with water because the comforter that should †Heb. tâ—mâ— back relieve my soul is far from me my children are desolate because the enemy prevailed 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands and there is none to comfort her the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be round about him Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them 18 ¶ The LORD is * Dan. 9.7 righteous for I have rebelled against his †Heb. mouth commandment hear I pray you all people and behold my sorrow my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity 19 I called for my lovers but they deceived me my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city while they sought their meat to relieve their souls 20 Behold O LORD for I am in distress my * Iâ— 15.11 Jer. 43.35 bowels are troubled mine heart is turned within me for I have grievously rebelled abroad the sword bereaveth at
are the teeth of a lion and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion 7 He hath laid my vine waste and †Heb. laid my fig tree for a barking barked my fig-tree he hath made it clean bare and cast it away the branches thereof are made white 8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth 9 The meat-offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD the priests the LORDS ministers mourn 10 The field is wasted the land mourneth for the corn is wasted the new wine is ‖ Or ashamed dried up the oyl languâ—sheth 11 Be ye ashamed O ye husbandmen howl O ye vine-dressers for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the field is perished 12 The vine is dried up and the fig-tree languisheth the pomegranate-tree the palm tree also and the apple-tree even all the trees of the field are withered because joy is withered away from the sons of men 13 Gird your selves and lament ye priests howl ye ministers of the altar come lie all night in sackcloth ye ministers of my God for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God 14 ¶ * Ch. 2.15 Sanctifie ye a fast call a ‖ Or day of restraint solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD 15 Alas for the day for * Isa 13.6 the day of the LORD is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes yea joy and gladness from the house of our God 17 The †Heb. grains seed is rotten under their clods the garners are laid desolate the barns are broken down for the corn is withered 18 How do the beasts groan the herds of cattel are perplexed because they have no pasture yea the flocks of sheep are made desolate 19 O LORD to thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the ‖ Or â—abitations pastures of the wilderness and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the filed 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness CHAP. II. 1 He sheweth unto Zion the terribleness of Gods judgement 12 He exhorteth to repentance 15 prescribeth a fast 18 promiseth a blessing thereon 21 He comforteth Zion with present 28 and future blessings BLow ye the ‖ Or â—â—lâ—tâ— trumpet in Zion and found an alarm in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the LORD cometh for it is nigh at hand 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess a day of clouds and of thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains a great people and a strong there hath not been ever the like neither shall be any more after it even to the years †Heb. of generation and generation of many generations 3 A fire devoureth before them and behinde them a flame burneth the land is as the garden of Eden before them and behinde them a desolate wilderness yea and nothing shall escape them 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and as hors-men so shall they run 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble as a strong people set in battel aray 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained all faces shall gather †Heb. poâ— blackness 7 They shall run like mighty men they shall climb the wall like men of war and they shall march every one on his ways and they shall not break their ranks 8 Neither shall one thrust another they shall walk every one in his path and when they fall upon the ‖ Or 〈◊〉 sword they shall not be wounded 9 They shall run to and fro in the city they shall run upon the wall they shall climb up upon the houses they shall enter in at the windows like a thief 10 The earth shall quake before them the heavens shall tremble * Isa 1â— 10 Ezek. 32.7 the sun and the moon shall be dark and the stars shall withdraw their shining 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army for his camp is very great for he is strong that executeth his word for the * Jer. 30. â— Am. 5 1â— Zeph. 1.15 day of the LORD is great and very terrible and who can abide it 12 ¶ Therefore also now saith the LORD * Jer. 4. â— Turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning 13 And rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is * Ex. 34.6 Psal 86.5 â—on 4.2 gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil 14 * son 3.9 Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behinde him even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the LORD your God 15 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion * Ch. 3.14 sanctifie a fast call a solemn assembly 16 Gather the people sanctifie the congregation assemble the elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet 17 Let the priests the ministers of the LORD weep between the porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O LORD and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heâ—then should ‖ Or use a by-word against them rule over them * Psal 42.10 70.10 115.2 wherefore should they say among the people Where is their God 18 ¶ Then will the LORD be jealous for his land and pity his people 19 Yea the LORD will answer and say unto his people Behold I will send you corn and wine and oyl and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army and will drive him into a land barren and desolate with his face toward the east-sea and his hinder part towards the utmost sea and his stink shall come up and his ill savour shall come up because †Heb. he hath magnified to do he hath done great things 21 ¶ Fear not O land be glad and rejoyce for the LORD will do great things 22 Be not afraid ye beasts of the field for the pastures of the wilderness do spring for the tree beareth her fruit the fig-tree and the vine do yeeld their strength 23 Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoyce in the LORD your God for he hath given you ‖ Or a teacher of righteousness the former rain
the waters round about it whose rampart was the sea and her wall was from the sea 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength and it was infinite Put and Lubim were †Heb. in thy help thy helpers 10 Yet was she carried away she went into captivity her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets and they cast lots for her honourable men all her great men were bound in chains 11 Thou also shalt be * Jer. 25.17 drunken thou shalt be hid thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy 12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs if they be shaken they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater 13 Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies the fire shall devour thy bars 14 Draw thee waters for the siege fortifie thy strong holds go into clay and tread the morter make strong the brick-kiln 15 There shall the â—â—re devour thee the sword shall cut thee off it shall eat thee up like the canker-worm make thy self many as the canker-worm make thy self many as the locusts 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven the canker-worm ‖ Or spreadeth himself spoileth and flieth away 17 Thy crowned are as the locusts and thy captains as the great grashoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day