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geneva@Numbers:13:1 @ {\cf2 (13:2)} And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

geneva@Numbers:13:3 @ {\cf2 (13:4)} Then Moses sent them out of the wildernesse of Paran at the commandement of the Lorde: all those men were heades of the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:13:4 @ {\cf2 (13:5)} Also their names are these: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the sonne of Zaccur:

geneva@Numbers:13:5 @ {\cf2 (13:6)} Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the sonne of Hori:

geneva@Numbers:13:6 @ {\cf2 (13:7)} Of the tribe of Iudah, Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh:

geneva@Numbers:13:7 @ {\cf2 (13:8)} Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the sonne of Ioseph:

geneva@Numbers:13:8 @ {\cf2 (13:9)} Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the sone of Nun:

geneva@Numbers:13:9 @ {\cf2 (13:10)} Of the tribe of Beniamin, Palti the sonne of Raphu:

geneva@Numbers:13:10 @ {\cf2 (13:11)} Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the sone of Sodi:

geneva@Numbers:13:11 @ {\cf2 (13:12)} Of the tribe of Ioseph, to wit, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the sonne of Susi:

geneva@Numbers:13:12 @ {\cf2 (13:13)} Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the sonne of Gemalli:

geneva@Numbers:13:13 @ {\cf2 (13:14)} Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the sonne of Michael:

geneva@Numbers:13:14 @ {\cf2 (13:15)} Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the sonne of Vophsi:

geneva@Numbers:13:15 @ {\cf2 (13:16)} Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the sonne of Machi.

geneva@Numbers:13:17 @ {\cf2 (13:18)} So Moses sent them to spie out the lande of Canaan, & said vnto them, Go vp this way toward the South, and go vp into the moutaines,

geneva@Numbers:13:18 @ {\cf2 (13:19)} And consider the land what it is, and the people that dwel therein, whether they be strong or weake, either fewe or many,

geneva@Numbers:13:20 @ {\cf2 (13:21)} And what the land is: whether it be fat or leane, whether there be trees therein, or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruite of the lande (for then was the time of the first ripe grapes)

geneva@Numbers:13:23 @ {\cf2 (13:24)} Then they came to the riuer of Eshcol, and cut downe thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it vpon a barre betwene two, and brought of the pomegranates and of the figges.

geneva@Numbers:13:24 @ {\cf2 (13:25)} That place was called the riuer Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes, which the children of Israel cut downe thence.

geneva@Numbers:13:25 @ {\cf2 (13:26)} Then after fourtie dayes, they turned againe from searching of the land.

geneva@Numbers:13:29 @ {\cf2 (13:30)} The Amalekites dwell in the South countrey, and the Hittites, and the Iebusites, & the Amorites dwell in the mountaines, & the Canaanites dwell by the sea, & by the coast of Iorden.

geneva@Numbers:13:30 @ {\cf2 (13:31)} Then Caleb stilled the people before Moses, & saide, Let vs go vp at once, and possesse it: for vndoubtedly we shall ouercome it.

geneva@Numbers:13:31 @ {\cf2 (13:32)} But the men, that went vp with him, saide, we be not able to goe vp against the people: for they are stronger then we.

geneva@Numbers:13:33 @ {\cf2 (13:34)} For there we sawe gyants, the sonnes of Anak, which come of the gyants, so that we seemed in our sight like grashoppers: and so wee were in their sight.

geneva@Numbers:29:40 @ {\cf2 (30:1)} Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel according to all that the Lorde had commanded him,

geneva@Numbers:30:2 @ {\cf2 (30:3)} Whosoeuer voweth a vow vnto the Lord, or sweareth an othe to binde him selfe by a bonde, he shall not breake his promise, but shall do according to al that proceedeth out of his mouth.

geneva@Numbers:30:3 @ {\cf2 (30:4)} If a woman also vow a vow vnto the Lord, and binde her selfe by a bonde, being in her fathers house, in the time of her youth,

geneva@Numbers:30:7 @ {\cf2 (30:8)} If her husband heard it, & holdeth his peace concerning her, the same day he heareth it, then her vowe shall stande, and her bondes wherewith she bindeth her selfe shall stand in effect.

geneva@Numbers:30:11 @ {\cf2 (30:12)} And her husband hath heard it, and helde his peace cocerning her, not disalowing her, then all her vowes shall stand, and euery bond, wherewith she bound her selfe, shall stand in effect.

geneva@Numbers:30:12 @ {\cf2 (30:13)} But if her husband disanulled them, the same day that he heard them, nothing that proceeded out of her lippes concerning her vowes or concerning her bondes, shall stand in effect: for her husband hath disanulled them: and the Lord will forgiue her.

geneva@Numbers:30:16 @ {\cf2 (30:17)} These are the ordinances which the Lorde commanded Moses, betweene a man & his wife, and betweene the father and his daughter, being young in her fathers house.

geneva@1Samuel:24:2 @ {\cf2 (24:3)} Then Saul tooke three thousande chosen men out of all Israel, & went to seeke Dauid and his men vpon the rocks among the wilde goates.

geneva@1Samuel:24:3 @ {\cf2 (24:4)} And hee came to the sheepecoates by the way where there was a caue, & Saul went in to do his easement: and Dauid and his men sate in the inward parts of the caue.

geneva@1Samuel:24:6 @ {\cf2 (24:7)} And he said vnto his men, The Lord keepe mee from doing that thing vnto my master the Lords Anoynted, to lay mine hand vpon him: for he is the Anoynted of the Lord.

geneva@1Samuel:24:7 @ {\cf2 (24:8)} So Dauid ouercame his seruants with these words, & suffered them not to arise against Saul: so Saul rose vp out of the caue and went away.

geneva@1Samuel:24:8 @ {\cf2 (24:9)} Dauid also arose afterward, and went out of the caue, and cryed after Saul, saying, O my lorde the King; when Saul looked behinde him, Dauid inclined his face to the earth, and bowed himselfe.

geneva@1Samuel:24:10 @ {\cf2 (24:11)} Behold, this day thine eyes haue seene, that the Lorde had deliuered thee this day into mine hand in the caue, and some bade me kill thee, but I had compassion on thee, and said, I will not lay mine hande on my master: for he is the Lordes Anoynted.

geneva@1Samuel:24:11 @ {\cf2 (24:12)} Moreouer my father, behold: behold, I say, the lappe of thy garment in mine hand: for when I cut off the lappe of thy garment, I killed thee not. Vnderstad & see, that there is neither euil nor wickednesse in mee, neither haue I sinned against thee, yet thou huntest after my soule to take it.

geneva@1Samuel:24:12 @ {\cf2 (24:13)} The Lord be iudge betweene thee and me, and the Lord auenge me of thee, & let not mine hand be vpon thee.

geneva@1Samuel:24:13 @ {\cf2 (24:14)} According as the olde prouerbe sayeth, Wickednesse proceedeth from the wicked, but mine hand be not vpon thee.

geneva@1Samuel:24:14 @ {\cf2 (24:15)} After whom is the King of Israel come out? after whome doest thou pursue? after a dead dog, and after a flea?

geneva@1Samuel:24:15 @ {\cf2 (24:16)} The Lord therfore be iudge, and iudge betweene thee and me, and see, & pleade my cause, and deliuer me out of thine hand.

geneva@1Samuel:24:17 @ {\cf2 (24:18)} And sayd to Dauid, Thou art more righteous then I: for thou hast rendred me good, and I haue rendred thee euill.

geneva@1Samuel:24:18 @ {\cf2 (24:19)} And thou hast shewed this day, that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had closed me in thine hands, thou killedst me not.

geneva@1Samuel:24:19 @ {\cf2 (24:20)} For who shal finde his enemie, and let him depart free? wherefore the Lorde render thee good for that thou hast done vnto me this day.

geneva@1Samuel:24:21 @ {\cf2 (24:22)} Sweare now therfore vnto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seede after me, and that thou wilt not abolish my name out of my fathers house.

geneva@1Samuel:24:22 @ {\cf2 (24:23)} So Dauid sware vnto Saul, and Saul went home: but Dauid & his men went vp vnto ye hold.

geneva@Esther:3:13 @ And the letters were sent by postes into all the Kings prouinces, to roote out, to kill and to destroy all the Iewes, both yong & olde, children and women, in one day vpon the thirteenth day of the twelft moneth, (which is the moneth Adar) and to spoyle them as a pray. {\cf2 (13:1) The copie of the letters was this, The great King Artaxerxes writeth these thinges to the princes and gouernours that are vnder him from India vnto Ethiopia in an hundreth and seuen and twentie prouinces. (13:2) When I was made Lord ouer many people, and had subdued the whole earth vnto my dominion, I would not exalt my selfe by the reason of my power, but purposed with equitie alway and gentlenesse to gouerne my subiects, and wholy to set them in a peaceable life, and thereby to bring my kingdome vnto tranquilitie, that men might safely goe thorow on euery side, and to renewe peace againe, which all men desire. (13:3) Now when I asked my counsellers how these things might be brought to passe, one that was conuersant with vs, of excellent wisdome, and constant in good wil, and shewed him selfe to be of sure fidelitie, which had the second place in the kingdome, euen Aman, (13:4) Declared vnto vs, that in all nations there was scattered abroad a rebellious people, that had lawes contrary to all people, and haue alway despised the commandements of Kings, and so that this generall empire, that we haue begunne, cannot be gouerned without offence. (13:5) Seeing nowe wee perceiue, that this people alone are altogether contrary vnto euery man, vsing strange and other maner of lawes, and hauing an euill opinion of our doings, and goe about to stablish wicked matters, that our kingdome should not come to good estate, (13:6) Therefore haue we comaunded, that all they that are appointed in writing vnto you by Aman (which is ordeined ouer ye affaires, & is as our second father) shall all with their wiues and children be destroyed & rooted out with ye sword of their enemies without all mercy, and that none be spared the fourtenth day of the twelfth moneth Adar of this yeere, (13:7) That they which of olde, and nowe also haue euer bene rebellious, may in one day with violence be thrust downe into the hell, to the intent that after this time our affaires may bee without troubles, and well gouerned in all pointes.}

geneva@Esther:4:17 @ So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commaunded him. {\cf2 (13:8) Then Mardocheus thought vpon all ye workes and of the Lord, and made his prayer vnto him, (13:9) Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty (for all things are in thy power) & if thou hast appointed to saue Israel, there is no man that can withstand thee. (13:10) For thou hast made heauen and earth, and all the wonderous things vnder the heauen. (13:11) Thou art Lorde of all thinges, and there is no man that can resist thee, which art the Lord. (13:12) Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither of malice, nor presumption, nor for any desire of glory, that I did this, and not bowe downe to proude Aman. (13:13) For I woulde haue bene content with good will for the saluation of Israel, to haue kist the sole of his feete. (13:14) But I did it, because I would not preferre the honour of a man aboue the glory of God, & would not worship any but onely thee, my Lorde, and this haue I not done of pride. (13:15) And therefore, O Lord God and King, haue mercy vpon thy people: for they imagine how they may bring vs to naught, yea, they would destroy the inheritance, that hath bin thine from the beginning. (13:16) Despise not the portion, which thou hast deliuered out of Egypt for thine owne selfe. (13:17) Heare my prayer, and bee mercifull vnto thy portion: turne our sorow into ioy, that we may liue, O Lord, and praise thy Name: shut not the mouthes of them that praise thee. (13:18) All Israel in like maner cried most earnestly vnto the Lord, because that death was before their eyes. \par (14:1) Qveene Esther also, being in danger of death, resorted vnto the Lord, (14:2) And layd away her glorious apparell, and put on the garments of sighing, and mourning. In the stead of precious oyntment, she scattered ashes, and dongue vpon her head: and she humbled her body greatly with fasting, and all the places of her ioy filled she with the heare that she pluckt off. (14:3) And she prayed vnto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lorde, thou onely art our King: helpe me desolate woman, which haue no helper but thee. (14:4) For my danger is at hand. (14:5) From my youth vp I haue heard in the kinred of my father, that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from their predecessours for a perpetuall inheritance, and thou hast performed that which thou didest promise them. (14:6) Now Lord, we haue sinned before thee: therefore hast thou giuen vs into ye hands of our enemies. (14:7) Because we worshipped their gods, O Lorde, thou art righteous. (14:8) Neuerthelesse, it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captiuitie, but they haue stroken hands with their idoles, (14:9) That they wil abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordeined, & destroy thine inheritace, to shut vp the mouth of them that praise thee, and to quench the glory of thy Temple, and of thine altar, (14:10) And to open the mouths of the heathen, that they may praise the power of the idoles, and to magnifie a fleshly King for euer. (14:11) O Lord, giue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing, lest they laugh vs to scorne in our miserie: but turne their deuise vpon theselues, and make him an example, that hath begunne the same against vs. (14:12) Thinke vpon vs, O Lord, and shewe thy selfe vnto vs in the time of our distresse, and strengthen me, O King of gods, and Lord of all power. (14:13) Giue me an eloquent speach in my mouth before the Lion: turne his heart to hate our enemie, to destroy him, and all such as consent vnto him. (14:14) But deliuer vs with thine hand, and helpe me that am solitary, which haue no defence but onely thee. (14:15) Thou knowest all things, O Lord: thou knowest, that I hate the glory of the vnrighteous, and that I abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised, and of all the heathen. (14:16) Thou knowest my necessitie: for I hate this token of my preeminence, which I beare vpon mine head, what time as I must shewe my selfe, and that I abhorre it as a menstruous cloth, and that I weare it not when I am alone by my selfe, (14:17) And that I thine handmayde haue not eaten at Amans table, and that I haue had no pleasure in the Kings feast, nor drunke the wine of the drinke offerings, (14:18) And that I thine handmayde haue no ioye since the day that I was brought hither, vntill this day, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham. (14:19) O thou mighty God aboue al, heare the voyce of them, that haue none other hope, & deliuer vs out of the hand of ye wicked, & deliuer me out of my feare.}

geneva@Job:38:40 @ {\cf2 (39:2)} When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

geneva@Job:39:1 @ {\cf2 (39:4)} Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?

geneva@Job:39:4 @ {\cf2 (39:7)} Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

geneva@Job:39:5 @ {\cf2 (39:8)} Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?

geneva@Job:39:7 @ {\cf2 (39:10)} He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.

geneva@Job:39:8 @ {\cf2 (39:11)} He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.

geneva@Job:39:10 @ {\cf2 (39:13)} Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?

geneva@Job:39:11 @ {\cf2 (39:14)} Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?

geneva@Job:39:12 @ {\cf2 (39:15)} Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?

geneva@Job:39:13 @ {\cf2 (39:16)} Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

geneva@Job:39:15 @ {\cf2 (39:18)} And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.

geneva@Job:39:20 @ {\cf2 (39:23)} Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.

geneva@Job:39:22 @ {\cf2 (39:25)} He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,

geneva@Job:39:23 @ {\cf2 (39:26)} Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.

geneva@Job:39:25 @ {\cf2 (39:28)} He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.

geneva@Job:39:27 @ {\cf2 (39:30)} Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?

geneva@Job:39:28 @ {\cf2 (39:31)} Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.

geneva@Job:39:29 @ {\cf2 (39:32)} From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.

geneva@Job:39:30 @ {\cf2 (39:33)} His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.

geneva@Job:40:1 @ {\cf2 (39:34)} Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, & said,

geneva@Job:40:3 @ {\cf2 (39:36)} Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,

geneva@Job:40:5 @ {\cf2 (39:38)} Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.

geneva@Job:40:6 @ {\cf2 (40:1)} Againe the Lord answered Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,

geneva@Job:40:7 @ {\cf2 (40:2)} Girde vp now thy loynes like a man: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.

geneva@Job:40:9 @ {\cf2 (40:4)} Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?

geneva@Job:40:11 @ {\cf2 (40:6)} Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.

geneva@Job:40:12 @ {\cf2 (40:7)} Looke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe: and destroy the wicked in their place.

geneva@Job:40:16 @ {\cf2 (40:11)} Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.

geneva@Job:40:17 @ {\cf2 (40:12)} When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together.

geneva@Job:40:18 @ {\cf2 (40:13)} His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.

geneva@Job:40:20 @ {\cf2 (40:15)} Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.

geneva@Job:40:21 @ {\cf2 (40:16)} Lyeth hee vnder the trees in the couert of the reede and fennes?

geneva@Job:40:22 @ {\cf2 (40:17)} Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

geneva@Job:40:24 @ {\cf2 (40:19)} Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.

geneva@Job:41:3 @ {\cf2 (40:22)} Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?

geneva@Job:41:5 @ {\cf2 (40:24)} Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?

geneva@Job:41:6 @ {\cf2 (40:25)} Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?

geneva@Job:41:7 @ {\cf2 (40:26)} Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?

geneva@Job:41:15 @ {\cf2 (41:6)} The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed.

geneva@Job:41:16 @ {\cf2 (41:7)} One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.

geneva@Job:41:17 @ {\cf2 (41:8)} One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.

geneva@Job:41:19 @ {\cf2 (41:10)} Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out.

geneva@Job:41:20 @ {\cf2 (41:11)} Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.

geneva@Job:41:21 @ {\cf2 (41:12)} His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.

geneva@Job:41:23 @ {\cf2 (41:14)} The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.

geneva@Job:41:24 @ {\cf2 (41:15)} His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.

geneva@Job:41:25 @ {\cf2 (41:16)} The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.

geneva@Job:41:26 @ {\cf2 (41:17)} When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.

geneva@Job:41:27 @ {\cf2 (41:18)} He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.

geneva@Job:41:28 @ {\cf2 (41:19)} The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:

geneva@Job:41:29 @ {\cf2 (41:20)} The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.

geneva@Job:41:33 @ {\cf2 (41:24)} In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ {\cf2 (5:2)} For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ {\cf2 (5:4)} It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ {\cf2 (5:6)} For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ {\cf2 (5:9)} He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ {\cf2 (5:10)} When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ {\cf2 (5:14)} As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ {\cf2 (5:18)} Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ {\cf2 (7:1)} Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ {\cf2 (7:5)} Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ {\cf2 (7:6)} The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ {\cf2 (7:7)} Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ {\cf2 (7:11)} Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ {\cf2 (7:14)} For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ {\cf2 (7:15)} Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ {\cf2 (7:21)} Wisedome shall strengthen the wise man more then ten mightie princes that are in ye citie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ {\cf2 (7:22)} Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ {\cf2 (7:24)} For often times also thine heart knoweth that thou likewise hast cursed others.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ {\cf2 (7:2)} All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ {\cf2 (7:27)} I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ {\cf2 (7:28)} And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ {\cf2 (7:30)} And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.

geneva@Daniel:3:23 @ And these three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell downe bound into the middes of the hote fierie fornace. \par {\cf2 (3:24) And they walked in the middes of the flame, praising God, & magnified the Lord. (3:25) Then Azarias stoode vp, & praied on this maner, and opening his mouth in ye mids of the fire, saide, (3:26) Blessed be thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy Name is worthie to bee praised and honoured for euermore. (3:27) For thou art righteous in all the things, that thou hast done vnto vs, and all thy works are true, and thy waies are right, and all thy iudgementes certeine. (3:28) In all the things that thou hast brought vpon vs, and vpon Ierusalem, the holy citie of our fathers, thou hast executed true iudgementes: for by right and equitie hast thou brought all these things vpon vs, because of our sinnes. (3:29) For we haue sinned and done wickedly, departing from thee: in all things haue we trespassed, (3:30) And not obeied thy commaundements, nor kept them, neither done as thou haddest commanded vs, that we might prosper. (3:31) Wherefore in all that thou hast broughtvpon vs, and in euery thing that thou hast done to vs, thou hast done them in true iudgement: (3:32) As in deliuering vs into the handes of our wicked enemies, and most hatefull traitours, and to an vnrighteous King, and the most wicked in all the worlde. (3:33) And nowe we may not open our mouthes: we are become a shame and reproofe vnto thy seruants, and to them that worship thee. (3:34) Yet for thy names sake, we beseech thee, giue vs not vp for euer, neither breake thy couenant, (3:35) Neither take away thy mercie from vs, for thy beloued Abrahams sake, and for thy seruant Isaacs sake, and for thine holy Israels sake, (3:36) To whome thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiplie their seed as ye starres of heauen, & as the sand, that is vpon the sea shore. (3:37) For we, O Lorde, are become lesse then any nation, and be kept vnder this day in all the world, because of our sinnes: (3:38) So that now we haue neither prince, nor prophet, nor gouernour, nor burnt offering, nor sacrifice, nor oblation, nor incense, nor place to offer ye first fruits before thee, that we might finde mercie. (3:39) Neuerthelesse in a contrite heart, & an humble spirit, let vs be receiued. (3:40) As in the burnt offring of rams & bullocks, and as in ten thousand of fat lambes, so let our offring be in thy sight this daye, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion vnto them that put their trust in thee. (3:41) And now we follow thee with all our heart, and feare thee, and seeke thy face. (3:42) Put vs not to shame, but deale with vs after thy louing kindenesse, and according to the multitude of thy mercies. (3:43) Deliuer vs also by thy miracles, and giue thy Name the glory, O Lord, (3:44) That all they which doe thy seruantes euill, may be confounded: euen let them bee confounded by thy great force and power, and let their strength be broken, (3:45) That they may know, that thou only art the Lord God, and glorious ouer the whole worlde. (3:46) Now the kings seruants that had cast them in, ceased not to make the ouen hote with naphtha, and with pitch, and with towe, & with fagots, (3:47) So that the flame went out of the fornace fourtie and nine cubites. (3:48) And it brake forth, and burnt those Chaldeans, that it found by the fornace. (3:49) But the Angel of the Lord went downe into the fornace with them that were with Azarias, and smote the flame of the fire out of the fornace, (3:50) And made in the middes of the fornace like a moyst hissing winde, so that the fire touched the not at all, neither grieued, nor troubled them. (3:51) Then these three (as out of one mouth) praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the fornace, saying, (3:52) Blessed be thou, O Lord God of our fathers, and praysed, & exalted aboue all things for euer, & blessed be thy glorious & holy Name, and praysed aboue all things, and magnified for euer. (3:53) Blessed be thou in the Temple of thine holy glory, and praysed aboue all thinges, and exalted for euer. (3:54) Blessed be thou that beholdest the depthes, and sittest vpon the Cherubins, and praysed aboue all things, and exalted for euer. (3:55) Blessed be thou in the glorious Throne of thy kingdome, and praysed aboue all things, and exalted for euer. (3:56) Blessed be thou in the firmament of heauen, & praysed aboue all things, & glorified for euer. (3:57) All ye works of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:58) O heauens, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:59) O Angels of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:60) Al ye waters that be aboue the heauen, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:61) All ye powers of the Lord, blesse ye ye Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:62) O sunne & moone, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:63) O starres of heauen, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:64) Euery showre and dewe, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:65) All ye windes, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:66) O fire & heate, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:67) O winter & sommer, blesse ye ye Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:68) O dewes and stormes of snowe, blesse yee the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:69) O frost and colde, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:70) O yee & snow, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:71) O nights & dayes, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:72) O light and darkenesse, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:73) O lightnings & cloudes, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:74) Let the earth blesse the Lorde: let it prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:75) O mountaines, & hilles, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:76) All things that growe on the earth, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue al things for euer. (3:77) O fountaines, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:78) O sea, and floods, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:79) O whales, and all that moue in the waters, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:80) All ye foules of heauen, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:81) All ye beastes and cattel, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:82) O children of men, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:83) Let Israel blesse the Lord, praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:84) O Priestes of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:85) O seruants of the Lord, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:86) O spirites and soules of the righteous, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer\par (3:87) O Saintes and humble of heart, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all thinges for euer. (3:88) O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer: for he hath deliuered vs from the hel, & saued vs from the hand of death, and deliuered vs out of the middes of the fornace, and burning flame: euen out of the middes of the fire hath he deliuered vs. (3:89) Confesse vnto the Lord, that he is gracious: for his mercy endureth for euer. (3:90) All ye that worship the Lord, blesse the God of gods: prayse him, and acknowledge him: for his mercy endureth worlde without ende.}

geneva@Daniel:4:2 @ {\cf2 (3:32)} I thought it good to declare the signes and wonders, that the hie God hath wrought toward me.

geneva@Daniel:4:6 @ {\cf2 (4:3)} Therefore made I a decree, that they should bring all the wise men of Babel before mee, that they might declare vnto me the interpretation of the dreame.

geneva@Daniel:4:11 @ {\cf2 (4:8)} A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.

geneva@Daniel:4:12 @ {\cf2 (4:9)} The boughes thereof were faire & the fruite thereof much, and in it was meate for all: it made a shadow vnder it for the beastes of the fielde, and the foules of the heauen dwelt in the boughes thereof, and all flesh fedde of it.

geneva@Daniel:4:14 @ {\cf2 (4:11)} And cried aloude, and said thus, Hew downe the tree, and breake off his branches: shake off his leaues, and scatter his fruite, that the beastes may flee from vnder it, and the foules from his branches.

geneva@Daniel:4:15 @ {\cf2 (4:12)} Neuerthelesse leaue the stumpe of his rootes in the earth, and with a band of yron and brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde, and let it be wet with the dewe of heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes among the grasse of the fielde.

geneva@Daniel:4:18 @ {\cf2 (4:15)} This is the dreame, that I King Nebuchad-nezzar haue seene: therefore thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof: for all the wisemen of my kingdome are not able to shewe mee the interpretation: but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

geneva@Daniel:4:20 @ {\cf2 (4:17)} The tree that thou sawest, which was great and mightie, whose height reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof through all the world,

geneva@Daniel:4:21 @ {\cf2 (4:18)} Whose leaues were faire & the fruit thereof much, and in it was meate for all, vnder the which the beastes of the fielde dwelt, and vpon whose branches the foules of the heauen did sit,

geneva@Daniel:4:22 @ {\cf2 (4:19)} It is thou, O King, that art great and mightie: for thy greatnesse is growen, and reacheth vnto heauen, and thy dominion to the endes of the earth.

geneva@Daniel:4:24 @ {\cf2 (4:21)} This is the interpretation, O King, and it is the decree of the most High, which is come vpon my lord the King,

geneva@Daniel:4:26 @ {\cf2 (4:23)} Where as they sayd, that one should leaue the stumpe of the tree rootes, thy kingdome shall remaine vnto thee: after that, thou shalt knowe, that the heauens haue the rule.

geneva@Daniel:4:28 @ {\cf2 (4:25)} All these things shal come vpon the King Nebuchad-nezzar.

geneva@Daniel:4:30 @ {\cf2 (4:27)} And the King spake and sayde, Is not this great Babel, that I haue built for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?

geneva@Daniel:4:31 @ {\cf2 (4:28)} While the worde was in the Kings mouth, a voyce came downe from heauen, saying, O King Nebuchad-nezzar, to thee be it spoken, Thy kingdome is departed from thee,

geneva@Daniel:4:32 @ {\cf2 (4:29)} And they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse, as the oxen, and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, vntill thou knowest, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it vnto whomsoeuer he will.

geneva@Daniel:4:33 @ {\cf2 (4:30)} The very same houre was this thing fulfilled vpon Nebuchad-nezzar, and hee was driuen from men, and did eate grasse as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of heauen, till his heares were growen as egles feathers, & his nailes like birds clawes.

geneva@Hosea:13:16 @ {\cf2 (14:1)} Samaria shalbe desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shal fall by the sworde: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, & their women with childe shalbe ript.

geneva@Hosea:14:5 @ {\cf2 (14:6)} I will be as the dewe vnto Israel: he shall grow as the lilie and fasten his rootes, as the trees of Lebanon.

geneva@Hosea:14:6 @ {\cf2 (14:7)} His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

geneva@Haggai:1:15 @ {\cf2 (2:1)} In the foure and twentieth day of the sixt moneth, in the second yeere of King Darius,

geneva@Haggai:2:1 @ {\cf2 (2:2)} In the seuenth moneth, in the one & twentieth day of the moneth, came the worde of the Lorde by the ministerie of the Prophet Haggai, saying,

geneva@Haggai:2:2 @ {\cf2 (2:3)} Speake nowe to Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel prince of Iudah, and to Iehoshua the sonne of Iehozadak the hie Priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,

geneva@Haggai:2:5 @ {\cf2 (2:6)} According to the worde that I couenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt: so my Spirite shall remaine among you, feare ye not.

geneva@Haggai:2:10 @ {\cf2 (2:11)} In the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, in the second yeere of Darius, came the worde of the Lorde vnto the Prophet Haggai, saying,

geneva@Haggai:2:11 @ {\cf2 (2:12)} Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Aske nowe the Priests concerning the Law, and say,

geneva@Haggai:2:13 @ {\cf2 (2:14)} Then sayde Haggai, If a polluted person touch any of these, shall it be vncleane? And the Priests answered, and sayd, It shalbe vncleane.

geneva@Haggai:2:14 @ {\cf2 (2:15)} Then answered Haggai, and sayd, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all the workes of their hands, and that which they offer here, is vncleane.

geneva@Haggai:2:17 @ {\cf2 (2:18)} I smote you with blasting, and with mildewe, and with haile, in all the labours of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

geneva@Haggai:2:20 @ {\cf2 (2:21)} And againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto Haggai in the foure and twentieth day of the moneth, saying,

geneva@2Corinthians:13:13 @ {\cf2 (13:12)} All the Saintes salute you.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:14 @ {\cf2 (13:13)} The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all, Amen. The seconde Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a citie in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas.

geneva@Jdt:1:1 @ {\cf2 The booke of the woordes of Tobit sonne of Tobiel, the sonne of Ananeel, the sonne of Aduel, the sonne of Gabael, of the seede of Asael, and of the tribe of Nephthalim,}

geneva@Jdt:1:2 @ {\cf2 Who in the time of Enemessar King of the Assyrians was led away captiue out of Thisbe, which is at the right hande of that citie, which is called properly Nephthalim, in Galilee aboue Aser.}

geneva@Jdt:1:3 @ {\cf2 I Tobit haue walked all my life long in the way of trueth and iustice, and I did many things liberally to the brethren, which were of my nation, and came with me to Niniue into the lande of the Assyrians.}

geneva@Jdt:1:4 @ {\cf2 And when I was in mine owne countrey in the lande of Israel, being but young, all the tribe of Nephthalim my father fell from the house of Ierusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes shoulde sacrifice there, where the Temple of the tabernacle of the most High was consecrated, and built vp for all ages.}

geneva@Jdt:1:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe all the tribes which fell from God, yea, and my father Nephthalims house offered to the heifar called Baal.}

geneva@Jdt:1:6 @ {\cf2 But I (as it was ordeined to all Israel by an euerlasting decree) went alone often to Ierusalem, at the feastes bringing the first fruites, and the tenth of beastes with that which was first shorne, and offred them at the altar to the Priests the children of Aaron.}

geneva@Jdt:1:7 @ {\cf2 The first tenth part I gaue to the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron, which ministred in Ierusalem: the other tenth parte I solde, and came and bestowed it euery yeare at Ierusalem.}

geneva@Jdt:1:8 @ {\cf2 The thirde tenth part I gaue vnto them to whome it was meete, as Debora my fathers mother had commaunded mee: for my father left mee as a pupill.}

geneva@Jdt:1:9 @ {\cf2 Furthermore when I was come to the age of a man, I married Anna of mine owne kinred, and of her I begate Tobias.}

geneva@Jdt:1:10 @ {\cf2 But when I was led captiue to Niniue, all my brethren, and those which were of my kinred, did eate of the bread of the Gentiles.}

geneva@Jdt:1:11 @ {\cf2 But I kept my selfe from eating,}

geneva@Jdt:1:12 @ {\cf2 Because I remebred God with al mine heart.}

geneva@Jdt:1:13 @ {\cf2 Therefore the most High gaue me grace and fauour before Enemessar, so that I was his puruoier.}

geneva@Jdt:1:14 @ {\cf2 And I went into Media, & I deliuered ten talents of siluer to Gabael the brother of Gabrias in the land of Media.}

geneva@Jdt:1:15 @ {\cf2 But when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his sonne reigned in his stead: whose state because it was troubled, I coulde not goe into Media.}

geneva@Jdt:1:16 @ {\cf2 But in the time of Enemessar, I gaue many almes to my brethren, and gaue my breade to them which were hungrie,}

geneva@Jdt:1:17 @ {\cf2 And my clothes to the naked: and if I sawe any of my kinred dead, or cast about the walles of Niniue, I buried him.}

geneva@Jdt:1:18 @ {\cf2 And if the King Sennacherib had slaine any, when he was come and fled from Iudea, I buried them priuilie (for in his wrath he killed many) but the bodies were not found when they were sought for of the king.}

geneva@Jdt:1:19 @ {\cf2 Therefore when a certaine Nineuite had accused mee to the King, because I did burie them, I hid my selfe: and because I knewe that I was sought to be slaine, I withdrewe my selfe for feare.}

geneva@Jdt:1:20 @ {\cf2 Then all my goods were spoyled, neither was there any thing left mee besides my wife Anna and my sonne Tobias.}

geneva@Jdt:1:21 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse within fiue and fiftie dayes, two of his sonnes killed him, and they fled into the mountaines of Arrarath, and Sarchedonus his sonne reigned in his stead, who appointed ouer his fathers accomptes and ouer all his domesticall affaires Achiacharus my brother Anaels sonne.}

geneva@Jdt:1:22 @ {\cf2 And when Achiacharus had made a request for me, I came againe to Niniue: nowe Achiacharus was cupbearer and keeper of the signet, and stewarde, and ouersawe the accompts: so Sarchedonus appoynted him next vnto him, and he was my brothers sonne.}

geneva@Jdt:2:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when I was come home againe, and my wife Anna was restored vnto mee with my sonne Tobias, in the feast of Pentecoste, which is the holy feast of the seuen weekes, there was a great dinner prepared me, in ye which I sate downe to eat.}

geneva@Jdt:2:2 @ {\cf2 And when I sawe abundance of meat, I sayde to my sonne, Go, and bring what poore man soeuer thou shalt finde of our brethren which doeth remember God, and loe I will tarie for thee.}

geneva@Jdt:2:3 @ {\cf2 But hee came againe, and sayde, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the market place.}

geneva@Jdt:2:4 @ {\cf2 Then before I had tasted any meate, I start vp, and brought him into mine house vntill the going downe of the sunne.}

geneva@Jdt:2:5 @ {\cf2 Then I returned and washed, & ate my meate in heauinesse,}

geneva@Jdt:2:6 @ {\cf2 Remembring that prophecie of Amos, which had saide, Your solemne feastes shall be turned into mourning, and your ioyes into wailing.}

geneva@Jdt:2:7 @ {\cf2 Therefore I wept, and after the going downe of the sunne I went and made a graue and buried him.}

geneva@Jdt:2:8 @ {\cf2 But my neighbours mocked mee, and sayde, Doeth he not feare, to die for this cause, who fled away, and yet, loe, he burieth the dead againe.}

geneva@Jdt:2:9 @ {\cf2 The same night also when I returned from the buriall, and slept at the wall of mine house because I was polluted, & hauing my face vncouered,}

geneva@Jdt:2:10 @ {\cf2 And I knewe not that sparrowes were in the wall, and as mine eyes were open, the sparrowes cast downe warme dongue into mine eyes, and a whitenesse came in mine eyes, and I went to the Phisitions, but they helped me not. Moreouer Achiacharus did nourish me, vntill I went into Helimais.}

geneva@Jdt:2:11 @ {\cf2 And my wife Anna did take womens works to doe.}

geneva@Jdt:2:12 @ {\cf2 And when shee had sent them home to the owners, they paied the wages, and gaue a kid.}

geneva@Jdt:2:13 @ {\cf2 Which when it was at mine house, & beganto bleate, I sayd vnto her, from whence is this kid? Is it not stollen? Render it to the owners: for it is not lawfull to eate any thing that is stollen.}

geneva@Jdt:2:14 @ {\cf2 But shee sayde, It was giuen for a gift more then the wages, but I did not beleeue, and bade her to render it to the owners, and I did blush, because of her. Furthermore she said, where are thine almes, and thy righteousnes? behold, they all nowe appeare in thee.}

geneva@Jdt:3:1 @ {\cf2 Then I, being sorowfull did weepe, and in my sorow prayed, saying,}

geneva@Jdt:3:2 @ {\cf2 O Lord, thou art iust, and all thy workes, & all thy wayes are mercy and trueth, & thou iudgest truely and iustly for euer.}

geneva@Jdt:3:3 @ {\cf2 Remember me, & looke on me, neither punish me according to my sinnes or mine ignorances or my fathers, which haue sinned before thee.}

geneva@Jdt:3:4 @ {\cf2 For they haue not obeyed thy commaundementes: wherefore thou hast deliuered vs for a spoyle, & vnto captiuitie, & to death, & for a prouerbe of a reproch to all them among who we are dispersed, & now thou hast many and iust causes,}

geneva@Jdt:3:5 @ {\cf2 To do with me according to my sinnes, and my fathers, because we haue not kept thy comandemets, neither haue walked in trueth before thee.}

geneva@Jdt:3:6 @ {\cf2 Now therfore deale with me as seemeth best vnto thee, and commande my spirite to be taken from me, that I may be dissolued, & become earth: for it is better for me to dye then to liue, because I haue heard false reproches, and am very sorowfull: command therefore that I may be dissolued out of this distresse, & go into the euerlasting place: turne not thy face away from me.}

geneva@Jdt:3:7 @ {\cf2 It came to passe the same day that in Ecbatane a citie of Media, Sarra the daughter of Raguel was also reproched by her fathers maydes,}

geneva@Jdt:3:8 @ {\cf2 Because she had bene marryed to seuen husbands, whom Asmodeus the euill spirit had killed, before that they had lyen with her. Doest thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had now seuen husbands, neyther wast thou named after any of them.}

geneva@Jdt:3:9 @ {\cf2 Wherfore doest thou beate vs for them? if they be dead, go thy wayes hence to them, that we may neuer see of thee either sonne or daughter.}

geneva@Jdt:3:10 @ {\cf2 When she heard these things, shee was very sorowful, so that she thought to haue strangled her selfe; she sayde, I am the onely daughter of my father, and if I do this, I shal slaunder him, and shal bring his age to the graue with sorow.}

geneva@Jdt:3:11 @ {\cf2 Then she prayed towarde the windowe, and sayd, Blessed art thou, O Lorde my God, and thine holy & glorious Name is blessed, & honorable for euer: let all thy workes prayse thee for euer.}

geneva@Jdt:3:12 @ {\cf2 And nowe, O Lord, I set mine eyes, and my face toward thee,}

geneva@Jdt:3:13 @ {\cf2 And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may heare no more any reproch.}

geneva@Jdt:3:14 @ {\cf2 Thou knowest, O Lord, that I am pure from all sinne with man,}

geneva@Jdt:3:15 @ {\cf2 And that I haue neuer polluted my name, nor the name of my father in ye land of my captiuitie: I am ye only daughter of my father, neither hath he any manchild to be his heire, neither any neere kinseman or childe borne of him, to whome I may keepe my selfe for a wife: my seue husbands are now dead, & why should I liue? But if it please not thee that I should die, command to looke on me, and to pitie me that I do no more heare reproch.}

geneva@Jdt:3:16 @ {\cf2 So the prayers of them both were heard before the maiestie of the great God.}

geneva@Jdt:3:17 @ {\cf2 And Raphael was sent to heale them both, that is, to take away the whitenes of Tobits eyes, & to giue Sarra the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the sonne of Tobit, and to binde Asmodeus the euill spirite, because she belonged to Tobias by right. The selfe same time came Tobit home, and entred into his house, and Sarra the daughter of Raguel came downe from her chamber.}

geneva@Jdt:4:1 @ {\cf2 In that day Tobit remembred the siluer, which hee had deliuered to Gabael in Rages a citie of Media,}

geneva@Jdt:4:2 @ {\cf2 And sayde with himselfe, I haue wished for death: wherefore do I not call for my sonne Tobias that I may admonish him before I die?}

geneva@Jdt:4:3 @ {\cf2 And whe he had called him, he said, My sone, after that I am dead, bury me, and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the dayes of thy life, and do that which shal please her, & anger her not.}

geneva@Jdt:4:4 @ {\cf2 Remember, my sonne, howe many dangers she susteined when thou wast in her wombe,}

geneva@Jdt:4:5 @ {\cf2 And when she dyeth, bury her by me in the same graue.}

geneva@Jdt:4:6 @ {\cf2 My sonne, set our Lord God alwayes before thine eyes, and let not thy wil be set to sinne or to trasgresse the comandements of God. Do vprightly all thy life long, and followe not the wayes of vnrighteousnesse: for if thou deale truely, thy doings shal prosperously succeede to thee, and to all them which liue iustly.}

geneva@Jdt:4:7 @ {\cf2 Giue almes of thy substance: & when thou giuest almes, let not thine eye be enuious, neyther turne thy face from any poore, lest that God turne his face from thee.}

geneva@Jdt:4:8 @ {\cf2 Giue almes according to thy substace: if thou haue but a litle, be not afrayd to giue a litle almes.}

geneva@Jdt:4:9 @ {\cf2 For thou layest vp a good store for thy selfe against the day of necessitie,}

geneva@Jdt:4:10 @ {\cf2 Because that almes doeth deliuer fro death, and suffreth not to come into darkenesse.}

geneva@Jdt:4:11 @ {\cf2 For almes is a good gifte before the most High to all them which vse it.}

geneva@Jdt:4:12 @ {\cf2 Beware of all whoredome, my sonne, and chiefly take a wife of the seede of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy fathers stocke: for wee are the children of the Prophetes. Noe, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob are our fathers from the beginning. Remember my sonne, that they marryed wiues of their owne kinred, and were blessed in their children, and their seede shall inherite the lande.}

geneva@Jdt:4:13 @ {\cf2 Now therefore, my sonne, loue thy brethren, & despise not in thine heart thy brethre, the sonnes and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction, & much trouble, and in fiercenes is scarcitie, and great pouertie: for fiercenes is the mother of famine.}

geneva@Jdt:4:14 @ {\cf2 Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tary with thee, but giue him it out of hand: for if thou serue God, he wil also pay thee: be circumspect, my sonne, in all thinges that thou doest, & be wel instructed in all thy conuersation.}

geneva@Jdt:4:15 @ {\cf2 Do that to no ma which thou hatest: drinke not wine to make thee drunken, neyther let drunkennesse go with thee in thy iourney.}

geneva@Jdt:4:16 @ {\cf2 Giue of thy bread to the hungry, & of thy garments to them that are naked, and of all thine abundance giue almes, and let not thine eye be enuious, when thou giuest almes.}

geneva@Jdt:4:17 @ {\cf2 Powre out thy bread on the buriall of the iust, but giue nothing to the wicked.}

geneva@Jdt:4:18 @ {\cf2 Aske counsell alway of the wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.}

geneva@Jdt:4:19 @ {\cf2 Blesse thy Lord God alway, & desire of him that thy wayes may be made streight, and that all thy purposes and counsels may prosper: for euery nation hath not counsell: but the Lord giueth all good things, and he humbleth whome he wil, as he will: now therefore, my sonne, remember my commandements, neyther let them at any time be put out of thy minde.}

geneva@Jdt:4:20 @ {\cf2 Furthermore I signifie this to thee, that I deliuered tenne talents to Gabael the sonne of Gabrias at Rages in Media.}

geneva@Jdt:4:21 @ {\cf2 And feare not, my sonne, forasmuch as wee are made poore: for thou hast many things, if thou feare God, & flee from all sinne, and do that thing which is acceptable vnto him.}

geneva@Jdt:5:1 @ {\cf2 Tobias then answered, and sayd, Father, I wil do all things which thou hast commanded me.}

geneva@Jdt:5:2 @ {\cf2 But howe can I receiue the siluer, seeing I know him not?}

geneva@Jdt:5:3 @ {\cf2 Then he gaue him the hand writing, & sayd vnto him, Seeke thee a man, which may goe with thee, whiles I yet liue, and I will giue him wages, & go and receiue the money.}

geneva@Jdt:5:4 @ {\cf2 Therfore when he was gone to seeke a man, he found Raphael the Angel.}

geneva@Jdt:5:5 @ {\cf2 But he knewe not, and sayd vnto him, May I goe with thee into the land of Media? and knowest thou those places well?}

geneva@Jdt:5:6 @ {\cf2 To whom the Angel said, I wil go with thee: for I haue remained with our brother Gabael.}

geneva@Jdt:5:7 @ {\cf2 Then Tobias sayd to him, Tarie for me, till I tell my father.}

geneva@Jdt:5:8 @ {\cf2 Then he sayde vnto him, Goe, and tarie not: so he went in and sayde to his father, Beholde, I haue founde one, which will goe with me. Then he sayde, Call him vnto me, that I may knowe of what tribe he is, and whether he be faithfull to goe with thee.}

geneva@Jdt:5:9 @ {\cf2 So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.}

geneva@Jdt:5:10 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit sayde vnto him, Brother, shewe me of what tribe and familie thou art.}

geneva@Jdt:5:11 @ {\cf2 To whom he said, Doest thou seeke a stocke or familie, or an hired man to goe with thy sonne? Then Tobit sayd vnto him, I would know, brother, thy kindred and thy name.}

geneva@Jdt:5:12 @ {\cf2 Then he sayd, I am of the kinred of Azarias and Ananias the great, and of thy brethren.}

geneva@Jdt:5:13 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit sayde, Thou art welcome, brother: be not now angry with me, because I haue enquired to knowe thy kinred, & thy familie: for thou art my brother of an honest & good stocke: for I know Ananias & Ionathas, sonnes of that great Samaias: for we went together to Ierusalem to worship, & offred the first borne, & the tenthes of the fruites, & they were not deceiued with the error of our brethren my brother, thou art of a great stocke.}

geneva@Jdt:5:14 @ {\cf2 But tel me, What wages shal I giue thee? wilt thou a groate a day and things necessarie, as to mine owne sonne?}

geneva@Jdt:5:15 @ {\cf2 Yea, moreouer if ye returne safe, I will adde some thing to the wages.}

geneva@Jdt:5:16 @ {\cf2 So they agreed. Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thy selfe for the iourney, and goe you on Gods Name; when his sonne had prepared all things for the iourney, his father sayde, Goe thou with this man, and God which dwelleth in heauen, prosper your iourney, & the Angel of God keepe you companie. So they went forth both and departed, & the dogge of the yong man with them.}

geneva@Jdt:5:17 @ {\cf2 But Anna his mother wept, & sayd to Tobit, Why hast thou sent away our sonne? is he not the staffe of our hand to minister vnto vs?}

geneva@Jdt:5:18 @ {\cf2 Woulde to God wee had not layde money vpon money, but that it had bene cast away in respect of our sonne.}

geneva@Jdt:5:19 @ {\cf2 For that which God hath giuen vs to liue with, doeth suffice vs.}

geneva@Jdt:5:20 @ {\cf2 Then said Tobit, Be not carefull, my sister: he shal returne in safetie, and thine eyes shal see him.}

geneva@Jdt:5:21 @ {\cf2 For the good Angel doeth keepe him company, and his iourney shalbe prosperous, and he shal returne safe.}

geneva@Jdt:5:22 @ {\cf2 Then she made an ende of weeping.}

geneva@Jdt:6:1 @ {\cf2 And as they went on their iourney, they came at night to the flood Tygris, and there abode.}

geneva@Jdt:6:2 @ {\cf2 And when the yong man went to wash him selfe, a fish leaped out of the riuer, and would haue deuoured him.}

geneva@Jdt:6:3 @ {\cf2 Then the Angel said vnto him, Take the fish; the yong man tooke ye fish, & drew it to land.}

geneva@Jdt:6:4 @ {\cf2 To whome the Angel sayd, Cut the fish, and take the heart, and the liuer, and the gall, and put them vp surely.}

geneva@Jdt:6:5 @ {\cf2 So the yong man did as the Angel commanded him: and when they had rosted the fishe, they ate it: then they both went on their way, till they came to Ecbatane.}

geneva@Jdt:6:6 @ {\cf2 Then the yong man sayde to the Angel, Brother Azarias, what auaileth the heart, and the liuer, and the gall of the fish?}

geneva@Jdt:6:7 @ {\cf2 And he sayd vnto him, Touching the heart, and the liuer, if a deuil or an euil spirit trouble any, we must make a perfume of this before the man or the woman, and he shalbe no more vexed.}

geneva@Jdt:6:8 @ {\cf2 As for ye gall, anoynt a man that hath whitenes in his eyes, and he shalbe healed.}

geneva@Jdt:6:9 @ {\cf2 And whe they were come neere to Rages,}

geneva@Jdt:6:10 @ {\cf2 The Angel sayde to the yong man, Brother, to day we shall lodge with Raguel, who is thy cousin: he also hath one only daughter named Sarra: I will speake for her that she may be giue thee for a wife.}

geneva@Jdt:6:11 @ {\cf2 For to thee doeth the right of her perteine, seeing thou alone art the remnant of her kinred,}

geneva@Jdt:6:12 @ {\cf2 And the mayde is faire and wise: nowe therefore heare me, & I wil speake to her father, that we may make the mariage when we are returned from Rages: for I know that Raguel can not marry her to another according to the lawe of Moyses: els he should deserue death, because the right doth rather apperteine to thee then to any other man.}

geneva@Jdt:6:13 @ {\cf2 Then the yong man answered the Angel, I haue heard, brother Azarias, that this mayde hath bene giuen to seuen men, who all dyed in the marriage chamber;}

geneva@Jdt:6:14 @ {\cf2 And I am the only begotten sonne of my father, and I am afraid, least I go in to her, and dye as the other before: for a wicked spirite loueth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come in to her: wherefore I also feare least I die, and bring my fathers and my mothers life because of mee to the graue with sorowe: for they haue no other sonne to bury them.}

geneva@Jdt:6:15 @ {\cf2 Then the Angel sayde vnto him, Doest thou not remember the preceptes which thy father gaue thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine owne kinred? wherefore heare me, O my brother: for she shall be thy wife, neither be thou carefull of the euill spirit: for this same night shall she be giuen thee in marriage.}

geneva@Jdt:6:16 @ {\cf2 And when thou shalt goe into the marriage chamber, thou shalt take of the hote coles for perfumes, and make a perfume of the heart, and of the liuer of the fish,}

geneva@Jdt:6:17 @ {\cf2 Which if the spirit do smel, he wil flee away, and nether come againe any more: but when thou shalt come to her, rise vp both of you, and pray to God which is mercifull, who wil haue pitie on you, and saue you: feare not, for she is appoynted vnto thee from the beginning, and thou shalt keepe her, and she shall go with thee: moreouer I suppose that she shall beare thee children: nowe when Tobias had heard these things, he loued her, and his heart was effectually ioyned to her.}

geneva@Jdt:7:1 @ {\cf2 And when they were come to Ecbatane, they came to the house of Raguel: and Sarra met them, and after they had saluted one another, shee brought them into the house.}

geneva@Jdt:7:2 @ {\cf2 Then sayde Raguel to Edna his wife, Howe like is this yong man to Tobit my cousin!}

geneva@Jdt:7:3 @ {\cf2 And Raguel asked, Whence are you, my brethren? To whome they sayd, that they were of the tribe of Nephthalim, and of the captiues that dwelt at Nineue.}

geneva@Jdt:7:4 @ {\cf2 Then he sayde to them, Doe ye knowe Tobit our kinsman? And they sayd, We know him. Then said he, Is he in good health?}

geneva@Jdt:7:5 @ {\cf2 And they sayde, Hee is both aliue, and in good health: and Tobias sayd, He is my father.}

geneva@Jdt:7:6 @ {\cf2 Then Raguel leaped, and kissed him, & wept,}

geneva@Jdt:7:7 @ {\cf2 And blessed him, and sayde vnto him, Thou art the sonne of an honest and good man: but when he had heard that Tobit was blinde, he was sorowfull and wept.}

geneva@Jdt:7:8 @ {\cf2 And likewise Edna his wife, and Sarra his daughter wept. Moreouer they receiued them with a ready minde, and after that they had killed a ram of the flocke, they set much meat on the table. The sayd Tobias to Raphael, Brother Azarias, put forth those things whereof thou spakest in the way, that this businesse may be dispatched.}

geneva@Jdt:7:9 @ {\cf2 So he communicated the matter with Raguel, and Raguel sayde to Tobias, Eate, and drinke, and make merry.}

geneva@Jdt:7:10 @ {\cf2 For it is meete that thou shouldest marrie my daughter: neuerthelesse, I will declare vnto thee the trueth.}

geneva@Jdt:7:11 @ {\cf2 I haue giuen my daughter in marriage to seuen men, who dyed that night which they came in vnto her: neuerthelesse, be thou of a good courage and merry. But Tobias sayde, I will eate nothing here, vntill yee bring her hither, and betrothe her to me.}

geneva@Jdt:7:12 @ {\cf2 Raguel sayd then, Marry her then according to the custome: for thou art her cousin, and shee is thine. God which is mercifull, make this prosperous to you in all good things.}

geneva@Jdt:7:13 @ {\cf2 Then hee called his daughter Sarra, and shee came to her father, and he tooke her by the hande, and gaue her for wife to Tobias, saying, Beholde, take her after the lawe of Moyses, and leade her away to thy father: and he blessed them,}

geneva@Jdt:7:14 @ {\cf2 And called his wife Edna, and hee tooke a booke and wrote a contract, and sealed it.}

geneva@Jdt:7:15 @ {\cf2 Then they began to eate.}

geneva@Jdt:7:16 @ {\cf2 After, Raguel called his wife Edna, and sayde vnto her, Sister, prepare another chamber, and bring her in thither.}

geneva@Jdt:7:17 @ {\cf2 Which when she had done, as he had bidden her, shee brought her thither: then Sarra wept, and her mother wiped away her daughters teares,}

geneva@Jdt:7:18 @ {\cf2 And sayde vnto her, Be of good comfort, my daughter: the Lorde of heauen and earth giue thee ioy for this thy sorowe: bee of good comfort my daughter.}

geneva@Jdt:8:1 @ {\cf2 And when they had supped, they brought Tobias in vnto her.}

geneva@Jdt:8:2 @ {\cf2 And as he went, he remembred the wordes of Raphael, and tooke coles for perfumes, and put the heart and liuer of the fish thereupon, and made a perfume.}

geneva@Jdt:8:3 @ {\cf2 The which smell when the euill spirit had smelled, he fled into the vtmost partes of Egypt, whom the Angel bound.}

geneva@Jdt:8:4 @ {\cf2 And after that they were both shut in, Tobias rose out of the bed, and sayd, Sister, arise and let vs pray, that God would haue pitie on vs.}

geneva@Jdt:8:5 @ {\cf2 Then began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is thine holy and glorious Name for euer: let the heauens blesse thee, and all thy creatures.}

geneva@Jdt:8:6 @ {\cf2 Thou madest Adam, and gauest him Eua his wife for an helpe, and stay: of them came mankinde: thou hast sayde, It is not good, that a man should be alone: let vs make vnto him an ayde like vnto himselfe.}

geneva@Jdt:8:7 @ {\cf2 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for fornication, but vprightly: therfore graunt me mercie, that we may become aged together.}

geneva@Jdt:8:8 @ {\cf2 And she sayd with him, Amen.}

geneva@Jdt:8:9 @ {\cf2 So they slept both that night, and Raguel arose, and went and made a graue,}

geneva@Jdt:8:10 @ {\cf2 Saying, Is not he dead also?}

geneva@Jdt:8:11 @ {\cf2 But when Raguel was come into his house,}

geneva@Jdt:8:12 @ {\cf2 He sayde to his wife Edna, Sende one of the maides, and let them see whether he be aliue: if not, that I may bury him, and none knowe it.}

geneva@Jdt:8:13 @ {\cf2 So the maide opened the doore, and went in, and found them both asleepe,}

geneva@Jdt:8:14 @ {\cf2 And came forth, & told them that he was aliue.}

geneva@Jdt:8:15 @ {\cf2 Then Raguel praysed God, and sayd, O God, thou art worthy to be praysed with al pure, and holy prayse: therefore let thy Saintes prayse thee with all thy creatures, and let all thine Angels and thine elect prayse thee for euer.}

geneva@Jdt:8:16 @ {\cf2 Thou art to be praised, O Lord: for thou hast made me ioyfull, and that is not come to me which I suspected: but thou hast dealt with vs according to great mercie.}

geneva@Jdt:8:17 @ {\cf2 Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were ye onely begotten children of their fathers: graunt them mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with ioy and mercy.}

geneva@Jdt:8:18 @ {\cf2 Then Raguel bade his seruants to fil ye graue.}

geneva@Jdt:8:19 @ {\cf2 And hee kept the wedding feast foureteene dayes.}

geneva@Jdt:8:20 @ {\cf2 For Raguel had sayde vnto him by an othe, that he shoulde not depart before that the foureteene dayes of the marriage were expired,}

geneva@Jdt:8:21 @ {\cf2 And then hee shoulde take the halfe of his goods and returne in safety to his father, & shoulde haue the rest, when he and his wife were dead.}

geneva@Jdt:9:1 @ {\cf2 Then Tobias called Raphael, and sayde vnto him,}

geneva@Jdt:9:2 @ {\cf2 Brother Azarias, take with thee a seruant and two camels, and goe to Rages of the Medes to Gabael, and bring mee the money and bring him to the wedding.}

geneva@Jdt:9:3 @ {\cf2 For Raguel hath sworne that I shall not depart.}

geneva@Jdt:9:4 @ {\cf2 But my father counteth the dayes: and if I tarie long, he will be very sory.}

geneva@Jdt:9:5 @ {\cf2 So Raphael went out & came to Gabael, and gaue him the hande writing, who brought forth bagges which were sealed vp, and gaue the to him.}

geneva@Jdt:9:6 @ {\cf2 And in the morning they went forth, both together, and came to the wedding; Tobias begate his wife with childe.}

geneva@Jdt:10:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe Tobit his father counted euery day, and when the dayes of the iourney were expired, and they came not,}

geneva@Jdt:10:2 @ {\cf2 Tobit sayde, Are they not mocked? or is not Gabael dead, and there is no man to giue him the money?}

geneva@Jdt:10:3 @ {\cf2 Therefore he was very sory.}

geneva@Jdt:10:4 @ {\cf2 Then his wife sayd to him, My sonne is dead, seeing he tarieth: and she began to bewayle him, and sayde,}

geneva@Jdt:10:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe I care for nothing, my sonne, since I haue lost thee the light of mine eyes.}

geneva@Jdt:10:6 @ {\cf2 To whom Tobit sayd, Holde thy peace: be not carefull, for he is safe.}

geneva@Jdt:10:7 @ {\cf2 But she sayd, Holde thy peace, and deceiue me not: my sonne is dead: and she went out euery day by the way, which they went, neither did shee eate meate on the day time, and did consume whole nightes in bewayling her sonne Tobias vntill the foureteene dayes of ye wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworne, that he should tary there. Then Tobias sayde to Raguel, Let mee goe: for my father and my mother looke no more to see me.}

geneva@Jdt:10:8 @ {\cf2 But his father in lawe sayde vnto him, Tarie with mee, and I will sende to thy father, and they shall declare him thine affaires.}

geneva@Jdt:10:9 @ {\cf2 But Tobias sayde, No, but let mee goe to my father.}

geneva@Jdt:10:10 @ {\cf2 Then Raguel arose, and gaue him Sarra his wife, and halfe his goods, as seruants, and cattel, and money,}

geneva@Jdt:10:11 @ {\cf2 And hee blessed them, and sent them away, saying, The God of heauen make you, my children, to prosper before I dye.}

geneva@Jdt:10:12 @ {\cf2 And he sayd to his daughter, Honour thy father, and thy mother in lawe which are nowe thy parents, that I may heare good report of thee: and hee kissed them, Edna also sayde to Tobias, The Lord of heauen restore thee, my deare brother, and graunt that I may see thy children of my daughter Sarra, that I may reioyce before the Lord. Beholde nowe, I commit to thee my daughter, as a pledge doe not entreat her euill.}

geneva@Jdt:11:1 @ {\cf2 After these thinges Tobias went his way, praysing God that hee had giuen him a prosperous iourney, and blessed Raguel and Edna his wife, and went on his way till he drewe neere to Nineue.}

geneva@Jdt:11:2 @ {\cf2 Then Raphael said to Tobias, Thou knowest, brother, howe thou diddest leaue thy father.}

geneva@Jdt:11:3 @ {\cf2 Let vs haste before thy wife, and prepare the house,}

geneva@Jdt:11:4 @ {\cf2 And take in thine hand the gall of the fish. So they went their way, and the dog followed them.}

geneva@Jdt:11:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe Anna sate in the way looking for her sonne,}

geneva@Jdt:11:6 @ {\cf2 Whom when she sawe comming, she sayd to his father, Behold, thy sonne cometh, and the man that went with him.}

geneva@Jdt:11:7 @ {\cf2 Then sayd Raphael, I knowe, Tobias, that thy father shall receiue his sight.}

geneva@Jdt:11:8 @ {\cf2 Therefore anoynt his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he shall rub and make the whitenesse to fall away, and shall see thee.}

geneva@Jdt:11:9 @ {\cf2 Then Anna ranne foorth, and fell on the necke of her sonne, and sayde vnto him, Seeing I haue seene thee, my sonne, from henceforth I am content to die, and they wept both.}

geneva@Jdt:11:10 @ {\cf2 Tobit also went forth toward the doore, and stumbled, but his sonne ranne vnto him.}

geneva@Jdt:11:11 @ {\cf2 And tooke hold of his father and sprinkled of the gall on his fathers eyes, saying, Bee of good hope, my father.}

geneva@Jdt:11:12 @ {\cf2 And when his eyes began to pricke, he rubbed them.}

geneva@Jdt:11:13 @ {\cf2 And the whitenes pilled away from the corners of his eyes, and when he sawe his sonne, he fell vpon his necke,}

geneva@Jdt:11:14 @ {\cf2 And hee wept and sayde, Blessed art thou, O Lorde, and blessed be thy Name for euer, and blessed be all thine holy Angels.}

geneva@Jdt:11:15 @ {\cf2 For thou hast scourged me, and hast had pitie on me: for beholde, I see my sonne Tobias: and his sonne, being glad went in, and tolde his father the great things that had come to passe in Media.}

geneva@Jdt:11:16 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit went out to meete his daughter in lawe, reioycing and praysing God to the gate of Nineue and they which saw him go, marueiled, because he had receiued his sight.}

geneva@Jdt:11:17 @ {\cf2 But Tobit testified before the al, that God had had pitie on him; when he came neere to Sarra his daughter in lawe, he blessed her, saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee vnto vs, and blessed be thy father: and there was great ioy among all his brethren which were at Nineue.}

geneva@Jdt:11:18 @ {\cf2 And Achiacharus and Nasbas his brothers sonne came.}

geneva@Jdt:11:19 @ {\cf2 And Tobias marriage was kept seuen dayes with great ioy.}

geneva@Jdt:12:1 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit called his sonne Tobias, and sayde vnto him, Prouide, my sonne, wages for ye man, which went with thee, & thou must giue him more.}

geneva@Jdt:12:2 @ {\cf2 And he sayd vnto him, O father, it shall not grieue me to giue him halfe of those things which I haue brought.}

geneva@Jdt:12:3 @ {\cf2 For he hath brought mee againe to thee in safetie, and hath made whole my wife, and hath brought me ye money, & hath likewise healed thee.}

geneva@Jdt:12:4 @ {\cf2 Then the olde man sayd, It is due vnto him.}

geneva@Jdt:12:5 @ {\cf2 So he called the Angel, and sayde vnto him, Take halfe of all that ye haue brought, and goe away in safetie.}

geneva@Jdt:12:6 @ {\cf2 But he tooke them both apart, and said vnto them, Prayse God, and confesse him, and giue him the glory, and prayse him for the things which he hath done vnto you before all them that liue. It is good to praise God, and to exalt his Name, and to shewe forth his euident workes with honour: therefore be not weary to confesse him.}

geneva@Jdt:12:7 @ {\cf2 It is good to keepe close the secrets of a King, but it is honorable to reueile the works of God: do that which is good, and no euil shal touch you.}

geneva@Jdt:12:8 @ {\cf2 Prayer is good with fasting, and almes, and righteousnesse. A litle with righteousnesse is better then much with vnrighteousnes: it is better to giue almes then to lay vp golde.}

geneva@Jdt:12:9 @ {\cf2 For almes doth deliuer from death, & doeth purge all sinne. Those which exercise almes & righteousnes, shalbe filled with life.}

geneva@Jdt:12:10 @ {\cf2 But they that sinne, are enemies to their owne life.}

geneva@Jdt:12:11 @ {\cf2 Surely I will keepe close nothing from you: neuertheles, I said it was good to keepe close the secret of a King, but that it was honorable to reueile the workes of God.}

geneva@Jdt:12:12 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore when thou diddest pray, and Sarra thy daughter in lawe, I did bring to memorie your prayer before the Holy one: and when thou diddest bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.}

geneva@Jdt:12:13 @ {\cf2 And when thou wast not griued to rise vp, and leaue thy dinner to bury the dead, thy good deede was not hid from me: but I was with thee.}

geneva@Jdt:12:14 @ {\cf2 And nowe God hath sent me to heale thee, and Sarra thy daughter in lawe.}

geneva@Jdt:12:15 @ {\cf2 I am Raphael one of the seuen holy Angels, which present the prayers of the Saincts, and which go forth before his holy maiestie.}

geneva@Jdt:12:16 @ {\cf2 Then they were both troubled, and fel vpon their face: for they feared.}

geneva@Jdt:12:17 @ {\cf2 But he said vnto them, Feare not, for it shall go well with you: prayse God therefore.}

geneva@Jdt:12:18 @ {\cf2 For I came not of mine owne pleasure, but by the good wil of your God: wherefore praise him in all ages.}

geneva@Jdt:12:19 @ {\cf2 Al these dayes I did appeare vnto you, but I did neither eate nor drinke, but you saw it in visio.}

geneva@Jdt:12:20 @ {\cf2 Now therefore giue God thanks: for I go vp to him that sent me: but write all things which are done, in a booke.}

geneva@Jdt:12:21 @ {\cf2 And when they rose, they saw him no more.}

geneva@Jdt:12:22 @ {\cf2 Then they confessed the great and wonderfull works of God, and how the Angel of the Lord had appeared to them.}

geneva@Jdt:13:1 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit wrote a prayer of reioycing, and sayd, Blessed be God that liueth for euer, and blessed be his kingdome.}

geneva@Jdt:13:2 @ {\cf2 For he doeth scourge, and hath pitie: he leadeth to hell, and bringeth vp, neither is there any that can auoyde his hand.}

geneva@Jdt:13:3 @ {\cf2 Cofesse him before the Gentiles, ye children of Israel: for he hath scattered you among them.}

geneva@Jdt:13:4 @ {\cf2 There declare his greatnesse, and extoll him before all the liuing: for he is our Lord & our God and our Father for euer.}

geneva@Jdt:13:5 @ {\cf2 He hath scourged vs for our iniquities, and will haue mercie againe, and wil gather vs out of all nations, among whome we are scattered.}

geneva@Jdt:13:6 @ {\cf2 If you turne to him with your whole heart, and with your whole minde, & deale vprightly before him, then will he turne vnto you, and will not hide his face from you, but ye shal see what he will doe with you: therefore confesse him with your whole mouth, & praise the Lord of righteousnes, & extoll the euerlasting King. I wil cofesse him in the land of my captiuitie, and will declare his power, & greatnes to a sinfull nation. O ye sinners, turne and do iustice before him: who can tell if he wil receiue you to mercy, and haue pitie on you?}

geneva@Jdt:13:7 @ {\cf2 I will extoll my God, and my soule shall prayse the King of heauen, and shall reioyce in his greatnesse.}

geneva@Jdt:13:8 @ {\cf2 Let all men speake, and let all praise him for his righteousnes.}

geneva@Jdt:13:9 @ {\cf2 O Ierusalem the holy citie, he will scourge thee for thy childrens works, but he will haue pitie againe on the sonnes of righteous men.}

geneva@Jdt:13:10 @ {\cf2 Giue prayse to the Lord duely, and praise the euerlasting King, that his tabernacle may be buylded in thee againe with ioy: and let him make ioyfull there in thee those that are captiues, and loue in thee for euer those that be miserable.}

geneva@Jdt:13:11 @ {\cf2 Many nations shall come from farre to the Name of the Lord God, with gifts in their handes, euen giftes to the King of heauen: all generations shal praise thee, and giue signes of ioy.}

geneva@Jdt:13:12 @ {\cf2 Cursed are al they, which haue thee: but blessed are they for euer which loue thee.}

geneva@Jdt:13:13 @ {\cf2 Reioyce, and be glad for the children of the iust: for they shalbe gathered, and shall blesse the Lord of the iust.}

geneva@Jdt:13:14 @ {\cf2 Blessed are they which loue thee: for they shall reioyce in thy peace. Blessed are they which haue bene sorowfull for all thy scourges: for they shal reioyce for thee, when they shal see all thy glorie, and shal reioyce for euer.}

geneva@Jdt:13:15 @ {\cf2 Let my soule blesse God the great King.}

geneva@Jdt:13:16 @ {\cf2 For Ierusalem shalbe built vp with sapphires, & emeraudes, and thy walles with precious stones, and thy towers, & thy bulwarkes with pure golde.}

geneva@Jdt:13:17 @ {\cf2 And the streetes of Ierusalem shall be paued with berall, & carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.}

geneva@Jdt:13:18 @ {\cf2 And all her streetes shal say, Halleluiah, and they shall prayse him, saying, Blessed be God which hath extolled it for euer.}

geneva@Jdt:14:1 @ {\cf2 So Tobit made an ende of praysing God.}

geneva@Jdt:14:2 @ {\cf2 And he was eight & fiftie yeere olde, when hee lost his sight, which was restored to him after eyght yeere, and he gaue almes, and he continued to feare the Lord God, and to prayse him.}

geneva@Jdt:14:3 @ {\cf2 And when he was very aged, hee called his sonne, & sixe of his sonnes sonnes, & sayde to him, My sonne, take thy children (for behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life)}

geneva@Jdt:14:4 @ {\cf2 Go into Media, my sonne for I surely beleeue those things which Ionas the Prophet spake of Nineue, that it shalbe destroyed, & for a time peace shal rather be in Media, & that our brethren shalbe scattered in the earth from that good land, & Ierusalem shall be desolate, and the House of God in it shalbe burned, and shalbe desolate for a time.}

geneva@Jdt:14:5 @ {\cf2 Yet againe God wil haue pitie on them, & bring them againe into the lande where they shall builde a Temple, but not like to the first, vntil the times of that age be fulfilled, which being finished, they shall returne from euery place out of captiuitie, & buylde vp Ierusalem gloriously, & the House of God shall be buylt in it for euer with a glorious buylding, as the Prophets haue spoken thereof.}

geneva@Jdt:14:6 @ {\cf2 And all nations shal turne, & feare the Lord God truely, and shal burie their idoles.}

geneva@Jdt:14:7 @ {\cf2 So shal all nations prayse the Lorde, and his people shall confesse God, and the Lorde shal exalt his people, and all those which loue the Lorde in trueth and iustice, shal reioyce, and those also which shew mercy to our brethren.}

geneva@Jdt:14:8 @ {\cf2 And nowe, my sonne, depart out of Nineue, because that those things which the Prophet Ionas spake, shal surely come to passe.}

geneva@Jdt:14:9 @ {\cf2 But keepe thou the Lawe, and the commandements, and shewe thy selfe merciful and iust that it may goe well with thee.}

geneva@Jdt:14:10 @ {\cf2 And bury me honestly, & thy mother with me: but tary no longer at Nineue. Remember, my sonne, how Aman hadled Achiacharus that brought him vp, howe out of light hee brought him into darkenes, & how he rewarded him againe yet Achi acharus was saued, but the other had his reward: for he went downe into darknes. Manasses gaue almes, and escaped the snare of death, which they had set for him, but Aman fell into the snare and perished.}

geneva@Jdt:14:11 @ {\cf2 Wherefore nowe, my sonne, consider what almes doeth, and howe righteousnes doeth deliuer. When he had sayde these things, he gaue vp the ghost in the bed, being an hundreth and eyght and fiftie yeere olde, and he buried him honourably.}

geneva@Jdt:14:12 @ {\cf2 And when Anna was dead, hee buryed her with his father: but Tobias went with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in lawe.}

geneva@Jdt:14:13 @ {\cf2 Where he became olde with honour, and he buryed his father and mother in law honorably, & he inherited their substance and Tobits his father.}

geneva@Jdt:14:14 @ {\cf2 And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundreth and seuen and twentie yeere olde.}

geneva@Jdt:14:15 @ {\cf2 But before he dyed, he heard of the destruction of Nineue, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus, and before his death he reioyced for Nineue.}

geneva@Wis:1:1 @ {\cf2 In the twelfth yere of the reigne of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineue the great citie (in the dayes of Arphaxad, which reigned ouer the Medes in Ecbatane,}

geneva@Wis:1:2 @ {\cf2 And buylt in Ecbatane the walles round about, of hewen stone, three cubites broad, & sixe cubits long, & made the height of the wal seuetie cubits, & the bredth therof fiftie cubits,}

geneva@Wis:1:3 @ {\cf2 And made the towres thereof in the gates of it of an hundreth cubites, and the breadth thereof in the foundation three score cubites,}

geneva@Wis:1:4 @ {\cf2 And made the gates thereof, euen gates that were lifted vp on hie, seuentie cubites, & the bredth of the fourtie cubits, for ye going forth of his mightie armies, & for the setting in aray of his footeme)}

geneva@Wis:1:5 @ {\cf2 Euen in those dayes, King Nabuchodonosor made warre with King Arphaxad in the great field, which is the field in the coastes of Ragau.}

geneva@Wis:1:6 @ {\cf2 Then came vnto him all they that dwelt in the mountaines, & all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tygris & Hydaspes, & the countrey of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, & very many nations assembled theselues to the battel of ye sonnes of Chelod.}

geneva@Wis:1:7 @ {\cf2 And Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians sent vnto all that dwelt in Persia, & to all that dwelt in the West, and to those that dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Libanus & Antilibanus, and to all that dwelt vpon the sea coast,}

geneva@Wis:1:8 @ {\cf2 And to the people that are in Carmel, and Galaad, and the hier Galile, and the great fielde of Esdrelam,}

geneva@Wis:1:9 @ {\cf2 And to all that were in Samaria, & the cities therof, & beyond Iorden vnto Ierusalem, & Betane, and Chellus, and Cades, & the riuer of Egypt, and Taphnes, and Ramesse, and all the land of Gesem,}

geneva@Wis:1:10 @ {\cf2 Vnto one come to Tanis, and Memphis, and to all the inhabitantes of Egypt, and to one come to the mountaines of Ethiopia.}

geneva@Wis:1:11 @ {\cf2 But all the inhabitants of this countrey did not passe for the comandement of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians, neither would they come with him to the battel: for they did not feare him: yea, he was before them as one man: therefore they sent away his ambassadours from them without effect, and with dishonour.}

geneva@Wis:1:12 @ {\cf2 Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry, with all this countrey, and sware by his throne and kingdome that he woulde surely be auenged vpon all those coastes of Cilicia & Damascus, & Syria, & that he woulde slay with the sworde all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Iudea, and all that were in Egypt, till one come to the borders of the two seas.}

geneva@Wis:1:13 @ {\cf2 Then hee marched in battell aray with his power against King Arphaxad in the seuenteenth yeere, & he preuailed in his battel: for he ouerthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, & all his chariots.}

geneva@Wis:1:14 @ {\cf2 And he wanne his cities, & came vnto Ecbatane, and tooke the towres, and spoyled the streetes thereof, and turned the beautie thereof into shame.}

geneva@Wis:1:15 @ {\cf2 He tooke also Arphaxad in the mountaines of Ragau, and smote him through with his dartes, and destroyed him vtterly that day.}

geneva@Wis:1:16 @ {\cf2 So he returned afterward to Nineue, both he and all his companie with a very great multitude of men of warre, and there he passed the time, and banketed, both he, and his armie an hundreth and twentie dayes.}

geneva@Wis:2:1 @ {\cf2 And in the eighteenth yeere, the two and twentieth day of the first moneth, there was talke in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he should auenge himselfe on al ye earth, as he had spoken.}

geneva@Wis:2:2 @ {\cf2 So he called vnto him all his officers and al his nobles, and communicated with them his secrete counsell, and set before them with his owne mouth all the malice of the earth.}

geneva@Wis:2:3 @ {\cf2 Then they decreed to destroy all flesh, that had not obeyed the commandement of his mouth.}

geneva@Wis:2:4 @ {\cf2 And when hee had ended his counsell, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians called Olofernes his chiefe captaine, and which was next vnto him, and sayde vnto him,}

geneva@Wis:2:5 @ {\cf2 Thus saith the great king, the Lorde of the whole earth, Behold, thou shalt goe forth from my presence, and take with thee men that trust in their owne strength, of footemen, an hundreth & twentie thousande, and the number of horses with their riders, twelue thousand,}

geneva@Wis:2:6 @ {\cf2 And thou shalt go against all the West countrey, because they disobeyed my commandement.}

geneva@Wis:2:7 @ {\cf2 And thou shalt declare vnto them, that they prepare for me the land and the water: for I wil goe forth in my wrath against them, and will couer the whole face of the earth with the feete of mine armie, and I will giue them as a spoyle vnto them,}

geneva@Wis:2:8 @ {\cf2 So that their wounded shall fill their valleyes, and their riuers, and the flood shall ouerflowe, being filled with their dead.}

geneva@Wis:2:9 @ {\cf2 And I will bring their captiuitie to the vtmost parts of all the earth.}

geneva@Wis:2:10 @ {\cf2 Thou therefore shalt depart hence, and take vp for me all their countrey: and if they yeeld vnto thee, thou shalt reserue them for mee vntill the day that I rebuke them.}

geneva@Wis:2:11 @ {\cf2 But concerning them that rebell, let not thine eye spare them, but put them to death, and spoyle them wheresoeuer thou goest.}

geneva@Wis:2:12 @ {\cf2 For as I liue, & the power of my kingdome, whatsoeuer I haue spoken, that will I doe by mine hande.}

geneva@Wis:2:13 @ {\cf2 And take thou heede that thou transgresse not any of the commandements of thy lorde, but accomplish them fully, as I haue commanded thee, and deferre not to do them.}

geneva@Wis:2:14 @ {\cf2 Then Olofernes went forth from the presence of his Lord, & called all the gouernours, and captaines, and officers of the armie of Assur,}

geneva@Wis:2:15 @ {\cf2 And he mustred the chosen men for the battel, as his Lord had commanded him, vnto an hundreth and twentie thousand, and twelue thousande archers on horsebacke.}

geneva@Wis:2:16 @ {\cf2 And he set the in aray according to the maner of setting a great armie in aray.}

geneva@Wis:2:17 @ {\cf2 And hee tooke camels & asses for their burdens, a very great number, and sheepe, and oxen, and goates without number for their prouision,}

geneva@Wis:2:18 @ {\cf2 And vitaile for euery man of the army, and very much gold and siluer out of the kings house.}

geneva@Wis:2:19 @ {\cf2 Then he went forth and all his power, to goe before in the viage of king Nabuchodonosor, & to couer all the face of the earth Westward, with their charets, and horsemen, and chosen footemen.}

geneva@Wis:2:20 @ {\cf2 A great multitude also of sundry sorts came with them like grashoppers, and like the grauell of the earth: for the multitude was without number.}

geneva@Wis:2:21 @ {\cf2 And they went forth of Nineue three dayes iourney toward the countrey of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth neere the mountaine which is at the left hand of the vpper Cilicia.}

geneva@Wis:2:22 @ {\cf2 Then hee tooke all his armie, his footemen and horsemen, and charets, and went from thence into the mountaines,}

geneva@Wis:2:23 @ {\cf2 And he destroied Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Ismael, which were toward the wildernesse at the South of the Chelians.}

geneva@Wis:2:24 @ {\cf2 Then hee went ouer Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed al the hie cities that were vpon the riuer of Arbonai, vntill one come to the sea.}

geneva@Wis:2:25 @ {\cf2 And he tooke the borders of Cilicia, and destroyed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Iapheth, which were toward the South and ouer against Arabia.}

geneva@Wis:2:26 @ {\cf2 He compassed also all the children of Madian, and burnt vp their tabernacles, and spoiled their lodges.}

geneva@Wis:2:27 @ {\cf2 Then hee went downe into the countrey of Damascus, in the time of wheate haruest, and burnt vp all their fieldes, and destroyed their flockes and the heards: he robbed their cities, and spoyled their countrey, and smote all their yong men with the edge of the sword.}

geneva@Wis:2:28 @ {\cf2 Therefore feare and trembling fell vpon all the inhabitants of the sea coast, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur and Ocina, and all that dwelt in Iemnaan: and they that dwelt in Azotus, and Ascalon feared him greatly.}

geneva@Wis:3:1 @ {\cf2 So they sent ambassadours to him with messages of peace, saying,}

geneva@Wis:3:2 @ {\cf2 Beholde, we are the seruants of Nabuchodonosor the great king: we lie downe before thee: vse vs as shalbe good in thy sight.}

geneva@Wis:3:3 @ {\cf2 Beholde, our houses and all our places, and all our fieldes of wheate, & our flocks, and our heards, and all our lodges and tabernacles lie before thy face: vse them as it pleaseth thee.}

geneva@Wis:3:4 @ {\cf2 Beholde, euen our cities and the inhabitantes therof are thy seruants come, and take them, as seemeth good to thee.}

geneva@Wis:3:5 @ {\cf2 So the men came to Olofernes, and declared vnto them after this maner.}

geneva@Wis:3:6 @ {\cf2 The came he downe toward ye sea coast, both he and his armie, and set garisons in the hie cities, and tooke out of them chosen men for the warre.}

geneva@Wis:3:7 @ {\cf2 So they and all the countrey round about receiued them, with crownes, with daunces, and with timbrels.}

geneva@Wis:3:8 @ {\cf2 Yet he brake downe all their borders, and cut downe their woods: for it was inioyned him to destroy al the gods of the land, that al nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, & that all tongues and tribes should call vpon him as God.}

geneva@Wis:3:9 @ {\cf2 Also he came against Esdrælon, neere vnto Iudea, ouer against the great straite of Iudea,}

geneva@Wis:3:10 @ {\cf2 And he pitched betweene Geba, and a citie of ye Scythians, & there he taried a moneth, that he might assemble all the baggage of his armie.}

geneva@Wis:4:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe the children of Israel that dwelt in Iudea, heard all that Olofernes ye chiefe captaine of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and howe hee had spoyled all their temples, and brought them to nought.}

geneva@Wis:4:2 @ {\cf2 Therefore they feared greatly his presence, and were troubled for Ierusalem, and for the Temple of the Lord their God.}

geneva@Wis:4:3 @ {\cf2 For they were newly returned from the captiuitie, and of late all the people was assembled in Iudea, and the vessels and the altar of the house had bene sanctified because of the pollution.}

geneva@Wis:4:4 @ {\cf2 Therefore they sent into all the coastes of Samaria, and the villages, and to Bethoro, and Belmen, and Iericho, and to Choba, and Esora, and to the valley of Salem,}

geneva@Wis:4:5 @ {\cf2 And tooke all the toppes of the hie mountaines, and walled the villages that were in the, and put in vitailes for the prouision of warre: for their fieldes were of late reaped.}

geneva@Wis:4:6 @ {\cf2 Also Ioacim the hie Priest which was in those dayes in Ierusale, wrote to them that dwelt in Bethulia & Betomastham, which is ouer against Esdraelon toward the open countrey nere to Dothaim,}

geneva@Wis:4:7 @ {\cf2 Exhorting them to keepe the passages of the mountaines: for by them there was an entrie into Iudea, and it was easie to let them that woulde come vp, because ye passage was streit for two men at the most.}

geneva@Wis:4:8 @ {\cf2 And the children of Israel did as Ioacim ye hie Priest had commanded them with the Ancients of all the people of Israel, which dwelt at Ierusalem.}

geneva@Wis:4:9 @ {\cf2 Then cried euery man of Israel to God with great feruencie, and their soules with great affectio.}

geneva@Wis:4:10 @ {\cf2 Both they, and their wiues, and their children, and their cattell, and euery stranger, and hireling, and their bought seruantes put sackcloth vpon their loynes.}

geneva@Wis:4:11 @ {\cf2 Thus euery man and woman, and the children, and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem fell before the Temple, and sprinkled ashes vpon their heads, and spred out their sackcloth before the face of the Lord: also they put sackcloth about the altar,}

geneva@Wis:4:12 @ {\cf2 And cried to the God of Israel, all with one consent most earnestly, that hee woulde not giue their children for a pray, and their wiues for a spoile, and the cities of their inheritance to destructio, and the Sanctuarie to pollution and reproch, and vnto derision to the heathen.}

geneva@Wis:4:13 @ {\cf2 So God heard their prayers, and looked vpon their affliction: for the people fasted many dayes in al Iudea and Ierusalem before the Sanctuary of the Lord almightie.}

geneva@Wis:4:14 @ {\cf2 And Ioacim the high Priest, and all the Priests that stoode before the Lorde, and ministred vnto the Lord, had their loines girt with sackcloth, and offred the continuall burnt offring, with prayers and the free gifts of the people,}

geneva@Wis:4:15 @ {\cf2 And had ashes on their mytres, & cried vnto the Lord with all their power for grace, and that he would looke vpon all the house of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:5:1 @ {\cf2 Then was it declared to Olofernes the chiefe captaine of the army of Assur, that the children of Israel had prepared for warre, and had shut the passages of the mountaines, and had walled all the toppes of the hie hilles, and had layd impediments in the champion countrey.}

geneva@Wis:5:2 @ {\cf2 Wherewith he was very angrie, and called all the princes of Moab, and the captaines of Ammon, and all the gouernours of the sea coast.}

geneva@Wis:5:3 @ {\cf2 And he sayd vnto the, Shewe me, O ye sonnes of Chanaan, Who is this people that dwelleth in the mountaines? And what are the cities that they inhabite? And what is the multitude of their armie? And wherein is their strength and their power? And what king or captaine is raised among them ouer their armie?}

geneva@Wis:5:4 @ {\cf2 And why haue they determined not to come to meete me, more then all the inhabitantes of the West?}

geneva@Wis:5:5 @ {\cf2 Then saide Achior the captaine of all the sonnes of Ammon, Let my lord heare ye word of the mouth of his seruant, and I will declare vnto thee ye trueth concerning this people, that dwell in these mountaines, neere where thou remainest: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy seruant.}

geneva@Wis:5:6 @ {\cf2 This people come of the stocke of the Chaldeans.}

geneva@Wis:5:7 @ {\cf2 And they dwelt before in Mesopotamia, because they would not followe the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.}

geneva@Wis:5:8 @ {\cf2 But they went out of the way of their ancesters and worshipped the God of heauen, the God whom they knewe: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and soiourned there many dayes.}

geneva@Wis:5:9 @ {\cf2 Then their God commaunded them to depart from the place where they soiourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan, where they dwelt, and were increased with golde and siluer, and with very much cattell.}

geneva@Wis:5:10 @ {\cf2 But when a famine couered all the lande of Chanaan, they went downe into Egypt, and dwelt there till they returned, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their linage.}

