The Prophet isaiah/ translated into english/ by George joy  
My sheep hear my voice. (saith Christ) joan. x  
Every man that is of the truth heareth my voice. joan. xviij.  
Despise not the doctrine and warning of the Prophet of God.   

¶ A Prologue into the Prophet isaiah.  
THis is the book of the sainges & acts of the prophet isaiah chefist of all prophets/ as concerning the office of overseinge/ preaching/ & diligent watching over the congregra●●● of god● which office is noless pere●ouse t●e● 〈◊〉 boriouse. This is isaiah so oft in thevangelists mouths/ so familiar with joan baptist & Paul/ & of fich authority with Christ/ that he took this book & opened it & red thee Iwes a lesson thereof in their synagogue at Nazareth. Luc. iiij. This book declareth how faithfully isaiah watched & waited on his flock/ with what constancy he warned/ how sharply he corrected & rebuked & at last comforted the zagene. This prophet was in like troublous time & sinful world as we are now: when destruction & captivity was at hand/ & men were fled backward from the true worship of god to the worshipping of stocks & stones/ putting all their confidence in outward work is & holiness invented of their own brains: when all was done with power & tyranny/ with out equity/ true judgement/ and good order Whereby we may well see the merciful goodness of god which in so troublous and synfula state steredup (as he doth now) so excellent a wit and so fervent a sprite● prophet.  
¶ When men are given to sin & lust/ then set they all their minds to disgoyse their self/ & so to play the hypocrites that what so ever they do/ it shallbe so kraftely handled/ so coloured/ so painted that it may apere well & righteously/ ye & godlely done/ be it never so cruel never so ungodly: and this their hypocrisy when they intend to stay it most with superstition & eloquence as with two strong pillars (I will not set audacity between them/ for the same hypocrisy is the most unshamefaced boldness) then thorough superstition fain they godliness/ & by eloquence erudicion & knowledge. But against this krafty effeminate mocking monster (as isaiah painteth her) thus stayed on and not after his own doctrine & precepts/ putting our vain confidence in our works leaving his commandments undone. Also in reading this heavenvly Prophet/ we must consider that we are the spiritual Israel & juda of the seed of Abraham by faith unto whom the law is given and promises are made that god willbe our god allalone sufficient if we be perfit & walk in his ways Geness. xvij. Not withstanding yet are we after the flesh the very gentiles whom god of his mercy hath called into the place of the Iwes to benamed his people. We must also remember in reading this book that isaiah preacheth to us & not to the carnal Israel only. It is we that now labour in like idolatry and sin/ let us therefore take his warnings and terrible threatenings unto ourselves/ there is now the same god/ the same christ yesterday to day & the same to continue for ever. Hebre xiij the same holygoste the same saviour & that thorough the same faith/ the same mercy/ justice / & judgement abiding us: the carnal Israel before other nations was cut out of Abraham: but we by the spirit of election throw faith are cutoute of the stone that is christ Isay li Israel descended into Egipte there oppressed in hard servitute: we descend into our own ways oppressed with sin for the which we are under the danger of hell & death. Israel had their pass over in the remembrance of their deliverance out of Egypt we have our lamb christ offered for us into a perpetual memorial of our deliverance from sin hell & death. Israel for their unbelief was forsaken/ blinded/ & assailed of the Madianites/ Amalekts/ of the Assyrions' of the Antiochens & Rhomans/ which brent their temple destroyed their land & led them into captivity: we for our unbelief are not with out our spiritual Sennacherib/ Nabuchodonosor/ Antioch/ & our Rhomans' continually fighting against Christ & us leading us into captivity under they traditions/ burning the very temple of god & dest-roying every overseer or preacher plenteously find all manner of riches that may make for the edifying of Christ's flock: & take away such a bishop from Mosesbokis as isaiah is/ & th'example that he left us to follow in expounding the law (the prophets interpret the law & the new testament expoundeth them both) & thou shittest up the law and puttest it out of mind.  
¶ out of Isayes' school it pleased god to send these two lights/ that is to say joan baptiste and Paul: him to the blind phary says & to their blind disciples the Iwes/ & this to illumyn the gentiles sitting yet in darkness. joan baptist with out doubt preached many a sermone to many men before they flocked forth so fast to him to be baptised confessing their sins/ but out of what prophets school he was sent/ the theme and argument of his sermons/ the rough rebuking and sharp threatening so freely so boldly with out fear of man of what estate so ever he was plainly declareth. Said he not freely to the pharisees and saducees. Mat. iij. For all they were in so great opinion and authority with the people for their outward holiness/ said he not openly to these hypocrites/ O ye edders whelps who shall show you the way to avoid the vengeance to come? And with Paul was there no Prophet so familiar so ready to prove and to confirm his sayings as was isaiah/ as it aperethe in his pistels & sermons/ especially in his pistle to the Romans. Where in the nienthe and tenth Chapit. When he came unto the calling of the gentiles into the place of the Iwes now fallen away and rejected (which calling of the gentiles and fall of the Iwes isaiah saw and prophesied here most clearly) how thick (I pray you) alleged he isaiah be name bringing in his full sentences & hol testimonies garneshinge his pistle with these as the stars ornowerne the firmament? so that it may be thought he what not his gardens of any other prophets rivers so plenteously & so oft/ as he did of Isayes' sweet floods running in them so poorly so plenteously and so sweetly. But what needeth me to remember the servants when the Master of all broughtyn no prophets testimonies so soon as he did his prophet Isays the son of Amoz? As when he came to Nazareth where he was broughtup & after the custom entered into their synagogue on the Sabbath day and rosup to read his lesson/ there was delivered him the book of isaiah the prophet as ye may see Luce. iiij. which he opened and finding this place of isaiah in the lxj chap. red saying The spirit of god is with me/ for the lord hath anointed me/ and sent me to preach his gospel to the poor afflict & troubled in mind/ to byndup the wounds of them that are wounded & contrite in heart/ to shewforth deliverance to men in captivity/ & to open the preson to men in hold/ to publesshe the time of grace decreed of the lord. & cetera. And when he had red/ he shit the book and restored it to the minister of the synagogue.  
And now at the last (the world corrupt with the same idolatry and like abomination as it was in Isayes' time & at Christ's coming/ who therefore there must needs abide like destruction & captivity/ if we be not captive all ready) God of his infinite goodness hath restored us his prophet isaiah speaking plain english which have been locked up long in latin so that the lay man (I dare say) understood him not/ nor yet peraventure many that repute these self learned. Now may we read him for the most part gathering great fruit with out any great gloze/ so that we bring with us a pure heart purged from all carnal affects asking understanding of god by whose spirit it was all spoken: so that we knowledge our ungodliness our idolatry & false worship with our lips/ our hearts being far from god which hitherto have: rendered fear & worship to him after the doctrine and commandments of men isaiah xxix either side/ the goodness of god hath ever set godliness & erudicion/ not this erudition which is soon puftup with the hasty wind of vain glory/ but the which is inflammed with the soft oil of charity/ that the godly learned might more clearly see & pierce thorough the vain vysare of hypocrisy. Fore where can suꝑstition bid herself but godliness will find her out? & how cannot painted eloquence & bold babbling but fear godly erudition? ¶ Wherefore/ when it was so that in Isayes' time vice reigned so sore (but yet thorough the favour of hypocrisy it was taught for virtue) & curious fables walked in the stead of God's word/ the lord steredup this heavenly wit whom he had made before to fight against this wily effeminate monster with all her long tail/ thinking it convenient for the state of the world to bringforth so well appointed a prophet against so delicate an enemy: which prophet shulonot only fight which strength/ but also with prudence & policy/ that the spirit shuldnot want his apparel/ & that because in those days men studied to paint their speech & to colour their words. wherefore his counsel (which cannot be deceived) took effect: & this prophet camforth a man right godly/ prudent/ constant/ vehement/ learned/ ientle/ well nourtred/ & of a singler wit: which so stretched forth all the powers of his gifts against this vizard hypocrisy & effeminate scorner for the poor churches profit/ that his godliness with erudition/ his prudence with humanity/ his constancy with urbanite/ his rebuking with vehemence/ all together might fight in their place and time: so that if thou wouldst esteem all the gifts of a prophet with pure judgement/ set isaiah alone: to whose faithful office of preaching & prophesying god joined so excellent erudition & grace & gave him unto us/ unto us (I say) & not only to the people of juda. Let us therefore with thanks hear & read this godly Prophet diligently/ in whom we shall find the heavenly & clear solutions of all qnstions pertaining to christian religion: here shall roying his people. Israel went dry should through the sea/ his enemies drowned: we are led surely through the perilous ieoperdes of this ī●et & troublous world so full of persecution/ wherein our Pharaoh/ this Leviathan/ this Dragon playeth mocketh & taketh his pleasure for a time isaiah xxvij but he is now in drowninge synking down to the bottom like lead/ killed with the breath of God's mouth/ that is to say with his almighty word: for now is the day cum of the which isaiah they speaketh that the lord shall viset this invincible serpent Leviathan with his hard/ great & mighty sword/ that is to say with his everlasting word/ which so mercifully now offered us we do not only receive but violently resist it with sword fyet & water & with other innumerable & intolerable tormentinges & ignomynes/ Letoy us know league this grievous offence committed against god/ against his word/ & the professors thereof: we are all sinners & want the praise (as saith Paul. Rom. iij) that shuldbe given of us to gad/ that is to say we want the faith when he would be glorified: then praysle & glorify we God when we believe the christ is given us to die for our rightwise making as testifieth paul Roma. iiij. of Abraham/ which made strong in faith gave this praise & honour to god/ assuerd and persuaded that he that promised him was able to perform etc. In this sentence is isaiah hole: whom to hear faithfully/ to read freely & diligently/ to understand truly/ grant us our merciful faith which would all his elect to be saved & come to the knowledge of the trutheby his spirit of truth. Amen.  
¶ Burn no more God's word: but men de it where it is not truly translated.  
¶ A note/ for the clearer understanding of the Prophet.  
¶ ye must hold diligently in mind the story of these four kings in whose days isaiah prophesied/ which story beginneth at the xu Chapter of the fourth book of the kings where Azarias called here Ozias began to reign and so forth to the reign of josias: read also in the second book of Paralipoin. from the xxuj to the xxxviij chap.  
¶ The division of this book according to these four kings/ & what was prophesied in each of their days.  
Under Ozias/ isaiah prophesied from the beginning of his book unto the uj chap Underwit jothan he saw the vision of ye uj cap. Underwit Ahaz he prophesied from the end of the sixth unto the end of the xiiij cap.  
Under Ezechias he spoke from the xiiij unto the xl chapter. The rest unto the end of the book we have no certainty whether he spoke it under Ezechias or in Manasses days his successor But this is certain that from the xl cap. unto the xlix he prophesieth the story of king Cyrus and the deliverance out of the captivity of Babylon/ & from the xlix unto the books end/ he prophesieth clearly with out any figure of Christ & of his church/ notwithstanding yet under that for said kings he mixed his sayings with many clear prophecyingis of Christ and his kingdom.   

¶ The title of this book.  
¶ The vilsonor Prophecy of isaiah/ the son of Amoz: which he prophesied upon juda & Jerusalem/ in the days of Ozias/ jothan/ Ahaz/ Ezechias/ kings of juda.  

¶ The first Chapter.  
Hear heaven/ and listen earth: for it is the Lord that speaketh. children have I noureshte up and promoted/ and they have despyghtfully rebelled against me. The unreasonable ox knoweth his owener: & the very ass his master's stall: but Israel is unsensible/ my people is with out understanding. Oh sinful nation/ a nation laden with wickedness/ a myschevous generation/ pestilent children. The very Lord have they forlaken/ & even him that chose & made holy Israel have they provoked to anger/ & are fled backward. with what plague more shall I then smite you? sith the more ye are correkt the worse ye are. All your heads ache & every heart is full sick: from top to toe is there not an hole place in all your body All are wounds/ running sores/ full of botches & blains/ which noman may cleanse or bind plaster to/ nor yet sowple with any ointment. your region is desolate/ your cities are brent up with fire/ your land before your eyes a strange nation devowerth: It is wasted lyk as with a cruel host. And the daughter of Zion is left alone lyk an hovelin a vine yard/ like a skoulke lodge in time of war/ and like a besieged city. And except the lord of powers had saved us a few reamnauntes'/ we had been like So doom and Gomorre. Hear therefore the word of the Lord ye princes of Sodom: And thou people of Gomorre/ take heed to the law of hour God saying thus: what have I to do with your so manifold and so oft offerings and sacrifices? I abhor your brent wethers: I am full of the kidnese of your fat beasts/ the blood of oxen/ of lambs and goats they irk me. When ye come to see my face/ who requireth these of feringes at your hands? Is this the way to tread my temple? Offere no more (I pray you) your gifts thus in vain. this incense is abomination to me: your feasts of the new moan/ your Sabbath days/ and solemn feasts I may not a way with: for full wicked are your idle congregations/ yower kalends and feries my heart hateth/ yower fasts are all in vain: I am weary of these things/ and it irketh me to see them. when ye shall stretch forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you: And pray ye never so much yet shall I not hear you: for your hands are bathed in blood: wash ye & be clean/ put a way your evil thoughts & crooked counsels out of my sight: cease to do hurt & study for equity: seek justice/ deliver the oppressed/ avenge the poor fatherless & defend the cause of the widow. Come hither (I pray ye) and let me be proved (saith the Lord). when your sins were as red as scarlet/ were they not made as white as snow? And when they were as red as purple/ were they not made as white as will? If ye will hear and be ruled/ shall ye not take your pleasure even of the best fruits of the land? But if ye willbe steffe necked/ think ye not to be devowerde with sword? surely God hath so promised with his own mouth. But how is it thus come to pass/ that this cite which sometime was faithful/ full of equity in the which justice was excercised/ hath thus changed her face like an harlot/ and is now become a murderer of her own innocent citizens? Thy silver is turned into dross/ Thy wine is marred with water/ Thy ruler's arbetrayers and bakslyders from God/ even fellows unto thieves. All they love gifts/ and are sentence sellers: they restore not his right to the fatherless and the wedewes cause cometh never at them. Wherefore/ thus saith the lord god of powers and the mighty forth leader of Israel. Alas/ I must needs ease my mind and be avenged upon my adversaries. I shall surely set my hand upon thee: & I shall seethe out thy dross and try out thy purest/ and I shall take away all thy lead. after this shall I restore the thy judges and senators as they were before. And then shalt thou be called the cite of rightwiseness and the faithful town. Thus shall Zion now redeemed from captivity/ be accustomed with equity and exercised in rightwiseness: when the ungodly transgressors and bakslyders from the Lord shallbe alto broken and utterly peresshe And except ye be ashamed of your stocks and Idols in woods and hills in which ye delighted/ and leave your groves and gardens which ye chose for you: ye shallbe like oaks whose leaves fall a way/ and like a garden with out water. For the glysteringe glory of these images shallbe turned into stubble and the makers of them into sparks of fire: and both of them shallbe brent together/ noman quenching them.   

The second Chapit. the title prefixed  
THe word which was showed unto isaiah the son of Amoz/ upon juda and jerusalem. Thus shall it be in the last days. The hill of the house of the Lord shallbe so prepared and set up/ that it shall apere above all the tops of wother hills: And then shall there flow unto it all gentiles/ and infinite folk shall goforth saying one to another: come & let us ascend unto the hill of the lord/ to the house of the god of jacob/ that he mought teach us his ways/ and that we mought walk in his paths: For out of Zion the law shall goforth and the word of the lord from jerusalem/ that he mought be a judge among the gentiles/ and rule therewith that infinite multitude. And then a none shall they cause their swords to be smitten into matoks and coultres/ and their spears into scythes and sykels: For the one nation shall no more lift up swtrde against the other/ neither shall they anymore exercise themself into battle. And now speak I unto thee (o house of jacob). Come near (I pray you) that we mought walk together in the light of the Lord. But wherefore do I bid thee (o thou unhappy house of jacob) seeing that thou with thy people are now fledbacke from the Lord: for ye are far worse than your elders both in sooth saings after the manner of the palestyns/ & in calking of men's births ye pass even the very heathen: for as soon as your land abounded in goold & silver/ & ye knew non end of your treasure/ as soon as it was replenesshed with horsemen & chariets: a none was it full of Idols & images/ even the works of your own hands which ye made with your own fingers: ye/ & ye worshippeth them: But dost thou (o man) faldowne before these Idols & worshipest then? ye/ & that so superstitiously/ so steffly/ that no thing may pluck ye from them? get the hence quickly/ go hide the in the rocks of stone/ run into the chins of the earth from the sight of the fearful judge and from the brightness of his majesty: which casttehdowne the high looks of the proud men and layeth the stout full low/ which shallbe alone above all exalted so mightily in the day of vengeance taking. For that day of the lord of powers shall take vengeance upon all pride & stoutness/ upon all elation & oppression: It shall reach unto the high Ceders of Libani and unto the steffe oaks of Basan/ it shall meet with all the high mountains and hills/ and shall come by all the high towers/ and unto every wall of defence/ it shall stretch unto all the ships of the sea & unto what so everis goodly and pleasant to be hold: & shall thrustedowne the proud countenance of man/ & shall lay full low his high looks. For the lord alone shall have the victory in that day.  
And the Idols shallbe utterly destroyed. Men shall krepe into dens of stone & into the chins of the earth from the face of the fearfuliuge/ & from the brightness of his majesty/ when he shall prepare him to come & sinyte the earth. Then then shall man castawaye his goolden gods & images of silver which he had made him to worship them: then shall he cast them to molles & backs that he might the more speedily run into these kaves of stone to hide him self in the rocks from the face of the fearfuliuge/ and from the glory of his majesty: when he shall prepare him self to come & smite the earth.   

Cap. iij  
YE can well beware & avoid an haastye melancholy man: which doth all thing in a gareshe fury See then ye take here good heed: for it is the lord god of powers that is now angry/ & will take a way from Jerusalem & juda all substance and strength/ almaner of sustenance both of meat & drink/ capitain and soldier/ judge & Prophet/ the sage wise & senator/ petty capitains and men in authority/ lawyers and learned/ master's of works and orators. And I shall set babes (saith the lord) to be your prince's/ and wily effeminate skorners shallbe your rulers. And the people shall do wrong and violence one to a nothr/ even neighbour against neighbour: the boy shall countroff the sage/ and the knave the noble.  
Every man shall set hold on his brother which is of his father's famylye saying thou haste a good cote thou shalt be ower capitain/ for thou mayst abide this heavy brunt: then shall he anon swear and say: I cannot remedy it/ for in my noun house is there neither meat nor money: make not me then the head of the people: for jerusalem shall fall and juda shall go to wreck/ for both their speech/ study/ and thoughts/ all are against the lord to provoke the countenance of his majesty to anger. The heavy changing of their cheer bewrieth and betrayeth them: ye they declare their own sin like the sodomites / neither can they cloak it. woe be to their lyves/ for grievous punishment shallbe their reward: by which punishment they now thus taught at the last/ shall say Blessed are the rightwise for they shall eat the fruits of their study. But contrariwise: woe be to the ungodly and wykedman which shallbe rewarded according to the works of his own hands.  
O my people/ full greedy tyrants and crafty bribers are thy rulers and weak women have the in subjection. O my people/ thy leaders are deceyvers and lead the out of the way/ they tread out the steapes of thy feet. The lord is comeforth to reason the matter/ he is ready to be judge for the people: for the lord shall come to try it by judgement with the elders and rulers of his people saying: ye have brenteup my vine yard: the spoil of the poor is in your house: wherefore stamp ye thus down my people together/ & grind ye thus together the faces of the poor? Even thus shall the god of powers reprove these men/ saying: because the proud daughters of Zion go with so forth stretched necks/ with so false wynkinge eyes/ and with so wanten & light behaviour: therefore shall the lord clip the crowns of the daughters of Zion/ and so make bare their beauty in that day: and the lord shall take from them the beuteful glory of their apparel their chains and stomachers/ their partelettes/ their armlets and burlettes their costly broidered clothes both gown and kyrtel/ pomaunders/ musk balls and earrings/ rings and frontellettes set with goold & pearl/ their changes with their frocks/ their kerchews & pings their glasses & lawns/ fillettes & hearbendes: And for their sweet savours they shall have stink/ for their costiouse girdles they shall go lose/ for their hear broyderd with goolde they shallbe bald/ and for their soft stomachers they shall were sack & hair: & fore their fayernes they shallbe son brent. yower husbands/ even the most strongest of them shallbe smitten down with sword in battle. Their gates shall express their mourning & hevynes/ & these kareful women shall sit upon the ground desolate/ and than shall seven we men set hold upon one man saying: what so ever meat and substance we have/ we bring it here all together to the in common/ so that thou wilt let us be thy wyves called after thy name to take a way our obprobry and calamity.   

The fourth Chapter.  
AFter this shall there arise that joyful floureshing bud of the Lord: and this noble & goodly fruit of the earth shall springe unto those Israelites which shall escape and be saved: & the remnant that shallbe left self in Zion and jerusalem shallbe called saints/ even all those in jerusalem which are written among the living men. And then when the lord hath washed away the filthenes of the daughters of Zion/ & with the blast of his hot vengeance hath purged jerusalem from blood: the lord shall create a cloud & smoke be day/ & be night the brightness of flaming fire over every building of the hill of Zion and over every congregation rowndaboute it/ for it shallbe defended with all his glorious mighty power: that it should be in time to come a tabernacle and a shadewinge place be day from heat/ and also a refugye and shelter to hide us from tempests & rain.   

The fift Chapter.  
ANd now therefore will I sing unto my well-beloved friend a song upon his vine yard. My well-beloved made him a vine yard in a pleasant and a plenteous soil: which he closed round a bout with a stone wall/ and he planted it with the most noblest vine: In the mids of it he set up a tower and made ther in a winepress: looking that it should make grapes/ & it yilded thorns. wherefore now O ye citizens of Jerusalem & all that are of the fond of juda/ I report me unto you/ decern you between me and my vine yard/ what thing more could I have done to my vine yard which I did not to it? And wherefore then (I looking that it should have yilded me grapes) hath it brought me forth thorns? surely I shall show you therefore what I will do to my vine yard. I shall go break up her fence that she may be rob & destroyed: I shall throw down her wall that she may be trodden down with men's feet: I shall leave her desolate all alone/ noman to cut her/ nor yet to dig her: She shallbe overgrown with briars & thorns: & I shall forbid the clouds to give her any rain. But yet the vine yard of the lord of hosts is the house of Israel/ & the men of juda are his goodly plenteous plants which (when he looked for judgement) lo all wasful of iniquity: when he looked for equity: lo all was injury & complaints. woe be to you that join house to house and lay field to field until there be no more room left for you as though ye would have the world all alone. But the lord of powers roundeth me in mine ear saying: If these great and fair houses be not left alone noman dwelling in them? ye/ a vine yard of .v. akres shall yilde but a fyrkyn of wine: & of. so. bushels of seed scant shall arise three. woe be to the haunters of drunkenness which rise early to drink/ continuing in it till night being hot with wine: in whose banquets there are haps and futes taberet & pipe washed with wine. but in the mean time/ the very work of the lord they behold not/ neither consider they what his hands have made. Be cause therefore that my people hath no knowledge/ they are soon brought into captivity/ their nobles are made thin with hunger/ and the proud multitude peresheth for thirst: And for this cause the hells have opened their unsatiable throats and their mouths gape be yende measure/ that thither mought descend pride/ pomp/ riches/ and all that are addict to these vices. Thus is man plucked down/ the stout stoopeth/ and high looks are abated: but the Lord of powers and the holy god is exalted and stableshed into a glorious example of equity and rightwiseness/ that the poor lambs might be fed of the thing appointed these/ and the sturdy straying rams mought go graze upon the barren desert. Woe be unto these vain skorners which draw unto themself wickedness (as ye would say) with a line: and pluk sin also to them even with cart ropes: in whose mouths are all ways these sayings/ let him work on fast/ that we might once see it/ let the mind of Israel's holy maker come to pass and be once present that we might once know it. Woe be unto them that say that thing to be evil which they know to be good/ and that to be good which they know to be evil: which reckon darkness to be light/ and the light to be darkness/ & that at is bitter/ they say is sweet/ and sweet to be bitter. Woe be to these that at wise in their own eyes/ and have understanding in their own judgement. Woe be unto these great drinkers of wine / and to men hardy to receive drunkenness: which absolve the wicked for gifts and condemn the just for his rightwiseness: wherefore like as the tongue of the fire licketh in the stubble/ and as the flame consumeth the straw: even so/ their rote putrefied/ the flower of them shall vaynesshe a way like dust which contemn the law of the lord of powers/ and despise the word of him that maketh holy Israel: wherefore the wrath of the lord is kindled against his people/ and he hath turned his hand to smite them/ that these hills mought tremble/ and their carcases mought lie stinking like dongehills in the high ways. And yet after all this shall he nothing abate his wrath/ but shall yet farther stretch forth his hand/ & shall give a token to the strange nation a farreof/ whistelinge them from the farthest parts of the earth: & lo/ they shall come a none/ & that swiftly: There is not one weary or faint among them/ not one of them drowsy or sleapye / their girdles a bout their reins they do not once slack/ nor yet unlose the latchets of their shoes/ their arrows are sharp and their bows ready bent/ their horse howves should as sharp as flyntes/ and the wheels of their charyets turning like a whirlwind. This nation roareth like a lion/ and grenneth like the lions whelps/ they shall green and snatch up their proye/ neither shall there be one that may escape/ nor yet any that may deliver them They shall green upon the people of Israel at the time like a fierce sea. Then if we behold the earth/ lo/ all shallbe darkness/ and no refugye. If we behold the stars: lo/ they shallbe derkened into ower hevynes with out hope.   

