And the measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... would and would not be corrected ...rolling in the dust ... 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 dream of the night see son of man ...a dream and ..or also ..all so ...a night mare ..of any that would not be corrected ...
and was shown me ...like it is ...was and should soon end ...men in their houses ...in and of the world ...and even of the earth ...
and their house were all ...every each one full of dust ...and disorder ...unrightness ...and the ill ...health of those things ...
and behold there came an cleaning ...and an mighty correcting ...and an heart for any that might be corrected ...
and an mighty helps and nurture and instruction ...to wash clean ...any and all houses ...within ...every each one ...
and it was so ...that all houses ...every each one was moved ...that wise ...
and so much so that new houses were prepared for any and all ...for any that might be corrected ...and live a new ...and have their life and living and being ...in God our father and Jesus our brother and Lord ...
and i was shown men all of all and any that would ...walk one with another ...amongst one another and be happy ...and injoy the fellowship ..of any and all one with another ..every each one ...
and i hoped and was shown that hope as men did gather up ...in that way ...the way ...in spirit and truth ...of God our father and our brother saver Lord Jesus ...
Now as i walked with some ...a few of the many ...i looked back ...and there ...there in the dust ...rolled one ...that had been delivered ...had his house washed clean ...came out even with all the others ...
and the more ...for the dust that this one rolled in ...became a cloud and wind of dust ...and got on ...all over any that were with him or near him ...as he rolled in the dust of the world ...
and the other men looked a back and were shown the same thing ...and we all called out ...for any to come ...come up ...up out of that place ...where that man who would not be corrected ..rolled again in his own dust ...
and the more to get away ...the way .. a way from that place ...for the rolling in the dust ...did cause a pit to be formed ...of all the rolling in it ...and wind of it ...
and i felt of heart the sadness ...and heavy in spirit and head ..of being ...of being shown that some would not be nurtured ...would not be held ...not be helped ..not be corrected ...and preferred to roll in their own dust ....
and i was nevertheless taken of minds eye to the Word of God and the recording thereof ...for to look of these measures of matters more perfectly ...
For correction ...Look see !!! and for dust look see !!!
The Psalmes of David 118 O' give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.
Let Israel now confess, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Let the house of Aaron now confess, that his mercy endureth forever.
Yee let them now that fear the Lord confess, that his mercy endureth forever.
I called upon the Lord in trouble, and the Lord heard *at large.
The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man doeth unto me.
The Lord is my helper, and I shall see my desire upon mine enemies.
It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put any confidence in man.
It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put any confidence in princes.
All the Heathen compassed me round about, but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. They keep me in on every side, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. They came about me like bees, and were as hot as the fire in the thorns, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. They thrust at me, that I might fall, but the Lord is my help.
The Lord is my strength, and my song, and is become my salvation.
The voice of joy and mirth *is in the dwellings of the righteous, for the right hand of the Lord hath *gotten victory.
The right hand of the Lord has preeminence, the right hand of the Lord hath gotten victory.
I will not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. The Lord hath chastened and corrected me, but he hath not given me over unto death.
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may go in there through, and give thanks unto the Lord.
This is the door of the Lord, the righteous shall enter in through it.
I thank thee, that thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
The same stone which the builders refused, is become the head stone in the corner.
This was the Lords doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Help now O' Lord, O' Lord, send us now prosperity.
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord, we wish you good luck, ye that be of the house of the Lord.
God is the Lord, and hath showed us light: O' garnish the solemn feast with green branches, even unto the horns of the altar.
Thou art my God, and I will thank thee: thou art my God, I will praise thee.
O' give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.
*At large = Of greater than average scope, breadth, or capacity; comprehensive. Understanding and tolerant; a large a generous spirit. RN *kjv and other bibles of man =rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles (churches?) of the righteous: out of their houses and homes into the churches ...also: the right hand of the Lord *"doeth valiantly" rather than "gotten victory".
Paul Unto the Hebrews 12 Wherefore let us also (seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses) lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on, and let us run with patience unto the battle that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds. For ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh unto you, as unto children: My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth, him he chasteneth: yee, and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not? If ye be not under correction (where of all are partakers) then are ye bastards and not sons. Moreover seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live? And they verily for a few days, nurtured us after their own pleasure: but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness. No manner chastising for the present time seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward, it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness, unto them which are therin exercised.
Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees, and see that ye have straight steps unto your feet, lest any halting turn out of the way: yee let it rather be healed. Embrace peace with all men and holiness: without the which, no man shall see the Lord. And look to, that no man be destitute of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness spring up and trouble, and thereby many be defiled: and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright. Ye know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing, he was put by, and he found no means to come thereby again: no though he desired it with tears.
For ye are not come unto the mount that can be touched, and unto burning fire nor yet to mist and darkness and tempest of weather, neither unto the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words: which voice they that heard it, wished away: that the communication should not be spoken to them. For they were not able to abide that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountain, it must have been stoned, or thrust through with a dart: even so terrible was the sight which appeared. Moses said, I fear and quake. But ye are come unto the mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the celestial Jerusalem: and to an innumerable sight of angels, and unto the congregation of the first born sons, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just and perfect men and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood that speaketh better then the blood of Abel.
See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth: much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth, and now declareth saying: yet once more will I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. No doubt the same that he sayeth, yet once more, signifieth the removing away of those things which are shaken, as of things which have ended their course: that the things which are not shaken, may remain. Wherefore if we receive a kingdom which is not moved we have grace, whereby we may serve God and please him with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
Proverbs of Solomon 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David King of Israel: To learn wisdom, instruction, understanding, prudence, righteousness, judgment and equity. That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding. By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom: and by experience he shall be more apt to understand a parable, and the interpretation thereof, the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
My son, hear thy fathers doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother: for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck. My son, consent not unto sinners, if they entice thee, and say: Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause: Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us swallow them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit. So we shall find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils. Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse.
My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways. For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood. But in vain is the net laid forth before the birds eyes. Yee they themselves lay wait one for anothers blood and one of them would slay another. These are the ways as all such as be covetous, that one would ravish anothers life.
Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets. She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words throw the city saying: O' ye children how long will ye live childishly? how long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge? O' turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words. Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it, but all my counsels ye have despised and set my corrections to naught. Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that you fear cometh upon you: even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yee when trouble and heaviness come upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: And that because they hated knowledge, and received not fear of the Lord, but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction. Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels: for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction. But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and have enough without any fear of evil.
Proverbs of Solomon 5 My son, give heed unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my *prudence: that thou mayest regard good counsel, and that thy lips may keep nurture. For the lips of a harlot are a dropping honeycomb, and her throat is softer than oil. But at the last she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword. Her feet go down unto death, and her steps pierce through unto hell. She regardeth not the path of life, so unsteadfast are her ways, that thou canst not know them. Hear me therefore, ( O' my son ) and depart not from the words of my mouth. Keep thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house. That thou give not thine honor unto another, and thy years to the cruel. That other men be not filled with thy goods, and thy labors come not in a strange house. Yee that thou mourn not at the last, ( when thou hast spent thy body and goods ) and then say: Alas, why hated I nurture? why did my heart despise correction? Wherefore was not I obedient unto the voice of my teachers, and hearken not unto them that informed me? I a come almost into all my misfortune, in the midst of the multitude and congregation. Drink of the water of thine own well, and of the rivers that run out of thine own springs. Let the wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of water in the streets: but let them be only thine own, and not strangers with thee.
Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy youth. Loving is the *hind and friendly is the Roo: let her breasts always satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love. My son, wilt thou have pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman? For every mans ways are open in the sight of the Lord, and he pondereth all their goings. The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped. Because he would not be reformed, he shall die: and for his great foolishness he shall be destroyed.
*prudence = caution and the ability to see out comes of actions. *hind is from the Hebrew sacrificial ram
Proverbs of Solomon 13 A wise son will receive his fathers warning, but he that is scornful, will not hear when he is reproved.
A good man shall enjoy the fruit of his mouth, but he that hath a froward mind shall be spoiled.
He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but who so speaketh unadvised, findeth harm.
The sluggard would faine have, and cannot get his desire: but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty. fained is an obliged, or required/ willing
A righteous man abhoreth lies, but the ungodly shameth both other and himself.
Righteousness keepeth the innocent in the way, but ungodliness shall overthrow the sinner.
Some men are rich, though they have nothing: again some men are poor having great riches.
With goods every man delivereth his life, and the poor will not be reproved.
The light of the righteous maketh joyful, but the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.
Among the proud there is ever strife, but among those that doeth all things with advisement, there is wisdom.
Hastily gotten goods are soon spent, but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.
Long tarring for a thing that is deferred, grieveth the heart: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Whoso despiseth the word, destroyeth himself: but he that feareth the commandment shall have peace.
The law is a well of life unto the wise, that it may keep him from the snares of death.
Good understanding giveth favor, but hard is the way of the despisers.
A wise man doeth all things with discretion, but a fool will declare his folly.
An ungodly messenger bringeth mischief, but a faithful ambassador is wholesome.
He that thinketh scorn to be reformed, cometh to poverty and shame: but who so receiveth correction, shall come to honor.
When a desire is brought to pass, it delighteth the soul: but fools abhor him that eschueth evil.
