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So Manasseh made Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whome the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.


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Wherefore the Lord brought vpon them the captaines of the hoste of the King of Asshur, which tooke Manasseh and put him in fetters, and bound him in chaines, and caryed him to Babel.


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And when he was in tribulation, he prayed to the Lord his God, and humbled him selfe greatly before the God of his fathers,


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And prayed vnto him: and God was entreated of him, and heard his prayer, and brought him againe to Ierusalem into his kingdome: then Manasseh knewe that the Lord was God.


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Nowe after this he built a wall without the citie of Dauid, on the Westside of Gihon in the valley, euen at the entrie of the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it very hie, and put captaines of warre in all the strong cities of Iudah.


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And he tooke away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.


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Also he prepared the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings, and of thankes, and commanded Iudah to serue the Lord God of Israel.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Manasseh, and his prayer vnto his God, and the words of the Seers, that spake to him in ye Name of the Lord God of Israel, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel.


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And his prayer and how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trespasse, and the places wherein he built hie places, and set groues and images (before he was humbled) behold, they are written in the booke of the Seers.


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So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his owne house: and Amon his sonne reigned in his stead.


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But he did euill in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the images, which Manasseh his father had made, and serued them,


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And he humbled not him selfe before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himselfe: but this Amon trespassed more and more.


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But the people of the land slewe all them that had conspired against King Amon: and the people of the land made Iosiah his sonne King in his steade.<pb/>


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Iosiah was eight yeere olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirtie yeere.


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And he did vprightly in the sight of ye 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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And in the eight yeere of his reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, and the carued images, and molten images:


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And they brake downe in his sight the altars of Baalim, and hee caused to cut downe the images that were on hie vpon them: he brake also the groues, and the carued images, and the molten images, and stampt them to pouder, and strowed it vpon the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them.


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And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their maules they brake all round about.


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And when he had destroyed the altars and the groues, and had broken and stamped to pouder the images, and had cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem.


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Then in the eightenth yere of his reigne, when hee had purged the lande and the Temple, he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the gouernour of the citie, and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the Lord his God.


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And when they came to Hilkiah the hie Priest, they deliuered ye money that was brought into the house of God, which the Leuites that kept the doore, had gathered at the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the residue of Israel, and of all Iudah and Beniamin, and of the inhabitantes of Ierusalem.


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And they put it in the hands of them that should doe the worke and had the ouersight in the house of the Lord: and they gaue it to the workemen that wrought in the house of ye Lord, to repaire and amend the house.


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Euen to the workemen and to the builders gaue they it, to bye hewed stone and timber for couples and for beames of the houses, which the Kings of Iudah had destroyed.


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And the men did the worke faithfully, and the ouerseers of them were Iahath and Obadiah the Leuites, of the children of Merari, and Zechariah, and Meshullam, of the children of the Kohathites to set it forward: and of the Leuites all that could skill of instruments of musike.


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And they were ouer the bearers of burdens, and them that set forwarde all the workemen in euery worke: and of the Leuites were scribes, and officers and porters.


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And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the Priest found the booke of the Lawe of the Lord giuen by the hand of Moses.


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Therefore Hilkiah answered and sayde to Shaphan the chaceler, I haue found the booke of the Law in the house of the Lord: and Hilkiah gaue the booke to Shaphan.


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And Shaphan caried the booke to the King, and brought the King worde againe, saying, All that is committed to the hand of thy seruants, that do they.


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For they haue gathered the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and haue deliuered it into the handes of the ouerseers, and to the handes of the workemen.


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Also Shaphan ye chanceler declared to the King, saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath giuen mee a booke, and Shaphan read it before the King.


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And the King commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Abdon the sonne of Micah, and Shaphan the chanceler, and Asaiah the Kings seruant, saying,


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Goe and enquire of the Lord for me, and for the rest in Israel and Iudah, concerning the wordes of this 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 Lord, to doe after all that is written in this booke.


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Then Hilkiah and they that the King had appoynted, went to Huldah the Prophetesse ye wife of Shallum, the sonne of Tokhath, the sonne of Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe (and she dwelt in Ierusalem within the colledge) and they communed hereof with her.


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Thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will bring euill vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitantes thereof, euen all the curses, that are written in the booke which they haue read before the King of Iudah:


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Because they haue forsaken me, and burnt incense vnto other gods, to anger mee with al the workes of their hands, therefore shall my wrath fall vpon this place, and shall not be quenched.


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But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The words which thou hast heard, shall come to passe.


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But because thine heart did melt, and thou didest humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his wordes against this place and against the inhabitantes thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before mee and tarest thy clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also heard it, sayth the Lord.


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Beholde, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt bee put in thy graue in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the euill, which I will bring vpon this place, and vpon the inhabitants of the same. Thus they brought ye King word againe.


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And the King went vp into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and the Priests and the Leuites, and all the people from the greatest to the smallest, and hee read in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenant that was found in the house of the Lord.


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And the King stood by his pillar, and made a couenant before the Lord, to walke after the Lord, and to keepe his commandements, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soule, and that he would accomplish the wordes of the couenant written in the same booke.


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And he caused all that were found in Ierusalem, and Beniamin to stande to it: and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God, euen the God of their fathers.


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So Iosiah tooke away al the abominations out of all the countreis that perteined to the children of Israel, and compelled all that were found in Israel, to serue the Lord their God: so all his dayes they turned not backe from the Lord God of their fathers.<pb/>


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Moreouer Iosiah kept a Passeouer vnto the Lord in Ierusalem, and they slewe the Passeouer in the fourtenth day of the first moneth.


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And he appointed the Priestes to their charges, and incouraged them to the seruice of the house of the Lord,


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And he sayd vnto the Leuites that taught all Israel and were sanctified vnto the Lord, Put the holy Arke in the house which Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel did build: it shalbe no more a burden vpon your shoulders: serue now the Lord your God and his people Israel,


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And prepare your selues by the houses of your fathers according to your courses, as Dauid the King of Israel hath written, and according to the writing of Salomon his sonne,


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And stande in the Sanctuarie according to the deuision of the families of your brethren the children of the people, and after the deuision of the familie of the Leuites:


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So kill the Passeouer and sanctifie your selues, and prepare your brethren that they may doe according to the worde of the Lord by the hand of Moses.


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Iosiah also gaue to the people sheepe, lambs and kiddes, all for the Passeouer, euen to all that were present, to the nomber of thirtie thousand, and three thousande bullocks: these were of the Kings substance.


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And his princes offred willingly vnto the people, to the Priests and to the Leuites: Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the Priests for the Passeouer, euen two thousand and sixe hundreth sheepe, and three hundreth bullockes.


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Conaniah also and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his brethren, and Hashabiah and Ieiel, and Iozabad, chiefe of the Leuites gaue vnto the Leuites for the Passeouer, fiue thousand sheepe, and fiue hundreth bullockes.


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Thus the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stoode in their places, also the Leuites in their orders, according to the Kings commandement:


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And they slewe the Passeouer, and the Priests sprinkled the blood with their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.


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And they tooke away from the burnt offering to giue it according to the deuisions of the families of the children of the people, to offer vnto the Lord, as it is written in the booke of Moses, and so of the bullockes.


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And they rosted the Passeouer with fire, according to ye custome, but the sanctified things they sod in pots, pannes, and cauldrons, and distributed them quickely to all the people.


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Afterwarde also they prepared for them selues and for the Priestes: for the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron were occupied in offering of burnt offrings, and the fat vntill night: therefore the Leuites prepared for them selues, and for the Priests the sonnes of Aaron.


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And the singers the sonnes of Asaph stoode in their standing according to the commandement of Dauid, and Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun the Kings Seer: and the porters at euery gate, who might not depart from their seruice: therefore their brethren the Leuites prepared for them.


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So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandement of King Iosiah.


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


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And there was no Passeouer kept like that, in Israel, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neyther did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer as Iosiah kept, and the Priestes and the Leuites, and all Iudah, and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.


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After all this, when Iosiah had prepared the Temple, Necho King of Egypt came vp to fight against Carchemish by Perath, and Iosiah went out against him.


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But he sent messengers to him, saying, What haue I to doe with thee, thou King of Iudah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house of mine enemie, and God commanded me to make haste: leaue of to come against God, which is with me, least he destroy thee.


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But Iosiah would not turne his face from him, but changed his apparel to fight with him, and hearkened not vnto the wordes of Necho, which were of the mouth of God, but came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.


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And the shooters shot at king Iosiah: then the King saide to his seruants, Cary me away, for I am very sicke.


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So his seruants tooke him out of that charet, and put him in the seconde charet which he had, and when they had brought him to Ierusalem, he dyed, and was buryed in the sepulchres of his fathers: and all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for Iosiah.


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And Ieremiah lamented Iosiah, and al singing men and singing women mourned for Iosiah in their lamentations to this day, and made the same for an ordinance vnto Israel: and beholde, they be written in the lamentations.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Iosiah and his goodnesse, doing as it was written in the Lawe of the Lord,


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And his deedes, first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah.<pb/>


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Then the people of the lande tooke Iehoahaz the sonne of Iosiah, and made him king in his fathers steade in Ierusalem.


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Iehoahaz was three and twentie yeere old when he began to reigne, and he reigned three moneths in Ierusalem.


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And the King of Egypt tooke him away at Ierusalem, and condemned the lande in an hundreth talents of siluer, and a talent of gold.


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And the King of Egypt made Eliakim his brother King ouer Iudah and Ierusalem, and turned his name to Iehoiakim: and Necho tooke Iehoahaz his brother, and caryed him to Egypt.


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Iehoiakim was fiue and twentie yeere old, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeere in Ierusalem, and did euill in the sight of the Lord his God.


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Nebuchadnezzar also caryed of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babel, and put them in his temple at Babel.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was founde vpon him, behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah, and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.


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Iehoiachin was eight yeere olde when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned three moneths and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and did euill in the sight of the Lord.


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And when the yeere was out, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babel with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and he made Zedekiah his brother King ouer Iudah and Ierusalem.


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Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned eleuen yeere in Ierusalem.


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And he did euill in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himselfe before Ieremiah the Prophet at the commandement of the Lord,


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But he rebelled moreouer against Nebuchadnezzar, which had caused him to sweare by God: and he hardened his necke and made his heart obstinate that he might not returne to the Lord God of Israel.


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All the chiefe of the Priestes also and of the people trespassed wonderfully, according to all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which he had sanctified in Ierusalem.


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Therefore the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising earely and sending: for he had compassion on his people, and on his habitation.


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But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his wordes, and misused his Prophets, vntill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and till there was no remedie.


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For he brought vpon them the King of the Caldeans, who slewe their yong men with the sworde in the house of their Sanctuarie, and spared neither yong man, nor virgin, ancient, nor aged. God gaue all into his hande,


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And all the vessels of the house of God great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the King, and of his princes: all these caryed he to Babel.


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And they burnt the house of God, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels thereof, to destroy all.


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And they that were left by the sworde, caryed he away to Babel, and they were seruants to him and to his sonnes, vntill the kingdome of the Persians had rule,


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To fulfill the worde of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah, vntill the lande had her fill of her Sabbaths: for all the dayes that she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seuentie yeeres.


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But in the first yeere of Cyrus King of Persia (when the worde of the Lord, spoken by the mouth of Ieremiah, was finished) the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia, and he made a proclamation through all his kingdome, and also by writing, saying,


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Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia, All the kingdomes of the earth hath the Lord God of heauen giuen me, and hath commanded me to build him an house in Ierusalem, that is in Iudah. Who is among you of all his people, with whom the Lord his God is? let him goe vp.


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Nowe in the first yere of Cyrus King of Persia (that the worde of the Lord, spoken by the mouth of Ieremiah, might be accomplished) the Lord stirred vp the spirite of Cyrus King of Persia, and hee made a Proclamation thorowe all his Kingdome, and also by writing, saying,


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Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia, The Lord God of heauen hath giuen me all the kingdomes of the earth, and he hath commanded me to builde him an house in Ierusalem, which is in Iudah.


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Who is he among you of all his people with whome his God is? let him goe vp to Ierusalem which is in Iudah, and buylde the house of the Lord God of Israel: he is the God, which is in Ierusalem.


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And euery one that remayneth in any place (where he soiourneth) let the men of his place relieue him with siluer and with golde, and with substance, and with cattel, and with a willing offring, for the house of God that is in Ierusalem.


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Then the chiefe fathers of Iudah and Beniamin, and the Priests and Leuites rose vp, with al them whose spirit God had raysed to goe vp, to builde the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem.


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And all they that were about them, strengthened their handes with vessels of siluer, with golde, with substance and with cattell, and with precious thinges, besides all that was willingly offred.


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Also the King Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of Ierusalem, and had put them in the house of his god.


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Euen them did Cyrus King of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them vnto Sheshbazzar the Prince of Iudah.


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And this is the nomber of them, thirtie basins of golde, a thousand basins of siluer, nine and twentie kniues,


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Thirtie boules of gold, and of siluer boules of the second sort, foure hundreth and tenne, and of other vessels, a thousand.


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All the vessels of golde and siluer were fiue thousand and foure hundreth. Sheshbazzar brought vp all with them of the captiuitie that came vp from Babel to Ierusalem.<pb/>


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These also are the sonnes of the prouince, that went vp out of the captiuitie (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caried away vnto Babel) and returned to Ierusalem, and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie,


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Which came with Zerubbabel, to wit, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Biguai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel was,


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The sonnes of Pahath Moab, of the sonnes of Ieshua and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and twelue:


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The sonnes of the porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai: all were an hundreth and nine and thirtie.


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The sonnes of Salomons seruantes: the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, the sonnes of Peruda,


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The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the sonnes of Ami.


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And these went vp from Telmelah, and from Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not discerne their fathers house and their seede, whether they were of Israel.


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And of the sonnes of the Priestes, the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Coz, the sonnes of Barzillai: which tooke of the daughters of Barzillai the Giliadite to wife, and was called after their name.


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These sought their writing of the genealogies, but they were not founde: therefore were they put from the Priesthood.


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And Tirshatha saide vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy thing, tell there rose vp a Priest with Vrim and Thummim.


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Beside their seruants and their maydes: of whome were seuen thousande, three hundreth and seuen and thirtie: and among them were two hundreth singing men and singing women.


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Their horses were seuen hundreth, and sixe and thirtie: their mules, two hundreth and fiue and fourtie:


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Their camels foure hundreth, and fiue and thirtie: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundreth and twentie.


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And certeine of the chiefe fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord, which was in Ierusalem, they offred willingly for the house of God, to set it vp vpon his fundation.


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They gaue after their abilitie vnto the treasure of the worke, euen one and threescore thousand drammes of golde, and fiue thousand pieces of siluer, and an hundreth Priests garments.


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So the Priests and the Leuites, and a certeine of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.<pb/>


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And when the seuenth moneth was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, the people assembled themselues as one man vnto Ierusalem.


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Then stoode vp Ieshua rhe sonne of Iozadak, and his brethren the Priests, and Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in ye Lawe of Moses the man of God,


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And they set the altar vpon his bases (for feare was among them, because of the people of those countreis) therefore they offered burnt offrings thereon vnto the Lord, euen burnt offrings in the morning, and at euen.


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They kept also the feast of the Tabernacles, as it is written, and the burnt offring dayly, by nomber according to the custome day by day,


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And afterwarde the continuall bnrnt offring, both in the newe moneths and in all the feast dayes that were consecrate vnto the Lord, and in all the oblations willingly offered vnto the Lord.


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From the first day of the seuenth moneth began they to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord: but the foundation of the Temple of the Lord was not layed.


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They gaue money also vnto the masons, and to the workemen, and meat and drinke, and oyle vnto them of Zidon and of Tyrus, to bring them cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea vnto Iapho, according to the graunt that they had of Cyrus King of Persia.


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And in the seconde yeere of their comming vnto the house of God in Ierusalem in the second moneth began Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the Priests and the Leuites, and all they that were come out of the captiuitie vnto Ierusalem, and appointed the Leuites from twentie yeere olde and aboue, to set forwarde the worke of the house of the Lord.


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And Ieshua stood with his sonnes, and his brethren, and Kadmiel with his sonnes, and the sonnes of Iudah together to set forward ye workemen in the house of God, and the sonnes of Henadad with their sonnes, and their brethren the Leuites.


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And when the builders layed the foundation of the Temple of the Lord, they appoynted the Priestes in their apparel with trumpets, and the Leuites the sonnes of Asaph with cymbales, to prayse the Lord, after the ordinance of Dauid King of Israel.


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Thus they sang when they gaue prayse, and when they gaue thankes vnto the Lord, For he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shoute, when they praysed the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was layed.


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Many also of the Priests and the Leuites and the chiefe of the fathers, ancient men which had seene the first house, (when the foundation of this house was layed before their eyes) wept with a loud voyce, and many shouted aloud for ioy,


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So that the people coulde not discerne the sound of the shoute for ioy, from the noyse of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loude crie, and the noyse was heard farre off.<pb/>


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Bvt the aduersaries of Iudah and Beniamin heard, that the children of the captiuitie builded the Temple vnto the Lord God of Israel.


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And they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefe fathers, and sayd vnto them, We wil builde with you: for we seeke the Lord your God as ye do, and we haue sacrificed vnto him since the time of Esar Haddon king of Asshur, which brought vs vp hither.


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Then Zerubbabel, and Ieshua, and the rest of the chiefe fathers of Israel, sayde vnto them, It is not for you, but for vs to buyld the house vnto our God: for we our selues together wil buylde it vnto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded vs.


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And they hired counsellers against them, to hinder their deuise, all the dayes of Cyrus King of Persia, euen vntill the reigne of Darius King of Persia.


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And in the reigne of Ahashuerosh (in the beginning of his reigne) wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem.


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And in the daies of Artahshashte, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions wrote when it was peace, vnto Artahshashte king of Persia, and the writing of the letter was the Aramites writing, and the thing declared was in the language of the Aramites.


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Rehum the chancelour, and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Ierusalem to Artahshashte the King, in this sort.


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Then wrote Rehum the chauncelour, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions Dinaie, and Apharsathcaie, Tarpelaie, Apharsaie, Archeuaie, Bablaie, Shushanchaie, Dehaue, Elmaie,


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And the rest of the people whom the great and noble Asnappar brought ouer, and set in the cities of Samaria, and other that are beyonde the Riuer and Cheeneth.


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This is the copie of the letter that they sent vnto King Artahshashte, THY SERVANTS the men beyond the Riuer and Cheeneth, salute thee.


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Be it knowen vnto the King that ye Iewes, which came vp from thee to vs, are come vnto Ierusalem (a citie rebellious and wicked) and buylde, and lay the foundations of the walles, and haue ioyned the foundations.


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Be it knowen nowe vnto the King, that if this citie be built, and the foundations of the walles layed, they will not giue tolle, tribute, nor custome: so shalt thou hinder the Kings tribute.


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Nowe therefore because wee haue bene brought vp in the Kings palace, it was not meete for vs to see the Kings dishonour: for this cause haue we sent and certified the King,


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That one may searche in the booke of the Chronicles of thy fathers, and thou shalt finde in the booke of the Chronicles, and perceiue that this citie is rebellious and noysome vnto Kings and prouinces, and that they haue moued sedition of olde time, for the which cause this citie was destroyed.


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Wee certifie the King therefore, that if this citie be buylded, and the foundation of the walles layd, by this meanes the portion beyonde the Riuer shall not be thine.


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The King sent an answere vnto Rehum the Chauncelour, and Shimshai the Scribe, and so the rest of their companions that dwelt in Samaria, and vnto the other beyond the Riuer, Shelam and Cheeth.


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And I haue commanded and they haue searched, and founde, that this citie of olde time hath made insurrection against kings, and hath rebelled, and rebellion hath bene committed therein.


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There haue bene mightie kings also ouer Ierusalem, which haue ruled ouer all beyonde the Riuer, and tolle, tribute, and custome was giuen vnto them.


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Make ye now a decree, that those men may cease, and that the citie be not buylt, till I haue giuen another commandement.


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When the copie of king Artahshashtes letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went vp in all the haste to Ierusalem vnto the Iewes, and caused them to cease by force and power.


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Then ceased the worke of the house of God, which was in Ierusalem, and did stay vnto the second yeere of Darius King of Persia.<pb/>


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Then Haggai a Prophet and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo a Prophet prophecied vnto the Iewes that were in Iudah, and Ierusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, euen vnto them.


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Then Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak arose, and began to builde the house of God at Ierusalem, and with them were the Prophetes of God, which helped them.


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At the same time came to them Tatnai, which was captaine beyonde the Riuer, and Shether-boznai and their companions, and sayd thus vnto them, Who hath giuen you commandement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundations of these walles?


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But the eye of their God was vpon the Elders of the Iewes, that they coulde not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they answered by letters thereunto.


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The copie of the letter, that Tatnai captaine beyond the Riuer, and Shether-boznai and his companions, Apharsechaie, (which were beyond the Riuer) sent vnto King Darius.


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Be it knowen vnto the King, that we went into the prouince of Iudea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and beames are layde in the walles, and this worke is wrought speedily, and prospereth in their hands.


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Then asked we those Elders, and sayd vnto them thus, Who hath giuen you commandement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundation of these walles?


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


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But they answered vs thus, and sayd, We are the seruants of the God of heauen and earth, and buylde the house that was buylt of olde and many yeeres ago, which a great King of Israel builded, and founded it.


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But after that our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath, he gaue them ouer into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel the Caldean, and he destroyed this house, and caryed the people away captiue vnto Babel.


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And the vessels of golde and siluer of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke out of the Temple, that was in Ierusalem, and brought them into the Temple of Babel, those did Cyrus the king take out of the Temple of Babel, and they gaue them vnto one Sheshbazzar by his name, whome he had made captaine.


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And he sayde vnto him, Take these vessels and goe thy way, and put them in the Temple that is in Ierusalem, and let the house of God be buylt in his place.


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Then came the same Sheshbazzar and layde the foundation of the house of God, which is in Ierusalem, and since that time euen vntill nowe, hath it bene in buylding, yet is it not finished.


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Nowe therefore if it please the King, let there be searche made in the house of the Kings treasures, which is there in Babel, whether a decree hath bene made by King Cyrus, to build this house of God in Ierusalem, and let the King send his minde concerning this.<pb/>


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Then King Darius gaue commandement, and they made search in the librarie of the treasures, which were there layd vp in Babel.


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And there was founde in a coffer (in the palace that was in the prouince of the Medes) a volume, and therein was it thus written, as a memoriall,


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IN THE FIRST yeere of King Cyrus, King Cyrus made a decree for the house of God in Ierusalem, Let the house be buylt, euen the place where they offred sacrifices, and let the walles thereof be ioyned together: let the height thereof be three score cubites, and the breadth thereof three score cubites,


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Three orders of great stones, and one order of timber, and let the expenses be giuen of the Kings house.


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And also let them render the vessels of the house of God (of golde and siluer, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke out of the Temple, which was in Ierusalem, and brought vnto Babel) and let him goe vnto the Temple that is in Ierusalem to his place, and put them in the house of God.


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Therefore Tatnai captaine beyond the Riuer, and Shethar Boznai, (and their companions Apharsecaie, which are beyonde the Riuer) be ye farre from thence.


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Suffer ye the worke of this house of God, that the captaine of the Iewes and the Elders of the Iewes may buylde this house of God in his place.


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For I haue giuen a commandement what ye shall doe to the Elders of these Iewes, for the buylding of this house of God, that of the reuenues of the King, which is of the tribute beyonde the Riuer, there be incontinently expenses giuen vnto these men that they cease not.


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And that which they shall haue neede of, let it be giuen vnto them day by day, whether it be yong bullockes, or rammes, or lambes for the burnt offrings of the God of heauen, wheate, salt, wine, and oyle, according to the appoyntment of the Priestes that are in Ierusalem, that there bee no fault,


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That they may haue to offer sweete odours vnto the God of heauen, and praye for the Kings life, and for his sonnes.


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And I haue made a decree, that whosoeuer shall alter this sentence, the wood shall be pulled downe from his house, and shall be set vp, and he shalbe hanged thereon, and his house shalbe made a dunghill for this.


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And the God that hath caused his Name to dwell there, destroy all Kings and people that put to their hand to alter, and to destroy this house of God, which is in Ierusalem. I Darius haue made a decree, let it be done with speede.


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Then Tatnai the captaine beyond the Riuer, and Shethar Boznai and their companions, according to that which Darius had sent, so they did speedily.


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So the Elders of the Iewes builded, and they prospered by the prophecying of Haggai the Prophet, and Zechariah the sonne of Iddo, and they buylded and finished it, by the appoyntment of the God of Israel, and by the commandement of Cyrus and Darius, and Artahshashte king of Persia.


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And this house was finished the thirde day of the moneth Adar, which was the sixt yeere of the reigne of King Darius.


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And the children of Israel, the Priestes, and the Leuites, and the residue of the children of the captiuitie kept the dedication of this house of God with ioy,


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And offred at the dedication of this house of God an hundreth bullockes, two hundreth rams, foure hundreth lambes, and twelue goates, for the sinne of all Israel, according to the nomber of the tribes of Israel.


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And they set the Priests in their order, and the Leuites in their courses ouer the seruice of God in Ierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moses.


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(For the Priests and the Leuites were purified altogether) and they killed the Passeouer for all the children of the captiuitie, and for their brethren the Priests, and for themselues.


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So the children of Israel which were come againe out of captiuitie, and all such as had separated themselues vnto them, from the filthines of the Heathen of the land, to seeke the Lord God of Israel, did eate,


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And they kept ye feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes with ioy: for the Lord had made them glad, and turned the heart of the King of Asshur vnto them, to incourage them in the worke of the house of God, euen the God of Israel.<pb/>


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Now after these things, in the reigne of Artahshashte King of Persia, was Ezra the sonne of Seraiah, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Hilkiah,


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The sonne of Abishua, the sonne of Phinehas, the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron, the chiefe Priest.


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This Ezra came vp from Babel, and was a Scribe prompt in the Lawe of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had giuen, and the King gaue him all his request according to the hande of the Lord his God which was vpon him.


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And there went vp certaine of the children of Israel, and of the Priests, and the Leuites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims vnto Ierusalem, in the seuenth yere of King Artahshashte.


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For vpon the first day of the first moneth began he to goe vp from Babel, and on the first day of the fift moneth came he to Ierusalem, according to the good hande of his God that was vpon him.


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For Ezra had prepared his heart to seeke the Lawe of the Lord, and to doe it, and to teach the precepts and iudgements in Israel.


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And this is the copie of the letter that King Artahshashte gaue vnto Ezra the Priest and scribe, euen a writer of the words of the commadements of ye Lord, and of his statutes ouer Israel.


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ARTAHSHASHTE King of Kings to Ezra the Priest and perfite scribe of the Lawe of the God of heauen, and to Cheeneth.


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I haue giuen commandement, that euery one, that is willing in my kingdome of the people of Israel, and of the Priestes, and Leuites to goe to Ierusalem with thee, shall goe.


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Therefore art thou sent of the King and his seuen counsellers, to enquire in Iudah and Ierusalem, according to the lawe of thy God, which is in thine hand,


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And to carry the siluer and the gold, which the King and his cousellers willingly offer vnto the God of Israel (whose habitation is in Ierusalem)


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And all the siluer and gold that thou canst finde in all the prouince of Babel, with the free offring of the people, and that which the Priestes offer willingly to the house of their God which is in Ierusalem,


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That thou mayest bye speedily with this siluer, bullocks, rammes, lambes, with their meate offrings and their drinke offrings: and thou shalt offer them vpon the altar of the house of your God, which is in Ierusalem.


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And whatsoeuer it pleaseth thee and thy brethren to do with the rest of the siluer, and gold, doe ye it according to the will of your God.


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And the vessels that are giuen thee for the seruice of the house of thy God, those deliuer thou before God in Ierusalem.


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And the residue that shall be needeful for the house of thy God, which shall be meete for thee to bestowe, thou shalt bestowe it out of the Kings treasure house,


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And I King Artahshashte haue giuen commandemet to all the treasurers which are beyond the Riuer, that whatsoeuer Ezra the Priest and Scribe of the Law of the God of heauen shall require of you, that it be done incontinently,


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Vnto an hundreth talents of siluer, vnto an hundreth measures of wheate, and vnto an hundreth baths of wine, and vnto an hundreth baths of oyle, and salt without writing.


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Whatsoeuer is by the commandement of the God of heauen, let it be done speedily for the house of the God of heauen: for why should he be wroth against the realme of the King, and his children?


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And we certifie you, that vpon any of the Priestes, Leuites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or Ministers in this house of God, there shall no gouernour laye vpon them tolle, tribute nor custome.