geneva@Wis:5:11 @ {\cf2 Therfore the king of Egypt rose vp against them, and vsed deceite against them, and brought them lowe with labouring in bricke, and made them slaues.}

geneva@Wis:5:12 @ {\cf2 Then they cried vnto their God, & he smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues: so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.}

geneva@Wis:5:13 @ {\cf2 And God dried ye red sea in their presence,}

geneva@Wis:5:14 @ {\cf2 And brought them into mount Sina and Cades barne, and cast foorth all that dwelt in the wildernesse.}

geneva@Wis:5:15 @ {\cf2 So they dwelt in the lande of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Esebon, and passing ouer Iordan, they inherited all the mountaines.}

geneva@Wis:5:16 @ {\cf2 And they cast forth before them the Chanaanites, and the Pheresites, and the Iebusites, and them of Sichem, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that countrey many dayes.}

geneva@Wis:5:17 @ {\cf2 And whiles they sinned not before their God, they prospered, because the God that hated iniquitie, was with them.}

geneva@Wis:5:18 @ {\cf2 But when they departed from the way which he appoynted them, they were destroyed in many battels after a wonderfull sort, and were led captiues into a land that was not theirs and the Temple of their God was cast to the grounde, and their cities were taken by the enemies.}

geneva@Wis:5:19 @ {\cf2 But nowe they are turned to their God, and are come vp from the scattering wherein they were scattered, and haue possessed Ierusalem, where their Temple is, and dwell in the mountaines which were desolate.}

geneva@Wis:5:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore, my lorde and gouernour, ifthere be any fault in this people, so that they haue sinned against their God, let vs consider that this shall be their ruine, and let vs goe vp, and we shall ouercome them.}

geneva@Wis:5:21 @ {\cf2 But if there be none iniquitie in this people, let my lord passe by, least their Lord defende them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproche before all the worlde.}

geneva@Wis:5:22 @ {\cf2 And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people, standing round about the tent, murmured: and the chiefe men of Olofernes, and all that dwelt by the sea side and in Moab, spake that he should kill him.}

geneva@Wis:5:23 @ {\cf2 For, say they, we feare not to meete the children of Israel: for loe, it is a people that haue no strength nor power against a mightie armie.}

geneva@Wis:5:24 @ {\cf2 Let vs therefore goe vp, O lorde Olofernes, and they shalbe meate for thy whole armie.}

geneva@Wis:6:1 @ {\cf2 And when the tumult of the men that were about the councill, was ceased, Olofernes, the chiefe captaine of the armie of Assur, said vnto Achior before all the people of the strangers, and before all the children of Moab, and of them that were hyred of Ephraim,}

geneva@Wis:6:2 @ {\cf2 Because thou hast prophesied among vs to day, and hast sayde that the people of Ierusalem is able to fight, because their God will defende them: and who is God but Nabuchodonosor?}

geneva@Wis:6:3 @ {\cf2 He will send his power, and will destroy the from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliuer them: but we his seruants will destroye them as one man: for they are not able to susteine the power of our horses.}

geneva@Wis:6:4 @ {\cf2 For we will treade them vnder feete with them, and their mountaines shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shalbe filled with their dead bodyes, and their footesteppes shall not be able to stand before vs: but they shall vtterly perish.}

geneva@Wis:6:5 @ {\cf2 The King Nabuchodonosor, lorde of all the earth, hath saide, euen he hath saide, None of my wordes shall be in vaine.}

geneva@Wis:6:6 @ {\cf2 And thou Achior an hireling of Ammon, because thou hast spoken these wordes in the day of thine iniquitie, thou shalt see my face no more from this day vntill I take vengeance of that people that is come out of Egypt.}

geneva@Wis:6:7 @ {\cf2 And then shall the yron of mine armie, and the multitude of them that serue me, passe through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slaine, when I shall put them to flight,}

geneva@Wis:6:8 @ {\cf2 And my seruants shall carrie thee into the mountaines, and they shall leaue thee at one of the hie cities: but thou shalt not perish, till thou be destroyed with them.}

geneva@Wis:6:9 @ {\cf2 And if thou perswade thy selfe in thy mind, that they shall not be taken, let not thy countenance fall: I haue spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vaine.}

geneva@Wis:6:10 @ {\cf2 Then commanded Olofernes them concerning Achior, that they shoulde bring him to Bethulia, and deliuer him into the handes of the children of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:6:11 @ {\cf2 So his seruants tooke him, and brought him out of the campe into the plaine: and they went out from the middest of the plaine into the mountaines, and came vnto the fountaines that were vnder Bethulia.}

geneva@Wis:6:12 @ {\cf2 And when the men of the citie saw them fro the top of the mountaine, they tooke their armour, and went foorth of the citie vnto the toppe of the moutaine, euen all the throwers with slings, & kept the from coming vp, by casting stones against the.}

geneva@Wis:6:13 @ {\cf2 But they went priuily vnder the hill, and bounde Achior, and left him lying at the foote of the hill, and returned to their lorde.}

geneva@Wis:6:14 @ {\cf2 Then the Israelites came downe from their citie, and stoode about him, and loosed him and brought him into Bethulia, and presented him to the gouernours of their citie,}

geneva@Wis:6:15 @ {\cf2 Which were in those dayes, Ozias the sonne of Micha, of ye tribe of Simeon, & Chabris ye sonne of Gothoniel, and Charmis the sonne of Melchiel.}

geneva@Wis:6:16 @ {\cf2 And they called together all the Auncients of the citie, and all their youth ranne together, and their women to the assemblie: and they set Achior in the middes of all their people. Then Ozias asked him of that which was done.}

geneva@Wis:6:17 @ {\cf2 And he answered and declared vnto them the wordes of the counsell of Olofernes, and all the wordes that he had spoken in the mids of the princes of Assur, and whatsoeuer Olofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:6:18 @ {\cf2 Then the people fell downe and worshipped God, and cryed vnto God, saying,}

geneva@Wis:6:19 @ {\cf2 O Lord God of heauen, beholde their pride, and haue mercie on the basenesse of our people, and beholde this day the face of those that are sanctified vnto thee.}

geneva@Wis:6:20 @ {\cf2 Then they comforted Achior, and praysed him greatly.}

geneva@Wis:6:21 @ {\cf2 And Ozias tooke him out of ye asseblie into his house, & made a feast to the Elders, and they called on the God of Israel al that night for helpe.}

geneva@Wis:7:1 @ {\cf2 The next day, Olofernes commaunded all his armie and all his people, which were come to take his part, that they should remoue their camps against Bethulia, and that they shoulde take all the streites of the hill, and to make warre against the children of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:7:2 @ {\cf2 Then their strong men remoued their camps in that day, and the armie of the men of warre was an hundreth thousand and seuentie footemen, and twelue thousande horsemen, beside the baggage & other men that were afoote among them, a very great multitude.}

geneva@Wis:7:3 @ {\cf2 And they camped in the plaine neere vnto Bethulia, by the fountaine, and they spred abroade towarde Dothaim vnto Belbaim, and in length from Bethulia vnto Ciamon, which is ouer against Esdraelom.}

geneva@Wis:7:4 @ {\cf2 Nowe the children of Israel, when they sawe the multitude, were greatly troubled, and said euery one to his neighbour, Nowe will they shut vp all the whole earth: for neither the hye mountaines nor the valleyes, nor the hilles are able to abide their burden.}

geneva@Wis:7:5 @ {\cf2 Then euery one tooke his weapons of warre, and burning fires in their towres, they remained and watched all that night.}

geneva@Wis:7:6 @ {\cf2 But in the seconde day, Olofernes brought foorth all his horsemen in the sight of the children of Israel, which were in Bethulia,}

geneva@Wis:7:7 @ {\cf2 And viewed the passages vp to their citie, & came to the fountaines of their waters, and tooke them and set garrisons of men of warre ouer them, and remoued towarde his people.}

geneva@Wis:7:8 @ {\cf2 Then came vnto him all the chiefe of ye children of Esau, & all the gouernours of the people of Moab, and all the captaines of the sea coast, & said,}

geneva@Wis:7:9 @ {\cf2 Let our captaine nowe heare a worde, least an inconuenience come in thine armie.}

geneva@Wis:7:10 @ {\cf2 For this people of the children of Israel doe not trust in their speares, but in the height of the mountaines, wherein they dwell, because it is not easie to come vp to the tops of their mountaines.}

geneva@Wis:7:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore, my lorde, fight not against them in battell aray, and there shall not so much as one man of thy people perish.}

geneva@Wis:7:12 @ {\cf2 Remaine in thy campe, & keepe all the men of thine armie, and let thy men keepe still the water of the countrey, that commeth foorth at the foote of the mountaine.}

geneva@Wis:7:13 @ {\cf2 For al the inhabitants of Bethulia haue their water thereof: so shall thirst kill them, and they shall giue vp their citie: and we and our people wil goe vp to the toppes of the mountaines that are neere, and will campe vpon them, and watch that none goe out of the citie.}

geneva@Wis:7:14 @ {\cf2 So they and their wiues, and their children shalbe consumed with famine, & before the sworde come against them, they shall be ouerthrowen in the streetes where they dwell.}

geneva@Wis:7:15 @ {\cf2 Thus shalt thou render them an euil reward, because they rebelled and obeyed not thy person peaceably.}

geneva@Wis:7:16 @ {\cf2 And these wordes pleased Olofernes and all his souldiers, and he appointed to doe as they had spoken.}

geneva@Wis:7:17 @ {\cf2 So the campe of the children of Ammon departed, & with the fiue thousande of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, & tooke ye waters, & the fountaines of ye waters of the children of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:7:18 @ {\cf2 Then the children of Esau went vp with the children of Ammon, & camped in the mountaines ouer against Dothaim, and they sent some of them selues toward the South, and toward the East, ouer against Rebel, which is neere vnto Chusi, that is vpon the riuer Mochmur: and the rest of the armie of the Assyrians camped in the fielde, and couered the whole lande: for their tents and their baggage were pitched in a wonderfull great place.}

geneva@Wis:7:19 @ {\cf2 Then the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde their God, because their heart fayled: for all their enemies had compassed them about, and there was no waye to escape out from among them.}

geneva@Wis:7:20 @ {\cf2 Thus all the companie of Assur remained about them, both their footemen, chariots & horsemen, foure & thirtie dayes: so that euen all the places of their waters fayled all ye inhabitants of Bethulia.}

geneva@Wis:7:21 @ {\cf2 And the cisternes were emptie, and they had not water ynough to drinke for one day: for they gaue them to drinke by measure.}

geneva@Wis:7:22 @ {\cf2 Therefore their children swooned, and their wiues and yong men failed for thirst, & fell downe in the streetes of the citie, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no strength in them.}

geneva@Wis:7:23 @ {\cf2 Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chiefe of the citie, both yong men and women, and children, and cryed with a loude voyce, and said before all the Elders,}

geneva@Wis:7:24 @ {\cf2 The Lord iudge betweene vs and you: for you haue done vs great iniurie, in that ye haue not required peace of the children of Assur.}

geneva@Wis:7:25 @ {\cf2 For now we haue no helper: but God hath sold vs into their hands, that we should be throwen downe before them with thirst & great destructio.}

geneva@Wis:7:26 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore call them together, and deliuer the whole citie for a spoyle to the people of Olofernes, and to all his armie.}

geneva@Wis:7:27 @ {\cf2 For it is better for vs to be made a spoyle vnto them, then to die for thirst: for we will bee his seruants that we may liue, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wiues, nor our children to die.}

geneva@Wis:7:28 @ {\cf2 We take to witnesse against you the heauen and the earth, and our God and Lorde of our fathers, which punisheth vs, according to our sinnes and the sinnes of our fathers, that he lay not these things to our charge.}

geneva@Wis:7:29 @ {\cf2 Then there was a great cry of all with one consent in the middes of the assemblie, and they cryed vnto the Lord God with a loude voyce.}

geneva@Wis:7:30 @ {\cf2 Then said Ozias to the, Brethren, be of good courage: let vs waite yet fiue dayes, in the which space the Lorde our God may turne his mercie towarde vs: for he will not forsake vs in the ende.}

geneva@Wis:7:31 @ {\cf2 And if these dayes passe, and there come not helpe vnto vs, I will doe according to your worde.}

geneva@Wis:7:32 @ {\cf2 So he separated the people, euery one vnto their charge, and they went vnto the walles and towers of their citie, and sent their wiues and their children into their houses, and they were very lowe brought in the citie.}

geneva@Wis:8:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe at that time, Iudeth heard thereof, which was the daughter of Merari the sonne of Ox, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Oziel, the sonne of Elcia, the sonne of Ananias, the sonne of Gedeon, the sonne of Raphaim, the sonne of Acito, the sonne of Eliu, the sonne of Eliab, the sonne of Nathanael, the sonne of Samael, the sonne of Salasadai, the sonne of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:8:2 @ {\cf2 And Manasses was her husband, of her stocke and kinred, who dyed in the barley haruest.}

geneva@Wis:8:3 @ {\cf2 For as he was diligent ouer them that bound sheaues in the fielde, the heate came vpon his head, and he fell vpon his bed, and dyed in the citie of Bethulia, and they buryed him with his fathers in the fielde betweene Dothaim and Balamo.}

geneva@Wis:8:4 @ {\cf2 So Iudeth was in her house a widowe three yeeres and foure moneths.}

geneva@Wis:8:5 @ {\cf2 And she made her a tent vpon her house, and put on sackecloth on her loynes, and ware her widowes apparell.}

geneva@Wis:8:6 @ {\cf2 And she fasted all the dayes of her widowhood, saue the day before the Sabbath & the Sabbaths, and the day before the newe moones, and in the feastes & solemne dayes of the house of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:8:7 @ {\cf2 She was also of a goodly countenance and very beautifull to beholde: and her husbande Manasses had left her golde and siluer, and men seruants, and maide seruants, and cattell, and possessions, where she remained.}

geneva@Wis:8:8 @ {\cf2 And there was none that coulde bring an euill report of her: for she feared God greatly.}

geneva@Wis:8:9 @ {\cf2 Now when she heard the euil wordes of the people against the gouernour, because they faintedfor lacke of waters (for Iudeth had hearde all the wordes that Ozias had spoken vnto them, and that hee had sworne vnto them to deliuer the citie vnto the Assyrians within fiue dayes)}

geneva@Wis:8:10 @ {\cf2 Then she sent her maide, that had the gouernement of all things that she had, to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmisthe Ancients of the citie.}

geneva@Wis:8:11 @ {\cf2 And they came vnto her, and she sayde vnto them, Heare me, O ye gouernors of the inhabitantes of Bethulia: for your words that ye haue spoken before the people this day, are not right, touching this othe which yee made and pronounced betweene God and you, and haue promised to deliuer the citie to the enemies, vnlesse within these dayes the Lord turne to helpe you.}

geneva@Wis:8:12 @ {\cf2 And nowe who are you that haue tempted God this day, & set your selues in the place of God among the children of men?}

geneva@Wis:8:13 @ {\cf2 So now you seeke the Lorde almightie, but you shall neuer know any thing.}

geneva@Wis:8:14 @ {\cf2 For you cannot finde out the depth of the heart of man, neither can yee perceiue the thinges that hee thinketh: then howe can you search out God, that hath made all these things, and knowe his minde, or comprehende his purpose? Nay my brethren, prouoke not the Lord our God to anger.}

geneva@Wis:8:15 @ {\cf2 For if he will not helpe vs within these fiue dayes, he hath power to defend vs whe he will, euen euery day, or to destroy vs before our enemies.}

geneva@Wis:8:16 @ {\cf2 Doe not you therefore binde the counsels of the Lord our God: For God is not as man that he may be threatned, neither as the sonne of man to be brought to iudgement.}

geneva@Wis:8:17 @ {\cf2 Therefore let vs wayte for saluation of him and call vpon him to helpe vs, and hee will heare our voice if it please him.}

geneva@Wis:8:18 @ {\cf2 For there appeareth none in our age, neither is there any nowe in these dayes, neither tribe, nor familie, nor people, nor citie among vs, which worship ye gods made with hands, as hath bene aforetime.}

geneva@Wis:8:19 @ {\cf2 For the which cause our fathers were giuen to the sworde, and for a spoyle, and had a great fall before our enemies.}

geneva@Wis:8:20 @ {\cf2 But we know none other God: therefore we trust that he will not despise vs, nor any of our linage.}

geneva@Wis:8:21 @ {\cf2 Neither when we shalbe taken, shal Iudea be so famous: for our Sanctuarie shalbe spoyled, & he will require the prophanation therof at our mouth,}

geneva@Wis:8:22 @ {\cf2 And the feare of our brethren, and the captiuitie of the countrey, and the desolation of our inheritance will he turne vpon our heades among the Gentiles, wheresoeuer we shalbe in bondage, & we shall be an offence and a reproche to all them that possesse vs.}

geneva@Wis:8:23 @ {\cf2 For our seruitude shall not be directed by fauour, but ye Lord our God shal turne it to dishonour.}

geneva@Wis:8:24 @ {\cf2 Now therefore, O brethren, let vs shew an example to our brethren, because their heartes depend vpon vs, and the Sanctuarie, and the House, and the altar rest vpon vs.}

geneva@Wis:8:25 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, let vs giue thankes to ye Lord our God, which tryeth vs euen as hee did our fathers.}

geneva@Wis:8:26 @ {\cf2 Remember what things he did to Abraha, and how he tryed Isaac, & al that he did to Iacob in Mesopotamia of Syria when he kept the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother.}

geneva@Wis:8:27 @ {\cf2 For hee hath not tried vs as he did them to the examination of their heartes, neither doth hee take vengeance on vs, but the Lorde punisheth for instruction them that come neere to him.}

geneva@Wis:8:28 @ {\cf2 Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken, hast thou spoken with a good heart, and there is none that is able to resist thy words.}

geneva@Wis:8:29 @ {\cf2 For it is not to day that thy wisedome is knowen, but from the beginning of thy life all the people haue knowen thy wisedome: for the deuice of thine heart is good.}

geneva@Wis:8:30 @ {\cf2 But the people were very thirstie, and compelled vs to do vnto the, as we haue spoken, & haue brought vs to an oth which we may not transgresse.}

geneva@Wis:8:31 @ {\cf2 Therefore now pray for vs, because thou art an holy woman, that the Lord may send vs raine to fill our cisternes, and that we may faint no more.}

geneva@Wis:8:32 @ {\cf2 Then sayd Iudeth vnto them, Heare mee, & I will doe a thing, which shall bee declared in all generations, to the children of our nation.}

geneva@Wis:8:33 @ {\cf2 You shal stand this night in the gate, & I wil go forth with mine handmaide: & within ye dayes that ye haue promised to deliuer the citie to our enemies, the Lord wil visite Israel by mine hand.}

geneva@Wis:8:34 @ {\cf2 But inquire not you of mine acte: for I will not declare it vnto you, till the things be finished that I doe.}

geneva@Wis:8:35 @ {\cf2 Then saide Ozias and the princes vnto her, Goe in peace, and the Lorde God be before thee, to take vengeance on our enemies.}

geneva@Wis:8:36 @ {\cf2 So they returned from the tent, and went to their wardes.}

geneva@Wis:9:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudeth fell vpon her face, and put ashes vpon her head, and put off the sackcloth wherwith she was clothed; about the time that the incense of that euening was offred in Ierusalem in the house of the Lorde, Iudeth cryed with a loude voyce, and saide,}

geneva@Wis:9:2 @ {\cf2 O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gauest a sworde to take vengeance of ye strangers which opened the wombe of the maide, and defiled her, and discouered the thigh with shame, & polluted the wombe to reproche (for thou haddest commanded that it should not so be,}

geneva@Wis:9:3 @ {\cf2 Yet they did things for the which thou gauest their princes to the slaughter, for they were deceiued and washed their beds with bloud) and hast striken the seruants with the gouerners, and the gouerners vpon their thrones,}

geneva@Wis:9:4 @ {\cf2 And hast giuen their wiues for a pray & their daughters to be captiues, and all their spoyles for a bootie to the children that thou louedst: which were mooued with thy zeale, & abhorred the pollution of their bloud, & called vpon thee for ayde, O God, O my God, heare me also a widdowe.}

geneva@Wis:9:5 @ {\cf2 For thou hast wrought the things afore, and these, and the things that shalbe after, and thou considerest the things that are present, and the things that are to come.}

geneva@Wis:9:6 @ {\cf2 For the things which thou doest purpose, are present, and say, Beholde, wee are here: for all thy wayes are readie, and thy iudgements are foreknowen.}

geneva@Wis:9:7 @ {\cf2 Behold, the Assyrians are multyplied by their power: they haue exalted them selues with horses and horsemen: they glory in the strength of their footemen: they trust in shield, speare and bow, and sling, and do not know that thou art the Lord that breakest the battels: the Lord is thy Name.}

geneva@Wis:9:8 @ {\cf2 Breake thou their strength by thy power, and breake their force by thy wrath: for they haue purposed to defile thy Sanctuarie, and to pollute the Tabernacle where thy glorious Name resteth, and to cast downe with weapons the hornes of the Altar.}

geneva@Wis:9:9 @ {\cf2 Behold their pride, and send thy wrath vpon their heads: giue into mine hand which am a widow, the strength that I haue conceiued.}

geneva@Wis:9:10 @ {\cf2 Smite by the deceite of my lippes the seruant with the prince, and the prince with the seruant: abate their height by the hand of a woman.}

geneva@Wis:9:11 @ {\cf2 For thy power standeth not in the multitude, nor thy might in strong men: but thou, O Lorde, art the helpe of the humble and little ones, the defender of the weake, and the protector of them that are forsaken, and the Sauiour of them that are without hope.}

geneva@Wis:9:12 @ {\cf2 Surely, surely thou art the God of my father, and the God of the inheritance of Israel, the Lorde of heauen and earth, the creator of the waters, the King of all creatures: heare thou my prayer,}

geneva@Wis:9:13 @ {\cf2 And graunt me words and craft, & a wound, & a stroke against the that enterprise cruel things against thy couenat, and against thine holy House, and against the toppe of Sion, & against the house of the possession of thy children.}

geneva@Wis:9:14 @ {\cf2 Shew euidently among all thy people, and al the tribes, that they may know that thou art ye God of all power and strength, and that there is none other that defendeth the people of Israel, but thou.}

geneva@Wis:10:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe after she had ceased to cry vnto the God of Israel, and had made an ende of all these wordes,}

geneva@Wis:10:2 @ {\cf2 She rose where she had fallen down, & called her maide, and went downe into the house, in the which she abode in the Sabbath dayes and in the feast dayes,}

geneva@Wis:10:3 @ {\cf2 And putting away the sackecloth wherewith she was clad, and putting off the garmentes of her widowhode, shee washed her bodie with water, and anointed it with much oyntment, and dressed the heare of her head, and put attire vpon it, and put on her garments of gladnesse, wherewith shee was clad during the life of Manasses her husbande.}

geneva@Wis:10:4 @ {\cf2 And she put slippers on her feete, and put on bracelets, and sleeues, and rings, and earinges, and all her ornaments, and she decked her selfe brauely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her.}

geneva@Wis:10:5 @ {\cf2 Then she gaue her maide a bottel of wine, & a potte of oyle, and filled a scrip with floure, & with drie figges, and with fine bread: so she lapped vp all these thinges together and layde them vpon her.}

geneva@Wis:10:6 @ {\cf2 Thus they went forth to the gate of the citie of Bethulia, and found standing there Ozias, and the Ancients of the citie, Chabris and Charmis.}

geneva@Wis:10:7 @ {\cf2 And when they sawe her that her face was changed, and that her garment was changed, they marueyled greaely at her wonderfull beautie, and sayde vnto her,}

geneva@Wis:10:8 @ {\cf2 The God, the God of our fathers giue thee fauour, and accomplish thine enterprises to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Ierusalem. Then they worshipped God.}

geneva@Wis:10:9 @ {\cf2 And she said vnto them, Command the gates of the citie to be opened vnto me, that I may goe forth to accomplish the things which you haue spoken to me. So they commanded the yong men to open vnto her, as she had spoken.}

geneva@Wis:10:10 @ {\cf2 And when they had done so, Iudeth went out, she and her maide with her, & the men of the citie looked after her, vntill shee was gone downe the mountaine, and till she had passed the valley, & could see her no more.}

geneva@Wis:10:11 @ {\cf2 Thus they went streight forth in the valley, and the first watch of the Assyrians met her,}

geneva@Wis:10:12 @ {\cf2 And tooke her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and whence commest thou? and whither goest thou? And shee saide, I am a woman of the Hebrewes, and am fledde from them: for they shall be giuen you to be consumed.}

geneva@Wis:10:13 @ {\cf2 And I come before Olophernes, the chiefe captaine of your armie, to declare him true things, and I will shew before him the way whereby hee shall goe and win al the mountaines, without losing the bodie or life of anie of his men.}

geneva@Wis:10:14 @ {\cf2 Now when the men heard her wordes, and behelde her countenance, they wondred greatly at her beautie, and sayd vnto her,}

geneva@Wis:10:15 @ {\cf2 Thou hast saued thy life, in that thou hast hasted to come downe to the presence of our lorde nowe therefore come to his tent, and some of vs shall conduct thee vntill they haue deliuered thee into his hands.}

geneva@Wis:10:16 @ {\cf2 And when thou standest before him, be not afraide in thine heart, but shew vnto him according as thou hast to say, and hee will intreate thee well.}

geneva@Wis:10:17 @ {\cf2 Then they chose out of them an hundreth men, and prepared a charet for her and her maide, and brought her to the tent of Olophernes.}

geneva@Wis:10:18 @ {\cf2 Then there was a running to and fro, through out the campe: for her comming was bruted amog the tentes: and they came and stoode round about her: for she stood without the tent of Olophernes vntil they had declared vnto him concerning her.}

geneva@Wis:10:19 @ {\cf2 And they marueiled at her beautie, and wondred at the children of Israel because of her, and euery one sayde vnto his neighbour, Who would despise this people, that haue among them such women? surely it is not good that one man of them be left: for if they shoulde remaine, they might deceiue the whole earth.}

geneva@Wis:10:20 @ {\cf2 Then Olophernes garde went out, and all his seruants, and they brought her into the tent.}

geneva@Wis:10:21 @ {\cf2 Now Olophernes rested vpon his bed vnder a conopie, which was wouen with purple and golde and emeraudes, and precious stones.}

geneva@Wis:10:22 @ {\cf2 So they shewed him of her, & he came forth vnto the entrie of his tent, and they caryed lampes of siluer before him.}

geneva@Wis:10:23 @ {\cf2 And when Iudeth was come before him and his seruantes, they all marueyled at the beautie of her countenance, and she fel downe vpon her face, and did reuerence vnto him, and his seruants tooke her vp.}

geneva@Wis:11:1 @ {\cf2 Then sayd Olophernes vnto her, Woman, bee of good comfort: feare not in thine heart: for I neuer hurt any that would serue Nabuchodonosor the King of all the earth.}

geneva@Wis:11:2 @ {\cf2 Now therefore if thy people that dwelleth in the mountaines, had not despysed me, I would not haue lifted vp my speare against them: but they haue procured these things to themselues.}

geneva@Wis:11:3 @ {\cf2 But now tell me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art come vnto vs: for thou art come for sauegard: bee of good comfort, thou shalt liuefrom this night, and hereafter.}

geneva@Wis:11:4 @ {\cf2 For none shall hurt thee, but intreate thee well, as they doe the seruants of King Nabuchodonosor my lorde.}

geneva@Wis:11:5 @ {\cf2 Then Iudeth saide vnto him, Receiue the wordes of thy seruant, and suffer thine handmaide to speake in thy presence, and I will declare no lye to my lorde this night.}

geneva@Wis:11:6 @ {\cf2 And if thou wilt followe the wordes of thine handmaid, God wil bring ye thing perfectly to passe by thee, and my lorde shall not faile of his purpose.}

geneva@Wis:11:7 @ {\cf2 As Nabuchodonosor King of all the earth liueth, and as his power is of force, who hath sent thee to reforme all persons, not onely men shalbe made subiect to him by thee, but also the beastes of the fieldes, and the cattel, and the foules of the heauen shall liue by thy power vnder Nabuchodonosor and all his house.}

geneva@Wis:11:8 @ {\cf2 For we haue heard of thy wisedome and of thy prudent spirite, and it is declared through the whole earth, that thou onely art excellent in all the kingdome, and of a wonderfull knowledge, and in feates of warre marueilous.}

geneva@Wis:11:9 @ {\cf2 Nowe as concerning the matter which Achier did speake in thy councill, we haue heard his wordes: for the men of Bethulia did take him, and he declared vnto them all that he had spoken vnto thee.}

geneva@Wis:11:10 @ {\cf2 Therefore, O lord and gouernour, reiect not his worde, but set it in thine heart, for it is true: for there is no punishment against our people, neither can the sworde preuaile against them, except they sinne against their God.}

geneva@Wis:11:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore, least my lorde shoulde be frustrate, and voyde of his purpose, and that death may fall vpon them, and that they may be taken in their sinne whiles they prouoke their God to anger, which is so oft times as they doe that which is not beseeming,}

geneva@Wis:11:12 @ {\cf2 (For because their vitailes fayle, and all their water is wasted, they haue determined to take their cattell, and haue purposed to consume all things that God had forbidden them to eate by his Lawes:}

geneva@Wis:11:13 @ {\cf2 Yea, they haue purposed to consume the first fruits of the wheat, and the tithes of the wine, & of the oyle which they had reserued and sanctified for the Priestes that serue in Ierusalem before the face of our God: the which things it is not lawfull for any of the people to touch with their handes.}

geneva@Wis:11:14 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, they haue sent to Ierusalem, because they also that dwel there, haue done the like, such as should bring them licence from ye Senate)}

geneva@Wis:11:15 @ {\cf2 Nowe when they shall bring them worde, they will doe it, and they shall be giuen thee to be destroyed the same day.}

geneva@Wis:11:16 @ {\cf2 Wherefore I thine handmaide, knowing all this, am fledde from their presence, and God hath sent me to worke a thing with thee, whereof all the earth shall wonder, and whosoeuer shall heare it.}

geneva@Wis:11:17 @ {\cf2 For thy seruant feareth God, and worshippeth the God of heauen day and night, and nowe let me remaine with thee, my lord, and let thy seruant go out in the night into the valley, and I will pray vnto God, that he may reueile vnto me when they shall commit their sinnes,}

geneva@Wis:11:18 @ {\cf2 And I wil come and shew it vnto thee: then thou shalt goe foorth with all thine armie, and there shall be none of them that shall resist thee.}

geneva@Wis:11:19 @ {\cf2 And I will leade thee through the middes of Iudea, vntill thou come before Ierusalem, and I will set thy throne in the middes thereof, and thou shalt driue them as sheepe that haue no shepherd, and a dogge shall not barke with his mouth against thee: for these things haue bene spoken vnto me, and declared vnto me according to my foreknowledge, and I am sent to shewe thee.}

geneva@Wis:11:20 @ {\cf2 Then her wordes pleased Olofernes, and all his seruants, and they marueiled at her wisedom, and sayde,}

geneva@Wis:11:21 @ {\cf2 There is not such a woman in all the world, both for beautie of face, and wisedome of wordes.}

geneva@Wis:11:22 @ {\cf2 Likewise Olofernes said vnto her, God hath done this, to sende thee before the people, that strength might be in our handes, and destruction vpon them that despise my lorde.}

geneva@Wis:11:23 @ {\cf2 And nowe thou art both beautifull in thy countenance, and wittie in thy wordes: surely if thou doe as thou hast spoken, thy God shall be my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and shalt be renoumed throughout the whole earth.}

geneva@Wis:12:1 @ {\cf2 Then he commanded to bring her in where his treasures were layd, and bade that they should prepare for her of his owne meates, and that she should drinke of his owne wine.}

geneva@Wis:12:2 @ {\cf2 But Iudeth saide, I may not eate of them, least there should be an offence, but I can suffice my selfe with the things that I haue brought.}

geneva@Wis:12:3 @ {\cf2 Then Olofernes said vnto her, If the things that thou hast, should faile, howe should we giue thee the like? for there is none with vs of thy nation.}

geneva@Wis:12:4 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudeth vnto him, As thy soule liueth, my lorde, thine handmaide shall not spende those things that I haue, before the Lorde worke by mine hand the things that he hath determined.}

geneva@Wis:12:5 @ {\cf2 Then the seruants of Olofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept vntill midnight, and rose at the morning watch,}

geneva@Wis:12:6 @ {\cf2 And sent to Olofernes, saying, Let my lorde commaunde that thine handmaide may goe foorth vnto prayer.}

geneva@Wis:12:7 @ {\cf2 Then Olofernes commanded his garde that they shoulde not stay her: thus she abode in the campe three dayes, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed her selfe in a fountaine, euen in the water by the campe.}

geneva@Wis:12:8 @ {\cf2 And when she came out, she prayed vnto the Lord God of Israel, that he woulde direct her way to the exaltation of the children of her people.}

geneva@Wis:12:9 @ {\cf2 So she returned, and remained pure in the tent, vntill she ate her meate at euening.}

geneva@Wis:12:10 @ {\cf2 And in the fourth day, Olofernes made a feast to his owne seruants only, and called none of them to the banket, that had the affaires in hande.}

geneva@Wis:12:11 @ {\cf2 Then saide he to Bagoas the eunuche who had charge ouer all that he had, Goe and perswade this Hebrewe woman, which is with thee, that she come vnto vs, and eate and drinke with vs.}

geneva@Wis:12:12 @ {\cf2 For it were a shame for vs, if we shoulde let such a woman alone, and not talke with her, and if we doe not allure her, she will mocke vs.}

geneva@Wis:12:13 @ {\cf2 Then went Bagoas from the presence of Olofernes, and came to her, and saide, Let not this faire maide make difficultie to goe in to my lord, and to be honoured in his presence, and to drinke wine with vs ioyfully, and to be entreated as one of the daughters of the children of Assur, which remaine in the house of Nabuchodonosor.}

geneva@Wis:12:14 @ {\cf2 The said Iudeth vnto him, Who am I now, that I should gainesay my lord? Surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him, I will doe speedily, and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death.}

geneva@Wis:12:15 @ {\cf2 So she arose & trimmed her with garments, and with all the ornaments of women, & her maid went, and spred foorth her skinnes on the grounde ouer against Olofernes, which she had receiued of Bagoas for her daily vse, that she might sit and eate vpon them.}

geneva@Wis:12:16 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudeth came and sate downe, Olofernes heart was rauished with her, and his spirite was moued, and he desired greatly her company: for he had waited for the time to deceiue her from the day that he had seene her.}

geneva@Wis:12:17 @ {\cf2 Then said Olofernes vnto her, Drinke now, and be merry with vs.}

geneva@Wis:12:18 @ {\cf2 So Iudeth said, I drinke nowe, my lorde, because my state is exalted this day more then euer it was since I was borne.}

geneva@Wis:12:19 @ {\cf2 Then she tooke, and ate and dranke before him the things, that her maide had prepared.}

geneva@Wis:12:20 @ {\cf2 And Olofernes reioyced because of her, and dranke much more wine then hee had drunken at any time in one day since he was borne.}

geneva@Wis:13:1 @ {\cf2 Now when the euening was come, his seruants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed those that were present, from the presence of his lorde, and they went to their beddes: for they were all weary, because the feast had bene long.}

geneva@Wis:13:2 @ {\cf2 And Iudeth was left alone in the tent, and Olofernes was stretched along vpon his bed: for he was filled with wine.}

geneva@Wis:13:3 @ {\cf2 Nowe Iudeth had commanded her maide to stande without her chamber, and to waite for her comming foorth as she did daily: for she saide, she would go forth to her prayers, and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose.}

geneva@Wis:13:4 @ {\cf2 So all went foorth of her presence, and none was left in the chamber, neither litle nor great: then Iudeth standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lorde God of all power, beholde at this present the workes of mine handes for the exaltation of Ierusalem.}

geneva@Wis:13:5 @ {\cf2 For nowe is the time to helpe thine inheritance, and to execute mine enterprises, to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against vs.}

geneva@Wis:13:6 @ {\cf2 Then she came to the post of the bed which was at Olofernes head, and tooke downe his fauchin from thence,}

geneva@Wis:13:7 @ {\cf2 And approched to the bed, and tooke holde of the heare of his head, and said, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel this day.}

geneva@Wis:13:8 @ {\cf2 And she smote twise vpon his necke with al her might, and she tooke away his head from him,}

geneva@Wis:13:9 @ {\cf2 And rolled his bodie downe from the bed, and pulled downe the canopie from the pillars, and anon after she went foorth, and gaue Olofernes head to her maide,}

geneva@Wis:13:10 @ {\cf2 And she put it in her scrippe of meate: so they twaine went together according to their custome vnto praier, and preassing through the tents, went about by that valley, & went vp to the moutaine of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.}

geneva@Wis:13:11 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudeth afarre off to the watchmen at the gates, Open nowe the gate: God, euen our God is with vs to shewe his power yet in Ierusalem, and his force against his enemies, as he hath euen done this day.}

geneva@Wis:13:12 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the men of her citie heard her voyce, they made haste to goe downe to the gate of their citie, and they called the Elders of the city.}

geneva@Wis:13:13 @ {\cf2 And they ranne all together both small and great: for it was aboue their expectation, that she shoulde come. So they opened the gate and receiued her, and made a fire for a light, and stood roud about them twaine.}

geneva@Wis:13:14 @ {\cf2 Then she said to them with a loude voyce, Praise God, praise God: for he hath not taken away his mercie from the house of Israel, but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night.}

geneva@Wis:13:15 @ {\cf2 So she tooke the head out of the scrippe and shewed it, and said vnto them, Beholde the head of Olofernes, the chiefe captaine of the armie of Assur, and beholde the canopie, wherein he did lye in his drunkennes, and the Lord hath smitteth him by the hande of a woman.}

geneva@Wis:13:16 @ {\cf2 As the Lorde liueth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceiued him to his destruction, and he hath not committed sinne with me by any pollution or villenie.}

geneva@Wis:13:17 @ {\cf2 Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed them selues, and worshipped God, and said with one accorde, Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people.}

geneva@Wis:13:18 @ {\cf2 Then said Ozias vnto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of the most hie God aboue al the women of the earth, and blessed be the Lorde God, which hath created the heauens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chiefe of our enemies.}

geneva@Wis:13:19 @ {\cf2 Surely this thine hope shall neuer departe out of the heartes of men: for they shall remember the power of God for euer.}

geneva@Wis:13:20 @ {\cf2 And God turne these things to thee for a perpetuall praise, and visite thee with good things, because thou hast not spared thy life, because of the affliction of our nation, but thou hast holpen our ruine, walking a straight way before our God; all the people said, So be it, so be it.}

geneva@Wis:14:1 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudeth vnto them, Heare me also, my brethren, and take this head, and hang it vpon the hyest place of your walles.}

geneva@Wis:14:2 @ {\cf2 And so soone as the morning shall appeare and the sunne shall come foorth vpon the earth, take you euery one his weapons, and goe foorth euery valiant man out of the citie, & set you a captaine ouer them, as though you woulde goe downe into the fielde, towarde the watch of the Assyrians, but goe not downe.}

geneva@Wis:14:3 @ {\cf2 Then they shall take their armour, and shall goe into their campe, and rayse vp the captaines of the armie of Assur, and they shall runne to the tent of Olofernes, but shall not finde him: then feare shall fall vpon them, and they shall flee beforeyour face.}

geneva@Wis:14:4 @ {\cf2 So you & all that inhabite the coastes of Israel, shal pursue them, & ouerthrow them as they go.}

geneva@Wis:14:5 @ {\cf2 But before you doe these things, call mee Achior the Ammonite, that hee may see, and knowe him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to vs as to death.}

geneva@Wis:14:6 @ {\cf2 Then they called Achior out of the house of Ozias, and when hee was come and sawe the head of Olofernes in a certaine mans hand in the assemblie of the people, hee fell downe on his face, and his spirit failed.}

geneva@Wis:14:7 @ {\cf2 But when they had taken him vp, hee fell at Iudeths feete, and reuerenced her, and said, Blessed art thou in all the tabernacle of Iuda, and in al nations, which, hearing thy name, shalbe astonished.}

geneva@Wis:14:8 @ {\cf2 Now therefore tell mee all the thinges, that thou hast done in these dayes. Then Iudeth declared vnto him in the middes of the people all that shee had done from the daye that shee went forth, vntill that houre shee spake vnto them.}

geneva@Wis:14:9 @ {\cf2 And when she had left of speaking, the people reioyced with a great voyce, and made a noyse of gladnesse through their citie.}

geneva@Wis:14:10 @ {\cf2 And Achior, seeing all things that God had done for Israel, beleeued in God vnfaynedly, and circumcised the foreskin of his flesh, and was ioyned vnto the house of Israel vnto this day.}

geneva@Wis:14:11 @ {\cf2 Assoone as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Olofernes out at the wall, and euery man tooke his weapons, and they went forth by bandes vnto the straytes of the mountaine.}

geneva@Wis:14:12 @ {\cf2 But when the Assyrians sawe them, they sent to their captaines, which went to the gouernours and chiefe captaines, and to all their rulers.}

geneva@Wis:14:13 @ {\cf2 So they came to Olofernes tent and saide to him that had the charge of all his things, Waken our lord: for the slaues haue bene bolde to come downe against vs to battel, that they may bee destroyed for euer.}

geneva@Wis:14:14 @ {\cf2 Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the doore of the tent: for hee thought that hee had slept with Iudeth.}

geneva@Wis:14:15 @ {\cf2 But because none answered, hee opened it, and went into the chamber, and founde him cast vpon the floore, and his head was taken from him.}

geneva@Wis:14:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore he cryed with a loude voyce, with weeping and mourning, and a mightie cry, and rent his garments.}

geneva@Wis:14:17 @ {\cf2 After, he went into the tent of Iudeth where she vsed to remaine, and founde her not: then hee leaped out to the people and cryed,}

geneva@Wis:14:18 @ {\cf2 These slaues haue committed wickednesse: one woman of the Hebrewes hath brought shame vpon the house of King Nabuchodonosor: for beholde, Olofernes lieth vpon the grounde without an head.}

geneva@Wis:14:19 @ {\cf2 When the captaines of the Assyrians armie hearde these words, they rent their coates, and their heart was wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry and a verie great noyse throughout the campe.}

geneva@Wis:15:1 @ {\cf2 And when they that were in the tentes, heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done.}

geneva@Wis:15:2 @ {\cf2 And feare and trembling fell vpon them, so that there was no man that durst abide in the sight of his neighbour: but altogether amased, they fled by euery way of the plaine and of the mountaines.}

geneva@Wis:15:3 @ {\cf2 They also that had camped in the mountaines rounde about Bethulia, were put to flight: then the children of Israel, euery one that was a warriour among them, rushed out vpon them.}

geneva@Wis:15:4 @ {\cf2 Then sent Ozias to Bethomasthem, and to Bebai, and Chobai, and Chola and to al the coastes of Israel, such as shoulde declare vnto them the things that were done, and that all shoulde rushe forth vpon their enemies to destroy them.}

geneva@Wis:15:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell vpon them together vnto Choba: likewise also they that came from Ierusalem and from all the mountaines: for men had tolde them what things were done in the campe of their enemies, & they that were in Galaad and in Galile chased them with a great slaughter vntill they came to Damascus and to the coastes thereof.}

geneva@Wis:15:6 @ {\cf2 And the residue that dwelt at Bethulia, fell vpon the campe of Assur and spoyled them, and were greatly enriched.}

geneva@Wis:15:7 @ {\cf2 And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter, had the rest: and the villages and the cities that were in the mountaines and in the plaine, had a great bootie: for the abundance was very great.}

geneva@Wis:15:8 @ {\cf2 Then Ioacim the hie Priest, and the Ancients of the children of Israel that dwelt in Ierusalem, came to confirme the benefites that God had shewed to Israel, and to see Iudeth, and to salute her.}

geneva@Wis:15:9 @ {\cf2 And when they came vnto her, they blessed her with one accord, and saide vnto her, Thou art the exaltation of Ierusalem: thou art the great glorie of Israel: thou art the great reioycing of our nation.}

geneva@Wis:15:10 @ {\cf2 Thou hast done all these thinges by thine hande: thou hast done much good to Israel, and God is pleased therewith: blessed bee thou of the almightie Lorde for euermore: and all the people said, So be it.}

geneva@Wis:15:11 @ {\cf2 And the people spoyled the campe the space of thirtie dayes, and they gaue vnto Iudeth Olofernes tent, and all his siluer and beds, and basins, and all his stuffe, and she tooke it and laid it on her mules, and made readie her charets, & laied them thereon.}

geneva@Wis:15:12 @ {\cf2 Then all the women of Israel came together to see her, & blessed her, & made a daunce among them for her, and she tooke braunches in her hand, and gaue also to the women that were with her.}

geneva@Wis:15:13 @ {\cf2 They also crowned her with oliues, and her that was with her, and shee went before the people in the daunce, leading al the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour, with crownes, and with songs in their mouthes.}

geneva@Wis:16:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudeth began this confession in all Israel, and all the people sang this songe with a loude voyce.}

geneva@Wis:16:2 @ {\cf2 And Iudeth saide, Beginne vnto my GOD with tymbrels: sing to my Lorde with cymbals: tune vnto him a psalme: exalt his prayse, and call vpon his Name.}

geneva@Wis:16:3 @ {\cf2 For God breaketh the battels, and pitched his campe in the middes of the people, and deliuered me out of the hande of the persecuters.}

geneva@Wis:16:4 @ {\cf2 Assur came from the mountaines forth of the North: hee came with thousandes in his armie, whose multitude hath shut vp the riuers and their horsemen haue couered the valleis.}

geneva@Wis:16:5 @ {\cf2 He said that he would burne vp my borders and kill my yong men with the sworde, and dash the sucking children against the ground, and make mine infantes as a pray, and my virgins a spoyle.}

geneva@Wis:16:6 @ {\cf2 But the almightie Lorde hath brought them to nought by the hand of a woman.}

geneva@Wis:16:7 @ {\cf2 For the mightie did not fal by the yong men, neither did the sonnes of Titan smite him, nor the hie giants inuade him, but Iudeth the daughter of Merari did discomfite him by the beautie of her countenance.}

geneva@Wis:16:8 @ {\cf2 For shee put off the garment of her widowhoode, for the exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with oyntment, and bound vp her heare in a coife, and tooke a linnen garment to deceiue him.}

geneva@Wis:16:9 @ {\cf2 Her slippers rauished his eyes: her beautie tooke his minde prisoner, and the fauchin passed through his necke.}

geneva@Wis:16:10 @ {\cf2 The Persians were astonished at her boldenes, & the Medes were troubled with her hardines.}

geneva@Wis:16:11 @ {\cf2 But mine afflicted reioyced, and my feeble ones showted: then they feared, they lifted vp their voyce and turned backe.}

geneva@Wis:16:12 @ {\cf2 The children of maides perced them, and wounded them as they fledde away like children: they perished by the battel of the Lord.}

geneva@Wis:16:13 @ {\cf2 I will sing vnto the Lorde a song and praise, O Lord, thou art great and glorious, marueilous & inuincible in power.}

geneva@Wis:16:14 @ {\cf2 Let all thy creatures serue thee: for thou hast spoken and they were made: thou hast sent thy Spirit, and he made them vp: and there is none that can resist thy voyce.}

geneva@Wis:16:15 @ {\cf2 For the mountaines leape vp from their foudations with the waters: the rockes melte at thy presence like waxe: yet thou art mercifull to them that feare thee.}

geneva@Wis:16:16 @ {\cf2 For al sacrifice is to litle for a sweet savour, and al the fatte is to litle for thy burnt offring: but hee that feareth the Lorde, is great at all times.}

geneva@Wis:16:17 @ {\cf2 Woe to the nations that rise vp against my kinred: the Lorde almightie will take vengeance of them in the day of iudgement, in sending fire & wormes vpon their flesh, and they shall feele them and weepe for euer.}

geneva@Wis:16:18 @ {\cf2 After, when they wet vnto Ierusalem, they worshipped the Lorde, and assoone as the people were purified, they offred their burnt offrings, and their free offringes, and their giftes.}

geneva@Wis:16:19 @ {\cf2 Iudeth also offred all the stuffe of Olofernes, which the people had giuen her, and gaue the canopie which she had taken off his bed, for an oblation to the Lord.}

geneva@Wis:16:20 @ {\cf2 So the people reioyced in Ierusalem by the Sanctuarie, for the space of three moneths, and Iudeth remained with them.}

geneva@Wis:16:21 @ {\cf2 After this time, euery one returned to his owne inheritance, and Iudeth went to Bethulia, and remayned in her owne possession, and was for her time honourable in all the countrey.}

geneva@Wis:16:22 @ {\cf2 And many desired her, but none had her companie all the dayes of her life after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.}

geneva@Wis:16:23 @ {\cf2 But shee increased more and more in honour, and waxed olde in her husbandes house, beeing an hundreth and fiue yeere olde, and made her maide free: so shee dyed in Bethulia, and they buried her in the graue of her husband Manasses.}

geneva@Wis:16:24 @ {\cf2 And the house of Israel lamented her seuen dayes, and before shee dyed, shee did distribute her goods to all them that were neerest of kinred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the neerest of her kinred.}

geneva@Wis:16:25 @ {\cf2 And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afrayde in the dayes of Iudeth, nor a long time after her death.}

geneva@Tob:1:1 @ {\cf2 Love righteousnesse, ye that be Iudges of the earth: thinke reuerently of the Lord, and seeke him in simplicitie of heart.}

geneva@Tob:1:2 @ {\cf2 For he wil be found of them that tempt him not, and appeareth vnto such as be not vnfaithfull vnto him.}

geneva@Tob:1:3 @ {\cf2 For wicked thoughts separate from God: and his power when it is tried, reprooueth the vnwise,}

geneva@Tob:1:4 @ {\cf2 Because wisdome cannot enter into a wicked heart, nor dwell in the body that is subiect vnto sinne.}

geneva@Tob:1:5 @ {\cf2 For the holy Spirit of discipline fleeth from deceite, & withdraweth himselfe from the thoughts that are without vnderstanding, and is rebuked when wickednes commeth.}

geneva@Tob:1:6 @ {\cf2 For the Spirit of wisdome is louing, and wil not absolue him, that blasphemeth with his lips: for God is a witnes of his reines, and a true beholder of his heart, and an hearer of the tongue.}

geneva@Tob:1:7 @ {\cf2 For the Spirite of the Lorde filleth all the world: and the same that mainteineth all things, hath knowledge of the voyce.}

geneva@Tob:1:8 @ {\cf2 Therefore hee that speaketh vnrighteous things, cannot be hid: neither shall the iudgement of reproche let him escape.}

geneva@Tob:1:9 @ {\cf2 For inquisition shalbe made for the thoughts of the vngodly, and the sound of his wordes shall come vnto God for the correction of his iniquities.}

geneva@Tob:1:10 @ {\cf2 For the eare of ielousie heareth al things, and the noyse of the grudgings shall not be hid.}

geneva@Tob:1:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore beware of murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refraine your tongue from slander: for there is no worde so secret, that shal go for nought, and the mouth that speaketh lyes, slayeth the soule.}

geneva@Tob:1:12 @ {\cf2 Seeke not death in the errour of your life: destroy not your selues thorowe the workes of your owne hands.}

geneva@Tob:1:13 @ {\cf2 For God hath not made death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the liuing.}

geneva@Tob:1:14 @ {\cf2 For he created all things, that they might haue their being: and the generations of the world are preserued, and there is no poyson of destruction in them, & the kingdome of hell is not vpon earth.}

geneva@Tob:1:15 @ {\cf2 For righteousnes is immortall, but vnrighteousnes bringeth death.}

geneva@Tob:1:16 @ {\cf2 And the vngodly call it vnto them both with hands and wordes: and while they thinke to haue a friend of it, they come to naught: for they are confederate with it: therefore are they worthy to be partakers thereof.}

geneva@Tob:2:1 @ {\cf2 For the vngodly say, as they falsly imagine with themselues, Our life is short & tedious: and in the death of a man there is no recouerie, neither was any knowen that hath returned from the graue.}

geneva@Tob:2:2 @ {\cf2 For we are borne at all aduenture, and we shall be hereafter as though we had neuer bene: for the breath is a smoke in our nostrels, & the wordes as a sparke raised out of our heart,}

geneva@Tob:2:3 @ {\cf2 Which being extinguished, the body is turned into ashes, and the Spirite vanisheth as the soft ayre.}

geneva@Tob:2:4 @ {\cf2 Our life shall passe away as the trace of a cloude, and come to naught as the miste that is driuen away with the beames of the sunne, and cast downe with the heate thereof. Our name also shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall haue our workes in remembrance.}

geneva@Tob:2:5 @ {\cf2 For our time is as a shadow that passeth away, and after our ende there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man commeth againe.}

geneva@Tob:2:6 @ {\cf2 Come therefore, and let vs enioy the pleasures, that are present, and let vs cheerefully vse the creatures as in youth.}

geneva@Tob:2:7 @ {\cf2 Let vs fill our selues with costly wine & ointments, & let not the floure of life passe by vs.}

geneva@Tob:2:8 @ {\cf2 Let vs crowne our selues with rose buds afore they be withered.}

geneva@Tob:2:9 @ {\cf2 Let vs all be partakers of our wantonnes: let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euery place: for that is our portion, and this is our lot.}

geneva@Tob:2:10 @ {\cf2 Let vs oppresse the poore that is righteous: let vs not spare the widdow, nor reuerence ye white heares of the aged, that haue liued many yeeres.}

geneva@Tob:2:11 @ {\cf2 Let our strength be the lawe of vnrighteousnes: for the thing that is feeble, is reprooued as vnprofitable.}

geneva@Tob:2:12 @ {\cf2 Therefore let vs defraude the righteous: for he is not for our profite, and he is contrary to our doings: hee checketh vs for offending against the Law, and blameth vs as transgressers of discipline.}

geneva@Tob:2:13 @ {\cf2 He maketh his boast to haue the knowledge of God: & he calleth himselfe the sonne of ye Lord.}

geneva@Tob:2:14 @ {\cf2 He is made to reprooue our thoughtes.}

geneva@Tob:2:15 @ {\cf2 It grieueth vs also to looke vpon him: for his life is not like other mens: his wayes are of another fashion.}

geneva@Tob:2:16 @ {\cf2 He counteth vs as bastards, and hee withdraweth himselfe from our wayes as from filthines: he commendeth greatly the latter end of the iust, and boasteth that God is his father.}

geneva@Tob:2:17 @ {\cf2 Let vs see then if his wordes be true: let vs prooue what ende he shall haue.}

geneva@Tob:2:18 @ {\cf2 For if the righteous man be the sonne of God, hee wil helpe him, and deliuer him from the hands of his enemies.}

geneva@Tob:2:19 @ {\cf2 Let vs examine him with rebukes and torments that we may know his meekenes, & prooue his patience.}

geneva@Tob:2:20 @ {\cf2 Let vs condemne him vnto a shamefull death: for he shalbe preserued as he himselfe sayth.}

geneva@Tob:2:21 @ {\cf2 Such things doe they imagine, and go astray: for their owne wickednes hath blinded them.}

geneva@Tob:2:22 @ {\cf2 And they doe not vnderstand the mysteries of God, neither hope for the reward of righteousnes, nor can discerne the honour of the soules that are faultles.}

geneva@Tob:2:23 @ {\cf2 For God created man without corruption, and made him after the image of his owne likenes.}

geneva@Tob:2:24 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles, thorowe enuie of the deuill came death into the world: and they that holde of his side, prooue it.}

geneva@Tob:3:1 @ {\cf2 Bvt the soules of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.}

geneva@Tob:3:2 @ {\cf2 In the sight of the vnwise they appeared to die, and their end was thought grieuous,}

geneva@Tob:3:3 @ {\cf2 And their departing from vs, destruction, but they are in peace.}

geneva@Tob:3:4 @ {\cf2 And though they suffer paine before men, yet is their hope full of immortalitie.}

geneva@Tob:3:5 @ {\cf2 They are punished, but in fewe things, yet in many things shal they be wel rewarded: for God proueth them, & findeth them meete for him selfe.}

geneva@Tob:3:6 @ {\cf2 He tryeth them as the golde in the fornace, and receiueth them as a perfect fruite offering.}

geneva@Tob:3:7 @ {\cf2 And in the time of their vision they shall shine, and runne thorowe as the sparks among the stubble.}

geneva@Tob:3:8 @ {\cf2 They shall iudge the nations, and haue dominion ouer the people, and their Lord shal reigne for euer.}

geneva@Tob:3:9 @ {\cf2 They that trust in him shall vnderstand the trueth, and the faythfull shall remaine with him in loue: for grace and mercy is among his Saints, and he regardeth his elect.}

geneva@Tob:3:10 @ {\cf2 But the vngodly shalbe punished according to their imaginations: for they haue despised the righteous, and forsaken the Lord.}

geneva@Tob:3:11 @ {\cf2 Who so despiseth wisdome and discipline, is miserable, and their hope is vaine, and their labours are foolish, and their workes vnprofitable:}

geneva@Tob:3:12 @ {\cf2 Their wiues are vndiscreete, and their children wicked: their offering is cursed.}

geneva@Tob:3:13 @ {\cf2 Therefore the barren is blessed which is vndefiled, and knoweth not the sinfull bed: she shal haue fruite in the visitation of the soules,}

geneva@Tob:3:14 @ {\cf2 And the eunuch, which with his hands hath not wrought iniquitie, nor imagined wicked things against God: for vnto him shalbe giuen the speciall gift of fayth, & an acceptable portion in the Temple of the Lord.}

geneva@Tob:3:15 @ {\cf2 For glorious is the fruite of good labours, and the roote of wisdome shall neuer fade away.}

geneva@Tob:3:16 @ {\cf2 But the children of adulterers shall not be partakers of the holy things, and the seede of the wicked bed shalbe rooted out.}

geneva@Tob:3:17 @ {\cf2 And though they liue long, yet shall they be nothing regarded, and their last age shalbe without honour.}

geneva@Tob:3:18 @ {\cf2 If they die hastely, they haue no hope, neither comfort in the day of tryall.}

geneva@Tob:3:19 @ {\cf2 For horrible is the end of the wicked generation.}

geneva@Tob:4:1 @ {\cf2 Better is barennes with vertue: for the memoriall thereof is immortall: for it is knowen with God and with men.}

geneva@Tob:4:2 @ {\cf2 When it is present, men take example thereat, and if it goe away, yet they desire it: it is alway crowned and triumpheth, and winneth the battell and the vndefiled rewardes.}

geneva@Tob:4:3 @ {\cf2 But the multitude of the vngodly which abound in children, is vnprofitable: and the bastard plants shall take no deepe roote, nor lay any fast foundation.}

geneva@Tob:4:4 @ {\cf2 For though they bud foorth in the branches for a time, yet they shalbe shaken with the winde: for they stand not fast, and through the vehemencie of the winde they shalbe rooted out.}

geneva@Tob:4:5 @ {\cf2 For the vnperfect branches shalbe broken, and their fruite shalbe vnprofitable and sowre to eate, and meete for nothing.}

geneva@Tob:4:6 @ {\cf2 For all the children that are borne of the wicked bed, shalbe witnes of the wickednes against their parents when they be asked.}

geneva@Tob:4:7 @ {\cf2 But though the righteous be preuented with death, yet shall he be in rest.}

geneva@Tob:4:8 @ {\cf2 For the honourable age is not that which is of long time, neither that which is measured by the number of yeeres.}

geneva@Tob:4:9 @ {\cf2 But wisdome is the gray heare, and an vndefiled life is the olde age.}

geneva@Tob:4:10 @ {\cf2 He pleased God, and was beloued of him, so that where as he liued among sinners, he translated him.}

geneva@Tob:4:11 @ {\cf2 He was taken away, least wickednesse shouldalter his vnderstanding, or deceit beguile his minde.}

geneva@Tob:4:12 @ {\cf2 For wickednes by bewitching obscureth the thinges that are good, and the vnstedfastnesse of concupiscence peruerteth the simple minde.}

geneva@Tob:4:13 @ {\cf2 Though he was soone dead, yet fulfilled hee much time.}

geneva@Tob:4:14 @ {\cf2 For his soule pleased God: therefore hasted he to take him away from wickednes.}

geneva@Tob:4:15 @ {\cf2 Yet the people see and vnderstand it not, and consider no such things in their heartes, howe that grace and mercie is vpon his Saintes, and his prouidence ouer the elect.}

geneva@Tob:4:16 @ {\cf2 Thus the righteous that is dead, condemneth the vngodly which are liuing: and the youth that is soone brought to an ende, the long life of the vnrighteous.}

geneva@Tob:4:17 @ {\cf2 For they see the ende of the wise, but they vnderstand not what God hath deuised for him, and wherefore the Lord hath preserued him in safetie.}

geneva@Tob:4:18 @ {\cf2 They see him and despise him, but the Lorde wil laugh them to scorne,}

geneva@Tob:4:19 @ {\cf2 So that they shall fall hereafter without honour, and shall haue a shame among the dead for euermore: for without any voice shal he burst them and cast them downe, & shake them from the fundations, so that they shalbe vtterly wasted, and they shalbe in sorow, and their memoriall shall perish.}

geneva@Tob:4:20 @ {\cf2 So they being afraide, shall remember their sinnes, and their owne wickednes shall come before them to conuince them.}

geneva@Tob:5:1 @ {\cf2 Then shall the righteous stande in great boldenesse before the face of such as haue tormented him, and taken away his labours.}

geneva@Tob:5:2 @ {\cf2 When they see him, they shall be vexed with horrible feare, and shall be amased for his wonderfull deliuerance,}

geneva@Tob:5:3 @ {\cf2 And shal change their minds, & sigh for griefe of minde, & say within theselues, This is he whom we sometime had in derision & in a parable of reproch.}

geneva@Tob:5:4 @ {\cf2 Wee fooles thought his life madnesse, and his ende without honour.}

geneva@Tob:5:5 @ {\cf2 Howe is hee counted among the children of God, and his portion is among the Saintes!}

geneva@Tob:5:6 @ {\cf2 Therefore wee haue erred from the way of trueth, and the light of righteousnes hath not shined vnto vs, & the sunne of vnderstading rose not vpo vs.}

geneva@Tob:5:7 @ {\cf2 Wee haue wearied our selues in the way of wickednesse and destruction, and wee haue gone through dangerous wayes: but we haue not knowen the way of the Lord.}

geneva@Tob:5:8 @ {\cf2 What hath pride profited vs? or what profite hath the pompe of riches brought vs?}

geneva@Tob:5:9 @ {\cf2 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a poste that passeth bye}

geneva@Tob:5:10 @ {\cf2 As a ship that passeth ouer the waues of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither ye path of it in the floods:}

geneva@Tob:5:11 @ {\cf2 Or as a birde that flieth thorow in the ayre, and no man can see any token of her passage, but onely heare the noise of her wings beating the light winde, parting the aire through the vehemencie of her going, and fleeth on shaking her wings, whereas afterward no token of her way can be found:}

geneva@Tob:5:12 @ {\cf2 Or as when an arrow is shot at a marke, it parteth the aire, which immediately cometh together againe, so that a man canot know where it went thorow.}

geneva@Tob:5:13 @ {\cf2 Euen so we, assoone us we were borne, we began to drawe to our ende, & haue shewed no token of vertue, but are cosumed in our owne wickednes.}

geneva@Tob:5:14 @ {\cf2 For the hope of the vngodly is like the dust that is blowen away with the winde, & like a thinne fome that is scattered abroad with ye storme, & as the smoke, which is dispersed with the winde, and as the remembrance of him passeth, that tarieth but for a day.}

geneva@Tob:5:15 @ {\cf2 But the righteous shall liue for euer: their rewarde also is with the Lord, and the most High hath care of them.}

geneva@Tob:5:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore shall they receiue a glorious kingdome, and a beautifull crowne of the Lordes hande: for with his right hande shall hee couer them, and with his arme shall he defende them.}

geneva@Tob:5:17 @ {\cf2 He shal take his ielousie for armour, and shall arme the creatures to be reuenged of the enemies.}

geneva@Tob:5:18 @ {\cf2 He shall put on righteousnes for a brestplate, and take true iudgement in steade of an helmet.}

geneva@Tob:5:19 @ {\cf2 He wil take holines for an inuincible shielde.}

geneva@Tob:5:20 @ {\cf2 He will sharpen his fierce wrath for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against ye vnwise.}

geneva@Tob:5:21 @ {\cf2 Then shal the thunder boltes go streight out of the lightnings, and shall flee to the marke}

geneva@Tob:5:22 @ {\cf2 (5:21) As out of the bent bowe of the cloudes, and out of his anger that throweth stones, shall thicke haile be cast, and the water of the sea shalbe wroth against them, and the floods shall mightily ouerflowe.}

geneva@Tob:5:23 @ {\cf2 (5:22) And a mightie winde shall stande vp against them, & like a storme shall scatter them abroad. Thus iniquitie shal bring all the earth to a wildernes, and wickednes shal ouerthrow ye thrones of the mighty.}

geneva@Tob:6:1 @ {\cf2 Heare therefore, O ye Kings, and vnderstande: learne, ye that be iudges of the endes of ye earth.}

geneva@Tob:6:2 @ {\cf2 Giue eare, ye that rule the multitudes and glorie in the multitude of people.}

geneva@Tob:6:3 @ {\cf2 For the rule is giuen you of the Lorde, and power by the most High, which wil try your works, and search out your imaginations.}

geneva@Tob:6:4 @ {\cf2 Because that ye being officers of his kingdome haue not iudged aright, nor kept the Lawe, nor walked after the will of God,}

geneva@Tob:6:5 @ {\cf2 Horribly & suddenly wil he appeare vnto you: for an hard iudgement shall they haue that beare rule.}

geneva@Tob:6:6 @ {\cf2 For he that is most low is worthy mercie, but the mightie shalbe mightily tormented.}

geneva@Tob:6:7 @ {\cf2 For he that is Lord ouer all, wil spare no person, neither shall he feare any greatnes: for he hath made the small and great, and careth for all alike,}

geneva@Tob:6:8 @ {\cf2 But for the mightie abideth the sorer triall.}

geneva@Tob:6:9 @ {\cf2 Vnto you therefore, O tyrants, doe I speake, that ye may learne wisdome, and not goe amisse.}

geneva@Tob:6:10 @ {\cf2 For they that keepe holines holily, shalbe holy, and they that are learned there, shall find a defence.}

geneva@Tob:6:11 @ {\cf2 Wherefore set your delite vpon my wordes and desire them, and ye shalbe instructed.}

geneva@Tob:6:12 @ {\cf2 Wisedome shineth and neuer fadeth away, and is easily seene of them that loue her, and found of such as seeke her,}

geneva@Tob:6:13 @ {\cf2 She preuenteth them that desire her, that she may first shewe her selfe vnto them.}

geneva@Tob:6:14 @ {\cf2 Who so awaketh vnto her betimes, shal haue no great trauaile: for hee shall finde her sitting at his doores.}

geneva@Tob:6:15 @ {\cf2 To thinke vpo her then is perfect vnderstading: and who so watcheth for her, shalbe soone wtout care.}

geneva@Tob:6:16 @ {\cf2 For she goeth about, seeking such as are meete for her, and sheweth herselfe cheerefully vnto them in the wayes, and meeteth them in euery thought.}

geneva@Tob:6:17 @ {\cf2 For the most true desire of discipline is her beginning: and the care of discipline is loue:}

geneva@Tob:6:18 @ {\cf2 And loue is the keeping of her lawes: and the keeping of ye lawes is the assurance of immortalitie:}

geneva@Tob:6:19 @ {\cf2 And immortalitie maketh vs nere vnto God.}

geneva@Tob:6:20 @ {\cf2 Therefore the desire of wisedome leadeth to the kingdome.}

geneva@Tob:6:21 @ {\cf2 If your delite be then in thrones, and scepters, O Kings of the people, honour wisdome, that ye may reigne for euer.}

geneva@Tob:6:22 @ {\cf2 Nowe I will tell you what wisedome is, and whence it commeth, and will not hide the mysteries from you, but wil seeke her out from the beginning of her natiuitie, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not keepe backe the trueth.}

geneva@Tob:6:23 @ {\cf2 Neither wil I haue to do with consuming enuie: for such a man shal not be partaker of wisdome.}

geneva@Tob:6:24 @ {\cf2 But the multitude of the wise is the preseruation of the world, and a wise King is the stay of the people.}

geneva@Tob:6:25 @ {\cf2 Be therefore instructed by my wordes, and ye shall haue profite.}

geneva@Tob:7:1 @ {\cf2 I my selfe am also mortall & a man like all other, and am come of him that was first made of the earth.}

geneva@Tob:7:2 @ {\cf2 And in my mothers wombe was I fashioned to be flesh in tenne moneths: I was brought together into blood of the seed of man, and by the pleasure that commeth with sleepe.}

geneva@Tob:7:3 @ {\cf2 And when I was borne, I receiued the common ayre, and fell vpon the earth, which is of like nature, crying & weeping at the first as all other do.}

geneva@Tob:7:4 @ {\cf2 I was nourished in swadling cloths, and with cares.}

geneva@Tob:7:5 @ {\cf2 For there is no King that had any other beginning of birth.}

geneva@Tob:7:6 @ {\cf2 All men then haue one entrance vnto life, and a like going out.}

geneva@Tob:7:7 @ {\cf2 Wherefore I prayed, and vnderstanding was giuen mee: I called, and the spirit of wisdome came vnto me.}

geneva@Tob:7:8 @ {\cf2 I preferred her to scepters and thrones, and counted riches nothing in comparison of her.}

geneva@Tob:7:9 @ {\cf2 Neither did I compare precious stones vnto her: for all gold is but a litle grauel in respect of her, and siluer shalbe counted but clay before her.}

geneva@Tob:7:10 @ {\cf2 I loued her aboue health and beautie, and purposed to take her for my light: for her light cannot be quenched.}

geneva@Tob:7:11 @ {\cf2 All good things therefore came to me together with her, & innumerable riches thorow her hands.}

geneva@Tob:7:12 @ {\cf2 So I was glad in all: for wisdome was the author thereof, and I knewe not that she was the mother of these things.}

geneva@Tob:7:13 @ {\cf2 And I learned vnfainedly, and communicated without enuie, and I do not hide her riches.}

geneva@Tob:7:14 @ {\cf2 For she is an infinite treasure vnto men, which who so vse, become partakers of the loue of God, and are accepted for the giftes of knowledge.}

geneva@Tob:7:15 @ {\cf2 God hath graunted me to speake according to my minde, and to iudge worthily of the thinges, that are giuen me: for he is the leader vnto wisdome, and the directer of the wise.}

geneva@Tob:7:16 @ {\cf2 For in his hand are both we and our wordes, and all wisdome, and the knowledge of the workes.}

geneva@Tob:7:17 @ {\cf2 For he hath giuen me the true knowledge of the things that are, so that I knowe how the worlde was made, and the powers of the elements,}

geneva@Tob:7:18 @ {\cf2 The beginning & the end, and the mids of the times: how the times alter, & the change of ye seasons,}

geneva@Tob:7:19 @ {\cf2 The course of ye yere, the situatio of the starres,}

geneva@Tob:7:20 @ {\cf2 The nature of liuing things, and the furiousnes of beastes, the power of the windes, and the imaginations of men, the diuersities of plantes, and the vertues of rootes.}

geneva@Tob:7:21 @ {\cf2 And all things both secret and knowen doe I knowe: for wisdome the worker of all things, hath taught me it.}

geneva@Tob:7:22 @ {\cf2 For in her is the Spirit of vnderstading, which is holy, ye only begotten, manifold, subtil, moueable, cleare, vndefiled, euident, not hurtfull, louing the good, sharpe, which cannot be letted, doing good,}

geneva@Tob:7:23 @ {\cf2 Courteous, stable, sure, without care, hauing all power, circumspect in all thinges, and passing through all, intellectuall, pure and subtil spirites.}

geneva@Tob:7:24 @ {\cf2 For wisdom is nimbler then all nimble things: she goeth thorowe and atteineth to all thinges, because of her purenesse.}

geneva@Tob:7:25 @ {\cf2 For she is the breth of the power of God, & a pure influence that floweth fro the glory of the Almighty: therfore can no defiled thing come vnto her.}

geneva@Tob:7:26 @ {\cf2 For she is the brightnesse of the euerlasting light, the vndefiled mirrour of the maiestie of God, and the image of his goodnesse.}

geneva@Tob:7:27 @ {\cf2 And being one, she can do all things, and remayning in her selfe, renueth all, and according to the ages shee entreth into the holy soules, and maketh them the friendes of God and Prophets.}

geneva@Tob:7:28 @ {\cf2 For God loueth none, if he dwel not with wisdom.}

geneva@Tob:7:29 @ {\cf2 For she is more beautifull then the sunne, and is aboue all the order of the starres, and the light is not to be compared vnto her.}

geneva@Tob:7:30 @ {\cf2 For night commeth vpon it, but wickednesse cannot ouercome wisdome.}

geneva@Tob:8:1 @ {\cf2 She also reacheth from one end to another mightily, and comely doeth she order all things.}

geneva@Tob:8:2 @ {\cf2 I haue loued her, & sought her fro my youth: I desired to marry her, such loue had I vnto her beauty.}

geneva@Tob:8:3 @ {\cf2 In that she is conuersant with God, it comendeth her nobilitie: yea, the Lord of all things loueth her.}

geneva@Tob:8:4 @ {\cf2 For she is the scholemystres of the knowledge of God, and the choser out of his workes.}

geneva@Tob:8:5 @ {\cf2 If riches be a possessio to be desired in this life, what is richer then wisdom, that worketh all things?}

geneva@Tob:8:6 @ {\cf2 For if prudencie worketh, what is it among all things, that worketh better then she?}

geneva@Tob:8:7 @ {\cf2 If a man loue righteousnes, her labours are vertuous: for she teacheth sobernes and prudencie, righteousnes and strength, which are the most profitable things that men can haue in this life.}

geneva@Tob:8:8 @ {\cf2 If a man desire great experience, she can tell the things that are past, & discerne things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of wordes, and the solution of darke sentences: she foreseeth the signes and wonders, or euer they come to passe, and the successe of seasons and times.}

geneva@Tob:8:9 @ {\cf2 Therefore I purposed to take her vnto my companie, knowing that shee would counsell mee good things, and comfort me in cares and griefes.}

geneva@Tob:8:10 @ {\cf2 For her sake shall I haue glorie among the multitude, and honour among the Elders though I be yong.}

geneva@Tob:8:11 @ {\cf2 I shalbe founde of sharpe iudgement, so that I shalbe marueilous in the sight of great men.}

geneva@Tob:8:12 @ {\cf2 When I hold my tongue, they shall abide my leysure: when I speake, they shall heare diligently,and if I talke much, they shall lay their hands vpon their mouth.}

geneva@Tob:8:13 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, by her I shall obtaine immortalitie, & leaue an euerlasting memoriall among them that come after me.}

geneva@Tob:8:14 @ {\cf2 I shall gouerne the people, and the nations shalbe subdued vnto me.}

geneva@Tob:8:15 @ {\cf2 Horrible tyrants shalbe afraide when they heare me: among the multitude I shalbe counted good, and mightie in battell.}

geneva@Tob:8:16 @ {\cf2 When I come home, I shall rest with her: for her company hath no bitternes, and her felowship hath no tediousnes, but mirth and ioy.}

geneva@Tob:8:17 @ {\cf2 Now when I considered these things by my selfe, and pondred them in mine heart, how that to be ioyned vnto wisdome is immortalitie,}

geneva@Tob:8:18 @ {\cf2 And great pleasure is in her friendship, and that in the workes of her hands are infinite riches, and that in the exercise of talking with her is prudencie, and glory by communing with her, I went about, seeking how I might take her vnto me.}

geneva@Tob:8:19 @ {\cf2 For I was a wittie childe, and was of a good spirite.}

geneva@Tob:8:20 @ {\cf2 Yea, rather being good, I came to an vndefiled body.}

geneva@Tob:8:21 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles, when I perceiued that I could not enioy her, except God gaue her (and that was a point of wisdome also, to know whose gift it was) I went vnto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I sayd,}

geneva@Tob:9:1 @ {\cf2 O God of Fathers, and Lorde of mercy, which hast made all things with thy worde,}

geneva@Tob:9:2 @ {\cf2 And ordeined man through thy wisdome, that he should haue dominion ouer the creatures which thou hast made,}

geneva@Tob:9:3 @ {\cf2 And gouerne the world according to equitie and righteousnes, and execute iudgement with an vpright heart.}

geneva@Tob:9:4 @ {\cf2 Giue me that wisdome, which sitteth by thy throne, & put me not out from among thy childre.}

geneva@Tob:9:5 @ {\cf2 For I thy seruant, & sonne of thine handmayd, am a feeble person, & of a short time, and yet lesse in ye vnderstanding of iudgement & the lawes.}

geneva@Tob:9:6 @ {\cf2 And though a man be neuer so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdome be not with him, he shalbe nothing regarded.}

geneva@Tob:9:7 @ {\cf2 Thou hast chosen me to be a King of thy people, and the iudge of thy sonnes and daughters.}

geneva@Tob:9:8 @ {\cf2 Thou hast commanded me to build a temple vpon thine holy Mount, & an altar in ye citie wherein thou dwellest, a likenes of thine holy Tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning,}

geneva@Tob:9:9 @ {\cf2 And thy wisdome with thee, which knoweth thy workes, which also was when thou madest the world, and which knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandements.}

geneva@Tob:9:10 @ {\cf2 Send her out of thine holy heauens, & send her from the throne of thy maiestie, that she may be with me, and labour, that I may knowe what is acceptable in thy sight.}

geneva@Tob:9:11 @ {\cf2 For she knoweth & vnderstandeth al things, and she shall leade me soberly in my workes and preserue me by her glory.}

geneva@Tob:9:12 @ {\cf2 So shall my workes be acceptable, and then shall I gouerne thy people righteously, & be meete for my fathers throne.}

geneva@Tob:9:13 @ {\cf2 For what man is he that can know ye counsel of God? or who can thinke what the wil of God is?}

geneva@Tob:9:14 @ {\cf2 For the thoughtes of mortall men are fearefull, and our forecastes are vncertaine,}

geneva@Tob:9:15 @ {\cf2 Because a corruptible body is heauy vnto the soule, and the earthly mansion keepeth downe the minde that is full of cares.}

geneva@Tob:9:16 @ {\cf2 And hardly can we discerne the things that are vpon earth, and with great labour finde we out the things which are before vs: who can then seeke out the things that are in heauen?}

geneva@Tob:9:17 @ {\cf2 Who can knowe thy counsell, except thou giue him wisdome, and send thine holy Spirit from aboue?}

geneva@Tob:9:18 @ {\cf2 For so the wayes of them which are vpon earth, are reformed, and men are taught the things that are pleasant vnto thee, and are preserued through wisdome.}

geneva@Tob:10:1 @ {\cf2 She preserued the first father of the world, that was formed, and kept him when he was created alone, and brought him out of his offence,}

geneva@Tob:10:2 @ {\cf2 And gaue him power to rule all things,}

geneva@Tob:10:3 @ {\cf2 But the vnrighteous in his wrath departed from her, and perished by killing his brother in his furie.}

geneva@Tob:10:4 @ {\cf2 For whose cause the earth was ouerflowen, but wisdome preserued it againe, gouerning the iust man by a litle wood.}

geneva@Tob:10:5 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, when the nations were ioyned in their malicious confederacies, she knew the righteous, & preserued him faultles vnto God, and kept him sure, because she loued him tenderly as a sonne.}

geneva@Tob:10:6 @ {\cf2 She preserued the righteous, when the vngodly perished, when he fled from the fire that fell downe vpon the fiue cities.}

geneva@Tob:10:7 @ {\cf2 Of whose wickednes the waste land that smoketh, yet giueth testimonie, and the trees that beare fruite that neuer commeth to ripenes: and for a remembrance of the vnfaithfull soule, there standeth a pillar of salte.}

geneva@Tob:10:8 @ {\cf2 For al such as regarded not wisdome, had not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good, but also left behinde them vnto men a memoriall of their foolishnes, so that in the things wherein they sinned, they can not lie hid.}

geneva@Tob:10:9 @ {\cf2 But wisdome deliuered them that serued her.}

geneva@Tob:10:10 @ {\cf2 When the righteous fled because of his brothers wrath, she led him the right way, shewed him the kingdome of God, gaue him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his labours, and made his paines profitable.}

geneva@Tob:10:11 @ {\cf2 Against the couetousnes of such as defrauded him, she stood by him and made him rich.}

geneva@Tob:10:12 @ {\cf2 She saued him from the enemies, & defended him from them, that lay in waite, & she gaue him the price in a mightie battell, that he might know that the feare of God is stronger then all things.}

geneva@Tob:10:13 @ {\cf2 When the righteous was solde, she forsooke him not, but deliuered him from sinne: she went downe with him into the dungeon,}

geneva@Tob:10:14 @ {\cf2 And failed him not in the bands, till she had brought him the scepter of the realme, and power against those that oppressed him, and them that had accused him, she declared to be liars, and gaue him perpetuall glory.}

geneva@Tob:10:15 @ {\cf2 She deliuered the righteous people & faultles seede from the nations that oppressed them.}

geneva@Tob:10:16 @ {\cf2 She entred into the soule of the seruant of the Lord, and stood by him in wonders & signes against the terrible Kings.}

geneva@Tob:10:17 @ {\cf2 She gaue the Saints the rewarde of their labours, and led them foorth a marueilous way: on the day time she was a shadowe vnto them, and a light of starres in the night.}

geneva@Tob:10:18 @ {\cf2 She brought them thorow the red sea, and caried them through the great water:}

geneva@Tob:10:19 @ {\cf2 But she drowned their enemies, & brought them out of the bottome of the deepe.}

geneva@Tob:10:20 @ {\cf2 So the righteous tooke the spoyles of the vngodly, and praysed thine holy Name, O Lord, and magnified thy victorious hand with one accord.}

geneva@Tob:10:21 @ {\cf2 For wisdome openeth the mouth of the dombe, and maketh the tongues of babes eloquent.}

geneva@Tob:11:1 @ {\cf2 She prospered their workes in the hands of thine holy Prophet.}

geneva@Tob:11:2 @ {\cf2 They went through the wildernes that was not inhabited, and pitched their tentes in places where there lay no way.}

geneva@Tob:11:3 @ {\cf2 They stoode against their enemies, and were auenged of their aduersaries.}

geneva@Tob:11:4 @ {\cf2 When they were thirstie, they called vpon thee, & water was giuen them out of the hie rocke, and their thirst was quenched out of ye hard stone.}

geneva@Tob:11:5 @ {\cf2 For by the thinges whereby their enemies were punished, by the same were the Israelites helped in their neede.}

geneva@Tob:11:6 @ {\cf2 For in steade of a fountaine of running water, the enemies were troubled at the corrupt blood, which was to rebuke the commandement of the killing of the children, but thou gauest vnto thine owne abundance of water vnlooked for,}

geneva@Tob:11:7 @ {\cf2 Declaring by the thirst that was at that time how thou haddest punished thine aduersaries.}

geneva@Tob:11:8 @ {\cf2 For when they were tried and chastised with mercy, they knewe howe the vngodly were iudged and punished in wrath.}

geneva@Tob:11:9 @ {\cf2 For these hast thou exhorted as a father, and proued them: but thou hast condemned ye other as a righteous King, when thou didst examine them.}

geneva@Tob:11:10 @ {\cf2 Whether they were absent or present, their punishment was alike: for their griefe was double with mourning, & the remembrance of things past.}

geneva@Tob:11:11 @ {\cf2 For when they perceiued that through their torments good came vnto them, they felt the Lord.}

geneva@Tob:11:12 @ {\cf2 And seeing the things that came to passe, at the last they wondered at him, whom afore they had cast out, denyed and derided: for they had an other thirst then the iust.}

geneva@Tob:11:13 @ {\cf2 Because of the foolish deuices of their wickednes wherewith they were deceiued, & worshipped serpents, that had not the vse of reason, and vile beasts, thou sendedst a multitude of vnreasonable beasts vpon them for a vengeance, that they might know, that wherewith a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.}

geneva@Tob:11:14 @ {\cf2 For vnto thine almightie hande, that made the world of naught, it was not vnpossible to send among them a multitude of beares, or fierce lyons,}

geneva@Tob:11:15 @ {\cf2 Or furious beasts newly created, & vnknowen which should breathe out blastes of fire, & cast out smoke as a tempest, or shoote horrible sparkes like lightnings out of their eyes.}

geneva@Tob:11:16 @ {\cf2 Which might not onely destroy them with hurting, but also kill them with their horrible sight.}

geneva@Tob:11:17 @ {\cf2 Yea, without these might they haue bene cast downe with one winde, being persecuted by thy vengeance, and scattered abroad through the power of thy Spirite: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, number and weight.}

geneva@Tob:11:18 @ {\cf2 For thou hast euer had great strength and might, and who can withstande the power of thine arme!}

geneva@Tob:11:19 @ {\cf2 For as the small thing that ye balances weigheth, so is the world before thee, and as a drop of the morning dewe, that falleth downe vpon the earth.}

geneva@Tob:11:20 @ {\cf2 But thou hast mercie vpon all for thou hast power of al things, & makest as though thou sawest not the sinnes of men, because they should amend.}

geneva@Tob:11:21 @ {\cf2 For thou louest all things that are, & hatest none of them whome thou hast made: for thou wouldest haue created nothing that thou hadst hated.}

geneva@Tob:11:22 @ {\cf2 And how might any thing endure, if it were not thy will? or how could any thing be preserued, except it were called of thee?}

geneva@Tob:11:23 @ {\cf2 But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, which art the louer of soules.}

geneva@Tob:12:1 @ {\cf2 For thine incorruptible spirit is in all things.}

geneva@Tob:12:2 @ {\cf2 Therfore thou chastenest them measurably that go wrong, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance of the things wherein they haue offended, that leauing wickednes, they may beleeue in thee, O Lord.}

geneva@Tob:12:3 @ {\cf2 As for those olde inhabitants of the holy land, thou diddest hate them.}

geneva@Tob:12:4 @ {\cf2 For they committed abominable workes, as sorceries and wicked sacrifices,}

geneva@Tob:12:5 @ {\cf2 And slaying of their owne children without mercy, & eating of ye bowels of mans flesh in banketing, where ye raging Priests shed abominable blood.}

geneva@Tob:12:6 @ {\cf2 And the fathers were the chiefe murtherers of the soules, destitute of all helpe, whome thou wouldest destroy by the hands of our fathers,}

geneva@Tob:12:7 @ {\cf2 That the land which thou louest aboue all other, might be a meete dwelling for the children of God.}

geneva@Tob:12:8 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles, thou sparedst them also as men, and sendedst the forerunners of thine hoste, euen hornets to destroy them by litle and litle,}

geneva@Tob:12:9 @ {\cf2 Not that thou wast vnable to subdue the vngodly vnto ye righteous in battel, or with cruell beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them together.}