He that goeth in the company of wise men, shall be wise: but who so is a companion of fools shall be hurt.
Mischief followeth upon sinners, but the righteous shall have a good reward.
Which their childrens children shall have in possession, for the riches of the sinner is layed up for the just.
There is plenteousness of food is in the fields of the poor, and shall be increased out of measure.
He that spareth his rod, hateth his son: but who so loveth him, holdeth him ever in nurture.
The righteous eateth, and is satisfied, but the belly of the ungodly hath never enough.
and the more for ..ever ...Proverbs of Solomon 15 A fool despiseth his fathers correction, but he that taketh heed when he is reproved, shall have the more understanding.
He that refuseth to be reformed, despiseth his own soul: but he that submitteth himself to correction, is wise.
Proverbs of Solomon 22 Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad, but the rod of correction driveth it away.
Proverbs of Solomon 23 Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he will not die thereof.
Thou smitest him with the rod, but thou deliverest his soul from hell.
Proverbs of Solomon 25 A word spoken in due season, is like apples of gold in a silver dish.
The correction of the wife is to an obedient ear, a golden chain and a Jewel of gold.
Like as the winter cool in the harvest, so is a faithful messenger to him that send him, and refresheth his masters mind.
Proverbs of Solomon 29 The rod and correction minister wisdom, but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.
When the ungodly come up, wickedness increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Nurture thy son with correction, and he shall comfort thee, yee, he shall do the good at thine heart.
Where no Prophet is, there the people perish: but well is him
the Prophet Esai 40 Be of good cheer my people, be of good cheer, ( saith your God ) Comfort Jerusalem, and tell her, that her travail is at an end, that her offense is pardoned, that she hath received of the Lords hand sufficient correction for all her sins. A voice crieth: Prepared the way *for the Lord in the wilderness, make straight the path for our God in the desert. Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill layed low. What so is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields. For the glory of God shall appear, and all flesh shall see it. For why? The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The same voice spake: Now cry. And I said: What shall I cry? Then spake it: That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field. When the grass withereth, the flower faileth away. Even so is, the people as grass, when the *breath of the Lord bloweth upon *them. Nevertheless, whether the grass wither, or the flower fade away: Yet the word of our God endureth forever. Moreover the voice cried thus: Go up unto the hill ( O Sion ) thou that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with power, O thou preacher Jerusalem. Lift it up without fear, and say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God, behold the Lord, even the Allmighty will come with power, and shall beare rule with his arm. Behold, he bringeth his treasure with him, and his works go before him. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that beare young.
Who hath holden the waters in his fist? Who hath measured heaven with his span, and hath comprehended all the earth of the world in three fingers? Who hath weighed the mountains and the hills? Or who is of his counsel to teach him? And who hath he asked counsel, to make him understand, and to learn him the way of judgement: to teach him science: and to instruct him in the way of understanding. Behold, all people are in comparison of him, as a drop to a bucket full, and are counted as the least thing that the balance weigheth. Behold, the Isles are in comparison of him, as the shadow of the *son beam. Libanus is not sufficient to minister fire for his offering, and all the beasts thereof are not enough to one sacrifice. All people in comparison of him are reckoned as nothing, yee vain vanity and emptiness.
To whom then will ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set up unto him? Shall the carver make him a carved image? and shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates? Moreover shall the image maker, that the poor man which is despoiled, may have something to set up also, seek out and choose a tree, that is not rotten, and carve thereout an image, that moveth not? Know ye not this ? Heard ye never of it ? Hath it not been preached unto you since the beginning? Have ye not been enformed of this since the foundation of the earth was layed: That he sitteth upon the circle of the world, and all the inhabitors of the world are in comparison of him, but as grasshoppers: That he spreadeth out the heavens as a *covering that he stretcheth them out, as a tent to dwell in: That he bringeth Princes to nothing, and the judges of the earth to dust: so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away like the straw in a whirlwind.
To whom now will ye liken me, and whom shall I be like, sayeth the holy one? Lift up your eyes on high, and consider. Who hath made those things, which come out by some great heaps? and can he call them all by names. For their is nothing hid unto the greatness of his power, strength, and might. Now then may Jacob think, or how may Israel say: My ways are hid from the Lord, and my God knoweth not my judgments. Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, which made all the corners of the earth, is neither weary nor faint: and that his wisdom can not be comprehended? but that he giveth strength to the weary, and power to the faint, and the strongest men fall: But unto them that have the Lord before their eyes, shall strength be increased, Eagles wings shall grow upon them: When they run, they shall not fall: and when they go, they shall not be weary.
Prepared the way *for (kjv and other bibles of man =of) the Lord in the wilderness *breath ( kjv and other bibles of man =the spirit) upon *them.(kjv and other bibles of man = it) This is the exact spelling; son. RN *covering (kjv and other bibles of man = curtain)
the Prophet Jeremie 2 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 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 strange 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? In 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
the Prophet Jeremie 5 Look through Jerusalem, behold and see: Seek through her streets also within, if ye can find one man, that doeth equal and right, or that laboreth to be faithful: and I shall spare him ( sayeth the Lord ) For though they can say: the Lord liveth, yet do they swear to deceive: Where as thou ( O' Lord ) lookest only upon faith and truth.
Thou hast scourged them, but they took no repentance: thou hast corrected them for amendment, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder than stone, and would not amend.
Therefore thought I in myself: *peradventure they are so simple and foolish, that they know nothing of the Lords way, and judgments of our God. Therefore will I go unto their heads and rulers, and talk with them: if they know the way of the Lord, and the judgments of our God. But these ( in like manner ) have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds in sunder.
Wherefore a lion out of the wood shall hurt them, and a wolf in the evening shall destroy them. The cat of the mountain shall lie lurking by their cities, to tare in pieces all of them, that come thereout. For their offenses are many, and their departing way is great. Should I then for all this have mercy upon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. And albeit (even if, even though) they were bound to me in marriage, yet they fell to *advoutry, and hunted harlots houses.
In the desire of uncleanly lust they are become like the stoned horse, every man neighed at his neighbors wife: Should I not correct this? saith the Lord.
Should I not be avenged of every people, that is like unto this? Climb up upon their walls and beat them down, but destroy them not utterly. Cut off their branches because they are not the Lords. For unfaithfully hath the house of Israel and Judah forsaken me, saith the Lord. They have denied the Lord, and said: It is not he. Tush, there shall no misfortune come upon us, we shall see neither sword nor hunger. As for the warning of the Prophets, they take it but for wind, yee there is none of these, which will tell them, that such things shall happen unto them.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of Hosts: Because ye speak such words, behold: The words that are in thy mouth will I turn to fire, and make the people to be wood, that it may consume them.
Lo, I will bring a people upon you from far, O house of Israel,( saith the Lord ) a mighty people, an old people, a people whos speech thou knowest not, neither understandeth what they say. Their arrows are sudden death, yee they themselves be very giants. This people shall eat up thy fruit and thy meat, yee they shall devour thy sons and thy daughters, thy sheep and thy bullocks.
They shall eat up thy grapes and figs. As for thy strong and well fenced cities, wherein thou didest trust, they shall destroy them with the sword. Nevertheless I will not then have done with you, saith the Lord. But if they say: wherefore doth the Lord our God all this unto us?
Then answer them: because, that like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, even so shall ye serve other gods also in a strange land. Preach this unto the house of Jacob, and cry it out in Judah, and say thus: Hear this ( thou foolish and undiscrete people ) ye have eyes, but ye see not: ears have ye, but hear not.
Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? Are ye not ashamed, to look me in the face? which bind the sea with the sand, so that it can not pass its bounds: for thou it rage, yet it can do nothing, and though the waves thereof do swell, yet may they not go over.
But this people hath a false and *obstinate heart, they are departed and gone away from me. They think not in their hearts: O let us fear the Lord our God, that giveth us rain, early and late, when need is: which keepeth ever still the harvest for us yearly.
Nevertheless your misdeeds have turned these from you, and your sins have robbed you hereof. For among my people are found wicked persons, that privately lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them. And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsehood and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches, hereof they are fat and wealthy, and blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.
Should I not punish these things, saith the Lord? should I not be avenged of all such people, as these be? Horrible and grievous things are done in the land.
The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therin. What will become thereof at the last.
*peradventure (perhaps, perchance) *advouterer: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to our living God, our father, mended of heart by Jesus; Yet here such are devoted to the flesh and houses of whoreship. see James 2 for adultery *obstinate= Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, an opinion, or a course of action;
the Prophet Jeremie 7 These are the words that God spake unto Jeremie: Stand under the gates of the Lords house, and cry out these words there, with a loud voice, and say: Hear the word of the Lord all ye of Judah, that go in this door, to honor the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel. Amend your ways and your counsels, and I will let you dwell in this place. Trust not in the false lying words, saying: saying here is the temple of the Lord, here is the temple of the Lord, here is the temple of the Lord.
For if ye amend your ways and your counsels, if ye will judge right between a man and his neighbor: If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow: if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place: if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction: then will I let you dwell in this place, yee in the land that I gave afore time unto your fathers forever. But take heed, yee trust in counsels, that beguile you and do you no good. For when ye have stolen, murdered, committed *advoutry, and *penury: When ye have offered unto Baal, following strange and unknown gods: Then come ye, and stand before me in this house, which hath my name given unto it, and say: Tush, we are absolved quiet, through we have done all these abominations.
