Psalms 39 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ I sayde: I wil kepe my waies, that I offended not in my tonge. ² And so I shut my mouth, whyle the vngodly layed wayte for me. ³ I helde my tonge, I was domme, I kepte sylence, yee eue from good wordes, but it was payne and grefe to me. ⁴ My hert was hote within me, & whyle I was thus musynge, the fyre kyndled: so that I spake with my tonge. ⁵ LORDE, let me knowe myne ende, and the nombre of my dayes: that I maye be certified what I wante. ⁶ Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge? ⁷ Sela. Yee euery man walketh as it were a shadowe, and disquieteth him self in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, and can not tell to whom he gathereth them. ⁸ And now LORDE, wherin shall I comforte me? my hope is in the. ⁹ Delyuer me from all myne offences, and make me not a scorne vnto the foolish. ¹⁰ I kepe sylece, and open not my mouth, for thou hast done it. Turne thy plages awaye fro me, for I am cosumed thorow the feare of thy hade. ¹¹ When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men? ¹² Sela. Heare my prayer o LORDE, and considre my callinge: shewe not thy self as though thou sawest not my teares. For I am a straunger and pilgrymme with the, as all my forefathers were. ¹³ Oh spare me a litle, that I maye refresh myself, before I go hence, and be nomore sene.

²⁴ And for so moch as he lyued a godly life, God toke him awaye, & he was nomore sene.

³⁶ Then sayde Iacob their father: Ye haue robbed me of my children. Ioseph is awaye, Simeon is awaye, and ye will take Ben Iamin awaye: It goeth all ouer me.

⁹ Iacob sayde: The tyme of my pylgremage is an hudreth and thirtie yeares: litle and euell is the tyme of my pilgremage, and attayneth not vnto the tyme of my fathers in their pylgremages.

¹⁸ LORDE I loke for thy saluacion.

³ Then sayde Moses vnto Aaron: This is it, that the LORDE sayde: I wil be sanctified vpo them that come nye me, and before all the people wil I be glorified. And Aaron helde his peace.

²³ Therfore shall ye not sell the londe for euer, for the lode is myne. And ye are straungers and indwellers before me.

¹⁸ Then Samuel tolde him alltogether, & hyd nothinge from him. He sayde: It is the LORDE, let him do what pleaseth him.

⁵ Therfore must ye make youre hynder partes of one fasshion and youre myce, which haue destroyed youre londe, that ye maye geue the God of Israel the honoure: peraduenture his hade shal be the lighter vpon you and vpon youre God, and vpon youre londe.

⁷ Thus sayde Semei whan he cursed: Get the forth, get the forth thou bloudy hounde, thou man of Belial. ⁸ The LORDE hath rewarded the for all the bloude of the house of Saul, yt thou becamest kynge in his steade. Now hath the LORDE geuen the kyngdome into ye hande of Absalom thy sonne, and beholde, now stickest thou in thine owne myschefe, for thou art a bloudy hounde.

¹⁰ The kynge saide: Ye children of Zeru Ia, what haue I to do wt you? Let him curse on, for the LORDE hath commaunded him: Curse Dauid. Who can saye now: Why doest thou so?

¹² peraduenture the LORDE shall consydre my aduersyte, and recompence me good for his cursynge this daye.

⁴ that the LORDE maye rayse vp his worde, which he hath spoke ouer me, and saide: Yf thy children kepe their waye and walke before me faithfully and truly and with all their hert and withall their soule, the shal there neuer fayle the a man vpon the seate of Israel.

³¹ Neuerthelesse Iehu was not diligent to walke in the lawe of the LORDE God of Israel with all his hert: for he lefte not of fro the synnes of Ieroboam which made Israel to synne.

⁵ Turne back, & tell Ezechias ye prynce of my people: Thus sayeth ye LORDE God of thy father Dauid: I haue herde thy praier, & considered yi teares. Beholde, I wil heale ye: on the thirde daye shalt thou go in to ye house of the LORDE,

⁴¹ And with them Heman & Iedithun, and ye other chosen, which were named by name to geue thankes vnto the LORDE, because his mercy endureth for euer.

