THE SODOMITES
even as Sodom and Gomorra.
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And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day.
The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.
Behold in a dread nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and as i woke up ...before the day.
and there came words without speaking ...
Yet the words were very BOLD.
even as a shout that could be heard throughout TIME.
even of all that the word of God has shown ...from the beginning.
even to the end.
even to the end.
even
to the SAME END.
and scripture
came back to remembrance ...
The
Lord hateth as well him that justifieth the ungodly, as him
that condemeth the innocent.
THE GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 17
And he said unto the disciples: The days will
come, when ye shall desire to see one day of the son of man, and ye shall not
see it. And they shall say to you: See here, See there. Go not after them, nor
follow them, for as the lightning that appeareth out of the one part of the
heaven: and shineth unto the other part of heaven. So shall the son of man be in
his days. But first must he suffer many things, and be refused of this nation. This
understand, that in the last days shall come parlous times. For the men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, cursed speakers,
disobedient to father and mother, unthankful, unholy, unkind, trucebreakers,
stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce despisers of them which are good,
traitors, heady, high minded, greedy upon voluptuousness more then lovers of
God, having a similitude of Godly living, but have denied the power thereof: and
such abhor. Of this sort are they which enter into houses, and bring into
bondage women laden with sin, which women are led of *diverse lusts, ever
learning and never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
As it happened in the time of Noe: So shall
it be in the time of the son of man. They ate, they drank, they married wives
and were married, even unto the same day that Noe went into the Ark: and the
flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise also, as it chanced in the days
of lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
And even the same day that Lot went out of *Zodom, it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven, and destroyed them all. After these examples, shall it be in the
day when the son of man shall appear.
At that day he that is on the house top and
his stuff in the house: let him not come down to take it out. And likewise let
not him that is in the fields, turn back again to that he left behind. Remember
Lots wife. Whosoever will go about to save his life, shall lose it: And
whosoever shall lose his life, shall save it. I tell you in that night, there
shall be two in one bed, that one shall be received and the other shall be
forsaken. Two shall be also a grinding together: the one shall be received, and
the other forsaken. And they answered, and said unto him: where Lord? And he
said unto them: wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles
resort.
These are the generations of the sons of Noe: of Sem, Ham and
Japheth, which begat them children after the flood.
The sons of Japheth were: Gomir, Magog,
Madai, Javan, Tuball, Mesech and Thyras. And the sons of Gomir were: Ascenas,
Riphat and Togarma. And the sons of Javan were: Elisa, Tharsis, Cithim and
Dodanim. Of these came the Isles of the gentiles in their countries, every man
in his speech, kindred and nation.
The sons of Ham were: Chus, Misraim, Phut
and Canaan. The sons of Chus were Seba, Hevila, Sabta, Raima and Sabtema. And
the sons of Raima were: Sheba, and Dedan. Chus also beget Nimrod, which began to
be mighty in the earth. He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the Lord: Whereof
came the proverb: he is as Nimrod that mighty hunter in the sight of the Lord.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babell, Erech, Achad, and Chalne in the
land of Sinear: Out of that land came Assur, and builded Ninive, and the city
Rehoboth, and Calah, and Ressen between Nineve and Calah. That is a great city.
And Mizrim begat Ludim, Enanim, Leabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim and Casluhim: from
whence came the Philistins, and the Caphtherines.
Canaan also begat Zidon his eldest
son and Heth, Jebusi, Emori, Girgosi, Him, Arki, Sini, Arvadi, Zemari and
Harmati. And afterward sprang the kindreds of the Cananites. And the coasts of
the Cananites were from Sidon till thou come to Gerara and to Asa, and till thou
come to Sodoma, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim, even unto Lasa. These were the
children of Ham in their kindreds, tongues, lands and nations.
Then Abram departed out of Egypt both he and his wife and all that he
had, and Lot with him unto the south. Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and
gold. And he went on his journey from the south even unto Bethel, and unto the
place where his tent was at the first time between Bethel and Ay, and unto the
place of the altar which he made before. And there called Abram upon the name of
the Lord.
Lot also which went with him had sheep,
cattle and tents: so that the land was not able to receive them that they might
dwell together, for the substance of their riches was so great, that they could
not dwell together. And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abrams
cattle, and the herdsmen of Lots cattle. Moreover the Cananites and the
Pherisites dwelled at that time in the land. Then said Abram unto Lot: Let there
be no strife ( I pray thee ) between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and
thine, for we be brethren. Is not all the whole land before thee? Depart I pray
thee from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, I will take the right: or if thou
take the right hand I will take the left. And Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld
all the country about Jordan, which was a plenteous country of water every
where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorra, even as the garden of
the Lord, and as the land of Egypt till thou come to Zoar.
Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and
took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan: And Lot in the cities of the plain, and
tented till he came to Sodom. But the men of sodom were wicked and sinned
exceedingly against the Lord.
And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot
was departed from him: Lift up thine eyes, and look from the place where thou
art, northward, southward, eastward and westward, for all the land which thou
seest will I give unto thee and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed,
as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,
then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise and walk about in the land, in the
length of it and in the breadth, for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram took
down his tent and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre which is in Ebron,
and builded there an altar to the Lord
And it chanced within a while, that Amraphel king of Sinthr, Arioch king of
Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Thydeall king of the nations, made war
with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsa king of Gomorra. And with Sineab
king of Adama, and with Semeaber king of Zeboim, and with the king of Bela which
Bela is called Zoar. All these came together unto the vale of Siddim, which is
now the salt sea. Twelve years were they subject to king Kedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year rebelled. Therefore in the fourteenth year came Kedorlaomer and
the kings that were with him, and smote the Raphaims in Astaroth Karnaim, and
the Susims in Ham, and the Emims in Sabe Kariathaim, and the Horims in their own
mount Seir unto the plain of Pharan, which bordereth upon the wilderness. And
then turned they and came to the well of judgement which is Cades, and smote all
the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwell in Hazezon
Thamar.
Then went out the king of Sodom, and the
king of Gomorra, and the king of Adama and the king of Zeboiim, and the king
of Bela now called Zoar. And set their men in the array to fight with them in
the vale of Siddim, that is to say, with Kedorlaomer the king of Elam and with
Thydeall king of the Nations, and with Amraphel king of Sinear. And with Arioch
king of Ellasar: four kings against five. And that vale of Siddim was full of
slime pits.
And the kings of Sodom and Gomorra fled,
and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains. And they took all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorra and all their victuals, and went their way.
And they took Lot also, Abrams brothers son and his goods ( for he dwelled at Sodom
) and departed. Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew which
dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eschol and Aner: which
were confederate with Abram. When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he
harnessed his servants born in his own house three hundred and eighteen, and
followed till they came at Dan. And set himself and his servants in array, and
fell upon them by night, and smote them, and chased them away unto Hoba: which
lieth on the left hand of Damasco, and brought again all the goods and also his
brother Lot, and his goods, the women also and the people.
And as he returned again from the slaughter
of Kedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, then came the king of
Sodom to meet him in the vale of Saue, which now is called kings dale.
Then Melchisedech king of Salem brought
forth bread and wine. And he being the Priest of the most highest God, blessed
him saying: Blessed be Abram unto the most highest God, possessor of heaven and
earth. And blessed be God the most highest, which hath delivered thine enemies
into thy hands. And Abram gave him tithes of all.
Then said the king of Sodom unto Abram:
Give me the souls, and take the goods to thy self. And Abram answered the king
of Sodom: I lift up my hand unto the Lord God most high possessor of heaven and
earth, that I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a thread or a
shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich. Save only that
which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me. Aner,
Eschol and Mamre. Let them take their parts
And the Lord appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his
tent door in the heat of the day. And he lifted up his eyes and looked: and lo,
three men stood not far from him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from
the tent door, and fell to the ground and said: Lord if I have found favour in
thy sight: go not by thy servant. Let a little water be fetched, and wash your
feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, to
comfort your hearts withal. And then go your ways, for even therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they answered: Do even so as thou hast said. And
Abraham went a pace into his tent unto Sara and said: make ready at once three
pecks of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. And Abraham ran unto his beasts
and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young man which
made it ready at once. And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had
prepared, and set it before them, and stood himself by them under the tree: and
they ate.
And they said unto him: Where is Sara thy
wife? And he said: in the tent. And he said: I will come again unto thee as soon
as the fruit can live. And lo: Sara thy wife shall have a son. That heard Sara,
out of the tent door which was behind his back. Abraham and Sara were both old
and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it
is with wives. And Sara laughed in her self saying: Now I am waxed old, shall I
give my self to lust, and my lord old also? Then said the Lord unto Abraham:
wherefore doth Sara laugh saying: shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I
am old? is the thing too hard for the Lord to do? In the time appointed will I
return unto thee, as soon as the fruit can have life, And Sara shall have a son.
Then Sara denied it saying: I laughed not, for she was afraid. But he said: yes
thou laughtest. Then the men stood up from there and looked toward Sodom.
And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. And the Lord said: Can I
hide from Abraham that thing which I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall
be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him? For I know him that he will command his children and his
household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do after right and
conscience, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him.
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and
Gomorra is great, and their sin is exceeding grievous. I will go down and
see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto
me or not, that I may know. And the men departed there and went to Sodomward.
But Abraham stood yet before the Lord, and drew near and said. Wilt thou destroy
the righteous with the wicked? If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt
thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are
therein? That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the
wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the judge of all the world do
according to right? And the Lord said: If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, I will spare all the place for their sakes.