What? Think you this house that beareth my name, is a den of thieves? And these things are not done privately, but before mine eyes, sayeth the Lord. Go to my place in *Siloh, where unto I gave my name afore time, and look well what I did to the same place for the wickedness of my people of Israel. And now, though ye have done all these deeds ( sayeth the Lord ) and I myself rose up ever by times to warn you and to commune with you, yet would ye not hear me: I called, ye would not answer. And therefore even as I have done to Siloh, so will I do to this house, that my name is given unto ( and that ye put your trust in ) ye unto the place that I have given to you and your fathers. And I shall thrust you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren the whole seed of Ephraim.
Therefore thou shalt not pray for this people, thou shalt neither give thanks, nor bid prayer for them : thou shalt make no intercession to me for them for in no wise will I hear thee. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem? The children gather sticks, the fathers kindle fire, the mothers knead the dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven.
They pour out drink offerings unto strange gods, to provoke me to wrath: How be it they hurt not me ( saith the Lord ) but rather confound, and shame themselves.
And therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, my wrath and my indignation shall be poured out upon this place, upon men and cattle upon the trees in the field and upon and all the fruit of the land, and it shall burn so, that no man may quench it.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Yee heap up your burnt offerings with your sacrifices, and eat flesh. But when I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I spake no word unto them of burntofferings and sacrifices: but this I commanded them, saying: hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.
But they were not obedient, they inclined not their ears there unto, but went after their own imaginations and after the motions of their own wicked heart, and so turned themselves away, and converted not unto me. And this have they done, from the time that your fathers came out of Egypt, unto this day.
Nevertheless, I sent unto them my servants all the prophets: I rose up early and sent them word, yet would they not hearken, ner offer me their ears, but were obstinate and worse than their fathers. And thou shalt now speak all these words unto them, but they shall not hear thee: thou shalt cry upon them, but they shall not answer thee. Therefore shalt thou say unto them: this is the people, that neither heareth the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth his correction. Faithfulness and truth is clean rooted out of their mouth.
Wherefor cut off thine hair, and cast it away, take up a complaint in the whole land for the Lord shall cast away, and scatter the people, that he is displeased withal. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord. They have set up their abominations, in the house that hath my name, and have defiled it. They have also builded an altar at Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hennom: that they might burn their sons and their daughters, which I never commanded them, neither came it ever to my thought. And therefore behold, the days shall come ( saith the Lord ) that it shall no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the children of Hennom, but the valley of the slain, for in Topheth, they shall be buried, because they shall else have no room. Yee the dead bodies of this people shall be eaten up of the fowls of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, and no man shall fraie (scare) them away. And as for the voice of mirth and gladness of the cities of Judah, and Jerusalem the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: I will make them cease, for the land shall be desolate.
*penury (to cause poverty) *advoutry: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, caused others to be devoted to something other than the living God. see James 2 for adultery. *Shiloh = "place of rest"
the Prophet Jeremie 17 Your sin ( O ye of the tribe of Judah ) is written in the table of your hearts, and graven so upon the edges of your altars with a pen of iron and with an adamant claw: that your children also may think upon your altars, woods, thick trees, high hills, mountains and fields. Wherefore, I will make all your substance and treasure be spoiled, for the great sin that ye have done upon your high places throughout all the coasts of your land. Ye shall be cast out also from the heritage, that I gave you. And I will subdue you under the heavy bondage of your enemies, in a land that ye know not. For ye have ministered fire to my indignation, which shall burn evermore. Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, that taketh flesh for his arm: and he, whose heart departeth from the Lord. He shall be like the *heeth that groweth in the wilderness. As for the good thing that is for to come, he shall not see it : but dwell in a dry place of the wilderness, in a salt and unoccupied land. O blessed is the man, that putteth his trust in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord himself. For he shall be as a tree, that is planted by the water side: which spreadeth out the root unto moistness, whom the heat can not harm, when it cometh, but his leaves are green. And though there grow but little fruit because of drought, yet is he not careful, but he never leaveth off to bring forth fruit. Among all things living, man hath the most disceitful and unsearchable heart.
Who shall then know it? Even I the Lord search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels.
The disceitful maketh a nest, but bring forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life he must leave them behind him, and at the last be found very fool. But thou ( O' Lord ) whose throne is most glorious, excellent and most adequate, which dwelleth in the place of our holy rest: Thou art the comfort of Israel. All they that forsake thee, shall be confounded: all they that depart from thee, shall be written in earth, for they have forsaken the Lord the very *condite of the waters of life.
Heal me, O' Lord, and I shall be whole: save me, and I shall be saved, for thou art my praise. Behold, these men say unto me: Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come. Where as I nevertheless leading the flock in thy ways, have compelled none by violence. For I never desired any mans death, this knowest thou well. My words also are right before thee. Be not now terrible unto me, O' Lord, for thou art he in whom I hope, when I am in peril. Let my persecutors be confounded, but not me: let them be afraid, and not me. Thou shalt bring upon them the time of their plague, and shall destroy them right sore.
Again, thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go stand under the gate, where through the people and the kings of Juda go out and in, yee under all the gates of Jerusalem, and say unto them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all thou people of Juda, and all ye citizens of Jerusalem, that go through this gate: Thus the Lord commandeth: Take heed for your lives, that ye carry no burden upon you in the Sabbath, to bring it through the gates of Jerusalem: ye shall bear no burden also out of your houses in the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers. How be it they obeyed me not, neither harkened they unto me: but were obstinate and stubborn, and neither obeyed me, nor received my correction. Nevertheless, if ye will hear me (sayeth the Lord ) and bear no burden in to the city through this gate upon the Sabbath: If ye will hallow the Sabbath, so that ye do no work therin: then shall there go through the gates of this city, kings and princes, that shall sit upon the stool of David: They shall be carried upon chariots, and ride upon horses, both they and their princes. Yee whole Juda and all the citizens of Jerusalem shall go here through, and this city shall ever be the more and more inhabited. There shall come men also from the cities of Judah, from about Jerusalem, and from the land of Ben Jamin, from the plain fields, from the mountains and from the wilderness: which shall bring burntofferings, sacrifices, oblations, and incense, and offer up thanksgiving in the house of the Lord. But if ye will not be obedient unto me, to hallow the Sabbath: so that ye will bear your burdens through the gates of Jerusalem upon the Sabbath: Then shall I set fire upon the gates of Jerusalem, and it shall burn up the houses of Jerusalem, and no man shall quench it.
*heeth (low shrub) *condite (conduit: fountain )
the Prophet Jeremie 30 These are the words that the Lord showed Jeremie, saying: Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: Write up diligently all the words, that I have spoken unto thee, in a book. For lo, the time cometh ( saith the Lord ) that I will bring again the prisoners of my people of Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: For I will restore them unto the land, that I gave to their fathers, and they shall have it in possession.
Again, these words spake the Lord, concerning Israel and Judah: Thus saith the Lord: We hear a terrible cry, fear and disquietness. For what else does this signify, that I see? Namely, that all strong men smite, every man his hand upon his loins, as a woman in the pain of her travail. Who ever saw a man travail with child? Enquire there after, and see. Yee all their faces are marvelous pale.
Alas for this day, which is so dreadful, that none may be likened unto it: and alas for the time of Jacobs trouble, from the which he shall yet be delivered. For in that day, saith the Lord, I will take his yoke from off thy neck, and break thy bonds. They shall no more serve strange Gods under him, but they shall do service unto God their Lord, and to David their King, whom I will raise up unto them. And as for thee, O my servant Jacob, fear not ( saith the Lord ) and be not afraid, O Israel. For lo, I will help thee also from far, and thy seed from the land of their captivity. And Jacob shall turn again, he shall be in rest, and have a prosperous life, and no man shall make him afraid. For I am with thee, to help thee, saith the Lord. And though I shall destroy all the people, among whom I have scattered thee, yet will I not destroy thee, but correct thee, and that with discretion. For I know, that thou art in no wise without *faute. Therefore thus saith the Lord: I am sorry for thy hurt and thy wounds. There is no man to meddle with thy cause: or to bind up thy wounds: there may no man help thee.
All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and care nothing for thee. For I have given thee a cruel stroke, and chastened thee roughly: and that for the multitude of thy misdeeds, for thy sins have had the over hand. Why makest thou moan for thy harm? I myself have pity of thy sorrow, but for the multitude of thy misdeeds and sins, I have done this unto you.
And therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured, and all thine enemies shall be led in to captivity. All they that make thee waste, shall be wasted themselves: and all those that rob thee, will I make also to be robbed. For I will give thee thy health again and make thy wounds whole, sayeth the Lord: because they reviled thee, as one cast away and despised, O Sion.
For thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will set up Jacobs tents again, and defend his dwelling place. The city shall be builded in her old estate, and their houses shall have their right foundation. And out of them shall go thanksgiving, and the voice of joy.
I will multiply them, and they shall not minish: I shall endue them with honor, and no man shall subdue them. Their children shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall continue in my sight. And all those that vex them shall I visit.