but when the sun ariseth they flee away and their place is not known where they are 18 Thy shepherds slumber O king of Assyria thy ‖ Or valiant ones nobles shall dwell in the dust thy people is scattered upon the mountains and no man gathereth them 19 There is no †Heb. wrinkling healing of thy bruise thy wound is grievous all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thâ—e for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually ¶ HABAKKUK CHAP. I. 1Vnto Habakkuk complaining of the iniquity of the land 5 is shewed the fearful vengeance by the Caldeans 12 He complaineth that vengeance should be executed by them who are far worse THe burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see 2 O LORD how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear even cry out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity and cause me to behold grievance for spoiling and violence are before me and there are that raise up strife and contention 4 Therefore the law is slacked and judgement doth never go forth for the * Job 21.7 Jer. 12.1 wicked doth compass about the righteous therefore ‖ Or wrested wrong judgement proceedeth 5 ¶ * Act. 13.41 Behold ye among the heathen and regard and wonder marvellously for I will work a work in your days which ye will not beleeve though it be told you 6 For lo I raise up the Caldeans that bitter and hasty nation which shall march through the †Heb. breadths breadth of the land to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs 7 They are terrible and dreadful ‖ Or from them shall proceed the judgement of these and the captivity of these their judgement and their dignity shall proceed of themselves 8 Their hoâ—ses also are swifter then the leopards and are more †Heb. sharp fierce then the * Zeph. 3.3 evening wolves and their hors-men shall spread themselves and their hors-men shall come from far they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat 9 They shall come all for violence ‖ Or the supping up of their faces c. or their faces shall loâ—k toward the east †Heb. the opposition of their faces toward the east their faces shall sup up as the east-wind and they shall gather the captivity as the sand 10 And they shall scoff at the kings and the princes shall be a scorn unto them they shall deride every strong hold for they shall heap dust and taâ—e it 11 Then shall his minde change and he shall pass over and offend imputing this his power unto his god 12 ¶ Art thou not from everlasting O LORD my God mine holy One we shall not die O LORD thou hast ordained them for judgement and O †Heb. rock mighty God thou hast †Heb. founded established them for correct on 13 Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evil and canst not look on ‖ Or grievance iniquity wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherouâ—ly and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous then he 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea as the ‖ Or moving creeping things that have no ruler over them 15 They take up all of them with the angle they catch them in their net and gather them in their ‖ Or fiâ—â— net drag therefore they rejoyce and are glad 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net and burn incense unto their drag because by them their portion is fat and their meat ‖ Or daint◠†Heb. fat plenteous 17 Shall they therefore empty their net and not spare continually to slay the nations CHAP. II. 1Vnto Habakkuk waiting for an answer is shewed that be must wait by faith 5 The judgement upon the Câ—â—â—dâ—an for unsatiableness 9 for covetousness 12 for cruelty 15 for drunkenness 18 and for idolatrâ— I Will * Isa 21.8 stand upon my watch and set me upon the †Heb. fenced place towre and will watch to see what he will say ‖ Or in me unto me and what I shall answer ‖ Or when I am argued with †Heb. upon my reproof of arguing when I am reproved 2 â—nd the LORD answered me and said Write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will * Heb. 10.37 surely come it will not tarry 4 Behold his soul whâ—ch is lifted up is not upright in him but the * Joh. 3 36. Rom. 1.17 Gal. 3.11 Hebr. 10.38 just shall live by his faith 5 ¶ ‖ Or How much more Yea also because he transgresseth by wine he is a proud man neither keepeth at home who enlargeth his desire as hell and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and heapeth unto him all people 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb against him and say ‖ Or Ho â—e Wo to him that increaseth that which is not his how long and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto them 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations all
Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battel-bowe shall be cut off and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be * Psa â—2 8 from sea even to sea and from the river even to the ends of the earth 11 As for thee also ‖ Or whose covenant is by bloud by the bloud of thy covenant I have sent forth thy * Isa 6â— 1 prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water 12 ¶ Turn ye to the strong hold ye prisoners of hope even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee 13 When I have bent Judah for me filled the bowe with Ephraim and raised up thy sons O Zion against thy sons O Greece and made thee as the sword of a mighty man 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet and shall go with whirlwinds of the south 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them and they shall devour and ‖ Or subdue the stones of the sling subdue with sling-stones and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine and they ‖ Or shall fill both the bowls c. shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the altar 16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people for they shall be as the stones of a crown lifted up as an ensigne upon his land 17 For how great is his goodness and how great is his beauty corn shall make the young men ‖ Or grow or speak cheerful and new wine the maids CHAP. X. 1 God is to be sought unto and not idols 5 As he visited his flock for sin so be will save and restore them ASk ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain so the LORD shall make ‖ Or lightnings bright clouds and give them showers of rain to every one grass in the field 2 For the * Jer. 10.8 Hab. 2.18 †Heb. teraphims idols have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams they comfort in vain therefore they went their way as a flock they ‖ Or answered that c. were troubled because there was no shepherd 3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds and I †Heb. visited upon punished the goats for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battel 4 Out of him came forth the corner out of him the nail out of him the battel-bowe out of him every oppressour together 5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty men which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battel and they shall fight because the LORD is with them and ‖ Or they shall make the riders on horses ashamed the riders on horses shall be confounded 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them again to place them for I have mercy upon them and they shall be as though I had not cast them off for I am the LORD their God and will hear them 7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man and their heart shall rejoyce as through wine yea their children shall see it and be glad their heart shall rejoyce in the LORD 8 I will hiss for them and gather them for I have redeemed them and they shall increase as they have increased 9 And I will sowe them among the people and they shall remember me in far countreys and they shall live with their children and turn again 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and place shall not be