Truly God is louing vnto Israel: eu&ebar;
vnto soch as are of a cleane hert?
Neuerthelesse, my fete were almost
gone, my treadinges had well nye slypte.
And why note I was greued at þe; wicked,
I do se also the vngodly in soch prosperite.
For they are in no parell of death, but are
lusty and strong. They come in no misfortune
like other folke, nether are they plaged
like other m&ebar;. And this is the cause þe; they
be so holden with pride, and ouerwhelmed
with cruelte. Their eyes swell for fatnesse,
and they do euen what they lyst.
They corrupte other, ∧ speake of wicked
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blasphemye: theyr talkynge is agaynst the
most hiest.
B For they stretch forth theyr
mouth vnto the heauen, ∧ theyr tonge goeth
thorow the world. Therfore fall the people
vnto them, and there out sucke they no
small aduauntage. noteTush (saye they)
how shuld God perceaue it? is there knowlege
in the moost hyest? Lo, these are the
vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, and
these haue ryches in possessyon (And sayde,)
Then haue I clensed my herte in vayne and
washed my handes in innocency? All the
daye long haue I bene punished, and chastened
euery mornynge.
C Yee, and I had almost
sayde euen as they: but lo, then shuld I
haue condemned the generacyon of thy chyldren.
Th&ebar; thought I to vnderstand this,
but it was to harde for me. Untill I wente
into the Sanctuary of God, then vnderderstode
I the ende of these m&ebar;. Namely,
how thou dost sett them in slyppery places,
and castest them downe and destroyest them.
O how sodenly do they consume, perysh,
and come to a fearfull ende? noteYee, euen
like as a dreame when one a waketh, so shalt
thou make &rhand; theyr ymage to vanysh out
of the cyte.
D Thus my hert was greued, &abar;d
it wente euen thorow my reynes. So folysh
was I and ignoraunt, euen as it were a
beast before the. Neuerthelesse, I am all
waye by the, for þu; hast hold&ebar; me by my right
hande. Thou shalt gyde me with thy councell,
and afterwarde receaue me with glory.
Whom haue I in heauen but þe;? And
there is none vpon earth, that I desyre in c&obar;paryson
of the. My fleashe and my hert
fayleth, but God is the strength of my hert,
note and my porcyon for euer. For lo, they
that forsake the shall perysh: thou hast destroyed
all them that commytte fornicacyon
agaynst the. But it is good for me, to
holde me fast by God, to put my trust in the
Lorde God, and to speake of all thy workes.
(in the gates of the daughter Syon)
Great [1540], ¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the cont&ebar;t of al the holy scrypture both of þe; olde, and newe testam&ebar;t, with a prologe therinto, made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury, ¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches (Printed by Edward Whytchurche) [word count] [B06000].