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And thou Ezra (after the wisedome of thy God, that is in thine hand) set iudges and arbiters, which may iudge all the people that is beyond the Riuer, euen all that knowe the Lawe of thy God, and teach ye them that know it not.


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And whosoeuer will not doe the Lawe of thy God, and the Kings lawe, let him haue iudgement without delay, whether it be vnto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.


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Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which so hath put in the Kings heart, to beautifie the house of the Lord that is in Ierusalem,


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And hath enclined mercy toward me, before the King and his counsellers, and before all the Kings mightie Princes: and I was comforted by the hand of the Lord my God which was vpon me, and I gathered the chiefe of Israel to goe vp with me.<pb/>


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These are now the chiefe fathers of them, and the genealogie of them that came vp with mee from Babel, in the reigne of King Artahshashte.


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Of the sonnes of Phinehas, Gershom: of the sonnes of Ithamar, Daniel: of the sonnes of Dauid, Hattush:


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Of the sonnes of Shechaniah, of the sonnes of Pharosh, Zechariah, and with him the count of the males, an hundreth and fiftie.


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And of the sonnes of Shelomith the sonne of Iosiphiah, and with him an hundreth and threescore males.


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And of the sonnes of Adonikam, that were the last, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Iehiel and Shemaiah, and with them three score males.


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And I gathered them to the Riuer that goeth toward Ahaua, and there abode we three dayes: then I viewed the people, and the Priests, and found there none of the sonnes of Leui.


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Therefore sent I to Eliezer, to Ariel, to Shemeiah, and to Elnathan, and to Iarib, and to Elnathan, and to Nathan, and to Zechariah, and to Meshullam the chiefe, and to Ioiarib and to Elnathan, men of vnderstanding,


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And I gaue them commandement, to Iddo the chiefest at the place of Casiphia, and I told them the words that they should speake to Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims at the place of Casiphia, that they should cause the ministers of the house of our God to come vnto vs.


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So by the good hande of our God which was vpon vs, they brought vs a man of vnderstanding of the sonnes of Mahali the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel, and Sherebiah with his sonnes and his brethren, euen eighteene.


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Also Hashabiah, and with him Ieshaiah of the sonnes of Merari, with his brethren, and their sonnes twentie.


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And of the Nethinims, whom Dauid had set, and the Princes for the seruice of the Leuites, two hundreth and twentie of the Nethinims, which all were named by name.


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And there at the Riuer, by Ahaua, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seeke of him a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substance.


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For I was ashamed to require of the King an armie and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way, because we had spoken to the King, saying, The hande of our God is vpon all them that seeke him in goodnesse, but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.


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Then I separated twelue of the chiefe of the Priests, Sherebiah, and Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,


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And weighed them the siluer and the gold, and the vessels, euen the offring of ye house of our God, which the King and his counselers, and his Princes, and all Israel that were present had offred.


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And I weighed vnto their hand sixe hundreth and fiftie talents of siluer, and in siluer vessel, an hundreth talents, and in golde, an hundreth talents:


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And twentie basins of golde, of a thousand drammes, and two vessels of shining brasse very good, and precious as golde.


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And I said vnto them, Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, and the vessels are consecrate, and the gold and the siluer are freely offred vnto the Lord God of your fathers.


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Watch ye, and keepe them vntill ye weigh them before the chiefe Priestes and the Leuites, and the chiefe fathers of Israel in Ierusalem in the chambers of the house of the Lord.


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So the Priests and the Leuites receiued the weight of the siluer and of the golde, and of the vessels to bring them to Ierusalem, vnto the house of our God.


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Then we departed from the Riuer of Ahauah on the twelft day of the first moneth, to go vnto Ierusalem, and the hand of our God was vpon vs, and deliuered vs from the hand of the enemie, and of such as layde waite by the way.


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And on ye fourth day was the siluer weighed, and the golde and the vessell in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the sonne of Vriah the Priest, and with him was Eleazar the sonne of Phinehas, and with them was Iozabad the sonne of Ieshua, and Noadiah the sonne of Binnui the Leuites,


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Also the children of the captiuitie, which were come out of captiuitie, offred burnt offrings vnto the God of Israel, twelue bullockes for all Israel, ninetie and sixe rammes, seuentie and seuen lambes, and twelue hee goates for sinne: all was a burnt offring of the Lord.


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And they deliuered the Kings commission vnto the Kings officers, and to the captaines beyond the Riuer: and they promoted the people, and the house of God.<pb/>


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When as these things were done, the rulers came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the Priestes, and the Leuites are not separated from the people of the lands (as touching their abominations) to wit, of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Iebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.


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For they haue taken their daughters to theselues, and to their sonnes, and they haue mixed the holy seede with the people of the landes, and the hande of the princes and rulers hath bene chiefe in this trespasse.


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But when I heard this saying, I rent my clothes and my garment, and pluckt off the heare of mine head, and of my beard, and sate downe astonied.


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And there assembled vnto me all that feared the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of them of the captiuitie. And I sate downe astonied vntil the euening sacrifice.


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And at the euening sacrifice I arose vp from mine heauinesse, and when I had rent my clothes and my garment, I fell vpon my knees, and spred out mine hands vnto the Lord my God,


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And said, O my God, I am confounded and ashamed, to lift vp mine eyes vnto thee my God: for our iniquities are increased ouer our head, and our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauen.


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From the dayes of our fathers haue we bin in a great trespasse vnto this day, and for our iniquities haue we, our Kings, and our Priestes bene deliuered into the hand of the kings of the lands, vnto the sword, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as appeareth this day.


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And now for a litle space grace hath bene shewed from the Lord our God, in causing a remnant to escape, and in giuing vs a nayle in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and giue vs a litle reuiuing in our seruitude.


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For though we were bondmen, yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath enclined mercy vnto vs in the sight of the Kings of Persia, to giue vs life, and to erect the house of our God, and to redresse the places thereof, and to giue vs a wall in Iudah and in Ierusalem.


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Which thou hast commanded by thy seruants the Prophets, saying, The land whereunto ye go to possesse it, is an vncleane land, because of the filthines of the people of the lands, which by their abominations, and by their vncleannes haue filled it from corner to corner.


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Now therfore shall ye not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor seeke their peace nor wealth for euer, that yee may be strong and eate the goodnes of the lande, and leaue it for an inheritance to your sonnes for euer.


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And after all that is come vpon vs for our euill deedes, and for our great trespasses, (seeing that thou our God hast stayed vs from being beneath for our iniquities, and hast giuen vs such deliuerance)


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Should we returne to breake thy commadements, and ioyne in affinitie with the people of such abominations? wouldest not thou be angrie towarde vs till thou haddest consumed vs, so that there should be no remnant nor any escaping?


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O Lord God of Israel, thou art iust, for we haue bene reserued to escape, as appeareth this day: beholde, we are before thee in our trespasse: therfore we canot stand before thee because of it.<pb/>


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Whiles Ezra prayed thus, and confessed himselfe weeping, and falling downe before the house of God, there assembled vnto him of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept with a great lamentation.


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Then Shechaniah the sonne of Iehiel one of the sonnes of Elam answered, and sayd to Ezra, We haue trespassed against our God, and haue taken strange wiues of the people of the land, yet nowe there is hope in Israel concerning this.


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Now therfore let vs make a couenant with our God, to put away all the wiues (and such as are borne of them) according to the counsell of the Lord, and of those that feare the commandements of our God, and let it be done according to the Lawe.


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Then arose Ezra, and caused the chiefe Priestes, the Leuites, and all Israel, to sweare that they would doe according to this worde. So they sware.


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And Ezra rose vp from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib: he went euen thither, but he did eate neither bread, nor drunke water: for he mourned, because of the transgression of them of the captiuitie.


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And they caused a proclamation to goe throughout Iudah and Ierusalem, vnto all them of the captiuitie, that they should assemble themselues vnto Ierusalem.


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And whosoeuer woulde not come within three dayes according to the counsel of the Princes and Elders, all his substance should be forfait, and he should be separate from the Congregation of them of the captiuitie.


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Then all the men of Iudah and Beniamin assembled theselues vnto Ierusalem within three dayes, which was the twentieth day of the ninth moneth, and all the people sate in the streete of the house of God, trembling for this matter, and for the raine.


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And Ezra the Priest stoode vp, and said vnto them, Ye haue transgressed, and haue taken strange wiues, to increase the trespasse of Israel.


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Now therefore giue praise vnto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will, and separate your selues from the people of the land, and from the strange wiues.


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And all the Congregation answered, and sayd with a loude voyce, So will we do according to thy wordes vnto vs.


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But the people are many, and it is a raynie weather, and we are not able to stande without, neither is it the worke of one day or two: for we are many that haue offended in this thing.


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Let our rulers stand therefore before all the Congregation, and let all them which haue taken strange wiues in our cities, come at the time appoynted, and with them the Elders of euery citie and the Iudges thereof, til the fierce wrath of our God for this matter turne away from vs.


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Then were appoynted Ionathan the sonne of Asah-el, and Iahaziah the sonne of Tikuah ouer this matter, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Leuites helped them.


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And they of the captiuitie did so, and departed, euen Ezra the Priest, and the men that were chiefe fathers to the familie of their fathers by name, and sate 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 strange wiues.


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And of the sonnes of the Priests there were men founde, that had taken strange wiues, to wit, of the sonnes of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and of his brethren, Maaseiah, Aeliezer, and Iarib and Gedaliah.


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And they gaue their hads, that they would put away their wiues, and they that had trespassed, gaue a ramme for their trespasse.


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And of the Leuites, Iozabad and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (which is Kelitah) Pethahiah, Iudah and Eliezer.


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And of Israel: of the sonnes of Parosh, Ramiah, and Iesiah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchiiah, and Benaiah.


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And of the sonnes of Pahath Moab, Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.


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The words of Nehemiah the sonne of Hachaliah. In ye moneth Chisleu, in the twentieth yeere, as I was in the palace of Shushan,


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Came Hanam, one of my brethren, he and the men of Iudah, and I asked them concerning the Iewes that were deliuered, which were of the residue of the captiuitie, and concerning Ierusalem.


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And they sayde vnto me, The residue that are left of the captiuitie there in the prouince, are in great affliction and in reproche, and the wall of Ierusalem is broken downe, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.


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And when I heard these wordes, I sate downe and wept, and mourned certeine dayes, and I fasted and prayed before the God of heauen,


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And sayde, O Lord God of heauen, the great and terrible God, that keepeth couenant and mercy for them that loue him, and obserue his commandements,


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I pray thee, let thine eares be attet, and thine eies open, to heare the praier of thy seruat, which I pray before thee dayly, day and night for ye childre of Israel thy seruats, and confesse the sinnes of the children of Israel, which we haue sinned against thee, both I and my fathers house haue sinned:


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We haue grieuously sinned against thee, and haue not kept the commandements, nor the statutes, nor the iudgements, which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses.


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I beseeche thee, remember the worde that thou commandedst thy seruant Moses, saying, Ye wil transgresse, and I will scatter you abroade among the people.


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But if ye turne vnto me, and keepe my commandements, and doe them, though your scattering were to the vttermost part of the heauen, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you vnto the place that I haue chosen to place my Name there.


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Now these are thy seruants and thy people, whome thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy mightie hand.


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O Lord, I beseech thee, let thine eare now hearken to the prayer of thy seruant, and to the prayer of thy seruants, who desire to feare thy Name, and I pray thee, cause thy seruant to prosper this day, and giue him fauour in the presence of this man: for I was the Kings butler.<pb/>


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Nowe in the moneth Nisan in the twentieth yere of king Artahshashte, the wine stoode before him, and I tooke vp the wine, and gaue it vnto the King. nowe I was not before time sad in his presence.


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And the king said vnto me, Why is thy coutenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? this is nothing, but sorow of heart. Then was I sore afrayd,


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And I said to the King, God saue the King for euer: why should not my countenance be sad, when the citie and house of the sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste, and the gates thereof are deuoured with fire?


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And sayde vnto the King, If it please the King, and if thy seruant haue found fauour in thy sight, I desire that thou wouldest send me to Iudah vnto the city of the sepulchres of my fathers, that I may buyld it.


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And the King sayd vnto me, (the Queene also sitting by him) How long shall thy iourney be? and when wilt thou come againe? So it pleased the King, and he sent me, and I set him a time.


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After I saide vnto the King, If it please the King, let them giue mee letters to the captaines beyond the Riuer, that they may conuay me ouer, till I come into Iudah,


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And letters vnto Asaph the keeper of the Kings parke, that hee may giue me timber to buylde the gates of the palace (which apperteined to 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 good hand of my God vpon me.


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Then came I to the captaines beyonde the Riuer, and gaue them the Kings letters. And the King had sent captaines of the armie and horsemen with me.


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But Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah a seruant an Ammonite heard it, and it grieued them sore, that there was come a man which sought the wealth of the children of Israel.


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And I rose in the night, I, and a fewe men with me: for I told no man, what God had put in mine heart to do at Ierusalem, and there was not a beast with me, saue the beast whereon I rode.


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And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and came before the dragon well, and to the dung porte, and vewed the walles of Ierusalem, howe they were broken downe, and the portes thereof deuoured with the fire.


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Then I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowme for the beast that was vnder me to passe.


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Then went I vp in ye night by the brooke, and viewed the wall, and turned backe, and comming backe, I entred by the gate of the valley and returned.


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And the rulers knewe not whither I was gone, nor what I did, neither did I as yet tell it vnto the Iewes, nor to the Priestes, nor to the noble men, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that laboured in the worke.


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Afterward I said vnto them, Ye see the miserie that we are in, how Ierusalem lyeth waste, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire: come and let vs buylde the wall of Ierusalem, that we be no more a reproche.


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Then I tolde them of the hande of my God, (which was good ouer me) and also of the Kings wordes that he had spoken vnto me. And they sayd, Let vs rise, and buyld. So they strengthened their hand to good.


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But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the seruant an Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they mocked vs and despised vs, and said, What a thing is this that ye doe? Will ye rebell against the King?


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Then answered I them, and sayd to them, The God of heauen, he will prosper vs, and we his seruants will rise vp and buylde: but as for you, ye haue no portion nor right, nor memoriall in Ierusalem.<pb/>


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Then arose Eliashib the hie Priest with his brethren the Priestes, and they buylt the sheepegate: they repayred it, and set vp the doores thereof: euen vnto the tower of Meah repayred they it, and vnto the tower of Hananeel.


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But the fish port did the sonnes of Senaah buylde, which also layde the beames thereof, and set on the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof.


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And next vnto them fortified Merimoth, the sonne of Vrijah, the sonne of Hakkoz: and next vnto them fortified Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah, the sonne of Meshezabeel: and next vnto them fortified Zadok, the sonne of Baana:


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And next vnto them fortified the Tekoites: but the great men of them put not their neckes to the worke of their lordes.


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And the gate of the olde fishpoole fortified Iehoiada the sonne of Paseah, and Meshullam the sonne of Besodaiah: they laid the beames thereof, and set on the doores thereof, and the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof.


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Next vnto them also fortified Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Iadon the Meronothite, men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, vnto the throne of the Duke, which was beyond the Riuer.


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Next vnto him fortified Vzziel the sonne of Harhohiah of the golde smithes: next vnto him also fortified Hananiah, the sonne of Harakkahim, and they repayred Ierusalem vnto the broad wall.


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And next vnto him fortified Iedaiah the sonne of Harumaph, euen ouer against his house: and next vnto him fortified Hattush, the sonne of Hashabniah.


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Malchiiah the sonne of Harim, and Hashub the sonne of Pahath Moab fortified the seconde porcion, and the tower of the fornaces.


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Next vnto him also fortified Shallum, the sonne of Halloesh, the ruler of the halfe part of Ierusalem, he, and his daughters.


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The valley gate fortified Hanum, and the inhabitants of Zanuah: they buylt it, and set on the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof, euen a thousand cubites on the wall vnto the dung porte.


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But the dung port fortified Malchiah, the sonne of Rechab, the ruler of the fourth part of Beth-haccarem: he built it, and set on the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof.


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But the gate of the fountaine fortified Shallun, the sonne of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the fourth part of Mizpah: he builded it, and couered it, and set on the doores thereof, the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof, and the wall vnto the fishpoole of Shelah by the Kings garden, and vnto the steppes that goe downe from the citie of Dauid.


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After him fortified Nehemiah the sonne of Azbuk, the ruler of ye halfe part of Beth-zur, vntill the otherside ouer against the sepulchres of Dauid, and to the fishpoole that was repaired, and vnto the house of the mightie.


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After him fortified the Leuites, Rehum the sonne of Bani, and next vnto him fortified Hashabiah the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah in his quarter.


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After him fortified their brethren: Bauai, the sonne of Henadad the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah:


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And next vnto him fortified Ezer, the sonne of Ieshua the ruler of Mizpah, the other portion ouer against the going vp to the corner of the armour.


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After him was earnest Baruch the sonne of Zacchai, and fortified another portion from the corner vnto the doore of the house of Eliashib the hie Priest.


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After him fortified Merimoth, the sonne of Vriiah, the sonne of Hakkoz, another portion from the doore of the house of Eliashib, euen as long as the house of Eliashib extended.


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After them fortified Beniamin, and Hasshub ouer against their house: after him fortified Azariah, the sonne of Maaseiah, the sonne of Ananiah, by his house.


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After him fortified Binnui, the sonne of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah vnto the turning and vnto the corner.


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Palal, the sonne of Vzai, from ouer against the corner, and the high tower, that lieth out from the Kings house, which is beside the court of the prison. After him, Pedaiah, the sonne of Parosh.


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And the Nethinims they dwelt in ye fortresse vnto the place ouer against the water gate, Eastwarde, and to the tower that lyeth out.


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After him fortified the Tekoites another portion ouer against the great tower, that lyeth out, euen vnto the wall of the fortresse.


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After them fortified Zadok the sonne of Immer ouer against his house: and after him fortified Shemaiah, the sonne of Shechadiah the keeper of the East gate.


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After him fortified Hananiah, the sonne of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sonne of Zalaph, the sixt, another portion after him fortified Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah, ouer against his chamber.


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After him fortified Malchiah the goldesmiths sonne, vntil the house of the Nethinims, and of ye marchants ouer against the gate Miphkad, and to the chamber in the corner.


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And betweene the chamber of the corner vnto the sheepegate fortified the goldesmithes and the marchantes.<pb/>


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But when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, then was he wroth and sore grieued, and mocked the Iewes,


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And sayde before his brethren and the armie of Samaria, thus he sayde, What doe these weake Iewes? wil they fortifie them selues? wil they sacrifice? will they finish it in a day? will they make the stones whole againe out of the heapes of dust, seeing they are burnt?


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And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and said, Although they buylde, yet if a foxe goe vp, he shall euen breake downe their stonie wall.


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Heare, O our God (for we are despised) and turne their shame vpon their owne head, and giue them vnto a pray in the lande of their captiuitie,


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And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.


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So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.


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But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodims heard that the walles of Ierusalem were repayred, (for the breaches began to be stopped) then they were very wroth,


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And Iudah said, The strength of the bearers is weakened, and there is much earth, so that we are not able to build the wall.


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Also our aduersaries had sayde, They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come into the middes of them and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.


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But when the Iewes (which dwelt beside them) came, they told vs ten times, From all places whence ye shall returne, they wil be vpon vs.


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Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall vpon the toppes of the stones, and placed the people by their families, with their swordes, their speares and their bowes.


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Then I behelde, and rose vp, and said vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afrayde of them: remember the great Lord, and fearefull, and fight for your brethren, your sonnes, and your daughters, your wiues, and your houses.


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And when our enemies heard that it was knowen vnto vs, then God brought their counsell to nought, and we turned all againe to the wall, euery one vnto his worke.


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And from that day, halfe of the yong men did the labour, and the other halfe part of them helde the speares, and shieldes, and bowes, and habergins: and the rulers stoode behinde all the house of Iudah.


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They that buylded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, and they that laded, did the worke with one hand, and with the other helde the sworde.


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For euery one of the buylders had his sworde girded on his loynes, and so buylded: and he that blewe the trumpet, was beside me.


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Then saide I vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The worke is great and large, and we are separated vpon the wall, one farre from another.


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In what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs: our God shall fight for vs.


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So we laboured in the worke, and halfe of them helde the speares, from the appearing of the morning, till the starres came foorth.


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And at the same time said I vnto the people, Let euery one with his seruant lodge within Ierusalem, that they may be a watch for vs in the night, and labour in the day.


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So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my seruants, nor the men of the warde, (which followed me) none of vs did put off our clothes, saue euery one put them off for washing.<pb/>


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For there were that said, We, our sonnes and our daughters are many, therefore we take vp corne, that we may eate and liue.


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And there were that saide, We must gage our landes, and our vineyardes, and our houses, and take vp corne for the famine.


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There were also that said, We haue borowed money for the Kings tribute vpon our landes and our vineyardes.


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And nowe our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, and our sonnes as their sonnes: and lo, we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters, as seruants, and there be of our daughters nowe in subiection, and there is no power in our handes: for other men haue our landes and our vineyardes.


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And I thought in my minde, and I rebuked the princes, and the rulers, and saide vnto them, You lay burthens euery one vpon his brethren: and I set a great assemblie against them,


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And I said vnto them, We (according to our abilitie) haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: and will you sell your brethren againe, or shall they be solde vnto vs? Then helde they their peace, and could not answere.


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I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?


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For euen I, my brethren, and my seruants doe lende them money and corne: I pray you, let vs leaue off this burden.


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Restore, I pray you, vnto them this day their landes, their vineyardes, their oliues, and their houses, and remit the hundreth part of the siluer and of the corne, of the wine, and of the oyle that ye exact of them.


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Then said they, We will restore it, and will not require it of them: we will doe as thou hast said. Then I called the Priestes, and caused them to sweare, that they shoulde doe according to this promise.


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So I shooke my lappe, and said, So let God shake out euery man that wil not perfourme this promise from his house, and from his labour: euen thus let him be shaken out, and emptied. And all the Cogregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord: and the people did according to this promise.


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And from the time that the King gaue me charge to be gouernour in the lande of Iudah, from the twentieth yeere, euen vnto the two and thirtieth yeere of King Artahshashte, that is, twelue yeere, I, and my brethren haue not eaten the bread of the gouernour.


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For the former gouernours that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides fourtie shekels of siluer: yea, and their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.


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But rather I fortified a portion in the worke of this wall, and we bought no lande, and all my seruants came thither together vnto the worke.


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


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And there was prepared daily an oxe, and sixe chosen sheepe, and birdes were prepared for me, and within ten dayes wine for all in abundance. Yet for all this I required not the bread of the gouernour: for the bondage was grieuous vnto this people.


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And when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall, and that there were no more breaches therein, (though at that time I had not set vp the doores vpon the gates)


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Then sent Sanballat and Geshem vnto me, saying, Come thou that we may meete together in the villages in the plaine of Ono: and they thought to doe me euill.


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Therefore I sent messengers vnto them, saying, I haue a great worke to doe, and I can not come downe: why should the worke cease, whiles I leaue it, and come downe to you?


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Then sent Sanballat his seruant after this sorte vnto me the fift time, with an open letter in his hand,


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Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu hath sayd it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebel, for the which cause thou buildest the wall and thou wilt bee their King according to these wordes.


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Thou hast also ordeyned the Prophets to preach of thee at Ierusalem, saying, There is a King in Iudah: and nowe according to these wordes it shall come to the Kings eares: come now therefore, and let vs take counsell together.


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Then I sent vnto him, saying, It is not done according to these wordes that thou sayest: for thou feynest them of thine owne heart.


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For all they afrayed vs, saying, Their handes shalbe weakened from the worke, and it shall not be done: nowe therefore incourage thou me.


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And I came to the house of Shemaiah the sonne of Delaiah the sonne of Mehetabeel, and he was shut vp, and he said, Let vs come together into the house of God in the middes of the Temple, and shut the doores of the Temple: for they will come to slay thee: yea, in the night will they come to kill thee.


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Then I said, Should such a man as I, flee? Who is he, being as I am, that would go into the Temple to liue? I will not goe in.


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And loe, I perceiued, that God had not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecie against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


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Therefore was he hyred, that I might be afrayde, and doe thus, and sinne, and that they might haue an euill report that they might reproche me.


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My God, remember thou Tobiah, and Sanballat according vnto these their workes, and Noadiah the Prophetesse also, and the rest of the Prophets that would haue put me in feare.


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Notwithstanding the wall was finished on the fiue and twentieth day of Elul, in two and fiftie dayes.


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And when all our enemies heard thereof, euen all the heathen that were about vs, they were afraid, and their courage failed them: for they knew, that this worke was wrought by our God.


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And in these dayes were there many of the princes of Iudah, whose letters went vnto Tobiah, and those of Tobiah came vnto them.


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For there were many in Iudah, that were sworne vnto him: for he was the sonne in lawe of Shechaniah, the sonne of Arah: and his sonne Iehonathan had the daughter of Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah.


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Yea, they spake in his praise before me, and tolde him my wordes, and Tobiah sent letters to put me in feare.<pb/>


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Nowe when the wall was builded, and I had set vp the doores, and the porters, and the singers and the Leuites were appointed,


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Then I commanded my brother Hanani and Hananiah the prince of the palace in Ierusalem (for he was doubtlesse a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many)


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And I saide vnto them, Let not the gates of Ierusalem be opened, vntill the heate of the sunne: and while they stande by, let them shut the doores, and make them fast: and I appointed wardes of the inhabitants of Ierusalem, euery one in his warde, and euery one ouer against his house.


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Nowe the citie was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not buylded.


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And my God put into mine heart, and I gathered the princes, and the rulers, and the people, to count their genealogies: and I found a booke of the genealogie of them, which came vp at the first, and found written therein,


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These are the sonnes of the prouince that came vp from the captiuitie that was caried away (whome Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel had caryed away) and they returned to Ierusalem and to Iudah, euery one vnto his citie.


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They which came with Zerubbabel, Ieshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Biguai, Nehum, Baanah. This is the nomber of the men of the people of Israel.


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The sonnes of Pahath Moab of ye sonnes of Ieshua, and Ioab, two thousand, eight hundreth and eighteene.


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The porters: the sonnes of Shallum, the sonnes of Ater, the sonnes of Talmon, the sonnes of Akkub, the sonnes of Hatita, the sonnes of Shobai, an hundreth and eight and thirtie.


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The sonnes of Salomons seruantes, the sonnes of Sotai, the sonnes of Sophereth, ye sonnes of Perida,


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The sonnes of Shephatiah, the sonnes of Hattil, the sonnes of Pochereth of Zebaim, the sonnes of Amon.


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And these came vp from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shewe their fathers house, nor their seede, or if they were of Israel.


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The sonnes of Delaiah: the sonnes of Tobiah, the sonnes of Nekoda, six hundreth and two and fourtie.


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And of the Priestes: the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Hakkoz, the sonnes of Barzillai, which tooke one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was named after their name.


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These sought their writing of the genealogies, but it was not founde: therefore they were put from the Priesthood.


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And the Tirshatha sayd vnto them, that they should not eate of the most holy, till there rose vp a Priest with Vrim and Thummim.


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Besides their seruantes and their maydes, which were seuen thousand, three hundreth and seuen and thirtie: and they had two hundreth and fiue and fourtie singing men and singing women.


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Their horses were seuen hundreth and sixe and thirtie, and their mules two hundreth and fiue and fourtie.


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The camels foure hundreth and fiue and thirtie, and sixe thousande, seuen hundreth and twentie asses.


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And certaine of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the worke. The Tirshatha gaue to the treasure, a thousand drammes of golde, fiftie basins, fiue hundreth and thirtie Priests garments.


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And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer.


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And the rest of the people gaue twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousande pieces of siluer, and three score and seuen Priestes garments.


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And the Priestes, and Leuites, and the porters and the singers and the rest of the people and the Nethinims, and all Israel dwelt in their cities: and when the seuenth moneth came, the children of Israel were in their cities.<pb/>


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And all the people assembled themselues together, in the streete that was before the watergate, and they spake vnto Ezra the Scribe, that hee would bring the booke of ye Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.


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And Ezra the Priest brought the Lawe before the Congregation both of men and women, and of all that coulde heare and vnderstand it, in the first day of the seuenth moneth,


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And he read therein in the streete that was before the watergate (from the morning vntill the midday) before men and women, and them that vnderstoode it, and the eares of all the people hearkened vnto the booke of the Lawe.


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And Ezra the Scribe stoode vpon a pulpit of wood which he had made for the preaching, and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Ananiah, and Vriiah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hande, and on his left hand Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.


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And Ezra opened the booke before all the people: for hee was aboue all the people: and when he opened it, all the people stoode vp.


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And Ezra praysed the Lord the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting vp their handes: and they bowed themselues, and worshipped the Lord with their faces toward the grounde.


