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And so the postes went from citie to citie in the lande of Ephraim & Manasse, euen vnto Zabulon: but they laughed them to scorne, and mocked them.


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Neuerthelesse, yet diuers of Aser, Manasse, and of Zabulon, submitted them selues, and came to Hierusalem.


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And the hande of God was in Iuda, and he gaue them one heart to do the commmaundement of the king and of the rulers, according to the worde of the Lorde.


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And there assembled to Hierusalem much people, and there was present a mightie great congregation, to hold the feast of sweete bread in the second moneth.


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And they arose, and remoued the aulters that were in Hierusalem: And all the aulters for incense did they away, and cast them into the brooke Cedron.


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And they slue Passouer the foureteenth day of the second moneth: And the priestes and Leuites which were ashamed, sanctified them selues, and brought in the burnt offringes into the house of the Lorde.


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And they stoode in their office after their maner and according to the lawe of Moyses the man of God: And the priestes sprinckled the blood, [which they receaued] of the hande of the Leuites.


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For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified, and therefore the Leuites had the charge of the killing of the Passouer for euery one that was not cleane, to sanctifie him vnto the Lorde.


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For many of the people, and very many out of Ephraim, Manasse, Isachar, and Zabulon, were not clensed, and yet did eate Passour against the lawe appoynted: but Hezekia prayed for them, saying, The good Lorde be mercifull toward euery one


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That prepareth his heart to seeke the Lorde God, the God of his fathers: though he be not [clensed] accordyng to the purification of the sanctuarie.


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And the children of Israel that were present at Hierusalem, held the feast of sweete bread seuen dayes, with great gladnes: and the Leuites & the priestes praysed the Lorde day by day, singing with loude instrumentes vnto the lord.


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And Hezekia spake comfortablie vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge [to sing] vnto the Lorde: and they did eate throughout that feast seuen dayes long, and offered peace offringes, and thanked the Lorde God of their fathers.


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And the whole assemblie toke counsel to do so other seuen dayes: & they helde those seuen dayes with gladnesse:


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For Hezekia king of Iuda, did geue to the congregation a thousand young oxen, and seuen thousand sheepe: And the lordes gaue out to the congregation a thousand oxen, & ten thousand sheepe, and a great number of the priestes were sanctified.


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And all the congregation of Iuda, with the priestes & Leuites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, & the straungers that came out of the lande of Israel, & that dwelt in Iuda, reioyced.


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And there was great gladnesse in Hierusalem: For since the time of Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel, there was no such [ioy] in Hierusalem.


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And the priestes and the Leuites arose, and blessed the people: and their voyce was heard [of the Lorde,] and their prayer came vp vnto heauen his holy dwelling place.


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And when all these thinges were finished, all they of Israel that were present in the cities of Iuda, went out and brake the images, and cut downe the idol groues, and all to brake the high places and aulters throughout al Iuda and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasse, vntil they had vtterly destroyed them all: And all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possessions, and to their owne cities.


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And Hezekia appoynted sundry companies of the priestes and Leuites after the diuersitie of their ministrations, euery man according to his office both priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offering and peace offringes, to minister and to geue thankes and praise in the gates of the hoast of the Lorde.


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And the kinges portion of his substaunce that he gaue, were dayly burnt offringes in the morning and euening, and burnt offringes for the Sabbath dayes, newe moones, & solempe feastes, according as it is written in the lawe of the Lorde.


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And he bade the people that dwelt in Hierusalem, to geue a parte to the priestes and Leuites, that they might substancially applie them selues to the lawe of the Lorde.


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And assoone as the kinges commaundement came abrode, the children of Israel brought aboudance of first fruites, of corne, wine, oyle, hony, and of all maner of fruites of the fielde, & the tythes of all maner of thinges brought they in plenteously.


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And the children of Israel and Iuda that dwelt in the cities of Iuda, they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheepe, & other holy tithes which were consecrate vnto the Lorde their God, they did offer and brought them all by heapes.


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In the third moneth, they began to lay the heapes in maner of a foundation, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.


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And when Hezekia and the lordes came and sawe the heapes, they blessed the Lorde, and his people Israel.


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And Azaria the chiefe priest of the house of Zador, aunswered him and saide: Since the people began to bryng the heaue offringes into the house of the Lorde, we also haue had inough to eate, there remayned so much: for the Lorde hath blessed his people, and this heape is left.


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And caried in the first fruites, the tithes, and the dedicate thinges faithfully: ouer which Chonaniahu the Leuite had the rule, and Semei his brother next to him:


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And Iehiel, Azariahu, Nahath, Asael, Ierimoth, Iosabad, Eliel, Iesmachiahu, Mahath, and Banaiahu, were ouerseres ordayned by Chonaniahu, & Semei his brother was an officer of Hezekia the king, & Azariahu was the ruler of the house of God.


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And Core the sonne of Imna the Leuite, and porter of the east doore, had the ouersight of the thinges that were offered of a free wyll vnto God, & were geuen in maner seuerally vnto the lord, and ouer the thinges most holy.


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And vnder his hand were Eden, Miniamin, Iesua, Semeiahu, Amariahu, and Sechaniahu in the cities of the priestes [appoynted] of their fidelitie to geue to their brethren their portions, aswell to the small as to the great.


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Beside their generation, beyng males, from three yeres old and vpwarde, euen vnto euery one that entereth into the house of the Lord, they should geue day by day, for their ministration, and for their geuing attendaunce, and for their diuers waytinges by course,


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Both to the generation of the priestes and Leuites throughout the housholde of their fathers, from twentie yeres and aboue, to wayte when their courses came:


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And to the families of all their babes, wynes, sonnes and daughters through all the congregation: For vpon the fidelitie of them were the holy thinges bestowed.


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And to the children of Aaron the priestes whiche were in the fieldes and suburbes of their cities, citie by citie, the men whose names were expressed afore, shoulde geue portions, euen to all the males among the priestes, and to all the Leuites, according to their number.


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And of this maner did Hezekia throughout all Iuda: & wrought it that is good, and right and true before the Lorde his God.


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And in al the workes that he began, for seruice of the house of God, for the lawe, & for the commaundementes, he sought his God: and that did he with all his heart, and prospered.


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After that these deedes were faythfully done, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came, and entred into Iuda, & compassed the strong cities, and thought to winne them for him selfe.


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And so when Hezekia sawe that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Hierusalem,


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He toke counsell with his lordes and men of might, to stop the water of the fountaynes without the citie: And they dyd helpe him.


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For there gathered many of the people together, and stopt all the welles, and the broke that ran through the middes of the land, saying: Why shall the kinges of the Assyrians come and finde much water?


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And Hezekia went to lustyly, and buylt vp the wall where it was broken, and made ordinaunce vpon the towres, and to the other wall without, and repaired Millo in the citie of Dauid, and made many dartes and shieldes.


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And he set captaynes of warre ouer the people, and gathered them together to him in the large streete of the gate of the citie, and spake gentylly to them, saying:


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Plucke vp your heartes and be strong: be not afrayde nor discouraged for the king of the Assyrians, & for all the multitude that he hath with hym: for there be mo with vs then with hym.


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With him is an arme of flesh: but with vs is the Lord our God for to helpe vs, and to fight our battayles. And the people toke a courage through the wordes of Hezekia king of Iuda.


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After this did Sennacherib king of the Assyrians send of his seruauntes to Hierusalem (but he him selfe remayned beside Lachis, hauing all his power with him) vnto Hezekia king of Iuda, and vnto all Iuda that were at Hierusalem, saying,


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Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: wherin do ye trust O ye that dwell in Hierusalem which is besieged?


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Doth not Hezekia entice you to geue ouer your selues vnto death, hunger, and thirst, saying: The Lord our God shall ryd vs out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?


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Hath not the same Hezekia put downe his hye places and his aulters, & commaunded Iuda and Hierusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one aulter, and burne incense vpon the same?


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Knowe ye not what I and my fathers haue done vnto the people of all landes? Were the gods of the people of other landes, able or mightie to saue their landes out of my hande?


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Which of all the gods of those nations that my fathers destroyed, could deliuer his people out of my hande? And shall your God be able to deliuer you out of my hande?


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Wherfore nowe let not Hezekia deceaue you, nor persuade you of this fassion, nor yet beleue him: For as no god among all nations and kingdomes, was able to rid his people out of my hand and out of the hand of my fathers: Howe much lesse shall your gods be able to kepe you out of my hande?


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And yet mo thinges did his seruauntes speake against the Lorde God, and against his seruaunt Hezekia.


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And Sennacherib also wrote a letter to rayle on the Lord God of Israel, and spake against him, saying: As the gods of the nations of [other] landes haue not ben able to deliuer their people out of my hande: euen so shal not the God of Hezekia deliuer his people out of my hande.


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And they cried with a loude voyce in the Iewes speach vnto the people of Hierusalem that were on the wall, to feare them, and to make them faynt hearted, and that they might so take the citie.


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And they spake against the God of Hierusalem, as against the gods of the nations of the earth, [whiche were] the workes of the handes of men.


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But Hezekia the king, and the prophet Esai the sonne of Amos prayed against that [blasphemie,] and cried vp to heauen.


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And the Lord sent an angel, which destroyed all the men of warre and the lordes and captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, that he turned his face againe with shame towarde his owne lande: And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came of his owne body slue him there with the sworde.


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And so the Lorde saued Hezekia and the inhabiters of Hierusalem out of the hand of Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians, and from the hande of all other, and mayntayned them on euery side.


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And many brought offeringes vnto the Lorde to Hierusalem, and presentes to Hezekia king of Iuda: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thence foorth.


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In those dayes Hezekia was sicke to the death, and prayed vnto the Lorde: which aunswered him, and shewed him a wonderfull miracle.


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But Hezekia dyd not againe vnto God according to it that he had shewed him: for his heart arose, & there came wrath vpon hym, and vpon Iuda and Hierusalem.


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Notwithstanding Hezekia submitted him selfe after that his heart was risen vp, he and the inhabiters of Hierusalem: and the wrath of the Lorde came not vpon them in the dayes of Hezekia.


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And Hezekia had exceeding much riches and honour: And he gat him treasures of siluer and gold, pretious stones, and spices, shieldes, and of all maner pleasaunt iewels:


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And made store houses for the fruites of corne, for wine and oyle, and stalles for all maner of beastes, and foldes for sheepe.


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And he made him cities, & had of sheepe and oxen great aboundaunce: For God had geuen him substaunce exceeding much.


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This same Hezekia stopped the vpper water springes of Gihon, and brought them downe to the west side of the citie of Dauid: And Hezekia prospered in all his workes.


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And when the princes of Babylon sent vnto him ambassadours, to enquire of the wonder that chaunced in the lande, God left him, to trye him, and that all that was in his heart might be knowen.


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The rest of the deedes of Hezekia, and his goodnes, beholde they are written in the vision of Esai the prophet the sonne of Amoz, in the booke of the kinges of Iuda and Israel.


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And Hezekia slept with his fathers, and they buried hym in the most worthy place of the sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid, and all Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem dyd him worship at his death: and Manasse his sonne raigned in his steade.


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Manasse was twelue yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem:


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But dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde, like vnto the abhominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.


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For he went to, and buylt the high places whiche Hezekia his father had broken downe: And he reared vp aulters for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued them.


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And he buylt aulters in the house of the Lorde, where as the Lord yet had sayd, In Hierusale shal my name be for euer.


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And he burnt his children in fire in the valley of the sonne of Hinnon: He was a sorcerer, he regarded the crying of birdes, vsed inchauntmentes, and mayntayned workers with spirites and sears of fortunes, and wrought much euyll in the sight of the Lorde to anger hym withall.


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And he put the carued image and an idol whiche he had made, in the house of God: Of which house, God had sayd to Dauid and to Solomon his sonne, In this house and in Hierusalem whiche I haue chosen afore all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer.


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Neither will I make the foote of Israel to remoue any more out of the land whiche I haue ordeyned for your fathers, yf so be that they wil be diligent and do all that I haue commaunded them in all the law and statutes, and ordinaunces by the hande of Moyses.


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And so Manasse made Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem to erre, and to do worse then the heathen whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.


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Wherfore the Lord brought vpon them the captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, whiche toke Manasse in holde, and bounde him with chaynes, and caried him to Babylon.


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And when he was in tribulation, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled him selfe exceedingly before the God of his fathers,


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And made intercession to him: and God was intreated of him, and hearde his prayer, and brought him againe to Hierusalem into his kingdome: and then Manasse knewe that the Lorde was God.


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After this he buylt a wall without the citie of Dauid on the west side of Gion, in the valley, as they came to the fishe gate, and round about Ophel, & brought it vp of a very great heyght, and put captaynes of warre in all the strong cities of Iuda.


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And he toke away straunge gods and images out of the house of God, and all the aulters that he had buylt in the mount of the house of God and Hierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.


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And he prepared the aulter of the Lord, and sacrifised thereon peace offeringes and thanke offeringes, and charged Iuda to serue the Lorde God of Israel.


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The rest of the actes of Manasse, and his prayer vnto his God, & the wordes of the sears that spake to him in the name of the Lorde God of Israel, behold they are [written] in the sayinges of the kinges of Israel.


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And his prayer, and howe that he was hearde, and all his sinnes, and his trespasse, and the places where he made high places and set vp groues and images before he was meekened, beholde they are written among the sayinges of the sears.


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And Manasse slept with his fathers, & they buried him in his owne house, and Amon his sonne raigned in his roome.


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But he did euill in the sight of the Lord, like as dyd Manasse his father: for Amon sacrifised to all the carued images whiche Manasse his father had made, and serued them.


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And submitted not him selfe before the Lorde, as Manasse his father had meekened him selfe: but Amon trespassed greatly.


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But the people of the lande slue al them that had conspired against king Amon: and the same people of the lande made Iosia his sonne king in his roome.


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Iosia was eyght yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned in Hierusalem thirtie and one yeres.


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And he dyd that whiche was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the wayes of Dauid his father, and bowed neither to the right hand nor to the left.


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In the eyght yere of his raigne, when he was yet a childe, he began to seke after the God of Dauid his father: And in the twelfth yere he began to purge Iuda & Hierusalem from the high places, groues, carued images, and images of metall.


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And they brake downe the aulters of Baalim euen in his presence: and other images that were in greater honour then they, he caused to be destroyed: And the groues, carued images, and images of metall he brake and made dust of them, and strowed it vpon the graues of them that had offered vnto them.


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And euen so did he in the cities of Manasse, Ephraim, Simeon, vnto Nephthali, and in the wildernesse of them rounde about,


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He plucked asunder the aulters & the groues, & did beate the images & stampe them to powder, and cut downe all the idoles throughout all the lande of Israel, and returned to Hierusalem againe.


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In the eyghtenth yere of his raigne, when he had purged the lande and the temple, he sent Saphan the sonne of Azaliahu, and Maasiah the gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the Lorde his God.


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And when they came to Helkiah the hie priest, they deliuered the money that was brought into the house of God, whiche the Leuites that kept the entryes had gathered of the hand of Manasse and Ephraim, and of all that yet remayned in Israel, and of all Iuda and Beniamin, and they returned to Hierusalem.


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And they put it in the handes of the workmen that had the ouersight of the house of the Lorde, & they gaue it to the labourers that wrought in the house of the Lorde, to repaire and mende the house.


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Euen to masons and carpenters gaue they it, to get hewed stone, & timber for couples and for beames of the houses which ye kinges of Iuda had destroyed.


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And the men did the worke faythfully: And the ouersears of them to courage them forward, were Iahath and Obadiahu Leuites of the children of Merari: and Secharia and Mesullam of the children of the Caathites, and other of the Leuites, whiche all could skill of instrumentes of musicke.


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And ouer the bearers of burthens, and ouer all that wrought in whatsoeuer worckmanship it were, were there scribes, officers, & porters of the Leuites.


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And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lorde, Helkia the priest founde the booke of the law of the Lorde [geuen] by Moyses.


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And Helkia aunswered and sayd to Saphan the scribe: I haue found the booke of the law in the house of the Lord. And Helkia gaue the booke to Saphan.


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And Saphan caried the booke to the king, and brought the king word againe, saying: All that was committed to thy seruauntes, that do they.


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And they haue gathered together the money that was founde in the house of the Lord, and haue deliuered it into the handes of the ouersears of the worke, and to the handes of the worckmen.


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And then Saphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Helkia the priest hath geuen me a booke: and Saphan read in it before the king.


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And the king commaunded Helkia and Ahikam the sonne of Saphan and Abdon the sonne of Micah, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa a seruaunt of the kinges, saying:


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Go and enquire of the Lord for me and for them that are left in Israel and Iuda, concerning the wordes of the booke that is founde: For great is the wrath of the Lord that is fallen vpon vs, because our fathers haue not kept the worde of the Lorde, to do after all that is written in this booke.


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And Helkia and they that the king had [appoynted] went to Hulda a prophetisse, the wyfe of Sallum, the sonne of Thecuath, the sonne of Hasra, keper of the wardrope (for she dwelt in Hierusalem within the seconde wall:) & so they communed with her.


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Euen thus sayth the Lorde: Beholde, I will bring euyll vpon this place, and vpon the inhabiters thereof, euen al the curses that are written in the booke whiche they haue read before the king of Iuda:


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Because they haue forsaken me, and haue offred vnto other gods, to anger me with all maner workes of their handes: therfore is my wrath set on fire against this place, and shall not be quenched.


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And as for the king of Iuda which sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him: thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, concerning the wordes whiche thou hast hearde.


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Because thyne heart did melt, and thou diddest meeke thy selfe before God when thou heardest his wordes against this place, and against the inhabiters thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before me, and tarest thy clothes, and weepedst before me: that haue I heard also, sayth the Lorde.


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Behold, I wil take thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy graue in peace, and thyne eyes shall not see all the mischiefe that I will bring vpon this place, and vpon the inhabiters of the same. And they brought the king worde againe.


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And the king went vp into the house of the Lorde, and all the men of Iuda, and the inhabiters of Hierusalem, and the priestes and Leuites, and all the people great and smal, and [the king] did reade in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenaunt that was founde in the house of the Lorde.


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And the king stoode at his standing, and made a couenaunt before the Lorde, to folowe the Lorde, and to kepe his commaundementes, his witnesse, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with al his soule, and to fulfill the wordes of the appoyntment written in the sayd booke.


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And he set in their roome all them that were founde in Hierusalem and Beniamin: and the inhabiters of Hierusalem did according to the couenaunt of the Lorde God of their fathers.


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And Iosia put away all maner of abhominations out of all landes that parteyned to the children of Israel, and brought in all that were founde in Israel, to worship and to serue the Lorde their God: And they turned not aside from after the Lorde God of their fathers, as long as he liued.


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And Iosia helde the [feast of] passouer vnto the Lorde in Hierusalem, & they slue passouer in the fourteenth day of the first moneth.


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And sayd vnto the Leuites that taught all Israel, and were sanctified vnto the Lorde: Put the holy arke in the house whiche Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel dyd buylde, it shalbe no more a burden vpon your shoulders: But now serue the Lord your God, and his people Israel:


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And prepare your selues by your auncient housholdes, and companies, according to the writing of Dauid king of Israel, and the writing of Solomon his sonne:


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And stand in the holy place, according to the deuision of the auncient housholdes of your brethren the children of the people, and after the deuision of the auncient housholdes of the Leuites:


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Kill passouer, and sanctifie your selues, & prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hande of Moyses.


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And Iosia gaue to the people flockes of sheepe and kiddes all for passouer, and for al that were present, thirtie thousande by tale, and three thousande oxen: and these were euen of the kinges substaunce.


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And his lordes gaue willingly both vnto the people and to the priestes, and vnto the Leuites: Helkia also, Zacharia, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the priestes for passouer offeringes two thousande and sixe hundred sheepe, and three hundred oxen.


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Conania, and Semeiahu, & Nathanael his brethren, & Hasabiah, and Iehiel, and Iosabad, rulers of the Leuites, gaue vnto the Leuites passouer offeringes [euen] fiue thousande sheepe and fiue hundred oxen.


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And so the seruice was prepared, and the priestes stoode in their places, & the Leuites in their distinct companies, at the kinges commaundement:


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And they slue passouer, and the priestes sprinckled the blood with their hande, and the Leuites pulled of the skinnes of the beastes.


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And they set away the burnt offeringes, to geue them vnto the people that were deuided be auncient houses, and that they shoulde offer vnto the Lorde, like as is written in the booke of Moyses: And so dyd they with the oxen also.


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And they dressed the passouer with fire, as the maner was: And the other dedicate beastes sodde they in pottes, caldrons, and pannes, and deuided them among all the people.


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And afterward they made redy for them selues and for the priestes: for the priestes the children of Aaron were busied in offring of burnt offringes and the fat vntill night: therfore the Leuites prepared for them selues and for the priestes the sonnes of Aaron.


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And the singers the children of Asaph stoode in their standing, according to the commaundement of Dauid, and Asaph, Heman, and Ieduthun the kinges sear: and the porters wayted at euery gate, and might not depart from their seruice: for their brethren the Leuites prepared for them.


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And so all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to offer passouer, and to offer burnt offeringes vpon the aulter of the Lord, according to the commaundement of king Iosia,


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And the children of Israel that were present, kept the passouer the same time, and the feast of sweet bread seuen dayes.


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And there was no passouer like to that kept in Israel from the dayes of Samuel the prophete, neither did al the kinges of Israel holde such a passeouer feast as dyd Iosia, and the priestes and Leuites, and all Iuda and Israel that were present, and the inhabiters of Hierusalem.


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After all this when Iosia had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came vp to fight against Charcamis beside Euphrates: and Iosia went out against him.


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Whiche sent messengers to hym, and said: What haue I to do with thee thou king of Iuda? Be not thou against thy selfe this day, for my warre is against another house, and God bad me make hast: Leaue of therfore & meddle not with God which is with me, lest he destroy thee.


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Neuerthelesse Iosia would not turne his face from him, but rather toke aduise to fight with hym, and hearkened not vnto the wordes of Necho out of the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Mageddo.


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And the shooters shot dartes at king Iosia: And the king sayde to his seruauntes, Carie me away, for I am sore wounded.


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His seruauntes therefore had hym out of that charet, and put him in another charet that they had: And when they had brought him to Hierusalem, he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers: And all Iuda and Hierusalem mourned for Iosia.


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And Ieremia lamented Iosia, and all singing men and singing women mourned for Iosias in their lamentations to this day, and made the same lamentations an ordinaunce in Israel: and beholde they are written in the lamentations.


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The rest of the actes of Iosia and his goodnes [whiche he did] folowing in the writing of the lawe of the Lorde,


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And his sayinges first and last, behold they are written in the booke of the kinges of Israel and Iuda.


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And the people of the lande toke Iehoahaz the sonne of Iosia, and made hym king in his fathers steade in Hierusalem.


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And Iehoahaz was twentie & three yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned three monethes in Hierusalem.


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And the king of Egypt put him downe at Hierusalem, and merced the lande in an hundreth talentes of siluer, and a talent of golde.


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And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king vpon Iuda and Hierusalem, and turned his name to Iehoiacim: and Necho toke Iehoahaz his brother, and caried him to Egypt.


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Iehoiacim was twentie and fiue yeres old when he began to raigne, & he raigned aleuen yeres in Hierusalem, and he did euil in the sight of the Lord his God.


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Against him came vp Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and bounde hym with two chaynes, to cary him to Babylon.


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The king Nabuchodonosor also caried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.


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The rest of the actes of Iehoiacim, and his abhominations which he did, and that which was found vpon him, behold they are written in the booke of the kinges of Israel and Iuda: and Iehoiacin his sonne raigned in his steade.


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And Iehoiacin was eyght yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned three monethes and ten dayes in Hierusalem, and dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde.


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And when the yere was out, king Nabuchodonosor sent and fet him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lorde, and made Zedekia his fathers brother king ouer Iuda and Hierusalem.


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Zedekia was one and twentie yeres old when he began the raigne, and raigned aleuen yeres in Hierusalem.


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And he dyd euyl in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not him selfe before Ieremia the prophete, at the mouth of the Lorde.


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And he rebelled against king Nabuchodonosor, which had receaued an oth of him by God: but he was stifnecked, and to hard hearted to turne vnto the Lord God of Israel.


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Moreouer, all the chiefe of the priestes and the people trespassed wonderfully after all maner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lorde which he had halowed in Hierusalem.


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And the Lorde God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising vp betimes, and sending: for he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place.


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But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his wordes, and misvsed his prophetes, vntill the wrath of the Lorde arose against his people, and till there was no remedie.


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And so he brought vpon them the king of Chaldee, which slue their young men with the sword in their holy temple, and spared neither young man, mayden, old man, nor him that stowped for age: He gaue them all into his hande.


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And all the vessels of the house of God, both great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lorde, and the treasures of the king, and of his lordes: all these caryed he to Babylon.


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And they burnt the house of God, and brake downe the wal of Hierusalem, and burnt all the pallaices thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly iewels therof.


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And the rest that had escaped the sword, caried he to Babylon: where they were bondmen to him & his children, vntill the time that Persia had the Empire:


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To fulfill the worde of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremia, vntill the lande had her pleasure of her Sabbathes: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath, vntil threescore and ten yeres were fulfilled.


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And the first yere of Cyrus king of Persia (when the worde of the Lorde spoken by the mouth of Ieremia was finished) the Lorde stirred vp the spirite of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdome, and that by wryting, saying:


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Thus sayth Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdomes of the earth hath the Lorde God of heauen geuen me, & hath charged me to buylde hym an house in Hierusalem, that is in Iuda: Wherfore whosoeuer is among you of all his people, the Lorde his God be with him, and let hym go vp.


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In the first yere of Cyrus king of Persia (that the worde of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Ieremia might be fulfilled) the Lorde stirred vp the spirite of Cyrus king of Persia, that he caused to be proclaymed throughout all his empyre, and to be written, saying,


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Thus saith Cyrus the king of Persia: The Lorde God of heauen hath geuen me all the kingdomes of the earth, and hath commaunded me to build him an house at Hierusalem, which is in Iuda.


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Whosoeuer nowe among you is of his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go vp to Hierusalem in Iuda, and builde the house of the Lorde God of Israel, he is the God that is at Hierusalem.


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And whosoeuer remayneth yet in any maner of place where he is a straunger, let the men of that place helpe him with siluer and golde, with good and cattaile, beside that which they willingly offer for the house of God that is at Hierusalem.


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Then gat vp the principall fathers of Iuda and Beniamin, and the priestes and Leuites, and all they whose spirite God had raysed to go vp and to builde the house of the Lorde which is at Hierusalem.


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And all they that were about them, strengthed their hande with vessels of siluer & golde, with goodes, and cattaile, and iewels, besides all that was wyllingly offered.


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And king Cyrus brought foorth the vessels of the house of the Lord: which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of Hierusalem, and had put in the house of his God.


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Those did Cyrus the king of Persia bryng foorth by the hande of Michridates the treasurer, & numbred them vnto Sesbazer the prince of Iuda.


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And this is the number of them: thirtie chargers of golde, a thousand chargers of siluer, twentie and nine kniues:


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Thirtie basons of golde, and of other siluer basons foure hundred & ten: and of other vessels a thousand.


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Al the vessels of golde and siluer were fiue thousand and foure hundred: All these did Sesbazer cary away with them that came vp out of the captiuitie of Babylon, vnto Hierusalem.


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These are the children of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had caried away vnto Babylon: & came againe vnto Hierusalem and into Iuda euery one vnto his citie.


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They that came with Zorobabel [are these:] Iesua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Rehelaia, Mardochai, Bilsan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baana. This is the number of the men of the people of Israel:


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The children of the captaine of Moab, of the children of Iesua and Ioab, two thousand eyght hundred and twelue.


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The children of Kiriathiarim, euen the children of Cephira and Beeroth, seuen hundred fouretie and three.


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The children of the doore kepers, the children of Sallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai, altogether an hundred thirtie and nine.


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The children of Solomons seruautes, the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,


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The children of Sephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazbaim, the children of Ami.


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All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomons seruauntes, were altogether three hundred ninetie and two.


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And these went vp from Thelmelah, and from Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they coulde not discerne their fathers house & their seede, whether they were of Israel.


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And of the children of the priestes: the children of Habaia, the children of Accoz, the childre of Berzillai, which toke one of the daughters of Berzillai the Gileadite to wyfe, and was called after their name.


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These sought their euidence among them that had the regester of birth, and were not founde therein, therefore were they put from the priesthood.


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And Hathirsatha said vnto them that they should not eate of the most holy, till there rose vp a priest [to weare] Urim and Thummim.


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Beside their seruauntes and maydens, of whom there were seuen thousand three hundred thirtie and seuen: And there were among them two hundred singing men and women.


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And their Camels foure hundred thirtie and fiue: their Asses sixe thousand seuen hundred and twentie.


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And certaine of the chiefe fathers, when they came to the house of the Lorde at Hierusalem, they offred them selues wylling for the house of God, to set it vp in his place:


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And gaue golde after their habilitie, vnto the treasure of the worke, euen threescore and one thousand peeces, and fiue thousand pounde of siluer, and an hundred priestes garmentes.


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So the priestes, and the Leuites and certaine of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.


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And when the seuenth moneth came, and the childre of Israel were now in their cities, the people came together euen as one man to Hierusalem.


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And there stoode vp Iesua the sonne of Ioseder, and his brethren the priestes, and Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and his brethren, and builded the aulter of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offeringes thereon, as it is written in the law of Moyses the man of God.


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And the aulter set they vpon his sockets: for there was a fearefulnesse among them, because of the people of those countries, therefore they offered burnt offeringes theron vnto the lorde, euen burnt offeringes in the morning and at euening.


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And they helde the feast of tabernacles as it is written, and offered burnt sacrifices dayly, according to the number and custome, day by day.


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Afterwarde they offered dayly burnt offringes also, and in the new moones, and in al the feast dayes that were consecrated vnto the Lord, and for all them which did of their owne free wyll offer vnto the Lorde.


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From the first day of the seuenth moneth, began they to offer burnt sacrifices vnto the Lord: euen when the foundation of the temple of the Lorde was not yet layde.


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They gaue money also vnto the masons and carpenters, and meate and drincke, and oyle vnto them of Sidon and of Tyre, to bring the Cedar timber from Libanus by sea vnto Ioppa, according to the graunt that they had of Cyrus the king of Persia.


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In the second yere of their comming vnto the house of God at Hierusalem in the second moneth, began Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec, and the remnaunt of their brethren, the priestes and Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Hierusalem: and appoynted the Leuites from twentie yeres olde and aboue, to see that the worke of the house of the Lorde went forwarde.


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And Iesua stoode with his sonnes and brethren, and Cadmiel with his sonnes & the children of Iuda together, to set forwarde the workmen of the house of God, euen the childre of Henadad, with their children, and their brethren the Leuites.


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And when the builders layed the foundation of the temple of the Lorde, they appoynted the priestes in their araye with trumpettes, and the Leuites the children of Asaph with cymbales, to prayse the Lorde after the maner of Dauid king of Israel.


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And they sang together when they gaue prayse and thankes vnto the lorde, Because he is gracious, and because his mercie endureth for euer vpon Israel: And all the people showted loude in praysing the Lorde, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was layd.


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Many also of the priestes & Leuites and chiefe fathers, and auncient men which had seene the first house, when the foundation was layde before their eyes, wept with a loude voyce, and many showted aloude with ioy:


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So that the people coulde not discerne the ioyfull sounde & gladnesse, from the noyse of the weeping among the people: for the people showted with a loude crye, and the noyse was heard farre of.


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But the aduersaries of Iuda and Beniamin, heard that the children of the captiuitie builded the temple vnto the Lorde God of Israel:


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And they came to Zorobabel and to the principall fathers, and saide vnto them: We wyll builde with you, for we seeke the Lorde your God, as ye do, and we haue done sacrifice vnto him since the time of Asor Hadon the king of Assur which brought vs vp hither.


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And Zorobabel, and Iesua, and the other auncient fathers of Israel, sayde vnto them: It can not be, that you and we together shoulde builde the house vnto our God: for we our selues wyll builde alone vnto the Lorde our God of Israel, as Cyrus the king of Persia hath commaunded vs.


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And it came to passe, that the folke of the lande discouraged the people of Iuda, & troubled them as they were building:


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And hyred counsellers against them, to hinder their deuice as long as Cyrus the king of Persia liued, vntil the raigne of Darius king of Persia.


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And in the raigne of Ahasuerus, euen at the beginning of his raigne, wrote they vnto him a complaynt against the inhabiters of Iuda and Hierusalem.


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And in the dayes of Artaxerxes, wrote Mithridach, Tabel, and the other of his counsell, vnto Artaxerxes the king of Persia with faire wordes: And the writing of the letter was in the Syrians speache, and interpreted in the language of the Syrians:


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Rehum the recorder, and Samsai the scribe wrote a letter from Hierusalem to Artaxerxes the king, as it foloweth.


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Then Rehum the recorder, and Samsai the scribe, and other of their company, they of Dina, of Apharsath, of Tharpelai, of Persia, of Arache, of Babylon, of Susan, of Deha, of Elan,


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And other of the people whom the great & noble Asnappar brought ouer, and set in the cities of Samaria, and other that are nowe beyond the water, and Cheeneth.


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This is the copie of the letter that they sent vnto king Artaxerxes: Thy seruauntes, and the men that are nowe beyond the water, and Cheeneth.


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Be it knowen vnto the king that the Iewes which came vp from thee to vs, are come vnto Hierusalem, a citie seditious and froward, and builde the same, and set vp the walles thereof, and lay the foundations.


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Be it knowen now vnto the king, that if this citie be builded, and the walles made vp againe, then shal not they geue toule, tribute, and custome, & the kinges profite shall incurre damage.


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And now in the meane season we haue destroyed the temple, and woulde no longer see the kinges dishonour, therefore sent we out also and certified the king,


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That it may be sought in the booke of the cronicles of thy progenitours, and so shalt thou finde in the booke of the cronicles, and perceaue that this citie is seditious and noysome vnto the kinges and landes, and that they cause other also among them to rebell of olde: and for the same cause was this citie destroyed.


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Therfore do we certifie the king, that if this citie be builded againe, and the walles thereof made vp, thou shalt hereafter haue no portion beyond the water.


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Then sent the king an aunswere vnto Rehum the recorder and Samsai the scribe, and to the other of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and vnto the other that were beyond the water in Selam and Cheeth.


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And I haue commaunded to make searche, and it is found that this citie of olde hath made insurrection against kinges, and that rebellion and sedition hath ben committed therein.


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There haue ben mightie kinges also at Hierusalem, which haue raigned ouer all countreys beyond the water: and toule, tribute, and custome was geuen vnto them,


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Geue ye nowe therefore commaundement, that the same men be forbidden, and that the citie be not builded againe, till I haue geuen another commaundement.


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Take heede now that ye be not negligent to do this: for why should the king haue harme there through?


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Nowe when the copie of king Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum & Simsai the scribe, and their companyons, they went vp in all the haste to Hierusalem vnto the Iewes, and forbad them with violence and power.


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Then ceassed the worke of the house of God at Hierusalem, and continued so vnto the second yere of Darius king of Persia.


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The prophetes Aggens, and Zachari the sonne of Iddo, prophecied vnto the Iewes that were in Iuda and Hierusalem in the name of the God of Israel, eue vnto them.


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Then gat vp Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec, and began to builde the house of God at Hierusalem: and with them were the prophetes of God, which helped them.


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At the same time came to them Thathanai which was captaine beyond the water, and Stharbuzanai, and their companions, and saide thus vnto them: Who hath commaunded you to builde this house, & to make vp these walles?


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But the eye of their God was vpon the elders of the Iewes, that they could not cause them to ceasse, till the matter was brought to Darius: and then they aunswered by letters thereunto.


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This is the copie of the letter that Thathanai which was captayne beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, & the counsailours of Apharsath which were beyond the water, sent vnto king Darius.


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And the matter that they sent vnto him, was written thus within the letter: Unto Darius the king, all peace.


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Be it knowen vnto the king that we went into the prouince of Iurie to the house of the great God, which is builded with mightie great stones, and beames are layde in the walles, and the worke goeth fast foorth, and prospereth in their handes.


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Then asked we the elders, and saide vnto them as it foloweth: Who commaunded you to builde this house, and to make vp the walles thereof?


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We asked their names also, that we might certifie thee, and write the names of the men that were their rulers.


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But they aunswered vs with these wordes, and saide: We are the seruauntes of him that is God of heauen and earth, and builde the house that was builded of olde and many yeres ago, which the great king of Israel builded, and set vp.


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But after our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath, he gaue them ouer into the hande of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon & of the Chaldees, which brake downe this house, and caried the people away captiue vnto Babylon.


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But in the first yere of Cyrus the king of Babylon, the same king Cyrus gaue commaundement concerning this house of God, that it shoulde be built againe.


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And the vessels of golde and siluer of the house of God which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple that was at Hierusalem, and brought them into the temple at Babylon: those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple at Babylon, and they were deliuered vnto one Sasbazar by name, whom he made captaine,


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And saide vnto him: Take these vessels, and go thy way, and set them in the temple that is at Hierusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.


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Then came the same Sasbazar, and layed the foundation of the house of God which is at Hierusalem: Since that time also vntill nowe hath it ben in building, and yet is it not finished.


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Now therefore if it please the king, let there be searche made in the kinges librarie which is there at Babylon, whether it haue ben king Cyrus commaundement that this temple of God at Hierusalem shoulde be builded: and let the king send his minde concerning the same matter.


