A   The ^note ryghteous perisheth, and no m&abar; regardeth it in hys hert, Good godly people are tak&ebar; a waye, and no m&abar; c&obar;sydreth it. Namely, that the ryghteous is c&obar;uayed awaye from the wycked. He commethe into peace, ∧ godlye m&ebar; rest in their ch&abar;bres, and before the godly man goeth peace. Come hyther therfore ye charmers children, ^note ye sonnes of the aduoutrer and the whore: Wherin take ye youre pleasure? Upon wh&obar; gape ye with your mouth, ∧ bleare out your tonge? B   Are ye not children of aduoutry, and a sede of dissimulaci&obar;? ^noteYe make youre fyre vnder the okes, and vnder all grene trees, and ye offre chyldren in the valleys, and dennes of stone. Thy parte shalbe with the stony rockes by the riuer: Yee, eu&ebar; these shall be thy parte. For there þu; hast poured meat ∧ drincke offringe vnto them. Shulde I delite in that? Thou hast made thy bed vpon hye mountaynes, thou wentest vp thyther, and there hast thou slayne sacrifices. ^noteBehynde þe; dores and postes, hast thou sett vp thy remembraunce.

When thou haddest dyscouered thy selfe to another then me, when thou w&ebar;test downe and made thy bed wyder, and wyth those Idols hast thou made a couenaunt, C   and louedest theyr couches, where thou sawest th&ebar;. Thou wentest streyght to kynges wyth ^note oyle ∧ dyuerse oyntm&ebar;tes (that is) thou hast sent thy messaungers farre of, ∧ yet art thou fallen into the pyt therby. Thou art weery for the multitude of thyne awne wayes, yet saydest thou neuer: I wyll leaue of. ^note Thou hast had þe; lyfe þt; thy h&abar;des wrought, ∧ therfore thou art carelesse. For when wylt thou be abasshed or feare, seynge thou hast broken thy promyse, and remembrest not me, nether hast me in thyne hert? Thynkest thou, that I also wyll holde my peace (as afore tyme) that thou fearest me not? Yee, verely I wyl declare thy goodnes and thy workes, but they shall not profyt the: when thou cryest, let thy chosen heape deliuer the. But the wynde shall blowe them furth, and vanite shall take th&ebar; all awey. ^noteNeuertheles, they that put their trust in me, shall inheret the lande, ∧ haue my holy hyll in possessyon.

D   And therfore thus he sayeth: ^note Make playne, make playne, ∧ clense the strete, take vp the st&obar;blynge blockes out of the waye that ledeth to my people. For thus sayeth the hye ∧ excellent, euen he that dwelleth in euerlastyngnesse, whose name is the holy one: ^note I dwell hye aboue and in the sanctuary, and wyth hym also, that is of a c&obar;trite and humble sprete do I dwell: þt; I maye heale a troubled mynde, and a c&obar;trite herte. ^noteFor I chyde not euer, ∧ am not wroth wyth out ende. But the blastyng goeth from me, and is included in the body, and I made the breath. I am wroth wyth hym for his couetousnes, I smyte him, I hyde me, and am angrye, when he turneth him selfe, ∧ foloweth the by waye of his awne hert. I haue seen his wayes and I heale hym ^note I lede him and restore to hym c&obar;forte, and to those that were sory for him I make the frutes of thankesgeuynge, that he maye saye. Peace peace ^note vnto them that are farre of, and to them that are nye, sayth the Lorde, and I make hym whole. But the wycked are lyke the ragynge see, that c&abar;not rest, whose water fometh wyth the myre ∧ grauel. Eu&ebar; so the ^note wycked haue no peace, sayeth God.

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