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Also Ieshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Leuites caused the people to vnderstand the lawe, and the people stood 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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Then Nehemiah (which is Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and scribe, and the Leuites that instructed the people, saide vnto all the people, This day is holie vnto ye Lord your God: mourne not, neither weepe: for all the people wept, whe they heard the words of the Lawe.


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He saide also vnto the, Go, and eate of the fat, and drinke the sweete, and send part vnto them, for whome none is prepared: for this day is holie vnto our Lord: be ye not sorie therefore: for the ioy of the Lord is your strength.


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And the Leuites made silence throughout all the people, saying, Holde your peace: for the day is holy, be not sad therefore.


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Then all the people went to eate and to drinke, and to send away part, and to make great ioy, because they had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught them.


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And on the second day the chiefe fathers of all the people, the Priests and the Leuites were gathered vnto Ezra the scribe, that he also might instruct them in the wordes of the Lawe.


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And they found written in the Law, (that the Lord had commanded by Moses) that the children of Israel should dwel in boothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth,


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And that they shoulde cause it to bee declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Go forth vnto the mount, and bring oliue branches, and pine branches, and branches of myrtus, and palme branches, and branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is written.


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So the people went foorth and brought them, and made them boothes, euerie 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 watergate, and in the streete of the gate of Ephraim.


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And all the Congregation of them that were come againe out of the captiuitie made boothes, and sate vnder the boothes: for since the time of Ieshua the sonne of Nun vnto this day, had not the children of Israel done so, and there was very great ioy.


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And he read in the booke of the Lawe of God euery day, from the first day vnto the last day. and they kept the feast seuen dayes, and on the eight day a solemne assemblie, according vnto the maner.<pb/>


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In the foure and twentieth day of this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackecloth, and earth vpon them.


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(And they that were of the seede of Israel were separated from all the strangers) and they stoode and confessed their sinnes and the iniquities of their fathers.


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And they stood vp in their place and read in the booke of the Lawe of the Lord their GOD foure times on the day, and they confessed and worshipped the Lord their God foure times.


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Then stoode vp vpon the staires of the Leuites Ieshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cryed with a loud voyce vnto the Lord their God.


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And the Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stande vp, and praise the Lord your God for euer, and euer, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth aboue all thankesgiuing and praise.


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Thou art Lord alone: thou hast made heauen, and the heauen of all heauens, with all their hoste, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and al that are in them, and thou preseruest them all, and the host of the heauen worshippeth thee.


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Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea, and madest his name Abraham,


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And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.


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Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea,


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And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudely against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day.


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For thou didest breake vp the Sea before them, and they went through the middes of the Sea on dry lande: and those that pursued them, hast thou cast into the bottomes as a stone, in the mightie waters:


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And leddest them in the day with a pillar of a cloude, and in the night with a pillar of fire to giue them light in the way that they went.


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Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, ordinances and good commandements,


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And declaredst vnto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and lawes, by the hande of Moses thy seruant:


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And gauest them bread from heauen for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rocke for their thirst: and promisedst them that they shoulde goe in, and take possession of the land: for the which thou haddest lift vp thine hand for to giue them.


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But they and our fathers behaued them selues proudely, and hardened their neck, so that they hearkened not vnto thy commandements,


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But refused to obey, and would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, but hardened their neckes, and had in their heads to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gratious and full of compassion, of long suffring and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.


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Moreouer, when they made them a molten calfe (and said, This is thy God that brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt) and committed great blasphemies,


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Yet thou for thy great mercies forsookest them not in the wildernesse: the pillar of the cloude departed not from them by day to leade them the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way whereby they should goe.


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Thou gauest also thy good Spirite to instruct them, and withheldest not thy MAN from their mouth, and gauest them water for their thirst.


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Thou didest also feede them fourtie yeres in ye wildernes: they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feete swelled not.


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And thou gauest them kingdomes and people, and scatteredst them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon and the land of ye King of Heshbon, and the land of Og King of Bashan.


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And thou diddest multiplie their children, like the starres of the heauen, and broughtest them into the lande, whereof thou haddest spoken vnto their fathers, that they should goe, and possesse it.


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So the children went in, and possessed the lande, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the lande, euen the Canaanites, and gauest them into their handes, with their Kings and the people of the lande, that they might do with them what they would.


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And they tooke their strong cities and the fat lande, and possessed houses, full of all goods, cisternes digged out, vineyardes, and oliues, and trees for foode in abundance, and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.


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Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Lawe behinde their backes, and slewe thy Prophets (which protested among them to turne them vnto thee) and committed great blasphemies.


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Therefore thou deliueredst them into the hande of their enemies that vexed them: yet in the time of their affliction, when they cryed vnto thee, thou heardest them from the heauen, and through thy great mercies thou gauest them sauiours, who saued them out of the hande of their aduersaries.


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But when they had rest, they returned to doe euill before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hande of their enemies, so that they had the dominion ouer them, yet when they conuerted and cryed vnto thee, thou heardest them from heauen, and deliueredst them according to thy great mercies many times,


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And protestedst among them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy Lawe: but they behaued them selues proudely, and hearkened not vnto thy commandements, but sinned against thy iudgements (which a man should doe and liue in them) and pulled away the shoulder, and were stiffenecked, and woulde not heare.


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Yet thou diddest forbeare them many yeeres, and protestedst among them by thy Spirite, euen by the hande of thy Prophets, but they woulde not heare: therefore gauest thou them into the hande of the people of the lands.


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Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.


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Nowe therefore our God, thou great God, mightie and terrible, that keepest couenant and mercie, let not all the affliction that hath come vnto vs, seeme a litle before thee, that is, to our Kings, to our princes, and to our Priests, and to our Prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people since the time of the Kings of Asshur vnto this day.


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Surely thou art iust in all that is come vpon vs: for thou hast dealt truely, but we haue done wickedly.


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And our kings and our princes, our Priests and our fathers haue not done thy Lawe, nor regarded thy commandements nor thy protestations, wherewith thou hast protested among them.


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And they haue not serued thee in their kingdome, and in thy great goodnesse that thou shewedst vnto them, and in the large and fat lande which thou diddest set before them, and haue not conuerted from their euill workes.


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Beholde, we are seruants this day, and the lande that thou gauest vnto our fathers, to eate the fruite thereof, and the goodnesse thereof, beholde, we are seruants therein.


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And it yeeldeth much fruit vnto the kings whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: and they haue dominion ouer our bodyes and ouer our cattell at their pleasure, and we are in great affliction.


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Now because of all this we make a sure couenant, and write it, and our princes, our Leuites and our Priestes seale vnto it.<pb/>


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And the rest of the people, the Priestes, the Leuites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all that were separated from the people of the landes vnto the Lawe of God, their wiues, their sonnes, and their daughters, all that coulde vnderstande.


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The chiefe of them receiued it for their brethren, and they came to the curse and to the othe to walke in Gods Law, which was giuen by Moses the seruant of God, to obserue and doe all the commandements of the Lord our God, and his iudgements and his statutes:


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And that we would not giue our daughters to the people of the lande, neither take their daughters for our sonnes.


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And if the people of the lande brought ware on the Sabbath, or any 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 yeere be free, and the debtes of euery person.


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And we made statutes for our selues to giue by the yeere the thirde part of a shekel for the seruice of the house of our God,


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For the shewbread, and for the daily offring, and for the daily burnt offring, the Sabbaths, the newe moones, for the solemne feastes, and for the thinges that were sanctified, and for the sinne offrings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the worke of the house of our God.


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We cast also lottes for the offering of the wood, euen the Priestes, the Leuites and the people to bring it into the house of our God, by the house of our fathers, yeerely at the times appointed, to burne it vpon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Lawe,


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And to bring the first fruites of our land, and the first of all the fruites of all trees, yeere by yeere, into the house of the Lord,


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And the first borne of our sonnes, and of our cattel, as it is written in the Lawe, and the first borne of our bullockes and of our sheepe, to bring it into the house of our God, vnto ye Priests that minister in the house of our God,


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And that we should bring the first fruite of our dough, and our offrings, and the fruite of euery tree, of wine and of oyle, vnto the Priests, to the chambers of the house of our God: and the tithes of our lande vnto the Leuites, that the Leuites might haue the tithes in all the cities of our trauaile.


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And the Priest, the sonne of Aaron shall be with the Leuites, when ye Leuites take tithes, and the Leuites shall bring vp the tenth parte of the tithes vnto the house of our God, vnto the chambers of the treasure house.


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For the children of Israel, and the children of Leui shall bring vp the offerings of the corne, of the wine, and of the oyle, vnto the chabers: and there shalbe the vessels of the Sanctuarie, and the Priestes that minister, and the porters, and the fingers, and we will not forsake the house of our God.<pb/>


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And the rulers of the people dwelt in Ierusalem: the other people also cast lottes, to bring one out of ten to dwel in Ierusalem the holy citie, and nine partes to be in the cities.


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These now are the chiefe of the prouince, that dwelt in Ierusalem, but in the cities of Iudah, euery one dwelt in his owne possession in their cities of Israel, the Priestes and the Leuites, and the Nethinims, and the sonnes of Salomons seruants.


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And in Ierusalem dwelt certaine of the children of Iudah, and of the children of Beniamin. Of the sonnes of Iudah, Athaiah, the sonne of Vziiah, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Shephatiah, the sonne of Mahaleel, of the sonnes of Perez,


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And Maaseiah the sonne of Baruch, the sonne of Col Hozeh, the sonne of Hazaiah, the sonne of Adaiah, the sonne of Ioiarib, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Shiloni.


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All the sonnes of Perez that dwelt at Ierusalem, were foure hundreth, three score and eight valiant men.


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These also are the sonnes of Beniamin, Sallu, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Ioed, the sonne of Pedaiah, the sonne of Kolaiah, the sonne of Maaseiah, the sonne of Ithiel, the sonne of Ieshaiah.


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And Ioel the sonne of Zichri was gouernour ouer them: and Iudah, the sonne of Senuah was the second ouer the citie:


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Seraiah, the sonne of Hilkiah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Zadok, the sonne of Meraioth, the sonne of Ahitub was chiefe of the house of God.


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And their brethren that did the worke in the Temple, were eight hundreth, twenty and two: and Adaiah, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Pelaliah, the sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Pashur, the sonne of Malchiah:


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And his brethren, chiefe of the fathers, two hundreth and two and fourtie: and Amashsai the sonne of Azareel, the sonne of Ahazai, the sonne of Meshilemoth, the sonne of Immer:


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And their brethren valiant men, an hundreth and eight and twentie: and their ouerseer was Zabdiel the sonne of Hagedolim.


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And of the Leuites, Shemaiah, the sonne of Hashub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Bunni.


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And Shabbethai, and Iozabad of the chiefe of the Leuites were ouer the workes of the house of God without.


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And Mattaniah, the sonne of Micha, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Asaph was the chiefe to begin the thankesgiuing and prayer: and Bakbukiah the second of his brethren, and Abda, the sonne of Shammua, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun.


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And the porters Akkub, Talmon and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundreth twentie and two.


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And the residue of Israel, of the Priests, and of the Leuites dwelt in al the cities of Iudah, euery one in his inheritance.


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And the ouerseer of the Leuites in Ierusalem was Vzzi the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Ashabiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Micha: of the sonnes of Asaph singers were ouer the worke of the house of God.


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For it was the Kings commandement cocerning them, that faithfull prouision shoulde bee for the singers euery day.


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And Pethahiah the sonne of Meshezabeel, of the sonnes of Zerah, the sonne of Iudah was at the Kings hand in all matters concerning the people.


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And in the villages in their landes, some of the children of Iudah dwelt in Kiriath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and in Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and in Iekabzeel. and in the villages thereof,


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Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, in Lachish, and in the fieldes thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof: and they dwelt from Beer-sheba, vnto the valley of Hinnom.


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And the sonnes of Beniamin from Geba, in Michmash, and Aiia, and Beth-el, and in the villages thereof,


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These also are the Priestes and the Leuites that went vp with Zerubbabel, the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua: to wit, Seraiah, Ieremiah, Ezra,


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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiiah, Iedaiah: these were the chiefe of the Priests, and of their brethren in the dayes of Ieshua.


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And the Leuites, Ieshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Iudah, Mattaniah were ouer the thankesgiuings, he, and his brethren.


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And in the daies of Ioiakim were these, the chiefe fathers of the Priests: vnder Seraiah was Meraiah, vnder Ieremiah, Hananiah,


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In the dayes of Eliashib, Ioiada, and Iohanan and Iaddua were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites written, and the Priests in the reigne of Darius the Persian.


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The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe fathers were written in the booke of the Chronicles euen vnto the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib.


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And the chiefe of the Leuites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Ieshua the sonne of Kadmiel, and their brethren about them to giue prayse and thankes, according to the ordinance of Dauid the man of God, ward ouer against warde.


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Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were porters keeping the warde at the thresholds of the gates.


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These were in the dayes of Ioiakim, the sonne of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and in the dayes of Nehemiah the captaine, and of Ezra the Priest and scribe.


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And in the dedication of the wall at Ierusalem they sought the Leuites out of all their places to bring them to Ierusalem to keepe the dedication and gladnes, both with thankesgiuings and with songs, cymbales, violes and with harpes.


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Then the singers gathered themselues together both from the plaine countrey about Ierusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi,


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And from the house of Gilgal, and out of the countreis of Geba, and Azmaueth: for the singers had built them villages round about Ierusalem.


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And I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies to giue thankes, and the one went on the right hand of the wall toward the dung gate.


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And of the Priests sonnes with trumpets, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, ye sonne of Asaph.


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And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Iudah, Hanani, with the musicall instruments of Dauid the man of God: and Ezra the scribe went before them.


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And to the gate of the fountaine, euen ouer against them went they vp by the staires of the citie of Dauid, at the going vp of the wall beyond the house of Dauid, euen vnto the water gate Eastward.


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And the seconde companie of them that gaue thankes, went on the other side, and I after them, and the halfe of the people was vpon the wall, and vpon the towre of the furnaces euen vnto the broad wall.


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And vpon the gate of Ephraim, and vpon the olde gate, and vpon the fishgate, and the towre of Hananeel, and the towre of Meah, euen vnto the sheepegate: and they stood in the gate of the warde.


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So stood the two companies (of them that gaue thankes) in the house of God, and I and the halfe of the rulers with me.


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The Priests also, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, Hananiah, with trumpets,


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And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Vzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer: and the singers sang loude, hauing Izrahiah which was the ouerseer.


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And the same day they offered great sacrifices and reioyced: for God had giuen them great ioy, so that both the women, and the children were ioyfull: and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard farre off.


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Also at the same time were men appointed ouer the chambers of the store for the offerings (for the first fruites, and for the tithes) to gather into them out of the fieldes of the cities, the portions of the Law for the Priests and the Leuites: for Iudah reioyced for the Priests and for the Leuites, that serued.


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And both the singers and the Leuites kept the ward of their God, and the warde of the purification according to the commandement of Dauid, and Salomon his sonne.


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For in the dayes of Dauid and Asaph, of olde were chiefe singers, and songs of praise and thankesgiuing vnto God.


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And in the dayes of Zerubbabel, and in the dayes of Nehemiah did al Israel giue portions vnto the singers and porters, euerie day his portion, and they gaue the holy things vnto the Leuites, and the Leuites gaue the holy things vnto the sonnes of Aaron.<pb/>


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And on that day did they reade in the booke of Moses, in the audience of the people, and it was found written therein, that the Ammonite, and the Moabite should not enter into the Congregation of God,


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


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And before this had the Priest Eliashib the ouersight of the chamber of the house of our God, being kinsman to Tobiah:


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And he had made him a great chamber and there had they aforetime layde the offringes, the incense, and the vessels, and the tithes of corne, of wine, and of oyle (appointed for the Leuites, and the singers, and the porters) and the offringes of the Priests.


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But in all this time was not I in Ierusalem: for in the two and thirtieth yere of Artahshashte King of Babel, came I vnto the King, and after certaine dayes I obteined of the King.


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And when I was come to Ierusalem, I vnderstood the euil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in that hee had made him a chamber in the court of the house of God,


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And it grieued me sore: therefore I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chamber.


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And I commanded them to clense ye chambers: and thither brought I againe the vessels of the house of God with the meate offring and the incense.


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And I perceiued that the portions of the Leuites had not bene giuen, and that euery one was fled to his lande, 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 assembled them, and set them in their place.


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And I made treasurers ouer the treasures, Shelemiah the Priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Leuites, Pedaiah, and vnder their hande Hanan the sonne of Zaccur the sonne of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithfull, and their office was to distribute vnto their brethren.


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Remember me, O my God, herein, and wipe not out my kindenes that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices thereof.


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In those dayes saw I in Iudah them, that trode wine presses on ye Sabbath, and that brought in sheaues, and which laded asses also with wine, grapes, and figges, and all burdens, and brought them into Ierusalem vpon the Sabbath day: and I protested to them in the day that they sold vitailes.


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There dwelt men of Tyrus also therein, which brought fish and all wares, and solde on the Sabbath vnto the children of Iudah euen in Ierusalem.


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Then reprooued I the rulers of Iudah, and sayd vnto them, What euil thing is this that yee doe, and breake the Sabbath day?


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Did not your fathers thus, and our God brought all this plague vpon vs, and vpon this citie? yet yee increase the wrath vpon Israel, in breaking the Sabbath.


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And when the gates of Ierusalem beganne to be darke before the Sabbath, I commaded to shut the gates, and charged, that they should not be opened til after the Sabbath, and some of my seruants set I at the gates, that there shoulde no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.


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And I protested among them, and said vnto them, Why tary ye all night about the wall? If ye do it once againe, I will lay hands vpon you. from that time came they no more on the Sabbath.


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And I sayde vnto the Leuites, that they should clense themselues, and that they shoulde come and keepe the gates, to sanctifie the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and pardon me according to thy great mercy.


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


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Then I reprooued them, and cursed them, and smote certaine of them, and pulled off their heare, and tooke an othe of them by God, Yee shall not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take of their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor for your selues.


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Did not Salomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? yet among many nations was there no King like him: for he was beloued of his God, and God had made him King ouer Israel: yet strange women caused him to sinne.


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Shall wee then obey vnto you, to doe all this great euil, and to transgresse against our God, euen to marry strange wiues?


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And one of the sonnes of Ioiada the sonne of Eliashib the hie Priest was the sonne in law of Sanballat the Horonite: but I chased him from me.


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Remember them, O my God, that defile the Priesthoode, and the couenant of the Priesthoode, and of the Leuites.


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Then cleansed I them from all strangers, and appoynted the wardes of the Priestes and of the Leuites, euery one in his office,


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And for the offring of the wood at times appoynted, and for the first fruites. Remember me, O my God, in goodnes.


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In the dayes of Ahashuerosh (this is Ahashuerosh that reigned, from India euen vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundreth, and seuen and twentie prouinces)


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In the third yeere of his reigne, he made a feast vnto all his princes and his seruants, euen the power of Persia and Media, and to the captaines and gouernours of the prouinces which were before him,


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That he might shewe the riches and glorie of his kingdome, and the honour of his great maiestie many dayes, euen an hundreth and foure score dayes.


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And when these dayes were expired, the King made a feast to all the people that were founde in the palace of Shushan, both vnto great and small, seuen dayes, in the court of the garden of the Kings palace,


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Vnder an hanging of white, greene, and blue clothes, fastened with cordes of fine linen and purple, in siluer rings, and pillars of marble: the beds were of golde, and of siluer vpon a pauement of porphyre, and marble and alabaster, and blue colour.


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And they gaue them drinke in vessels of golde, and changed vessel after vessel, and royall wine in abundance according to the power of the King.


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


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Vpon the seuenth daye when the King was merie with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seuen eunuches, (that serued in the presence of King Ahashuerosh)


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To bring Queene Vashti before the King with the crowne royall, that he might shewe the people and the princes her beautie: for shee was fayre to looke vpon.


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But the Queene Vashti refused to come at the Kings worde, which he had giuen in charge to the eunuches: therefore the King was very angry, and his wrath kindled in him.


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Then the King said to the wise men, that knew the times (for so was the Kings maner towards all that knew the law and the iudgement:


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And the next vnto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan the seuen princes of Persia and Media, which sawe the Kings face, and sate the first in the kingdome)


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What shall we do vnto the Queene Vashti according to the law, because she did not according to the worde of the King Ahashuerosh by the commission of the eunuches?


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Then Memucan answered before the King and the Princes, The Queene Vashti hath not only done euill against the King, but against all the princes, and against all the people that are in all the prouinces of King Ahashuerosh.


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For the acte of the Queene shall come abroade vnto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their owne eyes, and shall say, The King Ahashuerosh comanded Vashti the Queene to be brought in before him, but she came not.


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So shall the princesses of Persia and Media this day say vnto all the Kings Princes, when they heare of the acte of the Queene: thus shall there be much despitefulnesse and wrath.


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If it please the King, let a royal decree proceede from him, and let it be written among the statutes of Persia, and Media, (and let it not be transgressed) that Vashti come no more before King Ahashuerosh: and let the King giue her royal estate vnto her companion that is better then she.


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And when the decree of the King which shalbe made, shalbe published throughout all his kingdome (though it be great) all the women shall giue their husbands honour, both great and small.


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And this saying pleased the King and the princes, and the King did according to the worde of Memucan.


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For he sent letters into all the prouinces of the King, into euery prouince according to the writing thereof, and to euery people after their language, that euery man should beare rule in his owne house, and that he should publish it in the language of that same people.<pb/>


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After these things, when the wrath of King Ahashuerosh was appeased, he remembred Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.


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And the Kings seruants that ministred vnto him, sayd, Let them seeke for the King beautifull yong virgins,


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And let the King appoynt officers through all the prouinces of his kingdome, and let them gather all the beautiful yong virgins vnto the palace of Shushan, into the house of the women, vnder the hand of Hege the Kings eunuche, keeper of the women, to giue them their things for purification.


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And the mayde that shall please the King, let her reigne in the steade of Vashti. And this pleased the King, and he did so.


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In the citie of Shushan, there was a certaine Iewe, whose name was Mordecai the sonne of Iair, the sonne of Shimei, the sonne of Kish a man of Iemini,


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Which had bene caryed away from Ierusalem with the captiuitie that was caryed away with Ieconiah King of Iudah (whom Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away)


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And he nourished Hadassah, that is Ester, his vncles daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the mayde was fayre, and beautifull to looke on: and after the death of her father, and her mother, Mordecai tooke her for his own daughter


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And when the Kings commandement, and his decree was published, and many maydes were brought together to the palace of Shushan, vnder the hand of Hege, Ester was brought also vnto the Kings house vnder the hande of Hege the keeper of the women.


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And the mayde pleased him, and she founde fauour in his sight: therefore he caused her things for purification to be giuen her speedily, and her state, and seuen comely maides to be giuer her out of the Kings house, and he gaue change to her and to her maydes of the best in the house of the women.


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But Ester shewed not her people and her kinred: for Mordecai had charged her, that shee should not tell it.


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Aud Mordecai walked euery day before the court of the womens house, to knowe if Ester did well, and what should be done with her.


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And when the course of euery mayd came, to go in to King Ahashuerosh, after that she had bene twelue moneths according to the maner of the women (for so were the dayes of their purifications accomplished, sixe moneths with oyle of myrrhe, and sixe moneths with sweete odours and in the purifying of the women:


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And thus went the maides vnto the King) whatsoeuer she required, was giuen her, to go with her out of the womens house vnto ye kings house.


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In the euening she went, and on the morow she returned into the second house of the women vnder the hand of Shaashgaz the Kings eunuche, which kept the concubines: shee came in to the King no more, except shee pleased the King, and that she were called by name.


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Now when the course of Ester the daughter of Abihail the vncle of Mordecai (which had taken her as his owne daughter) came, that shee should go in to the King, she desired nothing, but what Hege the Kings eunuche the keeper of the women sayde: and Ester founde fauour in the sight of all them that looked vpon her.


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So Ester was taken vnto King Ahashuerosh into his house royall in the tenth moneth, which is the moneth Tebeth, in the seuenth yeere of his reigne.


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And the King loued Ester aboue all the women, and shee founde 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 instead of Vashti.


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Then the King made a great feast vnto all his princes, and his seruants, which was the feast of Ester, and gaue rest vnto the prouinces, and gaue gifts, according to the power of a King.


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Ester had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her: for Ester did after the worde of Mordecai, as when she was nourished with him.


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In those dayes whe Mordecai sate in the Kings gate, two of the Kings eunuches, Bigthan and Teresh, which kept the doore, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the King Ahashuerosh.


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After these things did King Ahashuerosh promote Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, and exalted him, and set his seate aboue all the princes that were with him.


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And all the Kings seruants that were at the Kings gate, bowed their knees, and reuerenced Haman: for the King had so commanded concerning him: but Mordecai bowed not the knee, neither did reuerence.


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Then the Kings seruants which were at the Kings gate, said vnto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the Kings commandement?


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And albeit they spake dayly vnto him, yet he would not heare them: therefore they tolde Haman, that they might see how Mordecais matters would stande: for he had tolde them, that he was a Iewe.


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And when Haman sawe that Mordecai bowed not the knee vnto him, nor did reuerence vnto him, then Haman was full of wrath.


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Now he thought it too litle to lay hands onely on Mordecai: and because they had shewed him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Iewes, that were throughout the whole kingdome of Ahashuerosh, euen the people of Mordecai.


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In the first moneth (that is the moneth Nisan) in the twelft yere of King Ahashuerosh, they cast Pur (that is a lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from moneth to moneth, vnto the twelft moneth, that is the moneth Adar.


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Then Haman said vnto King Ahashuerosh, There is a people scattered, and dispersed among the people in all the prouinces of thy kingdome, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and they doe not obserue the Kings lawes: therefore it is not the Kings profite to suffer them.


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If it please the King, let it be written that they may he destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of siluer by the handes of them that haue the charge of this businesse to bring it into the Kings treasurie.


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Then the King tooke his ring from his hand and gaue it vnto Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite the Iewes aduersarie.


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And the King sayde vnto Haman, Let the siluer be thine, and the people to doe with them as it pleaseth thee.


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Then were the Kings scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, and there was written (according to all that Haman commanded) vnto the Kings officers, and to the captaines that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people, and to euery prouince, according to the writing thereof, and to euery people according to their language: in the name of King Ahashuerosh was it written, and sealed with the Kings ring.


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And the letters were sent by postes into all the Kings prouinces, to roote out, to kill and to destroy all the Iewes, both yong and olde, children and women, in one day vpon the thirteenth day of the twelft moneth, (which is the moneth Adar) and to spoyle them as a pray.


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The contents of the writing was, that there shoulde be giuen a commandement in all prouinces, and published vnto all people, that they should be ready against the same day.


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And the postes compelled by the Kings commandement went forth, and the commandement was giuen in the palace at Shushan: and the King and Haman sate drinking, but the citie of Shushan was in perplexitie.<pb/>


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Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye, and a bitter.


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And he came euen before the Kings gate, but he might not enter within the Kings gate, being clothed with sackecloth.


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And in euery prouince, and place, whither the Kings charge and his commission came, there was great sorowe among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping and mourning, and many laye in sackecloth and in ashes.


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Then Esters maydes and her eunuches came and tolde it her: therefore the Queene was very heauie, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackecloth from him, but he receiued it not.


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Then called Ester Hatach one of the Kings eunuches, whom he had appointed to serue her, and gaue him a commandement vnto Mordecai, to knowe what it was, and why it was.


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And Mordecai tolde him of all that which had come vnto him, and of the summe of the siluer that Haman had promised to pay vnto the Kings treasures, because of the Iewes, for to destroy them.


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Also he gaue him the copy of the writing and commission that was giuen at Shushan, to destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Ester and declare it vnto her, and to charge her that she should goe in to the King, and make petition and supplication before him for her people.


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All the Kings seruants and the people of the Kings prouinces doe knowe, that whosoeuer, man or woman, that commeth to the King into the inner court, which is not called, there is a law of his, that he shall dye, except him to whom the King holdeth out the golden rodde, that he may liue. Now I haue not bene called to come vnto the King these thirtie dayes.


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And Mordecai saide, that they should answere Ester thus, Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the Kings house, more then all the Iewes.


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For if thou holdest thy peace at this time, comfort and deliuerance shall appeare to the Iewes out of another place, but thou and thy fathers house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time?


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Goe, and assemble all the Iewes that are found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and eate not, nor drinke in three dayes, day nor night. I also and my maydes will fast likewise, and so will I go in to the King, which is not according to the lawe: and if I perish, I perish.


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And on the third day Ester put on her royal apparel, and stood in the court of the Kings palace within, ouer against the Kings house: and the King sate vpon his royal throne in the Kings palace ouer against the gate of the house.


