The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

I will prayse the Lord during my life: as long as I haue any being, I wil sing vnto my God.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sonne of man, for there is none helpe in him.

His breath departeth, and he returneth to his earth: then his thoughtes perish.

Blessed is he, that hath the God of Iaakob for his helpe, whose hope is in the Lord his God.

Which made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth his fidelitie for euer:

Which executeth iustice for the oppressed: which giueth bread to the hungry: the Lord loseth the prisoners.

The Lord giueth sight to the blinde: the Lord rayseth vp the crooked: the Lord loueth the righteous.

The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse and widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.

The Lord shall reigne for euer: O Zion, thy God endureth from generation to generation. Prayse ye the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing vnto our God: for it is a pleasant thing, and praise is comely.

The Lord doth builde vp Ierusalem, and gather together the dispersed of Israel.

He healeth those that are broken in heart, and bindeth vp their sores.

He counteth the nomber of the starres, and calleth them all by their names.

Great is our Lord, and great is his power: his wisdome is infinite.

The Lord relieueth the meeke, and abaseth the wicked to the ground.

Sing vnto the Lord with prayse: sing vpon the harpe vnto our God,

Which couereth the heauen with cloudes, and prepareth raine for the earth, and maketh the grasse to growe vpon the mountaines:

Which giueth to beasts their foode, and to the yong rauens that crie.

He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.

But the Lord deliteth in them that feare him, and attende vpon his mercie.

Prayse the Lord, O Ierusalem: prayse thy God, O Zion.

For he hath made the barres of thy gates strong, and hath blessed thy children within thee.

He setteth peace in thy borders, and satisfieth thee with the floure of wheate.

He sendeth foorth his commandement vpon earth, and his worde runneth very swiftly.

He giueth snowe like wooll, and scattereth the hoare frost like ashes.

He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?

He sendeth his worde and melteth them: he causeth his winde to blowe, and the waters flowe.

He sheweth his word vnto Iaakob, his statutes and his iudgements vnto Israel.

He hath not dealt so with euery nation, neither haue they knowen his iudgements. Prayse ye the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heauen: prayse ye him in the high places.

Prayse ye him, all ye his Angels: praise him, all his armie.

Prayse ye him, sunne and moone: prayse ye him all bright starres.

Prayse ye him, heauens of heauens, and waters, that be aboue the heauens.

Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.

And he hath established them for euer and euer: he hath made an ordinance, which shall not passe.

Prayse ye the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all depths:

Fire and hayle, snowe and vapours, stormie winde, which execute his worde:

Mountaines and all hils, fruitfull trees and all ceders:

Beasts and all cattell, creeping things and fethered foules:

Kings of the earth and all people, princes and all iudges of the worlde:

Yong men and maidens, also olde men and children:

Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for his Name onely is to be exalted, and his prayse aboue the earth and the heauens.

For he hath exalted the horne of his people, which is a prayse for all his Saintes, euen for the children of Israel, a people that is neere vnto him. Prayse ye the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord. Sing ye vnto the Lord a newe song: let his prayse be heard in the Congregation of Saints.

Let Israel reioyce in him that made him, and let ye children of Zion reioyce in their King.

Let them prayse his Name with the flute: let them sing prayses vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.

For the Lord hath pleasure in his people: he will make the meeke glorious by deliuerance.

Let ye Saints be ioyfull with glorie: let them sing loud vpon their beddes.

Let the high Actes of God bee in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hands,

To execute vengeance vpon the heathen, and corrections among the people:

To binde their Kings in chaines, and their nobles with fetters of yron,

That they may execute vpon them the iudgement that is written: this honour shall be to all his Saintes. Prayse ye the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye God in his Sanctuarie: prayse ye him in the firmament of his power.

Prayse ye him in his mightie Actes: prayse ye him according to his excellent greatnesse.

Prayse ye him in the sounde of the trumpet: prayse yee him vpon the viole and the harpe.

Prayse ye him with timbrell and flute: praise ye him with virginales and organs.

Prayse ye him with sounding cymbales: prayse ye him with high sounding cymbales.

Let euery thing that hath breath prayse the Lord. Prayse ye the Lord.

The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,

To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,

To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,

To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.

A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,

To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.

The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.

My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.

For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.

My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.

If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:

We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:

Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:

My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.

Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.

She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?

(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.

But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.

I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,

Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.

Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.

For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.

But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.

My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,

And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,

(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:

If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,

Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.

For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.

He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,

That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)

Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.