Psalms 77 Cross References - Bishops

¹ My voyce was vnto the Lorde, and I cryed: my voyce was vnto the Lord, and he hearkened vnto me ² In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort ³ I called to remembraunce God, and I was disquieted: I conferred with my selfe, and my spirite was wrapped in pensiuenesse. Selah ⁴ Thou dydst kepe the watche of mine eies: I was amased & coulde not speake ⁵ I dyd thynke vpon the dayes past: and on the yeres of the olde worlde ⁶ I called to remembraunce my psalme, song on the musicall instrument in the nyght tyme: I communed with myne owne heart, & searched out my spirites ⁷ What, wyll the Lorde forsake me for euer? wyll he be no more intreated to be fauourable ⁸ Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah ¹⁰ And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest [may graunt] me yeres ¹¹ I dyd call to remebraunce the workes of God almightie: for thy wonders done a great whyle a goe came into my mynde ¹² I also gaue my selfe to muse of all thy workes: and I talked of all thy actes ¹³ Thy way O Lorde is in holynesse: who is so great a God as the Lorde ¹⁴ Thou art the God that doth wonders: thou hast made thy power knowen among the people ¹⁵ Thou hast redeemed thy people with a [mightie] arme: the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph. Selah ¹⁶ The waters sawe thee O God, the waters sawe thee, they feared: yea the depthes of them moued out of their place ¹⁷ Thicke cloudes powred downe rayne, thinne cloudes gaue a noyse: and thine arrowes went abrode into al corners ¹⁸ The sounde of thy thunder was rounde about the [sky]: the lightnynges shone through the worlde, the earth quaked and trembled ¹⁹ Thy way is in the sea, and thy pathes in the great waters: and thy footesteppes are not knowen ²⁰ Thou dydst leade thy people lyke sheepe: by the hande of Moyses and Aaron

⁷ But Iacob was greatly afrayde, and wist not whiche way to turne him selfe: and deuided the people that was with him, and the sheepe, and oxen, and camelles, into two companies ⁸ And sayd, if Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other shall saue it selfe ⁹ And Iacob said agayne: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isahac, Lorde whiche saydest vnto me, returne vnto thy countrey, and to thy kindred, & I will do well with thee ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercyes and trueth whiche thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt: for with my staffe came I ouer this Iordane, & nowe haue I gotten two companies ¹¹ Deliuer me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I feare hym, lest he wyll come and smyte me, [yea] the mother with the chyldren ¹² Thou saydest, I wyll surely do thee good, and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, whiche can not be numbred for multitude

²⁸ He sayde: thy name shalbe called no more Iacob, but Israel: For as a prince hast thou wrasteled with God, and with men, and hast preuayled

³⁵ But all his sonnes & all his daughters rose vp to comfort hym: neuerthelesse he woulde not be comforted, but sayde, I wyll go downe into the graue vnto my sonne, mournyng: And thus his father wept for hym

³ And Iacob sayd vnto Ioseph: God almyghtie appeared vnto me at Luz in the lande of Chanaan, and blessed me, and sayde vnto me ⁴ Beholde, I wyll make thee fruiteful, and cause thee to multiplie, and wyll make a great number of people of thee, and wyll geue this lande vnto thy seede after thee vnto an euerlastyng possession ⁵ And nowe thy two sonnes Manasses and Ephraim, whiche were borne vnto thee in the land of Egypt before I came vnto thee into Egypt, are myne, euen as Ruben and Simeon are mine ⁶ And the children which thou hast gotten after them, shalbe thyne owne, and shalbe called after the names of their brethren in their inheritaunce ⁷ And when I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel dyed vpon my hande in the land of Chanaan, by the way, when there was but a fieldes breadth to come vnto Ephratha: and I buried her there in the waye to Ephratha, the same is Beth-lehem ⁸ And Israel beheld Iosephes sonnes, and sayde: What are these ⁹ Ioseph sayde vnto his father: They are my sonnes whiche God hath geuen me here. And he sayde: Oh bring them to me, and let me blesse them ¹⁰ (And the eyes of Israel were dymme for age, so that he coulde not [well] see) And he brought them to hym, and he kyssed them, and imbraced them ¹¹ And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, I had not thought to haue seene thy face: and yet loe, God hath shewed me also thy seede ¹² And Ioseph toke them away fro his lappe, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the earth ¹³ Then toke Ioseph them both, Ephraim with his ryght hande towarde Israels left hande, and Manasses with his left hande towarde Israels ryght hande, and brought them vnto hym ¹⁴ And Israel stretched out his ryght hande, and layed it vppon Ephraims head, which was the younger: and his left hande vpon Manasses head, guydyng his hande wyttyngly, for Manasses was the first borne ¹⁵ And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day ¹⁶ And the angell which hath deliuered me from al euyl, blesse these laddes, and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham & Isahac, & that they may growe into a multitude in the middes of the earth ¹⁷ When Ioseph sawe that his father layed his ryght hande vpon the head of Ephraim, it displeased hym: and he lift vp his fathers hande, to haue remoued it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head ¹⁸ And Ioseph sayde vnto his father, Not so my father, for this is the first borne: put thy right hande vpon his head ¹⁹ And his father would not, but sayde: I knowe it well my sonne, I knowe it well, he shalbe also a people, and shalbe great: But his younger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall become a great people ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, & saide: In thee let Israel blesse & saye, God make thee as Ephraim, & as Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses

⁶ Wherfore say vnto the children of Israel: I am Iehouah, I wil bryng you out from the burthens of the Egyptians, and will ryd you out of their bondage, and will deliuer you in a stretched out arme, and in great iudgementes

¹⁴ And when thy sonne aske thee in time to come, saying: what is this? Thou shalt saye vnto hym: With a myghtie hande the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage

²¹ And the Lorde went before them by day in a pyller of a cloude to leade them the way, and by nyght in a pyller of fire to geue them lyght, that they myght go both by day and nyght

¹⁹ And the angell of God which went before the hoast of Israel, remoued and went behynde them: and the pyller of the cloude went from before their face, and stoode behynde them

²¹ And Moyses stretched out his hande ouer the sea, & the Lorde caused the sea to go backe by a very strong east wynde all that nyght, and made the sea drye [lande] and the waters were deuided

²⁸ And the water returned, and couered the charettes, and the horsemen, and all the hoast of Pharao that came into the sea after them, so that there remayned not one of them

⁶ Thy ryght hande Lorde is become glorious in power, thy ryght hande Lorde hath all to dasshed the enemie

¹¹ Who is like vnto thee O Lord amongst gods? Who is like thee, so glorious in holynesse, fearefull in prayses, shewyng wonders

¹⁶ And the thirde day in the mornyng there was thunder and lyghtnyng, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the voyce of the trumpet exceedyng loude, so that all the people that was in the hoast was afrayde

¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lorde descended downe vpon it in fire, and the smoke thereof, ascended vp as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount quaked exceedyngly

³⁴ After the number of the dayes in whiche ye searched out the lande, euen fourtie dayes, euery day for a yere shal ye beare your vnrighteousnesse, euen fourtie yeres, and ye shall knowe my breache of promise

¹⁹ God is not a man that he should lye, neither the sonne of a ma that he should repent: should he say & not do? or should he speake, and not make it good

²¹ He behelde no vanitie in Iacob, nor saw transgression in Israel: The Lord his God is with hym, and the ioyfull shout of a king is among them ²² God brought them out of Egypt, they haue strength as an Unicorne

³⁴ Or hath God assayed to go and take hym a people from among nations, by temptations, by signes, by wonders, by warre, by a mightie hand, by a stretched out arme, & by great sightes, accordyng vnto all that the Lorde your God dyd vnto you in Egypt before your eyes

⁷ And thou shalt shewe them vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou art at home in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, & when thou lyest downe, and when thou risest vp

²⁶ I made intercession therfore vnto the Lord, and sayd: O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thyne inheritaunce whiche thou hast deliuered through thy great goodnesse, and whiche thou hast brought out of Egypt thorowe a myghtie hande

²⁹ Beholde, they are thy people, & thyne inheritaunce, whiche thou broughtest out in thy myghtie power, and in thy stretched out arme

⁷ Remember the dayes of the worlde that is past, consider the yeres of so many generations: Aske thy father, and he wyll shewe thee, thy elders, and they wyll tell thee

³¹ For their god is not as our God: our enemies also them selues are iudges

¹⁵ And assoone as they that bare ye arke came vnto Iordane, and the feete of the priestes that bare the arke were dypped in the brym of the water (For Iordane vseth to fyll all his banckes all the time of haruest ¹⁶ The waters also that came downe fro aboue, did rise vp vpon an heape and departed farre from ye citie of Ada, that was beside Zarthan: And the waters that were beneath towarde ye sea of the wildernes, euen the salt sea, fayled and were cut of: and the people went right ouer against Iericho

⁹ They aunswered him: From a very farre coutrey thy seruauntes are come, for the name of the Lorde thy God: for we haue hearde the fame of him, & all that he did in Egypte ¹⁰ And all that he did to the two kinges of ye Amorites that were beyonde Iordane, Sehon king of Hesbon, and Og king of Basa, which were at Astaroth

⁴ Lorde, whan thou wentest out of Seir, whan thou departedst out of the fielde of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens rayned, the cloudes also dropped water

⁸ The earth trembled and quaked: the foundations of heauen moued & shooke when he was angry

¹⁴ The Lorde thundred from heauen: & he that is most hie, put out his voyce ¹⁵ He shot arrowes, and scattered them: [to wit] lyghtning, & ouerthrew them

³ And they sayd vnto him, thus sayth Hezekia: This day is a day of tribulation, & of rebuke and blasphemie: For the children are come to the byrth, and there is no strength to be deliuered ⁴ Peraduenture the Lorde thy God will heare al the wordes of Rabsakeh, who the king of Assyria his maister hath sent to rayle on the lyuing God, & to rebuke him with wordes which the Lorde thy God hath hearde: And lift thou vp thy prayer for the remnaunt that are left

