and i was taken and shown like an airport or train station or bus station ...
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.
creteis@yahoo.com Behold in a nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
or are they all the same ...
nevertheless there was an instant ban ...
even an instant policy change ...
and cell phones taken away ...
and many of the abandoned ...stranded ...had before found agreement with
political correctness ...social correctness ...cultural correctness
...religious wretchedness ...
and i was shown women wondering ...wandering and lost ...
and of the spiritual wickedness grinning ...
even spiritual wickedness ...for heavenly things ...
THE FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS Chpt 16
Woe be unto thee Babylon and Asia, woe be unto thee Egypt and Syria:
gird yourselves with clothes of sack and hear, and mourn for your children, be
sorry, for your destruction is at hand. A sword is sent upon you, and who will
turn it back? A fire is kindled among you, and who will quench it: Plagues are
sent unto you, and what is he that will drive them away? May any man drive away
an hungry lion in the woods? Or may any man quench the fire in the stubble, when
it hath gone to burn? May one turn again the arrow, that is shot of a strong
archer? The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues, and what is he that will drive them
away? The fire is kindled and gone forth in his wrath, and what is he that will
quench it? He shall cast lightings, and who shall not fear? He shall thunder,
and who shall not be afraid: The Lord shall threaten and who shall not utterly
be beaten to powder at his presence? The earth quaketh, and the foundations
thereof: the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the floods of it
are unquiet and the fishes thereof also before the Lord, and before the glory of
his power. For strong is his right hand that holdeth the bow, his arrows that he
shooteth, are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot to the ends
of the world.
Behold, the plagues are sent, and shall not
turn again, till they come upon the earth. The fire is kindled, and shall not be
put out, till it consume the foundations of the earth. Like as an arrow shot of
a mighty archer, returneth not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent
upon the earth, shall not turn again. Woe is me, woe is me, who will deliver me
in those days? The beginning of sorrows and great mourning: the beginning of *darth
and great death: the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear: the
beginning of evils, and they shall tremble everyone. What shall I do in these
things, when the plagues come? Behold, hunger, and plague, trouble and anguish
are sent, as scourging for amendment. But for all these things they shall not
turn from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourging.
Behold, vitals shall be so good cheap
upon the earth, that they shall think them selves to be in good case? And
even then shall mischief grow up upon the earth, wars, darth and great
disquietness. For many of them that dwell upon the earth shall perish of hunger,
and the other that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy: And the dead
shall be cast out as dung, and there should be no man to comfort them. For the
earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down: there shall be no man
left to till the earth and to sew it. The trees shall give fruit, and who shall
pluck them of and gather them? The grapes shall be ripe, and who shall tread
them: for all the places shall be desolate of men, so that one man shall desire
to see another, or to hear his voice. For of one whole city there shall be ten
left, and two in the field, which shall hide themselves in the thick bushes, and
in the cliffs of stones: like as when there remain three or four olives upon the
tree, or as when a vineyard is gathered there are left some grapes, of them that
diligently sought through the vineyard.
Even so, in those days there shall be three
or four left, for them that search their houses with the sword. And the earth
shall be left waste, and the fields thereof shall wear old: and her ways and her
paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel there through. The
daughters shall mourn, having no bridegrooms: the women shall make lamentation,
having no husbands, their daughters shall mourn, having no help of their bride
groom. In the wars shall they be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of
hunger. O' ye servants of the Lord, hear these things, and mark them. Behold,
the word of the Lord, O' receive it: behold the plagues draw near, and are not
slack in tarrying. Like as a travailing woman, which after nine months
bringeth forth a son, when the hour of the birth is come, an hour two or three
afore that the pains come upon her body, and when the child cometh to the birth,
they tarry not the twinkling of an lie: Even so shall not the plagues be slack
to come upon the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon
it on every side.