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And when the King saw Ester the Queene standing in the court, shee founde fauour in his sight: and the King held out the golden scepter that was in his hand: so Ester drewe neere, and touched the toppe of the scepter.


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Then saide the King vnto her, What wilt thou, Queene Ester? and what is thy request? it shall be euen giuen thee to the halfe of ye kingdome.


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Then saide Ester, 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 sayd, Cause Haman to make haste that he may doe as Ester hath sayde. So the King and Haman came to the banket that Ester had prepared.


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And the King sayd vnto Ester at the banket of wine, What is thy petition, that it may be giuen thee? and what is thy request? it shall euen be performed vnto the halfe of the kingdome.


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If I haue found fauour in the sight of the King, and if it please the King to giue me my petition, and to perfourme my request, let the King and Haman come to the banket that I shall prepare for them, and I will doe to morowe according to the Kings saying.


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Then went Haman forth the same day ioyfull and with a glad heart. But when Haman sawe Mordecai in the Kings gate, that he stoode not vp, nor moued for him, then was Haman full of indignation at Mordecai.


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Neuerthelesse Haman refrayned himselfe: and when he came home, he sent, and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.


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And Haman tolde them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the King had promoted him, and how that he had set him aboue the princes and seruants of the King.


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Haman sayde moreouer, Yea, Ester the Queene did let no man come in with the King to the banket that she had prepared, saue me: and to morowe am I bidden vnto her also with the King.


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Then sayde Zeresh his wife and all his friends vnto him, Let them make a tree of fiftie cubites hie, and to morowe speake thou vnto the King, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then shalt thou goe ioyfully with the King vnto the banket. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused to make the tree.<pb/>


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The same night the King slept not, and he comanded to bring ye booke of the records, and the chronicles: and they were read before ye King.


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Then it was found written that Mordecai had tolde of Bigtana, and Teresh two of the Kings eunuches, keepers of the dore, who sought to lay hands on the King Ahashuerosh.


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Then the King sayde, What honour and dignitie hath bene giuen to Mordecai for this? And the Kings seruants that ministred vnto him, sayd, There is nothing done for him.


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And the King sayde, Who is in the court? (Now Haman was come into the inner court of the Kings house, that he might speake vnto the King to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him.)


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And the Kings seruants said vnto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the King sayd, Let him come in.


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And when Haman came in, the King saide vnto him, What shalbe done vnto ye man, whom the King will honour? Then Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the King do honour more then to me?


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Let them bring for him royall apparell, which the King vseth to weare, and the horse that the King rideth vpon, and that the crowne royall may be set vpon his head.


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And let the raiment and the horse be deliuered by the hand of one of the Kings most noble princes, and let them apparel the man (whome the King will honour) and cause him to ride vpon the horse thorow the streete of the citie, and proclayme before him, Thus shall it be done vnto the man, whome the King will honour.


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Then the King said to Haman, Make haste, take the rayment and the horse as thou hast said, and doe so vnto Mordecai the Iewe, that sitteth at the Kings gate: let nothing fayle of all that thou hast spoken.


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So Haman tooke the rayment and the horse, and arayed Mordecai, and brought him on horse backe thorowe the streete of the citie, and proclaymed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King will honour.


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And Haman tolde Zeresh his wife, and all his friends all that had befallen him. Then sayd his wise men, and Zeresh his wife vnto him, If Mordecai be of the seede of the Iewes, before whom thou hast begunne to fall; thou shalt not preuaile against him, but shalt surely fall before him.


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And while they were yet talking with him, came the Kings eunuches and hasted to bring Haman vnto the banket that Ester had prepared.<pb/>


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And the King said againe vnto Ester on the second day at the banket of wine, What is thy petition, Queene Ester, that it may be giue thee? and what is thy request? It shalbe euen perfourmed vnto the halfe of the kingdome.


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And Ester the Queene answered, and said, If I haue found fauour in thy sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be giuen me at my petition, and my people at my request.


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For we are solde, I, and my people, to be destroyed, to be slayne and to perish: but if we were solde for seruants, and for handmaides, I woulde haue helde my tongue: although the aduersarie could not recompense the Kings losse.


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Then King Ahashuerosh answered, and said vnto the Queene Ester, Who is he? and where is he that presumeth to doe thus?


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And Ester said, The aduersarie and enemie is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afrayde before the King and the Queene.


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And the King arose from ye banket of wine in his wrath, and went into the palace garden: but Haman stood vp, to make request for his life to the Queene Ester: for he sawe that there was a mischiefe prepared for him of the King.


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And when the King came againe out of the palace garden, into the house where they dranke wine, Haman was fallen vpon the bed whereon Ester sate! therefore the King sayd, Will he force the Queene also before me in the house? As the worde went out of the Kings mouth, they couered Hamans face.


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And Harbonah one of the eunuches, sayde in the presence of the King, Beholde, there standeth yet the tree in Hamans house fiftie cubites hie, which Haman had prepared for Mordecai, that spake good for the King. Then the King sayd, Hang him thereon.


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So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.<pb/>


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The same day did King Ahashuerosh giue the house of Haman the aduersarie of the Iewes vnto the Queene Ester. and Mordecai came before the King: for Ester tolde what hee was vnto her.


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And the King tooke off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gaue it vnto Mordecai: and Ester set Mordecai ouer the house of Haman.


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And Ester spake yet more before the King, and fell downe at his feete weeping, and besought him that he would put away the wickednes of Haman the Agagite, and his deuice that he had imagined against the Iewes.


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And sayd, If it please the King, and if I haue found fauour in his sight, and the thing be acceptable before the King, and I please him, let it be written, that the letters of the deuice of Haman the sonne of Ammedatha the Agagite may be called againe, which he wrote to destroy the Iewes, that are in all the Kings prouinces.


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For how can I suffer and see the euil, that shall come vnto my people? Or howe can I suffer and see the destruction of my kinred?


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And the King Ahashuerosh sayde vnto the Queene Ester, and to Mordecai the Iewe, Behold, I haue giuen Ester the house of Haman, whome they haue hanged vpon the tree, because he layd hand vpon the Iewes.


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Write yee also for the Iewes, as it liketh you in the Kinges name, and seale it with the Kings ring (for the writings written in the Kings name, and sealed with the Kings ring, may no man reuoke)


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Then were the Kings Scribes called at the same time, euen in the thirde moneth, that is the moneth Siuan, on the three and twentieth day thereof: and it was written, according to all as Mordecai commanded, vnto the Iewes and to the princes, and captaines, and rulers of the prouinces, which were from India euen vnto Ethiopia, an hundreth and seuen and twentie prouinces, vnto euery prouince, according to the writing thereof, and to euery people after their speache, and to the Iewes, according to their writing, and according to their language.


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And hee wrote in the King Ahashuerosh name, and sealed it with the Kings ring: and he sent letters by postes on horsebacke and that rode on beastes of price, as dromedaries and coltes of mares.


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Wherein the King graunted the Iewes (in what cities so euer they were) to gather theselues together, and to stand for their life, and to roote out, to slay and to destroy al the power of the people and of the prouince that vexed them, both children and women, and to spoyle their goods:


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Vpon one day in all the prouinces of King Ahashuerosh, euen in the thirteenth day of the twelft moneth, which is the moneth Adar.


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The copie of the writing was, howe there should be a commandement giuen in all and euery prouince, published among all the people, and that the Iewes should be ready against that day to auenge themselues on their enemies.


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So the postes rode vpon beasts of price, and dromedaries, and went forth with speede, to execute the Kings commandement, and the decree was giuen at Shushan the palace.


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And Mordecai went out from the King in royall apparell of blewe, and white, and with a great crowne of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple, and the citie of Shushan reioyced and was glad.


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Also in all and euery prouince, and in al and euery citie and place, where the Kings commandement and his decree came, there was ioy and gladnes to the Iewes, a feast and good day, and many of the people of the land became Iewes: for the feare of the Iewes fell vpon them.<pb/>


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So in the twelft moneth, which is the moneth Adar, vpon the thirteenth daye of the same, when the Kings commandement and his decree drew neere to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer them (but it turned contrary: for the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them)


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The Iewes gathered themselues together into their cities throughout all the prouinces of the King Ahashuerosh, to lay hande on such as sought their hurt, and no man coulde withstande them: for the feare of them fel vpon al people.


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And all the rulers of the prouinces, and the princes and the captaines, and the officers of the King exalted the Iewes: for the feare of Mordecai fell vpon them.


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For Mordecai was great in the kings house, and the report of him went through all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.


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Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with strokes of the sworde and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they woulde vnto those that hated them.


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The ten sonnes of Haman, ye sonne of Ammedatha, the aduersarie of the Iewes slewe they: but they layd not their hands on the spoyle.


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On the same day came ye nomber of those that were slayne, vnto the palace of Shushan before the King.


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And the King sayd vnto the Queene Ester, The Iewes haue slayne in Shushan the palace and destroyed fiue hundreth men, and the ten sonnes of Haman: what haue they done in the rest of the Kings prouinces? and what is thy petition, that it may be giuen thee? or what is thy request moreouer, that it may be performed?


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Then sayd Ester, If it please the King, let it be granted also to morow to the Iewes that are in Shushan, to do according vnto this daies decree, that they may hang vpon ye tree Hamans ten sonnes.


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And the King charged to doe so, and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.


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So the Iewes that were in Shushan, assembled themselues vpon the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and slew three hundreth men in Shushan, but on the spoyle they layd not their hand.


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And the rest of the Iewes that were in the Kings prouinces assembled themselues, and stood for their liues, and had rest from their enemies, and slewe of them that hated them, seuentie and fiue thousand: but they layd not their hand on the spoyle.


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This they did on the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, and rested the fourteenth day thereof, and kept it a day of feasting and ioy.


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But the Iewes that were in Shushan assembled themselues on the thirteenth day, and on the fourteenth therof, and they rested on the fifteenth of the same, and kept it a day of feasting and ioy.


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Therefore the Iewes of the villages that dwelt in the vnwalled townes, kept the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar with ioy and feasting, euen a ioyfull day, and euery one sent presents vnto his neighbour.


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And Mordecai wrote these words, and sent letters vnto all the Iewes that were through all the prouinces of the King Ahashuerosh, both neere and farre,


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Inioyning them that they shoulde keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, euery yeere.


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According to the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, and the moneth which was turned vnto them from sorowe to ioy, and from mourning into a ioyfull day, to keepe them the dayes of feasting, and ioy, and to sende presents euery man to his neyghbour, and giftes to the poore.


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Because Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite al the Iewes aduersarie, had imagined against the Iewes, to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is a lot) to consume and destroy them.


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And when she came before the King, he commanded by letters, Let this wicked deuise (which he imagined against the Iewes) turne vpon his owne head, and let them hang him and his sonnes on the tree.


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Therfore they called these dayes Purim, by the name of Pur, and because of all the wordes of this letter, and of that which they had seene besides this, and of that which had come vnto them.


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The Iewes also ordeined, and promised for them and for their seede, and for all that ioyned vnto them, that they would not faile to obserue those two dayes euery yeere, according to their writing, and according to their season,


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And that these dayes shoulde be remembred, and kept throughout euery generation and euery familie, and euery prouince, and euery citie: euen these daies of Purim should not faile among the Iewes, and the memoriall of them should not perish from their seede.


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And the Queene Ester ye daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Iew wrote with al authoritie (to cofirme this letter of Purim ye second time)


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And he sent letters vnto al the Iewes to the hundreth and seuen and twentie prouinces of the kingdome of Ahashuerosh, with words of peace and trueth,


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To confirme these dayes of Purim, according to their seasons, as Mordecai the Iewe and Ester the Queene had appointed them, and as they had promised for them selues and for their seede with fasting and prayer.


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And all the actes of his power, and of his might, and the declaration of the dignitie of Mordecai, wherwith the King magnified him, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?


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For Mordecai the Iewe was the second vnto King Ahashuerosh, and great among the Iewes, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, who procured the wealth of his people, and spake peaceably to all his seede.


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There was a man in the lande of Vz called Iob, and this man was an vpright and iust man, one that feared God, and eschewed euill.


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His substance also was seuen thousande sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundreth yoke of oxen, and fiue hundreth shee asses, and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.


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


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And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob euery day.


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Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, saying, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it.


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And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?


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Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.


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But stretch out now thine hand and touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.


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Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.


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


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There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,


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And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.


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And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.


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And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.


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And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,


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And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.


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Then Iob arose, and rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped,


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And sayd, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord hath giuen, and the Lord hath taken it: blessed be the Name of the Lord.


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


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Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and sayd, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it.


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And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.


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And Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hath, will he giue for his life.


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But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.


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So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore boyles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.


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But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.


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Nowe when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place, to wit, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they were agreed together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him.


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So when they lift vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not: therefore they lift vp their voyces and wept, and euery one of them rent his garment, and sprinkled dust vpon their heads toward the heauen.


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So they sate by him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe, that the griefe was very great.<pb/>


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Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.


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Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,


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But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.


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Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.


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Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,


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The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.


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If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?


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The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, and the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.


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Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,


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Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?


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His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.


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The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.


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He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.


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Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.


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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.


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For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.


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And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.


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Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.


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For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.


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That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?


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Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.


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He that is in miserie, ought to be comforted of his neighbour: but men haue forsaken the feare of the Almightie.


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But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,


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Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?


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So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.


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If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and from vnto the dawning of the day.


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My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.


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Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.


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Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.


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I haue sinned, what shall I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?


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And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.<pb/>


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Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?


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If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.


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Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.


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He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.


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They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.<pb/>


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Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?


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If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?


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If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.


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The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?


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My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.


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Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?


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If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.


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If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.


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Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.


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Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!


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Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.<pb/>


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Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?


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That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.


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Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.


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And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.


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But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.<pb/>


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But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?


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I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.


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The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.


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Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:


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Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.


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Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.


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Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.


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He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.


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He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.


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He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.


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He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, and maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.


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Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.


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He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.


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Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.


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For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.


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So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.


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Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.


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If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come.


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And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his place:


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As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.


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Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.


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And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,


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But while his flesh is vpon him, he shall be sorowfull, and while his soule is in him, it shall mourne.<pb/>


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The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.


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He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.


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Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.


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Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.


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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.


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He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.


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God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.


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I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,


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And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.


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His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.


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They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.


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God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.


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I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.


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His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.


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Thou art as one that teareth his soule in his anger. Shall the earth bee forsaken for thy sake? or the rocke remoued out of his place?


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It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength.


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Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.


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Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.<pb/>


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They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.


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Whome I my selfe shall see, and mine eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my reynes are consumed within me.


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Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.<pb/>


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I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.


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Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?


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He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,


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He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.


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When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.


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He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.


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The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.


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All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.


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This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.<pb/>


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Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?


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How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.


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God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.


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But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.


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The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.


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Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?


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To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.


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Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.


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If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.


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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.


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When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.


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If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.


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Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.


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Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?


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They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.


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Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.


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Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.


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These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.


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The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.


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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.


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They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.


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But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.


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He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.


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The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shall feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remembered, and the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.


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They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.


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Loe, these are part of his wayes: but how litle a portion heare we of him? and who can vnderstand his fearefull power?<pb/>


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God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.


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I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.


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I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.


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This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.


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If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.


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When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.


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God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.


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The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.


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He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.


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It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir.


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The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde.


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The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.


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And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.<pb/>


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When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.


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The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.


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If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.


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I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.<pb/>


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Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.


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For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.


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They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.


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The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.


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Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.


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For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie?


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If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,


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He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe?


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If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,


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Though I could haue made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did feare me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the doore.


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Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,


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If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,


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Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob.


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So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.


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Therefore Elihu the sonne of Barachel, the Buzite answered, and sayd, I am yong in yeres, and ye are ancient: therefore I doubted, and was afraide to shewe you mine opinion.


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Behold, I did waite vpon your wordes, and hearkened vnto your knowledge, whiles you sought out reasons.


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Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:


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If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,


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Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation.


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He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes.


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He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,


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Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of wisedome, God forbid that wickednesse should be in God, and iniquitie in the Almightie.


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For he will render vnto man according to his worke, and cause euery one to finde according to his way.


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How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, and regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.


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They shall die suddenly, and the people shalbe troubled at midnight, and they shall passe foorth and take away the mightie without hand.


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So that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and he hath heard the cry of the afflicted.


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And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely?


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Wil he performe the thing through thee? for thou hast reproued it, because that thou hast chosen, and not I. now speake what thou knowest.


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For he addeth rebellion vnto his sinne: he clappeth his handes among vs, and multiplieth his wordes against God.<pb/>


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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?


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Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.


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Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.


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He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but they are with Kings in ye throne, where he placeth them for euer: thus they are exalted.


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Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and that which resteth vpon thy table, had bene full of fat.


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For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee.


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Beholde, God is excellent, and we knowe him not, neither can the nomber of his yeres bee searched out.


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After it a noyse soundeth: hee thundereth with the voyce of his maiestie, and hee will not stay them when his voyce is heard.


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For he sayth to the snowe, Be thou vpon the earth: likewise to the small rayne and to the great rayne of his power.


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And it is turned about by his gouernment, that they may doe whatsoeuer he commandeth them vpon the whole worlde:


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Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloude, and the wonderous workes of him, that is perfite in knowledge?


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And nowe men see not the light, which shineth in the cloudes, but the winde passeth and clenseth them.


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It is the Almightie: we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, and aboundant in iustice: he afflicteth not.


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Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?


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That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?


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Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?


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Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?


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He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.


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He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.


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He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.


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Behold, he spoyleth the riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iorden into his mouth.


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Canst thou drawe out Liuiathan with an hooke, and with a line which thou shalt cast downe vnto his tongue?


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Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.


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Now after that the Lord had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, ye Lord also said vnto Eliphaz ye Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for yee haue not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my seruant Iob.


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Therefore take vnto you nowe seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes, and go to my seruant Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruant Iob shall pray for you: for I wil accept him, least I should put you to shame, because ye haue not spoken of me the thing, which is right, like my seruant Iob.


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So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord had saide vnto them, and the Lord accepted Iob.


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Then the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twise so much as he had before.


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Then came vnto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had bene of his acquaintance before, and did eate bread with him in his house, and had compassion of him, and comforted him for al the euil, that the Lord had brought vpon him, and euery man gaue him a piece of money, and euery one an earing of golde.


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So the Lord blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had foureteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses.


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And he called the name of one Iemimah, and the name of the seconde Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.


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In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.


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And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.


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Blessed is the man that doeth not walke in the counsell of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in ye seate of the scornefull:


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For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.


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Therefore the wicked shall not stande in the iudgement, nor sinners in the assemblie of the righteous.


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The Kings of the earth band themselues, and the princes are assembled together against the Lord, and against his Christ.


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I will declare the decree: that is, the Lord hath said vnto me, Thou art my Sonne: this day haue I begotten thee.


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Aske of me, and I shall giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the endes of the earth for thy possession.


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Kisse the sonne, least he be angry, and ye perish in the way, when his wrath shall suddenly burne. blessed are all that trust in him.<pb/>


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A Psalme of Dauid, when he fled from his sonne Absalom. Lord, howe are mine aduersaries increased? howe many rise against me?


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O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare me when I call, O God of my righteousnes: thou hast set me at libertie, when I was in distresse: haue mercie vpon me and hearken vnto my prayer.


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O ye sonnes of men, howe long will yee turne my glory into shame, louing vanitie, and seeking lyes? Selah.


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For be ye sure that the Lord hath chosen to himselfe a godly man: the Lord will heare when I call vnto him.


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Thou hast giuen mee more ioye of heart, then they haue had, when their wheate and their wine did abound.


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I will lay mee downe, and also sleepe in peace: for thou, Lord, onely makest me dwell in safetie.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth upon Nehiloth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare my wordes, O Lord: vnderstande my meditation.


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Heare my voyce in the morning, O Lord: for in the morning will I direct me vnto thee, and I will waite.


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But I wil come into thine house in the multitude of thy mercie: and in thy feare will I worship toward thine holy Temple.


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For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.


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Destroy them, O God: let them fall from their counsels: cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they haue rebelled against thee.


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And let all them that trust in thee, reioyce and triumph for euer, and couer thou them: and let them, that loue thy Name, reioyce in thee.


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth upon the eith tune. A Psalme of Dauid. O lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath.


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All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed: they shall be turned backe, and put to shame suddenly.<pb/>


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Shigaion of Dauid, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning the wordes of Chush the sonne of Iemini. O Lord my God, in thee I put my trust: saue me from all that persecute me, and deliuer me,


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If I haue rewarded euill vnto him that had peace with mee, (yea I haue deliuered him that vexed me without cause)


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Then let the enemie persecute my soule and take it: yea, let him treade my life downe vpon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.


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Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift vp thy selfe against the rage of mine enemies, and awake for mee according to the iudgement that thou hast appointed.


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So shall the Congregation of the people compasse thee about: for their sakes therefore returne on hie.


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The Lord shall iudge the people: Iudge thou me, O Lord, according to my righteousnesse, and according to mine innocencie, that is in mee.


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Oh let the malice of the wicked come to an ende: but guide thou the iust: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reines.


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Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.


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I wil praise the Lord according to his righteousnes, and will sing praise to the Name of the Lord most high.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.


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Out of the mouth of babes and suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.


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When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,


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Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:


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The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.


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To him that excelleth vpon Muth Laben. A Psalme of Dauid. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart: I will speake of all thy marueilous workes.


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Thou hast rebuked the heathen: thou hast destroyed the wicked: thou hast put out their name for euer and euer.


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O enemie, destructions are come to a perpetual end, and thou hast destroyed the cities: their memoriall is perished with them.


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And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not failed them that seeke thee.


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For whe he maketh inquisition for blood, hee remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poore.


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Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee, thou that liftest me vp from the gates of death,


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That I may shewe all thy praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion, and reioyce in thy saluation.


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The heathen are sunken downe in the pit that they made: in the nette that they hid, is their foote taken.


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The Lord is knowen by executing iudgement: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne handes. Higgaion. Selah.


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The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.


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For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.


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His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.


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He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.


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He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.


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Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.


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Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. In the Lord put I my trust: howe say yee then to my soule, Flee to your mountaine as a birde?


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For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.


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The Lord is in his holy palace: the Lordes throne is in the heauen: his eyes wil consider: his eye lids will try the children of men.


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The Lord will try the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth iniquitie, doeth his soule hate.


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Vpon the wicked he shall raine snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempest: this is the porcion of their cup.


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To him that excelleth upon the eight tune. A Psalme of Dauid. Helpe Lord, for there is not a godly man left: for the faithfull are fayled from among the children of men.


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They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.


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Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.


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The wordes of the Lord are pure wordes, as the siluer, tried in a fornace of earth, fined seuen folde.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me?


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How long shall I take counsell within my selfe, hauing wearinesse dayly in mine heart? how long shall mine enemie be exalted aboue me?


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath said in his heart, There is no God: they haue corrupted, and done an abominable worke: there is none that doeth good.


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The Lord looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstand, and seeke God.


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Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.


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Oh giue saluation vnto Israel out of Zion: when the Lord turneth the captiuitie of his people, then Iaakob shall reioyce, and Israel shall be glad.<pb/>


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He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.


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In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoureth them that feare the Lord: he that sweareth to his owne hinderance and changeth not.


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He that giueth not his money vnto vsurie, nor taketh reward against the innocent: hee that doeth these things, shall neuer be moued.<pb/>


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The sorowes of them, that offer to an other god, shall be multiplied: their offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names with my lips.


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For thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.


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Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy: and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore.<pb/>


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The prayer of Dauid. Heare the right, O Lord, consider my crye: hearken vnto my prayer of lips vnfained.


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Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.


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Concerning the workes of men, by the wordes of thy lips I kept mee from the paths of the cruell man.


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I haue called vpon thee: surely thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare to me, and hearken vnto my wordes.


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Shewe thy marueilous mercies, thou that art the Sauiour of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand.


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From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.


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But I will beholde thy face in righteousnes, and when I awake, I shalbe satisfied with thine image.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid the seruant of the Lord, which spake unto the Lord the wordes of this song (in the day that the Lord delivered him for the hande of all this enemies, and form the and of saul) and sayd, I will loue thee dearely, O Lord my strength.


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The Lord is my rocke, and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth me, my God and my strength: in him will I trust, my shield, the horne also of my saluation, and my refuge.


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But in my trouble did I call vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: he heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my crye did come before him, euen into his eares.


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Then the earth trembled, and quaked: the foundations also of the mountaines mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.


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He made darkenes his secrete place, and his pauilion round about him, euen darkenesse of waters, and cloudes of the ayre.


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The Lord also thundred in the heauen, and the Highest gaue his voyce, haylestones and coales of fire.


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And the chanels of waters were seene, and the foundations of the worlde were discouered at thy rebuking, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy nostrels.


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He hath deliuered mee from my strong enemie, and from them which hate me: for they were too strong for me.


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The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:


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Therefore the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, and according to the purenes of mine hands in his sight.


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With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.


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The way of God is vncorrupt: the worde of the Lord is tried in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.


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Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy right hand hath stayed me, and thy louing kindenes hath caused me to increase.


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For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me.


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Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.


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Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of the people: thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people, whom I haue not knowen, shall serue me.


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O my deliuerer from mine enemies, euen thou hast set mee vp from them, that rose against me: thou hast deliuered mee from the cruell man.


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Great deliuerances giueth hee vnto his King, and sheweth mercie to his anoynted, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth ye worke of his hands.


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Their line is gone forth through all the earth, and their words into the endes of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne.


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Which commeth forth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth like a mightie man to runne his race.


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His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.


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The Lawe of the Lord is perfite, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of the Lord is sure, and giueth wisedome vnto the simple.


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The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart: the commandement of the Lord is pure, and giueth light vnto the eyes.


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The feare of the Lord is cleane, and indureth for euer: the iudgements of the Lord are trueth: they are righteous altogether,


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And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe.


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Keepe thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes: let them not reigne ouer me: so shall I be vpright, and made cleane from much wickednes.


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Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of mine heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of ye God of Iaakob defend thee:


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That we may reioyce in thy saluation, and set vp the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall performe all thy petitions.


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Now know I that the Lord will helpe his anointed, and will heare him from his Sanctuarie, by the mightie helpe of his right hand.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The King shall reioyce in thy strength, O Lord: yea how greatly shall he reioyce in thy saluation!


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For thou diddest preuent him with liberall blessings, and didest set a crowne of pure gold vpon his head.


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For thou hast set him as blessings for euer: thou hast made him glad with the ioy of thy countenance.


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Thine hand shall finde out all thine enemies, and thy right hand shall finde out them that hate thee.


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Thou shalt make them like a fierie ouen in time of thine anger: the Lord shall destroy them in his wrath, and the fire shall deuoure them.


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Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.


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To him that excelleth upon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring?


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I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.


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My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.


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For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.


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I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,


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Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel.


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For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poore: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called vnto him, he heard.


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My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.


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The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.


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All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.


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All they that be fat in the earth, shall eate and worship: all they that go downe into the dust, shall bowe before him, euen he that cannot quicken his owne soule.


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They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.<pb/>


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Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.


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Thou doest prepare a table before me in the sight of mine aduersaries: thou doest anoynt mine head with oyle, and my cuppe runneth ouer.


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Doubtlesse kindnesse and mercie shall follow me all the dayes of my life, and I shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord.<pb/>


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A Psalme of David. The earth is the Lordes, and all that therein is: the worlde and they that dwell therein.


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Euen he that hath innocent handes, and a pure heart: which hath not lift vp his minde vnto vanitie, nor sworne deceitfully.


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Lift vp your heads ye gates, and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glory shall come in.


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Lift vp your heads, ye gates, and lift vp your selues, ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glorie shall come in.


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So all that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but let them be confounded, that transgresse without cause.


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Leade me foorth in thy trueth, and teache me: for thou art the God of my saluation: in thee doe I trust all the day.


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Remember not the sinnes of my youth, nor my rebellions, but according to thy kindenesse remember thou me, euen for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord.


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All the pathes of the Lord are mercie and trueth vnto such as keepe his couenant and his testimonies.


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The secrete of the Lord is reueiled to them, that feare him: and his couenant to giue them vnderstanding.


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A Psalme of David. Judge me, O Lord, for I haue walked in mine innocency: my trust hath bene also in the Lord: therefore shall I not slide.


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A Psalme of David. The Lord is my light and my saluation, whom shall I feare? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whome shall I be afraide?


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When the wicked, euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon mee to eate vp my flesh; they stumbled and fell.


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Though an hoste pitched against me, mine heart should not be afraide: though warre be raised against me, I will trust in this.


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One thing haue I desired of the Lord, that I will require, euen that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautie of the Lord, and to visite his Temple.


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For in the time of trouble hee shall hide mee in his Tabernacle: in the secrete place of his pauillion shall he hide me, and set me vp vpon a rocke.


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And nowe shall hee lift vp mine head aboue mine enemies rounde about mee: therefore wil I offer in his Tabernacle sacrifices of ioy: I wil sing and praise the Lord.