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Then comaunded king Darius: & they made searche in the librarie, eue in the place where they layed vp the treasure at Babylon:


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And there was found in a coffer in the palace that is in the prouince of the Medes, a volume: and therein was it thus written as a memoriall.


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In the first yere of king Cyrus, gaue the same king Cyrus commaundement concerning the house of God at Hierusalem, that the same house should be builded in the place where they offer the sacrifices, & to ioyne the walles together of threescore cubites heyght, and threescore cubites breadth.


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Three rowes of rough stones, and one rowe of newe timber: and the expences shalbe geuen of the kinges house.


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And let the golde and siluer vessels of the house of God, which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Hierusalem and brought vnto Babylon, be restored, and brought againe vnto the temple at Hierusalem to their place in the house of God.


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Now therefore thou Thathanai captaine beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, and your counsailers, and Aphersechei which are beyond the water, get ye away from them.


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Let the worke of the house of this God alone, that the captaine of the Iewes and their elders may builde the house of God in his place.


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I haue commaunded what ye shall do to the elders of Iuda for the building of the house of God, that of the kinges goodes, euen of the tribute beyond the water, foorthwith expences be geuen vnto the men, that they be not hindred.


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And if they haue neede of calues, rammes, and lambes for the burnt offering of the God of heauen, wheate, salte, wine, and oyle, after the custome of the priestes at Hierusalem, let the same be geuen them dayly without any delay:


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That they may haue to offer sweete sauours vnto the God of heauen, & pray for the kinges lyfe, and for his children.


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And such a commaundement haue I geuen, that what man soeuer he be that altereth this word, there shall a beame be taken from his house, and set vp, and he shalbe hanged thereon, & his house shalbe made a dounghill for the same thing.


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And the God that set his name there, destroy all kinges and people that put to their hande to aulter and to breake downe the house of God which is at Hierusalem. I Darius haue made a decree, that this be done with speede.


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Then Thathanai the captaine [of the countrey] beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, with their counsailours, according to that which king Darius had sent, so they did speedyly their diligence.


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And the elders of the Iewes builded, and they prospered through the prophecying of Aggeus the prophete and Zachari the sonne of Iddo, and they builded, and they finished it according to the commaundement of the God of Israel, and after the commaundement of Cyrus and Darius & Artaxerxes, kinges of Persia.


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And this house was finished the third day of the moneth Adar, euen in the sixt yere of the raigne of king Darius.


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And the childre of Israel, the priestes, the Leuites, and the other children of the captiuitie, helde the dedication of this house of God with ioy:


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And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred oxen, two hudred rammes, foure hudred lambes: and for the reconciling of all Israel twelue hee goates, according to the number of the tribes of Israel:


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And set the priestes in their sundry courses, and the Leuites in their diuers offices, to minister vnto God at Hierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moyses.


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For the priestes and Leuites were purified all together, & killed Passouer for all the children of the captiuitie, and for their brethren the priestes, and for them selues.


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And the children of Israel which were come againe out of captiuitie, and all such as had seperated them selues vnto them from the filthinesse of the heathen of the lande, to seeke the Lorde God of Israel, did eate,


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And helde the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes with ioy: For the Lorde had made them glad, and turned the heart of the king of Assur vnto them, to strengthen their handes in the worke of the house of God, euen the God of Israel.


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After these thinges, ther was in the raigne of Artaxerxes king of Persia, one Esdras the sonne of Saraia, the sonne of Asaria, the sonne of Helkia,


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The sonne of Abisua, the sonne of Phinehes, the sonne of Eleasar, the sonne of Aaron the chiefe priest.


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This Esdras also went vp from Babylon, and was a perfect scribe in the law of Moyses which the Lorde God of Israel did geue: And the king gaue him al that he required, according to the hand of the Lorde his God which was vpon him.


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And there went vp certaine of the children of Israel, of the priestes, leuites, singers, porters, and of the Nethinims vnto Hierusalem, in the seuenth yere of king Artaxerxes.


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For vpon the first day of the first moneth, began he to go vp from Babylon: and on the first day of the fifth moneth came he to Hierusalem, according to the good hand of his God that was vpon him.


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For Esdras prepared his heart to seeke the law of the Lorde, and to do it, and to teache the preceptes and iudgementes in Israel.


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And this is the copie of the letter that king Artaxerxes gaue vnto Esdras the priest, and scribe, which was a writer of the wordes and commaundementes of the Lorde, and of his statutes ouer Israel.


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Artaxerxes a king of kinges, vnto Esdras the priest and scribe of the law of the God of heauen, peace and salutation.


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I haue commaunded that all they of the people of Israel, and of the priestes and Leuites in my realme, which are minded of their owne good wyll to go vp to Hierusalem, go with thee:


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And therfore art thou sent of the king and of his seuen counsailers, to visite Iuda and Hierusalem, according to the law of thy God, which is in thy hande:


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And that thou shouldest take with thee siluer and golde which the king and his counsailers offer of their owne good wyll vnto the God of Israel, whose habitation is at Hierusalem:


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And all the siluer and golde that thou canst finde in al the countrey of Babylon, with it that the people offer of their owne good wyll, and the priestes geue wyllingly for the house of their God which is at Hierusalem:


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That thou mayst bye diligently with the same money, oxen, rammes, and lambes, with their meate offringes and drinke offringes, & thou shalt offer them vpon the aulter of the house of your God which is at Hierusalem.


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And looke what lyketh thee and thy brethren to do with the remnaunt of the siluer and golde, that do after the wyll of your God.


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And the vessels that are geuen thee for the ministration in the house of thy God, those deliuer thou before God at Hierusalem.


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And whatsoeuer thing more shalbe nedefull for the house of thy God which is necessary for to spend, thou shalt receaue the charges out of the kinges treasure house.


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I king Artaxerxes haue commaunded all the treasures beyond the water, that loke what soeuer Esdras the priest and scribe in the law of the God of heauen requireth of you, that ye fulfill the same speedylie,


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Untill an hundred talentes of siluer, and till an hundred quarters of wheate, and till an hundred battes of wine, and till an hundred vattes of oyle, & salt without measure.


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Whatsoeuer also is by the commaundement of the God of heauen, let the same be done without any delay for the house of the God of heauen, that he be not wroth against the realme, & against the king and his children.


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And we certifie you, that ye haue no aucthoritie to require taxing and custome and yerely rentes, vpon any of the priestes, leuites, singers, porters, Nethinims, and ministers in the house of his God.


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And thou Esdras, after the wysdome of thy God that is in thyne hande, set iudges and arbitrers [by my aucthoritie] to iudge all the people that is beyond the water, euen all such as know the law of thy God: and them that knowe it not, those see that ye teache.


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And whosoeuer wyll not fulfill the lawe of thy God, and the kinges lawe, let him haue his iudgement without delay, whether it be vnto death, or to be rooted out, or to be condempned in goodes, or to be put in prison.


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Blessed be the Lorde God of our fathers, which so had inspired the kinges heart, to garnishe the house of the Lord that is at Hierusalem:


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And hath enclined mercie vnto me in the presence of the king and his counsailers, and before all the kinges high estates: And I was comforted euen as the hande of the Lord my God was vpon me, and so gathered I the heades of Israel together, that they might go vp with me.


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These are now the principall fathers of them, and this is the register of them that went vp with me from Babylon, what time as king Artaxerxes raigned.


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Of the children of Phinehes, Gersom: of the children of Ithamar, Daniel: of the children of Dauid, Hattus:


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Of the children of Zechania, among the children of Pharos, Zachari & with him were numbred an hundred and fiftie men.


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Of the children of Adonicam that were the last, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Iehiel, and Samaiah, & with them threescore men.


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And I gathered them together by the water that runneth towarde Ahaua, and there abode we three dayes: And I loked among the people and the priestes, and founde there none of the children of Leui.


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Then sent I to Eliezer, to Ariel, Semeia, Elnachan, Iarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zacharia, and to Mesullam, the rulers, and to Ioiarib and Elnathan, which were men of vnderstanding.


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And to those gaue I commaundement vnto Iddo the chiefest at Casphia, and I told them what they should say vnto Iddo & to his brethren the Nethinims at Casphia, that they shoulde cause the ministers of the house of our God to come vnto vs.


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And through the good hande of our God vpon vs, they brought vs a very wyse man from among the children of Moholi the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel, and Sarabia with his sonnes and his brethren, euen eyghteene.


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And Hasabia and with him Isai of the children of Merari, with his brethren, and their sonnes, twentie.


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And of the Nethinims whom Dauid and the princes gaue to minister vnto the Leuites, two hundred and twentie of Nethininis: which al were named by name.


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And euen there at the water beside Ahaua I proclaymed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seke of hym a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substaunce.


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For I was ashamed to require of the king souldiers and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way: for we had spoken vnto the king, saying: The hande of our God is vpon all them that seke him in goodnesse, & his power and wrath is against all them that forsake hym.


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And I toke out twelue of the chiefe priestes, Sarabia, and Hasabia, and ten of their brethren with them,


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And wayed them the siluer and golde, and vessels that were appoynted for the house of our God, whiche the king and his consaylers, and his lordes, and al Israel that were there at hand, had geuen together.


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And I wayed vnto their hande sixe hundred and fiftie talentes of siluer, and in siluer vessels an hundred talentes, and in golde an hundred talentes:


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Twentie basons of gold of a thousand drammes, and two costly vessels of good brasse, as cleare as golde.


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And I sayde vnto them: Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, like as the vessels are holy also: and the gold and siluer are geuen of a good wil vnto the Lord God of your fathers.


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Watch ye, and kepe them: for ye shall way them downe before the chiefe priestes, and Leuites, and auncient fathers of Israel at Hierusalem, in the treasuries of the house of the Lorde.


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Then toke the priestes and Leuites the wayed siluer and golde, and vessels, to bring it to Hierusalem vnto the house of our God.


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And we brake vp from the water of Ahaua on the twelfth day of the first moneth, to go vnto Hierusalem: and the hande of our God was vpon vs, and deliuered vs from the hande of the enemies, and of such as layed wayte for vs by the way.


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But on the fourth day was the siluer and gold and vessels wayed in the house of our God by the hande of Meremoth the sonne of Uria the priest, and with him was Eleazar the sonne of Phinehes, and with them was Iosabad the sonne of Iesua, and Noadia the sonne of Bennoi the Leuites.


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And the children of the captiuitie, which were come out of captiuitie, offred burnt offringes vnto the God of Israel, twelue bullockes for all Israel, ninetie and sixe rammes, seuentie and seuen lambes, twelue hee goates for sinne [offering] all to the burnt offering of the Lorde.


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And they deliuered the kinges commission vnto the kinges officers, and to the captaynes that were beyonde the water: And they promoted the people, and the house of God.


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When these thinges were done, the rulers came to me, and sayde: The people of Israel, and the priestes & Leuites are not separated from the people of the landes, as touching their abhominations: namely of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Iebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.


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For they haue taken the daughters of the same to them selues and to their sonnes, and the holy seede is mixed with the nations of the landes, & the hand of the princes and rulers hath ben principall in the trespasse.


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And when I heard this saying, I rent my clothes and my garment, & pluckt of the heere of my head & of my beard, and sate mourning.


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And there resorted vnto me all such as feared the wordes of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of the [people] of the captiuitie: And I sat mourning vntill the euening sacrifice.


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And about the euening sacrifice I arose vp from my heauinesse, and rent my clothes and my rayment, and fell vpon my knees, and spread out my handes vnto the Lorde my God,


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And sayde: My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift vp myne eyes vnto thee my God: for our wickednesses are growen ouer our head, and our trespasse is waxed great vnto the heauen.


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Since the time of our fathers haue we ben in great trespasse vnto this day, and because of our wickednesses haue we and our kinges and our priestes ben deliuered into the hande of the kinges of the nations, vnto the sworde, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as it is to see this day.


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And nowe for a litle space grace hath ben shewed from the Lorde our God, in causing a remnaunt to escape, and in geuing vs a nayle in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and geue vs a litle lyfe to take breath in our bondage:


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For we were bondmen, and yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath enclined mercie vnto vs in the sight of the king of Persia, to geue vs lyfe to set vp the house of our God, and to redresse the desolation therof, and to geue vs a wall in Iuda and Hierusalem.


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Whiche thou hast commaunded by thy seruauntes the prophetes, saying: The lande vnto which ye go to possesse, it is an vncleane lande, because of the filthinesse of the people of the landes, whiche with their abhominations haue made it full of vncleannesse on euery syde.


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Therfore shal ye not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, and their daughters shall ye not take vnto your sonnes, nor seke their peace and wealth for euer: that ye may be strong and enioy the goodnesse of the lande, and that ye and your children may haue the inheritaunce of it for euermore.


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And after that all these thinges are come vpon vs because of our euyll deedes and great trespasses, seyng that thou our God hast stayed vs from beyng beneath for our iniquities, and hast geuen vs such deliuerance:


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Shoulde we returne to breake thy commaundementes, and ioyne in affinitie with the people of these abhominations? wouldest not thou be angry towardes vs till thou hadst consumed vs, so that there should be no remnaunt, nor any escaping?


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O Lorde God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remayne yet escaped, as it is to see this day: Beholde also, in thy presence are we in our trespasses, & because of it may we not stand before thee.


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And when Esdras prayed after this maner, and knowledged, wept, and lay before the house of God, there resorted vnto hym out of Israel a very great congregation, of men, and women, and children: and the people wept very sore.


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And Sechania the sonne of Iehiel, one of the children of Elam, aunswered, and sayde vnto Esdras: We haue trespassed against our God, & haue taken straunge wyues of the people of the lande: Yet nowe there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.


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For nowe we will make a couenaunt with our God, and put away all the wiues and such as are borne of them, according to the counsel of the Lorde: and we wil be in the feare of the commaundementes of our God, that we may do according to the lawe.


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Get thee vp, for this matter belongeth vnto thee, we also will be with thee: be of good comfort therfore, and do it.


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Then rose Esdras, and toke an oth of the chiefe priestes and Leuites, and of all Israel, that they should do according to this worde: And they sware.


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And Esdras rose vp from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Iohanan the sonne of Eliasib: and when he came thyther, he dyd eate no bread, nor dronke water: for he mourned, because of the transgression of the people that had ben in captiuitie.


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And they caused a proclamation to go throughout Iuda & Hierusalem vnto al them of the captiuitie, that they shoulde gather them selues together vnto Hierusalem:


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And that whosoeuer came not within three dayes, according to the deuice of the rulers and elders, all his substaunce should be forfayted, and he should be put out from the congregation of them of the captiuitie.


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Then all the men of Iuda and Beniamin gathered them selues together vn- Hierusalem within three dayes, euen the twentith day of the nynth moneth: & all the people sate in the streete of the house of God, and trembled, because of this matter, and for the rayne.


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And Esdras the priest stoode vp, and sayd vnto them: Ye haue transgressed, & haue taken straunge wyues, to make the trespasse of Israel yet more.


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Confesse now therfore vnto the Lord God of our fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate your selues from the people of the lande, and from the straunge wyues.


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And all the congregation aunswered, and sayde with a loude voyce: It shalbe so, and we will do as thou hast sayde.


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But the people are many, and it is a rayny weather, & the people are to faynt to tary without in the streete, neither is this a worke of one day or two: for we haue offended very sore in this thing.


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Let our rulers stande therefore in all the congregation, and let al them which haue taken straunge wyues in our cities come at the time appoynted, and let the elders of euery citie and their iudges be with them, till the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from vs.


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Then were appoynted Ionathan the sonne of Asahel, and Iahasia the sonne of Thecua ouer this matter: & Mesullam and Sabathai the Leuites helped them.


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And the children of the captiuitie dyd euen so: And Esdras the priest, and the auncient heads through the house of their fathers, all men of great fame, separated themselues, & sate them downe in the first day of the tenth moneth to examine the matter.


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And vntill the first day of the first moneth they were finishing the businesse, with al the men that had taken straunge wyues.


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And among the children of the priestes there were men found that had taken straunge wiues, namely among the children of Iesua, the sonne of Iosedec, and of his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, Iarib, and Gedalia.


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And they gaue their handes that they woulde put away their wiues: and they that had trespassed, gaue a ramme for their trespasse.


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Among the Leuites: Iosabad, Semei, and Celaia (whiche same is Celitah) Phathaiah, Iuda, and Eliezer.


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And of Israel: Among the children of Pharos, Remeia, Iesia, Melchia, Miamin, Eliezer, Melchia, & Banaiah.


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Among the children of the captayne of Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaia, Maasia, Mathania, Besalel, Bennui, & Manasse.


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All these had taken straunge wyues, and among the same there were some that had children by the wyues.


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The wordes of Nehemiah the sonne of Hachalia. In the moneth Chisleu, in the twentie yere, as I was in the castell at Susan,


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Came Hanani, one of my brethren, he and the men of Iuda: and I asked them howe the Iewes dyd that were deliuered and escaped from the captiuitie, and howe it went at Hierusalem.


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And they sayde vnto me: The remnaunt that are left of the captiuitie there in the lande, are in great affliction and rebuke: the wall of Hierusalem also is broken downe, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.


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And when I hearde these wordes, I sat downe and wept, and mourned certayne dayes, and fasted and prayed before the God of heauen,


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And sayde: O Lorde God of heauen, thou great and terrible God, thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie for them that loue thee & obserue thy commaundementes:


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Let thyne eares hearken I beseche thee, and let thyne eyes be open, that thou mayest heare the prayer of thy seruaunt, whiche I pray nowe before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy seruauntes, and knowledge the sinnes of the children of Israel which we haue sinned against thee: I and my fathers house haue sinned,


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We haue greeuously sinned against thee, and haue not kept thy commaundementes, statutes, and iudgementes, whiche thou commaundedst thy seruaunt Moyses.


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I beseche thee call to remembraunce the worde that thou commaundedst thy seruaunt Moyses, and saydest, Ye will transgresse, and I will scatter you abrode among the nations:


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But if ye turne vnto me, and kepe my commaundementes, & do them: though ye were cast out vnto the vttermost part of heauen, yet wil I gather you from thence, and will bring you vnto the place that I haue chosen, to set my name there.


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They are thy seruauntes and thy people, whom thou hast deliuered through thy great power, and in thy mightie hande.


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O Lorde I besech thee, let thyne eare hearken to the prayer of thy seruaunt, and to the prayer of thy seruauntes, whose desire is to feare thy name: and let thy seruaunt prosper this day, and graunt him mercie in the sight of this man. For I was the kinges butler.


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It came to passe, that in the moneth Nisan in the twentith yere of king Arthaxerxes, the wine stoode before him: and I toke vp the wine, and gaue it vnto the king: And I had not ben before heauy in his presence.


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And the king sayde vnto me: Why lokest thou so sadly, seyng thou art not sicke? It is nothing els, but that thou art heauy hearted. And I was sore afrayde,


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And sayde vnto the king, God saue the king for euer: Howe shoulde I not loke sadly, when the citie and place of my fathers burials lye waste, and the gates therof are consumed with fire?


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And sayd vnto the king: If it please the king, and if thy seruaunt haue founde fauour in thy sight, sende me vnto Iuda vnto the citie of my fathers burialles, that I may buylde it.


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And the king sayd vnto me (the queene his wyfe sitting by him:) Howe long shal thy iourney continue, and when wilt thou come againe? And it pleased the king to sende me, and I set him a time,


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And sayde vnto the king: If it please the king, let hym geue me letters to the captaynes whiche are beyonde the water, that they may conuay me ouer, till I come into Iuda:


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And letters vnto Asaph the lorde of the kinges wood, that he may geue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which is harde by the house, and for the walles of the citie, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king gaue me according to the hande of my God which was good vpon me.


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And when I came to the captaynes beyonde the water, I gaue them the kinges letters: And the king had sent captaynes of the armie and horsemen with me.


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Sanaballat also the Horonite, and Tobia a seruaunt the Ammonite hearde of it, & it greeued them sore, that there was come a man which sought the wealth of the children of Israel.


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And I gat me vp in the night season, and a fewe men with me, neither tolde I any man what God had geuen me in my heart to do at Hierusalem: and there was not one beast with me, saue it that I rode vpon.


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And I departed in the night by the valley port, before the dragon well, and to the doung port, & considered the walles of Hierusalem howe they were broken downe, and the portes therof consumed with the fire.


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And I went ouer vnto the well port, and to the kinges conduite, and there was no roome for the beast that was vnder me to passe.


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Then went I on in the night by the brooke side, and considered the wall, and turned backe, and came home againe by the valley port.


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And the rulers knewe not whyther I went or what I dyd: neither dyd I as yet tel it vnto the Iewes, to the priestes, to the noble men, to the rulers, and to the other that laboured in the worke.


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Afterwarde sayde I vnto them: Ye see the miserie that we are in, howe Hierusalem lyeth waste, and howe the gates thereof are burnt with fire: come therefore, and let vs buylde vp the wall of Hierusalem, and that we be no more a rebuke.


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Then I tolde them of the hand of my God that it was gratious ouer me, and the kinges wordes that he had spoken vnto me: And they sayde, Let vs get vp and buylde. And they strengthed their handes to good.


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But when Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobia the seruaunt an Ammonite, and Gesem the Arabian hearde it, they laughed vs to scorne, & despised vs, and sayde: What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away from the king?


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Then aunswered I them, and sayde: The God of heauen, he it is that hath graunted vs prosperitie, and we his seruauntes will get vp and buylde: As for you, ye haue no portion, nor right, nor remembraunce in Hierusalem. The number of them that buylded the walles.


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And Eliasib the hye priest gat him vp with his brethre the priestes, and they buylded the sheepe gate: they repaired it, and set vp the doores of it: euen vnto the towre Mea repaired they it, and vnto the towre of Hananeel.


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But the fishe port did the children of Asnaa buyld, which also layed the beames therof, and set on the doores, lockes, and barres of it.


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And next vnto them buylded Meremoth the sonne of Uria, the sonne of Hakoz: and next vnto them buylded Mesullam the sonne of Berachia, the sonne of Mesesabel: and next vnto them buylded Zadoc the sonne of Baana.


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And next vnto hym buylded they of Thekoa: But the great men that were among them put not their neckes to the worke of their Lorde.


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The olde gate buylded Iehoiada the sonne of Paseah, & Mesullam the sonne of Besodia, they layed the beames therof, and set on the doores, lockes, & barres of it.


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Next vnto them buylded Melatiah of Gibeon, and Iadon of Merona, men of Gibeon and of Mispah, vnto the throne of the duke [which was] beyond the riuer.


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Next vnto him buylded Uzziel the sonne of Harhaiah of the goldesmythes: Next vnto hym also buylded Hananiah the sonne of Harakahim, and they repaired Hierusalem vnto the brode wall.


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Next vnto him buylded Iedaia the sonne of Harumaph ouer against his house: and next vnto him buylded Hattus the sonne of Hasabnia.


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But Melchia the sonne of Harim, and Hasub the sonne of the captayne of Moab buylded the other peece, and the towre beside the fornaces.


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Next vnto hym buylded Sallum the sonne of Hallohes, the ruler of the halfe part of Hierusalem, he & his daughters.


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The valley gate buylded Hanun, and the citezins of Zanoa: They buylded it, and set on the doores, lockes, and barres thereof, and a thousande cubites on the wall, vnto the doung port.


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But the doung port buylded Melchiah the sonne of Rechab, the ruler of the fourth part of Beth acharem: he repaired it, and set on the doores, lockes, and barres thereof.


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But the wel gate repaired Sallum the sonne of Cholhosah, the ruler of the fourth part of Mispah: He buylded it, and couered it, and set on the doores, lockes and barres thereof: and the wall vnto the poole Siloah by the kinges garden, and vnto the steppes that go downe from the citie of Dauid.


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After him buylded Nehemiah the sonne of Asbok, the ruler of the halfe parte of Bethzur, vntill the other side ouer against the sepulchres of Dauid, and to the poole that was repaired, and vnto the house of the mightie.


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After him buylded the Leuites, Rehuin the sonne of Bani: and next vnto him buylded Hasabia the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah in his quarter.


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And after him buylded Ezer the sonne of Iesua the ruler of Mispah the other peece, harde ouer against the goyng vp to the house of ordinaunce [that was] in the corner.


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Againe, after him brake foorth Baruch the sonne of Zachai of indignation, and repaired the other peece from the turning corner, vnto the doore of the house of Eliasib the hie priest.


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After him also buylded Merimoth the sonne of Uria, the sonne of Haccos, the other peece, from the doore of the house of Eliasib, euen as long as the house of Eliasib extended.


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After him buylded Beniamin and Hasub ouer against their house: and after him wrought Asaria the sonne of Maasia the sonne of Anania by his house.


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After hym also buylded Bennui the sonne of Henadad the other peece, from the house of Azaria vnto the turning [of the wall] and vnto the corner.


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After him buylded Pala the sonne of Usai, ouer against the corner and the high towre whiche lyeth out ouer from the kinges house, that was beside the court of the prison: After him Phadaia the sonne of Pharos.


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As for the Nethinims they dwelt in the strong hold vnto the water gate toward the east, and to the towre that lyeth out.


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After him buylded they of Thekua the other peece ouer against the great towre that lyeth outwarde, vnto the wall of the strong holde.


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And after them buylded Zadoc the sonne of Immer ouer against his house: After him buylded also Semeia ye sonne of Sechania the keper of the east gate.


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After him buylded Hanania the sonne of Selemia, and Hanun the sonne of Zalaph the sixt, the other peece: And after him buylded Mesullam the sonne of Barachia ouer against his store house.


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After him buylded Melchia the goldsmithes sonne vnto the house of the Nithinims and of the marchauntes, ouer against the gate Mephkad, and to the parlour in the corner.


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And betweene the parlour of the corner vnto the sheepegate, buylded the goldesmithes, and the marchauntes.


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But when Sanaballat hearde that we buylded the wall, he was wroth in him selfe, and toke great indignation, and mocked the Iewes:


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And sayde before his brethren and the souldiers of Samaria: what do these impotent Iewes? will the [heathen] suffer them? shall they offer? shal they perfourme it in one day? shal they make the stones whole againe that are brought to dust and brent?


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And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and sayde: Though they buyld, yet if a foxe go vp, he shall breake downe their stony wall.


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Heare O thou our God, for we are despised, turne their shame vpon their owne head, & geue them ouer into despising in the lande of their captiuitie.


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Couer not their wickednesse, and let not their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked the buylders.


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And so buylded we the wall, and it was ioyned whole together vnto the halfe heyght thereof: And the people were minded to labour.


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But when Sanaballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, Ammonites, and Asdodites, heard that the walles of Hierusalem were made vp, & that the breaches began to be stopped, they were very wroth,


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Neuerthelesse, we made our prayer vnto our God, and set watchmen by them day and night, because of them.


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And Iuda sayde: The strength of the bearers is feeble, and there is yet much more morter, and we are not able to buylde on the wall.


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And our aduersaries sayde: They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come in the middes among them, and slay them, and cause the worke to ceasse.


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But when the Iewes which dwelt beside them, came, they told vs as good as ten times, that in all places where ye go vnto, they are appoynted to fal vpon vs.


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Therefore set I the people after their kinredes, with their swordes, speares, and bowes, beneath in the lowe places behinde the wall vpon the toppes of the stones.


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And I loked, and gat me vp, and sayde vnto the chiefe men, to the rulers, and to the other people, Be not ye afrayde of them: but thinke rather vpon the great Lorde whiche ought to be feared, and fight for your brethre, your sonnes, your daughters, your wiues, & your houses.


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Neuerthelesse, when our enemies heard that we had gotten worde of it, God brought their counsell to naught: and we turned all againe to the wall, euery one vnto his labour.


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And from that time foorth, the halfe part of the young men dyd the labour, and the other halfe part of them helde the speares, shieldes, bowes, and brestplates: and the rulers stoode behinde all the house of Iuda.


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They which buylded on the wall and they that bare burthens, and those that laded them, with one hande did euery one his worke, and with the other helde his weapon.


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For euery one that buylded had his sword girded by his thingh, and so buylded they: And he that blewe the trumpet was beside me.


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And I saide vnto the principall men, to the rulers, and to the other people: The worke is great and large, & we are seperated vpon the wall one farre from another.


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Loke in what place therefore ye heare the noyse of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs, and our God shall fight for vs:


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And we wil be labouring in the worke. And the halfe part of them helde their speares from the morning spring, tyll the starres came foorth.


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And at the same time saide I vnto the people: Let euery one with his seruaut lodge within Hierusalem, that in the night season we may watch, and labour on the day time.


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As for me and my brethren, my seruauntes, and the men of the watch which folowed me, we put neuer of our clothes, saue onely because of the wasshing.


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For there were some that saide, Our sonnes and daughters and we are very many: therefore wyll we take corne for them, that we may eate and liue.


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Some also there were that saide: Let vs set our landes, vineyardes, and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the dearth.


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But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes.


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And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.


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And I aduised so in my minde, that I rebuked the counsellers and the rulers, and saide vnto them: Euery one of you layeth great burdens vpon his brother. And I brought a great congregation against them,


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And saide vnto them: We after our habilitie haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: And wyll you sell your brethre againe, and shall they be solde vnto vs? Then held they their peace, and coulde finde nothing to aunswere.


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And [Nehemia] saide, It is not good that ye do: Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the rebuke of the heathen that are our enemies?


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I and my brethren, and my seruauntes, do lende them money and corne: I pray you let vs leaue of this burden.


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Therefore this same day I pray you see that ye restore them their landes againe, their vineyardes, olyue gardens, and their houses, and remit the hundred parte of the money, of the corne, wine, and oyle that ye haue exacted of them.


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Then saide they: We wyll restore them againe, & wyll require nothing of them, and wyll do as thou hast spoken. And I called the priestes, and tooke an oth of them that they should do so.


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And I shooke my lappe and saide: God shake out euery man after the same maner from his house & laboure that maintaineth not this worde, euen thus be he shaken out, and voyde. And all the congregation saide, Amen, and praysed the Lorde: And the people did according to this promise.


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And from the time foorth that the king committed vnto me to be captayne of them that were in the lande of Iuda, euen from the twentie yere, vnto the thirtie & two yere of king Artaxerxes, that is twelue yeres, I with my brethre liued not of such sustinaunce as was geuen to a captayne.


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For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God.


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But I laboured also in the worke vpon the wall, and we bought no lande: and all my seruauntes came thither together vnto the worke.


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Moreouer, there were at my table an hundred and fiftie of the Iewes and rulers, which came vnto me from among the heathen that are about vs.


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And there was prepared for me dayly an oxe and sixe chosen sheepe, and birdes were prepared for me: and euer once in ten dayes wine for all in aboundance: Yet required not I the liuing of a captayne, for the bondage was greeuous vnto the people.


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And when Sanaballat, Tobia, and Gesem the Arabian, and the other of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there were no mo gappes therein: (howebeit at the same time had I not hanged the doores vpon the gates,)


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Sanaballat and Gesem sent vnto me, saying: Come, that we may meete & take counsel together in the villages that are in the playne of the citie Ono. Neuerthelesse, they thought to do me euill.


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And I sent messengers vnto them, saying: I haue a great businesse to do, and I can not come downe: Why should the worke ceasse, whilest I leaue it and come downe to you?


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Howbeit, they sent vnto me as good as foure times after the same maner: And I gaue them the same aunswere.


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Wherein was written: It is tolde the heathen, and Gesem hath saide it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebel: for the which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayst be their king, according to these wordes:


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And hast ordayned the prophetes to preache of thee at Hierusalem, and to say, He is king of Iuda. And now shall this come to the kinges eares: come now therefore, and let vs take our counsell together.


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And I sent vnto him, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest, for thou fainest them out of thyne owne heart.


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For they were all minded to make vs afrayde, saying, They shall withdrawe their handes from their worke, that it shall not be finished: Nowe therefore strengthen thou my hande.


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And I came vnto the house of Semaia the sonne of Delaia, the sonne of Mehetabeel, & he had shut him selfe within, and saide: Let vs come together in the house of God, euen vnto the middest of the temple, & shut the doores of the temple, for they wyll come to slay thee, yea euen in the night wyll they come to put thee to death.


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And I saide: should any such man as I flee? Who is, that being as I am, wyll go into the temple to saue his life? I wil not go in.


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And loe, I perceaued that God hath not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecie against me: For Tobia and Sanaballat had hired him for money.


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Therfore was he hyred, that through feare I should so do, & sinne, that they might haue an euill report of me to lay to my charge.


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My God, thinke thou vpon Tobia and Sanaballat according vnto these their workes, and on the prophetisse Noadia, and the other prophetes that would haue put me in feare.


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And when all our enemies hearde thereof, all the heathen that was about vs were afrayd, and their courage fayled them: For they perceaued that this worke came of our God.


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And at the same time were there many of the chiefe of Iuda whose letters wente vnto Tobia, and againe from Tobia vnto them.


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For there were many in Iuda that were sworne vnto him: for he was the sonne in lawe of Sechania, the sonne of Arah, and his sonne Iehonathan had the daughter of Mesullam the sonne of Barachia,


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And they spake good of him before me, and tolde him my wordes: and Tobia sent letters to put me in feare.


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Now when the wall was builded, I hanged on the doores also, and the porters, singers, and Leuites, were appoynted:


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And I commaunded my brother Hanani, and Hanania the ruler of the castle at Hierusalem, (for he was a faithfull man, and feared God more then did many other)


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And saide vnto them: Let not the gates of Hierusalem be opened vntil the sunne be whot: and while they stand by, let them shut the doores & barre them. And we appoynted certaine citezins of Hierusalem to be watchmen, euery one to keepe his watch, and euery one to be ouer against his house.


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As for the citie, it was large of roome, and great, but the people were fewe therein, and the houses were not builded.


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And God gaue me in myne heart that I gathered together the principal men, and the officers, & the people, to number them: and I founde a register of the number of them which came vp before, and founde written therein,


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These are the sonnes of the lande that went vp from the captiuitie that was caried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had brought away, and came againe to Hierusalem and Iuda, euery one vnto his citie.


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They which came with Zorobabel are these: Iesua, Nehemia, Asariah, Raamia, Nahamani, Mardochee, Belsan, Mesperath, Beguai, Nahum, and Baanah. This is the number of the men of the people of Israel:


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The children of the captayne of Moab among the children of Iesua & Ioab, two thousand eyght hundred and eighteene.


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The porters: The childre of Sallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the children of Sobai, [altogether] an hundred thirtie & eyght.


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The childre of Solomons seruautes, the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,


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The children of Sephatiath, the childre of Hattil, the children of Phochereth of Sabaim, the children of Amon.


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And these went vp also from Thelniela: Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their fathers house, nor their seede, and that they were of Israel.


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The children of Dalaiah, the children of Tobia, and the children of Necoda, sixe hundred fourtie and two.


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And of the priestes: the children of Habaiah, the children of Haccos, the childre of Barzillai, which toke one of ye daughters of Barzillai the Gileadice to wyfe, and was named after their name.


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These sought their writing in the register of their generation, but they were not founde: therfore they were put from the priesthood.


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And Athirsatha saide vnto them that they shoulde not eate of the most holy, tyll there came vp a priest which should were Urim and Thunimim.


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Beside their seruauntes and maydens, of whom there were seuen thousand three hundred thirtie and seuen: And they had two hundred fourtie and fiue singing men and women.


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And certaine of the auncient fathers gaue vnto the worke: Athirsatha gaue to the treasure a thousand peeces of golde, fiftie basons, fiue hundred and thirtie priestes garmentes.


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And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand peeces of gold, & two thousand and two hundred pounde of siluer.


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And the other people gaue twentie thousand peeces of golde, and two thousand pound of siluer, and threescore and seuen priestes garmentes.


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And the priestes and Leuites, the porters, and the singers, and the other of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities: And whe the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.


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And all the people gathered them selues together as one man, in the streete that was before the water gate, and they saide vnto Esdras the scribe, that he should fetch the booke of the law of Moyses, which the Lorde commaunded to Israel.


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And Esdras the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men & women, and all that could vnderstand did hearken vnto it vpon the first day of the seuenth moneth.


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And he read therein in the streete that was before the water gate, from the morning vntill the noone day, before men and women that did hearken to it: and the eares of all the people were inclined vnto the booke of the law.


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And Esdras the scribe stoode vpon a pulpet of wood which they had made for the preaching, and beside him stoode Mathathia, Sema, & Anaiah, Uriah, Helkia, & Maaseiah, on his right hande: and on his left hand stoode Pedaia, Misael, & Melchia, & Hasum, Hasabadana, Zachari, and Mesullam.


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And Esdras opened the booke before all the people, (for he stoode aboue al the people:) and when he opened it, all the people stoode vp.


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And Esdras praysed the Lorde the great God: And all the people aunswered, Amen, Ame, lifting vp their handes, and bowed them selues and worshipped the Lord falling downe vpon their faces to the grounde.


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And Iesua, Bani, Serebiah, Iamin, Accub, Sebbethai, Hodaia, Maasia, Celita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, & the Leuites caused the people to geue heede vnto the law: and the people stoode in their place.


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And they read in the booke of the lawe of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, and caused them to vnderstand the reading.


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And Nehemia which is Athirsatha, and Esdras the priest and scribe, and the Leuites that caused the people to take heede, said vnto al the people, This day is holy vnto the Lorde your God, be not ye sory, and weepe not: For all the people wept when they heard the wordes of the lawe.


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And he saide vnto them: Go your way, and eate the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send part vnto them also that haue not prepared for them selues, for this day is holy vnto our Lorde: be not ye sory therefore, for the ioy of the Lorde is your strength.