found for them 11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction and shall smite the waves in the sea and all the deeps of the river shall dry up and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD and they shall walk up and down in his name saith the LORD CHAP. XI 1 The destruction of Jerusalem 3 The elect being cared for the rest are rejected 10 The staves of Beauty and Bands broken by the rejection of Christ 15 The type and curse of a foolish shepherd OPen thy doors O Lebanon that the fire may devour thy cedars 2 Howl fir-tree for the cedar is faln because the ‖ Or galants mighty are spoiled howl O ye oaks of Bashan for ‖ Or the defenced forest the forest of the vintage is come down 3 ¶ There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds for their glory is spoiled a voice of the roaring of young lions for the pride of Jordan is spoiled 4 Thus saith the LORD my God Feed the flock of the slaughter 5 Whose possessours slay them and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them say Blessed be the LORD for I am rich and their own shepherds pity them not 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land saith the LORD but lo I will †Heb. make to be found deliver the men every one into his neighbours hand and into the hand of his king and they shall smite the land and out of their hand I will not deliver them 7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter ‖ Or verily the poor even you O poor of the flock and I took unto me two staves the one I called Beauty and the other I called ‖ Or Binders Bands and I fed the flock 8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one moneth and my soul †Heb. was straitned for them lothed them and their soul also abhorred me 9 Then said I I will not feed you * Jer. 15.2 that that dieth let it die and that that is to be cut off let it be cut off and let the rest eat every one the flesh †Heb. of his fellow or neighbour of another 10 ¶ And I took my staff even Beauty and cut it asunder that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people 11 And it was broken in that day and ‖ Or the poor of the flock c. certainly knew so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD 12 And I said unto them †Heb. If it be good in your eyes If ye think good give me my price and if not forbear so they * Matth. 26.15 weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver 13 And the LORD said unto me Cast it unto the * Mat. 27.9 10. potter a goodly price that I was prised at of them And I took the
come for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities 28 But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me I will tell thee for the evil is sown but the destruction thereof is not yet come 29 If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away then cannot it come that is sown with good 30 For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time and how much shall it yet bring forth until the ‖ Or floor time of threshing come 31 Ponder now by thyself how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed hath brought forth 32 And when the ears shall be cut down which are without number how great a floor shall they fill 33 Then I answered and said How and when shall these things come to pass wherefore are our years few and evil 34 And he answered me saying Do not thou hasten above the most Highest for thy haste is in vain to be above him for thou hast much exceeded 35 Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers saying How long shall I hope on this fashion when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward 36 And unto these things ‖ Or Jeremiel Uriel the archangel gave them answer and said Even when the number of seeds is filled in you for he hath weighed the world in the balance 37 By measure hath he measured the times and by number hath he numbred the times and he doth not move nor stir them until the said measure be fulfilled 38 Then answered I and said O Lord that bearest rule even we all are full of impiety 39 And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth 40 So he answered me and said Go thy way to a woman with childe and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine moneths if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her 41 Then said I No Lord that can she not And he said unto me In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman 42 For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them 43 From the beginning look what thou desirest to see it shall be shewed thee 44 Then answered I and said If I have found favour in thy sight and if it be possible and if I be meet therefore 45 Shew me then whether there be more to come then is past or more past then is to come 46 What is past I know but what is for to come I know not 47 And he said unto me Stand up upon the right side and I shall expound the similitude unto thee 48 So I stood and saw and behold an hot burning oven passed by before me and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked and behold the smoke remained still 49 After this there passed by before me a watery cloud and sent down much rain with a storm and when the stormy rain was past the drops remained still 50 Then said he unto me Consider with thyself as the rain is more then the drops and as the fire is greater then the smoke but the drops and the smoke remain behinde so the ‖ Or measure quantity which is past did more exceed 51 Then I prayed and said May I live thinkest thou until that time or ‖ Or who shall be Manuscript what shall happen in those days 52 He answered me and said As for the tokens whereof thou askest me I may tell thee of them in part but as touching thy life I am not sent to shew thee for I do not know it CHAP. V. 1 The signes of the â—â—mes to come 23 He asketh why God choosing but one people did cast them off 30 He is taught that Gods judgements are unsearchable 46 and that God doeth not all at once NEvertheless as concerning the tokens behold the days shall come that they which dwell upon earth ‖ Or shall be found with great wealth shall be taken in a great number and the way of truth shall be hidden and the land shall be barren of faith 2 But * Matth. 2â— 12 iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou seest or that thou hast heard long ago 3 And the land ‖ Or that thou â—â—eadest upon and seest that thou seest now to have root shalt thou see wasted suddenly 4 But if the most High grant thee to live thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night and the moon thrice in the day 5 And bloud shall drop out of the wood and the stone shall give his voice and the people shall be troubled 6 And even he shall rule whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth and the fowls shall take their flight away together 7 And the Sodomitish sea shall cast out fish and make a noise in the night which many have not known but they shall all hear the voice thereof 8 There shall be a confusion also in many places and the fire shall be oft ‖ Or stoked sent out again and the wilde beasts shall change their places and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters 9 And salt waters shall be sound in the sweet and all friends shall destroy one another then shall wit hide it self and understanding withdraw it sell into his secret chamber 10 And shall be sought of many and yet not be sound then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplyed upon earth 11 One land also shall ask another and say Is righteousness that maketh a man righteous gone through thee And it shall say No. 12 At the same time shall men hope but nothing obtain they shall labour but their ways shall not ‖ Or be dirested prosper 13 To shew thee such tokens I have leave and if thou wilt pray again and weep as now and fast seven days thou shalt hear yet greater things 14 Then I awaked and an extreme fearfulness went through all my body and my minde was troubled so that it sainted 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me comforted me and set me up upon my feet 16 And in the second night it came to pass that Salathiel the captain of the people came unto me saying Where hast thou been and why is thy countenance so heavy 17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity 18 Up then and eat bread and forsake us not as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of cruel wolves 19 Then said I unto him Go thy ways from me