A captain also shall come of them, and a prince shall spring out from the middest of them: him will I challenge to myself, and he shall come unto me. For what is he, that giveth over his heart to come unto me? sayeth the Lord. Ye shall be my people also, and I will be your God. Behold, on the other side shall the wrath of the Lord break out as a stormy water, as a mighty whistle wind: and shall fall upon the heads of the ungodly.
The terrible displeasure of the Lord shall not leave off, until he have done, and performed the intent of his heart, which in the latter days ye shall understand. At the same time ( sayeth the Lord ) shall I be the God of all the generations of Israel, and they shall be my people.
*faute (fault, the lack of something better).
the Prophet Jeremie 31 Thus saith the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wilderness from the sword, found grace to come to their rest. Even so shall the Lord now also appear unto me from far, and say: I love thee with an everlasting love, therefore do I spread my mercy before thee. I will repair thee again ( O thou daughter Israel ) that thou mayest be fast and sure. Thou shalt take thy tabrets again, and go forth with them, that lead the dance.
Thou shalt plant vines again upon the hills of Samaria, and the grape gathers shall plant and sing.
And when it is time, the watchmen upon the mount of Ephraim shall cry: Arise, let us go up unto Sion to our Lord God, for thus saith the Lord: Rejoice with gladness because of Jacob, cry unto the head of the Gentiles: speak out, sing, and say: the Lord shall deliver his people, the remnant of Israel, and make them whole.
Behold, I will bring them again from out of the north land, and gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and the lame that are among them, with the women that be great with child, and such as also be delivered: and the company of them that come again, shall be great.
They departed from hence in heaviness, but with joy will I bring them hither again. I will lead them by the rivers of water in a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be Israels father, and Ephraim shall be my firstborn.
Hear the word of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, preach in the Isles, that lay far off, and say: He that hath scattered Israel, shall gather him together again, and shall keep him as a shepherd doth his flock. For the Lord shall redeem Jacob, and rid from the hand of the violent. And they shall come, and rejoice upon the hill of Sion, and shall have plenteous of goods, which the Lord shall give them: Namely, wheat, wine, oil, young sheep and calves. And their conscience shall be as a well watered garden, for they shall no longer be hungry.
Then shall the maid rejoice in the dance, yee both young and old folks. For I will turn their sorrow to gladness, and will comfort them and make them joyful, even from their hearts. I will pour plenteousness upon the hearts of the priests, and my people shall be satisfied with good things, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord: The voice of heaviness, weeping and lamentation came up in to heaven: even of Rachel mourning for her children, and would not be comforted because they were away.
But now saith the Lord: Leave off from weeping, and crying, withhold thine eyes from tears, for thy labor shall be rewarded, saith the Lord. And they shall come again out of the land of their enemies: Yee even thy posterity shall have consolation in this ( sayeth the Lord ) that thy children shall come again into their own land.
Moreover I have heard Ephraim, that was led away captive, complain on this manner: O' Lord, thou hast corrected me, and thy chastening have I received, as a untamed calf. Convert thou me, and I shall be converted, for thou art my Lord God. Yee as soon as thou turnest me, I shall reform me myself: and when I understand, I shall smite upon my thigh. For verily I have committed shameful things: O let my youth bear this reproof and confusion.
Upon this complaint, I thought thus by my self: Is not Ephraim my dear son? Is he not the child? with whom I have had all mirth and pastime? for since the time that i first communed with him, I have him ever in remembrance: therefore my heart driveth me unto him, gladly and lovingly will I have mercy upon him, sayeth the Lord. Get the watchman, provide teachers for thee set thine heart upon the right way, that thou shouldest walk, and turn again ( O thou daughter of Israel ) turn again to these cities of thine. How long wilt thou go astray, O thou shrinking daughter? For the Lord will work a new thing upon the earth: A woman shall compass a man.
For thus sayeth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: It will come thereto, that when I have brought Juda out of captivity, these words shall be heard in the land and in his cities: The Lord, which is the fair bridegroom of righteousness, make thee fruitful O thou holy hill: And there shall dwell Juda, and all her cities, the shepherds and husbandmen: For I shall feed the hungry soul, and refresh all faint hearts. When I hear this I came again to myself, and mused, like as I had been waked out of a sweet sleep.
Behold ( sayeth the Lord ) the days come, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with men and with cattle. Yee it shall come thereto, that like as I have gone about in times past to root them out, to scatter them, to break them down, to destroy them and chasten them: Even so will I also go diligently about, to build them up again, and to plant them, saith the Lord.
Then shall it no more be said: the fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge: for every one shall die for his own misdeed, so that who so eateth a sower grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Behold, the days come ( saith the Lord ) that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will plant my law in their inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And from thenceforth shall no man teach his neighbor or his brother, and say: Know the Lord: But they shall all know me, from the lowest unto the highest, saith the Lord. For I will forgive their misdeeds, and will never remember their sins any more. Thus saith the Lord which give the sun to be a light for the day, and the moon and stars to shine in the night: which moveth the sea, so that the floods thereof wax fierce: his name is the Lord of hosts. Like as this ordinance shall never be taken out of my sight, saith the Lord: So shall the seed of Israel never cease, but all way be a people before me.
However, thus saith the Lord: like as the heaven above can not be measured, and as the foundations of the earth beneath may not be sought out: So will I also not cast out the whole seed of Israel, for that they have committed, saith the Lord. Behold the days come saith the Lord, that the city of the Lord shall be enlarged from the town of Hananeel, unto the gate of the corner wall. From thence shall be the right measure be taken before her unto the hill top of Gareb, and shall come about Gaath, and the whole valley of the dead carcasses, and of the ashes, and all Ceremoth unto the brook of Cedron: and thence unto the corner of the horse gate toward the East, whereas the Sanctuary of the Lord also shall be set. And when it is now builded, and set up of this fashion it shall never be broken, nor cast down any more.
the Prophet Jeremie 32 These words spake the Lord unto Jeremy, in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, what time as the king of Babylons Host layed siege unto Jerusalem. But Jeremy the prophet lay bound in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judahs house: where Zedekiah king of Judah caused him to be layed, because he had prophesied of this manner: Thus saith the Lord: Behold: I will deliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, which shall take it. As for Zedekiah king of Judah, he shall not be able to escape the Caldees, but surely he shall come into the hands of the king of Babylon: which shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and one of them shall look another in the face. And Zedekiah shall be carried unto Babylon, and there shall he be, until the time that I visit him, saith the Lord. But if thou takest in hand to fight against the Caldees, thou shalt not prosper.
And Jeremy said: Thus hath the Lord spoken unto me: Behold, Hananeel the son of Selum thine Uncles son shall come unto thee, and require thee to redeem the land, that lieth in Anathoth unto thyself: for by reason of kindred it is thy part to redeem it, and to buy it out.
And so Hananeel mine uncles son came to me in the court of the prison
( according to the word of the Lord ) and said unto me: Buy my land ( I pray thee ) that lieth in Anathoth in the country of Ben Jamin: for by heritage thou hast right to loose it out for thyself, therefore redeem it. Then I perceived, that this was the commandment of the Lord, and so I loosed the land from Hananeel of Anathoth, my Uncles son, and weighed him there the money: even seven *sicles, and ten silver pens.
I cause him also to make me a writing, and to seal it, and called record thereby, and weighed him there the money upon the weights. So I took the evidence with the copy ( when it was orderly sealed and read over ) and I gave the evidence unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hananeel my cousin, and in the presence of the witnesses, that be named in the evidence, and before all the Jews that were thereby in the court of the prison.
I charged Baruch also before them, saying: The Lord of Hosts the God of Israel commandeth thee, to take this sealed evidence with the copy, and lay it in an earthen vessel, that it may long continue.
For the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel hath determined, that houses, fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
Now when I had delivered the evidence unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I besought the Lord, saying: O' Lord God, It is thou that hast made the heaven and earth with thy great power and high arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. Thou showest mercy upon thousands, thou recompenses the wickedness of the fathers, into the bosom of the children come after them.
Thou art the great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of Hosts: great in counsel, and infinite in thought: Thine eyes look upon all the ways of mens children, to reward every one after his way, and according to the fruits of his inventions: Thou hast done great tokens and wonders in the land of Egypt, ( as we see this day ) upon the people of Israel and upon those men: to make thy name great, as it is come to pass this day: Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with tokens, with wonders, with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm and with great terribleness: and hast given them this land, like as thou haddest promised unto their fathers: Namely, that thou wouldest give them a land, that floweth with milk and honey.
Now when they came therin, and possessed it, they followed not thy voice, and walked not in thy law: but all that thou commandedst them to do, that have they not done, and therefore come all these plagues upon them.
Behold, there are bulwarks made now against the city, to take it: and it shall be won of the Caldees that besiege it, with sword, with hunger and death, and look what thou hast spoken, that same shall come upon them.
For lo, all things are present unto thee: Yet sayest thou unto me ( O' Lord God) and commandest me, that I shall loose a piece of land unto myself, and take witness thereto: and yet in the mean season the city is delivered in to the power of the Caldees.
Then came the word of the Lord unto me, saying: Behold, I am the Lord God of all flesh, is there any thing then too hard for me? Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold, I shall deliver this city into the power of the Caldees, and into the power of Nabuchodonosor the King of Babylon, they shall take it in: For the Caldees shall come, and win this city, and set fire upon it, and burn it: with the gorgeous houses, in whose parlors they have made sacrifice unto Baal, and poured drink offerings unto strange Gods, to provoke me unto wrath.