O' my people, hear my word, make you
ready to the battle: and in all evil be as pilgrims upon the earth He that
selleth, let him be as he that flyeth his way: and he that buyeth, as one that
will lease. Who so occupieth merchandise, as he that winneth not: and he that
buildeth, as he that shall not dwell therin: he that soweth, as one that shall
not reap: he that twisteth the vineyard, as he that shall not gather the grapes:
they that marry, as they that shall get no children: and they that marry not, as
the widows: and therefore they that labor, labor in vain. For strangers shall
reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their
children captive, for in captivity and hunger shall they get children. And they
that occupy their merchandise with robbery, how long deck they their cities,
their houses, their possessions, their persons? the more will I punish them for
their sins, sayeth the Lord. Like as an whore envieth an honest woman, so shall
righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to
her face, when he cometh that defendeth, which shall make inquisition for all
sin upon the earth. And therefore be not ye like thereunto, near to the works
thereof: for or ever it be long, iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth,
and righteousness shall reign among you.
Let not the sinner say, that he hath not
sinned: for coals of fire shall burn upon his head, which sayeth before the Lord
God and his glory: I have not sinned. Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works
of men, their imaginations, their thoughts and their hearts. For he spoke but
the word: let the earth be made, and it was made: let the heaven be made, and it
was made. In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of them. He
searcheth the ground of the deep, and the treasures thereof: he hath measured
the sea, and what it containeth. He hath shut the sea in the midst of the
waters, and with his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters. He spreadeth
out the heaven like a *vawte, upon the waters hath he founded it. In the desert
a dry wilderness hath he made springs of water, and poles upon the tops of
mountains, that the floods might pour down from the stony rocks to water the
earth. He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave him
breath, life and understanding, yee and the spirit of the Almighty God, which
made all things, and hath searched the ground of all the secrets of the earth.
He knoweth your imaginations and
inventions, and what ye think when ye sin, and would hide your sins.
Therefore hath the Lord searched and sought out all your works, and he shall *bewray
you all. And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed before men,
and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day. What will ye do? Or how
will ye hide your sins before God and his Angels? Behold, God himself is the
judge, fear him, leave off from your sins, and forget your unrighteousness, and
meddle no more with them: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all
trouble. For behold, the heat of the great multitude is kindled over you, and
they shall take away certain of you, and feed the idle with Idols: and they that
consent unto them, shall be had in *derision, laughed to scorn, and trodden
under foot.
For unto the places there shall be a place,
and in the next cities a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord. They
shall be like madmen, they shall spare no man: they shall spoil and waste such
as fear the Lord, their goods shall they take from them, and shut them out of
their houses. Then shalt it be known who are my chosen, and they shall be tried
as the gold in the fire. Hear O' ye my beloved, sayeth the Lord: behold, the
days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same. Be not
afraid, despair not, for God is your captain.
Who so keepeth my commandments and precepts
( sayeth the Lord God ) let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your
unrighteousness be lift up. Woe be unto to those that are subdued unto their own
sins, and tangled in their wickednesses: like as a field is hedged in with
bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel
through: and so is he taken, and cast in the fire, and burnt
darth=famine, lack. *vawte, ( vault ; from Mid Eng vaute: meaning an arched overhead covering). *bewray (disclose, reveal, uncover). *derision; laughed to scorn, and trod under foot contempt
Behold, they take the word of God but for scorn, and have no *lust
thereto. And therefore I am so full of thine indignation O' Lord, that I may
suffer no longer. Shed out thy wrath upon the children that are without, and
upon all young men. Yee the man must be taken prisoner with the wife, and the
aged with the cripple. Their houses with their lands and wives shall be turned
unto strangers, when I stretch out mine hand upon the inhabitors of this land,
saith the Lord. For from the least to the most, they hang all upon covetousness:
and from the prophet unto the priest, they go all about with falsehood and lies.
And beside that, they heal the hurt of my
people with sweet words, saying peace, peace, when there is no peace at all. Therefore
they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how could they be
ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame or good nurture? Therefore
they shall fall among the slain, and in the hour when I shall visit them, they
shall be brought down, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord: go into the streets,
consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right
way: then go therin, that ye may find rest for your souls. But if they say: we
will not walk therin, and I will set watchmen over you, and therefore take heed
unto the voice of the trumpet. But they say: we will not take heed. Hear
therefore ye Gentiles, and thou congregation shalt know, what I have devised for
them. Hear thou earth also: behold, I will cause a plague upon this people, even
the fruit of their own imaginations.