alone and through none other by me also they shall be ended and by none other 7 Then answered I and said What shall be the parting asunder of the times or when shall be the end of the first and the beginning of it that followeth 8 And he said unto me From Abraham unto Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born of him * Gen. 25.26 Jacobs hand held ‖ Or from the beginning first the heel of Esau 9 For Esau is the end of the world and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth 10 The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand other question Esdras ask thou not 11 ¶ I answered then and said O Lord that bearest rule if I have found favour in thy sight 12 I beseech thee shew thy servant the end of thy tokens whereof thou shewedst me part the last night 13 So he answered and said unto me Stand up upon thy feet and hear a mighty sounding voice 14 And it shall be as it were a great ‖ Or earthquake motion but the place where thou standest shall not be moved 15 And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid for the word is of the end and the foundation of the earth is understood 16 And way because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed 17 And it hapned that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet and hearkned and behold there was a voice that spake and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters 18 And it said Behold the days come that I will begin to draw nigh and to vnit them that dwell upon the earth 19 And will begin to make inquisition of them what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled 20 And when the world that shall begin to vanish away shall be ‖ Ot â—â—aâ—â—d finished then will I shew these tokens the books shall be opened before the firmament and they shall see all together 21 And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices the women with childe shall bring forth untimely children of three or four moneths old and they shall live and be raised up 22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown the full store-houses shall suddenly be found empty 23 And the trumpet shall give a sound which when every man heareth they shall be suddenly afraid 24 At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein the springs of the fountains shall stand still and in three hours they shall not run 25 Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee shall escape and see my salvation and the end of your world 26 And the men that are received shall see it who have not tasted death from their birth and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed and turned into another meaning 27 For evil shall be put out and deceit shall be quenched 28 As for faith it shall flourish corruption shall be overcome and the truth which hath been so long without fruit shall be declared 29 And when he talked with me behold I looked by little and little upon him before whom I stood 30 And these words said he unto me I am come to shew thee the time of the night to come 31 If thou wilt pray yet more and fast seven days again I shall tell thee greater things ‖ See ch 13. vers 52. by day then I have heard 32 For thy voice is heard before the most High for the Mighty hath seen thy righteous dealing he hath seen also thy chastity which thou hast had ever since thy youth 33 And therefore hath he sent me to shew thee all these things and to say unto thee Be of good comfort and fear not 34 And hasten not with the times that are past to think vain things that thou mayest not hasten from the latter times 35 And it came to pass after this that I wept again and fasted seven days in like manner that I might fulfiâ— the three weeks which he told me 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again and I began to speak before the most High 37 For my spirit was greatly set on fire and my soul was in distress 38 And I said O Lord thou speakest from the beginning of the creation even the first day and saidest thus * Gen. â— 1 Let heaven and earth be made and thy word was a perfect work 39 And then was the spirit and darknesses and silence were on every side the sound of mans voice was not yet formed 40 Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy treasures that thy work might appear 41 Upon the second day thou madest the spirit of the firmament and commandedst it to part asunder and to make a division betwixt the waters that the one part might go up and the other remain beneath 42 Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth six parts hast thou died up and kept them to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve thee 43 For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made 44 For immediately there weâ— great and innumerable fruit and many and divers pleasures for the taste and flowers of unchangeable colour and odours of wonderful smell and this was done the third day 45 * Gen. 1.14 Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine and the moon give her light and the stars should be in order 46 And gavest them a charge to do * Gen. 1.15 Deut. 4.19 service unto man that was to be made 47 Upon the fifth day thou saidest unto the seventh part * Gen. 1.20 where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures fowls and fishes and so it came to pass 48 For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God that all people might praise thy wondrous works 49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures the one thou calledâ—t ‖ Bebemoth Enoch and the other Leviathan 50 And didst separate the one from the other for the seventh part namely where the water was gathered together might not hold them both 51 Unto Enoch thou gavest one part which was dried up the third day that he should dwell in the same part wherein are a thousand hills 52 But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part namely the moist and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt and when 53 Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth that before thee it should bring forth beasts cattel and creeping things 54 And after these Adam also whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures
But the people were very thirsty and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken and to bring an oath upon our selves which we will not break 31 Therefore now pray thou for us because thou art a godly woman and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns and we shall faint no more 32 Then said Judith unto them Hear me and I will do a thing which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation 33 You shall stand this night in the gate and I will go forth with my waiting-woman and within the days that you have promised to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand 34 But enquire not you of mine act for I will not declare it unto you till the things be finished that I do 35 Then said Ozias and the princes unto her Go in peace and the Lord God be before thee to take vengeance on our enemies 36 So they returned from the tent and went to their wards CHAP. IX 1 Judith humbleth her self 2 and prayeth God to prosper her purpose against the enemies of his sanctuary THen Judith fell upon her face and put ashes upon her head and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice and said 2 O Lord God of my Father * Gen. 34.2 25. Simeon to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her and discovered the thigh to her shame and polluted her virginity to her reproach for thou saidst It shall not be so and yet they did so 3 Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain so that they died their bed in bloud being deceived and smotest the servants with their lords and the lords upon their thrones 4 And hast given their wives for a prey and their daughters to be captives and all their spoils to be divided amongst thy dear children which were moved with thy zeal and abhorred the pollution of their bloud and called upon thee for aid O God O my God hear me also a widow 5 For thou hast wrought not onely those things but also the things which fell out before and which ensued after thou hast thought upon the things which are now and which are to come 6 Yea what things thou didst determine were ready at hand and said Lo we are here for all thy ways are prepared and thy judgements are in thy fore-knowledge 7 For behold the Assyrians are multiplied in their power they are exalted with horse and man they glory in the strength of their footmen they trust in shield and spear and bowe and sling and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles the Lord is thy name 8 Throw down their strength in thy power and bring down their force in thy wrath for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar 9 Behold their pride and send thy wrath upon their heads give into mine hand which am a widow the power that I have conceived 10 * Judg. 4.21 and 5.26 Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince and the prince with the servant break down their stateliness by the hand of a woman 11 * Judg. 7.2.2 Chr. 14.11 16.8 20.6 For thy power standeth not in multitude nor thy might in strong men for thou art a God of the afflicted an helper of the oppressed an upholder of the weak a protectour of the forlorn a saviour of them that are without hope 12 I pray thee I pray thee O God of my father and God of the inheritance of Israel Lord of the heavens and earth Creatour of the waters King of every creature hear thou my prayer 13 And make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe who have purposed cruel things against thy covenant and thy hallowed house and against the top of Sion and against the house of the possession of thy children 14 And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou CHAP. X. 3 Judith doth set forth her self 10 She and her maid go forth into the camp 17 The watch take and conduct her to Holofernes NOw after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel and bad made an end of all these words 2 She rose where she had fain down and called her maid and went down into the house in the which she abode in the sabbath-days and in her feast-days 3 And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on and put off the garments of her widowhood and washed her body all over with water and anointed her self with precious ointment and braided the hair of her head and put on a †Gr. â—atre tire upon it and put on her garments of gladness wherewith she was clad during the life of Manasses her husband 4 And she took sandals upon her feet and put about her her bracelets and her chains and her rings and her ear-rings and all her ornaments and decked her self bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her 5 Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine and a cruse of oyl and filled a bag with parched corn and lumps of figs and with fine bread so she ‖ Or wrapped or parked folded all these things together and said them upon her 6 Thus they went forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia and found standing there Ozias and the ancients of the city Chabris and Charmis 7 And when they saw her that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed they wondred at her beauty very greatly and said unto her 8 The God the God of our fathers give thee savour and accomplish thine enterprises to the glory of the children of Israel and to the exaltation of Jerusalem then they worshipped God 9 And she said unto them Command the gates of the city to be opened unto me that I may go forth to accomplish the things whereof you have spoken with me so they commanded the young men to open unto her as she had spoken 10 And when they had done so Judith went out she and her maid with her and the men of the city looked after her until she was gone down the mountain and till she had passed the valley and could see her no more 11 Thus they went straight forth in the valley and the first watch of the Assyrians met her 12 And took her and asked her Of what people art thou and whence comest thou and whither goest thou And she said I am a woman of the Hebrews and am fled from them for
21.19 I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon then to keep house with a wicked woman 17 The wickedness of a woman changeth her face and darkeneth her countenance ‖ Or like a beaâ— like sackcloth 18 Her husband shall sit among his neighbours and when he heareth it shall sigh bitterly 19 All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman let the portion of a sinner fall upon her 20 As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged so is a wife * Or scolding full of words to a quiet man 21 * 2 Sam. 11.2 Ch. 42 1â— Stumble not at the beauty of a woman and desire her not for pleasure 22 A woman if she maintain her husband is full of anger impudency and much reproach 23 A wicked woman abateth the courage maketh an heaviâ— countenance and a wounded heart a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees 24 Of * Gen â— â— 1 Tim. 2.14 the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die 25 Give the water no passage neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad 26 If she go not as thou wouldest have her cut her off from thy flesh and give her a bill of divorce and let her go CHAP. XXVI 1 A good wife 4 and a good conscience do glad men 6 A wicked wife is a fearful thing 13 Of good and bad wives 28 Of three things that are grievous 29 Merehants and buksters are not without sin BLessed is the man that hath a vertuous wife for the number of his days shall be double 2 A vertuous woman rejoyceth her husband and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace 3 A good wife is a good portion which shall be given in the portion of them that fear the Lord. 4 Whether a man be rich or poor if he have a good heart toward the Lord he shall at all times rejoyce with a cheerful countenance 5 There be three things that mine heart feareth and for the fourth I was sore afraid †Gr. an evil report the slander of a city the gathering together of an unruly multitude and a false accusation all these are worse then death 6 But a grief of heart sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all 7 An evil wife is ‖ Or a yoke of oâ—en a yoke shaken to and fro he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion 8 A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger and she will not cover her own shame 9 The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eye-lids 10 * Chap. 42.11 If thy daughter be shameless keep her in straitly lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty 11 Watch over an impudent eye and marvel not if she trespass against thee 12 She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain and drink of every water near her by every ‖ Or stake hedge will she sit down and open her quiver against everâ— arrow 13 The grace of a wife delighteth her husband and her discretion will fat his bones 14 A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord and there is nothing so much worth as a minde well instructed 15 A shamefacâ—d and faithful woman is a double grace and her continent minde cannot be valued 16 As the sun when it ariseth †Gr. in the highest places of the Lord. in the high heaven so is the beauty of a good wife in the ‖ Or ornament ordering of her house 17 As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick so is the beauty of the face ‖ Or in constant age in ripe age 18 As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver so are the ‖ Or comely fair feet with a constant ‖ Or breast heart 19 My son keep the flower of thine age sound and give not thy strength to strangers 20 When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the field sowe it with thine own seed trusting in the goodness of thy stock 21 So thy race which thou leavest shall be magnified having the confidence of their good descent 22 An harlot shall be accounted as ‖ Or a swinâ— spittle but a married woman is a towre against death to her husband 23 A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man but a godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord. 24 A dishonest woman contemneth shame but an honest woman will reverence her husband 25 A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog but she that is shamefac'd will fear the Lord. 26 A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all but she that dishonoureth him in her pride-shall be counted ungodly of all 27 A loud-crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive away the enemies 28 There be two things that grieve my heart and the third maketh me angry a man of war that suffereth poverty and men of understanding that are not set by and one that returneth from righteousness to sin the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword 29 A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong and an huckster shall not be freed from sin CHAP. XXVII 1 Of sins in selling and buying 7 Our speech will tell what is in us 16 A friend is lest by discovering his secrets 25 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it MAny * Prov. 28.21 have sinned for ‖ Or a thing indifferent a small matter and he that * Pro. 23.4 1 Tim. 6.9 seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away 2 As a nail sticketh fast between the joynings of the stones so doth sin stick close between buying and selling 3 Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord his house shall soon be overthrown 4 As when one sifteth with a sieve the refuse remaineth so the filth of man in his ‖ Or thought talk 5 * Prov. 27.21 The furnace proveth the potters vessels so the trial of man is in his reasoning 6 * Mat. 7.17 The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man 7 Praise no man before thou hearest him speak for this is the trial of men 8 If thou followest righteousness thou shalt obtain her and put her on as a glorious long robe 9 The birds will resort unto their like so will truth return unto them that practise in her 10 As the lion lieth in wait for the prey so sin for them that work iniquity 11 The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom but a fool changeth as the moon 12 If thou be among the â—ndiscreet observe the time but be continually among men of
of Eliseus 17 and of Ezekias THen stood up * 1 King 17.1 Elias the prophet as fire and his word burnt like a lamp 2 He brought a sore famine upon them and by his zeal he diminished their number 3 By the word of the Lord he ‖ Or made heaven to â—â—liup shut up the heaven * 1 King 18.38 2 King 1.10 12. and also three times brought down fire 4 O Elias how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds and who may glory like unto thee 5 * 1 Kin. 17.21 22. Who didst raise up a dead man from death and his soul from the ‖ Or grave place of the dead by the word of the most High 6 * 2 King 2.16 Who broughtest kings to destruction and honourable men from their ‖ Or seat bed 7 Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai * 1 King 19.17 and in Horeb the judgement of vengeance 8 * 1 Kin. 19.15 16. Who anointed kings to take vengeance and prophets to succeed after him 9 * 2 King 2.11 Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire and in a chariot of fiery horses 10 Who wast ‖ Or written of ordained * â—â—al 4.5 for reproofs in their times to pacifie the wrath of the Lords judgement before it brake forth into fury and to turn the heart of the father unto the son and to ‖ Or establâ—sh restore the tribes of Jacob. 11 Blessed are they that saw thee and ‖ Or were â—â—ernâ—â— with love slept in love for we shall surely live 12 * 2 Kings 2.11 15. Elias it was who was covered with a whirlwind and Eliseus was filled with his spirit whilest he lived he was not moved with the presence of any prince neither could any bring him into subjection 13 ‖ Or nothing No word could overcome him * 2 Kings 13.21 and after his death his body prophesied 14 He did wonders in his life and at his death were his works marvellous 15 For all this the people repented not neither departed they from their sins * 2 King 18.11 12. till they were spoiled and carried out of their land and were scattered through all the earth yet there remained a small people and a ruler in the house of David 16 Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God and some multiplied sins 17 Ezekias fortified his city and * 2 King 20.20 brought in water into the midst thereof he digged the hard rock with iron and made wells for waters 18 In his time * 2 King 18.13 Sennacherib came up and sent Rabsaces and lift up his hand against Sion and boasted proudly 19 Then trembled their hearts and hands and they were in pain as women in travail 20 But they called upon the Lord which is merciful and stretched out their hands towards him and immediately the holy One heard them out of heaven and delivered them by the ‖ Or hand ministery of Esay 21 * 2 King 19.35 Isa 37.36 Tob. 1.18 1 Mac. 7.41 2 Mac. 8.19 He smote the host of the Assyrians his angel destroyed them 22 For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord and was strong in the ways of David his father as Esay the prophet who was great and faithful in his vision had commanded him 23 * 2 Kin. 20.10 11. Isa 38.8 In his time the sun went backward and he lengthned the kings life 24 He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last and he comforted them that mourned in Sion 25 He shewed what should come to pass for ever and secret things or ever they came CHAP. XLIX 1 The praise of Josias 4 of David and Ezekias 6 of Jeremy 8 of Ezekiel 11 Zorobabel 12 Jesus the son of Josedee 13 Of Nâ—â—mias Enoch Seth Sem and Adam THe remembrance of * 2 King 22.1 2 Chr. 34 1. Josias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary it is sweet as honey in all mouths and as musick at a banquet of wine 2 He ‖ Or prâ—shered behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people and took away the abominations of iniquity 3 * 2 〈◊〉 23. â— 2 Chr. 34.3 He directed his heart unto the Lord and in the time of the ungodly he established the worship of God 4 All except David and Ezekias and Josias were defective for they forsook the law of the most High even the kings of Juda failed 5 Therefore he gave their ‖ Or horn power unto others and their glory unto a strange nation 6 * 2 Kings 25.9 They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary and made the streets desolate ‖ Or by the hand of Jeremy according to the prophesie of Jeremias 7 For they * Jer. 38.6 entreated him evil who nevertheless was a prophet * Jer. 1. â— sanctified in his mothers womb that he might root out and afflict and destroy and that he might build up also and plant 8 * Ezek. 1.3 15. It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision which was shewed him upon the chariot of the cherubims 9 For he * Ezek. 13.11 38.9 16 22. made mention of the enemies under the figure of the rain and ‖ Or did good directed them that went right 10 And of the twelve prophets let the memorial be blessed and * Ch. 46.12 let their bones