Biblia the Byble, that is, the holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully translated in to Englyshe.

The IX. Chapter.

[ A] IN the foure and twentieth daye of this moneth came the children of Is∣rael together with fastinge and sack clothes, and earth vpon them, and separated the sede of Israel from all the straunge chil∣dren, and stode and knowleged their synnes, and the wyckednesses of their fathers, and stode vp in their place, and red in the boke of the lawe of the LORDE their God foure ty∣mes on the daye, and they knowleged, and worshipped the LORDE their God foure ty∣mes on the daye. And the Leuites stode on hye, namely Iesua, Bani, Cadmiel, Seba∣nia, Buni, Serebia, Bani, and Chenani, and cryed loude vnto the LORDE their God. And the Leuites, Iesua, Cadmiel, Bani, Hasabe∣nia, Serebia, Hodia, Sebania, Pethahia, say¦de: Stonde vp, prayse the LORDE oure God for euer: and let thankes be geuē vnto the na¦me of thy glorye, which excelleth all than∣kesgeuynge and prayse. LORDE, thou art alo∣ne, thou hast made heauen, and the heauen of all heauens, with all their hoost, the earth and all that therin is, the See and all that is therin: thou geuest life vnto all, and y^e hoost of heauen bowe themselues vnto the. Thou [ B] art the LORDE God, that hast chosen Abrā, and broughte him out of Vr in Chaldea, * 1.1 & called him Abraham, and founde his hert faithfull before the,* 1.2 and madest a couenaūt with him, to geue vnto his sede the londe of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pheresi∣tes, Iebusites, and Girgosites, and hast ma∣de good thy wordes: for thou art righteous * 1.3 And hast considered the mysery of oure fa¦thers in Egipte, and herde their complainte by the reed See, and shewed tokēs and won¦ders vpō Pharao, and on all his seruaūtes, and on all his people of his londe: for thou knewest y^t they were presumptuous & cruell against them, & so madest thou * 1.4 the a name as it is this daie. And the reed See partedst thou in sunder before them, so that they wēte thorow the myddes of the See drye shod: & their persecuters threwest thou in to the de∣pe as a stone, in the mightie waters, and led¦dest them on the daye tyme in a cloudy py∣ler, and on the nighte season in a piler of fy∣re, to shewe them lighte in the waye y^t they wente.

Thou camest downe also vpō mount Si¦nai, [ C] and spakest vnto them from heauen,* 1.5 and gauest them righte iudgmentes, true lawes, good commaundementes and statutes, and declared vnto them thy holy Sabbath, and commaunded them preceptes, ordinaunces, and lawes, by Moses thy seruaunt: and * 1.6 ga∣uest them bred from heauen whan they we∣re hongrye, and * 1.7 broughte forth water for them out of the rock whan they were thyr∣stye: and promysed them,* 1.8 that they shulde go in, and take possession of the londe, where ouer thou haddest lyfte vp thine hande for

to geue them.

Neuertheles oure fathers were proude and hardnecked, so that they folowed not y^e cōmaundementes, and refused to heare, and were not myndefull of the wonders y^t thou dyddest for them: but became obstynate and heady, in so moch that they turned back to their bondage in their dishobedience. But thou my God forgauest, and wast gracious, mercifull, pacient, and of greate goodnesse, and forsokest them not. * 1.9 And though they made a molten calfe (and sayde: This is thy God, that broughte the out of the londe of Egipte) and dyd greate blasphemies, yet for sokest thou them not in the wyldernes, acor∣dinge to thy greate mercy. * 1.10 And y^e cloudy piler departed not from them on y^e daye ty¦me to lede them the waye, nether the piler of fyre in the night season, to shewe them lighte in the waye that they wente.

[ D] And thou gauest them thy good sprete to enfourme them, * 1.11 and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth, * 1.12 and gauest thē water whā they were thirstie. Fortye yeares longe madest thou prouysion for them in the wyldernesse, so that they wanted nothinge: * 1.13their clothes waxed not olde, and their fete swelled not. And thou gauest thē kīgdomes & nacions, & partedst thē acordinge to their porcions, so that they possessed * 1.14 the londe of Sihon kynge of Heszbon, & the londe of Og y^e kynge of Basan. * 1.15 And their childrē mul¦tiplyedst thou as the starres of heauen, and broughtest thē in to the londe wherof thou haddest spoken vnto their fathers, that they shulde go in to it, and haue it in possession.

And y^e children wente in, and possessed the londe, * 1.16 and thou subdudest before thē the in∣habiters of the londe, euen the Cananites, & gauest them in to their hande, and their kyn¦ges and y^e people of the londe, y^t they might do with them what they wolde. And they wanne their stronge cities, & a fat londe, and toke possession of houses y^t were full of all maner goodes, welles dygged out, vynyar∣des, oylgardens, & many frutefull trees: and they ate & were fylled, & became fat, & lyued in welth thorow thy greate goodnes. Neuer¦theles they were disobedient, and rebelled a∣gaynst the, and cast thy lawe behynde their backes, * 1.17 and slewe thy prophetes (which ex¦horted them so earnestly, that they shulde cō¦uerte vnto the) and dyd greate blasphemies. Therfore gauest thou them ouer in to the hā¦de of their enemies that vexed them.

[ E] And in y^e tyme of their trouble they cried vnto the, and thou hardest them from hea∣uen: and thorow thy greate mercy thou ga∣uest them sauiours, which helped thē out of the hande of their enemies. But whan they came to rest, they turned back agayne to do euell before the: therfore leftest thou them in the hande of their enemies, so y^t they had y^e dominion ouer them. So they cōuerted, and cryed vnto the, and thou herdest them from heauen, and many a tyme hast thou delyue∣red them acordinge to y^e greate mercy, and testified vnto them, that they shulde turne agayne vnto thy lawe.

Notwithstōdinge they were proude, and herkened not vnto thy cōmaundementes, but synned in thy lawes (which a man shulde do, & lyue in them) & turned their shulder awaye, & were styffnecked, & wolde not heare. And many yeares dyddest thou forbeare them, & testified vnto them thorow y^e sprete, euen by the office of y^e prophetes, & yet wolde they not heare. Therfore gauest thou thē in to y^e hāde of y^e nacions in the londes. But for thy greate mercies sake thou hast not vtterly cō¦sumed them, nether forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.

Now oure God, thou greate God, migh∣tie [ F] and terrible, thou that kepest couenaunt and mercy, regarde not a litle all the trauay¦le y^t hath happened vnto vs, & oure kynges, prynces, prestes, prophetes, fathers & all thy people, sence the tyme of the kynges of As∣sur vnto this daie. Thou art righteous in all y^t thou hast broughte vpō vs: for thou hast done righte. As for vs, we haue bene vngod¦ly, and o^r kynges, prynces, prestes & fathers haue not done after y^e lawe, ner regarded y^e cōmaundementes, & thy earnest exhortaciōs wherwith thou hast exhorted them, & haue not serued y^e in their kyngdome, and in thy greate goodes y^t thou gauest them, and in the large and plenteous lōde which thou ga¦uest them to good, and haue not conuerted from their wicked workes. Beholde, therfore are we in bondage this daye: Yee euen in the lōde that thou gauest vnto oure fathers, to enioye the frutes and goodes therof, behol∣de, there are we bondmen. And greate is the increase of it vnto the kynges, whom thou hast set ouer vs because of oure synnes, and they haue dominion ouer oure bodies and ca¦tell, and we are in greate trouble.

And in all this made we a sure couenaunt, & wrote it, & let o^r prynces, Leuites & prestes seale it.

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