¹ And Dauid with the chefe captaynes sundered to the offices amonge ye childre of Assaph, Heman & Iedithun ye prophetes with harpes, psalteries & Cymbales, and they were nombred vnto the worke acordynge to their offyce. ² Amonge the childre of Assaph was Sakur, Ioseph, Nethania, Asarela, childre of Assaph vnder Assaph which prophecyed besyde ye kynge. ³ Of Iedithun: The children of Iedithun were, Gedalia, Zori, Iesaia, Hasabia, Mathithia (Simei) these sixe vnder their father Iedithun wt harpes, whose prophecienge was to geue thankes and to praise the LORDE. ⁴ Of Heman: The children of Heman were Bukia, Mathania, Vsiel, Sebuel, Ierimoth, Hanania, Hanani, Eliatha, Gilthi, Romamthieser, Ia?baksa, Mallochi, Hothir and Mehesioth. ⁵ All these were the children of Hema the kynges Seer in the wordes of God to lyfte vp the horne: for God gaue Heman fourtene sonnes & thre daughters. ⁶ All these were vnder their fathers Assaph Iedithun and Heman, to synge in the house of the LORDE with Cymbales, Psalteries & harpes, acordynge to the office in the house of God besyde the kynge.

¹⁵ For we are but pilgrems & straugers before the, as were all oure fathers. Oure life vpon earth is as a shadowe, and here is no abydinge.

²¹ and sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I turne thither agayne. The LORDE gaue, and the LORDE hath taken awaye (the LORDE hath done his pleasure) now blessed be ye name off the LORDE.

¹⁰ But Iob sayde vnto her: Thou speakest like a foolish woma. Seinge we haue receaued prosperite at the honde of God, wherfore shulde we not be content with aduersite also? In all these thinges, dyd not Iob synne with his lippes.

¹⁹ How moch more the shal they (that dwell in houses of claye, whose foundacion is but earth) be moth eaten?

⁶ my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.

¹⁹ Why goest thou not fro me, ner lettest me alone, so longe till I swalow downe my spetle?

²⁵ My dayes haue bene more swifte, then a runner: they are gone sodenly, and haue sene no good thinge. ²⁶ They are passed awaye, as the shippes that be good vnder sale, and as the Aegle that haisteth to the pray.

³⁴ Let him take his rod awaye fro me, yee let him make me nomore afrayed of him,

²⁰ Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle: ²¹ afore I go thyther, from whence I shal not turne agayne: Namely, to that londe of darcknesse & shadowe of death:

¹⁵ Lo, there is nether coforte ner hope for me, yf he wil slaye me. But yf I shewe and reproue myne owne wayes in his sight,

²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed.

²⁸ where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.

¹ Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries. ² He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.

⁵ The dayes of man are shorte, ye nombre of his monethes are knowne only vnto the. Thou hast apoynted him his boundes, he can not go beyonde them. ⁶ Go from him, that he maye rest a litle: vntill his daye come, which he loketh for, like as an hyrelinge doth.

¹⁰ But as for man, when he is deed, perished and consumed awaye, what becommeth of him? ¹¹ The floudes when they be dryed vp, & the ryuers when they be emptie, are fylled agayne thorow the flowinge waters of the see: ¹² but when man slepeth, he ryseth not agayne, vntill the heauen perish: he shal not wake vp ner ryse out of his slepe. ¹³ O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

²⁰ My frendes laugh me to scorne, but myne eye poureth out teares vnto God.

¹⁶ Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, ¹⁷ he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money.

³⁰ My skynne vpo me is turned to black, & my bones are bret wt heate:

¹⁹ Beholde, I am as the new wyne which hath no vente, & bursteth the new vessels in sunder. ²⁰ Therfore wil I speake, that I maye haue vete: I wil open my lyppes, and make answere.

⁴ Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.

⁸ Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment? Or, wilt thou condemne me, yt thou thy self mayest be made rightuous?

⁴ Which saye: Oure toge shulde preuayle: we are they that ought to speake, who is lorde ouer vs?

¹¹ For thy names sake, O LORDE, be mercifull vnto my synne, for it is greate.

¹⁶ Turne the vnto me and haue mercy vpon me, for I am desolate and in misery. ¹⁷ The sorowes of my herte are greate, O brynge me out of my troubles. ¹⁸ Loke vpon my aduersite and misery, and forgeue me all my synnes.

⁴ And because thy hande was so heuy vpon me both daye and night, my moysture was like the drouth in Sommer. Sela.

¹³ Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes that they speake no gyle.

²¹ They gape vpon me wt their mouthes, sayenge: there there: we se it with oure eyes.

¹ Pvt me not to rebuke (Oh LORDE) in thine anger: Oh chaste me not in thy heuy displeasure. ² For thy arowes stick fast in me, and thy honde presseth me sore. ³ There is no whole parte in my body, because of thy displeasure: there is no rest in my bones, by reason of my synnes.

³ There is no whole parte in my body, because of thy displeasure: there is no rest in my bones, by reason of my synnes. ⁴ For my wickednesses are gone ouer my heade, and are like a sore burthen, to heuy forme to beare.