Ch. vi  
THe year in the which Dzias the king died: I see the Lord sitting in an high seat all above/ and the train of his rob filled the temple. And the Seraphims appeared above over him/ and each of them had siye wings: with two of their wings they koverde their faces/ & with two they koverde their feet/ and with the other two they flew/ and they kryed to each other saying: Holy/ holy/ holy is the lord of powers: all the earth be fulfilled with his glorious majesty: ye and the posts with their windows were moved at the voice of these angels kryinge & the same house was full of smoke: then said I/ Ah alas/ for I was a ston in asmych as I myself being a man having polluted lips/ and conversant with people having also polluted lips/ yet not withstanding/ had seen with my eyes a king/ even the lord of powers. Then one of the Seraphims flwe unto me bringing a quick coal taken srome the altar with a payer of tongues: and he touched my lips saying these words: behold/ as soon as this coal hath touched thy lips thy in iquitie is gone/ and thy sin is purged. furthermore I hard the voice of the lord taking advysment on this manner: whom shall I send? Or who shall go on ower message? And then answered I: lo/ here at your pleasure to send me And he said: Go thy ways and say unto this people/ ye shall hear verily/ and yet shall ye not understand/ and ye shall see plainly/ but yet shall ye not know: Make gross and fat the hearts of this people/ make thick their ears/ and kover their eyes/ lest they see with their eyes/ or hear with their ears/ or understand with their hearts and so be converted and saved. And here I began to speak for them saying: how long my lord? until the cities (said he) be destitute their dwellers/ & not a man left in the houses/ and the ground be laid void: For full far shall the lord baneshe the men/ and there shallbe great destruction in the land: but yet shall there be left a tithe in it to return again/ so that their pasture shallbe restored: and as their oaks and line trees cast of their fruits/ even so shall that holy seed shoteforth fruitfully among them.   

The seventh Chapter.  
THen was it so/ that in the reign of Ahaz the son of jotham the son of Ozias king of juda: Rezin the king of Aram and Phecca the son of Romelie king of Israel ascended to jerusalem to lay siege against it: which at that time they might not win: & then told they the house of David that the Syryons were confederde with Ephraim/ which tidings made Ahaz with the house of David to tremble like trees in the wooed smitten with wind. wherefore the lord said unto isaiah. Have done and get the forth with thy son jasus which is left thee/ and meet Ahazat the head of the over pole in the way tower the suffers field/ and say unto him. Se that thou be still & fear not/ let not thy heart melt at these two tails with their smoking fyerbrandes/ that is to say at the fury of Rezin king of the Syrions/ and of the son of Romelye because the Syrions/ Ephraim/ and Romelis son have thus mischievously counseled and conspired against thee/ saying. We will go up into juda and scourge them and translate them unto us/ and we shall set the son of Tabal to be king over them: For even thus saith the lord: This thing shall not rise nor come to pass: but Damascus shallbe the head of Syria/ & Rezin shallbe the head of Damascus: & after .65. years/ Ephraim karyed away shall no more be the people: although now Samarya be head of Ephraim/ and the son of Romelye the head of Samaria: If ye believe not/ you are but gone to. And besides this/ the Lord commanded him to say thus also unto Ahaz. Ask the some token of the Lord thy God/ whether it be from the deapest beneath or from the highest above. And Ahaz answered: I will not ask/ neither will I tempt the Lord. Wherefore he said. Hear than ye house of David/ is it not enough for you to veye men/ but ye must weary my god to? The lord therefore his own self shall give you a token. Behold/ a maid shallbe with child and bringeforth a son and she shall call his name Immanuel. Boter and honey shall he eat until he can eschew evil and choose good: notwithstanding before this child be thus waxed/ thy land shallbe desolated/ for the which thou art so a frayed of their two kings. ye the lord shall bring both upon thee/ and upon thy people/ and upon thy father's house/ siche days as have not been seen from the departing of Ephraym from juda: that is to say/ he shall bring upon you the king of the Assyrions: For the time shall come that the lord shall whystle for a fly which dwelleth beyende the flowed of Egypte & for bees which are in the land of the Assyrions/ which shall come all hole together and besiege the even with in thy dry dykes at the kaves with in the rocks/ in every wood/ & at every stertinge hole. ye in that time/ the Lord shall shave the with a razor/ he shall higher a razor beyende the flowed Euphrates/ even the king of the Assyryons: and he shall shave of the hears of thy head & feet/ and even thy very beard shall he wipe of: then shall the time come that a man shall live with a kowe and twain e●es/ and for the plenty of milk eat boter: for yet shall every on left in the mids of the land eat boter and honey/ and yet in those days a vine yard of a thousand wines bought for more than a thousand pennies shall be turned into briars and thorns: For the king of the Assyrions shall not come hither armed so thick with bow and arrows as the briars and thorns shall stand over all this region: Also every fruitful hill which was wont to be delved and ploughed/ then shall not a man come to them for fear of thorns & briars/ but shall serve to put yn herds/ and beasts to graze in.   

The aight Chapter.  
ANd then said the Lord again to me: take the a great roll and write in it with a pen like a man Maherschalal haschbaz which is to say/ hast the to rob/ speed the to spoil. Then I took me certain faithful witnesses/ ury the pressed & Zachary the son of Barachy: and came unto a prophetess which had now conceived and brought forth a son: & the Lord spoke unto me. give him this name: hasty robber greedy spoiler: for before this child can call Dadye & Mammye he shall bare away the riches of Damasce and the proye of samary/ yn the sight of the king of Assyrye. And again the Lord spoke unto me these words. For asmych as this people abhorreth the waters of Siloah that flow so still/ and hath rather pleasure in this king Rezin and in the son of Romely: Lo/ the lord therefore shall let the great mighty flowdiss break in upon them/ that is to say the king of the Assyrions with all his power: which shall arise every where a above their rivers and run over all their banks driving into juda/ redounding and swellyngeup even to their throats: And the time shall come that the spreading a broad of their wings shall kover the breadeth of thy land/ O Immanuel. Get ye together/ ye people into counsel/ and all ye of the farthest parts of the land cast yower heads together/ hast ye together to take counsel: and yet shall all together be yn vain. Conclude ye upon any thing/ and yet shall it not come to pass/ except Immanuel. Thus then said the Lord unto me taking me by the hand like a guide & nourteringe me that I should not go in the way of this people saying. Break not yower minds about any confederation with other for any help: for although this people speaketh of nothing but of conjurations and confederations: yet let them not fray you: but sanctify you the Lord of powers: him fear/ him dread ye: for it is he that is the very holymaking and the stumbling stone also: even a rock to fall at/ snare and net to either of the houses/ that is to say to Israel/ and to them that dwell about jerusalem: and many shall stumble at him/ they shall fall/ they shallbe broken/ they shallbe trapped and taken. Now (saith the Lord) rollup this testimony/ and sealeup the law with my disciples. Now shall I look for the lord (faith isaiah) which hath hid his face from the house of jacob/ and I shall trust in him/ both I myself and the servants whom the Lord hath given me to be a miracle and wonder yn Israel for the lord of powers pleasure that dwelleth in the mount Zion. And when men shall say to you (O my children and disciples of the lord) ask counsel of the Pythonyts and soothe sayers of sorcerers and charmers: then answer you saying: do not every nation ask counsel and knowledge of their own gods? shall they then ask of the deed to know things concerning the living? gete ye to the law and to god's testymones: for who so ever speaketh not after these words they are not of the morning light. If a man be negligent and despise the law/ he smiteth himself against a rock and faileth of his purpose/ and when he thus failethe of his purpose/ he shallbe angry & so fret himself that he shall curse his king & his god. And when he shall look either upward or downward to the ground: lo/ all are full of anguish darkness and tribulation floteringe about him with the clouds of error which shall not be taken from him that is thus grevously tangled in anguish. (as it have been seen of late in the land of Zabulon & in the land of Neptalim)   

Ch. ix  
first the land was rid of Zabulon and Neptalim: 
4. Re. 15  but at last it shallbe right grievously scourged: The land of Zabulon and Neptalim lay by the way from over jordan to the sea/ thorough Galilee whereupon then bordered the gentiles/ the folk that walked in darkness/ which shall see a great light/ and over them dwelling in the region of the deadly shadow light shall springe: thou shalt multiply the gentles/ & shalt thou not therewith also magnify gladness? they shallbe glad with that as men rejoice in their reaping & as men having victory/ rejoice in dividing of their proie. For the heavy yoke of the gentiles/ and the burden of their shoulders/ & the power of their tyrants/ thou shalt break even as thou once deliverdst thy people from the tyranny of the Madianites: 
jud. seven  ye/ & all violent roberye/ all hasty insurrection/ and all cruel blood shed shall feed the fire: For a child shallbe borne for us/ and a son shallbe given us/ upon whese shoulders/ Empery and the governance shallbe put/ and he shallbe called the marvelous counseler/ the mighty God/ the father everlasting/ the prince of peace: this king shall never have end in encresinge his Empery & yet shall he therewith nourish peace/ sitting in the seat regal of David/ and in his kingdom/ to maintain it in equity & rightwiseness from thence into everlasting: the zeal of the lord of powers shall bring this to pass. The lord sent a word into jacob and it fell into Israel: which all the people shall know/ even Ephraim & the citizens of samary although yet of a proud heart they say thus: Ower buldinge of brick are smitten down/ but we shall build them again with four sqwared stones: ower houses of wild figtres are broken down/ but we shall restore them builded with cedar trees: wherefore the lord shall steer up Resin with other enemes upon these: whom he shall so dispose & order that Syrus shall come in upon the front of Israel/ and the palestines shall come in on their backs and devower them with open mouth: and yet for all this shall he not suage his wrath/ but shall yet stretch forth his hand: for neither the people returneth unto him that plagued them/ nor yet seek they the lord of powers. wherefore the lord shall kutof from Israel both top and tail branch and band all at once/ by the top understand thou the alderman and him that beareth rule/ by the tail understand thou the prophet that preachethe lies For they which preach this people to be happy or blessed/ be deceivers/ and they that are thought happy among them are the most nighest their destruction. Wherefore the Lord delighteth not in their yongons and is unmerciful unto the fatherless and to their wedews/ for they are all hypocryts and kursed and they all speak foolishness: and yet for all this shall he not suage his wrath but stretch still forth his hand: For their ungodliness burneth like fire which is noureshed with brambles and thorns/ and the smoke of their pride fleethforth like the smoke of fire that is fallen among thick briars: wherefore the land shallbe brent in the wrath of the lord of powers/ and the people shall feed the fire: for noman shall spare another. And if any man turn him on his right-hand/ he shall starve for hunger/ and if he turn him on his left hand to eats yet shall he find no food/ every man shall eat the brawn of his own arms. Manasse shall eat Ephraim and Ephraim Manasse/ and than shall these together also eat juda. And yet for all this shall he not suage his wrath but stretch still forth his hand.   

Chapi. x.  
WOE be to you that make ungodly laws/ and set statutes to hard to keep/ to oppress the poor in judgement and utterly to beget my afflict simple people with strife and law/ that the wedewe might be a proye for you/ and to rob the fatherless.  
What then shall ye do in the day of visitation and destruction coming from a far? to whom then shall ye flee for help? Or where shall ye leave your glory for a pledge that ye be not cast into fetters or fall into among the sinayne? And yet for all this shall he not suage his wrath but stretch still forth his hand. Woe be to Assur also the weapon of my wrath which holdeth the rod of my indignation in his hand: for I must send him among hypocrites/ and to people that hath deserved my Indignation shall I send him to rob and to spoil these of all that they have/ & to stamp them under his feet like the dirt in the streets: not with standing/ yet he himself shall not so consider the thing/ neither thus think it in his heart: but hitherto looketh his heart his lust is to destroy and to wipe away with his sword not a few folk/ for thus thinketh he saying with himself: Are not all other kings and princes trybutares unto me? shall not I subdwe to me Calenum as easily as Charchamim? and as soon take Antioch as I have Arphad? and Damase as Samariam? (as who say) I have gotten by my noun power these kingdoms in the which Idols & karued images are worshipped/ and can I not then get Jerusalem and samary? shall not I be as able to do to jerusalem and to her Images as I have done to samary and to her gods? Then the time shall come (saith the lord) when I have fyneshed all my work in the mount of Zion and jerusalem/ that I must visit and look upon this joylye bird and so fortunate a fellow even upon the stout heart of the king of the Assyrions and upon his high look: for thus he thinketh of himself: by my noun power and wisdom do I these things: for I am wise: It is I that have taken away the coostes of the nations and have spoiled their princes: and I like a giant have plucked down men sitting a loft: and the hosts of the innumerable people with their substance are all brought into my hands as eggs into a nest: for I have gathered to me every region of the earth even as scattered eggs are gathered together into one place/ and there is not one in the mean time that dare move his wing/ that dare open his mouth or once chatter against me. But (I pray you) doth the axe glory against him that useth it to cut therewith? Or doth the saw magnify itself against the drawer there of? this were as like as though the rod should lyftup her self against her bearer and the staff exalt itself against the smiter as though it were no tree: Wherefore the Lord God of powers shall send penury into his plenteousness/ and fire shall krepe in under his power and waste it: and the light of Israel shallbe his fire/ and Israel's sanctuary shallbe his flame/ which shall kindle and devower his briars and thorns all one a day. Also the beauty of his woods and hills shallbe utterly consumed/ and in conclusion he himself shallbe like a chased vagabond/ and the rest of his trees left in his woods shall stand so thin that a child may tell and write them. And then the remnant of Israel and they that shallbe saved pertaining to the house of jacob shall no more cleave to him as their smiter: but by faith they shall trust to the Lord that maketh holy Israel: there shall but a few (I say) return/ even but the remnant of jacob (I tell you) shall be turned to the mighty god/ For although (O Israel) thy people be like the sands of the sea/ yet but a few of them shallbe turned to him: For the sentence of him that is rich in ryghtwysmakinge must needs stand/ wherefore dowtlesse the lord god of powers shall do this assuerde thing even in the mids of all the world: For thus speaketh the Lord god of powers: be not afraid of Assur (my people which dwellest in Zion) for with a rod verily shall he smite the and shall lyftup his weapon against the like as sometime did the Egiptions/ but after a little space/ ye in less than a little space the measure of my indignation and wrath for their sins shallbe fulfilled/ saith the Lord: for then the Lord of powers shall stereuppe a scourge against them as he did once against the Madianytes at the rock of Oreb/ and as he lyftedup his rod upon the sea/ and shall smite them as he smyt the Egypcions. Then shall his burden be taken from thy shoulders/ and his yoke from thy neck/ and his yoke shall rot for fat. But this Assur verily shall come in first unto Aiath/ and from thence shall he con into Migron In Machmas shall he nowmber his host/ there shall he go over the ford & so turn to Gabaam/ then shall Rama be afraid/ and Gabaa which is called Saules Gabaa shall flee. The neaing of their horses shall sound over all the dawghter of Gallim which shallbe hard unto Lais and to low Anathot. but whiles Madmena be afraid see that ye citizens of Gebim pluckeup your hearts/ for this one day shall he yet taryein Noba/ and from thence shall he turn his host towered the mount/ the daughter of Zion and to the hill of Jerusalem. But yet behold/ for the Lord god of powers shall cut of this glorious renown with great fear/ he shall cut down the tall men and they that are a loft shall come full low/ the thorney places of the woods shall he smite down with axes/ and the great high Cedar trees shall have a fall.   

Theleventh Chapter.  
But at last shall the Gryffe comeforth of the stock of jesse and the floury shinge bud shall springe forth of his rote/ which shallbe endued with the spirit of the Lord/ even with the spirit of wisdom/ and of understanding/ with the spirit of counsel and strength/ the spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord/ and shall make him accept or of sweet savour in that fear of the Lord/ for he shall not judge after the face nor reprove after the fame brought unto his ears: but shall avenge the poor with right wiseness/ & reason for the low oppressed of the earth with equity: The earth shall he smite with the rod of his mouth/ and with the very breath of his lips shall he slay the ungodly man: for rightwiseness shallbe the gyrdele of his loins/ & trowthe and faithfulness shall gird about his sides/ that the wolf might dwell and accord with the lamb/ the leopard lie down with the goat/ and likewise the hay fore with the lion/ and that every wild beast mought agree with the tame and become so meek that a little child might rule them/ the kowe and the female bear shall feed together in one heard and shall nourish up their young together in one place/ the lion shall eat chaff with the ox/ here the young babe shall play upon the Serpent's den/ and after that it be weaned/ it shall put his hand into the nest of the venoumse kockatrice. Noman shall hurt or destroy other thorowt all my holy hill: for the land shall swim in the knowledge of the lords worship as it were a sea flowing over all: and then shall it come to pass/ that the gentiles shall seek this root of jesse which standeth up for a sign among the folk: For his quiet habitation shallbe right glouriouse. And then the Lord shall put to his hand again to challenge and to possess the remnant of his people whom he reserved self from the Assyrions/ from the Egiptions/ from the hard Arabens/ from the yindes/ from the Elamytes/ from the Chaldees from the Antiochens/ and from the eylands of the sea/ then shall he give a sign to the gentiles and shall gather together the scaterde men of Israel/ & bring together also the dispersed of juda from the four quarters of the earth/ Ephraim shallbe eased of her hateful adversaries/ and the enemies of juda shallbe clean wiped a way: Nether shall Ephraim envy or hate juda/ nor juda shall invade Ephraim/ but their shall flee both together upon the shoulders of the Palestynes tower the west/ returning both together to rob the children of the east: the Idumes and the Moabites shallbe at their beck/ and the sons of Ammon shall obey them/ and the Lord shall stop the tongue of the sea of Egipte and shall shake his hand over this flood with a vehement wind smytinge her seven mouths so that men may go over her dry shod/ and the way shallye wide open for the remnant of his people which were saved from the Assyrions even as it lay open for Israel when they came up from Egypte/ so that then/ every one of them shall say thus.   

Chap. xii.  
I Thank thee (Lord) for thou wast wrath with me/ but thy countenance now changed/ thou art merciful and counfortest me. Lo/ God is my saviour/ I shall trust in him/ and shall not fear. For the Lord god is my strength and praise. It is he that willbe my refuge. ye shall draw waters with great joy out of the wells of our saviour/ and shall say in those days. Let us give thanks to the Lord/ let us spread his name/ Let us publeshe his pleasures to the people/ and let us never forget that right high is his name exalted. Let us sing unto the lord for he hath done high things that they should be known thorough all the earth. laugh and be glad from thy very heart/ thou that dwellest in Zion for right great is thy prince which maketh holy Israel.   

Chap. xiii.  
THe heavy destruction of Babylon which isaiah the son of Amoz saw before. Lyfteup a token to the hill a above krye to them/ beken your hands to these/ that the princes might convaye theirselues into within the gates. For I (saith the Lord) shall command my appointed messengers and call my mightyons that delight in my majesty to fyneshe my wrath. And methought then that Iharde a noise from the mountains like the noise of much people swelling and clustering together even a noise of men mustering/ as though the realms of the gentiles had been gatherde altogether having the lord of powers for their capytain/ and as though they had come from far regions even from the extreme parts of the world/ ye as though both the Lord himself/ his ministers and vessels of his indignation should have come to destroy the whole world. Howl ye therefore/ for full nigh is the day of the lord which shall come upon us like a destroyer from the most myghtyeste: then shall every man's hand have the palsaye/ and their hearts shall faint/ they shallbe astoned/ holden with anguish and dazynges in their heads they shall have pangs lyk women travelinge of child/ every man shallbe afraid of other and their cheeks shall glow for shame/ for behold/ the day of the lord shall be present full of fyarcenes/ Indignation/ wrath/ anger/ until their land be brought into a wilderness/ and sin be castoute of it/ for the stars & the planets of heaven shall not give their light. The son shallbe quenched in his uprising/ & the moan shall with draw her light. I shall (saith the lord) look upon the malice of the world & shall punish the sins of the ungodly. I shall abate the pride of the proud/ and the wanten lusts of tyrants shall I bring down. I shall make that a man shall be then more precious than the purest gold. ye & that but a vile man shall be better than a wedge of gold of Ophir. Wherefore I shall so sinyte heaven that the earth shall shake from her place. these plagues (I say) shall fall upon Babylon at the Indignation of the lord of powers/ and that in the day of his fyarce wrath: then shall a man be as fearful as a chased do and as a flock of sheep whom noman can bring together: one countryman shall flee to another for help and every man to his own land/ and he that shallbe found alone shallbe steked: and he that abideth in the ray shallbe smit down. their children shallbe throne against the ground before their faces/ their houses shallbe rob and their wives defiled. For lo/ I shall steer up the Medes upon them which shall set nothing by silver & but a little by gold of whom the bows of the young men shallbe broken/ they shall have little petye of women with child and less shame to kill their children. And Babylon the head of all kingdoms/ the beuteful flower of the Chaldees shallbe destroyed even as the lord destroyed Sodom and Gomor: it shall never be inhabited neither any man shall dwell in it from age to age. The Arabes shall no more pitch bothes there/ neither the herdsmen shall thither bring their flock/ but wild beasts shall lie there/ and their houses shallbe full of owls there shall inhabit Struthions/ there shall scyppe these wodouses/ there shall cry these night ravens one against another in the houses of Babylon/ and dragons shall there play in the palaces.   

