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CHAP. XLVIII.
The prayse of Elias, Eliseus, Ezekias, and Isaias.
1 Then stood vp note note Elias the Prophet as a fire, and
his worde burnt like a lampe.
2 He brought a famine vpon them, and by his
zeale he diminished them: [for they might not away
with the commandements of the Lord.]
3 By the word of the Lord he shut the heauen,
note and three times brought he the fire from heauen.
4 O Elias, how honorable art thou by thy w&obar;derous
deedes! who may make his boast to be like thee!
5 noteWhich hast raised vp þe; dead from death, and
by the word of the most High out of the graue:
6 Which hast brought Kings vnto destruction,
and the honourable from their seate:
7 Which heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sina,
note and in Horeb the iudgement of the vengeance:
8 noteWhich diddest anoint Kings þt; they might
note recompense, and Prophets to be thy successours:
9 noteWhich wast taken vp in a whirle winde of
fire, and in a charet of fierie horses:
10 Which wast appointed note 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.
11 Blessed were they that sawe thee, and slept in
loue: for we shall liue.
12 noteWhen Elias was couered with the storme,
note Eliseus was filled with his spirit: while he liued, he
was not moued for any prince, neither coulde any
bring him into subiection.
13 Nothing could ouercome him, note and after his
death his body prophesied.
14 He did wonders in his life, and in death were
his workes marueilous.
15 For all this the people repented not, neither
departed they from their sinnes: note 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 þe; house
of Dauid.
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16 Howbeit some of them did right, and some
heaped vp sinnes.
17 note noteEzekias made his citie strong, and conueied
water into the middes thereof: he digged thorowe
the rocke with yron, & made fountaines for waters.
18 noteIn his time came Sennacherib vp, and sent
Rabsaces, & lift vp his hand against Sion, and boasted
proudly.
19 Then trembled their heartes and handes, so
that they sorowed like a woman in trauell.
20 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.
21 [He thought no more vpon their sinnes, nor
gaue them ouer to their enemies,] but deliuered
them by the hand of Esai.
22 noteHe smote the hoste of the Assyrians, and his
Angel destroyed them.
23 For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased
the Lorde, and remained stedfastly in the wayes of
Dauid his father, as note Esai the great Prophet, and
faithfull in his vision had commanded him.
24 noteIn his time the sunne went backwarde, and
he lengthened the Kings life.
25 He sawe by an excellent Spirit what shoulde
come to passe at the last, and he comforted them
that were sorowfull in Sion.
26 He shewed what shoulde come to passe for
euer, and secret things, or euer they came to passe.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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