Bishops(i)
6 Set thou an vngodly man to be ruler ouer him: and let Satan stande at his right hande
7 When sentence is geuen vpon hym, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sinne
8 Let his dayes be fewe: and let another take his office
9 Let his chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe
10 Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes
11 Let the extortioner bryng into his snare all that he hath: and let straungers spoyle his labour
12 Let there be no man to shewe hym any gentlenes: nor to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children
13 Let his posteritie come to destruction: and in the next generation let his name be cleane put out
14 Let the wyckednes of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of God: and let not the sinne of his mother be wyped away
15 Let them be alway before God: that he may roote out the memorial of them from the earth
16 Because that he remembred not to do good: but he persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and hym whose heart was broken with sorow, that he might take his life from hym
17 His delight was in cursing, and it shal happen vnto him: he loued not blessing, therfore it hath ben farre from him
18 He clothed hym selfe with cursing, as with his garment: and it hath entred into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones
19 Let it be vnto hym as the garment that he is wrapt in: and as the gyrdle that he is alway gyrded withall
20 Let this rewarde be from God vnto myne aduersaries: and vnto those that speake euill against my soule