flourish again out of their place for they comforted Jacob and delivered them by assured hope 11 How shall we magnifie * Ezra 3. â— Hag. 2.24 Zorobabel even he was a signet on the right hand 12 So was * Ezra 3.2 Hag. 1.12 and 2.2 Zech. 3 1. Jesus the son of Josedec who in their time builded the house and set up an holy temple to the Lord which was prepared for everlasting glory 13 * Neh. 7.1 And among the elect was Neemias whose renown is great who raised up for us the walls that were faln and set up the gates and the bars and raised up our ruines again 14 But upon the earth was no man created like * Gen. 5 24. Heb. 11.5 Enoch for he was taken from the earth 15 Neither was there a man born like unto * Gen. 41.44 42.6 45.8 Joseph a governour of his brethren and a stay of the people whose bones were regarded of the Lord. 16 * Gen. 5.3 11.10 Sem and Seth were in great honour among men and so was Adam above every living thing in the creation CHAP. L. 1 Of Simon the son of Onias 22 How the people were taught to praise God and pray 27 The conclusion SImon the high priest the son of Onias who in his life repaired the house again and in his days fortified the temple 2 And by him was built from the foundation the double height the high fortress of the wall about the
he heard of Jesus he sent unto him the elders of the Jews beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant 4 And when they came to Jesus they besought him instantly saying that he was worthy for whom he should do this 5 For he loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue 6 Then Jesus went with them And when he was now not far from the house the centurion sent friends to him saying unto him Lord trouble not thy self for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof 7 Wherefore neither thought I my self worthy to come unto thee but say in a word and my servant shall be healed 8 For I also am a man set under authority having under me souldiers and I say unto one Go and he goeth and to another Come and he cometh and to my servant Do this and he doeth it 9 When Jesus heard these things he marvelled at him and turned him about and said unto the people that followed him I say unto you I have not found so great faith no not in Israel 10 And they that were sent returning to the house found the servant whole that had been sick 11 ¶ And it came to pass the day after that he went into a city called Nain and many of his disciples went with him and much people 12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city behold there was a dead man carried out the onely son of his mother and she was a widow and much people of the city was with her 13 And when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her Weep not 14 And he came and touched the ‖ Or coffin biere and they that bare him stood still and he said Young man I say unto thee Arise 15 And he that was dead sat up and began to speak and he delivered him to his mother 16 And there came a fear on all and they glorified God saying That a great prophet is risen up among us and That God hath visited his people 17 And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea and throughout all the region round about 18 * Matth. 11.2 And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things 19 ¶ And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them unto Jesus saying Art thou he that should come or look we for another 20 When the men were come unto him they said John Baptist hath sent us unto thee saying Art thou he that should come or look we for another 21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits and unto many that were blinde he gave sight 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard how that the blinde see the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised to the poor the gospel is preached 23 And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me 24 ¶ And when the messengers of John were departed he began to speak unto the people concerning John What went ye out into the wilderness for to see A reed shaken with the wind 25 But what went ye out for to see A man clothed in soft raiment Behold they which are gorgeously apparelled and live delicately are in kings courts 26 But what went ye out for to see A prophet Yea I say unto you and much more then a prophet 27 This is he of whom it is written Behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee 28 For I say unto you Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet then John the Baptist but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater then he 29 And all the people that heard him and the publicans justified God being baptized with the baptism of John 30 But the Pharisees and lawyers ‖ Or frustrated rejected the counsel of God ‖ Or within themselves against themselves being not baptized of him 31 ¶ And the Lord said * Mat. 11.16 Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation and to what are they like 32 They are like unto children sitting in the market-place and calling one to another and saying We have piped unto you and ye have not danced we have mourned to you and ye have not wept 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and ye say He hath a devil 34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking and ye say Behold a gluttonous man and a wine bibber a friend of publicans and sinners 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children 36 ¶ * Mark â—4 3 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him And he went into the Pharisee's house and sat down to meat 37 And behold a woman in the city which was a sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house brought an alabaster-box of ointment 38 And stood at his feet behinde him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it he spake within himself saying This man if he were a prophet would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him for for she is a sinner 40 And Jesus answering said unto him Simon I have somewhat to say unto thee And he saith Master say on 41 There was a certain creditour which had two debters the one ought five hundred ‖ See Mat. â—8 23. pence and the other fist 42 And when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both Tell me therefore which of them will love him most 43 Simon answered and said I suppose that he to whom he forgave most And he said unto him Thou hast rightly judged 44 And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon Seest thou this woman I entred into thine house thou gavest me no water for my feet but she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head 45 Thou gavest me no kiss but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet 46 Mine head with oyl thou didst not anoint but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment 47 Wherefore I say unto thee Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little 48 And he said unto her Thy sins are forgiven 49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves Who is this that forgiveth sins also 50 And he said to the woman Thy faith hath saved thee go in peace CHAP. VIII 1 Women minister unto Christ of their substance 4 Christ after he had preached from place
