¶ The Iewes are rebuked for theyr iniurye done to Chryst
CAPI. LVII.
THe * 1.1 ryghteous perysheth, and no man [unspec A] regardeth it in his hert, Good godly people are taken waye, and no man consy∣dreth it. Namely, that the ryghtuous is con¦uayed awaye thorowe the wycked: that he hymselfe myght be in rest / lye quietly vpon his bed / and lyue after his owne pleasure. Come hyther therfore ye charmers children ‡ 1.2 ye sonnes of the aduoutrer and the whore: wherin take ye your pleasure? Upon whom gape ye with your mouth, & bleare out your tong? Are ye not chyldren of aduoutry / and [unspec B] a sede of dissimulacion. ‡ 1.3 Ye take your plea∣sure vnder the okes / & vnder al grene trees the chylde beynge slayne in the valleys / and dennes of stone. Thy parte shalbe with the stony rockes by the riuer: Yea / euē these shal be thy part. For there yu haste poured meate and drynke offringes vnto them. Shuld I ouerse that? Thou haste made thy bed vpon hye mountaines: thou wentest vp thyther, & there hast thou slayne sacrifices. ‡ 1.4 Behynde the dores and postes / haste thou set vp thy remembraunce.
When thou haddest discouered thy selfe [unspec C] to another then me, when thou wenteste vp and made thy bed wyder (that is) when thou dyddest carue the certayne of yonder Idols and louedest theyr couches, where thou saw¦est them. Thou wenteste streyght to kynges with ‡ 1.5 oyle and dyuerse oyntementes (that is) thou hast sente thy messengers farre of. and yet arte thou fallen into the pyt therby Thou arte wery for the multitude of thyne owne wayes yet saydest thou neuer: I wyll leaue of. ‡ 1.6 Thou thynkest to haue lyfe (or health) of thy self and therfore thou beleuest nat that thou art sycke. For whē wylt thou be abasshed or feare, seyng thou hast broken thy promyse and remembrest not me, nether hast me in thyne hert? Thynkest thou, that I also wyl holde my peace (as afore tyme (y• thou fearest me not? Yea, verely I wyl decla¦re thy goodnes & thy worckes, but they shal not profyt the when thou cryest, let thy cho∣sen heape delyuer the. But the wynde shall take them al awaye, and cary them in to the* 1.7 ayre. Neuertheles, they that put their trust in me, shal inheret the lande, & haue my holy hyll in possessyon.
And therfore thus he sayeth: * 1.8 Make re∣dy, make redy, and clense the strete, take vp [unspec D] what ye can out of the waye that leadeth to my people. For thus sayeth the hye & excel∣lent, euen he y• dwelleth in euerlastyngnesse, whose name is y• holy one: * 1.9 I dwel hye a∣boue & in the sanctuary, and with hym also, that is of a contrite and humble sprete: that I maye heale a troubled mynde, and a con∣tryte herte. * 1.10 For I chyde nat euer, and am nat wroth with out ende. But the blastynge