geneva@Tob:12:10 @ {\cf2 But in punishing them by litle and litle, thou gauest them space to repent, knowing well, that it was an vnrighteous nation & wicked of nature, and that their thought could neuer be altered.}

geneva@Tob:12:11 @ {\cf2 For it was a cursed seede from the beginning: yet hast thou not spared them when they sinned, because thou fearedst any man.}

geneva@Tob:12:12 @ {\cf2 For who dare say, What hast thou done? Or who dare stand against thy iudgement? Or who dare accuse thee for the nations that perish, whome thou hast made? Or who dare stand against thee to reuenge the wicked men?}

geneva@Tob:12:13 @ {\cf2 For there is none other God but thou, that carest for all things, that thou mayest declare how that thy iudgement is not vnright.}

geneva@Tob:12:14 @ {\cf2 There dare neither King nor tyrant in thy sight require accounts of them whome thou hast punished.}

geneva@Tob:12:15 @ {\cf2 For so much then as thou are righteous thy selfe, thou orderest all things righteously, thinking it not agreeable to thy power to condemne him, that hath not deserued to be punished.}

geneva@Tob:12:16 @ {\cf2 For thy power is the beginning of righteousnesse, and because thou art Lorde of all things, it causeth thee to spare all things.}

geneva@Tob:12:17 @ {\cf2 When men thinke thee not to be of a perfit power, thou declarest thy power, and reprouest the boldnesse of the wise.}

geneva@Tob:12:18 @ {\cf2 But thou ruling the power, iudgest with equitie, and gouernest vs with great fauour: for thou maist shewe thy power when thou wilt.}

geneva@Tob:12:19 @ {\cf2 By such workes nowe hast thou taught thy people, that a man should be iust and louing, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: for thou giuest repentance to sinners.}

geneva@Tob:12:20 @ {\cf2 For if thou hast punished the enemies of thy children that had deserued death with so great consideration, & requesting vnto them, giuing them time & place that they might change fro their wickednesse,}

geneva@Tob:12:21 @ {\cf2 With howe great circumspection wilt thou punish thine owne childre, vnto whose fathers thou hast sworne and made couenants of good promises?}

geneva@Tob:12:22 @ {\cf2 So when thou doest chasten vs, thou punishest our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that when we iudge, we shoulde diligently consider thy goodnesse, and when we are iudged, we shoulde hope for mercie.}

geneva@Tob:12:23 @ {\cf2 Wherfore thou hast tormented ye wicked that haue liued a dissolute life by their own imaginatios.}

geneva@Tob:12:24 @ {\cf2 For they went astray very farre in the wayes of errour, and esteemed the beastes, which their enemies despised, for gods, being abused after the maner of children, that haue none vnderstanding.}

geneva@Tob:12:25 @ {\cf2 Therefore hast thou sent this punishment that they should be in derisio as childre without reason.}

geneva@Tob:12:26 @ {\cf2 But they that will not be reformed by those scornefull rebukes, shall feele the worthie punishment of God.}

geneva@Tob:12:27 @ {\cf2 For in those things when they suffered, they disdained, but in these whom they counted godly, when they sawe themselues punished by them, they all acknowledged the true God whom afore they had denied to knowe: therefore came extreme damnation vpon them.}

geneva@Tob:13:1 @ {\cf2 Svrely all men are vaine by nature, and are ignorant of God, and could not knowe him that is, by the good things that are seene, neither consider by the workes, the worke master.}

geneva@Tob:13:2 @ {\cf2 But they thought the fire, or the winde or the swift aire, or the course of the starres, or the raging water, or the lightes of heauen to be gouernours of the world, and gods.}

geneva@Tob:13:3 @ {\cf2 Though they had such pleasure in their beautie that they thought them gods, yet shoulde they haue knowen, howe much more excellent he is that made them: for the first authour of beautie hath created these things.}

geneva@Tob:13:4 @ {\cf2 Or if they marueiled at the power, and operation of the, yet should they haue perceiued thereby, howe much he that made these things, is mightier.}

geneva@Tob:13:5 @ {\cf2 For by the greatnesse of their beautie, and of the creatures, the Creator being compared with them, may be considered.}

geneva@Tob:13:6 @ {\cf2 But yet ye blame is lesse in these, that seeke God and would finde him, & yet peraduenture doe erre.}

geneva@Tob:13:7 @ {\cf2 For they goe about by his workes to seeke him, and are perswaded by the sight, because the things are beautifull that are seene.}

geneva@Tob:13:8 @ {\cf2 Howbeit they are not to be excused.}

geneva@Tob:13:9 @ {\cf2 For if they can know so much, that they can discerne the worlde, why doe they not rather finde out the Lord thereof?}

geneva@Tob:13:10 @ {\cf2 But miserable are they, and among the dead is their hope, that call them gods, which are the workes of mens hands, golde, and siluer, & the thing that is inuented by arte, & the similitude of beastes, or any vaine stone that hath bene made by the hand of antiquitie.}

geneva@Tob:13:11 @ {\cf2 Or as when a carpenter cutteth downe a tree meete for the worke, and pareth off all ye barke thereof cunningly, & by arte maketh a vessell profitable for the vse of life.}

geneva@Tob:13:12 @ {\cf2 And the things that are cut off from his worke, he bestoweth to dresse his meate to fill himselfe,}

geneva@Tob:13:13 @ {\cf2 And that which is left of these things, which is profitable for nothing (for it is a crooked piece of wood and full of knobbes) he carueth it diligently at his leasure, and according as he is expert in cunning, he giueth it a proportion, and facioneth it after the similitude of a man,}

geneva@Tob:13:14 @ {\cf2 Or maketh it like some vile beast, and straketh it ouer with red, and painteth it, and couereth euery spotte that is in it.}

geneva@Tob:13:15 @ {\cf2 And when he hath made a conuenient tabernacle for it, he setteth it in a wall, and maketh it fast with yron,}

geneva@Tob:13:16 @ {\cf2 Prouiding so for it, least it fall: for he knoweth that it cannot helpe it selfe, because it is an image, which hath neede of helpe.}

geneva@Tob:13:17 @ {\cf2 Then he prayeth for his goodes, and for his mariage & for children: he is not ashamed to speake vnto it, that hath no life.}

geneva@Tob:13:18 @ {\cf2 He calleth on him that is weake for health: he prayeth vnto him that is dead for life: he requireth him of helpe that hath no experience at all.}

geneva@Tob:13:19 @ {\cf2 And for his iourney, him that is not able to goe, and for gaine, and worke, and successe of his affaires he requireth furtherance of him, that hath no maner of power.}

geneva@Tob:14:1 @ {\cf2 Againe, another man purposing to saile, and intending to passe thorowe the raging waues, calleth vpon a stocke more rotten then the shippe that carieth him.}

geneva@Tob:14:2 @ {\cf2 For as for it, couetousnesse of money hath found it out, & the craftesman made it by cunning.}

geneva@Tob:14:3 @ {\cf2 But thy prouidence, O Father, gouerneth it: for thou hast made a way, euen in the sea, and a sure path among the waues,}

geneva@Tob:14:4 @ {\cf2 Declaring thereby, that thou hast power to helpe in all things, yea, though a man went to the sea without meanes.}

geneva@Tob:14:5 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse thou wouldest not, that the workes of thy wisdome should be vaine, & therfore doe men comit their liues to a small piece of wood, & passe ouer the stormie sea in a ship, and are saued.}

geneva@Tob:14:6 @ {\cf2 For in the olde time also when the proude giants perished, the hope of the worlde went into a ship which was gouerned by thine hand, and so left seede of generation vnto the world.}

geneva@Tob:14:7 @ {\cf2 For blessed is the tree whereby righteousnes commeth.}

geneva@Tob:14:8 @ {\cf2 But that is cursed that is made with hands, both it, and he that made it: he because he made it, and it being a corruptible thing, because it was called God.}

geneva@Tob:14:9 @ {\cf2 For the vngodly, and his vngodlinesse are both like hated of God: so truly the worke and he that made it, shall be punished together.}

geneva@Tob:14:10 @ {\cf2 Therefore shall there be a visitation for the idoles of the nations: for of the creatures of God they are become abomination, and stumbling blockes vnto the soules of men, and a snare for the feete of the vnwise.}

geneva@Tob:14:11 @ {\cf2 For the inuenting of idoles was the beginning of whoredome, and the finding of them is the corruption of life.}

geneva@Tob:14:12 @ {\cf2 For they were not from the beginning, neither shall they continue for euer.}

geneva@Tob:14:13 @ {\cf2 The vaine glory of men brought them into ye world: therefore shall they come shortly to an end.}

geneva@Tob:14:14 @ {\cf2 When a father mourned grieuously for his sonne that was taken away suddenly, he made an image for him that was once dead, whom nowe he worshippeth as a god, and ordeined to his seruants ceremonies and sacrifices.}

geneva@Tob:14:15 @ {\cf2 Thus by proces of time this wicked custome preuailed, and was kept as a lawe, and idoles were worshipped by the commandement of tyrants.}

geneva@Tob:14:16 @ {\cf2 As for those that were so farre off that men might not worship them presently, they did counterfeit the visage that was farre off, and made a gorgeous image of a King, whom they would honour, that they might by all meanes flatter him that was absent, as though he had bene present.}

geneva@Tob:14:17 @ {\cf2 Againe the ambition of the craftesman thrust forward the ignorant to increase the superstition.}

geneva@Tob:14:18 @ {\cf2 For he peraduenture willing to please a noble man, laboured with all his cunning to make the image of the best fashion.}

geneva@Tob:14:19 @ {\cf2 And so thorowe ye beautie of the worke the multitude was allured, and so tooke him nowe for a God, which a litle afore was but honored as a man.}

geneva@Tob:14:20 @ {\cf2 And this was the deceiuing of mans life, when men, being in seruitude, through calamitie and tyrannie ascribed vnto stones and stockes the name, which ought not to be communicate vnto any.}

geneva@Tob:14:21 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, this was not ynough for the that they erred in the knowledge of God: but where as they liued in great warres of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.}

geneva@Tob:14:22 @ {\cf2 For either they slewe their owne children in sacrifice, or vsed secret ceremonies, or raging dissolutenes by strange rites,}

geneva@Tob:14:23 @ {\cf2 And so kept neither life nor mariage cleane: but either one slewe another by treason, or els vexed him by adulterie.}

geneva@Tob:14:24 @ {\cf2 So were all mixt together, blood and slaughter, theft and deceit, corruption, vnfaithfulnesse, tumultes, periurie,}

geneva@Tob:14:25 @ {\cf2 Disquieting of good men, vnthankfulnesse, defiling of soules, changing of birth, disorder in mariage, adulterie and vncleannesse.}

geneva@Tob:14:26 @ {\cf2 For the worshipping of idoles that ought not to be named, is the beginning and the cause and the ende of all euill.}

geneva@Tob:14:27 @ {\cf2 For either they be mad when they be merie, or prophesie lyes, or liue vngodly, or els lightly forsweare themselues.}

geneva@Tob:14:28 @ {\cf2 For in so much as their trust is in the idoles, which haue no life, though they sweare falsely, yet they thinke to haue no hurt.}

geneva@Tob:14:29 @ {\cf2 Therefore for two causes shall they iustly be punished, because they haue an euill opinion of God, addicting them selues vnto idols, and because they sweare vniustly to deceiue, and despise holines.}

geneva@Tob:14:30 @ {\cf2 For it is not ye power of them by whom they sweare, but ye vengeance of them that sinne, which punisheth alwayes the offence of the vngodly.}

geneva@Tob:15:1 @ {\cf2 Bvt thou, O our God, art gracious and true, long suffering, and gouernest all things by mercie.}

geneva@Tob:15:2 @ {\cf2 Though we sinne, yet are we thine: for we knowe thy power: but we sinne not, knowing that we are counted thine.}

geneva@Tob:15:3 @ {\cf2 For to know thee, is perfite righteousnes, and to know thy power is the roote of immortalitie.}

geneva@Tob:15:4 @ {\cf2 For neither hath the wicked inuention of men deceiued vs, nor the vnprofitable labour of the painters, nor an image spotted with diuers colours.}

geneva@Tob:15:5 @ {\cf2 Whose fight stirreth vp the desire of the ignorant: so that he coueteth the forme that hath no life, of a dead image.}

geneva@Tob:15:6 @ {\cf2 They that loue such wicked things are worthie to haue such things to trust to, and they that make them, and they that desire them, and they that worship them.}

geneva@Tob:15:7 @ {\cf2 The potter also tempereth soft earth, and facioneth euery vessell with labour to our vse: but of the same clay he maketh both the vessels, that serue to cleane vses, and the contrary likewise: but whereto euery vessell serueth, the potter is ye iudge.}

geneva@Tob:15:8 @ {\cf2 So by his wicked labour he maketh a vaine God of the same clay: euen he, which a litle afore was made of earth himselfe, and within a litle while after goeth thither againe whence he was taken, when he shall make account for ye lone of his life.}

geneva@Tob:15:9 @ {\cf2 Notwithstanding he careth not for the labour he taketh, nor that his life is short, but he striueth with the goldsmithes, and siluersmithes, and counterfeiteth, the coppersmithes, and taketh it for an honour to make deceiueable things.}

geneva@Tob:15:10 @ {\cf2 His heart is ashes, & his hope is more vile then earth, & his life is lesse worthy of honour then clay.}

geneva@Tob:15:11 @ {\cf2 For he knoweth not his owne maker, that gaue him his soule, that had power and breathed in him the breath of life.}

geneva@Tob:15:12 @ {\cf2 But they count our life to be but a pastime, and our conuersation as a market, where there is gaine: for they say we ought to be getting on euery side, though it be by euill meanes.}

geneva@Tob:15:13 @ {\cf2 Nowe he that of earth maketh fraile vessels and images, knoweth himselfe to offend aboue all other.}

geneva@Tob:15:14 @ {\cf2 All the enemies of thy people, that hold them in subiection, are most vnwise, and more miserable then the very fooles.}

geneva@Tob:15:15 @ {\cf2 For they iudge all the idoles of the nations to be gods, which neither haue eye sight to see, nor noses to smell, nor eares to heare, nor fingers of handes to grope, and their feete are slowe to goe.}

geneva@Tob:15:16 @ {\cf2 For man made them, and he that hath but a borowed spirite, facioned them: but no man can make a God like vnto himselfe.}

geneva@Tob:15:17 @ {\cf2 For seeing he is but mortall himselfe, it is but mortall that he maketh with vnrighteous hands: he himselfe is better then they whom he worshippeth: for he liued, but they neuer liued.}

geneva@Tob:15:18 @ {\cf2 Yea, they worshipped beastes also, which are their most enemies, and which are the worst, if they be compared vnto others, because they haue none vnderstanding.}

geneva@Tob:15:19 @ {\cf2 Neither haue they any beautie to be desired in respect of other beastes: for they are destitute of Gods praise, and of his blessing.}

geneva@Tob:16:1 @ {\cf2 Therefore by such things they are worthily punished & tormented by ye multitude of beasts.}

geneva@Tob:16:2 @ {\cf2 In stead of the which punishment thou hast bene fauourable to thy people, and to satisfie their appetite, hast prepared a meat of a strange tast, euen quailes,}

geneva@Tob:16:3 @ {\cf2 To the intent that they that desired meat, by the things which were shewed & sent among them, might turne away their necessary desire, and that they, which had suffred penurie for a space, shoulde also feele a newe taste.}

geneva@Tob:16:4 @ {\cf2 For it was requisite, that they which vsed tyrannie, should fall into extreeme pouertie, and that to these onely it should be shewed, howe their enemies were tormented.}

geneva@Tob:16:5 @ {\cf2 For when the cruell fiercenes of the beasts came vpon them, & they were hurt with the stinges of cruell serpents,}

geneva@Tob:16:6 @ {\cf2 Thy wrath indured not perpetually, but they were troubled for a litle season, that they might bee reformed, hauing a signe of saluation, to remember the commandement of thy Lawe.}

geneva@Tob:16:7 @ {\cf2 For he that turned toward it, was not healed by the thing that he sawe, but by thee, O Sauiour of all.}

geneva@Tob:16:8 @ {\cf2 So in this thou shewedst our enemies, that it is thou, which deliuerest from all euill.}

geneva@Tob:16:9 @ {\cf2 For the biting of grashoppers and flies killed them, and there was no remedie found for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.}

geneva@Tob:16:10 @ {\cf2 But the teeth of the venemous dragos could not ouercome thy children: for thy mercy came to helpe them, and healed them.}

geneva@Tob:16:11 @ {\cf2 For they were pricked, because they should remember thy woordes, and were speedily healed, least they should fal into so deepe forgetfulnes, that they could not be called backe by thy benefite.}

geneva@Tob:16:12 @ {\cf2 For neither herbe nor plaster healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.}

geneva@Tob:16:13 @ {\cf2 For thou hast the power of life and death, and leadest downe vnto the gates of hell, & bringest vp againe.}

geneva@Tob:16:14 @ {\cf2 A man in deede by his wickednesse may slaie another: but when the spirite is gone foorth, it turneth not againe, neither can he cal againe the soule that is taken away.}

geneva@Tob:16:15 @ {\cf2 But it is not possible to escape thine hand.}

geneva@Tob:16:16 @ {\cf2 For the vngodly that woulde not knowe thee, were punished by the strength of thine arme, with strange raine and with haile, and were pursued with tempest, that they coulde not auoid, and were consumed with fire.}

geneva@Tob:16:17 @ {\cf2 For it was a wonderous thing that fire might doe more then water, which quencheth all things: but the world is the auenger of the righteous.}

geneva@Tob:16:18 @ {\cf2 For sometime was the fire so tame, that the beasts, which were sent against the vngodly, burnt not: and that, because they should see & know, that they were persecuted with the punishment of God.}

geneva@Tob:16:19 @ {\cf2 And sometime burnt the fire in the middes of the water aboue the power of fire, that it might destroy the generation of the vniust land.}

geneva@Tob:16:20 @ {\cf2 In the steade whereof thou hast fed thine owne people with Angels foode, and sent them bread readie from heauen without their labour, which had aboundance of al pleasures in it and was meete for all tastes.}

geneva@Tob:16:21 @ {\cf2 For thy sustenance declared thy sweetenesse vnto thy children, which serued to the appetite of him, that tooke it, and was meete to that that euery man would.}

geneva@Tob:16:22 @ {\cf2 Moreouer the snowe and yee abode the fire and melted not, that they might know, that the fire burning in the haile, and sparkeling in the raine, destroied the fruite of the enemies.}

geneva@Tob:16:23 @ {\cf2 Againe it forgate his owne strength, that the righteous might be nourished.}

geneva@Tob:16:24 @ {\cf2 For the creature that serueth thee which art the maker, is fierce in punishing the vnrighteous: but it is easie to doe good vnto such as put their trust in thee.}

geneva@Tob:16:25 @ {\cf2 Therefore was it changed at the same time vnto all facions to serue thy grace, which nourisheth all things, according to the desire of them that had neede thereof,}

geneva@Tob:16:26 @ {\cf2 That thy children whome thou louest, O Lorde, might knowe, that it is not the increase of fruites that feedeth men, but that it is thy woorde, which preserueth them that trust in thee.}

geneva@Tob:16:27 @ {\cf2 For that which coulde not be destroied with the fire, being onely warmed a little with the sunne beames, melted,}

geneva@Tob:16:28 @ {\cf2 That it might bee knowen that we ought to preuent the sunne rising to giue thanks vnto thee, and to salute thee before the day spring.}

geneva@Tob:16:29 @ {\cf2 For the hope of the vnthankfull shall melt as the winter yce, and flowe away as vnprofitable waters.}

geneva@Tob:17:1 @ {\cf2 For thy iudgements are great, and can not be expressed: therefore men doe erre, that will not be reformed.}

geneva@Tob:17:2 @ {\cf2 For when the vnrighteous thought to haue thine holy people in subiection, they were bounde with the bandes of darkenesse, and long night, and being shut vp vnder the roofe, did lie there to escape the euerlasting prouidence.}

geneva@Tob:17:3 @ {\cf2 And while they thought to bee hid in their darke sinnes, they were scattered abroade in the darke couering of forgetfulnesse, fearing horribly and troubled with visions.}

geneva@Tob:17:4 @ {\cf2 For the denne that hid them, kept them not from feare: but the soundes that were about them, troubled them, and terrible visions and sorowfull sightes did appeare.}

geneva@Tob:17:5 @ {\cf2 No power of the fire might giue light, neither might the cleare flames of the starres lighten the horrible night.}

geneva@Tob:17:6 @ {\cf2 For there appeared vnto them only a sudden fire, very dreadfull: so that being afraide of this vision, which they coulde not see, they thought the things, which they sawe, to be worse.}

geneva@Tob:17:7 @ {\cf2 And the illusions of the magical artes were brought downe, & it was a most shamefull reproch for the boasting of their knowledge.}

geneva@Tob:17:8 @ {\cf2 For they that promised to driue away feare and trouble from the sicke person, were sicke for feare, and worthy to be laughed at.}

geneva@Tob:17:9 @ {\cf2 And though no fearful thing did feare them, yet were they afraide at the beasts which passed by them, and at the hissing of the serpents: so that they died for feare, and sayd they saw not the aire, which by no meanes can be auoided.}

geneva@Tob:17:10 @ {\cf2 For it is a feareful thing, when malice is condemned by her owne testimonie: and a conscience that is touched, doeth euer forecast cruell things.}

geneva@Tob:17:11 @ {\cf2 For feare is nothing els, but a betraying of the succours, which reason offreth.}

geneva@Tob:17:12 @ {\cf2 And the lesse that the hope is within, the more doeth he esteeme the ignorance of the thing, that tormenteth him, great.}

geneva@Tob:17:13 @ {\cf2 But they that did endure the night that was intolerable, and that came out of the dungeon of hell, which is insupportable, slept the same sleepe,}

geneva@Tob:17:14 @ {\cf2 And sometimes were troubled with monstruous visions, and sometime they swooned, as though their owne soule should betraie them: for a sudden feare not looked for, came vpon them.}

geneva@Tob:17:15 @ {\cf2 And thus, whosoeuer fell downe, he was kept and shut in prison, but without chaines.}

geneva@Tob:17:16 @ {\cf2 For whether hee was an husband man, or a shepheard, or one that was set to worke alone, if he were taken, hee must suffer this necessitie, that hee could not auoide:}

geneva@Tob:17:17 @ {\cf2 (For with one chaine of darkenesse were they all bounde) whether it were an hissing winde, or a sweete song of the birdes among the thicke branches of the trees, or the vehemencie of hastie running water,}

geneva@Tob:17:18 @ {\cf2 Or a great noyse of the falling downe of stones, or the running of skipping beastes, that coulde not be seene, or the noise of cruell beastes, that roared, or the sounde that answereth againe in the holowe mountaines: these fearefull thinges made them to swoone.}

geneva@Tob:17:19 @ {\cf2 For al the world shined with cleare light, and no man was hindred in his labour.}

geneva@Tob:17:20 @ {\cf2 Onely vpon them there fell an heauie night, an image of that darkenesse that was to come vpon them: yea, they were vnto themselues more grieuous then darkenesse.}

geneva@Tob:18:1 @ {\cf2 Bvt thy Saintes had a very great light, whose voyce because they heard, and sawe not the figure of them, they thought them blessed, because they also had not suffred the like.}

geneva@Tob:18:2 @ {\cf2 And because they did not hurt them, which did hurt them afore, they thanked them, and asked pardon for their enimitie,}

geneva@Tob:18:3 @ {\cf2 Therefore thou gauest them a burning pillar of fire to leade them in the vnknowen way, and madest the sunne that it hurted not them in their honourable iourney.}

geneva@Tob:18:4 @ {\cf2 But they were worthy to be depriued of the light, and to be kept in darkenesse, which had kept thy children shut vp, by whom the vncorrupt light of the Lawe should be giuen to the world.}

geneva@Tob:18:5 @ {\cf2 Whereas they thought to slay the babes of the Saints, by one childe that was cast out, and preserued to reprooue them, thou hast taken away the multitude of their children and destroied them all together in the mightie water.}

geneva@Tob:18:6 @ {\cf2 Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that they knowing vnto what othes they had giuen credite, might be of good cheere.}

geneva@Tob:18:7 @ {\cf2 Thus thy people receiued the health of the righteous, but the enemies were destroied.}

geneva@Tob:18:8 @ {\cf2 For as thou hast punished the enemies, so hast thou glorified vs whome thou hast called.}

geneva@Tob:18:9 @ {\cf2 For the righteous children of the good men offred secretely, and made a Lawe of righteousnesse by one consent, that the Saintes shoulde receiue good and euill in like maner, and that the fathers should first sing praises.}

geneva@Tob:18:10 @ {\cf2 But a disagreeing crie was hearde of the enemies, and there was a lamentable noise for the children that were bewailed.}

geneva@Tob:18:11 @ {\cf2 For the maister and the seruant were punished with like punishment, and the common people suffred alike with the King.}

geneva@Tob:18:12 @ {\cf2 So they all together had innumerable that died with one kinde of death: neither were ye liuing sufficient to burie them: for in the twinckling of an eye the noblest offspring of them was destroied.}

geneva@Tob:18:13 @ {\cf2 So they that could beleeue nothing, because of ye inchantments, confessed this people to be the children of God, in the destruction of ye first borne:}

geneva@Tob:18:14 @ {\cf2 For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the middest of her swift course,}

geneva@Tob:18:15 @ {\cf2 Thine almighty woorde leapt downe from heauen out of thy royall throne, as a fierce man of warre in the middes of the lande that was destroied,}

geneva@Tob:18:16 @ {\cf2 And brought thine vnfained commaundement as a sharpe sworde, and stoode vp and filled all thinges with death, and being come downe to the earth, it reached vnto the heauens.}

geneva@Tob:18:17 @ {\cf2 Then the sight of the fearefull dreames vexed them suddenly, and fearefulnes came vpon them vnawares.}

geneva@Tob:18:18 @ {\cf2 Then lay there one here, another there halfe dead, and shewed the cause of his death.}

geneva@Tob:18:19 @ {\cf2 For the visios that vexed them, shewed them these things afore: so that they were not ignorant, wherefore they perished.}

geneva@Tob:18:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe tentation of death touched the righteous also, and among the multitude in the wildernesse there was a plague, but the wrath indured not long.}

geneva@Tob:18:21 @ {\cf2 For the blameles man made haste, and defended them, and tooke the weapons of his ministration, euen prayer, and the reconciliation by the perfume, and set himselfe against the wrath, and so brought the miserie to an ende, declaring that hee was thy seruaunt.}

geneva@Tob:18:22 @ {\cf2 For he ouercame not the multitude with bodily power, nor with force of weapons, but with the word he subdued him that punished, alleadging the othes and couenant made vnto the fathers.}

geneva@Tob:18:23 @ {\cf2 For when the dead were fallen downe by heapes one vpon another, hee stoode in the middes, and cut off the wrath, and parted it from comming to the liuing.}

geneva@Tob:18:24 @ {\cf2 For in the long garment was all the ornament, and in the foure rowes of the stones was the glory of the fathers grauen with thy maiestie in the diademe of his head.}

geneva@Tob:18:25 @ {\cf2 Vnto these the destroier gaue place, and was afraide of them: for it was sufficient, that they had tasted the wrath.}

geneva@Tob:19:1 @ {\cf2 As for the vngodly, the wrath came vpon them without mercy vnto the ende: for hee knewe what should come vnto them,}

geneva@Tob:19:2 @ {\cf2 That they, (when they had consented to let them goe, and had sent them out with diligence) would repent, and pursue them.}

geneva@Tob:19:3 @ {\cf2 For while yet sorowe was before them, and they lamented by the graues of the dead, they deuised another foolishnesse, so that they persecuted them in their fleeing, whome they had cast out afore with praier.}

geneva@Tob:19:4 @ {\cf2 For the destinie, whereof they were worthy, brought them to this ende, and caused them toforget the things that had come to passe, that they might accomplish the punishment, which remained by torments,}

geneva@Tob:19:5 @ {\cf2 Both that thy people might trie a marueilous passage, and that these might finde a strange death.}

geneva@Tob:19:6 @ {\cf2 For euery creature in his kinde was facioned of newe, and serued in their owne offices inioyned them, that thy children might be kept without hurt.}

geneva@Tob:19:7 @ {\cf2 For the cloude ouershadowed their tentes, and the drye earth appeared, where afore was water: so that in the red sea there was a way without impediment, and the great deepe became a greene fielde.}

geneva@Tob:19:8 @ {\cf2 Through the which all the people went that were defended with thine hand, seeing thy wonderous marueiles.}

geneva@Tob:19:9 @ {\cf2 For they neyed like horses, and leaped like lambes, praysing thee, O Lord, which haddest deliuered them.}

geneva@Tob:19:10 @ {\cf2 For they were yet mindfull of those thinges which were done in the land where they dwelt, how the ground brought forth flyes, in steade of cattell, and howe the riuer scrauled with the multitude of frogges in steade of fishes.}

geneva@Tob:19:11 @ {\cf2 But at the last they sawe a newe generation of birdes, when they were intised with lust, and desired delicate meates.}

geneva@Tob:19:12 @ {\cf2 For the quailes came foorth of the sea vnto them for comfort, but punishments came vpon the sinners not without signes that were giuen by great thundrings: for they suffered worthily according to their wickednesse, because they shewed a cruell hatred toward strangers.}

geneva@Tob:19:13 @ {\cf2 For ye one sort would not receiue them when they were present, because they knewe them not: the other sort brought the strangers into bondage that had done them good.}

geneva@Tob:19:14 @ {\cf2 Beside all these things some would not suffer, that any regarde shoulde be had of them: For they handled the strangers despitefully.}

geneva@Tob:19:15 @ {\cf2 Others that had receiued them with great banketting, and admitted them to be partakers of the same lawes, did afflict them with great labours.}

geneva@Tob:19:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore they were stricken with blindnes, as in olde time certeine were at the doores of the righteous, so that euery one being compassed with darknesse, sought the entrance of his doore.}

geneva@Tob:19:17 @ {\cf2 Thus the elements agreed among themselues in this change, as when one tune is changed vpon an instrument of musike, and the melodie still remaineth, which may easily be perceiued by the sight of the things that are come to passe.}

geneva@Tob:19:18 @ {\cf2 For the things of the earth were changed into things of the water, and the thing that did swimme went vpon the ground.}

geneva@Tob:19:19 @ {\cf2 The fire had power in the water contrary vnto his owne vertue, and the water forgate his owne kinde to quench.}

geneva@Tob:19:20 @ {\cf2 Againe, the flames did not hurt ye flesh of the corruptible beasts that walked therein, neither melted they that which seemed to be yce, & was of a nature that would melt, and yet was an immortall meate.}

geneva@Tob:19:21 @ {\cf2 For in all things, O Lord, thou hast magnified and glorified thy people, and hast not despised to assist them in euery time and place.}

geneva@Sir:1:1 @ {\cf2 All wisdome commeth of the Lord, and hath bene euer with him and is with him for euer.}

geneva@Sir:1:2 @ {\cf2 Who can number the sand of the sea, and the droppes of the raine, and the dayes of the worlde? who can measure the height of heauen, the bredth of the earth, and the depth?}

geneva@Sir:1:3 @ {\cf2 Who can finde the wisdome of God which hath bene before all things?}

geneva@Sir:1:4 @ {\cf2 Wisdome hath bene created before al things, and ye vnderstanding of prudence from euerlasting.}

geneva@Sir:1:5 @ {\cf2 The word of God most high is the fountaine of wisdome, and the euerlasting commandements are the entrance vnto her.}

geneva@Sir:1:6 @ {\cf2 Vnto whom hath ye roote of wisdome bene declared? or who hath knowen her wise counsels?}

geneva@Sir:1:7 @ {\cf2 Vnto whom hath the doctrine of wisdome bene discouered and shewed? and who hath vnderstood the manifolde entrance vnto her?}

geneva@Sir:1:8 @ {\cf2 There is one wise, euen the most high Creator of all things, the Almightie, the King of power and very terrible, which sitteth vpon his throne.}

geneva@Sir:1:9 @ {\cf2 He is the Lord, that hath created her thorow the holy Ghost: he hath seene her, numbred her, and measured her.}

geneva@Sir:1:10 @ {\cf2 He hath powred her out vpon all his workes, and vpon all flesh, according to his gift, and giueth her abundantly vnto them that loue him.}

geneva@Sir:1:11 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is glory, and gladnes, and reioycing, and a ioyfull crowne.}

geneva@Sir:1:12 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord maketh a mery heart, and giueth gladnes and ioy and long life.}

geneva@Sir:1:13 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lord, it shall go well with him at the last, and he shall finde fauour in the day of his death.}

geneva@Sir:1:14 @ {\cf2 The loue of God is honourable wisedome, and vnto whom it appeareth in a vision, they loue it for the vision, and for the knowledge of the great workes thereof.}

geneva@Sir:1:15 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome, and was made with the faithfull in the wombe: she goeth with the chosen women, and is knowen with the righteous and faithfull.}

geneva@Sir:1:16 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord is an holy knowledge.}

geneva@Sir:1:17 @ {\cf2 Holinesse shall preserue, and iustifie the heart, and giueth mirth and gladnesse.}

geneva@Sir:1:18 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lord, shall prosper, and in the day of his end, he shall be blessed.}

geneva@Sir:1:19 @ {\cf2 She hath built her euerlasting foundations with men, and is giuen to be with their seede.}

geneva@Sir:1:20 @ {\cf2 To feare God is the fulnesse of wisdome, and filleth men with her fruites.}

geneva@Sir:1:21 @ {\cf2 She filleth their whole house with all things desireable, and the garners with the things, that she bringeth foorth, and both twaine are giftes of God.}

geneva@Sir:1:22 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is the crowne of wisdome, and giueth peace and perfect health: he hath seene her and numbred her.}

geneva@Sir:1:23 @ {\cf2 She rayneth downe knowledge, and vnderstanding of wisdome, and hath brought vnto honour, them that possessed her.}

geneva@Sir:1:24 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is the roote of wisedome, and her branches are long life.}

geneva@Sir:1:25 @ {\cf2 In the treasures of wisedome is vnderstanding, and holy knowledge, but wisdome is abhorred of sinners.}

geneva@Sir:1:26 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord driueth out sinne: and when she is present, she driueth away anger.}

geneva@Sir:1:27 @ {\cf2 For wicked anger cannot be iustified: for his rashnes in his anger shall be his destruction.}

geneva@Sir:1:28 @ {\cf2 A patient man will suffer for a time, and their shall he haue the reward of ioy.}

geneva@Sir:1:29 @ {\cf2 He will hide his wordes for a time, and many mens lippes shall speake of his wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:1:30 @ {\cf2 In the treasures of wisdome are the secrets of knowledge, but ye sinner abhorreth ye worship of God.}

geneva@Sir:1:31 @ {\cf2 If thou desire wisdome, keepe the commandements, and the Lord shall giue her vnto thee, and will fill her treasures.}

geneva@Sir:1:32 @ {\cf2 For the feare of ye Lord is wisdome and discipline: he hath pleasure in faith and meekenesse.}

geneva@Sir:1:33 @ {\cf2 Be not disobedient to the feare of the Lorde, and come not vnto him with a double heart.}

geneva@Sir:1:34 @ {\cf2 Be not an hypocrite that men should speake of thee, but take heede what thou speakest.}

geneva@Sir:1:35 @ {\cf2 Exalt not thy selfe, least thou fall and bring thy soule to dishonour, and so God discouer thy secrets, and cast thee downe in the middes of the congregation, because thou wouldest not receiue ye true feare of God, and thine heart is full of deceite.}

geneva@Sir:2:1 @ {\cf2 My sonne, if thou wilt come into the seruice of God, stand fast in righteousnesse and feare, and prepare thy soule to tentation.}

geneva@Sir:2:2 @ {\cf2 Settle thine heart, and be patient: bowe downe thine eare, and receiue the wordes of vnderstanding, and shrinke not away, when thou art assayled, but waite vpon God patiently.}

geneva@Sir:2:3 @ {\cf2 Ioyne thy selfe vnto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be increased at thy last end.}

geneva@Sir:2:4 @ {\cf2 Whatsoeuer commeth vnto thee, receiue it patiently, & be patient in ye change of thine afflictio.}

geneva@Sir:2:5 @ {\cf2 For as gold and siluer are tryed in the fire, eue so are men acceptable in ye fornace of aduersitie.}

geneva@Sir:2:6 @ {\cf2 Beleeue in God, and he will helpe thee: order thy way aright, and trust in him: hold fast his feare, and growe olde therein.}

geneva@Sir:2:7 @ {\cf2 Ye that feare the Lorde, waite for his mercie shrinke not away from him that ye fall not.}

geneva@Sir:2:8 @ {\cf2 Ye that feare the Lord, beleeue him, and your reward shall not faile.}

geneva@Sir:2:9 @ {\cf2 O ye that feare ye Lorde, trust in good things, and in the euerlasting ioy and mercie.}

geneva@Sir:2:10 @ {\cf2 Ye that feare the Lorde, loue him, and your hearts shall be lightened.}

geneva@Sir:2:11 @ {\cf2 Consider the olde generations of men, ye children, and marke them well: was there euer any confounded, that put his trust in the Lorde? or who hath continued in his feare, & was forsaken? or whom did he euer despise, that called vpon him?}

geneva@Sir:2:12 @ {\cf2 For God is gracious and mercifull, and forgiueth sinnes, & saueth in the time of trouble, and is a defender for al them that seeke him in the trueth.}

geneva@Sir:2:13 @ {\cf2 Woe vnto them, that haue a fearefull heart, and to the wicked lips and to the faint hands, andto the sinner that goeth two maner of waies.}

geneva@Sir:2:14 @ {\cf2 Woe vnto him that is faint hearted, for hee beleeueth not: therefore shall he not be defended.}

geneva@Sir:2:15 @ {\cf2 Woe vnto you that haue lost patience, and haue forsaken the right waies, and are turned backe into froward waies: for what will ye doe when the Lord shall visite you?}

geneva@Sir:2:16 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lord, wil not disobey his worde: and they that loue him, wil keepe his waies.}

geneva@Sir:2:17 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lorde, will seeke out the things that are pleasant vnto him: and they that loue him, shalbe fulfilled with his Lawe.}

geneva@Sir:2:18 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and humble their soules in his sight.}

geneva@Sir:2:19 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lorde, keepe his comandements, and will be patient till he see them,}

geneva@Sir:2:20 @ {\cf2 Saying, If we doe not repent we shal fal into ye hands of the Lord, & not into the hands of men.}

geneva@Sir:2:21 @ {\cf2 Yet as his greatnesse is, so is his mercie.}

geneva@Sir:3:1 @ {\cf2 The children of wisdome are the Church of the righteous, and their offspring is obedience and loue.}

geneva@Sir:3:2 @ {\cf2 Heare your fathers iudgement, O children, and doe thereafter, that yee may be safe.}

geneva@Sir:3:3 @ {\cf2 For the Lorde wil haue the father honoured of the children, and hath confirmed the authoritie of the mother ouer the children.}

geneva@Sir:3:4 @ {\cf2 Who so honoureth his father, his sinnes shall be forgiuen him, and he shall absteine from them, and shall haue his daily desires.}

geneva@Sir:3:5 @ {\cf2 And hee that honoureth his mother, is like one that gathereth treasure.}

geneva@Sir:3:6 @ {\cf2 Who so honoureth his father, shall haue ioy of his owne children, and when he maketh his praier, he shalbe heard.}

geneva@Sir:3:7 @ {\cf2 Hee that honoureth his father, shall haue a long life, and hee that is obedient vnto the Lorde, shall comfort his mother.}

geneva@Sir:3:8 @ {\cf2 He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, & doeth seruice vnto his parents, as vnto lords.}

geneva@Sir:3:9 @ {\cf2 Honour thy father and mother, in deede and in worde and in all patience, that thou maiest haue Gods blessing, and that his blessing may abide with thee in the ende.}

geneva@Sir:3:10 @ {\cf2 For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of the children, and the mothers curse rooteth out the foundations.}

geneva@Sir:3:11 @ {\cf2 Reioyce not at the dishonour of thy father: for it is not honour vnto thee, but shame.}

geneva@Sir:3:12 @ {\cf2 Seeing that mans glorie commeth by his fathers honour, and the reproche of the mother is dishonour to the children,}

geneva@Sir:3:13 @ {\cf2 My sonne, helpe thy father in his age, and grieue him not as long as he liueth.}

geneva@Sir:3:14 @ {\cf2 And if his vnderstanding faile, haue patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.}

geneva@Sir:3:15 @ {\cf2 For the good intreatie of thy father shall not be forgotten, but it shall be a fortresse for thee against sinnes, and for thy mothers offence, thou shalt be recompenced with good, and it shall be founded for thee in righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:3:16 @ {\cf2 And in the day of trouble thou shalt bee remembred: thy sinnes also shall melt away as the yce in the faire weather.}

geneva@Sir:3:17 @ {\cf2 He that forsaketh his father, shal come to shame, and he that angreth his mother, is cursed of God.}

geneva@Sir:3:18 @ {\cf2 My son, performe thy doings with meekenes, so shalt thou be beloued of them that are approued.}

geneva@Sir:3:19 @ {\cf2 The greater thou are, the more humble thy selfe in all things, and thou shalt finde fauour before the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:3:20 @ {\cf2 Many are excellent and of renowne: but the secretes are reueiled vnto the meeke.}

geneva@Sir:3:21 @ {\cf2 For the power of the Lorde is great, and he is honoured of the lowly.}

geneva@Sir:3:22 @ {\cf2 Seeke not out the things that are too harde for thee, neither searche the things rashly which are too mightie for thee.}

geneva@Sir:3:23 @ {\cf2 But what God hath commaunded thee, thinke vpon that with reuerence, and be not curious in many of his works: for it is not needefull for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are secret.}

geneva@Sir:3:24 @ {\cf2 Be not curious in superfluous things: for many things are shewed vnto thee aboue the capacitie of men.}

geneva@Sir:3:25 @ {\cf2 The medling with such hath beguiled many, and an euil opinion hath deceiued their iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:3:26 @ {\cf2 Thou canst not see without eyes: professe not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.}

geneva@Sir:3:27 @ {\cf2 A stubberne heart shall fare euill at the last: and he that loueth danger, shall perish therein.}

geneva@Sir:3:28 @ {\cf2 An heart that goeth two waies, shal not prosper: and he that is frowarde of heart, shall stumble therein.}

geneva@Sir:3:29 @ {\cf2 An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrowes: and the wicked man shall heape sinne vpon sinne.}

geneva@Sir:3:30 @ {\cf2 The perswasion of the proude is without remedie, and his steppes shall be plucked vp: for the plant of sinne hath taken roote in him, and he shal not be esteemed.}

geneva@Sir:3:31 @ {\cf2 The heart of him that hath vnderstanding, shall perceiue secrete things, and an attentiue eare is the desire of a wise man.}

geneva@Sir:3:32 @ {\cf2 An heart that is wise and vnderstanding, wil absteine from sinne, and shall prosper in the workes of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:3:33 @ {\cf2 Water quencheth burning fire, and almes taketh away sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:3:34 @ {\cf2 And he that rewardeth good deedes, will remember it afterward, and in the time of the fall, he shall finde a staie.}

geneva@Sir:4:1 @ {\cf2 My sonne, defraud not the poore of his liuing, and make not the needie eyes to waite long.}

geneva@Sir:4:2 @ {\cf2 Make not an hungrie soule sorrowfull, neither vexe a man in his necessitie.}

geneva@Sir:4:3 @ {\cf2 Trouble not the heart that is grieued, and deferre not the gift of the needie.}

geneva@Sir:4:4 @ {\cf2 Refuse not the praier of one that is in trouble: turne not away thy face from the poore.}

geneva@Sir:4:5 @ {\cf2 Turne not thine eyes aside in anger from the poore, and giue him none occasion to speake euill of thee.}

geneva@Sir:4:6 @ {\cf2 For if he curse thee in ye bitternes of his soule, his praier shall be heard of him that made him.}

geneva@Sir:4:7 @ {\cf2 Be courteous vnto the companie of poore, and humble thy soule vnto the Elder, and bowe downe thine head to a man of worship.}

geneva@Sir:4:8 @ {\cf2 Let it not grieue thee to bowe downe thine eare vnto the poore, but paie thy dette, and giue him a friendly answere.}

geneva@Sir:4:9 @ {\cf2 Deliuer him that suffreth wrong, from the hande of the oppressor, and bee not faint hearted when thou iudgest.}

geneva@Sir:4:10 @ {\cf2 Be as a father vnto the fatherlesse, and as an husbande vnto their mother: so shalt thou be as the sonne of the most High: and he shal loue thee more then thy mother doeth.}

geneva@Sir:4:11 @ {\cf2 Wisdome exalteth her children, and receiueth them that seeke her, and wil go before them in the way of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:4:12 @ {\cf2 He that loueth her, loueth life, and they that seeke life in the morning, shall haue great ioy.}

geneva@Sir:4:13 @ {\cf2 He that keepeth her, shall inherite glorie: for vnto whome shee entreth, him the Lord will blesse.}

geneva@Sir:4:14 @ {\cf2 They that honour her, shall be the seruantes of the Holy one, and them that loue her, the Lorde doeth loue.}

geneva@Sir:4:15 @ {\cf2 Who so geueth eare vnto her, shall iudge the nations, and he that goeth vnto her, shall dwell safely.}

geneva@Sir:4:16 @ {\cf2 He that is faithfull vnto her, shall haue her in possession, and his generation shall possesse her.}

geneva@Sir:4:17 @ {\cf2 For first she will walke with him by crooked waies, and bring him vnto feare, and dread, and torment him with her discipline vntill shee haue tried his soule, and haue prooued him by her iudgements.}

geneva@Sir:4:18 @ {\cf2 Then will shee returne the streight way vnto him, and comfort him, and shewe him her secretes, and heape vpon him the treasures of knowledge, and vnderstanding of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:4:19 @ {\cf2 But if he goe wrong, she wil forsake him, and geue him ouer into the hands of his destruction.}

geneva@Sir:4:20 @ {\cf2 My sonne, make much of time, and eschewe the thing that is euill,}

geneva@Sir:4:21 @ {\cf2 And be not ashamed to say the trueth for thy life: for there is a shame that bringeth sinne, and a shame that bringeth worship and fauour.}

geneva@Sir:4:22 @ {\cf2 Accept no person against thine owne conscience, that thou bee not confounded to thine owne decay, & forbeare not thy neighbour in his faut.}

geneva@Sir:4:23 @ {\cf2 And keepe not backe counsell when it may doe good, neither hide thy wisdome when it may be famous.}

geneva@Sir:4:24 @ {\cf2 For by the talke is wisdome knowen, and learning by the woordes of the tongue, and counsel, wisdom and learning by the talking of the wise, and stedfastnes in the workes of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:4:25 @ {\cf2 In no wise speake against the word of truth, but be ashamed of the lies of thine owne ignorace.}

geneva@Sir:4:26 @ {\cf2 Be not ashamed to confesse thy sinnes, and resist not the course of the riuer.}

geneva@Sir:4:27 @ {\cf2 Submit not thy selfe vnto a foolish man, neither accept the person of the mightie.}

geneva@Sir:4:28 @ {\cf2 Striue for the trueth vnto death, and defend iustice for thy life, and the Lorde God shall fight for thee against thine enemies.}

geneva@Sir:4:29 @ {\cf2 Bee not hastie in thy tongue, neither slacke and negligent in thy woorkes.}

geneva@Sir:4:30 @ {\cf2 Be not as a Lyon in thine owne house, neither beate thy seruauntes for thy fantasie, nor oppresse them that are vnder thee.}

geneva@Sir:4:31 @ {\cf2 Let not thine hande be stretched out to receiue, and shut when thou shouldest geue.}

geneva@Sir:5:1 @ {\cf2 Trust not vnto thy riches, and say not, I haue inough for my life: for it shal not helpe in the time of vengeance and indignation.}

geneva@Sir:5:2 @ {\cf2 Folow not thine owne minde & thy strength to walke in the waies of thine heart:}

geneva@Sir:5:3 @ {\cf2 Neither say thou, How haue I had strength or who wil bring me vnder for my works? for God the auenger wil reuenge the wrong done by thee.}

geneva@Sir:5:4 @ {\cf2 And say not, I haue sinned, & what euil hath come vnto mee? for the Almightie is a patient rewarder, but he will not leaue thee vnpunished.}

geneva@Sir:5:5 @ {\cf2 Because thy sinne is forgiuen, be not without feare, to heape sinne vpon sinne.}

geneva@Sir:5:6 @ {\cf2 And say not, The mercie of God is great: hee will forgiue my manifolde sinnes: for mercie and wrath come from him, and his indignation commeth downe vpon sinners.}

geneva@Sir:5:7 @ {\cf2 Make no tarying to turne vnto the Lord, and put not off from day to day: for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lorde breake foorth, and in thy securitie thou shalt bee destroied, and thou shalt perish in time of vengeance.}

geneva@Sir:5:8 @ {\cf2 Trust not in wicked riches: for they shall not helpe thee in the day of punishmet & vengeance.}

geneva@Sir:5:9 @ {\cf2 Be not caried about with euery winde, and goe not into euery way: for so doeth the sinner that hath a double tongue.}

geneva@Sir:5:10 @ {\cf2 Stande fast in thy sure vnderstanding and in the way and knowledge of the Lord and haue but one maner of word, and follow the word of peace and righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:5:11 @ {\cf2 Be humble to heare the worde of God, that thou maiest vnderstand it, and make a true answere with wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:5:12 @ {\cf2 Be swift to heare good things, & let thy life be pure, and giue a patient answere.}

geneva@Sir:5:13 @ {\cf2 If thou hast vnderstanding, answer thy neighbour: if not, laie thine hande vpon thy mouth, least thou be trapped in an vndiscrete woorde, and so be blamed.}

geneva@Sir:5:14 @ {\cf2 Honour and shame is in the talke, and the tongue of a man causeth him to fall.}

geneva@Sir:5:15 @ {\cf2 Be not counted a talebearer, and lie not in waite with thy tongue: for shame and repentance follow the thiefe, and an euil condemnation is ouer him that is double tonged: but he that is a backbiter, shall be hated, enuied and confounded..}

geneva@Sir:5:16 @ {\cf2 Doe not rashly, neither in small thinges nor in great.}

geneva@Sir:6:1 @ {\cf2 Be not of a friend thy neighbours enemie: for such shal haue an euil name, shame and reproch, and he shall be in infamie as the wicked that hath a double tongue.}

geneva@Sir:6:2 @ {\cf2 Bee not proude in the deuice of thine owne minde, least thy soule rent thee as a bull,}

geneva@Sir:6:3 @ {\cf2 And eate vp thy leaues, & destroy thy fruite, and so thou be left as a drie tree in the wildernes.}

geneva@Sir:6:4 @ {\cf2 For a wicked soule destroieth him that hath it, and maketh him to be laughed to scorne of his enemies, and bringeth him to the portion of the vngodly.}

geneva@Sir:6:5 @ {\cf2 A sweete talke multiplieth the friendes and pacifieth them that bee at variance, and a sweete tongue increaseth much good talke.}

geneva@Sir:6:6 @ {\cf2 Holde friendship with many, neuerthelesse haue but one counseller of a thousand.}

geneva@Sir:6:7 @ {\cf2 If thou gettest a friend, prooue him first, and be not hastie to credite him.}

geneva@Sir:6:8 @ {\cf2 For some man is a friend for his owne occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.}

geneva@Sir:6:9 @ {\cf2 And there is some friend that turneth to enimitie, and taketh part against thee, & in contentionhe will declare thy shame.}

geneva@Sir:6:10 @ {\cf2 Againe some friend is but a companion at the table, and in the day of thine affliction he continueth not.}

geneva@Sir:6:11 @ {\cf2 But in thy prosperitie he will be as thou thy selfe, and wil vse libertie ouer thy seruants.}

geneva@Sir:6:12 @ {\cf2 If thou be brought lowe, he will be against thee, and wil hide himselfe from thy face.}

geneva@Sir:6:13 @ {\cf2 Depart from thine enemies, and beware of thy friendes.}

geneva@Sir:6:14 @ {\cf2 A faithfull friend is a strong defence, and he that findeth such one, findeth a treasure.}

geneva@Sir:6:15 @ {\cf2 A faithfull friende ought not to be changed for any thing, & the weight of golde and siluer is not to be compared to the goodnes of his faith.}

geneva@Sir:6:16 @ {\cf2 A faithfull friend is the medicine of life and immortalitie, and they that feare the Lorde, shall finde him.}

geneva@Sir:6:17 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lorde, shall direct his friendship aright, and as his owne selfe, so shall his friende be.}

geneva@Sir:6:18 @ {\cf2 My sonne, receiue doctrine from thy youth vp: so shalt thou finde wisdome which shal indure till thine olde age.}

geneva@Sir:6:19 @ {\cf2 Goe to her as one that ploweth, and soweth, and wayte for her good fruites: for thou shalt haue but litle labour in her worke: but thou shalt eate of her fruites right soone.}

geneva@Sir:6:20 @ {\cf2 How exceeding sharpe is shee to the vnlearned? He that is without iudgement, wil not remaine with her.}

geneva@Sir:6:21 @ {\cf2 Vnto such one shee is as a fine touchstone, and he casteth her from him without delay.}

geneva@Sir:6:22 @ {\cf2 For they haue the name of wisedome, but there be but fewe that haue the knowledge of her.}

geneva@Sir:6:23 @ {\cf2 For with them that know her, shee abideth vnto the appearing of God.}

geneva@Sir:6:24 @ {\cf2 Giue eare, my sonne: receiue my doctrine, & refuse not my counsel,}

geneva@Sir:6:25 @ {\cf2 And put thy feete into her linkes, and thy necke into her chayne.}

geneva@Sir:6:26 @ {\cf2 Bow downe thy shoulder vnto her, & beare her, and be not weary of her bandes.}

geneva@Sir:6:27 @ {\cf2 Come vnto her with thy whole heart, and keepe her wayes with all thy power.}

geneva@Sir:6:28 @ {\cf2 Seeke after her, and search her, and shee shal be shewed thee: and when thou hast gotten her, forsake her not.}

geneva@Sir:6:29 @ {\cf2 For at the last thou shalt finde rest in her, & that shalbe turned to thy ioy.}

geneva@Sir:6:30 @ {\cf2 Then shal her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a sure foundation and her chaines a glorious rayment.}

geneva@Sir:6:31 @ {\cf2 For there is a golden ornament in her, and her handes are the laces of purple colour.}

geneva@Sir:6:32 @ {\cf2 Thou shalt put her on as a robe of honour, and shalt put her vpon thee, as a crowne of ioy.}

geneva@Sir:6:33 @ {\cf2 My sonne, if thou wilt, thou shalt be taught, & if thou wilt apply thy minde, thou shalt be witty.}

geneva@Sir:6:34 @ {\cf2 If thou loue to heare, thou shalt receiue doctrine, and if thou delight in hearing, thou shalt be wise.}

geneva@Sir:6:35 @ {\cf2 Stand with the multitude of ye Elders, which are wise, and ioyne with him that is wise.}

geneva@Sir:6:36 @ {\cf2 Desire to heare al godly talke, & let not the graue sentences of knowledge escape thee.}

geneva@Sir:6:37 @ {\cf2 And if thou seest a man of vnderstanding, get thee soone vnto him, and let thy foote weare the steppes of his doores.}

geneva@Sir:6:38 @ {\cf2 Let thy minde be vpon the ordinances of the Lord, & be continually occupyed in his commadements: so shall he stablish thine heart, and giue thee wisdome at thine owne desire.}

geneva@Sir:7:1 @ {\cf2 Do no euill: so shal no harme come vnto thee.}

geneva@Sir:7:2 @ {\cf2 Depart from the thing that is wicked, & sinne shal turne away from thee.}

geneva@Sir:7:3 @ {\cf2 My sonne, sowe not vpon the sorowes of vnrighteousnes, lest that thou reape them seuen fold.}

geneva@Sir:7:4 @ {\cf2 Aske not of the Lord preeminence, neyther of the king the seate of honour.}

geneva@Sir:7:5 @ {\cf2 Iustifie not thy selfe before the Lord: for he knoweth thine heart, and boast not thy wisedome in the presence of the king.}

geneva@Sir:7:6 @ {\cf2 Seeke not to be made a Iudge, least thou be not able to take away iniquitie, and least thou, fearing the person of the mightie, shouldest committe an offence against thine vprightnes.}

geneva@Sir:7:7 @ {\cf2 Offende not against the multitude of a citie, and cast not thy selfe among the people.}

geneva@Sir:7:8 @ {\cf2 Binde not two sinnes together: for in one sinne shalt thou not be vnpunished.}

geneva@Sir:7:9 @ {\cf2 Say not, God will looke vpon the multitude of mine oblations, & when I offer to the most high God, he wil accept it.}

geneva@Sir:7:10 @ {\cf2 Be not faint hearted, when thou makest thy prayer, neither slacke in giuing of almes.}

geneva@Sir:7:11 @ {\cf2 Laugh no man to scorne in the heauines of his soule: for God which seeth all things is hee that can bring downe, and set vp againe.}

geneva@Sir:7:12 @ {\cf2 Sowe not a lye against thy brother, neyther do the same against thy friend.}

geneva@Sir:7:13 @ {\cf2 Vse not to make any maner of lye: for the custome thereof is not good.}

geneva@Sir:7:14 @ {\cf2 Make not many words when thou art amog the Elders, neither repeate a thing in thy prayer.}

geneva@Sir:7:15 @ {\cf2 Hate not laborious worke, neither the husbandrie, which the most high hath created.}

geneva@Sir:7:16 @ {\cf2 Number not thy selfe in the multitude of the wicked, but remeber that vengeance wil not slacke.}

geneva@Sir:7:17 @ {\cf2 Humble thy minde greatly: for the vegeance of the wicked is fire and wormes.}

geneva@Sir:7:18 @ {\cf2 Giue not ouer thy friend for any good, nor thy true brother for the golde of Ophir.}

geneva@Sir:7:19 @ {\cf2 Depart not from a wise and good woman, that is fallen vnto thee for thy portion in the feare of the Lord: for her grace is aboue golde.}

geneva@Sir:7:20 @ {\cf2 Whereas thy seruant worketh truely, intreate him not euil, nor the hireling that bestoweth himselfe wholly for thee.}

geneva@Sir:7:21 @ {\cf2 Let thy soule loue a good seruant, and defraude him not of libertie, neyther leaue him a poore man.}

geneva@Sir:7:22 @ {\cf2 If thou haue cattel, looke wel to them, and if they be for thy profite, keepe them with thee.}

geneva@Sir:7:23 @ {\cf2 If thou haue sonnes, instruct them, & holde their necke from their youth.}

geneva@Sir:7:24 @ {\cf2 If thou haue daughters, keepe their body, & shew not thy face cheerefull toward them.}

geneva@Sir:7:25 @ {\cf2 Marrie thy daughter, and so shalt thou performe a weightie matter: but giue her to a man of vnderstanding.}

geneva@Sir:7:26 @ {\cf2 If thou haue a wife after thy minde, forsake her not, but commit not thy selfe to the hatefull.}

geneva@Sir:7:27 @ {\cf2 Honour thy father from thy whole heart, and forget not the sorowes of thy mother.}

geneva@Sir:7:28 @ {\cf2 Remember that thou wast borne of them, & how canst thou recompence them the things that they haue done for thee?}

geneva@Sir:7:29 @ {\cf2 Feare the Lorde with all thy soule, and honour his ministers.}

geneva@Sir:7:30 @ {\cf2 Loue him that made thee, with al thy strength, and forsake not his seruants.}

geneva@Sir:7:31 @ {\cf2 Feare the Lord with all thy soule, & honour the Priestes, and giue them their portion, as it is commanded thee, the first fruites, & purifications & sacrifices for sinne, & the offrings of the shoulders, and the sacrifices of sanctification, and the first fruites of the holy things.}

geneva@Sir:7:32 @ {\cf2 Stretch thine hande vnto the poore, that thy blessing, & reconciliation may be accomplished.}

geneva@Sir:7:33 @ {\cf2 Liberalitie pleaseth all men liuing, & from the dead restraine it not.}

geneva@Sir:7:34 @ {\cf2 Let not them that weepe, be without comfort: but mourne with such as mourne.}

geneva@Sir:7:35 @ {\cf2 Be not slow to visite the sicke: for that shal make thee to be beloued.}

geneva@Sir:7:36 @ {\cf2 Whatsoeuer thou takest in hand, remember the ende, and thou shalt neuer do amisse.}

geneva@Sir:8:1 @ {\cf2 Striue not with a mightie man, least thou fal into his handes.}

geneva@Sir:8:2 @ {\cf2 Make not variance with a rich man, lest he on the other side weigh downe thy weyght: for golde and siluer hath destroyed many, and hath subuerted the hearts of kings.}

geneva@Sir:8:3 @ {\cf2 Striue not with a man that is full of wordes, and lay no stickes vpon his fire.}

geneva@Sir:8:4 @ {\cf2 Play not with a man that is vntaught, least thy kinred be dishonoured.}

geneva@Sir:8:5 @ {\cf2 Despise not a man that turneth himselfe away from sinne, nor cast him not in the teeth withall, but remember that we are all worthy blame.}

geneva@Sir:8:6 @ {\cf2 Dishonour not a man in his olde age: for they were as we which are not olde.}

geneva@Sir:8:7 @ {\cf2 Be not glad of the death of thine enemy, but remeber that we must die all, & so enter into ioy.}

geneva@Sir:8:8 @ {\cf2 Despise not the exhortation of the Elders that be wise, but acquaint thy selfe with their wise sentences: for of them thou shalt learne wisdome, and the doctrine of vnderstanding, and how to serue great men without complaynt.}

geneva@Sir:8:9 @ {\cf2 Go not from the doctrine of the Elders: for they haue learned it of their fathers, and of them thou shalt learne vnderstanding, and to make answere in the time of neede.}

geneva@Sir:8:10 @ {\cf2 Kindle not the coles of sinners, when thou rebukest them, least thou be burnt in the fyerie flames of their sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:8:11 @ {\cf2 Rise not vp against him that doeth wrong, that he lay not wayte as a spie for thy mouth.}

geneva@Sir:8:12 @ {\cf2 Lende not vnto him that is mightier then thy selfe: for if thou lendest him, count it but lost.}

geneva@Sir:8:13 @ {\cf2 Be not suertie aboue thy power: for if thou be suretie, thinke to pay it.}

geneva@Sir:8:14 @ {\cf2 Goe not to law with the Iudge: for they will giue sentence according to his owne honour.}

geneva@Sir:8:15 @ {\cf2 Trauaile not by the way with him that is rash, least he doe thee iniurie: for he followeth his owne wilfulnesse, and so shalt thou perish through his follie.}

geneva@Sir:8:16 @ {\cf2 Striue not with him that is angry, and goe not with him into the wildernesse: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no helpe, he will ouerthrow thee.}

geneva@Sir:8:17 @ {\cf2 Take no counsell at a foole: for he can not keepe a thing close.}

geneva@Sir:8:18 @ {\cf2 Doe no secrete thing before a stranger: for thou canst not tell what he goeth aboue.}

geneva@Sir:8:19 @ {\cf2 Open not thine heart vnto euery man, least he be vnthankful to thee, & put thee to reprofe.}

geneva@Sir:9:1 @ {\cf2 Be not ielous ouer thy wife of thy bosome, neyther teach her by thy meanes an euill lesson.}

geneva@Sir:9:2 @ {\cf2 Giue not thy life vnto a woman, lest shee ouercome thy strength, & so thou be cofounded.}

geneva@Sir:9:3 @ {\cf2 Meete not an harlot, least thou fall into her snares.}

geneva@Sir:9:4 @ {\cf2 Vse not the companie of a woman that is a singer, and a dancer, neither heare her, least thou be taken by her craftines.}

geneva@Sir:9:5 @ {\cf2 Gaze not on a mayde, that thou fal not by that that is precious in her.}

geneva@Sir:9:6 @ {\cf2 Cast not thy minde vpon harlots in any maner of thing, least thou destroy both thy selfe and thine heritage.}

geneva@Sir:9:7 @ {\cf2 Goe not about gazing in the streetes of the citie, neyther wander thou in the secrete places thereof.}

geneva@Sir:9:8 @ {\cf2 Turne away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and looke not vpon others beautie: for many haue perished by the beautie of women: for through it loue is kindled as a fire.}

geneva@Sir:9:9 @ {\cf2 Euery woman that is an harlot, shalbe troden vnder foote as dongue, of euery one that goeth by the way.}

geneva@Sir:9:10 @ {\cf2 Many wondering at the beautie of a strange woman, haue bene cast out: for her wordes burne as a fire.}

geneva@Sir:9:11 @ {\cf2 Sit not at all with another mans wife, neyther lye with her vpon the bed, nor banket with her, lest thine heart incline vnto her, & so through thy desire fall into destruction.}

geneva@Sir:9:12 @ {\cf2 Forsake not an olde friende: for the newe shal not be like him: a newe friend is as newe wine: when it is olde, thou shalt drinke it with pleasure.}

geneva@Sir:9:13 @ {\cf2 Desire not the honour and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what shalbe his ende.}

geneva@Sir:9:14 @ {\cf2 Delite not in the thing that ye vngodly haue pleasure in, but remember that they shall not bee found iust vnto their graue.}

geneva@Sir:9:15 @ {\cf2 Keepe thee from the man that hath power to slay: so shalt thou not doubt the feare of death: and if thou come vnto him, make no fault, least he take away thy life: remember that thou goest in the middes of snares, and that thou walkest vpon the towres of the citie.}

geneva@Sir:9:16 @ {\cf2 Trye thy neighbour as neere as thou canst, and aske counsell of the wise.}

geneva@Sir:9:17 @ {\cf2 Let thy talke be with the wise, and all thy communication in the Lawe of the most High.}

geneva@Sir:9:18 @ {\cf2 Let iust men eate & drinke with thee, & let thy reioycing be in the feare of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:9:19 @ {\cf2 In the handes of the crafcesmen shall the workes be commended, and the wise prince of the people by his worde, and the worde by the wisedome of the Elders.}

geneva@Sir:9:20 @ {\cf2 A man ful of words is dangerous in his citie, and he that is rash in his talking, shalbe hated.}

geneva@Sir:10:1 @ {\cf2 A wise Iudge will instruct his people with discretion: the gouernance of a prudent man is well ordered.}

geneva@Sir:10:2 @ {\cf2 As the iudge of the people is him selfe, so are his officers, and what maner of man the ruler of the citie is, such are all they that dwell therein.}

geneva@Sir:10:3 @ {\cf2 An vnwise king destroyeth his people, but where they that be in authoritie, are men of vnderstanding, there the citie prospereth.}

geneva@Sir:10:4 @ {\cf2 The gouernement of the earth is in the hand of the Lorde, and all iniquitie of the nations is to be abhorred, and when time is, he wil set vp a profitable ruler ouer it.}

geneva@Sir:10:5 @ {\cf2 In the hand of God is the prosperitie of man, and vpon the scribes will he lay his honour.}

geneva@Sir:10:6 @ {\cf2 Bee not angrie for any wrong, with thy neighbour, and doe nothing by iniurious practises.}

geneva@Sir:10:7 @ {\cf2 Pride is hatefull before God and man, and by both doeth one commit iniquitie.}

geneva@Sir:10:8 @ {\cf2 Because of vnrighteous dealing and wrongs and riches gotten by deceit, the kingdome is translated from one people to another.}

geneva@Sir:10:9 @ {\cf2 There is nothing woorse then a couetous man: why art thou proude, O earth and ashes? there is not a more wicked thing, then to loue money: for such one woulde euen sell his soule, and for his life euery man is compelled to pull out his owne bowels.}

geneva@Sir:10:10 @ {\cf2 All tyrannie is of small indurance, and the disease that is hard to heale, is grieuous to the physition.}

geneva@Sir:10:11 @ {\cf2 The physition cutteth off the sore disease, and he that is to day a king, to morowe is dead.}

geneva@Sir:10:12 @ {\cf2 Why is earth and ashes proude, seeing that when a man dieth, he is the heire of serpents, beastes and wormes?}

geneva@Sir:10:13 @ {\cf2 The beginning of mans pride, is to fall away from God, and to turne away his heart from his maker.}

geneva@Sir:10:14 @ {\cf2 For pride is the original of sinne, and he that hath it, shall powre out abomination, till at last he be ouerthrowen: therefore the Lorde bringeth the perswasions of the wicked to dishonour, and destroyeth them in the ende.}

geneva@Sir:10:15 @ {\cf2 The Lord hath cast downe the thrones of the proude princes, and set vp the meeke in their steade.}

geneva@Sir:10:16 @ {\cf2 The Lorde plucketh vp the rootes of the proude nations, and planteth the lowly with glory among them.}

geneva@Sir:10:17 @ {\cf2 The Lorde ouerthroweth the landes of the heathen, and destroyeth them vnto the foundations of the earth: hee causeth them to wither away, and destroyeth them, and maketh their memoriall to cease out of the earth.}

geneva@Sir:10:18 @ {\cf2 God destroyeth ye memoriall of the proude, and leaueth the remembrance of the humble.}

geneva@Sir:10:19 @ {\cf2 Pride was not created in men, neither wrath in the generation of women.}

geneva@Sir:10:20 @ {\cf2 There is a seede of man which is an honourable seede: the honourable seede are they that feare the Lorde: there is a seede of man, which is without honour: the seede without honour, are they that transgresse the commaundementes of the Lord: it is a seede that remaineth which feareth the Lord, and a faire plant, that loue him: but they are a seede without honour, that despise the Lawe, and a deceiueable seede that breake the commaundementes.}

geneva@Sir:10:21 @ {\cf2 He that is the chiefe among brethren, is honourable: so are they that feare the Lorde in his sight.}

geneva@Sir:10:22 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord causeth that the kingdome faileth not, but the kingdome is lost by crueltie and pride.}

geneva@Sir:10:23 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is the glory aswell of the rich and the noble, as of the poore.}

geneva@Sir:10:24 @ {\cf2 It is not meete to despise the poore man that hath vnderstanding, neither is it couenient to magnifie the rich that is a wicked man.}

geneva@Sir:10:25 @ {\cf2 The great man and the iudge and the man of authority, are honourable, yet is there none of them greater, then he that feareth the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:10:26 @ {\cf2 Vnto the seruant that is wise, shal they that are free, doe seruice: he that hath knowledge, wil not grudge when hee is reformed, and the ignorant shall not come to honour.}

geneva@Sir:10:27 @ {\cf2 Seeke not excuses when thou shouldest doe thy worke, neither bee ashamed thereof through pride in the time of aduersitie.}

geneva@Sir:10:28 @ {\cf2 Better is he that laboureth and hath plenteousnesse of all things, then hee that is gorgeous, and wanteth bread.}

geneva@Sir:10:29 @ {\cf2 My sonne, get thy selfe prayse by meekenes, and esteeme thy selfe as thou deseruest.}

geneva@Sir:10:30 @ {\cf2 Who wil count him iust that sinneth against him selfe? or honour him, that dishonoureth his owne soule?}

geneva@Sir:10:31 @ {\cf2 The poore is honoured for his knowledge and his feare, but the rich is had in reputation because of his goods.}

geneva@Sir:10:32 @ {\cf2 Hee that is honourable in pouertie, howe much more shal he be when he is rich? and he that is vnhonest being rich, howe much more will he be so when he is in pouertie?}

geneva@Sir:11:1 @ {\cf2 Wisedome lifteth vp the head of him that is lowe, and maketh him to sit among great men.}

geneva@Sir:11:2 @ {\cf2 Commende not a man for his beautie, neither despise a man in his vtter appearance.}

geneva@Sir:11:3 @ {\cf2 The Bee is but smal among the foules, yet doeth her fruit passe in sweetenesse.}

geneva@Sir:11:4 @ {\cf2 Bee not proude of clothing and rayment, and exalt not thy selfe in the day of honour: for the workes of the Lorde are wonderfull, and glorious, secrete, and vnknowen are his workes among men.}

geneva@Sir:11:5 @ {\cf2 Many tyrants haue sit downe vpon the earth, and the vnlikely hath worne the crowne.}

geneva@Sir:11:6 @ {\cf2 Many mightie men haue bene brought to dishonour, and the honourable haue bene deliuered into other mens hands.}

geneva@Sir:11:7 @ {\cf2 Blame no man before thou haue inquired the matter: vnderstande first, and then reforme righteously.}

geneva@Sir:11:8 @ {\cf2 Giue no sentence, before thou hast heard the cause, neither interrupt men in the middes of their tales.}

geneva@Sir:11:9 @ {\cf2 Striue not for a matter that thou hast not to do with, and sit not in the iudgement of sinners.}

geneva@Sir:11:10 @ {\cf2 My sonne, meddle not with many matters: for if thou gaine much, thou shalt not be blamelesse, and if thou followe after it, yet shalt thou not attaine it, neither shalt thou escape, though thou flee from it.}

geneva@Sir:11:11 @ {\cf2 There is some man that laboureth and taketh paine, and the more hee hasteth, the more hee wanteth.}

geneva@Sir:11:12 @ {\cf2 Againe there is some that is slouthfull, and hath neede of helpe: for he wanteth strength, and hath great pouertie, yet ye eye of the Lord looketh vpon him to good, and setteth him vp from his lowe estate,}

geneva@Sir:11:13 @ {\cf2 And he lifteth vp his head: so that many men marueile at him, and giue honour vnto God.}

geneva@Sir:11:14 @ {\cf2 Prosperitie and aduersitie, life and death, pouertie and riches come of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:11:15 @ {\cf2 Wisedome and knowledge, and vnderstanding of the Lawe are of the Lorde: loue and good workes come of him.}

geneva@Sir:11:16 @ {\cf2 Errour and darkenesse are appointed for sinners, and they that exalt them selues in euill, waxe olde in euill.}

geneva@Sir:11:17 @ {\cf2 The gift of the Lord remaineth for the godly, and his good will giueth prosperitie for euer.}

geneva@Sir:11:18 @ {\cf2 Some man is rich by his care and nigardship, and this is the portion of his wages,}

geneva@Sir:11:19 @ {\cf2 In that hee saith, I haue gotten rest, and nowe will I eate continually of my goods, yet hee considereth not, that the time draweth neere, that he must leaue all these things vnto other men, and die himselfe.}

geneva@Sir:11:20 @ {\cf2 Stand thou in thy state, and exercise thy selfe therein, and remaine in thy worke vnto thine age.}

geneva@Sir:11:21 @ {\cf2 Marueile not at the workes of sinners, but trust in the Lorde, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easie thing in the sight of the Lord, suddenly to make a poore man rich.}

geneva@Sir:11:22 @ {\cf2 The blessing of the Lorde is in the wages of the godly, and he maketh his prosperitie soone to flourish.}

geneva@Sir:11:23 @ {\cf2 Say not, What profite and pleasure shall I haue? and what good things shall I haue hereafter?}

geneva@Sir:11:24 @ {\cf2 Againe say not, I haue ynough, and possesse many thinges, and what euill can come to mee hereafter?}

geneva@Sir:11:25 @ {\cf2 In thy good state remember aduersitie, and in aduersitie forget not prosperitie.}

geneva@Sir:11:26 @ {\cf2 For it is an easie thing vnto the Lorde in the day of death to rewarde a man according to his wayes.}

geneva@Sir:11:27 @ {\cf2 The aduersitie of an houre maketh one to forget pleasure: and in a mans ende, his workes are discouered.}

geneva@Sir:11:28 @ {\cf2 Iudge none blessed before his death: for a man shalbe knowen by his children.}

geneva@Sir:11:29 @ {\cf2 Bring not euery man into thine house: for the deceitfull haue many traines, and are like stomackes that belche stinkingly.}

geneva@Sir:11:30 @ {\cf2 As a partriche is taken vnder a basket, and the hind is taken in the snare, so is the heart of the proud man, which like a spie watcheth for thy fall.}

geneva@Sir:11:31 @ {\cf2 For he lieth in waite and turneth good vnto euill, and in thinges worthie prayse hee will finde some faute.}

geneva@Sir:11:32 @ {\cf2 Of one litle sparke is made a great fire, and of one deceitfull man is blood increased: for a sinfull man laieth waite for blood.}

geneva@Sir:11:33 @ {\cf2 Beware of a wicked man: for hee imagineth wicked things to bring thee into a perpetual shame.}

geneva@Sir:11:34 @ {\cf2 Lodge a straunger, and hee will destroy thee with vnquietnesse, and driue thee from thine owne.}

geneva@Sir:12:1 @ {\cf2 When thou wilt doe good, knowe to whome thou doest it, so shalt thou be thanked for thy benefites.}

geneva@Sir:12:2 @ {\cf2 Do good vnto the righteous, and thou shalt finde great reward, though not of him, yet of the most High.}

geneva@Sir:12:3 @ {\cf2 Hee can not haue good that continueth in euill, and giueth not almes: for the most High hateth the sinners, and hath mercie vpon them that repent.}

geneva@Sir:12:4 @ {\cf2 Giue vnto such as feare God, and receiue not a sinner.}

geneva@Sir:12:5 @ {\cf2 Doe well vnto him that is lowly, but giue not to the vngodly: holde backe thy bread, and giue it not vnto him, least he ouercome thee thereby: else thou shalt receiue twise as much euill for all the good that thou doest vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:12:6 @ {\cf2 For the most High hateth the wicked, & will repay vengeance vnto the vngodly, and keepeth them against the day of horrible vengeance.}

geneva@Sir:12:7 @ {\cf2 Giue vnto the good, & receiue not the sinner.}

geneva@Sir:12:8 @ {\cf2 A friende can not bee knowen in prosperitie, neither can an enemie be vnknowen in aduersitie.}

geneva@Sir:12:9 @ {\cf2 When a man is in wealth, it grieueth his enemies, but in heauinesse and trouble a mans very friend will depart from him.}

geneva@Sir:12:10 @ {\cf2 Trust neuer thine enemie: for like as an yron rusteth, so doeth his wickednesse.}

geneva@Sir:12:11 @ {\cf2 And though hee make much crouching and kneeling, yet aduise thy selfe, and beware of him, and thou shalt be to him, as he that wipeth a glasse, and thou shalt knowe that all his rust hath not bin well wiped away.}

geneva@Sir:12:12 @ {\cf2 Set him not by thee, least hee destroy thee, and stand in thy place.}

geneva@Sir:12:13 @ {\cf2 Neither set him at thy right hande, least hee seeke thy rowme, and thou at the last remember my words, and be pricked with my sayings.}

geneva@Sir:12:14 @ {\cf2 Bind not two sinnes together: for there shal not one be vnpunished.}

geneva@Sir:12:15 @ {\cf2 Who will haue pitie of the charmer, that is stinged of the serpent? or of all such as come neere the beastes? so is it with him that keepeth companie with a wicked man, and wrappeth him selfe in his sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:12:16 @ {\cf2 For a season wil he bide with thee: but if thou stumble, he tarieth not.}

geneva@Sir:12:17 @ {\cf2 An enemie is sweete in his lips: he can make many good wordes, and speake many good things: yea, hee can weepe with his eyes, but in his heart hee imagineth howe to throwe thee into the pit: and if he may finde opportunitie, he will not bee satisfied with blood.}

geneva@Sir:12:18 @ {\cf2 If aduersitie come vpon thee, thou shalt find him there first, and though hee pretende to helpe thee, yet shall he vndermine thee: he will shake his head, and clap his hands, and wil make many words, and disguise his countenance.}

geneva@Sir:13:1 @ {\cf2 He that toucheth pitch, shalbe defiled with it: and he that is familiar with the proude, shalbe like vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:13:2 @ {\cf2 Burthen not thy selfe aboue thy power, whilest thou liuest, and companie not with one that is mightier, and richer then thy selfe: for howe agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? For if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.}

geneva@Sir:13:3 @ {\cf2 The riche dealeth vnrighteously, and threateneth withall: but the poore being oppressed must intreate: if the riche haue done wrong, heemust yet be intreated: but if the poore haue done it, he shal straight wayes be threatned.}

geneva@Sir:13:4 @ {\cf2 If thou be for his profite, he vseth thee: but if thou haue nothing, he wil forsake thee.}

geneva@Sir:13:5 @ {\cf2 If thou haue any thing, he wil liue with thee: yea, he will make thee a bare man, and will not care for it.}

geneva@Sir:13:6 @ {\cf2 If he haue neede of thee, hee will defraude thee, & wil laugh at thee, and put thee in hope, and giue thee al good words, & say, What wantest thou?}

geneva@Sir:13:7 @ {\cf2 Thus will he shame thee in his meate, vntill he haue supt thee cleane vp twise or thrise, and at the last hee will laugh thee to scorne: afterwarde, when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.}

geneva@Sir:13:8 @ {\cf2 Submit thy selfe vnto God, and waite vpon his hand.}

geneva@Sir:13:9 @ {\cf2 Beware that thou be not deceiued in thine owne conceit & brought downe by thy simplenes: be not too humble in thy wisedome.}

geneva@Sir:13:10 @ {\cf2 If thou be called of a mightie man, absent thy selfe: so shal he call thee the more oft.}

geneva@Sir:13:11 @ {\cf2 Preasse not thou vnto him, that thou be not shut out, but go not thou far off, lest he forget thee.}

geneva@Sir:13:12 @ {\cf2 Withdraw not thy selfe from his speech, but beleeue not his many wordes: for with much communication will he tempt thee, and laughingly wil he grope thee.}

geneva@Sir:13:13 @ {\cf2 He is vnmerciful, & keepeth not promes, he wil not spare to do thee hurt, & to put thee in priso.}

geneva@Sir:13:14 @ {\cf2 Beware, and take good heede: for thou walkest in perill of thine ouerthrowing: when thou hearest this, awake in thy sleepe.}

geneva@Sir:13:15 @ {\cf2 Loue the Lorde all thy life, & call vpon him for thy saluation.}

geneva@Sir:13:16 @ {\cf2 Euery beast loueth his like, and euery man loueth his neighbour.}

geneva@Sir:13:17 @ {\cf2 Al flesh wil resort to their like, & euery man wil keepe company with such as he is himselfe.}

geneva@Sir:13:18 @ {\cf2 How can the wolfe agree with the lambe? No more can the vngodly with the righteous.}

geneva@Sir:13:19 @ {\cf2 What felowship hath hyena with a dogge? and what peace is betweene the rich & the poore?}

geneva@Sir:13:20 @ {\cf2 As the wilde Asse is the Lyons pray in ye wildernes, so are poore men the meate of the rich.}

geneva@Sir:13:21 @ {\cf2 As the proude hate humilitie, so do the riche abhorre the poore.}

geneva@Sir:13:22 @ {\cf2 If a riche man fall, his friendes set him vp againe: but when the poore falleth, his friends driue him away.}

geneva@Sir:13:23 @ {\cf2 If a rich man offende, he hath many helpers: he speaketh proude wordes, & yet men iustifie him: but if a poore ma faile, they rebuke him, & though he speake wisely, yet can it haue no place.}

geneva@Sir:13:24 @ {\cf2 When the riche man speaketh, euery man holdeth his tongue: and looke what he sayth, they prayse it vnto the cloudes: but if the poore man speake, they say, What felow is this? and if he do amisse, they wil destroy him.}

geneva@Sir:13:25 @ {\cf2 Riches are good vnto him that hath no sinne in his conscience, & pouertie is euil in the mouth of the vngodly.}

geneva@Sir:13:26 @ {\cf2 The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be in good or euill.}

geneva@Sir:13:27 @ {\cf2 A chearefull countenance is a token of a good heart: for it is an hard thing to knowe the secrets of the thought.}

geneva@Sir:14:1 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the man that hath not fallen by the worde of his mouth, and is not tormented with the sorow of sinne.}

geneva@Sir:14:2 @ {\cf2 Blessed is he that is not condemned in his coscience, and is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:14:3 @ {\cf2 Riches are not comely for a nigard, & what should an enuious man do with money?}

geneva@Sir:14:4 @ {\cf2 Hee that gathereth together from his owne soule, heapeth together for others, that will make good cheare with his goods.}

geneva@Sir:14:5 @ {\cf2 He that is wicked vnto himselfe, to whome will he be good? for such one can haue no pleasure of his goods.}

geneva@Sir:14:6 @ {\cf2 There is nothing worse, then when one enuieth himselfe: and this is a reward of his wickednes.}

geneva@Sir:14:7 @ {\cf2 And if he do any good, he doth it, not knowing thereof, and against his will, and at the last he declareth his wickednes.}

geneva@Sir:14:8 @ {\cf2 The enuious man hath a wicked looke: hee turneth away his face, and despiseth men.}

geneva@Sir:14:9 @ {\cf2 A couetous mans eye hath neuer ynough of a portion, and his wicked malice withereth his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:14:10 @ {\cf2 A wicked eye enuieth the bread, and there is scarcenesse vpon his table.}

geneva@Sir:14:11 @ {\cf2 My sonne, do good to thy selfe of that thou hast, and giue the Lord his due offrings.}

geneva@Sir:14:12 @ {\cf2 Remember that death tarieth not, and that the couenant of the graue is not shewed vnto thee.}

geneva@Sir:14:13 @ {\cf2 Do good vnto thy friend before thou dye, and according to thine habilitie stretche out thine hand, and giue him.}

geneva@Sir:14:14 @ {\cf2 Defraude not thy selfe of the good day, & let not the portion of the good desires ouerpasse thee.}

geneva@Sir:14:15 @ {\cf2 Shalt thou not leaue thy traueiles vnto another, & thy labours for the deuiding of ye heritage?}

geneva@Sir:14:16 @ {\cf2 Giue and take & sanctifie thy soule: worke thou righteousnes before thy death: for in the hell there is no meate to finde.}

geneva@Sir:14:17 @ {\cf2 All flesh waxeth olde, as a garment, and this is the condition of all times, Thou shalt die the death.}

geneva@Sir:14:18 @ {\cf2 As the greene leaues on a thicke tree, some fall, & some growe, so is the generation of flesh and blood: one cometh to an end, & another is borne.}

geneva@Sir:14:19 @ {\cf2 All corruptible things shall fayle, and the worker thereof shal go withall.}

geneva@Sir:14:20 @ {\cf2 Euery excellent worke shalbe iustified, and he that worketh it, shal haue honour thereby.}

geneva@Sir:14:21 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the man that doeth meditate honest things by wisedome, and exerciseth himselfe in iustice, and he that reasoneth of holy things by his vnderstanding,}

geneva@Sir:14:22 @ {\cf2 Which considereth in his heart her wayes, and vnderstandeth her secrets.}

geneva@Sir:14:23 @ {\cf2 Goe thou after her as one that seeketh her out, and lye in wayte in her wayes.}

geneva@Sir:14:24 @ {\cf2 He shal looke in at her windowes, and hearken at her doores.}

geneva@Sir:14:25 @ {\cf2 He shall abide beside her house, and fasten a stake in her walles: he shal pitch his tent besides her}

geneva@Sir:14:26 @ {\cf2 And he shal remaine in the lodging of good men, and shall set his children vnder her couering, and shal dwell vnder her branches.}