Chapter xiiij  
ANd the time of his coming is now at hand/ his day shall not be long differred. But yet again the lord willbe merciful to jacob/ and shall yet choose Israel/ and bring them again unto their own land: and strangers shallbe coupled with them and joined to the house of jacob They shall take this strange nation & lead them to their places/ and the house of Israel shall hold them for servants and handmaids in the lords land & hold them in captivity/ under whose girdle they their self where before/ & shall command these which before were their masters. And then when the lord shall give the rest from thy labours and trembling and from thy grievous servitute by which thou were thus holden under: thou shalt take up this lamentable song against the king of Babylon saying/ how is this extorsener brought to rest with his golden tayes and tributes? The lord verily hath broke the staff of the ungodly even the sceptre of these lordly rulers: which when he is angry smiteth the people with a plague uncurable/ when he is chafed/ he tameth these gentiles & persu●th them still: so that now all ower land is at rest and singeth for joy/ ye the very fyrtrees and the cedars of Libani rejoice upon thy fall/ sainge. after that thou were laid a sleep noman climbed up to cut us down: hell trembled at thy coming: Giants and all princes of the earth came forth to meet thee/ all kings of the gentiles rose up from their trones/ all these in course magnified the saying: Art thou not wounded as well as we & made like us? but thy pride was plucked down to hell with thy vain foolishness. Mottes shallbe strewed under the & worms shallbe thy koverled. How fell ye from heaven (lucifer) ye fair son of the morning? are ye now fallen so wretchedly to the earth which were wont to be Emperowr over the gentiles? ye and that even when thou thus thoughtest in thy heart. I shall ascend into heaven and shall exalt my seat above the stars of heaven and sit in the congregation hill at the north side: I will ascend higher than the clouds/ and be equal with the most highest. But now art thou plucked down to hell unto the most deapest plague of the earth: they that see the come now nearer and dare tote that in the face thinking thus upon thee/ Is not this the stout man that made the earth afraid/ that shaken the kingdoms to githr/ & made the world like a desert? which betedowne cities and towns and would never let his captives come home.  
How cometh it to pass that whiles all other kings of all nations sleep gloriously every one at his own house/ thou art cast out of thy grave like a plant out of kind? like the flese of slain men digged thorough with spears/ ye like mean let down into doungens of stone/ and like deed carcases trodden under the feet. Therefore art thou not buried with them because thou destroyedste thy noun land/ and sluest thy people. The posterity of sinful men therefore shall evermore be ignomyniouse/ and men shall seek means to make a way their children for their fathers iniquity: lest they arise and possess the kingdom/ and fill the land full of strong holds. I shall rise upon them (saith the lord of powers) and cut of the name of Babylon/ and all that there remain with the children and their neves/ saith the lord: I shall leave it for oters/ and turn it into a fish pole/ ye I shall sweep it with a consuming bosom (saith the lord of powers): ye/ and besides all this the lord of powers bound it with an oath thus to come to pass as he had thought/ and to be as sure of this plague as he had decreed it. I shall break down the Assyrions (saith he) in my land/ and tread them down in my mountains: the yoke of Assur shallbe taken from you/ & yower shoulders shallbe delivered of his burden/ so standeth it with the counsels which the lord hath decreed upon all the land/ and thus is his power stretched-forth unto all gentiles: for the lord of powers decreing any thing/ who shall make it void? When he hath stretched forth his hand/ who may bend it back? In the year that king Ahaz died God threatened one this manner by isaiah. Rejoice not all at once thou palestine/ as though the staff of him that smyt the were all to broken: for out of the rote of the edder shall rise a koketrice/ and out of him shall springe a fleinge fire drake/ and the poor shall eat of the best and nedyons shall dwell in safeguard: But thy rote shall I quench out with hunger/ and he shall slay thy reamnauntes. yell out ye gates: krye ye cities/ and thou palestyne be troubled all over for there cometh a smoke from the nor thee/ whose thickness and bitter violence noman may abide: and than what other answer shall the tydinge bears of the folk make/ but that the Lord hath set fast Zion/ and his poor people shall cleve unto her.   

Chapi. xv.  
The heavy vision that the Lord showed to isaiah upon Moab. I have seen that Are Moab should be destroyed and laid full low/ and that in the night/ and in the night also the walls of Moab should be throne down. These Moabites ascended unto their high places called Baithe and Dibon where they worshipped Idols/ to weep before them. This lamentable howling of Moab was hard over Na●o and Medeba/ every man polled his head and shove his beard. They stood girt in sack in every korner of the town. Upon their house tops/ and in the streets every man kryed out and fell to weeping. Hesebon and Eleale kryed so loud that their voices were hard to jahaz/ and the soudgiers of Moab when they should have blown up their trompetes to battle/ for sorrow of their hearts they kryed ah lass for sorrow/ ower hearts bleed upon Moab fleinge towered Zoar that wealthy bullok/ and upon the hanging of the hill of Luhith they climbed with weeping. Also the way of Horonaim they filled with their lamentable noise. The waters of Nemrim were forsaken and the grass was wytherd away. Corn failed/ and there was no green thing left. And even after this manner the rest of their substance and goods their adversaries karied a way to Arabye prosperously by ship. And to be short/ the noise went thorough all the coostes of Moab so that from Eglaim unto Beer Elim all was fill dwith their howling.  
The waters of Dimon were full of blood/ for there lay the host waiting like lions/ both for them that should have escaped from the city/ and for them that fled from the field.   

Chap. xvi  
Then the lord of the land sent a soldier from the stoney desert unto the hill of the daughter of Zion (for the daughters of Moab abode yet at the ford of Arnon like trembling birds put out of their nests) which messenger required them thus saying. Gather together your senators & take counsel how ye might shadewe and defend us in this hot persecution/ hide them that flee/ and destroy not the dispersed/ let ower Moabites fled unto you be soukerde/ hide us from the face of the destroyer/ for ower enemies tread us down: this destroyer ceaseth not to waste us a way from the earth: For the seat of yower kingdom is full of mercy/ wherefore he that sitteth in it must judge of faithfulness and trowthe as in the tabernacle of David/ he must seek equity & haste him to maintain the right. Unto the which request it was thus answered. Moabs' pride is well known and how great it is His arrogancy & swelling fury was never so great but his strength is now as small. Wherefore let Moab complain of his fall to himself/ that he mought all alone lament/ and that he also thus broken with sorrow mought sit complaining and mourning in vain at the feet of the brick walls of Arnon now cast down. Also Isawe those suburbs of Hesebon destroyed: The vineyards of Sibme planted with the moste noblest wines which wretched unto jazer and spread unto the desert/ her branches spread unto the west sea the pears of gentiles did cut down. Wherefore I wept for jazer and for the vineyards of Sibme/ I waterde the vineyard of Hesbonam and Elealen with the tears of my eyes/ because that in their harvest and in the gathering of their grapes their wont merry songs were gone/ their mirth was laid in bed/ both of field and vine yard/ so that they could neither be glade nor sing: the treder in the vine press tread out no more wine/ their harvest and grape gathering songs were laid down. Wherefore my belie murmuerde lyk an harp for Moab/ and even my bowels also for that brick wall. For when Moab see that her goods were in peril she weared herself going to her Idols in high places and to her holy houses to pray/ but none might help her. This is the word which the lord spoke then upon Moab: but now the lord speaketh on this manner. after three years/ the power of Moab with all her pomp & riches (which are very much) shallbe taken a way/ even as an hyerde servant his years out served is quite gone/ and her reamnauntes shallbe full few and of small value.   

Chap. xvij.  
THe heavy affliction which the lord showed to isaiah upon Damascum. Damascus shall no more be a city/ but throne down into an heap of stones. The cities of Aroer shallbe turned into pasture & layers for flocks of sheep and other herds so that noman shall fray them a way Ephraim shall no more be strong defensed/ Damascus' shallbe no more a kingdom. Also the glory of the left cities of Syrie shallbe like the glory of the children of Israel saith the lord of powers/ then shall the glory of jacob be full thin/ and the well liking of their fat bodies shallbe full lean. For they shallbe like a gatherer of corn yet standing after the sykle which reapeth down the handfuls with his Arm/ but when he gathereth or thrusteth them together (even in the valye of Rephaim) yet he levethe some what for the gleaners: they shallbe like one beatingeof olyve berries which yet leveth two or three berries in the top and not passing four or five in all the other bouwes saith the lord god of Israel. Then shall man return unto his maker and his eyes shall look unto him that maketh holy Israel: and shall not look unto Altars the work of their hands neither shall he behold those things which his own fingers made/ neither words/ nor images. Then shall the strong cities be left desolate as were the ploughs & harows sometime (of the chananites) for fear of the children of Israel. Because thou hast forgotten god thy saviower and not remembered thy strong rock/ therefore hast thou planted the so fair sets and sown the so strange seeds When thou plantedste them/ thou waste rich and in thy flowers and belevedste to have had fulerlye fruits of thy seed: But when the time shall come to gather and to possess them/ thou shalt reap right plenteous affliction and sorrow. Woe be to this confuse cluster and monstrose multitude of so proud people swelling like the sea which heathen host riseth up like a fierce water.  
But let this heady folk/ be they never so many/ never so unruly and lawless swell/ yet as soon as the Lord blameth them and set against them/ they shall flee full far a way/ and shallbe wynnowed of the wind like the dust of the dry mountain/ and like a whirlwind at the coming of a storm: For lo/ like as at the evening they were mervelouse terrible/ so before the morning shall they begun. This is the very end of them that scourge us/ this is the reward of them that rob us of ower goods.   

Chap. x viii.  
WOE be to the land whose ships are so swift/ which land lieth one this side of the flowed of Ethiopye/ which sendeth ambassiatours by the sea and that in ships of reeds and bulrushes put upon the waters saying: Go your ways ye messengers unto a the pissed and ragged nation/ people more fearful than owers and far unlike/ a vile nation & little set buy whose land the floods divide. But o ye all that dwell upon the earth and inhabit the round world/ take heed and look when ye see the sign lifted up to you in the hills/ and when ye hear the trompetes blown up to battle: For thus said the Lord to me. I lay down to rest considering with myself in my house in the midday when it was full warm like as a genste a shower of rain as it is wont to be in harvest season/ but yet before the corn be ready to reap and the clusters of grapes be perfectly ripe: and ther was one which kutdowne the clusters with a kutting knife/ and he cut a way even the branches also/ and took them a way: the resydwe were left as well fore the fowls of the mountains as for the beasts of the field/ that the fowls might lie there all the summer and the beasts of the fields all winter. And then shall ther be offered the Lord of powers a gift of the piled ragged nation and dreadful people far above us/ a vile nation/ and trodden under foot. Whole lands the floods divide: unto the lord of powers (I say) these gentiles shallbe offered at the place consecrated unto his name/ even at the mount Zion.   

Chap. nineteen.  
THe heavy affliction which the lord showed to isaiah upon Egypte. Behold/ the lord shall come riding upon a swift cloud into Egypte: at whose coming the Idols of Egypte shall sheake/ and the heart of Egypte shall faint in her own body. For I shall set the Egyptians (saith the lord) one against another so that every man shall fight with other/ even brother against brother/ city against city/ kingdom against kingdom/ and the breath of Egypte shallbe broken in her belie/ and I shall scatter her counsel when she shall go about to ask it of her Idols/ wytches/ soothe sayers and divyners. I shall betake Egypte into the hands of cruel lords/ and a violente king shall rule them/ saith the lord god of powers. The waters of the sea shall sink away/ and Nilus shallbe dryedup/ their floods shallbe drunk up/ and their dykes and brooks shallbe full shallow and fail/ reed and rushes shallbe wytherdup/ the medewes and all the fields a bout Nilus which were wont to wax green at the opening of her lips shallbe dried up and of no valwe. The fishers shall morn/ and all that were wont to lay hokes & bend nets at their waters shall lament: the spynners' and maker's of lynyne/ the silk women with the weavers thereof shallbe begerde and confunded. At that made ponds and stwes shall break up their banks. Also the counsels of the folesshe princes of Zoan & the wise counsel of Pharaoh shallbe turned all into felyshnes. How dare ye then be so bold to say unto Pharaoh/ I am come of a wise stock/ and I am of an auncyant noble blood? where now/ where (I pray thee) are thy wise men? let them tell the now (I pray thee) what the lord intendeth and hath thought to do with Egipte. The foolish princes of Zoan and the proud princes of Mempheos' beguiled Egipte with their noble high stock. The lord shall mingle the spirit of error among these that then should seduce Egipte in all things even as the drunken and vomytinge man is brought out of the way. Egipte shall want counsel to convaye her causes/ she shall not know where she shall begin nor where she shall make an end/ whether it be upon the land or sea. Then shall Egipte be like women/ fearful and astoned at the lifting up of the hand of the lord of powers/ which he shall lyftup against her. Also te land of juda shallbe a thondreclappe to Egipte/ so that who so ever mind her to Egipte she shall a non be sinayde with fear at the counsel of the lord of powers which he hath decreed against her. Then shall there be .v. cities in the land of Egipte which shall speak the Chananytes tongue/ and shallbe sworn unto the lord of powers/ of the which one is called Heliopolis. Also then shall there be an altar for the lord in the mids of Egipte entytlede to the lord to be into a sign and testimony for the lord of powers in the land of Egipte/ that when they krye unto him/ for fear of their oppressors he mought send them a saviowr and a guide which mought deliver them. The lord shall know the Egypcions and again the Egyptians shall know the Lord/ then shall they worship him with sacrifices & gifts. They shall vow unto the lord and perform it. Thus shall the lord smite the Egypcions and heal them again/ thus shall they be converted to the lord/ and thus shall he be merciful unto them and shall heal them. Then shall the way be commonly hawnted from Egypte to Assyria/ and the Assyrions shall come to the Egypcions and Thegyptions again to them/ & they shall both worship one God. Then shall Israel with Egipte & Assyria make all three one blessed trinity in the mids of the earth/ which trinity the lord of powers shall bless saying: Blessed be Egipte my people/ blessed be the Assirions the work of my hands/ and blessed be Israel my inheretaunce.   

Chap. xx.  
IN the year that Thartan came to Azotum sent of Sargon king of the Assyrions and had won by battle and taken Azotum: the lord spoke unto isaiah the son of Amoz thus saying. Go and draw of thy sack from thy loins and lose thy shoes from thy feet/ which so doing/ went naked and bare foot. And the lord said: the nakedness and barefoot going of my servant isaiah is a token and a fore shewing of a woundrefull thing that shall fall upon Egypte & Ethiope after three days: for so shall the king of Assyrye dryve the captives of Egypte and the baneshed of Ethiope/ both young and old shall he drive away naked and barfote: and shall unkover the arses of thegyptians being ashamed of the Ethiops and Ehethiops of thegyptians/ and than shall the dwellers of this eylonde say: is this ower hope unto whom/ we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyrye? how shall we escape?   

The xxi Chapter  
THe grievous affliction of the wild sea. There is an heavy vision showed me/ like as when a storm brought from the south cometh out from the desert that terrible land. Babylon shallbe besieged round about and shallbe utterly destroyed. Come up Elam/ besiege it Mede/ all their sighs shall I suage. At these words my reins were a stoned and pangs came upon me like the pangs of a woman traveling of child.  
When I hard this I fell down/ when I see it I was amazed. My heart trembled and panted/ I shaken for fear/ & because this thing was dark to me all my wits were a ston. For even this noise was hard also: let the table be laid suddenly/ and the watch well appointed/ eat/ drink/ arise capitains and take ye to buckler and shield. Then thus said the lord to me: Go and set up a spy that shall tell what he see: which when he had diligently looked round about/ he espied a cowple of men coming riding together one of an ass and t'other of a Camel: and this spy kryed like a lion/ O my master/ I have stand here busily watching all day and have kept my stadinge diligently all this nigh to: And lo there are come a cowple of the which one hath brought this message and said/ Babylon is fallen/ Babylon is fallen in very deed/ and all the karued & graven Images of their Goddis are burst against the ground: these are the tidings (o my fellows in work and office) which I have hard of the Lord of powers to show unto you. The heavy affliction of Dume.  
Me thought I hard a noise of one kringe from Seir saying: watch man what hast thou espied this might? watch man what hast thou espied this night? which me thought answered.  
The day is come/ and the night shall come again/ and if ye be so desirous to know/ come again then and ask. The heavy affliction laid upon the Arabens. ye shall lodge all night in the wood in the way to Dedamin: but o ye cytesens of Theme/ bringeforth water for the thirsty/ and meet ye the men in slight with vytel: for they shall flee from the face of iron/ even from the edge of the naked sword/ from the presence of the bent bow/ and from the edge of the set field coming upon them: for thus hath the lord spoken unto me: after this year all the power of Cedar shall have an end even like the going forth of the service of an hyerde man/ his years now served out/ and the remnant of the Archers of Cedar shallbe thrust into a full narrow straight. For it is the Lord God of Israel that hath spoken it.   

Chap xxij  
THe heavy affliction of the vale of the vision. What ayeldeth you thus all together to climb up upon your house tops/ O city full of woundringe/ and running together on heaps which sometime hast been so wealthy a town? ye are yet a live and yet areye but as slain men with sword in battle: for all your captains are fled on horseback out of boweshote/ ye/ all thy princes are slipped a way and fled full far from the. When I hard these things/ I said/ Go yowrr ways from that I might weep bitterly/ neither be you about to comfort me as concerning the destruction of my people: For this is the day of tribulation/ downtredinge and confuse perplexite of the vale of the vision (the lord god of powers so throing down her walls that the noise rebowndeth against the mountains): And I saw the Elamytes taking to them their quyvers and the horse men with their Charietes bending their selves to fight/ and Cir made bare their shields. Thy chosen valleys were filled with chariets and the horse men assailed boldly the gates. Then the beautiful decking of juda was taken a way: and the house of ordinance made with the timber of lybanis was laid wide open/ then shall ye see thorough chins into every korner of the city of David/ it shallbe so sore shaken and rent: and ye shall gather together the waters of the lower pole/ ye shall also tell the houses of jerusalem/ and break them down to defend the walls/ and ye shallbe compelled to make a dyke between the two walls with the waters of the old pole/ having no consideration of the first making there of nor yet of the purpose of her first maker. Farther more in those days/ the Lord god of hosts shall call you to weeping and mourning to tearing of your hear of yower heads and to wearing of sack whiles lo some men laugh and make merry slaing oxen and sheep/ eating flesh and drinking wine saying/ let us eat and drink for we shall die to morrow: which thing when it came to the ears of the Lord god of powers/ he said. This same your syme shall not be purged but by your death. furthermore thus spoke the Lord God of powers. Go thy ways into this treasure house unto Sobnam precedent of the town house/ and ask him/ what makest thou here? Or who made the so bold to hew the here a sepulchre? (For he had graven him a proud tomb out of stone and had made him a couch there in). Behold the Lord shall cast the out violently/ and shall array the with a new cote/ he shall cloth the with a strange vesture/ and tryndel the like a ball into a far and wide country and there shalt thou die/ there shall the pomp of thy charietes be ended O shame and slander of the house of thy Lord: I shall thrust thee (saith the lord) from thy standing/ and shall put the from thy order. And after this shall I call my servant Eliakim the son of Helkye/ and I shall put thy clothes upon his back and shall gird him with thy girdle/ and thy power shall I be take into his hands/ and he shallbe the father both of the city of jerusalem and of the house of juda/ and Ishall hang the kaye of the house of David upon his shoulders/ and when he shall open it/ noman shall shit it again/ and when he shall shit it/ noman shall open it again: And I shall pitch him as fast as a stake in the highest and faithfullest place/ and he shallbe promoted unto the glorious seat of his father's house. All the glory of his father's house and of his childer's' children shall they offer unto him/ ye/ and all vessels both great and small with all manner of music instruments. These things (at the warning of the Lord of powers) shallbe done even then when this stake which was set in the most faithfullest place and authority shallbe plucked up/ and the burden that dependeth upon him shall be plucked up by the rote/ throne down/ and broken: for it is the lord that spoke it.   

Cha. xxiij The heavy affliction of Tyrus.  
Bewail ye ships of Tharsis for Tyrus is utterly destroyed even of the dwellers of the eylands to ming from their own house to captive them The cytesens of Cypress are at rest/ the mchantes' of Sydon which were wont to have recourse thither by sea and all that thither occupied now cease/ whose pure wheat with all manner of good grain was thither brought from Nilus by sea/ fore it was the haven town of merchandise for alnations. Sydon is a shamed/ the sea with all her power money shinge her saying: I would I had never been mother to have brouht up her young men & decked her maidens: Egypte/ as soon as she hear of this/ shall bewail it even like Tyrus her own self. They that are beyende the sea with the citizens of the eylandes all lament these grievous affliction saying was not this your pleasant commodious city whose auncyauntnes have be commended of long time? The goer from her into far countries have nobly spread her name. Who would have thought that this heavy chance should have happened to Tyrus the flower of cities? Whose merchant men were princes/ and the pears of the world occupied unto her The lord of powers hath decreed this to abate the pride of all stoutness/ and to pluck down all the glorious of the earth: Pass over all thy land like a flowed (O nymph of the sea) and yet shalt thou not find the such another girdle. The Lord which hath troubled the Kingdoms and laid his hand upon Chanaan to destroy her strong pears/ hath now stretched forth his hand also unto the sea saying. Thou shalt no more be glad: For thou shalt suffer the violence of the Cethens/ O virgin daughter of Zidon. Wherefore arise and go thy ways (although thou shalt not there have any rest) for lo the land of the Chaldees was a nation that had no fellows/ and Assur first builded it/ but yet he left it for wodowses: he builded their strong holds and palaces/ but yet they brought them to nought. Wail ye therefore o ships of the sea for your strength is gone. And then thus shall it happen also to Tyrus/ it shall be forgotten. lxx. years even a kings age/ and after lxx years it shall happen to Tyrus as to an harlet minstrel/ to whom men say/ take thy harp and go about in the city (fowl forgotten harlot) that with thy well playing and singing all manner of songs thou mightst yet so be remembered and known again: even so I say shall it chance unto Tyrus/ After lxx years/ the Lord shall look upon Tyrus and restore her to her own: which shall use her feats of merchandise with all the kingdoms of the face of the earth/ and her merchandise & occupying shallbe accept to the lord/ for they shall not be hid & muggerdup but be turned from one to a nothr in Tyro/ as it becometh the citizens of the Lord/ into the refreshing of the nedyons/ and clothing of age.   

Chap. xxiv.  
Behold the Lord shall waste & destroy the round world/ he shall writhe of her face & scatter her inhabitors. And then shall the lay people & priest/ servant & Master/ Maid & master's/ bier & seller/ lender & borrower creditor & debtor/ be ala lyk non better than a nothr. Full miserably shall th'earth be wasted & destroyed: for the lord hath decreed it/ th'earth shall wail & fala way/ the world shallbe full feeble & slide down. The proud people of th'earth shall faint: for the earth is defyeled of her own inhabitors in that they have transgressed the law/ they have altered the ordinances/ & broken the everlasting convenaunte. wherefore malediction & kurse shall devower th'earth/ because her inhabitors have offended: whereupon they shallbe mad/ & very few mortal men shallbe left a live. Wine shall mourn/ & the wines shall faldowne/ all men shall sigh sorrowfully that were wont to be jocund in heart. The mirth of timpanyes/ sweet songs with their pleasant haps all shall cease. they shall not drink wine with songs. Bear shallbe bitter to the drinkers/ cities given to vanity shallbe destroyed/ every house shallbe shit up that noman may go in. The skasenes of wine shallbe kryed out in the streets. All mirth shallbe gone/ and the joy of the earth shall fall a way/ desolation shallbe left in the cities/ and misery shall steke upon the gates: for so shall it come to all the earth and to all the people as if one should betedowne the thin residue of the olive berries and pike of the remnant of grapes after the grape gathering. And then they that shallbe yet left shall with loud voice extol the majesty of the lord/ singing from the sea and magnifying the name of the Lord God of Israel from the kaves and eylandis. We hear comenlye songs sung thorowte all the earth into the praise of the rightwouse. And I myself say/ Oh my barrenness/ oh my penury/ ah lass for sorrow/ all the world is full of ungodly sinners/ ye and that of such sinners which sin even of a set purpose so boldly. wherefore fear and dread/ pit and snare/ gape fore the O dweller upon the earth/ so that he that would i'll to avoid the fearful voice must fall into the pit and if he krepeth out of the pit he shallbe taken in the snare. For the windows of heaven shallbe opened and the foundations of the earth shallbe shaken together The earth shall give a marvelous crack/ the earth shallbe sore broken/ the earth shallbe violently shaken insunder/ the earth shall stacker like a drunken man and be borne over like a tent/ For her sin shall lie full heavy upon her/ and she shall fall/ never after to arise. And then this thing shall come/ the lord shall visit the proud spirits of the air that are above/ and the kings of the earth that inhabit the earth/ and these shallbe gatherde together as men in bands to be cast into doungens and shit up in presons and be punished for ever.  
Even the moan shallbe then ashamed/ the son shallbe confounded when the lord of powers shall reign in the mount Zion & in Jerusalem/ accompanied with so glorious a sage multitude.   

