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.

¶ Agaynst the rulers of Israel. The Lorde sweareth that he wyll fulfyll the thynges whiche he hathe determyned agaynste Israel.

CAPI. VIII.

THE Lorde God shewed me thys vy∣syon: [unspec A] and beholde, there was a maunde with somer frute. And he sayd: Amos what seyst thou? I answered: a maunde with som¦mer frute. Then sayde the Lorde vnto me: the ende cōmeth vpon my people of Israel, I wyl nomore ouerse thē. In y^t daye shal the songes of the temple be turned into sorowe, sayth y^• Lorde God, many deed bodyes shal lye in euery place / and be cast forth secretly. [unspec B] * 1.1 Heare this, O ye y^• oppresse the poore / and destroye the nedy in the lande, saying: Whē wyl the newe moneth be gone, y^t we may sell bytayle, & the Sabboth / that we may haue scarcenesse of corne: to make y^• busshell lesse / and the Sycle greater? We shal set vp false wayghtes / that we maye get the pore vnder vs with theyr money / and the nedy also for shoes: yee, let vs sell the chaffe for corne. [unspec C]

* 1.2 The Lord hath sworne agaynst y^• pryde of Iacob: these workes of theyrs wyll I ne∣uer forget. Shall nat the lande trēble / and all they that dwell therin, mourne for thys? Shall nat theyr destruccyō come vpon thē lyke a water streame, and flowe ouer thē, as the floude of Egypte? * 1.3 At the same tyme (sayeth the Lorde God) ☞ I shal cause the Sunne to go downe at none / and the lande to be darcke in the cleare daye. * 1.4 Youre hye feastes wyll I turne to sorowe / and youre songes to mournynge: I wyll brynge sacke cloth vpō all backes, & baldnes vpon euery heade: yee, suche a mournynge wyll I sende them, * 1.5 as is made vpon an onely begotten sonne, and they shal haue a myserable ende.

Beholde / the tyme commeth (sayeth the Lorde God) that I shall sende an hunger in to the earth: ☞ nat the hunger of brede, nor the thyrst of water: but an hunger to heare the worde of the Lorde: so that they shall go from the one see to the other, yee, from the north vnto the east, runnynge about to seke the worde of the Lorde, and shall nat fynde it ☞ In that tyme / shall the tayre virgins and the yonge men perysh for thyrst, yee, euē they that sweare in the offēce of Samaria / & saye: as truly as thy God lyueth at Dan, and as truly as thy God liueth at Bersaba. These shalt fall, and neuer ryse vp agayne.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Esaye. v. b.
• * 1.2

  Amos. vi. b.
• * 1.3

  Iere. xv. b.
• * 1.4

  Tobi. ii. a.
• * 1.5

  Iere. vi. d.