For seeing the children of Israel, and the children of Judah have wrought wickedness before me ever from their youth up, what have they else done, but provoked me with the works of their own hands? saith the Lord.
Or, what hath this city been else, but a provoking of my wrath, ever since the day that I builded it, unto this hour? Wherein I cast it out of my sight, because of the great blasphemes of the children of Israel and Judah, which they have done to provoke me: yee they, their kings, their princes, their Priests, their Prophets, whole Judah, and all the citizens of Jerusalem.
When i stood up early, and taught them and instructed them, they turned their backs to me, and not their faces. They would not hear, to be reformed and correct. They have set their Gods in the house, that is hallowed unto my name, to defile it. They builded high places for Baal in the valley of the children of Hennom, to vow their sons and daughters unto Molech: which I never commanded them, neither came it ever in my thought, to make Judah sin with such abomination.
Moreover thus hath the Lord God of Israel spoken, concerning this city, which
( as ye yourselves confess ) shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, when it is won with the sword, with hunger and with pestilence. Behold, I will gather them together from all lands, wherein I have scattered them in my wrath, in my fearful and great displeasure: and will bring them again unto this place, where they shall dwell safely. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all the days of their life, that they and their children after them may prosper. And I will set up an everlasting covenant with them, Namely: that I will never cease to do them good, and that I will put my fear in their hearts, so that they shall not run away from me.
Yee I will have a lust and pleasure to do them good, and faithfully to plant them in this land, with my whole heart and with all my soul.
For thus saith the Lord: Like as I have brought all this great plague upon this people: so will I also bring upon them all the good, that I have promised them. And men shall have their possessions in this land, whereof ye say now, that it shall neither be inhabited of people ner cattle, but be delivered into the hands of the Caldees. Yee land shall be bought for money, and evidences made there upon and sealed before witnesses in the land of Ben Jamin, and round about Jerusalem: in the cities of Judah, in the cities that are upon the mountains, and in them that lie beneath, yee and in the cities that are in the desert. For I will bring their prisoners hither again, saith the Lord.
*sicles (shekels; unit of money ),
the Prophet Jeremie 46 Here follow the words of the Lord to the prophet Jeremy which he spake unto the Gentiles. These words following preached he to the Egyptians concerning the Host of Pharao Necho king of Egypt, when was in Carcamis beside the water of Euphrates: what time as Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon slew him, In the fourth year of Jehoakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
Ye make ready buckler and shield, ye go forth to fight: Ye harness your horses, and set yourselves upon them: Ye set your *salettes fast on, ye bring forth your spears, ye scour your swords, and put on your breastplates.
But alas, how happeneth it, that I see you so afraid? why shrink ye back? Wherefore are your worthies slain: Yee they run so fast away, that none of them look behind him. Fearfulness is fallen upon every one of them saith the Lord. The lightest of foot shall not flee away, and the worthies shall not escape.
Toward the north by the river Euphrates, they shall stumble and fall. But what is he this, that swelleth up, as it were a flood, roaring and raging like the streams of water? It is Egypt that riseth up like a flood, and casteth out the waters with so great noise.
For they say: We will go up, and will cover the earth: we will destroy the cities, with them that dwell therin. Get you to horse back roll forth the Chariots, come forth ye worthies: ye Morains, ye Libeans with your bucklers, ye Libeans with your bows: So shall this day be unto the Lord God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies. The sword shall devour, it shall be satisfied and bathed in their blood: For the Lord God of Hosts shall have a slayen offering toward the North, by the water of Euphrates. Go up, ( O Gilead ) and bring *triacle unto the daughter of Egypt:
But in vain shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wound shalt not be stopped. The Heathen shall hear of thy shame, and the land shall be full of thy confusion: for one strong man shall stumble upon another, how then should they not fall both together.
These are the words that the Lord spake to the prophet Jeremy, concerning the host of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, which was sent to destroy the land of Egypt. Preach out through the land of Egypt, and cause it to be proclaimed at Magdal, Memphis, and Thaphnis, and say: Stand still, make there die, for the sword shall consume thee round about.
How happeneth it that thy mighty worthies are fallen? why stood they not fast? Even because the Lord thrust them down. The slaughter was great, for one fell ever still upon another. One cried upon another: Up, let us go again to our own people, and to our own natural country, from the sword of our enemy.
Cry even there: O Pharao king of Egypt, the time will bring sedition. As truly as I live ( sayeth the king, whose name is the Lord of Hosts ) it shall come as the mount of Thabor, and as Libanus if it stood in the sea. O thou daughter of Egypt make ready thy gear to flit. For Memphis shall be void desolate, so that no man shall dwell therin. The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calf, but one shall come out of the north to prick her forward. Her waged soldiers that be with her, are like fat calves.
They also shall flee away together, and not abide: for the day of their slaughter and the time of their visitation shall come upon them.
The cry of their enemies shall make a noise, as the blast of a trumpet. For they shall enter in with their host, and come with axes, as it were hewers of wood. And they shall cut down her wood, saith the Lord, without any discretion. For they shall be more in number than the grasshoppers, so that no man shall be able to tell them. The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded when she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.
Moreover sayeth the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will visit that restless people of Alexandria, Pharao and Egypt, yee both their gods and their Kings: even Pharao, and all them that put their trust in him. Yee I will deliver them into the hands of those, that seek after their lives Namely into the power of Nabuchodonosor the King of Babylon, and in to the power of his servants. And after all these things it shall be inhabited as afore time, saith the Lord.
But be not thou afraid ( O my servant Jacob ) fear thou not, O Israel. For lo, I will help thee from far, and thy seed from the land of thy captivity. Jacob also shall come again, and be in rest: he shall be rich, and no man shall do him harm. Fear thou not, ( O Jacob my servant ) saith the Lord, for I am with thee: and I will destroy all nations, among whom I have scattered thee. Nevertheless I will not consume thee, but chasten thee and correct thee: yee and that with discretion: neither will I spare thee as one that were faultless.
*salettes (helmets) *triacle * bored speech, medicinal ointment, molasses.
The Book of Judith 8 (excluded from most "bibles of men") And it happened when these words came to the ears of Judith a widow, which was the daughter of Merari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the son of Osiah, the son of Elia, the son of Jedeon, the son of Raphoim, the son of Achitob, the son of Melchia, the son of Euam, the son of Nathania, the son of Salathiel, the son of Simeon, the son of Ruben. And her husband was called Manasses, which died in the days of the barley harvest. For while he was binding the sheaves together in the field, the heat came upon his head, and he died at Bethulia his city, and there was he buried beside his fathers. Now was Judith his desolate widow three years and six months. And in the higher parts of her house she made herself a *privy chamber, where she dwelt, being closed in with her maidens. She wore a smock of hair, and fasted all the days of her life, except the Sabbaths, and new moons and solemn days that the people of Israel kept. She was a very fair and beautiful person. Her husband had also left her great riches, and plenteous household, great unmovable possessions and many cattle. This Judith was a woman of very good report with everyone, for she feared the Lord greatly, and there was no body that spake an evil word of her.
When this Judith heard, how Osias had promised the people, that after the fifth day he would give up the city unto the Assyrians, she sent for the elders Chambri and Charmin, and when they came to her, she said: what thing is this, wherein Osias hath consented, that if God help not within five days, he will give over the city to the Assyrians ? What are ye, that ye tempt the Lord ? This devise obtaineth no mercy of God, but provoketh him unto wrath and displeasure. Will ye set the mercy of the Lord a time and appoint him a day after your will ?
Nevertheless for so much as the Lord is patient, let us rather amend ourselves, pouring out tears, and beseeching him of grace. For God threateneth not as a man, neither will he be provoked into wrath as the children of men. And therefore let us heartily fall down before him, and serve him with a meek spirit, and with weeping eyes say unto the Lord, that he deal with us according to his own will and mercy: that like as our heart is now vexed, and brought low through the pride of them, it may so be comforted through his grace: in so much as we follow not the sins of our forefathers, which forsook their God, and worshiped other Gods: for the which sin they perished with the sword, were spoiled and brought to shame of all their enemies. As for us, we know none other God but only him, for whose comfort let us tarry with meekness. He shall require and make inquisition for our blood, from the vexations of our enemies: he shall bring down all the Heathen, that rise up against us, and put them to dishonor, even the Lord our God.
Therefore dear brethren, seeing ye are the honorable and elders in the people of God, unto whom all the people have respect, and upon whom the life of the people standeth, lift up their hearts with your exhortation, that they may call to remembrance, how our fathers also in times past were tempted, that they may be proved, if they worshiped their God aright. They ought to remember, how our father Abraham being tempted, and tried through many tribulations, was found a lover and friend of God. So was Isaac, so was Jacob, so was Moses, and all they pleased God, being tried through many troubles, were found steadfast in faith. Again, they that received not their *tentations with the fear of God, but put themselves forth with *unpatiency and murmuring against God, perished of the destroyer, and were slain of serpents. And therefore should not we undertake to be avenged, for the thing that is done to us: but consider, that all these punishments are far less than our sins and misdeeds. Believing also, that this correction cometh to unto us ( as to the servants of God ) for amendment, and not for our destruction.