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Hide not therefore thy face from mee, nor cast thy seruat away in displeasure: thou hast bene my succour: leaue me not, neither forsake mee, O God of my saluation.


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Giue me not vnto the lust of mine aduersaries: for there are false witnesses risen vp against me, and such as speake cruelly.


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I should haue fainted, except I had beleeued to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing.


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A Psalme of David. Unto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.


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Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.


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Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.


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Reward them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their inuentions: recompense them after the woorke of their handes: render them their reward.


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For they regarde not the woorkes of the Lord, nor the operation of his handes: therefore breake them downe, and builde them not vp.


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The Lord is my strength and my shielde: mine heart trusted in him, and I was helped: therfore mine heart shall reioyce, and with my song will I praise him.


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A Psalme of David. Give vnto the Lord, ye sonnes of the mightie: giue vnto the Lord glorie and strength.


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The voyce of the Lord is vpon the waters: the God of glorie maketh it to thunder: the Lord is vpon the great waters.


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The voice of the Lord maketh the wildernes to tremble: the Lord maketh the wildernes of Kadesh to tremble.


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The voice of the Lord maketh the hindes to calue, and discouereth the forests: therefore in his Temple doth euery man speake of his glory.


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A Psalme or song of the dedication of the house of David. I will magnifie thee, O Lord: for thou hast exalted mee, and hast not made my foe to reioyce ouer me.


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O Lord, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit.


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Sing praises vnto the Lord, ye his Saintes, and giue thankes before the remembrance of his Holinesse.


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For he endureth but a while in his anger: but in his fauour is life: weeping may abide at euening, but ioy commeth in the morning.


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For thou Lord of thy goodnes hadest made my mountaine to stande strong: but thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled.


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What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth?


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Therefore shall my tongue praise thee and not cease: O Lord my God, I will giue thankes vnto thee for euer.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. In thee, O Lord, haue I put my trust: let mee neuer be confounded: deliuer me in thy righteousnesse.


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Bowe downe thine eare to me: make haste to deliuer mee: be vnto me a stronge rocke, and an house of defence to saue me.


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I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,


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Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.


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For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.


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I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, fled from me.


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For I haue heard the rayling of great men: feare was on euery side, while they conspired together against mee, and consulted to take my life.


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My times are in thine hande: deliuer mee from the hande of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.


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Let me not be confounded, O Lord: for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked bee put to confusion, and to silence in the graue.


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Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.


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Howe great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layde vp for them, that feare thee! and done to them, that trust in thee, euen before the sonnes of men!


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Thou doest hide them priuily in thy presence from the pride of men: thou keepest them secretly in thy Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.


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Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.


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Loue ye the Lord all his Saintes: for the Lord preserueth the faithfull, and rewardeth abundantly the proud doer.


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A Psalme of David to give instruction. Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen, and whose sinne is couered.


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Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.


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(For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)


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Then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, neither hid I mine iniquitie: for I thought, I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne. Selah.


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Therefore shall euery one, that is godly, make his prayer vnto thee in a time, when thou mayest be founde: surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come neere him.


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Thou art my secret place: thou preseruest me from trouble: thou compassest me about with ioyfull deliuerance. Selah.


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I will instruct thee, and teache thee in the way that thou shalt goe, and I will guide thee with mine eye.


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Be ye not like an horse, or like a mule, which vnderstand not: whose mouthes thou doest binde with bit and bridle, least they come neere thee.


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Many sorowes shall come to the wicked: but he, that trusteth in the Lord, mercie shall compasse him.


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Be glad ye righteous, and reioyce in the Lord, and be ioyfull all ye, that are vpright in heart.<pb/>


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By the worde of the Lord were the heauens made, and all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.


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He gathereth the waters of the sea together as vpon an heape, and layeth vp the depths in his treasures.


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Blessed is that nation, whose God is the Lord: euen the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance.


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The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste, neither is the mightie man deliuered by great strength.


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A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech, who droue him away, and he departed. I will alway giue thankes vnto the Lord: his praise shalbe in my mouth continually.


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The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.


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But the face of the Lord is against them that doe euill, to cut off their remembrance from the earth.


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The Lord is neere vnto them that are of a contrite heart, and will saue such as be afflicted in Spirite.


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A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lord, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.


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Bring out also 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 confusion, that imagine mine hurt.


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For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.


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Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.


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All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!


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Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.


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I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.


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But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,


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Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.


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Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.


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For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.


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Let them bee confounded, and put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me.


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But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, the servant of the Lord. Wickedness sayeth to the wicked man, euen in mine heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.


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Hee imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed: he setteth himselfe vpon a way, that is not good, and doeth not abhorre euill.


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Thy righteousnesse is like the mightie moutaines: thy iudgements are like a great deepe: thou, Lord, doest saue man and beast.


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How excellent is thy mercy, O God! therefore the children of men trust vnder the shadowe of thy wings.


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They shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thine house, and thou shalt giue them drinke out of the riuer of thy pleasures.


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Extend thy louing kindnes vnto them that knowe thee, and thy righteousnesse vnto them that are vpright in heart.


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A Psalme of David. Fret not thy selfe because of the wicked men, neither be enuious for the euill doers.


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Waite patiently vpon the Lord and hope in him: fret not thy selfe for him which prospereth in his way: nor for the man that bringeth his enterprises to passe.


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Therefore yet a litle while, and the wicked shall not appeare, and thou shalt looke after his place, and he shall not be found.


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The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.


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They shall not be confounded in the perilous time, and in the daies of famine they shall haue ynough.


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But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be consumed as the fatte of lambes: euen with the smoke shall they consume away.


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For such as be blessed of God, shall inherite the lande, and they that be cursed of him, shalbe cut off.


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I haue beene yong, and am olde: yet I sawe neuer the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begging bread.


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For the Lord loueth iudgement, and forsaketh not his Saintes: they shall be preserued for euermore: but the seede of the wicked shall be cut off.


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Waite thou on the Lord, and keepe his way, and he shall exalt thee, that thou shalt inherite the lande: when the wicked men shall perish, thou shalt see.


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But the saluation of the righteous men shalbe of the Lord: he shalbe their strength in the time of trouble.


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For the Lord shall helpe them, and deliuer them: he shall deliuer them from the wicked, and shall saue them, because they trust in him.<pb/>


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A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lord, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath.


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There is nothing sound in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinne.


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Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.


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They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.


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For I said, Heare me, least they reioyce ouer me: for when my foote slippeth, they extol themselues against me.


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To the excellent musician Ieduthun. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.


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Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,


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Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.


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Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.


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Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.


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When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.


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Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. I Waited paciently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my cry.


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Hee brought mee also out of the horrible pit, out of the myrie clay, and set my feete vpon the rocke, and ordered my goings.


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And he hath put in my mouth a new song of praise vnto our God: many shall see it and feare, and shall trust in the Lord.


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Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust, and regardeth not the proude, nor such as turne aside to lyes.


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O Lord my God, thou hast made thy wonderfull workes so many, that none can count in order to thee thy thoughts toward vs: I would declare, and speake of them, but they are moe then I am able to expresse.


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Sacrifice and offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required.


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I haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great Congregation: loe, I will not refraine my lippes: O Lord, thou knowest.


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I haue not hidde thy righteousnesse within mine heart, but I haue declared thy trueth and thy saluation: I haue not conceiled thy mercy and thy trueth from the great Congregation.


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Withdrawe not thou thy tender mercie from mee, O Lord: let thy mercie and thy trueth alway preserue me.


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For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.


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Let them be confounded and put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.


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Let all them, that seeke thee, reioyce and be glad in thee: and let them, that loue thy saluation, say alway, The Lord be praysed.


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Though I be poore and needie, the Lord thinketh on mee: thou art mine helper and my deliuerer: my God, make no tarying.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Blessed is he that iudgeth wisely of the poore: the Lord shall deliuer him in ye time of trouble.


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The Lord will keepe him, and preserue him aliue: he shalbe blessed vpon the earth, and thou wilt not deliuer him vnto the will of his enemies.


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And if hee come to see mee, hee speaketh lies, but his heart heapeth iniquitie within him, and when he commeth foorth, he telleth it.


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Yea, my familiar friend, whom I trusted, which did eate of my bread, hath lifted vp the heele against me.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. As the harte brayeth for the riuers of water, so panteth my soule after thee, O God.


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My soule thirsteth for God, euen for the liuing God: when shall I come and appeare before the presence of God?


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When I remembred these things, I powred out my very heart, because I had gone with the multitude, and ledde them into the House of God with the voyce of singing, and prayse, as a multitude that keepeth a feast.


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Why art thou cast downe, my soule, and vnquiet within me? waite on God: for I will yet giue him thankes for the helpe of his presence.


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My God, my soule is cast downe within me, because I remember thee, from the land of Iorden, and Hermonim, and from the mount Mizar.


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One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.


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The Lord will graunt his louing kindenesse in the day, and in the night shall I sing of him, euen a prayer vnto the God of my life.


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I wil say vnto God, which is my rocke, Why hast thou forgotten mee? why goe I mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?


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Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I wil yet giue him thankes: he is my present helpe, and my God.<pb/>


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Judge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.


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For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me away? why goe I so mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?


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Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles.


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Then wil I go vnto the altar of God, euen vnto the God of my ioy and gladnes: and vpon the harpe wil I giue thanks vnto thee, O God, my God.


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Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I will yet giue him thankes, he is my present helpe, and my God.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. We haue heard with our eares, O God: our fathers haue tolde vs the workes, that thou hast done in their dayes, in the olde time:


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Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thine hand, and planted them: how thou hast destroyed the people, and caused them to grow.


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For they inherited not the lande by their owne sworde, neither did their owne arme saue them: but thy right hand, and thine arme and the light of thy countenance, because thou didest fauour them.


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Through thee haue we thrust backe our aduersaries: by thy Name haue we troden downe them that rose vp against vs.


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Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.


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All this is come vpon vs, yet doe wee not forget thee, neither deale wee falsly concerning thy couenant.


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Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.


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To him that excelleth on Shoshannim a song of love to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. Mine heart will vtter forth a good matter: I wil intreat in my workes of the King: my tongue is as the pen of a swift writer.


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Thou art fayrer then the children of men: grace is powred in thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for euer.


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And prosper with thy glory: ride vpon the worde of trueth and of meekenes and of righteousnes: so thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.


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Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.


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Thy throne, O God, is for euer and euer: the scepter of thy kingdome is a scepter of righteousnesse.


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Thou louest righteousnes, and hatest wickednesse, because God, euen thy God hath anoynted thee with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy fellowes.


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All thy garments smelll of myrrhe and aloes, and cassia, when thou commest out of the yuorie palaces, where they haue made thee glad.


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Kings daugthers were among thine honorable wiues: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir.


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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house.


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And the daughter of Tyrus with the rich of the people shall doe homage before thy face with presents.


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She shalbe brought vnto the King in raiment of needle worke: the virgins that follow after her, and her companions shall be brought vnto thee.


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I will make thy Name to be remembred through all generations: therefore shall the people giue thanks vnto thee world without ende.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth upon Alamoth a song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God is our hope and strength, and helpe in troubles, ready to be found.


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Therefore will not we feare, though the earth be moued, and though the mountaines fall into the middes of the sea.


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Though the waters thereof rage and be troubled, and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same. Selah,


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Yet there is a Riuer, whose streames shall make glad the citie of God: euen the Sanctuarie of the Tabernacles of the most High.


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He maketh warres to cease vnto the endes of the world: he breaketh the bowe and cutteth the speare, and burneth the chariots with fire.


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Be still and knowe that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I wil be exalted in the earth.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. All people clap your hands: sing loude vnto God with a ioyfull voyce.


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The princes of the people are gathered vnto the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the world belong to God: he is greatly to be exalted.<pb/>


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A song or Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praysed, in the Citie of our God, euen vpon his holy Mountaine.


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Mount Zion, lying Northwarde, is faire in situation: it is the ioy of the whole earth, and the Citie of the great King.


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As we haue heard, so haue we seene in the citie of the Lord of hostes, in the Citie of our God: God will stablish it for euer. Selah.


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O God, according vnto thy Name, so is thy prayse vnto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteousnes.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Heare this, all ye people: giue eare, all ye that dwell in the world,


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Wherefore should I feare in the euil dayes, when iniquitie shall compasse me about, as at mine heeles?


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For he seeth that wise men die, and also that the ignorant and foolish perish, and leaue their riches for others.


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Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.


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Like sheepe they lie in graue: death deuoureth them, and the righteous shall haue domination ouer them in the morning: for their beautie shall consume, when they shall goe from their house to graue.


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For while he liued, he reioyced himselfe: and men will prayse thee, when thou makest much of thy selfe.


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A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.


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Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.


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Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.


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I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.


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But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,


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These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.


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Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.


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He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.


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Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest.


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Beholde, thou louest trueth in the inwarde affections: therefore hast thou taught mee wisedome in the secret of mine heart.


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Deliuer me from blood, O God, which art the God of my saluation, and my tongue shall sing ioyfully of thy righteousnes.


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The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.


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Then shalt thou accept ye sacrifices of righteousnes, euen the burnt offering and oblation: then shall they offer calues vpon thine altar.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly.


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So shall God destroy thee for euer: he shall take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.


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Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.


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But I shall bee like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: for I trusted in the mercie of God for euer and euer.


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I will alway praise thee, for that thou hast done this, and I will hope in thy Name, because it is good before thy Saints.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth on Mahalath. A Psalme of David to give instruction. The foole hath saide in his heart, There is no God. they haue corrupted and done abominable wickednes: there is none that doeth good.


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God looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstand, and seeke God.


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Doe not the workers of iniquitie knowe that they eate vp my people as they eate bread? they call not vpon God.


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There they were afraide for feare, where no feare was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that besieged thee: thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath cast them off.


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Oh giue saluation vnto Israel out of Zion: when God turneth the captiuitie of his people, then Iaakob shall reioyce, and Israel shalbe glad.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David, to give instruction. When the Ziphims came and said unto Saul, Is not David hid among us? Save mee, O God, by thy Name, and by thy power iudge me.


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For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.


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For he hath deliuered me out of al trouble, and mine eye hath seene my desire vpon mine enemies.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David to give instruction. Heare my prayer, O God, and hide not thy selfe from my supplication.


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For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.


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Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.


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Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.


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Let death sense vpon them: let them goe downe quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, euen in the middes of them.


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God shall heare and afflict them, euen hee that reigneth of olde, Selah. because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.


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The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.


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Cast thy burden vpon the Lord, and hee shall nourish thee: he wil not suffer the righteous to fall for euer.


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And thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pitte of corruption: the bloudie, and deceitfull men shall not liue halfe their dayes: but I will trust in thee.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David on Michtam, concerning the dumme doue in a farre countrey, when the Philistims tooke him in Gath. Be mercifull vnto me, O God, for man would swallow me vp: he fighteth continually and vexeth me.


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I will reioyce in God, because of his word, I trust in God, and will not feare what flesh can doe vnto me.


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They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.


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For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and also my feete from falling, that I may walke before God in the light of the liuing.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. When he fled from Saul in the cave. Have mercie vpon me, O God, haue mercie vpon me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and in the shadowe of thy wings wil I trust, till these afflictions ouerpasse.


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He will send from heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him that would swallowe me. Selah. God wil send his mercy, and his trueth.


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My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sworde.


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They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.


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To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?


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Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.


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Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.


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As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.


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The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.


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And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. When Saul sent and they did watch the house to kill him. O my God, deliuer mee from mine enemies: defend me from them that rise vp against me.


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For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord.


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They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.


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Euen thou, O Lord God of hostes, O God of Israel awake to visit all the heathen, and be not merciful vnto all that transgresse maliciously. Selah.


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Slay them not, least my people forget it: but scatter them abroad by thy power, and put them downe, O Lord our shield,


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For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.


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Consume them in thy wrath: consume them that they be no more: and let them knowe that God ruleth in Iaakob, euen vnto the ends of the world. Selah.


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They shall runne here and there for meate: and surely they shall not be satisfied, though they tary all night.


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But I wil sing of thy power, and will prayse thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast bene my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.


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To him that excelleth upon Shushan Eduth, or Michtam. A Psalme of David to teach. When he fought against Aram Naharaim, and against Aram Zobah, when Joab returned and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the salt valley. O God, thou hast cast vs out, thou hast scattered vs, thou hast bene angry, turne againe vnto vs.


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Thou hast made the land to tremble, and hast made it to gape: heale the breaches thereof, for it is shaken.


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But now thou hast giuen a banner to them that feare thee, that it may be displayed because of thy trueth. Selah.


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God hath spoken in his holines: therefore I will reioyce: I shall deuide Shechem, and measure the valley of Succoth.


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Gilead shalbe mine, and Manasseh shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of mine head: Iudah is my lawgiuer.


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Moab shalbe my wash pot: ouer Edom will I cast out my shoe: Palestina shew thy selfe ioyfull for me.


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David. Heare my cry, O God: giue eare vnto my prayer.


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From the endes of the earth will I crye vnto thee: when mine heart is opprest, bring me vpon the rocke that is higher then I.


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I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for euer, and my trust shall be vnder the couering of thy wings. Selah.


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To the excelletn musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of David. Yet my soule keepeth silence vnto God: of him commeth my saluation.


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How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken.


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Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.


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Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.


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Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.


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A Psalme of David. When he was in the wildernesse of Judah. O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee: my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and drye land without water.


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My soule shalbe satisfied, as with marowe and fatnesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lippes,


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Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.


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But the King shall reioyce in God, and all that sweare by him shall reioyce in him: for the mouth of them that speake lyes, shall be stopped.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Heare my voyce, O God, in my prayer: preserue my life from feare of the enemie.


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They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?


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They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.


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They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.


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And all men shall see it, and declare the worke of God, and they shall vnderstand, what he hath wrought.


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But the righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in him: and all that are vpright of heart, shall reioyce.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of David. O God, praise waiteth for thee in Zion, and vnto thee shall the vowe be perfourmed.


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Blessed is he, whom thou chusest and causest to come to thee: he shall dwell in thy courtes, and we shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thine House, euen of thine holy Temple.


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O God of our saluation, thou wilt answere vs with fearefull signes in thy righteousnes, O thou the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are farre off in the sea.


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He appeaseth the noyse of the seas and the noyse of the waues thereof, and the tumults of the people.


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They also, that dwell in the vttermost parts of the earth, shalbe afraide of thy signes: thou shalt make the East and the West to reioyce.


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Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou makest it very riche: the Riuer of God is full of water: thou preparest them corne: for so thou appointest it.


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Thou waterest abundantly the furrowes thereof: thou causest the raine to descende into the valleies thereof: thou makest it soft with showres, and blessest the bud thereof.


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The pastures are clad with sheepe: the valleis also shalbe couered with corne: therefore they shoute for ioye, and sing.<pb/>


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Say vnto God, Howe terrible art thou in thy workes! through the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies be in subiection vnto thee.


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He hath turned the Sea into drie land: they passe through the riuer on foote: there did we reioyce in him.


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He ruleth the worlde with his power: his eyes beholde the nations: the rebellious shall not exalt them selues. Selah.


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Thou hast caused men to ryde ouer our heads: we went into fire and into water, but thou broughtest vs out into a welthie place.


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I will offer vnto thee the burnt offerings of fat rammes with incense: I will prepare bullocks and goates. Selah.


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme or song. God be mercifull vnto vs, and blesse vs, and cause his face to shine among vs. Selah.


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Let the people be glad and reioyce: for thou shalt iudge the people righteously, and gouerne the nations vpon the earth. Selah.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of David. God will arise, and his enemies shalbe scattered: they also that hate him, shall flee before him.


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As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.


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Sing vnto God, and sing prayses vnto his name: exalt him that rideth vpon the heauens, in his Name Iah, and reioyce before him.


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God maketh the solitarie to dwell in families, and deliuereth them that were prisoners in stocks: but the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land.


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O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people: when thou wentest through the wildernesse, (Selah)


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The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.


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Thou, O God, sendest a gracious raine vpon thine inheritance, and thou didest refresh it when it was wearie.


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Kings of the armies did flee: they did flee, and she that remained in the house, deuided the spoyle.


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Though ye haue lien among pots, yet shall ye be as the winges of a doue that is couered with siluer, and whose fethers are like yelowe golde.


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Why leape ye, ye high mountaines? as for this Mountaine, God deliteth to dwell in it: yea, the Lord will dwell in it for euer.


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The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai.


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Thou art gone vp on high: thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and receiued giftes for men: yea, euen the rebellious hast thou led, that the Lord God might dwell there.


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Surely God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hearie pate of him that walketh in his sinnes.


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The Lord hath sayde, I will bring my people againe from Bashan: I will bring them againe from the depths of the Sea:


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That thy foote may bee dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogges in the blood of the enemies, euen in it.


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The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels.


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There was litle Beniamin with their ruler, and the princes of Iudah with their assemblie, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.


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Destroy the company of the spearemen, and multitude of the mightie bulles with the calues of the people, that tread vnder feete pieces of siluer: scatter the people that delite in warre.


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To him that rideth vpon ye most high heauens, which were from the beginning: beholde, he will send out by his voice a mightie sound.


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O God, thou art terrible out of thine holie places: the God of Israel is hee that giueth strength and power vnto the people: praised be God.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth upon Shoshannim. A Psalme of David. Save mee, O God: for the waters are entred euen to my soule.


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I sticke fast in the deepe myre, where no staie is: I am come into deepe waters, and the streames runne ouer me.


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They that hate mee without a cause, are moe then the heares of mine heade: they that would destroy mee, and are mine enemies falsly, are mightie, so that I restored that which I tooke not.


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Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hostes, be ashamed for me: let not those that seeke thee, be confounded through mee, O God of Israel.


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For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.


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But Lord, I make my praier vnto thee in an acceptable time, euen in the multitude of thy mercie: O God, heare me in the trueth of thy saluation.


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Deliuer mee out of the myre, that I sinke not: let me be deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters.


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Let not the water flood drowne mee, neither let the deepe swallowe me vp: and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.


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Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnes is good: turne vnto me according to ye multitude of thy tender mercies.


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Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.


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For they persecute him, whome thou hast smitten: and they adde vnto the sorrowe of them, whome thou hast wounded.


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For God will saue Zion, and builde the cities of Iudah, that men may dwell there and haue it in possession.


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The seede also of his seruants shall inherit it: and they that loue his name, shall dwel therein.<pb/>


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To him excelleth. A Psalme of David to put in remembrance. O God, haste thee to deliuer mee: make haste to helpe me, O Lord.


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Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke my soule: let them bee turned backewarde and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.


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But let all those that seeke thee, be ioyfull and glad in thee, and let all that loue thy saluation, say alwaies, God be praised.


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Nowe I am poore and needie: O God, make haste to me: thou art mine helper, and my deliuerer: O Lord, make no tarying.<pb/>


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Be thou my strong rocke, whereunto I may alway resort: thou hast giuen commandement to saue me: for thou art my rocke, and my fortresse.


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Deliuer mee, O my God, out of the hande of the wicked: out of the hande of the euill and cruell man.


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Vpon thee haue I beene stayed from the wombe: thou art he that tooke me out of my mothers bowels: my praise shalbe alwaies of thee.


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Let them be confounded and consumed that are against my soule: let them be couered with reproofe and confusion, that seeke mine hurt.


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I will goe forwarde in the strength of the Lord God, and will make mention of thy righteousnesse, euen of thine onely.


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O God, thou hast taught me from my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes,


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Yea, euen vnto mine olde age and graie head, O God: forsake me not, vntill I haue declared thine arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them, that shall come.


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And thy righteousnes, O God, I wil exalt on high: for thou hast done great thinges: O God, who is like vnto thee!


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Which hast shewed me great troubles and aduersities, but thou wilt returne, and reuiue me, and wilt come againe, and take mee vp from the depth of the earth.


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Therefore will I praise thee for thy faithfulnesse, O God, vpon instrument and viole: vnto thee will I sing vpon the harpe, O Holy one of Israel.


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My tongue also shall talke of thy righteousnesse daily: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame, that seeke mine hurt.<pb/>


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A Psalme of Salomon. Give thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne.


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He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shall subdue the oppressor.


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In his dayes shall the righteous florish, and abundance of peace shalbe so long as the moone endureth.


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The Kings of Tarshish and of the yles shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring giftes.


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He shall redeeme their soules from deceite and violence, and deare shall their blood be in his sight.


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Yea, he shall liue, and vnto him shall they giue of the golde of Sheba: they shall also pray for him continually, and dayly blesse him.


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An handfull of corne shall be sowen in the earth, euen in the toppe of the mountaines, and the fruite thereof shall shake like the trees of Lebanon: and the children shall florish out of the citie like the grasse of the earth.


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His name shall be for euer: his name shall indure as long as the sunne: all nations shall blesse him, and be blessed in him.


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As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.


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My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.


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For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.


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As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.<pb/>


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A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?


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Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.


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Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.


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He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:


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They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.


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They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.


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Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.


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Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.


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Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.


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Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme or song committed toAsaph. We will prayse thee, O God, we will prayse thee, for thy Name is neere: therefore they will declare thy wonderous workes.


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The earth and all the inhabitantes thereof are dissolued: but I will establish the pillars of it. Selah.


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For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surely all the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregges thereof.


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All the hornes of the wicked also will I breake: but the hornes of the righteous shalbe exalted.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme or song committed to Asaph. God is knowen in Iudah: his Name is great in Israel.


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The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands.


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Vowe and performe vnto the Lord your God, all ye that be rounde about him: let them bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared.


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For the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me.


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In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.


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I called to remembrance my song in the night: I communed with mine owne heart, and my spirit searched diligently.


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The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke.


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A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.


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Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:


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How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:


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That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:


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That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:


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And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.


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Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.


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He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.


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Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?


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Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,


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When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.


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Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.


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Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.


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He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,


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And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.


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And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.


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He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.


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And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.


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Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.


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So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.<pb/>


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A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.


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The dead bodies of thy seruats haue they giuen to be meat vnto foules of ye heauen: and the flesh of thy Saintes vnto the beastes of the earth.


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Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy Name.


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Remember not against vs the former iniquities, but make haste and let thy tender mercies preuent vs: for we are in great miserie.


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Helpe vs, O God of our saluation, for the glorie of thy Name, and deliuer vs, and be mercifull vnto our sinnes for thy Names sake.


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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of thy seruants that is shed.


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Let the sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to thy mightie arme preserue the children of death,


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And render to our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome their reproche, wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.


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So wee thy people, and sheepe of thy pasture shall praise thee for euer: and from generation to generation we will set foorth thy praise.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Heare, O thou Shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like sheepe: shewe thy brightnes, thou that sittest betweene the Cherubims.


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The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.


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Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?


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The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.


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And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.


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Let thine hande be vpon the man of thy right hande, and vpon the sonne of man, whome thou madest strong for thine owne selfe.


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To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Sing ioyfully vnto God our strength: sing loude vnto the God of Iaakob.


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Hee set this in Ioseph for a testimonie, when hee came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I vnderstoode not.


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Thou calledst in affliction and I deliuered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I prooued thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.


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For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.


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The haters of the Lord should haue bene subiect vnto him, and their time should haue endured for euer.


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And God would haue fedde them with the fatte of wheat, and with honie out of the rocke would I haue sufficed thee.<pb/>


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They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.


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A song, or Psalme committed to Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: bee not still, and cease not, O God.


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They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.


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Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.


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That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth.<pb/>


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To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. O Lord of hostes, howe amiable are thy Tabernacles!


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My soule longeth, yea, and fainteth for the courtes of the Lord: for mine heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God.


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Yea, the sparrowe hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for her, where she may lay her yong: euen by thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my King and my God.


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For a day in thy courtes is better then a thousand other where: I had rather be a doore keeper in the House of my God, then to dwell in the Tabernacles of wickednesse.


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For the Lord God is the sunne and shielde vnto vs: the Lord will giue grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Lord, thou hast bene fauourable vnto thy land: thou hast brought againe the captiuitie of Iaakob.


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Wilt thou be angry with vs for euer? and wilt thou prolong thy wrath from one generation to another?


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I will hearken what the Lord God will say: for he will speake peace vnto his people, and to his Saintes, that they turne not againe to follie.


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All nations, whome thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorifie thy Name.


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Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walke in thy trueth: knit mine heart vnto thee, that I may feare thy Name.


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O God, the proude are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought my soule, and haue not set thee before them.


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But thou, O Lord, art a pitifull God and mercifull, slowe to anger and great in kindenes and trueth.


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Turne vnto me, and haue mercy vpon me: giue thy strength vnto thy seruant, and saue the sonne of thine handmayd.


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Shew a token of thy goodnes towarde me, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me.<pb/>


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A Psalme or song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God layde his foundations among the holy mountaines.