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And the Leuites stilled all the people, and saide: Holde your peace, for the day is holy, be not sad therefore.


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And all the people went their way to eate, and to drinke, & to sende part vnto other, and to make great mirth, because they had vnderstand the wordes that were declared vnto them.


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And on the next day were gathered together the chiefe fathers among all the people, and the priestes, and leuites, vnto Esdras the scribe, that they might vnderstand the wordes of the law.


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And they founde written in the lawe which the Lorde had commaunded by Moyses, that the children of Israel should dwell in boothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth:


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And that they should cause it to be declared and proclaymed in all their cities, and throughout Hierusalem, saying: Go foorth vnto the mount and fetch Olyue brauches, Pine braunches, Myrtel braunches, Palme braunches, & braunches of the thicke tree, to make boothes, as it is written.


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And so the people went foorth, and fet them and made them boothes, euery one vpon the roofe of his house, and in their courtes, and in the courtes of the house of God, and in the streete by the water gate, and in the streete of the port of Ephraim.


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And all the congregation of them that were come againe out of the captiuitie, made boothes, & sat vnder the boothes: for since the time of Iosua the sonne of Nun, vnto this day, had not the children of Israel done so: And there was very great gladnesse.


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And euery day from the first day vnto the last, read Esdras in the booke of the lawe of God: And seuen dayes held they the feaste, and on the eyght day they gathered together, according vnto the maner.


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In the twentie and fourth day of this moneth, came the children of Israel together againe, with fasting, and sackeclothes, and earth vpon them,


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And they that were of the seede of Israel, were separated from all the straunge children, and stoode & knowledged their sinnes, & the wickednes of their fathers:


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And stoode vp in their place, & read in the booke of the law of the Lorde their God foure times on the day, and they knowledged and worshipped the Lord their God foure times on the day.


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Then stoode vpon the stayres of the Leuites, Iesua, Bani, Cadmiel, Sabaniah, Bunni, Serebiah, Bani, and Chanani, and cryed loude vnto the Lorde their God:


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And the Leuites, Iesua, and Cadmiel, Bani, and Hasabnia, Serebiah, and Hodia, Sebania, and Phathahia, sayde: Stand vp, and prayse the Lorde your God for euer, and let thankes be geue vnto the name of thy glory, which excelleth all thankes geuing and prayse.


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Thou art Lorde alone, thou hast made heauen and the heauen of all heauens with all their hoast, the earth and all thinges that are therein, the sea & all that is therin, & thou preseruest them al, & the hoast of heauen worshippeth thee.


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Thou art, O Lorde, the God that hast chosen Abraham, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and calledst him Abraham:


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And foundest his heart faithfull before thee, & madest a couenaunt with him, to geue vnto his seede the lande of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Iebusites, and Gergesites, and hast made good thy wordes: for thou art righteous,


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And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes, and on all the people of his lande: For thou knowest that they were presumptuous and cruell against them: and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day.


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And the [red] sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them, so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod: and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe, as a stone in the mightie waters:


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And leddest them on the day time in a cloudie piller, and on the night season in a piller of fyre, to shewe them light in the way that they went.


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Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and speakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgementes, true lawes, good commaundementes and statutes:


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And declaredst vnto them thy holy Sabbath, and commaundedst them preceptes, ordinaunces, and lawes, by the hande of Moyses thy seruaunt:


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And gauest them bread from heauen when they were hungry, and broughtest foorth water for them out of the rocke when they were thirstye, and promysedst them that they should go in and take possession of the lande ouer which thou haddest lyft vp thyne hand for to geue them.


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And woulde not obey, neither were mindeful of the wonders that thou diddest for the: but hardened their neckes, and had in their heades to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: But thou O God of mercies, gracious, and full of compassion, of long suffering, and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.


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Moreouer, when they had made them a moulten calfe, and saide. This is thy God that brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, and did blasphemies:


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Yet forsookest thou them not in the wildernesse, according to thy great mercies: And the cloudy piller departed not from them on the day time to leade the the way, neither the piller of fire in the night season, to shewe them light in the way by which they should go.


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And thou gauest them thy good spirite to enfourme them, and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth, and gauest them water when they were thirstie.


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Fourtie yeres long didst thou feede them in the wildernesse, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not olde, and their feete swelled not.


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And thou gauest them kingdomes and nations, and scatteredst them into corners: so they possessed the lande of Sehon and the lande of the king of Hesebon, and the lande of Og king of Basan.


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And their children multipliedst thou as the starres of heauen, and broughtest them into the lande whereof thou haddest spoken to their fathers, that they should go into it, and haue it in possession.


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And the children went in, and possessed the lande, and thou subduedst before them the inhabiters of the lande, euen the Chanaanites, and gauest them into their handes, with their kinges and the people of the lande, that they might do with them what they would.


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And they wanne their strong cities, and a fat lande, and toke possession of houses that were full of all maner of goodes, welles digged out, vineyards, oliue gardens , & many fruiteful trees: and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.


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Therefore thou gauest them ouer into the hand of their enemies that vexed them: And in the time of their trouble whe they cryed vnto thee thou heardest them from heauen, and through thy great mercie thou gauest them sauiours which helped them out of the hande of their enemies.


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But when they came to rest, they turned backe againe to do euill before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hande of their enemies, so that they had the dominion ouer them: And when they conuerted, & cryed vnto thee, thou heardest them from heauen, and many times hast thou deliuered them according to thy great mercie,


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And testifiedst vnto them, that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy lawe: Notwithstanding, they were proude, and hearkened not vnto thy commaundementes, but sinned in thy lawes, which if a man do, he shall lyue in them: and turned the shoulder away, and were stiffenecked, and would not heare.


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Yet many yeres diddest thou forbeare them, and testifiedst vnto them through thy spirite, euen by the hand of thy prophetes, and yet would they not heare: therefore gauest thou them into the hand of the nations of the landes.


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And for thy great mercies sake, thou hast not vtterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gratious and mercifull God.


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Now therfore our God, thou great God mightie and terrible, thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie, regarde not a litle al the trauaile that hath come vnto vs, and our kinges, our princes, our priestes, our prophetes, and our fathers, and all the people since the time of the kinges of Assur, vnto this day.


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And truely thou art iust in al that thou hast brought vpon vs, for thou hast done right: As for vs, we haue ben vngodly,


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And our kinges, and our princes, our priestes, and our fathers, haue not done thy lawe, nor regarded thy commaundementes, and thy earnest exhortations, wherewith thou hast exhorted them,


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And they haue not serued thee in their kingdome, and in thy great goodnesse that thou gauest them, and in the large and plenteous lande which thou gauest before them, and haue not conuerted from their wicked workes.


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Beholde, we are in bondage this day, and so is the lande that thou gauest vnto our fathers to eate the fruites and goodnesse thereof, beholde there are we bondmen.


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And great is the increase of it vnto the kinges whom thou hast set ouer vs because of our sinnes, and they haue dominion ouer our bodies and cattaile, euen as they wyll them selues: and we are in great trouble.


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Now because of all this make we a sure couenaunt and write it, & our princes, leuites, and priestes, seale vnto it.


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And the other people, the priestes, Leuites, porters, singers, Nethinims, and all they that had separated them selues from the people of the landes vnto the law of God, with their wyues, their sonnes, and their daughters, & as many as could vnderstand,


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And their lordes that had rule of the, receaued it for their brethren: And they came to sweare, & to binde them selues with an oth to walke in gods lawe, which was geuen by Moyses the seruaunt of God, and that they would obserue and do according vnto all the commaundementes, iudgementes, and statutes of the Lorde our God:


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And that we woulde not geue our daughters vnto the people of the lande, neither to take their daughters for our sonnes.


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And if the people of the land brought ware on the Sabbath, and all maner vitailes to sell, that we would not take it of them on the Sabbath and on the holy dayes, and that we would let the seuenth yere be free, and the debtes of euery person.


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And we decreed a statute vpon our selues, to geue yerely the third part of a sicle to the ministration in the house of our God,


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To the shewe bread, to the dayly meate offering, to the dayly burnt offering, of the Sabbathes, of the new Moones, and feaste dayes, and to the thinges that were sanctified, & to the offringes of attonement, to reconsile Israel withal, and to all the busines in the house of our God.


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And we cast the lot among the priestes, Leuites, and the people, for the offering of the wood, to be brought vnto the house of our God from yere to yere, after the houses of our fathers, that it might be brent at times appoynted vpon the aulter of the Lorde God, as it is written in the lawe:


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And to bring the first fruites of our land, and the firstlinges of our fruites of all trees yere by yere vnto the house of the Lorde.


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And the first borne of our sonnes, and of our cattel, (as it is written in the law) and the firstlinges of our oxen and of our sheepe, whiche we shoulde bring to the house of our God vnto the priestes that minister in the house of our God.


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And that we shoulde bring the first fruites of our dough and our heaue offeringes, and the fruites of all maner of trees, of wine also and of oyle, vnto the priestes to the chestes of the house of our God, and the tythes of our lande vnto the Leuites, that the Leuites might haue the tythes in all the cities of our ministration.


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And the priest the sonne of Aaron shalbe with the Leuites when the Leuites take tythes: so that the Leuites shall bring vp the tythes of their tythes vnto the house of our God, to the store houses and to the treasure houses.


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For the children of Israel and the children of Leui shall bring vp the heaue offeringes of the corne, wine, and oyle, vnto the store houses, there as are the vessels of the sanctuarie and the priestes that minister, and the porters and singers, and we will not forsake the house of our God.


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And the rulers of the people dwelt at Hierusalem: The other people also cast lottes, that among ten one part should go to Hierusalem into the holy citie to dwell, and nyne partes to be in the cities.


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These are the heades of the prouince that dwelt in Hierusalem, and in the cities of Iuda, euery one in his possession, and in their cities: they of Israel, the priestes, Leuites, the Nethinims, & the children of Solomons seruauntes.


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And at Hierusalem dwelt certayne of the children of Iuda, and of Beniamin: Of the children of Iuda, Athaiah, the sonne of Uzzia, the sonne of Zacharia, the sonne of Amaria, the sonne of Saphatia, the sonne of Mahalaleel, of the children of Phares.


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And Maasia the sonne of Baruch, the sonne of Chol Hosa, the sonne of Hasaia, the sonne of Adaia, the sonne of Ioiarib, the sonne of Zacharia, the sonne of Siloni.


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All these were the children of Phares that dwelt at Hierusalem, euen foure hundred three score and eyght valiaunt men.


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These are the children of Beniamin: Salu the sonne of Mesullam, the sonne of Ioed, the sonne of Pedaia, the sonne of Colaia, the sonne of Masia, the sonne of Ithiel, the sonne of Isai.


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And Ioel the sonne of Zichri had the ouersight of them: and Iuda the sonne of Senua was the second ouer the citie.


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Saraiah the sonne of Helkia, the sonne of Mesullam, the sonne of Zador, the sonne of Meraioth, the sonne of Achitob, was chiefe in the house of God,


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And their brethren that dyd the worke in the temple, eyght hundred and twentie and two: And Adaia the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Pelaliah, the sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Zachari, the sonne of Phashur, the sonne of Malchia,


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And his brethren chiefe among the fathers, two hundred and fourtie & two: And Amasai the sonne of Azrael, the sonne of Ahasai, the sonne of Moselemoth, the sonne of Immer,


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And their brethren valiaunt men, an hundred and twentie and eyght: And their ouersear was Zabdiel a sonne of one of the great men.


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Of the Leuites: Semeia the sonne of Hasub, the sonne of Azarikam, the sonne of Hasabia, the sonne of Buni,


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And Sabathai, and Iosabad of the chiefe of the Leuites, had the ouersight of the outwarde businesse of the house of God.


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And Mathania, the sonne of Micha, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Asaph, was the principall to begin the thankesgeuing and prayer: and Bacbucia the seconde among his brethren, and Abda the sonne of Sammua, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun.


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And the porters Accub and Talmon, and their brethren that kept the portes, were an hundred and seuentie and two.


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As for the residue of Israel, of the priestes and Leuites, they were in al the cities of Iuda, euery one in his inheritaunce.


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The ouersear of the Leuites at Hierusalem was Azzi, the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Hasabia, the sonne of Matthania, the sonne of Micha: Of the children of Asaph, singers were ouer the busines in the house of God:


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For it was the kinges commaundement concerning them, that the singers should deale faythfully euery day, as was according.


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And Pathaia the sonne of Mesebazel of the children of Zerah the sonne of Iuda, was next the king in al matters concerning the people.


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And in the villages in their landes, some of the children of Iuda that were without in the townes of their land dwelt at Kiriath arba, and in the villages therof: and in Dibon and in the villages therof, and at Iecabzeel and in the villages therof:


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Zonoa, Odollam, & in their villages, at Lachis, and in the fieldes therof: at Aseka, and in the villages therof, and they dwelt from Beerseba vnto the valley of Hinnom.


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These are the priestes and Leuites that went vp with Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel: and with Iesua, Saraia, Ieremia, and Esdras,


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Salu, Amok, Helkia, and Iedaia: These were the heades among the priestes and their brethren in the dayes of Iesua.


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The Leuites were these: Iesua, Bennui, Cadmiel, Sarebia, Iuda, and Mathania, whiche was ouer [the office] of thankesgeuing, he and his brethren.


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In the dayes of Ioakim were these the chiefe fathers among the priestes: vnder Saraia, Maraia: vnder Ieremi, Hanania:


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And in the time of Eliasib, Ioiada, Iohanan, and Iadua, were the chiefe fathers among the Leuites & the priestes written, in the raigne of Darius the Persian.


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The children of Leui the principall fathers, were written in the cronicles, vntill the time of Ionathan the sonne of Eliasib.


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And these were the chiefe among the Leuites: Hasabia, Serebia, and Iesua the sonne of Cadmiel, and their brethren in their presence, to geue prayse and thankes, according as Dauid the man of God had ordeyned it, one watch ouer against another.


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Mathania, Bacbukia, Obadia, Mesullam, Talmon, and Accub, were porters in the watch at the thresholdes of the gates.


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These were in the dayes of Ioiakim the sonne of Iesua, the sonne of Iosedec, and in the dayes of Nehemia the captayne, & of the priest Esdras the scribe.


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And in the dedication of the wall at Hierusalem they fought the Leuites out of all their places, that they might be brought to Hierusalem, to kepe the dedication and gladnesse with thankesgeuinges, & singing, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes.


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And the children of the singers gathered them selues together from euery side, out of the playne countrey about Hierusalem, and from the villages of Nethophathi,


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From the house of Gilgal, and out of the countreys of Geba, and Asmaueth: for the singers had buylded them villages round about Hierusalem.


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And I brought the princes of Iuda vpon the wall, and appoynted two great quyers of men to geue thankes, whiche went on the right hande of the wall towarde the doung gate.


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And certayne of the priestes children, with trumpettes: namely Zacharie the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Semeia, the sonne of Mathania, the sonne of Michaia, the sonne of Zaccur, the sonne of Asaph,


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And his brethren, Semeia, Asarael, Melalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nathanael, and Iuda, and Hanani, with the musicall instrumentes of Dauid the man of God: And Esdras the scribe went before them.


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And beside the wel gate, they went vp ouer against them vpon the steppes of the citie of Dauid at the goyng vp of the wall, beyonde the house of Dauid, vnto the water gate eastwarde.


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The other quyer of them that gaue thankes went ouer against them, and I after them, and the halfe part of the people vpon the wall beyond the fornace gate, vntill the brode wall,


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And beyonde the port of Ephraim, and beyonde the old gate, beyonde the fishe gate, and the towre of Hananeel, & the towre of Mea, euen vnto the sheepe gate and they stoode still in the prison gate.


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And so stoode the two quyers of them that gaue thankes in the house of God, and I, & the halfe of the rulers with me.


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And the priestes, namely Eliakim, Maasia, Miniamin, Michaia, Elionai, Zachari, & Hanania, with trumpettes:


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And Maasia, Semeia, Eleaser, Uzzi, Ichohanan, Melchiah, Elam, & Ezer: And the singers sange loude, hauing Iesrahiah for their ouerfear.


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And the same day they offered great sacrifices, and reioyced: for God had geuen them great gladnesse, so that both the wiues & children were ioyfull, & the mirth of Hierusale was hearde farre of.


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At the same time were the men appoynted ouer the treasure houses, wherin were the heaue offeringes, the firstlinges, and the tythes, that they shoulde gather them out of the fieldes about the cities, to distribute them vnto the priestes and Leuites according to the lawe: for Iuda was glad of the priestes and Leuites that serued.


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And there stoode and wayted vpon the office of their God, whiche is a pure office, both the singers and porters, after the commaundement of Dauid, and of Solomon his sonne:


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For in the time of Dauid and Asaph, of olde were the chiefe singers [founded] & the songes of prayse and thankesgeuing vnto God.


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In the time of Zorobabel and Nehemia, did all they of Israel geue portions vnto the singers and porters euery day his portion: and they gaue tythes vnto the Leuites, & the Leuites gaue tythes againe vnto the children of Aaron.


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And that day dyd they read in the booke of Moyses in the audience of the people, and therein was founde written, that the Ammonites, & Moabites shoulde neuer come into the congregation of God,


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Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them that he should curse them: and our God turned the curse into a blessing.


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Nowe when they had hearde the law, they separated from Israel euery one that had mixt him selfe therin.


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And before this had the priest Eliasib the ouersight of the treasurie of the house of our God, and he was kynsman vnto Tobia,


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And had made hym a great chamber, and there had they afore time layed the offringes, frankencence, vessels, and the tythes of corne, wine, and oyle according to the commaundementes geuen to the Leuites, singers and porters, and the heaue offringes of the priestes.


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But in all this time was not I at Hierusalem: for in the two and thirtie yere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, & after certayne dayes obtayned I licence of the king to come to Hierusalem.


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And I gat knowledge of the euyll that Eliasib dyd for Tobia, in that he had made hym a chamber in the court of the house of God,


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And it greeued me sore: therefore I cast foorth all the vessels of the house of Tobia out of the chamber:


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And commaunded them to clense the chambers, and thyther brought I againe the vessels of the house of God, with the meate offring, and the incense.


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And I perceaued that the portions of the Leuites had not ben geuen them, and that euery one was fled to his land, euen the Leuites and singers that executed the worke.


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Then reproued I the rulers, and sayd: Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.


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And I made treasures ouer the treasure, euen Selemiah the priest, and Zadoc the scribe, and of the Leuites, Phadaia: and vnder their hand was Hanan the sonne of Zacur, the sonne of Mathania: for they were counted faythful, and their office was to distribute [the portions] vnto their brethren.


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Thinke vpon me O my God herein, and wype not out my mercie that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices therof.


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And the same time sawe I in Iuda some treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheues, and which laded asses also with wine, grapes, and figges, and all burthens, and brought them into Hierusalem vpon the Sabbath day: And I rebuked them earnestly the same day that they solde the vitayles.


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There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish and all maner of ware, and solde on the Sabbath vnto the childre of Iuda, euen in Hierusalem.


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Then reproued I the rulers in Iuda, & sayd vnto them: What euyl thing is this that ye do, & breake the Sabbath day?


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Dyd not your fathers euen thus, and our God brought all this plague vpon vs, and vpon this citie? And ye make the wrath more yet vpon Israel, in that ye breake the Sabbath?


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And when the portes of Hierusalem began to be darke in the euening before the Sabbath, I commaunded to shut the gates, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my seruauntes set I at the gates, that there shoulde no burthen be brought in on the Sabbath day.


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Then remayned the chapmen and marchauntes once or twyse ouer night without Hierusalem with all maner of wares.


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Then reproued I them sore, and sayde vnto them: Why tary ye all night about the wall? If ye do it once againe, I will lay handes vpon you: From that time foorth came they no more on the Sabbath.


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And I said vnto the Leuites, that they should clense them selues, and that they shoulde come and kepe the gates, to halowe the Sabboth day: Thinke vpon me O my God concerning this also, and spare me, according to thy great mercie.


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And their children spake halfe in the speach of Asdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, but according to the language of the one people and of the other people.


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Then I reproued them, and cursed them, and smote certayne men of them, and made them bare: and toke an oth of them by God, Ye shall not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, or for your selues.


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Dyd not Solomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? and yet among many heathen was there no king like him, which was deare vnto his God, & God made hym king ouer all Israel: and yet neuerthelesse outlandishe women caused him to sinne.


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Shall we then obey vnto you to do al this great euyll, and to transgresse against our God, and marie straunge wyues?


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And one of the children of Iehoiada the sonne of Eliasib the hye priest, was the sonne in law of Sanaballat the Horonite: but I chased him from me.


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O my God, thinke thou vpon them that defile the presthod, and the couenaunt of the presthod and of the Leuites.


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Thus clensed I them from all such as were outlandishe, and appoynted the courses of the priestes and Leuites, euery one in his office:


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And to offer the wood at times appoynted, and the first fruites: Thinke thou vpon me O my God for the best.


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It came to passe that in the dayes of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus whiche raigned from India vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundred and twentie and seuen prouinces)


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Euen in those dayes when the king Ahasuerus sate on his seate royall, which was in Susan the chiefe citie:


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In the third yere of his raigne, he made a feast vnto all his princes & seruauntes: and the mightie men of Persia and Media, the captaynes also and rulers of his countreys were before hym.


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And he shewed the richesse and glorie of his kingdome, and the glorious worship of his greatnesse many dayes long, [euen] an hundred and fourescore dayes.


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And when these dayes were expired, the king made a feast vnto al the people that were in Susan the chiefe citie, both vnto great & small, seuen dayes long, in the court of the garden by the kinges palace.


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Where there hanged white, greene, and yelowe clothes, fastened with cordes of fine silke and purple, in siluer ringes, vpon pillers of marble stones: The benches also were of golde and siluer made vpon a pauement of greene, white, yelowe, and blacke marble.


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And they dranke in vessels of gold, and chaunged vessel after vessel, and royal wine in aboundaunce, according to the power of the king.


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And the drinking was by an order, none might compell: for so the king had appoynted to all the officers of his house, that they shoulde do according to euery mans pleasure.


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And on the seuenth day when the king was mery after the wine, he commaunded Nehuma, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagthan, Zethar, and Charchas, the seuen chamberlayns that did seruice in the presence of king Ahasuerus,


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To fetch the queene Uasthi with the crowne regall into the kinges presence, that he might shewe the people & princes her fairenesse: for she was beautifull.


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But the queene Uasthi would not come at the kinges worde by his chamberlaynes: Then was the king very wroth, and his indignation kindled in hym.


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And the king spake to the wyse men which knewe the times (for so was the kinges maner towardes all that knewe the lawe and the iudgementes:


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And the next vnto hym were, Carsena, Sethar, Admata, Thersis, Mares, Marsena, and Memuchan, the seuen princes of Persia and Media, whiche sawe the kinges face, and sate the first in the kingdome.)


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What, shall we do vnto the queene Uasthi according to the lawe, because she dyd not according to the worde of the king Ahasuerus whiche he commaunded by his chamberlaynes?


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And Memuchan aunswered before the king & the princes: The queene Uasthi hath not onely done euyll against the king, but also against all the princes, and against all the people that are in all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus.


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For this deede of the queene shall come abrode vnto all women, so that they shall despise their husbandes before their eyes, and shall say: The king Ahasuerus commaunded Uasthi the queene to be brought in before hym, but she woulde not come.


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And so shal the princesses in Persia and Media say lykewise this day vnto al the kinges princes when they heare of this deede of the queene: thus shal there arise to much despitefulnesse and wrath.


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If it please the king, let there go a commaundement from hym, and let it be written according to the lawes of the Persians and Medians, and not to be transgressed, that Uasthi come no more before king Ahasuerus, and let the king geue her royal estate vnto an other that is better then she.


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And when this commaundement of the king which shalbe made, is published throughout all his empire whiche is great, all women shall holde their husbandes in honour both among great and small.


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For he sent letters foorth into all the kinges prouinces, into euery lande according to the wryting therof, and to euery people after their language, that euery man shoulde be lorde in his owne house: and this to be published after the language of his people.


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After these actes, when the displeasure of king Ahasuerus was nowe alayed, he thought vpon Uasthi, & what she had done, & what was decreed against her.


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Then sayde the kinges seruauntes that ministred vnto hym: Let there be faire young virgins sought for the king,


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And let the king appoynt officers in all the prouinces of his empire, that they should bring together al the faire young virgins vnto Susan the head citie to the womens buylding, vnder the hande of Hegai the kinges chamberlayne that kept the women, to geue them their apparell:


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And that the mayden which pleased the king, should be queene in Uasthis steede. And this pleased the king, and he did so.


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In the citie of Susan there was a certayne Iewe, whose name was Mardocheus, the sonne of Iair, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Cis, a man of Iemini,


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Which was caryed away from Hierusalem with the captiuitie, when Iekonia the king of Iuda was led away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon caryed thence:


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And he norished Hadassa (that is Esther) his vncles daughter: for he had neither father nor mother, and she was a faire and beautifull mayden, whom Mardocheus (when her father & mother were dead) receaued for his owne daughter.


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So when the kinges commaundement and commission was published, and many maydens were brought together into the citie of Susan vnder the hand of Hegai, Esther was brought also vnto the kinges house vnder the hande of Hegai the keper of the women.


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And the mayden pleased hym, and she founde fauour in his sight: and he caused ornamentes to be geuen her speedyly, and such thinges as belonged to her, and appoynted her seuen comely maydens out of the kinges house, & fauoured both her and her gentlewomen singularly in the house of the women.


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But Esther shewed not her people and her kinred: for Mardocheus had charged her that she shoulde not tell it.


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And Mardocheus walked euery day before the court of the womens house, that he might knowe howe Esther did, and what shoulde become of her.


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And when the appoynted time of euery mayden came that she shoulde go in to the king Ahasuerus, after that she had ben twelue monethes according to the mauer of the women (for so were the dayes of their purification accomplissed, sixe monethes with oyle of mirre, and sixe monethes with sweete odoures, and in the purifiyng of the women:


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And thus went the maydens vnto the king) whatsoeuer she required, that must be geuen her to go with her out of the womens buylding vnto the kinges palace.


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In the euening she went, and on the morowe she returned into the seconde house of the women abyding vnder the hande of Saasgaz the kinges chamberlayne, which kept the concubines: And she came in vnto the king no more, except it pleased the king to haue her, and that she were called by name.


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Nowe when the course came of Esther the daughter of Abihail, the vncle of Mardocheus (which had receaued her as his owne daughter) that she shoulde come in vnto the king, she desired nothing but what Hegai the kinges chamberlayne the keper of the women saide: And Esther found fauour in the sight of all them that loked vpon her.


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And Esther was taken vnto king Ahasuerus into his house royall, in the tenth moneth (which is the moneth Tebeth) in the seuenth yere of his raigne.


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And the king loued Esther aboue all the women, and she found grace and fauour in his sight more then all the virgins, so that he set the crowne of the kingdome vpon her head, and made her queene in steede of Uasthi.


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And the king made a great feast vnto all his princes and seruauntes, whiche feast was because of Esther, and caused the prouinces to be in quietnesse, & gaue giftes, as became the royaltie of a king.


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And as yet had not Esther shewed her kinred & her people, according as Mardocheus had bidden her: for Esther dyd after the worde of Mardocheus, like as if she had ben yet vnder his gouernaunce.


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At the same time (whyle Mardocheus sate in the kinges gate) two of ye kinges chamberlaynes, Bigthan and Theres, which kept the doore, were wroth, and sought to lay their handes on the king Ahasuerus:


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Whereof also Mardocheus gat knowledge, and tolde it vnto queene Esther, and Esther certified the king therof in Mardocheus name.


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And when inquisition was made, it was founde so, and they were both hanged on tree: and it was written in the Chronicles before the king.


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After these actes, dyd king Ahasuerus promote Haman the sonne of Amadatha the Agagite, and set hym on hie, and set his seate aboue all the princes that he had with hym.


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And al the kinges seruauntes that were in the kinges gate, bowed their knees, and reuerenced Haman, for the king had so commaunded concerning hym: But Mardocheus bowed not the knee, neither dyd hym reuerence.


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Then the kinges seruauntes whiche were in the kinges gate, said vnto Mardocheus: Why transgressest thou the kinges commaundement?


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And though they spake this dayly vnto hym, yet woulde he not heare them, therfore they tolde Haman, that they might see howe Mardocheus matters woulde stande, for he had tolde them that he was a Iewe.


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And when Haman sawe that Mardocheus bowed not the knee vnto him, nor dyd reuerence vnto hym, he was full of indignation,


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And thought it to litle to lay handes onely on Mardocheus, for they had shewed him the nation of Mardocheus: wherefore he sought to destroy all the Iewes that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus, and that were of the nation of Mardocheus.


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In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Phur, that is a lot, before Haman from day to day, and from moneth to moneth to the twelfth moneth, that is, the moneth Adar.


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And Haman sayde vnto king Ahasuerus: There is here a people scattred abrode, and dispearsed among all people in all the prouinces of thyne empire, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and do not after the kinges lawes, therefore it is not the kinges profite to suffer them after this maner.


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If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and so wyll I waye downe ten thousand talents of siluer by the handes of them that haue the charge of this busines, to bring it into the kinges treasurie.


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And the king toke his ring from his hand, & gaue it vnto Haman the sonne of Amadatha the Agagite, the Iewes enemie.


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Then were the kinges scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, & there was written according as Haman commaunded vnto all the kinges officers, and to the captaynes that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people in the countryes on euery side according to the writing therof, and to euery nation after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus was it writen, and sealed with the kinges ring.


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And the letters were sent by postes into all the kinges prouinces, to roote out, to kill, and to destroy all Iewes both young and olde, children and women in one day [namely] vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) & to spoyle the as a pray.</p>


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This was the summe of the writing, that there should be a commaundement geuen in al prouinces, and published vnto all people, that they should be redy against the same day.


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And the postes went in all the haste according to the kinges commaundement, and in Susan the chiefe citie was the commaundement deuised: And the king and Haman sate and dranke, when in the meane time the citie of Susan was disquieted.


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When Mardocheus perceaued all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth with asshes, and went out into the middest of the citie, and cryed loude and lamentably,


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And came before the kinges gate: but he might not enter within the kinges gate, because he had sackcloth on.


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And in all prouinces, countries, and places, as farre as the kinges worde & commaundement extented, there was great lamentatio among the Iewes, fasting, weeping, and mourning, and many lay in sackeclothes and in asshes.


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So Esthers maydens and her chamberlaynes, came and told it her: Then was the queene exceedingly astonied, and she sent rayment that Mardocheus shoulde put on, and lay the sackcloth from him: But Mardocheus would not take them.


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Then called Esther Hathach one of the kinges chamberlaines which stoode before her, and gaue him a commaundement vnto Mardocheus, to know what it was wherefore he did so.


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So Hathach went foorth to Mardocheus, vnto the streete of the citie which was before the kinges gate:


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And Mardocheus tolde him of al that had come vnto him, & of ye summe of siluer that Haman had promised to waye downe into the kinges treasurie, because of the Iewes if he would destroy them.


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And he gaue him the copie of the kinges commaundement that was deuised at Susan to destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Esther, and to speake to her, and charge her that she should go in vnto the king, & make her prayer and supplication vnto him for her people.


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All the kinges seruauntes, & the people in the prouinces of the king knowe, that whosoeuer commeth within the courte vnto the king, whether it be man or woman, which is not called, the comaundement is, that the same shall dye, except the king holde out the golden septer vnto him, for then he shall lyue: As for me, I haue not ben called to come in vnto the king now this thirtie dayes.


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And Mardocheus bad say againe vnto Esther: Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kinges house more then all the Iewes.


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For if thou holdest thy peace at this time, then shall the Iewes haue helpe and deliueraunce out of an other place, and thou and thy fathers house shalbe destroyed: And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for this causes sake?


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Go thou thy way, and gather together all the Iewes that are founde at Susan, and fast ye for me, that ye eate not and drinke not in three dayes neither day nor night, I and my maydens wyll fast likewyse: and so wyll I go in to the king, which thing yet is contrary to the commaundement: and if I perishe, I perishe.


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And on the third day it came to passe, that Esther put on her royall apparell, and stoode in the court of the kinges palace within, ouer against ye kinges house: and the king sat vpon his royall seate in the kinges palace ouer against the gate of the house.</p>


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And when the king sawe Esther the queene standing in the court, she founde grace in his sight: And the king held out the golden scepter that was in his hand: So Esther stept foorth and touched the top of the scepter.</p>


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Then saide the king vnto her: What wylt thou queene Esther? and what requirest thou? [aske] euen the halfe of the empire, and it shalbe geuen thee.


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And Esther aunswered: If it please the king, let the king and Haman come this day vnto the banket that I haue prepared for him.


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And the king saide: Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath saide. So the king and Haman came to the banket that Esther had prepared.


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And the king saide vnto Esther at the banket of wine: What is thy petition, that it may be geuen thee? And what requirest thou? If it be euen the halfe of the empire, it shall be done.


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If I haue founde grace in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to geue me my petition, and to fulfil my request, then let the king and Haman come to the banket that I shall prepare for the: and so wyl I do to morowe, as the king hath saide.


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Then went Haman foorth the same day ioyfull and mery in his minde: But when the same Haman sawe Mardocheus in the kinges gate, that he stoode not vp nor moued for him, he was ful of indignation at Mardocheus.


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Neuerthelesse, Haman refrained him selfe, and when he came home he sent and called for his friendes and Zares his wyfe.


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And Haman tolde them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the thinges wherein the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he had set him aboue the princes and seruauntes of the king.


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Haman saide moreouer: Yea, Esther the queene did let no man come in with the king vnto the bancket that she had prepared, except me: and to morowe am I bidden vnto her also with the king.


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But in all this am I not satisfied, as long as I see Mardocheus the Iewe sitting at the kinges gate.


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Then saide Zares his wyfe and all his friendes vnto him: Let them make a galous of fiftie cubites hie, and to morowe speake thou vnto the king that Mardocheus may be hanged thereon: then go thou in meryly with the king vnto the banket. And Haman was well content withall, and caused the galous to be made.


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The same night coulde not the king sleepe, and he commaunded to bring the chronicles and stories: and they were read before the king.


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Then it was founde written howe Mardocheus had tolde that Bigthana & Theres the kinges two chamberlaynes which kept the thresholdes, sought to laye handes on king Ahasuerus.


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And the king saide: What honour and dignitie hath ben geuen to Mardocheus therfore? Then saide the kinges seruautes that ministred vnto him: There is nothing at all done for him.


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And the king saide: Who is in the court? (for Haman was come into the court without before the kinges house, that he might speake vnto the king to hang Mardocheus on the tree that he had prepared for him.)


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And the kinges seruauntes saide vnto him: Beholde, Haman standeth in the court. And the king saide: let him come in.


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And when Haman came in, the king saide vnto him: what shalbe done vnto the man whom the king would faine bring vnto worship? (Haman thought in his heart: Whom desireth the king to bring vnto worship more then me?)


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And Haman aunswered the king: Let the man whom the king pleaseth to bring vnto worship, be brought hither,


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That he may be arayed with the royall garmentes which the king vseth to weare, and the horse that the king rydeth vpon, and that the crowne royall may be set vpon his head:


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And let this rayment and horse be deliuered vnder the hande of one of the kinges most noble princes, that they may aray the man withal whom the king is disposed to bring to honour, and cary him vpon the horse through the streete of the citie, and proclayme before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king pleaseth to bring to honour.


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And the king saide to Haman: Make haste, and take as thou hast saide the rayment and the horse, and do euen so vnto Mardocheus the Iewe that sitteth before the kinges gate, and let nothing faile of all that thou hast spoken.


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Then toke Haman the rayment and the horse, and arayed Mardocheus, and brought him on horsebacke through the streete of the citie, and proclaymed before him, Euen this shall it be done vnto the man whom the king is disposed to honour.


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And Mardocheus came againe to the kinges gate: but Haman gat him home in all the haste mourning, and his head couered,


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And tolde Zares his wyfe and all his friendes euery thing that had befallen him. Then saide his wise men and Zares his wyfe vnto him: If it be Mardocheus of the seede of the Iewes, before who thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not preuaile against him, but shalt surely fall before him.


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And whyle they were yet talking with him, came the kinges chamberlaynes, & caused Haman to make hast to come vnto the banket that Esther had prepared.


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And the king saide againe vnto Esther on the seconde day at the bancket of wine: What is thy petition queene Esther, that it may be geuen thee? And what requirest thou? if it be euen to the halfe of the empire, it shalbe done.


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And Esther the queene aunswered, and saide: If I haue found grace in thy sight O king, and if it please the king, then graunt me my lyfe at my desire, and my people for my petitions sake.


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For we are solde I and my people to be destroyed, to be slaine, and to perishe: And would God that we were solde to be bondmen and bondwomen, then would I holde my tongue: although the enemie coulde not recompence the kinges losse.


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The king Ahasuerus aunswered and saide vnto queene Esther: Who is he? And where is he, that dare presume in his minde to do after that maner?


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And Esther saide: the enemie and aduersarie is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was exceedingly afrayde before the king and the queene.


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And the king arose from the bancket and from the wine in his displeasure, and went into the palace garden: And Haman stoode vp, and besought queene Esther for his lyfe: for he saw that there was a mischiefe prepared for him of the king alreadie.


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And when the king came againe out of the palace garde into the place where they dranke wine: Haman had layde him vpon the bed that Esther sate vpon. Then saide the king: wil he force the queene also before me in the house? As soone as that worde went out of the kinges mouth, they couered Hamans face.