For they have not been obedient unto my
words and my law, but abhorred them. Wherefore bring ye me incense from Saba,
and sweet smelling Calamus from far countries? Your burnt offerings displease
me, and I rejoice not in your sacrifices.
And therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold,
I will make this people fall, and there shall fall from among them the father
with the children, one neighbor shall perish with another.
Moreover thus saith the Lord: Behold, there
shall come a people from the North, and a great people shall rise from the ends
of the earth, with bows and with darts shall they be weaponed: It is a rough an
fierce people, an unmerciful people: their voice roareth like the sea, they ride
upon horses well appointed to the battle against thee, O daughter Sion. Then
shall this cry be heard: Our arms are feeble, heaviness an sorrow is come upon
us, as upon a woman travailing with child. No man goeth forth in to the field,
no man come upon the high street: for the sword and fear of the enemy shall be
on every side.
Wherefore gird thee a sackcloth about thee (
O daughter of my people ) sprinkle thyself with ashes, mourn and weep bitterly,
as upon the only beloved son: for the destroyer shall suddenly fall upon us.
Thee have I set as a prover of my hard people, to seek out and try their ways.
For they are all unfaithful and fallen away, they hang upon filthy lucre, they
are clean brass and iron, for they have hurt and destroyed every man. The
bellows are burnt in the fire, the lead is consumed, the melter melteth in vain,
for the evil is not taken away from them. Therefore shall they be called naughty
silver, because the Lord hath cast them out
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Chpt 5
Call to remembrance, ( O' Lord ) what we have
suffered, consider and see our confusion. Our inheritance is turned to the
strangers, and our houses to the aliens. We are become careful and
fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows. We have *faine to drink our
own water for money, and our own wood must we buy with money. Our necks are
under persecution, we are weary, and have no rest.
Afore time we yielded to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, only that we might have enough bread. Our fathers (
which are now gone ) have sinned, and we must bear their wickedness. Servants
have rule over us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands. We must get our
living with the peril of our lives because of the *drouth of the wilderness.
Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven,
for very sore hunger. The wives are ravished in Sion, and the maidens in the
cities of Judah. The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies,
they have not spared the old *sage men, they have taken young mens lives from
them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees. The elders sit no more under the
gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music. The joy of our heart
is gone, our merry *query is turned into mourning. The garland of our head is
fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore.
Therefore our heart is full of heaviness,
and our eyes dim: because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed. In so much that
the foxes run upon it. But thou, O' Lord, that remainest for evermore, and
thy seat world without end: Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake
us so long? O' Lord, turn thou us unto thee, and so shall we be turned. Renew
our days as in the old times, for thou hast banished us now long enough, and
hast been sore displeased at us
*faine (obliged / willing, happy) *drouth (drought) *sage (wise) *query (seeking)
Moreover, the word of the Lord commanded me thus: Go thy
way, and cry in the ears Jerusalem, and say: Thus saith the Lord: I remember
thee for the kindness of thy youth, and because of thy steadfast love: in that
thou followest me through the wilderness, in an untilled land. Thou Israel was
hallowed unto the Lord, and so was his firstfruits. All they that devoured
Israel, offended: misfortune fell upon them, saith the Lord. Hear therefore the
word of the Lord, O thou house of Jacob, and all the generation of the house of
Israel. Thus saith the Lord unto you.
What unfaithfulness found your fathers in
me, that they went so far away from me, falling to lightness, and being so vain?
They thought not in their hearts: Where have we left the Lord, that brought
us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a
desert and rough land, through a dry and deadly land, yee a land that no man had
gone through, and wherein no man had dwelt. And when I had brought you into
a pleasant well builded land, that ye might enjoy the fruits and all the
commodities of the same: ye went forth and defiled my land, and brought mine
heritage to abomination.
The priests themselves said not once:
Where is the Lord? They that have the law in their hands, know me not: The
shepherds offend against me. The Prophets do service to Baal, and follow such
things as bring them no profit.
Wherefore I am constrained ( saith the Lord
) to make my complaint upon you, and upon your children. Go into the Isles of
Cethim, and look well: and send unto Cedar, take diligent heed: and see, whether
such things be done there, whether the Gentiles themselves deal so falsely and
untruly with their gods, ( which yet are no gods indeed ) But my people hath
given over their high honor, for a thing that may not help them.
