¶ The songe of Moses.
CAPI. XXXII. [unspec A]
HEare O ye heuens, & * 1.1 I shall speake, & let the earth heare the wordes of my mouth. * 1.2 My doctryne ☞ shall drop as doth the rayne, & my speche shal flowe as dothe the dewe, as the showre vpon the her∣bes, & as the droppes vpon the grasse. For I wyl call on the name of the Lorde: Ascribe ye honour vnto our god. * 1.3 Perfite is the worke of the moost myghty god: For all his wayes are iudgement. He is a god of truth, without wyckednesse: ryghteous, & iust is he. ❀ Fro∣wardly haue they done agaynst hym thorow theyr deformities: not his owne chyldren, but a wycked, & froward generacion. Do ye so re¦warde the lorde, O folyshe nacion & vnwyse? * 1.4 Is not he thy father & thyne owner? ‡ 1.5 hath he not made the, & ordeyned the? Remembre the dayes of the worlde that is past: cōsyder the yeres frō tyme to tyme. * 1.6 Aske thy father & he wyl shewe the: thy elders, & they wyl tell the. When the moost hyghest deuyded the na¦cyons, and when he seperated the sonnes of Adam, he put the borders of the nacions fast by the multitude of the chyldren of Israel.
For the lordes parte is his folke, & Iacob [unspec B] is the porcion of his enheritaūce. ☞ He foūd hym in a deserte lande, in a voyde grounde, & in a roryng wyldernesse. He led hym aboute, he gaue hym vnderstandyng, & kepte hym as the apple of his eye. As an Egle that styrteth vp her nest & flotereth ouer her yong, & stret∣cheth out her wyng{is}, so doth he take them vp & beareth them on his shoulders. The Lorde alone was his guyde, & there was no straūge god with hym. He caryed hym vp to an hye¦lande, that he myght eate the encrease of the feldes. * 1.7 And he fed hym wt hony out of the rocke, & with oyle out of the most harde stone With butter of kyne, & mylke of the shepe, wt fat of the lambes & of fat rāmes & he gootes with the fat of most plenteous wheate: & that thou myghtest drinke ☞ the most pure blood of the grape. But he that shulde haue bene [unspec C] vpryght, when he waxed fat, spurned wt his heele. Thou art wel fed, yu art growne thicke, thou art euen laden with fatnes. And he for∣soke god his maker, & regarded not the God of his saluacion. They prouoked hym to an∣gre with straunge goddes, euen with abho∣minacions prouoked they hym. * 1.8 They offe∣red vnto deuyls, & not to God, euen to gods whome they knewe not: to newe goddes that came newly vp, whome theyr fathers feared not. Of god that begat the, thou arte vn∣myndfull, and hast forgotten god that made the. The lorde therfore sawe it, & was angry, bycause of the prouokyng of his sonnes & of his doughters. And he sayd, I wyll hyde my face from them, & wyl se what theyr ende shal be. For they are a very frowarde generacion, chyldrē in whom is no fayth. They haue an∣gred me with that whiche is no God, & pro∣uoked me with theyr vanitis. * 1.9 And I also wyll prouoke them with those ☞ whiche are no people, I wyl angre them with a foolyshe nacion. * 1.10 For fyre is kyndled in my wrath, & burneth vnto the bottome of hell. And hathe [unspec D] consumed the earth with her encreace, & set a fyre the bottoms of the mountaynes. I wyll heape myscheues vpon them, & wyll destroye them with myne arowes. They shalbe burnt with hunger, & consumed with heate, & with bytter destruccion. * 1.11 I wyll also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the furious∣nesse of serpentes in the dust. Without forth shall the swerde rob them of theyr chyldren, & within in the chambre: feare both yonge men and yong women, and the suckelynges with the men of gray heades. I haue sayde: I wyl scatter them abrode, and make the remem∣braunce of them to cease from amonge men.
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemye, lest theyr aduersaries shulde vtterly