Song of Songs 5:7 Cross References - Bishops

⁷ So the watchmen that went about the citie, founde me, smote me, and wounded me: yea they that kept the walles toke away my kerchaffe from me

⁵ I wishe that the ryghteous woulde smite me and reproue me: for it is louing kyndnesse. (141:6) But let not pretious baulmes breake mine head: for as yet euen my prayer is agaynst their wickednesse

³ The watchmen also that go about the citie, founde me [to whom I sayde] Sawe ye not hym whom my soule loueth

¹¹ Solomon hath a vineyarde at BaalHamon: and this vineyarde deliuered he vnto the kepers, that euery one for the fruite therof shoulde geue hym a thousande peeces of siluer

¹⁰ Harden the heart of this people, stop their eares, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and conuert and be healed ¹¹ Then spake I, Lord, howe long? He aunswered, vntill the cities be vtterly wasted without inhabiters, and the houses without men, and tyll the lande be also vtterly desolate

⁶ I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles O Hierusalem, which shall neither ceasse day nor night to preache the Lorde: and ye also that remember the Lorde, ye shall not kepe him close

⁵ Therfore haue I cut downe the prophetes, and let them be slayne for my wordes sake, so that thy punishment shall come to light

⁷ The dayes of visitation are come, the dayes of recompence are come: and then shall Israel knowe that they were deceaued by a foolishe, mad, & franticke prophete: for the multitude of thine iniquitie [God] shall multiplie enemies agaynst thee ⁸ The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God [but] the prophete [is] the snare of a fouler in all his wayes, and an abhomination in the house of his God

³³ Hearken another similitude. There was a certayne man, an householder, which made a vineyarde, & hedged it rounde about, and made a wynepresse in it, and buylt a towre, and let it out to husbande men: and went into a strange countrey ³⁴ And when the time of the fruite drewe neare, he sent his seruauntes to the husbande men, that they might receaue the fruites of it ³⁵ And the husbande men caught his seruauntes, and beatte one, killed another, and stoned another ³⁶ Agayne, he sent other seruauntes, mo then the first: and they dyd vnto them lykewyse ³⁷ But laste of all, he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying: they wyll stande in awe of my sonne ³⁸ But when the husband men sawe the sonne, they sayde among them selues: this is the heire, come, let vs kyll hym, and let vs enioy his inheritaunce ³⁹ And they caught hym, and thrust him out of the vineyarde, and slewe [hym] ⁴⁰ When the Lorde therfore of the vineyarde commeth, what wyll he do vnto those husbande men ⁴¹ They sayde vnto hym: He wyll miserably destroy those wicked [men] & wyll let out his vineyard vnto other husband men, which shall delyuer him the fruite in due seasons

² Saying: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate

²⁹ Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: ye builde the tombes of the Prophetes, and garnishe the sepulchres of the ryghteous ³⁰ And say, yf we had ben in the dayes of our fathers, we woulde not haue ben parteners with them in the blood of the prophetes ³¹ And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes ³² Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers ³³ Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell ³⁴ Wherfore, beholde I sende vnto you prophetes, and wyse men, and Scribes, and [some] of them ye shall kyll and crucifie: and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from citie to citie ³⁵ That vpon you may come all the ryghteous blood, which hath ben shed vpon the earth, from the blood of ryghteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom ye slewe betwene the temple & the aulter ³⁶ Ueryly I say vnto you: all these thynges shal come vpon this generatio

²² Blessed shall ye be when men hate you, & seperate you [from their companie] and raile on you, & put out your names as an euyll thyng, for the sonne of mans sake

² They shall excomunitate you: yea the time shall come, that who so euer kylleth you, wyll thynke that he doth God seruice

⁴⁰ And to hym agreed the other: And when they had called the Apostles, they beat them, and commaunded that they shoulde not speake in the name of Iesu, and let them go ⁴¹ And they departed from the counsell, reioycing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name

²⁹ For I knowe this, that after my departyng, shall greeuous wolfes enter in among you, not sparyng the flocke ³⁰ Also of your owne selues shall men aryse, speakyng peruerse thynges, to drawe disciples after them

⁹ I also veryly thought in my selfe that I ought to do many contrary thynges, cleane agaynst the name of Iesus of Nazareth ¹⁰ Which thyng I also dyd in Hierusalem. And many of the Saintes dyd I shut vp in pryson, hauyng receaued aucthoritie of the hye priestes: And when they were put to death, I gaue the sentence

¹⁰ We [are] fooles for Christes sake, but ye [are] wyse in Christe. We [are] weake, but ye [are] stronge. Ye [are] honorable, but we [are] despised ¹¹ Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place ¹² And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it ¹³ We are euyll spoken of, and we praye: we are made as the fylthynesse of the worlde, the ofscowryng of all thynges vnto this day

¹³ For such false Apostles [are] disceiptfull workers, transfourmed into ye Apostles of Christe

⁶ Concernyng feruentnesse, persecutyng the Churche: touchyng ye righteousnesse which is in ye lawe, I was blamelesse

³⁶ And others were tryed with mockynges, and scourgynges: Yea, moreouer with bondes and prisonment ³⁷ They were stoned, were hewen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with sword, wandred about in sheepskinnes, and goates skinnes, beyng destitute, afflicted [and] tormented

² Lokyng vnto Iesus, the captayne and finissher of our fayth, which for the ioy that was set before hym, endured the crosse, hauyng dispised the shame, and is set downe on the ryght hande of the throne of God

¹⁴ Yf ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christe, happy are ye. For the spirite of glory and of God, resteth vpon you: On their part he is euyll spoken of, but on your part he is glorified ¹⁵ See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters ¹⁶ Yf any [man suffer] as a Christian man, let hym not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe

⁵ And in her forehead was a name written, a misterie, great Babylon, the mother of whoredome & abhominations of the earth ⁶ And I sawe ye woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus: And when I sawe her, I wondred with great maruayle