¹⁵ And Hezekia prayed before the Lord, and sayd: O Lord God of Israel which dwellest betweene ye Cherubs, thou art God alone ouer al the kingdomes of the earth, thou hast made heauen & earth ¹⁶ Lorde bowe downe thyne eare, and heare: Open Lorde thyne eyes, [I besech thee,] and see: and heare the wordes of Sennacherib whiche hath sent [this man] to rayle on the lyuing God ¹⁷ Of a trueth Lorde, the kinges of Assyria haue destroyed nations and their landes ¹⁸ And haue set fire on their gods: For they were no gods, but the worke of the handes of man, euen of wood and stone: and they destroyed them ¹⁹ Nowe therfore O Lord our God I besech thee, saue thou vs out of his hande, that all the kingdomes of the earth may knowe that thou onely art the Lorde God ²⁰ And Isai the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekia, saying, Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel: That whiche thou hast prayed me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I haue hearde it

¹² Remember the marueylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth

⁴¹ And with them were Heman and Ieduthun, and other that were chosen, whose names were expressed to geue thankes to the Lorde, That his mercie lasteth euer ⁴² And with them dyd Heman and Ieduthun sing with the trumpets and cymbales, making a sweete melodie with instrumentes of musicke & godly songues: And the sonnes of Ieduthun were porters

³ Of Ieduthun: the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedeliahu, Zeri, Iesaiahu, Hasabiahu, and Mathathiahu, sixe, vnder the handes of their father Ieduthun, which prophecied with a harpe, for to geue thankes & prayses vnto the Lorde

⁶ All these also were at the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, when Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman executed the seruice in the house of God at the kinges commaundement

²⁸ And if ther be dearth in the land, or pestilence, corruption, or blasting of corne, grashoppers, or caterpillers, or that their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land, or whatsoeuer plage or sickenesse it be

¹¹ And the [red] sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them, so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod: and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe, as a stone in the mightie waters

¹ When Mardocheus perceaued all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth with asshes, and went out into the middest of the citie, and cryed loude and lamentably ² And came before the kinges gate: but he might not enter within the kinges gate, because he had sackcloth on ³ And in all prouinces, countries, and places, as farre as the kinges worde & commaundement extented, there was great lamentatio among the Iewes, fasting, weeping, and mourning, and many lay in sackeclothes and in asshes ⁴ So Esthers maydens and her chamberlaynes, came and told it her: Then was the queene exceedingly astonied, and she sent rayment that Mardocheus shoulde put on, and lay the sackcloth from him: But Mardocheus would not take them

¹ The same night coulde not the king sleepe, and he commaunded to bring the chronicles and stories: and they were read before the king

¹³ They sate them downe by him also vpon the grounde seuen dayes & seuen nightes, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe that his greefe was very great

³ For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea: and this is the cause, that my wordes fayle me ⁴ For the arrowes of the almightie are vpon me, the poyson therof hath drunke vp my spirite, and the terrible feares of God are set against me

¹¹ Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde

¹³ When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch ¹⁴ Then fearest thou me with dreames, & makest me so afrayde through visions ¹⁵ That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die, then my bones to remayne

² I will say vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me wherefore thou contendest so with me

¹³ If thou preparedst thyne heart, and liftedst vp thyne handes towarde hym

¹⁵ This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym ¹⁶ For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare

²³ For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and [knewe very well that] I was not able to beare his burthen

¹⁰ But none sayth, Where is God that made me? and that geueth vs occasion to praise him in the night

¹ At this also my heart is astonied, and moued out of his place ² Heare then the sounde of his voyce, & the noyse that goeth out of his mouth ³ He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the worlde ⁴ A roring voyce foloweth it: for his glorious maiestie geueth a thuder clappe, & he will not stay whe his voyce is heard ⁵ God thundreth marueylously with his voyce, great thinges doth he which we can not comprehend

³ For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding

⁴ I dyd call vpon God with my voyce, and he hearde me out of his holy hyll. Selah

⁴ Be ye angry, but sinne not: commune with your owne heart in your chaumber, and be styll. Selah

² Haue mercy on me O God, for I am weake: O God heale me, for my bones be very sore ³ My soule also is greatly troubled: but O God howe long [shall I be in this case?

⁶ I am weerie of my groning: I washe my bed euery nyght, and I water my coutche with my teares

¹ Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me ² Howe long shall I seke counsayle in my soule, and be so vexed in mine heart euery day? howe long shall myne enemie triumph ouer me

⁶ (18:5) But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God, and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde: he hearde my voyce out of his temple, and my crye came before his face, euen vnto his eares ⁷ (18:6) The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth

¹⁴ (18:13) He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them

⁶ (25:4) Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies & thy louyng kindnesse: for they haue ben for euer

⁴ I haue desired one thyng of God, whiche once agayne I wyll earnestly require: euen that I may dwell in the house of God all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautifulnes of God, and to seeke [it] in his temple

⁵ (28:6) For they geue not their minde to vnderstande the doynges of God and the worke of his handes: [therefore] he wyll breake them downe, and not buylde them vp