Be astonished ( O ye heavens ) be afraid,
and abashed at such a thing, saith the Lord. For my people hath done two
evils. They have forsaken me the well of the water of life, and digged them
pits, yee vile and broken pits, that hold no water. Is Israel a bond
servant, or one of the household? Why is he then so spoiled? Why do they roar
and cry upon him, as a lion? They have made his land waste, his cities are so
burnt up, that there is no man dwelling in them. Yee the children of Noph and
Taphnes have defiled thy neck.
Come not this unto thee, because thou hast
forsaken the Lord thy God, ever since he led thee by the way? And what hast thou
now to do in the street of Egypt? to drink foul water? Ether, what makest thou
in the way of Assiria? To drink water of the flood? Thine own wickedness shall
reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and
understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the Lord
thy God, and not feared him, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
I have ever broken thy yoke of old, and
burst thy bonds: yet sayest thou, I will no more serve, but ( like an harlot )
thou runnest about upon all high hills, and among all green trees where as I
planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then in to
a bitter, unfruitful, strange grape? Yee and that so sore: that though thou
wash thee with *Nitrus and make thyself to favor with that sweet smelling herb
of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stained with thy wickedness, sayeth the Lord
thy God.
Say not now: I am not unclean, and I have
not followed the Gods. Look upon thy own ways in the woods, valleys and dens: so
shalt thou know, what thou hast done. Thou art like a swift Dromedary, that
goeth easily his way: and thy wantonness is like a wild Ass, that useth the
wilderness, and that snuffeth and bloweth at his will. Who can tame thee? All
they that seek thee, shall not fail, but find thee in thy own uncleanness. Thou
keepest thy foot from nakedness, and thy throat from thirst, and thinkest thus
in thyself: tush: I will take no sorrow, I will love the strange gods, and hang
upon them.
Like as a thief that is taken with the deed
cometh to shame, even so is the house of Israel come to confusion: the common
people, their kings and rulers, their priests and prophets. For they say to a
stock, thou art my father, and to a stone: thou hast begotten me, yee they have
turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their
trouble, when they say: stand up, help us, I shall answer them: where are now
thy gods, that thou hast made thee? bid them stand up, and help thee in the time
of need? For look how many cities thou hast ( O Judah ) so many gods hast thou
also.
Wherefore then will ye go to law with me,
seeing ye are all sinners against me, saith the Lord? It is but lost labor, that
I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword
devoureth your prophets, like a devouring lion. If ye be the people of the Lord,
then hearken unto his word: Am I then become a wilderness unto the people of
Israel? or a land that hath no light? Wherefore sayeth my people then: we are
fallen off, and we will come no more unto thee? Doth a maiden forget her
raiment, or a bride her stomacher? And doth my people forget me so long? Why
boasteth thou thy ways so highly ( to obtain favor there through ) when thou
hast yet stained them with blasphemies?
Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor
and innocent people, and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all
these places. Yet darest thou say: I am guiltless: Tush, his wrath can not
come upon me. Behold, I will reason with thee because thou darest say: I have
not offended. O how evil will it be for thee, to abide it: when it shall be
known, how often thou hast gone backward? For thou shalt be confounded, as well
of Egypt, as of the Assirians: yee thou shalt go thy way from them, and smite
thy hands together upon thy head. Because the lord shall bring that
confidence and hope of thine to naught, and thou shalt not prosper with all
*Nitrus = to shake tremble, loose, walls. to be loose of the walls (hedge of the Lord) replaced by the walls of false teachings. Borith = Berith meaning a covenant between men.( not of God) RN
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
THE FIRST OF THE MACHABEES Chpt 1
In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, which moved much people with their council, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the Heathen, that are round about us: for since we departed from them, we have had much sorrow. So this device pleased them well, and certain of the people took upon them for to go unto the king, which gave them license to do after the ordinances of the Heathen. Then set they up an open school ( at Jerusalem ) of the laws of the Heathen, and were no more circumcised: but forsook the holy Testament, and joined themselves to the Heathen, and were clean sold to do mischief.