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I will make mention of Rahab and Babel among them that knowe me: beholde Palestina and Tyrus with Ethiopia, There is he borne.


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And of Zion it shall be sayde, Many are borne in her: and he, euen the most High shall stablish her.


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Aswell the singers as the players on instruments shall prayse thee: all my springs are in thee.<pb/>


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A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth upon Malath Leannoth. O Lord God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.


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Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand.


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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.


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Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lord, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.


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A Psalme to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing the mercies of the Lord for euer: with my mouth will I declare thy trueth from generation to generation.


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O Lord, euen the heauens shall prayse thy wonderous worke: yea, thy trueth in the Congregation of the Saints.


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God is very terrible in the assemblie of the Saints, and to be reuerenced aboue all, that are about him.


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O Lord God of hostes, who is like vnto thee, which art a mightie Lord, and thy trueth is about thee?


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Thou hast beaten downe Rahab as a man slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mightie arme.


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The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.


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Righteousnesse and equitie are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and trueth goe before thy face.


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Blessed is the people, that can reioyce in thee: they shall walke in the light of thy countenance, O Lord.


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Thou spakest then in a vision vnto thine Holy one, and saydest, I haue layde helpe vpon one that is mightie: I haue exalted one chosen out of the people.


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What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.


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For thine enemies haue reproched thee, O Lord, because they haue reproched the footesteps of thine Anointed.


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A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, thou hast bene our habitation from generation to generation.


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Before the mountaines were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, euen from euerlasting to euerlasting thou art our God.


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The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.


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Comfort vs according to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs, and according to the yeeres that we haue seene euill.


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And let the beautie of the Lord our God be vpon vs, and direct thou the worke of our hands vpon vs, euen direct the worke of our handes.<pb/>


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Hee will couer thee vnder his winges, and thou shalt be sure vnder his feathers: his trueth shall be thy shielde and buckler.


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Nor of the pestilence that walketh in the darkenesse: nor of the plague that destroyeth at noone day.


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A thousand shall fall at thy side, and tenne thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come neere thee.


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Thou shalt walke vpon the lyon and aspe: the yong lyon and the dragon shalt thou treade vnder feete.


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Because he hath loued me, therefore will I deliuer him: I will exalt him because hee hath knowen my Name.


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He shall call vpon me, and I wil heare him: I will be with him in trouble: I will deliuer him, and glorifie him.


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A Psalme or song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to praise the Lord, and to sing vnto thy Name, O most High,


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(When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.


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For loe, thine enemies, O Lord: for loe, thine enemies shall perish: all the workers of iniquitie shall be destroyed.


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Mine eye also shall see my desire against mine enemies: and mine eares shall heare my wish against the wicked, that rise vp against me.


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The Lord reigneth, and is clothed with maiestie: the Lord is clothed, and girded with power: the world also shall be established, that it cannot be mooued.


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The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lord: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues.


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The waues of ye sea are marueilous through the noyse of many waters, yet the Lord on High is more mightie.


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Or he that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct? hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not knowe?


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Who will rise vp with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?


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And hee will recompence them their wickednes, and destroy them in their owne malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.<pb/>


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For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hande: to day, if ye will heare his voyce,


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Fourtie yeeres haue I contended with this generation, and said, They are a people that erre in heart, for they haue not knowen my wayes.


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Say among the nations, The Lord reigneth: surely the world shalbe stable, and not moue, and he shall iudge the people in righteousnesse.


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Before the Lord: for he commeth, for he cometh to iudge the earth: he wil iudge the world with righteousnes, and the people in his trueth.<pb/>


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Cloudes and darkenes are round about him: righteousnesse and iudgement are the foundation of his throne.


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The mountaines melted like waxe at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.


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Zion heard of it, and was glad: and the daughters of Iudah reioyced, because of thy iudgements, O Lord.


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Ye that loue the Lord, hate euill: he preserueth the soules of his Saints: hee will deliuer them from the hand of the wicked.


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A Psalme. Sing vnto the Lord a newe song: for hee hath done marueilous things: his right hand, and his holy arme haue gotten him the victorie.


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He hath remembred his mercy and his trueth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth haue seene the saluation of our God.


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Before the Lord: for he is come to iudge the earth: with righteousnesse shall hee iudge the world, and the people with equitie.<pb/>


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The Lord reigneth, let the people tremble: he sitteth betweene the Cherubims, let the earth be moued.


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And the Kings power, that loueth iudgement: for thou hast prepared equitie: thou hast executed iudgement and iustice in Iaakob.


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Moses and Aaron were among his Priests, and Samuel among such as call vpon his Name: these called vpon the Lord, and he heard them.


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Hee spake vnto them in the cloudie pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the Lawe that he gaue them.


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Thou heardest them, O Lord our God: thou wast a fauourable God vnto them, though thou didst take vengeance for their inuentions.


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Exalt the Lord our God, and fall downe before his holy Mountaine: for the Lord our God is holy.<pb/>


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Knowe ye that euen the Lord is God: hee hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are his people, and the sheepe of his pasture.


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Enter into his gates with prayse, and into his courts with reioycing: prayse him and blesse his Name.


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For the Lord is good: his mercy is euerlasting, and his trueth is from generation to generation.<pb/>


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I will doe wisely in the perfite way, till thou commest to me: I will walke in the vprightnes of mine heart in the middes of mine house.


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I wil set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the worke of them that fall away: it shall not cleaue vnto me.


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Him that priuily slandereth his neighbour, wil I destroy: him that hath a proude looke and hie heart, I cannot suffer.


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Mine eyes shalbe vnto the faithfull of the lande, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfite way, he shall serue me.


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There shall no deceitful person dwell within mine house: he that telleth lyes, shall not remaine in my sight.


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Betimes will I destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the workers of iniquitie from the Citie of the Lord.<pb/>


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A prayer of the afflicted, when he shall be in distresse, and pour forth his meditation before the Lord. O Lord, heare my prayer, and let my crye come vnto thee.


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Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.


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Thou wilt arise and haue mercy vpon Zion: for the time to haue mercie thereon, for the appointed time is come.


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This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people, which shalbe created, shall prayse the Lord.


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For he hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth,


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And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.


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Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.


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They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.


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But the louing kindnesse of the Lord endureth for euer and euer vpon them that feare him, and his righteousnes vpon childrens children,


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Prayse the Lord, ye his Angels, that excell in strength, that doe his commandement in obeying the voyce of his worde.


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Prayse the Lord, all ye his workes, in all places of his dominion: my soule, prayse thou the Lord.<pb/>


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My soule, prayse thou the Lord: O Lord my God, thou art exceeding great, thou art clothed with glorie and honour.


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Which layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the cloudes his chariot, and walketh vpon the wings of the winde.


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And the mountaines ascend, and the valleis descend to the place which thou hast established for them.


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But thou hast set them a bounde, which they shall not passe: they shall not returne to couer the earth.


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They shall giue drinke to all the beasts of the fielde, and the wilde asses shall quench their thirst.


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He watereth the mountaines from his chambers, and the earth is filled with the fruite of thy workes.


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He causeth grasse to growe for the cattell, and herbe for the vse of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth,


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And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oyle to make the face to shine, and bread that strengtheneth mans heart.


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O Lord, howe manifolde are thy workes! in wisdome hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.


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So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.


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Thou giuest it to them, and they gather it: thou openest thine hand, and they are filled with good things.


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But if thou hide thy face, they are troubled: if thou take away their breath, they dye and returne to their dust.


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Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the wicked till there be no more: O my soule, prayse thou the Lord. Prayse ye the Lord.<pb/>


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That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.


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Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.


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And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.


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Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.


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And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, and of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.


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Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.


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Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.


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Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.


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Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer, and let all the people say, So be it. Praise yee the Lord.<pb/>


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Let them, which haue bene redeemed of the Lord, shewe how he hath deliuered them from the hand of the oppressour,


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And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West, from the North and from the South.


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Let them therefore confesse before ye Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.


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Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.


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Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderful workes before the sonnes of men,


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Let them therfore confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.


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And let them exalt him in the Congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the Elders.


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Who is wise that hee may obserue these things? for they shall vnderstand the louing kindnesse of the Lord.<pb/>


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A song or Psalme of David. O God, mine heart is prepared, so is my tongue: I will sing and giue praise.


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God hath spoken in his holinesse: therefore I will reioyce, I shall deuide Shechem and measure the valley of Succoth.


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Gilead shalbe mine, and Manasseh shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of mine head: Iuda is my lawgiuer.


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Wilt not thou, O God, which haddest forsaken vs, and diddest not goe foorth, O God, with our armies?


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For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.


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Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.


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Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.


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Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.


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As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.


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As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.


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Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.


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But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)


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Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.


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Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.


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For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.<pb/>


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A Psalme of David. The Lord said vnto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole.


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Thy people shall come willingly at the time of assembling thine armie in holy beautie: the youth of thy wombe shalbe as the morning dewe.


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He shalbe iudge among the heathen: he shall fill all with dead bodies, and smite the head ouer great countreis.


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Praise ye the Lord. I will prayse the Lord with my whole heart in the assemblie and Congregation of the iust.


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He hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance: the Lord is mercifull and full of compassion.


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He hath shewed to his people the power of his workes in giuing vnto them the heritage of the heathen.


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He sent redemption vnto his people: he hath commanded his couenant for euer: holy and fearefull is his Name.


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The beginning of wisedome is the feare of the Lord: all they that obserue them, haue good vnderstanding: his praise endureth for euer.<pb/>


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Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man, that feareth the Lord, and deliteth greatly in his commandements.


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He hath distributed and giuen to ye poore: his righteousnesse remaineth for euer: his horne shalbe exalted with glory.


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The wicked shall see it and be angrie: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.<pb/>


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He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.<pb/>


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Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy Name giue the glorie, for thy louing mercie and for thy truethes sake.


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They haue handes and touche not: they haue feete and walke not: neither make they a sound with their throte.


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The Lord hath bene mindfull of vs: he will blesse, he will blesse the house of Israel, he will blesse the house of Aaron.


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When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.


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Beholde, Lord: for I am thy seruant, I am thy seruant, and the sonne of thine handmaide: thou hast broken my bondes.


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For his louing kindnes is great toward vs, and the trueth of the Lord endureth for euer. Praise yee the Lord.<pb/>


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They haue compassed mee, yea, they haue compassed mee: but in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.


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They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.


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The voice of ioy and deliuerance shall be in the tabernacles of the righteous, saying, The right hand of the Lord hath done valiantly.


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Blessed be he, that commeth in the Name of the Lord: wee haue blessed you out of the house of the Lord.


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The Lord is mightie, and hath giuen vs light: binde the sacrifice with cordes vnto the hornes of the altar.


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BETH. Wherewith shall a yong man redresse his waie? in taking heede thereto according to thy woorde.


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Mine handes also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued, and I will meditate in thy statutes.


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I made my supplication in thy presence with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto me according to thy promise.


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IOD. Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me: giue mee vnderstanding therefore, that I may learne thy commandements.


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Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.


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Thy trueth is from generation to generation: thou hast layed the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.


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TAV. Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.


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I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commandements.<pb/>


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A song of degrees, or Psalme of David. I rejoiced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord.


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Whereunto the Tribes, euen the Tribes of the Lord go vp according to the testimonie to Israel, to prayse the Name of the Lord.


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Behold, as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a mayden vnto the hand of her mistres: so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God vntil he haue mercie vpon vs.


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Our soule is filled too full of ye mocking of the wealthy, and of the despitefulnes of the proude.<pb/>


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Our soule is escaped, euen as a bird out of the snare of the foulers: the snare is broken, and we are deliuered.


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A song of degrees. They that trust in the Lord, shalbe as mount Zion, which can not be remooued, but remaineth for euer.


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As the mountaines are about Ierusalem: so is the Lord about his people from henceforth and for euer.


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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, least the righteous put forth their hand vnto wickednes.


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But these that turne aside by their crooked wayes, them shall the Lord leade with the workers of iniquitie: but peace shalbe vpon Israel.<pb/>


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A song of degrees, or Psalme of David. When ye Lord brought againe the captiuitie of Zion, we were like them that dreame.


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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with ioye: then sayd they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.


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They went weeping and caried precious seede: but they shall returne with ioye and bring their sheaues.<pb/>


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A song of degrees, or Psalme of Salomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the Lord keepe the citie, the keeper watcheth in vaine.


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It is in vaine for you to rise earely, and to lie downe late, and eate the bread of sorow: but he wil surely giue rest to his beloued.


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Blessed is the man, that hath his quiuer full of them: for they shall not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.<pb/>


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Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes round about thy table.


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The Lord out of Zion shall blesse thee, and thou shalt see the wealth of Ierusalem all the dayes of thy life.


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Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.<pb/>


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A song of degrees or Psalme of David. Lord, mine heart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie, neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me.


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Surely I haue behaued my selfe, like one wained from his mother, and kept silence: I am in my selfe as one that is wained.


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The Lord hath sworne in trueth vnto Dauid, and he wil not shrinke from it, saying, Of the fruite of thy body will I set vpon thy throne.


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If thy sonnes keepe my couenant, and my testimonies, that I shall teach them, their sonnes also shall sit vpon thy throne for euer.


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A song of degrees or Psalme of David. Behold, howe good and howe comely a thing it is, brethren to dwell euen together.


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It is like to the precious oyntment vpon the head, that runneth downe vpon the beard, euen vnto Aarons beard, which went downe on the border of his garments:


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And as the dew of Hermon, which falleth vpon the mountaines of Zion: for there the Lord appointed the blessing and life for euer.<pb/>


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A song of degrees. Behold, praise ye the Lord, all ye seruants of the Lord, ye that by night stande in the house of the Lord.


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Whatsoeuer pleased the Lord, that did hee in heauen and in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths.


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He bringeth vp the cloudes from the ends of the earth, and maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures.


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He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.


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Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.


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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.


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Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.


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O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.


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I will worship toward thine holy Temple and praise thy Name, because of thy louing kindenesse and for thy trueth: for thou hast magnified thy Name aboue all things by thy word.


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Though I walke in the middes of trouble, yet wilt thou reuiue me: thou wilt stretch foorth thine hand vpon the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall saue me.


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The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lord, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.<pb/>


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Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.


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I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.


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My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in the earth.


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Thine eyes did see me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.


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Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee?


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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Deliuer me, O Lord, from the euill man: preserue me from the cruel man:


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Keepe mee, O Lord, from the handes of the wicked: preserue mee from the cruell man, which purposeth to cause my steppes to slide.


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The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.


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Let not the wicked haue his desire, O Lord: performe not his wicked thought, least they be proude. Selah.


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As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.


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Let coles fal vpon them: let him cast them into the fire, and into the deepe pits, that they rise not.


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For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.


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A Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.


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Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.


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Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.


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Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.


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When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.


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Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.


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A Psalme of David, to give instruction, and a prayer, when he was in the cave. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce: with my voyce I prayed vnto the Lord.


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Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.


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I looked vpon my right hand, and beheld, but there was none that would knowe me: all refuge failed me, and none cared for my soule.


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Then cryed I vnto thee, O Lord, and sayde, thou art mine hope, and my portion in the land of the liuing.


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Hearken vnto my crye, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecuters, for they are too strong for me.


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Bring my soule out of prison, that I may prayse thy Name: then shall the righteous come about me, when thou art beneficiall vnto me.<pb/>


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A Psalme of David. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my supplication: answere me in thy trueth and in thy righteousnes.


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(And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)


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For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe:


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Yet doe I remember the time past: I meditate in all thy workes, yea, I doe meditate in the workes of thine hands.


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Heare me speedily, O Lord, for my spirit fayleth: hide not thy face from me, els I shall be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.


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Let me heare thy louing kindenes in the morning, for in thee is my trust: shewe mee the way, that I should walke in, for I lift vp my soule vnto thee.


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Teach me to doe thy will, for thou art my God: let thy good Spirit leade me vnto the land of righteousnes.


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And for thy mercy slay mine enemies, and destroy all them that oppresse my soule: for I am thy seruant.<pb/>


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A Psalme of David. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth mine hands to fight, and my fingers to battell.


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He is my goodnes and my fortresse, my towre and my deliuerer, my shield, and in him I trust, which subdueth my people vnder me.


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Send thine hand from aboue: deliuer me, and take me out of the great waters, and from the hand of strangers,


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I wil sing a new song vnto thee, O God, and sing vnto thee vpon a viole, and an instrument of ten strings.


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It is he that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings, and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sworde.


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Rescue me, and deliuer me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falshood:


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That our sonnes may be as the plantes growing vp in their youth, and our daughters as the corner stones, grauen after the similitude of a palace:


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That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:


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That our oxen may be strong to labour: that there be none inuasion, nor going out, nor no crying in our streetes.


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A Psalme of David of Praise. O my God and King, I will extold thee, and will blesse thy Name for euer and euer.


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They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse.


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My mouth shall speake the prayse of the Lord, and all flesh shall blesse his holy Name for euer and euer.<pb/>


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Which made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth his fidelitie for euer:


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Which executeth iustice for the oppressed: which giueth bread to the hungry: the Lord loseth the prisoners.


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The Lord giueth sight to the blinde: the Lord rayseth vp the crooked: the Lord loueth the righteous.


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The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse and widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.


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The Lord shall reigne for euer: O Zion, thy God endureth from generation to generation. Prayse ye the Lord.<pb/>


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Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing vnto our God: for it is a pleasant thing, and praise is comely.


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Which couereth the heauen with cloudes, and prepareth raine for the earth, and maketh the grasse to growe vpon the mountaines:


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He hath not dealt so with euery nation, neither haue they knowen his iudgements. Prayse ye the Lord.<pb/>


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Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for his Name onely is to be exalted, and his prayse aboue the earth and the heauens.


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For he hath exalted the horne of his people, which is a prayse for all his Saintes, euen for the children of Israel, a people that is neere vnto him. Prayse ye the Lord.<pb/>


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Praise ye the Lord. Sing ye vnto the Lord a newe song: let his prayse be heard in the Congregation of Saints.


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Let them prayse his Name with the flute: let them sing prayses vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.


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That they may execute vpon them the iudgement that is written: this honour shall be to all his Saintes. Prayse ye the Lord.<pb/>


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A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,


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If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:


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Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.


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She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,


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O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?


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(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)


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Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,


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Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,


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And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.


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Let not mercie and trueth forsake thee: binde them on thy necke, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.


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For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.


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For the marchandise thereof is better then the marchandise of siluer, and the gaine thereof is better then golde.


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It is more precious then pearles: and all things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.


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The Lord by wisdome hath layde the foundation of the earth, and hath stablished the heauens through vnderstanding.


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Thou shalt not feare for any sudden feare, neither for the destruction of the wicked, when it commeth.


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The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.


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When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.


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For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.


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Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,


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And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!


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Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.


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His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.


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Thou art snared with the wordes of thy mouth: thou art euen taken with the woordes of thine owne mouth.


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Doe this nowe, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe: seeing thou art come into the hande of thy neighbour, goe, and humble thy selfe, and sollicite thy friends.


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Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.


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Therefore thy pouertie commeth as one that trauaileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.


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It shall leade thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou sleepest, and when thou wakest, it shall talke with thee.


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For the commandement is a lanterne, and instruction a light: and corrections for instruction are the way of life,


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For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.


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But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.


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He cannot beare the sight of any raunsome: neither will he consent, though thou augment the giftes.<pb/>


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That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.


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And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,


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And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,


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Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.


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Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.


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The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.


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When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,


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Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not: blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.


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He that reproueth a scorner, purchaseth to himselfe shame: and he that rebuketh the wicked, getteth himselfe a blot.


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Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.


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The beginning of wisedome is the feare of the Lord, and the knowledge of holy things, is vnderstanding.


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If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe, and if thou be a scorner, thou alone shalt suffer.


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THE PARABLE OF SALOMON. A wise sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolish sonne is an heauines to his mother.


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The Lord will not famish the soule of the righteous: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.


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He that gathereth in sommer, is the sonne of wisdome: but he that sleepeth in haruest, is the sonne of confusion.


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The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.


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In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding wisdome is founde, and a rod shalbe for the backe of him that is destitute of wisedome.


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He that regardeth instruction, is in the way of life: but he that refuseth correction, goeth out of the way.


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As the whirlewinde passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is as an euerlasting foundation.


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The way of the Lord is strength to the vpright man: but feare shall be for the workers of iniquitie.


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The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.


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The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.<pb/>


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The vprightnes of the iust shall guide them: but the frowardnes of the transgressers shall destroy them.


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The righteousnes of the vpright shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall in his owne wickednes.


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The righteousnesse of the iust shall deliuer them: but the transgressers shall be taken in their owne wickednes.


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An hypocrite with his mouth hurteth his neighbour: but the righteous shall be deliuered by knowledge.


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By the blessing of the righteous, the citie is exalted: but it is subuerted by the mouth of the wicked.


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He that despiseth his neighbour, is destitute of wisedome: but a man of vnderstanding will keepe silence.


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Hee that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth a secret: but hee that is of a faithfull heart concealeth a matter.


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The wicked worketh a deceitful worke: but hee that soweth righteousnes, shall receiue a sure rewarde.


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They that are of a froward heart, are abomination to the Lord: but they that are vpright in their way, are his delite.


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Though hande ioyne in hande, the wicked shall not be vnpunished: but the seede of the righteous shall escape.


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There is that scattereth, and is more increased: but hee that spareth more then is right, surely commeth to pouertie.


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He that withdraweth the corne, the people will curse him: but blessing shalbe vpon the head of him that selleth corne.


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He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the winde, and the foole shalbe seruant to the wise in heart.


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Beholde, the righteous shalbe recompensed in the earth: howe much more the wicked and the sinner?<pb/>


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A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.


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The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.


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He that is despised, and is his owne seruant, is better then he that boasteth himselfe and lacketh bread.


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He that tilleth his lande, shalbe satisfied with bread: but he that followeth the idle, is destitute of vnderstanding.


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A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.


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The deceitfull man rosteth not, that hee tooke in hunting: but the riches of the diligent man are precious.


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A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.


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Hee that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but he that openeth his lips, destruction shall be to him.


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There is that maketh himselfe riche, and hath nothing, and that maketh himselfe poore, hauing great riches.


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The hope that is deferred, is the fainting of the heart: but when the desire commeth, it is as a tree of life.


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He that despiseth the worde, hee shall be destroyed: but hee that feareth the commandement he shalbe rewarded.


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Pouertie and shame is to him that refuseth instruction: but hee that regardeth correction, shalbe honoured.


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The good man shall giue inheritance vnto his childrens children: and the riches of the sinner is layde vp for the iust.


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He that walketh in his righteousnes, feareth the Lord: but he that is lewde in his wayes, despiseth him.


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Where none oxen are, there the cribbe is emptie: but much increase cometh by the strength of the oxe.


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The heart that declineth, shall be saciate with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from him.


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Doe not they erre that imagine euill? but to them that thinke on good things, shalbe mercie and trueth.


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In the multitude of the people is the honour of a King, and for the want of people commeth the destruction of the Prince.


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He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.


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The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto him.


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The way of the wicked is an abomination vnto the Lord: but he loueth him that followeth righteousnes.


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The heart of him that hath vnderstanding, seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of the foole is fedde with foolishnes.


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Foolishnes is ioy to him that is destitute of vnderstanding: but a man of vnderstanding walketh vprightly.


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The Lord will destroye the house of the proude men: but hee will stablish the borders of the widowe.


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Hee that refuseth instruction, despiseth his owne soule: but he that obeyeth correction, getteth vnderstanding.


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All that are proude in heart, are an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he shall not be vnpunished.


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Howe much better is it to get wisedome then golde? and to get vnderstanding, is more to be desired then siluer.


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The pathe of the righteous is to decline from euil, and hee keepeth his soule, that keepeth his way.


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The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.


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He that is slowe vnto anger, is better then the mightie man: and hee that ruleth his owne minde, is better then he that winneth a citie.


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A discrete seruant shall haue rule ouer a lewde sonne, and hee shall deuide the heritage among the brethren.


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Hee that mocketh the poore, reprocheth him, that made him: and he that reioyceth at destruction, shall not be vnpunished.


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A rewarde is as a stone pleasant in the eyes of them that haue it: it prospereth, whithersoeuer it turneth.


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Hee that couereth a transgression, seeketh loue: but hee that repeateth a matter, separateth the prince.


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The beginning of strife is as one that openeth the waters: therefore or the contention be medled with, leaue off.


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He that iustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the iust, euen they both are abomination to the Lord.


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Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.


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Euen a foole (when he holdeth his peace) is counted wise, and hee that stoppeth his lips, prudent.<pb/>


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The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.


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He that is first in his owne cause, is iust: then commeth his neighbour, and maketh inquirie of him.


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A brother offended is harder to winne then a strong citie, and their contentions are like the barre of a palace.


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With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.


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A man that hath friends, ought to shew him selfe friendly: for a friend is neerer then a brother.<pb/>


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All the brethren of the poore doe hate him: howe much more will his friends depart farre from him? though hee be instant with wordes, yet they will not.


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A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.


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He that keepeth the commandement, keepeth his owne soule: but hee that despiseth his wayes, shall dye.


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He that hath mercy vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lord: and the Lord will recompense him that which he hath giuen.


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A man of much anger shall suffer punishment: and though thou deliuer him, yet wil his anger come againe.


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The feare of the Lord leadeth to life: and he that is filled therewith, shall continue, and shall not be visited with euill.


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Smite a scorner, and the foolish wil beware: and reproue the prudent, and he wil vnderstand knowledge.


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The feare of the King is like the roaring of a lyon: hee that prouoketh him vnto anger, sinneth against his owne soule.


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The slouthfull will not plowe, because of winter: therefore shall he beg in sommer, but haue nothing.


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The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.


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Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.


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He that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.


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The blewnes of the wound serueth to purge the euill, and the stripes within the bowels of the belly.<pb/>


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The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the riuers of waters: he turneth it whithersoeuer it pleaseth him.


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The thoughtes of the diligent doe surely bring abundance: but whosoeuer is hastie, commeth surely to pouertie.


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The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and from of them that seeke death.


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When the scorner is punished, the foolish is wise: and when one instructeth the wise, he wil receiue knowledge.


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A wise man goeth vp into the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.


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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked minde?


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A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.


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Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that regardeth his soule, will depart farre from them.


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Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.


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Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.


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For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.


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That I might shewe thee the assurance of the wordes of trueth to answere the wordes of trueth to them that sende to thee?


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Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.<pb/>


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Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.


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For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.


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Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.


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The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.


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To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?


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Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.


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And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.


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They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.<pb/>


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For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.


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If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? and hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?


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So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.


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For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.


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He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhorre him.


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Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.


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Say not, I wil doe to him, as he hath done to mee, I will recompence euery man according to his worke.


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I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.


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And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.


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So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.<pb/>


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For it is better, that it be saide vnto thee, Come vp hither, then thou to be put lower in the presece of the prince whom thine eyes haue seene.


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Goe not foorth hastily to strife, least thou know not what to doe in the ende thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.


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He that reprooueth the wise, and the obedient eare, is as a golden earering and an ornament of fine golde.


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As the colde of the snowe in the time of haruest, so is a faithfull messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soule of his masters.


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A man that beareth false witnes against his neighbour, is like an hammer and a sword, and a sharpe arrowe.


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Hee that taketh away the garment in the colde season, is like vineger powred vpon nitre, or like him that singeth songs to an heauy heart.


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If hee that hateth thee be hungry, giue him bread to eate, and if he be thirstie, giue him water to drinke.


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A man that refraineth not his appetite, is like a citie which is broken downe and without walles.<pb/>


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As the snowe in the sommer, and as the raine in the haruest are not meete, so is honour vnseemely for a foole.


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As the sparowe by flying, and the swallow by flying escape, so the curse that is causeles, shall not come.


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He that sendeth a message by the hand of a foole, is as he that cutteth off the feete, and drinketh iniquitie.


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He that passeth by and medleth with the strife that belongeth not vnto him, is as one that taketh a dog by the eares.


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The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.


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As oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart, so doeth the sweetenes of a mans friend by hearty counsell.


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Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake thou not: neither enter into thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.


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He that prayseth his friend with a loude voyce, rising earely in the morning, it shall be counted to him as a curse.


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He that hideth her, hideth the winde, and she is as ye oyle in his right hand, that vttereth it selfe.


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He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eate the fruite thereof: so he that waiteth vpon his master, shall come to honour.


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As is the fining pot for siluer and the fornace for golde, so is euery man according to his dignitie.


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Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.


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The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered.


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And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.<pb/>


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For the transgression of the land there are many princes thereof: but by a man of vnderstanding and knowledge a realme likewise endureth long.


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They that forsake the Law, prayse the wicked: but they that keepe the Law, set themselues against them.


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Better is the poore that walketh in his vprightnesse, then hee that peruerteth his wayes, though he be riche.


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He that keepeth the Law, is a childe of vnderstanding: but hee that feedeth the gluttons, shameth his father.