³ The voyce of God is aboue waters: it is the Lorde of glory that thundreth, it is God that ruleth the sea ⁴ The voyce of God is with power: the voyce of God is with honour ⁵ The voyce of God breaketh the Cedar trees: yea God breaketh the Cedars of Libanus ⁶ And he maketh them to skip like a calfe: Libanus also and Sirion like a young vnicorne ⁷ (29:7a) The voyce of God casteth out flambes of fire ⁸ (29:7b) the voyce of God maketh the wyldernesse to tremble, God maketh the wyldernesse of Cades to tremble ⁹ (29:8) The voyce of God maketh Hindes to cast their calfe, and maketh woods to be bare: therefore euery man setteth foorth his glory in his temple ¹⁰ (29:9) God sitteth in the flud: and God wil sit king for euer

²² And when I fled with al haste, I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes: neuerthelesse, thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee

⁶ [Lo] this same poore man hath cryed: and God hath hearde hym, and saued hym out of all his troubles

²⁴ Though he fall, he shall not be vndone: for God vpholdeth him with his hande

³ There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne ⁴ For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare ⁵ My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes ⁶ I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long ⁷ For my loynes are filled with heate: and there is no whole part in my body ⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart

¹ I sayde [to my selfe] I wyll take heede to my wayes, that I offende not in my tongue: I wyll kepe my mouth as it were with a brydell, whylest the vngodly is in my syght

¹¹ (40:12) Withdrawe not thou thy mercie from me O God: let thy louyng kyndnesse and thy trueth alway preserue me

⁵ Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I will yet acknowledge him only to be a present saluation

⁸ God wyll graunt his louing kindnesse on the day tyme: and in the nyght season I wyll syng of hym, and make my prayer vnto the Lorde of my lyfe

¹¹ Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wil yet acknowledge him to be only my present saluation, and my Lorde

⁵ Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wyll yet acknowledge hym [to be] only my present saluation, & my Lorde

¹ We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme

⁹ (44:10) But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies

¹ The most mightie Lorde God hath spoken: and called the earth from the rysyng vp of the sunne, vnto the goyng downe therof

¹⁵ And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble: I wyll heare thee, and thou shalt glorifie me

¹ Haue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse: accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse

⁴ My heart trembleth within me: and the feare of death is fallen vpon me ⁵ Fearefulnes and trembling are come vpon me: and an horrible dread hath ouerwhelmed me

¹⁶ As for me I wyll crye vnto the Lord: and God wyll saue me ¹⁷ In the euening and morning, and at noone day wyll I pray, and that most instantly: and he wyll heare my voyce

² From the endes of the earth I wyll call vnto thee when my heart is in heauines: oh set me vp on the rocke that is higher then I

¹ My soule truly only stayeth vpon the Lorde: for of him commeth my saluation

² (63:3) [To see thee] euen so [as] I haue seene thee in the sanctuary: that I might beholde thy power and glory

⁶ (63:7) Haue I not remembred thee in my bed: and thought vpon thee when I was waking

⁸ The earth shoke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of the Lorde: euen Sinai it selfe [shoke] at the presence of the Lorde, Lorde of Israel ⁹ Thou O Lorde dydst cause rayne to fall at thy gratious pleasure: and when thine inheritaunce was weery, thou dydst hearten it

²⁵ The singers go before, the minstrelles folowe after: in the myddest are the damselles playing with the timbrelles

³³ Who rydeth vpon the most hyghest eternall heauens: lo he sendeth out a mightie voyce in his voyce

¹⁹ (71:18) And vntyll I [haue] exceedyngly exalted O Lorde thy ryghteousnesse: for great thynges are they that thou hast done, O Lorde who is lyke vnto thee

²⁴ (71:23) My tongue also shal talke of thy righteousnesse all the day long: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame that seke to do me euyll

¹⁸ Blessed be God the Lorde: the Lorde of Israel which only doth wonderous thynges

¹⁷ Untyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God: and vnderstood the ende of them

²² So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding: I was euen a bruite beast before thee

¹ O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture 2 Remember thy congregation, thou hast possest it nowe a long tyme: thou hast redeemed the rodde of thine inheritaunce, euen mount Sion wherein thou dwellest

¹² Truely God is my kyng of olde: who worketh saluation in the myddest of the earth ¹³ Thou didst deuide the sea through thy power: thou brakest the heades of the dragons in the waters ¹⁴ Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in peeces: and gauest hym to be meate for the people in wildernesse ¹⁵ Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes: thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters ¹⁶ The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne ¹⁷ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast ordeyned summer and wynter ¹⁸ Remember this O God, the enemie hath dishonoured: and the foolishe people hath blasphemed thy name

⁵ I dyd thynke vpon the dayes past: and on the yeres of the olde worlde

¹⁰ And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest [may graunt] me yeres

¹¹ But they forgat his workes: and his wonders which he had shewed them

⁵² But as for his owne people, he led them foorth like sheepe: and conducted them through the wildernesse like a flocke of cattell

⁵ O God, howe long wylt thou be angry? shall thy ielousie burne lyke fire for euer

¹ Heare O thou shephearde of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph lyke a sheepe: and thou that sittest vpon the Cherubims, shew thy gratious presence

¹ O God, thou art become gracious vnto thy land: thou hast brought Iacob agayne home out of captiuitie