geneva@Sir:14:27 @ {\cf2 By her he shalbe couered from the heate, & in her glory shall he dwell.}

geneva@Sir:15:1 @ {\cf2 He that feareth the Lord, will do good: and he that hath the knowledge of the Law, wil keepe it sure.}

geneva@Sir:15:2 @ {\cf2 As an honorable mother shal shee meete him, and she, as his wife maryed of a virgine, wil receyue him.}

geneva@Sir:15:3 @ {\cf2 With the bread of life and vnderstanding shal shee feede him, and giue him the water of wholesome wisdome to drinke.}

geneva@Sir:15:4 @ {\cf2 He shal assure himselfe in her, & shall not be moued, and shal holde himselfe fast by her, and shal not be confounded.}

geneva@Sir:15:5 @ {\cf2 She shall exalt him aboue his neighbours, & in the middes of the congregation shall shee open his mouth: with the spirit of wisdome, and vnderstanding shal shee fill him, and clothe him with the garment of glory.}

geneva@Sir:15:6 @ {\cf2 Shee shall cause him to inherite ioy, and the crowne of gladnes, and an euerlasting name.}

geneva@Sir:15:7 @ {\cf2 But foolish men wil not take hold vpon her: but such as haue vnderstanding, wil meete her: the sinners shal not see her.}

geneva@Sir:15:8 @ {\cf2 For she is farre from pride and deceite, and men that lye, can not remember her: but men of trueth shall haunt her, and shal prosper euen vnto the beholding of God.}

geneva@Sir:15:9 @ {\cf2 Prayse is not seemely in the mouth of the sinner: for that is not sent of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:15:10 @ {\cf2 But if praise come of wisdome, & be plenteous in a faithful mouth then ye Lord wil prosper it.}

geneva@Sir:15:11 @ {\cf2 Say not thou, It is through the Lorde that I turne backe: for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.}

geneva@Sir:15:12 @ {\cf2 Say not thou, He hath caused me to erre: for he hath no neede of the sinnefull man.}

geneva@Sir:15:13 @ {\cf2 The Lord hateth all abomination of error: and they that feare God, loue it not.}

geneva@Sir:15:14 @ {\cf2 He made man from the beginning, & left him in the hand of his counsel, and gaue him his commandements and precepts.}

geneva@Sir:15:15 @ {\cf2 If thou wilt, thou shalt obserue the commadements, and testifie thy good will.}

geneva@Sir:15:16 @ {\cf2 He hath set water & fire before thee: stretch out thine hand vnto which thou wilt.}

geneva@Sir:15:17 @ {\cf2 Before man is life and death, good and euill: what him liketh, shalbe giuen him.}

geneva@Sir:15:18 @ {\cf2 For the wisdome of the Lord is great, and he is mightie in power, and beholdeth all things continually.}

geneva@Sir:15:19 @ {\cf2 And the eyes of the Lord are vpon them that feare him, & he knoweth al the works of man.}

geneva@Sir:15:20 @ {\cf2 He hath commanded no man to do vngodly, neither hath he giuen any man licence to sinne: for he desireth not a multitude of infidels, and vnprofitable children.}

geneva@Sir:16:1 @ {\cf2 Desire not the multitude of vnprofitable children, neither delight in vngodly children: though they be many, reioyce not in them, except the feare of the Lord be with them.}

geneva@Sir:16:2 @ {\cf2 Trust not thou to their life, neither rest vpon their multitude.}

geneva@Sir:16:3 @ {\cf2 For one that is iust, is better then a thousand such, and better it is to dye without children, then to leaue behinde him vngodly children.}

geneva@Sir:16:4 @ {\cf2 For by one that hath vnderstanding, shal the citie be inhabited: but the stocke of the wicked shalbe wasted incontinently.}

geneva@Sir:16:5 @ {\cf2 Many such thinges haue I seene with mine eyes, and mine eare hath heard greater things then these.}

geneva@Sir:16:6 @ {\cf2 In the congregation of the vngodly shal a fire be kindled, and among vnfaithfull people shall the wrath be set on fire.}

geneva@Sir:16:7 @ {\cf2 He spared not the olde gyants, which were rebellious, trusting to their owne strength,}

geneva@Sir:16:8 @ {\cf2 Neither spared he where as Lot dwelt, those whome he abhorred for their pride.}

geneva@Sir:16:9 @ {\cf2 He had no pitie vpon the people that were destroyed, and puffed vp in their sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:16:10 @ {\cf2 And so he preserued the sixe hudreth thousand footemen, that were gathered in the hardnesse of their heart, in afflicting them and pitying them, in smiting them and healing them, with mercie, and with chastisement.}

geneva@Sir:16:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore if there be one stifnecked among the people, it is marueile if he scape vnpunished: for mercy & wrath are with him: he is mightie to forgiue, and to powre out displeasure.}

geneva@Sir:16:12 @ {\cf2 As his mercy is great, so is his punishment also he iudgeth a man according to his workes.}

geneva@Sir:16:13 @ {\cf2 The vngodly shal not escape with his spoile, & the patience of the godly shal not be delayed.}

geneva@Sir:16:14 @ {\cf2 He wil giue place to all good deedes, & euery one shal finde according to his workes, and after the vnderstanding of his pilgrimage.}

geneva@Sir:16:15 @ {\cf2 The Lorde hardened Pharao, that he should not know him, & that his works should be knowen vpon the earth vnder the heauen.}

geneva@Sir:16:16 @ {\cf2 His mercy is knowen to all creatures: he hath separate his light from the darknes with an adamat.}

geneva@Sir:16:17 @ {\cf2 Say not thou, I will hide my selfe from the Lorde: for who wil thinke vpon me from aboue? I shall not be knowen in so great an heape of people: for what is my soule among such an infinite nomber of creatures?}

geneva@Sir:16:18 @ {\cf2 Beholde, the heauen, & the heauen of heauens, which are for God, the depth, & the earth, and all that therein is, shalbe moued when he shal visit.}

geneva@Sir:16:19 @ {\cf2 All the worlde which is created and made by his will, the mountaines also, & the foundations of the earth shall shake for feare, when the Lorde looketh vpon them.}

geneva@Sir:16:20 @ {\cf2 These things doth no heart vnderstand worthily, but he vnderstandeth euery heart.}

geneva@Sir:16:21 @ {\cf2 And who vnderstandeth his wayes? and the storme that no man can see? for the most part of his workes are hid.}

geneva@Sir:16:22 @ {\cf2 Who can declare the workes of his righteousnes? or who can abide them? for his ordinance is farre off, and the trying out of all things fayleth.}

geneva@Sir:16:23 @ {\cf2 He that is humble of heart, wil cosider these things: but an vnwise and erronious man casteth his minde vpon foolish things.}

geneva@Sir:16:24 @ {\cf2 My sonne, hearken vnto me, & learne knowledge, and marke my wordes with thine heart.}

geneva@Sir:16:25 @ {\cf2 I will declare thee waightie doctrine, and I will instruct thee exactly in knowledge.}

geneva@Sir:16:26 @ {\cf2 The Lorde hath set his workes in good order from the beginning, and part of them hath he sundred from the other when he first made them.}

geneva@Sir:16:27 @ {\cf2 He hath garnished his workes for euer, and their beginnings so long as they shall endure, they are not hungrie nor wearyed in their labours, nor cease from their offices.}

geneva@Sir:16:28 @ {\cf2 None of them hindreth another, neither was any of them disobedient vnto his wordes.}

geneva@Sir:16:29 @ {\cf2 After this the Lorde looked vpon the earth and filled it with his good things.}

geneva@Sir:16:30 @ {\cf2 With all maner of liuing beastes hath he couered the face thereof, and they returne into it againe.}

geneva@Sir:17:1 @ {\cf2 The Lorde hath created man of the earth, and turned him vnto it againe.}

geneva@Sir:17:2 @ {\cf2 He gaue him the number of dayes & certaine times, and gaue him power of the thinges that are vpon earth.}

geneva@Sir:17:3 @ {\cf2 Hee clothed them with strength, as they had neede, and made them according to his image.}

geneva@Sir:17:4 @ {\cf2 He made all flesh to feare him, so that he had the dominion ouer the beastes, and foules.}

geneva@Sir:17:5 @ {\cf2 He created out of him an helper like vnto him selfe, and gaue them discretion and tongue, and eyes, eares, and an heart to vnderstande, and sixtly he gaue them a spirit, and seuenthly hee gaue them speach to declare his workes,}

geneva@Sir:17:6 @ {\cf2 And hee filled them with knowledge of vnderstanding, and shewed them good and euill.}

geneva@Sir:17:7 @ {\cf2 He set his eye vpon their hearts, declaring vnto them his noble workes,}

geneva@Sir:17:8 @ {\cf2 And gaue them occasion to reioyce perpetually in his miracles, that they should prudently declare his works, and that the elect should prayse his holy Name together.}

geneva@Sir:17:9 @ {\cf2 Besides this, he gaue them knowledge, & gaue the the Law of life for an heritage, that they might nowe knowe that they were mortall.}

geneva@Sir:17:10 @ {\cf2 He made an euerlasting couenant with the, and shewed them his iudgements.}

geneva@Sir:17:11 @ {\cf2 Their eyes sawe the maiestie of his glory, and their eares heard his glorious voyce.}

geneva@Sir:17:12 @ {\cf2 And he said vnto them, Beware of al vnrighteous things. He gaue euery man also a commandement concerning his neighbour.}

geneva@Sir:17:13 @ {\cf2 Their wayes are euer before him, and are not hid from his eyes.}

geneva@Sir:17:14 @ {\cf2 Euery man from his youth is giuen to euill, and their stonie hearts can not become flesh.}

geneva@Sir:17:15 @ {\cf2 Hee appoynted a ruler vpon euery people, when he deuided the nations of the whole earth.}

geneva@Sir:17:16 @ {\cf2 And he did chuse Israel, as a peculiar people to himselfe, whom he nourisheth with discipline as his first borne, and giueth him most louing light, and doeth not forsake him.}

geneva@Sir:17:17 @ {\cf2 All their workes are as the sunne before him, and his eyes are continually vpon their wayes.}

geneva@Sir:17:18 @ {\cf2 None of their vnrighteousnesse is hid from him, but all their sinnes are before the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:17:19 @ {\cf2 And as he is merciful, & knoweth his worke, hee doeth not leaue them nor forsake them, but spareth them.}

geneva@Sir:17:20 @ {\cf2 The almes of a man, is as a thing sealed vp before him, & he keepeth the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and giueth repentance to their sonnes, and daughters.}

geneva@Sir:17:21 @ {\cf2 At the last shal he arise, and reward them, and shall repay their reward vpon their heads.}

geneva@Sir:17:22 @ {\cf2 But vnto them that will repent, he giueth them grace to returne, and exhorteth such as faile, with patience, and sendeth them the portion of the veritie.}

geneva@Sir:17:23 @ {\cf2 Returne then vnto the Lorde, and forsake thy sinnes: make thy praier before his face, and take away the offence.}

geneva@Sir:17:24 @ {\cf2 Turne againe vnto the most High: for he wil bring thee from darkenesse to wholesome light: forsake thine vnrighteousnesse, and hate greatly all abomination.}

geneva@Sir:17:25 @ {\cf2 Knowe the righteousnesse and iudgements of God: stande in ye portio that is set forth for thee, and in the prayer of the most high God, and goe in the parts of the holy worlde with such as be liuing and confesse God.}

geneva@Sir:17:26 @ {\cf2 Who can prayse the most High in the hell, as doe all they that liue and confesse him?}

geneva@Sir:17:27 @ {\cf2 Abide not thou in the errour of the vngodly, but prayse the Lorde before death.}

geneva@Sir:17:28 @ {\cf2 Thankefulnesse perisheth from the dead, as though he were not: but the liuing, and he that is sounde of heart, prayseth the Lord, and reioyceth in his mercy.}

geneva@Sir:17:29 @ {\cf2 How great is the louing kindnes of the Lord our God, and his compassion vnto such as turne vnto him in holines!}

geneva@Sir:17:30 @ {\cf2 For all things can not be in men, because the sonne of man is not immortal, and they take pleasure in the vanitie of wickednesse.}

geneva@Sir:17:31 @ {\cf2 What is more cleare then the sunne? yet shall it faile.}

geneva@Sir:17:32 @ {\cf2 So flesh and blood that thinketh euill, shall be reproued.}

geneva@Sir:17:33 @ {\cf2 He seeth the power of the high heauen, and all men are but earth and ashes.}

geneva@Sir:18:1 @ {\cf2 He that liueth for euer, made all things together: the Lord who onely is iust, and there is none other but he, and he remaineth a victorious King for euer.}

geneva@Sir:18:2 @ {\cf2 He ordereth the world with the power of his hand, and all things obey his will: for he gouerneth all things by his power, and deuideth the holy things from the prophane.}

geneva@Sir:18:3 @ {\cf2 To whom hath hee giuen power to expresse his workes? who will seeke out the grounde of his noble actes?}

geneva@Sir:18:4 @ {\cf2 Who shall declare the power of his greatnesse? or who will take vpon him to tell out his mercie?}

geneva@Sir:18:5 @ {\cf2 As for the wonderous workes of the Lorde, there may nothing bee taken from them, neither can any thing bee put vnto them, neither may the ground of them be found out.}

geneva@Sir:18:6 @ {\cf2 But when a man hath done his best, he must beginne againe, and when he thinketh to come to an ende, he must go againe to his labour.}

geneva@Sir:18:7 @ {\cf2 What is man? whereto serueth hee? what good or euill can he doe?}

geneva@Sir:18:8 @ {\cf2 If the number of a mans dayes be an hundreth yeere, it is much: and no man hath certaine knowledge of his death.}

geneva@Sir:18:9 @ {\cf2 As droppes of raine are vnto the sea, and as a grauel stone is in comparison of the sand, so are a thousand yeres to the dayes euerlasting.}

geneva@Sir:18:10 @ {\cf2 Therefore is God pacient with them, and powreth out his mercie vpon them.}

geneva@Sir:18:11 @ {\cf2 He sawe and perceiued, that the arrogancie of their heart, and their ruine was euill: therefore heaped hee vp his mercie vpon them, and shewed them the way of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:18:12 @ {\cf2 The mercie that a man hath, reacheth to his neighbour: but the mercy of the Lorde is vpon all flesh: he chasteneth, and nurtureth, and teacheth, and bringeth backe, as a shepheard his flocke.}

geneva@Sir:18:13 @ {\cf2 He hath mercy of the that receiue discipline, and that diligently seeke after his iudgements.}

geneva@Sir:18:14 @ {\cf2 My sonne, when thou doest good, reproue not: and whatsoeuer thou giuest, vse no discomfortable words.}

geneva@Sir:18:15 @ {\cf2 Shall not the dewe asswage the heate? so is a word better then a gift.}

geneva@Sir:18:16 @ {\cf2 Loe, is not a worde better then a good gift? but a gratious man giueth them both.}

geneva@Sir:18:17 @ {\cf2 A foole will reproch churlishly, and a gift of the enuious putteth out the eyes.}

geneva@Sir:18:18 @ {\cf2 Get thee righteousnesse before thou come to iudgement: learne before thou speake, and vse physicke or euer thou be sicke.}

geneva@Sir:18:19 @ {\cf2 Examine thy selfe, before thou bee iudged, and in the day of the visitation thou shalt finde mercy.}

geneva@Sir:18:20 @ {\cf2 Humble thy selfe before thou bee sicke, and whilest thou mayst yet sinne, shew thy conuersion.}

geneva@Sir:18:21 @ {\cf2 Let nothing let thee to pay thy vow in time, and deferre not vnto death to bee reformed: for the reward of God endureth for euer.}

geneva@Sir:18:22 @ {\cf2 Before thou prayest, prepare thy selfe, and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:18:23 @ {\cf2 Thinke vpon the wrath, that shalbe at the ende, and the houre of vengeance, when hee shall turne away his face.}

geneva@Sir:18:24 @ {\cf2 When thou hast inough, remember the time of hunger: and when thou art rich, thinke vpon pouertie and neede.}

geneva@Sir:18:25 @ {\cf2 From the morning vntill the euening ye time is changed, and all such things are soone done before the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:18:26 @ {\cf2 A wise man feareth in all thinges, and in the dayes of transgressio he keepeth himselfe fro sinne: but the foole doeth not obserue the time.}

geneva@Sir:18:27 @ {\cf2 Euery wise man knoweth wisedome, and knowledge, and prayseth him that findeth her.}

geneva@Sir:18:28 @ {\cf2 They that haue vnderstanding, deale wisely in words: they vnderstande the trueth and righteousnesse, and powre out with modestie graue sentences for mans life.}

geneva@Sir:18:29 @ {\cf2 The chiefe authoritie of speaking is of the Lorde alone: for a mortall man hath but a dead heart.}

geneva@Sir:18:30 @ {\cf2 Followe not thy lustes, but turne thee from thine owne appetites.}

geneva@Sir:18:31 @ {\cf2 For if thou giuest thy soule her desires, it shal make thine enemies that enuy thee, to laugh thee to scorne.}

geneva@Sir:18:32 @ {\cf2 Take not thy pleasure in great voluptuousnes, and intangle not thy selfe with such company.}

geneva@Sir:18:33 @ {\cf2 Become not a begger by making bankets of that that thou hast borrowed, and so leaue nothing in thy purse: else thou shouldest slaunderously lye in waite for thine owne life.}

geneva@Sir:19:1 @ {\cf2 A labouring man that is giuen to drunkennesse, shal not be rich: and he that contemneth smal things, shall fall by litle and litle.}

geneva@Sir:19:2 @ {\cf2 Wine and women leade wise men out of the way, and put men of vnderstanding to reproofe.}

geneva@Sir:19:3 @ {\cf2 And he that companieth adulterers, shall become impudent: rottenesse and wormes shall haue him to heritage, and he that is to bolde, shall be taken away, and be made a publike example.}

geneva@Sir:19:4 @ {\cf2 Hee that is hastie to giue credite, is light minded, and hee that erreth, sinneth against his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:19:5 @ {\cf2 Who so reioyceth in wickednesse, shall be punished: he that hateth to be reformed, his life shall bee shortened, and hee that abhorreth babbling of wordes, quencheth wickednesse: but hee that resisteth pleasures, crowneth his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:19:6 @ {\cf2 He that refraineth his tongue, may liue with a troublesome man, and hee that hateth babbling, shall haue lesse euill.}

geneva@Sir:19:7 @ {\cf2 Rehearse not to another, that which is tolde vnto thee: so thou shalt not be hindred.}

geneva@Sir:19:8 @ {\cf2 Declare not other mens manners, neither to friend nor foe: and if the sinne appertaine not vnto thee, reueile it not.}

geneva@Sir:19:9 @ {\cf2 For hee will hearken vnto thee, and marke thee, and when hee findeth opportunitie, hee will hate thee.}

geneva@Sir:19:10 @ {\cf2 If thou hast heard a worde against thy neighbour let it die with thee, and bee sure, it will not burst thee.}

geneva@Sir:19:11 @ {\cf2 A foole trauaileth when hee hath heard a thing, as a woman that is about to bring forth a childe.}

geneva@Sir:19:12 @ {\cf2 As an arrowe that sticketh in ones thigh, so is a word in a fooles heart.}

geneva@Sir:19:13 @ {\cf2 Reproue a friend least he do euill, and if he haue done it, that he doe it no more.}

geneva@Sir:19:14 @ {\cf2 Reproue a friende that hee may keepe his tongue: and if hee haue spoken, that hee say it no more.}

geneva@Sir:19:15 @ {\cf2 Tel thy friend his faute: for oft times a slaunder is raised, and giue no credence to euery word.}

geneva@Sir:19:16 @ {\cf2 A man falleth with his tongue, but not with his will: and who is he, that hath not offended in his tongue?}

geneva@Sir:19:17 @ {\cf2 Reproue thy neighbour before thou threaten him, and being without anger, giue place vnto the Lawe of the most High.}

geneva@Sir:19:18 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord is the first degree to be receiued of him, and wisedome obteineth his loue.}

geneva@Sir:19:19 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of the commandementes of the Lord is the doctrine of life, and they that obey him, shall receiue the fruit of immortalitie.}

geneva@Sir:19:20 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord is all wisedome, & the performing of the Law is perfect wisdome, and the knowledge of his almightie power.}

geneva@Sir:19:21 @ {\cf2 If a seruant say vnto his master, I wil not do as it pleaseth thee, though afterwarde he doe it, hee shall displease him that nourisheth him.}

geneva@Sir:19:22 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of wickednesse is not wisedome, neither is there prudencie whereas the counsell of sinners is: but it is euen execrable malice and the foole is voyde of wisedome.}

geneva@Sir:19:23 @ {\cf2 Hee that hath small vnderstanding, and feareth God, is better then one that hath much wisedome, and transgresseth the Law of the most high.}

geneva@Sir:19:24 @ {\cf2 There is a certaine subtiltie that is fine, but it is vnrighteous: and there is that wresteth the open and manifest Lawe: yet there is that is wise and iudgeth righteously.}

geneva@Sir:19:25 @ {\cf2 There is some that being about wicked purposes, doe bowe downe themselues, and are sadde, whose inwarde parts burne altogether with deceit: he looketh downe with his face, & faineth himselfe deafe: yet before thou perceiue, he will bee vpon thee to hurt thee.}

geneva@Sir:19:26 @ {\cf2 And though he be so weake that he can doe thee no harme, yet when he may finde opportunitie, he will doe euill.}

geneva@Sir:19:27 @ {\cf2 A man may be knowen by his looke, and one that hath vnderstanding, may be perceiued by the marking of his countenance.}

geneva@Sir:19:28 @ {\cf2 A mans garment, and his excessiue laughter, and going declare what person he is.}

geneva@Sir:20:1 @ {\cf2 There is some rebuke that is not comely: againe, some man holdeth his tongue, and he is wise.}

geneva@Sir:20:2 @ {\cf2 It is much better to reprooue, then to beare euill will: and he that acknowledgeth his fault, shalbe preserued from hurt.}

geneva@Sir:20:3 @ {\cf2 As when a gelded man through lust woulde defile a mayde, so is he that vseth violence in iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:20:4 @ {\cf2 Howe good a thing is it, when thou art reprooued, to shewe repentance! For so shalt thou escape wilfull sinne.}

geneva@Sir:20:5 @ {\cf2 Some man keepeth silence, & is found wise, and some by much babbling becommeth hatefull.}

geneva@Sir:20:6 @ {\cf2 Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answere: and some keepeth silence, waiting a conuenient time.}

geneva@Sir:20:7 @ {\cf2 A wise man will holde his tongue till he see opportunitie: but a trifler and a foole will regarde no time.}

geneva@Sir:20:8 @ {\cf2 He that vseth many wordes, shall be abhorred, and he that taketh authoritie to him selfe, shalbe hated.}

geneva@Sir:20:9 @ {\cf2 Some man hath oft times prosperitie in wicked thinges, and sometime a thing that is founde, bringeth losse.}

geneva@Sir:20:10 @ {\cf2 There is some gift that is not profitable for thee, & there is some gift, whose reward is double.}

geneva@Sir:20:11 @ {\cf2 Some man humbleth him selfe for glories sake, and some by humblenesse lifteth vp the head.}

geneva@Sir:20:12 @ {\cf2 Some man byeth much for a litle price: for the which he payeth seuen times more.}

geneva@Sir:20:13 @ {\cf2 A wise man with his wordes maketh him selfe to be loued, but the merrie tales of fooles shal be powred out.}

geneva@Sir:20:14 @ {\cf2 The gift receiued of a foole, shall doe thee no good, neither yet of the enuious for his importunitie: for he looketh to receiue many things for one: he giueth litle, and he vpbraideth much: he openeth his mouth like a towne cryer: to day he lendeth, to morowe asketh he againe, and such one is to be hated of God and man.}

geneva@Sir:20:15 @ {\cf2 The foole saith, I haue no friend: I haue no thanke for all my good deedes: and they that eate my bread, speake euill of me.}

geneva@Sir:20:16 @ {\cf2 How oft, and of how many shal he be laughed to scorne? for he comprehendeth not by right iudgement that which he hath: and it is all one as though he had it not.}

geneva@Sir:20:17 @ {\cf2 The fall on a pauement is very sudden: so shall the fall of the wicked come hastely.}

geneva@Sir:20:18 @ {\cf2 A man without grace is as a foolish tale which is oft tolde by the mouth of the ignorant.}

geneva@Sir:20:19 @ {\cf2 A wise sentence loseth grace when it commeth out of a fooles mouth: for he speaketh not in due season.}

geneva@Sir:20:20 @ {\cf2 Some man sinneth not because of pouertie, and yet is not grieued when he is alone.}

geneva@Sir:20:21 @ {\cf2 Some man there is that destroyeth his owne soule, because he is ashamed, and for the regarde of persons loseth it.}

geneva@Sir:20:22 @ {\cf2 Some man promiseth vnto his friende for shame, and getteth an enemie of him for naught.}

geneva@Sir:20:23 @ {\cf2 A lie is a wicked shame in a man: yet is it oft in the mouth of the vnwise,}

geneva@Sir:20:24 @ {\cf2 A thiefe is better, then a man that is accustomed to lie: but they both shall haue destruction to heritage.}

geneva@Sir:20:25 @ {\cf2 The conditions of lyars are vnhonest, and their shame is euer with them.}

geneva@Sir:20:26 @ {\cf2 A wise man shall bring him selfe to honour with his wordes, and he that hath vnderstanding, shall please great men.}

geneva@Sir:20:27 @ {\cf2 He that tilleth his lande, shall increase his heape: he that worketh righteousnesse, shalbe exalted, and he that pleaseth great men, shall haue pardon of his iniquitie.}

geneva@Sir:20:28 @ {\cf2 Rewardes and giftes blinde the eyes of the wise, and make them dumme, that they can not reprooue faultes.}

geneva@Sir:20:29 @ {\cf2 Wisedome that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded vp, what profite is in them both?}

geneva@Sir:20:30 @ {\cf2 Better is hee that keepeth his ignorance secret, then a man that hydeth his wisedome.}

geneva@Sir:20:31 @ {\cf2 The necessarie patience of him, that followeth the Lorde, is better then he that gouerneth his life without the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:21:1 @ {\cf2 My sonne, hast thou sinned? Doe so no more, but pray for the fore sinnes that they may be forgiuen thee.}

geneva@Sir:21:2 @ {\cf2 Flee from sinne, as from a serpent: for if thou comest to neere it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lyon, to slay the soules of men.}

geneva@Sir:21:3 @ {\cf2 All iniquitie is as a two edged sworde, the woundes whereof cannot be healed.}

geneva@Sir:21:4 @ {\cf2 Strife and iniuries waste riches: so the house of the proude shalbe desolate.}

geneva@Sir:21:5 @ {\cf2 The prayer of the poore going out of the mouth, commeth vnto the eares of the Lorde, and iustice is done him incontinently.}

geneva@Sir:21:6 @ {\cf2 Who so hateth to be reformed, is in the way of sinners: but he that feareth the Lord, conuerteth in heart.}

geneva@Sir:21:7 @ {\cf2 An eloquent talker is knowen a farre off: but he that is wise, perceiueth when he falleth.}

geneva@Sir:21:8 @ {\cf2 Who so buildeth his house with other mens money, is like one that gathereth stones to make his graue.}

geneva@Sir:21:9 @ {\cf2 The congregation of the wicked is like towe wrapped together: their ende is a flame of fire to destroy them.}

geneva@Sir:21:10 @ {\cf2 The way of sinners is made plaine with stones, but at the ende thereof is hell, darkenesse and paynes.}

geneva@Sir:21:11 @ {\cf2 He that keepeth the Law of the Lord, ruleth his owne affections thereby: and the encrease of wisedome is the ende of the feare of God.}

geneva@Sir:21:12 @ {\cf2 He that is not wise, will not suffer him selfe to be taught: but there is some witte that encreaseth bitternesse.}

geneva@Sir:21:13 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of the wise shall abounde like water that runneth ouer, and his counsell is like a pure fountaine of life.}

geneva@Sir:21:14 @ {\cf2 The inner partes of a foole are like a broken vessell: he can keepe no knowledge whiles he liueth.}

geneva@Sir:21:15 @ {\cf2 When a man of vnderstanding heareth a wise worde, he will commende it, and increase it: but if an ignorant man heare it, he will disalowe it, and cast it behinde his backe.}

geneva@Sir:21:16 @ {\cf2 The talking of a foole is like a burden in the way, but there is comelinesse in the talke of a wise man.}

geneva@Sir:21:17 @ {\cf2 They inquire at the mouth of the wise man in the congregation, & they shall ponder his words in their heart.}

geneva@Sir:21:18 @ {\cf2 As is an house that is destroyed, so is wisdom vnto a foole, and the knowledge of the vnwise is as wordes without order.}

geneva@Sir:21:19 @ {\cf2 Doctrine vnto fooles is as fetters on the feete, and like manicles vpon the right hand.}

geneva@Sir:21:20 @ {\cf2 A foole lifteth vp his voyce with laughter, but a wise man doeth scarce smile secretly.}

geneva@Sir:21:21 @ {\cf2 Learning is vnto a wise man a iewell of golde, and like a bracelet vpon his right arme.}

geneva@Sir:21:22 @ {\cf2 A foolish mans foote is soone in his neighbours house: but a man of experience is ashamed to looke in.}

geneva@Sir:21:23 @ {\cf2 A foole will peepe in at the dooore into the house: but he that is wel nurtured, wil stand wtout.}

geneva@Sir:21:24 @ {\cf2 It is the point of a foolish man to hearken at the doore: for he that is wise, will be grieued with such dishonour.}

geneva@Sir:21:25 @ {\cf2 The lippes of talkers will be telling such things as pertaine not vnto them, but the wordes of such as haue vnderstanding, are weighed in the balance.}

geneva@Sir:21:26 @ {\cf2 The heart of fooles is in their mouth: but the mouth of the wise is in their heart.}

geneva@Sir:21:27 @ {\cf2 When the vngodly curseth Satan, he curseth his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:21:28 @ {\cf2 A backebiter defileth his owne soule, and is hated wheresoeuer he is: but he that keepeth his tongue, and is discreete, shall come to honour.}

geneva@Sir:22:1 @ {\cf2 A slouthfull man is like a filthie stone, which euery man mocketh at for his shame.}

geneva@Sir:22:2 @ {\cf2 A slouthfull man is to be compared to the dongue of oxen, and euery one that taketh it vp, will shake it out of his hand.}

geneva@Sir:22:3 @ {\cf2 An euill nurtured sonne is the dishonour of the father: & the daughter is least to be esteemed.}

geneva@Sir:22:4 @ {\cf2 A wise daughter is an heritage vnto her husbande: but she that liueth dishonestly, is her fathers heauinesse.}

geneva@Sir:22:5 @ {\cf2 She that is bolde, dishonoureth both her father and her husband, and is not inferiour to the vngodly, but they both shall despise her.}

geneva@Sir:22:6 @ {\cf2 A tale out of time is as musike in mourning: but wisedome knoweth the seasons of correction and doctrine.}

geneva@Sir:22:7 @ {\cf2 Who so teacheth a foole, is as one that gleweth a potsheard together, & as he that waketh one that sleepeth, from a sounde sleepe.}

geneva@Sir:22:8 @ {\cf2 If children liue honestly, & haue wherewith, they shall put away the shame of their parents.}

geneva@Sir:22:9 @ {\cf2 But if children be proude, with hautines and foolishnes they defile the nobilitie of their kinred.}

geneva@Sir:22:10 @ {\cf2 Who so telleth a foole of wisedome, is as a man, which speaketh to one that is asleepe: when he hath told his tale, he saith, What is the matter?}

geneva@Sir:22:11 @ {\cf2 Weepe for the dead, for he hath lost the light: so weepe for the foole, for he wanteth vnderstanding: make small weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the foole is worse then the death.}

geneva@Sir:22:12 @ {\cf2 Seuen dayes doe men mourne for him that is dead: but the lamentation for the foole, and vngodly shoulde endure all the dayes of their life.}

geneva@Sir:22:13 @ {\cf2 Talke not much with a foole, and goe not to him that hath no vnderstanding: beware of him, least it turne thee to paine, and least thou be defiled when he shaketh him selfe. Depart from him, and thou shalt finde rest, and shalt not receiue sorowe by his foolishnesse.}

geneva@Sir:22:14 @ {\cf2 What is heauier then leade? and what other name should a foole haue?}

geneva@Sir:22:15 @ {\cf2 Sand and salte, and a lumpe of yron is easier to beare, then an vnwise, foolish and vngodly man.}

geneva@Sir:22:16 @ {\cf2 As a frame of wood ioyned together in a building can not be loosed with shaking, so the heart that is stablished by aduised counsel, shal feare at no time.}

geneva@Sir:22:17 @ {\cf2 The heart that is confirmed by discrete wisdome, is as a faire plaistring on a plaine wall.}

geneva@Sir:22:18 @ {\cf2 As reedes that are set vp on hie, can not abide the winde, so the fearefull heart with foolish imagination can endure no feare.}

geneva@Sir:22:19 @ {\cf2 He that hurteth the eye, bringeth foorth teares, and he that hurteth the heart, bringeth forth the affection.}

geneva@Sir:22:20 @ {\cf2 Who so casteth a stone at the birdes, frayeth them away: and he that vpbraydeth his friende, breaketh friendship.}

geneva@Sir:22:21 @ {\cf2 Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despaire not: for there may be a returning to fauour.}

geneva@Sir:22:22 @ {\cf2 If thou haue opened thy mouth against thy friende, feare not: for there may be a reconciliation, so that vpbrayding or pride or disclosing of secrets or a traiterous wounde doe not let: for by these things euery friend will depart.}

geneva@Sir:22:23 @ {\cf2 Be faithfull vnto thy friend in his pouertie, that thou mayest reioyce in his prosperitie. Abide stedfast vnto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heire with him in his heritage: for pouertie is not alwayes to be contemned, nor the rich that is foolish, to be had in admiration.}

geneva@Sir:22:24 @ {\cf2 As the vapour and smoke of the chimney goeth before the fire, so euill wordes, rebukes and threatnings goe before bloodsheading.}

geneva@Sir:22:25 @ {\cf2 I will not be ashamed to defende a friende: neither will I hide my selfe from him, though he shoulde doe me harme: whosoeuer heareth it, shall beware of him.}

geneva@Sir:22:26 @ {\cf2 Who shal set a watch before my mouth, & a seale of wisdom vpon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, & that my tongue destroy me not?}

geneva@Sir:23:1 @ {\cf2 O lorde, father and gouernour of all my whole life, leaue me not to their counsell, and let me not fall by them.}

geneva@Sir:23:2 @ {\cf2 Who will correct my thought, and put the doctrine of wisedome in mine heart, that they may not spare me in mine ignorance, neither let their faultes passe?}

geneva@Sir:23:3 @ {\cf2 Least mine ignorances increase, & my sinnesabounde to my destruction, and least I fall before mine aduersarie, & mine enemies reioyce ouer mee, whose hope is farre from thy mercy.}

geneva@Sir:23:4 @ {\cf2 O Lord, Father and God of my life, leaue me not in their imagination neither giue mee a proude looke, but turne away from thy seruants a stout minde.}

geneva@Sir:23:5 @ {\cf2 Take from me vaine hope, & concupiscence, and reteyne him in obedience, that desireth continually to serue thee.}

geneva@Sir:23:6 @ {\cf2 Let not the greedines of the bellie, nor lust of the flesh holde me, and giue not me thy seruant ouer into an impudent minde.}

geneva@Sir:23:7 @ {\cf2 Heare, O yee children, the instruction of a mouth that shall speake trueth: who so keepeth it, shall not perish through his lips, nor bee hurt by wicked workes.}

geneva@Sir:23:8 @ {\cf2 The sinner shall be taken by his owne lippes: for the euill speaker and the proude doe offende by them.}

geneva@Sir:23:9 @ {\cf2 Accustome not thy mouth to swearing: for in it there are many falles, neither take vp for a custome the naming of the Holy one: for thou shalt not be vnpunished for such thinges.}

geneva@Sir:23:10 @ {\cf2 For as a seruant which is ofte punished, cannot be without some skarre, so he that sweareth, & nameth God continually, shall not be fautelesse.}

geneva@Sir:23:11 @ {\cf2 A man that vseth much swearing, shalbe filled with wickednesse, & the plague shall neuer goe from his house: when he shal offend, his faute shalbe vpon him, and if he knowledge not his sinne, he maketh a double offence: and if he sweare in vaine, hee shall not bee innocent, but his house shalbe full of plagues.}

geneva@Sir:23:12 @ {\cf2 There is a word which is clothed with death: God graunt that it bee not found in the herytage of Iacob: but they that feare God, eschewe al such, and are not wrapped in sinne.}

geneva@Sir:23:13 @ {\cf2 Vse not thy mouth to ignorant rashnes: for therein is the occasion of sinne.}

geneva@Sir:23:14 @ {\cf2 Remember thy father & thy mother whe thou art set among great men, least thou bee forgotten in their sight, and so through thy custome become a foole, and wish that thou haddest not bene borne, and curse the day of thy natiuitie.}

geneva@Sir:23:15 @ {\cf2 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious wordes, will neuer bee reformed all the dayes of his life.}

geneva@Sir:23:16 @ {\cf2 There are two sortes of men that abound in sinne, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction: a minde hote as fire, that cannot be quenched till it bee consumed: an adulterous man that giueth his body no rest, till he haue kindled a fire.}

geneva@Sir:23:17 @ {\cf2 (All bread is sweete to a whoremonger: hee will not leaue off till he perish.)}

geneva@Sir:23:18 @ {\cf2 A man that breaketh wedlocke, and thinketh thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkenesse: the walles couer me: no body seeth me: whome neede I to feare? the most High will not remember my sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:23:19 @ {\cf2 Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lorde are ten thousand times brighter then the sunne, beholding all the wayes of men, and the ground of the deepe, and considereth the most secret partes.}

geneva@Sir:23:20 @ {\cf2 He knewe al things or euer they were made, and after they bee brought to passe also, he looketh vpon them all.}

geneva@Sir:23:21 @ {\cf2 The same man shall bee punished in the streetes of the citie, and shal be chased like a yong horsefoale, and when hee thinketh not vpon it, he shalbe taken: thus shall hee be put to shame of euery man, because hee would not vnderstand the feare of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:23:22 @ {\cf2 And thus shal it go also with euery wife, that leaueth her husbande, and getteth inheritance by another.}

geneva@Sir:23:23 @ {\cf2 For first shee hath disobeyed the Lawe of the most High, and secondly shee hath trespassed against her owne husband, and thirdlye, shee hath played the whore in adultery, and gotten her children by another man.}

geneva@Sir:23:24 @ {\cf2 Shee shalbe brought out into the congregation, and examination shalbe made of her children.}

geneva@Sir:23:25 @ {\cf2 Her children shall not take roote, and her branches shall bring forth no fruite.}

geneva@Sir:23:26 @ {\cf2 A shamefull report shall shee leaue, and her reproche shall not be put out.}

geneva@Sir:23:27 @ {\cf2 And they that remaine, shall knowe that there is nothing better then the feare of the Lord, & that there is nothing sweeter then to take heede vnto the commandements of the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:23:28 @ {\cf2 It is great glorie to follow the Lord, and to be receiued of him is long life.}

geneva@Sir:24:1 @ {\cf2 Wisedome shall praise her selfe, and be honoured in God, and reioyce in the middes of her people.}

geneva@Sir:24:2 @ {\cf2 In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.}

geneva@Sir:24:3 @ {\cf2 In the middes of her people shall she be exalted, and wondred at in the holy assembly.}

geneva@Sir:24:4 @ {\cf2 In the multitude of the chosen shee shall bee commended, and among such as be blessed, she shal be praysed, and shall say,}

geneva@Sir:24:5 @ {\cf2 I am come out of the mouth of the most High, first borne before all creatures.}

geneva@Sir:24:6 @ {\cf2 I caused the light that fayleth not, to arise in the heauen, and couered the earth as a cloude.}

geneva@Sir:24:7 @ {\cf2 My dwelling is aboue in the height, and my throne is in the pillar of the cloude.}

geneva@Sir:24:8 @ {\cf2 I alone haue gone round about the compasse of heauen, and haue walked in the bottom of the depth.}

geneva@Sir:24:9 @ {\cf2 I possessed the waues of the sea, and all the earth, and all people, and nation, and with my power haue I troden downe the heartes of al, both high and low.}

geneva@Sir:24:10 @ {\cf2 In all these things I sought rest, and a dwelling in some inheritance.}

geneva@Sir:24:11 @ {\cf2 So the creator of all thinges gaue me a commandement, and he that made me, appointed me a tabernacle, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Iacob, and take thine inheritance in Israel, and roote thy selfe among my chosen.}

geneva@Sir:24:12 @ {\cf2 He created me from the beginning, & before the world, and I shall neuer faile: In the holy habitation haue I serued before him, and so was I stablished in Sion.}

geneva@Sir:24:13 @ {\cf2 In the welbeloued citie gaue he me rest, & in Ierusalem was my power.}

geneva@Sir:24:14 @ {\cf2 I tooke roote in an honourable people, euen in the portion of the Lordes inheritance.}

geneva@Sir:24:15 @ {\cf2 I am set vp on hie like a cedar in Libanus, & as a cypres tree vpon the mountaines of Hermon.}

geneva@Sir:24:16 @ {\cf2 I am exalted like a palme tree about the bankes, and as a rose plant in Iericho, as a faire oliue tree in a pleasant fielde, and am exalted as a plane tree by the water.}

geneva@Sir:24:17 @ {\cf2 I smelled as the cinnamum, and as a bag of spices: I gaue a sweete odour as the best mirrhe, as galbanum, and onix, and sweete storax, & perfume of incense in an house.}

geneva@Sir:24:18 @ {\cf2 As the terebinth, haue I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honor and grace.}

geneva@Sir:24:19 @ {\cf2 As the vine haue I brought forth fruite of sweete sauour, and my flowers are the fruite of honour and riches.}

geneva@Sir:24:20 @ {\cf2 I am the mother of beautifull loue, and of feare, and of knowledge, and of holy hope: I giue eternall things to all my children to whome God hath commanded.}

geneva@Sir:24:21 @ {\cf2 In me is all grace of life and trueth: in mee is all hope of life and vertue.}

geneva@Sir:24:22 @ {\cf2 Come vnto me al ye that be desirous of me, and fill your selues with my fruites.}

geneva@Sir:24:23 @ {\cf2 For the remembrance of mee is, sweeter then honie, and mine inheritance sweeter then the hony combe: the remebrance of me endureth for euermore.}

geneva@Sir:24:24 @ {\cf2 They that eate me, shall haue the more hunger, and they that drinke me, shall thirst the more.}

geneva@Sir:24:25 @ {\cf2 Who so hearkeneth vnto me, shal not come to confusion, and they that worke by me, shall not offende: they that make me to be knowen, shall haue euerlasting life.}

geneva@Sir:24:26 @ {\cf2 All these thinges are the booke of life, and the couenant of the most high God, & the knowledge of the trueth, and the Law that Moyses in the precepts of righteousnes commaunded for an heritage vnto the house of Iacob, and the promises pertayning vnto Israel.}

geneva@Sir:24:27 @ {\cf2 Be not wearie to behaue your selues valiantly with the Lord, that hee may also confirme you: cleaue vnto him: for the Lord almightie is but one God, and besides him there is none other Sauiour.}

geneva@Sir:24:28 @ {\cf2 Out of Dauid his seruant hee ordeyned to raise vp a most mightie King that should sitte in the throne of honour for euermore.}

geneva@Sir:24:29 @ {\cf2 Hee filleth all things with his wisedome, as Physon, and as Tygris, in the time of the newe fruites.}

geneva@Sir:24:30 @ {\cf2 Hee maketh the vnderstanding to abounde like Euphrates, and as Iorden, in the time of the haruest.}

geneva@Sir:24:31 @ {\cf2 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge to appeare as the light, and ouerfloweth as Geon in the time of the vintage.}

geneva@Sir:24:32 @ {\cf2 The first man hath not knowen her perfectly: no more shall the last seeke her out.}

geneva@Sir:24:33 @ {\cf2 For her considerations are more aboundant then the sea, and her counsell is profounder then the great deepe.}

geneva@Sir:24:34 @ {\cf2 I wisdome haue cast out floodes: I am as an arme of the riuer: I runne into Paradise as a water conduite.}

geneva@Sir:24:35 @ {\cf2 I sayd, I will water my faire garden, and will water my pleasant ground: and loe, my ditch became a flood, and my flood became a sea.}

geneva@Sir:24:36 @ {\cf2 For I make doctrine to shine as the light of the morning, and I lighten it for euer.}

geneva@Sir:24:37 @ {\cf2 I wil pearce thorow all the lower partes of the earth: I will looke vpon all such as be a sleepe, and lighten all them that trust in the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:24:38 @ {\cf2 I will yet powre out doctrine, as prophesie, and leaue it vnto all ages for euer.}

geneva@Sir:24:39 @ {\cf2 Beholde that I haue not laboured for my selfe onely, but for all them that seeke wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:25:1 @ {\cf2 Three things reioyce me, and by them am I beautified before God and men: the vnitie of brethren, the loue of neighbours, a man and wife that agree together.}

geneva@Sir:25:2 @ {\cf2 Three sortes of men my soule hateth, and I vtterly abhorre the life of them: a poore man that is proude: a rich man that is a lyar, and an old adulterer that doteth.}

geneva@Sir:25:3 @ {\cf2 If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, what canst thou finde in thine age?}

geneva@Sir:25:4 @ {\cf2 Oh, how pleasant a thing is it when gray headed men minister iudgement, and when the elders can giue good counsell!}

geneva@Sir:25:5 @ {\cf2 Oh, how comely a thing is wisedome vnto aged men, and vnderstanding and prudencie to men of honour!}

geneva@Sir:25:6 @ {\cf2 The crowne of old men is to haue much experience, and the feare of God is their glorie.}

geneva@Sir:25:7 @ {\cf2 There be nine things, which I haue iudged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth wil I pronounce with my tongue: a man that while he liueth, hath ioy of his children, and seeth the fall of his enemies.}

geneva@Sir:25:8 @ {\cf2 Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of vnderstanding, and that hath not fallen with his tongue, and that hath not serued such as are vnworthie of him.}

geneva@Sir:25:9 @ {\cf2 Well is him that findeth prudencie, & he that speaketh in the eares of them that will heare.}

geneva@Sir:25:10 @ {\cf2 Oh, how great is hee that findeth wisdome! yet is there none aboue him, that feareth the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:25:11 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde passeth all things in clearenesse.}

geneva@Sir:25:12 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the man, vnto whom it is granted to haue the feare of God. Vnto whom shall he be likened that hath attayned it?}

geneva@Sir:25:13 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of his loue, & faith is ye beginning to be ioyned vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:25:14 @ {\cf2 The greatest heauinesse is the heauinesse of the heart, and the greatest malice is the malice of a woman.}

geneva@Sir:25:15 @ {\cf2 Giue me any plague, saue only the plague of the heart, & any malice, saue ye malice of a woman:}

geneva@Sir:25:16 @ {\cf2 Or any assault, saue the assault of them that hate, or any vengeance, saue the vengeance of the enemy.}

geneva@Sir:25:17 @ {\cf2 There is not a more wicked head then the head of the serpent, and there is no wrath aboue the wrath of an enemie.}

geneva@Sir:25:18 @ {\cf2 I had rather dwel with a lion and dragon, then to keepe house with a wicked wife.}

geneva@Sir:25:19 @ {\cf2 The wickednesse of a woman changeth her face, & maketh her countenance blacke as a sacke.}

geneva@Sir:25:20 @ {\cf2 Her husband is sitting among his neighbors: because of her he sigheth sore or he beware.}

geneva@Sir:25:21 @ {\cf2 All wickednesse is but little to the wickednesse of a woman: let the portion of the sinner fall vpon her.}

geneva@Sir:25:22 @ {\cf2 As the climing vp of a sandie way is to the feete of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.}

geneva@Sir:25:23 @ {\cf2 Stumble not at the beautie of a woman, and desire her not for thy pleasure.}

geneva@Sir:25:24 @ {\cf2 If a woman nourish her husbad, she is angryand impudent and full of reproche.}

geneva@Sir:25:25 @ {\cf2 A wicked wife maketh a sorie heart, an heauie countenance, and a wounded minde, weake handes and feeble knees, and can not comfort her husband in heauinesse.}

geneva@Sir:25:26 @ {\cf2 Of the woman came the beginning of sinne, and through her we all die.}

geneva@Sir:25:27 @ {\cf2 Giue the water no passage, no not a litle, neither giue a wicked woman libertie to goe out.}

geneva@Sir:25:28 @ {\cf2 If she walke not in thine obedience, she shall confound thee in the sight of thine enemies. Cut her off then from thy flesh: Giue her, and forsake her.}

geneva@Sir:26:1 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the man that hath a vertuous wife: for the number of his yeeres shalbe double.}

geneva@Sir:26:2 @ {\cf2 An honest woman reioyceth her husbande, and she shall fill the yeeres of his life with peace.}

geneva@Sir:26:3 @ {\cf2 A vertuous woman is a good portion which shalbe giuen for a gift vnto such as feare the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:26:4 @ {\cf2 Whether a man be rich or poore, he hath a good heart towarde the Lorde, and they shall at all times haue a cheerefull countenance.}

geneva@Sir:26:5 @ {\cf2 There be three things that mine heart feareth, and my face is afrayde of the fourth: treason in a citie: the assemblie of the people, and false accusation: all these are heauier then death.}

geneva@Sir:26:6 @ {\cf2 But the sorowe and griefe of the heart is a woman that is ielous ouer another: and she that communeth with all, is a scourge of the tongue.}

geneva@Sir:26:7 @ {\cf2 An euill wife is as a yoke of oxen that draw diuers wayes: he that hath her, is a though hee helde a scorpion.}

geneva@Sir:26:8 @ {\cf2 A drunken woman and such as can not be tamed, is a great plague: for she can not couer her owne shame.}

geneva@Sir:26:9 @ {\cf2 The whoredome of a woman may be knowen in the pride of her eyes, and eye liddes.}

geneva@Sir:26:10 @ {\cf2 If thy daughter be not shamefast, holde her straitly, least she abuse her selfe through ouermuch libertie.}

geneva@Sir:26:11 @ {\cf2 Take heede of her that hath an vnshamefast eye: and marueile not if she trespasse against thee.}

geneva@Sir:26:12 @ {\cf2 As one that goeth by the way, and is thirsty, so shall she open her mouth, and drinke of euery next water: by euery hedge shall she sit downe, & open her quiuer against euery arrowe.}

geneva@Sir:26:13 @ {\cf2 The grace of a wife reioyceth her husbande, and feedeth his bones with her vnderstanding.}

geneva@Sir:26:14 @ {\cf2 A peaceable woman and of a good heart is a gifte of the Lorde, and there is nothing so much worth as a woman well instructed.}

geneva@Sir:26:15 @ {\cf2 A shamefast and faithful woman is a double grace, and there is no weight to be compared vnto her continent minde.}

geneva@Sir:26:16 @ {\cf2 As the sunne when it ariseth the high places of the Lorde, so is the beautie of a good wife the ornament of her house.}

geneva@Sir:26:17 @ {\cf2 As the cleere light is vpon the holy candlesticke, so is the beautie of the face in a ripe age.}

geneva@Sir:26:18 @ {\cf2 As the golden pillars are vpon the sockets of siluer: so are faire feete with a constant minde.}

geneva@Sir:26:19 @ {\cf2 Perpetuall are the foundations that be laid vpon a strong rocke: so are the commandements of God in the heart of an holy woman.}

geneva@Sir:26:20 @ {\cf2 My sonne, keepe the strength of thine age stable, and giue not thy strength to strangers.}

geneva@Sir:26:21 @ {\cf2 When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the fieldes, sowe it with thine owne seede, trusting in thy nobilitie.}

geneva@Sir:26:22 @ {\cf2 So thy stocke that shall liue after thee, shall grow, trusting in ye great liberalitie of their nobility.}

geneva@Sir:26:23 @ {\cf2 An harlot is compared to a sowe: but the wife that is marryed, is counted as a towre against death to her husband.}

geneva@Sir:26:24 @ {\cf2 A wicked woman is giuen as a rewarde to a wicked man: but a godly woman is giuen to him that feareth the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:26:25 @ {\cf2 A shameles woman contemneth shame: but a shamefast woman will reuerence her husband.}

geneva@Sir:26:26 @ {\cf2 A shamelesse woman is compared to a dog: but she that is shamefast, reuerenceth the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:26:27 @ {\cf2 A woman that honoureth her husband, shal be iudged wise of all: but she that despiseth him, shalbe blased for her pride.}

geneva@Sir:26:28 @ {\cf2 A loude crying woman and a babbler let her be sought out to driue away the enemies: the mind of euery man that liueth with such, shalbe conuersant among the troubles of warre.}

geneva@Sir:26:29 @ {\cf2 There be two things that grieue mine heart, and the thirde maketh me angrie: a man of warre that suffreth pouertie: and men of vnderstanding that are not set by: and when one departeth from righteousnesse vnto sinne: the Lorde appointeth such to the sworde.}

geneva@Sir:26:30 @ {\cf2 There be two things, which me thinke to be hard and perillous. A marchant can not lightly keepe him from wrong, & a vitailer is not without sinne.}

geneva@Sir:27:1 @ {\cf2 Because of pouertie haue many sinned: and he that seeketh to be rich, turneth his eyes aside.}

geneva@Sir:27:2 @ {\cf2 As a nayle in the wal sticketh fast betweene the ioynts of the stones, so doeth sinne sticke betweene the selling and the buying.}

geneva@Sir:27:3 @ {\cf2 If he holde him not diligently in the feare of the Lord, his house shall soone be ouerthrowen.}

geneva@Sir:27:4 @ {\cf2 As when one sifteth, the filthines remaineth in the sieue, so the filth of man remaineth in his thought.}

geneva@Sir:27:5 @ {\cf2 The fornace prooueth the potters vessel: so doeth tentation trie mens thoughtes.}

geneva@Sir:27:6 @ {\cf2 The fruite declareth if the tree haue bene trimmed: so the worde declareth what man hath in his heart.}

geneva@Sir:27:7 @ {\cf2 Praise no man except thou haue heard his talke: for this is the tryall of men.}

geneva@Sir:27:8 @ {\cf2 If thou followest righteousnesse, thou shalt get her, and put her on as a fayre garment, and shalt dwell with her, and she shall defende thee for euer: and in the day of knowledge thou shalt finde stedfastnesse.}

geneva@Sir:27:9 @ {\cf2 The birdes resort vnto their like: so doth the trueth turne vnto them, that are practised in her.}

geneva@Sir:27:10 @ {\cf2 As the lyon waiteth for the beast, so doeth sinne vpon them that doe euill.}

geneva@Sir:27:11 @ {\cf2 The talking of him that feareth God, is all wisdome: as for a foole, he changeth as the moone.}

geneva@Sir:27:12 @ {\cf2 If thou be among the vndiscreete, obserue the time, but haunt still the assemblie of them that are wise.}

geneva@Sir:27:13 @ {\cf2 The talking of fooles is grieuous, and their sport is in the pleasure of sinne.}

geneva@Sir:27:14 @ {\cf2 The talke of him that sweareth much, maketh the heare to stande vp: and to striue with such, stoppeth the eares.}

geneva@Sir:27:15 @ {\cf2 The strife of the proude is blood shedding, and their scouldings are grieuous to heare.}

geneva@Sir:27:16 @ {\cf2 Who so discouereth secrets, loseth his credite, and findeth no friende after his will.}

geneva@Sir:27:17 @ {\cf2 Loue thy friend, and be faithfull vnto him: but if thou bewrayest his secrets, thou shalt not get him againe.}

geneva@Sir:27:18 @ {\cf2 For as a man destroyeth his enemie, so doest thou destroy the friendship of thy neighbour.}

geneva@Sir:27:19 @ {\cf2 As one that letteth a birde goe out of his hande, so if thou giue ouer thy friende, thou canst not get him againe.}

geneva@Sir:27:20 @ {\cf2 Followe after him no more, for he is too farre off: he is as a roe escaped out of the snare: for his soule is wounded.}

geneva@Sir:27:21 @ {\cf2 As for woundes, they may be bounde vp againe, and an euill worde may be reconciled: but who so bewrayeth the secrets of a friende, hath lost all his credit.}

geneva@Sir:27:22 @ {\cf2 He that winketh with the eyes, imagineth euill: and he that knoweth him, wil let him alone.}

geneva@Sir:27:23 @ {\cf2 When thou art present, he wil speake sweetly, and praise thy wordes: but at the last he will turne his tale, and slander thy saying.}

geneva@Sir:27:24 @ {\cf2 Many things haue I hated, but nothing so euill as such one: for the Lorde also hateth him.}

geneva@Sir:27:25 @ {\cf2 Who so casteth a stone on hie, casteth it vpon his owne head: and he that smiteth with guile, maketh a great wound.}

geneva@Sir:27:26 @ {\cf2 Who so diggeth a pit, shall fall therein, & he that layeth a stone in his neighbours way, shall stumble thereon, and he that layeth a snare for another, shalbe taken in it himselfe.}

geneva@Sir:27:27 @ {\cf2 He that worketh euill, shall be wrapped in euils, and shall not know from whence they come vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:27:28 @ {\cf2 Mockerie and reproche follow the proude, and vengeance lurketh for them as a lyon.}

geneva@Sir:27:29 @ {\cf2 They that reioyce at the fall of the righteous, shalbe taken in the snare, and anguish shall consume them before they dye.}

geneva@Sir:27:30 @ {\cf2 Despite and anger are abominable thinges, and the sinfull man is subiect to them both.}

geneva@Sir:28:1 @ {\cf2 He that seeketh vengeance, shall finde vengeance of the Lord, & he will surely keepe his sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:28:2 @ {\cf2 Forgiue thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done to thee, so shal thy sinnes be forgiuen thee also, when thou prayest.}

geneva@Sir:28:3 @ {\cf2 Should a man beare hatred against man, and desire forgiuenesse of the Lord?}

geneva@Sir:28:4 @ {\cf2 Hee will shew no mercy to a man, which is like him selfe: & will he aske forgiuenes of his own sinnes?}

geneva@Sir:28:5 @ {\cf2 If he that is but flesh, nourish hatred & aske pardon of God, who will intreate for his sinnes?}

geneva@Sir:28:6 @ {\cf2 Remember the ende, and let enimitie passe: imagine not death & destructio to another through anger, but perseuere in the commaundements.}

geneva@Sir:28:7 @ {\cf2 Remember the commaundements: so shalt thou not be rigorous against thy neighbour: consider diligently the couenant of the most High, and forgiue his ignorance.}

geneva@Sir:28:8 @ {\cf2 Beware of strife, and thou shalt make thy sinnes fewer: for an angry man kindleth strife.}

geneva@Sir:28:9 @ {\cf2 And the sinfull man disquieteth friends, and bringeth in false accusations among them that be at peace.}

geneva@Sir:28:10 @ {\cf2 As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth, & mans anger is according to his power: and according to his riches his anger increaseth, & the more vehement the anger is, the more is he inflamed.}

geneva@Sir:28:11 @ {\cf2 An hastie brawling kindleth a fire, and an hasty fighting sheadeth blood: a tongue that beareth false witnesse, bringeth death.}

geneva@Sir:28:12 @ {\cf2 If thou blowe the sparke, it shall burne: if thou spit vpon it, it shalbe quenched, & both these come out of the mouth.}

geneva@Sir:28:13 @ {\cf2 Abhorre ye slanderer and double tongued: for such haue destroyed many that were at peace.}

geneva@Sir:28:14 @ {\cf2 The double tongue hath disquieted many, and driuen them from nation to nation: strong cities hath it broken downe, and ouerthrowen the houses of great men: the strength of the people hath it brought downe, and bene the decay of mightie nations.}

geneva@Sir:28:15 @ {\cf2 The double tongue hath cast out many vertuous women, and robbed them of their labours.}

geneva@Sir:28:16 @ {\cf2 Who so hearkeneth vnto it, shall neuer finde rest, and neuer dwell quietly.}

geneva@Sir:28:17 @ {\cf2 The stroke of the rodde maketh markes in the flesh, but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.}

geneva@Sir:28:18 @ {\cf2 There be many that haue perished by the edge of the sword, but not so many as haue fallen by the tongue.}

geneva@Sir:28:19 @ {\cf2 Wel is him that is kept from an euil tongue, and commeth not in the anger thereof, which hath not drawen in that yoke, neither hath bene bound in the bandes thereof.}

geneva@Sir:28:20 @ {\cf2 For the yoke thereof is a yoke of yron, and the bandes of it are bandes of brasse.}

geneva@Sir:28:21 @ {\cf2 The death thereof is an euill death: hell were better then such one.}

geneva@Sir:28:22 @ {\cf2 It shall not haue rule ouer them that feare God, neither shall they bee burnt with the flame thereof.}

geneva@Sir:28:23 @ {\cf2 Such as forsake the Lorde, shall fall therein: and it shall burne them, and no man shalbe able to quenche it: it shall fall vpon them as a lyon, and deuoure them as a leopard.}

geneva@Sir:28:24 @ {\cf2 Hedge thy possession with thornes, & make doores and barres for thy mouth.}

geneva@Sir:28:25 @ {\cf2 Binde vp thy siluer and golde, and weigh thy wordes in a balance, and make a doore and a barre, and a sure bridle for thy mouth.}

geneva@Sir:28:26 @ {\cf2 Beware that thou slide not by it, and so fall before him that lyeth in wayte and thy fall be incurable, euen vnto death.}

geneva@Sir:29:1 @ {\cf2 He that will shewe mercie, lendeth to his neighbour: and he that hath power ouer himselfe, keepeth the commandements.}

geneva@Sir:29:2 @ {\cf2 Lend to thy neighbour in time of his neede, and pay thou thy neighbour againe in due season.}

geneva@Sir:29:3 @ {\cf2 Keepe thy worde, and deale faithfully with him, and thou shalt always finde the thing that is necessarie for thee.}

geneva@Sir:29:4 @ {\cf2 Many when a thing was lent them, reckened it to be found, and grieued them that had helped them.}

geneva@Sir:29:5 @ {\cf2 Till they receiue, they kisse his handes, and for their neighbours good they huble their voyce: but when they should pay againe, they prolong the terme, and giue a careles answere, and make excuses by reason of the time.}

geneva@Sir:29:6 @ {\cf2 And though he be able, yet giueth hee scarce the halfe againe, & reckeneth the other as a thing found: els he deceiueth him of his money, and maketh him an enemie without a cause: he paieth him with cursing and rebuke, and giueth him euil words for his good deede.}

geneva@Sir:29:7 @ {\cf2 There be many which refuse to lend because of this inconuenience, fearing to bee defrauded without cause.}

geneva@Sir:29:8 @ {\cf2 Yet haue thou patience with him that humbleth him selfe, and deferre not mercy from him.}

geneva@Sir:29:9 @ {\cf2 Helpe the poore for the comandements sake, and turne him not away, because of his pouertie.}

geneva@Sir:29:10 @ {\cf2 Lose thy money for thy brothers & neighbours sake, and let it not rust vnder a stone to thy destruction.}

geneva@Sir:29:11 @ {\cf2 Bestowe thy treasure after the commandement of the most High, & it shall bring thee more profite then golde.}

geneva@Sir:29:12 @ {\cf2 Lay vp thine almes in thy secret chambers, and it shall keepe thee from all affliction.}

geneva@Sir:29:13 @ {\cf2 A mans almes is as a purse with him, & shal keepe a mans fauour as the apple of the eye, and afterward shall it arise, and pay euery man his reward vpon his head.}

geneva@Sir:29:14 @ {\cf2 It shall fight for thee against thine enemies, better then the shield of a strong man, or speare of the mightie.}

geneva@Sir:29:15 @ {\cf2 An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent, forsaketh him.}

geneva@Sir:29:16 @ {\cf2 Forget not the friendship of thy suretie: for he hath layed his life for thee.}

geneva@Sir:29:17 @ {\cf2 The wicked despiseth the good deede of his suretie.}

geneva@Sir:29:18 @ {\cf2 The wicked will not become suretie: and he that is of an vnthankfull minde, forsaketh him that deliuered him.}

geneva@Sir:29:19 @ {\cf2 Some man promiseth for his neighbour: and when hee hath lost his honestie, hee will forsake him.}

geneva@Sir:29:20 @ {\cf2 Suretieship hath destroyed many a rich man, and remooued them as the waues of the sea: mightie men hath it driuen away from their houses, and caused them to wander among strange nations.}

geneva@Sir:29:21 @ {\cf2 A wicked man, transgressing the commandements of the Lord, shall fall into suretieship: and hee that medleth much with other mens busines, is intangled in controuersies.}

geneva@Sir:29:22 @ {\cf2 Helpe thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that thou thy selfe fall not.}

geneva@Sir:29:23 @ {\cf2 The chiefe thing of life is water, & bread, and clothing, and lodging to couer thy shame.}

geneva@Sir:29:24 @ {\cf2 The poore mans life in his owne lodge is better then delicate fare in another mans.}

geneva@Sir:29:25 @ {\cf2 Be it litle or much, holde thee contented, that the house speake not euill of thee.}

geneva@Sir:29:26 @ {\cf2 For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth.}

geneva@Sir:29:27 @ {\cf2 Thou shalt lodge and feede vnthankefull men, & after shalt haue bitter wordes for the same, saying,}

geneva@Sir:29:28 @ {\cf2 Come, thou stranger, and prepare the table, and feede me of that thou hast readie.}

geneva@Sir:29:29 @ {\cf2 Giue place, thou stranger, to an honourable man: my brother commeth to bee lodged, and I haue neede of mine house.}

geneva@Sir:29:30 @ {\cf2 These things are heauie to a man that hath vnderstanding, the vpbraiding of the house, and the reproche of the lender.}

geneva@Sir:30:1 @ {\cf2 He that loueth his sonne, causeth him oft to feele the rodde, that he may haue ioye of him in the ende.}

geneva@Sir:30:2 @ {\cf2 He that chastiseth his sonne, shall haue ioy in him, & shal reioyce of him among his acquaintace.}

geneva@Sir:30:3 @ {\cf2 Hee that teacheth his sonne, grieueth the enemie, and before his friends hee shall reioyce of him.}

geneva@Sir:30:4 @ {\cf2 Though his father dye, yet is he as though he were not dead: for hee hath left one behinde him that is like him.}

geneva@Sir:30:5 @ {\cf2 In his life hee sawe him, and had ioye in him, and was not sorie in his death, neither was hee ashamed before his enemies.}

geneva@Sir:30:6 @ {\cf2 He left behinde him an auenger against his enemies, and one that should shew fauour vnto his friendes.}

geneva@Sir:30:7 @ {\cf2 Hee that flattereth his sonne, bindeth vp his wounds, and his heart is grieued at euery crie.}

geneva@Sir:30:8 @ {\cf2 An vntamed horse will be stubburne, and a wanton childe will be wilfull.}

geneva@Sir:30:9 @ {\cf2 If thou bring vp thy sonne delicately, he shall make thee afraide: and if thou play with him, hee shall bring thee to heauinesse.}

geneva@Sir:30:10 @ {\cf2 Laugh not with him, lest thou be sorie with him, and lest thou gnash thy teeth in the ende.}

geneva@Sir:30:11 @ {\cf2 Giue him no libertie in his youth, & winke not at his folie.}

geneva@Sir:30:12 @ {\cf2 Bowe down his necke while he is yong, and beate him on the sides, while he is a childe, lest he waxe stubburne, and be disobedient vnto thee, and so bring sorow to thine heart.}

geneva@Sir:30:13 @ {\cf2 Chastise thy childe, and be diligent therein, lest his shame grieue thee.}

geneva@Sir:30:14 @ {\cf2 Better is the poore, being whole & strog, then a rich man that is afflicted in his bodie.}

geneva@Sir:30:15 @ {\cf2 Health and strength is aboue all golde, and a whole bodie aboue infinite treasure.}

geneva@Sir:30:16 @ {\cf2 There is no riches aboue a sound bodie, and no ioy aboue the ioy of the heart.}

geneva@Sir:30:17 @ {\cf2 Death is better then a bitter life, and long rest, then continuall sicknes.}

geneva@Sir:30:18 @ {\cf2 The good things that are powred on a mouth shut vp, are as messes of meat set vpon a graue.}

geneva@Sir:30:19 @ {\cf2 What good doeth the offring vnto an idole? for hee can neither eate nor smell: so is hee that is persecuted of the Lord, and beareth the reward of iniquitie.}

geneva@Sir:30:20 @ {\cf2 He seeth with his eies, & groneth like a gelded man, that lieth with a virgin and sigheth.}

geneva@Sir:30:21 @ {\cf2 Giue not ouer thy minde to heauines, and vexe not thy selfe in thine owne counsel.}

geneva@Sir:30:22 @ {\cf2 The ioy of the heart is the life of man, and a mans gladnesse is the prolonging of his dayes.}

geneva@Sir:30:23 @ {\cf2 Loue thine own soule, & cofort thine heart: driue sorowe farre from thee: for sorow hath slayne many, and there is no profite therein.}

geneva@Sir:30:24 @ {\cf2 Enuie and wrath shorten the life, and carefulnes bringeth age before the time.}

geneva@Sir:30:25 @ {\cf2 A noble and good heart will haue consideration of his meat and diet.}

geneva@Sir:31:1 @ {\cf2 Waking after riches pineth away the bodie, and the care thereof driueth away sleepe.}

geneva@Sir:31:2 @ {\cf2 This waking care breaketh the sleepe, as a great sicknes breaketh the sleepe.}

geneva@Sir:31:3 @ {\cf2 The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together, & in his rest hee is filled with pleasures.}

geneva@Sir:31:4 @ {\cf2 The poore laboureth in liuing poorely, and when he leaueth off, he is still poore.}

geneva@Sir:31:5 @ {\cf2 He that loueth golde, shall not bee iustified, & he that followeth corruption, shal haue ynough thereof.}

geneva@Sir:31:6 @ {\cf2 Many are destroyed by the reason of gold, and haue found their destruction before them.}

geneva@Sir:31:7 @ {\cf2 It is as a stumbling block vnto them that sacrifice vnto it, and euerie foole is taken therewith.}

geneva@Sir:31:8 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the riche which is found without blemish, and hath not gone after golde, nor hoped in money and treasures.}

geneva@Sir:31:9 @ {\cf2 Who is hee, and wee will commend him? for wonderfull things hath he done among his people.}

geneva@Sir:31:10 @ {\cf2 Who hath bene tryed thereby, and founde persite? let him be an example of glorie, who might offende, and hath not offended, or doe euill, and hath not done it.}

geneva@Sir:31:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore shall his goods be stablished, and the congregation shall declare his almes.}

geneva@Sir:31:12 @ {\cf2 If thou sit at a costlie table, open not thy mouth wide vpon it, & say not, Behold much meat.}

geneva@Sir:31:13 @ {\cf2 Remember that an euil eye is a shrewe: and what thing created is worse then a wicked eye? for it weepeth for euery cause.}

geneva@Sir:31:14 @ {\cf2 Stretch not thine hand wheresoeuer it looketh, and thrust it not with it into the dishe.}

geneva@Sir:31:15 @ {\cf2 Consider by thy selfe him that is by thee, & marke euery thing.}

geneva@Sir:31:16 @ {\cf2 Eate modestly that which is set before thee, and deuoure not, lest thou be hated.}

geneva@Sir:31:17 @ {\cf2 Leaue thou off first for nurtours sake, and be not insatiable, lest thou offend.}

geneva@Sir:31:18 @ {\cf2 When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.}

geneva@Sir:31:19 @ {\cf2 How litle is sufficiet for a man wel taught? and thereby he belcheth not in his chamber, nor feeleth any paine.}

geneva@Sir:31:20 @ {\cf2 A wholesome sleepe commeth of a temperate bellie: he riseth vp in the morning, and is wel at ease in him selfe: but paine in watching and cholericke diseases, and panges of the bellie are with an vnsatiable man.}

geneva@Sir:31:21 @ {\cf2 If thou hast bene forced to eate, arise, goe forth, vomite, and then take thy rest: so thou shalt bring no sicknesse vnto thy bodie.}

geneva@Sir:31:22 @ {\cf2 My sonne, heare me, and despise me not, & at the last thou shalt finde as I haue tolde thee: in all thy works be quicke, so shall there no sicknesse come vnto thee.}

geneva@Sir:31:23 @ {\cf2 Who so is liberal in his meate, men shall blesse him: and the testimonie of his honestie shalbe beleeued.}

geneva@Sir:31:24 @ {\cf2 But against him that is a nigard of his meat, the whole citie shall murmure: the testimonies of his nigardnes shalbe sure.}

geneva@Sir:31:25 @ {\cf2 Shew not thy valiantnes in wine: for wine hath destroyed many.}

geneva@Sir:31:26 @ {\cf2 The fornace proueth the edge in the tempering: so doeth wine the heartes of the proude by drunkennesse.}

geneva@Sir:31:27 @ {\cf2 Wine soberly drunken, is profitable for the life of man: what is his life that is ouercome with wine?}

geneva@Sir:31:28 @ {\cf2 Wine was made from the beginning to make men glad, and not for drunkennesse. Wine measurably drunken and in time, bringeth gladnes and cherefulnesse of the minde.}

geneva@Sir:31:29 @ {\cf2 But wine drunken with excesse maketh bitternes of minde with braulings and scouldings.}

geneva@Sir:31:30 @ {\cf2 Drunkennesse increaseth the courage of a foole, til hee offend: it diminisheth his strength and maketh woundes.}

geneva@Sir:31:31 @ {\cf2 Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: giue him no despiteful wordes, and presse not vpon him with contrarie wordes.}

geneva@Sir:32:1 @ {\cf2 If thou be made ye master of the feast, lift not thy selfe vp, but be among them, as one of the rest: take diligent care for them, and so sit downe.}

geneva@Sir:32:2 @ {\cf2 And when thou hast done all thy duetie, sit downe, that thou maiest be merie with them, and receiue a crown for thy good behauiour.}

geneva@Sir:32:3 @ {\cf2 Speake thou that art the elder: for it becommeth thee, but with sound iudgement, and hinder not musike.}

geneva@Sir:32:4 @ {\cf2 Powre not out wordes, where there is no audience, and shew not forth wisedome out of time.}

geneva@Sir:32:5 @ {\cf2 The consent of musicians at a banket is as a signet of carbuncle set in golde.}

geneva@Sir:32:6 @ {\cf2 And as the signet of an emeraude well trimmed with golde, so is the melodie of musike in a pleasant banket.}

geneva@Sir:32:7 @ {\cf2 Giue eare, and be still, and for thy good behauiour thou shalt be loued.}

geneva@Sir:32:8 @ {\cf2 Thou that art yong speake, if neede bee, and yet scarcely when thou art twise asked.}

geneva@Sir:32:9 @ {\cf2 Comprehende much in fewe wordes in many things be as one that is ignorant: bee as one that vnderstandeth, and yet holde thy tongue.}

geneva@Sir:32:10 @ {\cf2 If thou be among great men, compare not thy selfe vnto them, and when an elder speaketh, babble not much.}

geneva@Sir:32:11 @ {\cf2 Before the thunder goeth lightning, and before a shamefast man goeth fauour.}

geneva@Sir:32:12 @ {\cf2 Stande vp betimes, and be not the last: but get thee home without delay,}

geneva@Sir:32:13 @ {\cf2 And there take thy pastime, and doe what thou wilt, so that thou doe none euil, or vse proud wordes.}

geneva@Sir:32:14 @ {\cf2 But aboue all things, giue thanks vnto him that hath made thee, and replenished thee with his goodes.}

geneva@Sir:32:15 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lorde, will receiue his doctrine, & they that rise earely, shall finde fauour.}

geneva@Sir:32:16 @ {\cf2 Hee that seeketh the Lawe; shall bee filled therwith: but the hypocrite wil be offended therat.}

geneva@Sir:32:17 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lorde, shall finde that which is righteous, & shal kindle iustice as a light.}

geneva@Sir:32:18 @ {\cf2 An vngodly man will not be reformed, but findeth out excuses according to his will.}

geneva@Sir:32:19 @ {\cf2 A man of vnderstanding despiseth not counsel: but a lewd and proud man is not touched with feare, euen when he hath done rashly.}

geneva@Sir:32:20 @ {\cf2 My sonne, do nothing without aduisemeet so shall it not repent thee after the deede.}

geneva@Sir:32:21 @ {\cf2 Go not in ye way where thou mayest fal, norwhere thou mayest stumble among the stones, neither trust thou in the way that is plaine.}

geneva@Sir:32:22 @ {\cf2 And beware of thine owne childre, and take heede of them that be thine owne housholde.}

geneva@Sir:32:23 @ {\cf2 In euery good worke be of a faithful heart: for this is the keeping of the commandements.}

geneva@Sir:32:24 @ {\cf2 Who so beleeueth in the Lorde, keepeth the commandements: and he that trusteth in the Lord, shall take no hurt.}

geneva@Sir:33:1 @ {\cf2 There shall no euil come vnto him that feareth the Lord: but when he is in tentation, he wil deliuer him againe.}

geneva@Sir:33:2 @ {\cf2 A wise man hateth not the Lawe: but he that is an hypocrite therein, is as a shippe in a storme.}

geneva@Sir:33:3 @ {\cf2 A man of vnderstanding walketh faithfully in the Lawe, and the Lawe is faithfull vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:33:4 @ {\cf2 As the question is made, prepare the answere, and so shalt thou be heard: be sure of the matter, and so answere.}

geneva@Sir:33:5 @ {\cf2 The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheele: and his thoughtes are like a rolling axeltree.}

geneva@Sir:33:6 @ {\cf2 As a wilde horse neyeth vnder euery one that sitteth vpon him, so is a scornefull friend.}

geneva@Sir:33:7 @ {\cf2 Why doth one day excell another, seeing that the light of the dayes of the yere come of the sunne?}

geneva@Sir:33:8 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of the Lord hath parted them asunder, and he hath by them disposed the times and solemne feastes.}

geneva@Sir:33:9 @ {\cf2 Some of them hath he chosen and sanctified, and some of them hath he put among the dayes to nomber.}

geneva@Sir:33:10 @ {\cf2 And all men are of the ground, and Adam was created out of the earth: but the Lord hath deuided them by great knowledge, and made their wayes diuers.}

geneva@Sir:33:11 @ {\cf2 Some of them hath hee blessed and exalted, and some of them hath he sanctified, & appropriate to himselfe: but some of them hath hee cursed, and brought them low, and put them out of their estate.}

geneva@Sir:33:12 @ {\cf2 As the clay is in the potters hand, to order it at his pleasure, so are men also in the hand of their Creator, so that hee may rewarde them as liketh him best.}

geneva@Sir:33:13 @ {\cf2 Against euil is good, and against death is life: so is the godly against the sinner, and the vngodly against the faithfull.}

geneva@Sir:33:14 @ {\cf2 So in all the workes of the most High thou maist see that there are euer two, one against another.}

geneva@Sir:33:15 @ {\cf2 I am awaked vp last of all, as one that gathereth after them in the vintage. In the blessing of the Lorde I am increased, and haue filled my wine presse, like a grape gatherer.}

geneva@Sir:33:16 @ {\cf2 Beholde, how I haue not laboured onely for my selfe, but for all them that seeke knowledge.}

geneva@Sir:33:17 @ {\cf2 Heare me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with your eares, ye rulers of ye Cogregation.}

geneva@Sir:33:18 @ {\cf2 Giue not thy sonne and wife, thy brother and friend, power ouer thee while thou liuest, and giue not away thy substance to another, lest it repent thee, and thou intreate for the same againe.}

geneva@Sir:33:19 @ {\cf2 As long as thou liuest, and hast breath, giue not thy selfe ouer to any person.}

geneva@Sir:33:20 @ {\cf2 For better it is that thy children should pray vnto thee, then that thou shouldest looke vp to the handes of thy children.}

geneva@Sir:33:21 @ {\cf2 In all thy workes bee excellent, that thine honour be neuer stained.}

geneva@Sir:33:22 @ {\cf2 At the time when thou shalt ende thy dayes, and finish thy life, distribute thine inheritance.}

geneva@Sir:33:23 @ {\cf2 The fodder, the whippe and the burden belong vnto the asse: and meate, correction and worke vnto thy seruant.}

geneva@Sir:33:24 @ {\cf2 If thou set thy seruant to labour, thou shalt finde rest: but if thou let him goe idle, he shall seeke libertie.}

geneva@Sir:33:25 @ {\cf2 The yoke and the whippe bowe downe the hard necke: so tame thine euill seruant with the whippes and correction.}

geneva@Sir:33:26 @ {\cf2 Send him to labour, that he goe not idle: for idlenesse bringeth much euil.}

geneva@Sir:33:27 @ {\cf2 Set him to worke, for that belogeth vnto him: if he be not obedient, put on more heauie fetters.}

geneva@Sir:33:28 @ {\cf2 But be not excessiue towarde any, and without discretion doe nothing.}

geneva@Sir:33:29 @ {\cf2 If thou haue a faithfull seruant, let him bee vnto thee as thine owne soule: for in blood hast thou gotten him. If thou haue a seruant, intreat him as thy brother: for thou hast neede of him, as of thy selfe. If thou intreat him euill, and hee runne away, wilt thou seeke him?}

geneva@Sir:34:1 @ {\cf2 The hope of a foolish man is vaine and false, and dreames make fooles to haue wings.}

geneva@Sir:34:2 @ {\cf2 Who so regardeth dreames, is like him that wil take holde of a shadow, and follow after the winde.}

geneva@Sir:34:3 @ {\cf2 Euen so is it with the appearings of dreames, as the likenes of a face is before another face.}

geneva@Sir:34:4 @ {\cf2 Who can be clensed by the vncleane? Or what trueth can be spoken of a liar?}

geneva@Sir:34:5 @ {\cf2 Southsayings, witchcraft, and dreaming is but vanitie, and a minde that is occupied with fantasies, is as a woman that trauaileth.}

geneva@Sir:34:6 @ {\cf2 Where as such visions come not of the most High to trie thee, set not thine heart vpon them.}

geneva@Sir:34:7 @ {\cf2 For dreames haue deceiued many, and they haue failed that put their trust therein.}

geneva@Sir:34:8 @ {\cf2 The Lawe shall be fulfilled without lies, and wisedome is sufficient to a faithfull mouth: what knowledge hath he that is not tried?}

geneva@Sir:34:9 @ {\cf2 A man that is instructed, vnderstandeth much, and hee that hath good experience, can talke of wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:34:10 @ {\cf2 Hee that hath no experience, knoweth litle, and he that erreth, is full of craft.}

geneva@Sir:34:11 @ {\cf2 When I wandered to and fro, I sawe many things, and mine vnderstanding is greater then I can expresse.}

geneva@Sir:34:12 @ {\cf2 I was oft times in danger of death, yet I was deliuered by these things.}

geneva@Sir:34:13 @ {\cf2 The spirit of those that feare the Lord, shall liue: for their hope is in him that can helpe them.}

geneva@Sir:34:14 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lorde, feareth no man, neither is afraide: for he is his hope.}

geneva@Sir:34:15 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the soule of him that feareth the Lorde: in whome putteth hee his trust? Who is his strength?}

geneva@Sir:34:16 @ {\cf2 For the eyes of the Lorde haue respect vnto them, that loue him: he is their mightie protection, and strong ground, a defence from the heat, and a shadowe for the noone day, a succour from stumbling, and an helpe from falling.}

geneva@Sir:34:17 @ {\cf2 Hee setteth vp the soule, and lightneth the eyes: he giueth health, life and blessing.}

geneva@Sir:34:18 @ {\cf2 He that giueth an offering of vnrighteous goods, offereth a mocking sacrifice, and the giftes of the vnrighteous, please not him.}

geneva@Sir:34:19 @ {\cf2 But the Lord is theirs only, that paciently abide him in the way of trueth and righteousnes.}

geneva@Sir:34:20 @ {\cf2 The most High doeth not alowe the offerings of the wicked, neither is he pacified for sinne by the multitude of sacrifice.}

geneva@Sir:34:21 @ {\cf2 Who so bringeth an offering of the goods of the poore, doth as one that sacrificeth the sonne before the fathers eyes.}

geneva@Sir:34:22 @ {\cf2 The bread of the needefull is the life of the poore: he that defraudeth him thereof, is a murtherer.}

geneva@Sir:34:23 @ {\cf2 Hee that taketh away his neighbours liuing, slayeth him, and hee that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a bloodsheader.}

geneva@Sir:34:24 @ {\cf2 When one buildeth, and another breaketh downe, what profite haue they then but labour?}

geneva@Sir:34:25 @ {\cf2 When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voyce will the Lord heare?}

geneva@Sir:34:26 @ {\cf2 He that washeth himselfe because of a dead body, & toucheth it againe, what auaileth his washing?}

geneva@Sir:34:27 @ {\cf2 So is it with a man that fasteth for his sinnes, and committeth them againe: who will heare his prayer? or what doeth his fasting helpe him?}

geneva@Sir:35:1 @ {\cf2 Who so keepeth the Lawe, bringeth offerings ynough: he that holdeth fast the commandements, offereth an offring of saluation.}

geneva@Sir:35:2 @ {\cf2 He that is thankefull to them that haue well deserued, offereth fine flowre: and hee that giueth almes, sacrificeth praise.}

geneva@Sir:35:3 @ {\cf2 To depart from euill is a thankefull thing to the Lord, and to forsake vnrighteousnes, is a reconciling vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:35:4 @ {\cf2 Thou shalt not appeare emptie before the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:35:5 @ {\cf2 For all these thinges are done because of the commaundement.}

geneva@Sir:35:6 @ {\cf2 The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the smell thereof is sweete before the most High.}

geneva@Sir:35:7 @ {\cf2 The sacrifice of the righteous is acceptable, and ye remembrance thereof shal neuer be forgotten.}

geneva@Sir:35:8 @ {\cf2 Giue the Lorde his honour with a good and liberal eye, and diminish not the first fruites of thine handes.}

geneva@Sir:35:9 @ {\cf2 In all thy gifts shew a ioyfull countenance, and dedicate thy tithes with gladnesse.}

geneva@Sir:35:10 @ {\cf2 Giue vnto the most High according as hee hath enriched thee, and looke what thine hande is able, giue with a chearefull eye.}

geneva@Sir:35:11 @ {\cf2 For the Lorde recompenseth, and will giue thee seuen times as much.}

geneva@Sir:35:12 @ {\cf2 Diminish nothing of thine offering: for he will not receiue it, and absteine from wrongfull sacrifices: for the Lord is the iudge, and regardeth no mans person.}

geneva@Sir:35:13 @ {\cf2 Hee accepteth not the person of the poore, but he heareth the prayer of the oppressed.}

geneva@Sir:35:14 @ {\cf2 He despiseth not the desire of the fatherlesse, nor the widowe, when she powreth out her prayer.}

