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.

CAPI. VII.

[unspec A]

¶ •• cōplaynt of the lyttel nōbre of the rightuouse Agaynst the truth ought we not to holde with out greatest frendes.

WO is me: I am become as one / that goeth a gleanyng i the haruest, Ther are no grapes to eate / yet wolde I fayne (w^t all my herte) haue of the best frute. There is not a godly man vpon earth, there is not one ryghtuous amonge men. They labour all to shed bloude & euery man hunteth hys brother to death: yet they saye they do well when they do euyll. As the prynce wyll, so saieth the iudge: that he may do him a plea∣sure agayne. The greate man speaketh what his herte desyreth: & the hearers alow him, The best of thē is but as a thistle, & the most rightuous of thē is but as a breer i the hedge. But when the daye of thy preachers cōmeth, that thou shalt be visyted: thē shall they be wasted awaye. Let no man beleue his frende, nor put hys confydēce in a price. [unspec B] Kepe y^• porte of thy mouth, from her that ly∣eth in thy bosome: for the sōne shal put his father to dishonoure, the daughter shal rise agaynst her mother / the daughter in lawe agaynst her mother in lawe: & a mans foes shalbe euen they of hys owne housholde.

Neuertheles, I wyl loke vp vnto y^• Lord / I wyll pacyently abyde God my sauioure: my God shall heare me. O thou enemye of myne, reioyce not at my fall, for I shall get vp againe: & though I syr in darcknesse, yet the Lorde is my lyght. I wyll beare the pu∣nishemēt of y^• Lorde (for why / I haue offen∣ded him) til he syt in iudgmēt vpō my cause, & se y^t I haue right. He wyll bryng me forth [unspec C] to the lyght, & I shall se his rightuousnesse. She that is myne enemy shal loke vpon it / & be confoūded, which now saieth. Where is thy Lorde God? Myne eyes shall beholde her, when she shalbe trodē downe, as y^• clay in y^• stretes. The tyme wyl come, that thy gappes shal be made vp, & the lawe shal go abrode: & at y^t tyme shal they come vnto the, frō Assur vnto the stronge cyties, & from the strong cytyes vnto the ryuer: frō the one see to y^• other, frō the one moūtayne to y^• other.

Notwithstandynge, y^• land must be wa∣sted / because of them that dwell therin, and for the frutes of theyr owne Imaginacions Therfore fede thy people with thy rod / the flocke of thine heritage which dwel desolate in the wodde: that they maye be fedde vpon

the mount of Charmel / Basan and Galaad as afore time. Maruelous thynges wyll I [unspec D] shew them, lyke as when they came out of Egypte. Thys shall the Heathen se, and be ashamed for all their power, so that they shall laye theyr hande vpon theyr mouthe, and stoppe theyr eares. They shall lycke the dust lyke a serpente, and as the wormes of the earth, that tremble in theyr holes. They shalbe afrayed of the Lorde our God, and they shall feare the. Where is there such a God as thou? that pard••nest wicked∣nes, and forgeueste the offences of the rem∣naunt of thyne herytage? Hē kepeth not his wrath for euer. And why? hys delyte is to haue compassyon: he shall turne agayne / and be mercyfull to vs: he shall put downe oure wyckednes, and cast all oure sinnes in to the botome of the see. Thou shalt kepe thy trueth with Iacob / and thy mercy for Abraham / lyke as thou hane sworne vnto oure fathers longe ago.

Notes

• Rom. iii. ••
• Iercui. it. ••
• Math. ••. c. Deu. ••iii. •• ••. xxxiii. ••. Psal., 7. ••. and 〈◊〉〈◊〉. b.
• Pro. xvii ••
• Amos, ix. ••
• 4. Be. xix. a
• Exod. 14. a
• Iob. ••9. ••.
• Gene. iii. ••.
• Iere. ix. d.