Then said Osias and the elders unto Judith: All that thou speakest, is true, and no man can reprove thy words. Pray thou for us now therefore unto God, for thou art an holy woman, and fearest God. And Judith said unto them: seeing you know, that my words are of God, then prove my counsel and devise, if it be of God: and beseech God, that he will bring my counsel to good end.
Thus have I devised: Ye shall stand this night before the port, and I will go forth with Abra my maiden: Pray ye therefore unto God, that he will graciously remember his people of Israel within five days, as ye have said. As for the thing that I go in hand withal, ask ye no questions of it, till I open it unto you myself: do ye nothing else but pray unto the Lord your God for me. Then Osias the prince of the people of Juda said unto her: Go thy way in peace the Lord be with thee, that we may be avenged of our enemies. And so they went from her again.
*privy (private) *tentations (intents, temptations) *unpatiency (impatience)
Second Book of Machabees 6 (excluded from most "bibles of men") Not long after this, sent the king a messenger of *Antioche, for to compel the Jews to alter the ordinances of their fathers and the law of God, to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that they should be in Garizim, as those which dwell at the place of Jupiter the *herberous. This wicked sedition of the ungodly was heavy upon all the people: for the temple was full of voluptuousness, *bibbing and *boiling of the Heathen, of *ribauds and harlots together. The women went into the holy place, and bare in that was not lawful. The altar also was full of unlawful things, which the law forbiddeth to lay upon it. The Sabbaths were not kept, the other solemn feasts of the land were not regarded. To be plain, there durst no man be a known that he was a Jew. In the day of the kings birth they were compelled *parforce to offer: and when the feast of Bach was kept, they were constrained to wear garlands of ivy, and so to go about for the honor of Bachus.
Moreover through the counsel of Ptolemy, there went out a commandment in the next cities of the Heathen, that they should entreat the Jews in like manner: namely, to compel them for to do sacrifice after the laws of the Gentiles: and who so would not, to put them to death. A piteous thing was it to see. There were two women accused to have circumcised their sons, whom when they had led round about the city ( the babies hanging from their breasts ) they cast them down headlong over the walls. Some that were crept in to dens and kept the Sabath, were accused unto Philippe, and burnt in the fire: because that for the fear of God they kept the commandment so stiffly, and would not defend themselves. Now I beseech all those that read this book, that they refuse it not for all these falls of adversity: and judge the things ( that are happened ) for no destruction, but for a chastening of our people. And why? When God suffereth not sinners long to follow their own mind, but *shorthly, it is a token of his great loving kindness. For this grace have we of God more than other people, that he suffereth not us long to sin unpunished like other nations, that when the day of judgement cometh, he may punish them in the fullness of their sins. If we sin, he correcteth us, but he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people. But let this that we have spoken now with few words, be for a warning and exhortation of the Heathen. Now will we come to the declaring of the matter. Eleazar one of the principal Scribes, an aged man and of a well favored countenance, was constrained to gape with open mouth and to eat swines flesh. But he *desiring rather to die gloriously than to live with shame, he offered himself willingly to the martyrdom. Now when he saw that he must needs go to it, he took it patiently: for he was at a point with himself, that he would consent to no unlawful thing for any pleasure of life. They that stood by being moved with pity ( but not aright ) for the old friendship of the man, took him aside privately, and prayed him that he would let such flesh be brought him as were lawful to eat, and then to make a countenance as though he had eaten the flesh of the sacrifice like as the king commanded, for so he might be delivered from death: and so for the old friendship of the man, they showed him this kindness. But he began to consider his discreet and honorable age, his noble and worshipful *stoke, and how that from his youth up he had been of an honest and good conversation: yee and how constantly he had kept the ordinances and laws commanded by God, wherefore he gave them this answer, and said: Yet had I rather first be laid in my grave. For it becometh not my age ( sayeth he) in any wise to disassemble, whereby many young persons might think, that Eleazar being ninety years old were now gone to a strange life: and so through mine hippocracy ( for a little time of *a transitory life ) they might be deceived: by this means also should I defile mine age, and make it abominable. For though I were now delivered from the torment of men, yet should I not escape the hand of almighty God, neither alive or dead. Wherefore I will die manfully, and do as it becometh my age: Whereby I may peradventure leave an example of steadfastness for such as be young, if I with a ready mind and manfully die an honest death, for the most worthy and holy law.
When he had said these words, immediately he was drawn to the torment. Now they that led him and were mild alittle afore, began to take displeasure because of the words that he said: for they thought he had spoken them of a high mind. But when he was in his martyrdom, he mourned and said : Thou ( O' Lord ) which hast the holy knowledge, knowest openly: that where as I might be delivered from death, I suffer these sore pains of my body: but in my mind I am well content to suffer them, because I fear thee. Thus this man died, leaving the memorial of his death for an example, not only to young men, but unto all people, to be steadfast and manly.
*Antioche, (kjv of Athens) *herberous (this is the exact spelling: may be harborous) . *bibbing (excessive drinking of alcohol) *boiling (to be stirred up, delirious, wild) *ribauds (vulgar, lewd humorers) *parforce (perforce; by force) *shorthly (shorteshly/ surely) *desiring (kjv=choosing) *stoke (what he was stirred by), ( for a little time of a *transitory (short lived) life )
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Job 7 Is not the life of man upon earth a battle? Are not his days like the days of an hired servant? For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as an hireling would faine have an end of his work: Even so have I labored whole months long ( but in vain ) and many a careful night have I told. When I layed me down to sleep, I said: O' when shall I rise? Again, I longed for the night. Thus am I full of sorrow, till it be dark. My flesh is clothed with worms, filthiness and dust: my skin is withered, and crumpled together: my days pass over more speedily, than a weaver can weave out his web: and are gone, or I am at war. O' remember, that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof, yee and that none other mans eye shall see me anymore. For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, even so he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up, nor turneth again into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit, in that bitterness of my mind will I talk. Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison? When I think: my bed shall comfort me. I shall have some refreshing by talking by myself upon my couch: Then troublest thou me with dreams, and makest me so afraid through visions, that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.
I can see no remedy, I shall live no more: O' spare me then, for my days are but vain. What is man, that thou hast him in such reputation, and setest so much by him? Thou takest diligent care for him, and suddenly doest thou try him.
Why goest thou not from me, nor letest me alone, so long till I swallow down my spittle? I have offended, what shall I do unto thee, O' thou preserver of men? Why hast thou made me to stand in thy way, and am so heavy a burden unto to myself? Why doest thou not forgive my sin? Wherefore takest thou not away my wickedness. Behold, now must I sleep in the dust: And if thou seekest me tomorrow in the morning, I shall be gone.
Job 16 Job answered, and said: I have often times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the fort of you. Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say? I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my souls stead.: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you. I should comfort you with my mouth, and release your pain with the talking of my lips. But what shall I do? For all my words, my sorrow will not cease: and though I hold my tongue, yet will it not depart from me. And now that I am full of pain, and all that I have destroyed ( whereof my wrinkles bare witness ) there standeth up a disassembler to make me answer with lies to my face. He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy schooleth upon me with his eyes.
They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversary. God hath given me over to the ungodly. I was some time in wealth, but suddenly he hath brought me to nought. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at. He hath compassed me round about with his darts, he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground. He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant. I have sowed sack cloth upon my skin, and lay with my strength in the dust.
My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim. Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean. O' earth, cover not my blood, and let my crying find no room. For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height. My friends laugh me to scorn, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. Though a body might plead with God, as one man doeth another, yet the number of my years are come, and I must go the way, from whence I shall not turn again.
Job 17 My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at deaths door. I have deceived no man, yet must mine eye continue in heaviness. O' deliver me and set me by thee: who shall then be able to thrust my hands together? Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high. He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it. He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them. My countenance is heavy for very anger, and the members of my body are become like a shadow. Virtuous men therefore shall well consider this, an innocent shall take part against the hypocrite.
The righteous will keep his way, and he that hath clean hands, will ever be stronger and stronger. As for you, turn you, and get you hence, for I can not see one wise man among you. My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart, changing the night into day, and the light into darkness. Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister. What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing, that I look for? All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lay with me in the dust.
Job 39 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth their young amongst the stoney rocks? Or layest thou wait when the hinds use to fawn? reckonest thou the months after they engender, that thou knowest the time of their bearing? or when they lay down when they cast their young ones, and when they are deliver of their travail and pain? How their young ones grow up and wax great through good feeding? who letteth the wild ass go free, or who looseth the bonds of the mule? Unto whom have I given the wilderness to be their house, and the untilled land to be their dwelling place. That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver: but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass. Will the unicorn be so tame as to do that service, or abide still by thy crib? Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys? Mayest thou trust him ( because he is strong ) or commit thy labor unto him? Mayest thou believe him, that he will bring home the corn, or carry anything unto the barn? The Ostrich ( whose feathers are fairer than the wings of a sparrow hawk ) when he hath layed his eggs upon the ground, he *bredeth them in the dust, and forgetteth them: so that they might be trodden upon with feet, or broken with some wild beast. So hard is he to his young ones, as though they were not his, and laboureth in vain without any fear. And that because God hath taken wisdom from him, and hath not given him understanding. When his time is, he flyeth up on high, and careth neither for horse nor man.