⁴ For my wickednesses are gone ouer my heade, and are like a sore burthen, to heuy forme to beare. ⁵ My woundes styncke & are corrupte, thorow my folishnesse. ⁶ I am brought into so greate trouble and misery, that I go mournynge all the daye longe. ⁷ For my loynes are clene dried vp, and there is no whole parte in my body. ⁸ I am feble and sore smytte, I roare for the very disquietnes of my hert.

¹³ As for me, I was like a deaf ma, and herde not: and as one that were domme, not openynge his mouth.

¹³ As for me, I was like a deaf ma, and herde not: and as one that were domme, not openynge his mouth. ¹⁴ I am become as a man that heareth not, and that can make no resistaunce wt his mouth. ¹⁵ For in the (O LORDE) is my trust, thou shalt heare me, O LORDE my God.

¹¹ When thou punyshest man for synne, thou chastenest him: so that his beutie consumeth awaye, like as it were a mothe. O how vayne are all men?

¹³ Thou sellest thy people for naught, & takest no moneye for them.

¹⁰ For it shal be sene, yt soch wyse me shal dye & perishe together, as well as the ignoraunt and foolish, & leaue their goodes for other. ¹¹ Loke what is in their houses, it cotinueth still: their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another, & are called after their owne names vpon the earth,

⁷ O reconcile me with Isope, and I shal be clene: wash thou me, and I shalbe whyter then snowe. ⁸ Oh let me heare of ioye and gladnesse, that the bones which thou hast broken, maye reioyse. ⁹ Turne thy face fro my synnes, and put out all my my?dedes. ¹⁰ Make me a clene hert (o God) and renue a right sprete within me.

¹⁴ Delyuer me from bloudegyltynesse o God, thou that art the God of my health, that my tonge maye prayse thy rightuousnesse.

⁸ Thou tellest my flittinges, thou puttest my teares in thy botell, and nombrest them.

³ He shal sende fro heauen, & saue me fro the reprofe of him that wolde swalowe me vp.

¹ My soule wayteth only vpon God, for of him commeth my helpe.

⁹ Sela. As for men, they are but vayne, me are disceatfull: vpo the weightes they are al together lighter then vanite itself.

³ Oure my?dedes preuayle agaynst vs, oh be thou mercyfull vnto oure synnes.

⁸ Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes. ⁹ They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde.

¹ I cried vnto God with my voyce, yee euen vnto God cried I with my voyce, & he herde me.

⁴ We are become an open shame vnto oure enemies, a very scorne and derision vnto them that are rounde aboute vs.

⁴⁷ Sela. LORDE, how longe wilt thou hyde thy self? For euer? shal thy wrath burne like fyre?

⁴ For a thousande yeares in thy sight are but as yesterdaye that is past, and like as it were a night watch. ⁵ As soone as thou scatrest them, they are euen as a slepe, and fade awaye sodenly like the grasse.

⁷ For we consume awaye in thy displeasure, and are afrayed at thy wrothfull indignacion. ⁸ Thou settest oure mi?dedes before the, and oure secrete synnes in the light of thy countenaunce. ⁹ For when thou art angrie, all or dayes are gone, we brynge or yeares to an ende, as it were a tayle that is tolde. ¹⁰ The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone.

¹² O teach vs to nombre oure dayes, that we maye applie oure hertes vnto wy?dome.

¹ Heare my prayer (o LORDE) and let my criege come vnto the.

¹⁰ And that because of ye indignacion and wrath, for thou hast taken me vp, and cast me awaye. ¹¹ My dayes are gone like a shadowe, and I am wythered like grasse.

¹⁴ For he knoweth wherof we be made, he remembreth that we are but dust.

³ The snares of death copased me rounde aboute, the paynes of hell gat holde vpon me,

⁹ Where withall shall a yonge man clense his waye? Euen by rulinge himself after thy worde.

¹⁹ I am a strauger vpo earth, O hyde not thy commaundementes fro me.

³⁹ Take awaye the rebuke yt I am afraied of, for thy iudgmetes are amiable.

⁵⁴ Thy statutes are my songes in the house of my pilgremage.

⁸¹ My soule longeth for thy sauynge health, for my trust is in thy worde.

⁸⁴ How many are the dayes of thy seruaunt? Whe wilt thou be auenged of my aduersaries?

¹⁶⁶ LORDE, I loke for yi sauynge health, & do after thy comaundemetes.

² Excepte the LORDE kepe the cite, the watchman waketh but in vayne.

⁵ I loke for the LORDE, my soule doth wayte for him, and in his worde is my trust. ⁶ My soule doth paciently abyde the LORDE, fro the one mornynge to the other.