Ch. xxv  
Lord thou art my God/ I shall extol the and magnify thy name/ for thou dost things to be merueld at/ according to thy auncyaunte counsels both fast and faithful For thou turnest great cities into heaps of earth/ strong defensed towns into ruin/ and the houses of the ungodly thou pluckeste out of cities never to be restored: wherefore even the rude people must needs glorify the and the cities of the cruel gentiles must fear the.  
For thou art the weak man's strength and the poor man's might when he is in distress/ thou art a refugye in tempests/ a shadwe in heat/ and where the hasty violence of tyrants break in like a whirlwind there thou settest in thyself against them like a strong wall. Thou art to them like the drought in the desert. It is thou that swagest the swelling boldness of the ungodly/ thou puttest away the heat with the shadwe of a cloud/ and cuttest away the violent like a vine twygge furthermore the lord of hosts shall feast all the people in this hill/ he shall make them a plenteous & a delicate feast of the moste fattest & full of mary/ with the moste best & eldest wine/ he shall take away the veil in this hill/ even the veil the hangeth before the face of all the people & the koveringe which koverth the face of all the gentiles: death shall he utterly devower/ & the lord god shall wipe away the tears from everi man's face/ & the opprobry of his people throughout all the world shall he take away for it is the lord that spoke it. Also men shall say in this day. Behold/ this is our god/ we have trusted in him/ & he hath saved us this is the lord in whom we-beleved/ let us now rejoice and beglad in his saving health/ for it was his hand that favourde this hill: But Moab shallbe alto broken of him/ as small as chaff to be cast into the dunghill/ fore he shall stretch forth his hands against him even like a swymmer when he swymmethe/ and he shall thrust down his pride by the vertwe of his power/ he shall make his high walls of defence to rele/ and lay them full low upon the ground and smite them to powder.   

Chap. xxuj.  
And then shall this song be sung in the land of juda. We have a strong city/ a saviour is her walls and hyrbolwerke. Opene ye her gates that the rightwous folk and the lovers of faithfulness mought enteryn: Thou which art both Master and workman shall frame together peace/ even the very peace (I tell you) for in thee/ men trust. Trust in the lord for ever for he bendeth down the stately citizen/ & the proud city he casteth to the ground/ & in process bringeth it into dust to be trodden under the feet even of the poor nedyons. Thou (lord) ponderste the path of the rightwise whether it be just and whether his way be even: wherefore we meruelat the paths of thy judgments: for in thy name/ & at the remembrance of thee/ man's soul is fed. I desire that be night with all my heart/ and with all my mind and spirit with in me I haste me to thee: for a non as thy judgements were publesshed in the world/ the inhabitors thereof learned rightwiseness: but the ungodly when he had once gotten mercy/ he learned not rightwiseness/ but as soon as he is correkte he synnethe the more and feareth not the majesty of the Lord. Lord they will not see thy high power/ but the time shall come that they shall see it and be confounded/ when thou shalt devower them by the indignation of the people and by the fire of thy enemies. But emonge us (Lord) thou shalt set peace/ for it is thou that workest and fyneshest all things in us both our thoughts and ower deeds.  
O Lord ower god/ although strange Lords contrary to the have been rulers over us: yet not with standing we remember the only and bear thy name in ower minds. The cruel tyrants which are now deed/ live not: neither are they reckoned in the resurrection of the faithful. For thou haste so visited and destroyed them that all their memorial should pereshe. But contrary wise/ thy folk (Lord) thou haste increased/ thou hast increased thy people/ glorified and magnified them thorowte all the coostes of the earth. Lord/ in their tribulation they seek thee: Affliction and sorrowful complaining are to them thy nourteringe: but in the mean time as a woman great with child when her time is come traveleth and kryeth for anguish and pain/ even so are we (Lord) in thy sight: we conceive/ we travel/ and in a manner we bringeforth health thorough the spirit/ lest th'earth shouldbe destroyed and the dwellers their in should peresshe: But thy deed men live and ower dear beloved are in the resurrection: They are awake and right glad which lie in the dust: For thou waterest them with the dew of light and life: but the habitation of the violente is fallen away. Go your way therefore my people into your secret closerts and shit the door after you/ abide/ and suffer/ even but a moment till the wrath bepassed over: For lo/ the lord shall comeforth of his place to visit the wickedness of th'inhabitors of the earth/ which earth shall disclosse whose blood so ever she hath drunk/ and shall hide no longer her slain persons.   

Cha. xxvij  
THe time shall come that the lord shall visit Leviathan/ that invincible serpent with his hard/ great/ strong sword/ even Leviathan that subtle serpent: and shall slay this dragon of the sea. Then shall men hear this song upon the amiable vineyard of Hemer/ one answering another/ I the Lord defend and water her in dwe tyme. I keep her day & night lest any man invade her. I am with out all wrath: who then may so move me to be so great an enemy to her that (my promise neglect) I would set her a fire all at once with thorns & briars? Or who may hold back my strength/ to pacefye me and to reconcile me unto her if I would not? But jacob brought out of captivity unlooked for/ shallbe rooted again/ Israel shall bud and floureshe so that the holl world shallbe repleyneshed with their fruits. For shall not the lord smite his smiters again even as he was smitten? or shall he not slay as he was slain? what measure so ever mengeve/ the same shall they receyve again. He bloweth forth his vehement skorchinge wind. Wherefore the iniquity of jacob is purged on this manner/ and by this means he taketh away all their sinful seed: as when he turneth all the stones of their altars into powder/ when their images worshipped in woods and solitary temples be laid down/ when their strong cities are destroyed/ when their goodly fair cities are left desolate like a wilderness for bullocks to feed therein to lie and brose on the bouwes: when their corn is brentup/ and the women which in their coming forth garneshed their cities are defyeled: fore this people is with out understanding. Wherefore their maker will not pity them/ and their potter shall have no fancy to them. In these days the lord shall smite down all the fruits from the fierce flowed Euphrates unto Nilus the flowed of Egypte: and ye children of Israel one by one shallbe gathered together in to one place: And then shall there blowup a marvelous great trumpet/ & they that had perished in Assyria and been outlaws in Egipte shall come forth to worship the Lord in the holy hill which is in jerusalem.   

Chap. xxviij.  
WOE be to the proud crown of drunken Cphraim and to the falling flower of her glorious beauty which is set in the top over the most plentuoust vale/ woe be to the dronkherds. Behold/ the strong power of the lord cometh like an hail storm driving down strong holds/ and like a great shower of rain driving upon every part of th'earth: even with men's feet shall the proud crown of drunken Ephraim be trodden down/ and it shall happen to the fading flower of her g●oriouse beauty which yet standeth on the top over the most plenteous vale even as it happeneth unto the hasty fruit ripe before the harvest/ which as soon as on espieth it he is ready to devower it before his hand can reach it. after this/ the lord of powers shallbe a joyful crown and a beautiful garland to the residwe of his people and shallbe the spirit both of judgement to the judges/ and the spirit of strength to these that shall dryve his enemies from the gates. But yet even these also err witheoute knowledge by the reason of wine/ & are with out their wits for their wealthy drunkenness. ye their priests and prophets also err out of the way for drunken wealthiness. For they laden with wine/ and drowned with lust/ err in preaching/ and offend in iuginge: fo● all their tables are so filled with vometes and filthiness that no part shallbe left unfylled. Which of them (I pray you) shallbe then able to instruct any man or to teach the right discipline to any of these children newly weaned & plucked from the teat? Or what else may they teach then clowtinge constitution to constitution/ throing one commandment upon a nothr/ inhibition upon inhibition/ a little here & a little whiles there. wherefore lord shall speak unto this people confusely & in a strange tongue unto whom he said sometime. This shall quiet thy consciens: this refresheth the weary & afflict soul: It is this (I tell thee) that shall bring thy heart into a blessed peace & rest: but they would not hear: wherefore the lord shall speak to them saying. Bid & command again/ forbid and forbid again/ a little here and a little whiles there/ that they mought go backward/ fall/ and be alto broken/ ye that they mought fall into their snares and be taken. Wherefore hear the word of the lord Oye old wily skorners/ which play the Lords over my people which is in Jerusalem: for thus think ye/ we are at a bargain with death/ & at a point with hell/ that when any great mischief or plague cometh/ it shall not touch us: for dissembling hypocrisy shallbe our refugye/ & with lies we shallbe defended. wherefore even thus telleth you the lord god saying. Behold I shall lay a stone in zion/ a touch stone/ a kornerd stone/ a precious stone to stablesshe the foundation: so that whoso ever believeth & cleaveth to this stone/ shall not lightly slide: for his equity & eavenes shall I try by plomet and squire/ & his rightwiseness shallbe ponderd as in a payer of balances. But an haple storm shall take away your refuge which ye stablessed: & your defence painted with kraftye lies swelling waters shall bare away: & your bargain made with death shallbe broken/ your appointment also made with hell shall not stand: for when this swelling destruction shall arise & come upon you it shall swelowe you in & karye you a way suddenly. For when it shall begin early in the morning/ it shall enduwr but the same day and night / and there shallbe such a fear that it alone shall break even the hearts of them that do but hear of this. Then shall beds be so narrow that noman may have his rest/ and the koveringes so scant that noman may be wrapped in them for the lord shall stepeforth as he died in the mount of Perazim and shall roffle angrily as he did in the vale of Gibeon to work his own work: he taketh a marvelous strange ways/ to bring his own work to pass/ full strange & woundreful are his deeds. Now therefore despise not this warning lest your captivity be the more grievous: For I have hard of the lord god of powers that there shall come a sudden end and destruction upon all the earth. listen therefore and hear my voice/ give heed and believe my words. Is not the tylman always busy in duwe time to plough/ to open/ and to kutforth his land to sow it? doth he not a non as he hath made it even and plain sow his fetches or sprynkel his cumin? and after ward sow it orderly now with wh●te and then with barley and so forth with other corn according to the strength of the soil? And to do these things duly in order do not his god teach and direct him? for he thressheth not his fetehes with a wain/ nor turneth the cart wheel upon his cumin. But the fetches he thressheth with a flail/ and his cumin he beateth forth with a staff/ and even so likewise he grindeth his wheat into breed. Which he could never do with thresshinge it. For neither the violence of the turning of the cart wheel: nor yet the tredinge of the beast●sfete may grind it into meal. And this thing is showed him of the Lord of powers which is the most meruelste counselor and the greatest magnifyer of equity.   

Chap. xxix.  
WOE be unto the Ariel/ Ariel/ a city sometime subdued of David. 
☞  Take yet a few years respite set some feasts yet pass over awhile/ & then surely shall I besiege Ariel. Then shall she be so heavy and so kareful that she may welbe called Ariel. I shall compass the round a bout with tents and castles and shit the in with towers and drive up bolwerkes' against the. And thou shalt be so low brought that thou shalt speak even out of the ground/ and as of one buried in the dust thy voice shallbe hard. For thy voice shallbe like a spirit speaking out of th'earth/ so faintly shalt thou groan out of the ground. For the multitude of thy enemies shallbe like the motes in the son beams and the cruel multitude of them shalcome upon the like dust reased up and karyed suddenly in the twinkling of an eye. Then shalt thou be visited of the lord of powers with thunder/ earth quakes/ and fearful cracks/ with whyrlwindes'/ stormey tempests/ & with the flame of a devoweringe fire. But now all this multitude of the gentiles being about to bring forth their army against Ariel/ all this host/ the compassing about her/ and her besegers all appear abyet to be but a dream of an hungry man dreaming to have eaten/ which now waking is full hungry having his belly empty/ and like a thirsty man dreaming that he drinketh & a non as he is a wake he is full faint & dry whose desire yet birneth for drink Thus (I say) appeareth the multitude of all these gentiles as yet to be like/ which shall fight against the mount Zion. But then shall ye be amazed/ atoned gaping and beholding all these things/ ye shallbe drunken/ but not with wine/ ye shall rele/ but not for drunkenness/ for the lord shall power forth upon you the sprite of a deep slumber/ and shall shit up yower eyes/ that is to say he shall cover your prophets and chief seeing men: And all prophecies shallbe unto you even as the words of a clasped book and sealed up: which if thou offerest unto a well lettred man saying/ I pray you read this book/ he shall say/ I cannot read it for it is sealed up: Also if it be given to an unlearned man saying/ I pray the read this book/ he shall answer the. I am not lettrede. Wherefore thus saith the lord. Because that this people draweth nigh me with their mouths and with their lips speak mich worship by me their hearts being far fro me/ and because the fear that they own unto me they give it me after the doctrine and the commandments of men/ therefore behold/ I myself shall do to this people a thing to be marveled and wondered at above measure: that is to say/ I shall destroy the wisdom of their wisemen and the understanding of their men of most activity shall have a fall. Woe be to them that so deeply drown their selves in their own policy/ that they think to hide their thoughts and counsels from the lord. Which hide their enforcements and studes in darkness saying presumptuously: Who seethe us? or who knoweth us? which yower presumption/ is as though the potter's clay should devise with in itself or that the work should say to her master. Make me not: and as though the pot should report upon hyrpotter/ that he understandeth not. See ye not now therefore to be even at hand that Libanus shallbe turned into Charmelum and Charmelus shallbe reckoned among the woods? Even than shall the deaf understand the words of the book/ and the eyes of the blind (the dark cloud taken a way) shall receive light: And the oppressed shall celebrate a glad day to the lord/ & the nedyons shall rejoice in him that maketh holy Israel. For these violente tyrants shallbe consumed/ and these wily mocking hypocrites shall perish. And these that are so bent upon mischief to lead men into sin for the noonce going a bought to supplante the reprover that sitteth in judgement/ & thorough lies lead the rightwise into a contrary path shallbe kutof. Wherefore thus saith the lord the saviour of Abraham unto the house of jacob. Let not jacob now be ashamed neither change his cheer when he seithe even them also whom my hands have made to be among his children to sanctify my name/ ye to sanctify him that maketh holy jacob & to worship the god of Israel. Which gentles lately erred/ but now have they the spirit of understanding: which before were barbarous and fierce but now are they tamed and learned the law.   

Chap. thirty.  
Fyghe upon these unnatural children 
☞  going out of kind (saith the lord) which dare make a counsel with out my counsel/ and weave a web nothing after my mind/ to heap sin upon sin. For they goforth to descend into Egypte and asked not my mouth: trusting to pharao's strength and in the shadewe os the Egypcions: but pharao's help shallbe turned into yower confusion: and the confidence that ye have in the protection of the Egyptions shall turn ye to ignominy. your princes were in Zoana & your Ambassiatours came to Hanesam: But yet shall ye be all ashamed of the people that may not help you: for they shall neither bring you help nor aid/ but shall bring you into confusion and opprobry. yower beasts went laden by the sowth way/ ye thorough a region full of peril and fear be cause of lions and lionesses/ kocketryces and swift fleeing dragons lay there: your mules were laden upon their shoulders with your treasure: & Camels bore upon their bunchedbackes your rich presents to people unalbe to help you. For full vain and unprofitable shallbe the Egypcions help: wherefore I kryed upon you on this manner/ let your proud audacity cease: And now therefore go write this thing in their own tables and record it in a book to endwer into a perpetual testimony to their posterity. For this people is stowrdie/ they are false children/ children that love not to hear the law of the Lord. Which dare say to the prophets/ kare ye not for us and also to the seeing men tell not us of things to come/ but preach us pleasant things look us out deceits/ say forsake this way/ go from that way and at last take from us even him that maketh holy Israel/ Wherefore thus saith he that maketh holy Israel. For as much as ye have thus abhorred my word trusting in fraud and violence cleaving there unto/ this same yower wickedness shallbe your break & fall/ even like a relinge high hollow wall which cometh down all at once year any man beware: ye/ your destruction shallbe like the breaking of an earthen pitsherde whose fall and breaking noman shall pity/ no although it be so small broken that there be not found thereof so much as would fetch a coal of fire or take up a little water from the pit/ for even thus hath the lord god which sanctifiyth Israel promised saying. In sitting still quietly shall ye be saved: for in silence and hope standeth your strength: but as for you/ ye never received it/ but rather said nay not so: but we wylget us to horskacke and so estape: but think ye so to flee and to escape? ye will answer/ the swyfter that our horse be/ the sooner shall we be out of danger. And I tell you again/ that the faster ye flee/ the swyftlyer shall yower pursuers follow upon you: so that a thousand of you shall i'll at the fear of one man or of fyde at the most until ye be left as thin as stand the trees in the hill tops left for masts of ship/ ye shall stand as naked in sight as a mark in a molle hill. Not withestandinge yet in the mean time/ the Lord abideth with long suffering to have mercy upon you/ and suspendeth his counsel to then tent he would be bountuously mercy full to you: for the lord god is full rightwise: And blessed are all men that wait on him: If ye thus do (O people of Zion and citizens of jerusalem) ye should never weep: for surely he would have mercy on you/ ye as soon as he hard the voice of your kryige he would help you. It is the Lord verily that giveth you the breed of affliction and the water of heaviness. But yet will not yower master abhor you long/ if ye looked up with yower eyes reverently unto your teacher and your ears hear the words of him warning and telling you saying: This is the way/ this way see that ye go whether he see you swaruinge either on the right hand or on the left hand. If ye hear your master (I tell you) and will despise the curious sylveringe of your carven Images/ and throw away the costuouse gyldinge of them even as ye would abhor clothes polluted with menstrwe/ and bid them walk strangers. Then shall he give rain to you were seed which ye shall commit unto the ground/ and it shall bring forth food from the earth: and there shallbe plenty and great abundance. And then shall yower herds feed upon your broad medewes/ yower draft oxen and muses shall eat fat provendoure wen●w●d with the fan. Also diverse rivers of waters shall flow down from every high mountain and high hill. But after great slaughter and ruin of towers/ the moan shallbe as bright as the son: & the light of the son shallbe seven times brighter than it is and so great as is the light of vij days altogether/ ye & especially in that time when the Lord shall bind together the break of his people and shall heal the gap of their wound. For behold/ the majesty of the lord shall come from a far/ his face shall burn so bright that none may abide it/ his lips shallbe full of indignation and his tongue like a devoweringe fire/ his breath shallbe like a swelling flowed arising up to the throat to take a way the heathen which are given to vanity/ and to take a way the bridal of error being yet in the chaves of the people: but you shall syngeas men in the vygils of holyfestes and be glad in heart like them that go by the trumpet blowers going forth to the hill of the lord even the rock of Israel. Also the lord shall put forth the glorious power of his voice & shall show forth his threatening arm with a grim countenance and with the flame of devoweringe fire/ ye and that with an earth quake and a great hail storm. Then shall the Assyrions be afraid at the voice of the lord which shall smite them with a rod/ and the rod that the Lord shall bend against them shall go thorough every foundation. Which rod he shall lay upon them with tympanes/ haps and battle to overcome them. For even from the beginning huth he prepared the fire of affliction ye and that for the very kings/ which fire hath he made both deep and broad running violently as in A great heap of wooed whose violence the blast of the lord setteth a fire like the floteringe noise of brim stone.   

Chap xxxj  
WOE be to these that godowne in to Egypte for help/ which trust in their horse/ and put their confidence in their chariets because they are so many/ and in their horse men because their strength is mighty: but unto him that maketh holy Israel they have no respect/ and the lord never seek they/ when he of his infinite wisdom bringeth affliction upon men/ and yet his word maketh he not void/ he riseth against the family of the wicked/ and against the help of eveldoers. The Egyptians verily are men and not gods and their horse are fleshly and not of the spirit. Wherefore when the lord shall stretch forth his hand/ both the helper/ and he that looketh for help shall fall: and shallbe altogether destroyed. For thus hath the lord spoken to me: Even as a lion/ or the lions whelp roareth over her proye now taken/ fearing nothing at the noise of all the herdmenkrying at him/ no not once abashed at their out shryte/ so shall the lord of hosts come down to defend & fight for the mount Zion and for her fytel hill. The lord of powers shall defend jerusalem like a bird flotteringe about her nest/ keeping/ delyvering / awaiting and saving her. Come up again (O ye children of Israel) as far as ye have gone down forsaking your god/ for the time shall come that every man shall cast a way their silver images & golden Idols which your ungracious hands have made into your sin. Assur shallbe smitendowne with sword but not with the sword of man/ & the sword shall devower him/ but not the sword of man/ and he shall i'll from the slaughter (his host taken) he shall overrun his own castle for fear/ & his captains shall abhor & be ashamed of their own banners & badges. These things hath the lord spoken/ whose laumpe is fed in Zion and his fire is nouresshed in jerusalem.   

Chapter xxxij  
Behold/ a king shall reign after the rule of rightwiseness and his chief rulers shall govern and ordyr after the balance of equity: Which due adminstration shallbe unto the subjects as shelter from the wind and defence from the storm. Siche princes shall refresh theirs even as sweet rivers in a dry place/ and like the shadow of a great high rock in a thirsty land. The eyes of the seers shall not be deceived/ and the ears of the hearers shall take good heed/ and the hearts of the stockysshe fools shall understand learinge: the stuttinge tongue shall speak distinctly and eloquently/ also the knave shalnomore be called jentelman neither the nyggerde shallbe called liberal/ but the knave shall think knavish things and his heart shall properly convaye wickedness to play the hipocryte and to conspire abomination against the lord/ pylling and polling the hungry soul/ & taking the drink form the thirsty. These are his myschevouse weapons/ these are his deadly counsels to destroy to pill & to rob the poor afflict with lying words/ ye & that whiles he ministereth the law unto them/ but the jentelman conceiveth jentel things/ by which jentel & noble deeds he arysethe & is become clear. But o ye rich cities given all to wealthy idleness/ arise and hear my voice. give ear unto my words ye cities that sit so fast and sure: for after certain days and years ye shallbe troubled (o ye cities so sure). When the grape gathering shallbe at a stay/ and the gatherer of the fruits shall not come you shallbe a ston/ o rich cities in so wealthy idleness/ ye shallbe amazed fore all your sure confidence to see your self brought so bare/ and yower bare loins gyrte with sack. At the very soukinge teat shall there be wailing for the crop of the year/ and for thincrease of the vine yard: fore my people's fields shall yilde them briars and thorns because that all the house holds and cities are full of vain mirth and wealthy wantenes. Their palaces shallbe throne down/ and their cities so full of people shallbe left void: Their towers & turrettes of defence shallbe brought into perpetual dens into battlinge places for mules and pastures for flocks. until the spyret be powered into us from above/ Charmelus shallbe turned into a desert/ and Charmelus shallbe taken for a wood/ and equity shall dwell in the desert/ and rightwiseness shall inhabit Charmelum/ and peace shallbe the end of rightwiseness/ rest and suernes shall follow rightwiseness for ever. And my people shall dwell in the fair house of peace/ in sure tabernacles/ and in rich beds. Hail/ when it shall defcende/ it shall fall only upon woods and cities/ O how happy are you which shall sow boldly and sure/ ye and that by every riverside setting the feet of your oxen and asses whother wards so ever ye lust.   

