The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

He brought them forth also with siluer and golde, and there was none feeble among their tribes.

Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.

He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.

They asked, and he brought quailes, and he filled them with the bread of heauen.

He opened the rocke, and the waters flowed out, and ranne in the drye places like a riuer.

For he remembred his holy promise to Abraham his seruant,

And he brought forth his people with ioy, and his chosen with gladnesse,

And gaue them the lands of the heathen, and they tooke the labours of the people in possession,

That they might keepe his statutes, and obserue his Lawes. Prayse ye the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord because he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.

Who can expresse the noble actes of the Lord, or shewe forth all his prayse?

Blessed are they that keepe iudgement, and doe righteousnesse at all times.

Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour of thy people: visite me with thy saluation,

That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.

We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, and done wickedly.

Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.

Neuerthelesse he saued them for his Names sake, that he might make his power to be knowen.

And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.

And he saued them from ye aduersaries hand, and deliuered them from ye hand of the enemie.

And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.

Then beleeued they his wordes, and sang prayse vnto him.

But incontinently they forgate his workes: they wayted not for his counsell,

But lusted with concupiscence in the wildernes, and tempted God in the desert.

Then he gaue them their desire: but he sent leannesse into their soule.

They enuied Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

Therefore the earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan, and couered the companie of Abiram.

And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.

They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a bullocke, that eateth grasse.

They forgate God their Sauiour, which had done great things in Egypt,

Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.

Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.

Also they contemned that pleasant land, and beleeued not his worde,

But murmured in their tentes, and hearkened not vnto the voice of the Lord.

Therefore hee lifted vp his hande against them, to destroy them in the wildernesse,

And to destroy their seede among the nations, and to scatter them throughout the countries.

They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.

Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inuentions, and the plague brake in vpon them.

But Phinehas stoode vp, and executed iudgement, and the plague was staied.

And it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes from generation to generation for euer.

They angred him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was punished for their sakes,

Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.

Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commanded them,

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,

And serued their idoles, which were their ruine.

Yea, they offered their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils,

And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, and of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.

Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.

And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lordes ouer them.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were humbled vnder their hand.

Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.

Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.

And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies,

And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.

Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer, and let all the people say, So be it. Praise yee the Lord.

Praise the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.

Let them, which haue bene redeemed of the Lord, shewe how he hath deliuered them from the hand of the oppressour,

And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West, from the North and from the South.

When they wandered in the desert and wildernesse out of the waie, and founde no citie to dwell in,

Both hungrie and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.

Then they cried vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliuered them from their distresse,

And led them forth by the right way, that they might goe to a citie of habitation.

Let them therefore confesse before ye Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

For he satisfied the thirstie soule, and filled the hungrie soule with goodnesse.

They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron,

Because they rebelled against the wordes of the Lord, and despised the counsell of the most High,

When he humbled their heart with heauines, then they fell downe and there was no helper.

Then they cried vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliuered them from their distresse.

He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.

Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

For hee hath broken the gates of brasse, and brast the barres of yron asunder.

Fooles by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.

Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.

Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliuereth them from their distresse.

He sendeth his worde and healeth them, and deliuereth them from their graues.

Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderful workes before the sonnes of men,

And let them offer sacrifices of praise, and declare his workes with reioycing.

They that goe downe to the sea in ships, and occupie by the great waters,

They see the woorkes of the Lord, and his wonders in the deepe.

For he commaundeth and raiseth the stormie winde, and it lifteth vp the waues thereof.

They mount vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble.

They are tossed to and from, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.

Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresse.

He turneth the storme to calme, so that the waues thereof are still.

When they are quieted, they are glad, and hee bringeth them vnto the hauen, where they would be.

Let them therfore confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

And let them exalt him in the Congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the Elders.

He turneth the floodes into a wildernesse, and the springs of waters into drinesse,

And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

Againe hee turneth the wildernesse into pooles of water, and the drie lande into water springs.

And there he placeth the hungrie, and they builde a citie to dwell in,

And sowe the fieldes, and plant vineyardes, which bring foorth fruitfull increase.

For he blesseth them, and they multiplie exceedingly, and he diminisheth not their cattell.

Againe men are diminished, and brought lowe by oppression, euill and sorowe.

He powreth contempt vpon princes, and causeth them to erre in desert places out of the way.

Yet he raiseth vp the poore out of miserie, and maketh him families like a flocke of sheepe.

The righteous shall see it, and reioyce, and all iniquitie shall stoppe her mouth.

Who is wise that hee may obserue these things? for they shall vnderstand the louing kindnesse of the Lord.