The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,

When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.

For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.

Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.

And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.

For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.

Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,

Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,

And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.

Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.

He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.

He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.

Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.

He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.

But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.

And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.

Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.

But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.

And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.

He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.

So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.

A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.

The dead bodies of thy seruats haue they giuen to be meat vnto foules of ye heauen: and the flesh of thy Saintes vnto the beastes of the earth.

Their blood haue they shead like waters rounde about Ierusalem, and there was none to burie them.

Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?

Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy Name.

For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.

Remember not against vs the former iniquities, but make haste and let thy tender mercies preuent vs: for we are in great miserie.

Helpe vs, O God of our saluation, for the glorie of thy Name, and deliuer vs, and be mercifull vnto our sinnes for thy Names sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of thy seruants that is shed.

Let the sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to thy mightie arme preserue the children of death,

And render to our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome their reproche, wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.

So wee thy people, and sheepe of thy pasture shall praise thee for euer: and from generation to generation we will set foorth thy praise.

To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Heare, O thou Shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like sheepe: shewe thy brightnes, thou that sittest betweene the Cherubims.

Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.

Turne vs againe, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saued.

O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?

Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.

Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.

Turne vs againe, O God of hostes: cause thy face to shine, and we shalbe saued.

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.

The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?

The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.

Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,

And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.

It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Let thine hande be vpon the man of thy right hande, and vpon the sonne of man, whome thou madest strong for thine owne selfe.

So will not we goe backe from thee: reuiue thou vs, and we shall call vpon thy Name.

Turne vs againe, O Lord God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saued.

To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Sing ioyfully vnto God our strength: sing loude vnto the God of Iaakob.

Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.

Blowe the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed, at our feast day.

For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Iaakob.

Hee set this in Ioseph for a testimonie, when hee came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I vnderstoode not.

I haue withdrawen his shoulder from the burden, and his handes haue left the pots.

Thou calledst in affliction and I deliuered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I prooued thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Heare, O my people, and I wil protest vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me,

Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.

For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.

But my people would not heare my voyce, and Israel would none of me.

So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnesse of their heart, and they haue walked in their owne cousels.

Oh that my people had hearkened vnto me, and Israel had walked in my wayes.

I would soone haue humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their aduersaries.

The haters of the Lord should haue bene subiect vnto him, and their time should haue endured for euer.

And God would haue fedde them with the fatte of wheat, and with honie out of the rocke would I haue sufficed thee.

A Psalme committed to Aspah. God standeth in the assemblie of gods: hee iudgeth among gods.

How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.

I haue said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High.

But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.

O God, arise, therefore iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherite all nations.

A song, or Psalme committed to Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: bee not still, and cease not, O God.