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And Harbona one of the chamberlaynes that stoode before the king, said: Beholde, there standeth yet a galous in Hamans house, fiftie cubites hye, which he had made for Mardocheus, that spake good for the king. Then the king saide, Hang him thereon.


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So they hanged Haman on the galous that he had made for Mardocheus: Then was the kinges wrath pacified.


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The same day did king Ahasuerus geue the house of Haman the Iewes enemie vnto queene Esther, and Mardocheus came before the king: for Esther tolde what he was vnto her.


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And the king toke of his ring which he had taken from Haman, and gaue it vnto Mardocheus. And Esther sette Mardocheus ouer the house of Haman.


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And Esther spake yet more before the king, and fel downe at his feete weping, and besought him that he would put away the wickednesse of Haman the Agagite, and his deuice that he had imagined against the Iewes.


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And the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. Then rose Esther, and stode before the king,


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And saide: if it please the king, and if I haue founde grace in his sight, and if it be acceptable before the king, and I please him, then let it be writte, that the letters of the deuise of Haman the sonne of Hamadatha the Agagite may be called againe, which letters he wrote to destroy the Iewes which are in all the kinges prouinces.


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For how can I suffer and see the euill that shall come vnto my people? or how can I beare and loke vpon the destruction of my kindred?


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And the king Ahasuerus saide vnto queene Esther, and to Mardocheus the Iewe: Beholde, I haue geuen Esther the house of Haman, whom they haue hanged vpon a tree, because he layde hand vpon the Iewes.


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Write ye also for the Iewes as it lyketh you, in the kinges name, and seale it with the kinges ring: For the writinges that were written in the kinges name, and sealed with the kinges ring, durst no man disanul.


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Then were the kinges scribes called at the same time, euen in the thirde moneth (that is the moneth Siuan) on the three and twentie day thereof, and it was written according to all as Mardocheus commauded vnto the Iewes, and to the princes, to the debuties and captaynes in the prouinces which are from India vnto Ethiopia, namely an hundred twentie and seuen prouinces, vnto euery prouince according to the writing thereof, and vnto euery people after their speach, and to the Iewes according to their writing and language.


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And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus name, & sealed it with the kinges ring, and by postes that rode vpon horses, and swyft young Mules, sent he the writinges,


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Wherin the king graunted the Iewes in what cities soeuer they were, to gather themselues together, and to stand for their lyfe, and for to roote out, to slay and to destroy all the power of the people and prouince that woulde trouble them, both children and women, and to spoyle their goodes:


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Upon one day in all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus, namely vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth, which is the moneth Adar.</p>


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The summe of the writing was, how there shoulde be a commaundement geuen in all and euery prouince, and published among all people, and that the Iewes should be redy against that day, to auenge them selues on their enemies.


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And so the postes that rode vpon the swyft Horses and Mules, made haste with all speede to execute the kinges word: and the commaundement was deuised in Susan the chiefe citie.


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And Mardocheus went out from the king in royall apparell, of yelowe and white, & with a great crowne of golde, being arayed with a garment of silke and purple: and the citie of Susan reioysed and was glad.


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In all prouinces and cities into what places soeuer the kinges word and commaundement reached, there was ioy and mirth, a feaste and good dayes among the Iewes: insomuch, that many of the people in ye lande became Iewes, for the feare of the Iewes came vpon them.


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In the twelfth moneth (that is the moneth Adar) vpo the thirteenth day of the same, when the kinges worde and commaundement drue neare to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer the, it turned contrary: for the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them.


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For then gathered the Iewes together in their cities within all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus, to lay hande on such as woulde do them euill, and no man could withstand them: for the feare of them was come ouer all people.


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And all the rulers in the prouinces, and princes, and deputies, and officers of the king, promoted the Iewes: for the feare of Mardocheus came vpon them.


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For Mardocheus was great in the kinges house, & the reporte of him was noysed in all the prouinces: for this man Mardocheus waxed greater and greater.


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Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, & did what they would vnto their enemies.


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The ten sonnes of Haman the sonne of Hamadata the enemie of the Iewes: but on his goodes they layed no handes.


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At the same time was the king certified of the number of those that were slaine in the citie of Susan.


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And the king saide vnto queene Esther: The Iewes haue slaine and destroyed fiue hundred men in the citie of Susan, and the ten sonnes of Haman: What haue they done [thinkest thou] in other landes of the king? And what is thy petition, that it may be geuen thee? or what requirest thou more to be done?


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Esther aunswered: If it please the king, let him suffer the Iewes which are in Susan, to morow also to do according vnto this dayes decree, that they may hang Hamans ten sonnes vpon the tree.


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And the king charged to do so: and the decree was deuised at Susan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.


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For the Iewes that were in Susan gathered them selues together, vpon the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and slue three hundred men at Susan: but on their goodes they layed no handes.


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As for the other Iewes that were in the kinges prouinces, they came together and stoode for their liues, & had rest from their enemies, & slue of their enemies seuentie and fiue thousand: howbeit they layed no handes on their goodes.


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[This they did] on the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, & on the fourteenth day of the same moneth rested they, which day they held with feasting and gladnesse.


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But the Iewes that were at Susan came together both on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth: and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and held that day with feasting & gladnesse.


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And therefore the Iewes that dwelt in the villages and vnwalled townes, held the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar with gladnesse and feasting, and kept holy day, and euery one sent preasentes vnto his neighbour.


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And Mardocheus wrote these wordes, and sent letters vnto all the Iewes that were in all the prouinces of king Ahasuerus, both nie and farre:


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That they should make a lawe among the selues, & holde the fourteenth & fifteenth day of the moneth Adar, yerely.


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As the dayes wherein the Iewes came to rest from their enemies, and as a moneth wherein their paine was turned to ioy, and their sorowe into a ioyful day: and that in those dayes they should make feastes and gladnesse, and one to send giftes vnto another, and to distribute vnto the poore.


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Because Haman the sonne of Hamadatha the Agagite all the Iewes enemie, had deuised against the Iewes how he might destroy them, and caused to cast Phur (that is a lot) for to consume them, & to bring them to naught.


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But when Esther came before the king, he commaunded by letters that his wicked deuice which he imagined against the Iewes, should be turned vpon his owne head, and that he and his sonnes should be hanged on the tree.


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For the which cause they called these dayes Phurim, because of the name of the lot, and because of all the wordes of this writing, and what they themselues had seene, & what had come vnto them:


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And the Iewes ordayned, and toke it vpon them and their seede, and vpon all such as ioyned them selues vnto them, that they would not misse but obserue these two dayes yerely, according as they were written and appoynted in their season,


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And that these dayes are to be remembred and to be kept of childers children among al kinredes in all landes and cities: In these dayes of Phurim which are not to be ouerslipt among ye Iewes, and the memoriall of them ought not to perishe from their seede.


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And queene Esther the daughter of Abihail & Mardocheus the Iewe, wrote with all aucthoritie to confirme this second writing of Phurim.


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And he sent the letters vnto all the Iewes, to the hundred twentie and seuen prouinces of the empire of Ahasuerus, with wordes of peace and trueth:


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To confirme these dayes of Phurim in their time appoynted, according as Mardocheus the Iewe and Esther the queene had appoynted them: and they bound their soule and their seede to fasting and prayer.


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<n>(9:34)</n> And all the actes of his power and of his might, & the declaration of the dignitie of Mardocheus wherwith the king magnified him, be they not written in the bookes of ye chronicles of the kinges of Medes and Persia?


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<n>(9:35)</n> For Mardocheus the Iewe, was the second next vnto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Iewes, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, as one that seeketh the wealth of his people, and speaketh peaceably for all his seede.


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In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill.


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His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east [countrey.]


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And his sonnes went and banquetted in their houses euery one his day, and sent for their three sisters to eate and drinke with them.


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And when the dayes of their banquetting were gone about, Iob sent and sanctified them, and gat vp early and offered for euery one a burnt offring: For Iob saide, It may be that my sonnes haue done some offence, & haue ben vnthankfull to God in their heartes. Thus did Iob euery day.


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And vpon a day when the children of God came and stoode before the lord, Satan came also among them.


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And the Lorde saide vnto Satan Whence comest thou? Satan aunswered the Lorde and saide: From compassing the earth to and fro, & from walking through it.


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And the Lorde saide vnto Satan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob, how there is none lyke him in the earth? a perfect and a iust man, one that feareth God, and eschueth euill?


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Hast thou not preserued him and his house, and al that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes, and his possession is encreased in the lande.


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And the Lorde saide vnto Satan: Lo, all that he hath be in thy power, only vpon him selfe see that thou lay not thine hand. And Satan went foorth from the presence of the Lorde.


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And vpon a certayne day, when his sonnes and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,


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There came a messenger vnto Iob, and sayde: The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them:


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And the Sabees came violently, and toke them away, yea they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


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While he was yet speaking, there came another, and sayde: The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp thy sheepe and seruauntes, and consumed them: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


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And whyle he was yet speaking there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made out their bandes, and fel vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea and slayne thy seruauntes with the sworde: and I only am gotten away alone to tell thee.


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And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house,


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And behold there came a mightie great wind from beyond the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, whiche fell vpon thy children, and they are dead: and I am gotten away alone to tell thee.


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Then Iob stoode vp, and rent his clothes, & shaued his head, fell downe vpon the ground, worshipped,


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And sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, & naked shall I turne thyther againe: The Lorde gaue & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lorde.


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And on a day the children of God came and stoode before the Lorde, and Satan came also among the, and stoode before the Lorde.


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And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan: From whence commest thou? Satan aunswered the Lorde, and sayd: I haue gone about the lande, walked thorow it.


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And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan: Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob? howe there is none like vnto hym in the earth, a perfect and a iust man? one that feareth God, and eschueth euil, & continueth still in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against hym, to destroy him without cause.


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And Satan aunswered the Lord, and sayd, Skinne for skinne, yea a man wil geue al that euer he hath for his life.


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But lay thyne hande nowe vpon hym, and touch [once] his bone and his fleshe, and he shall curse thee to thy face.


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So went Satan foorth from the presence of the Lorde, and smote Iob with sore byles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.


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But he sayde vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: shal we receaue good at the hande of God, and not receaue euyll? In all these thinges did not Iob sinne with his lippes.


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Nowe when Iobs three friendes heard of all the trouble that came vpon him, they came euery one fro his owne place [namely] Eliphas the Themanite, Bildad the Suhite, and Zophad the Naamathite: for they were agreed together to come to shewe their compassion vpon him, and to comfort hym.


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So when they lift vp their eyes a farre of, they knew him not: then they cryed and wept, and euery one of them rent his clothes, and sprinckled dust vpon their heades in the ayre.


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They sate them downe by him also vpon the grounde seuen dayes & seuen nightes, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe that his greefe was very great.


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Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued.


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The same day be [turned to] darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:


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But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the [dimme] cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.


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Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes.


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Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:


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[Alas] why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of [my mothers] wombe?


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Or [why] was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, [either] as young children which neuer sawe the light?


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For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me,


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If we assay to come with thee, wilt thou be discontent? But who can withhold him selfe from speaking?


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Was not thy feare according to thy hope? and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation?


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The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out.


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He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face, an image there was before myne eyes, and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce.


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Howe much more in them that dwel in houses of clay, and whose foundation is but dust, which shall be consumed as it were with a moth?


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They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them.


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His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.


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His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,


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To set vp them that be of lowe degree, and that those which are in heauinesse may be exalted to saluation.


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He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll, so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise.


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But he deliuereth the poore from the sworde, from their threatninges, and from the violence of the mightie.


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Behold, blessed is the man whom God correcteth, therefore refuse not thou the chastening of the almightie:


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Thou shalt be hyd from the scourge of the tongue, & when destruction commeth thou shalt not neede to feare.


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For the stones of the land shalbe confederate with thee, and the beastes of the fielde shalbe at peace with thee.


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And thou shalt knowe that thy dwelling place shalbe in rest, and thou shalt visite thy habitation, & shalt not sinne.


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Lo, this we our selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is: Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe.


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For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea: and this is the cause, that my wordes fayle me.


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For the arrowes of the almightie are vpon me, the poyson therof hath drunke vp my spirite, and the terrible feares of God are set against me.


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That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the whyte of an egge?


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Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.


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He that is in tribulation, ought to be comforted of his neyghbour: but the feare of the almightie is cleane away.


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Myne owne brethren passe ouer by me as the water brooke, & as the ouerflowing of waters, whiche do hastly go away,


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Which when they haue passed by do vanishe, and when the heate commeth they fayle out of their place.


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They depart from the course of their wonted chanell to other places, they runne in vayne and perishe.


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Is ther not an appoynted time to man vpon earth? Are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hired seruaunt?


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For like as a bonde seruaunt desireth the shadowe, and as an hyreling woulde fayne haue the rewarde of his worke:


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When I layde me downe to sleepe, I sayde, O when shall I arise? and measuring the euening, I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.


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Yea and the eye that hath seene me, shal see me no more: for yer thou fasten thyne eye vpon me, I come to naught.


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The cloude is consumed and vanished away: so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp,


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Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.


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When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch:


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I haue offended, what shall I do vnto the, O thou preseruer of men? Why hast thou set me [as a marke] against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?


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Why doest thou not pardon my trespasses, and take away myne iniquitie? Behold, nowe must I sleepe in the dust, and if thou sekest me to morowe in the morning, I shal not be.


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Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind?


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For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie?


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If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life: shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly, and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous?


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In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore, thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce.


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Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart?


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No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:


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He shal leane vpon his house, but it shal not stande: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.


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They also that hate thee shalbe clothed with shame, & the dwelling of the vngodly shall come to naught.


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If he be hastie to take away, who wil make him restore it? or who will say vnto hym, what doest thou?


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For though I were righteous, yet might I not geue him one word againe, but mekely submit my selfe to hym as my iudge.


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If [men will speake] of strength, lo he is strong: if [men will speake] of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?


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If I will iustifie my selfe, myne owne mouth shall condempne me: if I will [put foorth my selfe for] a perfect man, he shall proue me a wicked doer.


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As for the worlde it is geuen ouer into the hande of the wicked, and he shall couer the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he, or who is he [that can shewe the contrarie?]


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They are passed away as the shippes that be good vnder sayle, & as the eagle that fleeth to the pray.


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My soule is cut of though I lyue, I wil powre out my coplaynte against my selfe, and will speake out of the very heauinesse of my soule.


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Thinkest thou it welldone to oppresse me? to cast me of beyng the workes of thy handes? and to mayntayne the counsell of the vngodly?


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Whereas thou knowest whether I shall do wickedly or no, and that none can deliuer me out of thyne hande.


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Remember I besech thee that thou madest me as the moulde of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust againe.


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If I haue done wickedly, wo is me therefore: If I haue done righteously, yet dare I not lift vp my head, so full am I of confusion, and see myne owne miserie.


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Thou bringest freshe witnesse against me, and thy wrath increasest thou vpon me: diuers and many are the plagues that I am in.


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Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,


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Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,


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Afore I go [thyther from whence] I shall not turne againe, euen to the lande of darknesse and shadowe of death:


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Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.


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Shoulde not [he that maketh] many wordes be aunswered? Shoulde he that bableth much be commended therin?


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Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace, and when thou mockest [others] shall no man make thee ashamed?


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That he might shewe thee the secretes of wysdome, howe thou hast deserued double according to right: Know therfore that God hath forgotten thee for thyne iniquitie.


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Art thou able to finde out [the secretes of] God? Or wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the almightie?


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Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, gather them together, who will turne hym from his purpose?


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For it is he that knoweth vayne men, he seeth their wickednesse also, shoulde he not then consider it?


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If thou wouldest put away the wickednes whiche thou hast in hande, so that no vngodlinesse dwell in thy house:


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Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame, & then shouldest thou be sure and haue no neede to feare.


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Then shouldest thou forget thy miserie, and thinke no more vpon it, then vpon the waters that runne by.


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Then should thy lyfe be as cleare as the noone day, thou shouldest shine forth, and be as the morning.


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Then mightest thou be bolde because there is hope, and take thy rest quietly, as compassed with a trenche.


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Then mightest thou lye downe and none to make thee afrayde, yea many one should make suite vnto thee.


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As for the eyes of the vngodly they shall faile, and they shal not escape: and their hope shalbe sorowe of minde.


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But I haue vnderstanding aswell as ye, and am not inferior to you: Yea who knoweth not these thinges?


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I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.


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The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande.


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Or the encrease of the earth, and it shall shew thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall certifie thee.


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He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde.


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Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.


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He [both] increaseth the people and destroyeth them, he maketh them to multiplie, and diminisheth them.


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He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of ye people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way.


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Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him.


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Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in the heeles of my feete:


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He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.


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The dayes of man surely are determined, the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee, thou hast appoynted him his bondes which he can not go beyonde.


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For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe.


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Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted.


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So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe.


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O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.


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May a dead man lyue againe? All the dayes of my lyfe wyll I wayte still, till my chaunging shall come.


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Myne iniquitie is sealed vp as it were in a bagge, and thou addest [punishement] vnto my wickednesse.


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The waters pearse through the very stones by litle & litle, the floodes washe away the grauell and earth: so shalt thou destroy the hope of man.


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Thou preuaylest still against him, so that he passeth away: thou chaungest his estate and puttest him from thee.


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And whether his children come to worship or no, he can not tell: And if they be men of lowe degree, he knoweth not.


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Shall a wyse mans aunswere be as the winde, and fill a mans belly as it were with the winde of the east?


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For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.


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Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee.


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What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, whereby he might be righteous?


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The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen.


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A feareful sounde is [euer] in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.


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Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie.


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Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.


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He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.


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He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth [of God] shall he be taken away.


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He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth.


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For the congregation of hypocrites shalbe desolate, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedie to receaue giftes.


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I coulde speake as ye do also: but would God that your soule were in my soules steade, then could I frame wordes for you, and shake my head at you:


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And that thou hast filled me with wrinckles my fleshe is recorde, and my leanenesse ryseth vp against me and beareth witnes thereof in my face.


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His wrath hath torne [me] he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.


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They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.


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I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe.


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His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.


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Yet the number of my yeres is come, and the way that I must go is at hand, from whence I shall not turne againe.


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O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suretie in thy sight: what is he that knoweth who wyll promise for me?


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For thou hast withholden their heartes from vnderstanding, therefore shalt thou not set [them] vp on hie.


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Vertuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shal take part against the hypocrite.


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The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger.


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As for al you, turne you and get you hence [I pray you] seeing I can not finde one wyse man among you.


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He destroyeth him selfe with his anger: Shall the earth be forsaken, or any stone remoued out of his place because of thee?


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It shall eate the strength of his owne skinne, euen the first borne of death shall eate his strength.


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Other men shall dwell in his house, and it shalbe none of his, and brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.


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He shall neither haue children nor kinsfolkes among his people, no nor any posteritie in his dwellinges.


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If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.


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He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone: my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote.


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His men of warre come together, which made their way ouer me, and besieged my dwelling rounde about.


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He hath put my brethren farre away from me, and myne acquaintaunce are also become straungers vnto me.


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The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger, and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight.


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Myne owne wyfe might not abyde my breath, though I prayed her for the children sake of myne owne body.


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For I am sure that my redeemer saueth, and he shall rayse vp at the latter day them that lye in the dust.


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Whom I my selfe shall see, and myne eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my raines are consumed within me.


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But beware of the sworde: for the sword wylbe auenged of wickednesse, and be sure that there is a iudgement.


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I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere.


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That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye?


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Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?


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He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night.


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So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.


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The thing he hath laboured for, shall he restore, and shall not eate of it: great trauaile shall he make for riches, but he shall not enioy them.


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And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.


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Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape.


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And it shall come to passe, that wherewith he purposed to fill his belly, God shall powre the furie of his wrath theron, and shall cause his indignation to raigne vpon him, and vpon his meate.


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The [arowe] is taken foorth and gone out of the quiuer, and a glistering sword through the gall of him: so feare shall come vpon him.


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All darknesse shalbe hid in their secrete places, an vnkindled fire shal consume him: and loke what remaineth in his house, it shalbe destroyed.


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The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken away and perishe in the day of the Lordes wrath.


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This is the portion that the wicked man shal haue of God, and the heritage that he may loke for of God, because of his wordes.


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Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?


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Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?


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Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly.


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How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out, and their destruction come vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath?


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God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it.


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Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie.


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That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath.


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Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him.


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Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect?


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To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.


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Therefore reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well.


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For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling.


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Thou shalt lay vp golde [as plentyful] as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers.


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Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises.


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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the light shall shine in thy wayes.


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When [the wicked] be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.


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If I go on the left side where he doth his worke, I can not attayne vnto him: Againe, if I go on the right side, he hydeth him selfe that I can not see hym.


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I will not forsake the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the wordes of his mouth more then myne appoynted foode.


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He is still at one poynt, and who can turne him? he doth as him listeth, and bringeth to passe what he will.


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Considering then that there is no time hyd from the almightie, how happeneth it that they which know him do not regarde his dayes?


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They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.


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Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children.


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The poore are fayne to labour in their oyle mylles, yea and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffer thirst.


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Men out of the citie crye vnto the Lord with sighing, the soules of the slayne also crye out, yet God regardeth not their complaynt.


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Where as they are conuersaunt among them that abhorre the light, they know not his way, nor continue in his pathes.


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The eye of the adulterer wayteth for the darkenesse, & sayth, There shall no eye see me: and disguiseth his face.


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In the darke they digge through houses, whiche they marked for them selues in the day time: they knowe not the light.


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The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death,


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[The vngodly] is swyft vpon the water: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth, and he shall not beholde the way of the vineyardes.


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The pitifull man shall forget hym, he shalbe sweete to the wormes, he shalbe no more remembred, & his wickednesse shalbe broken as a tree.


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They are exalted for a litle, but [shortly] are gone, brought to pouertie, and taken out of the way, yea and vtterly pluckt of, as the eares of corne.


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Is it not so? Who will then reproue me as a lyer, and say that my wordes are nothing worth? Bildad proueth that no man is cleane nor without sinne before God.


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But how may a man compared vnto God, be iustified? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman?


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Where is the counsayle that thou shouldest geue him which hath no wisdome? Hast thou shewed the way of right lyuing?


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Lo, this is now a short summe of his wayes: but howe litle a portion heare we of hym? who can vnderstande the thunder of his power?


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God forbyd that I should graunt your cause to be right: As for me, vntill myne end come will I neuer go fro myne innocentie.


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My righteous dealing kepe I fast, which I will not forsake: my heart shal not reproue me of my dayes.


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Therfore myne enemie shalbe founde as the vngodly, and he that taketh part against me, as the vnrighteous.


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Saying: This is the portion that the wicked haue of God, and the heritage that tyrauntes shall receaue of the almightie.


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If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread.


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When the riche man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered [to his fathers,] they opened their eyes, and he was gone.


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Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.


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The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death.


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He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away.


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Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.


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No, neither golde nor christall shall be equall vnto it, nor her exchaunge shalbe for the plate of fine golde.


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The Topas of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure golde.


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When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:


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When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete:


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The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.


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They wayted for me as for the raine: and gaped vpon me, as [the grounde doeth to receaue] the latter shoure.


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When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour.


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But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell.


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Upon my right hande ryse the young men against me, they haue hurt my feete, treading vpon me as vpon the wayes of their destruction.


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My pathes haue they cleane marred, it was so easye for them to do me harme, that they needed no man to help them.


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Feare is turned vpon me, and they pursue my soule as the wind, and my health passeth away as a cloude.


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For the vehemencie of sorowe is my garment chaunged, whiche compasseth me about as the coller of my coote.


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When I crie vnto thee, thou doest not heare me: and though I stande before thee, yet thou regardest me not.


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[In times past] thou diddest set me vp on hye, to be caried as it were aboue the wynde, [but nowe] hast thou geuen me a very sore fall.


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Notwithstanding, thou wilt not stretch out thyne hand against him that is in the graue: shal men crie out against him that is in destruction?


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Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.


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If my steppe hath turned out of the way, & myne heart walked after myne eyes, and if any blot haue cleaued to my handes:


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If I euer thought scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes & maydens, when they had any matter against me:


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When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?


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He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?


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(For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the [wydowe])


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If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:


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For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and [knewe very well that] I was not able to beare his burthen.


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Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation?


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(That were a wickednesse worthy to be punished: for then shoulde I haue denyed the God that is aboue.)


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Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? [Oh, no.]


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Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me: so I kept scilence, and went not out of the doore.


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O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.


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If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:


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But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God.


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And with Iobs three friendes he was angry also, because they had founde no reasonable aunswere, and yet condempned Iob.


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Nowe taried Elihu, till they had ended their comunication with Iob: for why? they were elder then he.


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Therfore Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite aunswered, and sayde: [Considering that] I am young, and ye be men of age, I was afrayde, and durst not shewe foorth my mynde.


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Euery man no doubt hath a mynde, but it is the inspiration of the almightie that geueth vnderstanding.


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For when I had wayted till ye made an end of your talking, and hearde your wysdome, what argumentes ye made in your communication,


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Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob, that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes,


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Behold, in this hast thou not done right, I wil make aunswere vnto thee, that God is greater then man.


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In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes,


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In so much that his body is cleane consumed away, and his bones appeare which before were not seene.


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Now yf there be a messenger, one among a thousande, sent for to speake vnto man, and to shew him the right way:


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Then the Lord is mercifull vnto him, and sayth, He shalbe deliuered, that he fall not downe to the graue: for I am sufficiently reconciled.


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He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauorable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy, for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse.


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A respect hath he vnto men, let man then say, I haue offended, I did vnrighteously, & it hath done me no good:


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Therfore hearken vnto me ye that haue vnderstanding: farre be it from God that he shoulde meddle with wickednesse, & farre be it from the almightie that he shoulde meddle with vnrighteous dealing.


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Is it reason that thou shouldest say to the king, Thou art wicked, or thou art vngodly, and that before the princes?


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God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes.


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In the twinckling of an eye shall they dye, and at midnight when the people and the tirantes rage, then shall they perishe, & be taken away without handes.


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For God wil not lay vpon man more then he hath sinned, that he should enter into iudgement with him.


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Insomuch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in trouble.


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When he geueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hydeth his face, who can beholde him? whether it be vpon nations, or vpo one man onely:


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Wyll he perfourme the thing through thee? for thou hast reproued his iudgement, thou also hast thyne owne minde, and not I: But speake on what thou knowest.


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If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?


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Thy wickednesse [may hurt] a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse [may profite] the sonne of man.


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They which are oppressed crye out vpon the multitude, yea they crye out for the power of the mightie:


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Which teacheth vs more the the beastes of the earth, and geueth vs more wysdome then the foules of heauen.


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If any such complaine, no man geueth aunswere, and that because of the wickednesse of proude tirauntes.


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Although thou sayest [to God] thou wylt not regarde it: yet iudgement is before him, trust thou in him.


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He shal not turne his eyes away from the righteous, but as kinges shal they be in their throne, he shal stablish them for euer, and they shalbe exalted.


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He with punishing and nurturing of them, roundeth them in the eares, warneth them to leaue of from their wickednesse, and to amende.


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If they now wyll take heede & serue him, they shal weare out their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeres in pleasure.


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As for hypocrites in heart, they shall heape vp wrath [for them selues] for they call not vpon him, though they be his prisoners.


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The poore shall he deliuer out of his affliction, and rounde them in the eare when they be in trouble.


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Euen so would he take thee out of the straite place, into a brode place in the which there is no straitnes: yea, & make thy table quiet replenished with fatnesse.


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Neuerthelesse, thou hast commended the iudgement of the vngodly, and euen such a iudgement & sentence shalt thou suffer.


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And seeing there is wrath with God, beware lest he take thee away in thy wealth, & all that thou hast to redeeme thee can not deliuer thee.


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Thinkest thou that he wyll regarde thy riches? he shall not care for golde, nor for all them that excell in strength.


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Spend not the night in carefull thoughtes, how he destroyeth some, and bringeth other in their place.


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But beware that thou turne not aside to wickednesse and sinne, which hitherto thou hast chosen more then affliction.


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Beholde, so great is God that he passeth our knowledge, neither can the number of his yeres be searched out.


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A roring voyce foloweth it: for his glorious maiestie geueth a thuder clappe, & he will not stay whe his voyce is heard.


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He commaundeth the snow, and it falleth vpon earth: he geueth the rayne a charge, and the showres haue their strength and fall downe.


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He maketh the cloudes to labour in geuing moystnesse, and againe with his light he dryueth away the cloude.


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He turneth the heauens about by his gouernement, that they may do whatsoeuer he commaundeth them vpon the whole worlde.


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Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloudes, and the wonderous workes of him which is perfect in knowledge?


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It is the almightie, we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, and aboundaunt in iustice: he afflicteth not.


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Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.


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Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly?


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Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.


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That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.


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Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death?


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Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle,


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Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?


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Canst thou send the lightninges also, that they may go their way, and be obedient vnto thee, saying, Lo here are we?


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Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?


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Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue?


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Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?


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Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them.


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Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling.


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Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes?


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So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.


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Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull.


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He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men.


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But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting.


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Shall he whom the almightie wyl chasten, contend with him? Should not he which disputeth with God, geue him an aunswere?


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Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde take their pastime.


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Beholde, he drinketh vp whole ryuers and feareth not, he thinketh that he can drawe vp Iordane into his mouth.


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<n>(40:29)</n> Wylt thou take thy pastime with him as with a birde, wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?


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<n>(40:30)</n> That thy companions may make a refection of him: or shall he be parted among the marchauntes?


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<n>(41:2)</n> Or who hath geuen me any thyng aforehande, that I may rewarde him againe? All thinges vnder heauen are myne.


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<n>(41:4)</n> Who can discouer the face of his garment? or who shall come to him with a double brydle?


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<n>(41:6)</n> His scales are as it were strong shieldes, so fastened together as if they were sealed:


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<n>(41:8)</n> Yea, one hangeth so vpon another, & sticketh so together, that they can not be sundred.


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<n>(41:11)</n> And out of his nostrels there goeth a smoke, lyke as out of an hotte seething pot, or caldron.


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<n>(41:14)</n> The members of his body are ioyned [so strait one to another,] and cleaue so fast together, that he cannot be moued.


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<n>(41:5)</n> His heart is as hard as a stone, and as fast as the stythie that the smyth smiteth vpon.


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<n>(41:17)</n> If any man drawe out a sword at him, it shall not hurt him: there may neither speare, laueling, nor brestplate abide him.


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<n>(41:18)</n> He setteth asmuch by iron as by a strawe, and asmuch by brasse as by a rotten sticke.


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<n>(41:19)</n> He starteth not away from him that bendeth the bowe: & as for sling stones he careth asmuch for stouble as for the.


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<n>(41:20)</n> He counteth the dartes no better then a strawe, he laugheth him to scorne that shaketh the speare.


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<n>(41:21)</n> Sharpe stones are vnder him lyke potsheardes, and he lyeth vpon sharpe thinges as vpon the soft myre.


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<n>(41:22)</n> He maketh the deepe to boyle lyke a pot, and stirreth the sea together lyke an oyntment.


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<n>(41:23)</n> He maketh the path to be seene after him, and he maketh the deepe to seeme all hoarie.


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For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding.


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Now when the Lorde had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, it came to passe that the Lorde saide to Eliphas the Themanite: I am displeased with thee, and thy two friendes: for ye haue not spoken of me the thyng that is right, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done.


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Therefore take you now seuen oxen, and seuen rammes, and go to my seruaunt Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruaunt Iob shall pray for you: him wyll I accept, and not deale with you after your foolishnesse, in that ye haue not spoken of me the thing which is right, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done.


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So Eliphas the Themanite, and Bildad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite, went and did according as the Lorde commaunded them: the Lorde also accepted the person of Iob,


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And the Lorde tourned the captiuitie of Iob when he prayed for his friendes: Yea the Lorde gaue Iob twyse as much as he had afore.


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And then came there vnto him all his brethren, all his sisters, and all they that had ben of his acquaintaunce afore, and did eate bread with him in his house, and had compassion on him, and comforted him ouer all trouble that the Lorde had brought vpon him: euery man also gaue him a certaine summe of money, and a iewell of golde.


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So the Lorde blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had fourteene thousand sheepe, sixe thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses:


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In al the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.


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After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeres: so that he sawe his children, and his childrens children into the fourth generation.


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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the vngodly: nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seate of the scornefull.


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And he shalbe lyke a tree planted by the waters syde, that bryngeth foorth her fruite in due season: and whose leafe wythereth not, for whatsoeuer he doth it shall prosper.


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[As for] the vngodly [it is] not so [with them:] but they [are] like the chaffe which the winde scattereth abrode.


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Therefore the vngodly shall not [be able to] stande in the iudgement: neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous.


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The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed.


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Then wyll he speake vnto them in his wrath: and he wyll astonie them with feare in his sore displeasure.


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Desire of me, and I wyll geue thee the heathen for thyne inheritaunce: and the vttermost partes of the earth for thy possession.


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Kisse ye the sonne lest that he be angrye, and [so] ye perishe [from] the way, if his wrath be neuer so litle kindled: blessed are all they that put their trust in hym.


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[A psalme of Dauid when he fled from the face of Absalom his sonne.] &nbsp;O God howe are myne enemies increased? many do ryse vp against me.


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I wyll not be afrayde of ten thousandes of the people: that haue set [them selues] against me rounde about.


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Arise vp O God, saue thou me O my Lorde: for thou hast smitten all myne enemies vpon the cheeke bone, thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly.


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[To the chiefe musition on Neginoth, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Heare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse: thou hast set me at libertie when I was in distresse.


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O ye sonnes of men, how long [wyll ye go about to bryng] my glory to confusion? ye loue vanitie, ye seeke after lyes. Selah.


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For ye must know that God hath chosen to him selfe a godly [man]: God wyl heare when I call vnto hym.


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There be many that say, who wyll shewe vs [any] good? O God lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Nehiloth, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Geue eare vnto my wordes O God: vnderstande thou my pensifnesse.


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Thou shalt heare my voyce betymes O God: I wyll early in the morning direct [a prayer] vnto thee, and I wyll looke [for helpe from thee.]


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Thou wilt destroy them that make a lye: God wyll abhorre both the bloodthirstie and deceiptfull man.


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As for me I wyll come into thyne house, [trusting] in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy feare I will humble my selfe in thyne holy temple.


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For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.


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Destroy thou them O Lord, let them perishe through their owne counsailes: cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlinesse, for they haue rebelled against thee.


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And all they that trust in thee wyll reioyce, they wyll triumph for euer, because thou defendest them: and they that loue thy name, wyll be ioyfull in thee.


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For thou O God wylt blesse the righteous: and thou wylt compasse hym about with beneuolence, as with a shielde.


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[To the chiefe musition on Neginoth vpon eyght, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;O God rebuke me not in thine indignation: neither chasten me in thy wrath.


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All myne enemies shalbe confounded and sore vexed: they shalbe turned backe, they shalbe put to shame sodainlye.


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[Siggaion of Dauid, whiche he song vnto God in the busines of Chus, the sonne of Iemini.] &nbsp;O God my Lord, in thee I haue put my trust: saue me from all them that do persecute me, and deliuer thou me.


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If I haue done euyll vnto hym that had peace with me: and [if] I haue [not] deliuered hym that is without a cause myne aduersarie?


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[Then] let myne enemie persecute my soule and take me: yea, let hym put me to death, and lay myne honour in the dust. Selah.


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Arise O God in thy wrath, and stand thou vp agaynst the rage of myne enemies: stirre thou for me [according] to the iudgement [whiche] thou hast geuen.


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And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their sakes therfore place thy selfe on high.


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God wyll iudge the people: geue thou sentence with me O God according to my righteousnesse, and according to my perfection [that is] within me.


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My desire is, that ye wickednesse of the vngodly may come to an ende: and that thou wouldest assist the iust, who art the tryer of heartes and of reynes, O most righteous Lorde.


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If the wicked wyll not turne, he wyll whet his sworde: bende his bowe, and haue it in a redinesse [to shoote]


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He hath prepared hym instrumentes of death: he hath ordayned his arrowes agaynst them that be persecutors.


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Beholde, he wyll be in trauayle of a mischiefe, for he hath conceaued a labour: but yet he shall be brought to bed of a falsehood.


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I wyll prayse God accordyng to his ryghteousnesse: & I wyll sing psalmes vnto the name of the most high God.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;O God our Lorde, howe excellent is thy name in all the earth? for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.


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Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger.


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For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned.


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Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the workes of thy handes: and thou hast put all thinges [in subiection] vnder his feete,


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[To the chiefe musition at the death of Labben, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;I wyl prayse God with all myne heart: I wyl recite all thy marueylous workes.


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For that thou hast geuen iudgement in my ryght and cause: thou that iudgest right, hast sit in the throne of iudgement.


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Thou hast rebuked the Heathen, and destroyed the vngodly: thou hast abolished their name for euer and euer.


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O thou enemie thou thoughtest to bryng vs to a perpetuall desolation: and to destroy our cities, so that there shoulde remayne no memory of them.


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And they that knowe thy name wyll put their trust in thee: for thou O God hast neuer fayled them that seeke thee.


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For he maketh inquisition of blood: he remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaynt of the poore.


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Haue mercy on me O God: consider the trouble whiche I suffer of them that hate me, lift me vp from the gates of death.


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That I may shewe all thy prayses within the gates of the daughter of Sion: and reioyce in thy saluation.