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He that increaseth his riches by vsurie and interest, gathereth them for him that will be mercifull vnto the poore.


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He that causeth the righteous to go astray by an euill way, shall fall into his owne pit, and the vpright shall inherite good things.


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He that hideth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth, and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.


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A prince destitute of vnderstanding, is also a great oppressour: but hee that hateth couetousnes, shall prolong his dayes.


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A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not stay him.


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He that tilleth his land, shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth the idle, shall be filled with pouertie.


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A faythfull man shall abound in blessings, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be innocent.


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Hee that robbeth his father and mother, and sayth, It is no transgression, is the companion of a man that destroyeth.


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Hee that trusteth in his owne heart, is a foole: but he that walketh in wisdome, shall be deliuered.


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He that giueth vnto the poore, shall not lacke: but he that hideth his eyes, shall haue many curses.


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A man that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked, shall suddenly be destroyed and can not be cured.


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When the righteous are in authoritie, the people reioyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people sigh.


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A man that loueth wisdome, reioyceth his father: but he that feedeth harlots, wasteth his substance.


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A wicked man is abomination to the iust, and he that is vpright in his way, is abomination to the wicked.<pb/>


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THE WORDS OF AGUR THE SONNE OF JAKEH. The prophecie which ye man spake vnto Ithiel, euen to Ithiel, and Vcal.


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Who hath ascended vp to heauen, and descended? Who hath gathered the winde in his fist? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the endes of the world? What is his name, and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?


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Remooue farre from me vanitie and lyes: giue me not pouertie, nor riches: feede me with foode conuenient for me,


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Least I be full, and denie thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or least I be poore and steale, and take the Name of my God in vaine.


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There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.


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There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.


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The horse leache hath two daughters which crye, Giue, giue. There be three things that will not be satisfied: yea, foure that say not, It is ynough.


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The graue, and the barren wombe, the earth that cannot be satisfied with water, and the fire that sayeth not, It is ynough.


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The eye that mocketh his father and despiseth the instruction of his mother, let ye rauens of the valley picke it out, and the yong eagles eate it.


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The way of an eagle in the aire, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, ye way of a ship in ye middes of the sea, and the way of a man with a maide.


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Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.


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If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.


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When one churneth milke, he bringeth foorth butter: and he that wringeth his nose, causeth blood to come out: so he that forceth wrath, bringeth foorth strife.<pb/>


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Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.


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And she riseth, whiles it is yet night: and giueth the portion to her houshold, and the ordinarie to her maides.


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She considereth a field, and getteth it: and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde.


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Fauour is deceitfull, and beautie is vanitie: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praysed.


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The winde goeth toward the South, and compasseth towarde the North: the winde goeth rounde about, and returneth by his circuites.


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All the riuers goe into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the riuers goe vnto ye place, whence they returne, and goe.


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All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.


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What is it that hath bene? that that shalbe: and what is it that hath bene done? that which shalbe done: and there is no newe thing vnder the sunne.


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Is there any thing, whereof one may say, Beholde this, it is newe? it hath bene already in the olde time that was before vs.


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There is no memorie of the former, neither shall there be a remembrance of the latter that shalbe, with them that shall come after.


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And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)


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I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.


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I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.


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And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.


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For in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorowe.<pb/>


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I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.


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I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.


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I haue gotten seruants and maides, and had children borne in the house: also I had great possession of beeues and sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem.


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I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings and prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues.


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And I was great, and increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me.


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And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: and this was my portion of all my trauaile.


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Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.


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And I turned to beholde wisedome, and madnes and follie: (for who is the man that will come after the King in things, which men nowe haue done?)


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Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.


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For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.


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Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.


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For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten. And howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?


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Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.


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I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me.


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And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.


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Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.


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For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shall he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.


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For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?


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For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.


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There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.


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Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.<pb/>


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A time to bee borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to plucke vp that which is planted.


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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre from embracing.


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He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also he hath set the worlde in their heart, yet can not man finde out the worke that God hath wrought from the beginning euen to the end.


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And also that euery man eateth and drinketh, and seeth the commoditie of all his labour. this is the gift of God.


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I knowe that whatsoeuer God shall doe, it shalbe for euer: to it can no man adde, and from it can none diminish: for God hath done it, that they should feare before him.


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What is that that hath bene? that is nowe: and that that shalbe, hath now bene: for God requireth that which is past.


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And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.


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I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.


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I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.


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For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are euen as one condition vnto them. As the one dyeth, so dyeth the other: for they haue all one breath, and there is no excellency of man aboue ye beast: for all is vanitie.


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Who knoweth whether the spirit of man ascend vpward, and the spirit of the beast descend downeward to the earth?


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Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shall bring him to see what shalbe after him?<pb/>


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So I turned and considered all the oppressions that are wrought vnder the sunne, and beholde the teares of the oppressed, and none comforteth them: and lo, the strength is of the hand of them that oppresse them, and none comforteth them.


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And I count him better then them both, which hath not yet bin: for he hath not seene the euill workes which are wrought vnder the sunne.


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Also I beheld all trauaile, and all perfection of workes that this is ye enuie of a man against his neighbour: this also is vanitie and vexation of spirit.


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There is one alone, and there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.


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For if they fal, the one wil lift vp his felow: but wo vnto him that is alone: for he falleth, and there is not a second to lift him vp.


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For out of the prison he commeth forth to reigne: when as he that is borne in his kingdome, is made poore.


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I behelde all the liuing, which walke vnder the sunne, with the second childe, which shall stand vp in his place.


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There is none ende of all the people, nor of all that were before them, and they that come after, shall not reioyce in him: surely this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.<pb/>


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Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.


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For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.


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When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.


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Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?


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If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.


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He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.


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When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?


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The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.


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There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.


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As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shall beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.


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And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?


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Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.


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Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.


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A man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that it desireth: but God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a strange man shall eate it vp: this is vanitie, and this is an euill sicknesse.


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If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, and his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.


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For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.


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And if he had liued a thousand yeeres twise tolde, and had seene no good, shall not all goe to one place?


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For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?


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The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.


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For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?


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It is better to goe to the house of mourning, then to goe to the house of feasting, because this is the ende of all men: and the liuing shall lay it to his heart.


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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.


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For like ye noyse of the thornes vnder the pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.


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The ende of a thing is better then the beginning thereof, and the pacient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit.


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Say not thou, Why is it that the former dayes were better then these? for thou doest not enquire wisely of this thing.


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For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.


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In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.


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I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.


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Be not thou wicked ouermuch, neither be thou foolish: wherefore shouldest thou perish not in thy time?


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It is good that thou lay hold on this: but yet withdrawe not thine hand from that: for he that feareth God, shall come forth of them all.


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Giue not thine heart also to all ye wordes that men speake, lest thou doe heare thy seruant cursing thee.


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I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,


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And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.


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Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? the wisedome of a man doth make his face to shine: and the strength of his face shalbe changed.


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Haste not to goe forth of his sight: stand not in an euill thing: for he will doe whatsoeuer pleaseth him.


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He that keepeth the commandement, shall knowe none euill thing, and the heart of the wise shall knowe the time and iudgement.


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Man is not lorde ouer the spirit to retaine the spirite: neither hath hee power in the day of death, nor deliuerance in the battell, neither shall wickednesse deliuer the possessers thereof.


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All this haue I seene, and haue giuen mine heart to euery worke, which is wrought vnder the sunne, and I sawe a time that man ruleth ouer man to his owne hurt.


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And likewise I sawe the wicked buried, and they returned, and they that came from the holy place, were yet forgotten in the citie where they had done right: this also is vanitie.


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Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.


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Though a sinner doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.


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But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.


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There is a vanitie, which is done vpon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the iust: I thought also that this is vanitie.


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And I praysed ioy: for there is no goodnesse to man vnder the sunne, saue to eate and to drinke and to reioyce: for this is adioyned to his labour, the dayes of his life that God hath giuen him vnder the sunne.


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When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,


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Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.<pb/>


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I have surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.


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All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe.


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This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.


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Surely whosoeuer is ioyned to all ye liuing, there is hope: for it is better to a liuing dog, then to a dead lyon.


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For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.


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Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuie is now perished, and they haue no more portion for euer, in all that is done vnder the sunne.


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Goe, eate thy bread with ioy, and drinke thy wine with a cheerefull heart: for God nowe accepteth thy workes.


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Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.


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All that thine hand shall finde to doe, doe it with all thy power: for there is neither worke nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest.


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I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.


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For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.


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A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.


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And there was founde therein a poore and wise man, and he deliuered the citie by his wisedome: but none remembred this poore man.


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Then said I, Better is wisdome then strength: yet the wisedome of the poore is despised, and his wordes are not heard.


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Dead flies cause to stinke, and putrifie the ointment of the apoticarie: so doeth a litle follie him that is in estimation for wisedome, and for glorie.


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And also when the foole goeth by the way, his heart faileth, and he telleth vnto all that he is a foole.


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If the spirite of him that ruleth, rise vp against thee, leaue not thy place: for gentlenes pacifieth great sinnes.


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There is an euil that I haue seene vnder the sunne, as an errour that proceedeth from the face of him that ruleth.


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He that remooueth stones, shall hurt himselfe thereby, and hee that cutteth wood, shall be in danger thereby.


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If the yron be blunt, and one hath not whet the edge, he must then put to more strength: but the excellencie to direct a thing is wisedome.


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The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.


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For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?


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Blessed art thou, O land, when thy King is the sonne of nobles, and thy princes eate in time, for strength and not for drunkennesse.


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By slouthfulnes the roofe of the house goeth to decaie, and by the ydlenesse of the handes the house droppeth through.


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Curse not the King, no not in thy thought, neither curse the rich in thy bed chamber: for the foule of the heauen shall carie the voice, and that which hath wings, shall declare the matter.<pb/>


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If the clouds be full, they wil powre forth raine vpon the earth: and if the tree doe fall toward the South, or toward the North, in the place that the tree falleth, there it shalbe.


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As thou knowest not which is ye way of the spirit, nor how the bones doe growe in the wombe of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the worke of God that worketh all.


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In the morning sowe thy seede, and in the euening let not thine hand rest: for thou knowest not whither shall prosper, this or that, or whether both shalbe a like good.


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Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.


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Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.


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Therefore take away griefe out of thine heart, and cause euil to depart from thy flesh: for childehood and youth are vanitie.<pb/>


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Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:


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Whiles the sunne is not darke, nor ye light, nor the moone, nor the starres, nor the cloudes returne after the raine:


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When the keepers of ye house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow them selues, and the grinders shall cease, because they are few, and they waxe darke that looke out by ye windowes:


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And the doores shall be shut without by the base sound of the grinding, and he shall rise vp at the voice of the birde: and all the daughters of singing shall be abased.


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Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.


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Whiles the siluer coarde is not lengthened, nor the golden ewer broken, nor the pitcher broken at the well, nor the wheele broken at the cisterne:


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And the more wise the Preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to heare, and searched foorth, and prepared many parables.


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The Preacher sought to finde out pleasant wordes, and an vpright writing, euen the wordes of trueth.


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The wordes of the wise are like goads, and like nailes fastened by the masters of the assemblies, which are giuen by one pastour.


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And of other things beside these, my sone, take thou heede: for there is none ende in making many bookes, and much reading is a wearines of the flesh.


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Let vs heare the end of all: feare God and keepe his commandements: for this is the whole duetie of man.


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For God will bring euery worke vnto iudgement, with euery secret thing, whether it be good or euill.


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Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee.


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Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.


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I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon.


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Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.


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Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions?


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If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.


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Like the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my welbeloued among the sonnes of men: vnder his shadow had I delite, and sate downe: and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth.


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I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue, vntill she please.


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It is the voyce of my welbeloued: beholde, hee commeth leaping by the mountaines, and skipping by the hilles.


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My welbeloued is like a roe, or a yong hart: loe, he standeth behinde our wall, looking forth of the windowes, shewing him selfe through the grates.


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The flowers appeare in the earth: the time of the singing of birdes is come, and the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land.


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The figtree hath brought foorth her yong figges: and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour: arise my loue, my faire one, and come away.


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My doue, that art in the holes of ye rocke, in the secret places of the staires, shewe mee thy sight, let mee heare thy voyce: for thy voyce is sweete, and thy sight comely.


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Vntil the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: returne, my welbeloued, and be like a roe, or a yong hart vpon the mountaines of Bether.<pb/>


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I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.


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The watchmen that went about the citie, found mee: to whome I said, Haue you seene him, whome my soule loueth?


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When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.


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I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, by the roes and by the hindes of the fielde, that ye stirre not vp, nor waken my loue vntill she please.


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Who is shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant?


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Beholde his bed, which is Salomons: threescore strong men are round about it, of the valiant men of Israel.


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They all handle the sworde, and are expert in warre, euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night.


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Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.


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Come forth, ye daughters of Zion, and behold the King Salomon with the crowne, wherewith his mother crowned him in ye day of his mariage, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.<pb/>


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Behold, thou art faire, my loue: behold, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues: among thy lockes thine heare is like the flocke of goates, which looke downe from the mountaine of Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe in good order, which go vp from the washing: which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.


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Thy lippes are like a threede of scarlet, and thy talke is comely: thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.


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Thy necke is as the tower of Dauid builte for defence: a thousand shieldes hang therein, and all the targates of the strong men.


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Vntill the day breake, and the shadowes flie away, I wil go into the mountaine of myrrhe and to the mountaine of incense.


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Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, euen with me from Lebanon, and looke from the toppe of Amanah, from the toppe of Shenir and Hermon, from the dennes of the lyons, and from the mountaines of the leopards.


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My sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded mine heart: thou hast wounded mine heart with one of thine eyes, and with a chaine of thy necke.


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My sister, my spouse, how faire is thy loue? howe much better is thy loue then wine? and the sauour of thine oyntments then all spices?


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Thy lippes, my spouse, droppe as honie combes: honie and milke are vnder thy tongue, and the sauoure of thy garments is as the sauoure of Lebanon.


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Euen spikenarde, and saffran, calamus, and cynamon with all the trees of incense, myrrhe and aloes, with all the chiefe spices.


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Arise, O North, and come O South, and blowe on my garden that the spices thereof may flow out: let my welbeloued come to his garden, and eate his pleasant fruite.<pb/>


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I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I gathered my myrrhe with my spice: I ate mine hony combe with mine hony, I dranke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, and make you merie, O welbeloued.


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I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.


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I rose vp to open to my welbeloued, and mine hands did drop downe myrrhe, and my fingers pure myrrhe vpon the handels of the barre.


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I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.


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The watchmen that went about the citie, founde me: they smote me and wounded me: the watchmen of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.


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I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if you finde my welbeloued, that you tell him that I am sicke of loue.


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O the fairest among women, what is thy welbeloued more then other welbeloued? what is thy welbeloued more then another louer, that thou doest so charge vs?


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His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels.


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His cheekes are as a bedde of spices, and as sweete flowres, and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe.


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His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs.


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His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


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His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.<pb/>


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My welbeloued is gone downe into his garden to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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Turne away thine eyes from me: for they ouercome mee: thine heare is like a flocke of goates, which looke downe from Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.


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But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her and counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.


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Who is shee that looketh foorth as the morning, fayre as the moone, pure as the sunne, terrible as an armie with banners!


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I went downe to the garden of nuttes, to see the fruites of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.


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Howe beautifull are thy goings with shooes, O princes daughter! the ioynts of thy thighs are like iewels: the worke of the hande of a cunning workeman.


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Thy nauel is as a round cuppe that wanteth not licour: thy belly is as an heape of wheat compassed about with lilies.


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Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus.


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Thine head vpon thee is as skarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tyed in the rafters.


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I saide, I will goe vp into the palme tree, I will take holde of her boughes: thy breastes shall nowe be like the clusters of the vine: and the sauour of thy nose like apples,


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And the roufe of thy mouth like good wine, which goeth straight to my welbeloued, and causeth the lippes of the ancient to speake.


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Let vs get vp early to the vines, let vs see if the vine florish, whether it hath budded the small grape, or whether the pomegranates florish: there will I giue thee my loue.


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The mandrakes haue giuen a smelll, and in our gates are all sweete things, new and olde: my welbeloued, I haue kept them for thee.<pb/>


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Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the brestes of my mother: I would finde thee without, I would kisse thee, then they should not despise thee.


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I will leade thee and bring thee into my mothers house: there thou shalt teache me: and I will cause thee to drinke spiced wine, and newe wine of the pomegranate.


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(Who is this that commeth vp out of the wildernesse, leaning vpon her welbeloued?) I raysed thee vp vnder an apple tree: there thy mother conceiued thee: there she coceiued that bare thee.


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Set mee as a seale on thine heart, and as a signet vpon thine arme: for loue is strong as death: ielousie is cruel as the graue: the coles thereof are fierie coles, and a vehement flame.


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Much water can not quench loue, neither can the floods drowne it: If a man should giue all the substance of his house for loue, they would greatly contemne it.


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Wee haue a litle sister, and she hath no breastes: what shall we do for our sister when she shalbe spoken for?


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If shee be a wall, we will builde vpon her a siluer palace: and if she be a doore, we wil keepe her in with bordes of cedar.


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Salomon had a vine in Baal-hamon: hee gaue the vineyarde vnto keepers: euery one bringeth for ye fruite thereof a thousand pieces of siluer.


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But my vineyarde which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of siluer, and two hundreth to them that keepe the fruite thereof.


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O my welbeloued, flee away, and be like vnto the roe, or to the yong harte vpon ye mountaines of spices.


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A vision of Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, which he sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem: in the dayes of Vzziah, Iotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Iudah.


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Heare, O heauens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord hath sayde, I haue nourished and brought vp children, but they haue rebelled against me.


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The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen: my people hath not vnderstand.


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Ah, sinfull nation, a people laden with iniquitie: a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lord: they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger: they are gone backewarde.


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Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? for ye fall away more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.


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From the sole of the foote vnto the head, there is nothing whole therein, but wounds, and swelling, and sores full of corruption: they haue not bene wrapped, nor bound vp, nor mollified with oyle.


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Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers deuoure your lande in your presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe of strangers.


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And the daughter of Zion shall remaine like a cotage in a vineyarde, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged citie.


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Except the Lord of hostes had reserued vnto vs, euen a small remnant: we should haue bene as Sodom, and should haue bene like vnto Gomorah.


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Heare the worde of the Lord, O princes of Sodom: hearken vnto the Law of our God, O people of Gomorah.


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What haue I to doe with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the Lord? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed beasts: and I desire not the blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates.


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Bring no more oblations, in vaine: incense is an abomination vnto me: I can not suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies.


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My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.


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And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.


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Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.


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Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.


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Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.


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But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.


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Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement, and iustice lodged therein, but now they are murtherers.


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Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.


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Therefore sayth the Lord God of hostes, the mightie one of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine enemies.


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Then I will turne mine hand vpon thee, and burne out thy drosse, till it be pure, and take away all thy tinne.


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And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward shalt thou be called a citie of righteousnes, and a faithfull citie.


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And the destruction of the transgressers and of the sinners shalbe together: and they that forsake the Lord, shalbe consumed.


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For they shalbe confounded for the okes, which ye haue desired, and ye shall be ashamed of the gardens, that ye haue chosen.


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And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker thereof, as a sparke: and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.<pb/>


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It shall be in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the house of the Lord shalbe prepared in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the hilles, and all nations shall flowe vnto it.


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And many people shall go, and say, Come, and let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the house of the God of Iaakob, and hee will teach vs his wayes, and we will walke in his paths: for the Lawe shall go foorth of Zion, and the worde of the Lord from Ierusalem,


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And he shall iudge among the nations, and rebuke many people: they shall breake their swords also into mattocks, and their speares into siethes: nation shall not lift vp a sworde against nation, neither shall they learne to fight any more.


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Surely thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Iaakob, because they are full of the East maners, and are sorcerers as the Philistims, and abound with strange children.


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Their land also was full of siluer and golde, and there was none ende of their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their charets were infinite.


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Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.


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Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie.


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The hie looke of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day.


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For the day of the Lord of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe.


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And the hautinesse of men shalbe brought low, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day.


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Then they shall goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the caues of the earth, from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall arise to destroy the earth.


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At that day shall man cast away his siluer idoles, and his golden idoles (which they had made themselues to worship them) to the mowles and to the backes,


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To goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the toppes of the ragged rockes from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall rise to destroy the earth.


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For lo, the Lord God of hostes will take away from Ierusalem and from Iudah the stay and the strength: euen all the staye of bread, and all the stay of water,


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The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.


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The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.


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When euery one shall take holde of his brother of the house of his father, and say, Thou hast clothing: thou shalt bee our prince, and let this fall be vnder thine hand.


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In that day hee shall sweare, saying, I cannot bee an helper: for there is no bread in mine house, nor clothing: therefore make me no prince of the people.


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Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their tongue and workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.


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The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.


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Children are extortioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.


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The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people and the princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is in your houses.


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What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord, euen the Lord of hoasts?


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The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched out neckes, and with wandering eyes, walking and minsing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feete,


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Therefore shall the Lord make the heades of the daughters of Zion balde, and the Lord shall discouer their secrete partes.


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In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the calles, and the round tyres,


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And in steade of sweete sauour, there shall be stinke, and in steade of a girdle, a rent, and in steade of dressing of the heare, baldnesse, and in steade of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth, and burning in steade of beautie.


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And in that day shall seuen women take hold of one man, saying, Wee will eate our owne bread, and we wil weare our owne garments: onely let vs bee called by thy name, and take away our reproche.


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In that day shall the budde of the Lord bee beautifull and glorious, and the fruite of the earth shalbe excellent and pleasant for them that are escaped of Israel.


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Then hee that shalbe left in Zion, and hee that shall remaine in Ierusalem, shalbe called holy, and euery one shalbe written among the liuing in Ierusalem,


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When the Lord shall wash the filthines of the daughters of Zion, and purge the blood of Ierusalem out of the middes thereof by the spirite of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning.


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And the Lord shall create vpon euery place of mount Zion, and vpon the assemblies thereof, a cloude and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for vpon all the glory shall be a defence.


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And a couering shalbe for a shadow in the day for the heate, and a place of refuge and a couert for the storme and for the raine.<pb/>


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Now will I sing to my beloued a song of my beloued to his vineyarde, My beloued had a vineyarde in a very fruitefull hill,


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And hee hedged it, and gathered out the stones of it, and he planted it with the best plants, and hee builte a towre in the middes thereof, and made a wine presse therein: then hee looked that it should bring foorth grapes: but it brought foorth wilde grapes.


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Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, betweene me, and my vineyarde.


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What coulde I haue done any more to my vineyard that I haue not done vnto it? why haue I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it bringeth foorth wilde grapes?


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And nowe I will tell you what I will do to my vineyarde: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe:


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And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut, nor digged, but briers, and thornes shall growe vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they raine no raine vpon it.


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Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression: for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying.


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Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, and laye fielde to fielde, till there bee no place, that ye may be placed by your selues in the mids of the earth.


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This is in mine cares, saith the Lord of hostes. Surely many houses shall be desolate, euen great, and faire without inhabitant.


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Wo vnto them, that rise vp early to follow drunkennes, and to them that continue vntill night, till the wine doe inflame them.


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And the harpe and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the worke of his handes.


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Therefore my people is gone into captiuitie, because they had no knowledge, and the glorie thereof are men famished, and the multitude thereof is dried vp with thirst.


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Therefore hell hath inlarged it selfe, and hath opened his mouth, without measure, and their glorie, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth among them, shall descend into it.


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Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.


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Which say, Let him make speede: let him hasten his worke, that wee may see it: and let the counsell of the holy one of Israel draw neere and come, that we may knowe it.


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Woe vnto them that speake good of euill, and euill of good, which put darkenes for light, and light for darkenes, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for sowre.


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Wo vnto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and to them that are strong to powre in strong drinke:


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Which iustifie the wicked for a rewarde, and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him.


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Therefore as the flame of fire deuoureth the stubble, and as the chaffe is cosumed of the flame: so their roote shalbe as rottennesse, and their bud shall rise vp like dust, because they haue cast off the Lawe of the Lord of hostes, and contemned the word of the holy one of Israel.


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Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and hee hath stretched out his hand vpon them, and hath smitten them that the mountaines did tremble: and their carkases were torne in the middes of the streetes, and for all this his wrath was not turned away, but his hande was stretched out still.


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And he will lift vp a signe vnto the nations a farre, and wil hisse vnto them from the ende of the earth: and beholde, they shall come hastily with speede.


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None shall faint nor fall among them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, neither shall the girdle of his loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of his shooes be broken:


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Whose arrowes shall be sharpe, and all his bowes bent: his horse hoofes shall be thought like flint, and his wheeles like a whirlewinde.


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His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away, and none shall deliuer it.


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And in that day they shall roare vpon them, as the roaring of the sea: and if they looke vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe, and the light shalbe darkened in their skie.<pb/>


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In the yeere of the death of King Vzziah, I saw also the Lord sitting vpon an high throne, and lifted vp, and the lower partes thereof filled the Temple.


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The Seraphims stoode vpon it: euery one had sixe wings: with twaine he couered his face, and with twaine hee couered his feete, and with twaine he did flie.


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And one cryed to another, and sayde, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hostes: the whole world is full of his glory.


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And the lintles of the doore cheekes moued at the voyce of him that cryed, and the house was filled with smoke.


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Then I sayd, Wo is me: for I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted lips, and I dwell in the middes of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes haue seene the King and Lord of hostes.


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Then flewe one of the Seraphims vnto me with an hote cole in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with the tongs:


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And he touched my mouth, and sayd, Loe, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquitie shall be taken away, and thy sinne shalbe purged.


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Also I heard the voyce of the Lord, saying, Whome shall I send? and who shall goe for vs? Then I sayd, Here am I, send me.


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And he sayd, Goe, and say vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and not perceiue.


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Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.


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Then sayd I, Lord, howe long? And he answered, Vntill the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be vtterly desolate,


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But yet in it shalbe a tenth, and shall returne, and shalbe eaten vp as an elme or an oke, which haue a substance in them, when they cast their leaues: so the holy seede shall be the substance thereof.<pb/>


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And in the dayes of Ahaz, the sonne of Iotham, the sonne of Vzziah king of Iudah, Rezin the King of Aram came vp, and Pekah the sonne of Remaliah King of Israel, to Ierusalem to fight against it, but he could not ouercome it.


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And it was tolde the house of Dauid, saying, Aram is ioyned with Ephraim: therefore his heart was moued, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moued by the winde.


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Then sayde the Lord vnto Isaiah, Goe foorth nowe to meete Ahaz (thou and Sheariashub thy sonne) at the ende of the conduit of the vpper poole, in the path of the fullers fielde,


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And say vnto him, Take heede, and be still: feare not, neither be faint hearted for the two tailes of these smoking firebrands, for the furious wrath of Rezin and of Aram, and of Remaliahs sonne:


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Let vs goe vp against Iudah, and let vs waken them vp, and make a breach therein for vs, and set a King in the mids thereof, euen the sonne of Tabeal.


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For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within fiue and threescore yeere, Ephraim shalbe destroyed from being a people.


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And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliahs sonne. If ye beleeue not, surely ye shall not be established.


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Aske a signe for thee of the Lord thy God: aske it, either in the depth beneath or in the height aboue.


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Then he sayd, Heare you nowe, O house of Dauid, Is it a small thing for you to grieue men, that ye will also grieue my God?


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Therefore the Lord himselfe will giue you a signe. Beholde, the virgine shall conceiue and beare a sonne, and she shall call his name Immanu-el.


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For afore the childe shall haue knowledge to eschew the euill, and to chuse the good, the land, that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her Kings.


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The Lord shall bring vpon thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers house (the dayes that haue not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Iudah) euen the King of Asshur.


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And in that day shall the Lord hisse for the flie that is at the vttermost part of the floods of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the lande of Asshur,


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And they shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thorny places, and vpon all bushy places.


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In that day shall the Lord shaue with a rasor that is hired, euen by them beyond the Riuer, by the King of Asshur, the head and the heare of the feete, and it shall consume the beard.


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And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.


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And at the same day euery place, wherein shalbe a thousand vines, shalbe at a thousand pieces of siluer: so it shalbe for the briers and for the thornes.


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With arrowes and with bowe shall one come thither: because all the land shall be briers and thornes.


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But on all the mountaines, which shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come thither the feare of briers and thornes: but they shalbe for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheepe.<pb/>


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Moreover, the Lord sayd vnto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a mans penne, Make speede to the spoyle: haste to the praye.


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Then I tooke vnto me faithfull witnesses to recorde, Vriah the Priest, and Zechariah the sonne of Ieberechiah.


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After, I came vnto the Prophetesse, which conceiued, and bare a sonne. Then sayd the Lord to me, Call his name, Mahershalalhash-baz.