geneva@Sir:35:15 @ {\cf2 Doeth not the teares runne downe the widowes cheekes? and her crie is against him that caused them: for from her cheekes do they goe vp vnto heauen, and the Lord which heareth them, doeth accept them.}

geneva@Sir:35:16 @ {\cf2 He that serueth ye Lord, shalbe accepted with fauour, and his prayer shall reach vnto the cloudes.}

geneva@Sir:35:17 @ {\cf2 The prayer of him that humbleth himselfe, goeth thorowe the cloudes, and ceaseth not till it come neere, and will not depart till the most High haue respect thereunto to iudge righteously, and to execute iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:35:18 @ {\cf2 And the Lord will not be slacke, nor the Almightie will tarie long from them, till he hath smitten in sunder the loynes of the vnmercifull, and auenged himselfe of the heathen, till hee haue taken away the multitude of the cruell, and broken the scepter of the vnrighteous, till hee giue euery man after his workes, and rewarde them after their deuises, till hee haue iudged the cause of his people, and comforted them with his mercie.}

geneva@Sir:35:19 @ {\cf2 Oh, how faire a thing is mercie in the time of anguish and trouble! It is like a cloude of raine, that commeth in the time of a drought.}

geneva@Sir:36:1 @ {\cf2 Haue mercie vpon vs, O Lord God of all things, and beholde vs, and shewe vs the light of thy mercies,}

geneva@Sir:36:2 @ {\cf2 And send thy feare among the nations, which seeke not after thee, that they may know that there is no God but thou, and that they may shewe thy wonderous workes.}

geneva@Sir:36:3 @ {\cf2 Lift vp thine hande vpon the strange nations, that they may see thy power.}

geneva@Sir:36:4 @ {\cf2 As thou art sanctified in vs before them, so be thou magnified among them before vs,}

geneva@Sir:36:5 @ {\cf2 That they may know thee, as we know thee: for there is none other God but only thou, O Lord.}

geneva@Sir:36:6 @ {\cf2 Renue the signes, and change the wonders: shewe the glory of thine hand, and thy right arme, that they may shew foorth thy wonderous actes.}

geneva@Sir:36:7 @ {\cf2 Raise vp thine indignation, and powre out wrath: take away the aduersarie, & smite the enemie.}

geneva@Sir:36:8 @ {\cf2 Make the time short: remember thine othe, that thy wonderous workes may be praised.}

geneva@Sir:36:9 @ {\cf2 Let the wrath of the fire consume them that escape, and let them perish that oppresse the people.}

geneva@Sir:36:10 @ {\cf2 Smite in sunder the heads of the princes that be our enemies, & say, There is none other but we.}

geneva@Sir:36:11 @ {\cf2 Gather all the tribes of Iacob together, that they may knowe that there is none other God but only thou, and that they may shew thy wonderous works, and inherit thou them as fro the beginning.}

geneva@Sir:36:12 @ {\cf2 O Lord, haue mercie vpon the people, that is called by thy Name, and vpon Israel, whom thou hast likened to a first borne sonne.}

geneva@Sir:36:13 @ {\cf2 Oh, bee mercifull vnto Ierusalem the citie of thy Sanctuarie, the citie of thy rest.}

geneva@Sir:36:14 @ {\cf2 Fill Sion, that it may magnifie thine oracles, and fill thy people with thy glorie.}

geneva@Sir:36:15 @ {\cf2 Giue witnes vnto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise vp the prophecies that haue bene shewed in thy Name.}

geneva@Sir:36:16 @ {\cf2 Rewarde them that waite for thee, that thy Prophets may be found faithfull.}

geneva@Sir:36:17 @ {\cf2 O Lorde, heare the prayer of thy seruants according to the blessing of Aaron ouer thy people, and guide thou vs in the way of righteousnesse, that all they which dwel vpon the earth, may know that thou art the Lord the eternall God.}

geneva@Sir:36:18 @ {\cf2 The bellie deuoureth all meates, yet is one meate better then another.}

geneva@Sir:36:19 @ {\cf2 As the throte tasteth venison, so doeth a wise minde discerne false wordes.}

geneva@Sir:36:20 @ {\cf2 A froward heart bringeth griefe, but a man of experience will resist it.}

geneva@Sir:36:21 @ {\cf2 A woman is apt to receiue euery man: yet is one daughter better then another.}

geneva@Sir:36:22 @ {\cf2 The beautie of a woman cheereth the face, and a man loueth nothing better.}

geneva@Sir:36:23 @ {\cf2 If there be in her tongue gentlenes, meekenes, and wholesome talke, then is not her husband like other men.}

geneva@Sir:36:24 @ {\cf2 He that hath gotten a vertuous woman, hath begun to get a possession: she is an helpe like vnto himselfe, and a pillar to rest vpon.}

geneva@Sir:36:25 @ {\cf2 Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoyled: and he that hath no wife, wandereth to and fro, mourning.}

geneva@Sir:36:26 @ {\cf2 Who will trust a thiefe that is alway ready and wandereth from towne to towne? and likewise him, that hath no rest, and lodgeth, wheresoeuer the night taketh him?}

geneva@Sir:37:1 @ {\cf2 Every friend sayth, I am a friend vnto him also: but there is some friend, which is onely a friend in name.}

geneva@Sir:37:2 @ {\cf2 Remaineth there not heauines vnto death, when a companion and friend is turned to an enemie?}

geneva@Sir:37:3 @ {\cf2 O wicked presumption, from whence art thou sprong vp to couer the earth with deceite?}

geneva@Sir:37:4 @ {\cf2 There is some companion which in prosperitie reioyceth with his friend: but in the time of trouble he is against him.}

geneva@Sir:37:5 @ {\cf2 There is some companion that helpeth his friend for the bellies sake, and taketh vp the buckler against the enemie.}

geneva@Sir:37:6 @ {\cf2 Forget not thy friend in thy minde, and thinke vpon him in thy riches.}

geneva@Sir:37:7 @ {\cf2 Seeke no counsell at him of whome thou art suspected, and disclose not thy counsell vnto such as hate thee.}

geneva@Sir:37:8 @ {\cf2 Euery counseller prayseth his owne counsell: but there is some that counselleth for himselfe.}

geneva@Sir:37:9 @ {\cf2 Beware of the counseller, and bee aduised afore whereto thou wilt vse him: for he wil counsell for himselfe, least he cast the lot vpon thee,}

geneva@Sir:37:10 @ {\cf2 And say vnto thee, Thy way is good, and afterward he stand against thee, and looke what shall become of thee.}

geneva@Sir:37:11 @ {\cf2 Aske no counsell for religion of him, that is without religion, nor of iustice, of him that hath no iustice, nor of a woman touching her of whom she is ielous, nor of a coward in matters of warre, nor of a marchant concerning exchange, nor of a buyer for the sale, nor of an enuious man touching thankfulnesse, nor of the vnmercifull touching kindnesse, nor of an vnhonest man of honestie, nor of the slouthfull for any labour, nor of an hireling for the finishing of a worke, nor of an idle seruant for much busines: hearken not vnto these in any matter of counsell.}

geneva@Sir:37:12 @ {\cf2 But be continuall with a godly man whome thou knowest to keepe the commaundements of the Lord, whose minde is according to thy minde, and is sorie for thee when thou stumblest.}

geneva@Sir:37:13 @ {\cf2 Take counsell of thine owne heart: for there is no man more faithfull vnto thee, then it.}

geneva@Sir:37:14 @ {\cf2 For a mans minde is sometime more accustomed to shew more then seuen watchmen that sit aboue in an hie towre.}

geneva@Sir:37:15 @ {\cf2 And aboue all this pray vnto the most High, that he will direct thy way in trueth.}

geneva@Sir:37:16 @ {\cf2 Let reason goe before euery enterprise, and counsell before euery action.}

geneva@Sir:37:17 @ {\cf2 The changing of the countenance is a signe of the changing of the heart: foure things appeare, good & euill, life & death, but the tongue hath euermore the gouernement ouer them.}

geneva@Sir:37:18 @ {\cf2 Some man is wittie, and hath instructed many, and yet is vnprofitable vnto him selfe.}

geneva@Sir:37:19 @ {\cf2 Some man will be wise in wordes, and is hated, yea, he is destitute of all foode,}

geneva@Sir:37:20 @ {\cf2 Because grace is not giuen him of the Lord: for he is destitute of all wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:37:21 @ {\cf2 Another is wise for himselfe, and the fruites of vnderstanding are faithfull in his mouth.}

geneva@Sir:37:22 @ {\cf2 A wise man instructeth his people, and the fruites of his wisdome faile not.}

geneva@Sir:37:23 @ {\cf2 A wise man shall be plenteously blessed, and all they that see him, shall thinke him blessed.}

geneva@Sir:37:24 @ {\cf2 The life of man standeth in the number of dayes: but the dayes of Israel are innumerable.}

geneva@Sir:37:25 @ {\cf2 A wise man shall obteine credite among his people, and his name shall be perpetuall.}

geneva@Sir:37:26 @ {\cf2 My sonne, prooue thy soule in thy life, and see what is euill for it, and permit it not to doe it.}

geneva@Sir:37:27 @ {\cf2 For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath euery soule pleasure in euery thing.}

geneva@Sir:37:28 @ {\cf2 Be not griedy in all delites, and be not too hastie vpon all meates.}

geneva@Sir:37:29 @ {\cf2 For excesse of meates bringeth sicknesse, and gluttonie commeth into cholericke diseases.}

geneva@Sir:37:30 @ {\cf2 By surfet haue many perished: but hee that dieteth him selfe, prolongeth his life.}

geneva@Sir:38:1 @ {\cf2 Honour the Phisicion with that honour that is due vnto him, because of necessitie: for the Lord hath created him.}

geneva@Sir:38:2 @ {\cf2 For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receiue giftes of the King.}

geneva@Sir:38:3 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of the Phisicion lifteth vp his head, and in the sight of great men he shalbe in admiration.}

geneva@Sir:38:4 @ {\cf2 The Lorde hath created medicines of the earth, and he that is wise, will not abhorre them.}

geneva@Sir:38:5 @ {\cf2 Was not the water made sweete with wood, that men might know the vertue thereof?}

geneva@Sir:38:6 @ {\cf2 So he hath giuen men knowledge, that he might be glorified in his wonderous workes.}

geneva@Sir:38:7 @ {\cf2 With such doeth he heale men, and taketh away their paines.}

geneva@Sir:38:8 @ {\cf2 Of such doeth the Apothecarie make a confection, and yet he cannot finish his owne workes: for of the Lorde commeth prosperitie and wealth ouer all the earth.}

geneva@Sir:38:9 @ {\cf2 My sonne, faile not in thy sicknes, but pray vnto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.}

geneva@Sir:38:10 @ {\cf2 Leaue off from sinne, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thine heart from all wickednes.}

geneva@Sir:38:11 @ {\cf2 Offer sweete incense, and fine flowre for a remembrance: make the offering fat, for thou art not the first giuer.}

geneva@Sir:38:12 @ {\cf2 Then giue place to the phisicion: for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast neede of him.}

geneva@Sir:38:13 @ {\cf2 The houre may come, that their enterprises may haue good successe.}

geneva@Sir:38:14 @ {\cf2 For they also shall pray vnto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which is giuen for ease, and their phisicke for the prolonging of life.}

geneva@Sir:38:15 @ {\cf2 He that sinneth before his maker, let him fall into the hands of the phisicion.}

geneva@Sir:38:16 @ {\cf2 My sonne, powre foorth teares ouer the dead, and begin to mourne, as if thou haddest suffered great harme thy selfe, and then couer his body according to his appointment, and neglect not his buriall.}

geneva@Sir:38:17 @ {\cf2 Make a grieuous lamentation, and be earnest in mourning, and vse lamentation as he is worthy, and that, a day or two, least thou be euil spoken of, and then comfort thy selfe for thine heauines.}

geneva@Sir:38:18 @ {\cf2 For of heauines commeth death, and the heauines of the heart breaketh the strength.}

geneva@Sir:38:19 @ {\cf2 Of the affection of the heart commeth sorow, and the life of him that is afflicted, is according to his heart.}

geneva@Sir:38:20 @ {\cf2 Take no heauines to heart: driue it away and remember the last end.}

geneva@Sir:38:21 @ {\cf2 Forget it not: for there is no turning againe: thou shalt doe him no good, but hurt thy selfe.}

geneva@Sir:38:22 @ {\cf2 Remember his iudgement: thine also shalbe likewise, vnto me yesterday, and vnto thee to day.}

geneva@Sir:38:23 @ {\cf2 Seeing the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort thy selfe againe for him, when his spirit is departed from him.}

geneva@Sir:38:24 @ {\cf2 The wisdome of a learned man commeth by vsing well his vacant time: and hee that ceaseth from his owne matters and labour, may come by wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:38:25 @ {\cf2 How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and he that hath pleasure in the goad, and in driuing oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and talketh but of the breed of bullocks?}

geneva@Sir:38:26 @ {\cf2 He giueth his minde to make furrowes, and is diligent to giue the kine fodder.}

geneva@Sir:38:27 @ {\cf2 So is it of euery carpenter, and workemaster that laboureth night and day: and they that cut, and graue seales, and make sundry diuersities, and giue themselues to counterfaite imagerie, and watch to performe the worke.}

geneva@Sir:38:28 @ {\cf2 The smith in like maner abideth by his anuill, and doeth his diligence to labour the yron: the vapour of the fire dryeth his flesh, and hee must fight with the heate of the fornace: the noyse of the hammer is euer in his eares, and his eyes looke still vpon the thing that he maketh: he setteth his minde to make vp his workes: therefore he watcheth to polish it perfectly.}

geneva@Sir:38:29 @ {\cf2 So doeth the potter sit by his worke: he turneth the wheele about with his feete: he is carefull alway at his worke, & maketh his worke by number.}

geneva@Sir:38:30 @ {\cf2 Hee fashioneth the clay with his arme, and with his feete hee tempereth the hardnes thereof: his heart imagineth how to couer it with leade, and his diligence is to cleanse the ouen.}

geneva@Sir:38:31 @ {\cf2 All these hope in their hands, and euery one bestoweth his wisdome in his worke.}

geneva@Sir:38:32 @ {\cf2 Without these cannot the cities be mainteined, nor inhabited, nor occupied.}

geneva@Sir:38:33 @ {\cf2 And yet they are not asked their iudgement in the counsell of the people, neither are they hie in the congregation, neither sit they vpon the iudgement seates, nor vnderstand ye order of iustice: they cannot declare matters according to the forme of the Lawe, and they are not meete for hard matters.}

geneva@Sir:38:34 @ {\cf2 But they maintaine the state of the world, and their desire is concerning their worke and occupation.}

geneva@Sir:39:1 @ {\cf2 He onely that applieth his minde to the Law of the most High, and is occupied in the meditation thereof, seeketh out the wisdome of all the ancient, and exerciseth himselfe in the prophecies.}

geneva@Sir:39:2 @ {\cf2 He keepeth the sayings of famous men, and entreth in also to the secrets of darke sentences.}

geneva@Sir:39:3 @ {\cf2 He seeketh out the mysterie of graue sentences, and exerciseth himselfe in darke parables.}

geneva@Sir:39:4 @ {\cf2 Hee shall serue among great men, and appeare before the prince: he shall trauaile through strange countreys: for he hath tried the good and the euill among men.}

geneva@Sir:39:5 @ {\cf2 He wil giue his heart to resort early vnto the Lord that made him, and to pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and pray for his sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:39:6 @ {\cf2 When the great Lord will, he shall be filled with the Spirite of vnderstanding, that hee may powre out wise sentences, and giue thankes vnto the Lord in his prayer.}

geneva@Sir:39:7 @ {\cf2 He shall direct his counsell, and knowledge: so shall he meditate in his secrets.}

geneva@Sir:39:8 @ {\cf2 He shal shewe forth his science and learning, and reioyce in the Law and couenant of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:39:9 @ {\cf2 Many shall commend his vnderstanding, and his memorie shall neuer be put out, nor depart away: but his name shall continue from generation to generation.}

geneva@Sir:39:10 @ {\cf2 The congregation shal declare his wisdome, and shewe it.}

geneva@Sir:39:11 @ {\cf2 Though he be dead, he shall leaue a greater fame then a thousand: and if he liue still, he shall get the same.}

geneva@Sir:39:12 @ {\cf2 Yet will I speake of moe things: for I am full as the moone.}

geneva@Sir:39:13 @ {\cf2 Hearken vnto me, ye holy children, & bring forth fruit, as the rose that is planted by the brooks of the fielde,}

geneva@Sir:39:14 @ {\cf2 And giue ye a sweete smell as incense, and bring forth flowers as the lillie: giue a smell & sing a song of prayse: blesse the Lord in all his workes.}

geneva@Sir:39:15 @ {\cf2 Giue honour vnto his Name, and shew forth his prayse with the songs of your lips, and with harpes, and ye shall say after this maner,}

geneva@Sir:39:16 @ {\cf2 All the workes of the Lorde are exceeding good, and all his commandements are done in due season.}

geneva@Sir:39:17 @ {\cf2 And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time couenient they shal al be sought out: at his commaundement the water stood as an heape, and at the worde of his mouth the waters gathered themselues.}

geneva@Sir:39:18 @ {\cf2 His whole fauour appeared by his commandement, and none can diminish that which he will saue.}

geneva@Sir:39:19 @ {\cf2 The workes of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.}

geneva@Sir:39:20 @ {\cf2 He seeth from euerlasting to euerlasting, and there is nothing wonderfull vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:39:21 @ {\cf2 A man neede not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their owne vse.}

geneva@Sir:39:22 @ {\cf2 His blessing shall runne ouer as the streame, and moysten the earth like a flood.}

geneva@Sir:39:23 @ {\cf2 As he hath turned the waters into saltnes, so shall the heathen feele his wrath.}

geneva@Sir:39:24 @ {\cf2 As his wayes are plaine and right vnto the iust, so are they stumbling blockes to the wicked.}

geneva@Sir:39:25 @ {\cf2 For the good, are good things created from the beginning, and euill things for the sinners.}

geneva@Sir:39:26 @ {\cf2 The principall thinges for the whole vse of mans life is water, fire, and yron, and salt, and meale, wheat and hony, and milke, the blood of the grape, and oyle, and clothing.}

geneva@Sir:39:27 @ {\cf2 All these thinges are for good to the godly: but to the sinners they are turned vnto euill.}

geneva@Sir:39:28 @ {\cf2 There be spirits that are created for vegeance, which in their rigour lay on sure strokes: in the time of destruction they shewe foorth their power, and accomplish the wrath of him that made them.}

geneva@Sir:39:29 @ {\cf2 Fire, and haile, & famine, and death: all these are created for vengeance.}

geneva@Sir:39:30 @ {\cf2 The teeth of wilde beastes, and the scorpions, and the serpents, and the sworde execute vengeance for the destruction of the wicked.}

geneva@Sir:39:31 @ {\cf2 They shalbe glad to do his commandements: and when neede is, they shall be readie vpon earth: and when their houre is come, they shall not ouerpasse the commandement.}

geneva@Sir:39:32 @ {\cf2 Therefore haue I taken a good courage vnto me from the beginning, and haue thought on these things, and haue put them in writing.}

geneva@Sir:39:33 @ {\cf2 All the workes of the Lorde are good, and he giueth euery one in due season, & when neede is:}

geneva@Sir:39:34 @ {\cf2 So that a man neede not to say, This is worse then that: for in due seaso they are all worthy praise.}

geneva@Sir:39:35 @ {\cf2 And therefore praise the Lorde with whole heart and mouth, and blesse the Name of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:40:1 @ {\cf2 Great trauaile is created for all men, and an heauie yoke vpon the sonnes of Adam from the day that they goe out of their mothers wombe, till the day that they returne to ye mother of all things,}

geneva@Sir:40:2 @ {\cf2 Namely their thoughts, and feare of the heart, and their imagination of the things they waite for, and the day of death,}

geneva@Sir:40:3 @ {\cf2 From him that sitteth vpon ye glorious throne, vnto him that is beneath in the earth and ashes:}

geneva@Sir:40:4 @ {\cf2 From him that is clothed in blewe silke, and weareth a crowne, euen vnto him that is clothed in simple linnen.}

geneva@Sir:40:5 @ {\cf2 Wrath and enuie, trouble, and vnquietnesse, and feare of death, and rigour, and strife, and in the time of rest the sleepe in the night vpon his bed, change his knowledge.}

geneva@Sir:40:6 @ {\cf2 A litle or nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleeping hee is as in a watchtowre in the day: hee is troubled with the visions of his heart, as one that runneth out of a battell.}

geneva@Sir:40:7 @ {\cf2 And when all is safe, hee awaketh, and marueileth that the feare was nothing.}

geneva@Sir:40:8 @ {\cf2 Such thinges come vnto all flesh, both man and beast, but seuen folde to the vngodly:}

geneva@Sir:40:9 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, death and blood, and strife, and sworde, oppression, famine, destruction, and punishment.}

geneva@Sir:40:10 @ {\cf2 These thinges are all created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood also.}

geneva@Sir:40:11 @ {\cf2 All things that are of the earth, shal turne to earth againe: and they that are of the waters, shall returne into the sea.}

geneva@Sir:40:12 @ {\cf2 All bribes and vnrighteousnes shall be put away: but faithfulnesse shall endure for euer.}

geneva@Sir:40:13 @ {\cf2 The substance of the vngodly shall be dried vp like a riuer, and they shall make a sounde like a great thunder in the raine.}

geneva@Sir:40:14 @ {\cf2 When he openeth his hand, he reioyceth: but all the transgressours shall come to nought.}

geneva@Sir:40:15 @ {\cf2 The children of the vngodly shall not obtaine many branches: for the vncleane rootes are as vpon the high rockes.}

geneva@Sir:40:16 @ {\cf2 Their render stalke by what water so euer it bee or water banke, it shall be pulled vp before all other herbes.}

geneva@Sir:40:17 @ {\cf2 Friendlinesse is as a most plentifull garden of pleasure, and mercie endureth for euer.}

geneva@Sir:40:18 @ {\cf2 To labour and to bee content with that a man hath, is a sweete life: but he that findeth a treasure, is aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:19 @ {\cf2 Children, and the building of the citie maketh a perpetuall name: but an honest woman is counted aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:20 @ {\cf2 Wine and musike reioyce the heart: but the loue of wisdome is aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:21 @ {\cf2 The pipe and the psalterion make a sweete noyse: but a pleasant tongue is aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:22 @ {\cf2 Thine eye desireth fauour and beautie: but a greene seede time, rather then them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:23 @ {\cf2 A friende, and companion come together at opportunitie: but aboue them both is a wife with her husband.}

geneva@Sir:40:24 @ {\cf2 Friends and helpe are good in the time of trouble, but almes shall deliuer more then them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:25 @ {\cf2 Golde and siluer fasten the feete: but counsell is esteemed aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:26 @ {\cf2 Riches and strength lift vp the minde: but the feare of the Lorde is aboue them both: there is no want in the feare of the Lord, & it needeth no helpe.}

geneva@Sir:40:27 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord is a pleasant garden of blessing, and there is nothing so beautifull as it is.}

geneva@Sir:40:28 @ {\cf2 My sonne, leade not a beggers life: for better it were to die then to begge.}

geneva@Sir:40:29 @ {\cf2 The life of him that dependeth on another mans table, is not to be couted for a life: for he tormenteth him selfe after other mens meate: but a wise man and well nourtured, will beware thereof.}

geneva@Sir:40:30 @ {\cf2 Begging is sweete in the mouth of the vnshamefast, and in his belly there burneth a fire.}

geneva@Sir:41:1 @ {\cf2 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions, vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him, and that hath prosperitie in all things: yea, vnto him that yet is able to receiue meate!}

geneva@Sir:41:2 @ {\cf2 O death, howe acceptable is thy iudgement vnto the needefull, and vnto him whose strength faileth, and that is nowe in the last age, and is vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!}

geneva@Sir:41:3 @ {\cf2 Feare not the iudgement of death: remember them that haue bene before thee, and that come after: this is the ordinance of the Lord ouer all flesh.}

geneva@Sir:41:4 @ {\cf2 And why wouldest thou be against the pleasure of the most High? whether it bee tenne or an hundreth, or a thousand yeeres, there is no defence for life against the graue.}

geneva@Sir:41:5 @ {\cf2 The children of the vngodly are abominable children, and so are they that keepe companie with the vngodly.}

geneva@Sir:41:6 @ {\cf2 The inheritance of vngodly children shal perish, & their posteritie shall haue a perpetual shame.}

geneva@Sir:41:7 @ {\cf2 The children complaine of an vngodly father, because they are reproched for his sake.}

geneva@Sir:41:8 @ {\cf2 Woe be vnto you, O ye vngodly, which haue forsaken the Law of the most high God: for though you increase, yet shall you perish.}

geneva@Sir:41:9 @ {\cf2 If ye be borne, ye shall be borne to cursing: if ye die, the curse shalbe your portion.}

geneva@Sir:41:10 @ {\cf2 All that is of the earth, shal turne to earth againe: so the vngodly go fro the curse to destruction.}

geneva@Sir:41:11 @ {\cf2 Though men mourne for their body, yet the wicked name of the vngodly shall be put out.}

geneva@Sir:41:12 @ {\cf2 Haue regard to thy name: for that shal continnue, with thee aboue a thousande treasures of golde.}

geneva@Sir:41:13 @ {\cf2 A good life hath the dayes nombred: but a good name endureth euer.}

geneva@Sir:41:14 @ {\cf2 My children, keepe wisedome in peace: for wisdome that is hid, and a treasure that is not seene, what profite is in them both?}

geneva@Sir:41:15 @ {\cf2 A man that hideth his foolishnes, is better then a man that hideth his wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:41:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore beare reuerence vnto my wordes: for it is not good in all things to be ashamed: neither are all things allowed as faithfull in all men.}

geneva@Sir:41:17 @ {\cf2 Be ashamed of whoredome before father and mother: bee ashamed of lyes before the prince and men of authoritie:}

geneva@Sir:41:18 @ {\cf2 Of sinne before the Iudge and ruler: of offence before the congregation and people: of vnrighteousnes before a companion and friend,}

geneva@Sir:41:19 @ {\cf2 And of theft before the place where thou dwellest, and before the trueth of God and his couenant, and to leane with thine elbowes vpon the bread, or to be reproued for giuing or taking,}

geneva@Sir:41:20 @ {\cf2 And of silence vnto them that salute thee, and to looke vpon an harlot,}

geneva@Sir:41:21 @ {\cf2 And to turne away thy face from thy kinseman: or to take away a portion or a gift, or to bee euil minded toward another mans wife,}

geneva@Sir:41:22 @ {\cf2 Or to sollicite any mans mayd, or to stand by her bed, or to reproche thy friends with wordes,}

geneva@Sir:41:23 @ {\cf2 Or to vpbraide when thou giuest any thing, or to report a matter that thou hast heard, or to reueile secret wordes.}

geneva@Sir:41:24 @ {\cf2 Thus mayst thou well be shamefast, and shalt finde fauour with all men.}

geneva@Sir:42:1 @ {\cf2 Of these thinges be not thou ashamed, neither haue regard to offende for any person:}

geneva@Sir:42:2 @ {\cf2 Of the Lawe of the most High and his couenant, and of iudgement to iustifie the godly:}

geneva@Sir:42:3 @ {\cf2 Of the cause of thy companion, and of strangers, or of distributing the heritage among friendes:}

geneva@Sir:42:4 @ {\cf2 To bee diligent to keepe true balance, and weight, whether thou haue much or litle:}

geneva@Sir:42:5 @ {\cf2 To sell marchandise at an indifferent price, and to correct thy children diligently, and to beate an euill seruant to the blood:}

geneva@Sir:42:6 @ {\cf2 To set a good locke where an euil wife is, and to locke where many handes are:}

geneva@Sir:42:7 @ {\cf2 If thou giue any thing by nomber, & weight, to put all in writing, both that that is giuen out, and that that is receiued againe:}

geneva@Sir:42:8 @ {\cf2 To teach the vnlearned & the vnwise, and the aged, that contend against the yong: thus shalt thou be well instructed, and approued of all men liuing.}

geneva@Sir:42:9 @ {\cf2 The daughter maketh the father to watch secretly, and the carefulnesse that he hath for her, taketh away his sleepe in the youth, least shee should passe the flower of her age: and when shee hath an husband, least she should be hated:}

geneva@Sir:42:10 @ {\cf2 In her virginitie, least she should bee defiled, or gotten with childe in her fathers house, & when she is with her husband, least she misbehaue herselfe and when she is married, least she cotinue vnfruitful.}

geneva@Sir:42:11 @ {\cf2 If thy daughter bee vnshamefast, keepe her straitely, least she cause thine enemies to laugh thee to scorne, and make thee a common talke in the citie, and defame thee among the people, and bring thee to publike shame.}

geneva@Sir:42:12 @ {\cf2 Beholde not euery bodies beautie, and companie not among women.}

geneva@Sir:42:13 @ {\cf2 For as the moth commeth out of garments so doeth wickednes of the woman.}

geneva@Sir:42:14 @ {\cf2 The wickednes of a man is better then the good intreatie of a woman, to wit, of a woman that is in shame, and reproche.}

geneva@Sir:42:15 @ {\cf2 I will remember the workes of the Lorde, and declare the thing that I haue seene: by the word of the Lord are his workes.}

geneva@Sir:42:16 @ {\cf2 The sunne that shineth, looketh vpon all things, and all the worke thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:42:17 @ {\cf2 Hath not the Lord appointed that his Saints should declare all his wonderous workes, which the almightie Lord hath stablished to cofirme all things by in his maiestie?}

geneva@Sir:42:18 @ {\cf2 He seeketh out the depth, & the heart, and he knoweth their practises: for the Lorde knoweth all science, and he beholdeth the signes of the world.}

geneva@Sir:42:19 @ {\cf2 He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and discloseth the pathes of things that are secrete.}

geneva@Sir:42:20 @ {\cf2 No thought may escape him, neither may any word be hid from him.}

geneva@Sir:42:21 @ {\cf2 Hee hath garnished the excellent workes of his wisdome, and hee is from euerlasting to euerlasting, and for euer: vnto him may nothing be added, neither can he be minished: he hath no neede of any counseller.}

geneva@Sir:42:22 @ {\cf2 Oh, how delectable are all his workes, and to be considered euen vnto the sparkes of fire!}

geneva@Sir:42:23 @ {\cf2 They liue all, and endure for euer: and whensoeuer neede is, they are all obedient.}

geneva@Sir:42:24 @ {\cf2 They are all double, one against another: he hath made nothing that hath any fault.}

geneva@Sir:42:25 @ {\cf2 The one commendeth the goodnesse of the other, and who can bee satisfied with beholding Gods glorie?}

geneva@Sir:43:1 @ {\cf2 This high ornament the cleare firmament, the beautie of the heauen so glorious to beholde,}

geneva@Sir:43:2 @ {\cf2 The sunne also, a marueilous instrument when it appeareth, declareth, at his going out, the worke of the most High.}

geneva@Sir:43:3 @ {\cf2 At noone it burneth the countrey, and who may abide for the heate thereof?}

geneva@Sir:43:4 @ {\cf2 The sunne burneth the mountaines three times more then hee that keepeth a fornace with continuall heate: it casteth out the fierie vapours, and with the shining beames blindeth the eyes.}

geneva@Sir:43:5 @ {\cf2 Great is the Lorde that made it, and by his commandement he causeth it to runne hastily.}

geneva@Sir:43:6 @ {\cf2 The moone also hath hee made to appeare according to her season, that it should be a declaration of the time, and a signe for the world.}

geneva@Sir:43:7 @ {\cf2 The feastes are appointed by the moone: the light thereof diminisheth vnto the ende.}

geneva@Sir:43:8 @ {\cf2 The moneth is called after the name thereof, and groweth wonderously in her changing.}

geneva@Sir:43:9 @ {\cf2 It is a campe pitched on high, shining in the firmament of heauen: the beautie of heauen are the glorious starres, and the ornament that shineth in the high places of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:43:10 @ {\cf2 By the comandement of the Holy one they continue in their order, & faile not in their watch.}

geneva@Sir:43:11 @ {\cf2 Looke vpon the raine bowe, and prayse him that made it: very beautifull is it in the brightnes thereof.}

geneva@Sir:43:12 @ {\cf2 It compasseth the heauen about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High haue bended it.}

geneva@Sir:43:13 @ {\cf2 Through his commandement he maketh the snowe to haste, and sendeth swiftly the lightning of his iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:43:14 @ {\cf2 Therefore he openeth his treasures, and the cloudes flie forth as the foules.}

geneva@Sir:43:15 @ {\cf2 In his power hath he strengthened ye clouds, and broken the hailestones.}

geneva@Sir:43:16 @ {\cf2 The mountaines leape at the sight of him: the South winde bloweth according to his will.}

geneva@Sir:43:17 @ {\cf2 The sound of his thunder beateth the earth: so doeth the storme of the North: the whirlewinde also, as birds that flie, scattereth the snowe, and the falling downe thereof is as the grashoppers that light downe.}

geneva@Sir:43:18 @ {\cf2 The eye marueileth at the beautie of the whitenes thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raine of it.}

geneva@Sir:43:19 @ {\cf2 He also powreth out the frost vpon ye earth like salte, and when it is frosen, it sticketh on the tops of pales.}

geneva@Sir:43:20 @ {\cf2 When the colde North winde bloweth, an yce is frosen of the water, it abideth vpon all the gatherings together of water, and clotheth the waters as with a brestplate.}

geneva@Sir:43:21 @ {\cf2 It deuoureth the mountaines, & burneth the wildernes, & destroyeth that that is greene, like fire.}

geneva@Sir:43:22 @ {\cf2 The remedie of all these is when a cloude commeth hastily, and when a dewe commeth vpon the heate, it refresheth it.}

geneva@Sir:43:23 @ {\cf2 By his worde he stilleth the winde: by his counsell he appeaseth the deepe, & planteth ylands therein.}

geneva@Sir:43:24 @ {\cf2 They that saile ouer the sea, tell of the perils thereof, and when we heare it with our eares, we marueile thereat.}

geneva@Sir:43:25 @ {\cf2 For there be strange, & wonderous workes, diuers maner of beasts, and the creation of whales.}

geneva@Sir:43:26 @ {\cf2 Through him are all things directed to a good end, and are stablished by his worde.}

geneva@Sir:43:27 @ {\cf2 And when we haue spoken much, we cannot attaine vnto them: but this is the summe of all, that he is all.}

geneva@Sir:43:28 @ {\cf2 What power haue we to prayse him: for he is aboue all his workes?}

geneva@Sir:43:29 @ {\cf2 The Lord is terrible, and very great, and marueilous is his power.}

geneva@Sir:43:30 @ {\cf2 Prayse the Lord, and magnifie him as much as ye can, yet doeth hee farre exceede: exalt him with all your power, and be not wearie, yet can ye not attaine vnto it.}

geneva@Sir:43:31 @ {\cf2 Who hath seene him, that he might tel vs? and who can magnifie him as he is?}

geneva@Sir:43:32 @ {\cf2 For there are hid yet greater things then these be, & we haue seene but a fewe of his workes.}

geneva@Sir:43:33 @ {\cf2 For the Lord hath made all things, & giuen wisdome to such as feare God.}

geneva@Sir:44:1 @ {\cf2 Let vs now commend the famous men, and our fathers of whome we are begotten.}

geneva@Sir:44:2 @ {\cf2 The Lord hath gotten great glory by them, and that through his great power from the beginning.}

geneva@Sir:44:3 @ {\cf2 They haue borne rule in their kingdomes, and were renoumed for their power, and were wise in counsell, and declared prophecies.}

geneva@Sir:44:4 @ {\cf2 They gouerned the people by counsell and by the knowledge of learning meete for the people, in whose doctrine were wise sentences.}

geneva@Sir:44:5 @ {\cf2 They inuented the melodie of musike, and expounded the verses that were written.}

geneva@Sir:44:6 @ {\cf2 They were rich and mightie in power, and liued quietly at home.}

geneva@Sir:44:7 @ {\cf2 All these were honourable men in their generations, and were well reported of in their times.}

geneva@Sir:44:8 @ {\cf2 There are of them that haue left a name behinde them, so that their prayse shalbe spoken of.}

geneva@Sir:44:9 @ {\cf2 There are some also which haue no memoriall, and are perished, as though they had neuer bene, and are become as though they had neuer bene borne, and their children after them.}

geneva@Sir:44:10 @ {\cf2 But the former were mercifull men, whose righteousnes hath not bene forgotten.}

geneva@Sir:44:11 @ {\cf2 For whose posteritie a good inheritance is reserued, & their seede is conteined in the couenant.}

geneva@Sir:44:12 @ {\cf2 Their stocke is conteined in the couenant, and their posteritie after them.}

geneva@Sir:44:13 @ {\cf2 Their seede shall remaine for euer, and their prayse shall neuer be taken away.}

geneva@Sir:44:14 @ {\cf2 Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liueth for euermore.}

geneva@Sir:44:15 @ {\cf2 The people speake of their wisdome, and the congregation talke of their prayse.}

geneva@Sir:44:16 @ {\cf2 Enoch pleased the Lorde God: therefore was he translated for an example of repentance to the generations.}

geneva@Sir:44:17 @ {\cf2 Noe was found perfite, and in the time of wrath he had a rewarde: therefore was he left as a remnant vnto the earth, when the flood came.}

geneva@Sir:44:18 @ {\cf2 An euerlasting couenant was made with him, that all flesh should perish no more by the flood.}

geneva@Sir:44:19 @ {\cf2 Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:44:20 @ {\cf2 He kept the Law of the most High, and was in couenant with him, & he set the couenant in his flesh, and in tentation he was found faithfull.}

geneva@Sir:44:21 @ {\cf2 Therefore he assured him by an othe, that he would blesse the nations in his seede, and that he would multiplie him as the dust of the earth, and exalt his seede as the starres, and cause them to inherite from sea to sea, and from the Riuer vnto the end of the world.}

geneva@Sir:44:22 @ {\cf2 With Isaac did hee confirme likewise for Abraham his fathers sake, the blessing of all men, and the couenant,}

geneva@Sir:44:23 @ {\cf2 And caused it to rest vpon the head of Iacob, and made himselfe knowen by his blessings, and gaue him an heritage and deuided his portions, and parted them among the twelue tribes.}

geneva@Sir:44:24 @ {\cf2 And hee brought out of him a mercifull man, which found fauour in the sight of all flesh.}

geneva@Sir:45:1 @ {\cf2 And Moyses, the beloued of God and men, brought he forth, whose remembrance is blessed.}

geneva@Sir:45:2 @ {\cf2 He made him like to the glorious Saints, and magnified him by the feare of his enemies.}

geneva@Sir:45:3 @ {\cf2 By his words he caused the wonders to cease, and he made him glorious in the sight of Kings, and gaue him commandements for his people, and shewed him his glory.}

geneva@Sir:45:4 @ {\cf2 He sanctified him with faithfulnes, and meekenes, and chose him out of all men.}

geneva@Sir:45:5 @ {\cf2 He caused him to heare his voyce, & brought him into the darke cloude, and there he gaue him the commandements before his face, euen the Law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Iacob the couenant, and Israel his iudgements.}

geneva@Sir:45:6 @ {\cf2 He exalted Aaron an holy man like vnto him, euen his brother of the tribe of Leui.}

geneva@Sir:45:7 @ {\cf2 An euerlasting couenant made he with him, and gaue him the Priesthode among ye people, and made him blessed through his comely ornament, and clothed him with the garment of honour.}

geneva@Sir:45:8 @ {\cf2 He put perfect ioy vpon him, and girded him with ornaments of strength, as with breeches, and a tunicle, and an ephod.}

geneva@Sir:45:9 @ {\cf2 Hee compassed him about with belles of golde, and with many belles round about, that when he went in, the sound might be heard, and might make a noyse in the Sanctuarie, for a remembrance to the children of Israel his people,}

geneva@Sir:45:10 @ {\cf2 And with an holy garment, with golde also, and blue silke, and purple, and diuers kindes of workes, and with a breastlap of iudgement, & with the signes of trueth,}

geneva@Sir:45:11 @ {\cf2 And with worke of skarlet cunningly wrought, & with precious stones grauen like seales and set in golde by goldsmithes worke for a memoriall, with a writing grauen after the nomber of the tribes of Israel,}

geneva@Sir:45:12 @ {\cf2 And with a crowne of golde vpon the mitre, bearing the forme and marke of holines, an ornament of honour, a noble worke garnished, and pleasant to looke vpon.}

geneva@Sir:45:13 @ {\cf2 Before him were there no such faire ornaments: there might no strager put them on, but only his children, and his childrens children perpetually.}

geneva@Sir:45:14 @ {\cf2 Their sacrifices were wholy consumed euery day twise continually.}

geneva@Sir:45:15 @ {\cf2 Moyses filled his hands, and anointed him with holy oyle: this was appointed vnto him by an euerlasting couenant, & to his seede, so long as the heauens should remaine, that hee should minister before him, and also to execute the office of the Priesthood, and blesse his people in his Name.}

geneva@Sir:45:16 @ {\cf2 Before all men liuing the Lorde chose him that he should present offerings before him, and a sweete sauour for a remembrance to make reconciliation for his people.}

geneva@Sir:45:17 @ {\cf2 He gaue him also his commandements and authoritie according to the Lawes appointed, that he should teach Iacob the testimonies, and giue light vnto Israel by his Lawe.}

geneva@Sir:45:18 @ {\cf2 Strangers stood vp against him, and enuied him in the wildernes, euen the men that tooke Dathans and Abirams part, and the company of Core in furie and rage.}

geneva@Sir:45:19 @ {\cf2 This the Lorde sawe, and it displeased him, and in his wrathfull indignation were they consumed: he did wonders vpon them, and consumed them with the firie flame.}

geneva@Sir:45:20 @ {\cf2 But he made Aaron more honourable, and gaue him an heritage, and parted the first fruites of the first borne vnto him: vnto him specially he appointed bread in abundance.}

geneva@Sir:45:21 @ {\cf2 For the Priests did eate of ye sacrifices of the Lord, which he gaue vnto him and to his seede.}

geneva@Sir:45:22 @ {\cf2 Els had he none heritage in the land of his people, neither had he any portion among the people: for the Lord is the portion of his inheritance.}

geneva@Sir:45:23 @ {\cf2 The third in glory is Phinees the sonne of Eleazar, because hee had zeale in the feare of the Lorde, and stood vp with good courage of heart, when the people were turned backe, and made reconciliation for Israel.}

geneva@Sir:45:24 @ {\cf2 Therefore was there a couenant of peace made with him, that he should be the chiefe of the Sanctuarie and of his people, and that hee and his posteritie shoulde haue the dignitie of the Priesthood for euer,}

geneva@Sir:45:25 @ {\cf2 And according to the couenant made with Dauid, that the inheritance of the kingdome should remaine to his sonne of the tribe of Iuda: so the heritage of Aaron should be to the onely sonne of his sonne, and to his seede. God giue vs wisdome in our heart to iudge his people in righteousnesse, that the good things that they haue, be not abolished, and that their glory may endure for their posteritie.}

geneva@Sir:46:1 @ {\cf2 Iesus the sonne of Naue was valiant in the warres, and was the successour of Moyses in prophecies, who according vnto his name, was a great sauiour of the elect of God, to take vengeance of the enemies that rose vp against them, and to set Israel in their inheritance.}

geneva@Sir:46:2 @ {\cf2 What glory gate hee, when hee lift vp his hand, and drewe out his sword against the cities?}

geneva@Sir:46:3 @ {\cf2 Who was there before him, like to him? For he fought the battels of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:46:4 @ {\cf2 Stoode not the sunne still by his meanes, and one day was as long as two?}

geneva@Sir:46:5 @ {\cf2 Hee called vnto the most High gouernour when the enemies preassed vpon him on euery side, and the mightie Lorde heard him with the haile stones, and with mightie power.}

geneva@Sir:46:6 @ {\cf2 He rushed in vpon the nations in battell, and in the going downe of Bethoron he destroyed the aduersaries, that they might know his weapons, and that he fought in the sight of the Lorde: for hee followed the Almightie.}

geneva@Sir:46:7 @ {\cf2 In the time of Moyses also hee did a good worke: he and Caleb the sonne of Iephune stood against the enemie, and withhelde the people from sinne, and appeased the wicked murmuring.}

geneva@Sir:46:8 @ {\cf2 And of sixe hundred thousand people of foote, they two were preserued to bring them into the heritage, euen into the land that floweth with milke and hony.}

geneva@Sir:46:9 @ {\cf2 The Lord gaue strength also vnto Caleb, which remained with him vnto his olde age, so that he went vp into the hie places of the land, and his seede obteined it for an heritage,}

geneva@Sir:46:10 @ {\cf2 That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to followe the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:46:11 @ {\cf2 Concerning the Iudges, euery one by name, whose heart went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, their memorie be blessed.}

geneva@Sir:46:12 @ {\cf2 Let their bones flourish out of their place, & their names by succession remaine to them that are most famous of their children.}

geneva@Sir:46:13 @ {\cf2 Samuel the Prophet of the Lorde, beloued of his Lord, ordeined Kings, & anointed theprinces ouer his people.}

geneva@Sir:46:14 @ {\cf2 By the Lawe of the Lord he iudged the congregation, and the Lord had respect vnto Iacob.}

geneva@Sir:46:15 @ {\cf2 This Prophet was approued for his faithfulnesse, and he was knowen faithfull in his wordes and visions.}

geneva@Sir:46:16 @ {\cf2 He called vpon the Lord Almightie, when his enemies preassed vpon him on euery side, when he offered the sucking lambe.}

geneva@Sir:46:17 @ {\cf2 And the Lorde thundred from heauen, and made his voyce to be heard with a great noyse.}

geneva@Sir:46:18 @ {\cf2 So he discomfited the Princes of the Tyrians, and all the rulers of the Philistims.}

geneva@Sir:46:19 @ {\cf2 And before his long sleepe he made protestation in the sight of the Lorde, and his anointed, that he tooke no substance of any man, no, not so much as a shooe, and no man coulde accuse him.}

geneva@Sir:46:20 @ {\cf2 After his sleepe also he told of ye Kings death, and from the earth lift he vp his voyce, & prophesied that the wickednesse of the people should perish.}

geneva@Sir:47:1 @ {\cf2 After him rose vp Nathan to prophesie in the time of Dauid.}

geneva@Sir:47:2 @ {\cf2 For as the fatte is taken away from the peace offering, so was Dauid chosen out of the children of Israel.}

geneva@Sir:47:3 @ {\cf2 He played with the lions, as with kiddes, and with beares, as with lambes.}

geneva@Sir:47:4 @ {\cf2 Slewe he not a gyant when he was yet but yong, and tooke away the rebuke from the people, when he lift vp his hand with the stone in the sling, to beate downe the pride of Goliah?}

geneva@Sir:47:5 @ {\cf2 For he called vpon ye most high Lorde, which gaue him strength in his right hand, to slaye that mightie warriour, & that he might set vp the horne of his people againe.}

geneva@Sir:47:6 @ {\cf2 So he gaue him the praise of ten thousand, and honoured him with great prayses, and gaue him a crowne of glorie.}

geneva@Sir:47:7 @ {\cf2 For he destroyed the enemies on euery side, and rooted out the Philistims his aduersaries, and brake their horne in sunder vnto this day.}

geneva@Sir:47:8 @ {\cf2 In all his workes he praysed the Holy one, and the most High with honourable wordes, and with his whole heart he sung songs, and loued him that made him.}

geneva@Sir:47:9 @ {\cf2 He set singers also before the altar, and according to their tune he made sweete songs, that they might prayse God dayly with their songs.}

geneva@Sir:47:10 @ {\cf2 He ordeyned to keepe the feast dayes comely, and appointed the times perfitly, that they might prayse the holy Name of God, and make the Temple to sound in the morning.}

geneva@Sir:47:11 @ {\cf2 The Lord tooke away his sinnes, and exalted his horne for euer: he gaue him the couenant of the kingdome, and the throne of glory in Israel.}

geneva@Sir:47:12 @ {\cf2 After him rose vp a wise sonne, who by him dwelt in a large possession.}

geneva@Sir:47:13 @ {\cf2 Salomon reigned in a peaceable time, and was glorious: for God made all quiet round about, that he might build an house in his Name, and prepare the Sanctuarie for euer.}

geneva@Sir:47:14 @ {\cf2 Howe wise wast thou in thy youth, and wast filled with vnderstanding as with a flood!}

geneva@Sir:47:15 @ {\cf2 Thy mind couered the whole earth, and hath filled it with graue and darke sentences.}

geneva@Sir:47:16 @ {\cf2 Thy Name went abrode in the yles, and for thy peace thou wast beloued.}

geneva@Sir:47:17 @ {\cf2 The countreis marueiled at thee for thy songs and prouerbes, and similitudes, and interpretations.}

geneva@Sir:47:18 @ {\cf2 By the Name of the Lorde God, which is called the God of Israel, thou hast gathered golde as tinne and hast had as much siluer as lead.}

geneva@Sir:47:19 @ {\cf2 Thou diddest bowe thy loynes to women, and wast ouercome by thy body.}

geneva@Sir:47:20 @ {\cf2 Thou diddest staine thine honour, and hast defiled thy posteritie, and hast brought wrath vpon thy children, and hast felt sorowe for thy folie.}

geneva@Sir:47:21 @ {\cf2 So the kingdome was deuided, and Ephraim beganne to be a rebellious kingdome.}

geneva@Sir:47:22 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles the Lord left not off his mercy, neither was he destroyed for his workes, neither did he abolish the posteritie of his elect, nor tooke away the seede of him that loued him, but he left a remnant vnto Iacob, and a roote of him vnto Dauid.}

geneva@Sir:47:23 @ {\cf2 Thus rested Salomon with his fathers, and of his seede he left behinde him Roboam, euen the foolishnesse of the people, and one that had no vnderstanding, who turned away the people through his counsell, and Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, which caused Israel to sinne, and shewed Ephraim the way of sinne,}

geneva@Sir:47:24 @ {\cf2 So that their sinnes were so much increased, that they were driuen out of the land.}

geneva@Sir:47:25 @ {\cf2 For they sought out all wickednesse, till the vengeance came vpon them.}

geneva@Sir:48:1 @ {\cf2 Then stood vp Elias the Prophet as a fire, and his worde burnt like a lampe.}

geneva@Sir:48:2 @ {\cf2 He brought a famine vpon them, and by his zeale he diminished them: for they might not away with the commandements of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:48:3 @ {\cf2 By the word of the Lord he shut the heauen, and three times brought he the fire from heauen.}

geneva@Sir:48:4 @ {\cf2 O Elias, how honorable art thou by thy woderous deedes! who may make his boast to be like thee!}

geneva@Sir:48:5 @ {\cf2 Which hast raised vp ye dead from death, and by the word of the most High out of the graue:}

geneva@Sir:48:6 @ {\cf2 Which hast brought Kings vnto destruction, and the honourable from their seate:}

geneva@Sir:48:7 @ {\cf2 Which heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sina, and in Horeb the iudgement of the vengeance:}

geneva@Sir:48:8 @ {\cf2 Which diddest anoint Kings that they might recompense, and Prophets to be thy successours:}

geneva@Sir:48:9 @ {\cf2 Which wast taken vp in a whirle winde of fire, and in a charet of fierie horses:}

geneva@Sir:48:10 @ {\cf2 Which wast appointed to reproue in due season, and to pacifie the wrath of the Lordes iudgement before it kindled, and to turne the heartes of the fathers vnto the children, & to set vp the tribes of Iacob.}

geneva@Sir:48:11 @ {\cf2 Blessed were they that sawe thee, and slept in loue: for we shall liue.}

geneva@Sir:48:12 @ {\cf2 When Elias was couered with the storme, Eliseus was filled with his spirit: while he liued, he was not moued for any prince, neither coulde any bring him into subiection.}

geneva@Sir:48:13 @ {\cf2 Nothing could ouercome him, and after his death his body prophesied.}

geneva@Sir:48:14 @ {\cf2 He did wonders in his life, and in death were his workes marueilous.}

geneva@Sir:48:15 @ {\cf2 For all this the people repented not, neither departed they from their sinnes: till they were caried away prisoners out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth, so that there remained but a very fewe people with the prince vnto ye house of Dauid.}

geneva@Sir:48:16 @ {\cf2 Howbeit some of them did right, and some heaped vp sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:48:17 @ {\cf2 Ezekias made his citie strong, and conueied water into the middes thereof: he digged thorowe the rocke with yron, & made fountaines for waters.}

geneva@Sir:48:18 @ {\cf2 In his time came Sennacherib vp, and sent Rabsaces, & lift vp his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.}

geneva@Sir:48:19 @ {\cf2 Then trembled their heartes and handes, so that they sorowed like a woman in trauell.}

geneva@Sir:48:20 @ {\cf2 But they called vpon the Lord, which is mercifull, and lift vp their hands vnto him, and immediatly the Holy one heard them out of heauen.}

geneva@Sir:48:21 @ {\cf2 He thought no more vpon their sinnes, nor gaue them ouer to their enemies, but deliuered them by the hand of Esai.}

geneva@Sir:48:22 @ {\cf2 He smote the hoste of the Assyrians, and his Angel destroyed them.}

geneva@Sir:48:23 @ {\cf2 For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lorde, and remained stedfastly in the wayes of Dauid his father, as Esai the great Prophet, and faithfull in his vision had commanded him.}

geneva@Sir:48:24 @ {\cf2 In his time the sunne went backwarde, and he lengthened the Kings life.}

geneva@Sir:48:25 @ {\cf2 He sawe by an excellent Spirit what shoulde come to passe at the last, and he comforted them that were sorowfull in Sion.}

geneva@Sir:48:26 @ {\cf2 He shewed what shoulde come to passe for euer, and secret things, or euer they came to passe.}

geneva@Sir:49:1 @ {\cf2 The remembrance of Iosias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of ye apothecarie: it is sweete as honie in al mouthes, and as musike at a banket of wine.}

geneva@Sir:49:2 @ {\cf2 He behaued himselfe vprightly in the reformation of the people, and tooke away all abominations of iniquitie.}

geneva@Sir:49:3 @ {\cf2 He directed his heart vnto the Lord, and in the time of the vngodly he established religion.}

geneva@Sir:49:4 @ {\cf2 All, except Dauid and Ezekias, and Iosias, committed wickednesse: for euen the Kings of Iuda forsooke the Lawe of the most High, and failed.}

geneva@Sir:49:5 @ {\cf2 Therefore he gaue their horne vnto other, and their honour to a strange nation.}

geneva@Sir:49:6 @ {\cf2 He burnt the elect citie of the Sanctuarie, and destroyed the streetes thereof according to the prophesie of Ieremias.}

geneva@Sir:49:7 @ {\cf2 For they intreated him euill, which neuerthelesse was a Prophet, sanctified from his mothers wombe, that he might roote out, and afflict, and destroy, and that he might also builde vp, and plant.}

geneva@Sir:49:8 @ {\cf2 Ezechiel sawe the glorious vision, which was shewed him vpon the charet of the Cherubims.}

geneva@Sir:49:9 @ {\cf2 For he made mention of the enemies vnder the figure of the raine, and directed them that went right.}

geneva@Sir:49:10 @ {\cf2 And let the bones of the twelue Prophets flourish out of their place, and let their memorie be blessed: for they comforted Iacob, and deliuered them by assured hope.}

geneva@Sir:49:11 @ {\cf2 Howe shall we prayse Zorobabel, which was as a ring on the right hand!}

geneva@Sir:49:12 @ {\cf2 So was Iesus also the sonne of Iosedec: these men in their time builded the house, and set vp the Sanctuarie of the Lord againe, which was prepared for an euerlasting worship.}

geneva@Sir:49:13 @ {\cf2 And among ye elect was Neemias whose renoume is great, which set vp for vs the walles that were fallen, and set vp the gates and the barres, and layed the foundations of our houses.}

geneva@Sir:49:14 @ {\cf2 But vpon the earth was no man created like Enoch: for he was taken vp from the earth.}

geneva@Sir:49:15 @ {\cf2 Neither was there a like man vnto Ioseph the gouernour of his brethren, and the vpholder of his people, whose bones were kept.}

geneva@Sir:49:16 @ {\cf2 Sem & Seth were in great honour among men: and so was Adam aboue euery liuing thing in the creation.}

geneva@Sir:50:1 @ {\cf2 Simon the sonne of Onias the hie Priest, which in his life set vp the house againe, & in his dayes established the Temple,}

geneva@Sir:50:2 @ {\cf2 Vnder him was the foundation of the double height layed, and the hie walles that compasseth the Temple.}

geneva@Sir:50:3 @ {\cf2 In his dayes the places to receiue water, that were decayed, were restored, and the brasse was about in measure as the sea.}

geneva@Sir:50:4 @ {\cf2 He tooke care for his people, that they should not fall, and fortified the citie against the siege.}

geneva@Sir:50:5 @ {\cf2 How honorable was his conuersation among the people, and when he came out of the house couered with the vaile!}

geneva@Sir:50:6 @ {\cf2 He was as the morning starre in the middes of a cloude, and as the moone when it is full,}

geneva@Sir:50:7 @ {\cf2 And as the sunne shining vpon the Temple of the most High, & as the rainebowe that is bright in the faire cloudes,}

geneva@Sir:50:8 @ {\cf2 And as the flowre of the roses in the spring of the yeere, and as lilies by the springs of waters, and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of sommer,}

geneva@Sir:50:9 @ {\cf2 As a fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessell of massie golde, set with all maner of precious stones,}

geneva@Sir:50:10 @ {\cf2 And as a faire oliue tree that is fruitfull, and as a cypresse tree, which groweth vp to the cloudes.}

geneva@Sir:50:11 @ {\cf2 When he put on the garment of honour and was clothed with all beautie, he went vp to the holy altar, & made the garment of holines honourable.}

geneva@Sir:50:12 @ {\cf2 When he tooke the portions out of ye Priests handes, he himselfe stoode by the herth of the altar, compassed with his brethren round about, as ye branches doe the cedar tree in Libanus, and they compassed him as the branches of the palme trees.}

geneva@Sir:50:13 @ {\cf2 So were all the sonnes of Aaron in their glorie, and the oblations of the Lord in their hands before all the congregation of Israel.}

geneva@Sir:50:14 @ {\cf2 And that he might accomplish his ministerie vpon the altar, and garnish the offering of the most High and Almightie,}

geneva@Sir:50:15 @ {\cf2 He stretched out his hand to the drinke offering, and powred of the blood of the grape, and he powred at the foote of the altar a perfume of good sauour vnto the most high King of all.}

geneva@Sir:50:16 @ {\cf2 Then showted the sonnes of Aaron, and blowed with brasen trumpets, & made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.}

geneva@Sir:50:17 @ {\cf2 Then all the people together hasted, and fell downe to the earth vpon their faces to worship their Lord God almightie, and most high.}

geneva@Sir:50:18 @ {\cf2 The singers also sang with their voyces, so that the sound was great, and the melodie sweete.}

geneva@Sir:50:19 @ {\cf2 And the people prayed vnto the Lorde mosthigh with praier before him that is merciful, till the honour of the Lorde were performed, and they had accomplished his seruice.}

geneva@Sir:50:20 @ {\cf2 Then went he downe, and stretched out his hands ouer the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they shoulde giue praise with their lippes vnto the Lord, and reioyce in his name.}

geneva@Sir:50:21 @ {\cf2 Hee began againe to worship, that he might receiue the blessing of the most High.}

geneva@Sir:50:22 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore giue praise all ye vnto God, that worketh great things euery where, which hath increased our daies from the wombe, and dealt with vs according to his mercie,}

geneva@Sir:50:23 @ {\cf2 That he would giue vs ioyfulnesse of heart, and peace in our daies in Israel, as in olde time,}

geneva@Sir:50:24 @ {\cf2 That he would confirme his mercie with vs, and deliuer vs at his time.}

geneva@Sir:50:25 @ {\cf2 There be two maner of people, that mine heart abhorreth, and the third is no people:}

geneva@Sir:50:26 @ {\cf2 They that sit vpon the mountaine of Samaria, the Philistims, and the foolish people that dwell in Sicinus.}

geneva@Sir:50:27 @ {\cf2 Iesus the sonne of Sirach, the sonne of Eleazarus, of Ierusalem, hath written the doctrine of vnderstanding and knowledge in this booke, & hath powred out the wisdome of his heart.}

geneva@Sir:50:28 @ {\cf2 Blessed is he that exerciseth himselfe therein: and he that laieth vp these in his heart, shalbe wise.}

geneva@Sir:50:29 @ {\cf2 For if he doe these things, he shall be strong in all things: for he setteth his steppes in the light of the Lorde, which giueth wisedome to the godly. The Lord be praised for euermore: So be it, so be it.}

geneva@Sir:51:1 @ {\cf2 I wil confesse thee, O Lorde and King, and praise thee, O God my sauiour: I giue thankes vnto thy name.}

geneva@Sir:51:2 @ {\cf2 For thou art my defender & helper, and hast preserued my body from destruction, and from the snare of the slanderous tongue, and from the lippes that are occupied with lies: thou hast holpen me against mine aduersaries,}

geneva@Sir:51:3 @ {\cf2 And hast deliuered me according to the multitude of thy mercie, and for thy Names sake, from the roaring of them that were readie to deuoure me, and out of the hands of such as sought after my life, and from the manifold afflictions, which I had,}

geneva@Sir:51:4 @ {\cf2 And from the fire that choked me round about, & from the mids of ye fire that I burned not,}

geneva@Sir:51:5 @ {\cf2 And from the bottome of the bellie of hell, from an vncleane tongue, from lying wordes, from false accusation to the king, and from the slaunder of an vnrighteous tongue.}

geneva@Sir:51:6 @ {\cf2 My soule shal praise the Lord vnto death: for my soule drewe neere vnto death: my life was neere to the hell beneath.}

geneva@Sir:51:7 @ {\cf2 They compassed me on euery side, and there was no man to helpe mee: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.}

geneva@Sir:51:8 @ {\cf2 Then thought I vpon thy mercie, O Lorde, and vpon thine actes of olde, howe thou deliuerest such as waite for thee, and sauest them out of the hands of the enemies.}

geneva@Sir:51:9 @ {\cf2 Then lifted I vp my praier from the earth, and praied for deliuerance from death.}

geneva@Sir:51:10 @ {\cf2 I called vpon the Lorde the Father of my Lord, that he would not leaue me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of ye proude without helpe.}

geneva@Sir:51:11 @ {\cf2 I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praise with thanksgiuing: and my praier was heard.}

geneva@Sir:51:12 @ {\cf2 Thou sauedst mee from destruction, and deliueredst mee from the euill time: therefore will I giue thankes, and praise thee, and blesse the Name of the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:51:13 @ {\cf2 When I was yet young, or euer I went abroade, I desired wisedome openly in my praier.}

geneva@Sir:51:14 @ {\cf2 I praied for her before the Temple, & sought after her vnto farre countreis, & shee was as a grape that waxeth ripe out of the flower.}

geneva@Sir:51:15 @ {\cf2 Mine heart reioyced in her: my foote walked in the right way, & from my youth vp sought I after her.}

geneva@Sir:51:16 @ {\cf2 I bowed somewhat downe mine eare, and receiued her, and gate me much wisedome:}

geneva@Sir:51:17 @ {\cf2 And I profited by her: therefore wil I ascribe the glory vnto him, that giueth me wisedome.}

geneva@Sir:51:18 @ {\cf2 For I am aduised to doe thereafter: I wil be ielous of that that is good: so shall I not bee confounded.}

geneva@Sir:51:19 @ {\cf2 My soule hath wrestled with her, and I haue examined my works: I lifted vp mine hands on hie, and considered the ignorances thereof.}

geneva@Sir:51:20 @ {\cf2 I directed my soule vnto her, and I founde her in purenesse: I haue had mine heart ioyned with her from the beginning: therefore shall I not bee forsaken.}

geneva@Sir:51:21 @ {\cf2 My bowels are troubled in seeking her: therefore haue I gotten a good possession.}

geneva@Sir:51:22 @ {\cf2 The Lord hath giuen me a tongue for my reward, wherewith I will praise him.}

geneva@Sir:51:23 @ {\cf2 Draw neere vnto me, ye vnlearned, and dwel in the house of learning.}

geneva@Sir:51:24 @ {\cf2 Wherefore are yee slowe? and what say you of these things, seeing your soules are very thirstie?}

geneva@Sir:51:25 @ {\cf2 I opened my mouth, and saide, Bye her for you without money.}

geneva@Sir:51:26 @ {\cf2 Bowe downe your necke vnder the yoke, and your soule shall receiue instruction: shee is readie that yee may finde her.}

geneva@Sir:51:27 @ {\cf2 Beholde with your eyes, howe that I haue had but litle labour, and haue gotten vnto mee much rest.}

geneva@Sir:51:28 @ {\cf2 Get learning with a great summe of money: for by her yee shall possesse much golde.}

geneva@Sir:51:29 @ {\cf2 Let your soule reioyce in the mercie of the Lord, and be not ashamed of his praise.}

geneva@Sir:51:30 @ {\cf2 Doe your duetie betimes, and he wil giue you a reward at his time.}

geneva@Bar:1:1 @ {\cf2 And these are the woordes of the booke, which Baruch the sonne of Nerias, the sonne of Maasias, the sonne of Sedecias, the sonne of Asadias, the sonne of Helcias wrote in at Babylon,}

geneva@Bar:1:2 @ {\cf2 In the fifth yeere, and in the seuenth day of the moneth, what time as the Chaldeans tooke Ierusalem, and burnt it with fire.}

geneva@Bar:1:3 @ {\cf2 And Baruch did reade the woordes of this booke, that Iechonias the sonne of Ioacim king of Iuda might heare, and al the people that were come to heare the booke,}

geneva@Bar:1:4 @ {\cf2 And in the audience of the gouernour, & of the Kings sonnes, and before the Elders, and before the whole people, fro the lowest vnto the hiest, before all them that dwelt at Babylon by the riuer Sud.}

geneva@Bar:1:5 @ {\cf2 Which when they heard it, wept, fasted and made praiers before the Lord.}

geneva@Bar:1:6 @ {\cf2 They made a collection also of money, according to euery mans power,}

geneva@Bar:1:7 @ {\cf2 And sent it to Ierusalem vnto Ioacim ye sonne of Helcias the sonne of Salom priest, and vnto the other priests, and to all the people which were with him at Ierusalem,}

geneva@Bar:1:8 @ {\cf2 When hee had receiued the vessels of the Temple of the Lorde, that were taken away out of the Temple, to bring them againe into the lande of Iuda, the tenth day of the moneth Sinan, to wit, siluer vessels, which Sedecias the sonne of Iosias King of Iuda had made,}

geneva@Bar:1:9 @ {\cf2 After that Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon had led away Iechonias from Ierusalem, & his princes, and his nobles, prisoners, and the people, and caried them to Babylon.}

geneva@Bar:1:10 @ {\cf2 And they saide, Beholde, we haue sent you money, wherewith yee shall bye burnt offerings for sinne, and incense, and prepare a meat offering, and offer vpon the altar of the Lord our God,}

geneva@Bar:1:11 @ {\cf2 And praie for the life of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his sonne, that their daies may be vpon earth, as the daies of heauen,}

geneva@Bar:1:12 @ {\cf2 And that God woulde giue vs strength and lighten our eyes, that we may liue vnder the shadowe of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, and vnder ye shadowe of Baltasar his sonne, that we may long do them seruice, & finde fauour in their sight.}

geneva@Bar:1:13 @ {\cf2 Pray for vs also vnto the Lord our God (for we haue sinned against the Lord our God, and vnto this day the furie of the Lorde and his wrath is not turned from vs.)}

geneva@Bar:1:14 @ {\cf2 And reade this booke (which we haue sent to you to be rehearsed in the Temple of the Lord) vpon the feast daies, and at time conuenient.}

geneva@Bar:1:15 @ {\cf2 Thus shall ye say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousnesse, but vnto vs the confusion of our faces, as it is come to passe this day vnto them of Iuda, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem,}

geneva@Bar:1:16 @ {\cf2 And to our Kings, and to our Princes, and to our Priestes, & to our Prophets, and to our fathers,}

geneva@Bar:1:17 @ {\cf2 Because we haue sinned before the Lorde our God,}

geneva@Bar:1:18 @ {\cf2 And haue not obeied him, neither hearkened vnto the voice of the Lorde our God, to walke in the commandements that he gaue vs openly.}

geneva@Bar:1:19 @ {\cf2 From the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the lande of Egypt, euen vnto this day, we haue bene disobedient vnto the Lord our God, and we haue bene negligent to heare his voice.}

geneva@Bar:1:20 @ {\cf2 Wherefore these plagues are come vpon vs, and the curse which the Lorde appointed by Moyses his seruaunt at the time that hee brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to giue vs a land that floweth with milke and hony, as appeareth this day.}

geneva@Bar:1:21 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, we haue not hearkened vnto the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the Prophets, whome he sent vnto vs.}

geneva@Bar:1:22 @ {\cf2 But euery one of vs followed ye wicked imagination of his owne heart, to serue strange gods, and to doe euill in the sight of the Lord our God.}

geneva@Bar:2:1 @ {\cf2 Therefore the Lorde our God hath perfourmed his woorde, which hee pronounced against vs, and against our iudges that gouerned Israel, and against our Kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Iuda,}

geneva@Bar:2:2 @ {\cf2 To bring vpon vs great plagues, such as neuer came to passe vnder the whole heauen, as they that were done in Ierusalem, according to things, that were written in the Lawe of Moises,}

geneva@Bar:2:3 @ {\cf2 That some among vs should eat ye flesh of his owne sonne, & some the flesh of his owne daughter.}

geneva@Bar:2:4 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, hee hath deliuered them to be in subiection to all the kingdomes, that are rounde about vs, to bee as a reproche and desolation among all the people rounde about where the Lorde hath scattered them.}

geneva@Bar:2:5 @ {\cf2 Thus they are brought beneath and not aboue, because we haue sinned against the Lorde our God, and haue not heard his voyce.}

geneva@Bar:2:6 @ {\cf2 To the Lord our God apperteineth righteousnes, but vnto vs and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.}

geneva@Bar:2:7 @ {\cf2 For all these plagues are come vpon vs, which the Lord hath pronounced against vs.}

geneva@Bar:2:8 @ {\cf2 Yet haue we not praied before the Lord, that we might turne euery one from the imaginations of his owne wicked heart.}

geneva@Bar:2:9 @ {\cf2 So the Lord hath watched ouer the plagues, and the Lorde hath brought them vpon vs: for the Lord is righteous in all his woorkes, which he hath commanded vs.}

geneva@Bar:2:10 @ {\cf2 Yet wee haue not hearkened vnto his voyce, to walke in the commandements of the Lorde that he hath giuen vnto vs.}

geneva@Bar:2:11 @ {\cf2 And nowe, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mightie hand, and an hie arme, and with signes, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thy selfe a Name, as appeareth this day,}

geneva@Bar:2:12 @ {\cf2 O Lorde our God, we haue sinned: we haue done wickedly: we haue offended in all thine ordinances.}

geneva@Bar:2:13 @ {\cf2 Let thy wrath turne from vs: for we are but a fewe left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered vs.}

geneva@Bar:2:14 @ {\cf2 Heare our praiers, O Lorde, and our peticions, and deliuer vs for thine owne sake, and giue vs fauor in the sight of them, which haue led vs away,}

geneva@Bar:2:15 @ {\cf2 That all the earth may knowe that thou art the Lord our God, and that thy Name is called vpon Israel and vpon their posteritie.}

geneva@Bar:2:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore looke downe fro thine holy Temple, and thinke vpon vs: encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare vs.}

geneva@Bar:2:17 @ {\cf2 Open thine eyes, and beholde: for the dead that are in the graues, and whose soules are out of their bodies, giue vnto the Lorde neither praise, nor righteousnesse.}

geneva@Bar:2:18 @ {\cf2 But the soule that is vexed for the greatnesse of sinne, and hee that goeth crookedly, and weake, and the eyes that faile, and the hungrie soule will giue thee praise and righteousnesse, O Lord.}

geneva@Bar:2:19 @ {\cf2 For wee doe not require mercie in thy sight, O Lorde our God, for the righteousnesse of our fathers, or of our Kings,}

geneva@Bar:2:20 @ {\cf2 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath andindignation vpon vs, as thou hast spoken by thy seruants the Prophets, saying,}

geneva@Bar:2:21 @ {\cf2 Thus sayth the Lorde, Bowe downe your shoulders, and serue the King of Babylon: so shal ye remaine in the land, that I gaue vnto your fathers.}

geneva@Bar:2:22 @ {\cf2 But if ye will not heare the voyce of ye Lord, to serue the King of Babylon,}

geneva@Bar:2:23 @ {\cf2 I will cause to cease in the cities of Iuda, and in Ierusalem, I wil cause to cease the voyce of mirth, and the voyce of ioye, and the voyce of the bridegrome, and the voyce of the bride, and the land shal be desolate of inhabitants.}

geneva@Bar:2:24 @ {\cf2 But we woulde not hearken vnto thy voyce, to serue the King of Babylon: therefore hast thou performed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruants the Prophets: namely, that the bones of our Kings, and the bones of our fathers should be caried out of their places.}

geneva@Bar:2:25 @ {\cf2 And lo, they are cast out to the heate of the day, and to the colde of the night, and are dead in great miserie with famine, and with the sworde, and in banishment.}

geneva@Bar:2:26 @ {\cf2 And the Temple wherein thy Name was called vpon, thou hast brought to ye state, as appeareth this day, for the wickednesse of the house of Israel, and the house of Iuda.}

geneva@Bar:2:27 @ {\cf2 O Lorde our God, thou hast intreated vs according to equitie, and according to all thy great mercie.}

geneva@Bar:2:28 @ {\cf2 As thou spakest by thy seruant Moyses, in the day when thou diddest commande him to write thy Lawe before the children of Israel, saying,}

geneva@Bar:2:29 @ {\cf2 If ye will not obey my voyce, then shall this great swarme and multitude be turned into a verie fewe among the nations where I will scatter them.}

geneva@Bar:2:30 @ {\cf2 For I know that they will not heare me: for it is a stifnecked people: but in the lande of their captiuitie they shall remember themselues,}

geneva@Bar:2:31 @ {\cf2 And knowe that I am the Lorde their God: then wil I giue them an heart to vnderstand, & eares.}

geneva@Bar:2:32 @ {\cf2 And they shall heare, & prayse me in the land of their captiuitie, and thinke vpon my Name.}

geneva@Bar:2:33 @ {\cf2 Then shall they turne them from their hard backes, and from their euill workes: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.}

geneva@Bar:2:34 @ {\cf2 And I will bring them againe into the land, which I promised with an othe vnto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, and they shalbe Lordes of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.}

geneva@Bar:2:35 @ {\cf2 And I will make an euerlasting couenant with them, that I will be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more driue my people of Israel out of the land that I haue giuen them.}

geneva@Bar:3:1 @ {\cf2 O Lorde Almightie, O God of Israel, the soule that is in trouble, and the spirite that is vexed, cryeth vnto thee.}

geneva@Bar:3:2 @ {\cf2 Heare, O Lord, and haue mercie: for thou art mercifull, and haue pitie vpon vs, because wee haue sinned before thee.}

geneva@Bar:3:3 @ {\cf2 For thou endurest for euer, & we vtterly perish.}

geneva@Bar:3:4 @ {\cf2 O Lorde Almightie, the God of Israel, heare nowe the prayer of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which haue sinned before thee, and not hearkened vnto the voyce of thee ther God, wherefore these plagues hang vpon vs.}

geneva@Bar:3:5 @ {\cf2 Remember not ye wickednesse of our fathers, but thinke vpo thy power, & thy Name at this time.}

geneva@Bar:3:6 @ {\cf2 For thou art the Lorde our God, and thee, O Lord, will we prayse.}

geneva@Bar:3:7 @ {\cf2 And for this cause hast thou put thy feare in our hearts, that we should call vpon thy Name, and prayse thee in our captiuitie: for we haue considered in our mindes all the wickednesse of our fathers, that sinned before thee.}

geneva@Bar:3:8 @ {\cf2 Beholde, we are yet this day in our captiuitie, where thou hast scattered vs, to be a reproche and a curse, and subiect to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which are departed from the Lord their God.}

geneva@Bar:3:9 @ {\cf2 O Israel, heare ye comandements of life: hearken vnto them, that thou maiest learne wisdome.}

geneva@Bar:3:10 @ {\cf2 What is the cause, O Israel, that thou art in thine enemies land, and art waxen olde in a strange countrey?}

geneva@Bar:3:11 @ {\cf2 And art defiled with the dead? and art counted with them, that goe downe to the graues?}

geneva@Bar:3:12 @ {\cf2 Thou hast forsaken ye fountaine of wisdome.}

geneva@Bar:3:13 @ {\cf2 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest haue remayned safe for euer.}

geneva@Bar:3:14 @ {\cf2 Learne where is wisedome, where is strength, where is vnderstanding, that thou maiest know also from whence commeth long continuance, and life, and where the light of the eyes, and peace is.}

geneva@Bar:3:15 @ {\cf2 Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?}

geneva@Bar:3:16 @ {\cf2 Where are the princes of the heathen, & such as ruled the beastes vpon the earth?}

geneva@Bar:3:17 @ {\cf2 They that had their pastime with the foules of the heauen, that hoarded vp siluer & gold, wherein men trust, & made none ende of their gathering?}

geneva@Bar:3:18 @ {\cf2 For they that coyned siluer, & were so careful of their worke, & whose inuention had none ende,}

geneva@Bar:3:19 @ {\cf2 Are come to nought, and gone downe to hel, and other men are come vp in their steades.}

geneva@Bar:3:20 @ {\cf2 When they were young, they sawe the light, and dwelt vpon the earth: but they vnderstood not the way of knowledge,}

geneva@Bar:3:21 @ {\cf2 Neither perceiued the pathes thereof, neither haue their children receiued it: but they were farre off from that way.}

geneva@Bar:3:22 @ {\cf2 It hath not bene heard off in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it bene seene in Theman,}

geneva@Bar:3:23 @ {\cf2 Nor the Agarines that sought after wisdome vpon the earth, nor the marchants of Nerran, and of Theman, nor the expounders of fables, nor the searchers out of wisdome haue knowen the way of wisdome, neither doe they thinke vpon the pathes thereof.}

geneva@Bar:3:24 @ {\cf2 O Israel, howe great is the House of God! and howe large is the place of his possession!}

geneva@Bar:3:25 @ {\cf2 It is great, and hath none ende: it is hie, and vnmeasurable.}

geneva@Bar:3:26 @ {\cf2 There were the gyants, famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in warre.}

geneva@Bar:3:27 @ {\cf2 Those did not the Lord choose, neither gaue he the way of knowledge vnto them.}

geneva@Bar:3:28 @ {\cf2 But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdome, & perished through their owne foolishnes.}

geneva@Bar:3:29 @ {\cf2 Who hath gone vp into heauen, to take her, and brought her downe from the cloudes?}

geneva@Bar:3:30 @ {\cf2 Who hath gone ouer the sea to finde her, and hath brought her, rather then fine golde?}

geneva@Bar:3:31 @ {\cf2 No man knoweth her wayes, neither considereth her pathes.}

geneva@Bar:3:32 @ {\cf2 But he that knoweth al things, knoweth her, and he hath found her out with his vnderstanding: this same is he which hath prepared the earth for euermore, and hath filled it with foure footed beastes.}

geneva@Bar:3:33 @ {\cf2 When he sendeth out the light, it goeth: and when he calleth it againe, it obeyeth him with feare.}

geneva@Bar:3:34 @ {\cf2 And the starres shine in their watch, and reioyce. When he calleth them, they say, Here we be: and so with cherefulnesse they shewe light vnto him that made them.}

geneva@Bar:3:35 @ {\cf2 This is our God, and there shall none other be compared vnto him.}

geneva@Bar:3:36 @ {\cf2 He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath giuen it vnto Iacob his seruant, and to Israel his beloued.}

geneva@Bar:3:37 @ {\cf2 Afterwarde he was seene vpon earth, and dwelt among men.}

geneva@Bar:4:1 @ {\cf2 This is the booke of the commaundements of God, and the Lawe that endureth for euer: all they that keepe it, shal come to life: but such as forsake it, shall die.}

geneva@Bar:4:2 @ {\cf2 Turne thee, O Iacob, & take hold of it: walke by this brightnesse before the light thereof.}

geneva@Bar:4:3 @ {\cf2 Giue not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable vnto thee, to a strange nation.}

geneva@Bar:4:4 @ {\cf2 O Israel, we are blessed: for the things that are acceptable vnto God, are declared vnto vs.}

geneva@Bar:4:5 @ {\cf2 Be of good comfort, O my people, which art the memoriall of Israel.}

geneva@Bar:4:6 @ {\cf2 Ye are solde to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye prouoked God to wrath, ye were deliuered vnto the enemies.}

geneva@Bar:4:7 @ {\cf2 For ye haue displeased him that made you, offering vnto deuils and not to God.}

geneva@Bar:4:8 @ {\cf2 Ye haue forgotten him that created you, euen the euerlasting God, and ye haue grieued Ierusalem, that nourished you.}

geneva@Bar:4:9 @ {\cf2 When shee sawe the wrath comming vpon you from God, she saide, Hearken, ye that dwell about Sion: for God hath brought me into great heauines.}

geneva@Bar:4:10 @ {\cf2 I see the captiuitie of my sonnes and daughters, which the Euerlasting will bring vpon them.}

geneva@Bar:4:11 @ {\cf2 With ioy did I nourish them, but I must leaue them with weeping and mourning.}

geneva@Bar:4:12 @ {\cf2 Let no man reioyce ouer me a widow, & forsaken of many, which for ye sinnes of my children am desolate, because they departed from ye Law of God.}

geneva@Bar:4:13 @ {\cf2 They would not know his righteousnes, nor walke in the wayes of his commandements: neither did they enter into the pathes of discipline, through his righteousnesse.}

geneva@Bar:4:14 @ {\cf2 Come, ye that dwell about Sion, and call to remembrance the captiuitie of my sonnes & daughters, which the euerlasting hath brought vpon them.}

geneva@Bar:4:15 @ {\cf2 For he hath brought vpon them a nation from farre, an impudent nation, and of a strange language,}

geneva@Bar:4:16 @ {\cf2 Which neither reuerence the aged, nor pitie the yong: these haue caried away the deare beloued of the widowes, leauing me alone, and destitute of my daughters.}

geneva@Bar:4:17 @ {\cf2 But what can I helpe you?}

geneva@Bar:4:18 @ {\cf2 Surely he that hath brought these plagues vpon you, can deliuer you from the handes of your enemies.}

geneva@Bar:4:19 @ {\cf2 Goe your way, O children, goe your way: for I am left desolate.}

geneva@Bar:4:20 @ {\cf2 I haue put off the clothing of peace, and put vpon me the sackcloth of prayer, and so long as I liue, I will call vpon the Euerlasting.}

geneva@Bar:4:21 @ {\cf2 Be of good comfort, O children: crye vnto God, and he will deliuer you from the power, and hand of the enemies.}

geneva@Bar:4:22 @ {\cf2 For I haue hope of your saluation through the Euerlasting, and ioy is come vpon me from the Holy one, because of the mercie, which shall quickly come vnto you from our euerlasting Sauiour.}

geneva@Bar:4:23 @ {\cf2 For I sent you away with weeping, & mourning: but with ioy and perpetuall gladnes will God bring you againe vnto me.}

geneva@Bar:4:24 @ {\cf2 Like as now the neighbours of Sion saw your captiuitie, so shall they also see shortly your saluation from God, which shall come vnto you with great glory, and brightnes from the Euerlasting.}

geneva@Bar:4:25 @ {\cf2 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come vpon you from God: for thine enemie hath persecuted thee, but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt treade vpon his necke.}

geneva@Bar:4:26 @ {\cf2 My darlings haue gone by rough wayes, and were led away as a flock that is scattered by ye enemies.}

geneva@Bar:4:27 @ {\cf2 Be of good comfort, my children, and crye vnto God: for he that led you away, hath you in remembrance.}

geneva@Bar:4:28 @ {\cf2 And as it came into your minde to goe astray from your God, so endeuour your selues ten times more, to turne againe and to seeke him.}

geneva@Bar:4:29 @ {\cf2 For he that hath brought these plagues vpon you, will bring you euerlasting ioy againe, with your saluation.}

geneva@Bar:4:30 @ {\cf2 Take a good heart, O Ierusalem: for he which gaue thee that name, will comfort thee.}

geneva@Bar:4:31 @ {\cf2 They are miserable that afflict thee, and such as reioyce at thy fall.}

geneva@Bar:4:32 @ {\cf2 The cities are miserable whom thy children serue: miserable is she that hath taken thy sonnes.}

geneva@Bar:4:33 @ {\cf2 For as she reioyced at thy decay, & was glad of thy fal, so shal she be sory for her owne desolatio.}

geneva@Bar:4:34 @ {\cf2 For I will take away ye reioycing of her great multitude, & her ioy shall be turned into mourning.}

geneva@Bar:4:35 @ {\cf2 For a fire shall come vpon her from the Euerlasting, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited of deuils for a great season.}

geneva@Bar:4:36 @ {\cf2 O Ierusalem, looke toward the East, and behold the ioy that cometh vnto thee from thy God.}

geneva@Bar:4:37 @ {\cf2 Lo, thy sonnes (whom thou hast let go) come gathered together from the East vnto the West, reioycing in the worde of the Holy one vnto the honour of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:1 @ {\cf2 Pvt off thy mourning clothes, O Ierusalem, and thine affliction, and decke thee with the worship and honour, that commeth vnto thee from God, for euermore.}

geneva@Bar:5:2 @ {\cf2 Put on the garment of righteousnesse, that commeth from God, and set a crowne vpon thine head of the glorie of the Euerlasting.}

geneva@Bar:5:3 @ {\cf2 For God will declare thy brightnes to euery countrey vnder the heauen.}

geneva@Bar:5:4 @ {\cf2 And God will name thee by this name foreuer, The peace of righteousnesse, and the glory of the worship of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:5 @ {\cf2 Arise, O Ierusalem, and stand vp on hie, and looke about thee towarde the East, and beholde thy children gathered from the East vnto the West by the worde of the holy one, reioycing in the remembrance of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:6 @ {\cf2 For they departed from thee on foote, and were led away of their enemies: but God will bring them againe vnto thee, exalted in glorie, as children of the kingdome.}

geneva@Bar:5:7 @ {\cf2 For God hath determined to bring downe euery high mountaine, & the long enduring rockes, and to fill the valleis, to make the grounde plaine, that Israel may walke safely vnto ye honor of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:8 @ {\cf2 The woods and all sweete smelling trees shal ouershadow Israel at the commandement of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:9 @ {\cf2 For God shall bring Israel with ioy in ye light of his maiestie, with the mercie and righteousnesse that commeth of him.}

geneva@Bar:6:1 @ {\cf2 Because of the sinnes, that ye haue committed against God, yee shall be led away captiues vnto Babylon, by Nabuchodonosor, King of the Babylonians.}