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The Heathen are sunke downe into the pit that they made: their owne foote is snared in the same net whiche they had layde priuily [for other.]


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God is knowen by the iudgement that he hath executed: the vngodly is trapped in ye worke of his owne handes, this ought to be considered alwayes. Selah.


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But the poore shall not alway be forgotten: [neither] shall the hope of the humble afflicted, perishe for euer.


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The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore: [but euery one] of them shalbe taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined.


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For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God.


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The vngodly looketh so proudly as though he cared for none at all: neither is the Lorde in all his thoughtes.


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His wayes are alwayes greeuous, but thy iudgementes are farre aboue out of his sight: [and therfore] he snuffeth at all his enemies.


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He hath sayde in his heart, tushe, I can not be remoued: for I can not [be touched] at any tyme with harme.


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His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.


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He sitteth lurkyng in theeuishe corners of the streates: and priuily in lurking dennes he doth murther the innocent, he eyeth diligently hym that is weake.


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He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net.


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He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it.


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Wherefore shoulde the wicked blaspheme the Lorde: [whyle] he sayeth in his heart, that thou wylt not call to accompt?


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Surely thou hast seene [this] for thou beholdest labour and spite: that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands, he that is weake leaueth it for thee, [for] thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.


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Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malitious: searche thou out his vngodlynes, and thou shalt finde none afterwarde in him.


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Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare, to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed: [so] no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;In God I put my trust: howe say ye then to my soule, that she shoulde flee as a byrde from your hyll.


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For lo, the vngodly haue bende their bowe: and nocked their arrowes with the string, redy to shoote priuily at them whiche are vpright in heart.


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But God is in his holy temple, Gods throne is in heauen: his eyes looke downe, his eye liddes tryeth the chyldren of men.


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God wyll trye the righteous: but his soule abhorreth the vngodly, and hym that delighteth in wickednes.


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Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon (an instrument) of eyght stringes, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Saue thou [me] O God, for there is not one godly man left: for the faythfull are diminished from among the chyldren of men.


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Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.


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For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, [hym] whom the [wicked] hath snared.


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The wordes of God be wordes pure, as the siluer tryed in a furnace of earth: and purified seuen times.


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[Wherfore] thou wylt kepe the godly, O God: thou wylt preserue euery one of them from this generation for euer.


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[To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me?


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Howe long shall I seke counsayle in my soule, and be so vexed in mine heart euery day? howe long shall myne enemie triumph ouer me?


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Lest myne enemie say, I haue preuayled agaynst hym: lest they that trouble me reioyce yf I shoulde be remoued.


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[To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;The foole hath sayde in his heart there is no God: they haue corrupted [them selues] and done an abhominable worke, there is not one that doth good.


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God loked downe from heauen vpon the children of men: to see yf there were any that did vnderstande [and] seke after the Lorde.


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But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abhominable: there is none that doth good, no not one.


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Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?


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Hereafter they shalbe taken with a great feare: for the Lorde is in the generation of the righteous.


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Who shall geue saluation vnto Israel: out of Sion? &nbsp;<n>(14:8)</n> When God will deliuer his people out of captiuitie: [then] wyll Iacob reioyce, and Israel be glad.


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Euen he that leadeth an vncorrupt life: and doth the thyng that is iust, and speaketh the trueth from his heart.


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He that backbyteth not with his tongue: nor doth any euil to his felowe, nor rayseth a slaunder vpon his neyghbour.


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He that dispiseth in his eyes the reprobate: and honoureth them that feare God. <n>(15:5)</n> He that hath sworne to his owne hurt: and yet wyll not go from his oth.


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<n>(15:6)</n> He that geueth not his money vpon vsurie: nor taketh rewarde agaynst the innocent. <n>(15:7)</n> He that doth these thynges: shall neuer at any tyme be remoued.


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But all my delyght is [to do good] vnto the saintes that are in the earth: and vnto such as excell in vertue.


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As for them that runne [after] another [God] they shall haue great trouble: I wyll not offer their drynke offerynges of blood, neither wyll I make mention of their names within my lyppes.


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O God, thou thy selfe art the portion of myne inheritaunce and of my cup: thou wylt mayntayne my lot.


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For thou wylt not leaue my soule in hell: neither wylt thou suffer thyne holy one to see corruption.


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Thou wylt cause me to knowe the path of lyfe: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy, and at thy right hand there be pleasures for euermore.


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[A prayer of Dauid.] &nbsp;Heare thou O God of iustice, be attentiue vnto my complaynt: geue eare vnto my prayer, not [proceeding] out of fayned lyppes.


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Thou hast proued myne heart, thou hast visited [it] in the nyght season: thou hast tryed me, and founde no [wickednesse, for] I purposed that nothyng shoulde scape my mouth.


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As touchyng [other] mens workes: through the wordes of thy lyppes I haue kept me from the way of the violent.


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Shewe thy marueylous louyng kindnesse: thou that art the sauiour of them that trust in thee, from such as ryse vp agaynst thy ryght hande.


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Kepe me as the apple of an eye, hyde me vnder the shadowe of thy wynges: from the face of the vngodly that go about to destroy me, [from] myne enemies that compasse me rounde about to take away my soule.


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They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde [where] our way [lyeth]: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow [me] downe on the grounde.


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His [doynges] be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray: and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places.


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Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly [which is] thy sworde.


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[Deliuer thou] me O God from men [which be] thy hande: from men, from the worlde, whose portion [is] in this lyfe, whose bellyes thou fyllest with thy priuie [treasure].


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But as for me, I will beholde thy face in ryghteousnesse: I shalbe satisfied when I awake vp after thy lykenesse.


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[To the chiefe musition the seruaunt of God, and of Dauid who spake vnto God the wordes of this song in the day that God deliuered him from the hande of all his enemies, and from the hande of Saul: And he sayde.] &nbsp;I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength,


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<n>(18:1)</n> God is my stony rocke & my fortresse, and my delyuerer: my Lorde, my castell in whom I wyll trust, my buckler, the horne of my saluation, & my refuge.


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<n>(18:2)</n> I wyll call vpon God, who is most worthy to be praysed: so I shall be safe from myne enemies.


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<n>(18:3)</n> The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare.


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<n>(18:5)</n> But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God, and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde: he hearde my voyce out of his temple, and my crye came before his face, euen vnto his eares.


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<n>(18:6)</n> The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth.


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<n>(18:7)</n> In his anger a smoke ascended vp: and a fire out of his mouth dyd cosume, and euery cole therof dyd set a fire.


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<n>(18:9)</n> He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde.


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<n>(18:10)</n> For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre.


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<n>(18:12)</n> God also thundred out of heauen: and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde, haylestones, and coles of fire.


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<n>(18:13)</n> He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them.


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<n>(18:14)</n> And the bottomes of waters appeared, and the foundations of the rounde worlde were discouered at thy chidyng, O God: at the blast of the breath of thine anger.


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<n>(18:16)</n> He hath deliuered me from my strong enemie: and from them which hate me, for they were to stout for me.


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<n>(18:18)</n> He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie: he brought me foorth, because he had a fauour vnto me.


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<n>(18:19)</n> God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me.


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<n>(18:21)</n> For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me.


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<n>(18:22)</n> And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse.


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<n>(18:23)</n> Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght.


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<n>(18:26)</n> For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude.


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<n>(18:27)</n> Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.


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<n>(18:28)</n> For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men: and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall.


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<n>(18:29)</n> The way of the Lorde is a perfect way, the worde of God is tryed in the fire: he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym.


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<n>(18:31)</n> It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.


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<n>(18:34)</n> Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased.


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<n>(18:36)</n> I haue pursued myne enemies and onertaken them: neither dyd I returne backe vntyll I had destroyed them.


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<n>(18:37)</n> I smote them downe, and they are not able to aryse: they haue taken such a fall vnder my feete.


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<n>(18:38)</n> Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me.


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<n>(18:40)</n> They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them.


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<n>(18:41)</n> I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates.


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<n>(18:42)</n> Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me,


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<n>(18:43)</n> Children of a straunger haue made a lie vnto me: the heartes of the children of a straunger hath fayled them, and they feared in their [strong] holdes.


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<n>(18:44)</n> God lyueth, and he [is] my strength most worthy of blisse: and the Lorde of my saluation ought to be magnified.


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<n>(18:45)</n> It is God that hath geuen me power to take auengeaunce: and he hath subdued the people vnder me.


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<n>(18:46)</n> It is he that is the aucthour of my deliuerie from myne enemies: and he hath set me vp aboue them that rose agaynst me, he hath ridde me from the wicked man.


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<n>(18:47)</n> For this cause I wyll acknowledge thee O God among the gentiles: and syng psalmes vnto thy name.


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<n>(18:48)</n> Who hath wonderfull oft deliuered his kyng: and he hath done mercifully vnto Dauid his annoynted, and vnto his seede for euermore.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;The heauens declare the glorie of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy worke.


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<n>(19:3)</n> yet their sounde goeth into all landes, and their wordes into the endes of the worlde.<n>(19:4)</n> In them he hath set a tabernacle for the sunne:


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<n>(19:4)</n> which commeth foorth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth as a giaunt to runne his course.


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<n>(19:5)</n> His settyng foorth is from the vtmost part of heauen, and his circuite vnto the vtmost part therof: and there is nothing hyd from his heat.


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<n>(19:6)</n> The lawe of God is perfect, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of God is sure, and geueth wisdome vnto the simple.


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<n>(19:7)</n> The statutes of God are right, and reioyce the heart: the commaundement of God is pure, and geueth light vnto the eyes.


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<n>(19:8)</n> The feare of God is sincere, & endureth for euer: the iudgementes of God are trueth, they be iust in all poyntes.


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<n>(19:9)</n> They are more to be desired then golde, yea then much fine golde: they are also sweeter then hony and the hony combe.


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<n>(19:10)</n> Moreouer, by them thy seruaunt is well aduertised: and in kepyng of them there is a great rewarde.


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<n>(19:11)</n> Who can knowe his owne errours? Oh cleanse thou me from those that I am not priuie of.


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<n>(19:12)</n> Kepe thy seruaunt also from presumptuous [sinnes] let them not raigne ouer me: so I shall be perfect & voyde from all haynous offence.


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<n>(19:13)</n> Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O God: my strength and my redeemer.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;God heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of the Lorde of Iacob defende thee.


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We wyll reioyce in thy saluation, and triumph in the name of our Lorde: for God wyll perfourme all thy petitions.


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Nowe I knowe that God wyll saue his annoynted, he wyll heare him from his heauenly sanctuarie: there is saluation in the mightinesse of his right hande.


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Some [put their trust] in chariotes, and some in horses: but we wyll remember the name of God our Lorde.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;The kyng ought to reioyce in thy strength O God: and he ought to be exceedyng glad of thy saluation.


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For thou hast preuented him with good blessinges: and hast set a crowne of pure golde vpon his head.


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For thou hast placed him to be blessinges for euer: and hast made him glad with the ioy of thy countenaunce.


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Thou wilt make them like a burnyng furnace in tyme of thy furie: God wyll destroy them in his wrath, and fire shall consume them.


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For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: [but] they coulde not [bring it to passe.]


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Be thou exalted O God accordyng to thine owne might: so we wyll sing, and with psalmes we wyll prayse thy power.


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[To the chiefe musition of the mornyng hinde, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why] art thou so farre from my health, and from the wordes of my complaynt?


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They called vpon thee, and they were helped: they did put their trust in thee, and they were not confounded.


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[Saying] he referreth [all] to God, [loking that God] wyll deliuer him [and] rescue him: for he delighteth only in him.


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But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes.


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I am as [it were] into water resolued, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also is like waxe melted in the middest of my bowels.


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My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.


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For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete, I may tell all my bones.


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<n>(22:21)</n> I wyll declare thy name vnto my brethren: I wyll prayse thee in the middest of the congregation.


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<n>(22:22)</n> [Saying] prayse ye God ye that feare hym: glorifie hym all ye of the seede of Iacob, and stande in awe of hym all ye of the seede of Israel.


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<n>(22:23)</n> For he hath not dispised nor abhorred the affliction of the poore: he hath not hyd his face from hym, but he hearde hym when he cryed vnto hym.


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<n>(22:24)</n> My prayse shalbe of thee in the great congregation: I wyll perfourme my vowes in the syght of them that feare hym.


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<n>(22:25)</n> The poore shall eate, and be satisfied: they that seeke after God shall prayse hym, your heart shall lyue for euer.


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<n>(22:26)</n> All the endes of the worlde shall remember them selues and be turned vnto God: and all the kinredes of the nations shall worshyp before thy face.


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<n>(22:28)</n> All such as be fat vpon the earth shall eate and worshyp: all they that go downe [in] to the dust shall knele before hym, although he preserued not his owne lyfe.


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<n>(22:30)</n> They wyll come and declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shalbe borne: for he hath done it.


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<n>(23:1)</n> he wyll cause me to repose my selfe in pasture full of grasse, and he wyll leade me vnto calme waters.


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<n>(23:2)</n> He wyll conuert my soule: he wyll bring me foorth into the pathes of righteousnesse for his name sake.


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<n>(23:3)</n> Yea though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I wyll feare no euyll: for thou art with me, thy rodde and thy staffe be the thynges that do comfort me.


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<n>(23:4)</n> Thou wylt prepare a table before me in the presence of myne aduersaries: thou hast annoynted my head with oyle, and my cup shalbe brymme full.


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<n>(23:5)</n> Truely felicitie and mercie shal folowe me all the dayes of my lyfe: and I wyll dwell in the house of God for a long tyme.


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[A psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;The earth is Gods and all that therin is: the worlde, & they that dwell therin.


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[Euen he that hath] cleane handes, and a pure heart: & that hath not taken his soule in vayne, nor sworne disceiptfully.


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Lyft vp your heades O ye gates, and be ye lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores and the kyng of glorie shall enter in.


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Lyft vp your heades (O ye gates) and be you lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores: and the kyng of glorie shall enter in.


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<n>(25:1)</n> I put my trust in thee my Lorde: let me not be confounded, neither let myne enemies triumph ouer me.


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<n>(25:2)</n> Yea, let not all them that hope in thee be put to shame: let them be put to shame who without a cause do trayterously transgresse.


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<n>(25:3)</n> leade me foorth in thy trueth and teache me, for thou art the Lorde of my saluation, I haue wayted for thee al the day long.


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<n>(25:4)</n> Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies & thy louyng kindnesse: for they haue ben for euer.


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<n>(25:5)</n> Oh remember not thou the sinnes and offences of my youth: but accordyng to thy mercie euen of thy goodnesse O God remember me.


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<n>(25:8)</n> All the pathes of God are mercie and trueth: vnto such as kepe his couenaunt and his testimonies.


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<n>(25:10)</n> What man is he that feareth God? [God] wyll teache hym in the way that he shall choose.


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<n>(25:12)</n> The secrete of God is among them that feare hym: and he wyll make knowen vnto them his couenaunt.


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<n>(25:17)</n> Consider myne enemies, for they do multiplie: and they beare a tirannous hate against me.


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<n>(25:18)</n> O kepe my soule and deliuer me, lest I shalbe confounded: for I haue put my trust in thee.


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[Of Dauid.] &nbsp;Iudge thou me O God, for I haue walked in my perfection: my trust also hath ben in God [therfore] I shall not fall.


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I haue not sit [in company] with vayne persons: neither haue I entred [once acquaintaunce] with dissemblers.


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God is my lyght and saluation, whom then shall I feare? God is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraide?


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When the malitious approched neare vnto me for to eate vp my fleshe: mine enemies and foes stumbled and fell.


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Though an hoast of men were layde in campe against me, yet shall not mine heart be afraide: and though there rose vp warre against me, [yet] I wyll put my trust in this.


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I haue desired one thyng of God, whiche once agayne I wyll earnestly require: euen that I may dwell in the house of God all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautifulnes of God, and to seeke [it] in his temple.


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For in the time of aduersitie he shall hide me in his tabernacle: yea in the secrete [place] of his pauilion he shall hide me, and set me vp vpon a rocke of stone.


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And nowe he shall lift vp my head aboue mine enemies rounde about me: therfore I wyll offer in his tabernacle a sacrifice of great ioy, I wyll sing and prayse God with psalmes.


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My heart hath sayde vnto thee [according to this thy commaundement] seeke ye my face: thy face O God wyll I seeke.


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O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy seruaunt away in a displeasure: thou hast ben my succour, leaue me not, neither forsake me O Lorde of my saluation.


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Deliuer me not into mine aduersaries handes: for there are false witnesses rysen vp against me, and such as speake wrong.


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If I had not beleued [veryly] to see the goodnes of God in the lande of the liuing: [their spite had kylled me.]


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Attende thou [therfore] vpon God, be of a good courage, and he will comfort thine heart: [I say] attende thou vpon God.


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Vnto thee I crye O God my strength, make not as though thou were deafe at me: lest if thou holdest thy peace, I become like them that go downe into the graue.


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Heare the voyce of my humble petitions when I crye vnto thee: when I holde vp my handes towarde thy holy place where thy arke is.


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Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.


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Rewarde them accordyng to their deedes: and according to the wickednes of their owne inuentions. <n>(28:5)</n> Recompence them after the worke of their handes: pay them home that they haue deserued.


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<n>(28:6)</n> For they geue not their minde to vnderstande the doynges of God and the worke of his handes: [therefore] he wyll breake them downe, and not buylde them vp.


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<n>(28:8)</n> God is my strength and my shielde, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart skippeth for ioy, and in my song I wyll prayse hym.


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<n>(28:10)</n> O saue thy people, and geue thy blessing vnto thine inheritaunce: feede them and exalt them for euermore.


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The voyce of God is aboue waters: it is the Lorde of glory that thundreth, it is God that ruleth the sea.


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<n>(29:7)</n> the voyce of God maketh the wyldernesse to tremble, God maketh the wyldernesse of Cades to tremble.


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<n>(29:8)</n> The voyce of God maketh Hindes to cast their calfe, and maketh woods to be bare: therefore euery man setteth foorth his glory in his temple.


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[A psalme whiche is a song of the dedication of the house of Dauid.] &nbsp;I wyll exalt thee O God, for thou hast exalted me: and hast not made my foes to triumph ouer me.


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Thou God hast raysed vp my soule from the graue: thou hast preserued my life from them that go downe into ye pit.


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Sing psalmes vnto god ye his saintes: and make your confession vnto the remembraunce of his holynes.


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For a litle short time [passeth] in his anger, a life is [spente] in his good wyll: at euening weeping shall begin the night, but ioy commeth in the morning.


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<n>(30:7)</n> [Neuerthelesse, when] thou dydst turne thy face, I was troubled: [then] I cryed vnto thee O God, then made I my humble prayers to thee my Lorde.


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<n>(30:8)</n> [Saying] what profite is there in my blood when I go downe to the pit? shal the dust geue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth?


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<n>(30:10)</n> [And foorthwith] thou hast turned my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put of my sackcloth, and gyrded me with gladnes.


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<n>(30:11)</n> Therfore my glory shal sing psalmes vnto thee and not ceasse: O God my Lorde I wyll prayse thee for euer.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;In thee O God I haue put my trust, let me neuer be confounded: deliuer me in thy righteousnes.


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Bowe downe thine eare to me, make hast to deliuer me: be vnto me a strong rocke and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me.


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I wyll be glad and reioyce in thy louing kindnes: for that thou hast considered my trouble, and hast knowen my soule in aduersities.


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Haue mercy vpon me O God, for I am in distresse: mine eye, my soule, and my belly be consumed for very heauinesse.


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For my life is wasted with sorow, and mine eares with mourning: my strength fayleth me because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are putrified.


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I became a reprofe among al mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours: and they of mine acquaintaunce were afraide of me, and they that dyd see me without, conueyed them selues quickly fro me.


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For I haue hearde the villanie of the multitude, and feare was on euery side [me]: whyle they conspired together against me, [and] toke their counsell to take away my life.


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My time is in thy hande, deliuer me from the hande of mine enemies: and from them that persecute me.


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Let me not be confounded O God, for I haue called vpon thee: let the vngodlye be put to confusion, and be put to scilence in the graue.


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Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.


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Howe plentifull is thy goodnes which thou hast layde vp for them that feare thee? [and whiche] thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee before the sonnes of men.


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Thou hydest them priuily in thyne owne presence from the raginges of [all] men: thou kepest them secretly [as] in a tabernacle from the strife of tongues.


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And when I fled with al haste, I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes: neuerthelesse, thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee.


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Loue God all ye his saintes: [for] God preserueth them that are faythfull, and rewardeth most aboundauntly the proude doer.


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[A wyse instruction of Dauid.] &nbsp;Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgeuen: and whose sinne is couered.


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[Therfore] I haue made knowen my faultes vnto thee, and my righteousnes haue I not hid: I sayd I will confesse my wickednes vnto God, and thou forgauest the vnrighteousnes of my sinne. Selah.


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For this shall euery one that is godly make his prayer vnto thee in the time when thou mayest be founde: so that in the great water fluddes they shal not come nye hym.


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Thou art my refuge, thou wylt preserue me from trouble: thou wylt compasse me about with songes of deliueraunce. Selah.


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I will geue thee wise instructions, and teach thee in the way wherin thou shalt go: & I wil guyde thee with mine eye.


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Be ye not lyke a horse [or] lyke a mule whiche haue no vnderstanding: whose mouthes must be holden with bit and brydle, lest they fall vpon thee.


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Great plagues remaine for the vngodly: but who so putteth his trust in God, mercy imbraceth him on euery side.


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Confesse [it] to god with the harpe: sing psalmes vnto hym with the viall, and with the instrument of ten stringes.


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Sing vnto him a new song: do it cunningly, make a sweete noyse with your musicall instrumentes alowde.


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He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.


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God bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to naught: and maketh the deuises of the people to be of none effect.


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The counsayle of God shall endure for euer: and the thoughtes of his heart from generation to generation.


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Blessed is the nation that hath God to be their Lorde: that people hath he chosen to be an inheritaunce for him.


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<n>(33:15)</n> A king is not saued by the multitude of an hoast: a man of great myght escapeth not by much strength.


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<n>(33:17)</n> Beholde, the eye of God is vpon them that feare hym: and vpon them that wayteth after his mercy.


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[Of Dauid when he chaunged his behauiour before Abimelech, whiche droue him away, and he departed.] &nbsp;I wyll alway blesse God: his prayse shall euer be in my mouth.


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Let them turne their eyes on him, and make speede to come vnto hym: and their faces shall not be ashamed.


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[Lo] this same poore man hath cryed: and God hath hearde hym, and saued hym out of all his troubles.


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Young Lions do lacke and suffer hunger: but they whiche seeke God, shall want no maner of thing that is good.


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The countenaunce of God is against them that do euill: to roote out the remembraunce of them from of the earth.


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God redeemeth the soules of his seruauntes: and al they that put their trust in him, shall not be brought to naught.


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[Of Dauid.] &nbsp;Pleade thou my cause O God, with them that striue with me: and fight thou agaynst them that fight against me.


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Bryng foorth the speare, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.


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Let them be confounded and put to shame that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe and brought to cofusion, that imagine mischiefe for me.


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For without a cause they haue priuily layde for me a pit [full] of their nettes: without a cause they haue made a digyng vnto my soule.


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Let a sodayne destruction come vpon hym vnawares: and his net that he hath layde priuily catch hym selfe, let him fall into it with [his owne] destruction.


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All my bones shall say, God who is lyke vnto thee? whiche deliuerest the poore from hym that is to strong for him: yea the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him.


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Neuerthelesse, when they were sicke I did put on sackcloth: I afflicted my soule with fasting, and my prayer returned into myne owne bosome.


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I kept them company whersoeuer they went, as though they had ben my frende or brother: I went heauyly, as one that mourned for his mother.


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But in mine aduersitie they reioysed and gathered them together: yea, the very abiectes came together against me, yer I wyst they rented me a peeces and ceassed not.


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Lorde howe long wylt thou looke [vpon this]: O deliuer my soule from their raginges, and my dearling from Lions whelpes.


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O let not my deceiptfull enemies triumph ouer me: let them not winke with an eye, that hate me without a cause.


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For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that [liue] quietly in the lande.


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Let them not say in their heart, it is as we woulde haue it: neither let them say, we haue deuoured hym.


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Let them be put to confusion & shame [all] together that reioyce at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour that exalt them selues against me.


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Let them triumph with gladnesse and reioyce that be delighted with my righteousnesse: let them say alwayes, blessed be God whiche hath pleasure in the prosperitie of his seruaunt.


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[To the chiefe musition, seruaunt to the God of Dauid.] &nbsp;The wickednes of the vngodly speaketh in the middest of my heart: that there is no feare of the Lorde before his eyes.


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The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good.


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He imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed, & setteth him selfe in no good way: neither doth he abhorre any thing yt is euil.


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Thy righteousnes is like the mountaynes of God: thy iudgementes are a great deapth, thou sauest both man and beast O God.


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How excellent is thy mercy O Lord: therefore the chyldren of men shall put their trust vnder the shadowe of thy winges.


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They shalbe satisfied with the plenteousnesse of thy house: and thou shalt geue them drinke out of the riuer of thy delicates.


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O continue foorth thy louing kindnesse vnto them that knowe thee: and thy righteousnes vnto them that are of an vpright heart.


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O let not the foote of pryde reache vnto me: and let not the hande of the vngodly make me to moue [out of my place]


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[Of Dauid.] &nbsp;Fret not thy selfe because of the vngodly: neither be thou enuious against the euyll doers.


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He shall make thy righteousnesse appeare as cleare as the light: and thy iust dealing as the noone tyde.


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Holde thee still in God, and wayte paciently vpon him: fret not thy selfe at him whose way doth prosper, at the man that doth abhominations.


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For the malitious doers shalbe rooted out: and they that paciently wayte after God, they shall inherite the lande.


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[Looke] at them yet a litle whyle, and the vngodly shalbe cleane gone: thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be [there]


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The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.


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They shall not be confounded in the perilous tyme: and in the dayes of dearth they shall haue inough.


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As for the vngodly they shall perishe, and the enemies of God shall consume as the fat of lambes: yea, euen with the smoke they shall vanishe away.


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Suche as be blessed of God shall possesse the lande: and they that be cursed of hym, shalbe rooted out.


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I haue ben a young chylde, and nowe I am olde: and yet sawe I neuer the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begyng bread.


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For God loueth iudgement, he forsaketh not his saintes: they are preserued for euermore, but the seede of the vngodlye shalbe rooted vp.


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Wayte thou on God & kepe his way, and he wyll promote thee, that thou mayest possesse the lande: when the vngodly shalbe cut of, thou shalt see it.


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And he vanished away, so that he could be no more seene: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde.


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As for wicked transgressours, they shalbe destroyed [all] together: and the ende of the vngodly shalbe rooted vp at the last.


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And God wyll ayde them and deliuer them, he wyl deliuer them from the vngodly: and he wyll saue them, because they put their trust in him.


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[A psalme of Dauid to reduce in remembraunce.] &nbsp;Rebuke me not O God in thyne anger: neither chasten me in thy heauie displeasure.


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There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne.


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For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare.


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My louers and my neygbours dyd stande on the other syde lokyng vpon my plague: and my kinsmen stoode a farre of.


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They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares [for me]: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long.


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As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and [I was] as one that is dumbe [who] coulde not open his mouth.


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For I sayde [heare me] lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce [them selues] greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp.


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But myne enemies lyuyng [without payne] are mightie: & they that hate me wrongfully are increased in number.


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[To the chiefe musition Ieduthun, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;I sayde [to my selfe] I wyll take heede to my wayes, that I offende not in my tongue: I wyll kepe my mouth as it were with a brydell, whylest the vngodly is in my syght.


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I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased.


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My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and [at the last] I spake with my tongue.


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O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue.


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Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al [together] vanitie. Selah.


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Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he [and all his] do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.


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Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah.


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Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me [his eare]: and heard my crying.


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He brought me also out of an horrible pyt, out of the dirtie mire: and set my feete vpon a rocke, and directed my goynges.


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Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in God: and turned not vnto the proude, and to such as decline to lyes.


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O God my Lord, great are thy wonderous workes which thou hast done: & none can count in order thy benefites towarde vs, yf I woulde declare them and speake of them, they shoulde be mo then I am able to expresse.


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Thou wouldest haue no sacrifice or offeryng, but thou hast opened myne eares: thou hast not required burnt offerynges and sacrifice for sinne.


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Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest.


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I haue declared thy righteousnes in a great congregatio: lo I wil not refraine my lippes O God thou knowest [it.]


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I haue not hyd thy ryghteousnesse within my heart: my talkyng hath ben of thy trueth and of thy saluation. <n>(40:11)</n> I haue not concealed thy louyng mercie and trueth: from the great congregation.


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<n>(40:12)</n> Withdrawe not thou thy mercie from me O God: let thy louyng kyndnesse and thy trueth alway preserue me.


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<n>(40:13)</n> For innumerable troubles are come about me, my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me that I am not able to loke vp: yea they are mo in number then the heeres of my head, & my heart hath fayled me.


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<n>(40:15)</n> Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seke after my soule to destroy it: let them be dryuen backwarde & be put to rebuke that wyshe me euyll.


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<n>(40:16)</n> Let them be desolate in recompence of their shame: that say vnto me, fye vpon thee, fye vpon thee.


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<n>(40:17)</n> Let all those that seeke thee be glad and ioyfull in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say alway God be magnified.


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<n>(40:18)</n> As for me I am afflicted and needye, but God careth for me: thou art my ayde and delyuerer, O my God make no long tarying.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Blessed is he that considereth ye poore: God wyll delyuer hym in the tyme of trouble.


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God wyll preserue hym & kepe him aliue: he shalbe blessed vpon the earth, and [thou O God] wylt not deliuer him into the wyll of his enemies.


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God wyll comfort hym when he lyeth sicke vpon his bed: thou [O God] wylt turne vpside downe all his bed in his sicknesse.


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But yf [any of them] came to visite me, he spake vanitie: his heart conceaued vngodlynesse within hym selfe, & when he came foorth a doores he vttered it.


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[They sayde] some great mischiefe is lyghted vpon hym: and he that lyeth sicke on his bed, shall ryse vp no more.


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Yea besides this, euen myne owne friende whom I trusted: which dyd also eate of my bread, hath kicked very much agaynst me.


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[To the chiefe musition a wise instruction of the sonnes of Corach.] &nbsp;Lyke as the Hart brayeth for water brookes: so panteth my soule after thee O God.


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My soule is a thirst for the Lorde, yea euen for the lyuyng Lorde: when shall I come to appeare before the face of the Lorde?


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And I powred out of me my very heart, remembryng this howe that before tyme I haue passed with a great number, bringyng the vnto the house of the Lord: with a voyce of ioy & prayse, [& with] a company that kept holy day.


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Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I will yet acknowledge him only to be a present saluation.


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My Lorde, my soule is discouraged within me: because I remember thee from the lande of Iordane, and from the litle hyll Hermonim.


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One deepe calleth another at the noyse of thy water pypes: all thy waues and stormes are gone ouer me.


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God wyll graunt his louing kindnesse on the day tyme: and in the nyght season I wyll syng of hym, and make my prayer vnto the Lorde of my lyfe.


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I wyll say vnto the Lorde of my strength: why hast thou forgotten me, why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie?


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It was as a sworde in my bones, when myne enemies dyd cast me in the teeth: in saying dayly vnto me, where is nowe thy Lorde?


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Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wil yet acknowledge him to be only my present saluation, and my Lorde.


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Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man.


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For thou art the Lord of my strength: why hast thou reiect me, and why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie.


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Sende foorth thy light and thy trueth: that they may leade me and direct me vnto thy holy hyll, & to thy tabernacles.


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And I wyll go vnto the aulter of the Lorde, euen vnto the Lorde of my ioy & gladnesse: and vpon the harpe I will acknowledge thee O Lorde my Lord.


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Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wyll yet acknowledge hym [to be] only my present saluation, & my Lorde.


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[To the chiefe musition, a wise instruction of the sonnes of Corach.] &nbsp;We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme.


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Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hande and planted them in: howe thou hast destroyed the nations & placed them.


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For they gat not the lande in possession through their owne sworde: neither was it their owne arme that saued them. <n>(44:4)</n> But thy ryght hande, and thine arme, & the lyght of thy countenaunce: because thou hadst a fauour vnto them.


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<n>(44:6)</n> Through thee we wyll ouerthrowe our enemies: and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that ryse vp agaynst vs.


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<n>(44:8)</n> But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemies: and thou puttest them to confusion that hate vs.


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<n>(44:9)</n> We make our boast of God all the day long: and we wyll confesse thy name for euer. Selah.


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<n>(44:10)</n> But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies.


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<n>(44:11)</n> Thou makest vs to turne away backwarde from the enemie: so that they which hate vs, do make vs a spoyle vnto them.


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<n>(44:12)</n> Thou hast delyuered vs as sheepe to be eaten: and thou hast scattered vs among the heathen.


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<n>(44:14)</n> Thou hast made vs a rebuke to our neighbours: to be laughed to scorne and had in derision of them that are rounde about vs.


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<n>(44:15)</n> Thou hast made vs [to be] a fable among the heathen: [and to be such] that the people shake their head at vs.


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[And though] all this be come vpon vs: [yet] we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt.


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<n>(44:18)</n> no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death.


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<n>(44:19)</n> If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god:


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<n>(44:20)</n> For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long: and are counted as sheepe appoynted to be slayne.


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[To the chiefe musition (on the instrument) Sosannim (to be song of the) children of Corach. A song of loue, geuyng wise instructions.] &nbsp;My heart is endityng of a good matter: I wyll dedicate my workes vnto the king, my tongue is as the penne of a redy writer.


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Thou art fayrer then the children of men, full of grace are thy lippes: because the Lorde hath blessed thee for euer.


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Girde thee with thy sworde vpon thy thygh O thou most mightie: [that is] with thy glorie and thy maiestie.


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Prosper thou with thy maiestie, ryde on the worde of trueth and of affliction for ryghteousnesse sake: and thy ryght hande shall teache thee terrible thynges.


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Thy throne O Lorde endureth for euer and euer: the scepter of ryghteousnesse is the scepter of thy kyngdome.


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Thou hast loued iustice and hated vngodlynesse: wherfore the Lorde euen thy Lorde hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnesse more then thy felowes.


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All thy garmentes smell of Myrre, Aloes, and Cassia, out of the iuorie palaces: wherby they haue made thee glad.


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Kynges daughters are amongst thy honourable women: vpon thy ryght hande standeth the queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir.


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Hearken O daughter and consider, encline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house.


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And the daughter of Tyre shall come with a present: the riche among the people shall make their earnest prayer before thee.


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She shalbe brought vnto the kyng in rayment of needle worke: the virgins that folowe her and her company shalbe brought vnto thee.


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I wyll remember thy name from one generation vnto another: therfore shall the people prayse thee worlde without ende.


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[To the chiefe musition, a song (to be song) of the children of Corach vpon Alamoth.] &nbsp;The Lorde is our refuge & strength: a helpe very easyly founde in troubles.


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Therfore we wyll not feare though the earth be transposed: and though the hilles rushe into the middest of the sea.


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Though the waters thereof rage and swell: and though the mountaynes shake at the surges of the same. Selah.


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[Yet] the fludde by his ryuers shall make glad the citie of God: the holy place of the tabernacles of the most hyghest.


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God is in the myddest of her, therfore she can not be remoued: the Lorde wyll helpe her, and that ryght early.


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The heathen make much a do, and the kyngdomes are moued: but [God] shewed his voyce, and the earth melted away.


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He maketh warres to ceasse in all the worlde: he breaketh the bowe, & knappeth the speare in sunder, and burneth the charettes in the fire.


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Be styll then, and knowe that I am the Lorde: I wyll be exalted among the heathen, I wyll be exalted in the earth.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme (to be song) of the children of Corach.] &nbsp;Clap your handes all ye people: make a noise vnto the Lorde with a ioyfull voyce.


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The princes of the people are assembled together [for to be] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shieldes of the earth be Gods, who is hyghly exalted.


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[A song, the psalme of the children of Corach.] &nbsp;Great is God, and hyghly to be praysed: in the citie of our Lorde, his holy hyll.


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The hyll of Sion is fayre in situation, and the ioy of the whole earth: vpon the north syde lyeth the citie of the great king.


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<n>(48:4)</n> they them selues sawe it, lykewyse they marueyled, they were astonyed with feare, and sodenly in haste they were gone away.


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<n>(48:7)</n> Lyke as we haue hearde, so haue we seene in the citie of God of hoastes: in the citie of our Lorde, God vpholdeth the same for euer. Selah.


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<n>(48:9)</n> O Lorde, accordyng to thy name, so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende: thy ryght hande is full of iustice.


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<n>(48:10)</n> Mount Sion shall reioyce, and the daughters of Iuda shalbe glad: because of thy iudgementes.


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<n>(48:12)</n> Marke well her bulwarkes, beholde her hygh palaces: that ye may tell it to your posteritie.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of the children of Corach.] &nbsp;Heare this all ye people: geue eare all ye that dwell in the worlde.


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Wherfore shoulde I feare in euyll dayes? the wickednesse of my heeles [then] would compasse me round about.


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There be some that put their trust in their goodes: and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches.


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<n>(49:9)</n> For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other.


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<n>(49:10)</n> And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: [therfore] they call landes after their owne names.


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<n>(49:11)</n> Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in [such] honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe.


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<n>(49:12)</n> This their way is their foolishnesse: yet their posteritie prayse their saying. Selah.