And Abraham answered and said: behold I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, and yet am but dust and ashes. What though
there lack five of fifty righteous, wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of
five? And he said: If I find there forty and five I will not destroy them. And
he spake unto him yet again and said: what if there be forty found there. And he
said: I will not do it for fortys sake. And he said: O let not my Lord be angry,
that I speak. What if there be found thirty there? And he said: I will not do
it, if I find thirty there. And he said: Oh, see, I have begun to speak unto my
Lord, what if there be twenty found there? And he said: I will not destroy them
for twentys sake. And he said: O let not my Lord be angry, that I speak yet, but
even once more only. What if ten be found there? And he said: I will not
destroy them for tens sake. And the Lord went his way as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place
And there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Lot sat at the
gate of the city. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed
himself to the ground with his face. And he said: See lords, turn in I pray you
in to your servants house and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up
early and go on your ways. And they said: nay, but we will bide in the streets
all night. And he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and
entered into his house, and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes, and
they ate. But before they went to rest, the men of the city of Sodom
compassed the house round about both old and young, all the people from all
quarters. And they called unto Lot and said unto him: where are the men which
came into thy house to night? bring them out unto us that we may do our lust
with them.
And Lot went out at doors unto them and shut
the door after him and said: nay for Gods sake brethren, do not so wickedly.
Behold I have two daughters which have known no man, them will I bring out unto
you: do with them as it seemeth you good: Only unto these men do nothing, for
therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said: come hither. And
they said: camest thou not in to sojourn, and wilt thou be now a judge? we will
surely deal worse with thee than with them.
And as they pressed sore upon Lot and began
to break up the door, the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the
house to them and shut to the door. And the men that were at the door of the
house, they smote with blindness both small and great: so that they could not
find the door. And the men said moreover unto Lot: If thou have yet here any son
in law or sons or daughters or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of
this place: for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great
before the Lord. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it.
And Lot went out and spake unto his sons in
law which should have married his daughters, and said: stand up and get you out
of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city. But he seemed as though he
had mocked, unto his sons in law. And as the morning arose the angels caused Lot
to speed him saying. Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that,
that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city. And as he prolonged
the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands,
because the Lord was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him
without the city. When they had brought them out, they said: Save thy life and
look not behind thee neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save
thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish. Then said Lot unto them: O nay my
Lord: behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make
thy mercy great, which thou showest unto me in saving my life. For I cannot save
myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die. Behold,
here is a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself
therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live? And he said to him: see
I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow
this city for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, and save thyself there,
for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither. And therefore the name of the
city is called Zoar. And the sun was upon the earth when Lot was entered into
Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and
Gomorra, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and overthrew those
cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that, that
grew upon the earth. And Lots wife looked behind her, and was turned in to a
pillar of salt.
Abraham rose up early and got him to the
place where he stood before the Lord, and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and
toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of
the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace. But yet when God
destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out
from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot
dwelled.
And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in
the mountains and his two daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he
dwelled therefore in a cave, both he and his two daughters also. Then said the
elder unto the younger: our father is old, and there are no more men in the
earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the world. Come therefore, let
us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed
of our father. And they gave their father wine to drink that same night. And the
elder daughter went and lay with her father. And he perceived it not, neither
when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
And on the morrow the elder said unto the
younger: behold, yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink
this night also, and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our
father. And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the
younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not: neither when she lay
down, neither when she rose up. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child
by their father. And the elder bare a son and called him Moab, which is the
father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger bare a son and called him
Ben Ammi, which is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day
Also I make not this bond and this oath with you only: but both with
him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with
him that is not here with us this day. For ye know how we have dwelt in the land
of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations which we passed by.
And ye have seen their abominations and their idols: wood, stone, silver, gold,
which they had.
Lest there be among you man or woman
kindred or tribe that turneth away in his heart this day from the Lord our God,
to go and serve the gods of these nations: and lest there be among you some
root that beareth gall and wormwood, so that when he heareth the words of this
curse, he bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, I will
therefore work after the lust of mine own heart, that the drunken may perish
with the thirsty. And so the Lord will not be merciful unto him, but then the
wrath of the Lord and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses
that are written in this book light upon him, and the Lord do out his name from
under heaven, and separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel
according unto all the curses of the appointment that is written in the book of
this law.
So that the generation to come of your
children that shall rise up after you and the stranger that shall come from a
far land, say when they see the plagues of that land, and the diseases wherewith
the Lord hath smitten it how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt,
that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the
overthrowing of Sodom, Gomor, Adama and Zeboim: which the Lord overthrew in his
wrath and anger.
And then all nations also say: wherefore
hath the Lord done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great
wrath? And men shall say: because they left the testament of the Lord God of
their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of
Egypt. And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which
they knew not and which had given them nought. And therefore the wrath of the
Lord waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written
in this book. And the Lord cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great
furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day. The
secrets of the Lord our God are opened unto us and our children for ever, that
we do all the words of this law
For it is a nation that hath an unhappy forecast, and hath no
understanding in them: I would they were wise and understood this and would
consider their latter end.
How it cometh that one shall chase a
thousand, and two put ten thousand of them to flight: except their rock had sold
them, and because the Lord had delivered them.
For our rock is not as their rock, no though
our enemies be judge. But their vines are of the vines of Sodom, and of the
fields of Gomorra. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters be
bitter.
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the
cruel gall of asps. Are not such things laid in store with me, and sealed up
among my treasures? Vengeance is mine and I will reward: their feet shall slide,
when the time cometh. For the time of their destruction is at hand, and the time
that shall come upon them maketh haste.
For the Lord will do justice unto his
people, and have compassion on his servants. For it shall be seen that their
power shall fail, and at the last they shall be prisoned and forsaken.
And it shall be said: where are their Gods
and their rock wherein they trusted?
The fat of whose sacrifices they ate, and
drank the wine of their drinkofferings, let them rise up and help you and be
your protection.
See now how that I, I am he, and that there
is no God but I. I can kill and make alive, and what I have smitten that I can
heal: neither is there that can deliver any man out of my hand.
For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and
will say: I live ever.
If I whet the lightning of my sword, and
mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will shew vengeance on mine enemies and
will reward them that hate me.
I will make mine arrows drunken with blood,
and my sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of
the bare head of the enemy.
Praise ye heathen his people, for he will
avenge the blood of his servants, and will avenge him of his adversaries, and
will be merciful unto the land of his people.
And Moses went and spake all the words of
this song in the ears of the people, both he and Josua the son of Nun. And when
Moses had spoken all these words unto the end to all Israel, then he said unto
them. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify unto you this day: that
ye command them unto your children, to observe and do all the words of this law.
For it is not a vain word unto you: but it is your life, and through this word
ye shall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over Jordan to conquer it.
And the Lord spake unto Moses the self same
day saying: get thee up into this mountain Abarim unto mount Nebo, which is in
the land of Moab over against Jericho. And behold the land of Canaan which I
give unto the children of Israel to possess. And die in the mount which thou
goest upon, and be gathered unto thy people: As Aaron thy brother died in mount
Hor and was gathered unto his people. For ye trespassed against me among the
children of Israel at the waters of strife, at Cades in the wilderness of Zin:
because ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel. Thou shalt see the
land before thee, but shall not go thither unto the land which I give the
children of Israel
The prophesy of Esaie the son of Amos, which he showed upon Juda and
Jerusalem in the time of Oziah, Joatham, Ahaz, and Jehezekiah, Kings of Juda.
Hear O' heaven hearken O' earth, for the Lord speaketh: I have nourished and
brought up children, and they are fallen away from me. An ox knoweth his Lord,
and an Ass his masters stall, but Israel knoweth nothing, my people hath no
understanding. Alas for this sinful people, which are expert in blasphemies, a
froward generation, unnatural children. They have forsaken the Lord, they have
provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward. Wherefore
should ye be plagued any more? For yee are ever falling away. The whole head is
sick, and the heart is very heavy. From the sole of the foot unto the head,
there is no whole part in all your body: but all are wounds, botches, sores and
stripes, which can neither be helped, bound up, ner eased with any ointment.
Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt
up, your enemies devour your land, and you must be *faine to stand, and look
upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in battle. Moreover the
daughter of Zion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like watch house in
time of war, like a besieged city. And except the Lord of Hosts had left unto
us a few alive: we should have been as Sodoma, and like unto Gomorra.
Hear the word of the Lord ye tyrants of
Sodoma: and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorra. Why
offer ye so many sacrifices unto me? I am discontent for the burntofferings of
wethers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of
bullocks, lambs, and goats. When ye appear before me, who requireth you to tread
within my porches? Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labor. I abhor
your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solemn days.
Your fastings are also in vain. I hate your new holy days and fastings, even
from my very heart. They make me weary, I can not abide them. Though ye hold out
your hands, yet I turn my eyes from you. And though you make many prayers, yet I
hear nothing at all, for your hands are full of blood.
Wash you, make you clean, put away your
evil thoughts out of my sight, cease from doing evil and violence. Learn to do
right, let the widows complaint come before you. Now go to ( sayeth the Lord
) we will walk together. Is it not so? Though your sins be as red as scarlet,
shall they not be whiter than snow? And though they were like purple, shall they
be not like white wool? Is it not so? If ye be loving and obedient, ye shall
enjoy the best thing that groweth in the land. But if ye be obstinate and
rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the Lord hath promised
with his own mouth.
How happeneth it then that the righteous
city ( which was full of equity ) is become unfaithful as an whore?
righteousness dwelt in it, but now murder. Thy silver is turned to dross, and
thy wine mixed with water. Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves.