⁵ Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer? and wylt thou stretche out thy wrath from one generation to another

⁷ I call vpon thee in the day of my trouble: for thou hearest me ⁸ Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde: there is not one that can do as thou doest

¹⁰ For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges: thou art God alone

¹ (88:1a) O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee 2 (88:1b) let my prayer enter into thy presence, encline thyne eare vnto my crying ³ (88:2) For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue

³ (88:2) For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue ⁴ (88:3) I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength ⁵ (88:4) I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande ⁶ (88:5) Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes ⁷ (88:6) Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah ⁸ (88:7) Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth ⁹ (88:8) My sight fayleth through my affliction O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee ¹⁰ (88:9) Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee? Selah ¹¹ (88:10) Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction ¹² (88:11) Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes ¹³ (88:12) But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee ¹⁴ (88:13) O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me ¹⁵ (88:14) I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt ¹⁶ (88:15) Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me ¹⁷ (88:16) They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde ¹⁸ (88:17) Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight

⁶ For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God: [and who] is like vnto God amongst the children gods ⁷ God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes: and to be feared aboue al them that are about him ⁸ O God, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee

³⁸ (89:37) But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him

⁴⁶ (89:45) O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire

² Cloudes and thicke darknesse are rounde about hym: iustice and iudgement are the habitation of his throne

⁴ His lightninges gaue a lyght vnto the worlde: the earth sawe it and trembled

¹ Heare my prayer O God: and let my crying come in vnto thee 2 Hyde not thy face from me in the day of my distresse: encline thine eare vnto me, heare me spedyly in the day that I call ³ For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande ⁴ My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread ⁵ Through the noyse of my gronyng: my bones wyll scase cleaue to my fleshe ⁶ (102:6a) I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert ⁷ (102:6b) I watch, and am as it were a sparrowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe ⁸ (102:7) Myne enemies reuile me all the day long: and they that are in a rage against me, make their oth by me ⁹ (102:8a) For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng ¹⁰ (102:8b) because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast set me vp, and cast me downe ¹¹ (102:9) My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse ¹² (102:10) But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations ¹³ (102:11) Thou wylt aryse vp, thou wylt haue compassion vpon Sion: for it is tyme that thou haue mercie vpon her, for the tyme appoynted is come ¹⁴ (102:12) For thy seruauntes be well affected towarde her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust ¹⁵ (102:13) And the heathen wyll feare thy name O God: and all the kynges of the earth thy glorious maiestie ¹⁶ (102:14) For God wyll buylde vp Sion: to be seene in his glorious maiestie ¹⁷ (102:15) He wyll regarde the prayer of the humble destitute of all helpe: and he wyll not dispise their prayer ¹⁸ (102:16) This shalbe written for those that come after: and the people which shalbe borne, shall prayse the Lorde ¹⁹ (102:17) For he hath loked downe from his high sanctuarie: out of heauen did God beholde the earth ²⁰ (102:18) That he might heare the mourninges of such as be in captiuitie: and delyuer the children of death ²¹ (102:19) That they may declare the name of God in Sion: and his prayse at Hierusalem ²² (102:20a) When people were gathered together, & kyngdomes to serue God ²³ (102:20b) he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes ²⁴ (102:21) But I say, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age: as for thy yeres, they endure throughout all generations ²⁵ (102:22) Thou hast before tyme layde the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy handes ²⁶ (102:23) They shall perishe, but thou wylt remayne styll: they all shall waxe olde as doth a garment, and as a vesture thou wylt chaunge them, and they shalbe chaunged ²⁷ (102:24a) But thou art, and thy yeres can not fayle ²⁸ (102:24b) the children of thy seruauntes shal dwell, and their seede shalbe maynteyned in thy syght

⁷ At thy rebuke they flee: at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace

³⁴ My meditations of hym shalbe very pleasaunt: for all my ioy shalbe in God

² Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes

⁵ Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth

⁸ Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen

⁴ The merciful and gratious God: hath so left a remembraunce of his meruaylous workes

³ The sea sawe that and fled: Iordane was driuen backe ⁴ The mountaynes skypped lyke rammes: and the litle hilles like young lambes ⁵ What ayleth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest? and thou Iordane that thou wast driuen backe ⁶ Ye mountaines what [ayled] you that ye skipped lyke rammes: and ye litle hilles like young lambes

¹ I haue loued: because God hath hearde my voyce [and] my prayers ² Because he hath enclined his eare vnto me: therfore I wyll call vpon hym as long as I lyue

¹¹ (116:10b) insomuch that I said in my rashnesse euery man is a lyer

¹ Out of the deepe I haue called vnto thee O God: O Lorde heare my voyce 2 Let thine eares be attentiue: vnto the voyce of my petition for grace

⁴ Who onlye doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for euer

¹¹ And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for euer ¹² With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme: for his mercy endureth for euer

²³ Searche me to the quicke O Lorde, and knowe thou myne heart: proue me and knowe thou my thoughtes ²⁴ And loke well yf there be any way of peruersnesse in me: and [then] leade me in the way of the worlde