⁸ And he shal redeme Israel from all his synnes.

³ Set a watch (o LORDE) before my mouth, yee a watch at the dore of my lippes.

⁴ Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.

²⁶ Podre the path of thy fete, so shal all yi wayes be sure. ²⁷ Turne not asyde, nether to the right hande ner to the lefte, but witholde thy fote from euell.

²² Which their childers childre shal haue in possessio, for the riches of the synner is layed vp for ye iust.

²¹ Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.

²³ Who so kepeth his mouth and his tonge, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

⁵ Why wilt thou set thine eye vpon ye thinge, which sodenly vanisheth awaye? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight like an Aegle in to ye ayre.

²⁴ For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.

² All is but vanite (saieth ye preacher) all is but playne vanite.

¹⁴ Thus I haue considered all the thinges that come to passe vnder the Sone, & lo, they are all but vanite & vexacion of mynde.

⁸ I gathered syluer & golde together, euen a treasure of kynges & londes. I prouided me syngers and wome which coude playe of instrumentes, to make men myrth and pastime. I gat me drynkynge cuppes also and glasses.

¹¹ But whan I considered all the workes yt my handes had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therin: lo, all was but vanite and vexacion of mynde, & nothinge of eny value vnder ye Sonne.

¹⁷ Thus begane I to be weery of my life, in so moch that I coude awaye with nothinge that is done vnder the Sonne, for all was but vanite & vexacion of mynde: ¹⁸ Yee I was weery of all my laboure, which I had taken vnder the Sonne, because I shulde be fayne to leaue them vnto another man, that cometh after me: ¹⁹ for who knoweth, whether he shalbe a wyse ma or a foole? And yet shal he be lorde of all my labours, which I with soch wy?dome haue taken vnder the Sonne. Is not this a vayne thinge? ²⁰ So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all soch trauayle, as I toke vnder the Sonne: ²¹ for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

²⁶ he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.

⁷ Morouer, I turned me, and beholde yet another vanite vnder the Sonne. ⁸ There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.

¹⁴ For oft times they perishe with his greate misery and trouble: and yf he haue a childe, it getteth nothinge.

¹¹ A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els? ¹² For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?

⁸ All is but vanite (sayeth the preacher) all is but playne vanite.

¹³ Lat vs heare the conclucion of all thinges: Feare God, and kepe his comaundementes, for that toucheth all men:

¹⁷ All people in comparison of him, are rekened, as nothinge, yee vayne vanite and emptynesse.

⁹ Beholde, the LORDE God stondeth by me, what is he that can condempne me? lo, they shalbe all like as an olde cloth, which ye mothes shal eate vp.

⁷ He shal be payned & troubled, ad shal not ope his mouth. He shalbe led as a shepe to be slayne, yet shal he be as still as a lambe before the shearer, & not open his mouth.

² Wherfore do ye laye out yor moneye, for the thinge yt fedeth not, and spende youre laboure aboute the thinge that satisfieth you not? But herke rather vnto me, ad ye shal eate of the best, & youre soule shal haue hir pleasure in pleteousnes.

⁹ Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not.

¹⁴ Now when the sprete toke me vp, and caried me awaye, I wente with an heuy and a soroufull mynde, but the honde off ye LORDE comforted me right soone.

³⁵ in comparyson off whom, all they that dwell vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothinge. He handleth acordinge to his will, amoge ye powers of heauen & amonge the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that maye resiste his honde, or saye: what doest thou?

¹² Therfore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, & to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller.

¹⁷ Let the prestes serue the LORDE betwixte the porch & ye aulter, wepinge & sayenge: be fauourable (o LORDE) be fauourable vnto thy people: let not thine heretage be brought to soch confucion, lest the Heithen be lordes therof. Wherfore shulde they saye amonge the Heithen: where is now their God?

¹⁹ yee ye LORDE shal answere, & saye vnto his people: Beholde, I wil sende you corne, wyne & oyle, so that ye shal haue plenty of them: & I wil nomore geue you ouer to be a reprofe amonge the Heithen.

¹³ Therfore the wyse must now be fayne to holde his tuge, so wicked a tyme is it.

⁵ Let no man beleue his frende, ner put his confidece in a prince. Kepe the porte of thy mouth, from her yt lieth in thy bosome: ⁶ for ye sonne shal put his father to dishonoure, the doughter shal ryse agaynst her mother, ye doughter in lawe agaynst hir mother in lawe: and a mans foes shalbe euen they of his owne housholde.

¹⁹ he shal turne agayne, & be mercyfull to vs: he shal put downe oure wickednesses, & cast all oure synnes in to the botome of the see.