They love gifts altogether, and follow rewards. As for the fatherless, they help
him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
Therefore speaketh the Lord God of Hosts the mighty one of Israel: Ah, I must
ease me of mine enemies, and avenge me upon them. And therefore shall I lay my
hand upon thee, and burn out thy dross from the finest and purest, and put out
all the lead, and set thy judges again as they were sometime, and thy Senators
as they were from the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the righteousness
city, the faithful city. But Sion shall be redeemed with equity, and her
captivity with righteousness. For the transgressors and ungodly, and such as are
become unfaithful unto the Lord, must altogether be utterly destroyed.
And except ye be ashamed of the oaks trees
wherein ye have so delighted, and of the gardens that ye have chosen: Ye shall
be as an oak whose leaves are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no
moistness. And as for the glory of these things, it shall be turned to straw,
and he that made them to a spark. And they shall both burn together, so that no
man shall be able to quench them
Every man can *eschue a person moved to anger, for what he doth
wisely? Even so shall the Lord of Hosts take away from Jerusalem and from Juda,
all possessions and power, all meat and drink, the captain and the soldier, the
judge and the prophet, the wise and the aged man, the worshipful of fifty year
old, and the honorable: the Senators, and the men of understanding: the masters
of crafts and orators. And I shall give you children to be your princes,( sayeth
the Lord ) and babes shall have the rule of you. One shall ever be doing
violence and wrong to another. The boy will presume against the elder, and the
vile person against the honorable. Ye when one shall take a friend of his
own kindred by the bosom, and say: Thou hast clothing, thou shalt be our head,
for thou mayest keep us from this fall and peril.
Then shall he swear and say: I can not
help you. Moreover, there is neither meat nor clothing in my house, make me
no ruler of the people. For Jerusalem and Juda must decay, because both their
words and counsel are against the Lord, they provoke the presence of his Majesty
unto anger. The changing of their countenance betrayeth them, yee they
declare their own sins themselves, as the Sodomites, and hide them not. Woe be
unto their souls, for they shall be heavily rewarded. Then shall they say: O
happy are the godly, for they may enjoy the fruits of their studies. But woe be
unto the ungodly and unrighteous for they shall be rewarded after their works. O
my people, *ribaudes oppress thee, and women have rule of thee. O my people, thy
leaders deceive thee, and tread out the way of thy footsteps. The Lord is
here to commune of the matter, and standeth to give judgement with the people.
The Lord shall come forth to reason with the Senators and princes of his people,
and shall say thus unto them: It is ye that have burnt up my vineyard, the
robbery of the poor is in your house. Wherefore do ye oppress my people, and
marred the faces of the innocents? thus shall the Lord God of Hosts revile them.
Moreover thus sayeth the Lord: Seeing the
daughters of Sion are become so proud, and come in with stretched out necks, and
with vain wanton eyes: seeing they come in tripping so nicely with their feet:
Therefore shall the Lord shave the heads of the daughters of Sion, and make
their beauty bare in the day. In that day shall the Lord take away the
gorgeousness of their apparel, and spangles, chains, *partlets, and collars,
bracelets and hooves, that goodly flowered wide and boarded raiment, brushes and
head bands, rings and garlands, holy day clothes and veils, kerchiefs and pins,
glasses and smocks, bonnets and *taches
And instead of good smell there shall be
stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well
set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth, and for
their beauty witherdness and *son burning. Their husbands and their mighty men
shall perish with the sword in battle
*eschue (avoid, escape) *ribaudes ( extortioners :MN). *partlets = ruffled covering for the neck. *taches = buckles, clasps, fasteners. *son burning exactly as recorded
This is the heavy burden of Babylon, which Esai the son of Amos did see. Make
some tokens to the high hills, call unto them, hold up your hand, that the
Princes may go in at the door. For I will send for my deputies and my giants (
sayeth the Lord )and in my wrath I will call for such, as triumph in my glory.
With that , me thought I heard in the
mountains, a noise, like as it had been a great people: and a rushing, as though
the Kingdoms of all nations had come together. ( And the Lord of Hosts was the
Captain of the whole army ) As they had come not only out of far countries, but
also from the ends of the heavens: Even the Lord himself with the ministers of
his wrath, to destroy the whole land. Mourn therefore, for the day of the Lord
is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty. Then shall all hands be
letten down, and all mens hearts shall melt away, they shall stand in fear,
carelessness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a
woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and
their faces shall burn like the flame.
For lo, the day of the Lord shall come,
terrible, full of indignation and wrath: to make the land waste, and to root out
the sin thereof. For the stars and *planets of heaven shall not give their
light, the sun shall be quenched *in the rising, and the moon will not shine
with his light. And I will punish the wickedness of the world, and the sins of
the ungodly, sayeth the Lord. The high stomachs of the proud will I take away,
and will lay down the boasting of the tyrants. I will make a man dearer than
fine gold, and a man to be more worth, than a golden wedge of Ophir. Moreover I
will so shake the heaven, that the earth shall remove out of her place.
Thus shall it go with Babylon in the wrath
of the Lord of Hosts in the day of his fearful indignation. And Babylon shall be
as an hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall
turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land. Who so is found
alone, shall be shot through: And who so gather together, shall be destroyed
with the sword. Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses
spoiled, and their wives ravished. For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against
them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold. Then shall young
mens bows be snapped asunder. The Medes shall have no pity upon women with
child, and their faces shall not spare the children. And Babylon ( that glory
of Kingdoms and beauty of the Caldees honor ) shall be destroyed, even as God
destroyed Sodom and Gomorra. It shall never be more inhabited, neither shall
there be any more dwelling place there, from generation to generation.
The Arabians shall make no more tents
there, neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more: but wild
beasts shall lay there, and the houses shall be full of great Owls. Ostriches
shall dwell there, and *apes shall dance there: the little owls shall cry
in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shall be in their pleasant
parlors. And as for Babylons time it is at hand, and her days may not be long
absent:
*planets (kjv and other bibles of man = constellations; again asstrology of the greek egyptians) *in the rising, (kjv and other bibles of man = in his going forth) and *apes (kjv and other bibles of man = satyrs) * satyrs are mythology of the greeks ie ..text of greek rather than Hebrew was used ...to make the “bibles of man” also see 100 and 100’s of other proofs found throughout the text
Woe be unto the shepherds, that destroy, and scatter my flock, saith
the Lord. Wherefore, this is the commandment of the Lord God of Israel, unto
the shepherds that feed my people: Ye scatter and thrust out my flock, and look
not upon them. Therefore now will I visit the wickedness of your imaginations,
saith the Lord: And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, from all
lands that I have driven them unto, and will bring them again to their pastures,
that they may grow and increase. I will set shepherds also over them, which
shall feed them. They shall no more fear and dread, for there shall none of them
be lost, saith the Lord. Behold, the time cometh, saith the Lord, that I will
raise up the righteous branch of David, which shall bear rule, and discuss
matters with wisdom, and shall set up equity and righteousness again in the
earth.
In his time shall Judah shall be saved and
Israel shall dwell without fear. And this is the name that they shall call him:
even the Lord our righteous maker. And therefore behold, the time cometh, saith
the Lord, that it shall no more be said: the Lord liveth, which brought forth,
and led the seed of the house of Israel, out of the North land, and from all
countries where I had scattered them, and they shall dwell in their own land
again.
My heart breaketh in my body because of
the false prophets, all my bones shake: I am like a drunken man ( that by the
reason of wine I can take no rest ) for very fear of the Lord, and of his holy
words: Because the land is full of *advouters, where through it is destroyed and
mourneth, and the pleasant pastures of the desert are dried up. Yee the way
that men take, is wicked, and their governance is nothing like the holy word of
the Lord. For the prophets and the priests themselves are polluted hypocrites,
and their wickedness have I found in my house, sayeth the Lord. Wherefore, their
way shall be slippery in the darkness, wherein they may stagger and fall. For I
will bring a plague upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the
Lord. I have seen folly among the Prophets of Samaria, that they preached for
Baal, and deceived my people of Israel.
I have seen also among the Prophets of
Jerusalem foul **advoutry, and presumptuous lies. They take the most shameful
men by the hand, flattering them, so that they can not return from their
wickedness. All these with their citizens are unto me, as Sodom, and as the
inhabitors of Gomorre.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts
concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them
drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem is the sickness of
hypocrisy come in to all the land.
And therefore the Lord of Hosts giveth you
this warning: Hear not the words of the prophets, that preach unto you, and
deceive you: for they speak the meaning of their own heart, and not out of the
mouth of the Lord. They say unto them, that despise me: The Lord hath spoken it:
Tush, ye shall prosper right well. And unto all them, that walk after the lusts
of their own heart, they say: Tush , there shall no misfortune happen you. For
who hath sitten in the counsel of the Lord, that he hath heard and understand,
what he is about to do? Who hath marked his devise, and heard it? Behold, the
stormy weather of the Lord, that is, his indignation, shall go forth, and shall
fall down upon the head of the ungodly. And the wrath of the Lord shall not turn
away again, until he perform and fulfil the thought of his heart. And in the
latter days ye shall know his meaning.
I have not sent these Prophets ( sayeth the
Lord ) and yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, and yet they preached. But
if they had continued in my counsel and heard my words: they had turned my
people from their evil ways and wicked imaginations. Am I then God that seeth
but the thing, which is nye at hand, and not that is afar off? sayeth the Lord.