Chap. xxxiii.  
But woe be unto the that robbest and destroyste wother: for shaft not thou thyself (thinkest) be rob again? And woe be unto the that layest awaighte for other/ for thynkeste thou thyself to escape? Even as thou hurtest wother/ so shalt thou be hurted again/ and as thou haste laid wait to destroy wother/ even so like manner shalt thou thyself perish.  
Lord have mercy on us/ fore upon the do we depend. though it be so that their power be bent to pursue us: yet be thou a present savyowre to us in time of tribulation. Let this people i'll a way at thy angry voice. Let these haythen folk be scaterd and dispersed a way at thy buskling up to ruffle.  
Let their proye be taken a way from them/ as men take away locusts/ when they gather a great multitude together and cast these into a dyke. Be thou exalted (Lord) which dwellest above: Let Zyon be filled with equity and rightwiseness. Let the faith be in her time: Let strength/ health/ wisdom/ knowledge/ and fear of the Lord be her treasure. Behold/ the angels of them krye witheowte/ the angels of peace weep bitterly/ the paths are forsaken/ the wayefayerers are gone/ the convenants are broken/ cities are neglect/ noman setteth by another/ the land now destroyed/ lieth morning the beauty of Libanus is cut down and turned into her shame/ the goodly pasture of Saron is like a dry desert: the plenteous fields of Basan and charmelus are gone. Wherefore now shall I arise (saith the lord) now will I be exalted now will I be borne up an high. But you shall conceive chaff and bringeforth stubble and your own fiery breath shall devower you: the people shallbe burned like lime/ and shallbe lyk thorns cut down for the fire: Hear therefore/ ye that dwell a far what I will do/ and ye that are nigh know my power/ The sinners are afraid in Zion and trembling fear holdeth hypocrites saying/ which of us shall abide in this devoweringe fire? which of us shall continue in this perpetual burning? But he that liveth justly (I tell you) and speaketh the truth/ he that abhorreth to do injuries covetuously/ and smiteth a way his hands from gifts/ he that stopeth his hears lestet hay hear the desaightful oppression of th'innocent blood/ and shit his eyes lest he see evil: this man shall inhabit high places/ this man's safeguard shall be in right high and strong holds of stone unto this man shall there be given the very pure food/ his eyes shall see the king in his glorious estate/ and shall look over the farthest region: Also his heart shall delight in the fear of god. But where is now the wise crafty scribe? where is now the deep sercheroute of the words of the law? where is the disputing doctor and teacher of young men? But here seest thou no strange tonged people/ neither yet of any hard speech to the which thou mayest not attain/ but behold thou Zion/ ower solemn city/ let thy eyes look upon jerusalem that rich habitation even the tabernacle which shall not be moved from her place/ whose nails shall never be plucked out/ whose ropes all shall never wexolde/ for the majesty of the Lord shall abide there present with us. This is the place where broad floods shall go full still rown●aboute in sight/ in the which neither rovinge galeys shall sail to rob nor yet any wothr charged ship of war: for the lord is our judge/ our law gevr/ the lord shallbe ower king/ it is he that shall save us/ here shall the ropes and gables be so stretched forth that they shall need never to be repayerde/ The m●ste shall stand as stiff asthoghe there were no sail benteup/ and than shall there be great proyes distributed/ when even the lame men shall catch proyes. Here shall there be non cast down into his be● saying/ I am sick/ but the people that dwelleth here shallbe quite from all deceases.   

Chap. xxxiiij.  
Approach nigh ye gentiles to hear/ and ye people come and take heed/ hear earth/ and what so ever is in it/ let the world hear and all thing that springeth out of it/ for the lord is angry with all nations/ and his wrath is so kindled against the power of them/ that he will curse them and be take them to death/ so that their karions shall be throne away to lie and stink/ and the mountains shallbe whasshed with their blood: fore even the beautiful power of the heavens shallbe consumed/ and shallbe laid wide open like a book under the sky so that all their beuteful apparel shall fall down like leaves from the vine and from the fig tree: For even in the heavens will I bathe my sword/ and from thence shall it descend strait to Idumea/ and to the people whom I have appointed to my vengeance. Then shall the sword of the Lord be bathed in blood and in the fat and blowde of lambs and goats/ and shallbe nointed with the fat of the wether's kidneys: for the Lord shall slay a great sacrifice in Bozra and in the land of Edom when/ the unicorns and stowerdye bulls the which is to say the mighty men of power shallbe smytendowne/ and the earth shall be washed with their blood/ and the ground shall be dounged with their fat kydnes: ye/ & the day of God's vengeance/ and the year where in thy stowerdenes shallbe rewarded shall come upon the O Zion/ and thy brooks shallbe turned into pitch/ and thy ground into brimstone with which thy soil shallbe so sore brent that neither day nor night may it be quenched but it shall smoke ever. It shallbe dry from age to age/ and noman shall pass over it for evermore/ but oestroges/ ibices/ ouls ravens shall inhabit it: for the lord shall meat it forth with the line of destruction and way it with the weight of wasting/ and than if thou callest hykinges they shall no where apere/ fore even all her princes shall be brought to nought/ then shall her palaces bringeforthe briars and thorns/ nettles and sowthystels shall grow where her walls and castles stood/ and thus shall they be dens fore dragons/ and palace● for struthyons there shall spirits like monstrose beasts apere to each other/ anl the rough wodouses shall call there for each other/ also there shall come these lamyes to take their rest/ Erchyns shall there make their nests & lie/ they shall make them dens and nourysheup their whelps: thither shall Gryphs be gathered every on to his mate. search ye the scripture of the lord/ and read it for there is not one of these things that shall fail/ there is not one word but shallbe fulfilled all a like: fore what he commandeth with his mouth/ they are finesshed by his spirit/ look to whom he dealeth his heritage and divideth it with his own hand or meat it out with a line/ that must needs abide fast for ever/ so that they must dwell in it from age to age.   

Chap. xxxv.  
THe deserts and wilderness shallbe glad/ the dry land also shall rejoice and flouresshe like a lyle: It shall flouresshe right pleasantly it shall laugh and rejoice more and more/ and be beautiful to behold. For the beauty of Libanus shallbe given her/ the come lines of Charmelus and Sarone also shall she have/ the gentiles shall knowledge the glory of the lord and the majesty of ower God. Be therefore comforted ye sick hands/ and be steffe/ ye faint knees/ speak unto the faint hearted saying/ be bold and strong/ and fear not. Behold/ yower God shall come to avenge you and to reward you/ ye he shall come to save you. And then shall the eyes of the blind be illumined/ and the ears of the deaf shallbe opened. Then shall the lame leap like an heart/ and the dumb tongue shall speak praise/ fountains and springs shall break forth in the desert/ and sweet rivers in the dry land/ so that the dry land shall have her ponds and the thirsty earth her quick springs. In the same dens where the dragons lay/ shall grow sweet flowers and green rushes. There shall lie bypathes and the kings high way which shallbe called even the holy way. A polluted man shall not pass thorough it/ for the Lord himself shall go with them thorough the same way that fools go not out of it/ here shallbe no lion/ nor any other nyouse best shall come up to this way or befownde in it/ but right sure shall the passage be/ also they that shallbe redeemed of the Lord shallbe turned and come unto Zion with praise & shall have everlasting joy/ gladness & solace shall acompany them but hevynes and sorrow shallbe fled away.   

The xxxvi Chapter.  
IT came to pass that in the viiij year of king Ezekias'/ Senherib King of the Assyrions would come up to conquer and to take all the noble and strong cities of juda. Wherefore this Assyrius sent Rabsacen from Lachis to jerusalem unto Ezekias with a great host: which Rabsace when he had laid his host at the sluse of the over pole in the way to the fullers field/ there cameforth unto him Eliakim the son of Helkie precedent of the town house/ Sobna the scribe/ and joas the secreterye son unto A saphe. unto whom Rabsace spoke thus/ Go yower ways (I pray you) and tell Ezekias how that the great king of Assprye hath spoken these same words: what is this thy confidence to which thou stekest so fast? Art thou so folyssh hardy to think to have counsel and power to wage battle? other in whom now at last trustest thou so much that thou darest rebel against me? I shall tell thee/ thou trustest to the ayed and upholding of this broken reed/ that is to an Egyption/ to the which reed whoso ever leaneth/ he pierceth his hand and boreth it thorough. Fore even such on is Pharaoh king of Egypte to all that trust upon him: but if thou wilt say/ we trust in the lord ower God: a sure trust in deed to trust in him whose high places and altars Ezekias hath taken away commanding juda and jerusalem to worship before this altar. Be it in case (I pray thee) that I should give the now (notwithstanding thy bargain made with my Lord the king of Assyrye) two thousand horses/ art thou able yet of thyself to man them? And how is it then/ that seeing thou art not able to abide the violence and power even but of one of the lest princes of my Lord/ yet not withstanding/ wilt thou trust to the horse men and chariets of the egypcions? Thinkest thou that I of my noun head am come up hither to destroy this land? It was my Lord that commanded me saying. Go thy ways up to that land and destroy it. Then spoke Eliakim/ Sobna/ and joas unto Rabsacen: speak unto us thy servants (I pray thee) in the Sire tongue/ for we understand that languege/ and speak not to us in the Iwes' languege lest the people now being at the walls hear. Whom Rabsices answered. Why/ think ye that my Lord sent me only to you and to your Lord to say this message/ and not rather to these kareful & miserable men that sit upon the walls that they should not be constrained to eat their own dirt and to drink their own piss with you? Rabsace therefore proceeded stefly in his oration kryinge with a loud voice in the juwes' tongue saying/ hear what the great king the King of the Assyrions commandeth. Thus commandeth the king/ take heed lest king Ezekias deceive you/ for it lieth not in his power to defend you/ Nether let him persuade you to trust in his lord/ affirming that the Lord with out doubt will deliver you and that this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyrye: see that ye obey not Ezekie/ for thus promiseth you the king of Assyrie If ye will bear me so much favour as to forsake him and turn to me/ every man shall enjoy still his own vineyard his fig trees/ and every man shall drink the waters of his own pit until I shall come and lead you ull to a land as good as is this yowers/ even a land wheryn is plenty both o wheat and wine: ye/ a land all ready sown with all manner corn and planted with the best wines. Take good heed the Ezekias deceyve you not saying/ the Lord shall delyver you. For/ have therever yet any of the God's of the gentiles delivered their land from the power of the king of the Assyrians? Where is now the God of Hemath and Arphad? where is the god of Sepharuaim? And who (I pray you) delivered Samaria fro my power? Which on among all the gods of these kingdoms hath delyverde their region from my power/ so that ye may trust to the lord to delyver jerusalem from my hand? At these words the kings legates were so put to silence that they had not a word to answer. Then returned Eliakim the president of the town house son of Helkie/ Sobna the scribe/ and joas Secreterye the son of Asaph unto Ezekias their clothes alto cut/ and told him the oration of Rabsacen.   

The xxxvij Chapter.  
THen king Ezekias hearing this/ cut his clothes: and he clothed with sack went into the temple of the Lord: and in the mean time he sent Eliakim the precedent of the town/ Sobnam the scribe and the seniors of the priests clothed with sack unto isaiah the prophet son of Amos which said unto him. Thus commandeth us Ezekias to say unto the. The day of tribulation/ the day of affliction and blasphemy is now come even like as though the time of deliverance of child were present/ and strength to put it forth should fail the mother. Verily the Lord thy god hath hard the words of Rabsace/ whom his Lord the King of Assyrye hath sent to blaspheme and to revyse the living god with certain words which the lord thy god hath hard/ wherefore thou must give the to prayer for the remnant which are yet left a live Then isaiah answered the servants of king Ezekie thussente & comen on this manner Thus shall ye tell your lord. Thus saith the lord. Fear thou not for these words which thou hast hard/ in the which the servants of the king of Assyrye have thus revyled and blasphemed me/ for lo/ I shall send upon him but a blast of wind/ whose noise as soon as he heareth he shall return into his own land/ where I shall cause him to be slain with sword. Now was Rabsaces returned and found the king of Assyrye making war against Lobnam (for he had knowledge that he was removed from Lachis and it was reported also of Tharhaca king of the Ethiops that he should be now come to make war with him) which message when the king of Assyrye hard/ anon he sent other ambassiatours to Ezekias with this commandment. Thus shall ye tell Ezekias' king of juda. Take heed thy god deceive the not in whom thou trustest promising the that Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyryons. For thou hast hard what great acts the king of Assyry hath done to all kingdoms in subverting them/ and darest thou have yet any hope to escape? Did the God's of the gentiles deliver them whom my predecessors have conquered? Could they deliver Gozan/ Haran/ Rezeph/ and the children of Eden/ which hold of Thalassar? where is the king of Hamath/ king of Arphad/ king of Sepharuaim/ Hene and ave? Then took king Ezekias the Pystel of the hands of the Ambassiatours/ & when he had red it/ he went up into the house of the lord/ and opened it before the lord making his prayer on this manner. O lord of powers/ the God of Israel/ which dwellest at the Cherubyms: thou art the God which is the only god/ even the god of all the kingdoms of the earth/ for it is thou that hast made both heaven and earth. Bow down thy ear lord and listen open thy eyes and behold/ Consider all the words of Senherib which hath sent hither a blasphemous message/ wherein he curseth and blasphemeth the living god. Verily (lord) I know this to be true/ that the kings/ of Assyrye have conquered all tie kingdoms and regions of the other nations/ & that they casted their gods into the fire/ for these were no God's but the works of men's hands made of tree and stone/ wherefore they have destroyed them worthily. But now (lord our god) now save us from the hands of Senherib that now all the kingdoms of the earth might know that thou art the lord alone. When the thing was at this point/ isaiah the son of Amos sent and told Ezekias these words. Thus hath the Lord God of Israel spoken unto these things which thou in thy prayer askedste of me as concerning the king of the Assyryons. Thus answerth the lord against him. O virgin and daughter of Zion/ the king of Assyrye hath despised and scorned thee/ he shaken his head after the o daughter of Jerusalem: but thou proud king/ whom revilest thou? whom cursest and blasphemest thou? against whom krowest thou or liftest up thy stately look? verily even against him that sanctifieth Israel. For (thy servants sent hither) thou revyledst the lord and hast taken so stoutly upon thyself this thing saying/ I shall cover the most highest mountains and sides of Libani with the multitude of my horse men and chariets/ I shall cutdowne her high Cedar trees & her best fyr trees. I shall enter thorough both her high mountains and also her woods and fair fields. And where I find waters I shall dry them all up with the feet of my host. Speakest thou not now even thus to king Ezekias? sainge/ hast thou not hard what acts and by what power I have done them in time paste and what I am abonte to do now also? that is to weet/ that I am about to subvert thy cities be they neverso strong and to bring these into heaps of stones and into ruin/ whose inhabitors shall quake for fear like handless men being confounded/ for they shallbe like the grass of the field which now is green and a non is it thek for houses/ ye which often times is withered before it be ripe. But I know I know (saith the lord) thy conversation/ I know thy setting forth and thy returning/ ye I know thy furious rebelling against me For this therefore thy hasty conspyrison against me and for thy pride which all I well know/ I shall put a bridle upon thy nose and shall set a snaffle upon thy lips where with I shall pluck the back again by the same way thou come But (o Ezekias) this token shall I give ye/ this year shalt thou eat such as ye have in store/ the next year shall ye eat such as shall grow of their self with out tilling or sowing/ but the third year ye shall both sow and reap for ye shall plant wines and eat their fruits And then they shall come again together which escaped being of the house of juda/ and their roots sent down into the earth/ they shall yilde forth their fruitful high. For out of Jerusalem shall come the reamnaunt that are left/ and they that are saved shall come from the mount Zion. These things shall the zeal of the lord of hosts thus bring to pass/ wherefore thus promiseth the lord/ as touching king Assyrye. That in no manner of wise shall he enter into this city/ no not so much as an arowc shall he shoot hither/ there shall no shield or buckler be bent up against her. Nether shall they dygup any bulwark against her/ but the same way that he came shall he return. For unto this city shall he not come said the lord: for Ishal fight for this city and shall defend it/ (saith the lord) and shall save it for my noun sake and for my servant n1g-nn's sake. Then went forth the angel of the lord and smit .v. thousand/ an hundred and four score/ in the tents of the Assyrions/ and when the people of jerusalem rose early in the morning/ lo they lay aldede/ wherefore Senherib king o● Assyrie departed and went his way from thence and abode at Ninive. And after this/ it chanced on a time that as he worshipped his god in the house of Nisroch: Adramesech and Sarezer his sons smit of his head with a sword and fled into the land of Ararat. And after this/ Esarhadon his son reigned for him.   

The xxxviij Chapter  
NOt long before these things were in doing/ Ezekias' was sore sick and likely to have died and then came there unto him isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz/ & said unto him. Thus saith the lord. Set an ordyr in thy house/ for thou shalt dyeand not live. Then Ezekias turned his face to the wall and made his prayer to the lord saying: Remembyr lord (I beseech thee) how I have walked before the intrwe faith/ with perfect heart doing thy pleasures. And thus saying Ezekias wept sore/ Then spoke the lord to isaiah on this manner. Go thy ways and tell Ezekias. Thus saith the lord/ the god of thy father David. I have hard thy prayer/ I have seen thy tears: wherefore lo/ I add yet unto thy life xu years also I shall deliver the and this city which I defend from the hands of the king of the Assyrions. And this token shallbe given ye of the lord that he will perform his promise. Behold/ I shall bring back the shadue of the dial which shadne is now descended with the son arising in Ahazdy all and shall turn it up again ten hours: then turned back the son the same ten degrees ascending again by the which the shadue had descended before. The thanksgiving which Ezekias king of juda writ after he had been sick & was now rekoverd from his sore. I had went that I should have gone to my grave in my best days/ when I most desyerde the residue of my age. I said with myself I shall no more apere before the lord god in this life. I shall no more be conuersante with the mortal men but shallbe with the banesshed citizens. My days are foldenup and taken away fro me like an herdemannis tent. My life is kutof like the weavers web: whylys I provided to live he cut me of. He made an end of me on a day/ I trusted at the lest to have lived unto the morrow/ but he alto broke my bones like a lion/ and made an end of me on a day. Then chattred I like a swallow/ and murmured like a Crayne/ I mourned like a dove/ lyftinge up my eyes unto the high god saying. Lord I am sore handled/ deliver me upon thy word. What might I think or what might I say that he would do this much for me? That I mought yet ꝑuse all my days/ ye although it be to my bitter pain. For I know verily (lord) that this life is saulsed with gall/ and that my life is subject to all bitter misery. I know that thou makest me heavy of sleep/ & wakenest me again. But lo/ yet shall I think that thou dost me great pleasure if thou grantest me these kareful bitternesses. Here thou stayest my life that it ꝑesshed not while thou castedste all my sins behind thy back. For neither men laid in their graves praise thee/ nor yet the dead loave thee/ nor they that descend into their graves abide for thy faithfulness. But it is the living man/ it is the living (I say) that praiseth thee/ even as I do now this day. For the fathers lay forth thy faithfulness unto their children. Sane us (lord) and we shall sing ower psalms/ all the days of ower life in the house of the lord. Then commanded isaiah saying/ take the plaster and lay it upon his botch and he shall amend. And then said Ezekias. Oh what a marvelous thing is this that I shall yet ascend into the house of the lord?   

The xxxix Chapter  
AT the same time/ Merodach/ Baladan the son of Baladan & king of Babylon sent letters and presents unto Ezekias. For he had hard how that he was sick & amended. And Ezekias was glad of them and showed them his treasure houses of his silver and gold/ of his rich spices/ and his fined oils and his precious ointments/ he showed them all the houses of his plate/ and what soever treasure he had.  
There was nothing that Ezekie had other in his house/ or thorowte all his realm/ but he showed it them. And then came isaiah the prophet unto king Ezekias saying to him. What say these men/ or from whence are they comen unto ye? Ezekias' answered him saying/ they arcomon unto me from a far land even from Babylon. And isaiah said/ what have they seen in thy house? Ezekias' answered/ all that I have in my house have they seen/ I have showed them also all my treasure.  
Then said isaiah to Ezekias'/ hear the word of the lord of powers. Behold/ the days shall come that what so ever is in thy house/ & whatsoever thy fathers have gathered & laid up in store unto this day/ it shallbe taken away & karyed to Babylon/ neither shall therebe any thing left saith the lord/ ye & certain of thy children which shall go forth of the and whom thou shalt beget shallbe taken away also/ & shallbe come gelded men in the king of Babylon's court. And then said Ezekias unto isaiah. The lord turn it to good that thou hast now expressed: but in my days (said he) I beseech the lord that all things mought be quiet & sure.   

Here beginneth of king Cyrus Cham xl  
BE of good cheer be of good cheer my people (say the your god). See that ye counsellor the hearts of jerusalem/ & tell them of their rest and deliverance from captivity/ tell them how their sins shallbe forgiven after that they have received their full chastising of the lords hand for all their sins. Wherefore/ there kryeth a voice saying. Prepare ye the way for the lord in the desert: and make the paths plain for your god in the wilderness: let every vale be exalted/ and every mountain and hyllbe laid low/ let kroked ways be made strait/ & rough ways smooth. For the glorious majesty of the lord shall appear which every man shall see/ for the lord hath promised it. furthermore the same voice commanded saying: krye thou. And I asked him what shall I cry? which answered. That every man is but grass: and all their glorious beauty is like a flower of the field. Grass as soon as it is withered/ the flower falleth a way: And even so the people is but grass/ after that the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon them notwithstanding this grass be withered and the flower faded/ yet abideth the word of ower god for ever/ yet this voice commanded again ●aynge. Go up into the high hill O Zion/ which preachest us good tidings. Lyftup thy voice as loud as thou mayst O Jerusalem which preachest the gospel. Lyftup thy voice (isaiah) & be not afraid/ and tell the cities of juda saying. Behold/ it is yower god/ behold/ the lord almighty shall come with great might/ & shall rule by his own power. Behold/ he being clear & noble both in counsel and in his acts/ shall bring forth his riches with great triumph. He shall feed his flock like an herdman/ he shall gather his lamb●● into his arms and bore them in his bosom. But the ewes great with lamb shall he well noureshe. Who hath concluded the waters in his fist & spanned the heavens with his hand/ or hath holden up the weight of the whole earth upon his three fingers? Who weigheth the mountains in a payer of balances/ & pondreth the hills in a payer of scoles? Who hath informed the mind of the lord? or who hath been of his counsel to teach him? or of whom hath he fetched his counsel to be taught the way of judgement to instruct him of any knowledge or to declare him the way of understanding? Behold/ all nations in comparison to him are but a drop of a bucket or a batement of a balance. The eylandes are but motes in the son beam All the trees of Libanus are not sufficient to make him a fire: neither all the beasts therein are enough for his brent sacrifices/ all nations compared to him/ are (as ye weld say) but nothing/ and but a tryful. Unto whom then will ye liken God? or after what fashion will ye paint or karue him? Can eny goldsmith set forth his Image? or can he with all his gold and thin silver plate cast him into any form that may represent him? Shall a carver for any man's pleasure that folly shly delighteth to behold his Image/ and have not wherwithe to make it of gold or silver/ chose out a tree imputrible to set forth his Image that cannot move out of his own place? are ye so blind that ye see not these things. May ye not hear? were not these ungodlinesses declared you even from the beginning? Were ye not moneshed of these things at the laying of the foundation of the earth? Sit he not (of whom we now speak) upon the ronnde world like as upon a ball/ and are not we that inhabit it as little locusts? Stretchethe he not forth the heavens like a cortayne and like a tent that is fast pitched to be inhabytede?  
Doth he not bring princes to nothing? & the judges of the earth to dust/ so that they be never more planted nor sown again/ nor yet their stock rooted in the earth? For a non as he hath blown upon them/ they are withered away and gathered up like the stubble with a whirlwind. But to what thing (I pray you) will you liken me? or after what fashion shall I be made/ saith the holyon? lift up yower eyes into the sky above/ & consider who made these things which leadeth forth their a ray or apparel into so great a number/ of whom he calleth every one by his name.  
For by the reason of his infinite power strength and might/ there is not one of thesehyd from him. Wherefore then should jacob think and Israel say. My ways are hid from the lord/ & my judgement scapeth my god? for is it possible for the to be ignorant or not to have hard that God is everlasting? The lord the made the world laboureth not neither is he weary neither is it possible his wisdom to be searched out. But he giveth strength to the weary/ and him that fainteth he restoreth right well. children are weary & almost brethlesse/ and young men utterly falldowne/ but to them that wait upon the Lord strength is increased/ and out of these shall growforth eagles wings/ so that whiles they run they shall not faint & whiles they walk they shall not be weary.   