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<n>(49:13)</n> They shalbe put into a graue [dead] as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell [shall receaue them] from their house.


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<n>(49:15)</n> Be not thou afrayde though one be made riche: or yf the glorie of his house be encreased.


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<n>(49:16)</n> For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym.


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<n>(49:17)</n> For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man: and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of thee.


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<n>(49:19)</n> A man is in an honourable state, but he wyll not vnderstande it: he is lyke [herein] vnto bruite beastes that perishe.


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[A psalme of Asaph.] &nbsp;The most mightie Lorde God hath spoken: and called the earth from the rysyng vp of the sunne, vnto the goyng downe therof.


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Our Lorde commeth, and he wyll not kepe scilence: there goeth before hym a consumyng fire, and a mightie tempest is sturred rounde about hym.


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Heare O my people, and I wil speake: I my selfe wyll testifie vnto thee O Israel, I am the Lorde, euen thy Lorde.


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I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerynges: [for that they be not] alway before me.


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I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes: and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement.


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But the Lorde sayd vnto the vngodly: why doest thou preache my lawes, and takest my couenaunt in thy mouth?


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When thou sawest a thiefe, thou dydst consent vnto hym: and thou hast ben partaker with the adulterers.


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These thynges hast thou done and I helde my tongue, thou thoughtest that I am euen such a one as thou thy selfe art: but I wyll reproue thee, and I wyll set foorth in order before thine eyes [all that thou hast done.]


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Consider this I pray you, ye that forget the Lorde: lest I plucke you away, and there be none to delyuer you.


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Who so offereth vnto me thankes and prayse, he honoureth me: and to hym that ordereth his conuersation ryght, I wyll shewe the saluation of God.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid when the prophete Nathan came vnto hym after he was gone in to Bethsabe.] &nbsp;Haue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse: accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse.


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Agaynst thee, only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and founde pure when thou art iudged.


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Neuerthelesse, lo thou requirest trueth in the inwarde partes [of me]: & [therfore] thou wylt make me learne wisdome in the secrete [part of myne heart.]


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Deliuer me from blood O Lorde, the Lorde of my saluation: and my tongue shall sing with a ioyfull noyse of thy iustice.


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Sacrifices for God is a mortified spirite: O Lorde thou wylt not despise a mortified and an humble heart.


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Be thou beneficiall vnto Sion, according to thy gracious good wyll: buylde thou the walles of Hierusalem.


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Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnes, with burnt offeringes and oblations: then wyll they offer young bullockes vpon thyne aulter.


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[To the chiefe musition, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and tolde him, saying: Dauid is come to the house of Achimelek.] &nbsp;Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth.


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Thou hast loued vngratiousnes more then goodnes: and to talke of falshood more then of righteousnes. Selah.


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Therfore the Lord wyll destroy thee for euer: he wyll take thee and plucke thee out of thy dwelling, and roote thee out of the lande of the liuing. Selah.


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[Saying] lo this is the man that put not the Lorde [to be] his strength: but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and strengthed him selfe in his wickednesse.


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As for me I am lyke a greene oliue tree in the house of the Lorde: my trust is in the tender mercy of the Lorde for euer and euer.


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I will alway confesse it vnto thee, for that thou hast done it: and I wyll hope in thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saintes.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Mahalah, a wise instruction of Dauid.] &nbsp;The foole hath sayde in his heart there is no God: they haue corrupted them selues, & haue made their wickednes abhominable, he is not that doeth good.


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The Lorde looked downe from heauen vpon the chyldren of men: to see if there were any that did vnderstand and seeke after the Lorde.


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But they dyd all go out of the way, they dyd altogether become abhomible: there was also none that would do good, no not one.


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Wyll not the workers of iniquitie vnderstande, eating vp my people [as if] they eated bread: that they do not call vpon God?


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They shalbe greatly there afraide [where] no cause of feare is: for the Lord wyll breake the bones of hym that besiegeth thee, thou wylt put [them] to shame, because the Lorde hath despised them.


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Who is he that wyll geue saluation vnto Israel out of Sion? when the Lord wyll reduce his people out of captiuitie, Iacob wyll reioyce, and Israel wyll be glad.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when the Ziphims came and sayd vnto Saul, hath not Dauid hyd him selfe amongst vs?] &nbsp;Saue me O Lorde for thy name sake: iudge me accordyng to thy mightie power.


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For straungers are rysen vp against me: and tirauntes whiche haue not the Lorde before their eyes, seeke after my soule. Selah.


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I wyll sacrifice vnto thee with a true wyllyng heart: I wyll confesse thy name O God, because it is good.


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For he hath deliuered me out of all my trouble: and mine eye hath seene [auengaunce] vpon mine enemies.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth, a wise instruction of Dauid.] &nbsp;O Lorde geue eare vnto my prayer: and hide not thy selfe from my petition.


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[Deliuer me] from the voyce of the enemie, and from the present affliction of the wicked: for they are minded to do me mischiefe, and are set malitiously against me.


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Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide [them]: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie.


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They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it.


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Truely he was not mine enemie that hath done me this dishonour, for then I coulde haue borne it: neither was he one that seemed to hate me that dyd magnifie hym selfe against me, for then I woulde haue hyd my selfe from him.


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We delighted greatly to conferre our secretes together: we walked deuoutly in the house of God felowe lyke.


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Let death sodainly come vpon them, let them go downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellinges and among them.


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In the euening and morning, and at noone day wyll I pray, and that most instantly: and he wyll heare my voyce.


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He hath redeemed my soule through peace from the battayle that was against me: for there were many with me.


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The Lorde who sitteth [a ruler] from the beginning, wyll heare [me] and afflict them, Selah: forsomuche as there is no chaunge in them, and for that they do not feare God.


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The [wordes] of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.


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O cast thy burthen vpon God, and he wyll vpholde thee: he wyll not suffer at any time the righteous to moue.


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[And as for] them: thou O Lorde wylt hurle headlong into the pit of destruction. <n>(55:24)</n> The bloodthirstie and deceiptfull men shal not liue out halfe their dayes: neuerthelesse I wyll put my full trust in thee.


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[To the chiefe musition as concerning the dumbe doue in a farre countrey, the golden psalme of Dauid, when the Philistines toke him in Geth.] &nbsp;Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde: for man goeth about to deuour me, he dayly fyghtyng, oppresseth me.


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Myne enemies are dayly in hande to swalowe me vp: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most highest.


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In the Lord I wyll prayse his word: in the Lorde I haue put my trust, and I wyll not feare what flesh can do vnto me.


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They flocke together, they kepe them selues close: they marke my steppes, that they may lye in wayte for my soule.


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Thou hast numbred my flittinges, thou hast put my teares in thy bottell: [are] not these thinges [noted] in thy booke?


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Whensoeuer I call vpon thee, then shall myne enemies be put to flight: this I know, for the Lorde is on my side.


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For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and my feete from falling: that I may walke before the Lorde in the light of the liuing.


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[To the chiefe musition (to be song lyke vnto the song beginning) destroy not, a golden psalme of Dauid, when he fled from Saul into the caue.] &nbsp;Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde, be mercifull vnto me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and vnder the shadowe of thy wynges wyll I trust, vntyll this tiranny be ouerpast.


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I wyll call vnto the most high Lorde: euen vnto the Lord that wil perfourme the cause which I haue in hande.


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He wyll sende from heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him that woulde deuour me vp, Selah: the Lorde wyll sende foorth his mercie and trueth.


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My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.


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They haue prepared a net for my feete, that some man might presse downe my soule: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it them selues. Selah.


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Bestirre thee O my glory, bestirre thee O Lute and Harpe: I my selfe wil bestirre me right early in the morning.


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[To the chiefe musition, destroy not, a golden psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;O ye that consult together, pronounce ye truely the thing that is iust? O ye sonnes of men iudge you according to equitie?


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Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth.


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The vngodly are straungers euen from their mothers wombe: assoone as they be borne, they go astray and speake a lye.


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They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,


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<n>(58:5)</n> Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.


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<n>(58:6)</n> Let them be dissolued as into water, let them come to naught of them selues: and when they shoote their arrowes, let them be as broken.


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<n>(58:7)</n> Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne.


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<n>(58:8)</n> As a greene thorne [kindled with fyre, goeth out] before your pottes be made whot: euen so let a furious rage bring him to naught.


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<n>(58:9)</n> The righteous wyll reioyce when he seeth the vengeaunce: he wyll washe his foote steppes in the blood of the vngodly.


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<n>(58:10)</n> And euery man shall say, veryly there is a rewarde for the righteous: doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.


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[To the chiefe musition, destroy not, a golden psalme of Dauid, when Saul sent, and they did watch the house to kill him.] &nbsp;Deliuer me from myne enemies O Lorde: defende me fro them that rise vp against me.


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For lo, they lye in wayte for my soule: men of power are gathered together against me who haue committed no wickednes nor fault O God.


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And thou O God Lorde of hoastes, Lorde of Israel: awake to visite all Heathen, and be not mercifull vnto all them that offend of malice. Selah.


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Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for [say they] who doth heare [vs?]


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Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but in thy stoutnes scatter them like vagaboundes, and put them downe O God our defence.


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The wordes of their lippes [be] the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.


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Consume them in thy wrath, consume them that nothing of them remayne: and let them knowe that it is the Lord that ruleth in Iacob, & vnto the endes of the worlde. Selah.


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As for me I wyll sing of thy power, and wyll prayse thy louing kindnes betimes in the morning: for thou hast ben my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.


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Unto thee O my strength will I sing psalmes: for thou O Lorde art my refuge, and my mercyfull Lorde.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Susan Eduth, a golden psalme of Dauid, for to teache: (made) when he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Stobah, and when Ioab turned backe and slue twelue thousande Edomites in the salt valley.)] &nbsp;O Lorde thou hast cast vs out, thou hast dispearsed vs, thou art displeased: O turne thee vnto vs agayne.


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Thou hast made the land to tremble, thou hast cleft it asunder: heale the breaches therof, for it is redy to fall downe.


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Thou hast made thy people see heauie thinges: thou hast geuen vs wyne to drinke, that maketh vs tremble.


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But to suche as feare thee: thou hast geuen a banner to be lyfted vp on high for the trueth sake. Selah.


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The Lorde hath spoken in his holynes (whereof I wyll reioyce) this: I wyll deuide Sichem, and measure the valley of Sucoth.


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Gilead shalbe myne, and Manasses shalbe myne: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of my head, and Iuda my law geuer.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth of Dauid.] &nbsp;Heare my crying O Lorde: geue eare vnto my prayer.


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From the endes of the earth I wyll call vnto thee when my heart is in heauines: oh set me vp on the rocke that is higher then I.


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He shall dwell before the Lorde for euer: O appoynt thy louing mercy and faithfulnes, that thei may preserue him.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Iudethun, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;My soule truly only stayeth vpon the Lorde: for of him commeth my saluation.


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Howe long wyll ye imagine mischiefe against euery man? ye shalbe slayne all the sort of you: [ye shalbe] as a tottering wall, [and like] a broken hedge.


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They deuise only howe to thrust [him] from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah.


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O ye people, put your trust in hym alway: powre out your heartes before him, for the Lorde is our hope. Selah.


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As for the chyldren of men, they be onlye but vanitie, the chyldren of lordes be but a lye: vpon the wayghtes they [be] altogether [lighter] then vanitie in selfe.


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O trust not in wrong [dealing] and spoyling: geue not your selues vnto vanitie, if riches encrease, set not your heart [vpon them.]


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The Lord spake it once, [but] I haue hearde it twise, that power and mercy belongeth to thee O Lorde God:


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[A psalme of Dauid when he was in the wyldernesse of Iuda.] &nbsp;O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee. <n>(63:2)</n> My soule thirsteth for thee: my fleshe also longeth after thee in a baren and drye lande [where] no water is.


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<n>(63:3)</n> [To see thee] euen so [as] I haue seene thee in the sanctuary: that I might beholde thy power and glory.


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<n>(63:5)</n> As long as I liue I wyll blesse thee on this maner: and in thy name I wyll lyft vp my handes.


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<n>(63:6)</n> My soule is satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnes: and my mouth prayseth thee with ioyfull lippes.


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<n>(63:8)</n> Because thou hast ben my helper: therfore vnder the shadowe of thy wynges do I reioyce.


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<n>(63:11)</n> Euery one of them shalbe killed with the edge of a sworde: and they shalbe a portion for Foxes.


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<n>(63:12)</n> But the king shal reioyce in the Lord, al they shal glory that sweare by him: for the mouth of all them that speake a lye, shalbe stopped.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;O Lorde heare my voyce in my prayer: preserue my life from feare of the enemie.


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Hyde me from the secrete [counsayles] of the malitious: from the conspiracie of the workers of iniquitie.


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They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them?


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They searche out howe to do wrong, they put in practise fully that they haue diligently searched out: yea euen the secretes and bottome of euery one of their heartes.


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Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away [from them]


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And all men that see it shall say, this hath God done: for they shall well perceaue that it is his worke.


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The righteous wyll reioyce in God, and put his trust in hym: and all they that be vpright hearted wylbe glad.


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[To the chiefe musition, the psalme of Dauid, a song.] &nbsp;O Lorde thou wylt be greatly praysed in Sion: and vnto thee shal vowes be perfourmed


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Blessed is the man [whom] thou choosest and receauest vnto thee: he shall dwell in thy court, and we shalbe satisfied with the goodnes of thy house, euen of thy holy temple.


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Thou wylt heare vs, doyng wonderfull thinges in righteousnes O Lorde of our saluation: thou [art] the hope of all endes of the earth, and of them that dwell farre of at the sea coast.


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They also that dwel in the vtmost partes [of the earth] be afrayde at thy signes: thou makest them reioyce at the going foorth of the morning and euenyng.


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Thou visitest the earth, and thou makest it ouerflowne, thou enrichest it greatly: the riuer of God is full of water, thou preparest their corne, for so thou ordaynest it.


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Thou waterest her forowes, thou breakest downe her hillockes: thou makest it soft with the drops of rayne, and blessest the increase of it.


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The downes be couered with sheepe: the valleys stande thicke with corne [so that] they showte [for ioy] and also sing.


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[To the chiefe musition, a song (whiche is) a psalme.] &nbsp;Declare you ioyfull vnto the Lorde all [ye of] the earth:


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<n>(66:2)</n> Say vnto the Lorde, oh howe wonderfull art thou in thy workes: thorow the greatnes of thy power thyne enemies shalbe founde liers vnto thee.


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<n>(66:3)</n> For all [they of] the worlde shall worship thee, and sing psalmes vnto thee: they shall sing psalmes vnto thy holy name. Selah.


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<n>(66:4)</n> Come hither and beholde the workes of the Lorde: howe wonderfull he is in his doing towarde the chyldren of men.


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<n>(66:5)</n> He turneth the sea into drye lande, so that they went thorowe the water on foote: there dyd we reioyce in him.


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<n>(66:6)</n> He ruleth with his power for euer, his eyes beholdeth the gentiles: such as be rebels shal not come to promotion. Selah.


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<n>(66:11)</n> Thou sufferedst men to ride ouer our heades: we went through fire and water, and [yet] thou broughtest vs out into a pleasaunt [place.]


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<n>(66:13)</n> I wyll offer vnto thee fat burnt sacrifices, with the incense of rammes: I will offer bullockes and goates. Selah.


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<n>(66:14)</n> O come hither, & hearken: and I wil tell all you that feare the Lorde, what he hath done for my soule.


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<n>(66:17)</n> Blessed be the Lorde which hath not reiected my prayer: nor turned his mercye from me.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth, a psalme (whiche is) a song.] &nbsp;The Lord be mercyfull vnto vs and blesse vs: [and] cause the light of his coutenaunce to shine vpon vs. Selah.


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The Gentiles will reioyce & triumph: for thou wylt iudge the people, and gouerne the gentiles vpon the earth, according to equitie. Selah.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid, which is a song.] &nbsp;In case the Lorde woulde aryse, his enemies woulde be scattered: and they that hate hym woulde flee from his face.


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Lyke as the smoke vanisheth, [so] wylt thou cause [them] to vanishe away: and lyke as water melteth at the fire, [so] wyll the vngodly perishe at the presence of the Lorde.


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But the ryghteous must be glad, and reioyce before the Lorde: they shall not stande styll for myrth.


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Syng vnto the Lorde, syng psalmes vnto his name: magnifie hym that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse in his name euerlastyng, and reioyce before his face.


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He is a father of the fatherlesse, and the iudge of widdowes: [he is] the Lord in his holy habitation.


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He is the Lord that maketh those that dwell alone to haue a familie: and bryngeth prisoners out of the stockes.


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But rebelles did inhabite a dry [ground] O Lorde, when thou wentest foorth before the people: when thou wentest through the wyldernesse. Selah.


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The earth shoke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of the Lorde: euen Sinai it selfe [shoke] at the presence of the Lorde, Lorde of Israel.


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Thou O Lorde dydst cause rayne to fall at thy gratious pleasure: and when thine inheritaunce was weery, thou dydst hearten it.


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Though ye haue lyen among the pottes: yet shall ye be as the wynges of a doue that is couered with siluer, and hath her fethers as yelowe as golde.


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Why skyp you so the high hylles? this is the Lordes hyll in the which it pleaseth hym to dwell, yea God wyll abyde in it for euer.


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The charettes of the Lorde are twentie thousande, euen thousandes of angels: and the Lorde is among them in holy Sinai.


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Thou wenst vp on high, thou hast led captiuitie captiue, thou hast receaued gyftes for men: yea euen [for] those that be disobedient, that God the Lorde myght dwell [among them,]


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Blessed be the Lorde who day by day powreth his [benefites] vpon vs: and is God of our saluation. Selah.


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The Lorde is our Lorde for to saue vs: and all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lorde.


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God wyll wounde the head of his enemies: and the heary scalpe of hym who goeth on styll in his wickednesse.


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The Lorde hath sayde, I wyll bryng [my people] agayne out from Basan: I wyll bryng [them] agayne out from the deepe of the sea.


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That thy footes [and] the tongue of thy dogges: may be made redde in the blood of the enemies by his meanes.


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The singers go before, the minstrelles folowe after: in the myddest are the damselles playing with the timbrelles.


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There is litle Beniamin their ruler, & the princes of Iehuda their counsell: the princes of Zabulon [and] the princes of Nepthali.


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Put to rebuke the companie of speare men, a multitude of bulles amongest the people lyke vnto calues: [vntyll] that they brought vnder foote [come] with peeces of siluer [for tribute,] scatter the people that delyght in warre.


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Then shal princes come out of Egypt: Ethiopia in all haste shall stretch out her handes vnto the Lorde.


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O Lorde thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel geueth myght and strength vnto his people, Blessed be the Lorde.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Sosanim (a psalme) of Dauid.] &nbsp;Saue me O Lorde: for waters haue entred in vnto my soule.


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I am ouer the head in deepe myre where I feele no grounde: I plunge in deepe waters where the streame ouerwhelmeth me.


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I am weery of crying, my throte is drye: my syght fayleth me through the long attendaunce that I haue geuen vpon my Lorde.


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They that hate me without a cause are mo then the heeres of my head: they that are myne enemies and woulde destroy me giltlesse are mightie, I payde them the thynges that I neuer toke.


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Let not them that trust in thee O Lorde God of hoastes, be for my cause ashamed: let not those that seke thee, be through me confounded O Lorde of Israel.


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<n>(69:8)</n> For the zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.


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<n>(69:11)</n> They that sit in the gate speake agaynst me: and they that drynke strong drynke [make] songes [vpon me.]


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<n>(69:12)</n> But [I make] my prayer vnto thee O God in an acceptable tyme: heare me O Lord in the multitude of thy mercie, according to the trueth of thy saluation.


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<n>(69:13)</n> Take me out of the myre, that I sincke not: oh let me be delyuered from them that hate me, & out of the deepe waters.


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<n>(69:14)</n> Let not the water fludde drowne me, neither let the deepe swalowe me vp: & let not the pyt shut her mouth vpon me.


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<n>(69:15)</n> Heare me O God, for thy louyng kindnesse is comfortable: turne thee vnto me accordyng vnto the multitude of thy mercies.


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<n>(69:16)</n> And hyde not thy face from thy seruaunt, for I am in trouble: O haste thee [and] heare me.


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<n>(69:18)</n> Thou hast knowen my reproofe, my shame, and my dishonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght.


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<n>(69:19)</n> Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.


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<n>(69:20)</n> They gaue me for meate, gall to eate: and when I was thirstie, they gaue me vineger to drynke.


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<n>(69:21)</n> Let their table be as a snare before them: and in steade of aboundaunce of peace, let it be a meanes of destruction.


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<n>(69:23)</n> Powre out thine indignation vpon them: and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them.


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<n>(69:25)</n> For they persecute hym whom thou hast smitten: and they talke of the griefe of them whom thou hast wounded.


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<n>(69:26)</n> Let them fall from one wickednesse to another: and let them not enter into thy ryghteousnesse.


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<n>(69:27)</n> Let them be wyped out of the booke of the lyuyng: and not to be written among the ryghteous.


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<n>(69:28)</n> As for me I am afflicted and in heauinesse: thy sauing helpe O Lorde shal defende me.


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<n>(69:29)</n> I wyll prayse the name of the Lorde with a song: and magnifie hym with a solemne confession.


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<n>(69:31)</n> The humble wyll consider this and be glad, such as seke after God: and your soule shall lyue.


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<n>(69:34)</n> For the Lorde wyll saue Sion, and builde the cities of Iehuda: that men may dwel there and haue it in possession.


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<n>(69:35)</n> The posteritie also of his seruauntes shall inherite it: and they that loue his name shall dwell therin.


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[To the chiefe musition (a psalme) of Dauid, to reduce in remembraunce.] &nbsp;Haste thee O Lorde to delyuer me: make haste to helpe me O God.


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Let them be ashamed and confounded that seke after my soule: let them be turned backwarde and be put to confusion that wishe me euyll.


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But let all those that seke thee be ioyfull and glad in thee: and let all such as delight in thy saluation say alway, the Lorde be magnified.


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As for me I am poore and in miserie, hasten thee vnto me O Lorde: thou art my ayde and my delyuerer, O God make no long tarying.


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<n>(71:1)</n> ridde me and deliuer me in thy ryghteousnesse, incline thine eare vnto me, and saue me.


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<n>(71:2)</n> Be thou my strong holde whervnto I may alway resort: thou hast geuen a charge to saue me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castell.


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<n>(71:3)</n> Delyuer me O my Lorde out of the hande of the vngodly: out of the hande of the vnryghteous and cruell man.


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<n>(71:4)</n> For thou O Lorde God art the thyng that I long for: thou art my hope euen from my youth.


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<n>(71:5)</n> Through thee haue I ben mayntayned euer since I was borne: thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe, my praise shalbe alway of thee.


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<n>(71:9)</n> For myne enemies speake against me: and they that lay awayte for my soule take their counsayle together.


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<n>(71:10)</n> They say, the Lorde hath forsaken hym: do you persecute hym and take hym, for there is none to delyuer hym.


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<n>(71:12)</n> Let them be confounded, let them be brought to naught that are agaynst my soule: let them be couered with shame and dishonour that seke to do me euyll.


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<n>(71:14)</n> My mouth shall dayly speake of thy ryghteousnesse and saluation: for I knowe no ende therof.


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<n>(71:15)</n> I wyll go foorth in the strength of the Lorde God: [and] I wyll only make mention of thy ryghteousnesse.


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<n>(71:16)</n> Thou O God hast taught me from my youth: and hytherto I can well declare thy wonderous workes.


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<n>(71:17)</n> Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto [this] generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.


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<n>(71:18)</n> And vntyll I [haue] exceedyngly exalted O Lorde thy ryghteousnesse: for great thynges are they that thou hast done, O Lorde who is lyke vnto thee?


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<n>(71:19)</n> Which hast made me to feele many great troubles and aduersities: yet returnyng thou hast reuyued me, yea returnyng thou hast caused me to come out from the bottome of the earth.


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<n>(71:20)</n> Thou hast brought me to greater honour then I had before: & thou returnyng hast comforted me on euery syde.


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<n>(71:21)</n> Therfore I wyll confesse vnto thee thy trueth O Lorde, playing vpon an instrument of musicke: vnto thee I wyl syng psalmes vpon the harpe O thou most holy [God] of Israel.


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<n>(71:22)</n> My lyppes wyll be ioyfull when I syng vnto thee: and so wyll my soule which thou hast redeemed.


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<n>(71:23)</n> My tongue also shal talke of thy righteousnesse all the day long: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame that seke to do me euyll.


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[Of Solomon.] &nbsp;O God geue vnto the kyng thy iudgementes: and thy ryghteousnesse vnto the kynges sonne.


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He wyll iudge the afflicted amongst the people: he wyll saue the children of the poore, and subdue the oppressour.


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In his dayes the ryghteous wyll florishe: and there shalbe aboundaunce of peace so long as the moone endureth.


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His dominion also shalbe from the one sea to the other: and from the fludde vnto the ende of the earth.


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The kyng of Tharsis and of the Iles shall offer presentes: the kynges of Sheba & Seba shall bring giftes.


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He wyll lyue, and he wyll geue to the poore of the golde of Sheba: and he wyll pray alwayes for hym, and dayly he wyll blesse hym.


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A handfull of corne shall [be sowed] in the earth vpon the toppe of hylles: and the fruite therof shall make a noyse lyke Libanus, and shall florishe in the citie lyke grasse vpon the earth.


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His name shall endure for euer, his name shalbe spread abrode to the world so long as the sunne shall shyne: all nations shalbe blessed in hym, and shall call hym blessed.


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And blessed be the name of his maiestie for euer: and all the earth shalbe fylled with his maiestie. Amen, Amen.


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[A psalme of Asaph.] &nbsp;Truely the Lorde is very good vnto Israel: vnto such as haue a cleane heart.


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And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment.


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They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously.


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If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children.


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Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread.


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They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.


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For lo, they that kepe them selues a loofe from thee shall perishe: thou destroyest euery one that committeth fornication agaynst thee.


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But it is good for me to come neare vnto God: [wherfore] I put my trust in thee O Lorde God, that I may declare all thy workes.


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[A wise instruction (to be song) of Asaph.] &nbsp;O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture.


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Remember thy congregation, thou hast possest it nowe a long tyme: thou hast redeemed the rodde of thine inheritaunce, euen mount Sion wherein thou dwellest.


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Thyne aduersaries roare in the myddest of thy congregations: and set vp their banners for signes [of victorie.]


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He that hewed tymber afore out of thicke woddes [for to builde the temple:] was esteemed as one offeryng a present [to God] aboue.


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They haue set fire on thy holy places: they haue defiled the dwellyng place of thy name [castyng it downe] to the groud.


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Yea, they sayde in their heartes, let vs make hauocke of them altogether: thus haue they burnt vp all the houses of God in the lande.


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We see not our ensignes, there is not one prophete more: no not one is there amongst vs that vnderstandeth our case.


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O Lorde shall the aduersarie do this dishonour continually? shall the enemie blaspheme thy name for euer?


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Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in peeces: and gauest hym to be meate for the people in wildernesse.


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Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes: thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters.


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O deliuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto a wylde beast: forget not the congregation of the poore for euer.


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Arise O Lord, mayntayne thine owne cause: remember the dishonour that the foolishe man [doth] vnto thee dayly.


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Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: the mutteryng of them that hate thee ascendeth vp continually.


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[To the chiefe musition, destroy not; the psalme of Asaph, a song.] &nbsp;We do confesse it vnto thee O lord, we do confesse it: for thy wonderous workes do declare thy name to be at hande.


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For in the hande of God there is a cup, and the wine is redde: it is full mixt, and he powreth out the same. <n>(75:9)</n> But the vngodly of the earth do wring out: and drynke the dregges therof.


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<n>(75:10)</n> As for me I wyll euer set foorth in wordes [the Lorde]: I wyll sing psalmes to the God of Iacob.


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<n>(75:11)</n> And I wyll breake all the hornes of the vngodly: but the hornes of the ryghteous shalbe exalted.


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[To the chiefe musition in Neginoth, the psalme of Asaph, a song.] &nbsp;In Iurie is God knowen: his name is great in Israel.


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The hygh couragious stomackes are spoyled, they haue slept their slepe: and the valiaunt souldiours coulde not finde their owne handes.


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The fearcenesse of man shall turne to thy prayse: [and] the remnaunt of the fearcenesse thou wylt restrayne.


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Make vowes vnto God your Lorde, & perfourme them all ye that be rounde about hym: bryng presentes vnto hym that is dreadfull.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Ieduthun, a psalme of Asaph.] &nbsp;My voyce was vnto the Lorde, and I cryed: my voyce was vnto the Lord, and he hearkened vnto me.


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In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort.


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I called to remembraunce God, and I was disquieted: I conferred with my selfe, and my spirite was wrapped in pensiuenesse. Selah.


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I called to remembraunce my psalme, song on the musicall instrument in the nyght tyme: I communed with myne owne heart, & searched out my spirites.


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Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende.


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I dyd call to remebraunce the workes of God almightie: for thy wonders done a great whyle a goe came into my mynde.


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The waters sawe thee O God, the waters sawe thee, they feared: yea the depthes of them moued out of their place.


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Thicke cloudes powred downe rayne, thinne cloudes gaue a noyse: and thine arrowes went abrode into al corners.


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The sounde of thy thunder was rounde about the [sky]: the lightnynges shone through the worlde, the earth quaked and trembled.


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[A wise instruction of Asaph.] &nbsp;Heare my lawe O my people: enclyne your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.


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We wyll not hyde them from their children: nay we wyll set foorth in wordes to the generation to come, the prayses of God, and his myght and wonderfull workes that he hath done.


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For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children.


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To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, [and] children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children.


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That they shoulde put their trust in God, and not forget the workes of God: but kepe his commaundementes.


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And that they be not as their forefathers [were] a rebellious and a mutable generation: a generation that directed not their heart aright, and whose spirite cleaued not stedfastly vnto God.


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[Like as] the children of Ephraim, which beyng harnessed & carying bowes: turned their backes in the day of battayle.


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Marueylous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the fielde of Zoan.


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He cloued the harde rockes in the wildernes: & gaue them drinke therof, as it had ben out of the great deepe waters.


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He brought running streames out of a stonie rocke: and caused waters to gushe downe, like as out of riuers.


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Yet for all this they sinned still against hym: so that they prouoked the most hyghest in the wildernesse.


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Beholde, he hath smytten the stonie rocke, and waters haue gushed out, and streames haue flowed out aboundantly: but can he likewise geue bread, can he prouide fleshe for his people?


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Wherefore God hearde [them,] he was wroth, a fire was kindled in Iacob: and there arose vp heauy displeasure against Israel.


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He remoued the east winde from vnder the heauen: and through his power he brought in the south winde.


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So they dyd eate and were wel filled, for he gaue them their owne desire: neuerthelesse they were not alienated from their lust.


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But whyle the meate was yet in their mouthes, the heauy wrath of God came vpon them, and slue the welthyest of them: and made the chosen men of Israel to stoupe.


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And they remembred that the Lorde was their rocke: & that the Lorde most hyghest was their redeemer.


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Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not.


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Yea many a tyme he dyd much for to represse his anger: and neuer woulde suffer his whole rage to breake out.


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For he considered that they were but fleshe, and that they were euen a winde that passeth away & cometh not againe.


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He cast vpon them the rage of his furie, anger, disdayne, and trouble: by sending foorth euill angels amongst them.


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He made away to his indignation, & spared not their soule from death: he gaue their lyfe to be subiect to the pestilence.


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And he smote all the first borne of Egypt: the first fruites of concupiscence in the pauilions of Cham.


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But as for his owne people, he led them foorth like sheepe: and conducted them through the wildernesse like a flocke of cattell.


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And brought them within the borders of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountayne which his right hand purchased.


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He dyd cast out the heathen also before them: he caused their land to be deuided among the for an heritage, & made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tentes.


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They turned backewarde, and they went astray like their forefathers: they started aside like a bowe that breaketh.


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For they stirred hym to anger with their hygh places: and prouoked him to ielousie with their carued images.


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And there he buylded his temple on high: and layde the foundation of it like a grounde euer to continue.


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As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce.


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So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart: and guided them by the discretion of his handes.


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[A psalme of Asaph.] &nbsp;O Lord, the heathen are come into thyne inheritaunce: they haue defiled thy holy temple, they haue made Hierusale an heape [of stones]


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They haue geuen the dead bodies of thy seruauntes to be meate vnto the foules of the ayre: and the fleshe of thy saintes vnto the beastes of the lande.


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We are become an open shame vnto our neyghbours: a very scorne and derision vnto them that are rounde about vs.


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Powre out thine indignation vpon the Heathen that haue not knowen thee: and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy name.


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O remember not against vs sinnes that be past, with all speede let thy tender mercy preuent vs: for we are brought very lowe.


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Helpe vs O Lord of our saluation for the glory of thy name: deliuer vs, and be mercyfull vnto our sinnes for thy names sake.


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Wherefore do the Heathen say, where is nowe their God? let the vengeaunce of thy seruauntes blood that is shed, be [openly knowen] amongst the Heathen in our sight.


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Let the sorowfull sighing of the prisoners come before thee, accordyng vnto the greatnes of thy power: preserue thou those that [are] appoynted to dye.


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And rewarde thou our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome: their blasphemie wherewith they haue blasphemed thee O God.


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So we who be thy people and sheepe of thy pasture wyll confesse thee for euer: and we wyll alway set foorth in wordes thy prayse, from generation to generation.


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[To the chiefe musition, vpon Sosannim Eduth, a psalme of Asaph.] &nbsp;Heare O thou shephearde of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph lyke a sheepe: and thou that sittest vpon the Cherubims, shew thy gratious presence.


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Turne thee agayne thou God of hoastes I pray thee: loke downe from heauen, beholde and visite this vine


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<n>(80:14)</n> and vineyarde that thy ryght hande hath planted, and the young braunche which thou hast fortified for thy selfe.


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<n>(80:15)</n> It is brent with fire and cut downe: they shall perishe at the rebuke of thy countenaunce.


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<n>(80:16)</n> Let thy hande be vpon the man of thy right hande: and vpon the sonne of man whom thou hast fortified for thyne owne selfe.


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<n>(80:17)</n> And so we wyll not go backe from thee: thou shalt reuiue vs, and we wyll call vpon thy name.


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<n>(80:18)</n> Turne vs agayne O God, Lorde of hoastes: shewe the light of thy countenaunce, and we shalbe saued.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith, of Asaph.] &nbsp;Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob.


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Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day.


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This he ordayned in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he came out of the lande of Egypt: [where] I hearde a tongue [whiche] I knewe not.


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Thou calledst vpon me in troubles, and I deliuered thee: I hearde thee out of the middest of a thunder, I proued thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.


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If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.


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I am God thy Lorde which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wyde, and I wyll fill it.


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So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations.


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He woulde haue fed them also with the finest wheate flowre: and I would haue satisfied thee with honie out of the stonie rocke.


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Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.


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They knowe nothyng, they vnderstande nothing: they walke on styll in darknesse, [wherfore] all the foundations of the earth be out of course.


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[A song, the psalme of Asaph.] &nbsp;Holde not thy tongue O Lorde: kepe not styll scilence, refraine not thy selfe O Lorde.


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They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest.


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They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce.


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Let them be confounded and astonied with feare euer more & more: let them be put to shame, and perishe.


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And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth.


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[To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith, a psalme of the sonnes of Corach.] &nbsp;O how amiable are thy dwellinges: thou God of hoastes?


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My soule hath a desire and a longing to enter into the courtes of God: my heart and my flesh leapeth with ioy for to go to the liuing Lorde.


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Yea the sparowe hath founde her an house, and the swallowe a nest: where she may lay her young: euen thy aulters O God of hoastes, my king & my Lord.


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They iourneying through the vale of teares: (yea when euery cesterne [at their name] is filled with water) do accept it for a [fayre pleasaunt] well.


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They wyl set forward from a stoute courage to a stoute courage: that the God of Gods may be seene of them in Sion.


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For one day in thy courtes, is better then a thousande [els where]: I had rather be a doore keper in the house of my God, then to dwell in [large] tabernacles of vngodlynes.


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For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of the sonnes of Corach.] &nbsp;O God, thou art become gracious vnto thy land: thou hast brought Iacob agayne home out of captiuitie.


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Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer? and wylt thou stretche out thy wrath from one generation to another,


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I wyll hearken what God the Lord saith: for he speaketh peace vnto his people & to his saintes, that they turne not agayne to folly.


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Teache me thy way O God, and I wyll walke in thy trueth: make my heart all one with thyne, that it may feare thy name.


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O God, the proude are rysen against me: a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule, and haue not set thee before their eyes.


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But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy: long yet thou be angry, plenteous in goodnes and trueth.


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Turne thy face vnto me, and haue mercy vpon me: geue thy strength vnto thy seruaunt, and helpe the sonne of thine handmayde.


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Shewe some good token of thy fauour towardes me, that they whiche hate me may see it and be ashamed: because thou God hast helped me, and comforted me.


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[A psalme, the song of the sonnes of Corach.] &nbsp;God loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob: [for] her foundations are vpon the holy hilles.


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<n>(87:3)</n> I wyll make mention amongst those that knowe me, of Egypt and Babylon: behold also of Palestina and Tyre, with Ethiopia, [and it shalbe sayde] suche a man is borne there.


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<n>(87:4)</n> But of Sion it shalbe reported, that very many be borne in her: and the most highest him selfe shall establishe her.