May any man hideth himself so, that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not
I fulfill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. I have heard well enough, what the
prophets say, that preach lies in my name, saying: I have dreamed, I have
dreamed. How long will this continue in the prophets hearts, to tell lies, and
to preach the crafty subtlety of their own heart? Whose purpose is ( with the
dreams that everyone tell ) to make my people to forget my name, as their
forefathers did, when Baal came up. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell
it: and he that understandeth my word, let him show it faithfully.
For what hath chaff and wheat to do
together? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord, and
like an hammer, that breaketh the hard stone? Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord:
behold, I will upon the prophets, that steal my word privately from every man.
Behold, here am I ( saith the Lord ) against the prophets, that take upon their
tongues to speak: The Lord hath said it. Behold here am I ( sayeth the Lord )
against those prophets, that dare prophecy lies, and deceive my people with
their vanities, and miracles, whom I never sent, ner commanded them. They shall
do this people great harm, sayeth the Lord.
If this people, either any prophet or a
priest ask thee, and say: What is the burden of the Lord? Thou shalt say unto
them: What burden? Therefore will I cast you from me ( saith the Lord ) because
ye yourselves are a burden. And that prophet, priest, or people, that useth this
term ( the burden of the Lord ) him I will visit, and his house also.
But thus shall ye say, every one to another:
What answer hath the Lord given? or what is the Lords commandment? And as for
this burden of the Lord, ye shall speak no more of it: for every mans own word
is his burden, because ye have altered the words of the living God the Lord of
Hosts our God.
Thus shall every man say to the Prophets:
what answer hath the Lord given? thee? Or, what sayeth the Lord? And not once to
name the burden of the Lord. Therefore thus sayeth the lord: For so much as ye
have used this term ( the burden of the Lord ) where as I not withstanding sent
unto you, and forbade you to speak of the Lords burden.
Behold therefore, I will repute you as a
burden, and will cast you out of my presence: yee and the city also, that I gave
you and your fathers: and will bring you to an everlasting confusion, and in
such a shame, as shall never be forgotten
*advouters: prefix "a" meaning not or without,
devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, being devoted to something or some one
else. see James 2 for adultery
Here we see **advoutry is manifest with presumptuous (arrogant) lies
For I am perfectly informed of the Lord, that he hath
sent a message all ready unto the Heathen. Gather you together, and go forth
against them: make you ready to battle, for, lo: I will make thee but small
among the Heathen, and little regarded among men.
Thy high stomach and pride of thy heart have
deceived thee, Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the
high mountains in possession. Nevertheless though thy nest were as high as the *Aegles,
yet will I cast thee down, saith the Lord. Moreover Idumea shall be a
wilderness: who so goeth by it, shall be abashed, and wonder at all her
miserable plagues. Like as Sodom, Gomor, and the cities that lay there about,
were turned up side down ( saith the Lord ) so shall no body dwell in Idumea,
and no man shall have his habitation there. Behold, like as the Lion cometh
up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Etham, so will
I drive him, and make him turn against her. But who is the young man that I will
ordain thereto? Who is like unto me? What is he that will strive with me? What
shepherd may stand in my hands?
Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that
he hath taken upon Idumea: and his purpose, that he hath devised upon the
citizens of Theman: The least of the flock shall tear them in pieces, and look
what fair thing they have, they shall make it waste, and themselves also. At the
noise of their fall, the earth shall quake, the cry of their voice shall be
heard to the red sea. Behold, the enemy shall come and fly up hither, like as
it were an *Aegle and spread his wings upon *Bozrah. Then shall the hearts
of the worthies in Edom be as the heart of a woman travailing with child. Upon
Damascus, Hamath and Arphad shall come confusion, for they shall hear evil
tidings: they shall be tossed to and fro like the sea that can not stand still.
Damascus shall be sore afraid, and shall flee, trembling shall come upon her.
Sorrow and pain shall over take her as a woman travailing of child. But how
should so worshipful and glorious a city be forsaken? Hear therefore: her young
men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be taken away in
that time, sayeth the Lord of Hosts. I will kindle a fire in the walls of
Damascus, which shall consume the palace of Benhadad.
*unmete (not worthy) *Aegles (eagles) note Cap A and see Eagle in 4th Esdras and Revelation. *Bozrah note; modern day Bozrah.
The words that the Lord spake unto the prophet Jeremy, concerning
Babylon, and the land of the Caldees: preach among the Gentiles, let your voice
be heard, make a token: cry out, keep no silence, but say Babylon shall be won,
Bel shall be confounded, and Merodach shall be over come.
Yee their gods shall be brought to shame
and their images shall stand in fear. For out of the north there come a
people against her, which shall make her land so waste, that no body shall dwell
therin: neither man ner beast. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord,
the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah, weeping and
making haste, and shall seek the Lord their God. They shall ask the way to Sion,
thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant
that never shall be broken.
My people hath been a lost flock, my
shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They
have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold. All
they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have
made no fault against them, for they have displeased the Lord, yee even the Lord
which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers. Yet
shall ye flee from Babylon, and depart out of the land of the Caldees, and ye
shall be as the rams that go before the flock. For lo, I will make up an host of
people from the northern land, and bring them upon Babylon: these shall lay
siege to it, and win it: Their arrows shall not miss, like as a cunning archer
shuteth not wrong. And the Chaldees shall be spoiled, and all they that spoil
them, shall be satisfied, saith the Lord. because ye were so cheerful and glad,
to tread down mine heritage, and fulfill your pleasures, as the calves in the
grass: And triumphed over them like the bulls, when ye had gotten the victory.
Your mothers shall be sore confounded, and they that bare you, shall come to
shame. She shall be the least set by among the nations, void, waste, and dried
up. No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the Lord, but she shall
be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be
abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues.
Go forth in your array against Babylon round
about, all ye that can handle bows: shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she hath
sinned against the Lord. Cry out: upon her, upon her, against her round about:
she shall yield herself, her foundations shall fall, and her walls shall come
down, for it shall be the vengeance of the Lord. Yee vengeance shall be taken of
her, and as she hath done, so shall she be dealt withal. They shall root out the
sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in Harvest. For fear of the
sword of the enemy, every man shall get him to his own people, and every man
shall flee to his own land. Israel is a scattered flock, the Lions have
dispersed them. First the king of the Assyrians devoured them, last of all this
Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon hath bruised all their bones.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts the
God of Israel: Behold, I will visit the King of Babylon and his kingdom, as I
have visited the King of Assyrians. and I will bring Israel again to his
pleasant pasture, that he may feed upon Carmel and Bashan, and be satisfied upon
the mount of Ephraim and Gilaad. In those days and at the same time ( saith the
Lord ) if the offense of Israel be sought for, there shall be none found: If men
enquire for the sin of Judah, there shall be none: for I will be merciful unto
them, whom I suffer to remain over.
Go down ( O thou avenger ) in to the enemies
land, and visit them that dwell therin: down with them, and smite them upon the
backs, sayeth the Lord: do according to all, that I have commanded thee. There
is gone about the land a cry of the slaughter and great murder, namely on this
manner: How happeneth it, that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and
bruised insunder? How chanced it, that Babylon is become a wilderness among the
Heathen on this manner? I myself have layed wait for thee, and thou art taken:
unawares art thou trapped and snared: for why, thou hast provoked the Lord unto
anger: The Lord hath opened his house of ordinance, and brought forth weapons of
his wrath. For the thing that is done in the land of the Caldees, it is the Lord
of hosts work.
These things shall come upon her at the
last, they shall break into her privy chambers, they shall leave her as bare as
stones, that be layed together upon heaps. They shall so destroy her, that
nothing shall be left. They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to
death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at
hand. Me think I hear all ready a cry, of them that be fled and escaped out of
the land of Babylon, which show Sion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the
vengeance of his temple: yee a voice of them, that cry against Babylon: Call up
all the archers against Babylon, pitch your tents round about her, that none
escape. Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so
deal with her again: for she hath set up herself against the Lord, against the
holy one of Israel. Therefore shall her young men fall down in the streets, and
all her men of war shall be rooted out in that day, saith the Lord. Behold, I
speak unto thee ( O thou proud ) saith the Lord God of Hosts: for thy day shall
come, even the time of thy visitation. And the proud shall stumble and fall, and
no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall
consume all that is round about him.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: The children
of Israel and Judah suffer violence together. All they that have them in
captivity, keep them fast, and will not let them go: but their avenger and
redeemer is mighty, whose name is the Lord of Hosts: he shall maintain their
cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therin, one with
another. The sword shall come upon the Caldees, saith the Lord, upon them that
dwell in Babylon, upon their princes, and upon their wise men: The sword upon
their soothsayers, as for those ( they shall become fools ) The sword upon their
worthies, so that they shall stand in fear: The sword upon their horsemen and
chariots, and upon all the common people that dwell under them: so that they
shall all become like women: The sword upon their treasure, so that it shall be
stolen away: The sword upon their waters, so that they shall be dried up: For
the land worshipeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things.
Therefore shall wild beasts, Apes, and Ostriches dwell therin: for there shall
never man dwell there, neither shall any man have his habitation there for
evermore. Like as God destroyed Sodome and Gomorre, with the cities that lay
there about, saith the Lord: So shall no man dwell there also, neither shall any
man have there his habitation. Behold, there shall come a people from the
North, with a great bound of men, and many Kings shall stand up from the ends of
the earth: They bear bows and bucklers, cruel are they and unmerciful.
Their voice roareth like the raging sea,
they ride upon horses, and come weaponed to fight against thee: O Babylon. As
soon as the king of Babylon heareth tell of them, his hands shall wax feeble:
Sorrow and heaviness shall come upon him, as of a woman in travailing with
child. Behold, Like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan
unto the green pastures of Ethan, so will I drive them forth, and make them run
against her. But whom shall I choose out, and ordain to such a thing? For who is
like me, or who will strive with me? or what shepherd may stand against me?