Hast thou given the horse his strength? or learned him to bow down his neck in fear: that he let himself be driven forth like a grasshopper, where as the stout neying that he maketh, is fearful? he breaketh the ground with the hoofs of his feet cheerfully in his strength, and runneth to meet the harness men. He layeth aside all fear, his stomach is not abated, neither starteth he back for any sword. Though the quivers rattle upon him, though the spear and shield glister: yet rusheth he in fearlessly, and beateth upon the ground. He feareth not the noise of the trumpets, but as soon as he heareth the shawmes blow, tush ( sayeth he ) for he smelleth the battle afar off, the noise, the Captains and the shouting.
Cometh it through thy wisdom, that the Goshawk flyeth toward the South? Doth the Eagle mount up, and make her nest on high, at thy commandment? He abideth in the stoney rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come. From thence may he behold his pray, and look far about with his eyes. His young ones are feed with blood, and where any dead body layeth, there he is immediately.
Moreover, God spake unto Job and said: Can he that striveth with the almighty, be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer? Job answered the Lord, saying: Behold, I am too vile a person, to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth. Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more.
Job 42 Then Job answered the Lord, and said: I know that you have power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto you. For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things that are so high, and passed mine understanding. O' hearken unto me also, and let me speak: answer unto the thing that I will ask you. I have given diligent ear unto you, and now I see you with mine eyes. Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes.
Now when the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphas the Themanite: I am displeased with you and your two friends, for you have spoken the thing that is not right before me, like as my servant Job has done. Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that you have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job has done.
So Eliphas the Themanite, Baldad the Suhite and Sophar the Naamathite went there way, and did according as the Lord commanded them. The Lord also accepted the person of Job, and the Lord turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yes the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house, wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble, that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold.
And the Lord made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses. He had children also, seven sons and three daughters. *The first called Day: the second called Poverty: the third called All plenteousness. In all the land were none found so fair, as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. After this Job lived* forty years, so that he saw his children, his childrens children to the fourth generation, And so he died, being old and of a perfect age.kjv and other bibles of man = name of the first, Jemima: and the name of the second, Kezia: and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years,
Psalmes 7 Lord my God, in thee do I trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. Lest he *hantche up my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help.
O' Lord my God, if I have done any such thing, if there be any unrighteousness in my hands: If I have rewarded evil unto them that dealt friendly with me, or hurt them that without any cause are mine enemies: Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me: yee, let him tread my life down in the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust. Selah.
Stand up ( O' Lord ) in thy wrath, lift up thyself over the furious indignation of mine enemies: arise up ( for me ) in the vengeance that thou hast promised.
That the congregation of the people may come about thee, for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again.
The Lord is judge over the people: avenge me then (O' Lord) according to my righteousness and innocence.
Oh let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end: but maintain the just, thou righteous God, that triest the very hearts and reins.
My help cometh of God, which preserveth them that are true of heart.
God is a righteous judge, and God is ever threatening.
If men will not turn, he hath wet his sword: he hath bent his bow and made it ready. He hath prepared him the weapons of death, and ordained his arrows to destroy.
Behold, he travaileth with mischief, he hath conceived unhappiness, and brought forth a lie. He hath graven and digged up a pit, but he shall fall himself into the pit that he made. For his unhappiness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own *pate.
As for me, I will give thanks unto the Lord for his righteousness sake, and will praise the name of the Lord most highest.
*hantche = as food: thigh, as Abraham had hand put to his thigh (Gen 24), Jacob wrestled with God (Gen 34) *pate = ones own thinking, that is to say; these will believe totally in their own thinking. intellect RN
Psalmes 22
To the Chaunter upon Aieleth of the dawning, a Psalme of David.
My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me? the words of my complaint are far from my health. O' my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.
Yet dwellest thou in the sanctuary, O' thou worship of Israel.
Our fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them. They called upon thee, and were helped: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.
But as for me, I am a worm and no man: a very scorn of men and the out cast of the people. All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads. He trusted in God, let him deliver him: let him help him, if he will have him.
But thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb: thou wast my hope, when I hanged upon my mothers breasts. I have been left unto thee ever since I was born, thou art my God, even from my mothers womb.
O' go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me. Great bulls are come about me, fat oxen close me in on every side. They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint: my heart in the midst of my body is even like melting wax. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs are come about me, the counsel of the wicked hath layed siege against me. They pierced my hands and my feet, I might have told all my bones: as for them, they stood staring and looking upon me. They have parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O' Lord: thou art my succor, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword, my dearling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lions mouth, and hear me from among the horns of the unicorns.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. O' praise the Lord ye that fear him: Magnify him all ye seed of Jacob, and let all the seed of Israel fear him.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the miserable estate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from me, but when I called unto him, he heard me.
I will praise thee in the great congregation, and perform my vows in the sight of all that fear thee. The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they seek after the Lord shall praise him: our heart shall live for ever.
All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord: and all the generations of the Heathen shall worship before him.
For the kingdom is the Lords, and he shall be the governor of the Heathen.
All such as be fat upon earth, shall eat also and worship All they that lay in the dust, and live so hardly, shall fall down before him.
The seed shall serve him, and preach of the Lord forever. They shall come, and declare his righteousness: unto a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made.
Psalmes 102 A prayer of the afflicted, when he was in woe, and poured out his complain before the Lord.
Hear my *prayer, O' Lord, and let my crying come unto thee.
Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble incline thine ears unto me when I call, O' hear me and that right soon. For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt as it were a fire brand.
My heart is smitten down and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
For the voice of my groaning, my bone will scarce cleave to my flesh.
I am become like a Pelican in the wilderness, and like an hole in a broken wall.
I wake, and am even as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Mine enemies revile me all the day long, they laugh me to scorn, and are sworn together against me.
I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping, And that because of thine indignation and wrath, for thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O' Lord, endurest for ever, and thy remembrance throughout all generations. Arise therefore and have mercy upon Sion, for it is time to have mercy upon her, yee, the time is come.
And why? thy servants have a love to her *stones, and pitieth them to see her in the dust.
The Heathen shall fear thy name, O' Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy majesty.
For the lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.
*He turneth him to the prayer of the poor destitute, and despiseth not their desire.
This shall be written for those that come after, that the people which shall be born, may praise the Lord.
For he looketh down from his Sanctuary, out of the heaven doth the Lord behold the earth. That he may hear the mournings of such as be in captivity, and deliver the children of death.
That they may preach the name of the Lord in Zion, and his worship at Jerusalem.
When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms also to serve the Lord.
He hath brought down my strength in my journey, and shortened my days.
Yet will I say: O' my God, take me not away in the midst of my age: as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations.
Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they all shall wax old as does a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall prosper in thy sight.*True prayer is an earnest an affectionate communication of the heart with God, and a diligent consideration of the things that want in us concerning the seeking of his glory and the doing of his will: with a burning and fervent desire of the spirit, that requireth him to repay and amend that which is wanteneth in us. Psa 5, Prov 15, Every Godly wish is also a good prayer. MN *Stones here signify the men upon whom the congregation of God is edified and builded as in 1 Peter 2. And ye as living stones are made a spiritual house. MN *God is counted to look and to turn him to whatsoever he approveth and alloweth, and to whatsoever he is pleased with. Jerem 5, Thou O'Lord lookest only on faith and truth. MN
Esai Isaiah 47 But as for thee ( O daughter thou virgin Babylon ) Thou shall sit in the dust thou shall sit upon the ground, and not in a throne, ( O thou maiden of Chaldea ) Thou shalt no more be called tender and pleasant. Thou shalt bring forth the *querne and grind meal, put down thy stomacher and bear thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers. Thy shame shall be discovered, and thy *previties shall be seen. For I will avenge me of thee, and no man shall let me: sayeth our redeemer, which is called the Lord of Hosts, the holy one of Israel.
Sit still, hold thy tongue, and get thee into some dark corner, O daughter Chaldea, for thou shalt no more be called lady of kingdoms. I was so wroth with my people, that I *punished mine inheritance, and give them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showiest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didest thou oppress right sore with thy yoke, and thou thoughtest thus. I shall be lady for ever. And beside all that, thou hast not regarded these things, neither cast, (camest) what should come after. Hear now therefore, thou willful, that sittest so careless, and speakest it thus in thine heart: I am alone, and wantony is there none: *I shall never be a widow, ner desolate again. And yet both these things shall come to thee upon one day in the twinkling of an eye: Namely widowhood, and desolation. They shall mightily fall upon thee, for the multitude of thy *witches, and for the great heap of thy *conjurers. For thou hast comforted thyself in deceitfulness, and hast said: No man seeth me. Thy own wisdom and conning has deceived thee. In that thou hast said: I am alone, and without me there is none. Therefore shall trouble come upon thee, and thou shall not know, from whence it shall arise. Mischief shall fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to put off. A sudden misery shall come upon thee, or ever thou be aware.