²¹ She shall brynge forth a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iesus. For he shall saue his people from their synnes.

⁶ Geue not that which is holy, to dogges: nether cast ye youre pearles before swyne, lest they treade them vnder their fete, & the other turne agayne and all to rente you.

¹² And wha he was accused of the hye prestes and elders, he answered nothinge. ¹³ Then sayde Pylate vnto him: Hearest thou not, how sore they accuse the? ¹⁴ And he answered him not one worde: in so moch that the debyte marueled exceadingly.

²⁵ And beholde, there was a man (at Ierusale) whose name was Symeon, and the same ma was iust, and feared God, and loged for the consolacion of Israel, and the holy goost was in him.

⁴⁰ But Martha made hirself moch to do, for to serue him. And she stepte vnto him, and sayde: LORDE, carest thou not, that my sister letteth me serue alone? Byd her therfore, that she helpe me. ⁴¹ But Iesus answered, and sayde vnto her: Martha Martha, thou takest thought, and combrest thy self aboute many thinges: ⁴² there is but one thinge nedefull. Mary hath chosen a good parte, which shal not be taken awaye from her.

²⁰ But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared? ²¹ Thus goeth it with him yt gathereth treasure for himself, and is not riche in God.

²⁹ Axe not ye therfore what ye shal eate, or what ye shal drynke, and clymme not vp an hye:

³² And they sayde, betwene the selues: Dyd not oure hert burne with in vs, whan he talked with vs by the waye, whyle he opened the scriptures vnto vs?

²⁰ We can not chose, but speake that we haue sene & herde.

²³ Thou makest thy boost of the lawe, and thorow breakynge of the lawe thou dishonorest God. ²⁴ For thorow you is the name of God euell spoken of amonge the Gentyles, as it is wrytten.

¹³ The God off hope fyll you wt all ioye and peace in beleuynge, yt ye maye be plenteous in hope thorow ye power of the holy goost.

⁵ to delyuer him vnto Sathan for the destruccion of the flesh, that the sprete maye be saued in the daye of the LORDE Iesus.

³¹ & they that vse this worlde, be as though they vsed it not. For the fasshion off this worlde passeth awaye.

³⁰ Therfore are there so many weake and sicke amoge you, and many slepe. ³¹ For yf we iudged oure selues, we shulde not be iudged. ³² But whan we are iudged, we are chastened of ye LORDE, that we shulde not be daned with the worlde.

⁶ Therfore are we allwaye of good cheare, and knowe, that as longe as we dwell here in the body, we are not at home with the LORDE:

⁵ Walke wysely towarde them that are without, and redeme ye tyme.

¹⁴ which gaue him selfe for vs, to redeme vs fro all vnrighteousnes, and to pourge vs to be a peculiar people vnto himselfe, to be feruently geuen vnto good workes.

¹ Wherfore we ought to geue the more hede vnto the thinges which we haue herde, lest we perisshe.

⁷ And in ye dayes of his fleshe, he offred vp prayers & supplicacions, wt stroge cryenge & teares vnto him yt was able to saue him fro death: & was herde also, because he had God in honoure.

¹³ All these dyed acordinge to faith, and receaued not the promyses, but sawe the afarre off, and beleued them, and saluted them: and cofessed, that they were straungers & pilgrems vpo earth.

⁶ for who the LORDE loueth, him he chasteneth, yee and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth.

²⁶ Yf eny man amonge you seme deuoute, & refrayne not his toge: but deceaue his awne herte, this mannes deuocion is in vayne.

² for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body. ³ Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes yt they shulde obeye vs, and we turne aboute all the body. ⁴ Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll. ⁵ Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth, ⁶ and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. ⁸ But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou.

¹⁴ & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:

³ Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes:

¹⁷ And yf so be that ye call on the father, which without respecte of personnes iudgeth acordynge to euery mans worke, se yt ye passe ye tyme of youre pilgremage in feare:

²⁴ For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man is as the floure of grasse. The grasse withereth, & the floure falleth awaye

¹¹ Dearly beloued, I beseke you as straungers and pilgrems, absteyne fro the fleshly lustes, which fighte agaynst the soule,

⁷ Cast all youre care on him, for he careth for you.

¹⁶ but was rebuked of his iniquyte. The tame and domme beast spake with mas voyce, & forbad the foolishnes of ye prophet.

⁸ Dearly beloued, be not ignoraunt of this one thinge, how that one daye is with the LORDE as a thousande yeare: and a thousande yeare as one daye.

¹⁹ As many as I loue, I rebuke & chasten. Be feruent therfore and repent.