¹ I cryed vnto God with my voyce: euen vnto God I dyd make my supplication ² I powred out before his face my cogitations: and I made a declaration of my trouble before his face ³ When my spirite was ouerwhelmed within me, thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked they haue priuily layde a snare for me

⁴ And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me ⁵ I call to remembraunce the tyme long past: I muse vpon euery act of thine, I exercise my study on the worke of thy handes

⁵ I call to remembraunce the tyme long past: I muse vpon euery act of thine, I exercise my study on the worke of thy handes

⁶ Cast out terrible lightninges and feare them: shoote out thyne arrowes and consume them

⁴ One generation shal praise thy workes vnto another: and they shall declare thy mightie power

¹¹ They shal shewe the glorie of thy kingdome: and talke of thy power

¹⁴ A good stomacke beareth out sickenesse: but the minde beyng sicke, who shall heale it

¹⁶ I communed with myne owne heart, saying: lo I am come to great estate, and haue gotten more wisdome then all they that haue ben before me in Hierusalem

⁵ Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? [for] ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy ⁶ From the sole of the foote vnto the head there is nothyng sounde in it: [but] woundes, blaynes, and putrifiyng sore: they haue not ben salued, neither wrapped vp, neither molified with the oyntment

¹² In their feastes are harpes and lutes, tabrettes and pipes, and wine: but they regarde not the worke of the Lord, and consider not the operatio of his handes

⁹ My soule hath longed for thee all the night, and with my spirite whiche is within me wyll I seeke thee early in the morning: For when thy iudgementes are in the earth, the inhabiters of the worlde shall learne righteousnesse

¹⁶ Lorde, in trouble haue they visited thee, they powred out their prayer whe thy chastening was vpon them

¹¹ When the braunches of it are drye, they are broken of, & the women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no vnderstanding, and therfore he that made them shall not fauour them, and he that created them shall geue them no grace

¹⁸ To whom then wyll ye lyken God? or what similitude will ye set vp to him

²⁵ To whom nowe will ye liken me, and whom shall I be lyke, saith the holy one

²⁷ Howe may then Iacob thinke, or may Israel say, My wayes are hid from the Lord, and my God knoweth not of my iudgementes

⁵ whom wyll ye make me lyke, or to whom wyll ye make me equall or compare me, that I shoulde be like him

¹⁴ But Sion sayde: God hath forsaken me, and my Lorde hath forgotten me ¹⁵ Will a woman forget her owne infant, and not pitie the sonne of her owne wombe? And though they do forget, yet wyll I not forget thee

⁹ Wake vp, wake vp, and be strong O thou arme of the Lorde, wake vp, lyke as in tyme past, euer, and since the world began

¹⁰ The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme, and shewed it foorth in the syght of all the gentiles, and all the endes of the earth hath seene the sauyng health of our God

⁹ In their troubles, he was also troubled with them, and the angell that went foorth from his presence deliuered them: of very loue and kindnesse that he had vnto them, he redeemed them, he hath borne them and caried them vp euer since the worlde began

⁹ In their troubles, he was also troubled with them, and the angell that went foorth from his presence deliuered them: of very loue and kindnesse that he had vnto them, he redeemed them, he hath borne them and caried them vp euer since the worlde began ¹⁰ But after they prouoked hym to wrath and vexed his holy spirite, he was their enemie, and fought against them hym selfe ¹¹ Yet remembred Israel the olde time, of Moyses and his people, saying: where is he that brought them from the water of the sea, with them that feede his sheepe? Where is he that hath geuen his holy spirite among them

¹¹ Yet remembred Israel the olde time, of Moyses and his people, saying: where is he that brought them from the water of the sea, with them that feede his sheepe? Where is he that hath geuen his holy spirite among them ¹² He led them by the right hande of Moyses with his glorious arme, deuiding the water before them, wherby he gat him selfe an euerlasting name

¹² He led them by the right hande of Moyses with his glorious arme, deuiding the water before them, wherby he gat him selfe an euerlasting name ¹³ He led them in the deepe as an horse is led in the playne, that they shoulde not stumble ¹⁴ As a tame beast goeth in the fielde, and the spirite of God geueth hym rest: thus (O God) hast thou led thy people, to make thy selfe a glorious name withall ¹⁵ Loke downe then from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thy sanctuarie and thy glorie: Howe is it that thy gelousie, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and thy louing kindnesse wyll not be intreated of vs

¹⁵ Loke downe then from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thy sanctuarie and thy glorie: Howe is it that thy gelousie, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and thy louing kindnesse wyll not be intreated of vs

¹⁸ Shall my heauinesse endure for euer? Are my plagues then so great that they may neuer be healed? Wylt thou be as one that is false, and as a water that falleth, and can not continue

¹⁷ Be not thou terrible vnto me O Lord: for thou art he in whom I hope when I am in perill

²⁴ May any man hide him selfe so, that I shall not see hym saith the Lorde? do not I fulfill heauen and earth saith the Lorde ²⁵ I haue hearde well inough what the prophetes say that preache lyes in my name, saying, I haue dreamed, I haue dreamed ²⁶ Howe long wyll this continue in the prophetes heart to tell lies, and preache the craftie subtiltie of their owne heart