THE SECOND OF THE MACHABEES Chpt 4
This Simon now ( of whom we spake afore ) being a betrayer
of the money and of his own natural country, reported the worst of Onias:
as though he had moved Heliodorus unto this, and as though he had been a
bringer up of evil. Thus he was not ashamed to call him an enemy of the realm,
that was so faithful an overseer and defender of the city and of his people:
yee and so fervent in the law of God. But when the malice of Simon increased
so far, that through his friends there were certain manslaughters committed:
Onias considered the peril that might come through this strife, and how that
Apollonius ( namely the chief lord in Celosyria and Phenices ) was all set
up tyranny, and Simons malice increased the same: He gat him to the king,
not as an accuser of the citizens, but as one that by himself intended the
common wealth of the whole multitude. For he saw it was not possible to live
in peace, neither Simon to leave off from his foolishness, except the king did
look thereto. But after the death of Seleucus, when *Antiochus ( which is
called the noble ) took the kingdom: Jason the brother of Onias labored to be
high priest: for he came unto the king, and promised him three hundred and
sixty talents of silver, and of the other rents eighty talents. Beside
this he promised him yet an hundred and fifty if he might have *the school
of the children, and that he might call them of Jerusalem Antiochians. Which
when the king had granted, and he had gotten the superiority, he began
immediately to draw his kinsmen to the custom of the Heathen, put down the
things that the Jews had set up of love, by John the father of Eupolemius,
which was sent ambassador unto Rome, for to make the bond of friendship and
love. He put down all the Jews and Liberties of the Jews, and set up the
wicked statutes. He durst make a frightening school
under the castle, and set fair young men to learn the manners of whores and
brodels.
This was now the beginning of the
Heathenish and strange conversation,
This was now the beginning of the Heathenish and strange conversation,
This is another communication, that God had with Jeremie, saying: Arise, and
go down to the potters house, and there shall I tell thee more of my mind: Now
when I came to the Potters house, I found him making his work upon a wheel. The
vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew,
and made another vessel, according to his mind. Then said the Lord thus unto me:
May not I do with you, as this Potter doth, O ye house of Israel, saith the
Lord? Behold, ye house of Israel: ye are in my hand, even as the clay in the
Potters hand.
When I take in hand to root out, to destroy,
or to waste away any people or kingdom: if that people ( against whom I have
thus devised ) convert from their wickedness: Immediately, I repent of the
plague, that I devised to bring upon them. Again. When I take in hand, to build,
or to plant a people or a kingdom: if the same people do evil before me, and
hear not my voice: Immediately, I repent of the good, that I devised to do for
them.
Speak now therefore unto whole Juda, and to
them that dwell at Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I am devising a
plague for you, am taking a thing in hand against you.
Therefore let every man turn from his
evil way, take upon you the thing that is good, and do right. But they say: No
more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to
the wilfulness of his own mind.
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the
Heathen, if any man hath heard such horrible things, as the Daughter of Sion
hath done. Shall not the snow ( that melteth upon the stony rocks of Libanus )
moisten the fields? Or may the springs of waters be so graven away, that they
run no more, give moistness, ner make fruitful? But my people hath so forgotten
me that they have made sacrifice unto vain Gods. And while they followed their
own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone in to a foot way not
used to be trodden. Where through they have brought their land into an
everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be
abashed, and wag their heads. With an East wind will I scatter them, before
their enemies. And when their destruction cometh, I will turn my back upon them,
but not my face. Then said they: come, let us imagine something against this
Jeremie. Yee this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the
Senators, that were the wisest and the prophets, which wanted not the word of
God. Come ( say they ) let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his
words. Consider me, O' Lord, and hear the voice of mine enemies. Do they not
recompense evil for good, when they dig a pit for my soul? Remember , how that I
stood before thee, to speak for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Therefore let their children die of hunger,
and let them be oppressed with the sword. Let their wives be robbed of their
children, and become widows: let their husbands be slain, let their young men be
killed with the sword in the field. Let the noise be heard out of their houses,
when the murderer cometh suddenly upon them: For they have digged a pit to take
me, and layed snares for my feet. Yet Lord, thou knowest all their counsel, that
they have devised, to slay me. And therefore forgive them not their wickedness,
and let not their sin be put out of thy sight: but let them be judged before
thee as the guilty: This shall thou do unto them in the time of thy indignation