geneva@Bar:6:2 @ {\cf2 So when ye be come into Babylon, yee shall remaine there many yeeres, and a long season, euen seuen generations, and after that will I bring you away peaceablie from thence.}

geneva@Bar:6:3 @ {\cf2 Now shal ye see in Babylon gods of siluer, and of gold, and of wood, borne vpon mens shoulders, to cause the people to feare.}

geneva@Bar:6:4 @ {\cf2 Beware therefore that yee in no wise be like the strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behinde them worshipping them,}

geneva@Bar:6:5 @ {\cf2 But say ye in your hearts, O Lorde, we must worship thee.}

geneva@Bar:6:6 @ {\cf2 For mine Angell shall be with you, and shall care for your soules.}

geneva@Bar:6:7 @ {\cf2 As for their tongue, it is polished by the carpenter, & they them selues are gilted, and laide ouer with siluer: yet are they but lies, and can not speake.}

geneva@Bar:6:8 @ {\cf2 And as they take golde for a maide that loueth to be deckt,}

geneva@Bar:6:9 @ {\cf2 So make they crownes for the heads of their gods: sometimes also the Priests themselues conuey away the golde, and siluer from their gods, and bestowe it vpon themselues.}

geneva@Bar:6:10 @ {\cf2 Yea, they giue of the same vnto the harlots, that are in their houses: againe, they decke these gods of siluer, and gods of golde, and of wood with garments like men,}

geneva@Bar:6:11 @ {\cf2 Yet can not they be preserued from rust and wormes,}

geneva@Bar:6:12 @ {\cf2 Though they haue couered them with clothing of purple, and wipe their faces because of the dust of the Temple, whereof there is much vpon them.}

geneva@Bar:6:13 @ {\cf2 One holdeth a scepter, as though he were a certaine iudge of the countrey: yet can he not slaie such as offend him.}

geneva@Bar:6:14 @ {\cf2 Another hath a dagger or an axe in his right hande: yet is he not able to defende him selfe from battell, nor from theeues: so then it is euident, that they be no gods.}

geneva@Bar:6:15 @ {\cf2 Therefore feare them not: for as vessel that a man vseth, is nothing worth when it is broken:}

geneva@Bar:6:16 @ {\cf2 Such are their gods: when they be set vp in their temples their eyes be full of dust by reason of the feete of those that come in.}

geneva@Bar:6:17 @ {\cf2 And as the gates are shut in rounde about vpon him that hath offended the King: or as one that shoulde be ledde to be put to death: so the priestes keepe their temples with doores, and with lockes, and with barres, least their gods shoulde be spoyled by robbers.}

geneva@Bar:6:18 @ {\cf2 They light vp candles before them, yea, more then for them selues, whereof they can not see one: for they are but as one of the postes of the temple.}

geneva@Bar:6:19 @ {\cf2 They confesse, that euen their hearts are gnawen vpon: but when the things, that creepe out of the earth, eate them and their clothes, they feele it not.}

geneva@Bar:6:20 @ {\cf2 Their faces are blacke through the smoke that is in the temple.}

geneva@Bar:6:21 @ {\cf2 The owles, swalowes & birdes flie vpon their bodies, & vpon their heades, yea, and the cattes also.}

geneva@Bar:6:22 @ {\cf2 By this yee may be sure, that they are not gods: therefore feare them not.}

geneva@Bar:6:23 @ {\cf2 Notwithstanding the golde, that is about them to make them beautifull, except one wipe of the rust, they cannot shine: neither when they were molten, did they feele it.}

geneva@Bar:6:24 @ {\cf2 The things wherein is no breath, are bought for a most high price.}

geneva@Bar:6:25 @ {\cf2 They are borne vpon mens shoulders, because they haue no feete, whereby they declare vnto men, that they be nothing woorth: yea, and they that worship them, are ashamed.}

geneva@Bar:6:26 @ {\cf2 For if they fall to the grounde at any time, they can not rise vp againe of themselues, neither if one set them vp right, can they mooue of them selues, neither if they be bowed downe, can they make them selues streight: but they set gifts before them, as vnto dead men.}

geneva@Bar:6:27 @ {\cf2 As for the things that are offered vnto them, their Priests sell them, and abuse them: likewise also the women lay vp of the same: but vnto the poore and sicke they giue nothing.}

geneva@Bar:6:28 @ {\cf2 The menstruous women, and they that are in childbed, touch their sacrifices: by these things ye may knowe that they are no gods: feare them not.}

geneva@Bar:6:29 @ {\cf2 From whence commeth it then, that they are called gods? because the women bring giftes to the gods of siluer, and golde, and wood.}

geneva@Bar:6:30 @ {\cf2 And the priestes sit in their temples, hauing their clothes rent, whose heades and beards are shauen, and being bare headed,}

geneva@Bar:6:31 @ {\cf2 They roare, and cry before their gods, as men doe at the feast of one that is dead.}

geneva@Bar:6:32 @ {\cf2 The priests also take away of their garments, and clothe their wiues and children.}

geneva@Bar:6:33 @ {\cf2 Whether it be euil that one doeth vnto them or good, they are not able to recompence it: they can neither set vp a King nor put him downe.}

geneva@Bar:6:34 @ {\cf2 In like maner they can neither giue riches, nor money: though a man make a vowe vnto them and keepe it not, they will not require it.}

geneva@Bar:6:35 @ {\cf2 They can saue no man from death, neither deliuer the weake from the mightie.}

geneva@Bar:6:36 @ {\cf2 They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor helpe any man at his neede.}

geneva@Bar:6:37 @ {\cf2 They can shewe no mercy to the widdowe, nor doe good to the fatherlesse.}

geneva@Bar:6:38 @ {\cf2 Their gods of wood, golde, and siluer, are as stones, that bee hewen out of the mountaine, and they that worship them, shall be confounded.}

geneva@Bar:6:39 @ {\cf2 Howe shoulde a man then thinke or say that they are Gods?}

geneva@Bar:6:40 @ {\cf2 Moreouer the Chaldeans them selues dishonour them: for when they see a domme man, that can not speake, they present him to Bel,}

geneva@Bar:6:41 @ {\cf2 And desire that hee woulde make him to speake, as though he had any feeling: yet they that vnderstande these thinges, can not leaue them: for they also haue no sense.}

geneva@Bar:6:42 @ {\cf2 Furthermore the wome, girded with coards, sitte in the streetes, and burne strawe.}

geneva@Bar:6:43 @ {\cf2 And if one of them be drawen away, and lie with any such as come by, shee casteth her neighbour in the teeth, because shee was not so worthily reputed, nor her coarde broken.}

geneva@Bar:6:44 @ {\cf2 Whatsoeuer is done among them, is lies: how may it then be thought or saide, that they are gods?}

geneva@Bar:6:45 @ {\cf2 Carpenters and goldsmithes make them, neither be they any other thing, but euen what the workeman will make them.}

geneva@Bar:6:46 @ {\cf2 Yea, they that make them, are of no long cotinuance: how should then the things that are made of them, be gods?}

geneva@Bar:6:47 @ {\cf2 Therefore they leaue lies, and shame for their posteritie.}

geneva@Bar:6:48 @ {\cf2 For when there cometh any warre or plague vpon them, the Priestes imagine with them selues, where they may hide themselues with them.}

geneva@Bar:6:49 @ {\cf2 Howe then can men not perceiue, that they be no gods, which can neither defende themselues, from warre nor from plagues:}

geneva@Bar:6:50 @ {\cf2 For seeing they be but of wood, and of siluer, and of golde, men shall knowe hereafter that they are but lies, and it shall be manifest to all nations & Kings, that they be no gods, but the workes of mens handes, and that there is no woorke of God in them.}

geneva@Bar:6:51 @ {\cf2 Whereby it may be knowen, that they are no gods.}

geneva@Bar:6:52 @ {\cf2 They can set vp no King in the lande, nor giue raine vnto men.}

geneva@Bar:6:53 @ {\cf2 They can giue no sentence of a matter, neither preserue from iniurie: they haue no power, but are as crowes betweene the heauen and the earth.}

geneva@Bar:6:54 @ {\cf2 When there falleth a fire vpon the house of those gods of wood, and of siluer, and of golde, the priestes will escape and saue them selues, but they burne as the balkes therein.}

geneva@Bar:6:55 @ {\cf2 They cannot wtstand any King or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?}

geneva@Bar:6:56 @ {\cf2 Moreouer these gods of wood, of golde, and of siluer can neither defed themselues from theeues nor robbers.}

geneva@Bar:6:57 @ {\cf2 For they that are strongest, take away their golde and siluer, and apparell, wherewith they be clothed: and when they haue it, they get them away, yet can they not helpe themselues.}

geneva@Bar:6:58 @ {\cf2 Therefore it is better to be a King, and so to shewe his power, or els a profitable vessell in an house, whereby hee that oweth it, might haue profite, then such false gods: or to bee a doore in an house, to keepe such thinges safe as be therein, then such false gods: or a pillar of wood in a palace, then such false gods.}

geneva@Bar:6:59 @ {\cf2 For the sunne, and the moone, & the starres that shine, when they are sent downe for necessarie vses, obey.}

geneva@Bar:6:60 @ {\cf2 Likewise also the lightning, when it shineth, it is euident: and the winde bloweth in euery countrey.}

geneva@Bar:6:61 @ {\cf2 And when God commandeth the cloudes to go about ye whole world, they do as they are bidden.}

geneva@Bar:6:62 @ {\cf2 When the fire is sent downe from aboue to destroy hilles and woodes, it doeth that which is commaunded: but these are not like any of these things, neither in forme, nor power.}

geneva@Bar:6:63 @ {\cf2 Wherefore men should not thinke, nor say that they be goddes, seeing they can neither giue sentence in iudgement, nor doe men good.}

geneva@Bar:6:64 @ {\cf2 For so much nowe as yee are sure, that they be no gods, feare them not.}

geneva@Bar:6:65 @ {\cf2 For they can neither curse, nor blesse Kings:}

geneva@Bar:6:66 @ {\cf2 Neither can they shewe signes in the heauen among the heathen, neither shine as the moone.}

geneva@Bar:6:67 @ {\cf2 The beastes are better then they: for they ca get them vnder a couert, & do themselues good.}

geneva@Bar:6:68 @ {\cf2 So yee may bee certified that by no maner of, meanes, they are gods: therefore feare them not.}

geneva@Bar:6:69 @ {\cf2 For as a skarcrowe in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their goddes of wood, and of siluer, and of golde:}

geneva@Bar:6:70 @ {\cf2 And likewise their gods of wood, and golde and siluer are like to a white thorne in an orcharde, that euery birde sitteth vpon, and as a deade bodie that is cast in the darke.}

geneva@Bar:6:71 @ {\cf2 By the purple also and brightnesse, which fadeth vpon them, yee may vnderstande, that they be no gods: yea, they themselues shall be consumed at the last, and they shall be a shame to the countrey.}

geneva@Bar:6:72 @ {\cf2 Better therefore is the iust man, that hath none idoles: for he shalbe farre from reproofe.}

geneva@1Macc:1:1 @ {\cf2 After that Alexander the Macedonian, the sonne of Philippe, went forth of the land of Chettiim, and slewe Darius King of the Persians & Medes, and reigned for him, as he had before in Grecia,}

geneva@1Macc:1:2 @ {\cf2 He tooke great warres in hand, and wanne strong holdes, and slewe the Kings of the earth.}

geneva@1Macc:1:3 @ {\cf2 So went he thorow to the endes of the world, and tooke spoyles of many nations, in so much that the world stood in awe of him: therefore his heart was puffed vp and was hawtie.}

geneva@1Macc:1:4 @ {\cf2 Now when he had gathered a mightie strong hoste,}

geneva@1Macc:1:5 @ {\cf2 And had reigned ouer regions, nations and kingdomes, they became tributaries vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:1:6 @ {\cf2 After these things he fell sicke, and knew that he should dye.}

geneva@1Macc:1:7 @ {\cf2 Then he called for the chiefe of his seruants, which had bene brought vp with him of children, and parted his kingdome among them, while he was yet aliue.}

geneva@1Macc:1:8 @ {\cf2 So Alexander had reigned twelue yeres when he died.}

geneva@1Macc:1:9 @ {\cf2 And his seruats reigned euery one in his roume.}

geneva@1Macc:1:10 @ {\cf2 And they all caused them selues to be crownedafter his death, and so did their children after them many yeeres, and much wickednes increased in the worlde.}

geneva@1Macc:1:11 @ {\cf2 For out of these came the wicked roote, euen Antiochus Epiphanes, the sonne of King Antiochus, which had bene an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundreth and seuen & thirtieth yere of the kingdome of the Greekes.}

geneva@1Macc:1:12 @ {\cf2 In those dayes went there out of Israel wicked men, which entised many, saying, Let vs go, and make a couenant with the heathen, that are round about vs: for since we departed from them, we haue had much sorow.}

geneva@1Macc:1:13 @ {\cf2 So this deuice pleased them well.}

geneva@1Macc:1:14 @ {\cf2 And certaine of the people were readie, and went to the King, which gaue them licence to doe after the ordinances of the heathen.}

geneva@1Macc:1:15 @ {\cf2 Then set they vp a place of exercise at Ierusalem, according to the facions of the heathen,}

geneva@1Macc:1:16 @ {\cf2 And made themselues vncircumcised, & forsooke the holy Couenant, & ioyned themselues to the heathen, and were solde to do mischiefe.}

geneva@1Macc:1:17 @ {\cf2 So when Antiochus kingdome was set in order, he went about to reigne ouer Egypt, that hee might haue the dominion of two Realmes.}

geneva@1Macc:1:18 @ {\cf2 Therfore he entred into Egypt with a mightie company, with charets, and Elephants, and with horsemen, and with a great nauie,}

geneva@1Macc:1:19 @ {\cf2 And moued warre against Ptolemeus King of Egypt: but Ptolemeus was afrayd of him, & fled, and many were wounded to death.}

geneva@1Macc:1:20 @ {\cf2 Thus Antiochus wanne many strong cities in the land of Egypt, and tooke away the spoyles of the land of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:1:21 @ {\cf2 And after that Antiochus had smitte Egypt, he turned againe in the hundreth, fourtie and three yeere,}

geneva@1Macc:1:22 @ {\cf2 And went vp towarde Israel and Ierusalem with a mightie people,}

geneva@1Macc:1:23 @ {\cf2 And entred proudely into the Sanctuarie, & tooke away the golden altar, and the candlesticke for the light, & all the instruments thereof, and the table of the shewbread, and the powring vessels, & the bowles, and the golden basins, & the vaile, and the crownes, and the golden apparel, which was before the Temple, and brake all in pieces.}

geneva@1Macc:1:24 @ {\cf2 He tooke also the siluer and golde, and the precious iewels, & he tooke the secret treasures that he founde, and when he had taken away all, he departed into his owne land,}

geneva@1Macc:1:25 @ {\cf2 After he had murthered many men, & spoken very proudely.}

geneva@1Macc:1:26 @ {\cf2 Therefore there was a great lamentation in euery place of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:1:27 @ {\cf2 For the Princes & the Elders mourned: the yong women, & the yong men were made feeble, and the beautie of the women was changed.}

geneva@1Macc:1:28 @ {\cf2 Euery bridegrome tooke him to mourning, and shee that sate in the marriage chamber, was in heauinesse.}

geneva@1Macc:1:29 @ {\cf2 The lande also was mooued for the inhabitants thereof: for all the house of Iacob was couered with confusion.}

geneva@1Macc:1:30 @ {\cf2 After two yeres the King sent his chiefe taxe master into the cities of Iuda, which came to Ierusalem with a great multitude.}

geneva@1Macc:1:31 @ {\cf2 Who spake peaceable wordes vnto them in deceite, and they gaue credit vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:1:32 @ {\cf2 Then he fell suddenly vpon the citie, and smote it with a great plague, and destroyed much people of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:1:33 @ {\cf2 And when he had spoiled the citie, he set fire on it, casting downe the houses thereof, and walles thereof on euery side.}

geneva@1Macc:1:34 @ {\cf2 The women and their children tooke they captiue, and led away the cattell.}

geneva@1Macc:1:35 @ {\cf2 Then fortified they the citie of Dauid with a great and thicke wall, and with mightie towres, and made it a strong holde for them.}

geneva@1Macc:1:36 @ {\cf2 Moreouer they set wicked people there, and vngodly persons, & fortified themselues therein.}

geneva@1Macc:1:37 @ {\cf2 And they stored it with weapons & vitailes, and gathered the spoyle of Ierusalem, and layed it vp there.}

geneva@1Macc:1:38 @ {\cf2 Thus became they a sore snare and were in ambushment for the Sanctuarie, and were wicked enemies euermore vnto Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:1:39 @ {\cf2 For they shed innocent blood on euery side of the Sanctuarie, and defiled the Sanctuarie,}

geneva@1Macc:1:40 @ {\cf2 Insomuch that the citizens of Ierusalem fled away because of them, and it became an habitation of strangers, being desolate of them whom she had borne: for her owne children did leaue her.}

geneva@1Macc:1:41 @ {\cf2 Her Sanctuarie was left waste as a wildernes: her holy dayes were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproche, and her honour brought to naught.}

geneva@1Macc:1:42 @ {\cf2 As her glory had bene great, so was her dishonour, & her excellencie was turned into sorowe.}

geneva@1Macc:1:43 @ {\cf2 Also the King wrote vnto all his kingdome, that all the people should be as one, and that euery man should leaue his lawes.}

geneva@1Macc:1:44 @ {\cf2 And all the heathen agreed to the commandement of the King.}

geneva@1Macc:1:45 @ {\cf2 Yea, many of the Israelites consented to his religion, offring vnto idoles, & defiling ye Sabbath.}

geneva@1Macc:1:46 @ {\cf2 So the King sent letters by the messengers vnto Ierusalem, and to the cities of Iuda, that they should follow the strange lawes of the countrey,}

geneva@1Macc:1:47 @ {\cf2 And that they should forbid the burnt offerings, & sacrifices, & the offrings in the Sanctuary,}

geneva@1Macc:1:48 @ {\cf2 And that they shoulde defile the Sabbaths and the feastes,}

geneva@1Macc:1:49 @ {\cf2 And pollute the Sanctuary & the holy men,}

geneva@1Macc:1:50 @ {\cf2 And to set vp altars, and groues, and chappels of idoles, and offer vp swines fleshe, and vncleane beastes,}

geneva@1Macc:1:51 @ {\cf2 And that they shoulde leaue their children vncircumcised, & defile their soules with vncleannes, and pollute themselues, that they might forget the Lawe, and change all the ordinances,}

geneva@1Macc:1:52 @ {\cf2 And that whosoeuer woulde not doe acoording to the commandement of the King, shoulde suffer death.}

geneva@1Macc:1:53 @ {\cf2 In like maner wrote he throughout all his kingdomes, and set ouerseers ouer all the people, for to compell them to do these things.}

geneva@1Macc:1:54 @ {\cf2 And he commanded the cities of Iuda to do sacrifice, citie by citie.}

geneva@1Macc:1:55 @ {\cf2 Then went many of the people vnto them by heapes, euery one that forsooke the Law, and so they committed euill in the land.}

geneva@1Macc:1:56 @ {\cf2 And they droue the Israelites into secret places, euen wheresoeuer they could flee for succour.}

geneva@1Macc:1:57 @ {\cf2 The fifteenth day of Casleu, in the hundreth and fiue and fourtieth yeere, they set vp the abomination of desolation vpon the altar, and they buylded altars throughout the cities of Iuda on euery side.}

geneva@1Macc:1:58 @ {\cf2 And before the doores of the houses, and in the streetes they burnt incense.}

geneva@1Macc:1:59 @ {\cf2 And the bookes of the Lawe, which they found, they burnt in the fire, and cut in pieces.}

geneva@1Macc:1:60 @ {\cf2 Whosoeuer had a booke of the Testament founde by him, or whosoeuer consented vnto the Lawe, the Kings commaundement was, that they should put him to death by their authoritie.}

geneva@1Macc:1:61 @ {\cf2 And they executed these things euery moneth vpon the people of Israel that were founde in their cities.}

geneva@1Macc:1:62 @ {\cf2 And in the fiue & twentieth day of the moneth, they did sacrifice vpon the altar, which was in the stead of the altar of sacrifices.}

geneva@1Macc:1:63 @ {\cf2 And according to the commandement, they put certeine women to death, which had caused their children to be circumcised,}

geneva@1Macc:1:64 @ {\cf2 And they hanged vp the children at their neckes, and they spoyled their houses, and slew the circumcisers of them.}

geneva@1Macc:1:65 @ {\cf2 Yet were there many in Israel, which were of courage, and determined in themselues, that they would not eate vncleane things,}

geneva@1Macc:1:66 @ {\cf2 But chose rather to suffer death, the to be defiled with those meates: so because they would not breake the holy couenant, they were put to death.}

geneva@1Macc:1:67 @ {\cf2 And this tyrannie was very sore vpon the people of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:2:1 @ {\cf2 In those dayes stoode vp Mattathias the Priest, the sonne of Ioannes, the sonne of Simeon, of the sonnes of Ioarib of Ierusalem, and dwelt in Modin.}

geneva@1Macc:2:2 @ {\cf2 And hee had fiue sonnes, Ioanan called Gaddis,}

geneva@1Macc:2:3 @ {\cf2 Simon called Thassi,}

geneva@1Macc:2:4 @ {\cf2 Iudas which was called Maccabeus,}

geneva@1Macc:2:5 @ {\cf2 Eleazar called Abaron, & Ionathan, whose name was Apphus.}

geneva@1Macc:2:6 @ {\cf2 Nowe he sawe the blasphemies, which were committed in Iuda and Ierusalem:}

geneva@1Macc:2:7 @ {\cf2 And he sayde, Woe is me: wherefore was I borne, to see this destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy citie, & thus to sit still? it is deliuered into the handes of the enemies,}

geneva@1Macc:2:8 @ {\cf2 And the Sanctuarie is in the hands of strangers: her Temple is as a man that hath no renoume.}

geneva@1Macc:2:9 @ {\cf2 Her glorious vessels are caried away into captiuitie: her infants are slayne in the streetes, and her yong men are fallen by the sworde of the enemies.}

geneva@1Macc:2:10 @ {\cf2 What people is it, that hath not some possession in her kingdome, or hath not gotten of her spoyles?}

geneva@1Macc:2:11 @ {\cf2 Al her glory is taken away: of a free woman, she is become an handmayde.}

geneva@1Macc:2:12 @ {\cf2 Behold, our Sanctuarie and our beautie, and honour is desolate, & the Gentiles haue defiled it.}

geneva@1Macc:2:13 @ {\cf2 What helpeth it vs then to liue any longer?}

geneva@1Macc:2:14 @ {\cf2 And Mattathias rent his clothes, he, and his sonnes, and put sackcloth vpon them, and mourned very sore.}

geneva@1Macc:2:15 @ {\cf2 Then came men from the King to the citie of Modin to compell them to forsake God, and to sacrifice.}

geneva@1Macc:2:16 @ {\cf2 So many of the Israelites consented vnto them: but Mattathias and his sonnes assembled together.}

geneva@1Macc:2:17 @ {\cf2 Then spake the Commissioners of the King, and sayd vnto Mattathias, Thou art the chiefe and an honourable man, and great in this citie, & hast many children and brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:2:18 @ {\cf2 Come thou therfore first, & fulfil the Kings commandement, as all the heathen haue done, and also the men of Iuda, and such as remaine at Ierusalem: so shalt thou & thy familie be in the Kings fauour, and thou & thy children shalbe enriched with siluer and golde, and with many rewardes.}

geneva@1Macc:2:19 @ {\cf2 Then Mattathias answered and sayde with a loude voyce, Though all nations that are vnder the Kings dominion, obey him, & fall away euery man from the religion of their fathers, and consent to his commandements,}

geneva@1Macc:2:20 @ {\cf2 Yet will I and my sonnes, and my brethren, walke in the couenant of our fathers.}

geneva@1Macc:2:21 @ {\cf2 God be merciful vnto vs, that we forsake not the Law and the ordinances.}

geneva@1Macc:2:22 @ {\cf2 We wil not hearken vnto the Kings wordes to transgresse our religion, neither on the right side, nor on the left.}

geneva@1Macc:2:23 @ {\cf2 And when hee had left off speaking these words, there came one of the Iewes, in the sight of all to sacrifice vpon the altar which was at Modin, according to the Kings commandement.}

geneva@1Macc:2:24 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Mattathias sawe it, he was so inflamed with zeale, that his raynes shooke, and his wrath was kindled according to the ordinance of the Lawe: therefore he ranne vnto him, and killed him by the altar:}

geneva@1Macc:2:25 @ {\cf2 And at the same time he slewe ye Kings commissioner, that compelled him to doe sacrifice, and destroyed the altar.}

geneva@1Macc:2:26 @ {\cf2 Thus bare hee a zeale to the Lawe of God, doing, as Phinees did vnto Zambri the sonne of Salom.}

geneva@1Macc:2:27 @ {\cf2 Then cryed Mattathias with a loude voyce in the citie, saying, Whosoeuer is zealous of the Law, and will stand by the couenant, let him come forth after me.}

geneva@1Macc:2:28 @ {\cf2 So he, & his sonnes fled into the moutaines, and left all that they had in the citie.}

geneva@1Macc:2:29 @ {\cf2 Then many that sought after iustice and iudgement,}

geneva@1Macc:2:30 @ {\cf2 Went downe into the wildernesse to dwell there, both they, and their children, & their wiues, and their cattell: for the afflictions increased sore vpon them.}

geneva@1Macc:2:31 @ {\cf2 Nowe when it was tolde vnto the Kings seruants, and to the garisons, which were in Ierusalem in the citie of Dauid, that men had broken the Kings commandement, and were gone downe into the secret places in the wildernesse,}

geneva@1Macc:2:32 @ {\cf2 Then many pursued after them: and hauing ouertaken them, they camped against them, & set the battel in aray against them on the Sabbath day,}

geneva@1Macc:2:33 @ {\cf2 And sayd vnto them, Let this now be sufficient: come forth and do according to the commandement of the King, and ye shal liue.}

geneva@1Macc:2:34 @ {\cf2 But they answered, We will not goe forth, neither will we doe the Kings commandement, to defile the Sabbath day.}

geneva@1Macc:2:35 @ {\cf2 Then they gaue them the battell.}

geneva@1Macc:2:36 @ {\cf2 But the other answered them nothing, neyther cast any one stone at them, nor stopped the priuie places,}

geneva@1Macc:2:37 @ {\cf2 But sayde, We will die all in our innocencie: the heauen and earth shal testifie for vs, that ye destroy vs wrongfully.}

geneva@1Macc:2:38 @ {\cf2 Thus they gaue them the battel vpon ye Sabbath, and slewe both men & cattell, their wiues and their children to the number of a thousand people.}

geneva@1Macc:2:39 @ {\cf2 When Mattathias and his friendes vnderstood this, they mourned for them greatly,}

geneva@1Macc:2:40 @ {\cf2 And said one to another, If we all doe as our brethren haue done, and fight not against the heathen for our liues, and for our Lawes, then shal they incontinently destroy vs out of the earth.}

geneva@1Macc:2:41 @ {\cf2 Therefore they concluded at the same time, saying, Whosoeuer shall come to make battel with vs vpon the Sabboth day, we wil fight against him, that wee die not all, as our brethren that were murthered in the secret places.}

geneva@1Macc:2:42 @ {\cf2 Then came vnto them the assembly of the Asideans, which were of the strongest men of Israel, al such as were wel minded toward the Lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:2:43 @ {\cf2 And all they that were fled for persecution, ioyned them selues vnto them, and were an helpe vnto them.}

geneva@1Macc:2:44 @ {\cf2 So they gathered a power, and smote the wicked men in their wrath, and ye vngodly in their anger: but the rest fledde vnto the heathen, and escaped.}

geneva@1Macc:2:45 @ {\cf2 Then Mattathias and his friendes went about, and destroyed the altars,}

geneva@1Macc:2:46 @ {\cf2 And circumcised the children by force that were vncircumcised, as many as they found within the coastes of Israel,}

geneva@1Macc:2:47 @ {\cf2 And they pursued after the proude men: and this acte prospered in their hands.}

geneva@1Macc:2:48 @ {\cf2 So they recouered the Lawe out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hande of Kings, and gaue not place to the wicked.}

geneva@1Macc:2:49 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the time drewe neere, that Mattathias should die, he saide vnto his sonnes, Nowe is pride and persecution increased, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation.}

geneva@1Macc:2:50 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore, my sonnes, be ye zealous of the Lawe, and giue your liues for the couenant of our fathers.}

geneva@1Macc:2:51 @ {\cf2 Call to remembrance what actes our fathers did in their time: so shall yee receiue great honour and an euerlasting name.}

geneva@1Macc:2:52 @ {\cf2 Was not Abraham found faithful in tentation, & it was imputed vnto him for righteousnesse?}

geneva@1Macc:2:53 @ {\cf2 Ioseph in the time of his trouble kept the commandement, and was made the lord of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:2:54 @ {\cf2 Phinees our father, because he was zealous and feruent, obtained the couenant of the euerlasting Priesthood.}

geneva@1Macc:2:55 @ {\cf2 Iesus for fulfilling the word, was made the gouernour of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:2:56 @ {\cf2 Caleb, because he bare witnesse before the Congregation, receiued the heritage of the land.}

geneva@1Macc:2:57 @ {\cf2 Dauid, because of his mercie obtained the throne of the kingdome for euermore.}

geneva@1Macc:2:58 @ {\cf2 Elias, because he was zealous and feruent in the Lawe, was taken vp euen vnto heauen.}

geneva@1Macc:2:59 @ {\cf2 Ananias, Azarias and Misael by their faith were deliuered out of the flame.}

geneva@1Macc:2:60 @ {\cf2 Daniel, because of his innocencie, was deliuered from the mouth of the Lyons.}

geneva@1Macc:2:61 @ {\cf2 And thus ye may consider throughout all ages, that whosoeuer put their trust in him, shall not want strength.}

geneva@1Macc:2:62 @ {\cf2 Feare not ye then the words of a sinful man: for his glory is but dongue and wormes.}

geneva@1Macc:2:63 @ {\cf2 To day is he set vp, and to morowe hee shall not be found: for he is turned into his dust, and his purpose perisheth.}

geneva@1Macc:2:64 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, my sonnes, take good hearts, and shewe your selues men for the Lawes for by it shall you obtaine glory.}

geneva@1Macc:2:65 @ {\cf2 And beholde, I knowe that your brother Simon is a man of counsel: giue care vnto him alway: he shall be a father vnto you.}

geneva@1Macc:2:66 @ {\cf2 And Iudas Maccabeus hath bin mightie and strong, euen from his youth vp: let him bee your captaine, and fight you the battell for the people.}

geneva@1Macc:2:67 @ {\cf2 Thus shall yee bring vnto you all those that obserue the Lawe, and shall auenge the iniuries of your people.}

geneva@1Macc:2:68 @ {\cf2 Recompence fully the heathe, and giue your selues to the commandement of the Lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:2:69 @ {\cf2 So hee blessed them, and was layed with his fathers,}

geneva@1Macc:2:70 @ {\cf2 And died in the hundreth, fourtie and sixe yeere, and his sonnes buried him in his fathers sepulchre at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.}

geneva@1Macc:3:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas his sonne, called Maccabeus, rose vp in his place.}

geneva@1Macc:3:2 @ {\cf2 And all his brethren helped him, and all they that held with his father, and fought with courage the battell of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:3:3 @ {\cf2 So he gate his people great honour: he put on a breastplate as a gyant, and armed himselfe, and set the battell in array, and defended the campe with the sword.}

geneva@1Macc:3:4 @ {\cf2 In his actes he was like a Lion, and as a Lyons whelpe roaring after the pray.}

geneva@1Macc:3:5 @ {\cf2 For he pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt vp those that vexed his people,}

geneva@1Macc:3:6 @ {\cf2 So that the wicked fled for feare of him, and all the workers of iniquitie were put to trouble: and saluation prospered in his hand.}

geneva@1Macc:3:7 @ {\cf2 And hee grieued diuers Kings, but Iacob reioyced by his actes, and his memoriall is blessed for euer.}

geneva@1Macc:3:8 @ {\cf2 He went also thorowe the cities of Iuda, and destroied the wicked out of them, and turned away the wrath from Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:3:9 @ {\cf2 So was hee renowmed vnto the endes of the earth, and hee assembled together those that were ready to perish.}

geneva@1Macc:3:10 @ {\cf2 But Apollonius gathered the Gentiles, & a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:3:11 @ {\cf2 Which when Iudas perceiued, he went forth to meete him, and smote him, and slewe him, so that many fell downe slayne, and the rest fled.}

geneva@1Macc:3:12 @ {\cf2 So Iudas tooke their spoyles, and tooke also Apollonius sworde, and fought with it all his life long.}

geneva@1Macc:3:13 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Seron a prince of the armie of Syria, heard that Iudas had gathered vnto him the Congregation, and Church of the faithfull, and went forth to the warre,}

geneva@1Macc:3:14 @ {\cf2 He sayd, I wil get me a name, and wil be glorious in the realme: for I will goe fight with Iudas, and them that are with him, which haue despised the kings commandement.}

geneva@1Macc:3:15 @ {\cf2 So he made him ready to go vp, & there went with him a mightie hoste of the vngodly to helpe him, and to be auenged of the children of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:3:16 @ {\cf2 And when he came neere to the going vp of Bethhoron, Iudas went forth to meete him with a small companie.}

geneva@1Macc:3:17 @ {\cf2 But when they sawe the army comming against them, they sayde to Iudas, Howe are wee able, being so fewe, to fight against so great a multitude, and so strong, seeing we be so weary, and haue fasted all this day?}

geneva@1Macc:3:18 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas, It is an easie thing for many to be shut vp in the hands of fewe, and there is no difference before the God of heauen, to deliuer by a great multitude, or by a small company.}

geneva@1Macc:3:19 @ {\cf2 For the victory of the battell standeth not in the multitude of the host, but the strength commeth from heauen.}

geneva@1Macc:3:20 @ {\cf2 They come against vs with a cruel & proud multitude, to destroy vs, and our wiues, & our children, and to robbe vs.}

geneva@1Macc:3:21 @ {\cf2 But wee doe fight for our liues, and for our Lawes,}

geneva@1Macc:3:22 @ {\cf2 And God himselfe will destroy them before our face: therefore be not ye afraide of them.}

geneva@1Macc:3:23 @ {\cf2 And when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly vpon them: so was Seron and his host destroyed before him.}

geneva@1Macc:3:24 @ {\cf2 And they pursued them fro the going downe of Bethhoron vnto the plaine: where there were slaine eight hundreth men of them, and the residue fled into the land of the Philistimes.}

geneva@1Macc:3:25 @ {\cf2 Then the feare and terrour of Iudas and his brethren fell vpon the nations round about,}

geneva@1Macc:3:26 @ {\cf2 So that his fame came vnto the king: for all the Gentiles could tell of the warres of Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:3:27 @ {\cf2 But when king Antiochus heard these tidings, he was angry in his minde: wherefore he sent forth, and gathered all the power of his realme, a very strong army,}

geneva@1Macc:3:28 @ {\cf2 And opened his treasurie, and gaue his host a yeeres wages in hande, commanding them to be ready for a yeere for all occasions.}

geneva@1Macc:3:29 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, when he sawe that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes in the countrey were small, because of the dissention, and plagues that he had brought vpon the lande, in taking away the lawes which had bene of olde time,}

geneva@1Macc:3:30 @ {\cf2 He feared least he shoulde not haue nowe at the seconde time, as the first, for the charges and gifts that he had giuen with a liberall hande afore: for in liberalitie he farre passed the other kings that were before him.}

geneva@1Macc:3:31 @ {\cf2 Wherefore he was heauie in his minde, and thought to goe into Persia, for to take tributes of the countreys, and to gather much money.}

geneva@1Macc:3:32 @ {\cf2 So he left Lysias a noble man & of the kings blood to ouersee the kings businesse, from the riuer of Euphrates vnto the borders of Egypt,}

geneva@1Macc:3:33 @ {\cf2 And to bring vp his sonne Antiochus, till he came againe.}

geneva@1Macc:3:34 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, he gaue him halfe of his host and elephants, & gaue him the charge of all things that he would haue done,}

geneva@1Macc:3:35 @ {\cf2 And concerning those which dwelt in Iuda and Ierusalem, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and roote out the power of Israel and the remnant of Ierusalem, and to put out their memoriall from that place,}

geneva@1Macc:3:36 @ {\cf2 And to set strangers for to inhabite all their quarters, and part their land among them.}

geneva@1Macc:3:37 @ {\cf2 And the king tooke the halfe of the hoste that remained, and departed from Antiochia his royall citie, in the yeere an hundreth fourtie and seuen, and passed the riuer Euphrates, and went thorowe the hie countreys.}

geneva@1Macc:3:38 @ {\cf2 Then Lysias chose Ptolemeus the sonne of Doriminus, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men, and the kings friends,}

geneva@1Macc:3:39 @ {\cf2 And sent with them fourty thousand footemen, and seuen thousand horsemen, to go into the lande of Iuda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.}

geneva@1Macc:3:40 @ {\cf2 So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plaine countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:3:41 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the marchants of the countrey heard the rumour of them, they tooke very much siluer and golde, and seruantes, and came into the campe to buy the children of Israel for slaues, and the strength of Syria and of strange nations ioyned with them.}

geneva@1Macc:3:42 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas and his brethren sawe that trouble increased, and that the hoste drewe neere vnto their borders, considering the kinges words, whereby he had commanded to destroy the people, and vtterly abolish them,}

geneva@1Macc:3:43 @ {\cf2 They said one to another, Let vs redresse the decay of our people, and let vs fight for our people, and for our Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:3:44 @ {\cf2 Then the Congregation were soone readie gathered to fight, and to pray, and to desire mercie and compassion.}

geneva@1Macc:3:45 @ {\cf2 As for Ierusalem, it was not inhabited, but was as a wildernesse. There went none that was borne in it, in or out at it, and the Sanctuarie was troden downe, and the strangers kept the fortresse, and it was the habitation of the heathen: and the mirth of Iacob was taken away: the pipe and the harpe ceased.}

geneva@1Macc:3:46 @ {\cf2 So they gathered them selues together, and came to Maspha before Ierusalem: for in Maspha was the place where they praied aforetime in Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:3:47 @ {\cf2 And they fasted that day, and put sackcloth vpon them, and cast ashes vpon their heads, & rent their clothes,}

geneva@1Macc:3:48 @ {\cf2 And opened the booke of the lawe, wherein the heathen sought to paynt the likenes of their idoles,}

geneva@1Macc:3:49 @ {\cf2 And brought the Priestes garments, and the first fruites, and the tithes, and set there the Nazarites, which accomplished their dayes.}

geneva@1Macc:3:50 @ {\cf2 And they cried with a loude voyce towarde heauen, saying, What shall wee doe with these? and whither shall we cary them away?}

geneva@1Macc:3:51 @ {\cf2 For thy Sanctuarie is troden downe and defiled, and thy Priestes are in heauinesse, and brought downe.}

geneva@1Macc:3:52 @ {\cf2 And beholde, the heathen are come against vs, to destroy vs: thou knowest what thinges they imagine against vs.}

geneva@1Macc:3:53 @ {\cf2 How can we stand before them, except thou helpe vs?}

geneva@1Macc:3:54 @ {\cf2 Then they blewe the trumpets, and cryed with a loude voyce.}

geneva@1Macc:3:55 @ {\cf2 And after this Iudas ordeyned captaines ouer the people, euen captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreths, and captaines ouer fifties, and captaines ouer tenne.}

geneva@1Macc:3:56 @ {\cf2 And they commaunded them that buylded houses, or married wiues, or planted vineyardes, or were fearefull, that they shoulde returne euery one to his owne house, according to the Lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:3:57 @ {\cf2 So the hoste remoued, and pitched vpon the Southside of Emmaus:}

geneva@1Macc:3:58 @ {\cf2 And Iudas sayde, Arme your selues, and be valiant men, and be ready against the morning to fight with these nations, which are gathered together against vs, to destroy vs and our Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:3:59 @ {\cf2 For it is better for vs to dye in battell, the to see the calamities of our people & of our Sactuary.}

geneva@1Macc:3:60 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse as the will of God is in heauen, so be it.}

geneva@1Macc:4:1 @ {\cf2 Then tooke Gorgias fiue thousande foote men, and a thousande of the best horsemen, and departed out of the campe by night,}

geneva@1Macc:4:2 @ {\cf2 To inuade the campe of the Iewes, and to slay them suddenly: and the men of the fortresse were his guides.}

geneva@1Macc:4:3 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas heard it, he remoued, and they that were valiant men to smite the Kings armie which was at Emmaus,}

geneva@1Macc:4:4 @ {\cf2 Whiles yet the armie was dispersed from the campe.}

geneva@1Macc:4:5 @ {\cf2 In the meane season came Gorgias by night into Iudas campe: and when he founde no man there, he sought them in the mountaines: for said he, They flee from vs.}

geneva@1Macc:4:6 @ {\cf2 But assoone as it was day, Iudas shewed him selfe in the fielde with three thousand men, which had neither harnesse nor swordes to their mindes.}

geneva@1Macc:4:7 @ {\cf2 And they saw that the armies of the heathen were strong and well armed, and their horsemen about them, & that these were expert men of warre.}

geneva@1Macc:4:8 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas to the men that were with him, Feare ye not their multitude, neither be afraid of their assault.}

geneva@1Macc:4:9 @ {\cf2 Remember, howe our fathers were deliuered in the redde Sea, when Pharao pursued them with an armie.}

geneva@1Macc:4:10 @ {\cf2 Therefore nowe let vs crie vnto heauen, and the Lorde wil haue mercie vpon vs, and remember the couenant of our fathers, and will destroy this hoste before our face this day:}

geneva@1Macc:4:11 @ {\cf2 So shall all the heathen knowe, that there is one, which deliuereth and saueth Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:4:12 @ {\cf2 Then the strangers lift vp their eyes, & sawe them comming against them,}

geneva@1Macc:4:13 @ {\cf2 And they went out of their tentes into the battell, and they that were with Iudas, blewe the trumpets.}

geneva@1Macc:4:14 @ {\cf2 So they ioyned together, and the heathen were discomfited and fled by the plaine.}

geneva@1Macc:4:15 @ {\cf2 But the hinmost of them fel by the sword, & they pursued the vnto Gazeron, & into ye plaines of Idumea, & of Azotus, & of Iamnia, so that there were slaine of them about three thousande men.}

geneva@1Macc:4:16 @ {\cf2 So Iudas turned againe with his hoste from pursuing them,}

geneva@1Macc:4:17 @ {\cf2 And saide vnto the people, Be not greedy of the spoyles: for there is a battell before vs.}

geneva@1Macc:4:18 @ {\cf2 And Gorgias and the armie is here by vs in the mountaine: but stand ye now fast against your enemies, and ouercome them: then may ye safely take the spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:4:19 @ {\cf2 As Iudas was speaking these words, there appeared one part which looked from ye mountaines.}

geneva@1Macc:4:20 @ {\cf2 But when Gorgias sawe that his were fled, & that Iudas souldiers burnt the tents: (for the smoke that was seene, declared what was done.)}

geneva@1Macc:4:21 @ {\cf2 When they saw these things, they were sore afraid, & when they saw also that Iudas & his hoste were in the field ready to set themselues in aray,}

geneva@1Macc:4:22 @ {\cf2 They fled euery one into the lande of strangers.}

geneva@1Macc:4:23 @ {\cf2 So Iudas turned againe to spoyle the tentes, where he gate much golde and siluer, and precious stones, and purple of the sea, and great riches.}

geneva@1Macc:4:24 @ {\cf2 Thus they went home, & sung psalmes, and praysed toward the heauen: for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for euer.}

geneva@1Macc:4:25 @ {\cf2 And so Israel had great victory in that day.}

geneva@1Macc:4:26 @ {\cf2 Nowe all the strangers that escaped, came, and tolde Lysias all the things that were done.}

geneva@1Macc:4:27 @ {\cf2 Who when he heard these thinges, was sore afraid, & discouraged, because such things came not vpon Israel as he would, neither such things as the King had commanded him, came to passe.}

geneva@1Macc:4:28 @ {\cf2 Therefore the next yere following, gathered Lysias three score thousande chosen foote men, and fiue thousand horsemen to fight against Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:4:29 @ {\cf2 So they came into Idumea, & pitched their tents at Beth-sura, where Iudas came against them with ten thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:4:30 @ {\cf2 And whe he saw that mightie armie, he praied, and saide, Blessed be thou, O Sauiour of Israel, which diddest destroy the assault of the mightie man by the hand of thy seruant Dauid, & gauest the hoste of the strangers into the hand of Ionathan, the sonne of Saul, and of his armour bearer:}

geneva@1Macc:4:31 @ {\cf2 Shut vp this armie in the hand of thy people of Israel, & let them be confounded with their power, and with their horsemen.}

geneva@1Macc:4:32 @ {\cf2 Make them afraide, and consume their boldnesse and strength, that they may be astonished at their destruction.}

geneva@1Macc:4:33 @ {\cf2 Cast them downe by the sworde of them that loue thee: then shall all they that knowe thy Name, praise thee with songs.}

geneva@1Macc:4:34 @ {\cf2 So they ioyned together, and there were slaine of Lysias hoste, fiue thousande men, and they fell before them.}

geneva@1Macc:4:35 @ {\cf2 Then Lysias, seeing his armie put to flight, and the manlines of Iudas souldiers, and that they were ready, either to liue or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered strangers, and when he had furnished his armie, he thought againe (being prepared) to come against Iudea.}

geneva@1Macc:4:36 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas and his brethren, Beholde, our enemies are discomfited: let vs nowe goe vp to clense, and to repaire the Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:4:37 @ {\cf2 So all the hoste gathered them together, & went vp into the mountaine of Sion.}

geneva@1Macc:4:38 @ {\cf2 Nowe when they sawe the Sanctuarie layde waste, and the altar defiled, and the doores burnt vp, and the shrubbes growing in the courtes, as in a forest, or as on one of the mountaines, and that the Priestes chambers were broken downe,}

geneva@1Macc:4:39 @ {\cf2 They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes vpon their heades,}

geneva@1Macc:4:40 @ {\cf2 And fell downe to the ground on their faces, and blewe an alarme with the trumpets, and cryed toward heauen.}

geneva@1Macc:4:41 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas commanded certaine of the me to fight against those which were in the castle, till he had clensed the Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:4:42 @ {\cf2 So he chose Priestes that were vndefiled, such as delited in the Lawe,}

geneva@1Macc:4:43 @ {\cf2 And they clensed the Sanctuarie, and bare out the defiled stones into an vncleane place,}

geneva@1Macc:4:44 @ {\cf2 And consulted what to doe with the altar of burnt offrings, which was polluted.}

geneva@1Macc:4:45 @ {\cf2 So they thought it was best to destroy it, least it shoulde be a reproche vnto them, because the heathen had defiled it: therefore they destroyed the altar,}

geneva@1Macc:4:46 @ {\cf2 And layde vp the stones vpon the mountaine of the Temple in a conuenient place, til there should come a Prophet, to shewe what shoulde be done with them.}

geneva@1Macc:4:47 @ {\cf2 So they tooke whole stones according to the Lawe, and builded a newe altar according to the former,}

geneva@1Macc:4:48 @ {\cf2 And made vp the Sanctuarie, and the things that were within the Temple, and the courtes, and all things.}

geneva@1Macc:4:49 @ {\cf2 They made also new holy vessels, & brought into the Temple the candlesticke, and the altar of burnt offrings, and of incense, and the table.}

geneva@1Macc:4:50 @ {\cf2 And they burnt incense vpon the altar, and lighted the lampes which were vpon the candlesticke, that they might burne in the Temple.}

geneva@1Macc:4:51 @ {\cf2 They set also the shewbread vpon the table, and hanged vp the vailes, & finished all the workes that they had begunne to make.}

geneva@1Macc:4:52 @ {\cf2 And vpon the fiue and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, which is called the moneth of Chaslu, in the hundreth and eight and fourtieth yeere they rose vp betimes in the morning,}

geneva@1Macc:4:53 @ {\cf2 And offred sacrifice according to the Lawe, vpon the new altar of burnt offrings, that they had made.}

geneva@1Macc:4:54 @ {\cf2 According to the time, and according to the day, that the heathen had defiled it, in the same day was it made new with songs, and harpes, and lutes, and cymbales.}

geneva@1Macc:4:55 @ {\cf2 And all the people fell vpon their faces, worshipping and praysing toward the heauen him that had giuen them good successe.}

geneva@1Macc:4:56 @ {\cf2 So they kept the dedicatio of the altar eight dayes, offring burnt offrings with gladnesse, and offred sacrifices of deliuerance and prayse,}

geneva@1Macc:4:57 @ {\cf2 And deckt the forefront of the Temple with crownes of golde and shieldes, and dedicated the gates & chambers, and hanged doores vpon them.}

geneva@1Macc:4:58 @ {\cf2 Thus there was very great gladnesse among the people, and the reproche of the heathen was put away.}

geneva@1Macc:4:59 @ {\cf2 So Iudas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel, ordeyned that the dayes of dedication of the altar should be kept in their season from veere to yere, by the space of eight dayes, from the fiue and twentieth day of the moneth Chaslu, with mirth and gladnesse.}

geneva@1Macc:4:60 @ {\cf2 And at the same time buylded they vp mout Sion with hie walles, & strong towres round about, lest the Gentiles should come, and tread it downe, as they had done afore.}

geneva@1Macc:4:61 @ {\cf2 Therefore they set a garrison there to keepe it, and fortified Beth-sura to keepe it, that the people might haue a defence against Idumea.}

geneva@1Macc:5:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the nations rounde about heard, that the altar was buylded, and the Sanctuarie renued, as afore, they were sore grieued.}

geneva@1Macc:5:2 @ {\cf2 Therefore they thought to destroy the generation of Iacob that was among them, and began to slay and destroy the people.}

geneva@1Macc:5:3 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arrabathene, because they besieged the Israelites, & he smote them with a great plague, and droue them to straites, and tooke their spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:5:4 @ {\cf2 He thought also vpon the malice of the children of Bean, which had bene a snare and an hinderance vnto the people, when they laye in wayte for them in the hie way.}

geneva@1Macc:5:5 @ {\cf2 Wherefore he shut them vp in towers, and besieged them, and destroyed them vtterly, and burnt their towers with fire, with all that were in them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:6 @ {\cf2 Afterwarde, went he against the children of Ammon, where he founde a mightie power, and a great multitude with Timotheus their captaine.}

geneva@1Macc:5:7 @ {\cf2 So he had many battels with them, but they were destroyed before him, and so he discomfited them,}

geneva@1Macc:5:8 @ {\cf2 And tooke Gazer with the townes thereof, and so turned againe into Iudea.}

geneva@1Macc:5:9 @ {\cf2 Then the heathen that were in Galaad, gathered them together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to slay them: but they fled to the castle of Datheman,}

geneva@1Macc:5:10 @ {\cf2 And sent letters to Iudas, & to his brethren, saying, The heathen that are about vs, are gathered against vs, to destroy vs,}

geneva@1Macc:5:11 @ {\cf2 And they make them ready for to come, and to take the fortresse, whereunto we are fledde, and Timotheus is captaine of their hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:5:12 @ {\cf2 Come now therefore, and deliuer vs out of their handes: for many of vs are slaine:}

geneva@1Macc:5:13 @ {\cf2 And all our brethren that were at Tubin, are slaine, and they haue taken away their wiues, and their children, and their goods, and destroyed there almost a thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:5:14 @ {\cf2 While these letters were yet a reading, beholde, there came other messengers from Galile with their clothes rent, which tolde ye same tidings,}

geneva@1Macc:5:15 @ {\cf2 And said, that they of Ptolemais, & of Tyrus, and of Sidon, and of all Galile of the Gentiles were gathered against them to destroy them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:16 @ {\cf2 When Iudas, and the people heard these wordes, a great congregation came together, to consulte what they might doe for their brethren, that were in trouble, and whom they besieged.}

geneva@1Macc:5:17 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas to Simon his brother, Chuse thee out men, and goe and deliuer thy brethren in Galile, and I and my brother Ionathan, wil goe into the countrey of Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:5:18 @ {\cf2 So he left Iosephus the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias to be captaines of the people, and to keepe the remnant of the hoste in Iudea,}

geneva@1Macc:5:19 @ {\cf2 And commanded them, saying, Take the ouersight of this people, and make no warre against the heathen, vntill we come againe.}

geneva@1Macc:5:20 @ {\cf2 And vnto Simon were giuen three thousand men to goe into Galile, and to Iudas eight thousand men for the countrey of Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:5:21 @ {\cf2 Then went Simon into Galile, aad gaue diuers battels to the heathen, and the heathen were discomfited by him.}

geneva@1Macc:5:22 @ {\cf2 And he pursued them vnto the gates of Ptolemais: & there were slaine of the heathen almost three thousand men: so he tooke their spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:5:23 @ {\cf2 Thus they reseued them that were in Galile and in Arbattis with their wiues, and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Iudea with great ioy.}

geneva@1Macc:5:24 @ {\cf2 Iudas Maccabeus also, and his brother Ionathan went ouer Iorden, and trauailed three dayes iourney in the wildernes,}

geneva@1Macc:5:25 @ {\cf2 Where they mette with the Nabathites, who receiued them louingly, and tolde them euery thing that was done vnto their brethren in the countrey of Galaad,}

geneva@1Macc:5:26 @ {\cf2 And how that many of them were besieged in Bosorra, and Bosor, in Alemis, Chasbon, Maged and Carnaim (all these cities are strong, and great)}

geneva@1Macc:5:27 @ {\cf2 And that they were kept in other cities of Galaad, and to morow they are appointed to bring their hoste vnto these fortes, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day.}

geneva@1Macc:5:28 @ {\cf2 So Iudas and his host turned in all haste by the way of the wildernesse towarde Bosorra, and wanne the citie, and slewe all the males with the edge of the sword, and tooke all their spoyle, and set fire vpon the citie.}

geneva@1Macc:5:29 @ {\cf2 And in the night he remooued from thence, and went toward the fortresse.}

geneva@1Macc:5:30 @ {\cf2 And betimes in the morning when they looked vp, beholde, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders, and instruments of warre, to take the forte, and had assaulted them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:31 @ {\cf2 When Iudas sawe that the battel was begun, & that the cry of the citie went vp to heauen with trumpets, and a great sound,}

geneva@1Macc:5:32 @ {\cf2 Then he said vnto the armie, Fight this day for your brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:5:33 @ {\cf2 So he went foorth behinde them with three companies, and they blewe the trumpets, and cryed with prayer.}

geneva@1Macc:5:34 @ {\cf2 Then the host of Timotheus knew, that it was Maccabeus, and they fled from him, and hee smote them with a great slaughter, so that there was killed of them the same day, almost eight thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:5:35 @ {\cf2 Then departed Iudas vnto Maspha, & laid siege vnto it, and wanne it, and slewe all the males thereof, and spoyled it, and set fire vpon it.}

geneva@1Macc:5:36 @ {\cf2 From thence went he and tooke Chasbon, Maged, and Bosor, and the other cities in Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:5:37 @ {\cf2 After these things gathered Timotheus another hoste, and he camped before Raphon beyond the flood.}

geneva@1Macc:5:38 @ {\cf2 Now Iudas had sent to espie the host, and they brought him word againe, saying, All the heathen that bee rounde about vs, are gathered vnto him, and the host is very great,}

geneva@1Macc:5:39 @ {\cf2 And hee hath hired the Arabians to helpe them, and they haue pitched their tents beyond the flood, and are ready to come and fight against thee. So Iudas went to meete them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:40 @ {\cf2 Then Timotheus said vnto the captaines of his host, When Iudas and his host come neere the flood, if he passe ouer first vnto vs, we shal not be able to withstand him: for he wil be too strog for vs.}

geneva@1Macc:5:41 @ {\cf2 But if he be afraide, and campe beyond the flood, we wil goe ouer vnto him, and shall preuaile against him.}

geneva@1Macc:5:42 @ {\cf2 Now when Iudas came neere to ye flood, hee caused the gouernours of ye people to remayne by the flood, & commanded them, saying, Suffer none to pitch a tent, but let euery man come to ye battel.}

geneva@1Macc:5:43 @ {\cf2 So he went first ouer toward them, & all the people after him: & all the heathen were discofited before him, and cast away their weapons, and fled into the Temple that was at Carnaim.}

geneva@1Macc:5:44 @ {\cf2 Which citie Iudas wanne, and burnt the temple with all that were in it: so was Carnaim subdued, and might not withstand Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:5:45 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas gathered all the Israelites that were in the countrey of Galaad, from the least vnto the most, with their wiues and their children, and their baggage, a very great hoste, to come into the land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:5:46 @ {\cf2 So they came vnto Ephron, which was a great citie by the way, and strongly defensed: they coulde not passe, neither at the right hande nor at the left, but must goe thorow it.}

geneva@1Macc:5:47 @ {\cf2 But they that were in the citie, shutte themselues in, & stopped vp the gates with stones: & Iudas sent vnto them with peaceable wordes, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:5:48 @ {\cf2 Let vs passe thorowe your land, that we may goe into our owne countrey, and none shall hurt you: we will but onely goe thorowe on foote: but they would not open vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:5:49 @ {\cf2 Wherefore Iudas commaunded a proclamation to bee made throughout the hoste, that euery man should assault it according to his standing.}

geneva@1Macc:5:50 @ {\cf2 So the valiant men set vpon it, and assaulted the citie all that day, and all that night, and the citie was giuen ouer into his handes:}

geneva@1Macc:5:51 @ {\cf2 Who slew all the males with the edge of the sworde, and destroyed it, and tooke the spoile thereof, and went thorowe the citie ouer them that were slaine.}

geneva@1Macc:5:52 @ {\cf2 Then went they ouer Iorden into the great plaine before Bethsan.}

geneva@1Macc:5:53 @ {\cf2 And Iudas gathered together those that were behinde, & gaue the people good exhortation all the way thorow, til they were come into ye land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:5:54 @ {\cf2 Thus they went vp with ioye, and gladnesse vnto mount Sion, where they offred burnt offrings, because there were none of them slaine, but came home againe in safetie.}

geneva@1Macc:5:55 @ {\cf2 Nowe whilest Iudas and Ionathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon their brother in Galile before Ptolemais,}

geneva@1Macc:5:56 @ {\cf2 Ioseph the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias the captaines, hearing of the valiant actes, and battels which they had atchieued, said,}

geneva@1Macc:5:57 @ {\cf2 Let vs get vs a name also, and go fight against the heathen that are round about vs.}

geneva@1Macc:5:58 @ {\cf2 So they gaue their hoste a commaundement and went toward Iamnia.}

geneva@1Macc:5:59 @ {\cf2 But Gorgias and his men came out of the citie to fight against them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:60 @ {\cf2 And Ioseph and Azarias were put to flight, and pursued vnto the borders of Iudea: and there were slaine that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men: so that there was a great ouerthrow among the people of Israel,}

geneva@1Macc:5:61 @ {\cf2 Because they were not obedient vnto Iudas, and his brethren, but thought to doe some valiant thing.}

geneva@1Macc:5:62 @ {\cf2 Also they came not of ye stocke of these men, by whose handes deliuerance was giuen to Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:5:63 @ {\cf2 But the man Iudas, & his brethre were greatly commended in the sight of all Israel, & of all the heathen, wheresoeuer their name was heard of.}

geneva@1Macc:5:64 @ {\cf2 And the people came vnto them, bidding them welcome.}

geneva@1Macc:5:65 @ {\cf2 Afterwarde went Iudas foorth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land towarde the South, where hee wanne Hebron, & the townes thereof, and he destroyed the castel thereof, and burnt the towers thereof round about.}

geneva@1Macc:5:66 @ {\cf2 Then remooued hee to goe into the lande of the strangers, and went thorowe Samaria.}

geneva@1Macc:5:67 @ {\cf2 At the same time were the Priests of the cities slaine in the battel, which would shewe their valiantnes, and went forth to battel without counsell: and when Iudas came to Azotus in the strangers lande, he brake down their altars, and burnt with fire the images of their gods, and tooke away the spoyles of the cities, and came againe into the lande of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:6:1 @ {\cf2 Now when King Antiochus traueyled thorowe the high countreys, hee heard that Elimais in the countrey of Persia was a citie greatly renowmed for riches, siluer and golde,}

geneva@1Macc:6:2 @ {\cf2 And that there was in it a very riche temple, where as were couerings of golde, coate armours, and harnesse, which Alexander King of Macedonia the sonne of Philip (that reigned first in Grecia) had left there.}

geneva@1Macc:6:3 @ {\cf2 Wherefore hee went about to take the citie, and to spoyle it, but he was not able: for the citizens were warned of the matter,}

geneva@1Macc:6:4 @ {\cf2 And rose vp against him in battel, & hee fled and departed thence with great heauinesse, and came againe into Babylon.}

geneva@1Macc:6:5 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, there came one which brought him tidings in the countrey of Persia, that the armies that went against the land of Iuda, were driuen away,}

geneva@1Macc:6:6 @ {\cf2 And that Lysias, which went forth first with a great power, was driuen away of the Iewes, and that they were made strong by the armour, and power, and diuers spoyles which they had gotten of the armies whome they had destroyed,}

geneva@1Macc:6:7 @ {\cf2 And that they had pulled downe the abomination, which he had set vp vpon the altar at Ierusalem, and fensed the Sanctuarie with high walles, as it was afore, and Beth-sura his citie.}

geneva@1Macc:6:8 @ {\cf2 So when the king had heard these words, hee was astonished, and sore mooued: therefore hee laide him downe vpon his bed, and fell sicke for very sorowe, because it was not come to passe, as he had thought.}

geneva@1Macc:6:9 @ {\cf2 And there continued hee many dayes: for his griefe was euer more and more, so that he sawe hee must needes die.}

geneva@1Macc:6:10 @ {\cf2 Therefore he sent for all his friends, and said vnto them, The sleepe is gone from mine eyes, and mine heart fayleth for very care.}

geneva@1Macc:6:11 @ {\cf2 And I thinke with my selfe, Into what aduersitie am I come? And into what flouds of miserie am I fallen now, whereas aforetime I was in prosperitie, and greatly set by, by reason of my power?}

geneva@1Macc:6:12 @ {\cf2 And now doe I remember the euils that I haue done at Ierusalem: for I tooke all the vessels of golde and of siluer that were in it, and sent to destroy the inhabitants of Iuda without cause.}

geneva@1Macc:6:13 @ {\cf2 I know that these troubles are come vpon me for the same cause, and behold, I must die with great sorow in a strange land.}

geneva@1Macc:6:14 @ {\cf2 Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, whome he made ruler ouer all his realme,}

geneva@1Macc:6:15 @ {\cf2 And gaue him the crowne, and his robe, and the ring, that he should instruct his sonne Antiochus, and bring him vp, till he might reigne himselfe.}

geneva@1Macc:6:16 @ {\cf2 So king Antiochus died there in the hundreth, and fourtie and ninth yere.}

geneva@1Macc:6:17 @ {\cf2 When Lysias knewe, that the king was dead, he ordeined Antiochus his sonne (whome hee had brought vp) to reigne in his fathers steade, and called him Eupator.}

geneva@1Macc:6:18 @ {\cf2 Now they that were in the castell at Ierusalem, kept in the Israelites round about the Sanctuarie, and sought alwayes their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.}

geneva@1Macc:6:19 @ {\cf2 Therefore Iudas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them.}

geneva@1Macc:6:20 @ {\cf2 So they came together and besieged them in the hundreth and fifty yeere, and made instruments to shoote and other engins of warre.}

geneva@1Macc:6:21 @ {\cf2 But certaine of the that were besieged, gat foorth, (vnto whome some vngodly men of Israel ioyned themselues)}

geneva@1Macc:6:22 @ {\cf2 And they went vnto the king, saying, Howe long wilt thou cease from executing iudgement, and auenge our brethren?}

geneva@1Macc:6:23 @ {\cf2 We haue bene readie to serue thy father, & to goe forward in those things, that he appointed, and to obey his commandements.}

geneva@1Macc:6:24 @ {\cf2 Therefore they of our nation fell from vs for this cause, and wheresoeuer they found any of vs, they slew them, and spoyled our inheritance.}

geneva@1Macc:6:25 @ {\cf2 And they haue not onely laide hande vpon vs, but vpon all about their borders.}

geneva@1Macc:6:26 @ {\cf2 And behold, this day are they besieging the castle at Ierusalem to take it, and haue fortified the Sanctuarie, and Beth-sura.}

geneva@1Macc:6:27 @ {\cf2 And if thou doest not preuent them quickely, they will doe greater things then these, & thou shalt not be able to ouercome them.}

geneva@1Macc:6:28 @ {\cf2 When the King heard this, hee was very angrie, and called all his friendes, the captaines of his armie, and his horsemen,}

geneva@1Macc:6:29 @ {\cf2 And bandes that were hired, came vnto him from the Kinges, that were confederate, and from the yles of the sea.}

geneva@1Macc:6:30 @ {\cf2 So the number of his armie was an hundreth thousande footemen, and twentie thousand horsemen, and two and thirtie elephantes excercised in battel.}

geneva@1Macc:6:31 @ {\cf2 These came through Idumea and drew neere to Beth-sura, and besieged it a log season, and made engins of warre: but they came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly.}

geneva@1Macc:6:32 @ {\cf2 Then departed Iudas from the castel, and remoued ye host toward Beth-zacarias ouer against the kings campe.}

geneva@1Macc:6:33 @ {\cf2 So the King arose very earely, and brought the army & his power toward the way of Beth-zacarias, where the army set themselues in aray to the battel, and blewe the trumpets.}

geneva@1Macc:6:34 @ {\cf2 And to prouoke the elephants for to fight, they shewed the the bloud of grapes & mulberies,}

geneva@1Macc:6:35 @ {\cf2 And they set the beastes according to the ranges: so that by euery elephant there stoode a thousand men armed with coates of maile and helmets of brasse vpon their heades, and vnto euery beast were ordeined fiue hudreth horseme of ye best,}

geneva@1Macc:6:36 @ {\cf2 Which were readie at all times wheresoeuer the beast was: and whethersoeuer the beast went, they went also, and departed not from him.}

geneva@1Macc:6:37 @ {\cf2 And vpon them were strog towers of wood that couered euery beast, which were fastened thereon with instruments, and vpon euery one was twoand thirtie men that fought in them, and the Indian that ruled him.}

geneva@1Macc:6:38 @ {\cf2 They set also the remnant of the horsemen vpon both the sides in two wings of the hoste, to stirre them vp, and to keepe them in the valleyes.}

geneva@1Macc:6:39 @ {\cf2 And when the sunne shone vpon the golden shieldes, the mountaines glistered therewith, and gaue light as lampes of fire.}

geneva@1Macc:6:40 @ {\cf2 Thus parte of the Kings armie was spred vpon the high mountaines, and part beneath: so they marched forward warily and in order.}

geneva@1Macc:6:41 @ {\cf2 And all they that heard the noyse of their multitude, and the marching of the companie, and the ratling of the harnesse, were astonished: for the armie was very great and mightie.}

geneva@1Macc:6:42 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas and his hoste entred into the battell, and they slewe sixe hundreth men of the Kings armie.}

geneva@1Macc:6:43 @ {\cf2 Now when Eleazar, the sonne of Abaron, saw one of the elephants armed with royall harnes, and was more excellent then all the other beastes, he thought that the King should be vpon him.}

geneva@1Macc:6:44 @ {\cf2 Wherefore he ieoparded him selfe to deliuer his people, and to get him a perpetuall name,}

geneva@1Macc:6:45 @ {\cf2 And ran boldly vnto him through the mids of the hoste, slaying on the right hand, and on the left, so that they departed away on both sides.}

geneva@1Macc:6:46 @ {\cf2 So went he to the elephants feete, and gate him vnder him, and slewe him: then fell the elephant downe vpon him, and there he dyed.}

geneva@1Macc:6:47 @ {\cf2 But the other, seeing the power of the king & the fiercenesse of his armie, departed from them.}

geneva@1Macc:6:48 @ {\cf2 And the Kings armie went vp to meete them towarde Ierusalem, and the King pitched his tents in Iudea towarde mount Sion.}

geneva@1Macc:6:49 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, the King tooke truce with them that were in Beth-sura: but when they came out of the citie, because they had no vitailes there, and were shut vp therein, and the lande had rested,}

geneva@1Macc:6:50 @ {\cf2 The King tooke Beth-sura, and set there a garison to keepe it,}

geneva@1Macc:6:51 @ {\cf2 And besieged the Sanctuarie many dayes, and made instruments to shoote, and other engins of warre, and instruments to cast fire and stones, & pieces to cast dartes and slings.}

geneva@1Macc:6:52 @ {\cf2 They also made engines against their engines, and fought a long season.}

geneva@1Macc:6:53 @ {\cf2 But in the garners there were no vitailes: for it was the seuenth yeere, and then they that were in Iudea, and were deliuered from the Gentiles, had eaten vp the residue of the store,}

geneva@1Macc:6:54 @ {\cf2 So that in the Sanctuarie were few men left: for the famine came so vpon them, that they were scattered euery man to his owne place.}

geneva@1Macc:6:55 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Lysias heard that Philippe (whome Antiochus the King, whiles he liued, had ordeyned to bring vp Antiochus his sonne, that he might be King)}

geneva@1Macc:6:56 @ {\cf2 Was come againe out of Persia and Media, and the Kings hoste with him, and thought to take vnto him the rule of things,}

geneva@1Macc:6:57 @ {\cf2 He and his hasted, and were stirred forwarde by them in the castle to go and tell the King, and the captaines of the hoste, and to others, saying, We decrease daily, and our vitailes are but small: & the place that we lay siege vnto, is strong, and the affaires of the realme depende vpon vs.}

geneva@1Macc:6:58 @ {\cf2 Now therefore let vs agree with these men, and take truce with them, and with al their nation,}

geneva@1Macc:6:59 @ {\cf2 And graunt them to liue after their Lawe, as they did afore: for they be grieued, and doe all these things, because we haue broken their Lawes.}

geneva@1Macc:6:60 @ {\cf2 So the King and the princes were content, and sent vnto them to make peace, and they receiued it.}

geneva@1Macc:6:61 @ {\cf2 When the King and the princes had made an othe vnto them, they came vpon this out of the fortresse.}

geneva@1Macc:6:62 @ {\cf2 And the King went vp to mount Sion: but when he sawe that the place was well defensed, he brake his othe that he had made, and commanded to breake downe the wall round about.}

geneva@1Macc:6:63 @ {\cf2 Then departed he in all haste, and returned vnto Antiochia, where he found Philip hauing dominion of the citie: so he fought against him, and tooke the citie by force.}

geneva@1Macc:7:1 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, and one and fiftieth yeere, departed Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus from Rome, and came vp with a fewe men vnto a citie of the sea coast, and reigned there.}

geneva@1Macc:7:2 @ {\cf2 And when he came into the possession of his fathers kingdome, his souldiers tooke Antiochus and Lysias, and brought them vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:7:3 @ {\cf2 But when it was tolde him, he said, Shew me not their faces.}

geneva@1Macc:7:4 @ {\cf2 So they put them to death. Now when Demetrius was set vpon the throne of his kingdome,}

geneva@1Macc:7:5 @ {\cf2 There came vnto him all the wicked and vngodly men of Israel, whose captaine was Alcimus, that would haue bene the hie Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:7:6 @ {\cf2 These men accused the people vnto ye king, saying, Iudas and his brethren haue slaine all thy friendes, and driuen vs out of our owne lande.}

geneva@1Macc:7:7 @ {\cf2 Wherefore sende nowe some man, whome thou trustest, that he may goe and see all the destruction, which he hath done vnto vs, and to the Kinges lande, and let him punish them with all their partakers.}

geneva@1Macc:7:8 @ {\cf2 Then the King chose Bacchides a friende of his, which was a great man in the realme, and ruled beyond the flood, and was faithfull vnto the king, and sent him,}

geneva@1Macc:7:9 @ {\cf2 And that wicked Alcimus, whome he made hie Priest, and commanded him to be auenged of the children of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:7:10 @ {\cf2 So they departed, and came with a great hoste into the land of Iuda, and sent messengers to Iudas and his brethren, deceitfully with peaceable wordes.}

geneva@1Macc:7:11 @ {\cf2 But they beleeued not their saying: for they sawe that they were come with a great hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:7:12 @ {\cf2 Then a company of the gouernours assembled vnto Alcimus and Bacchides to intreat of reasonable pointes.}

geneva@1Macc:7:13 @ {\cf2 And the Asideans were the first that required peace among the children of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:7:14 @ {\cf2 For said they, He that is a Priest of the seede of Aaron, is come with this armie: therefore he will not hurt vs.}

geneva@1Macc:7:15 @ {\cf2 Then he spake vnto them peaceably, and swore vnto them, and sayde, We will doe you no harme, neither your friendes:}

geneva@1Macc:7:16 @ {\cf2 And they beleeued him: but he tooke of the three score men, and slewe them in one day according to the wordes that were written,}

geneva@1Macc:7:17 @ {\cf2 They haue cast the bodyes of thy Saintes, and their blood rounde about Ierusalem, and there was no man that would burie them.}

geneva@1Macc:7:18 @ {\cf2 So there came a feare and trembling among all the people: for they said, There is neither trueth nor righteousnesse in them: for they haue broken the appointment and othe that they made.}

geneva@1Macc:7:19 @ {\cf2 Then Bacchides remoued from Ierusalem, and pitched his tent at Beth-zecha, where he sent foorth and tooke many of the men that had forsaken him, and certaine of the people whome hee slewe and cast into the great pit.}

geneva@1Macc:7:20 @ {\cf2 Then committed he the countrey vnto Alcimus, and left men of warre with him to helpe him: so Bacchides went vnto the King.}

geneva@1Macc:7:21 @ {\cf2 Thus Alcimus stroue for the Priesthoode.}

geneva@1Macc:7:22 @ {\cf2 And all such as troubled the people, resorted vnto him: in so much, that they obteined the land of Iuda, and did much hurt in Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:7:23 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas sawe all the mischiefe, that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites more then the heathen,}

geneva@1Macc:7:24 @ {\cf2 He went foorth rounde about all the borders of Iudea, and punished those that were fallen away, so that they came no more abroade in the countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:7:25 @ {\cf2 But when Alcimus sawe that Iudas and his people had gotten the vpper hande, and knew that he was not able to abide them, he went againe to the King, and accused them of wicked things.}

geneva@1Macc:7:26 @ {\cf2 Then the King sent Nicanor one of his chiefe princes, which hated Israel deadly, and commanded him, that he should destroy the people.}

geneva@1Macc:7:27 @ {\cf2 So Nicanor came to Ierusalem with a great hoste, and sent vnto Iudas, and his brethren deceitfully with friendly wordes, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:7:28 @ {\cf2 Let there be no warre betweene me, and you: I will come with fewe men, to see howe ye doe, friendly.}

geneva@1Macc:7:29 @ {\cf2 So he came vnto Iudas, and they saluted one another peaceably: but the enemies were prepared to take away Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:7:30 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, it was tolde Iudas, that hee came vnto him vnder deceite: therefore he feared him, and woulde not see his face no more.}

geneva@1Macc:7:31 @ {\cf2 When Nicanor perceiued that his counsell was bewrayed, he went out to fight against Iudas, beside Carphasalama.}

geneva@1Macc:7:32 @ {\cf2 Where there were slaine of Nicanors hoste about fiue thousande men: so they fled vnto the citie of Dauid.}

geneva@1Macc:7:33 @ {\cf2 After this came Nicanor vp vnto mount Sion, and some of the Priestes with the Elders of the people went foorth of the Sanctuarie to salute him peaceably, and to shewe him the burnt offring that was offred for the King.}

geneva@1Macc:7:34 @ {\cf2 But he laughed at them, and mocked them, and counted them prophane, and spake proudly,}

geneva@1Macc:7:35 @ {\cf2 And swore in his wrath, saying, If Iudas and his hoste be not deliuered nowe into mine handes, if euer I come againe in safetie, I will burne vp this house. With that, went he out in a great anger.}

geneva@1Macc:7:36 @ {\cf2 Then the Priestes came in, and stoode before the altar in the Temple, weeping, and saying,}

geneva@1Macc:7:37 @ {\cf2 For so much as thou, O Lorde, hast chosen this House, that thy Name might be called vpon therein, and that it should be an house of prayer, and petition for thy people,}

geneva@1Macc:7:38 @ {\cf2 Be auenged of this man and his hoste, and let them be slaine by the sworde: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue.}

geneva@1Macc:7:39 @ {\cf2 When Nicanor was gone from Ierusalem, he pitched his tent at Beth-horon, and there an hoste met him out of Syria.}

geneva@1Macc:7:40 @ {\cf2 And Iudas pitched in Adasa with three thousande men, where Iudas prayed, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:7:41 @ {\cf2 O Lorde, because the messengers of King Sennacherib blasphemed thee, thine Angel went foorth, and slewe an hundreth, fourescore and fiue thousande of them.}

geneva@1Macc:7:42 @ {\cf2 So destroy thou this hoste before vs to day, that all other may knowe that he hath spoken wickedly against thy Sanctuary, and punish him according to his malice.}

geneva@1Macc:7:43 @ {\cf2 So the armies ioyned together in battell, the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar: but Nicanors hoste was discomfited, and he him selfe was first slaine in the battell.}

geneva@1Macc:7:44 @ {\cf2 Nowe when his armie sawe that Nicanor was slaine, they cast away their weapons, and fled.}

geneva@1Macc:7:45 @ {\cf2 But they pursued after them a dayes iourney from Adasa vnto Gasera, blowing an alarme with the trumpets after them.}

geneva@1Macc:7:46 @ {\cf2 So they came foorth of all the townes of Iudea rounde about, and rushed vpon them, and threwe them from one to another, so that they all fell by the sworde, and there was not one of them left.}

geneva@1Macc:7:47 @ {\cf2 Then they tooke the spoyles, and the pray, and smote off Nicanors head, and his right hande, which he helde vp so proudly, and brought it with them, and hanged them vp afore Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:7:48 @ {\cf2 So the people reioyced greatly, and kept that day as a day of great gladnesse.}

geneva@1Macc:7:49 @ {\cf2 And they ordeined to keepe yeerely that day on the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar.}

geneva@1Macc:7:50 @ {\cf2 Thus the lande of Iuda was in rest a litle while.}

geneva@1Macc:8:1 @ {\cf2 Ivdas heard also the fame of the Romanes, that they were mightie, and valiant, and agreeable to all thinges that were required of them, and made peace with all that came vnto them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:2 @ {\cf2 And that they were men of great power, and they tolde him of their battels, and their worthie actes, which they did among the Galatians whome they had conquered, and made to pay tribute,}

geneva@1Macc:8:3 @ {\cf2 And what they had done in the countrey of Spaine: how that they had wonne there the mines of siluer and golde,}

geneva@1Macc:8:4 @ {\cf2 And that by their counsell, and gentle behauiour they were rulers in euery place, though the place was farre from them, and that they had discomfited, and giuen great ouerthrowes to the Kings that came against them, from the vttermost parte of the earth, and that others gaue them tribute euery yeere,}

geneva@1Macc:8:5 @ {\cf2 Howe they had also discomfited by battell Philippe and Perses Kings of the Macedonians, and others, that arose against them, and howe they ouer came them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:6 @ {\cf2 And howe great Antiochus King of Asia that came against the in battel, hauing an hudreth and twentie elephants, with horsemen, & charets, and a very great armie, was discomfited by them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:7 @ {\cf2 And howe they tooke him aliue, and ordeined him, with such as should reigne after him, to pay a great tribute, and to giue hostages, and a separate porcion,}

geneva@1Macc:8:8 @ {\cf2 Euen the countrey of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of his best countreys, which they tooke of him and gaue them to king Eumenes.}

geneva@1Macc:8:9 @ {\cf2 Againe when it was told them that the Grecians were comming to destroy them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:10 @ {\cf2 They sent against them a captaine, which gaue them battell, and slewe many of them, and tooke many prisoners with their wiues, and children, and spoyled them and conquered their land, & destroyed their strong holdes, and subdued them to be their bondmen, vnto this day:}

geneva@1Macc:8:11 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, howe they destroyed, & brought into subiection other kingdomes and yles, whosoeuer had withstand them:}

geneva@1Macc:8:12 @ {\cf2 But that they kept amitie with their owne friendes, and those that stayed vpon them: finally, that they conquered kingdomes, both farre and neere, insomuch that whosoeuer heard of their renowme, was afraide of them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:13 @ {\cf2 For whome they would helpe to their kingdomes, those reigned, & who they would, they put downe thus were they in most high authoritie.}

geneva@1Macc:8:14 @ {\cf2 Yet for all this that none of them ware a crowne, neither was clothed in purple, to bee magnified thereby,}

geneva@1Macc:8:15 @ {\cf2 But that they had ordeyned them selues a counsell, wherein three hundreth and twentie men consulted dayly, and prouided for the common affaires, to gouerne them well,}

geneva@1Macc:8:16 @ {\cf2 And that they committed their gouernment to one man euery yere, who did rule ouer all their countrey, to whom euery man was obedient: and there was neither hatred nor enuie among them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:17 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas chose Eupolemus the sonne of Iohn, the sonne of Accus, and Iason, the sonne of Eleazar, and sent them vnto Rome to make friendship, and mutuall felowship with them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:18 @ {\cf2 That they might take from them the yoke (for they sawe that the kingdome of the Grecians would keepe Israel in bondage)}

geneva@1Macc:8:19 @ {\cf2 So they went vnto Rome, which was a verie great iourney, and came into the Senate, where they spake and said,}

geneva@1Macc:8:20 @ {\cf2 Iudas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Iewes hath sent vs vnto you, to make a bond of friendship, and peace with you, and yee to register vs as your partakers and friends.}

geneva@1Macc:8:21 @ {\cf2 And the matter pleased them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:22 @ {\cf2 And this is the copie of the epistle that they wrote in tables of brasse & sent to Ierusalem, that they might haue by them a memorial of the peace, and mutuall fellowship.}

geneva@1Macc:8:23 @ {\cf2 Good successe be to the Romanes, and to the people of the Iewes, by sea, & by land for euer, and the sword, and enemie be from them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:24 @ {\cf2 If there come first any warre vpon the Romaines, or any of their friends throughout all their dominion,}

geneva@1Macc:8:25 @ {\cf2 The people of the Iewes shall helpe them, as the time shalbe appointed, with all their heart,}

geneva@1Macc:8:26 @ {\cf2 Also they shall giue nothing to them that come to fight for them, nor serue them with wheat nor weapons, nor money, nor shippes, as it pleaseth the Romaines, but they shall keepe their couenants without taking any thing of them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:27 @ {\cf2 Likewise also if warre come first against the nation of the Iewes, the Romanes shall helpe them with a good will, according as the time shalbe appoynted them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:28 @ {\cf2 Neyther shall wheate be giuen vnto them, that take their part, nor weapons, nor money, nor ships, as it pleaseth the Romaines, who will keepe these couenants without deceit.}

geneva@1Macc:8:29 @ {\cf2 According to these articles the Romaines made the bond with the people of the Iewes.}

geneva@1Macc:8:30 @ {\cf2 If after these points the one partie, or the other will adde or diminish, they may doe it, at their pleasures, and whatsoeuer they shall adde, or take away, shalbe ratified.}

geneva@1Macc:8:31 @ {\cf2 And as touching the euill that Demetrius hath done vnto ye Iewes, we haue written vnto him, saying, Wherefore layest thou thine heauy yoke vpon our friends, and confederates the Iewes?}

geneva@1Macc:8:32 @ {\cf2 If therfore they complayne any more against thee, we will doe them iustice, and fight with thee by sea and by land.}

geneva@1Macc:9:1 @ {\cf2 In the meane season when Demetrius had heard how Nicanor, and his hoste had giuen the battel, he sent Bacchides, and Alcimus againe into Iudea, and his chiefe strength with them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:2 @ {\cf2 So they went forth by the way that is toward Galgala, and pitched their tentes before Mesaloth which is in Arbelis, and wanne it, and slewe much people.}

geneva@1Macc:9:3 @ {\cf2 And in the first moneth of the hundreth, fifty and two yeere, they layed their siege against Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:9:4 @ {\cf2 But they raysed their campe, and came to Berea, with twentie thousand foote men and two thousand horsemen.}

geneva@1Macc:9:5 @ {\cf2 Now Iudas had pitched his tent at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him.}

geneva@1Macc:9:6 @ {\cf2 And when they saw, that the multitude of the armie was great, they were sore afraid, & many conueied themselues out of the hoste, so that there abode no mo of them, but eight hundreth men.}

geneva@1Macc:9:7 @ {\cf2 When Iudas saw that his host fayled him, and that he must needes fight, he was sore troubled in mind that he had no time to gather them together, and was discouraged.}

geneva@1Macc:9:8 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, he saide vnto them that remained, Let vs rise, & go vp against our enemies, if peraduenture we may be able to fight with them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:9 @ {\cf2 But they woulde haue stayed him, saying, We are not able: but let vs rather saue our liues: turne backe nowe, seeing our brethren are departed: for shall we fight against them, that are so fewe?}

geneva@1Macc:9:10 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas said, God forbid, that we should doe this thing, to flie from them: if our time bee come, let vs die manfully for our brethren, and let vs not staine our honour.}

geneva@1Macc:9:11 @ {\cf2 Then the host remooued out of the tents, & stood against the, who had deuided their horsemen into two troupes, & they that threwe with slinges, & the archers marched in the foreward, and they that fought in the foreward, were all valiant men.}

geneva@1Macc:9:12 @ {\cf2 And Bacchides was in the right wing. So the armie drewe neere on both sides, and blewe the trumpets.}

geneva@1Macc:9:13 @ {\cf2 They of Iudas side blewe the trumpets also, and the earth shooke at the noyse of the armies, & the battel continued from morning to night.}

geneva@1Macc:9:14 @ {\cf2 And when Iudas sawe that Bacchides & the strength of his armie was on ye right side, he tooke with him all the hardie men,}

geneva@1Macc:9:15 @ {\cf2 And brake the right wing, & followed vpon them vnto mount Azotus.}

geneva@1Macc:9:16 @ {\cf2 Nowe when they which were of the left wing, sawe that the right wing was discomfited, they followed Iudas behinde, and them that were with him hard at the heeles.}

geneva@1Macc:9:17 @ {\cf2 Then was there a sore battel: for many were slaine of both the parties.}

geneva@1Macc:9:18 @ {\cf2 Iudas also himselfe was killed, and the remnant fled.}

geneva@1Macc:9:19 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan and Simon tooke Iudas their brother, and buryed him in his fathers sepulchre in the citie of Modin.}

geneva@1Macc:9:20 @ {\cf2 And al the Israelites wept for him, & mourned greatly for him, & lameted many dayes, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:9:21 @ {\cf2 How is the valiant man fallen which deliuered Israel!}

geneva@1Macc:9:22 @ {\cf2 Concerning the other things of Iudas, both the battels and the valiant actes that hee did, and of his worthines, they are not writte: for they were verie many.}