Therefore hear the counsel that the Lord hath given upon Babylon, and the devise
that he hath taken upon the land of the Caldees. The least among the people
shall tear them in pieces, and look what pleasant thing they have: they shall
lay it waste. The noise at the winning of Babylon shall move the earth, and
the cry shall be heard among the Gentiles
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Chpt 4
Uau
The sin of the daughter of my people is
become greater than the wickedness of Sodom, that suddenly was destroyed, and
not taken with hands.
and not taken with hands.
and not taken with hands.
Again, the word of the Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou son of man, show the
city of Jerusalem their abominations, and say: thus saith the Lord God unto
Jerusalem: Thy progeny and kindred came out of the land of Canaan, thy father
was an Amorite, thy mother an Cethite. In the day of thy birth when thou wast
born, the string of thy navel was not cut off: , thou wast not bathed in water
to make thee clean: thou wast neither rubbed with salt, nor swaddled in clouts:
No man regarded that so much, as to do any of these things for thee, or to show
thee such favor, but thou was utterly cast out upon the field, yee despised wast
thou in the day of thy birth.
Then came I by thee, and saw thee trodden
down in thine own blood, and said unto thee: thou shalt be purged from thine own
blood, from thine own blood ( I say ) shalt thou be cleansed. So I planted thee,
as the blossom of the field: thou art grown up, and waxen great: thou hast
gotten a marvelous pleasant beauty, thy breasts are come up, thy hair is goodly
grown, where as thou was naked and bare afore.
Now when I went by thee, and looked upon
thee: behold, thy time was come, yee even the time to vow thee. Then spread I my
clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: yee I made an oath unto thee, and
married myself with thee ( sayeth the Lord God ) and so thou becamest mine own.
Then washed I thee with water, and purged thy blood from thee, I anointed thee
with oil, I gave thee change of rayments, I made thee shoes of Tarus leather: I
girded thee about with white silk, I clothed thee with kerchues, I decked thee
with costly apparel, I put rings upon thy fingers: and chain about thy neck,
spangles on thy forehead, earrings upon thine ears, and set a beautiful crown
upon thine head. Thus wast thou decked with silver and gold, and thy raiment was
of fine white silk, of needle work and diverse colors.
Thou didst eat nothing but simnels, honey
and oil: marvelous goodly wast thou and beautiful, yee even a very Queen wast
thou. In so much, that thy beauty was spoken of among the Heathen, for thou was
excellent in my beauty, which I put upon thee sayeth the Lord God. But thou hast
put confidence in thine own beauty, and played the harlot, when thou haddest
gotten thee a name. Thou hast committed whoredom, with all that went by thee,
and hast fulfilled their desires: yee thou hast taken thy garments of diverse
colors, and decked thine altars therewith, where upon thou mightest fulfill
thine whoredom, of such a fashion, as never was done, nor shall be. The goodly
ornaments and Jewels which I gave thee of mine own gold and silver, hast thou
taken, and made thee mens images thereof, and committed whoredom withal.
Thy garments of diverse colors hast thou
taken, and decked them therewith: mine oil and incense hast thou set before
them. My meat which I gave thee, as fimnels, oil and honey: ( to feed thee
withal ) that hast thou set before them, for a sweet savior. And this also came
to pass, sayeth the Lord God: Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom
thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their
meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine ( thinkest thou ) that thou slayest
my children, and givest them over, to be burnt unto them? And yet in all thy
abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, how
naked and bare thou wast at that time and trodden down in thine own blood. After
all these thy wickednesses ( woe, woe unto thee, sayeth the Lord ) thou hast
builded up thy*stewes and *brodel houses in every place: yee at the head
of every street thou hast *builded an alter. Thou hast made thy beauty to be
abhorred, thou hast layed out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied
thy whoredoms. Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors,
which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredoms, to anger me.
Behold, I will stretched out my hand over
thee, and minished thy store of food, and deliver thee over into the wiles of
the Philistines thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abominable way. Thou
hast played the whore also with the Assirians, which might not satisfy thee:
Yee, thou hast played the harlot, and not had enough. Thus hast thou committed
thy fornication from the land of Canaan unto the Caldees, and yet thy lust not
satisfied. Now should I circumcise thine heart ( saith the Lord God) seeing thou
doest all these things, thou precious whore: building thy stewes at the head of
street, and thy brodel houses in all places? Thou hast not been as another
whore, that maketh boast of her winning but as a wife that breaketh wedlock, and
taketh other instead of her husband. Gifts are given to all other whores, but
thou givest rewards unto all thy lovers: and offerest them gifts, to come unto
thee out of all places, and to committed fornication with thee. It is come
to pass with thee in thy whoredoms contrary to the use of other women: yee there
hath no such fornication been committed after thee, seeing that thou *proffer
gifts unto other, and no regard is given thee: this is a contrary thing.
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, O thou
harlot: thus saith the Lord God: for so much as thou has spent thy money, and
discovered thy shame, through the whoredom of thy lovers, and with all the Idols
of thy abominations in the blood of thy children, whom thou has given them:
Behold therefore, I will gather together all thy lovers, unto whom thou has made
thyself common: yee and all them that thou savourest, and everyone that thou
hatest: and will discover thy shame before them, that they all may see thy
filthiness.
Moreover, I will judge thee as a breaker of
wedlock and a murderer, and recompense thee thine own blood in wrath and
jealousy. I will give thee over to their power, that shall break down thy stewes,
and destroy thy brodel houses: they shall strip thee out of thy clothes, all thy
fair and beautiful jewels shall they take from thee, and so let the sit naked
and bare: yee they shall bring the common people upon thee, which shall stone
thee, and slay thee down with their swords. They shall burn up thy houses, and
punish thee in the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease,
so that thou shalt give out no more rewards.
Should I make my wrath to be still, take my
jealousy from thee, be content, and no more to be displeased? Seeing thou
remembered not the days of thy youth, but provoked me to wrath in all these
things? Behold therefore, I will bring thy own ways upon thine head, saith the
Lord God: how be it, I never did unto thee, according to thy wickedness and all
thy abominations. Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this
proverb also against thee: such a mother, such a daughter.
Thou art even thy mothers own daughter, that
hath cast off her husband and her children: Yee thou art the sister of thy
sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is an
Cethite, and your father an Amorite. Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and her
daughters that dwell upon thy left hand.
But thy youngest sister that dwelleth on thy
right hand, is Sodoma and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked after
their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast
been more corrupt than they. As truly as I live, saith the Lord God, Sodoma
thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil, as thou and thy daughters.
Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodoma, were these: Pride, fullness of
meat, and abundance and Idleness: these things had she and in her daughters.
Besides that they reached not their hand to the poor and needy, but were proud
and did abominable things before me: therefore I took them away, when I seen it.
Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins, yee thou hast exceeded them in
wickedness: In so much that in comparison of all the abominations which thou
hast done, thou has made thy sisters good women.
As for their captivity, namely the
captivity of Sodoma and her daughters: the captivity of Samaria and her
daughters: I will bring them again, so will I also bring again thy captive among
them: that thou mayest take thine own confusion upon thee, and be ashamed of all
that thou hast done, and to comfort them. Thus thy sisters ( namely ) Sodoma and
her daughters: Samaria and her daughters with thy self and thy daughters, shall
be brought again to your old estate. When thou was in thy pride, and before thy
wickedness came to light: thou wouldest not hear speak of thy sister Sodoma, until
the time that the Syrians with all their towns, and the Philistines, with all
that live round about them, brought thee to shame and confusion: that thou
mightest bare thine own filthiness and abomination, saith the Lord.
For thus saith the Lord God: I should ( by
right ) deal with thee as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath and broken
the covenant. Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant that I made with thee
in thy youth, in so much that it shall be an everlasting covenant: so that thou
also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of them: then shalt thou receive of me
thy elder and younger sisters, whom I will make thy daughters, and that besides
thy covenant. And so I will renew my covenant with thee, that thou mayest know
that I am the Lord: That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine
own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee, all that thou hast done, saith
the Lord God
*stewes=Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, see also a place of
male whores: 1st Kings 14. *brodel= A house
of prostitution. *proffer (to offer for acceptance of )
Hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria, yee
that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy, yee that say to your Lords: bring
hither, and let us drink. Therefore the Lord hath sworn by his holiness: The
days shall come upon you, that ye shall be lift up upon spears, and your
posterity carried away in fishers baskets. Ye shall get you out at the gapes one
after another, and in Armon shall ye be cast away, saith the Lord.
Ye came to Bethell for to work
ungraciousness, and have increased your sins at Galgal: ye brought your
sacrifices in the morning, and your tithes unto the third day. Ye made a thank
offering of leaven, ye promised free will offerings, and proclaimed them. Such
lust had ye, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. Therefore I have given
you idle teeth in all your cities, and scarceness of bread in all your places:
yet will ye not turn to me, saith the Lord. When there were but three months
unto the harvest, I withheld the rain from you: yee I rained upon one city, and
not on another, one piece of ground was moistured with rain, and the ground that
I rained not upon, was dry. Wherefore two, yee three cities came unto one, to
drink water: but they were not satisfied, yet will ye not turn unto me, saith
the Lord.