Ch. xl  
LEt the eylandes listen unto me and let the people take good heart unto them/ let them come before me & pleat their cause/ let uscall each other to judgement: woe steereth up the rightuouson from the east calling him forth to subdue to him the gentiles & to hold down kings? to dinge them down to the ground with his sword/ & to scatter them a broad like stubble with his bow? so that in following upon them he may pass thorough with out peril/ neither be compelled to slip a side into any bypathe? wohathe wrought/ made/ & ordained the generations from the beginning? Even I the Lord which am both before the first and after the last. Behold ye eye lands & wonder ye angles of the earth: come and see: which of you have lovingly bid/ yower neighbour and brother to dinner & exhorted him? The gold smith held with the metal caster/ & the smiter with the greatest hamer with him the wrought with the lighter saying/ This image shallbe well wroghte & fast nailed that it be not moved. But thou art Israel my servant and jacob my chosen/ even the seed of Abraham whom I lone. It was I that brought the from the coostes of the earth & called the from the far regions thereof saying to the. Thou shalt be my servant/ I have chosen thee/ neither shall I at any time refuse thee: See that thou fearest not/ for I shallbe with thee/ neither look thou about for any other/ for I am thy god which shall comfort thee/ I shall help thee/ I shall hold the fast with this same my faithful right hand. Behold as many as provoke the to anger/ shall be confounded & shamed/ thy adversaries shall come to nought & peresshe/ so that he that shall seek for them/ shall no where find them. Thy enemies which dare move battle against the shallbe destroyed. For I the lord thy God shall hold fast thy right-hand/ which also now say unto thee: fear not/ for it is I that shall help thee: be not afraid my little servant jacob: fear not poor despised Israel/ for I shall help the saith the lord/ & I that maketh holy Israel shall avenge thee/ ye I shall trendel the like a wain & like a neweshode cart to thresh down mountains & to beat them into powder/ & the lytelhylls' shalt thoudryve into dust/ thou shalt wenowe them & drive them away like the wind/ & seater them abroad like a whirl wind/ whiles thou thyself shalt rejoice greatly in the lord/ and shalt praise him that maketh holy Israel. When the poor afflict desyerth water & find it not & their tongue is dry for thirst/ then do I the lord give it them/ I the god of Israel forsake them not/ I bringeforthe floods into thehyghe hills/ & also quick springs in the mids of the fields. I turn the dry desert into a pond of water/ & the thirsty earth I water with moist veins. I plant the wild waste ground with cedar trees/ box/ pine/ and olive trees/ & the dry land with fyr/ elm & plane trees. These things (I tell you) do I/ that men might understand & knowwe/ & the all together might consider deeply & expend that the hand of the lord hath done these things & that he that maketh holy Israel hath created these things. Stand to your cause therefore (saith the lord) bring in your strength saith the king of jacob/ ye let even those god's comeyn & show you things that have sometime chanced & be done of old antiquity. Let them (I say) declare) you things to come or expound you things present that we might the better know them & hold them in mind/ I will speak even to your own selves: tell us things after this to come/ & we shall know that you are gods Do good or yet evel/ that we mought all see & tell it forth. Behold/ year of nothing/ & your making is of nothing: abomination hath chosen you. I verily shall sterup one from the north which shall come/ & from the east which shall call upon my name/ & he shall come to the prince's like a potter to his clay & shall tread these down as the potter stampethe his clay. Who told these things before that we mought have known & knowledged him to be that rightuouson? but there was none that said these things before or told them/ neither have there any man hard the words of these. Behold first shall I give Zion & jerusalem to be evangelists and preachers but as I remembyr there was not on of these that could see these before to give you warning of these things: for when I asked these/ they answered not on word. Here may ye see what men these are all/ such are the deeds of men/ even sin/ naughtiness/ wind and vain lies which they blow together.   

Ch. xiii.  
Behold therefore/ this is my servant for you/ unto whom I shall cleave: lo/ this is my chosen for whose sake alone I am pleased. I shall enrich him with my spirit/ he shall bringeforth all things into judgement & duwe order among the gentiles. He shall not be clamouse & contemciouse nor proud/ neither shall his voice be hard in the market place/ Akrased reed he shall not all to break/ neither the smoking snyphe shall he out quench. In very faith fullness shall he minister the law/ he shall not be overseen neither be headye in ministering justice on the earth. Also the islands of the gentlies shall receive his law/ for unto him thus speaketh the lord god which made the heavens & stretched them so wide & spread the world with her increase giving breath unto the people that inhabit it/ & life to those things that are in it/ I the Lord have called ye even for the rightwiseness sake & led ye hither even by thy hand/ wherefore I shall preserve ye/ & give that for an earnest to the people to be the light for the gentiles/ to open the eyes of the blind/ to lead men in bonds the sit in darkness out of custody & presone/ I (I tell you) am he whose name is the LORD which give not my glory to any other creature/ neither yet my praise unto keruen images seeing the all things spoken of before are come/ and these new things have I told you before they came. Sing ye therefore to the Lord a new dyte/ let his praise rebound unto the farthest coosies of the earth/ praise him ye that sail on the sea & what so ever is in it/ praise him ye eylandis & all that inhabit these/ the desert with her cities/ the towns also with the dwellers in Cedar mought lyftup their voices. Let them rejoice that inhabit the high rocks/ & from the tops of the mountains let these clap their hands for joy/ let these give that for deasmightenes/ & let them declare his worship among the gentiles. For the lord shall comforth like a valiant waryer & shall cry like a captain standing before his array ex horting & animating their hearts to battle putting forth his voice & stretching forth all his strengths & power against his enemies. Because I have hither to held my peace/ shall I be still & sufferer? nay verily: but I shall cry rather like a woman traveling of child/ I shall destroy & devour suddenly/ I shall subvert mountains & hills/ & shall dry up all their fruit/ I shall turn their rivers into dry land/ & their ponds shall I dry up. I shall lead the blind into a way that they yet know not/ and direct these into a path of which they are ignorant/ I shall turn the darkness in to light before them & the kroked into an even way. These things shall I do for them/ neither will I forsake these/ let them therefore be turned backward & be confounded with shame that trust in karuen images & that say to these cast Idols: you are our gods. Hear o ye deaf & lift up your eyes o blind/ for who is blinder than my ●uante? or so deaf as are my messengers whom I sent unto them? Who (I say) are so blind as the people of the lord & rulers of them? They are/ as ye would say unto one/ thou understandest much but thou observest nothing or as one should hear and believe it not/ full prone & ready verily is the lord to forgive for his rightwiseness sake to magnify his worship & his law & to make it excellent & clear/ but this people is for lost & trodden under foot. Wherefore all their youngmen shall come to the rope & be thrust into deep presons. They shall go into proyes & noman shallbe minded to restore them. Which of you so taketh these things to beware by these & warned her after? Who delivereth jacob to be trodden down/ and Israel into a proye/ but the lord? But we verily are they the commit these faults against him: we are they the will not go in his ways nor obey his laws. wherefore he power the the wrath of his heavy indignation upon us & grevous battles which assail us on every side: but yet we will not repent and amend: these strong battles vex us with burning/ but yet we regard him not.   

The xliii Chap.  
ALso thus speaketh the lord which hath created the O jacob/ and fasshioned ye o Israel: fear thou not/ for I shall redeem ye/ I have challenged that for my noun self & given that thy name/ that thou shouldest be mine/ so that when thou passedste thorough the waters I would be with ye/ when thou goest thorough the flood esthei overwhelmed thee not: when thou went'st thorough fire/ it burned the not/ neither yet the flame skortched ye: for I am the lord thy god/ & he that maketh holy Israel/ even thy saviour: I redeemed ye out of Egypte/ the Ethiopes & Sabeons I destroyed to save ye/ because thou waste so precious in my eyes and I setted so much by thee & loved ye so interely. I spent away what so ever nation or people they were for thy pleasure & safeguard/ to th'intent thou shouldst not fear/ but that I would be of thy side from the east shall I bring hithr thy seed & gathr ye from the west/ I shall say to the north/ give forth my people/ & to the sowthe/ let these not to come to me: ye & yet farthermore/ I shall bring forth my sons from far lands/ & my daughters from the coostes of the world that is to say every man maimed after me for him have I created fashioned and made for myglorye: bring me forth people/ as well the blind as then the can see/ as well the deaf as they that hear/ let all nations/ gentles & iuwes be gathered together & brought in to one. Which of all these gods could tell us these things & have showed us them to come? let them bring forth their witnesses & go quite: for they that shall hear them/ shall report the at just is & true. Even I myself (saith the lord) take you to witnesses which are my chosen because your own consciences teach you & even the very self thing constraineth the trowthe to be ascribed unto me/ so that ye now understand clearly that I am he which have neither pear before me nor any match after me/ that I am even the lord alone & that be sides me ther is no saviour/ I warn/ I save/ I teach because ye should receive no nother. ye/ I appeal unto your own consciences to be my witnesses (saith the lord) that I am god/ & that I am he that is from the beginning of the time/ neither is ther any that may take any thing fro my hand/ or unmake the at I make or do. Thus therefore saith the lord your redeemer the maker holy of Israel. For your punishment shall I send unto Babylon & shall call to these all their power/ that is to say the power of the Chaldees whose glory standeth in practizing of war/ I am (I say) the lord your holy make/ the maker & king of Israel: furthermore thus said the lord which laid forth the way thorough the sea &. the path thorough great waters bringing forth chariets & horsemen/ & hosts with great power to lay them so a sleep all to githr that they should no more rise/ ye to quench than out like the snyffe of a candle. Because ye are evil rememberers of old things & have no understanding of things paste/ behold/ therefore I shall make a new thing which shall flowresshe forth evyn by & by: & will ye know it? I told you it before/ & now shall I tell it you again/ I shall lay forth away in the desert & in the floods. In the wilderness wild beasts shall honour me/ dragon's & struthions shall knowledge me/ I shall give waters in the deserts & floods in the wilderness to give drink to my chosen people/ even to this people which I have fashioned fore myself to declare my praise/ for as for thou (jacob) thou wouldest not call upon me/ & thou disdaynedst me o Israel: for thou offeredst not to me beasts into brent sacrifices/ neither honouredst me with thy oblations/ thou boughtste me no precious fragraunte spice with thy money/ neither with thy fat sacrifices didst thou imbrue me/ although I did not require such sacrifices of ye: neither would I charge that with incense & fume. But thou madest me thy ●uante to bare thy sins & thrustedste medowne laden with thy iniquities: when it is I only that do away thy ungodlinesses for my noun selves sake/ & thy sins do I forget/ put me in remembrance & let us reason together/ & show me the thing whereby thou trustest to be forgiven & justified: as for the first man thy faith/ is first & formest a sinner: & thy intercessors between ye & me have sinned against me/ wherefore even the moste holiest rulers have I slain/ even Jacob did I kill & israel did I betake into blasphemy.   

The xliiij Cham  
NOw therefore hear o Jacob my ●uante/ & israel my chosen/ for thus spoke the lord which hath made & fashioned ye/ & hath been thy help even from thy mother's womb/ let it not grieve ye (my ●uant Jacob & my very right israel whom I have chosen) because I will powerforth water upon the thirsty earth/ & floods upon the dry land: I shall powerforth (I tell ye) my spirit upon thy seed and my gracious blessing upon thy issue/ & they shall flouresh mingled with you like the grass & like the oysyers' by the ryuersydes/ one shall say/ I am named for the lords own/ & another shallbe named after Jacob/ & another shall write which his own hand his name after the lords name & shallbe named after israel. Thus (I say) spoke the lord/ king of Israel & thy redeemer/ the lord of powers: I am the first & I am the last/ & besides me is ther no god/ who hath at any time be lyk me sith I am of everlasting? name & show me in what on thing he might be compared to me? if ther be any/ let them show things passed & to come as I have done & that with out fear fault & stop/ do not I even of everlasting declare & tell you? of which thing I bring you forth as my witnesses/ is there any god besides me? is ther any shaper that I know not? full vain therefore are all thief facioners of images/ & full unprofitable are their study & labour/ for they testify of their own selves (sith their images neither see nor yet have any other sense) well worthy to be confounded & shamed. who then may sashion god? or who will cast an image profitable for nothing? wherefore all this felau ship of image makers may well be ashamed/ let all men come together before me/ ye give me her all manner smiths carvers which sich other/ & I shall make them together a like shamed & astoned the smith taketh the iron in his tongues he tameth it in the fire & fashioneth it with his hamer/ ye & that with all the might of his arms/ & sometime he fainteth for hunger & worketh so long with out drink that he falleth down weary. Then cometh the carpenter & he draweth forth a line upon the timber & smiteth it forth with chalk/ he squareth he compasseth/ he cleanseth & karueth it until his work be like a man/ ye like a well proportioned man to have his seat in the temple/ he getteth him (I say) to the wood to kutdowne Ceders to karye home the hard pine trees/ oaks/ & siche other trees of the wood/ or else siche as he had set at home as some pine trees whom the rain made to wax which men use to kutdowne to the fire/ he goth & taketh some of these to warm him with all/ & with some he heateth his ooven to bake in his breed/ ye and of some of these trees he maketh him even a god and worshipethe it/ he maketh him a karuen image and falleth down before it: with part of it he maketh his fire/ with part he seeth or roasteth his flesh and eat it when he hath done & so is well satisfied: with part of it he is well warmed/ so that he now may say/ the world is well amended/ I am well warm/ I have been at the fire/ and the rest of this timber he karueth into a god & into an idol for himself/ before this he falleth down/ this he worshippeth/ unto this he maketh his vow/ of this he ask the his petitions/ & prayeth saying/ deliver me for thou art my god And yet these images have neither sense nor understanding: for they are so dawbedover that they neither see with their eyes nor understand with their hearts. There is noman that so cometh again to himself thinking they images are neither endued with any of the .v. senses nor yet with understanding nor yet con syderth thus/ part of this image have I burnt and upon the coals of it have I sudden & broiled my meat and eaten it/ wherefore then of the rest of it should I make me so abominable an Idolle and thus fall down before so rotten a stock? vain idleness and a foolish heart hath brought them unto this idolatry/ and so perverted them that non hath his right mind or may thus think of himself: may not I err/ although I apere to my noun self to do right well? Remember well these things jacob and Israel/ for thou art my servant whom I have fashioned to th'intent that thou shouldest be my servant never to be out of my mind O Israel: I do a way thy iniquities even as I disperse a cloud/ & thy sins take I away like a mist. Turn the therefore unto me/ for I will deliver the. Beglad ye heavens whom the lord hath made/ rejoice ye foundations of the earth/ clap your hands ye mountains/ make merry woods with almaner trees/ for the lord will redeem jacob and upon Israel will he spread his glory: for thus spoke the lord thy defender which hath fashioned the even from thy mother's womb/ I am the Lord which all alone maketh allthings which alone have stretched forth the heavens/ which alone have set fast the earth. I skater the signs of these sooth sayers or astrominers/ so that they shall divine in vain & be mad for anger/ I turn these wisemen bakwarde & bring their coming into foleshnes. But I star up the mind & intent of my servant & the counsel or thoughts of my messengers I accomplesshe saying unto Jerusalem/ be thou restored into thy old state/ & to the cities of juda/ be ye builded again. It is I that restore desolate places. I command the deep waters saying/ be ye dry/ & her rivers I dry up. It is I that say unto Cyrus'/ he is my herd man/ all things shall I accomplesshe according to my will/ it is I the say unto jerusalez/ be thou builded again/ & to the temple/ let thy foundation be laid again.   

The xlv Chapter  
THus (I say) spoke the lord unto his anointed Cyrus/ whose right hand (saith he) I have taken that the gentles should fast down before him. I shall turn they kings out of their armour so that at his coming they shall open their gates and shut them no more: I shall go before thee/ I shall make even the rough ways/ brazen gates shall I break & bars of iron shall I shake insunder: I shall give the treasure lying yet in darkness & things which are yet hid privily that thou mightest know that I the lord god of Israel have called the bename for my servant jacob and Israel my chosen: I have called the be thy name & beautified the when as yet thou knewest me not: I am the Lord/ besides whom there is no god: I gyrte the forth ward when as yet thou knewst me not that men should know from east to west that with out me all things are nought/ & that it is I that am the Lord & no nother/ I fashione the light & create darkness/ I make peace & bring forth trouble: It is I the lord that doth all these things. Heaven shall give down dew from a bone/ and the clouds shall rain down rightwylnes/ the ertheshalbe opened & bringeforth the savyower: rightwiseness also shall bud forth with him. Even I the lord shall create this thing. Woe be to him that disputeth with his make/ even the potsherd with the potter: shall the clay say to the potter/ what thing makest thou? or thy work ●ueth to no use? Woe be to him that saith to the father wherefore wilt thou get children? & to the mother wherefore wilt thou bring forth fruit? Thus saith the lord that maketh holy Israel & his maker also. Ask me things to come upon my children/ & bid me tell you of the works of my hands. I made th'earth & created man there upon/ I stretched the heavens with my hands/ & all her mighty host or beutyful aperel are at my commandment. I shall sterup this king Cyrus with rightwiseness & all his ways shall I direct: He shall edyfe my city & let lose my captivity & that persuaded neither by money nor meed saith the lord of powers. furthermore thus said the lord/ the merchants of Egipte of Ethiope/ & the tributaries of Sabe shall come to the & shallbe thine/ they shall follow thee/ they shalgo in gyves of their feet/ they shall knefe before the & make their supplication & prayer unto thee: for verily god is with the besides whom there is no god/ how profound & how deeply hid art thou o god even the god & saviour of Israel? let them beshamed confounded & go their ways together with ignominy all they worshippers of Idols but Israel shallbe saved in the lord with a perpetual health: They shall not be shamed ne noted which ignomynye for evermore/ for thus said the lord that created heavens even god that fashioned th'earth he made & prepared it: I have not made it in vain/ but to be inhabited/ I am the lord besides whom their is none. Nethr have I spoken in hid places nor in any dark korner of the earth. Nethr in vain said I to the seed of jacob seek me. For I am the lord speaking that at just is and showing that at right is: let them be gathered together and come/ let the other nation escaped that is to say the gentiles come also unto me. What understanding have they that fift up an image of tree and so pray to a god that cannot save them? Let them come to me (I say) and let them agree in one and tell me who hath showed them these things before or who expounded these first? Did not I the Lord besides whom there is no god? It is I that am the rightwise god and saviour besides whom there is none Beturned therefore to me all the costs of the earth and ye shallbe saved/ for I am god & there is no nother. I swear be my self that rightwiseness shalgoforth of my mouth/ & my word returneth not in vain/ but every knee shallbe bowed unto me & every tongue shall swear & say: In the lord standeth my rightwiseness and strength/ unto him shall men come/ but they shallbe confounded as many as speak against him. And all the seed of Israel shall be justified and have their pleasure in the lord. Bel shallbe broken down/ & Nebo shall have a fall/ with whose heavy images the poor beasts shallbe laden & wearied with their grevous weight/ these beasts with other bearets of these stocks shall faldowne under their burdens/ for they may not cast them of/ and thus shall they be karyed into captivity.   

The xlvi Chap.  
Hear me jacobs' family & all the remnant escaped of the house of Israel/ whom I took even from their mother's womb & have borne them from their births ye & shall bare them unto their old age & in their bederethye/ for sith I have made them/ I shall also bear them/ help them & deliver them. To whom (I pray you) will you lay me/ liken me/ or compare me? Whom am I like? will you then (vain liars) go and way your gold or silver out of your purse at a payer of seoles & higher you a caster of metal to make ye a God thereof for men to faldowne before it & so to worship it? which notwithstanding yet must be laid on men's shoulders/ be borne and see in his place to stand fast & cannot mo● see from his place: farther more let men cry unto it & yet may it not answer neither deliver them from their anguish & trouble. Consider this and look upon your selves o brekers of god's commandments & turn to a better mind/ call to mind old things done from the creation of the world that ye may see that I am god & that there is no mother god neither any thing like me/ which from the beginning show the last things and even from the creation tell you things which are not yet done: My counsel standeth at a word & so do I accomplesshe all my pleasures/ I call a swift bird from the east and what so ever I wysdo from a far it shallbe done at a belt/ for as soon as I see it/ it is done. Hear me ye proud men in heart and far from the rightwysnnes. I shall bring nigh my rightwiseness neither shall it be absent/ and my health shall not tarry/ I shall give a saving health to Zion/ and my beutyful glory to Israel.   

The xlvij Chapter  
But thou shalt godowne & sit in the dust O virgin the daughter of Babylon/ thou shalt sit on the ground & not in thy kings seat o daughter of the Chaldees: thou shalt no more be called tender and dylicate. Thou shalt go take the querne sweape/ & griude out the flower of the corn. Thou shalt cast of thy precious tire & bonnets/ thy shoulders shallbe naked and bare legged shalt thou wade thorough the brooks/ thou shalt not have one bratte on thy arse & men shall see thy secrets to thy great shame. For I will take vengeance and will not be entreded. These things hath our redeemer spoken whose name is that for de of powers & the maker holy of Israel Sat down daughter of Chaldye andbe still/ go thy ways into some dark place for thou shalt no more be called the lady of realms: I was verily so angry with my people/ that I scourged my heritage & betook them into thy power/ & thou hadst no pity on them but oppressedst ev● their sage men with thy heavy yoke above measure thinking thus: I shallbe a lady for ever/ but thou consyderdste not these things in thy heart neither remembredst things to come: wherefore hear now these things O Delicate lady which sittest so sure and thus thinkest with thyself. I am lady alone and besides me is there none/ I shall not sit like a wedue mourning nor yet be destitute my children. But yet shall these two things that is to say to sit husband less & chylderlesse fall suddenly upon the both on a day/ they shall fall (I say) on that to finish thy sorrow/ both for so great multitude of thy inchauntinge sooth sayers/ and also for the strength of thy so many helpers. For thou trustedst in thine own covetuous wiliness saying. No man seeth me. Thyn own wisdom & knowledge deceived thee/ for thus presumedste thou in thy heart saying: I am lady alone & besides me there is none. Sorrowful affliction therefore shalcome upon ye & from when see it shall spring thou shalt not know/ & mi●able calamity unable to be a voided shall fall upon the. There shall come upon the unwares a sudden subversion/ and then (I pray thee) flee to thy helpers & to thy ench auntinge sooth sayers of whom thou haste great plenty/ whom also thou hast set much by & have had them in great reputation even from thy kradle/ stand unto these (I say) & look wheter peraventure thou mayst be helped & comforted of them? for thou hast occupied thyself & weared thyself hitherto in their manifold counsels: let these heavengasers & starrestarers (I pray thee) comeforth & help thee/ & tell thee from whence these news are to come & fall upon thee. Behold/ they shallbe like stubble/ which after it be set a-fire noman may help it/ which stubble neither is it profitable to make coals to warm thee/ nor yet to make a fire to abide by: Sychons (I tell thee) shall these men be whom thou hast somyche set by & occupied & wearied thyself with even from thy youth/ for every one of these after his profession shall deceive ye/ & in thee mean season there shall not be one left that may save thee.   

Chap. xlviij  
Hear these thingeeye house of jacob whose toname is called Israel/ which also are come of the same stock the juda came of which also swear by the name of the Lord testify/ affirm/ & give thanks/ & all by the god of Israel/ ye although ye do it not of faith aid rightwiseness: which arenamed after the citizens of the holy city which trust unto the god of Israel the ford of powers. Have I not done ethese things out of hand? are they not nows fulfilled which I told you of even from the beginning when they went out of my mouth & I expounded them to you? Notwithstanding I know full well that thou art hard & how srefnecked & unshanfaced thou art yet have I told & declared to ye from the beginning things before they were done lest (I tell thee) thou shouldest say. My idol told me these or my carven or cast images commanded these things. Consider & behold all these whether you have prophesied them/ and whether it was not I that told you before certain news & secrets which thou knewest not of. And now I have created some a new of the which neither from the beginning nor yet now before the day of their creation have ye hard/ because ye should not tell them: Lo it was I that knew them before/ furthermore I told you of some things which neither have ye hard nor known before/ nor never before were opened unto thy ears. For I knew that thou shouldest be a breaker of my commandments/ for even from thy mother's womb hast thou be called a transgerssour/ notwithstanding yet for my name's sake I differred my wrath/ & for my noun glory I defended that that thou shouldst not perish: For so it is I that purged thee/ not for thy money/ but at thy most need I chose thee. For my noun sake (I tell thee) have I done this/ for I give not my glory to any wother lest thou shouldst in any wise be profaned & cast fro me: hear me jacob & israel whom I have called. I am he that hath his being of himself/ I am the lyrste and I am the fast. My hands have laid the foundations of the earth/ and my rigthande hath set fast the heavens/ when I called them anon they stood still. Be ye all therefore gathered together and hear/ which of these gods hath told you these things which the lord hath done by the king of Babylon and Chalde by whom he doth his pleasure and useth them to execute his power? It is jalone that told you these things before/ & I only shall call & bring him for't & make prosperous his journey. Come (I say) unto me/ & hear this thing/ have I ever yet spoken any thing obscurely from the creation of the world which am present & even in the same article when all thing was made? For this cause therefore the lord god & his spirit sent me/ & thus speaketh the lord thy redeemer the maker holy of Israel/ it is I the am the lord thy god teaching ye that shall profit ye/ directing that in the way wherein thou shalt go. And if thou obssueste my precepts thy peace & rest shall swim like a flood & thy rightwiseness shall arise like the waves of the sea. Thy seed shallbe like the sands/ & the fruit of thy body like her gravel stones. Thy name shall not be cut of nor yet banesshed from my sight/ ye shall goforthe of Babylon/ ye shall slipawaye from the Chaldeys which a joyful voice/ which thing shallbe told showed/ & preached unto the uttermost coostes of the earth & it shallbe said. The lord hath redeemed his servant jacob so that they thirsted not when they went thorough the dry wilderness/ for he drew them water out of the stone/ he clave the great rock & ther flowed out watrs/ but to the ungodly saith the lord: ther is no rest ne peace Of Messiah which is christ.   

Cham xliv  
HEar me islands & ye people all a far take heed/ the lord hath called me fro my birth and fromy mother's womb he publesshed my name/ he hath made me a mouth like a sharp sword/ he hath koverde & defended me with the shadue ofhi hand/ and hid me as a chosen shaft in his quiver: he said to me/ verily Israel yet art thou my ●uant in whom I will be gloriously deelared: & I answered/ I shall labour in vain & spend my strength which out fruit/ notwithstanding yet shall I offer my cause unto the lord/ & my diligent labour to my god: wherefore the lord spoke which fashioned me his ●uante fro my mother's womb to bring jacob again unto him (ye although the time should come that he will not be gathered to him) in whose eyes I am great which is my god & my strength/ and he said: It is no great thing for that to be my ●uante to sterup the tribes of jacob & to restore the destruction of Israel/ except I make the also the light of the gentles to be the saving health sent fro me to the uttermost coostes of th'earth. Thus spoke the lord the redeemer & make holy of Israel upon Christ contemned & despised of the gentles & ●uante to all the bare rule. Kings & princes shall see & rise up to worship for the lords sake/ for he is faithful/ & for his sake that maketh holy Israel which hath chosen ye o Messiah/ & again thus spoke the Lord/ in the time appointed shall I come & be present with the & in the article of thy health I shall help ye & save ye/ and I shall give the into an earnest of the promise tomy people to restore th'earth that thou myghtste challenge again the dispersed he retages & say to them in bonds/ go your ways out/ & to them that are in darkness: comeforth into the light/ that they mought feed by the woye sides & take their pleasures in all their plentuo●se pastures/ they shall not hunger nor thirst/ the heat of the son shall not smite them/ for their goyde shall tender & keep these ientely & shall give them drink at the veins of waters/ I shall make all my hills plain and ready ways/ & my paths shall apere trodden for every man. Behold for there shall come some from a far/ some from the north & from the sea/ and some from the sowthe. Beglad heavens/ rejoice earth/ clap your hands hills for joy: for the lord shall comfort his people & have mercy on his poor afflict. But here peraventure Zion will say: The lord hath forsaken me/ & the lord hath forgotten me: Shall the woman forget her young child borne of her own body? but if she forget her child/ yet shall I never forget thee: for so/ I have printed the in these my hands/ thy walls shall never fall fro my mind they the casted the down shall come as fast to build the again/ they the destroyed the shall have continual course & recourse unto thee/ life up thy eyes & look about & see/ all these gentiles shallbe gathered together & come to thee: as verily as I live (saith the lord) shalt thou be or ned & arrayed with them as with a rich ornament & apparel/ even like a bride decked in her clean costly array/ for thy land which lieth desolate/ wasted & lost/ shall even by & by be to little to contain th'inhabitors therein/ & they that would devour that shallbe far baneshed/ then shall thy children born in thy bareness speak to ye/ saying: this place is to narrow/ let me have a place to sit in/ & thus shalt thou think: who hath begotten me these children sith I am barren and a banesshed divorced wedue? who hath nouresshed & brought me up these children? behold/ I am sole & forsaken/ of whence then are these? Thus therefore answereth the lord god: behold/ I shall stretch forth myhand to the gentiles/ & to the populose nation shall I lyftup my sign & they shall bring sons to the in their bosoms/ & daughters upon their shulderne shall they bring ye/ & their kings shall feed ye & their queens shallbe thy nurses/ they (their faces bowed down to th'earth) shall reverence y & lick of the dust from thy feet/ & thou shalt know that I am the lord in whom who so ever trusts they are not confounded. Who may take the proye from the strong/ or the captive from the mighty? but because the lord hath so spoken it/ both the captive shall be taken from the mighty & the proye from the strong/ for I will defend thy cause against thy adversary & save thy children/ thy enemies shall I feed with their own flesh/ & with their own blood shall they be drunken like as with sweet wine/ by the which vengeance every flesh shall see that I am the lord thy saviour & thy mighty redeemer o jacob.   

Cap. l.  
Thus saith the lord. where is this testimonial of the divorce of your mother which I sent her? or who is my creditor to whom I sold you? behold/ for even for your own iniquities are ye sold & for breaking of mycommandements is your mother divorced & put away/ wherefore would noman receive me when I came/ nor yet answer when I called? was my hand so cutof & shortened that it might not deliver you? or was my power so my neshed that it was not able to redeem you? which by a word only dry up the sea & turn the floods into dry land/ so that their fishes be corrupt for want of water & perish for thirst/ it is I the cloth the heavens in a black morning cloud & cover them which sak/ the lord god hath given me a learned tongue & to know how & when I should speak which the weak afflticte: early in the morning he twitched me by the ear & wakened me as my masters were wont to do to make me listen & take heed/ it was the lord god that opened mine ear/ how then could I not but obey? or how could I avoid or slip back? Wherefore I offer my back to the smiters & my cheeks to the twitchers/ my face I turn not away from rebukes & spetel/ for the lord god bringeth me help/ wherefore I shall not be confounded/ but I set my face against them as hard as a flint/ for I know well that I shall not be shamed/ for I have my defender by me to deliver me: who then may strive against me? Let us go & stand together before a judge/ & if any man will contend with me in judgement/ let him come hither. Behold/ the lord god hath taken up my cause to defend it/ who then shall condemn me? lo/ all these thy Idols and gods shallbe worn out like a garment/ worms shall eat these. Who so ever he be then among you that fear the lord/ let him hear the voice of his servant/ & who ho ever walketh in darkness & the light shineth not upon him/ let him trust in the name of the lord & cleave to his god. Behold/ all you have kindled a fire/ and even yourselves gyrtaboute with the flame walk in the mids of your own fire which ye have kindled/ but this one thing is brought to pass be my hand for you that ye shall sleep with sorrow.   

Chap. li  
Hear me ye that follow rightwiseness seeking the lord/ consider the stone out of whom ye are hewn & the pit out of whom ye are digged & drawn. Cōsidr. (I say) Abraham your father & Sara your mother/ how that I called him one alone & blessed him/ & made him rich & increased his substance/ consider how the lord hath comforted Zion in all her poor state/ turning her desert into a paradise/ & hirdrie barren ground in to the lords garden/ joy & gladness shall dwell in her/ ther shallbe thanks geving with the voice of men praising. wherefore look to me my folk/ and give ear to me my people: for the law shall goforthe of me/ & I shall publesshe my judgments to lighten the gentiles/ the time is nigh that my rightwiseness and my saving health shall goforth to govern the people thorough my power. The eylands shall wait on me trusting to my strength/ lift up your eyes to heaven & behold the earth under you/ for heaven shallbe dispersed like smoke/ & the earth shallbe broken like a garment/ & th'inhabitors shall peresshe in like manner/ but my saving health shall endure for ever & my mercy wherewith I make men rightwise shall never fail/ hear me ye that love rightwiseness/ & namely thou (o my people) which holdest my law in thy heart/ be not afraid of men's revilings/ fear not their rebukes/ for mottes shall eat them as clothes and will: but my rightwiseness shall endure everlasting/ & my health shall abide from age to age/ be thou steredup/ & do upon the strength even the arm of the lord/ be steredup as in times passed thorowte all ages. Art thou not even he the smytdown the proud Rahab & woundedst the dragon of Egypte? Art thou not the very same that dryedste up the great deep sea? & madest the deep bottom of it so plain that thou gavest free passage thorough it unto the delivered men? so that they set at liberty thorough the lord mought return & come again to Zion with joy there to have gladness for a long time? that they mought there have joy and mirth all sorrow and hevynes set a part? And yet answered the lord/ it is I (I say) that comfort you at all times and who art thou then that wilt fear and worship a mortal man ready to fall and whither away like grass? wile thou forget the lord which hath made the which hath stretched abroad the heavens and hath laid the foundations of the earth? For this cause thou oughtest to fear at all times the anger of him displeased which is bent to destroy: but thou wilt say/ where is his wrath? it hasteth/ it cometh swiftly to apere/ he shall not once fall by the way whereby he may be hindered to destroy neither shall his sustenance fail him. I am the lord thy god which now make plain the sea/ & a non I let it swell above measure/ & am called the lord of powers/ I shall put my words into thy mouth/ & shall cast up my hand before that for thy defence that thou mayst plant heavens & set th'earth/ & that it may be said to Zion. Thou art my people.  
Stertout of thy sleep/ stertoute of thy sleep/ springeup jerusalem which haste drunk of the lords hand the cup of his indignation/ which hast drunk & soukedoute even the very dregs & all his cup of slumber/ neither is there one among all thy children whom thou hast noureshed up that will take the by the hand to lead & sustain thee. These two plagues are fallen upon thee but who therefore is sorry for thee? & these also are come upon thee/ as pestilence/ hunger/ and sword/ but who is thy counforter? Thy children filled with the wrath of the lord & indignation of thy God lie trodden under foot at thenteringe into every street like a rain dear taken/ her feet bound together with a cord: wherefore hear this one thing (I pray ye) thou wretched drunken jerusalez (although it be not with wine) Thus saith thy master the lord & thy god/ the avenger of his people. Behold I shall take from thy hand the cup of slumber with the dregs of the cup of my indignation so that thou drynkeste no more here after thereof/ & I shall put it in to the hands of them the scourge ye/ which have said to thy soul/ lie down on the ground that we mought go upon your backs that you might be unto us as the pavement of the streets to go upon.   

Cap. lij.  
Arise/ Arise up Zion & do upon the thy strength/ do upon the thy beutyful robes jerusalem which art the city of the holy god/ for the uncircuncised & polluted shall no more come into thee: shake of the dust from the Arise jerusalem & sit up/ lose thy neck out of the bonds/ o captive daughter of Zion: for thus saith the Lord/ ye are sold freely/ wherefore ye shallbe redeemed also without silver/ for thus saith the lord god/ sometime my people went down in to Egipte there to be strangers/ & the Assyrions also did them great violence & wrong and that with out any cause/ and now what profit ariseth thereof unto me (saith the lord) that my people are thus ledawaye with out a cause? and their lords and masters constrained them to cry out & wail/ & yet is my name blasphemed continually saith the lord/ wherefore to th'intent that my people might know my name/ I myself shall speak in these days saying. Behold/ I my self am come: Oh how happy & fair shall the feet be of the messengers sent by the authority of god to preach this peaceable deliverance/ to tell us these good tidings/ to preach us the very saving health/ saying unto Zion/ thy god mought reign and live? when thy overseers lyftup this voice/ they shall also with their voice show you him with praise/ for they shall see clearly which their eyes when the lord shall come again to Zion/ They shall say/ O desolated Jerusalem be thou glad and rejoice/ for the lord shall comfort his people & shall redeem Jerusalem/ the lord shall doup his sleve & stretchforth his bare holy arm in the sight of all nations & all the coostes of their the shall see the saviour sent from our god/ they shall bid you go your ways clean/ get you out from hence/ & touch no polluted thing/ goforth from among them/ & see that ye be clean the bare the vessels & iwels of the lord/ but go not forth as it were to muster neither with to great haste as men that fled/ for the lord shall go before you/ & the god of Israel shall gather your company together.   

Cap. liij  
Behold/ my ●uant shall bring this matter to pass wisely/ wherefore he shallbe exalted/ extolled & set in right high honour. for likewise as many shall wonder upon him to see his face so deformed & himself so shamefully entretede like noman/ favourless & beutelesse: even so shall ther many gentiles look up unto him with prayer/ & kings shall hold their mouths/ for they unto whom no mention was made of him/ shall see him/ & they which never hard of him/ shall most und & regard him. But who is he the believeth our preaching? or unto whom is the arm of the lord showed? he shall grow verily before the lord like a young grove/ & like a rote in a hot ground/ he shall have neither beauty nor favour/ when we shall behold him he shallbe out of shape & favour/ so that we shall not desire him/ he shallbe despised & lest set buy of all men/ a man having experience & feeling both our sorrows & sicknesses/ we shall (I say) repute him so vile & lothly that we shall hide our faces at him. When this (notwithstanding yet) is even he that must bear our sicknesses and sorrows. but we shaliuge him to be thus castdowne & smitten with some plague of god/ ye when he is wounded even of our transgressions & thus smitten for our ungodliness/ for the punishment for our correction shallbe laid upon him & by his stripes & hurt we shallbe healed/ All we are strayed a way like sheep/ every man following his own way: but the lord layeth all our wykednesses upon him to pardon us. It is he that shall abide the anguish & be scourged/ and yet shall he not onhis open his mouth/ he shallbe led like a lamb to be offered up? & shallbe as still as a sheep under her clippers hands & shall not once open his lips/ he shallbe taken away & put to death/ his cause not examined after true judgement as a man frenlesse & kynles/ & yet who may noumbyr his kindred/ even then when he shallbe thought clean to be cut out of this world? which plague shall fall upon him for the transgression of his own people: furthermore he shall be thought to die among the ungodly & be lifted up on the cross between thieves/ although he never did hurt nor yet any desaight found in his words: but the lord had decreed him to be thus broken with infirmity/ that he offered for our sins/ mought see his long lived posterity/ and this decree of the lord shall prosper in his hand/ with the peril of his own life he shall find riches/ & by this means my right ●uant shall justify many men/ for he him self shall bear away their sins/ wherefore I shall divide to him the proye both of the many men & also of the strong violente/ because he shall let his life to death & be reputed among the misdoers/ which not withstanding/ yet shall he take away the sins of many and make intercession for the transgressors.   

Chap. liiij.  
Rejoice therefore even from thy very heart with praise thou barren which temeste not/ beglad sing/ & clap thy hands for joy thou which barest no more children/ for the divorced & forsaken woman shall have more children than the married wife (saith the lord). Dilate the place of thy tents and let the cortayns of thy tabernacles be stretched wide: See thou spare not to draweforth at length thy meat lines & steke them down fast with stakes/ for thou shalt be increased with children on every side/ thy seed shall have possession among the nations/ & inhabit desolate cities: fear not for thou shalt not beshamed/ be not astoned forthou shalt not be confunded/ thou shalt forget the shamefacenes of thy youth & nevermore remember the opprobry of thy wedewhed: for thy maker shallbe thy lord & husband/ even he whose name is the lord of powers/ he that maketh holy Israel even the god of all the earth shallbe called thy kinsman & thy redeemer for the lord shall call that as a divorced woman & as one sore troubled in mind: he will call the to him as a young wife that had broke promise with her husband saith thy god. I forsook that for a little time but I called the to me again with much mercy/ I hid my face from that for alytel space whiles I was angry/ but I will take ye into my arms again with an everlasting mercy saith the lord thy redeemer/ for this thing shallbe to me as were the watrs of Nohe/ for like wise as I swore nevermore to bring again the waters of Nohe upon the earth/ even so have I sworn to be not angry with the again/ neither yet to chide with ye/ for the mountains shall sooner forsake their places & the hills shall sooner falldowne/ then other my mercy shall forsake that or the promise of my peace shall fail ye saith thy merciful lord. Behold my little poor afflict & forsaken/ I shall make thy walls of precious carboncles & shall lay thy foundations with Sapphires: thy windows & gates shall I make of clear Crystal/ & all thy uttermost buildings shall I set with rich stones. And besides all this/ all thy children shallbe taught of the lord & I shall endue them with rich peace. Thou shalt be builded all of ritghtwysnes & be out of all danger of violence whereof thou shalt not need to fear/ no plague shall come a nigh thee. Behold/ a nothr nation which were strangers to me shall come & dwell with thee/ & the alients shallbe joined with thee/ lo it is I that make this smith which first kindleth the coals with his blowing & then maketh these peaceable weapons according to his kraft. Also it is I that create the destroyer to subvert & to destroy also but all the weapons made against ye shall not prosper/ & every tongue that shall arise & speak against that in judgement thou shalt overcome and condemn. Siche shallbe the heritage of the lords ●uātes & this innocency● and favour shallbe given them of me saith the lord.   

The lu Chap.  
Oye all therefore which are a thirst come to the waters. Also you that want silver go and buy that ye mought eat/ go yower ways & buy wine & milk with out money and price: wherefore do you lay out your money for the food that feedeth not? & spend your about that thing that satisfieth you not? And wherefore rather listen you not unto me that your souls mought eat of the best & take their fill upon the most fattest dylicates? give ear to me & come to me/ take heed to me & your souls shallbe refreshed: for I will smite hands with you into an everlasting convenant to give you these assuerd mercies promised unto David. Behold I shall give him to testify of me to the people/ to be prince and goyde unto the gentiles. Behold thou shalt call an unknown nation unto thee/ and the gentiles (unto whom thou were unknown) shall haste them to the and that even for the lords sake thy god and the maker holy of Israel which hath set the in thy high honowr. Seek ye the lord whiles he would be found/ call upon him whiles he is nigh/ let the ungodly forsake his own ways & every wicked man his own imaginations and thoughts and return to the lord for he will have mercy on him/ let him (I say) turn unto our god for he is ready & bent to forgive/ for even thus saith the lord/ yower counsels and thoughts at not like my counsels & thoughts/ & yower ways are not like my ways/ but as far as the heavens are above the earth even so far exceed my ways your ways/ & my thoughts yours/ for like as the rain or snow descendeth from heaven & turneth not thither again but moisteth the earth & maketh it to bud & to bring forth fruit that it should give corn to the sour & food to eat/ even so my word which goithe out of my mouth shall not return to me void but shaldo whatsoever I will & shall prosper in those things for which I sent it/ for you shall live in gladness & shall lead your life in peace. Mountains and hills shall leap and sing for joy with you and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands/ for the bush shall there rise a fyrtre & for the thorn a pine tree. All this shall make for the glory of the Lord and shallbe a token that it shall evermore abide.   

The luj Chap.  
THus said the lord. Se that ye observe equity & do rightwiseness/ for my saving health hasteth him to-come unto you & my ritghtwisnes speedeth him to be declared. Blessed is the man that shall do this thing/ & the son of man that may receive this thing/ even him I mean that keep the the Sabbat day & defyelleth it not/ that is to say that holdeth his hands & doth no evil. Here let not the strangers which shall clea●e to the Lord say on this manner. Ah lass for sorrow the lord seperatethe me from his people. Nether let the Gelded man say/ lo I am a dry stock: for thus hath the lord first of all promised the Gelded men/ as long as they keep my Sabbat days/ that is to say have these things in most price to choose & to observe these which it pleaseth me to command & will hold fast my convenant/ I shall give unto them in my house & witheyn my walls both a better part & a better name than other of my noun sons or daughters. I shall give them (I tell you) siche a name that it shall never fail: Secondaryly he promiseth to the children of the strangers which desire to be joined unto the lord/ that they shall serve him and kysshe the name of the lord and that they shallbe his servants/ that is to say all those which take heed that they pollute not my name/ that is to say hold fast my convenaunt. For these men shall I bring unto my holy hill and shall cheer them in my house of prayer/ their brent sacrifices with their o' their oblations shallbe accept unto me upon my altar: For my house shallbe an house of prayers to all nations. For thus said the lord god which gathereth together the dispersed people of Israel: yet shall I gather unto them such as pertain to their congregation/ even all the beasts of the field/ & all the wild beasts of their woods shall come to them to eat him up. 
☞  notwithstanding yet/ all their bishops are blind/ they aral without knowledge/ ye they are aldomme dogs & may not bark/ they lie long sleapinge & dreaming delightinge in vain & idle pleasures/ they are dogs/ ye & that the most unshamefaced never satisfied. These herdsmen understand nothing/ but every one of them followeth his own counsels and thoughts/ every one followeth his own covetous heart with all his might/ saying thus/ come I shall bring that to the wine & let us drink drunken/ & as largely shall we drink to morrow as to day/ ye & more largely. But in the mean time the innocent is judged to death and noman considereth it in his heart the moste best men are conveyed out of the way/ and noman so looketh upon this that he will say/ behold the sinful maketh a way the rightwise that he himself might live at his pleasure in rest/ that he might be sure in his bed and wal●e after his own lust.   

The lvij Chap.  
COme hither therefore ye children of wytches borne between the whoremonger & harlete/ whom do ye thus scorn and take yower pleasure of? 
☞  Upon whom do ye mow with yower mouths & blear out your tongues at? Are not you conceived in adultery and even the lying desayghtful ysswe? taking your lybidinouse pleasure at the oaks and under every broad shadewed tree? destroying children in valleys and under the rocks of stone? In high places of stone builded by river sides is thy portion/ wherefore the floods shallbe thy lot/ for thou haste powered forth thy lyquet sacrifices unto them & haste ther offered thy oblations: shall I suffer these abominations? In high mountains thou madest thy beds & thither thou ascendedst to offer thy sacrifices behind the gates & posts thou leftedst a remembrance of that when thou madest naked thyself as well to me as to another. Thou went'st & madest thy bed wider: when thou hewedste & pluckedst certain of the God's of the gentiles unto ye/ thou wentest into the beds of them where so ever thou syest them. And thou anoyntedst thyself with sweet oyn tementes & wasshedst that with diverse sweet watrs & wentedst straight unto kings when thou sentedst thy messengers into far countries thorough which thing thou fellest unto hell. Thou labouredst in the multitude of thy noun ways/ and never thinkedste it is sufficient. Thou believed'st to have gotten that thy living thorough thy noun labour and policy so that thou shouldst never needed to have kared or to have asked it of me: but whom oughtedst thou to dread & fear after that thou haste broken promise with me? Thou regardedst not me/ thou called'st not me into thy mind: Thinkest thou that I will hold my peace/ as I have done hitherto so that thou needest not be a frayed of me? No verily/ but I shall rather disclose thy rightwiseness & thy works and declare how little they shall profit the Let them deliver the at thy need with whom thou art confedred/ but the wind shall first take a way all these thy helpers/ and vanity shall pluck them insunder: but they the trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy hill/ wherefore thus saith he. Make way & give room/ take away all obstacles & stumbling stocks in the way which leadeth unto my people. For thus speaketh he that dwelleth in the moste highest place for ever whose name is holy. I inhabit both the most highest and holiest place I dwell also with the contrite & homble spirited to refresh the minds of men dejected/ and to heal the broken hearts. For I am not wrath nor chide not always but I blow over a non my haterede/ & yet do I breathe in breath: I am wrath/ I smite/ I abhor & have indignation at a man given all to his own lusts/ and especially when he goeth fro my laws and followeth the studies/ counsels or thoughts of his own heart. But again/ I behold his ways/ & I heal him/ I bring him into the way again/ I restore him unto them whom he may comfort/ & to them also which desyerde him/ I create friendly conversation & loving communication one with another. I make peace & suernes both with them the dwell far & with these the dwell nigh saith the Lord & healer of his But the ungodly are like the wood sea called Euripus which can never rest her waters continually troubled with slime & stinking mud/ and even so have the ungodly never rest nor peace saith my God.   

The lviij Chap.  
THou therefore/ whosoever thou art/ being a very true preacher/ se that thou kryest with open mouth/ & beware thou ceasest not: lyftup thy voice like a trumpet/ and tell my people their sins/ tell the house of jacob their offences. For they apere to seek me beselye by their disputations and would be seen te know my ways as folk that would be seen to work rightwiseness & not to forsake the pleasures of their god They move me questions whether my judgments are just in rightwy smakinge/ & are full busy to contend and dispute with god saying: Wherefore do we fast when thou lokeste not upon us? we chasten ourselves & yet thou wiltnot know it Behold (saith the lord again to them) when ye fast/ yet abide your own will and lusts still with you/ for yower fast notwithstanding/ yet do you constrain and vex your debtors/ lo/ you fast to th'intent you might apply your suits & strifes and to smite orto entreat your condemned debtors more cruelly/ ye fast not now a days to please god & that your voice might be hard of him above. Think you that I love this manner of fasting/ whereby men at prescript and certain days chasten their selves going with they heads writhe down like an hook/ strewed with ashes/ & clothed with sack? wilt thou say that this manner of fast and that upon this or that appointed day is more accept to the lord? but rather even contrary wise? This manner of fasting do I allow & love: forgive thy debtors wrapped in shrewd bargoyns unlose their violente obligations/ set them at liberty whom thou castedst in to presone for debt and break of from them all manner of bonds & yokes. Divide out thy meat & drink to the hungry & thirsty/ and the poor way faeringe stranger lead thou home into thy house/ when thou seest● the naked cloth him & turn not thy face from thy noun flesh. Then shall thy light brekeforthe as fresh as the morning/ & thy health shall spryngforth right soon. Then shall these dedesbe clear testimonies of thy rightwiseness & the glorious majesty of the lord shall embrace the Then shalt thou call upon him/ & the lord shall hear ye/ thou shalt cry/ & he shall answer/ lo/ here at thy hand. If thou now puttest of thy burdens/ & holdest thy finger's/ & ceasseste to speak ungodly / if thou offerest thyself to the hungry & refresshest the poor afflict soul: then shall thy light springeforth in derkenese/ & thy darkness shallbe like the midday/ ye the lord shall direct the always/ he shall satisfy the desires of thy mind & confirm that in goodness. Also thou shalt be lyk a fresh watered garden/ and as the rivers whose veins never cease running. Places of long time not inhabited thou shalt occupy & dwell upon and shalt sterup their foundations for the generations to cum And then shalt thou be called the repayerer of broken places & the mender of the way of the Sabbat day. If thou refraynest thy foot from the Sabbat day/ that is to say if thou dost not thy noun pleasure & will in my holy day/ then shalt thou becalled unto the joyful holy & glorious rest of the lord/ If thou honour'st him (I say) so that thou neither dost thy noun ways nor seekest thy noun will/ nor speakest thy noun words: then shalt thou delight in the lord which shall karye ye up above the highest places of th'earth and shall nouresshe ye up in the heritage of thy faith jacob: for so have the lord promised with his own mouth.   

The lix Chap  
Behold/ the lords hand is not so cut of that he may no more save: neither his ears so dulled that he may not hear: but it is your inites the make this great division between you & your god/ and your sins make him to hide his face from you to th'intent he would not hear. For your hands are polluted with blood & your fingers embrwed with sin/ your lips speak lies/ & your tongue painteth mischief Noman calleth in rightwiseness for his advocate in the law/ noman judgeth faithfully but every man leaneth to vanity adlyes/ studieth phantasyes/ conceiveth laborious business & bringeth forth mischief/ they sit hatching the kocatryces eggs weaving the spider's web/ & he that eateth of their eggs shall die/ but if he tread them under his feet the eserpent shall yet brekeforth/ of they web they is made no cloth/ so that with they own works they may not cover thē●elf for they are mischievous even works of robbery & stealth shalt thou find in their hands/ their feet run to do mischief/ & swiftly they haste them to shed innocent blood/ their study & thoughtis are abominable: destruction & death draw they which them wheresoever they become but the way of peace they know not/ ther is no eqite in their process/ they have so depraved their paths that every man that passeth through them shall know no peace/ wherefore fulfarre is eqite exiled from us and rightwiseness will not come nigh us: we looked & tarried for light/ & lo what darkness is ther? we waited for the morning/ but lo we walk in the dark mid night we go groping by the walls like blind men we grope as though our eyes were putoute/ we stumble at none days as though we wandered in the dark morning like old men half deed stomblinge at they graves: we groan like bears & morn continually like douves: we look for eqite but she appeareth no where/ we tarry for health but it is very far from us/ & that because our wickedness is so increased before thee & that we are so sinful/ for our transgressions we deny not/ & our sins we knowledge/ that is to say we are sinners we are false liars against the lord/ we have forsaken our god/ and turned our backs to him/ we have blasphemed him/ & followed strange god's/ we have conceived evil in our hearts & occupied our minds about false words & deeds. Wherefore equity hath forsaken us and rightwiseness standeth all a far moornynge● for truth is fallen down yn the streutes & equity is locked up/ ye truth is cruelly handled/ & he that forsaketh evil is torn in peses/ these things when the lord saw/ he was not content that there was no equity/ & he saw that theridamas was non that would make intercession & it beruwed him/ & he turned him self unto his own power/ & cleaved to his rightwiseness/ & a non he did upon himself rightwiseness as a cote of mail & put health upon his head in stead of anhelmet/ he did upon him vengeance for his vesture and koverd himself with indignation lyk as with a cloak/ & there was such hatred as is w●nt to be between two enemies revenging either other/ this armed he him self to reward the cruel tyrants/ wherefore they shall fear the name of the lord from the west & his majesty from the east/ for he shall come like a violent flood which the lord hath steredup with a wind: but unto Zion & then which being of the seed of jacob repent themself & turn from their wickedness he shall come a redeemer saith the lord. For I myself saith the lord shall make this convenant & promise with them that is to say. My spirit which whom I shall instruct ye/ & my words which I shall put into thy mouth shall not fall from thy mouth neither from the mouths of thy children/ nor from the mouth of their childer's' children here after into everlasting saith the lord.   

The lx Chap  
Arise therefore & haste that for thy light is come/ & the majesty of the lord shall shine upon ye/ behold/ for whiles the dark clouds cover th'earth & the people/ the lord shall shine over the & his glorious majesty shall apere with the. Then shall the gentiles comeforth unto thy light/ and the kings shall walk unto the brightness that springethforth with thee: lift up thy eyes roundaboute the & behold/ all these are gatherde together & come to thee/ even from far countries/ sons shall come to ye & daughters shall flee unto the on every side/ then shalt thou perceive & be in prosperity/ thy heart shall rejoice & be opened wide/ even when the great multitude of the sea shallbe converted unto ye/ that is when the infinite number of the gentles shall come unto thee/ abundance of camels shall cover thee/ Dromedares of Madian & Epha shall cloy ye/ all the Sabens shall come bringing gold & incense giving praise to the lord/ all the wild beasts of Cedar shall come together to thee/ the wether's of Nebaioth shall do the eseruice/ they shallbe offered at the altar which I have chosen & at the house of my majesty which I have magnified/ lo who are these the come fleeing like cloudis & doves to their wyndous? also the eylands shallbe gathered to me/ the ships of the sea shall come together to karye their children to the from far countries with their gold & silver to the honour of the lord thy god that maketh holy Israel & magnifyethe ye/ Also strange children shall build thy walls and their kings shall minister to thee/ for when I was angry I smyt ye/ & when it pleaseth me I will have mercy on thee. Thy gates shall stand open day & night/ they shall never be shut that the multitude of the gentiles might come to the & their kings be brought in/ for both the gentiles & the people or kingdoms the will not serve thee/ shall peresshe & be smitten down with sword/ even the riches of Libani shallbe brought unto that as her Cypress trees/ pine trees/ & cedars all together a like shall garneshe the place of my sanctuary/ for I shall make the place of my feet right honourable/ & they the sometime scourged that shall cum now hombly & lowly to ye/ & they that spoke evil upon the shall faldowne at thy feet & call the the city of the lord even the holy. Zion of Israel furthermore where as thou wast forsaken & so odious that noman would go thorough ye/ now shall I make the clear & goodly for ever/ & right glad thorout all ages. Thou shalt souke the milk of the gentiles & be nouresshed at the breasts of kings/ and know that I am the lord/ thy saviour & the strong avenger of Israel/ for thy brass I shall give the gold/ & for yearn silver/ for wood brass & for stone yearn/ I shall give the peace to be thy rulers & rightwiseness shallbe thy lawyers. Ther nethr robbery nor extorsion be hardof any more in thy costs/ neither destruction nor loss with in thy region/ thy walls shallbe called health/ & thy gates named praise/ The son shall no more be thy servant to minister to the light be day neither the moan be night/ but the lord shall be thy continual light & thy god shallbe thy clearness/ thy son shall no more go down nor thy moan anymore be hid/ for the lord shallbe thy perpetual light/ & thy mourning days shall have an end and be matched with gladness/ all thy people shallbe innocent & just & possess the land for ever/ they shallbe the flower of my plantinges & my noun handy work in whom I will glory/ the lest shall increase into a thousand & the last shall grow into a right strong nation/ I the lord shall speed this thing in her tyme.   

The lxi Chap.  
The spirit of the lord god is with me/ for the lord hath anointed me & hath sent me to preach to the meek afflict in heart/ to bindeup & to heal the wounds of the broken in heart/ to sheweforth deliverance to these that are in captivity/ to open the presone to them the arin bonds/ to publesshe the time of grace & remission appointed of the lord & the time wherein our god willbe avenged of his adversaries: to comfort all the mourn/ to give these the sorrow in Zion fayernes for ashes glad ointment for their sorrowing/ the joyful garment of thanks giving for their heavy mind/ that they might be called excellent in rightwiseness/ and a bud new sprung out to magnify the lord/ that they mought restore places desolate/ occupy old forlaten houses/ & build again destroyed cities & wild grounds of long time passed ye the alients mought stand & feed your flockis & strangers be your tylmen & vyneplanters/ & that you might be called the priests of the lord/ & the men mought call you the ministers of our god/ that you mought eat the substance of the gentiles & take your pleasures of their abundance for your great confusion & ignominy/ they shall rejoice to have like part with you/ to divide the rich heritage in their land/ that they might have gladness for a long season: for I am the lord that loveth equity & hate roberye/ ye although a man would brene it & offere it up to me/ also I shall make that their works shallbe done of true faith/ & I shall sin ite a ꝑperual bargain which them/ & their issue shallbe known of the gentiles/ & their posterity in the mids of the people/ all the see them shall know that they are the blessed sede of the lord: whrfor I joy exceedingly in the lord soul leapeth for joy in my God/ for he cloth me with the garments of the saving health & shall cover me with the mantle of innocency: I shallbe like a bridegroom comely arayede & like the bride richly apparelde in her ornaments/ for like as there the bringeth forth her sets & the garden her seeds: even so shall the lord god make rightwiseness & godly worship spring forth before all nations.   

The lxij Chapter  
Wherefore/ for Zions' sake I shall not rest/ & for jerusalems' pleasure I shall not cease until her rightwiseness be comforth & showed like the shining light & her saving health brenneth like a laumpe. For the gentiles shall see thy rightwiseness & all kings shall behold thy glory/ and shall call that be a new name which the mouth of the lord shall declare/ & thou shalt be like a beautiful crown in the hand of the lord/ & as a kings diadem in the hand of thy god: thou shalt no more be called the forsaken/ neither shall thy land be called anymore the desolated / But thou shaltbe called Hephziba that is to say my best beloved/ and thy land shallbe called Beula that is to say my wedded wife. For the lord is anambred on thee/ and thy land shallbe married to him thy very husband/ & as the youngman marrieth to him a maiden/ s● shall thy children be married unto the lord/ & as the bridegroom is joyous over the bride even so shall thy god be joyous upon the. Upon thy walls O jerusalez/ shall I set watch men which shall not cease day nor night preaching the lord. furthermore/ even you that are of the comen people shall not cease in no manner wise until Jerusalem be repayerde & till she be made the most praise worthy in all the earth. The lord hath sworn by his right-hand & by the strength of his arm that he will no more give thy wheat into meat for thy enymes/ neither thy sweet wine for the which thou hast sore sweat into drink for strange children: but they that gather it shall eat it also/ & give thanks to the lord: and they that gathr it together shall drink it also in the porches of my sanctuary. Stand aback & get ye a side which stand in the gates/ give room o prople prepare the way/ & take away all ftomblinge stones/ & set up a sign for the people: for behold the lord telleth forth these good tidings unto the uttermost parts of the earth. say ye daughters unto Zion: behold thy Saviowr is come. Behold he hath brought with him his riches/ and his noble acts go before him & they that shallbe redeemed of the Lord shallbe called the holy people/ and even thou shalt be called the greatly haunted populose city and thou shalt no more be called the forsaken.   

The lxiij Chap.  
THen shall it be said: who is this that cometh from Edom/ his clothes thus died with the red of Bozra? who is this that goth so mightily/ so comely in his cote armour? I am he (I tell you) that warneth & speaketh rightwiseness & am rich to save. wherefore than are thy garments so red and thy clothes so wet as though thou hadst trodden in the wine press? The wine press (I tell you) have I trodden all alone/ and of all the people was there not one with me: I trod/ I trod down my enemies in my fervent wrath so that they have thus sprinkled my clothes with their blood & have thus spotted all my garments. For the day of vengeance which I had conceived in my heart and the year wherein I would redeem is tone. I looked round about/ but there was not one helper/ I was destitute all hope/ but ther was not one that would sustain me: and then cleaved I to my noun arm and fervour which helped me/ and than I trod down the people in my wrath and bathed them so in my fury that their blood ran down upon the earth: The mercies of the lord I shall remenbre & give him thanks for all things which he hath give us/ that is to say for the innumerable goodness done to the house of Israel/ which of his mercy and goodness hath given it them/ for he said/ verily these men shallbe my people/ and these shallbe the children which shall not go out of kind For he was their Saviour/ and brought it so pass that in all their tribulution he would not suffer them to bescourged/ but would deliver them by his angel whom he sent these. And because he loved and pitied these/ he redeemed/ he defended and bore them up from the beginning of the time: but although they so rebelled & chafed his holy mind that he would be turned into their enemy & fight against them yet he remembered the time passed/ he remembered even Moses & his people how that he led them out from the sea like as the shepherd leadeth his flock/ and how he gave them his holy ghost/ he remembered how he led Moses by his glorious arm/ taking him by the right hand & dividinge the waters before them to get himself a name for ever/ he remembered how he led them thorough the depth & thorough the desert like as by an even and plain way/ that they stumbled not/ for the spirit of the lord directed them like the beasts that go in the field. So leddest thou thy people O god/ to get the a glorious name. Lokeforth therefore from heaven & from the holy habitation of thy majesty & behold/ how is it thus come to pass/ that thy zeal/ thy strength/ thy plenteous inter petye and soused mercy are so hardened against me? Thou art our father. Abraham knoweth not us neither Israel knoweth us: but it is thou lord that art our father and redeemer/ thy name is of ever. Wherefore (lord) haste thou led us from thy ways? hast thou hardened our hearts that we should not fear thee? bring us again into thy favour for thy promises sakes made to thy servants which are of the trybs of thy heritage. It was not long that thy holy people enjoyed thy sanctuary/ for our enemies destroyed and spoiled it/ and as for us we have been thy people even from the beginning of the world/ but as for them they knew the not for their god/ neither were thy called after thy name.   

The lxiiij Chapi.  
I Would thou wouldest cleve insondre heaven and come down that the hills mought melt away at thy presence even as against an hot fire and that the violent tyrants mought be set a fire as is water inflammedde with fire: that thy name mought be known unto thy enemies/ and these heathen mought tremble at thy presence. Descend (I say) with thy woundreful & unwont works unlooked for that these hills mought consume in thy sight: For from all times passed there was noman that would hear or take heed/ neither behold with his eyes these things which thou haste done for men waiting for thee: but thou alone (O god) thou helpest him that boldly followeth rightwiseness/ and socourste them that depend on the to go in thy ways. But lo/ thou art now angry because we are sinners and continue still in ower sins and there is not one self/ for we are all like an unclean thing and all ower rightwisnesses are like clothes polluted with menstrwe/ all we fall like leaves/ for ower iniquities take us away like the wind/ there is none that will call upon thy name or endeavour him self to hold thee/ wherefore thou hidest thy face from us and scourgest us for ower wickedness. Now therefore when it is so that thou art ower father/ and we are but clay: thou art unto us as a potter and all we are the works of thy hand. Be not so sore angry (Lord I beseech thee) neither remember our iniquities always/ but rather (I pray thee) consider all us to be thy people. Boholde/ the cities of thy holy land are turned into a wilderness. Zion is forsaken/ ye and even jerusalem is a desert/ our holy temple which was ower beutyful flower whereyn our fathers praised the is brentup/ and all ower pleasant places are turned into wildernesses. Wilt thou not (Lord) after all these things be entreated and bowed with prayer? wilt thou be still & scourge us so grevouslye?   

The .lxv. Chap.  
MEn shall seek me which now seek me not/ they shall find me that now seek me not/ unto whom I shall say anon/ lo/ lo/ I am here at your hand/ thus shall it be said upon these gentiles which yet call not on my name: for I have stretched forth my hands all this time passed unto a nation that believed not which goithe not the right way that is to say liveth not after my mind and pleasures/ which also never ceaseth to exasperate & to anger me even to my face offering their offerings in groves & woods & brenninge their incense upon altars made of stone/ they sit praying at tombs & shrines/ sleapinge all the night in churches full of images/ they eat hogs flesh & unclean pottage is in their ●●●hes: they say/ if thou comest nigh them touch me not lest I make the unclean/ these men shall smoke at my wrath & be set a fire to burn for eur. Behold/ these things are decreed in my presence that I should not forget them but give you your reward wherefore I shall lay your wickedness & the wickedness also of your fathers in your own bosoms (saith the lord) which brent their sacrifices upon muntains & blasphemed me in the hills: wherefore I shall meat out their iniq●tes again & turn them into their own bosoms. thus saith the lord/ as men will say to him that happeneth on an holy vine: pluck no grapis of this/ for it is holy: even so shall I do for my ●uants sakes because I would not destroy them all: but I shall bringforth a seed out of jacob & thinheritor of my hill out of juda/ that is to say my chosen shall possess it & my ministers shall dwell there: sarone shallbe filled with flockis & herds/ & the vale of Anchor shallbe layers for herds of my people that seek me but you have betrayed the lord & forgotten my holy hill/ you garnesshed an alter for the gods of Fortune/ & consecrated your offering to the god of treasure/ I shall therefore keep you in store as treasure for the sword/ that you mought all be smitdown with it because that when I called you/ ye would not answer/ & when I spoke/ ye would not hear/ but ye did evil in my sight & choosed those thigis which I hated. wherefore thus speaketh the lord. Lo my ●uants shall eat/ when ye shallbe full hungry. behold my ●uants shall drink/ when ye shallbe full thirsty: behold my ●uants shallbe glad when ye shall be ashamed. Lo/ my ●uants shall rejoice & sing even for the very health of their hartis but you shalkrye out for the very sorrow of your hearts & for anguish of mind: ye shall howl as hounds/ your name shall not be swornby among my chosen: for the lord shall slay you/ & call his ●uants by a nothr name. He that shallbe praised in the earth let him be praised in the true god/ & he that shall swear in the earth let him swear by the true lord for old enymytes shallbe forgotten & taken away (saith he) out of my sight/ for lo/ I shall make new heavens & a new earth & their shallbe no mention of the old/ neither shall they enymor ascend to men's hartis but these men shall rejoice & enjoy these that I shall make for ever/ for lo/ I shall make jerusalez right glad even from her very heart/ whose people shallbe joyful with whom I myself shallbe glad/ & merry with 〈◊〉 people/ there shall not be hard in hireny weeping or kryinge/ neither shall there be after this either infant or old man that have not their full days/ but the young man at an C. years shaldye/ & the transgressor of an C. years shallbe damned/ they shall build houses & inhabit them/ they shall plant wines & eat of their fruits/ they shall not edify for a nothr to dwell in it/ neither plant for a nothr to eat it/ but the life of my people & the works of their hands shallbe as fresh as the tree of life/ my chosen shall see many years & shall not labour in vain nor bring forth their fruit which trouble/ for they are the blessed seed of the lord & their issue shall abide with them/ & the time shall come that I will answer them before they call on me. I will hear them while they are yet but in conceiving their petition: the wolf & the lamb shall feed together/ the lion shall eat hay with the ox/ but the earth shallbe meat for the e ●pent/ there shallbe nomor trouble nor plague in all my holy hill saith the lord. c. 66  
THus saith the lord/ heaven is my seat & the earth is my foot stole/ where then shall this house stand which ye 〈◊〉 build me? & where is this place wherein Ishal rest? when my hands made all these thing is & they are reckoned among the things which are made saith the lord: but to whom shall I look? even to the humble in spirit which trembleth at my speech/ for he that slayeth an ox slayeth a man/ & he that slayeth a sheep hangeth a dog/ he that offereth to me anutwarde offering pleaseth me as well as to offer me swines blood/ he the incense me doth even a like thing as to praise & bless an idol/ but these men have chosen these things & their minds have delighted in these ways & abominations/ wherefore I shall even likewise chose out their skorners/ & those things that they feared I shall bring on their necks because that when I called/ noman would answer: & when I spoke noman would hear: but they did evil in my presence/ & choosed those things which I reprove. Hear the word of the lord ye the tremble & fear at his speech/ your brothrn which hate & abhor you because ye call on my name say/ let the lord magnify him self that we mought see your gladness/ but such men shall be confunded/ ye/ even now beginneth the voice of the lord (as concerning the destruction of the city & temple taking vengeance & rewarding his enemies) to be hard like the lamentation of a woman great with child before her pangs & labours cum when she is bringingforth a man child who hath hard such things? or who hath seen such things? do the earth bringforth all on a day? or are all folk borne at once as Zion conceiveth & bringethforth her children? do I destroy or do I not rather beget? do I not beget? & do I not make barren saith god? beg lad with Jerusalem & sing with her for joy all her lovers/ rejoice with her even from your hearts all her moorners: for ye shall souke & be satisfied at her teatis of consolation/ ye shall souke & be rep leneshed●xith her glorious plenteousness/ for thus spoke the lord/ Lo I shall lead forth peace to her like of loud/ & the power of the gentiles shall I ledeforth like a great rising water: ye shall souke therefore & be borne in her bosom/ & dansedupon her knees/ for I shall comfort you & even in Jerusalem shall you receive consolation as of a mother comforting her son: & when ye see this/ your hartis shall joy and your bones shall floureshe like a green plant/ & the lords ●uant shall praise his power/ & his enemies shall he threaten: For lo/ the lord shall come in fire/ & his chariets like a whirlwind with great fury/ to avenge in his wrath/ he shall come in the flame of fire/ for with fire & with his sword shall he judge every flesh: & his welbe loved slain for his sake shallbe encresed: but they the vowed to make theirself clean in groves/ & they that eat openly among them self hoggis flesh/ my se/ & sich o'their abominable uncleanness shallbe taken away altogether saith the lord: for I shall come to gathr together both evʳy nation & tongue th●ir studies & works: & they shall come & semi majesty. Also I shall give them a token & send some of my chosen to the gentles as to the Cylicks/ Lybes/ & Lydees which are noble archers: I shall send to italy & Grece & to the farthest eylands which yet h●rd not my preaching nor saw my glory & they shall preach my glory among the gentiles/ bringing all your brothrn from the multitude of the gentiles to be an oblation to the lord/ they shall bring them on horse/ in wagens & chariets/ on mules & in carts to Jerusalem my holy hill saith the lord no nothr wise than the children of Israel were wont to bring their oblations into the house of the lord in clean vessels/ & out of them shall I take some priests & levities saith the lord: for as this new heaven & earth which I shall make shall abide in my presence saith the lord: even so shall your seed & your name abide also/ & there shallbe perpetual feasts of the new moans & perpetual sabbath days/ & every flesh shall come to worship before me saith the lord: & they shall goforth to behold the karions of the sinners against me/ for the worm of them shall never die/ & their fire shall never be quenched/ & theish albe loathed of every flesh.  
The end of the prophecy of isaiah    

¶ Printed in Straszburg by Balthassat Beckenth in the year of our lord 1531. the ten day of may