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<n>(87:6)</n> And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes: yea al my fountaines are in thee.


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[A song, the psalme of the sonnes of Corach, to the chiefe musition vpon Mahalath Leannoth, a wise instruction of Heman the Ezrahite.] &nbsp;O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee:


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<n>(88:3)</n> I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength.


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<n>(88:4)</n> I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande.


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<n>(88:6)</n> Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah.


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<n>(88:7)</n> Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.


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<n>(88:8)</n> My sight fayleth through my affliction O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee.


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<n>(88:9)</n> Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee? Selah.


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<n>(88:10)</n> Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction?


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<n>(88:11)</n> Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes?


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<n>(88:12)</n> But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee.


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<n>(88:14)</n> I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt.


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<n>(88:16)</n> They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde.


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<n>(88:17)</n> Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight.


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[A wyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite.] &nbsp;I wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God: with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generation to another.


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I wyll establishe thy seede for euer: and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.


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O God, the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes: and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes.


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For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God: [and who] is like vnto God amongst the children gods?


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God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes: and to be feared aboue al them that are about him.


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O God, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee.


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Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded: thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme.


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The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin.


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Blessed is the people that knoweth a triumphant noyse: O God, they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce.


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They shall make them selues merie dayly in thy name: and in thy righteousnes they shall exalt them selues.


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Thou hast spoken somtimes in visions vnto thy saintes: and hast sayde, I haue added ayde vpon the mightie, I haue exalted one chose out of the people.


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He shall make inuocation vnto me: [saying] thou art my father O my God, and my fortresse of saluation.


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<n>(89:31)</n> I will then visite their transgressions with a rodde: and their wickednesse with stripes.


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<n>(89:32)</n> Neuerthelesse, my louyng kyndnesse I wyll not take vtterly from hym: I wyl not breake my promise with hym.


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<n>(89:36)</n> [And] as the moone which shall continue for euermore: and shalbe a faithful witnesse in heauen. Selah.


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<n>(89:38)</n> Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, [castyng it] on the grounde.


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<n>(89:41)</n> Thou hast exalted the ryght hande of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce.


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<n>(89:42)</n> Thou hast turned the harde edge of his sworde: and thou hast not lifted him vp in the battayle.


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<n>(89:43)</n> Thou hast brought his noble estate to an ende: and hast cast his throne downe to the grounde.


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<n>(89:44)</n> Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth: and thou hast couered him with shame. Selah.


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<n>(89:46)</n> Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?


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<n>(89:47)</n> What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death? can he delyuer his owne soule from the hande of hell? Selah.


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<n>(89:48)</n> Lorde where are become thy former olde louyng kyndnesses: [which] thou dydst sweare vnto Dauid by thy fayth [that thou wouldest perfourme.]


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<n>(89:49)</n> Remember O Lorde the dishonour * of thy seruauntes: I beare in my bosome [the dishonour of] all people that be mightie.


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<n>(89:50)</n> Who beyng thine enemies O God do dishonour: who do dishonour the footsteppes of thine annoynted.


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[A prayer of Moyses the man of God.] &nbsp;Lorde thou hast ben our habitation: from one generation to another generation.


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Before the moutaynes were brought foorth, or euer the earth & the worlde were made: thou art God both from euerlastyng, and also vntyll euerlastyng.


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Thou turnest man most miserable euen vnto dust: thou sayest also, O ye children of men returne you into dust.


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Thou makest them to flowe away, they are a sleepe: they be in the morning as an hearbe that groweth.


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Thou hast set our misdeedes before thee: and our sinnes wherof we be not priuie, in the lyght of thy countenaunce.


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The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength [of nature] men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it.


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Who regardeth the force of thy wrath? for euen there after as a man feareth thee, so [feeleth he] thy displeasure.


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Replenishe vs early in the mornyng with thy mercie: and we wyll crye out for ioy, and be glad all the dayes of our lyfe.


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Make vs mery accordyng to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs: and accordyng to the yeres wherin we haue suffred aduersitie.


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And let the glorious maiestie of the Lorde our God be vpon vs: and prosper thou the worke of our handes vpon vs, O prosper thou our handy worke.


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Whosoeuer sitteth vnder the couer of the most highest: he shal abide vnder the shadowe of the almightie.


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He wyll couer thee vnder his wynges, & thou shalt be safe vnder his fethers: his faythfulnesse shalbe thy shielde and buckler.


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Nor of any pestilence that walketh in the darknesse: nor of any deadly fyt that destroyeth at hygh noone.


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A thousande shall fall beside thee, and ten thousande at thy ryght hande: but it shall not come nygh thee.


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Thou shalt set thy foote vppon the Lion and Adder: the young Lion and the Dragon thou shalt treade vnder thy feete.


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Because he hath set greatly his loue vpon me, therfore wyll I deliuer hym: I wyll set hym vp out of all daunger, because he hath knowen my name.


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He shall call vpon me, and I wyll heare hym: yea I am with hym in trouble, I wyll deliuer hym, and bryng hym to honour.


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[A Psalme, the song for the sabbath day.] &nbsp;It is a good thyng to confesse vnto God: and to syng psalmes vnto thy name O thou most hyghest.


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To set foorth in wordes thy louyng kyndnesse early in the mornyng: and thy trueth in the nyght season.


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Wheras the vngodly do bud vp greene as the grasse, and wheras all workers of iniquitie do florishe: that they [notwithstandyng] shalbe destroyed for euer and euer.


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For lo, thine enemies O God, lo thine enemies shall perishe: & all the workers of wickednesse shalbe destroyed.


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And myne eye shall see those that lye in wayte for me: myne eare shall heare the malitious persons that rise vp agaynst me.


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God raigneth, he is clothed with a glorious maiestie, God is clothed with strength: he hath girded hym selfe, he hath made the worlde so sure that it can not be moued.


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The fluddes are risen O God, the fluddes haue lyft vp their noyse: the fluddes haue lyft vp their waues.


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God which is on high, is more puissaut then the noyse of many waters: then the mightie waues of the sea.


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All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.


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That thou mayest geue hym patience in tyme of aduersitie: vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly.


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For iudgement shalbe reduced vnto iustice: and after it shall all such as be vpryght of heart [be iudged.]


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Who will ryse vp with me agaynst the malicious? or who wyll take my part agaynst workers of wickednesse?


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In the multitude of my cogitations from the bottome of my heart: thy comfortes dyd recreate my soule.


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Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which [seate] maketh wrong to be enacted for a law?


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And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse, and destroy them in their owne malice: God our Lorde wyll destroy them.


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Come let vs syng vnto God: let vs make an heartie reioysyng with a loude voyce vnto the rocke of our saluation.


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Let vs make speede to come before his face with a confession: let vs expresse vnto hym outwardly a heartie gladnesse with syngyng of psalmes.


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To day yf ye wyll heare his voyce harden not your heartes as in the tyme of contention: as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse.


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Fourtie yeres long was I greeued with that generation: and I sayde this people erreth in heart, and they haue not knowen my wayes.


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Worshyp you God in the maiestie of holynesse: be you in dread of his face all [that be in] the earth.


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Set it foorth in wordes among the heathen that God raigneth: and that the worlde is set of a sure foundation, it shall not be remoued, he wyll iudge the people accordyng to equitie.


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The heauens shall reioyce, and the earth be glad: the sea shall make a noyse and all that is therin.


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The fielde shalbe ioyfull and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the face of God.


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For he commeth, for he commeth to iudge the earth: he will iudge the world accordyng to iustice, and the people accordyng to his trueth.


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Cloudes and thicke darknesse are rounde about hym: iustice and iudgement are the habitation of his throne.


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The hylles melted lyke waxe at the presence of God: at the presence of the Lorde of the whole earth.


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Confounded be all they that do seruice vnto carued images: and that do glorie in idols, but O gods, you all shall worshyp hym.


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Sion hearde of it, and reioyced: and the daughters of Iuda be glad, because of thy iudgementes O God.


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You that loue God, hate the thyng which is euyll: he preserueth the soules of his saintes, he wyll delyuer them from the hande of the vngodly.


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[A psalme.] &nbsp;Syng vnto God a newe song: for he hath done marueylous thynges. <n>(98:2)</n> With his owne right hande and with his holy arme: he hath gotten to hym selfe the victorie.


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<n>(98:3)</n> God hath declared his saluation: he hath openly shewed his iustice in the syght of the heathen.


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<n>(98:4)</n> He hath remembred his mercie and trueth towarde the house of Israel: and all the endes of the worlde haue seene the saluation of our Lorde.


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<n>(98:5)</n> Shewe your selues ioyfull vnto God all ye [in] the earth: make a ioly noyse, reioyce you chearfully, & syng psalmes.


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<n>(98:6)</n> Syng psalmes vnto God [playing] vpon an harpe: vpon an harpe, and with the sounde of a psalterie.


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<n>(98:7)</n> Shewe your selues ioyfull before the kyng eternall: with trumpettes and sounde of shawmes.


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<n>(98:8)</n> Let the sea make a noyse, and that is within it: the rounde worlde, and they that dwell therin.


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<n>(98:9)</n> Let the fluddes clappe their handes: and let the hylles be ioyfull altogether before the face of God.


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<n>(98:10)</n> For he commeth to iudge the earth: he wyll iudge the worlde accordyng to iustice, & the people accordyng to equitie.


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They shall prayse thy name great & dreadfull: [for] it is holy, and a kynges power [that] loueth iudgement.


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Thou hast ordeyned [all thynges] accordyng to equitie: thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Iacob.


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Moyses & Aaron among his priestes, and Samuel among such as call vpon his name: [these] called vpon God, and he hearde them.


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He spake vnto them out of the cloudy pyller: for they kept his testimonies, and the lawe [that] he gaue them.


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O God our Lord thou heardest them, O Lorde thou didst forbeare them: and thou tokest auengement for their owne inuentions.


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<n>(100:2)</n> Be ye sure that God is the Lorde, it is he that hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture.


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<n>(100:3)</n> Go your way into his gates with thankesgeuyng, and into his courtes with prayse: be thankfull vnto hym [and] blesse his name.


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<n>(100:4)</n> For God is gratious, his mercie is euerlastyng: and his trueth [endureth] from generation to generation.


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[A psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;I will sing of mercie and iudgement: I wyll syng vnto thee O God psalmes.


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I wyll endeuour my selfe to be fully instructed in the way of perfectnesse: when thou wylt come vnto me, I wil go vp and downe in the middest of my house in the perfectnesse of my heart.


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I wyll neuer set before myne eyes any deuillishe thyng: I wyll detest to do the worke of transgressours, it shall take no holde of me.


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I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour: I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke.


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Myne eyes shalbe vpon such in the lande as haue a true meanyng, that they may sit with me: he that leadeth a perfect lyfe shall minister vnto me.


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There shall no deceiptfull person haue any seate in my house: he that telleth lyes shall not tary long in my syght.


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I wyll euery mornyng destroy all the vngodly in the lande: that I may roote out from the citie of God all workers of wickednesse.


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[A prayer of the afflicted when he was ouerwhelmed, and when he did powre out his petition before the face of God.] &nbsp;Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee.


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Hyde not thy face from me in the day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call.


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For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande.


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<n>(102:7)</n> Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me.


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<n>(102:11)</n> Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come.


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<n>(102:12)</n> For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.


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<n>(102:13)</n> And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie.


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<n>(102:15)</n> He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer.


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<n>(102:16)</n> This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde.


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<n>(102:17)</n> For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth.


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<n>(102:18)</n> That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death.


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<n>(102:21)</n> But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations.


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<n>(102:22)</n> Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes.


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<n>(102:23)</n> They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged.


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<n>(102:24)</n> the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght.


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For accordyng to the hyghnesse of heauen aboue the earth: his mercie preuayleth to them that feare hym.


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[Loke] howe farre distaunt the east is from the west: so farre a sunder setteth he our sinnes from vs.


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Yea lyke as a father pitieth [his owne] children: euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym.


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But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer, vpon them that feare hym: and his righteousnesse vpon childers children.


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Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation: who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word.


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My soule blesse thou God: O God my Lord thou art become exceeding great, thou hast put on glory and maiestie.


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Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters: and maketh the cloudes his charriot, and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde.


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The hilles mount aloft: and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them.


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Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.


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The foules of the ayre haue their habitation nigh vnto them: singing out of the midst of the bowes [of trees.]


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That he may bryng foorth foode out of the earth: both wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oyle to make hym haue a chearefull countenaunce, & also bread to strengthen mans heart.


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O God howe manyfolde are thy workes? thou hast made them al in wisdome, the earth is ful of thy ryches.


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So is the sea it selfe large and wyde in compasse: wherein are thinges creeping innumerable, both small and great beastes.


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When thou geuest it them, they gather it: and when thou openest thyne hand, they are filled with that which is good.


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When thou hydest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their spirite, they dye, and are turned agayne to their dust.


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As for sinners they shalbe consumed out of the earth: and the vngodly shall come to an ende, blesse thou God O my soule, [and] prayse you the Lorde.


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<n>(105:7)</n> He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations:)


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<n>(105:8)</n> And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt.


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<n>(105:10)</n> When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it:


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<n>(105:13)</n> Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande: and he made all maner of foode to fayle.


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<n>(105:14)</n> But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt.


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<n>(105:17)</n> The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym.


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<n>(105:19)</n> That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome.


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<n>(105:21)</n> And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies.


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<n>(105:22)</n> Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes.


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<n>(105:23)</n> they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham.


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<n>(105:27)</n> He spake the worde, and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes: [and] of lyce in all their quarters.


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<n>(105:29)</n> He smote their vines also & figge trees: and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes.


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<n>(105:31)</n> And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde.


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<n>(105:32)</n> He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence.


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<n>(105:33)</n> He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde: there was not one feeble person in their tribes.


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<n>(105:36)</n> The [people] required and he brought quayles: and he filled them with the bread of heauen.


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<n>(105:37)</n> He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out: so that streames ranne in drye places.


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<n>(105:39)</n> And he brought foorth his people with gladnes: [and] his chosen with a ioyfull noyse.


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<n>(105:40)</n> And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people.


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<n>(105:41)</n> To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes: and obserue his lawes. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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[Prayse ye the Lorde.] &nbsp;Confesse you [it] vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer.


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Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation.


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That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people: [and] that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce.


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Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea.


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And he rebuked the red sea, and it was dryed vp: so he led them through the deepe, as through a wyldernesse.


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And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them: & redeemed them from the hande of the enemie.


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<n>(106:22)</n> Wherfore he appointed to destroy them, had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym: to turne away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.


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<n>(106:23)</n> Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired: they gaue no credite vnto his worde.


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<n>(106:25)</n> Then lift he vp his hand against them, to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse:


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<n>(106:25)</n> to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations, and to scatter them in sundry landes.


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<n>(106:26)</n> They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor: they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead.


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<n>(106:27)</n> And they prouoked the [Lorde] vnto anger with their owne inuentions: and a plague fell mightily amongst them.


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<n>(106:29)</n> And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse: in generation and generation for euermore.


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<n>(106:30)</n> They also prouoked [God] at the waters of strife: and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes.


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<n>(106:31)</n> For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite: so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.


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<n>(106:36)</n> And they shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters: whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.


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<n>(106:37)</n> Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions.


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<n>(106:38)</n> Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce.


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<n>(106:39)</n> And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen: and they that dyd hate them, were lordes ouer them.


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<n>(106:41)</n> Many a time dyd [God] deliuer them, but they rebelled [against hym] with their owne inuentions: and were brought downe for their wickednes.


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<n>(106:42)</n> Neuerthelesse, he did beholde them in their aduersitie: in geuing eare to their complaint.


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<n>(106:43)</n> And he remembred his couenaunt: and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies.


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<n>(106:45)</n> Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse.


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<n>(106:46)</n> Blessed be God the Lord of Israel from world to world without end: and let all people say, so be it. Prayse ye the Lord.


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And whom he gathered out of the landes: from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.


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<n>(107:6)</n> And he leadeth them foorth by the right way: that they might go to the citie inhabited.


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<n>(107:7)</n> O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.


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<n>(107:9)</n> Suche as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron.


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<n>(107:10)</n> Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde: and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest.


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<n>(107:11)</n> Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines: they fall downe, and there is none to helpe them.


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<n>(107:13)</n> For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death: and breaketh their bondes in sunder.


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<n>(107:14)</n> O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.


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<n>(107:18)</n> And they crye vnto God in their trouble: who deliuereth them out of their distresse.


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<n>(107:19)</n> he sendeth his worde & healeth them: and he maketh them to scape safe from their corruptnes.


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<n>(107:20)</n> O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.


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<n>(107:21)</n> And that they would offer [vnto him] sacrifices of thankes geuing: and set foorth in wordes his workes with a ioyfull noyse.


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<n>(107:23)</n> For he commaundeth and causeth a stormie winde to arise: and he lifteth vp on high his waues.


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<n>(107:24)</n> [Then] they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble.


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<n>(107:25)</n> They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them.


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<n>(107:28)</n> Then be they glad because they are at rest: and he bringeth them to the hauen where they woulde be.


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<n>(107:29)</n> O that men would confesse vnto god: his louyng kyndnes and meruaylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.


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<n>(107:30)</n> And that they would exalt him in the congregation of the people: and prayse him in the consistorie of the aged.


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<n>(107:32)</n> He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.


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<n>(107:33)</n> [Contrary] he reduceth a wyldernes into a standing water: and a drye ground into water springes.


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<n>(107:35)</n> And they sowe their lande and plant vineyardes: and they yelde [vnto them] aboundant store of fruites.


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<n>(107:36)</n> He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.


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<n>(107:37)</n> But [when they do fall from God,] they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde.


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<n>(107:38)</n> He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all.


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<n>(107:39)</n> Yet he exalteth the poore out of miserie: and geueth him housholdes equall to flockes of cattell.


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<n>(107:40)</n> The righteous will marke [this] and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped.


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<n>(107:41)</n> Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God.


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[A song, the psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;My heart is redye O Lorde: I wyll sing & prayse thee in singing of psalmes, yea my glory also is [redie.]


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The Lorde hath spoken this in his holynes (whereof I wyll reioyce:) I wyll deuide Sichem, and measure the valley of Sucoth.


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Gilead shalbe myne, and Manasses shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of my head, and Iuda my law geuer.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Holde not thy tongue: O thou the Lorde of my prayse.


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For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue.


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For the loue that I bare vnto them, they are become mine aduersaries: but I geue my selfe vnto prayer.


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Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes.


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Let there be no man to shewe hym any gentlenes: nor to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children.


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Let the wyckednes of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of God: and let not the sinne of his mother be wyped away.


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Because that he remembred not to do good: but he persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and hym whose heart was broken with sorow, that he might take his life from hym.


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His delight was in cursing, and it shal happen vnto him: he loued not blessing, therfore it hath ben farre from him.


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He clothed hym selfe with cursing, as with his garment: and it hath entred into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.


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Let it be vnto hym as the garment that he is wrapt in: and as the gyrdle that he is alway gyrded withall.


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Let this rewarde be from God vnto myne aduersaries: and vnto those that speake euill against my soule.


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They will curse, but thou wylt blesse: they wyl rise vp [against me] but let them be confounded, and thy seruaunt wyll reioyce.


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Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: & let them couer the selues with their owne cofusion, as with a garment.


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[A psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;God sayd vnto my Lorde: sit thou on my right hande, vntyll I make thyne enemies thy footestoole.


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Thy people wyll be very wyllyng in the time [of shewing] thy most mightie power with a beautifull holynes: the deawe of thy byrth is to thee from the wombe [as] from the morning.


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He wyll iudge the Heathen: he wyll fill euery place with dead bodyes, he wyll smyte the head of a great countrey.


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[Prayse ye the Lorde.] &nbsp;I wyll prayse God with my whole heart: in the congregation and assemblie of righteous men.


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He hath declared vnto his people the force of his workes: in geuing them the inheritaunce of the Heathen.


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He did sende redemption vnto his people: he hath commaunded his couenaunt [to be] for euer, holy and terrible is his name.


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The beginning of wysdome is the feare of God: all they haue a good vnderstanding that do his commaundements, the praise of it endureth for euer.


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[Prayse ye the Lorde.] &nbsp;Blessed is the man that feareth God: he hath great delight in his commaundementes.


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His seede shalbe mightie vpon the earth: the generation of them that dwell vprightly, shalbe blessed.


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There ariseth vp light in the darknes: vnto them that deale vprightly he is merciful, and louing, and righteous.


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His heart is strengthened, he will not feare: vntyll he seeth [a mischiefe to fall] vpon his enemies.


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He hath distributed abrode, he hath geuen to the poore: his righteousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted with glory.


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The vngodly shall see it, and it wyll greeue hym, he wyll gnashe with his teethe and consume away: the desire of the vngodly shall perishe.


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The name of God is to be praysed: from the rising vp of the sunne, vnto the goyng downe of the same.


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<n>(113:6)</n> He rayseth vp the simple out of the dust: and lyfteth vp the poore from the dounghyll.


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<n>(113:8)</n> He maketh the barren woman to kepe house: and to be a ioyful mother of children. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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Whiche turned the harde rocke into a standing water: and the flint stone into a springing well of waters.


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Geue praise not vnto vs O God, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name: for thy louing mercy, and for thy truethes sake.


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They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes.


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God hath ben myndfull of vs, he wyll blesse vs: he wyll blesse the house of Israel, he wyll blesse the house of Aaron.


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The snares of death compassed me rounde about: and the paynes of hell toke holde on me. <n>(116:4)</n> I founde anguishe and heauinesse,


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For [thou O Lorde] hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng.


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<n>(116:15)</n> It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder.


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<n>(116:16)</n> I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng: and I wyll call vpon the name of God.


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<n>(116:17)</n> in the courtes of Gods house, euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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For his mercifull kyndnesse is euer more and more towarde vs: and the trueth of God endureth for euer. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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God is with me amongst them that ayde me: [therfore] I shall see [my desire] vpon them that hate me.


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All nations compassed me rounde about: [but I trusted] in the name of God that I shoulde destroy them.


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They kept me in on euery syde, they kept me in I say on euery syde: [but I trusted] in the name of God that I shoulde destroy them.


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They swarmed about me lyke bees, and they be extinguished as the fire [made] of thornes: [for I trusted] in the name of God that I should destroy them.


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The voyce of a ioyfull noyse & of saluation is in the dwellynges of the ryghteous: [saying] the ryght hande of God bryngeth mightie thynges to passe.


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Open me the gates of ryghteousnesse, I wyll enter in by them: that I may geue thankes vnto the Lorde.


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It is the Lord God who hath geuen vs lyght: bynde a sacrifice with cordes vnto the hornes of the aulter.


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I wyll confesse [it] vnto thee with an vpryght heart: when I shall haue learned the iudgementes of thy ryghteousnesse.


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[Beth] <n>(119:1)</n> Wherby shall a young man refourme his way: euen in guiding it accordyng to thy worde.


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<n>(119:2)</n> I haue sought thee with my whole heart: suffer me not to swarue from thy commaundementes.


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<n>(119:3)</n> I haue hyd thy wordes within my heart: for this ende, that I shoulde not sinne agaynst thee.


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<n>(119:4)</n> My soule faynteth: for the very feruent desire that it hath alwaye vnto thy iudgementes.


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<n>(119:5)</n> Thou hast rebuked those that be proude and cursed: who do erre from thy commaundementes.


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<n>(119:7)</n> Yea princes dyd syt and speake agaynst me: but thy seruaunt did geue hym selfe to the meditation of thy statutes.


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<n>(119:2)</n> I haue made a declaration to thee of my wayes, and thou heardest me: O teache me thy statutes.


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<n>(119:3)</n> Make me to vnderstande the way of thy commaundementes: and I wyll geue my selfe to the meditation of thy wonderous workes.


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<n>(119:8)</n> I wyll runne the way of thy commaundementes: when thou shalt set my heart at libertie.


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<n>(119:8)</n> Behold I haue coueted after thy commaundementes: cause me to lyue in thy ryghteousnesse.


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[Vau] <n>(119:1)</n> Let thy louing mercie also come vnto me O God: euen thy saluation, accordyng to thy worde.


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<n>(119:2)</n> And I shall aunswere to hym that layeth [thy] worde to me for a reproche: for in thy worde I haue put my trust.


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<n>(119:3)</n> Take not the worde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for my hope is in thy iudgementes.


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<n>(119:8)</n> And I wyll lyft vp my handes vnto thy commaundementes which I haue loued: & my study shalbe in thy statutes.


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[Zain] <n>(119:1)</n> Be myndfull of thy promise made vnto thy seruaunt: wherin thou hast caused me to put my trust.


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<n>(119:3)</n> The proude haue had me exceedingly in derision: yet I haue not shrinked from thy lawe.


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<n>(119:4)</n> [For] I called to remembraunce thy iudgementes from the begynnyng of the worlde O God: and so I comforted my selfe.


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<n>(119:5)</n> An extreme vnnaturall heat hath assayled me, because of the vngodly: who transgresse thy lawe.


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<n>(119:2)</n> I made myne humble petition to thy face with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto me according vnto thy word.


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<n>(119:6)</n> I wyll ryse at midnight to confesse me vnto thee: because of thy ryghteous iudgementes.


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[Teth] <n>(119:1)</n> O God thou hast dealt gratiouslye with thy seruaunt: according vnto thy worde.


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<n>(119:5)</n> The proude haue forged a false tale agaynst me: but I wyll kepe thy commaundementes with my whole heart.


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<n>(119:7)</n> It is good for me that I am brought into miserie: by that meanes I shall learne thy statutes.


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[Iod] <n>(119:1)</n> Thy handes haue made me and fashioned me: geue me vnderstanding, and I will learne thy comaundementes.


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<n>(119:2)</n> They that feare thee, shall see me, & reioyce: because I haue geuen earnest attendaunce vnto thy worde.


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<n>(119:3)</n> I know O God that thy iudgementes are iustice: and that thou hast caused me ryghtfully to be afflicted.


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<n>(119:4)</n> I beseche thee let thy louing kindnesse be a meanes to comfort me: accordyng to thy worde [spoken] vnto thy seruaunt.


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<n>(119:6)</n> Let the proude be confounded, for they haue falsly reported me: but I wyll study thy commaundementes.


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[Caph] <n>(119:1)</n> My soule hath faynted after thy saluation: I geue earnest attedaunce vnto thy worde.


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<n>(119:3)</n> For I am become like a bottel [hanged] in the smoke: yet I do not forget thy statutes.


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<n>(119:4)</n> Howe many are the dayes of thy seruaunt? when wilt thou geue iudgement agaynst them that persecute me?


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<n>(119:5)</n> The proude haue digged pittes for me: which is [a thing] not [done] accordyng to thy lawe.


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<n>(119:6)</n> All thy commaundementes are the trueth it selfe: they wrongfully persecute me, O be thou my ayde.


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<n>(119:7)</n> They had almost made an ende of me vpon the earth: but I forsoke not thy commaundementes.


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<n>(119:8)</n> Make me to lyue accordyng to thy pietie: and I wyll kepe the testimonies of thy mouth.


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<n>(119:2)</n> Thy trueth [appeareth] to euery generation: thou hast layde the foundation of the earth, and it shall continue.


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<n>(119:3)</n> [All thynges] continue this day accordyng to thine ordinaunce: for all thinges be thy seruauntes.


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<n>(119:7)</n> When the vngodly layde wayte for me to destroy me: I endeuoured my selfe to vnderstande thy testimonies.


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<n>(119:8)</n> I see an ende of euery thing be it neuer so perfect: but thy commaundement is exceedyng large.


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<n>(119:2)</n> Thou hast made me wyser then myne enemies through thy commaundementes: for they are euer with me.


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<n>(119:3)</n> I am able to geue better instruction then all they that were my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study.


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<n>(119:7)</n> Howe sweete are thy wordes vnto my throte: truely [they be sweeter] then hony is to my mouth.


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<n>(119:8)</n> Through thy commaundementes I get vnderstandyng: therfore I hate all wayes of falshood.


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<n>(119:4)</n> Let the freewyll offerynges of my mouth please thee O God: and teache me thy iudgementes.


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<n>(119:6)</n> The vngodly haue layde a snare for me: but yet I swarued not from thy commaundementes.


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<n>(119:7)</n> I haue claymed thy testimonies as myne heritage for euer: for they are the very ioy of myne heart.


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<n>(119:3)</n> Auoyde from me ye malicious [persons:] and I wyll kepe the commaundementes of my Lorde.


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<n>(119:5)</n> Holde thou me vp and I shalbe safe: and I will loke gladly vpon thy statutes alwayes.


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<n>(119:6)</n> Thou hast troden vnder foote all them that go astray from thy statutes: for their crafty deuice is but falshood.


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<n>(119:7)</n> Thou hast dispatched out of the way all the vngodly of the earth lyke drosse: therfore I loue thy testimonies.


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[Ain] <n>(119:1)</n> I haue executed iudgement and iustice: [wherfore] leaue me not to such as do offer me wrong.


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<n>(119:2)</n> For thy owne goodnesse sake take thy seruaunt vnto thy protection: let not the proude oppresse me with wrong.


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<n>(119:3)</n> Myne eyes haue faynted with lokyng for thy saluation: and for the worde of thy [ryghteousnesse.]


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<n>(119:4)</n> Deale with thy seruaunt accordyng vnto thy owne louyng kyndnesse: and teache me thy statutes.


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<n>(119:6)</n> It is tyme for [me] to do for Gods cause: for they haue brought thy lawe almost to nothyng.


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<n>(119:8)</n> Therfore I take all thy commaundementes euery one of them to be ryght: & I vtterly hate all wayes of falshood.


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[Pe] <n>(119:1)</n> Thy testimonies [contayne] wonderfull thinges: therfore doth my soule kepe them.


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<n>(119:2)</n> The first entering of thy wordes will illuminate: geuyng vnderstanding euen vnto the simple.


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<n>(119:4)</n> Loke thou vpon me and be mercifull vnto me: as thou vsest to do vnto those that loue thy name.


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<n>(119:7)</n> Make the lyght of thy countenaunce shyne vpon thy seruaunt: and teache me thy statutes.


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<n>(119:2)</n> Thou hast commaunded the iustice and the veritie of thy testimonies: [to be obserued] very strayghtly.


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<n>(119:8)</n> The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlastyng: make me to vnderstande [them] and I shall lyue.


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<n>(119:3)</n> I haue preuented [other] in the dawnyng of the day, and I cryed vnto thee: for I geue earnest attendaunce vnto thy wordes.


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<n>(119:4)</n> Myne eyes haue preuented the nyght watches: that my study might be wholy in thy wordes.


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<n>(119:5)</n> Heare my voyce accordyng to thy louing kindnesse: make me to lyue O God after thy iudgementes.


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<n>(119:6)</n> They that mynde to do an act of mischiefenesse, do drawe nye vnto me: they are farre from thy lawe.


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<n>(119:8)</n> As concernyng thy testimonies: I haue knowen long since that thou hast made them to last for euer.


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<n>(119:5)</n> There be many that do persecute me and be myne aduersaries: yet I do not swarue from thy testimonies.


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<n>(119:6)</n> I sawe transgressours, and I was greeued at the heart: because they kept not thy lawe.


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<n>(119:7)</n> Beholde howe I loue thy commaundementes: quicken me O God accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse.


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<n>(119:8)</n> The beginning of thy word is trueth: and all the iudgementes of thy ryghteousnesse endure for euermore.


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[Shin] <n>(119:1)</n> Princes haue persecuted me without a cause: but my heart hath stoode in awe of thy wordes.


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<n>(119:5)</n> They that loue thy lawe shall haue great prosperitie: and nothyng shall offende them.


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[Tau] <n>(119:1)</n> Let my crye O God approche neare vnto thy face: make me to vnderstande [euery thyng] accordyng vnto thy worde.


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<n>(119:7)</n> Let my soule lyue, and it shall prayse thee: and thy iudgementes shalbe an ayde vnto me.


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<n>(119:8)</n> I haue gone astray lyke a lost sheepe: oh seke out thy seruaunt, for I haue not forgotten thy commaundementes.


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[So much] as sharpe arrowes of a strong man [in thy sydes:] with Iuniper coales [powred on thy head.]


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Wo be vnto me that am constrayned to be conuersaunt in Mesech: and to dwell among the tentes of Cedar.


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[A song of high degrees.] &nbsp;I will lift vp myne eyes vnto the hilles: from whence my helpe shall come.


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[A song of high degrees of Dauid.] &nbsp;I was glad when they sayde vnto me: we wyll go into the house of God.


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For the tribes do go vp thyther, euen the tribes of the Lorde: [which is] a testimonie vnto Israel for to prayse the name of God.


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Beholde, as the eyes of seruauntes [loke] vnto the hande of their maisters, and as the eyes of a mayden vnto the hande of her maistresse: euen so our eyes [wayte] vpon God our Lorde vntyll he haue mercie vpon vs.


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Our soule is filled with the scornefull reprofe of the wealthy: and with the dispitefulnes of the proude.


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[A song of high degrees, of Dauid.] &nbsp;If God him selfe had not ben of our side Israel may now say:


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<n>(124:6)</n> Our soule is escaped, euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler: the snare is broken, and we be escaped.


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[A song of high degrees.] &nbsp;They that put their trust in God [be] as the mount Sion: [whiche] may not be remoued [but] must stande fast for euer.


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As for Hierusalem, hilles be rounde about it: and God is rounde about his people from this tyme foorth for euermore.


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For the scepter of the vngodly shall not rest vpon the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put their handes vnto wickednes.


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And such as do wander in their owne peruersnes, those God will cause to walke with the workers of wickednes: [so] peace [shalbe] vpon Israel.


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[A song of high degrees.] &nbsp;When God shall cause them of Sion that were led into captiuitie for to returne: we shalbe as men that dreamed.


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Then shall our mouth be filled with a laughter: and our tongue with a ioyfull noyse. <n>(126:3)</n> Then shall suche as be amongst the Heathen say: God hath brought great thinges to passe, that he myght do for them.


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<n>(126:7)</n> He that goeth foorth on his way, and wepyng beareth pretious seede: shall doubtlesse returning, come againe with a ioyfull noyse, bryngyng his sheaues with hym.


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[A song of high degrees (made) for Solomon.] &nbsp;If GOD wyll not buylde the house, they labour in vayne that buylde it: if God kepe not the citie, the watchman waketh in vayne.


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[Is] it is a vayne thing for you that ye make haste to ryse vp early, that ye make delayes to take rest, eatyng the bread of sorowes: euen so he geueth sleepe to his welbeloued.


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Happy is the man that hath filled his quiuer with them: they shall not be ashamed when they speake with their enemies in the gate.


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[A song of high degrees.] &nbsp;He is blessed whatsoeuer he be that feareth God: walking in his waies.


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For thou shalt eate the labours of thine handes: thou shalt be happy, and [all] shall go well with thee.


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Thy wyfe shalbe as a fruitfull vine: vpon the sides of thyne house. <n>(128:4)</n> Thy chyldren [shalbe] like oliue braunches: rounde about thy table.


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<n>(128:6)</n> God wyll blesse thee out of Sion: and thou shalt see Hierusalem in prosperitie all the dayes of thy lyfe.


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They shall be as the grasse growing vpon the house toppes: whiche withereth afore that it be shot foorth [to his growth.]


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And they which go by, say not so much as the blessing of God be vpon you: we blesse you in the name of God.


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[A song of high degrees.] &nbsp;Out of the deepe I haue called vnto thee O God: O Lorde heare my voyce.


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My soule [lifteth] more after God, then watchmen do after the morning: I say more then watchmen do after the mornyng.


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Israel ought to trust in God, for there is mercy with God: and there is plenteousnes of redemption with him.


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[A song of high degrees (made) of Dauid.] &nbsp;O God I am not hygh mynded, I haue no proude lokes: I haue not vsed to walke in greater & waightier matters then I ought to do.


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Nay I haue restrayned my soule, and kept it lowe like a chylde that is weaned from his mother: yea my soule is within me as a weaned chylde.


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Untill I finde out a place for the temple of God: an habitation for the most mightie Lorde of Iacob.


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God hath sworne for a trueth vnto Dauid, and he wyll not go from it: I wyll place vpon thy throne some of the fruite of thy body.


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If thy chyldren wyll kepe my couenaunt and my testimonies whiche I wyll teache them: their chyldren also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore.


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I wyll aboundauntly powre my blessinges vpon her victuals: and I wyll satisfie her poore with bread.


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[A song of high degrees (made) of Dauid.] &nbsp;Beholde howe good and howe pleasaunt a thing it is: that brethren dwel together in vnitie.


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[It is] lyke vnto a pretious oyntment [powred] vpon the head, which runneth downe vpon the beard, euen vpon Aarons beard: which also runneth downe vpon the skyrtes of his garmentes.


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[It is also] like vnto the deawe of Hermon: whiche falleth downe vpon the hyll of Sion. <n>(133:4)</n> For God hath commaunded his blessing: [and] life euerlasting [to be] where is [suche concorde.]


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[A song of high degrees.] &nbsp;Beholde, blesse God all ye the seruauntes of God: who in the nyght tyme remayne in the house of God.


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He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth: he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth, he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses.


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Thy name O God endureth for euer: there wil be a remembraunce of thee O God, from one generation to another.


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For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and [for] our waylynges myrth, [saying] sing vs one of the songes of Sion.


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Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth.


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Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem: they sayde, downe with it, downe with it, euen to the grounde.