I have smitten you with drought and a
blasting: and look how many orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and your olive trees
ye had: the caterpillar hath eaten them up. But yet yee will turn unto me, saith
the Lord. Pestilence have I sent among you, as I did in Egypt: your young men
have I slain with the sword, and caused your horses to be taken captive: I will
make the stinking savor of your tents to come up unto your nostrils: yet will ye
not turn unto me, saith the Lord. Some of you I have overthrown as I
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: so that ye were as a brand plucked out of the
fire. yet will ye not turn unto me, saith the Lord. Therefore thus will I
handle thee again, O Israel, ye even thus I will handle thee. Make thee ready to
meet thy God, O Israel. For lo, he maketh the mountains, he ordereth the wind,
he showeth a man what he is about to do: he maketh the morning and the darkness,
he treadeth upon the high places of the earth: the Lord God of hosts is his name
Come together and gather you, O *froward people: or the thing go forth that
is concluded, and or the time be passed away as dust: or the fearful wrath of
the Lord come upon you, yee or the day of the Lords sore displeasure come upon
you. Seek the Lord all yee meek hearted upon the earth, ye that work after his
judgement: seek righteousness, seek lowliness: that yee may be defended in the
wrothfull day of the Lord. For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be
laid waste. They shall cast out Asood at the noon day, and Accaron shall be
plucked up by the roots.
Woe unto you that dwell upon the sea coast,
ye murderous people: the word of the Lord shall come upon you. O Canaan thou
land of the Phillistines, I will destroy thee, so that there shall no man dwell
in thee any more: and as for the sea coast, it shall be herdmans cottages and
sheep folds: yee it shall be a portion for such as remain of the house of Juda,
to feed there upon. In the houses of Ascalon shall they rest toward the night:
for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. I have
heard the despite of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon how they
have shamefully entreated my people, and magnified themselves within the borders
of their land. Therefore as truly as I live ( sayeth the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel ) Moab shall be as Sodom, and Ammon as Gomora: even dry thorn
hedges, *salt pits and perpetual wilderness. The residue of my folk shall
spoil them, the remnant of my people shall have them in possession. This shall
happen unto them for their pride, because they have dealt so shamefully with the
Lord of hosts people, and magnified themselves above them . The Lord shall be
grim upon them, and destroy all the goods in the land. And all the Isles of
Heathen shall worship him, every man in his place.
Ye Morians also shall perish with my sword:
yee he shall stretch out his hand over the north, and destroy Assur. As for
Nivive, he shall make it desolate, dry and waste. The flocks and the beasts of
all the people shall lye in the midest of it, pelicans and storks shall abide in
the upper posts of it, fowls shall sing in the windows, and ravens shall sit
upon the *balcks, for the boards of cedar shall be run down. This the proud and
careless city, that said in her heart: I am, and there is else none. O how is
she made so waste, that the beasts lie therein? Who so goeth by, mock her, and
pointeth at her with his finger
*froward=stubbornly contrary to truth, love and /or the spirit. *as barren as the places where salt is cast. *balcks= wooden beam or rafter
THE FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 2
Thus sayeth the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, I gave
them my commandments by my servants the Prophets, whom thou wouldest not hear,
but despised my counsels. The mother that bear them, sayeth unto them: Go
your way ye children, for I am a widow and forsaken: I brought you up with
gladness, but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned
before the Lord your God, and done the thing that is evil before him. But what
shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children,
and ask mercy of the Lord. As for me, O' father, I call upon thee for a witness
over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant: that thou
bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that she bear no more. Let
their names be scattered abroad among the heathen, let them be put out of the
earth, for they have thought scorn of my covenant.
Woe be unto the Assur, thou that hidest
the unrighteous by thee. Thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and
Gomorha, whos land is turned to pitch and ashes. Even so also I will do unto all
them, that hear me not, sayeth the almighty Lord. Thus sayeth the Lord unto
Esdras: Tell my people, that I will give them the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which I
would have given unto Israel. Their glory also will I take unto me, and give
them the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for those.
The tree of life shall be unto them a sweet
smelling ointment: they shall neither labor or be weary. Go ye your way, and ye
shall receive it. Pray for yourselves a few days, that they may dwell therein.
Now is the Kingdom prepared for you, therefore watch. Take heaven and earth to
witness for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good, for I live
sayeth the Lord. Mother embrace thy children, and bring them up with gladness:
make their feet as fast as a piler, for I have chosen them, sayeth the Lord.
And those that be dead will I raise up again
from their places, and bring them out of their graves, for I have known my name
in Israel. Fear not thou mother of the children, for I have chosen thee, sayeth
the Lord. And for thy help I will send thee my servants Isaie and Jeremy, after
whos counsel I have sanctioned and prepared for the twelve trees with diverse
fruits, and as many wells, flowing with milk and honey, and seven mountains,
where upon there grow roses and lilies, wherein I will fill my children with
joy. Execute justice for the widow, be judge for the fatherless: give to the
poor: heal the wounded and the sick: laugh not a lame man to scorn: defend the
cripple, and let the blind come into the light of my clearness. Keep the old and
the young within thy walls: wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them, and
bury them, and I shall give you thee, the first place in my resurrection. Hold
still (O' my people) and take thy rest, for thy quietness is come. Feed thy
children O' thou good nurse, establish their feet: As for the servants whom I
have given thee, there shall not be one of them perish, for I will seek them
from thy number, vex not thy self.
For when the day of trouble and heaviness
cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but thou shall be merry and
plenteous. The heathen shall be jealous, but they shall be able to do nothing
against thee, sayeth the Lord. My hands shall cover thee, so that thy children
shall not see the fire everlasting. Be joyful O' thou mother with thy children,
for I will deliver thee, sayeth the Lord. Remember thy dead children, for I
shall bring them out of the earth, and show mercy unto them, for I am merciful,
sayeth the Lord almighty.
Embrace thy children, until I come, and
show mercy unto them, for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
I Esdras received a charge of the Lord upon
the mount Oreb, that I should go unto Israel. But when I came unto Israel they
set me at naught, and destroyed the commandment of the Lord. And therefore I say
unto you, O' ye Heathen that hear and understand: Look for your shepherd, he
shall give you everlasting rest: for he is nigh at hand, that shall come in the
end of the world. Be ready to the reward of the Kingdom, for the everlasting
light shall shine upon you for evermore. Flee the shadows of this world, receive
the joyfulness of your glory. I testify my favor openly: O' receive the gift
that is given you, and be glad, giving thanks unto him, that hath called you to
the heavenly Kingdom.
Arise up! and stand fast: behold the number
of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord, which are departed from the
shadow of the world, and have received glorious garments of the Lord. Take thy
number O' Sion, and shut up thy purified, which have fulfilled the law of the
Lord. The number of thy children that thou longest for, is fulfilled: beseech
the power of the Lord, that thy people which have been called from the
beginning, may be hallowed.
I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great
people, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs of
thanksgiving. And in the mist of them was a young man of high stature, more
excellent that all they, and on every one of their heads he set a crown, and was
ever higher and higher, which I marveled at greatly. So I asked the angel, and
said: Sir, what are these? He answered and said unto me: These be they that have
put off the mortal clothing and put on the immortal, and have testified and
knowledged the name of God. Now are they crowned and receive the reward.
Then said I unto the angel: what young
person is it, that crowneth them, and giveth them the palms in their hands? So
he answered and said unto me: It is the son of God, whom they have knowledged in
the world. Then began I greatly to commend them, that stood so stiffly for the
name of the Lord. And so the angel said unto me: Go thy way, and tell my people,
what manner of things and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen!
THE FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 5
Nevertheless, as concerning the tokens, mark this: Behold, the days
shall come, that they which dwell upon the earth, shall be taken in a great
number, and the way of the truth shall be hid, and the land shall be barren from
faith: but iniquity will have the upper hand, like as thou have seen now, and as
thou hast heard long ago. And the land that thou seest now to have rule,
shall thou shortly see waste. But if God grant thee to live, thou shalt see
after the third trumpet, that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night,
and the moon three times in the day, and blood shall drop out of wood, and the
stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be unquiet: and even shall
rule, whom they hope not that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall
flight, and the *Sodomitish sea shall cast out his fish, and make a noise in the
night, which many shall not know, but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
There shall be a confusion also in many
places, and the fire shall be often sent again, and the wild beasts shall go
their way, and menstruous women shall bear monsters, and salt waters will be
found in the sweat: one friend shall fight against another: then shall all wit
and understanding be hid and put into their secret places, and shall be sought
of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and voluptuousness
have the upper hand upon the earth. One land shall also ask another, and say: Is
righteousness gone through thee? And it shall say: No, at the same time shall
men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor but their wages shall not
prosper.
To show thee such tokens I have leave, and
if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, thou shalt hear
yet greater things. Then I awaked, and a fearfulness went through all my body,
and my mind was feeble and careful, so that I almost sounded withal. So the
angel that was come to talk with me, held me, comforted me, and set me up upon
my feet.
And in the second night it happened, that
Salathielthe Captain of the people came unto me, saying: Where hast thou been?
and why is thy countenance so heavy? Knowest thou not, that Israel is committed
unto thee, in the land of their captivity? Up then, and eat and forsake us not,
as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of the wicked wolves. Then
said I unto him: Go thy way from me, and come not near me: and he heard it, and
as I said, so went he his way from me. And so I fasted seven days, mourning and
weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me. And after seven days it happened,
that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me again, and my soul
received the spirit of understanding, and I began to talk with the most highest
again, and said: O' Lord, Lord, of every wood of the earth and all the trees
thereof, thou hast chosen the one only vineyard: and of all the lands of the
whole world thou hast chosen the one pit: and of all the flowers of the ground
thou hast chosen the one lily: and of all the depths of the sea thou hast filled
the one river: and of all the builded cities thou hast hallowed Sion unto thy
self: and of all the fowls that are created, thou hast named the one dove: and
of all the cattle that are made thou hast provided the one sheep: and among all
the multitudes of flocks thou hast gotten the one people, and unto this people
whom thou lovest, thou gavest the law, that is proved of all.