geneva@1Macc:9:23 @ {\cf2 Now after the death of Iudas, wicked men came vp in all the coastes of Israel, and there arose all such as gaue themselues to iniquitie.}

geneva@1Macc:9:24 @ {\cf2 In those dayes was there a very great famine in the lande, and all the countrey gaue ouer themselues with them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:25 @ {\cf2 And Bacchides did chuse wicked men, and made them lords in the land.}

geneva@1Macc:9:26 @ {\cf2 These sought out, and made search for Iudas friends, & brought the vnto Bacchides, which auenged himselfe vpon them, and mocked them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:27 @ {\cf2 And there came so great trouble in Israel, as was not since the time that no Prophet was seene among them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:28 @ {\cf2 Then came all Iudas friendes together, and saide vnto Ionathan,}

geneva@1Macc:9:29 @ {\cf2 Seeing thy brother Iudas is dead, and there is none like him to goe forth against our enemies, euen against Bacchides, and against them of our nation that are enemies vnto vs,}

geneva@1Macc:9:30 @ {\cf2 Therefore, this day we chuse thee, that thou mayest be our Prince & captaine in his place, to order our battell.}

geneva@1Macc:9:31 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan tooke the gouernance vpon him at the same time, and ruled in stead of his brother Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:9:32 @ {\cf2 But when Bacchides knewe it, he sought for to slay him.}

geneva@1Macc:9:33 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan and Simon his brother, perceiuing that, fled into the wildernes of Thecua with all their companie, and pitched their tents by the water poole of Asphar.}

geneva@1Macc:9:34 @ {\cf2 Which when Bacchides vnderstoode, hee came ouer Iorden with all his hoste vpon the Sabbath day.}

geneva@1Macc:9:35 @ {\cf2 (Nowe had Ionathan sent his brother Iohn, a captaine of the people, to pray his friendes the Nabathites, that they would keepe their baggage which was much.}

geneva@1Macc:9:36 @ {\cf2 But the children of Ambri came out of Medaba, and tooke Iohn, and al that he had, and when they had taken it, went their way.}

geneva@1Macc:9:37 @ {\cf2 After this came worde vnto Ionathan, and to Simon his brother, that the children of Ambri made a great marriage, and brought the bride from Medaba with great pompe: for she was daughter to one of the noblest Princes of Canaan.}

geneva@1Macc:9:38 @ {\cf2 Therefore they remembred Iohn their brother, and went vp, and hid themselues vnder the couert of the mountaine.}

geneva@1Macc:9:39 @ {\cf2 So they lift vp their eyes, and looked, and beholde, there was a great noyse, and much preparation: then the bridegrome came forth, and his friends and his brethre met them with tymbrels, & instruments of musike, and many weapons.}

geneva@1Macc:9:40 @ {\cf2 The Ionathans men that lay in ambush, rose vp against them, and slewe many of them, and the remnant fledde into the mountaines, so that they tooke all their spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:9:41 @ {\cf2 Thus the marriage was turned to mourning, and the noyse of their melodie into lamentation.}

geneva@1Macc:9:42 @ {\cf2 And so when they had auenged the blood of their brother, they turned againe vnto Iorden.}

geneva@1Macc:9:43 @ {\cf2 When Bacchides heard this, hee came vnto the border of Iorden with a great power vpon the Sabbath day.)}

geneva@1Macc:9:44 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan saide vnto his companie, Let vs rise nowe, and fight against our enemies: for it is not to day as in time past.}

geneva@1Macc:9:45 @ {\cf2 Beholde, the battel is before vs, and behinde vs, and the water of Iorden on this side and that side, and the marise, and forest, so that there is no place for vs to turne aside.}

geneva@1Macc:9:46 @ {\cf2 Wherefore crie nowe vnto heauen, that yee may be deliuered from the power of your enemies: so they ioyned battell.}

geneva@1Macc:9:47 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan stretched out his hande to smite Bacchides: but hee turned aside from him & reculed.}

geneva@1Macc:9:48 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan, & they that were with him, leapt into Iorden, and swimmed ouer vnto the further banke: but the other would not passe through Iorden after them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:49 @ {\cf2 So in that day were slaine of Bacchides side about a thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:9:50 @ {\cf2 Then hee turned againe to Ierusalem, and buylt vp the strong cities in Iuda, as the castell of Iericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Thamnatha, Pharathoni, & Tepho, with high walles, with gates, and with barres,}

geneva@1Macc:9:51 @ {\cf2 And set Garisons in them, that they might vse their malice vpon Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:9:52 @ {\cf2 He fortified also the citie Beth-sura, and Gazara, and the castel, and set a garison in them with prouision of vitailes.}

geneva@1Macc:9:53 @ {\cf2 Hee tooke also the chiefest mens sonnes in the countrey for hostages, and put them in the castell at Ierusalem to be kept.}

geneva@1Macc:9:54 @ {\cf2 Afterward in the hundreth, fiftie & three yere, in the second moneth, Alcimus commaunded, that the walles of the inner court of the Sanctuary should be destroyed, & he pulled downe the monuments of ye Prophetes, & began to destroy them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:55 @ {\cf2 But at the same time Alcimus was plagued, and his enterprises were hindered, and his mouth was stopped: for he was smitten with a palsie, and could no more speake, nor giue order concerning his house.}

geneva@1Macc:9:56 @ {\cf2 Thus dyed Alcimus with great torment at the same time.}

geneva@1Macc:9:57 @ {\cf2 And when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he turned againe to the King, and so the land of Iuda was in rest two yeeres.}

geneva@1Macc:9:58 @ {\cf2 Then all the vngodly men helde a counsell, saying, Behold, Ionathan and his companie dwell at ease, and without care: wherefore let vs bring Bacchides hither, and he wil take them all in one night.}

geneva@1Macc:9:59 @ {\cf2 So they went and consulted with him.}

geneva@1Macc:9:60 @ {\cf2 Who arose and came with a great hoste, and sent letters priuily to his adherents, which were in Iudea, to take Ionathan and those that were with him: but they coulde not, for their counsell was knowen vnto them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:61 @ {\cf2 And they tooke fiftie men of the countrey, which were the chiefe workers of this wickednesse, and slewe them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:62 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan and Simon with their companie departed vnto Beth-basin which is in the wildernes, and repaired the decay thereof, and made it strong.}

geneva@1Macc:9:63 @ {\cf2 When Bacchides knewe this, he gathered all his hoste, & sent word to them that were of Iudea.}

geneva@1Macc:9:64 @ {\cf2 Then came he and layd siege to Beth-basin, and fought against it a long season, and made instruments of warre.}

geneva@1Macc:9:65 @ {\cf2 But Ionathan had left his brother Simon in the citie, and went foorth into the countrey, and came with a certaine nomber,}

geneva@1Macc:9:66 @ {\cf2 And slewe Odomeras and his brethren and the children of Phasiron in their tentes: so hee began to slay, and increased in power.}

geneva@1Macc:9:67 @ {\cf2 Simon also and his companie went out of the citie, and burnt vp the instruments of warre,}

geneva@1Macc:9:68 @ {\cf2 And fought against Bacchides, and discomfited him, and vexed him sore, so that his counsell and iourney was in vaine.}

geneva@1Macc:9:69 @ {\cf2 Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men, that gaue him counsel to come into the countrey, and slewe many of them, and purposed to returne into his owne countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:9:70 @ {\cf2 Whereof when Ionathan had knowledge, he sent Ambassadours vnto him, to intreate of peace with him, & that the prisoners should be deliuered.}

geneva@1Macc:9:71 @ {\cf2 Which thing he accepted, and did according to his desire, and made an othe, that he would neuer doe him harme all the dayes of his life.}

geneva@1Macc:9:72 @ {\cf2 So he restored vnto him the prisoners that he had taken aforetime out of the land of Iuda, and so returned and went into his owne lande, neither did he come any more into their borders.}

geneva@1Macc:9:73 @ {\cf2 Thus the sworde ceased from Israel, and Ionathan dwelt at Machmas, and began there to gouerne the people, and destroyed the vngodly men out of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:10:1 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth and three score yeere came Alexander the sonne of Antiochus Epiphanes, and tooke Ptolemais, and they receiued him, and there he reigned.}

geneva@1Macc:10:2 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Demetrius the King heard it, he gathered an exceeding great hoste, and went foorth against him to fight.}

geneva@1Macc:10:3 @ {\cf2 Also Demetrius sent letters vnto Ionathan, with louing words, as though he would preferre him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:4 @ {\cf2 For he saide, Wee will first make peace with him, before he ioyne with Alexander against vs.}

geneva@1Macc:10:5 @ {\cf2 Els hee will remember all the euill that wee haue done against him, and against his brethren and his nation.}

geneva@1Macc:10:6 @ {\cf2 And so he gaue Ionathan leaue to gather an hoste, and to prepare weapons, and to be confederate with him, and commaunded the hostages that were in the castell, to be deliuered vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:7 @ {\cf2 Then came Ionathan to Ierusalem, and read the letters in the audience of all the people, and of them that were in the castell.}

geneva@1Macc:10:8 @ {\cf2 Therefore they were sore afraide, because they heard that the King had giuen him licence to gather an armie.}

geneva@1Macc:10:9 @ {\cf2 So they that were of the castell, deliuered the hostages vnto Ionathan, who restored them to their parents.}

geneva@1Macc:10:10 @ {\cf2 Ionathan also dwelt at Ierusalem, and began to builde, and repaire the citie.}

geneva@1Macc:10:11 @ {\cf2 And he commanded the workemen to build the walles, and the mount Sion rounde about with hewen stone, to fortifie it: and so they did.}

geneva@1Macc:10:12 @ {\cf2 Then the strangers that were in the castles which Bacchides had made, fled,}

geneva@1Macc:10:13 @ {\cf2 So that euery man left his place, and went into his owne countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:10:14 @ {\cf2 Onely at Beth-sura remained certaine which had forsaken the Lawe and the commaundements: for it was their refuge.}

geneva@1Macc:10:15 @ {\cf2 Nowe when King Alexander had heard of the promises that Demetrius had made vnto Ionathan: and when it was tolde him of the battels and noble actes, which hee and his brethren had done, and of the paines that they had endured,}

geneva@1Macc:10:16 @ {\cf2 He said, Might we find such a man? Now therefore we will make him our friend and confederate.}

geneva@1Macc:10:17 @ {\cf2 Vpon this hee wrote a letter, and sent it vnto him, with these wordes, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:10:18 @ {\cf2 King Alexander to his brother Ionathan sendeth salutation.}

geneva@1Macc:10:19 @ {\cf2 Wee haue heard of thee, that thou art a very valiant man, and worthy to be our friend.}

geneva@1Macc:10:20 @ {\cf2 Wherefore this day we ordaine thee to bee the hie Priest of thy nation, and to bee called the Kings friende: (and he sent him a purple robe, and a crowne of golde,) that thou mayst consider what is for our profite, and keepe friendship toward vs.}

geneva@1Macc:10:21 @ {\cf2 So in the seuenth moneth of the hundreth and three score yeere, vpon the feast day of the tabernacles, Ionathan put on the holy garment, and gathered an hoste, and prepared many weapons.}

geneva@1Macc:10:22 @ {\cf2 Which when Demetrius heard, he was marueilous sory, and said,}

geneva@1Macc:10:23 @ {\cf2 What haue wee done, that Alexander hath preuented vs in getting the friendship of the Iewes for his strength?}

geneva@1Macc:10:24 @ {\cf2 Yet will I write and exhort them, and promise them dignities and rewardes, that they may helpe mee.}

geneva@1Macc:10:25 @ {\cf2 Whereupon he wrote vnto them these words, King Demetrivs vnto the nations of the Iewes sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:10:26 @ {\cf2 Wee haue heard that ye haue kept your couenant toward vs, and continued in our friendship, and haue not ioyned with our enemies, whereof we are glad.}

geneva@1Macc:10:27 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore remaine stil, and keepe fidelitie toward vs, and we will recompence you for the good things that ye haue done for vs,}

geneva@1Macc:10:28 @ {\cf2 And will release you of many charges, and giue you rewards.}

geneva@1Macc:10:29 @ {\cf2 And nowe I discharge for your sake all the Iewes from tributes, and free you from the customes of salt, and the crowne taxes, and from the thirde part of the seede.}

geneva@1Macc:10:30 @ {\cf2 And from the halfe of the fruite of the trees which is mine owne duetie, I so release them that from this day foorth, none shall take any thing of the land of Iuda, or of the three gouernments which are added thereunto, as of Samaria and of Galile, from this day foorth for euermore.}

geneva@1Macc:10:31 @ {\cf2 Ierusalem also with all things beloging thereto, shalbe holy and free from the tenths & tributes.}

geneva@1Macc:10:32 @ {\cf2 Also I release the power of the castel which is at Ierusalem, and giue it vnto the hie Priest, that he may set in it such men, as he shall chuse to keepe it.}

geneva@1Macc:10:33 @ {\cf2 Moreouer I freely deliuer euery one of ye Iewes that were taken away prisoners out of the lande of Iuda throughout all my realme, and euery one of them shalbe free from tributes, yea, eue their cattel,}

geneva@1Macc:10:34 @ {\cf2 And all the feastes, and Sabbaths, and newe Moones, and the dayes appointed & the three dayes before the feast, and the three dayes after the feast, shall be dayes of freedome and libertie for all the Iewes in my realme,}

geneva@1Macc:10:35 @ {\cf2 So that in them no man shall haue power to doe any thing, or to vexe any of them in any maner of cause.}

geneva@1Macc:10:36 @ {\cf2 Also thirtie thousande of the Iewes shall be written vp in the Kings hoste, and haue their wages payed them as appertaineth to all them that are of the Kings armie: and of them shall be ordeined certaine to keepe the Kings strong holdes.}

geneva@1Macc:10:37 @ {\cf2 And some of them shalbe set ouer the Kings most secret affaires, and their gouernours and their Princes shalbe of themselues, and they shall liue after their owne lawes, as the King hath commaunded in the land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:10:38 @ {\cf2 And the three gouernements that are added vnto Iudea from the countrey of Samaria, shall be ioyned vnto Iudea, and they shall be as vnder one, and obey none other power, but the hie Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:10:39 @ {\cf2 And I giue Ptolemais and the borders thereof vnto the Sanctuarie at Ierusalem, for the necessarie expenses of the holy things.}

geneva@1Macc:10:40 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, I will giue euery yeere fifteene thousand sicles of siluer of the Kings reuenues out of the places appertaining vnto me.}

geneva@1Macc:10:41 @ {\cf2 And all the ouerplus which they haue not payed for the things due, as they did in the former yeeres, from hencefoorth they shall giue it towarde the workes of the Temple.}

geneva@1Macc:10:42 @ {\cf2 And besides this, the fiue thousande sicles of siluer which they receiued yeerely of the account appointed for the interteinment of the Sanctuarie these yeeres passed, euen these things shalbe released because they apperteine to the Priests that minister.}

geneva@1Macc:10:43 @ {\cf2 Item, whosoeuer they bee that flee vnto the Temple at Ierusalem, or within the liberties thereof, and are indetted to the King for any maner of thing, they shall be pardoned, and all that they haue in my realme.}

geneva@1Macc:10:44 @ {\cf2 For the building also and repairing of the workes of the Sanctuarie, expenses shall be giuen of the Kings reuenues.}

geneva@1Macc:10:45 @ {\cf2 And for the making of the walles of Ierusalem, and fortifying it rounde about, that the holdes in Iudea may be built vp, shall also the costes be giuen out of the Kings reuenues.}

geneva@1Macc:10:46 @ {\cf2 But when Ionathan and the people heard these words, they gaue no credit vnto them, neither receiued them: for they remembred the great wickednesse that he had done in Israel, and how sore he had vexed them.}

geneva@1Macc:10:47 @ {\cf2 Wherefore they agreed vnto Alexander: for he was the first that had intreated of true peace with them, and so were confederate with him always.}

geneva@1Macc:10:48 @ {\cf2 Then gathered King Alexander a great hoste, and camped ouer against Demetrius.}

geneva@1Macc:10:49 @ {\cf2 So the two Kings ioyned battell, but Demetrius hoste fled, and Alexander pursued him, and preuailed against them.}

geneva@1Macc:10:50 @ {\cf2 So that sore battell continued till the sunne went downe, & Demetrius was slaine the same day.}

geneva@1Macc:10:51 @ {\cf2 Then Alexander sent Ambassadours vnto Ptolemeus the King of Egypt with these words, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:10:52 @ {\cf2 For so much as I am come againe to my realme, and am set in the throne of my fathers, and haue gotten the dominion, and haue destroyed Demetrius, and enioy my countrey,}

geneva@1Macc:10:53 @ {\cf2 Seeing that I haue euen giuen him the battel, and he and his armie is discomfited by me, and I sit in the throne of his kingdome,}

geneva@1Macc:10:54 @ {\cf2 Let vs nowe make friendship together, and giue me now thy daughter to wife: so shall I be thy sonne in lawe, and giue thee rewardes, and vnto her things according to thy dignitie.}

geneva@1Macc:10:55 @ {\cf2 Then Ptolemeus the King gaue answere, saying, Happie bee the day, wherein thou art come againe vnto the land of thy fathers, and sittest in the throne of their kingdome.}

geneva@1Macc:10:56 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore will I fulfill thy writing: but meete mee at Ptolemais that wee may see one another, and that I may make thee my sonne in lawe, according to thy desire.}

geneva@1Macc:10:57 @ {\cf2 So Ptolemeus went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and came vnto Ptolemais in the hundreth threescore and two yeere,}

geneva@1Macc:10:58 @ {\cf2 Where King Alexander met him, and he gaue vnto him his daughter Cleopatra, and marryed them at Ptolemais with great glorie, as the maner of Kings is.}

geneva@1Macc:10:59 @ {\cf2 Then wrote King Alexander vnto Ionathan, that he should come and meete him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:60 @ {\cf2 So he went honourably vnto Ptolemais, and there hee met the two Kings, and gaue them great presents of siluer and golde, and to their friends, and found fauour in their sight.}

geneva@1Macc:10:61 @ {\cf2 And there assembled certaine pestilent fellowes of Israel, and wicked men to accuse him: but the King would not heare them.}

geneva@1Macc:10:62 @ {\cf2 And the King commanded that they should take off the garments of Ionathan, and clothe him in purple: and so they did: and the King appointed him to sit by him,}

geneva@1Macc:10:63 @ {\cf2 And saide vnto his Princes, Goe with him into the middes of the citie, and make a proclamation, that no man complaine against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any maner of cause.}

geneva@1Macc:10:64 @ {\cf2 So when his accusers sawe his honour according as it was proclaimed, and that he was clothed in purple, they fled all away.}

geneva@1Macc:10:65 @ {\cf2 And the King preferred him to honour, and wrote him among his chiefe friends, and made him a Duke, and partaker of his dominion.}

geneva@1Macc:10:66 @ {\cf2 Thus Ionathan returned to Ierusalem with peace and gladnesse.}

geneva@1Macc:10:67 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, threescore and fiue yeere came Demetrius the sonne of Demetrius, from Creta into his fathers land.}

geneva@1Macc:10:68 @ {\cf2 Whereof when King Alexander heard, hee was very sorie, and returned vnto Antiochia.}

geneva@1Macc:10:69 @ {\cf2 Then Demetrius appointed Apollonius thegouernour of Coelosyria, who gathered a great hoste, and camped in Iamnia, and sent vnto Ionathan the hie Priest, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:10:70 @ {\cf2 Darest thou, being but alone, lift vp thy selfe against vs? and I am laughed at, and reproched, because of thee: nowe therefore why doest thou vaunt thy selfe against vs in the mountaines?}

geneva@1Macc:10:71 @ {\cf2 Nowe then if thou trust in thine owne strength, come downe to vs into the plaine fielde, and there let vs trie the matter together: for I haue the strength of cities.}

geneva@1Macc:10:72 @ {\cf2 Aske and learne who I am, and they shall take my part: and they shall tell thee that your foote is not able to stand before our face: for thy fathers haue bene twise chased in their owne land.}

geneva@1Macc:10:73 @ {\cf2 And now how wilt thou be able to abide so great an hoste of horsemen and footemen in the plaine, where is neither stone, nor rocke, nor place to flee vnto?}

geneva@1Macc:10:74 @ {\cf2 When Ionathan heard the wordes of Apollonius, he was moued in his minde: wherefore hee chose ten thousand men, & went out of Ierusalem, and Simon his brother met him for to helpe him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:75 @ {\cf2 And he pitched his tentes at Ioppe: but they shut him out of the citie: for Apollonius garison was in Ioppe.}

geneva@1Macc:10:76 @ {\cf2 Then they fought against it, and they that were in the citie, for very feare let him in: so Ionathan wanne Ioppe.}

geneva@1Macc:10:77 @ {\cf2 Apollonius hearing of this, tooke three thousand horsemen with a great hoste of foote men, and went toward Azotus, as though he would go forward, and came immediatly into the plaine fielde, because he had so many horsemen, and put his trust in them.}

geneva@1Macc:10:78 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan followed vpon him to Azotus, and the armie skirmished with his arriere band.}

geneva@1Macc:10:79 @ {\cf2 For Apollonius had left a thousand horsmen behinde them in ambush.}

geneva@1Macc:10:80 @ {\cf2 And Ionathan knew that there was an ambushment behinde him, and though they had compassed in his hoste, and shot dartes at the people from the morning to the euening,}

geneva@1Macc:10:81 @ {\cf2 Yet the people stood still, as Ionathan had commanded them, till their horses were wearie.}

geneva@1Macc:10:82 @ {\cf2 Then brought Simon foorth his hoste, and set them against the band: but the horses were weary, and he discomfited them, and they fled: so the horsemen were scattered in the fielde,}

geneva@1Macc:10:83 @ {\cf2 And they fled to Azotus, and came into the temple of Dagon their idole, that they might there saue them selues.}

geneva@1Macc:10:84 @ {\cf2 But Ionathan set fire vpon Azotus and all the cities round about it, and tooke their spoyles, and burnt with fire the temple of Dagon with all them that were fled into it.}

geneva@1Macc:10:85 @ {\cf2 Thus were slaine and burnt about eight thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:10:86 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan remooued the hoste from thence, and camped by Ascalon, where the men of the citie came foorth, and met him with great honour.}

geneva@1Macc:10:87 @ {\cf2 After this went Ionathan and his hoste againe to Ierusalem with great spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:10:88 @ {\cf2 And when King Alexander heard these things, he began to doe Ionathan more honour,}

geneva@1Macc:10:89 @ {\cf2 And sent him a coller of golde, as the vse is to be giuen vnto such as are of the Kings blood: he gaue him also Accaron, with the borders thereof in possession.}

geneva@1Macc:11:1 @ {\cf2 And the king of Egypt gathered a great hoste, like the sande that lieth vpon the sea shore, and many shippes, and went about through deceite to obtaine the kingdome of Alexander, and to ioyne it vnto his owne Realme.}

geneva@1Macc:11:2 @ {\cf2 Vpon this he went into Syria with friendly wordes, and was let into the cities, and men came foorth to meete him: for king Alexander had commanded them to meete him, because hee was his father in lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:11:3 @ {\cf2 Now when he entred into the citie of Ptolemais, he left bands and garisons in euery citie.}

geneva@1Macc:11:4 @ {\cf2 And when he came neere to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof that were destroyed, and the bodies cast abroad, and them that hee had burnt in the battell: for they had made heapes of them by the way where he should passe.}

geneva@1Macc:11:5 @ {\cf2 And they tolde the king what Ionathan had done, to the intent they might get him euill will: but the King helde his peace.}

geneva@1Macc:11:6 @ {\cf2 And Ionathan met the king with great honour at Ioppe, where they saluted one another, and lay there.}

geneva@1Macc:11:7 @ {\cf2 So when Ionathan had gone with the king vnto the water that was called Eleutherus, hee turned againe to Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:11:8 @ {\cf2 So King Potolemeus gate the dominion of the cities by the sea vnto Seleucia vpon ye sea coast, imagining wicked counsels against Alexander,}

geneva@1Macc:11:9 @ {\cf2 And sent Ambassadours vnto King Demetrius, saying, Come, let vs make a league betweene vs, and I wil giue thee my daughter, which Alexander hath, and thou shalt reigne in thy fathers kingdome.}

geneva@1Macc:11:10 @ {\cf2 For I repent that I gaue Alexander my daughter: for he goeth about to slay me.}

geneva@1Macc:11:11 @ {\cf2 Thus he slandered Alexander, as one that should desire his Realme.}

geneva@1Macc:11:12 @ {\cf2 And he tooke his daughter from him, and gaue her vnto Demetrius, and forsooke Alexander, so that their hatred was openly knowen.}

geneva@1Macc:11:13 @ {\cf2 Then Ptolemeus came to Antiochia, where he set two crownes vpon his owne head, of Asia and of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:11:14 @ {\cf2 In the meane season was King Alexander in Cilicia: for they that dwelt in those places, had rebelled against him:}

geneva@1Macc:11:15 @ {\cf2 But when Alexander heard it, he came to warre against him, and Ptolemeus brought foorth his hoste, and met him with a mightie power, and put him to flight.}

geneva@1Macc:11:16 @ {\cf2 Then fled Alexander into Arabia, there to be defended: so Ptolemeus was exalted.}

geneva@1Macc:11:17 @ {\cf2 And Zabdiel the Arabian smote off Alexanders head, and sent it vnto Ptolemeus.}

geneva@1Macc:11:18 @ {\cf2 But the third day after, King Ptolemeus dyed: and they that were in the holdes, were slaine one of another.}

geneva@1Macc:11:19 @ {\cf2 And Demetrius reigned in the hundreth, threescore and seuenth yeere.}

geneva@1Macc:11:20 @ {\cf2 At the same time gathered Ionathan them that were in Iudea, to lay siege vnto ye castell, which was at Ierusalem, and they made many instruments of warre against it.}

geneva@1Macc:11:21 @ {\cf2 Then went there certaine vngodly persons (which hated their owne people) vnto King Demetrius, and tolde him that Ionathan besieged the castell.}

geneva@1Macc:11:22 @ {\cf2 So when he heard it, he was angry, and immediatly came vnto Ptolemais, and wrote vnto Ionathan, that he should lay no more siege vnto it, but that he should meete him and speake with him at Ptolemais in all haste.}

geneva@1Macc:11:23 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles when Ionathan heard this, hee commanded to besiege it: he chose also certaine of the Elders of Israel, and the Priests, and put himselfe in danger,}

geneva@1Macc:11:24 @ {\cf2 And tooke with him siluer and golde, and apparell, and diuers presents, and went to Ptolemais vnto the King, and found fauour in his sight.}

geneva@1Macc:11:25 @ {\cf2 And though certaine vngodly men of his owne nation had made complaints vpon him,}

geneva@1Macc:11:26 @ {\cf2 Yet the King intreated him as his predecessours had done, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,}

geneva@1Macc:11:27 @ {\cf2 And confirmed him in the hie priesthood with all the honourable things, that hee had afore, and made him his chiefe friend.}

geneva@1Macc:11:28 @ {\cf2 Ionathan also desired the King, that hee would make Iudea free with the three gouernements, and the countrey of Samaria, and Ionathan promised him three hundreth talents.}

geneva@1Macc:11:29 @ {\cf2 Whereunto the King consented, and gaue Ionathan writing of the same, conteining these wordes,}

geneva@1Macc:11:30 @ {\cf2 King Demetrivs vnto his brother Ionathan, and to the nation of the Iewes sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:11:31 @ {\cf2 We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write vnto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye should see it.}

geneva@1Macc:11:32 @ {\cf2 King Demetrius vnto Lasthenes his father sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:11:33 @ {\cf2 For the faithfulnes that our friends the nation of the Iewes keepe vnto vs, and for their good wil towards vs, we are determined to do them good.}

geneva@1Macc:11:34 @ {\cf2 Wherefore we assigne to them the coasts of Iudea with the three gouernments Apherema, and Lydda, and Ramathe (which are added vnto Iudea from the countrey of Samaria) and all that appertaineth to all them that sacrifice in Ierusalem: both concerning the paiments which the King tooke yeerely aforetime, both for the fruites of the earth, and for the fruites of the trees.}

geneva@1Macc:11:35 @ {\cf2 As for the other things appertaining vnto vs of the tenthes and tributes, which were due vnto vs, and the customes of salte, and crowne taxes, which were payed vnto vs, we discharge them of all from hencefoorth.}

geneva@1Macc:11:36 @ {\cf2 And nothing hereof shall be reuoked from this time forth and for euer.}

geneva@1Macc:11:37 @ {\cf2 Therefore see that ye make a copy of these things, and deliuer it vnto Ionathan, that it may be set vp vpon the holy mount in an open place.}

geneva@1Macc:11:38 @ {\cf2 After this when Demetrius the King sawe that his land was in rest, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his hoste, euery man to his owne place, except certaine bands of strangers, whome he brought from the yles of the heathen: wherefore all his fathers hoste hated him.}

geneva@1Macc:11:39 @ {\cf2 Now was there one Tryphon, that had bene of Alexanders part afore, which when he saw that all the hoste murmured against Demetrius, he went to Simaleue the Arabian, that brought vp Antiochus the sonne of Alexander,}

geneva@1Macc:11:40 @ {\cf2 And lay sore vpon him, to deliuer him this yong Antiochus, that he might reigne in his fathers steade: hee tolde him also what great euill Demetrius had done, and howe his men of warre hated him, and he remained there a long season.}

geneva@1Macc:11:41 @ {\cf2 Also Ionathan sent vnto King Demetrius to driue them out which were in the castell at Ierusalem, and those that were in the fortresses: for they fought against Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:11:42 @ {\cf2 So Demetrius sent vnto Ionathan, saying, I will not onely doe these things for thee, and thy nation, but if opportunitie serue, I will honour thee, and thy nation.}

geneva@1Macc:11:43 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore thou shalt doe me a pleasure, if thou wilt send me men to helpe me: for all mine armie is gone from me.}

geneva@1Macc:11:44 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan sent him three thousand strong men vnto Antiochia, and they came vnto the King: wherefore the King was very glad at their comming.}

geneva@1Macc:11:45 @ {\cf2 But they that were of the citie, euen an hundreth, and twentie thousand men, gathered them together in the mids of the citie, and would haue slaine the King.}

geneva@1Macc:11:46 @ {\cf2 But the King fled into the palace, and the citizens kept the streetes of the citie, and began to fight.}

geneva@1Macc:11:47 @ {\cf2 Then the king called to the Iewes for helpe, which came to him all together, and went abroad through the citie,}

geneva@1Macc:11:48 @ {\cf2 And slewe the same day an hundreth thousand, and set fire vpon the citie, and tooke many spoyles in that day, and deliuered the King.}

geneva@1Macc:11:49 @ {\cf2 So when the citizens saw that the Iewes had gotten the vpper hand of the citie, and that they themselues were disappointed of their purpose, they made their supplication vnto the King, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:11:50 @ {\cf2 Graunt vs peace, and let the Iewes cease from vexing vs and the citie.}

geneva@1Macc:11:51 @ {\cf2 So they cast away their weapons, and made peace, and the Iewes were greatly honoured before the King, and before all that were in his Realme, and they came againe to Ierusalem with great pray.}

geneva@1Macc:11:52 @ {\cf2 Then King Demetrius sate in the throne of his kingdome, and had peace in his land.}

geneva@1Macc:11:53 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse hee dissembled in all that euer he spake, and withdrewe him selfe from Ionathan, neither did he rewarde him according to the benefites which he had done for him, but troubled him very sore.}

geneva@1Macc:11:54 @ {\cf2 After this returned Tryphon with the yong childe Antiochus, which reigned, and was crowned.}

geneva@1Macc:11:55 @ {\cf2 Then there gathered vnto him al the men of warre, whome Demetrius had scattered, and they fought against him, who fled and turned his backe.}

geneva@1Macc:11:56 @ {\cf2 So Tryphon tooke the beastes, and wanne Antiochia.}

geneva@1Macc:11:57 @ {\cf2 And yong Antiochus wrote vnto Ionathan, saying, I appoynt thee to bee the chiefe Priest, and make thee ruler ouer the foure gouernements, that thou mayest be a friend of the kings.}

geneva@1Macc:11:58 @ {\cf2 Vpon this hee sent him golden vessels to be serued in, and gaue him leaue to drinke in gold, and to weare purple, and to haue a colar of gold.}

geneva@1Macc:11:59 @ {\cf2 He made his brother Simon also captaine fro the coastes of Tyrus vnto the borders of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:11:60 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan went foorth, and passedthorow the cities beyond the flood, and all the men of warre of Syria gathered vnto him for to helpe him: so he came vnto Ascalon, and they of the citie receiued him honourably.}

geneva@1Macc:11:61 @ {\cf2 And from thence went hee vnto Gaza: but they of Gaza shut him out: wherefore he layd siege vnto it, and burned the suburbes thereof with fire, and spoyled them.}

geneva@1Macc:11:62 @ {\cf2 Then they of Gaza made supplication vnto Ionathan, and he made peace with them, and tooke of the sonnes of the chiefe men for hostages, and sent them to Ierusalem, and went thorow the countrey vnto Damascus.}

geneva@1Macc:11:63 @ {\cf2 And when Ionathan heard that Demetrius princes were come into Cades, which is in Galile, with a great hoste, purposing to driue him out of the countrey,}

geneva@1Macc:11:64 @ {\cf2 Hee came against them, and left Simon his brother in the countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:11:65 @ {\cf2 And Simon besieged Beth-sura, and fought against it a long season, and shut it vp.}

geneva@1Macc:11:66 @ {\cf2 So they desired to haue peace with him, which hee graunted them, and afterwarde put them out from thence, and tooke the citie, and set a garison in it.}

geneva@1Macc:11:67 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan with his hoste came to the water of Genesar, and betimes in the morning came to the plaine of Azor.}

geneva@1Macc:11:68 @ {\cf2 And behold the hostes of the strangers met him in the plaine, and had layde ambushments for him in the mountaines.}

geneva@1Macc:11:69 @ {\cf2 So that when they came against them, the ambushments rose out of their places & skirmished.}

geneva@1Macc:11:70 @ {\cf2 So that all that were of Ionathans side, fled: and there was not one of them left, except Mattathias the sonne of Absalomus, and Iudas the sonne of Calphi the captaines of the hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:11:71 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan rent his clothes, and cast earth vpon his head, and prayed,}

geneva@1Macc:11:72 @ {\cf2 And turned againe to them to fight, and put them to flight, so that they fled away.}

geneva@1Macc:11:73 @ {\cf2 Now when his owne men that were fled, saw this, they turned againe vnto him, and helped him to followe after all vnto their tentes at Cades, and there they camped.}

geneva@1Macc:11:74 @ {\cf2 So there were slaine of the strangers the same day about three thousande men, and Ionathan turned againe to Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:12:1 @ {\cf2 Ionathan nowe seeing that the time was meete for him, chose certeine men, and sent them vnto Rome, to establish & renue the friedship with them.}

geneva@1Macc:12:2 @ {\cf2 Hee sent letters also vnto the Spartians and to other places, for the same purpose.}

geneva@1Macc:12:3 @ {\cf2 So they went vnto Rome, and entred into the Senate, and saide, Ionathan the high Priest and the nation of the Iewes sent vs vnto you, for to renue friendship with you, and the bond of loue, as in times past.}

geneva@1Macc:12:4 @ {\cf2 So the Romanes gaue them free pasports, that men should leade them home into the land of Iuda peaceably.}

geneva@1Macc:12:5 @ {\cf2 And this is the copie of the letters that Ionathan wrote vnto the Spartians,}

geneva@1Macc:12:6 @ {\cf2 Ionathan the hie Priest with the Elders of the nation, and the Priestes, and the rest of the people of the Iewes, sende greeting vnto the Spartians their brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:12:7 @ {\cf2 Heretofore were letters sent vnto Onias the hie Priest, from Arius, which then reigned among you, that ye would be our brethren, as the copy hereunder written specifieth.}

geneva@1Macc:12:8 @ {\cf2 And Onias intreated the ambassadour honourably, and receiued the letters: wherein there was mention made of the bond of loue and friendship.}

geneva@1Macc:12:9 @ {\cf2 But as for vs, we neede no such writings: for we haue the holy bookes in our hands for comfort.}

geneva@1Macc:12:10 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse wee thought it good to sende vnto you, for the renuing of the brotherhoode and friendship, least we should be strange vnto you: for it is long since the time that ye sent vnto vs.}

geneva@1Macc:12:11 @ {\cf2 Wherefore wee remember you at all seasons continually, and in the feasts & other dayes appointed, when we offer sacrifices & prayers, as it is meete and conuenient to thinke vpon our brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:12:12 @ {\cf2 And we reioyce at your prosperous estate.}

geneva@1Macc:12:13 @ {\cf2 And though wee haue bene enuironed with great troubles and warres, so that the Kings rounde about vs haue fought against vs,}

geneva@1Macc:12:14 @ {\cf2 Yet would we not be grieuous vnto you, nor to other of our confederates and friendes in these warres.}

geneva@1Macc:12:15 @ {\cf2 For we haue had helpe from heauen, that hath succoured vs, and wee are deliuered from our enemies, and our enemies are subdued.}

geneva@1Macc:12:16 @ {\cf2 Yet haue wee chosen Numenius the sonne of Antiochus, and Antipater the sonne of Iason, and sent them vnto the Romaines, for to renue the former friendship with them, and league.}

geneva@1Macc:12:17 @ {\cf2 We commanded them also to goe vnto you, and to salute you, and to deliuer you our letters, concerning the renuing of our brotherhoode.}

geneva@1Macc:12:18 @ {\cf2 And now ye shall doe vs a pleasure to giue vs an answere of these things.}

geneva@1Macc:12:19 @ {\cf2 And this was the copie of the letters, which Arius the King of Sparta sent vnto Onias.}

geneva@1Macc:12:20 @ {\cf2 The King of the Spartians vnto Onias the high Priest sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:12:21 @ {\cf2 It is founde in writing, that the Spartians and Iewes are brethren, and come out of the generation of Abraham.}

geneva@1Macc:12:22 @ {\cf2 And nowe for so much as this is come to our knowledge, yee shall doe well, to write vnto vs of your prosperitie.}

geneva@1Macc:12:23 @ {\cf2 As for vs, wee haue written vnto you, that your cattell and goods are ours, and ours are yours: these thinges haue wee commaunded to be shewed vnto you.}

geneva@1Macc:12:24 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Ionathan heard, that Demetrius princes were come to fight against him, with a greater hoste then afore,}

geneva@1Macc:12:25 @ {\cf2 Hee went from Ierusalem, and met them in the land of Hamath: for he gaue them not space to come into his owne countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:12:26 @ {\cf2 And hee sent spies vnto their tentes, which came againe, and tolde him, that they were appointed to come vpon him in the night.}

geneva@1Macc:12:27 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, when the sunne was gone downe, Ionathan commaunded his men to watch, and to be in armes readie to fight all the night, & sent watchmen round about the hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:12:28 @ {\cf2 But when the aduersaries heard that Ionathan was readie with his men to the battel, they feared, & trembled in their hearts, and kindled fires in their tents, and fled away.}

geneva@1Macc:12:29 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse Ionathan and his companie knewe it not till the morning: for they saw the fires burning.}

geneva@1Macc:12:30 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan followed vpon them, but he coulde not ouertake them: for they were gone ouer the flood Eleutherus.}

geneva@1Macc:12:31 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan turned to the Arabians, which were called Zabedei, and slewe them, and tooke their spoile.}

geneva@1Macc:12:32 @ {\cf2 He proceeded further also, and came vnto Damascus, and went thorow all the countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:12:33 @ {\cf2 But Simon his brother went forth, and came to Ascalon and to the next holdes, departing vnto Ioppe, and wanne it.}

geneva@1Macc:12:34 @ {\cf2 For he heard that they would deliuer the hold to them that tooke Demetrius part: wherefore hee set a garison there to keepe it.}

geneva@1Macc:12:35 @ {\cf2 After this came Ionathan home, and called the Elders of the people together, and deuised with them for to build vp ye strong holds in Iudea,}

geneva@1Macc:12:36 @ {\cf2 And to make the walles of Ierusalem hyer, and to make a great mount betwixt the castell and the citie, for to separate it from the citie, that it might be alone, and that men shoulde neither bye, nor fell in it.}

geneva@1Macc:12:37 @ {\cf2 So they came together to builde vp the citie: for part of the wall vpon the brooke of the Eastside was fallen downe, and they repaired it, and called it Caphenatha.}

geneva@1Macc:12:38 @ {\cf2 Simon also set vp Adida in Sephela, and made it strong with gates and barres.}

geneva@1Macc:12:39 @ {\cf2 In the meane time Tryphon purposed to reigne in Asia, & to be crowned when he had slaine the King Antiochus.}

geneva@1Macc:12:40 @ {\cf2 But he was afraide that Ionathan would not suffer him, but fight against him: wherefore he went about to take Ionathan, and to kill him: so hee departed, and came vnto Bethsan.}

geneva@1Macc:12:41 @ {\cf2 Then went Ionathan foorth against him to the battell with fourtie thousande chosen men, and came vnto Bethsan.}

geneva@1Macc:12:42 @ {\cf2 But when Tryphon saw that Ionathan came with so great an hoste, hee durst not laye hande vpon him,}

geneva@1Macc:12:43 @ {\cf2 But receiued him honourably, and commended him vnto all his friendes, and gaue him rewards, and commaunded his men of warre to be as obedient vnto him as to himselfe,}

geneva@1Macc:12:44 @ {\cf2 And said vnto Ionathan, Why hast thou caused this people to take such trauaile, seeing there is no warre betweene vs?}

geneva@1Macc:12:45 @ {\cf2 Therefore send them now home againe, and chuse certaine men to waite vpon thee, and come thou with mee to Ptolemais: for I will giue it thee, with the other strong holdes, and the other garisons, and all them that haue the charge of the common affaires: so will I returne, and depart: for this is the cause of my comming.}

geneva@1Macc:12:46 @ {\cf2 Ionathan beleeued him, and did as hee saide, and sent away his hoste, which went into the lande of Iuda,}

geneva@1Macc:12:47 @ {\cf2 And reteined but three thousande with him, whereof he sent two thousand into Galile, and one thousand went with himselfe.}

geneva@1Macc:12:48 @ {\cf2 Nowe assoone as Ionathan entred into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates, and tooke him, and slew all them with the sword, that came in with him.}

geneva@1Macc:12:49 @ {\cf2 Then sent Tryphon an hoste of footemen, and horsemen into Galile, and into the great plaine, to destroy all Ionathans companie.}

geneva@1Macc:12:50 @ {\cf2 But when they knewe that Ionathan was taken, and slaine, and those that were with him, they incouraged one another, and came foorth against them readie to the battell.}

geneva@1Macc:12:51 @ {\cf2 But when they which followed vpon them, sawe that it was a matter of life, they turned backe againe.}

geneva@1Macc:12:52 @ {\cf2 By this meanes all they came into the land of Iuda peaceably, and bewailed Ionathan, and them that were with him, and feared greatly, and all Israel made great lamentation.}

geneva@1Macc:12:53 @ {\cf2 For all the heathen that were rounde about them, sought to destroy them.}

geneva@1Macc:12:54 @ {\cf2 For they said, Now haue they no captaine, nor any man to helpe them: therefore let vs now fight against them, and roote out their memorie from among men.}

geneva@1Macc:13:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Simon heard that Tryphon gathered a great hoste to come into the land of Iuda, to destroy it,}

geneva@1Macc:13:2 @ {\cf2 And sawe that the people was in great trembling and feare, he came vp to Ierusalem, and gathered the people together,}

geneva@1Macc:13:3 @ {\cf2 And gaue them exhortation, saying, Ye know what great thinges I, and my brethren, and my fathers house haue done for the Lawe, & the Sanctuarie, and the battels, & troubles that we haue seene.}

geneva@1Macc:13:4 @ {\cf2 By reason whereof all my brethren are slaine for Israels sake, and I am left alone.}

geneva@1Macc:13:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore God forbid, that I shoulde spare mine owne life in any time of trouble: for I am not better then my brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:13:6 @ {\cf2 But I wil auenge my nation, and the Sanctuarie, and our wiues, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered together to destroye vs of very malice.}

geneva@1Macc:13:7 @ {\cf2 In hearing these words the hearts of the people were kindled,}

geneva@1Macc:13:8 @ {\cf2 So that they cried with a lowd voyce, saying, Thou shalt be our captaine in steade of Iudas and Ionathan thy brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:13:9 @ {\cf2 Fight thou our battels, and whatsoeuer thou commaundest vs, we will doe it.}

geneva@1Macc:13:10 @ {\cf2 So hee gathered all the men of warre, making hast to finish the walles of Ierusalem, and fortified it round about.}

geneva@1Macc:13:11 @ {\cf2 Then sent he Ionathan the sonne of Absalomus with a great host vnto Ioppe, which droue them out that were therein, and remained there himselfe.}

geneva@1Macc:13:12 @ {\cf2 Tryphon also remoued from Ptolemais with a great armie, to come into the land of Iuda, and Ionathan was with him as prisoner.}

geneva@1Macc:13:13 @ {\cf2 And Simon pitched his tents at Addidis vpon the open plaine.}

geneva@1Macc:13:14 @ {\cf2 But when Tryphon knew that Simon stoode vp in steade of his brother Ionathan, and that hee woulde fight against him, hee sent messengers vnto him, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:13:15 @ {\cf2 Whereas we haue kept Ionathan thy brother, it is for money that hee is owing in the Kings account concerning the busines that he had in hand.}

geneva@1Macc:13:16 @ {\cf2 Wherefore send now an hundreth talents of siluer, and his two sonnes for hostages, that when he is letten foorth, hee will not turne from vs, andwe will send him againe.}

geneva@1Macc:13:17 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles Simon knew that he dissembled in his wordes, yet commaunded he the money and children to be deliuered vnto him, least he should be in greater hatred of the people of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:13:18 @ {\cf2 Who might haue sayd, Because he sent him not the money and the children, therefore is Ionathan dead.}

geneva@1Macc:13:19 @ {\cf2 So he sent the children and an hundreth talents: but he dissembled, and would not let Ionathan goe.}

geneva@1Macc:13:20 @ {\cf2 Afterward came Tryphon into the land to destroy it, and went round about by the way, that leadeth vnto Adora: but wheresoeuer they went, thither went Simon and his hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:13:21 @ {\cf2 Now they that were in the castell, sent messengers vnto Tryphon, that hee should make haste to come by the wildernes, & to send them vittailes.}

geneva@1Macc:13:22 @ {\cf2 So Tryphon made ready all his horsemen: but the same night fell a very great snowe, so that he came not, because of the snowe: but he remoued and went into the countrey of Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:13:23 @ {\cf2 And when hee came neere to Bascama, he slewe Ionathan, and he was buried there.}

geneva@1Macc:13:24 @ {\cf2 So Tryphon returned, and went into his owne land.}

geneva@1Macc:13:25 @ {\cf2 Then sent Simon to take the bones of Ionathan his brother, and they buried him in Modin his fathers citie.}

geneva@1Macc:13:26 @ {\cf2 And all Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and mourned for him very long.}

geneva@1Macc:13:27 @ {\cf2 And Simon made vpon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, a building hie to looke vnto, of hewen stone behinde and before,}

geneva@1Macc:13:28 @ {\cf2 And set vp seuen pillars vpon it, one against another, for his father, his mother, and foure brethren,}

geneva@1Macc:13:29 @ {\cf2 And set great pillars round about them, and set armes vpon the pillars for a perpetuall memorie, and carued ships beside the armes, that they might be seene of men sayling in the sea.}

geneva@1Macc:13:30 @ {\cf2 This sepulchre which hee made at Modin, standeth yet vnto this day.}

geneva@1Macc:13:31 @ {\cf2 Nowe as Tryphon went foorth with the yong King Antiochus, he slew him traiterously,}

geneva@1Macc:13:32 @ {\cf2 And reigned in his steade, and crowned him selfe King of Asia, and brought a great plague vpon the land.}

geneva@1Macc:13:33 @ {\cf2 Simon also built vp the castels of Iudea, and compassed them about with hie towers, and great walles, euen with towers, and gates, and barres, and layde vp vittailes in the strong holdes.}

geneva@1Macc:13:34 @ {\cf2 Moreouer Simon chose certaine men & sent them to king Demetrius, that he would discharge the land: for all Tryphons doings were robberies.}

geneva@1Macc:13:35 @ {\cf2 Whereupon Demetrius the king answered him, and wrote vnto him after this maner,}

geneva@1Macc:13:36 @ {\cf2 Demetrivs the King vnto Simon the hie Priest, and the friend of Kings, & to the Elders and to the nation of the Iewes sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:13:37 @ {\cf2 The golden crowne, and precious stone that ye sent vnto vs, haue we receiued, and are ready to make a stedfast peace with you, and to write vnto the officers, to release you of the things wherein we made you free.}

geneva@1Macc:13:38 @ {\cf2 So the things that we haue graunted you, shall be stable: the strong holdes which ye haue builded, shalbe your owne.}

geneva@1Macc:13:39 @ {\cf2 Also we forgiue the ouersights, and faultes committed vnto this day, and the crowne taxe that ye ought vs: and whereas was any other tribute in Ierusalem, it shalbe nowe no tribute.}

geneva@1Macc:13:40 @ {\cf2 And they that are meete among you to be written with our men, let them be written vp, that there may be peace betweene vs.}

geneva@1Macc:13:41 @ {\cf2 Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken from Israel in the hundred and seuentie yeere.}

geneva@1Macc:13:42 @ {\cf2 And the people of Israel began to write in their letters, and publique instruments, In The First yeere of Simon, the hie and chiefe Priest, gouernour and prince of the Iewes.}

geneva@1Macc:13:43 @ {\cf2 In those dayes Simon camped against Gaza, and besieged it round about, where he set vp an engine of warre, and approched neere the citie, and beat a tower, and tooke it.}

geneva@1Macc:13:44 @ {\cf2 So they that were in the engine, leapt into the citie, and there was great trouble in the citie,}

geneva@1Macc:13:45 @ {\cf2 In so much that the people of the citie rent their clothes, and climed vp vpon the walles with their wiues, & children, & cried with a loud voyce, beseeching Simon to graunt them peace, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:13:46 @ {\cf2 Deale not with vs according to our wickednes, but according to thy mercy.}

geneva@1Macc:13:47 @ {\cf2 Then Simon pitied them, and would fight no more against them, but put them out of the citie, and clensed the houses, wherein the idoles were, and so entred thereunto with psalmes and thankesgiuing.}

geneva@1Macc:13:48 @ {\cf2 So when he had cast all the filthines out, he set such men in it as kept the Law, and fortified it, and builded there a dwelling place for him selfe.}

geneva@1Macc:13:49 @ {\cf2 Nowe, when they in the castell at Ierusalem were kept, that they could not come foorth nor goe into the countrey, neither buy nor sell, they were very hungry, & many of them were famished to death,}

geneva@1Macc:13:50 @ {\cf2 In so much that they besought Simon to make peace with them: which he graunted them, and put them out from thence, and clensed the castell from filthines.}

geneva@1Macc:13:51 @ {\cf2 And vpon the three and twentie day of the second moneth, in the hundreth seuentie and one yeere, they entred into it with thankesgiuing, and branches of palme trees, and with harpes, and with cymbales, and with violes, & with psalmes, & songs, because the great enemie of Israel was ouercome.}

geneva@1Macc:13:52 @ {\cf2 And he ordeined that the same day should be kept euery yeere with gladnes.}

geneva@1Macc:13:53 @ {\cf2 And he fortified the mount of the Temple that was beside the castell where he dwelt himselfe with his company.}

geneva@1Macc:13:54 @ {\cf2 Simon also seeing that Iohn his sonne was now a man, he made him captaine of all the hostes, and caused him to dwell in Gazaris.}

geneva@1Macc:14:1 @ {\cf2 In the hundred seuentie and two yeere gathered King Demetrius his hoste, and departed vnto Media, to get him helpe for to fight against Tryphon.}

geneva@1Macc:14:2 @ {\cf2 But when Arsaces the King of Persia and Media heard, that Demetrius was entred within his borders, hee sent one of his princes to take him aliue.}

geneva@1Macc:14:3 @ {\cf2 So he went, and ouercame the armie of Demetrius, and tooke him, and brought him to Arsaces, which kept him in warde.}

geneva@1Macc:14:4 @ {\cf2 Thus all the land of Iuda was in rest, so long as Simon liued: for he sought the wealth of his nation: therefore were they glad to haue him for their ruler, and to doe him worship alway.}

geneva@1Macc:14:5 @ {\cf2 Simon also wanne the citie of Ioppe to his great honour to be an hauen towne, and made it an entrance vnto the yles of the sea.}

geneva@1Macc:14:6 @ {\cf2 He enlarged also the borders of his people, their and conquered the countreys.}

geneva@1Macc:14:7 @ {\cf2 He gathered vp many of their people that were prisoners, & he had the dominion of Gazaris, and Beth-sura, & the castell, which he clensed from filthines, and there was no man that resisted him,}

geneva@1Macc:14:8 @ {\cf2 So that euery ma tilled his ground in peace, and the land gaue her fruites, and the trees gaue their fruite.}

geneva@1Macc:14:9 @ {\cf2 The Elders sate in the open places, and consulted all together for the common wealth, and the yong men were honourably clothed and armed.}

geneva@1Macc:14:10 @ {\cf2 He prouided vittailes for the cities, and all kinde of munition, so that his glorious fame was renoumed vnto the end of the world.}

geneva@1Macc:14:11 @ {\cf2 He made peace throughout the land, and Israel had perfite mirth and ioy.}

geneva@1Macc:14:12 @ {\cf2 For euery man sate vnder his vine, and the fig trees, and there was no man to fray them.}

geneva@1Macc:14:13 @ {\cf2 There was none in the land to fight against them: for then the Kings were ouercome.}

geneva@1Macc:14:14 @ {\cf2 He helped all those that were in aduersitie among his people: hee was diligent to see the Law kept, and he tooke away the vngodly, and wicked.}

geneva@1Macc:14:15 @ {\cf2 He beautified the Sanctuarie, and encreased the vessels of the Temple.}

geneva@1Macc:14:16 @ {\cf2 When the Romanes heard, and the Spartians had knowledge, that Ionathan was dead, they were very sorie.}

geneva@1Macc:14:17 @ {\cf2 But when they heard, that Simon his brother was made hie Priest in his steade, and howe he had wonne the land againe with the cities in it,}

geneva@1Macc:14:18 @ {\cf2 They wrote vnto him in tables of brasse, to renue the friendship, and bond of loue, which they had made with Iudas and Ionathan his brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:14:19 @ {\cf2 Which writings were read before the congregation at Ierusalem, and this is the copy of the letters that the Spartians sent,}

geneva@1Macc:14:20 @ {\cf2 The Senators and citie of Sparta vnto Simon the great Priest, and to the Elders, and to the Priests, and to the residue of the people of the Iewes their brethren send greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:14:21 @ {\cf2 When your ambassadours that were sent vnto our people, certified vs of your glory and honour, we were glad of their comming,}

geneva@1Macc:14:22 @ {\cf2 And haue registred their ambassage in the publique records in this maner, Nvmenivs the sonne of Antiochus, and Antipater the sonne of Iason the Iewes ambassadours came vnto vs, to renue amitie with vs.}

geneva@1Macc:14:23 @ {\cf2 And it pleased the people, that the men should be honourably intreated, and that the copy of their ambassage should be registred in the publique records, that it might be for a memoriall vnto the people of Sparta: and a copy of the same was sent to Simon the chiefe Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:14:24 @ {\cf2 After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of golde of a thousand pound weight, to confirme the friendship with them.}

geneva@1Macc:14:25 @ {\cf2 Which when the people vnderstood, they sayd, What thankes shal we recompense againe vnto Simon and his children?}

geneva@1Macc:14:26 @ {\cf2 For he and his brethren, and the house of his father haue stablished Israel, and ouercome their enemies, and haue confirmed the libertie thereof: therefore they wrote this in tables of brasse, and set it vpon pillars in mount Sion.}

geneva@1Macc:14:27 @ {\cf2 The copy of the writing is this, In the eight and twentie day of the moneth Elul in the hundreth, seuentie and two yeere, in the third yeere of Simon the hie Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:14:28 @ {\cf2 In Saramel in the great congregation of the Priests, and of the people, and of the gouernours of the nation, and of the Elders of the countrey, we would signifie vnto you, that many battels haue bene fought in our countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:14:29 @ {\cf2 Wherein Simon ye sonne of Mattathias (come of the children of Iarib) and his brethren put them selues in danger, and resisted the enemies of their nation, that their Sanctuarie, and Lawe might be mainteined, and did their nation great honour.}

geneva@1Macc:14:30 @ {\cf2 For Ionathan gathered his nation together, and became their hie Priest, and is layde with his people.}

geneva@1Macc:14:31 @ {\cf2 After that would their enemies haue inuaded their countrey, and destroyed their land, and lay their hands on their Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:14:32 @ {\cf2 Then Simon resisted them, and fought for his nation, and spent much of his owne substance, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gaue them wages.}

geneva@1Macc:14:33 @ {\cf2 He fortified also the cities of Iudea, & Bethsura that lyeth vpon the borders of Iudea (where the ordinance of their enemies lay sometime) and set there a garison of the Iewes.}

geneva@1Macc:14:34 @ {\cf2 And he fortified Ioppe, which lyeth vpon the sea, & Gazara that bordereth vpon Azotus, (where the enemies dwelt afore) and there he placed Iewes, and furnished them with things necessarie for the reparation thereof.}

geneva@1Macc:14:35 @ {\cf2 Now when the people saw the faithfulnes of Simon, and to what glory hee thought to bring his nation vnto, they made him their gouernour, and the chiefe Priest, because hee had done all these things, and for the vprightnes, and fidelitie that he had kept to his nation, & that sought by all meanes to exalt his people.}

geneva@1Macc:14:36 @ {\cf2 For in his time they prospered well by him, so that the heathen were taken out of their countrey, and they also which were in the citie of Dauid at Ierusalem, where they had made them a castell, out of the which they went, and defiled all things that were about the Sanctuarie, & did great hurt vnto religion.}

geneva@1Macc:14:37 @ {\cf2 And he set Iewes in it, and fortified it, for the assurance of the land, and citie, and raised vp the walles of Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:14:38 @ {\cf2 And King Demetrius confirmed him in his hie Priesthood for these causes,}

geneva@1Macc:14:39 @ {\cf2 And made him one of his friends, and gaue him great honour.}

geneva@1Macc:14:40 @ {\cf2 For it was reported that the Romanes called the Iewes their friends, and confederates, and that they honourably receiued Simons Ambassadours,}

geneva@1Macc:14:41 @ {\cf2 And that the Iewes, and Priests consented, that Simon should be their Prince, and hie Priest perpetually, till God raised vp the true Prophet,}

geneva@1Macc:14:42 @ {\cf2 And that he should be their captaine, and haue the charge of the Sanctuarie, and so set men ouer the workes, and ouer the countrey, and ouer the weapons, and ouer the fortresses, and that should make prouision for the holy things,}

geneva@1Macc:14:43 @ {\cf2 And that he should be obeyed of euery man, and that all the writings in the countrey shouldebe made in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple, and weare golde,}

geneva@1Macc:14:44 @ {\cf2 And that it shoulde not be lawfull for any of the people or Priestes to breake any of these things, or to withstand his wordes, or to call any congregation in the countrey without him, or be clothed in purple, or weare a colar of gold:}

geneva@1Macc:14:45 @ {\cf2 And if any did contrary to these thinges or brake any of them, he should be punished.}

geneva@1Macc:14:46 @ {\cf2 So it pleased all the people to agree that it shoulde bee done to Simon according vnto these wordes.}

geneva@1Macc:14:47 @ {\cf2 Simon also accepted it, and was content to be the high Priest, and the captaine, and the Prince of the Iewes, and of the Priestes, and to be the chiefe of all.}

geneva@1Macc:14:48 @ {\cf2 And they commanded to set vp this writing in tables of brasse, and to fasten it to the wall that compassed the Sanctuarie in an open place,}

geneva@1Macc:14:49 @ {\cf2 And that a copie of the same should be laide vp in the treasurie, that Simon and his sonnes might haue it.}

geneva@1Macc:15:1 @ {\cf2 Moreouer King Antiochus the sonne of Demetrius sent letters from the yles of the sea vnto Simon the Priest, and Prince of the Iewes, and to all the nation,}

geneva@1Macc:15:2 @ {\cf2 Conteyning these words, Antiochvs the King vnto Simon the great Priest, and to the nation of the Iewes sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:15:3 @ {\cf2 For so much as certeine pestilent men haue vsurped the kingdome of our fathers, I am purposed to chalenge the Realme againe, and to restore it to the olde estate: wherefore I haue gathered a great hoste, and prepared shippes of warre,}

geneva@1Macc:15:4 @ {\cf2 That I may goe thorowe the countrey, and be auenged of them, which haue destroyed our countrey, and wasted many cities in the Realme.}

geneva@1Macc:15:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore I doe confirme vnto thee all the liberties, whereof all the Kings my progenitours haue discharged thee, and all the payments, whereof they haue released thee.}

geneva@1Macc:15:6 @ {\cf2 And I giue thee leaue to coyne money of thine owne stampe within thy countrey,}

geneva@1Macc:15:7 @ {\cf2 And that Ierusalem, and the Sanctuarie be free, and that all the weapons, that thou hast prepared, and the fortresses, which thou hast builded, and keepest in thine hands, shall be thine.}

geneva@1Macc:15:8 @ {\cf2 And all that is due vnto the King, and al that shall be due vnto the King, I forgiue it thee, from this time foorth for euermore.}

geneva@1Macc:15:9 @ {\cf2 And when we haue obteined our kingdome, we will giue thee, and thy nation and the Temple great honour, so that your honour shall be knowen throughout the world.}

geneva@1Macc:15:10 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, seuentie and foure yeere, went Antiochus into his fathers lande, and all the bands came together vnto him, so that fewe were left with Tryphon.}

geneva@1Macc:15:11 @ {\cf2 So the King Antiochus pursued him, but he fled and came to Dora, which lyeth by the sea side.}

geneva@1Macc:15:12 @ {\cf2 For he sawe that troubles were towarde him, and that the armie had forsaken him.}

geneva@1Macc:15:13 @ {\cf2 Then camped Antiochus against Dora with an hundreth and twentie thousand fighting men, and eight thousand horsemen.}

geneva@1Macc:15:14 @ {\cf2 So he compassed the citie about, & the ships came by the sea. Thus they pressed the citie by land and by sea, in so much that they suffered no man to goe in nor out.}

geneva@1Macc:15:15 @ {\cf2 In the meane season came Numenius, and his companie from Rome, hauing letters written vnto the Kings and countreys, wherein were conteyned these wordes,}

geneva@1Macc:15:16 @ {\cf2 Lvcivs the Consull of Rome vnto King Ptolemeus sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:15:17 @ {\cf2 The Ambassadours of the Iewes are come vnto vs as our friendes and confederates from Simon the hie Priest, and from the people of ye Iewes to renewe friendship, and the bond of loue,}

geneva@1Macc:15:18 @ {\cf2 Who haue brought a shield of golde weying a thousand pound.}

geneva@1Macc:15:19 @ {\cf2 Wherefore we thought it good to write vnto the Kings and countreys, that they shoulde not goe about to hurt them, nor to fight against them, nor their cities, nor their countrey, neither to mainteyne their enemies against them.}

geneva@1Macc:15:20 @ {\cf2 And we were content to receiue of them the shielde.}

geneva@1Macc:15:21 @ {\cf2 If therefore there be any pestilent felowes fled from their countrey vnto you, deliuer them vnto Simon the hie Priest, that he may punish them according to their owne Lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:15:22 @ {\cf2 The same things were written to Demetrius the King, and to Attalus, and to Arathes and to Arsaces,}

geneva@1Macc:15:23 @ {\cf2 And to all countreis, as Sampsames, and to them of Sparta, and to Delus, and to Mindus, and to Sicion, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodus, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Siden, and to Cortyna, and to Gnidon, and to Cyprus, and to Cyrene.}

geneva@1Macc:15:24 @ {\cf2 And they sent a copie of them to Simon the hie Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:15:25 @ {\cf2 So Antiochus the King camped against Dora the seconde time euer readie to take it, and made diuers engins of warre, and kept Tryphon in, that he coulde neither goe in nor out.}

geneva@1Macc:15:26 @ {\cf2 Then Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to helpe him with siluer and golde, and much furniture.}

geneva@1Macc:15:27 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, he woulde not receiue them, but brake al the couenant, which he had made with him afore, and withdrewe himselfe from him,}

geneva@1Macc:15:28 @ {\cf2 And sent vnto him Athenobius one of his friendes to commune with him, saying, Ye withhold Ioppe, and Gazara with the castell that is at Ierusalem, the citie of my Realme,}

geneva@1Macc:15:29 @ {\cf2 Whose borders ye haue destroyed and done great hurt in the land, and haue the gouernement of many places of my kingdome.}

geneva@1Macc:15:30 @ {\cf2 Wherefore nowe deliuer the cities, which ye haue taken, with the tributes of the places, that ye haue rule ouer without the borders of Iudea,}

geneva@1Macc:15:31 @ {\cf2 Or els giue me for them fiue hundreth talents of siluer, and for the harme that ye haue done, and for the tributes of the places other fiue hundreth talents: if not, wee will come, and fight against you.}

geneva@1Macc:15:32 @ {\cf2 So Athenobius the Kings friend came to Ierusalem, and when he sawe the honour of Simon, and the cupborde of golde and siluer plate, and so great preparation, he was astonished, and tolde him the Kings message.}

geneva@1Macc:15:33 @ {\cf2 Then answered Simon, & said vnto him, We haue neither taken other mens lands, nor withholden that which apperteyneth to others: but our fathers heritage, which our enemies had vnrighteously in possession a certeine time.}

geneva@1Macc:15:34 @ {\cf2 But when we had occasion, we recouered the inheritance of our fathers.}

geneva@1Macc:15:35 @ {\cf2 And whereas thou requirest Ioppe and Gazara, they did great harme to our people, and thorowe our countrey, yet will we giue an hundreth talents for them. But Athenobius answered him not one worde,}

geneva@1Macc:15:36 @ {\cf2 But turned againe angrie vnto the King, and tolde him all these wordes, and the dignitie of Simon, with all that he had seene: and the King was very angrie.}

geneva@1Macc:15:37 @ {\cf2 In the meane time fled Tryphon by shippe vnto Orthosias.}

geneva@1Macc:15:38 @ {\cf2 Then the King made Cendebeus captaine of the sea coast, and gaue him bands of footemen and horsemen,}

geneva@1Macc:15:39 @ {\cf2 And commanded him to remoue the hoste toward Iudea, and to build vp Cedron, and to fortifie the gates, and to warre against the people: but the King pursued Tryphon.}

geneva@1Macc:15:40 @ {\cf2 So Cendebeus came vnto Iamnia, and began to vexe the people, and to inuade Iudea, and to take the people prisoners, and to slay them.}

geneva@1Macc:15:41 @ {\cf2 And he built vp Cedron, where he set horsemen and garisons, that they might make outrodes by the wayes of Iudea, as the King had commanded him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:1 @ {\cf2 Then came Iohn vp from Gazara, and tolde Simon his father, what Cendebeus had done.}

geneva@1Macc:16:2 @ {\cf2 So Simon called two of his eldest sonnes, Iudas and Iohn, and saide vnto them, I, and my brethren, and my fathers house, haue euer from our youth vnto this day fought against the enemies of Israel, & the matters haue had good successe vnder our hands, and we haue deliuered Israel oftentimes.}

geneva@1Macc:16:3 @ {\cf2 But I am nowe olde, and ye by Gods mercie are of a sufficient age: be ye therefore in steade of me, and my brother, and goe foorth and fight for our nation, and the helpe of heauen be with you.}

geneva@1Macc:16:4 @ {\cf2 So he chose twentie thousand fighting men of the countrey with the horsemen, which went foorth against Cendebeus, and rested at Modin.}

geneva@1Macc:16:5 @ {\cf2 In the morning they arose, and went into the plaine fielde: and beholde, a mightie great hoste came against them both of footemen, and horsemen: but there was a riuer betwixt them.}

geneva@1Macc:16:6 @ {\cf2 And Iohn ranged his armie ouer against him, and when he sawe that the people was afraide to go ouer the riuer, he went ouer first himselfe, and the men seeing him, passed through after him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:7 @ {\cf2 Then he deuided his men, and set the horsemen in the middes of the footemen.}

geneva@1Macc:16:8 @ {\cf2 For their enemies horsemen were very many: but when they blewe the trumpets, Cendebeus fled with his host, whereof many were slaine, and the remnant gate them to the fortresse.}

geneva@1Macc:16:9 @ {\cf2 Then was Iudas Iohns brother wounded: but Iohn followed after them, till he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.}

geneva@1Macc:16:10 @ {\cf2 Also they fled vnto the towres, that were in the fieldes of Azotus, and those did Iohn burne with fire: thus were there slaine two thousande men of them: so he returned peaceably into the land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:16:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe in the fielde of Iericho was Ptolemeus the sonne of Abubus made captaine, and he had abundance of siluer and gold.}

geneva@1Macc:16:12 @ {\cf2 (For he had married the daughter of the hie Priest)}

geneva@1Macc:16:13 @ {\cf2 Therefore he waxed proude in his mind, and thought to rule the land, and thought to slay Simon and his sonnes by deceit.}

geneva@1Macc:16:14 @ {\cf2 Nowe as Simon went about thorowe the cities of the countrey, and studied carefully for them, he came downe to Iericho with Mattathias, and Iudas his sonnes in the hundreth, seuentie and seuen yeere, in the eleuenth moneth, which is the moneth Sabat.}

geneva@1Macc:16:15 @ {\cf2 Then the sonne of Abubus receiued them by treason into a litle holde, called Dochus, which he had built, where he made them a great banket, and had hid men there.}

geneva@1Macc:16:16 @ {\cf2 So when Simon and his sonnes had made good cheere, Ptolemeus stoode vp with his men, and tooke their weapons, and entred in to Simon in the banket house, and slewe him with his two sonnes, and certaine of his seruants.}

geneva@1Macc:16:17 @ {\cf2 Whereby he committed a great vilenie, and recompensed euill for good.}

geneva@1Macc:16:18 @ {\cf2 Then wrote Ptolemeus these things and sent to ye King, that he might send him an hoste to helpe him, and so would deliuer him the countrey with the cities.}

geneva@1Macc:16:19 @ {\cf2 He sent other men also vnto Gazara, to take Iohn, and sent letters vnto the captaines to come to him, and he woulde giue them siluer, and golde and rewardes.}

geneva@1Macc:16:20 @ {\cf2 And to Ierusalem he sent other to take it, and the mountaine of the Temple.}

geneva@1Macc:16:21 @ {\cf2 But one ranne before, and tolde Iohn in Gazara, that his father, and his brethren were slaine, and that Ptolemeus had sent to slay him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:22 @ {\cf2 When he heard this, he was sore astonished, and laid hands of them that were come to him, and slewe them: for he knewe that they went about to kill him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:23 @ {\cf2 Concerning other things of Iohn, both of his warres, and of his noble actes (wherein he behaued himselfe manfully) of the building of walles which he made, and other of his deedes,}

geneva@1Macc:16:24 @ {\cf2 Beholde, they are written in the Chronicles of his Priesthood, from the time, that he was made high Priest after his father.}

geneva@2Macc:1:1 @ {\cf2 The brethren the Iewes, which be at Ierusalem, and they that are in the countrey of Iudea, vnto the brethren ye Iewes, that are throughout Egypt, send salutation, and prosperitie.}

geneva@2Macc:1:2 @ {\cf2 God be gratious vnto you & remember his couenant made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob his faithfull seruants,}

geneva@2Macc:1:3 @ {\cf2 And giue you al an heart, to worship him, and to doe his will with a whole heart and with a willing minde,}

geneva@2Macc:1:4 @ {\cf2 And open your hearts in his Lawe, and commandements, and send you peace,}

geneva@2Macc:1:5 @ {\cf2 And heare your praiers, and be reconciled with you, and neuer forsake you in time of trouble.}

geneva@2Macc:1:6 @ {\cf2 Thus nowe we praie here for you.}

geneva@2Macc:1:7 @ {\cf2 When Demetrius reigned, in the hundreth, threescore and ninth yere, we Iewes wrote vnto you in the trouble, and violence that came unto vs in those yeeres, after that Iason, and his companie departed out of the holy land and kingdome,}

geneva@2Macc:1:8 @ {\cf2 And burnt the porch, & shed innocent blood. Then we praied vnto the Lorde, and were heard: we offered sacrifices and fine flowre, and lighted the lampes, and set foorth the bread.}

geneva@2Macc:1:9 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore keepe ye the daies of ye feast of the Tabernacles in the moneth Chasleu.}

geneva@2Macc:1:10 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, fourescore & eight yeere, the people that was at Ierusalem, and in Iudea, and the counsell and Iudas, vnto Aristobulus King Ptolemeus master, which is of the stocke of the anointed Priestes, and to the Iewes that are in Egypt, sendeth greeting and health.}

geneva@2Macc:1:11 @ {\cf2 In so much as God hath deliuered vs from great perils, wee thanke him highly, as though wee had ouercome the King.}

geneva@2Macc:1:12 @ {\cf2 For he brought them into Persia by heapes, that fought against the holy citie.}

geneva@2Macc:1:13 @ {\cf2 For albeit the captaine, and the armie, that was with him, seemed inuincible, yet they were slaine in the Temple of Nanea, by the deceit of Naneas Priests.}

geneva@2Macc:1:14 @ {\cf2 For Antiochus, as though hee would dwell with her, came thither, he, and his friends with him, to receiue money vnder the title of a dowrie.}

geneva@2Macc:1:15 @ {\cf2 But when the Priests of Nanea had laide it foorth, and hee was entred with a small companie within the Temple, they shut the Temple, when Antiochus was come in,}

geneva@2Macc:1:16 @ {\cf2 And by opening a priuie doore of the vaute, they cast stones, as it were thunder, vpon the captaine and his, and hauing bruised them in pieces, they cut off their heads and threwe them to those that were without.}

geneva@2Macc:1:17 @ {\cf2 God be blessed in all things, which hath deliuered vp the wicked.}

geneva@2Macc:1:18 @ {\cf2 Whereas we are nowe purposed to keepe the purification of the Temple vpon the fiue and twentie day of the moneth Chasleu, we thought it necessarie to certifie you thereof, that yee also might keepe the feast of the Tabernacles, and of the fire which was giuen vs when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had built the Temple, and the altar.}

geneva@2Macc:1:19 @ {\cf2 For when as our fathers were led away vnto Persia, the Priests, which sought the honor of God, tooke the fire of the altar priuilie, and hid it in an hollowe pit, which was drie in the bottome, and therein they kept it, so that ye place was vnknowen vnto euery man.}

geneva@2Macc:1:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe after many yeres when it pleased God that Neemias shoulde be sent from the king of Persia, he sent of the posteritie of those Priestes, which had hid it to fetche the fire, and as they tolde vs, they found no fire, but thicke water.}

geneva@2Macc:1:21 @ {\cf2 Then commaunded he them to drawe it vp, and to bring it: and when the things apperteining to the sacrifices were brought, Neemias commaunded the Priests to sprinkle the woode, and the things laide thereupon with water.}

geneva@2Macc:1:22 @ {\cf2 When this was done, and the time came that the sunne shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that euery man marueiled.}

geneva@2Macc:1:23 @ {\cf2 Nowe the Priests, and all praied, while the sacrifice was consuming: Ionathan began, and the other answered thereunto.}

geneva@2Macc:1:24 @ {\cf2 And the praier of Neemias was after this maner, O Lord, Lord God maker of all things, which art feareful, and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the onely and gratious king,}

geneva@2Macc:1:25 @ {\cf2 Onely liberall, onely iust and almightie and euerlasting, thou that deliuerest Israel from al trouble, & hast chosen the fathers, and sanctified them,}

geneva@2Macc:1:26 @ {\cf2 Receiue the sacrifice for thy whole people of Israel, and preserue thine owne portion, and sanctifie it.}

geneva@2Macc:1:27 @ {\cf2 Gather those together, that are scattered from vs: deliuer them that serue among the heathen: looke vpon them which are despised, and abhorred, that ye heathen may knowe that thou art our God.}

geneva@2Macc:1:28 @ {\cf2 Punish them that oppresse vs, and with pride doe vs wrong.}

geneva@2Macc:1:29 @ {\cf2 Plant thy people againe in thine holy place as Moyses hath spoken.}

geneva@2Macc:1:30 @ {\cf2 And the Priests sang Psalmes thereunto.}

geneva@2Macc:1:31 @ {\cf2 Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the great stones to be sprinkled with the residue of the water.}

geneva@2Macc:1:32 @ {\cf2 Which when it was done, there was kindeled a flame, which was consumed by the light, that shined from the altar.}

geneva@2Macc:1:33 @ {\cf2 So when this matter was knowen, it was told the King of Persia, that in the place where the Priests, which were led away, had hid fire, there appeared water, wherewith Neemias and his companie had purified the sacrifices.}

geneva@2Macc:1:34 @ {\cf2 The King tried out the thing, and closed the place about, and made it holy.}

geneva@2Macc:1:35 @ {\cf2 And to them that the King fauoured, he gaue and bestowed many gifts.}

geneva@2Macc:1:36 @ {\cf2 And Neemias called the same place Ephthar, which is to say, purification: but many men call it Nephthar.}

geneva@2Macc:2:1 @ {\cf2 It is founde also in the writings of Ieremias the Prophet, that he commaunded them, which were caried away, to take fire, as was declared, and as the Prophet commanded them that were led into captiuitie,}

geneva@2Macc:2:2 @ {\cf2 Giuing them a lawe that they shoulde not forget the commaundements of the Lord, and that they should not erre in their minds, when they saw images of gold and siluer, with their ornaments.}

geneva@2Macc:2:3 @ {\cf2 These and such other things commanded he them, and exhorted them that they shoulde not let the Lawe goe out of their hearts.}

geneva@2Macc:2:4 @ {\cf2 It is written also, howe the Prophet, by an oracle that he had, charged them to take the tabernacle and the arke, and followe him: and when hee came vp into the mountaine where Moyses went vp, and sawe the heritage of God,}

geneva@2Macc:2:5 @ {\cf2 Ieremias went foorth, and founde an hollow caue, wherein he laide the Tabernacle, & the Arke, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the doore.}

geneva@2Macc:2:6 @ {\cf2 And there came certaine of those that followed him, to marke ye place: but they coulde not finde it.}

geneva@2Macc:2:7 @ {\cf2 Which whe Ieremias perceiued, he reproued them, saying, As for that place: it shalbe vnknowen, vntil the time that God gather his people together againe, and that mercie be shewed.}

geneva@2Macc:2:8 @ {\cf2 Then shall the Lord shew them these things, and the maiestie of the Lorde shall appeare and the cloude also, as it was shewed vnder Moyses, and as when Salomon desired, that the place might be honourably sanctified.}

geneva@2Macc:2:9 @ {\cf2 For it is manifest that he, being a wise man, offred the sacrifice of dedication, and consecration of the Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:2:10 @ {\cf2 And as when Moyses praied vnto the Lord, the fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the sacrifice: so, when Salomon prayed, the fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the burnt offering.}

geneva@2Macc:2:11 @ {\cf2 And Moyses saide, Because the sinne offering was not eaten, therefore is it consumed.}

geneva@2Macc:2:12 @ {\cf2 So Salomon kept those eight daies.}

geneva@2Macc:2:13 @ {\cf2 These things also are declared in the writings, and registers of Neemias, and howe he made a librarie, and howe he gathered the acts of the Kings, and of the Prophets, and the acts of Dauid, and the epistles of the Kings concerning the holy gifts.}

geneva@2Macc:2:14 @ {\cf2 Euen so Iudas also gathered all things that came to passe by the warres that were among vs, which things we haue.}

geneva@2Macc:2:15 @ {\cf2 Wherefore if yee haue neede thereof, sende some to fetch them vnto you.}

geneva@2Macc:2:16 @ {\cf2 Whereas we then are about to celebrate the purification, we haue written vnto you, and ye shall doe well, if ye keepe the same daies.}

geneva@2Macc:2:17 @ {\cf2 We hope also that the God, which deliuered all his people, and gaue an heritage to them all and the kingdome, and the Priesthoode, and the Sanctuarie,}

geneva@2Macc:2:18 @ {\cf2 As he promised in the lawe, wil shortly haue mercy vpon vs, and gather vs together from vnder the heauen into his holy place: for he hath saued vs from great perils, and hath clensed the place.}

geneva@2Macc:2:19 @ {\cf2 As concerning Iudas Maccabeus, and his brethren, the purification of the great Temple, and the dedication of the altar,}

geneva@2Macc:2:20 @ {\cf2 And the warres against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his sonne,}

geneva@2Macc:2:21 @ {\cf2 And ye manifest signes that came from heauen vnto those, which manfully stood for the Iewes religion: (for though they were but fewe, yet they ranne through whole countreis, and pursued the barbarous armies,}

geneva@2Macc:2:22 @ {\cf2 And repaired the Temple that was renowmed throughout all the worlde, and deliuered the citie, and established the Lawes, that were like to be abolished, because the Lorde was mercifull vnto them with all lenitie)}

geneva@2Macc:2:23 @ {\cf2 Wee will assaie to abbridge in one volume those things, that Iason the Cyrenian hath declared in fiue bookes.}

geneva@2Macc:2:24 @ {\cf2 For considering the wonderful nomber, and the difficultie that they haue that woulde be occupied in the rehearsall of stories, because of the diuersitie of the matters,}

geneva@2Macc:2:25 @ {\cf2 We haue endeuoured, that they that woulde reade, might haue pleasure, and that they which are studious, might easily keepe them in memorie, and that whosoeuer reade them, might haue profite.}

geneva@2Macc:2:26 @ {\cf2 Therefore to vs that haue taken in hand this great labour, it was no easie thing to make this abbridgement, but required both sweat, & watching.}

geneva@2Macc:2:27 @ {\cf2 Like as hee that maketh a feast, and seeketh other mens commoditie, hath no smal labour: so we also for many mens sakes are very well content to vndertake this great labour.}

geneva@2Macc:2:28 @ {\cf2 Leauing to the authour the exact diligence of euery particular, we will labour to goe forwarde according to ye prescript order of an abbridgement.}

geneva@2Macc:2:29 @ {\cf2 For as he that will builde a newe house, must prouide for the whole building, but he that setteth out the plat or goeth about to paint it, seeketh but onely what is comely for the decking thereof:}

geneva@2Macc:2:30 @ {\cf2 Euen so I thinke for vs, that it appertaineth to the first writer of a storie to enter deepely into it, and to make mention of all things, and to be curious in euery part.}

geneva@2Macc:2:31 @ {\cf2 But it is permitted to him that will shorten it, to vse fewe woordes, and to auoide those things that are curious therein.}

geneva@2Macc:2:32 @ {\cf2 Here then will we begin the storie, adding thus much to our former woordes, that it is but a foolish thing to abound in woordes before the storie, and to be short in the storie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:1 @ {\cf2 What time as the holy citie was inhabited with all peace, and when the Lawes were very well kept, because of the godlinesse of Onias the hie Priest, and hatred of wickednesse,}

geneva@2Macc:3:2 @ {\cf2 It came to passe that euen the kings did honour the place, and garnished the Temple with great gifts.}

geneva@2Macc:3:3 @ {\cf2 In so much that Seleucus king of Asia of his owne rents, bare all the costes belonging to the seruice of the sacrifices.}

geneva@2Macc:3:4 @ {\cf2 But one Simon of the tribe of Beniamin being appoynted ruler of the Temple, contended with the hie Priest concerning the iniquitie committed in the citie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:5 @ {\cf2 And when hee coulde not ouercome Onias, he gate him to Apollonius the sonne of Thraseas, which then was gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice,}

geneva@2Macc:3:6 @ {\cf2 And tolde him that the treasurie in Ierusalem was full of innumerable money, which did not belong to the prouision of the sacrifices, and thatit were possible that these things might come into the Kings hands.}

geneva@2Macc:3:7 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Apollonius came to the King, and had shewed him of the money, as it was tolde him, the King chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandement, to bring him the foresaid money.}

geneva@2Macc:3:8 @ {\cf2 Immediatly Heliodorus tooke his iourney as though he would visite the cities of Coelosyria and Phenice, but in effect to fulfill the Kings purpose.}

geneva@2Macc:3:9 @ {\cf2 So when he came to Ierusalem, & was courteously receiued of the hie Priest into the citie, he declared what was determined concerning the money, and shewed the cause of his comming, and asked if these things were so in deede.}

geneva@2Macc:3:10 @ {\cf2 Then the hie Priest tolde him that there were such things laid vp by the widowes and fatherlesse,}

geneva@2Macc:3:11 @ {\cf2 And that a certaine of it belonged vnto Hircanus the sonne of Tobias a noble man, and not as that wicked Simon had reported, and that in all, there were but foure hundreth talents of siluer, and two hundreth of gold,}

geneva@2Macc:3:12 @ {\cf2 And that it were altogether vnpossible to do this wrong to them that had committed it of trust to the holinesse of the place and Temple, which is honoured thorowe the whole worlde for holinesse and integritie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:13 @ {\cf2 But Heliodorus because of the Kings commandement giuen him, said that in any wise it must be brought into the Kings treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:14 @ {\cf2 So he appointed a day, and went in to take order for these things: then there was no small griefe throughout the whole citie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:15 @ {\cf2 For the Priest fell downe before the altar in the Priestes garments, and called vnto heauen vpon him which had made a Lawe concerning things giuen to be kept, that they shoulde be safely preserued for such as had committed them to be kept.}

geneva@2Macc:3:16 @ {\cf2 Then they that looked the hie Priest in the face, were wounded in their heart: for his countenance, and the changing of his colour declared the sorowe of his mind.}

geneva@2Macc:3:17 @ {\cf2 The man was so wrapped in feare and trembling of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked vpon him, what sorowe he had in his heart.}

geneva@2Macc:3:18 @ {\cf2 Others also came out of their houses by heapes vnto the common prayer, because the place was like to come vnto contempt.}

geneva@2Macc:3:19 @ {\cf2 And the women, girt with sackcloth vnder their breastes, filled the streetes, and the virgins that were kept in, ranne some to the gates & some to the walles, and others looked out of the windowes.}

geneva@2Macc:3:20 @ {\cf2 And all held vp their hands towarde heauen, and made prayer.}

geneva@2Macc:3:21 @ {\cf2 It was a lamentable thing to see ye multitude that fell downe of all sortes, and the expectation of the high Priest being in such anguish.}

geneva@2Macc:3:22 @ {\cf2 Therefore they called vpon the Almightie Lord, that he would keepe safe and sure the thinges, which were laide vp for those that had deliuered them.}

geneva@2Macc:3:23 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, the thing that Heliodorus was determined to doe, that did he performe.}