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O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs.


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[Of Dauid.] &nbsp;I wyll geue thankes vnto thee O God with my whole heart: I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee before the gods.


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I wyll make my lowe obeysaunce towarde thy holy temple: and I wyll prayse thy holy name in respect of thy louing kindnesse and trueth. <n>(138:3)</n> For thou hast magnified thy name: and thy worde aboue all thinges.


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<n>(138:4)</n> In the day [of myne aduersitie] I called vpon thee, and thou heardest me: thou enduedst my soule more and more with strength.


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<n>(138:5)</n> All the kinges of the earth will prayse thee O God: for they haue hearde the wordes of thy mouth.


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<n>(138:7)</n> For though God be on high: yet he will haue respect vnto the lowly, and he wyll knowe the proude a farre of.


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<n>(138:8)</n> If I shall walke in the midst of trouble, thou wylt make me to liue: thou wylt stretche foorth thyne hande vpon the furiousnes of mine enemies, and thy right hande shall saue me.


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<n>(138:9)</n> God wyll finishe that he hath begun by me: O God thy louing kindnesse endureth for euer, thou wylt not forsake the workes of thyne owne handes.


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[To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;O God thou hast searched me to the quicke: and thou hast knowen me.


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Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee, and the night shalbe as lyghtsome as the day: darknesse and lyght [to thee] are both a lyke.


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I wyll confesse it vnto thee, for that thy [doynges] are to be dreaded, I am made after a marueylous sort: thy workes be marueylous, and that my soule knoweth ryght well.


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The substaunce of my [body] was not hyd from thee: when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe.


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Thyne eyes dyd see me when I was most imperfect: and in thy booke were written euery day of them [wherin the partes of my body] were shaped, and no one of them were knowen vnto thee.


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I go about to count them, I fynde that they are mo in number then the sande: and yet whyle I am wakyng I am styll with thee.


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For truely thou wylt slay O Lord the wicked man: and the blood thirstie men [to whom I euer say] depart ye from me.


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And loke well yf there be any way of peruersnesse in me: and [then] leade me in the way of the worlde.


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[To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Delyuer me O God from the euyll man: and preserue me from the outragious man.


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Kepe me O God from the handes of the vngodly: preserue me from the outragious man, who haue deuised to thrust my feete [from me.]


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The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with coardes in the high wayes: they haue set trappes for me. Selah.


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Graunt not vnto the vngodly [his] desires O God: bryng not to passe his mischeuous imagination [lest] they shoulde be made to proude. Selah.


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Let hotte coales be burnyng vpon them: he wyll cast them downe into the fire into deepe pittes, that they may neuer rise vp agayne.


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A man full of tongue can not prosper vpon the earth: euyll shall hunt the outragious person to ouerthrowe him.


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I am sure that God wyll dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.


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Truely the ryghteous wyll confesse it vnto thy name: they that deale vprightlye shall dwell before thy face.


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[A Psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;O God I call vpon thee, haste thee vnto me: geue eare vnto my voyce whylest I crye vnto thee.


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Let my prayer be directed before thy face [as] an incense: let the liftyng vp of mine handes [be] an euenyng sacrifice.


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Inclyne not myne heart to any euyll thyng, wherby I myght commit any vngodly act with men that be workers of iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.


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I wishe that the ryghteous woulde smite me and reproue me: for it is louing kyndnesse. <n>(141:6)</n> But let not pretious baulmes breake mine head: for as yet euen my prayer is agaynst their wickednesse.


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<n>(141:7)</n> Let their iudges be thrust downe headlong from a rocke: then they wyll heare my wordes, for they be sweete.


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<n>(141:8)</n> Our bones lye scattered vpon the graues mouth: lyke as when one breaketh and heweth [wood] vpon the earth.


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<n>(141:9)</n> For mine eyes loke vnto thee O God the Lorde: in thee is my trust, cast not my soule out [of me.]


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<n>(141:10)</n> Kepe me from the snare which they haue layde foorth for me: and from the trappes of them that be workers of iniquitie.


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<n>(141:11)</n> Let the vngodly fall together into their owne nettes: but let me in the meane season alwayes escape [them.]


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[The wise instruction of Dauid, a prayer when he was in the caue.] &nbsp;I cryed vnto God with my voyce: euen vnto God I dyd make my supplication.


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I powred out before his face my cogitations: and I made a declaration of my trouble before his face.


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When my spirite was ouerwhelmed within me, thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked they haue priuily layde a snare for me.


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When I loked vpon my ryght hande and sawe [rounde about me] there was no man that woulde knowe me: I had no place to flee vnto, and no man cared for my soule.


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Consider my complaynt, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecutours, for they are to strong for me.


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Bryng my soule out of prison, that I may prayse thy name: the ryghteous shal compasse me rounde about, because thou hast [thus] rewarded me.


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[A Psalme of Dauid.] &nbsp;Heare my prayer O God, geue eare vnto my desire: hearken vnto me for thy trueth sake, for thy ryghteousnesse sake.


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For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my lyfe downe to the grounde: he hath layde me in darknesse as men that haue ben long dead.


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I call to remembraunce the tyme long past: I muse vpon euery act of thine, I exercise my study on the worke of thy handes.


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Make speede, hearken vnto me O God, my spirite waxeth faynt: hyde not thy face from me, for I am lyke vnto them that go downe into the pyt.


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Cause me to heare of thy louyng kindnesse betymes in the mornyng: for in thee is my trust. <n>(143:9)</n> Make me to knowe the way that I shoulde walke in: for I lyft vp my soule vnto thee.


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<n>(143:11)</n> Teache me to do the thyng that pleaseth thee, for thou art my Lorde: let thy good spirite leade me foorth vnto the lande of ryghteousnesse.


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<n>(143:12)</n> For thy names sake O God thou wilt cause me to lyue: and for thy righteousnesse sake thou wilt bryng my soule out of trouble.


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<n>(143:13)</n> And of thy goodnesse thou wylt restrayne myne enemies: and destroy all them that be aduersaries to my soule, for I am thy seruaunt.


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[Of Dauid.] &nbsp;Blessed be God my rocke: who teacheth my handes to warre, and my fingers to fyght.


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My holynesse and my fortresse, my refuge, and my only deliuerer: my buckler, in hym I haue put my trust, who subdueth my people vnder me.


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O God, what is man that thou doest knowe hym? what is the sonne of man that thou doest thynke of hym?


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Sende downe thine hand from aboue: deliuer me and take me out of the great waters, from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am.


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O Lorde I wyll syng a newe song vnto thee: and I wyll syng psalmes vnto thee vpon a Lute, [and vpon] an instrument of ten strynges.


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Redeeme me and deliuer me from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am: whose mouth vttereth vanitie, and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood.


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That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners [stones] grauen after the fashion as a palace is.


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That the corners of our houses may be fylled, yeeldyng foorth all maner of stoore: that our cattell may bring foorth thousandes, [yea] ten thousandes in our streates.


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That our oxen may be strong [to labour] that there be no decay: no leadyng into captiuitie, and no complaynyng in our streates.


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[The prayse of Dauid.] &nbsp;I will magnifie thee O Lord my king: and I wyll blesse thy name for euer and euer.


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They shall vtter out of their mouth a memoriall of thyne aboundaunt kyndnesse: and they shall syng of thy ryghteousnesse.


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That they may make knowen to the children of men his manifolde power: & the glorious maiestie of his kingdome.


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He wyll fulfyll the desire of them that feare hym: he will also heare their crye, and he wyll saue them.


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My mouth shall speake the prayse of God: and all fleshe shall blesse his holy name for euer and euer.


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Prayse ye the Lord, prayse thou God O my soule, whylest I lyue I wyll prayse God: I wyll syng psalmes vnto my Lorde so long as I shalbe.


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His spirite shall depart out of hym, he shall turne agayne to his earth: at that day all his thoughtes shall perishe.


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God taketh strangers into his custodie, he releeueth the fatherlesse and the widdowe: as for the way of the vngodlye he turneth it vpsyde downe.


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God thy Lorde shall raigne O Sion, to the worldes ende: throughout all generations. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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Prayse ye the Lorde, for it is a good thyng: sing psalmes vnto our Lorde, for it is a pleasaunt thing, [his] praise is to be desired.


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Who couereth the heauen with cloudes: who prepareth rayne for the earth, who maketh grasse to growe vppon the mountaynes.


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He hath not dealt so with euery nation: neither haue they the knowledge of his iudgementes. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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<n>(148:12)</n> shoulde prayse the name of God: for his name only is most excellent, and his maiestie aboue earth and heauen.


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<n>(148:13)</n> He hath exalted the horne of his people: the prayse of all his saintes, euen of the children of Israel, a people that is most nye vnto him. Prayse ye the Lord.


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Prayse ye the Lorde, syng vnto God a newe song: he ought to be praysed in the congregation of saintes.


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They shoulde prayse his name in a daunce: they shoulde sing psalmes vnto hym vpon a tabret and a harpe.


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That they may execute the iudgement prescribed: this honour shalbe to all his saintes. Prayse ye the Lorde.


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Prayse ye the Lorde, prayse ye the Lord in his sanctuarie: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.


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The wise man wyll geue eare, and wyll come by more wisdome, and he that is endued with vnderstanding shal attayne vnto [wise] counsayles.


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To vnderstande a parable, and the interpretation therof, the wordes of the wise, and their darke speaches.


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If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause:


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Such [are] the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.


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She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and sheweth her wordes through the citie, saying:


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O ye children, howe long wyll ye loue childishnesse? howe long wyll the scorners delite in scornyng, and the vnwise hate knowledge?


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O turne you at my correction: lo I wyll expresse my mynde vnto you, and make you vnderstande my wordes.


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Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,


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Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you.


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Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:


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For the turnyng away of the vnwise shall slay them, and the prosperitie of fooles shall destroy them.


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That they may kepe the right path: and he preserueth the way of such as do serue him with godlinesse.


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That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,


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Let mercie and faithfulnesse neuer go from thee: binde them about thy necke, and write them in the tables of thyne heart:


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So shall thy barnes be filled with plenteousnesse, and thy presses shall flowe ouer with sweete wine.


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For whom the Lorde loueth, him he chasteneth, and yet deliteth in him, euen as a father in his owne sonne.


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For the marchaundise of it, is better then the marchaundise of siluer, and the gayne therof [is better] then golde.


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She is more worth then pretious stones: and all the thinges that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.


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With wysdome hath the Lorde layde the foundation of the earth, and thorow vnderstanding hath he stablished the heauens.


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Thou shalt not be afraide of any sodayne feare, neither for the violent rushing in of the vngodly when it commeth.


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Say not vnto thy neyghbour, go thy way and come agayne, and to morowe wyll I geue thee: where as thou hast nowe to geue hym.


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The curse of the Lord is in the house of the vngodly: but he blesseth the dwellinges of the righteous.


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He taught me also and sayde vnto me, let thyne heart receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes and thou shalt liue.


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Get thee wysdome, and get thee vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrinke not from them.


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The chiefe poynt of wysdome, is to possesse wysdome: and before all thy goodes to get thee vnderstanding.


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Make much of her, and she shall promote thee, yea if thou embrace her, she shall bryng thee vnto honour:


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So that if thou goest in them, there shall no straitnesse hinder thee: & when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.


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For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.


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The path of the righteous shineth, as the light that is euer bryghter and bryghter vnto the perfect day.


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Let thyne eyes beholde that thyng that is right, and let thyne eye liddes loke straight before thee.


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For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle:


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Perchaunce thou wylt ponder the path of her lyfe: so vnstedfast are her wayes that thou canst not know them.


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Yea, that thou mourne not at the last, when thou hast spent thy bodye and lustie youth, and then say:


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Wherefore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, and hearkened not vnto them that enfourmed me?


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Let her be as the louyng Hinde and pleasaunt Roe: let her breastes alway satisfie thee, and holde thee euer content with her loue.


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The wickednes of the vngodly shall catche him selfe, and with the snares of his owne sinne shall he be trapped.


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Therfore my sonne do this, and thou shalt be discharged: When thou art come into thy neyghbours daunger, go thy wayes then soone, humble thy selfe, and with thy frendes intreate [thy creditour.]


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Yea, sleepe on still a litle, slumber a litle, folde thyne handes together yet a litle that thou mayest sleepe:


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So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.


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Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed.


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That shall leade thee when thou goest, preserue thee when thou art asleepe, and when thou awakest talke with thee.


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For the commaundement is a lanterne, and the lawe a light: yea chastening and nurture is the way of life:


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By an harlot [a man is brought] to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.


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But if he may be gotten, he restoreth agayne seuen tymes as muche, or els he maketh recompence with all the good of his house.


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But whoso committeth adultrie with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: and he that doth it, destroyeth his owne soule.


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That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes.


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Come let vs take our fill of loue vntyll the morning, and let vs solace our selues with the pleasures of loue.


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Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole [that laugheth] when he goeth to the stockes to be punished,


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So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.


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For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her.


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For wysdome is more worth then pretious stones, yea all thinges that thou canst desire, may not be compared vnto it.


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The feare of the Lorde abhorreth wickednes, pryde, disdayne, and the euil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked thinges I vtterly abhorre.


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The Lorde him selfe had me in possession in the beginning of his wayes, or euer he began his workes aforetime.


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When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,


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As for the rounde compasse of this worlde I make it ioyfull: for my delite is to be among the chyldren of men.


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<n>(8:33)</n> Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching dayly at my gates, and geuing attendaunce at the postes of my doores.


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<n>(8:35)</n> But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and they that hate me, are the louers of death.


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Whoso reproueth a scornefull person, getteth him selfe dishonour: and he that rebuketh the vngodly, stayneth hym selfe.


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Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.


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The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome: and the knowledge of holy thinges, is vnderstanding.


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If thou be wise, thy wysdome shal do thy selfe good: but if thou thinkest scorne therof, it shalbe thine owne harme.


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And he doth not consider that they are but dead whiche be there, and that her ghestes are in the deepe of hell.


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The Lorde wyll not let the soule of the righteous suffer hunger: but he taketh away the richesse of the vngodly.


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Who so gathereth in sommer is wyse: but he that is sluggishe in haruest, bringeth hym selfe to confusion.


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Blessinges are vpon the head of the righteous: and the mouth of the vngodly kepeth mischiefe in secrete.


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The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but the mouth of the vngodly kepeth mischiefe in secrete.


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In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding, a man shall finde wysdome: but the rod belongeth to the backe of the foolishe.


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A foole doth wickedly, and maketh but a sport of it: but wisdome ruleth the man that hath vnderstandyng.


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The thing that the vngodly is afraide of, shall come vpon hym: but the ryghteous shall haue their desire.


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As vineger is to the teeth, & as smoke is vnto the eyes: euen so is a sluggishe person to them that sendeth him foorth.


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The patient abydyng of the righteous shalbe turned to gladnesse: but the hope of the vngodly shall perishe.


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The lippes of the ryghteous vtter that which is acceptable: but the mouth of the vngodly [speaketh] frowarde thynges.


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The innocent dealyng of the iust shall leade them: but the wickednesse of the offendours shalbe their owne destruction.


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The ryghteousnesse of the innocent ordereth his way: but the vngodly shall fall in his owne wickednesse.


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The righteousnesse of the iust shall delyuer them: but the wicked shalbe taken in their owne vngodlynesse.


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The dissembler with his mouth hurteth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the iust be deliuered.


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When it goeth well with the ryghteous the citie is mery: and when the vngodly perishe there is gladnesse.


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In the blessyng of the ryghteous the citie is exalted: but it is ouerthrowen by the mouth of the wicked.


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A dissemblyng person wyll discouer priuie thynges: but he that is of a faythfull heart wyll kepe counsayle.


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Where no counsayle is, there the people decay: but wheras many are that can geue counsayle, there is wealth.


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The vngodly worketh deceiptfull workes: but he that soweth righteousnesse shall receaue a sure rewarde.


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The Lorde abhorreth them that be of a corrupt heart: but he hath pleasure in them that are of an vndefiled conuersation.


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Though hand be ioyned in hande, yet the wicked shall not escape: but the seede of the ryghteous shalbe preserued.


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Some man geueth out his goodes and is the richer: but the niggarde hauyng inough, wyll depart from nothyng, and yet is euer in pouertie.


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He that is liberall in geuyng, shall haue plentie: and he that watereth, shalbe watered also hym selfe.


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


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He that searcheth for good thynges fyndeth fauour: but who so seketh after mischiefe, it shall happen vnto hym.


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He that trusteth in his riches shall haue a fall: but the ryghteous shall florishe as the greene leafe.


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Who so maketh disquietnesse in his owne house, he shal haue winde for his heritage: and the foole shalbe seruaunt to the wise.


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A huswifely woman is a crowne vnto her husbande: but she that behaueth her selfe vnhonestly, is as corruption in his bones.


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The talkyng of the vngodly is howe they may lay wayte for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer the.


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God ouerturneth the [estate of the] wicked, and they stande not: but the house of the ryghteous shall stande.


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


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The wicked falleth into the snare thorowe the malice of his owne mouth: but the iust shall escape out of all perill.


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Man shalbe satisfied with good thinges: by the fruite of his mouth, and after the workes of his handes shall he be rewarded.


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The deciptfull man shall not coste that he toke in huntyng: but the riches of the iust man is of great value.


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A wise sonne [wil hearken] to his fathers warnyng: but he that is scorneful wil not heare when he is reproued.


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Of the fruite of a wise mans mouth shall eche man eate good thynges: but the wicked shall eate of the fruite of the transgressours.


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He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his lyfe: but who so rashlye openeth his lippes, destroyeth hym selfe.


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The sluggarde woulde fayne haue and can not get [his desire:] but the soule of the diligent shall haue plentie.


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Some men make them selues riche though they haue nothyng: agayne, some make them selues poore hauyng great riches.


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Uaynly gotten goodes are soone spent: but they that be gathered together with the hande, shall encrease.


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Who so dispiseth the worde, shall perishe for the same: but he that feareth the commaundement, shall haue the rewarde.


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He that thinketh scorne to be refourmed, commeth to pouertie and shame: but who so regardeth correction, shall come to honour.


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When a desire is brought to passe, it deliteth the soule: but fooles count it abhomination to depart from euyll.


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He that goeth in the companie of wise men, shalbe wise: but who so is a companion of fooles, shalbe afflicted.


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He that is vertuous leaueth an heritaunce vnto his childers children, & the riches of ye sinner is layde vp for the iust.


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There is plenteousnesse of foode in the fieldes of the poore: but the fielde not well ordered, is without fruite.


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He that walketh vpryghtlye, feareth the Lorde: but he that turneth hym selfe from his wayes, dispiseth hym.


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A scornfull body seketh wisdome, and fyndeth it not: but knowledge is easie vnto hym that wyll vnderstande.


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The wisdome of the circumspect man, is to vnderstande his way: but the foolishnesse of the vnwise, deceaueth.


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The euyll shall bowe them selues before the good: and the vngodly shall wayte at the gates of the ryghteous.


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Without doubt they erre that worke wickednesse: but they that muse vpon good thynges, vnto such shall happen mercie and trueth.


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In the multitude of people is the kynges honour: but the decay of the people is the confusion of the prince.


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He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.


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Wisdome resteth in the heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng, and it shalbe knowen among them that are vnlearned.


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A discrete seruaunt is a pleasure vnto the kyng: but his wrath is agaynst hym that doth dishonour hym.


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The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght: as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse.


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A foole dispiseth his fathers correction: but he that taketh heede when he is reproued, shall haue the more vnderstandyng.


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The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym.


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The way of the vngodly is an abhomination vnto the Lorde: but who so foloweth righteousnesse, him he loueth.


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The heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng doth seke knowledge: but the mouth of fooles is fed with foolishnesse.


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Foolishnesse is ioy to him that is destitute of knowledge: but a man of vnderstandyng walketh vprightly.


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Thoughtes without counsayle shall come to naught: but wheras men are that can geue good counsayle, there is stedfastnesse.


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A ioyfull thing it is to a man whe his counsayle is folowed: and howe good is a worde spoken in season.


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The Lorde wyll breake downe the house of the proude: but he shall make fast the borders of the wydowe.


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The heart of the ryghteous studyeth his aunswere afore: but the wicked mans mouth spueth out mischiefe.


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He that refuseth to be refourmed, dispiseth his owne soule: but he that submitteth him selfe to correction, is wyse.


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The Lorde abhorreth all such as be of a proude heart: and though hande be ioyned in hande, yet they shall not be vnpunished.


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Wicked doers are an abhomination to the kyng, for a kynges seate shoulde be holden vp with ryghteousnesse.


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The chearfull countenaunce of the kyng is life: and his louyng fauour is as a cloude of the latter rayne.


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To haue wisdome in possession, is better then to haue golde: and to get vnderstandyng, is rather to be chosen then to haue siluer.


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The path of the ryghteous is to eschewe euyll, and who so loketh well to his wayes, kepeth his owne soule.


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He that handleth a matter wisely obteyneth good: and blessed is he that putteth his trust in the Lorde.


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Who so is wyse in heart, shalbe called prudent: and the sweetnesse of his lippes encreaseth learnyng.


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Vnderstandyng is a well of lyfe vnto hym that hath it: as for the chastenyng of fooles it is but foolishnesse.


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A frowarde body causeth strife: and he that is a blabbe of his tongue maketh deuision among princes.


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A patient man is better the one strong: and he that can rule hym selfe, is more worth then he that wynneth a citie.


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Who so scorneth the poore, blasphemeth his maker: and he that is glad at [another mans] hurt, shall not be vnpunished.


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A gyft is as a precious stone vnto hym that hath it: but vnto whom soeuer it turneth, it maketh hym vnwise.


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It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse.


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The beginning of strife is, as when a man maketh an issue for water: therfore leaue of before the contention be medled with.


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He that delighteth in sinne, loueth strife: and who so setteth his doore to hye, seeketh destruction.


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Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.


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Wisdome [shineth] in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of fooles wander throughout al landes.


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Yea, a very foole when he holdeth his tongue is counted wise: and he that stoppeth his lippes is esteemed prudent.


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Who so hath an earnest desire [to wysdome] he will sequester him selfe to seeke it, and occupie him selfe in all stedfastnesse & sounde doctrine.


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When the vngodly commeth, then commeth also disdayne: and with the dishonest person commeth shame and dishonour.


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The wordes of a [wyse] mans mouth are lyke deepe waters: and the well of wisdome is like a full streame.


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Brethren beyng at variaunce are harder to be wonne then a strong citie, and their contentions are like the barre of a castell.


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A mans belly shalbe satisfied with the fruite of his owne mouth, and with the encrease of his lippes shall he be filled.


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Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.


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A man that wyll haue frendes, must shewe hym selfe frendly: and there is a frende whiche is nearer then a brother.


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All the brethren of the poore do hate hym, yea his owne frendes withdrawe them selues from hym: and he that geueth credence to wordes, getteth nothing.


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The kynges displeasure is lyke the roaryng of a Lion: but his fauour is lyke the deawe vpon the grasse.


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An vndiscrete sonne is the heauinesse of his father, and a brawlyng wyfe is like the toppe of an house wherthrough it is euer dropping.


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House and riches may a man haue by the heritage of his elders: but a discrete woman is the gyft of the Lorde.


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Who so kepeth the commaundement, kepeth his owne soule: but he that regardeth not his wayes, shall dye.


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He that hath pitie vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lord: and looke what he layeth out, it shalbe payde hym agayne.


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A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: and though thou [once] deliuer hym, thou must do it agayne.


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O geue eare vnto good counsayle, and be content to be refourmed, that thou mayest be wyse in the latter dayes.


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The feare of the Lord [bringeth a man] to lyfe: and he shall rest the whole night in plenteousnesse without visitation of any plague.


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A slouthfull man shutteth his hande into his bosome, and wyll not take payne to put it to his mouth.


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If thou smytest a scornefull person, the ignoraunt shall take better heede: and if thou reprouest one that hath vnderstanding, he wyll be the wyser.


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My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.


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Wine maketh a man to be scornefull, & strong drinke causeth a man to be vnquiet: who so delighteth therin shall not be wyse.


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The feare of the king is as the roaring of a Lion, who so prouoketh hym vnto anger, offendeth against his owne soule.


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A slouthfull body wyll not go to plow for colde of the winter: therefore shall he begge in sommer, and haue nothing.


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Loue not sleepe, lest thou come vnto pouertie: but open thyne eyes, that thou mayest haue bread inough.


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It is naught, it is naught (saith he that byeth): but when he commeth to his owne house, then he boasteth [of his peny worth.]


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There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lippes of knowledge are a precious iewell.


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A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.


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Thorowe counsayle, the thinges that men deuise are made strong: and with good aduise take warre in hande.


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The craftie deceiptfull bewrayeth secrete counsayle: therefore meddle not with hym that flattereth with his lips.


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The kynges heart is in the hand of the Lord, lyke as are the riuers of water, he maye turne it whyther soeuer he wyll.


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The deuises of one that is diligent, bring plenteousnesse: but he that is vnaduised, commeth vnto pouertie.


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To hoorde vp riches with a deceiptfull tongue, is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.


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The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.


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When the scornefull is punished, the ignoraunt take the better heede: and when the wyse is instructed, he wyll receaue vnderstanding.


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The righteous man wysely considereth the house of the wicked, and for their wickednesse [God] ouerthroweth the vngodly.


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The iust delighteth in doing the thing that is right: but destruction shalbe to the workers of wickednesse.


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He that hath pleasure in bankettes shalbe a poore man: and whoso delighteth in wyne and delicates, shall not be riche.


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The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhomination: howe muche more when they offer the thing that is gotten with wickednesse?


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A good name is more to be desired then great riches: and louing fauour [is better] then siluer and golde.


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Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that doth kepe his soule, wyll flee farre from them.


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Cast out the scorneful man, and so shal strife go out with hym: yea variaunce and sclaunder shall ceasse.


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Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne [riches] and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.


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That thou mayest put thy trust in the Lorde, I haue shewed thee this day the thing that thou knowest.


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That I might make thee knowe the trueth, that thou with the veritie mightest aunswere them that sende vnto thee?


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For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.


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Seest thou not that they which be diligent in their businesse stande before kinges, & not among the simple people?


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Wylt thou set thyne eye vpon the thing which sodenly vanisheth away? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight lyke an Egle into the ayre.


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For as though he thought it in his heart, he saith, eate and drinke: where as his heart is not with thee.


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Withholde not correction from the chylde: for if thou beatest hym with the rodde, he shall not dye thereof:


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Let not thyne heart be ielous to folowe sinners, but kepe thee styll in the feare of the Lorde all the day long:


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For suche as be drunkardes and riotours shall come to pouertie: and he that is geuen to muche sleepe, shall go with a ragged coate.


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The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wyse chylde, shall haue ioy of hym.


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Who hath wo? who hath sorowe? who hath strife? who hath brawling? and who hath woundes without a cause?


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Yea thou shalt be as though thou layest in the middest of the sea, or slepest vppon the top of the maste of a ship.


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They haue beaten me [shalt thou say] and I was not sicke, they haue stricken me, and I felt it not: When I am well wakened, I wil go to the drinke again.


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For with discretion must warres be taken in hand: and where as are many that can geue counsaile, there is health.


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If thou wylt say, beholde I knewe not of it: doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that kepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Shall not he also recompence euery man according to his workes?


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So [sweete] shal the knowledge of wysdome be vnto thy soule when thou hast found it: and there shalbe hope, and thy hope shall not be cut of.


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Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.


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My sonne, feare thou the Lorde and the kyng, and kepe no company with them that slide backe [from his feare:]


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For their destruction shall rise sodainlye: and who knoweth the aduersitie that may come from them both?


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He that saith to the vngodly thou art righteous, hym shall the people curse, yea the comminaltie shall abhorre him:


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But they that rebuke [the vngodly] in them doth God delight, and a rych blessing shall come vpon them.


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Make redie thy worke that is without, and looke well vnto that whiche thou hast in the fielde: and then buylde thyne house.


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Say not, I wyll handle hym euen as he hath dealt with me: and wyll rewarde euery man according to his deedes.


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And lo, it was all couered with nettles, and stoode full of thornes, and the stone wall was broken downe.


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So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie lyke a weaponed man.


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<n>(25:1)</n> It is the glory of God to kepe a thing secrete: but the kynges honour is to searche out a thing.


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<n>(25:4)</n> Take away the vngodly from the kyng: and his seate shalbe stablished with righteousnesse.


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<n>(25:5)</n> Put not foorth thy selfe in the presence of the king, and preasse not into the place of great men:


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<n>(25:6)</n> For better is it, that it be sayde vnto thee, come vp hyther: then thou to be put lower in the presence of the priuce whom thou seest with thyne eyes.


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<n>(25:7)</n> Be not hastie to go to lawe: lest haplye thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbour hath confounded thee.


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<n>(25:8)</n> Handle thy matter with thy neighbour himselfe, and discouer not thy secrete to another:


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<n>(25:11)</n> Who so reproueth a wyse man that hath an obedient eare, is as a golden earring, and an ornament of fine golde.


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<n>(25:12)</n> As the colde of snowe in the tyme of haruest: so is a faythfull messenger to them that sende hym, for he refresheth his maisters mynde.


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<n>(25:13)</n> Whoso maketh great boastes and geueth nothing, is lyke cloudes and winde without rayne.


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<n>(25:15)</n> If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.


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<n>(25:16)</n> Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house: lest he be werie of thee, and so hate thee.


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<n>(25:17)</n> Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.


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<n>(25:18)</n> The confidence that is put in an vnfaythfull man in tyme of trouble, is like a broken tooth, and a sliding foote.


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<n>(25:19)</n> Who so taketh away a mans garment in the colde weather, is like vineger vpon lime, or lyke hym that singeth songues to an heauie heart.


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<n>(25:21)</n> For so shalt thou heape coles of fire vpon his head, and the Lorde shall rewarde thee.


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<n>(25:22)</n> The northwinde dryueth away the rayne: euen so doth an angry countenaunce a backbiters tongue.


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<n>(25:23)</n> It is better to sit in a corner vpon the house toppe, then with a brawling woman in a wide house.


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<n>(25:25)</n> A righteous man fallyng downe before the vngodly, is like a troubled wel, and a spring that is corrupted.


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<n>(25:26)</n> As it is not good to eate to muche honye, so curiously to searche the glory of heauenly thinges, is not commendable.


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<n>(25:27)</n> He that can not rule him selfe, is like a citie whiche is broken downe and hath no walles.


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Lyke as snowe is [not meete] in sommer and rayne in haruest: euen so is worship vnseemely for a foole.


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As the byrde and the swalowe take their flight and flee here and there: so the curse that is geuen in vayne, shall not light vpon a man.


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[As he that] cutteth of [his messengers] feete endamageth himselfe: so doth he that committeth a message to a foole.


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Like as the dogge turneth agayne to his owne vomite: euen so a foole beginneth his foolishnes agayne afreshe.


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Like as the doore turneth about vpon the hynges: euen so doth the slouthfull walter him selfe in his bed.


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The slouthfull body thrusteth his hande into his bosome, and it greeueth hym to put it agayne to his mouth.


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Who so goeth by and medleth with other mens strife: he is like one that taketh a dogge by the eares.


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Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: euen so where the talebearer is taken away, there the strife ceasseth.


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A talebearers wordes are lyke men that strike with hammers, and they pearse the inwarde partes of the body.


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Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.


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He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete.


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Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart.


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Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende see thou forsake not, and go not into thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble: for better is a frende at hand, then a brother farre of.


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He that is to hastie to praise his neighbour aboue measure, shalbe taken as one that geueth hym an euyll report.


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A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together.


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Whoso kepeth his figge tree, shall eate the fruites thereof: so he that wayteth vpon his maister, shall come to honour.


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As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him.


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Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.


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Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens.


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For the wickednes of the lande, the prince is oft chaunged: but thorowe a man of vnderstanding and wysdome, a realme endureth long.


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Who so kepeth the lawe, is a chylde of vnderstanding: but he that is a companion of riotous men, shameth his father.


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He that by vsurie and vniust gaynes gathereth riches: he shall lay them in store for a man that will pitie the poore.


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Who so causeth the righteous to go astray by an euill way, shall fall into his owne pit: but the iust shall haue the good in possession.


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The riche man thinketh hym selfe to be wise: but the poore that hath vnderstandyng can perceaue hym well inough.


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He that hydeth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but whoso knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.


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Well is hym that standeth alway in awe: as for hym that hardeneth his heart, he shall fall into mischiefe.


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Where the prince is without vnderstanding, there is great oppression and wrong: but if he hateth couetousnes, he shall long raigne.


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He that by violence shedeth any mans blood, shalbe a runnagate vnto his graue, and no man shalbe able to succour hym.


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Whoso leadeth an innocent life, shalbe saued: but he that goeth frowarde wayes, shall once haue a fall.


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He that tylleth his lande shall haue plenteousnes of bread: but he that foloweth idle persons, shall haue pouertie inough.


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A faythfull man shalbe fylled with blessinges, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be vngyltie.


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To haue respect of persons [in iudgement] is not good, for that man wyll do wrong, yea euen for a peece of bread.


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He that wyll be riche all to soone, hath an euyll eye: and considereth not that pouertie shall come vpon hym.


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He that folowyng my preceptes rebuketh a man, shall fynde more fauour at the last then he that flattereth hym.


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Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayth it is no sinne: the same is the companion of a destroyer.


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He that is of a proude stomacke stirreth vp strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lorde shalbe well fed.


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He that geueth vnto the poore shall not lacke: but he that hydeth his eyes from them, shall haue many a curse.


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When the vngodly are come vp, men are fayne to hide themselues: but when they perishe, the ryghteous encrease.


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When the ryghteous are in aucthoritie the people do reioyce: but when the wicked beare rule, the people mourne.


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Who so loueth wisdome, maketh his father a glad man: but he that kepeth companie with harlottes, spendeth away that he hath.


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With [true] iudgement the kyng stablissheth the lande: but yf he be a man that oppresse the people with gatherynges, he turneth it vpside downe.


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The rodde and correction geueth wisdome: but a childe left to his owne will, bryngeth his mother to shame.


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Nurture thy sonne with correction, and thou shalt be at rest: yea, he shall do thee good at thine heart.


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A [stubbourne] seruaunt wyll not be the better for wordes: for though he vnderstande, yet will he not regarde them.


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Who so is partner with a thiefe, hateth his owne soule: he heareth blasphemie and telleth it not foorth.


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He that feareth men shall haue a fall: but who so putteth his trust in the Lorde, is without daunger.


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Who hath clymed vp into heauen, and come downe from thence? who hath holden the wynde fast in his hande? who hath gathered together the waters in a garment? who hath established all the endes of the worlde: what is his name, and what is his sonnes name, yf thou canst tell?


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Remoue farre fro me vanitie and lyes, geue me neither pouertie nor riches, only graunt me a necessary lyuyng:


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Lest peraduenture I beyng full, shoulde denie thee, and say, who is the Lorde? or beyng oppressed with pouertie fall to stealyng, and forswere the name of my God.


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There is a generation that thynke them selues cleane, and yet is not cleansed from their filthinesse.


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There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.


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The horse leache hath two daughters crying: bryng hyther, bryng hyther. There be three thynges that are neuer satisfied, yea foure thynges sayth neuer hoe:


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The graue, the barren wombe, and the earth that hath neuer water enough: as for fire it sayth neuer hoe.


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Who so laugheth his father to scorne, and setteth his mothers commaundement at naught, the rauens of the valley picke out his eyes, and deuoured be he of the young Egles.


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The way of an Egle in the ayre, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, the way of a ship in the middest of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman:


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Such is the way also of a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, which wypeth her mouth [lyke as] when she hath eaten, and sayth, as for me I haue done no wickednesse.


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If thou hast done foolishly when thou wast in hye estate, or yf thou hast taken euyll counsayle, then lay thine hande vpon thy mouth.


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Who so chirneth mylke bringeth foorth butter, and he that rubbeth his nose, maketh it bleede: Euen so he that forceth wrath, bringeth foorth strife.


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O Lamuel, it is not for kynges, it is not [I say] for kynges to drynke wine, nor princes strong drynke.


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Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, [to speake] in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.


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Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.


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She feareth not that the colde of wynter shall hurt her housholde, for all her housholde folkes are clothed with scarlet.


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As for fauour it is deceiptfull, & beautie is a vayne thyng: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, shalbe praysed.


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All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne [I say] and but playne vanitie.


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The sunne aryseth, the sunne goeth downe, and returneth to his place, that he may there ryse vp agayne.


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The wynde goeth towarde the south and turneth vnto the north, fetcheth his compasse, whirleth about, and goeth foorth, and returneth agayne to his circuites from whence he dyd come.


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All fluddes runne into the sea, and yet is the sea it selfe not fylled: For loke vnto what place the waters runne, thence they come to flowe agayne.


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All thinges are so harde to be knowen, that no man can expresse them: The eye is not satisfied with sight, the eare is not fylled with hearyng.


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The thyng that hath ben, commeth to passe agayne, and the thyng that hath ben done, shalbe done agayne: There is no newe thyng vnder the sunne.


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Is there any thyng wherof it may be sayde, lo this is newe? for it was long ago in the tymes that haue ben before vs.


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The thyng that is past is out of remembraunce: euen so the thynges that are for to come, shal no more be thought vpon among them that come after.


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And dyd applie my mynde to seke out & searche for knowledge of all thynges that are done vnder heauen: Such trauayle and labour hath God geuen vnto the children of men, to exercise them selues therin.