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lorde, The voyce of heauinesse, weepyng, and lamentation was hearde on hye, euen of Rachel mournyng for her children, and woulde not be comforted because they were not

¹⁷ He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges ¹⁸ I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde ¹⁹ O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall ²⁰ Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me ²¹ Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne ²² [namely] it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed ²³ Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing, (O Lorde) great is thy faythfulnesse

³¹ For the Lord wil not forsake for euer ³² But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne

³⁹ Wherefore then murmureth the liuing man? let hym murmure at his owne sinne ⁴⁰ Let vs looke well vpon our wayes, and remember our selues, and turne agayne to the Lorde

²⁹ { (3:96) Therfore I make a decree, that euery people, nation, & language, which speake any blasphemie against the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, shalbe drawen in peeces, and their houses shalbe made a takes: because there is no God that can deliuer after this sort}

²⁷ It is he that deliuereth and saueth, he doth wonders and marueylous workes in heauen and in earth, he hath preserued Daniel from the power of the lions

¹³ When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease, Ephraim went vnto Assur, and sent vnto kyng Iareb, yet coulde not he helpe you, nor ease you of your payne

¹ Come, let vs turne agayne to the Lorde: for he hath smitten vs, and he shall heale vs, he hath wounded vs, and he shall binde vs vp agayne

¹³ By a prophete the Lorde brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophete was he preserued

² Aryse, & go to Niniue that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before me

¹ And Ionas prayed vnto the Lorde his God out of the fisshes belly ² And saide: In affliction I cryed vnto the Lorde, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voyce

¹⁴ Therfore feede thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thyne heritage whiche dwel desolate in the wood, that they may be fed vpon the mount of Carmel, Basan, and Gilead, as aforetime ¹⁵ Maruelous thinges wil I shewe thee, like as when thou camest out of the lande of Egypt

³ The Lorde is slowe to anger, and [also] of great power, and in no case will not acquite [the wicked,] the Lordes dealing is with blustring tempest and whirle winde, and the cloudes are the dust of his feete ⁴ He rebuketh the sea and dryeth it vp, all the riuers also he maketh drye: Basan and Carmel are destroyed, the spring also of Libanon is destroyed

² O lord I haue heard thy voyce, and was afrayde: O Lorde reuiue thy worke in the middes of the yeres, in the middes of the yeres make it knowen, in wrath remember mercie ³ God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse ⁴ And [his] brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes [comming] out of his handes, and there was the hyding of his power

⁴ And [his] brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes [comming] out of his handes, and there was the hyding of his power ⁵ Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went foorth before his feete ⁶ He stoode, and measured the earth, he behelde, and dissolued the nations, and the euerlasting mountaynes were broken, and the auncient hilles did bowe, his wayes are euerlasting ⁷ For iniquitie I saw the tentes of Chusan, [and] the curtaynes of the lande of Madian dyd tremble ⁸ Was the Lorde angry against the riuers? or was thyne anger against the floodes? or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou diddest ryde vpon thy horses? thy charets [brought] saluation

⁸ Was the Lorde angry against the riuers? or was thyne anger against the floodes? or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou diddest ryde vpon thy horses? thy charets [brought] saluation ⁹ Thy bow was manyfestly reuealed, and the othes of the tribes [were] a sure word. Selah. thou diddest cleaue the earth with riuers

⁹ Thy bow was manyfestly reuealed, and the othes of the tribes [were] a sure word. Selah. thou diddest cleaue the earth with riuers ¹⁰ The mountaynes sawe thee and they trembled, the streame of the water passed by, the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his handes on hye

¹⁰ The mountaynes sawe thee and they trembled, the streame of the water passed by, the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his handes on hye ¹¹ The sonne [and] moone stoode still in [their] habitation, at the light of thyne arrowes they went, [and] at the bright shining of thy speares

¹¹ The sonne [and] moone stoode still in [their] habitation, at the light of thyne arrowes they went, [and] at the bright shining of thy speares ¹² Thou trodest downe the land in anger: [and] dyddest threshe the heathen in displeasure ¹³ Thou wentest foorth for the saluation of thy people, [euen] for saluation with thyne annoynted: thou hast wounded the head of the house of the wicked, and discoueredst the foundations vnto the necke. Selah

¹⁵ Thou diddest walke in the sea with thyne horses, vpon the heape of great waters

¹⁷ For the figgetree shall not floorish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall fayle, & the fieldes shall yelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut of from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles ¹⁸ But I will reioyce in the Lord, I will ioy in the God of my saluation

⁵¹ And beholde, the vayle of the temple dyd rent into two partes, fro the toppe to the bottome, and the earth did quake and the stones rent

² And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the Angell of the Lorde descended from heauen, and came & roulled backe the stone from the doore, and sate vpon it

²⁴ And strayghtwaye the father of the childe cryed with teares, saying: Lorde I beleue, helpe thou mine vnbeliefe

²⁵ When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begyn to stande without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lorde, Lorde, open vnto vs: and he shall aunswere, and say vnto you, I knowe you not whence ye are ²⁶ Then shall ye begyn to say: We haue eaten and dronken in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streates ²⁷ And he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not, whence ye are: depart from me all ye that worke iniquitie ²⁸ There shalbe weepyng & gnasshyng of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the prophetes, in the kyngdome of God, and ye your selues thrust out