geneva@2Macc:3:24 @ {\cf2 And as he and his souldiers were nowe there present by the treasurie, he that is the Lorde of the spirits, and of al power, shewed a great vision, so that all they which presumed to come with him, were astonished at the power of God, and fell into feare, and trembling.}

geneva@2Macc:3:25 @ {\cf2 For there appeared vnto them an horse with a terrible man sitting vpon him, most richly barbed, and he ranne fiercely, and smote at Heliodorus with his fore feete, and it seemed that he that sate vpon the horse, had harnesse of gold.}

geneva@2Macc:3:26 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, there appeared two yong men, notable in strength, excellent in beautie, and comely in apparell, which stood by him on either side, & scourged him continually, & gaue him many sore stripes.}

geneva@2Macc:3:27 @ {\cf2 And Heliodorus fell suddenly vnto ye ground, and was couered with great darkenes: but they that were with him, tooke him vp, & put him in a litter.}

geneva@2Macc:3:28 @ {\cf2 Thus he that came with so great companie, and many souldiers into the said treasurie, was borne out: for he coulde not helpe himselfe with his weapons.}

geneva@2Macc:3:29 @ {\cf2 So they did knowe the power of God manifestly, but he was domme by the power of God, and lay destitute of all hope and health.}

geneva@2Macc:3:30 @ {\cf2 And they praysed the Lord that had honoured his owne place: for the Temple which a litle afore was full of feare and trouble, when the almightie Lord appeared, was filled with ioy and gladnesse.}

geneva@2Macc:3:31 @ {\cf2 Then streightwayes certaine of Heliodorus friends prayed Onias, that he woulde call vpon the most High to graunt him his life, which lay ready to giue vp the ghost.}

geneva@2Macc:3:32 @ {\cf2 So the hie Priest, considering that the King might suspect that the Iewes had done Heliodorus some euill, he offered a sacrifice for the health of the man.}

geneva@2Macc:3:33 @ {\cf2 Now when the hie Priest had made his prayer, the same yong men in the same clothing appeared, and stoode beside Heliodorus, saying, Giue Onias the hie Priest great thankes: for, for his sake hath the Lord graunted thee thy life.}

geneva@2Macc:3:34 @ {\cf2 And seeing that thou hast bene scourged from heauen, declare vnto all men the mightie power of God: and when they had spoken these wordes, they appeared no more.}

geneva@2Macc:3:35 @ {\cf2 So Heliodorus offered vnto the Lorde sacrifice, and made great vowes vnto him, which had graunted him his life, and thanked Onias, and went againe with his hoste to the King.}

geneva@2Macc:3:36 @ {\cf2 Then testified he vnto euery man of ye great workes of God that he had seene with his eyes.}

geneva@2Macc:3:37 @ {\cf2 And when the King asked Heliodorus, who were meete to be sent yet once againe to Ierusalem, he said,}

geneva@2Macc:3:38 @ {\cf2 If thou hast any enemie or traitor, sende him thither, and thou shalt receiue him well scourged, if he escape with his life: for in that place, no doubt, there is a speciall power of God.}

geneva@2Macc:3:39 @ {\cf2 For he that dwelleth in heauen, hath his eye on that place, and defendeth it, and he beateth and destroyeth them that come to hurt it.}

geneva@2Macc:3:40 @ {\cf2 This came to passe concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:4:1 @ {\cf2 This Simon nowe, of whom we spake afore, being a bewrayer of the money and of his owne naturall countrey, reported euill of Onias, as though he had mooued Heliodorus vnto this, and had bene the inuenter of the euill.}

geneva@2Macc:4:2 @ {\cf2 Thus was he bolde to call him a traitour that was so beneficiall to the citie, and a defender of his nation, and so zealous of the Lawes.}

geneva@2Macc:4:3 @ {\cf2 But when his malice increased so farre, that through one that belonged to Simon, murthers were committed,}

geneva@2Macc:4:4 @ {\cf2 Onias considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as hee that was the gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increased Simons malice,}

geneva@2Macc:4:5 @ {\cf2 He went to the King not as an accuser of the citizens, but as one that intended the common wealth both priuately and publikely.}

geneva@2Macc:4:6 @ {\cf2 For he sawe it was not possible except the King tooke order to quiet the matters, and that Simon would not leaue off his follie.}

geneva@2Macc:4:7 @ {\cf2 But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, tooke the kingdome, Iason the brother of Onias laboured by vnlawfull meanes to be hie Priest.}

geneva@2Macc:4:8 @ {\cf2 For he came vnto the King, and promised him three hundreth and threescore talents of siluer, and of an other rent, fourescore talents.}

geneva@2Macc:4:9 @ {\cf2 Besides this, he promised him an hundreth and fiftie, if he might haue licence to set vp a place for exercise, and a place for the youth, and that they would name them of Ierusalem Antiochians.}

geneva@2Macc:4:10 @ {\cf2 The which thing when the King had graunted, and he had gotten the superioritie, he beganne immediatly to drawe his kinsemen to the customes of the Gentiles,}

geneva@2Macc:4:11 @ {\cf2 And abolished the friendly priuiledges of the Kings, that the Iewes had set vp by Iohn, the father of Eupolemus, which was sent ambassadour vnto Rome, to become friends and confederates: he put downe their Lawes and policies, and brought vp newe statutes, and contrary to the Lawe.}

geneva@2Macc:4:12 @ {\cf2 For he presumed to builde a place of exercise vnder the castell, and brought the chiefe yong men vnder his subiection, and made them weare hattes.}

geneva@2Macc:4:13 @ {\cf2 So there beganne a great desire to followe the maners of the Gentiles, and they tooke vp the fashions of strange nations by the exceeding wickednesse of Iason, not the hie Priest, but the vngodly person,}

geneva@2Macc:4:14 @ {\cf2 So that the Priestes were nowe no more diligent about the seruice of the altar, but despised the Temple, and regarded not the sacrifices, but made haste to be partakers of the wicked expences at the play after the casting of the stone.}

geneva@2Macc:4:15 @ {\cf2 For they did not set by the honour of their fathers, but liked the glory of the Gentiles best of all.}

geneva@2Macc:4:16 @ {\cf2 By reason whereof great calamitie came vpon them: for they had them to be their enemies and punishers, whose custome they followed so earnestly, and desired to be like them in all things.}

geneva@2Macc:4:17 @ {\cf2 For it is not a light thing to transgresse against the Lawes of God, but the time following shall declare these things.}

geneva@2Macc:4:18 @ {\cf2 Now when the games that were vsed euery fiue yeere, were played at Tyrus, the King being present,}

geneva@2Macc:4:19 @ {\cf2 This wicked Iason sent from Ierusalem men to looke vpon them, as though they had bene Antiochians, which brought three hundreth drachmes of siluer for a sacrifice to Hercules: albeit they that caried them, desired they might not be bestowed on the sacrifice (because it was not comely) but to be bestowed for other expenses.}

geneva@2Macc:4:20 @ {\cf2 So he that sent them, sent them for the sacrifice of Hercules: but because of those that brought them, they were giuen to the making of galleies.}

geneva@2Macc:4:21 @ {\cf2 Now Apollonius the sonne of Menestheus was sent into Egypt because of the coronation of King Ptolemeus Philometor: but when Antiochus perceiued that he was euill affectioned towarde his affaires, he sought his owne assurance, and departed from thence to Ioppe, and so came to Ierusalem,}

geneva@2Macc:4:22 @ {\cf2 Where he was honourably receiued of Iason, and of the citie, and was brought in with torchlight, and with great showtings, and so he went with his hoste vnto Phenice.}

geneva@2Macc:4:23 @ {\cf2 Three yeere afterward Iason sent Menelaus, the foresaid Simons brother, to beare the money vnto the King, and to bring to passe certaine necessarie affaires, whereof he had giuen him a memoriall.}

geneva@2Macc:4:24 @ {\cf2 But he, being commended to the King, magnified him for the appearance of his power, and turned the Priesthood vnto himselfe: for he gaue three hundreth talents of siluer more then Iason.}

geneva@2Macc:4:25 @ {\cf2 So he gate the Kings letters patentes, albeit he had nothing in himselfe worthie of the hie Priesthood, but bare the stomacke of a cruell tyrant, and the wrath of a wilde beast.}

geneva@2Macc:4:26 @ {\cf2 Then Iason, which had deceiued his owne brother, being deceiued by another, was compelled to flee into the countrey of the Ammonites.}

geneva@2Macc:4:27 @ {\cf2 So Menelaus gate the dominion: but as for the money that he had promised vnto the King, he tooke none order for it, albeit Sostratus the ruler of the castell required it.}

geneva@2Macc:4:28 @ {\cf2 For vnto him apperteyned the gathering of the customes: wherefore they were both called before the King.}

geneva@2Macc:4:29 @ {\cf2 Nowe Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his steade in the priesthood, and Sostratus left Crates which was gouernour of the Cyprians.}

geneva@2Macc:4:30 @ {\cf2 Whiles these things were in doing, ye Tharsians and they of Mallot made insurrection, because they were giuen to the Kings concubine called Antiochis.}

geneva@2Macc:4:31 @ {\cf2 Then came the King in all haste, to appease the busines, leauing Andronicus a man of authoritie to be his lieutenant.}

geneva@2Macc:4:32 @ {\cf2 Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a conuenient time, stole certaine vessels of gold out of the Temple, and gaue certeyne of them to Andronicus: and some he solde at Tyrus and in the cities thereby.}

geneva@2Macc:4:33 @ {\cf2 Which when Onias knewe of a suretie, he reproued him, and withdrewe himselfe into a Sanctuarie at Daphne by Antiochia.}

geneva@2Macc:4:34 @ {\cf2 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him to slaye Onias: so when he came te Onias, he counseled him craftily, giuing him his right hand with an othe: (howbeit he suspect him, and persuaded him to come out of the Sanctuarie) so he slewe him incontinently without any regarde of righteousnesse.}

geneva@2Macc:4:35 @ {\cf2 For the which cause not onely the Iewes, but many other nations also were grieued, and tooke it heauily for the vnrighteous death of this man.}

geneva@2Macc:4:36 @ {\cf2 And when the king was come againe from the places about Cilicia, the Iewes that were in the citie, and certeine of the Greeks that abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias was slaine without cause.}

geneva@2Macc:4:37 @ {\cf2 Therefore Antiochus was sorie in his minde, and he had compassion, and wept because of the modestie and great discretion of him that was dead.}

geneva@2Macc:4:38 @ {\cf2 Wherefore being kindled with anger, he tooke away Andronicus garment of purple, and rent his clothes, and commaunded him to be led throughout the citie, and in the same place where hee hadcommitted the wickednesse against Onias, hee was slaine as a murtherer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserued.}

geneva@2Macc:4:39 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Lysimachus had done many wicked deedes in the citie through the counsell of Menelaus, and the bruit was spred abroad, the multitude gathered them together against Lysimachus: for he had caried out nowe much vessell of golde.}

geneva@2Macc:4:40 @ {\cf2 And when the people arose, and were full of anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousande, and began to vse vnlawfull power, a certaine tyrant being their captaine, who was no lesse decaied in wit then in age.}

geneva@2Macc:4:41 @ {\cf2 But when they vnderstoode the purpose of Lysimachus, some gate stones, some great clubs, and some cast handfuls of dust, which lay by, vpon Lysimachus men, and those that inuaded them.}

geneva@2Macc:4:42 @ {\cf2 Whereby many of them were wounded, some were slaine, and all the other chased away: but the wicked Churchrobber himselfe, they killed be sides the treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:4:43 @ {\cf2 For these causes an accusation was laide against Menelaus.}

geneva@2Macc:4:44 @ {\cf2 And whe the king came to Tyrus, three men sent from the Senate pleaded the cause before him.}

geneva@2Macc:4:45 @ {\cf2 But Menelaus, being now conuinced, promised to Ptolemeus the sonne of Dorimenes much money, if he would perswade the king.}

geneva@2Macc:4:46 @ {\cf2 So Ptolemeus went to ye king into a court, where as he was to coole himselfe, and turned the kings minde.}

geneva@2Macc:4:47 @ {\cf2 In so much that hee discharged Menelaus from the accusations (notwithstanding he was the cause of all mischiefe) and codemned those poore men to death, which if they had tolde their cause, yea, before the Scythians, they should haue beene heard as innocent.}

geneva@2Macc:4:48 @ {\cf2 Thus were they soone punished vniustly, which followed vpon the matter for the citie, and for the people, and for the holy vessels.}

geneva@2Macc:4:49 @ {\cf2 Wherefore they of Tyrus hated that wickednes, and ministred all things liberally for their buriall.}

geneva@2Macc:4:50 @ {\cf2 And so through the couetousnesse of them that were in power, Menelaus remained in authoritie, increasing in malice, and declared himselfe a great traitour to the citizens.}

geneva@2Macc:5:1 @ {\cf2 About the same time Antiochus vndertooke his second voyage into Egypt.}

geneva@2Macc:5:2 @ {\cf2 And then were there seene throughout all the citie of Ierusalem, fourtie daies long, horsemen running in the aire, with robes of gold, & as bands of speare men,}

geneva@2Macc:5:3 @ {\cf2 And as troupes of horsemen set in aray, incountering and coursing one against another with shaking of shields and multitude of darts, and drawing of swordes, and shooting of arrowes, and the glittering of the golden armour seene, and harnesse of all sortes.}

geneva@2Macc:5:4 @ {\cf2 Therefore euery man praied, that those tokens might turne to good.}

geneva@2Macc:5:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had beene dead, Iason tooke at the least a thousand men, & came suddenly vpon the citie, and they that were vpon the wals, being put backe, and the citie at length taken,}

geneva@2Macc:5:6 @ {\cf2 Menelaus fled into the castell, but Iason slew his owne citizens without mercie, not considering, that to haue the aduantage against his kinsemen is greatest disaduantage, but thought that hee had gotten the victorie of his enemies, and not of his owne nation.}

geneva@2Macc:5:7 @ {\cf2 Yet hee gate not the superioritie, but at the last receiued shame for the rewarde of his treason, and went againe like a vagabounde into the countrey of the Ammonites.}

geneva@2Macc:5:8 @ {\cf2 Finally he had this ende of his wicked conuersation, that hee was accused before Areta the king of the Arabians, and fled from citie to citie, being pursued of euery man, and hated as a forsaker of the Lawes, and was in abomination, as an enemie of his countrey and citizens, and was driuen into Egypt.}

geneva@2Macc:5:9 @ {\cf2 Thus hee that had chased many out of their owne coutrey, perished as a banished man, after that he was gone to the Lacedemonians, thinking there to haue gotten succour by reason of kinred.}

geneva@2Macc:5:10 @ {\cf2 And hee that had cast many out vnburied, was throwen out himselfe, no man mourning for him, nor putting him in his graue: neither was hee partaker of his fathers sepulchre.}

geneva@2Macc:5:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe when these thinges that were done, were declared to the king, hee thought that Iudea would haue fallen from him: wherefore hee came with a furious minde out of Egypt, and tooke the citie by violence.}

geneva@2Macc:5:12 @ {\cf2 He commaunded his men of warre also, that they should kill and not spare such as they met, and to slaie such as went into their houses.}

geneva@2Macc:5:13 @ {\cf2 Thus was there a slaughter of yong men, and olde men, and a destruction of men & women and children, and virgins, and infants were murthered:}

geneva@2Macc:5:14 @ {\cf2 So that within three daies were slaine fourescore thousand, & fourtie thousand taken prisoners, and there were as many solde as were slaine.}

geneva@2Macc:5:15 @ {\cf2 Yet was hee not content with this, but durst goe into the most holy Temple of all the worlde, hauing Menelaus that traitour to the Lawes, and to his owne countrey, to be his guide,}

geneva@2Macc:5:16 @ {\cf2 And with his wicked handes tooke the holy vessels, which other kings had giuen for the garnishing, glorie and honour of that place, and handled them with his wicked hands.}

geneva@2Macc:5:17 @ {\cf2 So hautie in his minde was Antiochus, that he considered not, that God was not a litle wroth for the sinnes of them that dwelt in the citie, for the which such contempt came vpon that place.}

geneva@2Macc:5:18 @ {\cf2 For if they had not beene wrapped in many sinnes, hee, assoone as he had come, had suddenly beene punished, and put backe from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to viewe the treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:5:19 @ {\cf2 But God hath not chosen the nation for the places sake, but the place for the nations sake.}

geneva@2Macc:5:20 @ {\cf2 And therefore is the place become partaker of the peoples trouble, but afterward shal it be partaker of the benefites of the Lord, and as it is nowe forsaken in the wrath of the Almightie, so when the great Lord shalbe reconciled, it shalbe set vp in great worship againe.}

geneva@2Macc:5:21 @ {\cf2 So when Antiochus had taken eighteene hundred talents out of the Temple, he gate him to Antiochia in all haste, thinking in his pride to make men saile vpon the dry land, and to walke vpon the sea: such an hie minde had he.}

geneva@2Macc:5:22 @ {\cf2 But he left deputies to vexe the people: at Ierusalem Philip a Phrigian by birth, in maners more cruell then he that set him there:}

geneva@2Macc:5:23 @ {\cf2 And at Garizin Andronicus, and with them Menelaus, which was more grieuous to the citizens then the other, and was despiteful against the Iewes his citizens.}

geneva@2Macc:5:24 @ {\cf2 He sent also Apollonius a cruell prince, with an armie of two and twentie thousande, whome he commanded to slaie those that were towarde mans age, and to sell the women, and the yonger sort.}

geneva@2Macc:5:25 @ {\cf2 So when hee came to Ierusalem, hee fained peace, and kept him still vntil the holy day of Sabbath: and then finding the Iewes keeping the feast, he commanded his men to take their weapons.}

geneva@2Macc:5:26 @ {\cf2 And so he slew al them that were gone forth to the shewe, and running through the citie with his men armed, he murthered a great number.}

geneva@2Macc:5:27 @ {\cf2 But Iudas Maccabeus, being as it were the tenth, fled into the wildernesse, and liued there in the mountaines with his companie among the beastes, and dwelling there, and eating grasse, least they should be partakers of the filthinesse.}

geneva@2Macc:6:1 @ {\cf2 Not long after this, sent the king an olde man of Athens, for to compell the Iewes, to transgresse the Lawes of the fathers, and not to be gouerned by the Lawe of God,}

geneva@2Macc:6:2 @ {\cf2 And to defile the Temple that was at Ierusalem, and to call it the Temple of Iupiter Olympius, and that of Garizin, according as they did that dwelt at that place, Iupiter, that keepeth hospitalitie.}

geneva@2Macc:6:3 @ {\cf2 This wicked gouernment was sore and grieuous vnto the people.}

geneva@2Macc:6:4 @ {\cf2 For the Temple was full of dissolution, and gluttonie of the Gentiles, which dallied with harlots, and had to doe with women within the circuit of the holy places, and brought in such thinges as were not lawfull.}

geneva@2Macc:6:5 @ {\cf2 The altar also was ful of such things, as were abhominable and forbidden by the Lawe.}

geneva@2Macc:6:6 @ {\cf2 Neither was it lawful to keepe the Sabbaths, nor to obserue their ancient feastes, nor plainely to confesse himselfe to be a Iewe.}

geneva@2Macc:6:7 @ {\cf2 In the day of the kings birth they were grieuously compelled perforce euery moneth to banket, and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were constrained to goe in the procession of Bacchus with garlands of yuie.}

geneva@2Macc:6:8 @ {\cf2 Moreouer through the councell of Ptolemeus, there went out a commaundement vnto the next cities of the heathen against the Iewes, that the like custome, and banketting should be kept.}

geneva@2Macc:6:9 @ {\cf2 And who so would not coforme themselues to the maners of ye Gentiles, should be put to death: then might a man haue seene the present miserie.}

geneva@2Macc:6:10 @ {\cf2 For there were two women brought foorth, that had circumcised their sonnes, whom when they had led rounde about the citie (the babes hanging at their breastes) they cast them downe headlong ouer the walles.}

geneva@2Macc:6:11 @ {\cf2 Some that were runne togither into dennes to keepe the Sabbath day secretely, were discouered vnto Philip, and were burnt together, because that for the reuerence of the honourable day they were afraide to helpe themselues.}

geneva@2Macc:6:12 @ {\cf2 Now I beseech those which read this boke, that they bee not discouraged for these calamities, but that they iudge these afflictions, not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.}

geneva@2Macc:6:13 @ {\cf2 For it is a token of his great goodnesse not to suffer sinners long to cotinue, but straight waies to punish them.}

geneva@2Macc:6:14 @ {\cf2 For the Lord doeth not long waite for vs, as for other nations, whome hee punisheth when they are come to the fulnesse of their sinnes.}

geneva@2Macc:6:15 @ {\cf2 But thus hee dealeth with vs, that our sinnes shoulde not be heaped vp to the full, so that afterward he should punish vs.}

geneva@2Macc:6:16 @ {\cf2 And therefore hee neuer withdraweth his mercy from vs: and though he punish with aduersitie, yet doeth he neuer forsake his people.}

geneva@2Macc:6:17 @ {\cf2 But let this bee spoken nowe for a warning vnto vs: and nowe will we come to the declaring of the matter in fewe wordes.}

geneva@2Macc:6:18 @ {\cf2 Eleazar then one of the principall scribes, an aged man, and of a well fauoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eate swines flesh.}

geneva@2Macc:6:19 @ {\cf2 But he desiring rather to die gloriously then to liue with hatred, offred himselfe willingly to the torment, and spit it out.}

geneva@2Macc:6:20 @ {\cf2 As they ought to goe to death which suffer punishment for such thinges, as it is not lawfull to taste of for the desire to liue.}

geneva@2Macc:6:21 @ {\cf2 But they that had the charge of this wicked banket, for that olde friendship of the man, tooke him aside priuilie, and praied him, that he woulde take such flesh, as was lawfull for him to vse, and as hee woulde prepare for himselfe, and dissemble as though hee had eaten of the things appoynted by the king, euen the flesh of the sacrifice,}

geneva@2Macc:6:22 @ {\cf2 That in so doing he might be deliuered from death, and that for the olde friendship that was among them, he would receiue this fauour.}

geneva@2Macc:6:23 @ {\cf2 But he began to consider discreetely, and as became his age, and the excellencie of his ancient yeres, and the honour of his graie heares, whereunto he was come, and his most honest conuersation from his childehoode, but chiefly the holy Lawe made and giuen by God: therefore hee answered consequently, and willed them straight wayes to send him to the graue.}

geneva@2Macc:6:24 @ {\cf2 For it becommeth not our age, sayde he, to dissemble, whereby many young persons might thinke, that Eleazar being foure score yere old and ten were nowe gone to another religion,}

geneva@2Macc:6:25 @ {\cf2 And so through mine hypocrisie (for a little time of a transitorie life) they might be deceiued by me, and I should procure malediction, and reproche to mine olde age.}

geneva@2Macc:6:26 @ {\cf2 For though I were now deliuered from the torments of men, yet could I not escape the hande of the Almightie, neither aliue nor dead.}

geneva@2Macc:6:27 @ {\cf2 Wherefore I will nowe change this life manfully, & wil shew my self such as mine age requireth,}

geneva@2Macc:6:28 @ {\cf2 And so will leaue a notable example for such as be yong, to die willingly & courageously for the honourable and holy Lawes; when he had said these wordes, immediatly he went to torment.}

geneva@2Macc:6:29 @ {\cf2 Nowe they that led him, changed the loue which they bare him before, into hatred, because of the wordes that he had spoken: for they thought it had beene a rage.}

geneva@2Macc:6:30 @ {\cf2 And as hee was ready to giue the ghost because of the strokes, he sighed and sayde, The Lorde that hath the holy knowledge, knoweth manifestly, that whereas I might haue beene deliuered fromdeath, I am scourged and suffer these sore paynes of my body: but in my minde I suffer them gladly for his religion.}

geneva@2Macc:6:31 @ {\cf2 Euen now after this maner ended he his life, leauing his death for an example of a noble courage, & a memoriall of vertue, not only vnto yong men, but vnto all his nation.}

geneva@2Macc:7:1 @ {\cf2 It came to passe also, that seuen brethren, with their mother, were taken to be compelled by the King against the Lawe, to taste swines flesh, & were tormented with scourges and whippes.}

geneva@2Macc:7:2 @ {\cf2 But one of them, which spake first, said thus, What seekest thou? and what wouldest thou know of vs? we are ready to die, rather then to transgresse the Lawes of our fathers.}

geneva@2Macc:7:3 @ {\cf2 Then was the King angry, and commanded to heate pannes and cauldrons, which were incontinently made hote.}

geneva@2Macc:7:4 @ {\cf2 And he commanded the tongue of him that spake first, to be cut out, and to slay him, & to cut off the vtmost partes of his body in the sight of his other brethren and his mother.}

geneva@2Macc:7:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when he was thus mangled in all his members, he commanded him to be brought aliue to the fire, and to frye him in the panne: and while the smoke for a long time smoked out of the panne, the other brethren with their mother, exhorted one another to die couragiously, saying in this maner,}

geneva@2Macc:7:6 @ {\cf2 The Lord God doeth regard vs, and in deede taketh pleasure in vs, as Moyses declared in the song wherein he testified openly, saying, That God will take pleasure in his seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:7:7 @ {\cf2 So when the first was dead after this maner, they brought the second to make him a mocking stocke: and when they had pulled the skinne with the heare ouer his head, they asked him, if he would eate, or he were punished in all the members of the body.}

geneva@2Macc:7:8 @ {\cf2 But he answered in his owne language, and sayd, No. Wherefore he was tormented forthwith like the first.}

geneva@2Macc:7:9 @ {\cf2 And when he was at the last breath, he sayd, Thou murtherer takest this present life from vs, but the king of the world wil rayse vs vp, which die for his Lawes, in the resurrection of euerlasting life.}

geneva@2Macc:7:10 @ {\cf2 After him was the thirde had in derision, and when they demaunded his tongue, hee put it out incontinently, and stretched forth his handes boldely,}

geneva@2Macc:7:11 @ {\cf2 And spake manfully, These haue I had from the heauen, but nowe for the Law of God I despise them, and trust that I shall receiue them of him againe.}

geneva@2Macc:7:12 @ {\cf2 Insomuch that the King & they which were with him, marueiled at the yong mans courage, as at one that nothing regarded the paynes.}

geneva@2Macc:7:13 @ {\cf2 Now when he was dead also, they vexed & tormented the fourth in like maner.}

geneva@2Macc:7:14 @ {\cf2 And when he was now ready to die, he sayd thus, It is better that we shoulde change this which we might hope for of men, and wayte for our hope from God, that we may be raised vp againe by him: as for thee, thou shalt haue no resurrection to life.}

geneva@2Macc:7:15 @ {\cf2 Afterward they brought the fifth also and tormented him,}

geneva@2Macc:7:16 @ {\cf2 Who looked vpon the King, and sayd, Thou hast power among men, and though thou be a mortall man, thou doest what thou wilt: but thinke not, that God hath forsaken our nation.}

geneva@2Macc:7:17 @ {\cf2 But abide a while, & thou shalt see his great power, how he will torment thee and thy seede.}

geneva@2Macc:7:18 @ {\cf2 After him also they brought the sixt, who being at the poynt of death, sayde, Deceiue not thy selfe foolishly: for we suffer these things, which are worthy to be wondered at for our owne sakes, because we haue offended our God.}

geneva@2Macc:7:19 @ {\cf2 But thinke not thou, which vndertakest to fight against God, that thou shalt be vnpunished.}

geneva@2Macc:7:20 @ {\cf2 But the mother was marueilous aboue all other, & worthy of honourable memory: for when she sawe her seuen sonnes slaine within the space of one day, shee suffred it with a good will, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.}

geneva@2Macc:7:21 @ {\cf2 Yea, shee exhorted euery one of them in her owne language, and being full of courage and wisdome, stirred vp her womaly affections with a manly stomacke, and sayd vnto them,}

geneva@2Macc:7:22 @ {\cf2 I cannot tell how ye came into my wombe: for I neyther gaue you breath nor life: it is not I that set in order the members of your body,}

geneva@2Macc:7:23 @ {\cf2 But doutles the Creator of the world, which formed the birth of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his owne mercy giue you breath and life againe, as yee now regarde not your owne selues, for his Lawes sake.}

geneva@2Macc:7:24 @ {\cf2 Now Antiochus thinking himselfe despised, & considering the iniurious wordes, while the yongest was yet aliue, he did exhort him not only with wordes, but swore also vnto him by an othe that he would make him rich and wealthy, if he would forsake the Lawes of his fathers, & that he would take him as a friend, and giue him offices.}

geneva@2Macc:7:25 @ {\cf2 But when the yong man woulde in no case hearken vnto him, the King called his mother, and exhorted that she should counsell the yong man to saue his life.}

geneva@2Macc:7:26 @ {\cf2 And when he had exhorted her with many wordes, shee promised him that she would counsell her sonne.}

geneva@2Macc:7:27 @ {\cf2 So shee turned her vnto him, laughing the cruell tyrant to scorne, and spake in her owne language, O my sonne, haue pitie vpon me, that bare thee nine monethes in my wombe, and gaue thee sucke three yeeres, & nourished thee, & tooke care for thee vnto this age, and brought thee vp.}

geneva@2Macc:7:28 @ {\cf2 I beseech thee, my sonne, looke vpo the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not, and so was mankinde made likewise.}

geneva@2Macc:7:29 @ {\cf2 Feare not this hangman, but shewe thy selfe worthy such brethren by suffring death, that I may receiue thee in mercy with thy brethren.}

geneva@2Macc:7:30 @ {\cf2 While she was yet speaking these words, the yong man said, Whom wayte ye for? I wil not obey the Kings commaundement: but I will obey the commandement of the Lawe that was giuen vnto our fathers by Moyses.}

geneva@2Macc:7:31 @ {\cf2 And thou that imaginest all mischiefe against the Hebrewes, shalt not escape the hande of God.}

geneva@2Macc:7:32 @ {\cf2 For we suffer these thinges, because of our sinnes,}

geneva@2Macc:7:33 @ {\cf2 But though the liuing Lorde be angry with vs a litle while for our chastening & correction, yet wil he be reconciled with his owne seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:7:34 @ {\cf2 But thou, O man without religion and most wicked of all men, lift not thy selfe vp in vayne, which art puffed vp with vncertaine hope, & liftest thine hands against the seruants of God.}

geneva@2Macc:7:35 @ {\cf2 For thou hast not yet escaped the iudgemet of almightie God, which seeth all things.}

geneva@2Macc:7:36 @ {\cf2 My brethren that haue suffred a litle payne, are nowe vnder the diuine couenant of euerlasting life: but thou through the iudgement of God, shalt suffer iust punishments for thy pride.}

geneva@2Macc:7:37 @ {\cf2 Therefore I, as my brethren haue done, offer my body & life for the Lawes of our fathers, beseeching God, that he will soone be merciful vnto our nation, and that thou by torment and punishment mayst confesse, that he is the only God,}

geneva@2Macc:7:38 @ {\cf2 And that in mee and my brethren the wrath of the almightie, which is righteously fallen vpon all our nation, may cease.}

geneva@2Macc:7:39 @ {\cf2 Then the King being kindled with anger, raged more cruelly against him then the others, and tooke it grieuously, that he was mocked.}

geneva@2Macc:7:40 @ {\cf2 So he also dyed holily, & put his whole trust in the Lord.}

geneva@2Macc:7:41 @ {\cf2 Last of all after the sonnes, was the mother put to death.}

geneva@2Macc:7:42 @ {\cf2 Let this now be ynough spoken concerning the bankets, and extreeme cruelties.}

geneva@2Macc:8:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas Maccabeus, & they that were with him, went priuily into the townes, and called their kinsfolks and friends together, & tooke vnto them all such as continued in the Iewes religion, & assembled sixe thousand men.}

geneva@2Macc:8:2 @ {\cf2 So they called vpon the Lord, that he would haue an eye vnto his people, which was vexed of euery man, and haue pitie vpon the Temple that was defiled by wicked men,}

geneva@2Macc:8:3 @ {\cf2 And that he woulde haue compassion vpon the citie that was destroyed, and almost brought to the grounde, and that he woulde heare the voyce of the blood that cryed vnto him,}

geneva@2Macc:8:4 @ {\cf2 And that hee woulde remember the wicked slaughter of the innocent children, & the blasphemies committed against his name, & that he would shew his hatred against the wicked.}

geneva@2Macc:8:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Maccabeus had gathered this multitude, he could not be withstand by ye heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.}

geneva@2Macc:8:6 @ {\cf2 Therefore he came at vnwares, and burnt vp the townes and cities: yet he tooke the most commodious places, and slew many of the enemies.}

geneva@2Macc:8:7 @ {\cf2 But specially he vsed the nights to make such assaults, in so much that the bruite of his manlines was spread euery where.}

geneva@2Macc:8:8 @ {\cf2 So when Philippe sawe that this man increased by litle and litle, and that things prospered with him for the most part, hee wrote vnto Ptolemeus the gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice, to helpe him in the kings busines.}

geneva@2Macc:8:9 @ {\cf2 Then sent hee speedily Nicanor the sonne of Patroclus, a speciall friend of his, & gaue him of all nations of the heathen no lesse then twenty thousand men, to roote out the whole generation of the Iewes, & ioyned with him Gorgias a captaine, which in matters of warre had great experience.}

geneva@2Macc:8:10 @ {\cf2 Nicanor ordeined also a tribute for the king of two thousand talents, which the Romans should haue, to be taken of ye Iewes that were taken prisoners.}

geneva@2Macc:8:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore immediately he sent to the cities on the sea coast, prouoking them to bye Iewes to bee their seruantes, promising to sell foure score and ten for one talent: but he considered not the vegeace of almighty God, that should come vpo him.}

geneva@2Macc:8:12 @ {\cf2 When Iudas then knewe of Nicanors coming, hee tolde them that were with him, of the coming of the armie.}

geneva@2Macc:8:13 @ {\cf2 Nowe were there some of them fearefull, which trusted not vnto the righteousnesse of God, but fled away, and abode not in that place.}

geneva@2Macc:8:14 @ {\cf2 But the other solde all that they had left, and besought the Lorde together, to deliuer them from that wicked Nicanor, which had sold them, or euer he came neere them.}

geneva@2Macc:8:15 @ {\cf2 And though he woulde not doe it for their sakes, yet for the couenant made with their fathers, and because they called vpon his holy and glorious Name.}

geneva@2Macc:8:16 @ {\cf2 And so Maccabeus called his men together, about sixe thousande, exhorting them not to be afrayde of their enemies, neither to feare the great multitude of the Getiles, which came against them vnrighteously, but to fight manly,}

geneva@2Macc:8:17 @ {\cf2 Setting before their eyes the iniury that they had vniustly done to the holy place, & the crueltie done to the citie by derision, and the destruction of the orders established by their fathers.}

geneva@2Macc:8:18 @ {\cf2 For they, sayd he, trust in their weapons and boldenesse: but our confidence is in the almightie God, which at a becke can both destroy them that come against vs, and all the world.}

geneva@2Macc:8:19 @ {\cf2 Moreouer he admonished them of the helpe that God shewed vnto their fathers, as when there perished an hundreth and fourescore, & fiue thousand vnder Sennacherib,}

geneva@2Macc:8:20 @ {\cf2 And of the battell that they had in Babylon against the Galatians, how they came in all to the battell eight thousand, with foure thousand Macedonians: and when the Macedonians were astonished, the eyght thousande slewe an hundreth and twentie thousande through the helpe that was giuen them from heauen, whereby they had receiued many benefites.}

geneva@2Macc:8:21 @ {\cf2 Thus when hee had made them bolde with these wordes, & ready to die for the Lawes and the countrey, he deuided his armie into foure partes,}

geneva@2Macc:8:22 @ {\cf2 And made his owne brethren captaines ouer the armie, to wit, Simon, and Ioseph and Ionathan, giuing ech one fifteene hundreth men.}

geneva@2Macc:8:23 @ {\cf2 And when Eleazarus had read the holie booke, and giuen them a token of the helpe of God, Iudas which lead the forewarde, ioyned with Nicanor,}

geneva@2Macc:8:24 @ {\cf2 And because the almighty helped them, they slewe aboue nine thousand men, and wounded and maymed the most part of Nicanors hoste, and so put all to flight,}

geneva@2Macc:8:25 @ {\cf2 And tooke the money from those that came to bye them, and pursued them farre: but lacking time they returned.}

geneva@2Macc:8:26 @ {\cf2 For it was the day before the Sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.}

geneva@2Macc:8:27 @ {\cf2 So they tooke their weapons, & spoyled the enemies, and kept the Sabbath, giuing thankes and praysing the Lorde wonderfully, which had deliuered them that day, and powred vpon them the beginning of his mercie.}

geneva@2Macc:8:28 @ {\cf2 And after the Sabbath, they distributed thespoyles to the sicke, and to the fatherlesse, and to the widowes, and deuided the residue among them selues and their children.}

geneva@2Macc:8:29 @ {\cf2 When this was done, and they all had made a general prayer, they besought the mercifull Lorde to be reconciled at the length with his seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:8:30 @ {\cf2 Afterwarde with one consent they fell vpon Timotheus and Bacchides, and slewe aboue twenty thousand, and wanne hie and strong holdes, and deuided great spoyles, and gaue an equall portion to the sicke, and to the fatherles, and to the widowes, and to aged persons also.}

geneva@2Macc:8:31 @ {\cf2 Moreouer they gathered their weapons together, and laide them vp diligently in conuenient places, and brought the remnant of the spoyles to Ierusalem.}

geneva@2Macc:8:32 @ {\cf2 They slewe also Philarches a most wicked person, which was with Timotheus, and had vexed the Iewes many wayes.}

geneva@2Macc:8:33 @ {\cf2 And when they kept the feast of victorie in their countrey, they burnt Calistenes that had set fire vpon the holy gates, which was fled into a litle house: so he receiued a rewarde meete for his wickednesse.}

geneva@2Macc:8:34 @ {\cf2 And that most wicked Nicanor, which had brought a thousand marchants to buy the Iewes,}

geneva@2Macc:8:35 @ {\cf2 He was through ye helpe of the Lord brought downe of them whom he thought as nothing, in so much that he put off his glorious rayment, & fled ouerthwart the countrey like a fugitiue seruant, & came alone to Antiochia, with great dishonour through the destruction of his hoste.}

geneva@2Macc:8:36 @ {\cf2 Thus hee that promised to pay tribute to the Romanes, by meanes of the prisoners of Ierusalem, brought newes, that the Iewes had a defender, & for this cause none coulde hurt the Iewes, because they followed the Lawes appoynted by him.}

geneva@2Macc:9:1 @ {\cf2 At the same time, came Antiochus againe with dishonour out of the countrey of Persia.}

geneva@2Macc:9:2 @ {\cf2 For when he came to Persepolis, and went about to robbe the Temple, and to subdue the citie, the people ranne in a rage to defende them selues with their weapons, and put them to flight, and Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants, and returned with shame.}

geneva@2Macc:9:3 @ {\cf2 Nowe when he came to Ecbatane, he vnderstoode the things that had come to Nicanor, and Timotheus.}

geneva@2Macc:9:4 @ {\cf2 And the being chased in his fume, he thought to impute to the Iewes their faute, which had put him to flight, and therefore commanded his charet man to driue continually, and to dispatch the iourney: for Gods iudgement compelled him: for hee had sayde thus in his pride, I will make Ierusalem a common burying place of the Iewes, when I come thither.}

geneva@2Macc:9:5 @ {\cf2 But the Lorde almightie and God of Israel smote him with an incurable and inuisible plague: for assoone as he had spoken these wordes, a payne of the bowels, that was remediles, came vpon him, and sore torments of the inner parts,}

geneva@2Macc:9:6 @ {\cf2 And that most iustly: for hee had tormented other mens bowels with diuers, and strange tormentes.}

geneva@2Macc:9:7 @ {\cf2 Howbeit he woulde in no wise cease from his arrogancie, but swelled the more with pride, breathing our fire in his rage against the Iewes, & commaunded to hast the iourney: but it came to passe that he fell downe from the charet that ran swiftely, so that al the members of his body were bruised with the great fall.}

geneva@2Macc:9:8 @ {\cf2 And thus hee that a litle afore thought hee might commande the floods of the sea (so proude was he beyond the condition of man) & to weigh the hie mountaines in the balance, was nowe caste on the grounde, and caried in an horselitter, declaring vnto all the manifest power of God,}

geneva@2Macc:9:9 @ {\cf2 So that the wormes came out of the bodie of this wicked man in aboundance: and whiles hee was aliue, his flesh fell off for payne and torment, and all his armie was grieued at his smell.}

geneva@2Macc:9:10 @ {\cf2 Thus no man coulde beare because of his stinke, him that a litle afore thought hee might reach to the starres of heauen.}

geneva@2Macc:9:11 @ {\cf2 Then hee began to leaue off his great pride, and selfewill, when hee was plagued and came to the knowledge of himselfe by the scourge of God, and by his paine which increased euery moment.}

geneva@2Macc:9:12 @ {\cf2 And when hee him selfe might not abide his owne stinke, hee saide these wordes, It is meete to be subiect vnto God, and that a man which is mortall, shoulde not thinke him selfe equall vnto God through pride.}

geneva@2Macc:9:13 @ {\cf2 This wicked person praied also vnto ye Lord, who would nowe haue no mercy on him,}

geneva@2Macc:9:14 @ {\cf2 And saide thus that he woulde set at libertie the holy citie vnto the which he made haste to destroy it, and to make it a burying place.}

geneva@2Macc:9:15 @ {\cf2 And as touching the Iewes whome hee had iudged not worthie to be buried, but woulde haue cast them out with their children to bee deuoured of the foules and wilde beastes, he would make the all like the citizens of Athenes.}

geneva@2Macc:9:16 @ {\cf2 And whereas he had spoyled the holy Temple afore, he would garnish it with great giftes, and increase the holy vessels, and of his owne rentes beare the charges belonging to the sacrifices.}

geneva@2Macc:9:17 @ {\cf2 Yea, and that he would also become a Iewe himselfe, and goe thorowe all the worlde that was inhabited, and preach the power of God.}

geneva@2Macc:9:18 @ {\cf2 But for all this his paines woulde not cease: for the iust iudgement of God was come vpon him: therfore despairing of his health, he wrote vnto the Iewes this letter vnder written, conteining the forme of a supplication.}

geneva@2Macc:9:19 @ {\cf2 The King and Prince Antiochus vnto the Iewes his louing citizens wisheth much ioy and health and prosperitie.}

geneva@2Macc:9:20 @ {\cf2 If ye and your children fare well, and if all thinges goe after your minde, I giue great thankes vnto God hauing hope in the heauen.}

geneva@2Macc:9:21 @ {\cf2 Though I lie sicke, yet I am mindful of your honour, and good will for the loue I beare you: therefore when I returned from the countrey of Persia, and fell into a sore disease, I thought it necessarie to care for the common safetie of all,}

geneva@2Macc:9:22 @ {\cf2 Not distrusting mine health, but hauing great hope to escape this sicknesse.}

geneva@2Macc:9:23 @ {\cf2 Therefore considering that when my father led an hoste against the high countreis, he appoynted who should succeede him:}

geneva@2Macc:9:24 @ {\cf2 That if any controuersie happened contrary to his expectation, or if that any tidings were brought that were grieuous, they in the land might know to whom the affaires were committed, that they shoulde not be troubled:}

geneva@2Macc:9:25 @ {\cf2 Againe, when I ponder howe that the gouernours, that are borderers, and neighbours vnto my kingdome, waite for all occasions, and looke but for opportunitie, I haue ordeined that my sonne Antiochus shalbe king, whome I oft commended and committed to many of you, when I went into the hie prouinces, and haue written vnto him as followeth hereafter.}

geneva@2Macc:9:26 @ {\cf2 Therefore, I pray you, and require you to remember the benefites that I haue done vnto you generally, and particularly, and that euery man will be faithfull vnto me and my sonne.}

geneva@2Macc:9:27 @ {\cf2 For I trust that he will be gentle, and louing vnto you according to my minde.}

geneva@2Macc:9:28 @ {\cf2 Thus the murtherer and blasphemer suffered most grieuously, and as he had intreated other men, so he died a miserable death in a strange coutrey among the mountaines.}

geneva@2Macc:9:29 @ {\cf2 And Philippe that was brought vp with him, caried away his body, who fearing the sonne of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemeus Philometor.}

geneva@2Macc:10:1 @ {\cf2 Maccabeus now and his company, through the helpe of the Lorde, wanne the Temple and the citie againe,}

geneva@2Macc:10:2 @ {\cf2 And destroyed the altars, and chappels that the heathen had builded in the open places,}

geneva@2Macc:10:3 @ {\cf2 And clensed the Temple, and made another altar, and burned stones, and tooke fire of them, and offered sacrifices, and incense two yeeres, and sixe moneths after, and set foorth the lampes, and the shewbread.}

geneva@2Macc:10:4 @ {\cf2 When that was done, they fell downe flat vpon the grounde, and besought the Lorde, that they might come no more into such troubles: but if they sinned any more against him, that hee him selfe woulde chasten them with mercy, and that they might not bee deliuered to the blasphemous, and barbarous nations.}

geneva@2Macc:10:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe vpon the same day, that the straungers polluted the Temple, on the very same day it was clensed againe, euen the fiue and twentie day of the same moneth, which is Chasleu.}

geneva@2Macc:10:6 @ {\cf2 They kept eight dayes with gladnesse as in the feast of the Tabernacles, remembring, that not long afore they held the feast of the Tabernacles when they liued in the mountaines and dennes like beastes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:7 @ {\cf2 And for the same cause they bare greene boughes, and faire branches and palmes, and sang Psalmes vnto him that had giuen them good successe in clensing his place.}

geneva@2Macc:10:8 @ {\cf2 They ordeined also by a common statute and decree, that euery yeere those dayes should be kept of the whole nation of the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:9 @ {\cf2 And this was the ende of Antiochus called Epiphanes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:10 @ {\cf2 Nowe will we declare the actes of Antiochus Eupator, which was the sonne of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the warres, that followed.}

geneva@2Macc:10:11 @ {\cf2 For when he had taken the kingdome, hee made one Lysias, which had bene captaine of the hoste in Phenice, and Coelosyria, ruler ouer the affaires of the realme.}

geneva@2Macc:10:12 @ {\cf2 For Ptolemeus that was called Macron, purposed to doe iustice vnto the Iewes for the wrong, that had bene done vnto them, and went about to behaue himselfe peaceably with them.}

geneva@2Macc:10:13 @ {\cf2 For the which cause hee was accused of his friendes before Eupator, and was called oft times traitour, because he had left Cyprus that Philometor had committed vnto him, and came to Antiochus Epiphanes: therefore seeing that hee was no more in estimation, he was discouraged, and poysoned himselfe, and died.}

geneva@2Macc:10:14 @ {\cf2 But when Gorgias was gouernour of the same places, hee interteined strangers, and made warre oft times against the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:15 @ {\cf2 Moreouer the Idumeans that helde the strong holdes, which were meete for their purpose, troubled the Iewes, and by receiuing them that were driuen from Ierusalem, tooke in hande to continue warre.}

geneva@2Macc:10:16 @ {\cf2 Then they that were with Maccabeus made prayers, and besought God that he woulde be their helper, and so they fell vpon the strong holdes of the Idumeans,}

geneva@2Macc:10:17 @ {\cf2 And assaulted them sore, that they wan the places, and slewe all that sought against them on the wall, and killed all that they met with, & slewe no lesse then twentie thousand.}

geneva@2Macc:10:18 @ {\cf2 And because certaine (which were no lesse then nine thousand) were fled into two strong castles, hauing all maner of things conuenient to susteine the siege,}

geneva@2Macc:10:19 @ {\cf2 Maccabeus left Simon, and Ioseph, and Zaccheus also, and those that were with them, which were inowe to besiege them, and departed to those places which were more necessarie.}

geneva@2Macc:10:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe they that were with Simon, being led with couetousnes, were intreated for mony (through certaine of those that were in the castel) & tooke seuentie thousand drachmes, and let some of them escape.}

geneva@2Macc:10:21 @ {\cf2 But when it was tolde Maccabeus what was done, hee called the gouernours of the people together, and accused those men, that they had solde their brethren for money, and let their enemies goe.}

geneva@2Macc:10:22 @ {\cf2 So he slew them when they were conuict of treason, and immediately wan the two castels:}

geneva@2Macc:10:23 @ {\cf2 And hauing good successe, as in al the warres that he tooke in hande, hee slewe in the two castels moe then twentie thousand.}

geneva@2Macc:10:24 @ {\cf2 Nowe Timotheus whom the Iewes had ouercome afore, gathered an armie of strangers of al sorts, and brought a great troupe of horsemen out of Asia to winne Iewrie by strength.}

geneva@2Macc:10:25 @ {\cf2 But when hee drewe neere, Maccabeus and they that were with him, turned to pray vnto God, and sprinkled earth vpon their heads, and girded their reines with sackcloth,}

geneva@2Macc:10:26 @ {\cf2 And fell downe at the foote of the altar, and besought the Lorde to bee mercifull to them, and to bee an enemie to their enemies, and to bee an aduersarie to their aduersaries, as the Lawe declareth.}

geneva@2Macc:10:27 @ {\cf2 So after ye prayer, they tooke their weapons, and went on further from the citie, and when they came neere to the enemies, they tooke heede to themselues.}

geneva@2Macc:10:28 @ {\cf2 And when the morning appeared, they both ioyned together: the one part had the Lord for their refuge, and pledge of prosperitie, and noblevictorie, and the other tooke courage as a guide of the warre.}

geneva@2Macc:10:29 @ {\cf2 But when the battel waxed strong, there appeared vnto the enemies from heauen fiue comely men vpon horses with bridles of golde, and two of them led the Iewes,}

geneva@2Macc:10:30 @ {\cf2 And tooke Maccabeus betwixt them, and couered him on euery side with their weapons, and kept him safe, but shot dartes, and lightnings against the enemies, so that they were confounded with blindenesse, and beaten downe and full of trouble.}

geneva@2Macc:10:31 @ {\cf2 There were slaine of foote men twentie thousande and fiue hundreth, and sixe hundreth horsemen.}

geneva@2Macc:10:32 @ {\cf2 As for Timotheus himselfe, he fled vnto Gazara, which was called a very strong holde, wherein Chereas was captaine.}

geneva@2Macc:10:33 @ {\cf2 But Maccabeus and his company layde siege against the fortresses with courage for foure dayes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:34 @ {\cf2 And they that were within, trusting to the height of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and spake horrible wordes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:35 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse vpon the fifth daye in the morning, twentie yong men of Maccabeus companie, whose heartes were inflamed, because of the blasphemies, came vnto the wall, and with bolde stomakes smote downe those that they met.}

geneva@2Macc:10:36 @ {\cf2 Others also that climed vp vpon the engines of warre against them that were within, set fire vpo the towres, and burnt those blasphemers quicke with the fires that they had made, and others brake vp the gates, and receiued the rest of the armie, and tooke the citie.}

geneva@2Macc:10:37 @ {\cf2 And hauing founde Timotheus, that was crept into a caue, they killed him, and Chereas his brother with Apollophanes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:38 @ {\cf2 When this was done, they praysed the Lorde with psalmes, and thanksgiuing, which had done so great thinges for Israel, and giuen them the victorie.}

geneva@2Macc:11:1 @ {\cf2 Very shortly after this, Lysias the kings steward, and a kinsman of his, which had the gouernance of the affaires, tooke sore displeasure for the things that were done.}

geneva@2Macc:11:2 @ {\cf2 And when he had gathered about fourescore thousand, with all the horsemen, he came against the Iewes, thinking to make the citie an habitation of the Gentiles.}

geneva@2Macc:11:3 @ {\cf2 And the temple would he haue to get money by, like the other temples of the heathen: for hee would sell the Priests office euery yeere.}

geneva@2Macc:11:4 @ {\cf2 And thus being puffed vp in his minde, because of the great number of footemen, and thousands of horsemen, & in his fourescore Elephants,}

geneva@2Macc:11:5 @ {\cf2 He came into Iudea, and drew neere to Bethsura, which was a castle of defence, fiue furlongs from Ierusalem, and layde sore siege vnto it.}

geneva@2Macc:11:6 @ {\cf2 But when Maccabeus, and his companie knew that he besieged the holdes, they, and all the people made prayers with weeping, and teares before the Lord, that he would send a good Angel to deliuer Israel.}

geneva@2Macc:11:7 @ {\cf2 And Maccabeus him selfe first of all tooke weapons, exhorting the other that they would ieoparde themselues together with him to helpe their brethren: so they went forth together with a couragious minde.}

geneva@2Macc:11:8 @ {\cf2 And as they were there besides Ierusalem, there appeared before them vpon horsebacke a man in white cloathing, shaking his harnesse of golde.}

geneva@2Macc:11:9 @ {\cf2 Then they praysed the mercifull God all together, and tooke heart, in so much that they were ready, not onely to fight with men, but with the most cruell beasts, and to breake downe walles of yron.}

geneva@2Macc:11:10 @ {\cf2 Thus they marched forwarde in aray, hauing an helper from heauen: for the Lord was mercifull vnto them.}

geneva@2Macc:11:11 @ {\cf2 And running vpon their enemies like lions, they slew eleuen thousande footemen, and sixteene hundreth horsemen, and put all the other to flight.}

geneva@2Macc:11:12 @ {\cf2 Many of them also being wounded, escaped naked, and Lysias himselfe fled away shamefully, & so escaped,}

geneva@2Macc:11:13 @ {\cf2 Who as he was a man of vnderstanding, cosidering what losse he had had, and knowing, that the Hebrewes could not be ouercome because the almightie God helped them, sent vnto them,}

geneva@2Macc:11:14 @ {\cf2 And promised, that he would consent to all things which were reasonable, & perswade the king to be their friend.}

geneva@2Macc:11:15 @ {\cf2 Maccabeus agreed to Lysias requests, hauing respect in all things to the common wealth, and whatsoeuer Maccabeus wrote vnto Lysias concerning the Iewes, the King granted it.}

geneva@2Macc:11:16 @ {\cf2 For there were letters written vnto ye Iewes from Lysias conteining these wordes, Lysias vnto the people of the Iewes sendeth greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:17 @ {\cf2 Iohn and Abessalom, which were sent from you, deliuered me the things that you demande by writing, and required mee to fulfill the things that they had declared.}

geneva@2Macc:11:18 @ {\cf2 Therefore what things soeuer were meete to be reported to the King himselfe, I haue declared them, and he granted that that was possible.}

geneva@2Macc:11:19 @ {\cf2 Therefore if ye behaue your selues as friends toward his affaires, hereafter also I will endeuour my selfe to do you good.}

geneva@2Macc:11:20 @ {\cf2 As concerning these things, I haue giuen commandement to these men, and to those whom I sent vnto you, to commune with you of the same particularly.}

geneva@2Macc:11:21 @ {\cf2 Fare ye well, the hundreth and eyght and fourtie yeere, the foure and twentieth day of the moneth Dioscorinthius.}

geneva@2Macc:11:22 @ {\cf2 Nowe the Kinges letter conteined these words, King Antiochvs vnto his brother Lysias sendeth greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:23 @ {\cf2 Since our father is translated vnto the gods, our will is, that they which are in our realme, liue quietly, that euery man may apply his owne affaires.}

geneva@2Macc:11:24 @ {\cf2 We vnderstand also that the Iewes woulde not consent to our father, for to be brought vnto the custome of the Gentiles, but would keepe their owne maner of liuing: for the which cause they require of vs, that we would suffer them to liue after their owne Lawes.}

geneva@2Macc:11:25 @ {\cf2 Wherefore our minde is that this nation shal be in rest, and haue determined to restore them their Temple, that they may be gouerned according to the custome of their fathers.}

geneva@2Macc:11:26 @ {\cf2 Thou shalt doe well therefore to sende vnto them, & grant them peace, that when they are certified of our minde, they may be of good comfort, and cheerefully go about their owne affaires.}

geneva@2Macc:11:27 @ {\cf2 And this was the Kings letter vnto the nation, King Antiochvs vnto the Elders of the Iewes, and to the rest of the Iewes, sendeth greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:28 @ {\cf2 If ye fare well, we haue our desire: we are also in good health.}

geneva@2Macc:11:29 @ {\cf2 Menelaus declared vnto vs that your desire was to returne home, and to applie your owne businesse.}

geneva@2Macc:11:30 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, those that will depart, we giue them free libertie, vnto the thirtie day of the moneth of Panthicus,}

geneva@2Macc:11:31 @ {\cf2 That the Iewes may vse their owne maner of liuing and lawes, like as afore, and none of them by any maner of wayes to haue harme for thinges done by ignorance.}

geneva@2Macc:11:32 @ {\cf2 I haue sent also Menelaus to comfort you.}

geneva@2Macc:11:33 @ {\cf2 Fare yee well: the hundreth and eyght and fourtie yeere, the fifteenth day of the moneth of Panthicus.}

geneva@2Macc:11:34 @ {\cf2 The Romanes also sent a letter conteining these wordes, Qvintvs Memmivs & Titus Manslius ambassadours of the Romanes, vnto the people of the Iewes send greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:35 @ {\cf2 The things that Lysias the Kings kinseman hath granted you, we grant the same also.}

geneva@2Macc:11:36 @ {\cf2 But concerning that which he shall report vnto the King, send hither some with speede, when ye haue considered the matter diligently, that wee may consult thereupon as shall be best for you: for we must go vnto Antiochia.}

geneva@2Macc:11:37 @ {\cf2 And therefore make haste and sende some men, that we may know your minde.}

geneva@2Macc:11:38 @ {\cf2 Fare well: this hundreth and eyght and fourtie yeere, the fifteenth day of the moneth of Panthicus.}

geneva@2Macc:12:1 @ {\cf2 When these couenantes were made, Lysias went vnto the King, and the Iewes tilled their grounde.}

geneva@2Macc:12:2 @ {\cf2 But the gouernours of the places, as Timotheus and Apollonius the sonne of Genneus, and Ieronimus, and also Demophon, and besides them Nicanor the gouernour of Cyprus, woulde not let them liue in rest and peace.}

geneva@2Macc:12:3 @ {\cf2 They of Ioppe also did such a vile acte: they prayed the Iewes that dwelt among them, to goe with their wiues and children into the shippes, which they had prepared as though they had ought them none euill will.}

geneva@2Macc:12:4 @ {\cf2 And so by the common aduise of the citie, they obeyed them, and suspect nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deepe, they drowned no lesse then two hundreth of them.}

geneva@2Macc:12:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas knewe of this crueltie shewed against his nation, hee commanded those men that were with him, to make them readie.}

geneva@2Macc:12:6 @ {\cf2 And hauing called vpon God the righteous Iudge, hee went foorth against the murtherers of his brethren, and set fire in the hauen by night, and burnt the shippes, and those that fled thence, he slewe.}

geneva@2Macc:12:7 @ {\cf2 And when the citie was shut vp, hee departed as though he would come againe, and roote out all them of the citie of Ioppe.}

geneva@2Macc:12:8 @ {\cf2 But when hee perceiued that the Iamnites were minded to doe in like maner vnto the Iewes, which dwelt among them,}

geneva@2Macc:12:9 @ {\cf2 He came vpon the Iamnites by night, and set fire in the hauen with the nauie, so that the light of the fire was seene at Ierusalem, vpo a two hundreth and fourtie furlongs.}

geneva@2Macc:12:10 @ {\cf2 Now whe they were gone from thence nine furlongs, in their iourney toward Timotheus, about fiue thousand men of foote and fiue hundreth horsemen of the Arabians set vpon him.}

geneva@2Macc:12:11 @ {\cf2 So the battell was sharpe, but it prospered with Iudas through the helpe of God: the Nomades of Arabia; being ouercome, besought Iudas to make peace with them, and promised to giue him certaine cattell, and to helpe him in other things.}

geneva@2Macc:12:12 @ {\cf2 And Iudas thinking that they shoulde in deede be profitable concerning many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shooke hands, and so they departed to their tents.}

geneva@2Macc:12:13 @ {\cf2 Iudas also assaulted a citie called Caspis, which was strong by reason of a bridge, and fenced round about with walles, and had diuers kindes of people dwelling therein.}

geneva@2Macc:12:14 @ {\cf2 So they that were within it, put such trust in the strength of the walles, and in store of vitailes, that they were ye slacker in their doings, reuiling the that were with Iudas, and reproching them: yea, they blasphemed and spake such wordes as were not lawfull.}

geneva@2Macc:12:15 @ {\cf2 But Maccabeus souldiers, calling vpon the great Prince of the world (which without any instruments, or engins of warre, did cast downe the walles of Iericho, in the time of Iesus) gaue a fierce assault against the walles,}

geneva@2Macc:12:16 @ {\cf2 And tooke the citie by the will of God, and made an exceeding great slaughter, in so much that a lake of two furlongs broade, which lay thereby, seemed to flowe with blood.}

geneva@2Macc:12:17 @ {\cf2 Then departed they from thence, seuen hundreth and fiftie furlongs, and came to Characa vnto the Iewes, that are called Tubieni.}

geneva@2Macc:12:18 @ {\cf2 But they founde not Timotheus therefor he was departed from thence, and had done nothing, and had left a garison in a very strong hold.}

geneva@2Macc:12:19 @ {\cf2 But Dositheus, and Sosipater, which were captaines with Maccabeus, went foorth, and slewe those that Timotheus had left in the fortresse more then tenne thousand men.}

geneva@2Macc:12:20 @ {\cf2 And Maccabeus prepared, and ranged his armie by bandes, and went couragiously against Timotheus, which had with him an hundreth and twentie thousand men of foote, and two thousand and fiue hundreth horsemen.}

geneva@2Macc:12:21 @ {\cf2 When Timotheus had knowledge of Iudas coming, he sent the women, and children, and the other baggage afore vnto a fortresse called Carnion (for it was hard to besiege, and vneasie to come vnto because of the straites on all sides.)}

geneva@2Macc:12:22 @ {\cf2 But when Iudas first band came in sight, the enemies were smitten with feare, and a trembling was among them through the presence of him that seeth all thinges, in so much that they fleeing one here, another there, were oft times hurt by their owne people, and wounded with the poyntes of their owne swordes.}

geneva@2Macc:12:23 @ {\cf2 But Iudas was very earnest in pursuing, andslewe those wicked men yea, hee slewe thirtie thousand men of them.}

geneva@2Macc:12:24 @ {\cf2 Timotheus also himselfe fell into the handes of Dositheus, and Sosipater, whome hee besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Iewes parents and the brethren of some of them, which, if they put him to death, should be despised.}

geneva@2Macc:12:25 @ {\cf2 So when hee had assured them with many wordes, and promised that he woulde restore them without hurt, they let him goe for the health of their brethren.}

geneva@2Macc:12:26 @ {\cf2 Then went Maccabeus toward Carnion, and Atargation, and slewe fiue and twentie thousand persons:}

geneva@2Macc:12:27 @ {\cf2 And after that hee had chased away, and slayne them, Iudas remoued the hoste towarde Ephron a strong citie, wherein was Lysias and a great multitude of all nations, and the strong yong men kept the walles defending them mightily: there was also great preparation of engins of warre, and dartes.}

geneva@2Macc:12:28 @ {\cf2 But when they had called vpon the Lorde, which with his power breaketh the strength of the enemies, they wanne the citie, and slewe fiue and twentie thousand of them that were within.}

geneva@2Macc:12:29 @ {\cf2 From thence went they to Scythopolis, which lieth sixe hundreth furlonges from Ierusalem.}

geneva@2Macc:12:30 @ {\cf2 But when the Iewes which dwelt there, testified, that the Scythopolitans delt louingly with them, and intreated the kindly in the time of their aduersitie,}

geneva@2Macc:12:31 @ {\cf2 They gaue them thankes, desiring them to be friendly still vnto them, and so they came to Ierusalem, as the feast of the weekes approched.}

geneva@2Macc:12:32 @ {\cf2 And after the feast called Pentecost, they went forth against Gorgias ye gouernor of Idumea:}

geneva@2Macc:12:33 @ {\cf2 Who came out with three thousande men of foote and foure hundreth horsemen.}

geneva@2Macc:12:34 @ {\cf2 And when they ioyned together, a fewe of the Iewes were slaine,}

geneva@2Macc:12:35 @ {\cf2 And Dositheus one of the Baccenors, which was on horsebacke and a mighty man, tooke Gorgias, and laide holde of his garment, and drewe him by force, because he woulde haue taken the wicked man aliue: but an horseman of Thracia fell vpon him, & smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled into Marisa.}

geneva@2Macc:12:36 @ {\cf2 And when they that were with Eserin, had foughten long, and were weary, Iudas called vpon the Lord, that he would shewe him selfe to be their helper, and captaine of the fielde.}

geneva@2Macc:12:37 @ {\cf2 And then hee began in his owne language, and sung psalmes with a loude voyce, in so much that straightwaies hee made them that were about Gorgias, to take their flight.}

geneva@2Macc:12:38 @ {\cf2 So Iudas gathered his hoste, and came into the citie of Odolla; when the seuenth day came, they clensed them selues (as the custome was) and kept the Sabbath in the same place.}

geneva@2Macc:12:39 @ {\cf2 And vpon the day following, as necessitie required, Iudas and his companie came to take vp the bodyes of them that were slaine, and to burie them with their kinsmen in their fathers graues.}

geneva@2Macc:12:40 @ {\cf2 Nowe vnder the coates of euery one, that was slaine, they founde iewels that had bene consecrate to the idoles of the Iamnites, which thing is forbidden the Iewes by the Lawe. Then euery man sawe, that this was the cause wherefore they were slaine.}

geneva@2Macc:12:41 @ {\cf2 And so euery man gaue thankes vnto the Lorde, the righteous Iudge, which had opened the things that were hid.}

geneva@2Macc:12:42 @ {\cf2 And they gaue them selues to prayer, and besought him, that they should not, vtterly be destroyed for the fault comitted. Besides that, noble Iudas exhorted the people to keepe them selues from sinne, for so much as they sawe before their eyes the things which came to passe by the sinne of these that were slaine,}

geneva@2Macc:12:43 @ {\cf2 And hauing made a gathering through the company, sent to Ierusalem about two thousande drachmes of siluer, to offer a sinne offering, doing very well, and honestly that he thought of the resurrection.}

geneva@2Macc:12:44 @ {\cf2 For if he had not hoped, that they which were slaine, should rise againe, it had bene superfluous, and vaine, to pray for the dead.}

geneva@2Macc:12:45 @ {\cf2 And therefore he perceiued, that there was great fauour laid vp for those that dyed godly. (It was an holy, and a good thought.) So he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be deliuered from sinne.}

geneva@2Macc:13:1 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, fourtie and nine yeere it was tolde Iudas, that Antiochus Eupator was comming with a great power into Iudea,}

geneva@2Macc:13:2 @ {\cf2 And Lysias the stewarde and ruler of his affaires with him, hauing both in their armie an hundreth and ten thousande men of foote of the Grecians, and fiue thousande horsemen, and two and twentie elephants, and three hundreth charets set with hookes.}

geneva@2Macc:13:3 @ {\cf2 Menelaus also ioyned him selfe with them, and with great deceite encouraged Antiochus, not for the sauegarde of the countrey, but because he thought to haue bene made the gouernour.}

geneva@2Macc:13:4 @ {\cf2 But the King of Kings moued Antiochus minde against this wicked man, and Lysias infourmed the King that this man was the cause of all mischiefe, so that the King commaunded to bring him to Berea to put him vnto death, as the maner was in that place.}

geneva@2Macc:13:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe there was in that place a towre of fiftie cubites high, full of ashes, and it had an instrument that turned rounde, and on euery side it rowled downe into the ashes.}

geneva@2Macc:13:6 @ {\cf2 And there whosoeuer was condemned of sacriledge, or of any other grieuous crime, was cast of all men to the death.}

geneva@2Macc:13:7 @ {\cf2 And so it came to passe that this wicked man should die such a death, and it was a most iust thing that Menelaus should want buriall,}

geneva@2Macc:13:8 @ {\cf2 For because he had committed many sinnes by the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy: hee him selfe also dyed in the ashes.}

geneva@2Macc:13:9 @ {\cf2 Nowe the King raged in his minde, and came to shew him selfe more cruell vnto the Iewes then his father.}

geneva@2Macc:13:10 @ {\cf2 Which things when Iudas perceiued, he comanded the people to call vpon the Lord night & day, that if euer he had holpen them, he would now helpe the, when they should be put from their law, from their countrey and from the holy Temple:}

geneva@2Macc:13:11 @ {\cf2 And that he would not suffer the people, which a litle afore began to recouer, to be subdued vnto the blasphemous nations.}

geneva@2Macc:13:12 @ {\cf2 So when they had done this all together, & besought the Lorde for mercie with weeping, and fasting, and falling downe three dayes together, Iudas exhorted them to make them selues readie.}

geneva@2Macc:13:13 @ {\cf2 And he being apart with the Elders, tooke counsell to goe foorth, afore the King brought his hoste into Iudea, and shoulde take the citie, and commit the matter to the helpe of the Lorde.}

geneva@2Macc:13:14 @ {\cf2 So committing the charge to the Lorde of the worlde, he exhorted his souldiers to fight manfully, euen vnto death for the Lawes, the Temple, the citie, their countrey, and the common wealth, and camped by Modin.}

geneva@2Macc:13:15 @ {\cf2 And so giuing his souldiers for a watch word, The victorie of God, he piked out the manliest yong men, & went by night into the Kings campe, and slewe of the hoste fourteene thousande men, & the greatest elephant with all that sate vpon him.}

geneva@2Macc:13:16 @ {\cf2 Thus when they had brought a great feare, and trouble in the campe, and all things went prosperously with them, they departed.}

geneva@2Macc:13:17 @ {\cf2 This was done in the breake of the day, because the protection of the Lorde did helpe them.}

geneva@2Macc:13:18 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the King had tasted the malinesse of the Iewes, he went about to take the holdes by policie,}

geneva@2Macc:13:19 @ {\cf2 And marched toward Beth-sura, which was a strong holde of the Iewes: but he was chased away, hurt and lost of his men.}

geneva@2Macc:13:20 @ {\cf2 For Iudas had sent vnto them that were in it, such things as were necessarie.}

geneva@2Macc:13:21 @ {\cf2 But Rhodocus which was in the Iewes hoste, disclosed the secrets to the enemies: therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.}

geneva@2Macc:13:22 @ {\cf2 After this did the King commune with them that were in Beth-sura, & tooke truce with them, departed, and ioyned battel with Iudas, who ouercame him.}

geneva@2Macc:13:23 @ {\cf2 But when he vnderstoode, that Philippe (whome he had left to be ouerseer of his businesse at Antiochia) did rebell against him, he was astonished, so that he yeelded him selfe to the Iewes, and made them an othe to doe all things that were right, and was appeased towarde them, and offered sacrifice and adorned the Temple, and shewed great gentlenesse to the place,}

geneva@2Macc:13:24 @ {\cf2 And embraced Maccabeus, and made him captaine and gouernour from Ptolemais vnto the Gerreneans.}

geneva@2Macc:13:25 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles, when he came to Ptolemais, the people of the citie were not content with this agreement: & because they were grieued, they would that he should breake the couenants.}

geneva@2Macc:13:26 @ {\cf2 Then went Lysias vp into the iudgement seate, and excused the facte as well as he could, and perswaded them, and pacified them, and made them well affectioned, & came againe vnto Antiochia. This is the matter concerning the Kings iourney, and his returne.}

geneva@2Macc:14:1 @ {\cf2 After three yeeres was Iudas enformed that Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus was come vp with a great power and nauie by the hauen of Tripolis,}

geneva@2Macc:14:2 @ {\cf2 When he had wonne the countrey, and slaine Antiochus and his Lieutenant Lysias.}

geneva@2Macc:14:3 @ {\cf2 Now Alcunus, which had bene the high Priest, and wilfully defiled himselfe in the time that all thinges were confounded, seeing that by no meanes he could saue himselfe, nor haue any more entrance to the holie Altar,}

geneva@2Macc:14:4 @ {\cf2 He came to King Demetrius in the hundreth, fiftie and one yeere, presenting vnto him a crowne of golde, and a palme, and of the boughes, which were vsed solemnly in the Temple, and that day he held his tongue.}

geneva@2Macc:14:5 @ {\cf2 But when hee had gotten opportunitie, and occasion for his rage, Demetrius called him to cousell, and asked him what deuises or counsels the Iewes leaned vnto.}

geneva@2Macc:14:6 @ {\cf2 To the which hee answered, The Iewes that be called Asideans, whose captaine is Iudas Maccabeus, maintaine warres, and make insurrections, and will not let the Realme be in peace.}

geneva@2Macc:14:7 @ {\cf2 Therefore I, being depriued of my fathers honour (I meane the high Priesthode) am nowe come hether,}

geneva@2Macc:14:8 @ {\cf2 Partly, because I was well affectioned vnto the kings affaires, and secodly, because I sought the profit of mine owne citizens: for all our people, thorow their rashnes, are not a little troubled.}

geneva@2Macc:14:9 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, O King, seeing thou knowest all these things, make prouision for the countrey, and our nation which is abused, according to thine own humanitie, that is readie to helpe all men.}

geneva@2Macc:14:10 @ {\cf2 For as long as Iudas liueth, it is not possible that the matter should be well.}

geneva@2Macc:14:11 @ {\cf2 When hee had spoken these wordes, other friendes also hauing euil will at Iudas, set Demetrius on fire.}

geneva@2Macc:14:12 @ {\cf2 Who immediatly called for Nicanor, the ruler of the Elephants, and made him captaine ouer Iudea,}

geneva@2Macc:14:13 @ {\cf2 And sent him forth, commanding him to slay Iudas, and to scatter them that were with him, & to make Alcimus high Priest of the great Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:14:14 @ {\cf2 Then the heathen which fled out of Iudea from Iudas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the harme and calamities of the Iewes to bee their welfare.}

geneva@2Macc:14:15 @ {\cf2 Now when ye Iewes heard of Nicanors comming, and the gathering together of the heathen, they sprinkled themselues with earth, and prayed vnto him which had appoynted himselfe a people for euer, and did alwayes defende his owne portion with euident tokens.}

geneva@2Macc:14:16 @ {\cf2 So at the commandement of the captaine, they remooued straightwayes from thence, and came to the towne of Dessan,}

geneva@2Macc:14:17 @ {\cf2 Where Simon Iudas brother had ioyned battel with Nicanor, and was somewhat astonished through the sudden silence of the enemies.}

geneva@2Macc:14:18 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse Nicanor hearing the manlines of them that were with Iudas, and the bolde stomackes that they had for their countrey, durst notproue the matter with bloudsheading.}

geneva@2Macc:14:19 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, he sent Posidonius, Theodocius, and Matthias before, to make peace.}

geneva@2Macc:14:20 @ {\cf2 So when they had taken long aduisement thereupon, & the captaine shewed it vnto the multitude, they were agreed in one minde, and consented to the couenants.}

geneva@2Macc:14:21 @ {\cf2 And they appointed a day when they should particularly come together: so when the day was come, they set for euery man his stoole.}

geneva@2Macc:14:22 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse Iudas commaunded certeine men of armes to waite in conuenient places, least there should suddenly arise any euil through the enemies: and so they communed together of the things whereupon they had agreed.}

geneva@2Macc:14:23 @ {\cf2 Nicanor, while hee abode at Ierusalem, did none hurt, but sent away the people that were gathered together.}

geneva@2Macc:14:24 @ {\cf2 Hee loued Iudas, and fauoured him in his heart.}

geneva@2Macc:14:25 @ {\cf2 He prayed him also to take a wife, & to beget children: so he maried, and they liued together.}

geneva@2Macc:14:26 @ {\cf2 But Alcimus perceiuing the loue that was betweene them, and vnderstanding the couenants that were made, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had taken strange matters in hande, and ordeined Iudas a traytour to the Realme, to be his successour.}

geneva@2Macc:14:27 @ {\cf2 Then the King was displeased, and by the reportes of this wicked man, hee wrote to Nicanor, saying, that hee was very angry for the couenants, commanding him that hee should send Maccabeus in all haste prisoner vnto Antiochia.}

geneva@2Macc:14:28 @ {\cf2 When these things came to Nicanor, he was astonished and sore grieued, that hee should breake the things wherein they had agreed, seeing that that man had committed no wickednesse.}

geneva@2Macc:14:29 @ {\cf2 But because it was not commodious to him to withstand the King, hee sought craftily to accomplish it.}

geneva@2Macc:14:30 @ {\cf2 Notwithstanding when Maccabeus perceiued that Nicanor began to be rough vnto him, and that he intreated him more rudely then hee was wont, he perceiued that such rigour came not of good, & therefore he gathered a fewe of his men, and withdrewe himselfe from Nicanor.}

geneva@2Macc:14:31 @ {\cf2 But the other perceiuing that he was preuented by Maccabeus worthy pollicie, came into the great and holy Temple, and commaunded the Priests, which were offering their vsuall sacrifices, to deliuer him the man.}

geneva@2Macc:14:32 @ {\cf2 And when they sware that they could not tell where the man was, whome he sought,}

geneva@2Macc:14:33 @ {\cf2 He stretched out his right hand towarde the Temple, and made an othe in this maner, If ye will not deliuer me Iudas as a prisoner, I will make this Temple of God a plaine fielde, and will breake downe the altar, and will erect a notable Temple vnto Bacchus.}

geneva@2Macc:14:34 @ {\cf2 After these wordes he departed: then the Priestes lift vp their handes towarde heauen, and besought him that was euer the defender of their nation, saying in this maner,}

geneva@2Macc:14:35 @ {\cf2 Thou, O Lord of all things, which hast need of nothing, wouldest that the Teple of thine habitation shoulde be among vs.}

geneva@2Macc:14:36 @ {\cf2 Therefore nowe, O most holy Lord, keepe this house euer vndefiled, which lately was clensed, and stoppe all the mouthes of the vnrighteous.}

geneva@2Macc:14:37 @ {\cf2 Nowe was there accused vnto Nicanor, Razis one of the Elders of Ierusalem, a louer of the citie, and a man of very good report, which for his loue was called a father of the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:14:38 @ {\cf2 For this man aforetimes when the Iewes were minded to keepe them selues vndefiled and pure, being accused to be of the religion of the Iewes, did offer to spende his body and life, with all constancie for the religion of the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:14:39 @ {\cf2 So Nicanor willing to declare the hatred that he bare to the Iewes, sent about fiue hundreth men of warre to take him.}

geneva@2Macc:14:40 @ {\cf2 For he thought by taking him to doe the Iewes much hurt.}

geneva@2Macc:14:41 @ {\cf2 But when this companie would haue taken his castle, and woulde haue broken the gates by violence, and commaunded to bring fire to burne the gates, so that he was ready to be taken on euery side, he fell on his sworde,}

geneva@2Macc:14:42 @ {\cf2 Willing rather to dye manfully, then to giue him selfe into the handes of wicked men, and to suffer reproch vnworthy for his noble stocke.}

geneva@2Macc:14:43 @ {\cf2 Notwithstanding what time as he missed of his stroke for haste, and the multitude russhed in violently betweene the doores, he ranne boldly to the wall, and cast him selfe downe manfully among the multitude.}

geneva@2Macc:14:44 @ {\cf2 Which conueyed them selues lightly away, and gaue place, so that he fell vpon his bellie.}

geneva@2Macc:14:45 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse while there was yet breath in him, being kindled in his minde, he rose vp, and though his blood gushed out like a fountaine, and he was very sore wounded, yet he ran thorowe the middest of the people,}

geneva@2Macc:14:46 @ {\cf2 And gate him to the toppe of an high rock: so when his blood was vtterly gone, he tooke out his owne bowels with both his handes, and threwe them vpon the people, calling vpon the Lorde of life and spirit, that he woulde restore them againe vnto him, and thus he dyed.}

geneva@2Macc:15:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Nicanor knewe that Iudas and his companie were in the countrey of Samaria, he thought with all assurance to come vpon them, vpon the Sabbath day.}

geneva@2Macc:15:2 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, the Iewes that were compelled to goe with him, said, O kill not so cruelly and barbarously, but honour and sanctifie the day, that is appointed by him that seeth all things.}

geneva@2Macc:15:3 @ {\cf2 But this most wicked person demaunded, Is there a Lorde in heauen, that commaunded the Sabbath day to be kept?}

geneva@2Macc:15:4 @ {\cf2 And when they said, There is a liuing Lorde, which ruleth in the heauen, who commanded the seuenth day to be kept,}

geneva@2Macc:15:5 @ {\cf2 Then he saide, And I am mightie vpon earth to commande them for to arme them selues, and to perfourme the kings businesse. Notwithstanding, he could not accoplish his wicked enterprise.}

geneva@2Macc:15:6 @ {\cf2 For Nicanor lifted vp with great pride, purposed to set vp a memorial of the victorie obteined of all them that were with Iudas.}

geneva@2Macc:15:7 @ {\cf2 But Maccabeus had euer sure confidence & a perfite hope that the Lorde would helpe him,}

geneva@2Macc:15:8 @ {\cf2 And exhorted his people not to be afraid at the coming of the heathen, but always to remember the helpe that had bene shewed vnto them from heauen, & to trust nowe also, that they should haue the victorie by the Almightie.}

geneva@2Macc:15:9 @ {\cf2 Thus he incouraged them by the Lawe and Prophets, putting them in remembrance of the battels that they had wonne afore, and so made them more willing,}

geneva@2Macc:15:10 @ {\cf2 And stirred vp their heartes, & shewed them also the deceitfulnesse of the heathen, & how they had broken their othes.}

geneva@2Macc:15:11 @ {\cf2 Thus he armed euery one of them, not with the assurance of shieldes & speares, but with wholesome wordes and exhortations, and shewed them a dreame worthie to be beleeued, and reioyced them greatly.}

geneva@2Macc:15:12 @ {\cf2 And this was his vision, He thought that he sawe Onias (which had bene the high Priest, a vertuous and a good man, reuerent in behauiour, and of sober conuersation, well spoken, and one that had bene exercised in all pointes of godlinesse from a childe) holding vp his handes towardes heauen, and praying for the whole people of the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:15:13 @ {\cf2 After this there appeared vnto him another man which was aged, honourable, and of a wonderfull dignitie, and excellencie aboue him.}

geneva@2Macc:15:14 @ {\cf2 And Onias spake, and said, This is a louer of the brethren, who prayeth much for the people, and for the holy citie, to wit, Ieremias the Prophet of God.}

geneva@2Macc:15:15 @ {\cf2 He thought also that Ieremias helde out his right hande, and gaue vnto Iudas a sworde of gold: and as he gaue it, he spake thus,}

geneva@2Macc:15:16 @ {\cf2 Take this holy sworde a gifte from God, wherewith thou shalt wound the aduersaries.}

geneva@2Macc:15:17 @ {\cf2 And so being comforted by the wordes of Iudas, which were very sweete & able to stirre the vp to valiantnesse and to incourage the heartes of the yong men, they determined to pitch no campe, but couragiously to set vpon them, and manfully to assaile them, and to trie the matter hand to hand, because the citie and the Sanctuarie and the Temple were in danger.}

geneva@2Macc:15:18 @ {\cf2 As for their wiues, and children, and brethre and kinsfolkes, they set lesse by their danger: but their greatest and principall feare was for the holy Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:15:19 @ {\cf2 Againe they that were in the citie, were carefull for the armie that was abroad.}

geneva@2Macc:15:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe whiles they all wayted for the tryall of the matter, and the enemies nowe mette with them, and the hoste was set in aray, and the beasts were separated into conuenient places, and the horsemen were placed in the wings,}

geneva@2Macc:15:21 @ {\cf2 Maccabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the diuers preparations of weapons, and the fiercenesse of the beastes, helde vp his handes toward heauen, calling vpon the Lord that doeth wonders, and that looked vpon them, knowing that the victorie commeth not by ye weapons, but that he giueth the victorie to them that are worthy, as seemeth good vnto him.}

geneva@2Macc:15:22 @ {\cf2 Therefore in his prayer he said after this maner, O Lord, thou that diddest sende thine Angel in the time of Ezechias King of Iudea, who in the host of Sennacherib slewe an hundreth, foure score and fiue thousand,}

geneva@2Macc:15:23 @ {\cf2 Sende nowe also thy good Angell before vs, O Lorde of heauens, for a feare and dread vnto them,}

geneva@2Macc:15:24 @ {\cf2 And let them be discomfited by the strength of thine arme, which come against thine holy people to blaspheme. Thus with these wordes he made an ende.}

geneva@2Macc:15:25 @ {\cf2 Then Nicanor and they that were with him, drew neere with trumpets & shoutings for ioy.}

geneva@2Macc:15:26 @ {\cf2 But Iudas & his company praying & calling vpon God, encountered with the enemies,}

geneva@2Macc:15:27 @ {\cf2 So that with their handes they fought, but with their hearts they prayed vnto God, and slewe no lesse then fiue and thirtie thousande men: for through the presence of God they were wonderously comforted.}

geneva@2Macc:15:28 @ {\cf2 Now when they left off, & were turning againe with ioy, they vnderstoode that Nicanor himselfe was slaine for all his armour.}

geneva@2Macc:15:29 @ {\cf2 Then they made a great shout & a cry, praysing the Almightie in their owne language.}

geneva@2Macc:15:30 @ {\cf2 Therefore Iudas, which was euer the chiefe defender of his citizens both in body and minde, and which bare euer good affection towards them of his nation, commaunded to smite off Nicanors head, with his hand and shoulder, and to bring it to Ierusalem.}

geneva@2Macc:15:31 @ {\cf2 And when he came there, he called all them of his nation, and set the Priests by the altar, and sent for them of the castel,}

geneva@2Macc:15:32 @ {\cf2 And shewed them wicked Nicanors head, and the hand of that blasphemour which he had holden vp against the holy Temple of the Almightie with proude bragges.}

geneva@2Macc:15:33 @ {\cf2 He caused the tongue also of wicked Nicanor to be cut in litle pieces, and to be cast vnto the foules, & that the rewardes of his madnesse should be hanged vp before the Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:15:34 @ {\cf2 So euery man praised toward the heauen the glorious Lorde, saying, Blessed be he, that hath kept his place vndefiled.}

geneva@2Macc:15:35 @ {\cf2 He hanged also Nicanors head vpon the hie castell, for an euident and plaine token vnto all of the helpe of God.}

geneva@2Macc:15:36 @ {\cf2 And so they established all together by a common decree, that they would in no case suffer this day without keeping it holy:}

geneva@2Macc:15:37 @ {\cf2 And that the feast should be the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth, which is called Adar in the Syrians language, the day before Mardocheus day.}

geneva@2Macc:15:38 @ {\cf2 Thus farre as concerning Nicanors matters, and from that time the Hebrues had the citie in possession; here will I also make an ende.}

geneva@2Macc:15:39 @ {\cf2 If I haue done wel, and as the storie required, it is the thing that I desired: but if I haue spoken slenderly and barely, it is that I could.}

geneva@2Macc:15:40 @ {\cf2 For as it is hurtfull to drinke wine alone, & then againe water: and as wine tempered with water is pleasant and delighteth the taste: so the setting out of the matter deliteth the eares of them that reade the storie; here shall be the ende.}


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