And now, O' Lord, why hast thou given this
one people over unto many? And upon the one root thou hast prepared other, and
why hast thou scattered thy one only people among many? which tread them down,
yee which have ever withstand thy promises, and never believed thy commandments?
And though thou werest enemy unto thy people, yet shouldest thou punish them
with thine own hands. Now when I had spoke these words, the angel that came to
me the night before, was sent unto me, and said unto me : Hear me, and harken
unto the things that I say, and I shall tell thee more. And I said: Speak on my
Lord. Then said he unto me: Thou art sore vexed and troubled for Israels sake.
Lovest thou the people better than him that made thee? And I said: No Lord, but
of very grief and compassion have I spoken. For my reigns pain me every hour,
because I would have experience of the way of the most highest, and to seek out
part of his judgement. And he said unto me: that thou mayest not. And I said:
wherefore Lord? Where unto was I born then? Or why was not my mothers childbed
then my grave? So I had not seen the misery and trouble of Jacob, and the
travail of my people of Israel.
And he said unto me: Number me the things
that are not yet come : gather me together the drops, that are scattered abroad:
make me the flowers green again, that are withered: open me the thing that is
closed: and bring me forth the winds, that are shut up: Show me the image of a
voice, and then I shall declare the thing, that thou laborest to know. And I
said: O' Lord, Lord, who may know these things, but he that hath not his
dwelling with men? As for me I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things
whereof thou asketh me? Then said he unto me: like as thou can do none of these
things that I have spoken of, even so canest thou not find out my judgement, or
in the end the love that I have promised unto my people. And I said: Behold O'
Lord, yet art thou near unto them that have no end: and what shall they do that
have been before me, or we that be now, or they that should come after us ? And
he said unto me: I will liken my judgement unto a ring. Like as there is no
slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first. So I answered
and said: couldest thou not make those ( that have been made, and that be now,
and that are for to come ) in one, that thou might show thy judgement the
sooner? Then answered he me, and said: The creature may not hasten above the
maker, nether may the world hold them at once, that shall be created.
And I said: Now hast thou said unto thy
servant, that thou living maker hast made the creature living at once, and the
creature bear it? even so might it now also bear them that be present, at once.
And he said unto me: Ask the childbed of a woman, and say unto her: If thou
bringest forth children, why doest thou not together, but one after another?
Pray her therefore, to bring forth ten children at once. And I said: she can
not, but must do it one after the other.
Then said he unto me: Even so have I given a
childbed unto the earth, for those that be sown upon it by process of time. For
like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged,
even so have I ordered the world which I have made.
And I asked and said: Seeing thou hast now
given me the way, I will speak before thee: for our mother whom thou hast told
me, is yet young, and now she draweth near unto age. He answered, me and said:
Ask a woman that beareth children, and she shall tell thee. Say unto her:
wherefore are not they ( whom thou hast now brought forth) like those that were
before thee, but less of stature? And she shall answer thee: They that were born
in the youth of strength, are of one fashion : and they that are born in the
time of age ( when the childbed faileth) are otherwise. Consider now thyself,
how that yee are less of stature, then those that were before you, and so are
they that come after you, less then you, as the creatures that now begin to be
old, and have passed over the strength of youth. Then said I: Lord I beseech
thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show thy servant, by whom doest thou
visit thy creature?
*Sodomitish sea (*note current events RN) shall cast out his fish
THE FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 7
And it happened after that I had spoke out these words, that there was sent
unto me an angel, which had been by me also the nights afore, and he said unto
me: Up Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee. And I said: speak
on Lord my God. Then said he unto me: The sea is set in a wide place, that it
might be deep and great: but the entrance is narrow and small like a river. For
who would go into the sea, to look upon it, and rule it? If he went not through
the narrow, how might he come into the broad?
Item another: A city is builded and set upon
a broad field, and is full of all goods: the entrance is narrow and sodden, like
as there were a fire at the right hand, and a deep water at the left, and as it
were only one straight path betwixt them both, so small that there could be but
one man go there.
If this city were now given to an Liar and
he never went through the perilous way, how would he receive his inheritance?
And I said: It is so Lord. Then said he: Even so is Israel also a portion. And
why? for their sakes I have made the world: And when Adam transgressed my
statutes, then was the thing judged that was done. Then were the entrances of
the world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: They are but few and evil,
full of perils and labor. For the entrances of the fore world were wide and
sure, and brought immortal fruit.
If they now which are entered into this
world, may not comprehend these straight and vain things, much less they
comprehend and understand the secrete things: Why disquietest thy self then,
seeing thou art but a corruptible man: And what wouldest thou know, where as
thou art but mortal? And why hast thou not received in thine heart the thing
that is for to come, but that is present?
Then said I: O' Lord, Lord, thou hast
ordered in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the
unfaithful and ungodly shall perish. Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer
straight things, and hope for wide: for they that have lived ungodly and
*suffered straight things, shall not see the wide.
And he said unto me: There is no judge above
God, and none that have understanding above the Highest. For there be many that
perish, because they despise the law of God that is set before them. For God
hath given straight commandment to such as come, that they know what they do,
and how they should live: and if they keep this they should not be punished.
Nevertheless they were not obedient unto
him, but spoke against him: and said moreover that there was no God, and that
God regarded it not. His ways they have not known, his law they have despised,
and denied his promises: in his statutes and ordinances they have not been
faithful and steadfast, and have not performed his works.
And therefore Esdras unto the full, plenty:
and to the empty, emptiness. Behold the time shall come, that those tokens which
I have told thee, shall come to pass, and the bride shall appear: and the earth
that is now passeth away, shall be showed: and whosoever is delivered from the
afore said evils, shall see my wonders. For my son Jesus shall be openly
declared, with those that be with him: and they that remain, shall be merry in
four hundred years.
After these same years shall my son Christ
die, and all men that have life, and the world will be turned into the old
silence, seven days, like as in the fore judgements, so that no man shall
remain. And after seven days, the world that yet awaketh not, shall be raised
up, and shall die corrupt. And the earth shall restore those that have slept in
her, and so shall the dust those that dwell in silence, and the secrete places
shall deliver those that be committed unto them. And the most highest shall be
openly declared upon the seat of judgement, and all mystery shall vanish away,
and long suffering shall be gathered together. But the judgement shall continue,
the truth shall remain, and faith shall wax strong, the works shall follow, and
the reward shall be showed, the righteousnesses shall watch, and the
unrighteousnesses shall bear no rule.
Then said I: Abraham prayed first for the
Sodomites, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness, and he that
came after him for Israel, in the time of Achas and Samuel: and David for the
destruction, and Solomon for them that came into the Sanctuary, and Oseas for
those that received rain, and for the dead, that he might live: and Ezechias for
the people in the time of Sennacherib: and diverse other in like manner, which
have prayed for many.
Even so now seeing the corrupt is grown up,
and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly,
wherefore shall it not be so now also?
He answered me, and said: This present world
is not the end, there remaineth much honor in it, therefore they have prayed for
the weak. But the day of dumb shall be the end of this time, and the beginning
of the immortality for to come, wherein all corruption vanisheth all
voluptuousness is loused and misbelief taken away, righteousness grown, and the
verity spring up. Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor
to oppress him that hath gotten the victory. I answered then, and said: This is
my first and last saying: that it had been better, not to have given the earth
unto Adam: or else when it was given him, to keep him that he should not sin.
For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and
after death to look for punishment? O' thou Adam, what hast thou done? For
though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come
of thee. For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us immortal time,
where as we meddle with deadly works? And that there is promised us an
everlasting hope, where as we ourselves are evil and vain? And that there are
laid up for us dwellings of health and freedom, where as we have lived evil? and
that the worship of the Highest is kept to defend them, which have led a patient
life, where as we have walked in the most wicked ways of all? And that there
shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endureth forever, wherein is freedom and
medicine, where as we shall not go in? for we have walked in unpleasant places:
And that the faces of them which have abstained, shall shine above the stars,
where as our faces shall be black and dark? For while we lived and died
unrighteously, we considered not, that we should suffer therefore after death!
Then answered he me, and said: This is the
consideration and thought of the battle, which man hath upon the earth: That if
he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said. But if he get victory, he
shall receive the thing that I say. For this is the life, whereof Moses spake
unto the people, while he lived, saying: Choose the life, that thou mayest live.
Nevertheless they believed him not neither the Prophets after him. No nor me
which have spoken unto them, that heaviness should not reach unto them to their
destruction like a joy is for to come over those, that have suffered themselves
to be informed in salvation.
I answered then and said: I know Lord, that
the Highest is merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them, which are not yet in
the world, and upon those also that walk in his law: and that he is patient and
long suffering toward those that have sinned in their works: and that he is
liberal to give where as it requireth: and that he is of great mercy, for he
multiplies his loving kindness toward those that are present, and that are past,
and to them which are for to come. For if he multiplied not his mercies, the
world shall not be made living, with those that dwell therein: He giveth also,
for if he gave not of his goodness, that they which have done evil, might be
eased, the ten thousand part of men should not be living. And if the judge
forgave not those that be healed with his word, and if he would destroy the
multitude that striveth, there should be very few left in an innumerable
multitude
*suffered (allowed)
THE GOSPELL OF ST. MATTHEW Chpt 10
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor will hear your
preaching: when ye depart out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of
your feet. Truly I say unto you: it shall be easier for the land of Sodom and
Gomorra in the day of judgement, than for that city.
