The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

¶ Agaynste the prynces of Israel lyuynge in pleasures.

CAPI. VI.

* 1.1OWo be to the proude welthy in Syō [unspec A] to suche as thynke them so sure vpon the mount of Samaria? which holde them selues for the best of the worlde and rule the house of Israel / euen as they lyst. Go vnto Calue, and se: and from thence get you to Hemath the greate cytye / & so go downe to Gath of the Philystines: be they better at ease then these kyngdomes, or the border of theyr lande wyder then yours? Ye are taken out for the euell daye, euen ye that syt in the stole of wyckednesse. Ye that lye vpō beddes [unspec B] of yuery / and vse youre wantounesse vpon your couches: ye that eate the best lambe of the flocke / & the fattest calues of the droaue: ye that synge to the lute / and in playnge of instrumētes cōpare your selues vnto * 1.2 Da∣uid: ye that dryncke wyne out of goblettes / and anoynte your selues with the best oyle, but noman is sory for Iosephs hurte▪ Ther fore / nowe shall ye be the fyrst of them / that shall be led awaye captyue / & the lusty chere of the wylfull shall come to an ende.

* 1.3 The Lorde God hathe sworne euen by [unspec C] him selfe (sayeth the Lorde God of hostes) I hate y^• pryde of Iacob, & I abhore his pala¦ces: & I wyl geue ouer y^• cytie, withal that is therin: so y^t though there remayne ten mē in one house / they shall dye. So theyr nexte kyn••folkes & the deed buriers shal take thē, & cary awaye theyr bones / & saye vnto hym, that is in y^• ynnermer house: is there yet any mo by the? And he shal answere: they are all gone, holde thy tūge (shal he saye) * 1.4 for {fleur-de-lys} they wolde nat remembre the name of the Lorde.

Beholde, the Lorde is mynded to smyte the great houses, so that they shal decaye, & the lytle houses, y^• they shal cleue a sunder. Who can runne with horses / or plowe with oxen vpō the harde rockes of stone? For why? ye haue turned true iudgemēt into bytternesse & y^• frute of ryghteusnesse into wormwode yee, euen ye, y^e reioyse in vayne thinges: ye that saye: haue not we optayned hornes in oure owne strēgth? wel, take hede, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the Lorde God of hoostes: I wyll brynge a people vp you, which shal trouble you, frō the way y^• goeth to warde Hemath, vnto y^• broke i y^• medowe

Notes

• * 1.1

  Luke. vi. c.
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  Iob. xxi. b. Ela••••. v. ••.
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• * 1.4

  Deu. viii. d