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For before the childe shall haue knowledge to crye, My father, and my mother, he shall take away the riches of Damascus and the spoyle of Samaria, before the King of Asshur.


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Because this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that runne softly, and reioyce with Rezin, and the sonne of Remaliah,


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Nowe therefore, beholde, the Lord bringeth vp vpon them the waters of the Riuer mightie and great, euen the King of Asshur with all his glory, and he shall come vp vpon all their riuers, and goe ouer all their banks,


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And shall breake into Iudah, and shall ouerflowe and passe through, and shall come vp to the necke, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanu-el.


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Gather together on heapes, O ye people, and ye shalbe broken in pieces, and hearken all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces.


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Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.


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For the Lord spake thus to me in taking of mine hand, and taught me, that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying,


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Say ye not, A confederacie to all them, to whome this people sayth a confederacie, neither feare you their feare, nor be afrayd of them.


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And he shalbe as a Sanctuarie: but as a stumbling stone, and as a rocke to fall vpon, to both the houses of Israel, and as a snare and as a net to the inhabitants of Ierusalem.


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And many among them shall stumble, and shall fall and shalbe broken and shalbe snared and shalbe taken.


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Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.


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Beholde, I and the children whome the Lord hath giuen me, are as signes and as wonders in Israel, by the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion.


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And when they shall say vnto you, Enquire at them that haue a spirit of diuination, and at the soothsayers, which whisper and murmure, Should not a people enquire at their God? from the liuing to the dead?


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To the Law, and to the testimonie, if they speake not according to this worde: it is because there is no light in them.


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Then he that is afflicted and famished, shall go to and from in it: and when he shalbe hungry, he shall euen freat himselfe, and curse his King and his gods, and shall looke vpward.


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And when he shall looke to the earth, beholde trouble, and darkenes, vexation and anguish, and he is driuen to darkenes.<pb/>


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Yet the darkenesse shall not be according to the affliction that it had when at the first hee touched lightly the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afteward when he was more grieuous by the way of the sea beyond Iorden in Galile of the Gentiles.


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The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.


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Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased their ioye: they haue reioyced before thee according to the ioye in haruest, and as men reioyce when they deuide a spoyle.


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For the yoke of their burthen, and the staffe of their shoulder and the rod of their oppressour hast thou broken as in the day of Midian.


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Surely euery battell of the warriour is with noyse, and with tumbling of garments in blood: but this shall be with burning and deuouring of fire.


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For vnto vs a childe is borne, and vnto vs a Sonne is giuen: and the gouernement is vpon his shoulder, and he shall call his name Wonderfull, Counseller, The mightie God, The euerlasting Father, The prince of peace,


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The increase of his gouernement and peace shall haue none end: he shall sit vpon the throne of Dauid, and vpon his kingdome, to order it, and to stablish it with iudgement and with iustice, from hencefoorth, euen for euer: the zeale of the Lord of hostes will performe this.


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And all the people shall knowe, euen Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and presumption of the heart,


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The brickes are fallen, but we will build it with hewen stones: the wilde figge trees are cut downe, but we will change them into ceders.


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Neuerthelesse the Lord will raise vp the aduersaries of Rezin against him, and ioyne his enemies together.


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Aram before and the Philistims behinde, and they shall deuoure Israel with open mouth: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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The ancient and the honorable man, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the taile.


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Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.


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For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.


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By the wrath of the Lord of hostes shall the land be darkened, and the people shall be as the meate of ye fire: no man shall spare his brother.


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And he shall snatch at the right hand, and be hungrie: and he shall eate on the left hand, and shall not be satisfied: euery one shall eate ye flesh of his owne arme.


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Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall be against Iudah yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.<pb/>


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To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.


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What will ye doe nowe in the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from farre? to whom will ye flee for helpe? and where will ye leaue your glorie?


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Without me euery one shall fall among them that are bound, and they shall fall downe among the slayne: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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I will sende him to a dissembling nation, and I will giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoyle and to take the pray, and to treade them vnder feete like the mire in the streete.


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But he thinketh not so, neither doeth his heart esteeme it so: but he imagineth to destroy and to cut off not a fewe nations.


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Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria:


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Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof?


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But when the Lord hath accomplished all his worke vpon mount Zion and Ierusalem, I will visite the fruite of the proude heart of the King of Asshur, and his glorious and proud lookes,


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Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people, and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man.


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And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.


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Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? or shall the sawe exalt it selfe against him that moueth it? as if the rod shoulde lift vp it selfe against him that taketh it vp, or the staffe should exalt it selfe, as it were no wood.


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Therefore shall the Lord God of hostes send amog his fat men, leannes, and vnder his glorie he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.


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And the light of Israel shalbe as a fire, and the Holy one thereof as a flame, and it shall burne, and deuoure his thornes and his briers in one day:


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And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitfull fieldes both soule and flesh: and he shalbe as ye fainting of a standard bearer.


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And at that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iaakob, stay no more vpon him that smote them, but shall stay vpon ye Lord, ye Holy one of Israel in trueth.


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For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, yet shall the remnant of them returne. The consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.


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For the Lord God of hostes shall make the consumption, euen determined, in the middes of all the land.


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Therefore thus saith ye Lord God of hostes, O my people, that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of Asshur: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift vp his staffe against thee after the maner of Egypt:


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And ye Lord of hostes shall raise vp a scourge for him, according to the plague of Midian in the rocke Oreb: and as his staffe was vpon the Sea, so he will lift it vp after the maner of Egypt.


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And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy necke: and the yoke shalbe destroied because of the anoynting.


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They haue gone ouer the foorde: they lodged in the lodging at Geba: Ramah is afraide: Gibeah of Saul is fled away.


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Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob: he shall lift vp his hand towarde the mount of the daughter Zion, the hill of Ierusalem.


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Beholde, the Lord God of hostes shall cut off the bough with feare, and they of high stature shalbe cut off, and the hie shalbe humbled.


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And he shall cut away the thicke places of the forest with yron, and Lebanon shall haue a mightie fall.<pb/>


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But there shall come a rodde foorth of the stocke of Ishai, and a grasse shall growe out of his rootes.


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And the Spirite of the Lord shall rest vpon him: the Spirite of wisedome and vnderstanding, the Spirite of counsell and strength, the Spirite of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lord,


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And shall make him prudent in the feare of the Lord: for he shall not iudge after the sight of his eies, neither reproue by ye hearing of his eares.


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But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and with equitie shall he reprooue for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lippes shall he slay the wicked.


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The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and the calfe, and the lyon, and the fat beast together, and a litle childe shall leade them.


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And the kow and the beare shall feede: their yong ones shall lie together: and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke.


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And the sucking childe shall play vpon the hole of the aspe, and the wained childe shall put his hand vpon the cockatrice hole.


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Then shall none hurt nor destroy in all the mountaine of mine holines: for the earth shalbe full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters that couer the sea.


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And in that day the roote of Ishai, which shall stand vp for a signe vnto the people, the nations shall seeke vnto it, and his rest shall be glorious.


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And in the same day shall the Lord stretche out his hand againe the second time, to possesse the remnant of his people, (which shalbe left) of Asshur, and of Egypt, and of Pathros, and of Ethiopia, and of Elam, and of Shinear, and of Hamath, and of the yles of the sea.


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And he shall set vp a signe to the nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather the scattered of Iudah from the foure corners of the worlde.


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The hatred also of Ephraim shall depart, and the aduersaries of Iudah shalbe cut off: Ephraim shall not enuie Iudah, neither shall Iudah vexe Ephraim:


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But they shall flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistims toward the West: they shall spoyle them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience.


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The Lord also shall vtterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptians sea, and with his mightie winde shall lift vp his hand ouer the riuer, and shall smite him in his seuen streames, and cause men to walke therein with shooes.


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And there shalbe a path to the remnant of his people, which are left of Asshur, like as it was vnto Israel in the day that he came vp out of the land of Egypt.<pb/>


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And thou shalt say in that day, O Lord, I will prayse thee: though thou wast angrie with me, thy wrath is turned away, and thou comfortest me.


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Beholde, God is my saluation: I will trust, and will not feare: for ye Lord God is my strength and song: he also is become my saluation.


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And ye shall say in that day, Prayse the Lord: call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people: make mention of them, for his Name is exalted.


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Cry out, and shoute, O inhabitant of Zion: for great is ye holy one of Israel in the middes of thee.<pb/>


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Lift vp a standard vpon the hie mountaine: lift vp the voyce vnto them: wagge the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.


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I haue commanded them, that I haue sanctified: and I haue called ye mightie to my wrath, and them that reioyce in my glorie.


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The noyse of a multitude is in the mountaines, like a great people: a tumultuous voyce of the kingdomes of the nations gathered together: the Lord of hostes nombreth the hoste of the battell.


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They come from a farre countrey, from the end of the heauen: euen the Lord with the weapons of his wrath to destroy the whole land.


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And they shalbe afraid: anguish and sorowe shall take them, and they shall haue paine, as a woman that trauaileth: euery one shall be amased at his neighbour, and their faces shalbe like flames of fire.


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Beholde, the day of the Lord commeth, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land wast: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.


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For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shall not cause her light to shine.


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And I will visite the wickednes vpon the worlde, and their iniquitie vpon the wicked, and I wil cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will cast downe the pride of tyrants.


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Therefore I will shake the heauen, and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.


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And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp. euery man shall turne to his owne people, and flee eche one to his owne lande.


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Euery one that is founde, shall be striken through: and whosoeuer ioyneth himselfe, shall fal by the sworde.


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Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.


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Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde siluer, nor be desirous of golde.


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With bowes also shall they destroy ye children, and shall haue no compassion vpon the fruit of the wombe, and their eies shall not spare the children.


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And Babel the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorah.


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It shall not bee inhabited for euer, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, neither shall the shepheardes make their foldes there.


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But Ziim shall lodge there, and their houses shall be ful of Ohim: Ostriches shall dwel there, and the Satyrs shall dance there.


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And Iim shall crie in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and the time thereof is readie to come, and the daies thereof shall not be prolonged.<pb/>


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For the Lord wil haue compassion of Iaakob, and wil yet chuse Israel, and cause them to rest in their owne lande: and the stranger shall ioyne him selfe vnto them, and they shall cleaue to the house of Iaakob.


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And the people shall receiue them and bring them to their owne place, and the house of Israel shall possesse them in the land of the Lord, for seruants and handmaids: and they shall take them prisoners, whose captiues they were, and haue rule ouer their oppressours.


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Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the King of Babel, and say, Howe hath the oppressor ceased? and the gold thirsty Babel rested?


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Which smote the people in anger with a continuall plague, and ruled the nations in wrath: if any were persecuted, he did not let.


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Also the firre trees reioyced of thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid downe, no hewer came vp against vs.


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Hel beneath is mooued for thee to meete thee at thy comming, raising vp the deade for thee, euen all the princes of the earth, and hath raised from their thrones all the Kinges of the nations.


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All they shall crie, and saie vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? art thou become like vnto vs?


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Thy pompe is brought downe to ye graue, and the sounde of thy violes: the worme is spred vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee.


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How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? and cutte downe to the grounde, which didest cast lottes vpon the nations?


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Yet thou saidest in thine heart, I will ascende into heauen, and exalt my throne aboue beside the starres of God: I will sitte also vpon the mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North.


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They that see thee, shall looke vpon thee and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, and that did shake the kingdomes?


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He made the worlde as a wildernesse, and destroied the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his prisoners.


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But thou art cast out of thy graue like an abominable branch: like the raiment of those that are slaine, and thrust thorowe with a sword, which goe downe to the stones of the pit, as a carkeise troden vnder feete.


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Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer.


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Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquitie of their fathers: let them not rise vp nor possesse the land, nor fil the face of the world with enemies.


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For I wil rise vp against them (sayth the Lord of hostes) and will cut off from Babel the name and the remnant and the sonne, and the nephew, sayth the Lord:


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And I wil make it a possession to ye hedgehogge, and pooles of water, and I will sweepe it with the besome of destruction, sayeth the Lord of hostes.


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The Lord of hostes hath sworne, saying, Surely like as I haue purposed, so shall it come to passe, and as I haue consulted, it shall stand:


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That I will breake to pieces Asshur in my land, and vpon my mountaines will I treade him vnder foote: so that his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden shall be taken from off their shoulder.


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This is the counsell that is consulted vpon the whole worlde, and this is the hande stretched out ouer all the nations,


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Because the Lord of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disanull it? and his hande is stretched out, and who shall turne it away?


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Reioyce not, (thou whole Palestina) because the rod of him that did beat thee, is broken for out of the serpents roote shall come forth a cockatrise, and the fruit therof shalbe a firy flying serpent.


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For the first borne of the poore shall be fed, and the needie shall lie downe in safetie: and I will kill thy roote with famine, and it shall slay thy remnant.


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Howle, O gate, crie, O citie: thou whole lande of Palestina art dissolued, for there shall come from the North a smoke, and none shalbe alone, at his time appointed.


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What shall then one answere the messengers of the Gentiles? That the Lord hath stablished Zion, and the poore of his people shall trust in it.<pb/>


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The burden of Moab. Surely Ar of Moab was destroied, and brought to silece in a night: surely Kir of Moab was destroied, and brought to silence in a night.


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He shall goe vp to the temple, and to Dibon to the hie places to weepe: for Nebo and for Medeba shall Moab howle: vpon all their heades shalbe baldnesse, and euery beard shauen.


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In their streetes shall they bee gilded with sackecloth: on the toppes of their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall howle, and come downe with weeping.


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And Heshbon shall crie, and Elealeh: their voyce shall bee heard vnto Iahaz: therefore the warriers of Moab shall showt: the soule of euery one shall lament in him selfe.


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Mine heart shall crie for Moab: his fugitiues shall flee vnto Zoar, an heiffer of three yere olde: for they shall goe vp with weeping by the mounting vp of Luhith: and by the way of Horonaim they shall raise vp a crie of destruction.


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For the waters of Nimrim shall be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.


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Therefore what euery man hath left, and their substance shall they beare to the brooke of the willowes.


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For the crie went round about the borders of Moab: and the howling thereof vnto Eglaim, and the skriking thereof vnto Beer Elim,


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Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more vpon Dimon, euen lyons vpon him that escapeth of Moab, and to the remnant of the land.<pb/>


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Send yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde from the rocke of the wildernesse, vnto the mountaine of the daughter Zion.


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For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes of Arnon.


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Gather a cousel, execute iudgement: make thy shadowe as the night in the midday: hide them that are chased out: bewray not him that is fled.


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Let my banished dwell with thee: Moab be thou their couert from the face of the destroyer: for the extortioner shall ende: the destroyer shalbe consumed, and the oppressour shall cease out of the land.


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And in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and hee shall sit vpon it in stedfastnesse, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging, and seeking iudgement, and hasting iustice.


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We haue heard of the pride of Moab, (he is very proud) euen his pride, and his arrogancie, and his indignation, but his lies shall not be so.


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Therefore shall Moab howle vnto Moab: euery one shall howle: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourne, yet they shalbe striken.


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For ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes of the heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof: they are come vnto Iaazer: they wandred in the wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out them selues, and went ouer the sea.


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Therefore will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.


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And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.


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And when it shall appeare that Moab shall be wearie of his hie places, then shall hee come to his temple to praie, but he shall not preuaile.


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And nowe the Lord hath spoken, saying, In three yeres, as the yeeres of a hireling, and the glorie of Moab shall be contemned in all the great multitude, and the remnant shalbe very small and feeble.<pb/>


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The burden of Damascus. Beholde, Damascus is taken away from being a citie, for it shall be a ruinous heape.


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The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.


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The munition also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdome from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, sayeth the Lord of hostes.


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And in that day the glorie of Iaakob shall be impouerished, and the fatnes of his flesh shalbe made leane.


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And it shalbe as when the haruest man gathereth the corne, and reapeth the eares with his arme, and he shall be as he that gathereth the eares in the valley of Rephaim.


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Yet a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an oliue tree, two or three beries are in the top of the vpmost boughes, and foure or fiue in the hie branches of the fruite thereof, sayeth the Lord God of Israel.


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And hee shall not looke to the altars, the workes of his owne hands, neither shall he looke to those thinges, which his owne fingers haue made, as groues and images.


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In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughes and branches, which they did forsake, because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation.


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Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation, and hast not remembred the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plantes, and shalt graffe strange vine branches:


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In the day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seede to florish: but the haruest shall be gone in the day of possession, and there shalbe desperate sorrowe.


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Ah, the multitude of many people, they shall make a sounde like the noyse of the sea: for the noyse of the people shall make a sounde like the noyse of mightie waters.


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The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.


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And loe, in the euening there is trouble: but afore the morning it is gone. This is the portion of them that spoyle vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.<pb/>


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Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.


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Al ye the inhabitants of ye world and dwellers in the earth, shall see when he setteth vp a signe in the mountaines, and when he bloweth the trumpet, ye shall heare.


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For so the Lord saide vnto me, I will rest and beholde in my tabernacle, as the heate drying vp the rayne, and as a cloude of dewe in the heate of haruest.


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For afore the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite is riping in the floure, then he shall cut downe the branches with hookes, and shall take away, and cut off the boughes:


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They shall be left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, and to the beastes of the earth: for the foule shall sommer vpon it, and euery beast of the earth shall winter vpon it.


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At that time shall a present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, (a people that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, and of a terrible people from their beginning hitherto, a nation, by litle and litle euen troden vnder foote, whose land the riuers haue spoyled) to the place of the Name of the Lord of hostes, euen the mount Zion.<pb/>


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The burden of Egypt. Beholde, the Lord rideth vpon a swift cloude, and shall come into Egypt, and the idoles of Egypt shall be moued at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the middes of her.


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And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: so euery one shall fight against his brother, and euery one against his neighbour, citie against citie, and kingdome against kingdome.


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And the spirite of Egypt shall faile in the middes of her, and I will destroy their counsell, and they shall seeke at the idoles, and at the sorcerers, and at them that haue spirits of diuination, and at the southsayers.


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And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, and a mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.


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And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe.


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The grasse in the riuer, and at the head of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer, shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.


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The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the riuer, shall lament, and they that spread their nette vpon the waters, shall be weakened.


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Moreouer, they that worke in flaxe of diuers sortes, shall be confounded, and they that weaue nettes.


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Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles: the counsell of the wise counselers of Pharaoh is become foolish: how say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am the sonne of the wise? I am the sonne of the ancient Kings?


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Where are nowe thy wise men, that they may tell thee, or may knowe what the Lord of hostes hath determined against Egypt?


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The princes of Zoan are become fooles: the princes of Noph are deceiued, they haue deceiued Egypt, euen the corners of the tribes thereof.


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The Lord hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.


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Neither shall there be any worke in Egypt, which the head may doe, nor the tayle, ye branch nor the rush.


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In that day shall Egypt be like vnto women: for it shall be afraide and feare because of the moouing of the hand of the Lord of hostes, which he shaketh ouer it.


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And the land of Iudah shall be a feare vnto Egypt: euery one that maketh mention of it, shalbe afraid thereat, because of ye counsell of the Lord of hostes, which he hath determined vpon it.


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In that day shall fiue cities in the lande of Egypt speake the language of Canaan, and shall sweare by the Lord of hostes. one shall be called the citie of destruction.


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In that day shall the altar of the Lord be in the middes of the land of Egypt, and a pillar by the border thereof vnto the Lord.


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And it shall be for a signe and for a witnes vnto the Lord of hostes in the land of Egypt: for they shall crie vnto the Lord, because of the oppressers, and he shall send them a Sauiour and a great man, and shall deliuer them.


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And the Lord shall be knowen of the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall knowe the Lord in that day, and doe sacrifice and oblation, and shall vowe vowes vnto the Lord, and performe them.


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So ye Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heale it: for he shall returne vnto ye Lord, and he shall be intreated of them and shall heale them.


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In that day shall there be a path from Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Asshur: so the Egyptians shall worship with Asshur.


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In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Asshur, euen a blessing in the middes of the land.


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For the Lord of hostes shall blesse it, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt and Asshur, the worke of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance.<pb/>


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In the yeere that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon King of Asshur sent him) and had fought against Ashdod, and taken it,


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At the same time spake the Lord by ye hand of Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, saying, Goe, and loose the sackecloth from thy loynes, and put off thy shooe from thy foote. And he did so, walking naked and barefoote.


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And the Lord said, Like as my seruant Isaiah hath walked naked, and barefoote three yeeres, as a signe and wonder vpon Egypt, and Ethiopia,


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So shall the King of Asshur take away the captiuitie of Egypt, and the captiuitie of Ethiopia, both yong men and olde men, naked and barefoote, with their buttockes vncouered, to the shame of Egypt.


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Then shall the inhabitant of this yle say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fledde for helpe to be deliuered from the King of Asshur, and howe shall we be deliuered?<pb/>


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The burden of the desert Sea. As the whirlewindes in the South vse to passe from the wildernesse, so shall it come from the horrible land.


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A grieuous vision was shewed vnto me, The transgressour against a transgressour, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Goe vp Elam, besiege Media: I haue caused all the mourning thereof to cease.


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Therefore are my loynes filled with sorow: sorowes haue taken me as the sorowes of a woman that trauayleth: I was bowed downe when I heard it, and I was amased when I sawe it.


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Mine heart failed: fearefulnesse troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into feare vnto me.


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Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch towre: eate, drinke: arise, ye princes, anoynt the shielde.


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And he sawe a charet with two horsemen: a charet of an asse, and a charet of a camel: and he hearkened and tooke diligent heede.


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And he cryed, A lyon: my lorde, I stand continually vpon ye watche towre in the day time, and I am set in my watche euery night:


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And beholde, this mans charet commeth with two horsemen. And he answered and said, Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken vnto the ground.


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O my threshing, and the corne of my floore. That which I haue heard of the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, haue I shewed vnto you.


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The burden of Dumah. He calleth vnto me out of Seir, Watchman, what was in ye night? Watchman, what was in the night?


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The watchman saide, The morning commeth, and also the night. If yee will aske, enquire: returne and come.


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The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall yee tarie all night, euen in the waies of Dedanim.


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O inhabitants of the lande of Tema, bring foorth water to meete the thirstie, and preuent him that fleeth with his bread.


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For they flee from the drawen swords, euen from the drawen sword, and from the bent bowe, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.


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For thus hath the Lord sayd vnto me, Yet a yeere according to the yeeres of an hireling, and all the glorie of Kedar shall faile.


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And the residue of the nomber of ye strong archers of the sonnes of Kedar shall be fewe: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.<pb/>


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The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee nowe that thou art wholy gone vp vnto the house toppes?


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Thou that art full of noise, a citie full of brute, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men shall not bee slaine with sworde, nor die in battell.


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All thy princes shall flee together from the bowe: they shalbe bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from farre.


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Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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For it is a day of trouble, and of ruine, and of perplexitie by the Lord God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the citie: and a crying vnto the mountaines.


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And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues in aray against the gate.


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And hee discouered the couering of Iudah: and thou didest looke in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.


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And ye haue seene the breaches of the citie of Dauid: for they were many, and ye gathered the waters of the lower poole.


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And haue also made a ditche betweene the two walles, for the waters of the olde poole, and haue not looked vnto the maker thereof, neither had respect vnto him that formed it of olde.


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And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.


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And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh, and drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die.


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And it was declared in ye eares of the Lord of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.


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Thus sayeth the Lord God of hostes, Goe, get thee to that treasurer, to Shebna, the steward of the house, and say,


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What haste thou to doe here? and whome hast thou here? that thou shouldest here hewe thee out a sepulchre, as he that heweth out his sepulchre in an hie place, or that graueth an habitation for him selfe in a rocke?


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He wil surely rolle and turne thee like a bal in a large countrey: there shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shalbe the shame of thy lordes house.


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And with thy garments will I clothe him, and with thy girdle will I strengthen him: thy power also will I commit into his hande, and hee shalbe a father of the inhabitats of Ierusalem, and of the house of Iudah.


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And the key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so hee shall open, and no man shall shut: and he shall shut, and no man shall open.


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And I will fasten him as a naile in a sure place, and hee shall be for the throne of glorie to his fathers house.


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And they shall hang vpon him all the glorie of his fathers house, euen of the nephewes and posteritie all small vessels, from the vessels of the cuppes, euen to all the instruments of musike.


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In that day, sayeth the Lord of hostes, shall the naile, that is fastned in the sure place, depart and shall be broken, and fall: and the burden, that was vpon it, shall bee cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.<pb/>


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The burden of Tyrus. Howle, yee shippes of Tarshish: for it is destroied, so that there is none house: none shall come from the lande of Chittim: it is reueiled vnto them.


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Be still, yee that dwell in the yles: the marchantes of Zidon, and such as passe ouer the sea, haue replenished thee.


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The seede of Nilus growing by the abundance of waters, and the haruest of the riuer was her reuenues, and she was a marte of the nations.


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Be ashamed, thou Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, euen the strength of the sea, saying, I haue not trauailed, nor brought forth children, neither nourished yong men, nor brought vp virgins.


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Is not this that your glorious citie? her antiquitie is of ancient daies: her owne feete shall leade her afarre off to be a soiourner.


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Who hath decreed this against Tyrus (that crowneth men) whose marchantes are princes? whose chapmen are the nobles of the worlde?


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The Lord of hostes hath decreed this, to staine the pride of all glorie, and to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth.


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He stretched out his hand vpon the sea: he shooke the kingdomes: the Lord hath giuen a commandement concerning the place of marchandise, to destroy the power thereof.


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And he saide, Thou shalt no more reioyce when thou art oppressed: O virgin daughter of Zidon: rise vp, goe ouer vnto Chittim: yet there thou shalt haue no rest.


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Behold the lande of the Caldeans: this was no people: Asshur founded it by the inhabitantes of the wildernesse: they set vp the towers thereof: they raised the palaces thereof and hee brought it to ruine.


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And in that day shall Tyrus bee forgotten seuentie yeeres, (according to the yeeres of one King) at the ende of seuentie yeeres shall Tyrus sing as an harlot.


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Take an harpe and go about the citie: (thou harlot thou hast beene forgotten) make sweete melodie, sing moe songes that thou maiest be remembred.


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And at the ende of seuentie yeres shall the Lord visite Tyrus, and shee shall returne to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdomes of the earth, that are in the world.


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Yet her occupying and her wages shall bee holy vnto the Lord: it shall not be laied vp nor kept in store, but her marchandise shalbe for them that dwell before the Lord, to eate sufficiently, and to haue durable clothing.<pb/>


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Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.


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And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, like borower, like giuer, like taker to vsurie.


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The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.


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The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and brake the euerlasting couenant.


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Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are left.


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The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.


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There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.


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Surely thus shall it bee in the middes of the earth, among the people, as the shaking of an oliue tree, and as the grapes when the vintage is ended.


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They shall lift vp their voyce: they shall shout for the magnificence of the Lord: they shall reioyce from the sea.


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Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lord God of Israel, in the yles of the sea.


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From the vttermost part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen glory to the iust, and I sayd, My leanesse, my leanesse, woe is mee: the transgressours haue offended: yea, the transgressours haue grieuously offended.


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And hee that fleeth from the noyse of the feare, shall fall into the pit: and he that commeth vp out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth doe shake.


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The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.


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And in that day shall the Lord visite the hoste aboue that is on hie, euen the Kinges of the world that are vpon the earth.


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And they shall be gathered together, as the prisoners in the pit: and they shall be shut vp in the prison, and after many daies shall they be visited.


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Then the moone shall be abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem: and glory shalbe before his ancient men.<pb/>


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O Lord, thou art my God: I will exalt thee, I will prayse thy Name: for thou hast done wonderfull things, according to the counsels of old, with a stable trueth.


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For thou hast made of a citie an heape, of a strong citie, a ruine: euen the palace of strangers of a citie, it shall neuer be built.


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Therefore shall the mightie people giue glory vnto thee: the citie of the strong nations shall feare thee.


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For thou hast bene a strength vnto the poore, euen a strength to the needie in his trouble, a refuge against the tempest, a shadow against the heate: for the blaste of the mightie is like a storme against the wall.


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Thou shalt bring downe the noyse of the strangers, as the heate in a drie place: he wil bring downe the song of the mightie, as the heate in the shadowe of a cloude.


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And in this mountaine shall the Lord of hostes make vnto all people a feast of fat thinges, euen a feast of fined wines, and of fat thinges full of marow, of wines fined and purified.


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And he will destroy in this mountaine the couering that couereth all people, and the vaile that is spread vpon all nations.


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He wil destroy death for euer: and the Lord God wil wipe away the teares from all faces, and the rebuke of his people will he take away out of all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.


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And in that day shall men say, Loe, this is our God: we haue waited for him, and he wil saue vs. This is the Lord, we haue waited for him: we will reioyce and be ioyfull in his saluation.