Now go to thy conjurers, and to the multitude of thy witches ( whom thou hast been acquainted withal from thy youth ) if they may help thee, or strengthen thee. Thou hast hither to had many counsels of them, so let the heaven gazers and the beholders of stars come on now and deliver thee: yee and let them show, when these new things shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be like straw, which if it be kindled with fire, no man may rid it for the vehemence of the flame: And yet it giveth no cinders to warm a man by, ner clear fire to sit by. Even so shall they be unto thee whom thou hast used and occupied from thy youth. Every one shall show thee his erroneous way, yet shall none of them defend thee.*querne = hand held grain mill. *previties = secrets held between people, to cover up something . Not "private parts" as we have been told, see Genesis 3:11, when God asked Adam, "who told thee that thou wast naked" *punished mine inheritance, (kjv and other bibles of man = polluted ) *I shall never be a widow; see Apocalypse 18. Look to the Hebrew root words for the revealing definitions of witches and conjurers. RN
Lamentations of Jermie 47 Aleph
I am the man, that (through the rod of his wrath) have experience of misery.
He drove me forth, and led me: yes into the darkness, but not into the light. Against me only he turned his hand, and layeth ever upon me.
Beth
My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised.
He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail.
He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead for ever.
Gimel
He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out, and hath laid heavy *linches upon me.
Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.
Daleth
He lieth wait for me as a bear, and as a lion in a hole.
He hath marred my ways, and broken me in pieces: he hath laid me waste altogether. He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shot at.
Ne
The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins.
I am laughed to scorn of all my people, they make songs upon me all the day long.
He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink.
Uau
He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust.
He hath put my soul out of rest, I forget all good things.
I thought in myself: I am undone, there is no hope for me in the Lord.
Zain
O remember my misery and my trouble, the wormwood and the gall.
Yes thou shalt remember them, for my soul melteth away in me.
While I consider these things in my heart, I get a hope again
Neth
Namely, that the mercies of the Lord are not clean gone, and that his loving kindness ceases not.
His faithfulness is great and reneweth it self in the morning.
The Lord is my portion saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him.
Teth
O how good is the Lord unto them that put their trust in him, and the soul that seeketh after him:
O how good is it with stillness to wait and tarry, for the health of the Lord.
O how good is it for a man, to take the yoke upon him from his youth up.
Fod
He sitteth alone, he holdeth him still, and dwelleth quietly by himself.
He layeth his face upon the earth, if (percase) there happen to be any hope.
He offereth his cheek to the smiter, he will be content with reproves.
Caph
For the Lord will not forsake for ever.
But though he do cast off, yet according to the multitude of his mercies, he receiveth to grace again.
For he doth not plague, and cast out the children of men from his heart.
Lamed
To tread all the prisoners of the earth under his feet ,
To move the judgement of man before the most highest.
To condemn a man in his cause; The Lord hath no pleasure in such things.
Mem
What is he then that saith: there should something be done without the Lords commandment: Out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good?
Wherefore then murmureth the living man: let him murmur at his own sin.
Nun
Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the Lord.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto the Lord that is in heaven.
We have been dissemblers, and have offended, will thou therefore not be entreated?
Samech
Thou hast covered us in thy wrath, and persecuted us, thou hast slain us, without any favor.
Thou hast hidden thyself in a cloud, that our prayer should go through.
Thou hast made us outcasts, and to be despised among the heathen.
Ain
All our enemies gape upon us.
Fear and a snare is come upon us, despite and destruction.
Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.
Phe
Mine eyes run, and cannot cease, for there is no rest.
O' Lord, when will thou look down from heaven, and consider.
Mine eye breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
Zade
Mine enemies hunted me out sharply, like a bird, yes and that without cause.
They have put down my life into a pit, and laid a stone upon me.
They poured water upon my head, then thought I: now I am undone.
Koph
I called upon thy name, O' Lord, out of the deep pit.
Thou hast heard my voice, and hast not turned away thine ears from my sighing and crying.
Thou hast inclined thy self unto me, when I called upon thee, and hast said: fear not.
Res
Thou (O' Lord), hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.
O' Lord, thou hast seen my blasphemers, take thou my cause upon thee.
Thou hast well considered how they go about to do me harm, and that all their councils are against me.
Sin
Thou hast heard their despiteful words (O' Lord), yes and all their imaginations against me.
The lips of mine enemies, and their devices that they take against me, all the day long.
Thou seest also their sitting down and their rising up, they make their songs of nothing but me.
Thau
Reward them, (O' Lord), according to the work of their hands.
Give them the thing, that their own heart is afraid of: even thy curse.
Persecute them (O' Lord) with thine indignation, and root them out from under heaven.*linches (chains).
Daniel 12 The time will come also, that the great prince Michael, which standeth on thy people side, shall arise up, for there shall come a time of trouble, such as never was, since there began to be any people, unto that same time. Then shall thy people be delivered, yee all those that be found written in the book. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to perpetual shame and reproof. The wise ( such as have taught other ) shall glister, as the shining of heaven: and those that have instruct the multitude unto Godliness, shall be as the stars, world without end.
And thou O Daniel, shut up these words, and seal the book to the last time. Many shall go about here and there, and then shall knowledge increase. So I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two: one upon this shore of the water, the other upon yonder side. And one of them said unto him, which was clothed in linen, and stood above upon the waters of the flood, How long shall it be to the end of these wonderous works?
Then I heard the man with the linen clothes, which stood above upon the waters of the flood: when he held up his right and left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever: that it shall tarry for a time, two times and half a time: when the power of the holy people is clean scattered abroad, then shall this things be fulfilled.
I heard it well, but I understood it not. Then said I : O my Lord, what shall happen after that ? He answered: Go thy way Daniel, for the words shall be closed up and sealed, till the last time: and many shall be purified, cleansed and tried. But the ungodly shall live wickedly, and those wicked ( as many as they be ) shall have no understanding. As for such as have understanding, they shall regard it. And from that time forth that the daily offering shall be put down and the abominable desolation set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. O well is him, that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days. Go thou thy way now, till it be ended: take thy rest, and bide in thy lot, till the days have an end.
Amos 2 Thus saith the Lord: For three and four wickednesses of Moab, I will not spare him: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to ashes. Therefore will I send a fire into Moab, which shall consume the palaces of Carioth: so that Moab shall perish with a noise and the sound of a trumpet: I will root out the judge from among them, and slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord: For three and four wickednesses of Judah, I will not spare him: because he hath cast aside the law of the Lord, and not kept his commandments: for why? they would be deceived with the lies, that their forefathers followed. Therefore I will send a fire into Judah, which shall consume the palaces of Jerusalem.
Thus saith the Lord: For three and four wickednesses of Israel, I will not spare him: because he hath sold the righteous for money, and the poor for shoes. They tread upon poor mens heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the wages of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonor my holy name, they* lay beside every alter upon clothes taken to pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink the wine of the oppressed. Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, that was as high as the cedar trees, and strong as the oaks: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruit from above and his root from under.
Again: I brought you out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, that ye might have the Amorites land in possession. I raised up prophets among your children, and abstainers among your young men. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord? But ye gave the abstainers wine to drink, yee ye command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not. Behold, I will crash you in sunder, like as a wagon crasheth, that is full of sheaves: so that the swift shall not escape, neither the strong be able to do anything: no, the giant shall not save his own life. The archer will not abide, and the swift of foot shall not escape. The horseman shall not save his life, and he that is manly of stomach as the giant, shall in that day be fain to run his way naked, saith the Lord.* To lay beside every hill alter upon clothes taken to pledge, is , to serve their gods taken by extortion from the poor.
Micheas ..Micheah 1 This is the word of the Lord, that came to Micheas the Morastite, in the days of Jothan, Ahaz, and Jehezekiah, kings of Judah: which was showed upon Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, all ye people, hearken, mark this well O earth, and all that therein is: Yee the Lord God himself be witness among you, even the Lord from his holy temple. For, why? behold, the Lord shall go out of his place, and come down, and tread upon the high things of the earth. The mountains shall consume under him, and the valleys shall cleave asunder: like as war consumeth at the fire, and as the waters runneth down hard. And all this shall be for the wickedness of Jacob, and the sins of the house of Israel.
But what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not Samaria? Which are the high places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem? Therefore I shall make Samaria an heap of stones in the field, to lay about the vineyard: her stones shall I cast into the valley, and discover her foundations. All her Images shall be broken down and all her winnings shall be burned in the fire: yee all her Idols will I destroy: for why? they are gathered out of the hire of an whore, and to an whores hire they shall be turned again. Wherefore I will mourn and make lamentation, bare and naked will I go: I must mourn like the dragons, and take sorrow like the ostriches: For their wound is past remedy: And why? it is come in to Judah, and hath touched the port of my people at Jerusalem already. Weep not, least they at Geth perceive it.
Thou at Betaphra, welter thyself in the dust and ashes. Thou that dwelleth at Sephir, get thee hence with shame. The proud shall boast no more for very sorrow: and why? her neighbor shall take from her what she hath. The rebellious city hopeth, that it shall not be so evil: but for all that, the plague shall come from the Lord, even in to the port of Jerusalem. The great noise of the chariots shall fear them, that dwell at Lachis, which is an occasion of the sin of the daughter of Sion, for in thee came up the wickedness of Israel. Yee she sent her *coursers into the land of Geth.
The houses of lies will deceive the kings of Israel. And as for thee ( O thou that dwellest at Morassa ) I shall bring a possession upon thee, and the plague of Israel shall reach unto Odolla. Make thee bald, and shave thee, because of thy tender children: Make thee clean bald as an Eagle, for they shall be carried away captive from thee..*coursers: a hunter, a dog or horse used for hunting.
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