Behold I send you forth as sheep among
wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves. Beware of men,
for they shall deliver you up to the councils, and shall scourge you in their
synagogues. And ye shall be brought to the head rulers and kings for my sake, in
witness to them and to the Gentiles.
But when they deliver you up, take no
thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you, even in that same
hour, what ye shall say. For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your
father which speaketh in you. The brother shall betray the brother to death, and
the father the son. And the children shall arise against their fathers and
mothers, and shall put them to death: and ye shall be hated of all men for my
name. But he that endureth to the end, shall be saved.
When they persecute you in one city, fly
into another. I tell you for a truth, ye shall not finish all the cities of
Israel, till the son of man be come. The disciple is not above his master: nor
yet the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple to be as his
master is, and that the servant be as his Lord is. If they have called the Lord
of the house Beelzebub: how much more shall they call them of his household so?
Fear them not therefore. There is no thing so close, that shall not be opened,
and no thing so hid, that shall not be known.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye
in light. And what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye on the house tops.
And fear ye not them which kill the body,
and be not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him, which is able to destroy
both soul and body into hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And none
of them doth light on the ground, without your father. And now are all the hairs
of your heads numbered. Fear ye not therefore: ye are of more value than many
sparrows.
Whosoever therefore shall knowledge me
before men, him will I knowledge also before my father which is in heaven. But
whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which
is in heaven.
Think not, that I am come to send peace into
the earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at
variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the
daughter in law against her mother in law: And a mans foes shall be they of his
own household.
He that loveth his father, or mother more
than me, is not meet for me. And he that loveth his son, or daughter more than
me, is not meet for me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth me, is
not meet for me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his
life for my sake, shall find it.
He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he
that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a Prophet in
the name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophets reward. And he that receiveth a
righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive the reward of a
righteous man. And whosoever shall give unto one of these little ones to drink,
a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple: I tell you of a truth, he
shall not lose his reward
THE GOSPELL OF ST. MATTHEW Chpt 11
Then began he to upbraid the cities, in which most of his
miracles were done, because they mended not. Woe be to thee Chorasin. Woe be to
thee Bethsaida: for if the miracles which were showed in you, had been done in
Tyre and Sidon, they had repented long agone in sackcloth and ashes.
Nevertheless I say to you: it shall be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the day of
judgement, than for you. And thou Capernaum which art lift up unto heaven, shalt
be brought down to hell. For if the miracles which have been done in thee,
had been showed in Sodom: they had remained to this day. Nevertheless I say unto
you: it shall be easier for the land of Sodom in the day of judgement, than for
thee.
At that time Jesus answered and said: I
praise thee O' father Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prudent, and hast opened them unto babes: even so
father, for so it pleased thee. All things are given unto me of my father. And
no man knoweth the son but thy father: neither knoweth any man the father, save
the son, and he to whom the son will open him.
Come unto me all ye that labor and are
laden, and I will ease you. Take my yoke on you and learn of me, for I am meek
and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light
THE GOSPELL OF ST. MARK Chpt 6
And he departed thence, and came into his own country, and his
disciples followed him. And when the Saboth day was come, he began to teach in
the synagogue. And many that heard him were astonished, and said: From whence
hath he these things? and what wisdom is this that is given unto him: and such
virtues that are wrought by his hands? Is not this that carpenter Marys son, the
brother of James and Joses and of Juda and Simon? and are not his sisters here
with us? And they were offended by him. And Jesus said unto them: a Prophet is
not despised but in his own country, and among his own kin, and among them that
are of the same household. And he could there show no miracles, but laid his
hands upon a few sick folk and healed them and he marvelled at their unbelief.
And he went about by the towns that lay on
every side, teaching. And he called the twelve, and began to send them two and
two, and gave them power over unclean spirits. And commanded them, that they
should take nothing unto their journey, save a rod only, neither scrip, neither
bread, neither money in their purses, but should be shod with sandals. And that
they should not put on two coats. And he said unto them: wheresoever ye enter in
to an house, there abide till ye depart thence. And whosoever shall not
receive you nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust that is
under your feet, for a witness unto them. I say verily unto you, it shall be
easier for Sodom and Gomor at the day of judgement, than for that city. And
they went out and preached, that they should repent: and they cast out many
devils. And they anointed many that were sick with oil, and healed them.
Judas the servant of Jesus Christ, the brother of James. To them which
are called and sanctified in God the father, and preserved in *Jesu Christ.
Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. THE
GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 17 When he was
demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come he answered them
and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with waiting for. Neither shall men say:
Lo here, lo there. For behold the kingdom of God is with in you. *trow (think) *Zodom
(Sodom),
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you, to
exhort you, that ye should continually labour in the faith which was once given
unto the saints. For there are certain craftily crept in, of which it was
written a fore time unto such judgement. They are ungodly and turn the grace of
our God unto wantonness, and deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
My mind is therefore to put you in
remembrance, for as much as ye once know this how that the Lord (after that he
had delivered the people out of Egypt) destroyed them which afterward believed
not. The angels also which kept not their first estate: but left their own
habitation: he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the
judgment of the great day: even as Sodom and Gomor, and the cities about them
(which in like manner defiled them selves with fornication, and followed strange
flesh) are set forth for an example, and suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.
Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulers and speak evil of them
that are in authority.
Michael the archangel when he strove against
the devil, and disputed the body of Moses, durst not give railing sentence, but
said: the Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know
not: and what things they know naturally, as beasts which are without reason, in
those things they corrupt themselves. Woe be unto them, for they have followed
the way of Cain and are utterly given to the error of Balaam for *lucres sake,
and in the treason of Core.
These are spots which of your kindness feast
together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds, and trees with out fruit at gathering time, twice dead
and plucked up by the roots. They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their
own shame. They are wandering stars to whom is reserved the mist of darkness for
ever.
Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied
before of such, saying. Behold, the Lord shall come with thousands of saints, to
give judgement against all men, and to rebuke all that are ungodly among them of
all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their
cruel speakings, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking
after their own lusts, whose mouths speak proud things. They have men in great
reverence because of advantage. But ye beloved, remember the words which were
spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you
that there should be beguilers in the last time which should walk after their
own ungodly lusts. These are makers of sects, fleshly, having no spirit.
But ye dearly beloved, edify your selves in
your most holy faith, praying in the holy ghost, and keep yourselves in the love
of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life. And
have compassion on some, separating them: and other save with fear, pulling them
out of the fire, and hate the filthy vesture of the flesh.
Unto him that is able to keep you, that ye
fall not, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with
joy, that is to say, to God our saviour which only is wise, be glory, majesty,
dominion, and power, now and for ever. Amen
*Jesu: Hebrew for Jesus. *lucres: shameful gain
And he said unto the disciples: The days
will come, when ye shall desire to see one day of the son of man, and ye shall
not see it. And they shall say to you: See here, See there. Go not after them,
nor follow them, for as the lightning that appeareth out of the one part of the
heaven: and shineth unto the other part of heaven. So shall the son of man be in
his days. But first must he suffer many things, and be refused of this nation.
As it happened in the time of Noe: So
shall it be in the time of the son of man. They ate, they drank, they married
wives and were married, even unto the same day that Noe went into the Ark: and
the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise also, as it chanced in the days
of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. And
even the same day that Lot went out of *Zodom, it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven, and destroyed them all. After these examples, shall it be in the
day when the son of man shall appear.
At that day he that is on the house top and
his stuff in the house: let him not come down to take it out. And likewise let
not him that is in the fields, turn back again to that he left behind. Remember
Lots wife. Whosoever will go about to save his life, shall lose it: And
whosoever shall lose his life, shall save it. I tell you in that night, there
shall be two in one bed, that one shall be received and the other shall be
forsaken. Two shall be also a grinding together: the one shall be received, and
the other forsaken. And they answered, and said unto him: where Lord? And he
said unto them: wheresoever the body shall be, thither
will the eagles resort.
and others of a similitude ...
"false friendship of sodomites. (period)"
"sodomite influence and counseling in the military."
"DO NOT act like pretend to be or find agreement with sodomites."
"gender abomination and the sodomization of the nation..."
"sodomites declare themselves openly..."
"more on the sodomization of higher education...
"cross roads military base..."
"sodomite ceremoany in the military..."
"sodomization of the nation..."
"they declare their own sins themselves, as the Sodomites..."
"sodomites in their own white robes..."
they declare their own sins themselves, as the Sodomites"
"sodomite sea ...in the military..."
"sodomites in the military preying ...on the youth ..."
" like a beauty salon ...like sodom and egypt ..."
"sodomites like ol aunt jane ..."
"captive of ...women sodomites and extortionists... "
"cursed of honoring sodomites and abortion..."
"keep sodomites ...out ...out of your house ...even the same as bestiality "
"sodomite military marriages...and others..."
"sodomites in the military... "
"sodomitish rule over the dark wicked work place...manish woman ... "
"sodomite rising ...in wicked labor ... "
"the curse of the sodomites...and the lies of pssssychology..."
"famous black actor and the sodomites... "
"more wicked labor ...and the sodomites...
"defiled bed ...of the sodomite..."
"sodomite diner in the heartland..."
"willie nelson and the sodomites ..."
"sodomite womens ...in mens room ..."
"Corporate cathedreal and sodomites"
"Sodomite lords (small l) of the world of the worldly..."
"Sodomites in the army (military) of the Eagle..."
Escape from the sodomites ....
sodomitish SEE...(not for little ones)