²⁵ But Abraham sayde: Sonne, remember that thou in thy lyfe tyme, receauedst thy pleasure, and lykewyse Lazarus paynes: But nowe is he comforted, and thou art tormented ²⁶ Beyonde all this, betweene vs & you there is a great gulfe set, so that they which woulde go from hence to you, can not, neither may come from thence to vs

¹⁴ And they talked together of all these thynges that were done ¹⁵ And it came to passe, that whyle they communed together & reasoned, Iesus him selfe drewe neare, and went with them ¹⁶ But their eyes were holden, that they shoulde not knowe him ¹⁷ And he sayde vnto them: What maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke, and are sad ¹⁸ And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, aunswered, and sayde to him: Art thou only a straunger in Hierusalem, & hast not knowen the thinges which are come to passe there, in these dayes ¹⁹ He sayde vnto them: what thynges? And they sayde vnto him: Of Iesus of Nazareth, whiche was a prophete, mightie in deede and worde before God and all the people ²⁰ And howe the hye priestes, and our rulers deliuered him to be condempned to death, and haue crucified him ²¹ But we trusted that it had ben he which shoulde haue redeemed Israel: And as touchyng all these thynges, to day is euen the thirde day, that they were done ²² Yea, and certayne women also of our companie made vs astonied, which came early vnto the sepulchre ²³ And founde not his body, and came, saying that they had seene a vision of angels, which sayde that he was alyue ²⁴ And certayne of them which were with vs, went to the sepulchre, & founde it euen so as the women had sayde: but hym they sawe not ²⁵ And he sayde vnto them: O fooles and slowe of heart, to beleue all that the prophetes haue spoken ²⁶ Ought not Christe to haue suffered these thinges, & to enter into his glory ²⁷ And he began at Moyses, and all the prophetes, and interpreted vnto them in all Scriptures which were writen of hym ²⁸ And they drewe nye vnto the towne which they went vnto, and he made as though he would haue gone further ²⁹ And they constrayned hym, saying: abyde with vs, for it draweth towarde nyght, and the day is farre passed. And he went in to tary with them ³⁰ And it came to passe, as he sate at meate with them, he toke bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gaue to them ³¹ And their eyes were opened, and they knewe him: and he vanished out of their syght ³² And they sayde betweene them selues: Dyd not our heartes burne within vs, whyle he talked with vs by the way, and opened vnto vs the scriptures

³¹ The Iewes then which were with her in the house & comforted her, when they sawe Marie that she rose vp hastelye, and went out, folowed her, saying: She goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there

³⁵ This Moyses, whom they forsoke saying, who made thee a ruler and a iudge? the same dyd God sende, to be a ruler, and a deliuerer, by the handes of the angell, whiche appeared to hym in the busshe ³⁶ He brought them out, shewyng wonders and signes in Egypt, & in the read sea, & in the wyldernesse fourtie yeres

²⁵ And at mydnyght Paul and Silas prayed, and lauded God. And the prysoners hearde them

⁶ And it can not be, that the worde of God shoulde take none effect. For they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel

¹ I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin ² God hath not cast away his people which he knewe before. Wote ye not what the scripture sayth of Elias? howe he maketh intercession to God, agaynst Israel

³² For God hath wrapped all [nations] in vnbeliefe, yt he myght haue mercie on al ³³ O the deepenesse of the ryches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God, howe vnsearcheable are his iudgementes, and his wayes past fyndyng out

²⁸ But let a man examine hym selfe, and so let hym eate of this bread, and drinke of this cuppe ²⁹ For he that eateth and drynketh vnworthyly, eateth and drynketh his owne dampnation, [because] he maketh no difference of the Lordes body ³⁰ For this cause many are weake and sicke among you, and many slepe ³¹ For yf we woulde iudge our selues, we shoulde not be iudged ³² But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lorde, that we shoulde not be dampned with the worlde

⁷ And lest I shoulde be exalted out of measure through the aboundaunce of the reuelations, there was geuen vnto me a pricke to the fleshe, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure ⁸ For this thyng besought I the Lorde thryse, that it myght depart from me

⁷ Which in the dayes of his fleshe, when he had offered vp prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares, vnto hym that was able to saue hym from death, and was hearde in that which he feared

⁹ The Lorde that hath promised, is not slacke, as some men count slacknesse, but is pacient to vswarde [forasmuch] as he woulde haue no man lost, but wyll receaue all men to repentaunce

¹⁷ But who so hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from hym: howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym

¹⁹ And the temple of God was opened in heauen, and there were seene in his temple the arke of his testament: and there folowed lyghtninges, and voyces, and thundringes, and earthquake, and much hayle

³ And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God, and the song of the lambe, saying: Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie, iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes

¹ And after that, I sawe another angell come from heauen, hauyng great power, and the earth was lyghtened with his glorie

¹¹ And I sawe a great whyte throne, and him that sate on it, fro whose face fledde away both the earth and heauen, and their place was no more founde