* Chap. 22.47 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved 18 ¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God 19 And this is the condemnation * Chap. 1.4 that light is come into the world men loved darkness rather then light because their deeds were evil 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be ‖ Or discovered reproved 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God 22 ¶ After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea and there he tarried with them * Chap. 4.2 and baptized 23 ¶ And John also was baptizing in Enon near to Salim because there was much water there and they came and were baptized 24 For John was not yet cast into prison 25 ¶ Then there arose a question between some of Johns disciples and the Jews about purifying 26 And they came unto John and said unto him Rabbi he that was with thee beyond Jordan * Chap 1.7 34. to whom thou bearest witness behold the same baptizeth and all men come to him 27 John answered and said * Hebr. 9.4 A man can ‖ Or take unto himself receive nothing except it be given him from heaven 28 Ye your selves bear me witness that I said * Chap. ◠20 I am not the Christ but that I am sent before him 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him rejoyceth greatly because of the bridegrooms voice this my joy therefore is fulfilled 30 He must increase but I must decrease 31 He that cometh from above is above all he that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth he that cometh from heaven is above all 32 And what he hath seen and heard that he testifieth and no man receiveth his testimony 33 He that hath received his testimony * Rom. 3.4 hath set to his seal that God is true 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God for God giveth not the spirit by measure unto him 35 * Mat. 11.27 The Father loveth the Son hath given all things into his hand 36 * Hab. 2.4 1 John 5.10 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him CHAP. IV. 1 Christ talketh with a woman of Samaria and revealeth himself unto her 27 His disciples marvel 21 He declareth to them his zeal to Gods glory 39 Many Samaritans believe on him 43 He departeth into Galilee and healeth the rulers son that lay sick at Capernaum WHen therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized mo disciples then John 2 Though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples 3 He left Judea and departed again into Galilee 4 And he must needs go through Samaria 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar near to the parcel of ground * Gen. 33.19 48.22 Josh 24.32 that Jacob gave to his son Joseph 6 Now Jacobs well was there Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well and it was about the sixth hour 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water Jesus saith unto her Give me to drink 8 For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him How is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me which am a woman of Samaria for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans 10 Jesus answered and said unto her If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water 11 The woman saith unto him Sir thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep from whence then hast thou that living water 12 Art thou greater then our father Jacob which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattel 13 Jesus answered and said unto her Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life 15 The woman saith unto him Sir give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw 16 Jesus saith unto her Go call thy husband and come hither 17 The woman answered and said I have no husband Jesus said unto her Thou hast well said I have no husband 18 For thou hast had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband in that saidst thou truly 19 The woman saith unto him Sir I perceive that thou art a prophet 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in * Deut. 1 5. Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship 21 Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father 22 Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews 23 But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him 24 * 2 Cor. 3.17 God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth 25 The woman saith unto him I know that Messias cometh which is called Christ when he is come he will tell us all things 26 Jesus saith unto her I that speak unto thee am he 27 ¶ And upon this came his disciples and marvelled that he talked with the woman yet no man said What seekest thou or Why talkest thou with her 28 The woman then left her water-pot and went her way into the city and saith to the men 29 Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Christ 30 Then they went out of the city and came unto him 31 ¶ In the mean while his disciples prayed him saying Master eat 32 But he said unto them I have meat to eat that ye know not of 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another Hath any man brought him ought to eat 34 Jesus saith unto them My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work 35 Say not ye There are yet four moneths and then cometh harvest behold I say unto you Lift up your eyes and look on the
old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night 11 And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death 12 Therefore rejoyce ye heavens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man childe 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might flie into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood 16 And the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ CHAP. XIII 1 A beast riseth out of the sea with seven heads and ten borns to whom the dragon giveth his power 11 Another beast cometh up out of the earth 14 causeth an image to be made of the former beast 15 and that men should worship it 16 and receive his mark ANd I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the ‖ Or names name of blasphemy 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were †Gr slain wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondred after the beast 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying Who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him ‖ Or to make war to continue fourty and two moneths 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world 9 If any man have an ear let him hear 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity * Matth. 16.52 He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword Here is the patience and the faith of the saints 11 And I behold another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed 13 And he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live 15 And he had power to give †Gr. treath life unto the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed 16 And he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond †Gr. to give to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads 17 And that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name 18 Here is wisdom Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred threescore and six CHAP. XIV 1 The Lamb standing on mount Sion with his company 6 an angel preacheth the gospel 8 The fall of Babylon 15 The harvest of the world and putting in of the sickle 20 The vintage and winepress of the wrath of God ANd I looked and lo a Lamb stood on the mount Sion and with him an hundred fourty and four thousand having his Fathers name written in their foreheads 2 And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps 3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders and no man could learn that song but the hundred and fourty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth 4 These are they which were not defiled with women for they are virgins these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth these †Gr. were bought were redeemed from among men being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of God 6 And I saw another angel flie in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people 7 Saying with a loud voice Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgement is come * Psal 146.5.6 Act. 14.15 and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters 8 And there followed another angel saying * Isa 21.9 Jer. 51.8 Chap. 18.2 Babylon is faln is faln that great city because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication 9 And the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice