1VVOE to thee Babylon & Asia, woe to thee AEgypt, and Syria.stylus2Gird yourselues with sackclothes and shirtes of heare, & mourne for your children, & be sorie: because your destruction is at hand.stylus3The sword is sent in vpon you, and who is he that can turne it away?stylus4Fire is sent in vpon you, and who is he that can quench it?stylus5Euiles are sent in vpon you, and who is he that can repel them?stylus6Shal anie man repel the lion being hungrie in the woode, or quench the fire in stubble, forthwith when it beginneth to burne?stylus7Shal anie man repel the arrow shot of a strong archer?stylus8Our strong Lord sendeth in euiles, and who is he that can repel them?stylus9Fire came forth from his wrath, and who is he that can quench it?stylus10He wil lighten, who shal not feare, he wil thunder, and who shal not be afrayed?stylus11Our Lord wil threaten, and who shal not vtterly be destroyed before his face?stylus12The earth hath trembled, and the fundations thereof, the sea tosseth vp waues from the depth, and the floudes of it shal be destroyed, and the fishes thereof at the face of our Lord, and at the glorie of his powre:stylus13because his right hand is strong which bendeth the bow, his arrowes be sharpe that are shot of him, they shal not misse, when they shal begine to be shot into the endes of the earth.stylus14Behold euiles are sent, and they shal not returne til they come vpon the earth.stylus15The fire is kindled and it shal not be quenched, til it consume the fundations of the earth.stylus16For as the arrow shot of a strong archer returneth not, so shal not the euils returne backe, that shal be sent vpon the earth.stylus17Woe is me, woe is me: who shal deliuer me in those dayes?stylus18The beginning of sorrowes and much mourning, the beginning of famine and much destruction. The beginning of warres and the potestates shal feare, the beginning of euiles and al shal tremble.stylus19In these what shal I doe, when the euils shal come?stylus20Behold famine, and plague, and tribulation, and distresse are sent al as scourges for amendment,stylus21and in al these they wil not conuert themselues from their iniquities, neither wil they be alwayes mindful of the scourges.stylus22Behold, there shal be good cheape victuals vpon the earth, so that they may thinke that peace is directly coming toward them, and then shal euiles spring vpon the earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.stylus23For by famine manie that inhabit the earth shal dye, and the sword shal destroy the rest that remained aliue of the famine,stylus24and the dead shal be cast forth as dung, and there shal be none to comfort them. For the earth shal be left desert, and the cities therof shal be throwen downe.stylus25There shal not be left a man to til the ground and to sow it.stylus26The trees shal yeeld fruites, and who shal gather them?stylus27The grape shal become ripe, & who shal tread it? For there shal be great desolation to places.stylus28For a man shal desire to see a man, or to heare his voyce.stylus29For there shal be leaft ten of a citie, and two of the field that haue hid themselues in thicke woodes, and cliffes of rockes.stylus30As there are left in the oliuet, and on euerie tree, three of foure oliues.stylus31Or as in a vinyeard when it is gathered there are grapes left by them, that diligently search the vineyard:stylus32so shal there be left in those dayes three or foure, by them that search their houses in the sword.stylus33And the earth shal be left desolate, and the fildes thereof shal waxe old, & the wayes thereof, and al the pathes thereof shal bringforth thornes, because no man shal passe by it.stylus34Virgins shal mourne hauing no bridegromes, wemen shal mourne hauing no husbandes, their daughters shal mourne hauing no helpe:stylus35their bridegromes shal be consumed in battel, and their husbandes be destroyed in famine.stylus36But heare these thinges, and know them ye seruantes of our Lord.stylus37Behold the word of our Lord, receiue it: beleue not the goddes of whom our Lord speaketh.stylus38Behold the euiles approch, and slacke not.stylus39As a woman with childe when shee bringeth forth her child in the ninth moneth, the houre of her deliuerance approching, two or three howres before, paines come about her wombe, and the infants coming out of her wombe, they wil not tarrie one moment.stylus40So the euiles shal not slacke to come forth vpon the earth, and the world shal lament, and sorowes shal hold it round about.stylus41Heare the word, my people: prepare yourselues vnto the fight, & in the euiles so be ye as strangers of the earth.stylus42He that selleth as if he should flee, and he that byeth as he that should lose it.stylus43He that playeth the marchant, as he that should take no fruite: and he that buildeth as he that should not inhabite.stylus44He that soweth, as he that shal not reape: so he also that pruneth a vinyeard, as if he should not haue the vintage.stylus45They that marie so as if they should not get children, & they that marie not, so as if were widowes.stylus46Wherfore they that labour, labour without cause:stylus47for foreners shal reape their fruites, & shal violently take their goodes, and ouerthrow their houses, and lead theire children captiue, because in captiuitie, and famine they beget their children.stylus48And they that play the marchantes by robrie, the longer they adorne their cities and houses, and their possessions and persons:stylus49so much the more wil I be zealous toward them, vpon their sinnes, sayth our Lord.stylus50As a whore enuieth an honest & very good woman:stylus51so shal iustice hate impietie when she adorneth herselfe, and accuseth her to her face, when he shal come that may defend him that searcheth out al vpon the earth.stylus52Therefore be not made like to her, nor to her workes.stylus53For yet a little whyle & iniquitie shal be taken away from the earth, & iustice shal reigne ouer you.stylus54Let not the sinner say he hath not sinned: because he shal burne coales of fire vpon his head, that sayth I haue not sinned before our Lord God and his glorie.stylus55Behold our Lord shal know al the workes of men, and their inuentions, & their cogitations, and their hartes.stylus56For he sayd: Let the earth be made, and it was made: let the heauen be made, & it was made.stylus57And by his worde the starrs were made, & he noweth the number of the starres.stylus58Who searcheth the depth and the treasures therof: who hath measured the sea, & capacitie therof.stylus59Who hath shut vp the sea in the midest of waters, & hath hanged the earth vpon the waters with his word.stylus60Who hath spred heauen as it were a vault, ouer the waters he hath founded it.stylus61Who hath put fountaines of waters in the desert, and lakes vpon the toppes of mountaines, to send forth riuers from the high rocke to watter the earth.stylus62Who made man & put his hart in the midds of the bodie, and gaue him spirit, life and vnderstanding.stylus63And the inspiration of God omnipotent that made al thinges, and searcheth al hid thinges, in the secretes of the earth.stylus64He knoweth your inuention, and what you thinke in your hartes sinning, and willing to hide your sinnes.stylus65Wherfore our Lord in searching hath searched al your workes, and he wil put you al to open shame,stylus66and you shal be confounded when your sinnes shal come forth before men, and the iniquities shal be they, that shal stand accusers in that day.stylus67What wil you doe? or how shal you hide your sinnes before God and his Angels?stylus68Behold God is the Iudge, feare him. Cease from your sinnes, and now forget your iniquities to doe them anie more, & God wil bring you out, and deliuer you from al tribulation.stylus69For behold the heate of a great multitude is kindled ouer you, and they shal take certaine of you by violence, & shal make the slaine to be meate for idols.stylus70And they that shal consent vnto them, shal be to them in derision, and in reproch, and in conculcation.stylus71For there shal be place against places, and against the next cities great insurrection vpon them that feare our Lord.stylus72They shal be as it were madde sparing no bodie, to spoyle and waste yet them that feare our Lord.stylus73because they shal waste and spoyle the goodes, and shal cast them out of their houses.stylus74Then shal appeare the probation of mine elect, as gold that is proued by the fire.stylus75Heare be beloued, sayth our Lord: Behold the dayes of tribulation are come: and out of them I wil deliuer you.stylus76Doe not feare, nor stagger, because God is your guide.stylus77And he that kepeth my commandmentes, and precepts, sayth our Lord God: Let not your sinnes ouerway you, nor your inquities be aduanced ouer you.stylus78Woe to them that are entangled with their sinnes, and are couered with their iniquities, as a filde is entangled with the wood, & the path therof couered with thornes, by which no man passeth, & it is closed out, & cast to be deuoured of the fire.stylus
