13 This wisdom have I feen also under the fun, and it feemed great unto me. 14 There was a little city, and few men within it: and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wife man, and he by his wifdom delivered the eity: yet no man remembred that fame poor man. 16 Then faid I, wifdom is better than ftrength nevertheless, the poor mans wifdom is defpiled, and his words are not heard. 17 The words of wife men are heard in quiet, more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. 18 Wifdom is better than weapons of war: but one finner destroyech much good. CHAP. X. 1 Obfervations of wisdom and folly. 16 of riot, 18 flothfulness, and money. DE Ead flies caufe the ointment of the apothecary to fend forth a Rinking favour: fo doth a little tolly him that is in reputation for wifdom and honour. 2 A wife mans heart is at his right hand; but a fools heart is at his left. 3 Yea, alfo when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wifdom faileth bim and he faith to every one that he is a fool. 4 If the spirit of the ruler rife up against thee, leave not thy place: for yielding pacifieth great offences. 5 There is an evil which I have feen under the fun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler. 6 Folly is fet in great dignity, and the rich fit in low place. 7 I have feen fervants upen horfes, and piluces walking asfervants upon the earth, 8 He that diggeth a pit, fhall fall into it and whofo breaketh an hedge, a ferpent fhall bite him. God judgetb all. 184 By much Rothfulness the building decayeth, and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. 199 A feaft is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money aniwereth all things. 20 Curfe not the king, no not in thy thought, and curfe not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air fhail carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. 1 Directions for charity. 7 Death in life. C Aft thy bread upon the waters: fer thou fhalt find it after many days. eight: for thou knowelt not what evil Give a portion to feven, and alfo te fhall be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they the tree fall toward the fouth, or toward empty themselves upon the earth: and if the north; in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. not fow; and he that regardeth the clouds, 4 He that obferveth the wind, fhall fhall not reap. of the fpirit, ner how the bones do grow the evening withold not thine hand: for- fant thing it is for the eyes to behold the joice in them all, yet let him remember 9 Whofo removeth ftones, fhall be hurt therewith and he that cleaveth wood, fhall be endangered thereby. 91 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not days of thy youth, and walk in the ways whet the edge, then must he put to more of thy heart, and in the fight of thine trength: but wisdom is profitable to di- eyes: but know thou, that for all thefe ment. things God will bring thee into judg rea. II Surely the ferpent will bite without enchantment, and a babler is no better. 12 The words of a wife mans mouth are gracious: but the lips of a fool will fwallow up himself. 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mifchievous madness. 14 A fool alfo is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be ; and what fhall be after him, who can tell him? 16 Wo to thee, O land, when king is a child, and thy princes' cat in the morning. heart, and put away evil from thy feth, 10 Therefore remove forrow from thy for childhood and youth are vanity. CHAP. XII. The Creator is to be remembred in due time. 8 The preachers care to edify. 13 The fear of God is the chief antidote of vanity. Rdays of thy youth, while the evil when come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt fay, I have no pleasure in Emember now thy Creator in the them. 2 While the fun, or the light, or the moon, or the ftars be not darkned, nor the 17 Bleffed art thou, Oland, when thy clouds return after the rain: 21n the day when the keepers of houfe ing is the fon of nobles, and thy princes fhall tremble, and the strong men fhall cum due feason, for strength and not for bow themselves, and the grinders ceafe, drunkenness. becaufe Chrift and. Chap. i, ii. because they are few, and thofe that look out of the windows be darkened, 4 And the doors fhall be fhut in the ftreets, when the found of the grinding is low, and he shall rife up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of mufick thall be brought low; 5 Alfo when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears fhall be in the way, and the almond tree fhall flourish, and the grafhopper fhall be a burden, and defire ihall fail: becaufe man geeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. 6 Or ever the filver cord be loofed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then fhall the duft return to the earth as it was: and the fpirit fhall return unto God who gave it. bis charch. 8 Vanity of vanities, faith the preg cher; all is vanity. 9And moreover, because the preacher was wife,he ftill taught the people knowledge: yea, he gave good heed, and fought out, and fet in order many proverbs. to The preacher fought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. 11 The words of the wife are as goads, & as nails faftned by the mafters of affemblies, which are given from one shepherd. 12 And further by thefe, my fen, be admonished: ofmaking many bookst bere isno end. & much fudy is a weariness of felh 13 Let us hear the conclufion of the whole matter, Fear God, & keep his commandments: for thisis whole duty of man. 14 For God fhall bring every work inte judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. ་ The SONG of SOLOMON. CHA P. I. 1 The churches love unto Cbrif. 5 Sbe confelfeth ber deformity, and prayetb to be directed to bis flock 8 Cbrift diretetb ber to the shepherds tents. T He Song of fongs, whichis Solomons. 3 Because of the favouref thy good eintments: thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. 4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the k ng hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 13 A bundle of myrrhe is my well beloved unto me, he fhall lie all night betwixt my breafts. 14 My beloved is unto me as a clufter of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love, behold, thou art fair, thou baft doves cyes. 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleafant: alfo our bed is green. 17 The beams of our houfe are cedar, and our rafters of fir. I am black, but comely, O ye daugh- I ters of Jerufalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Leek not upon me, becaufe I am black, becaufe the fun hath looked upon me: my mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard havel not kept. 7 Tell me, O thou whom my foul loveth, where thou feedeft, where thou makeft thy flock to reft at noon: for why ihould be as one that turneth afide by the flocks of thy companion? 8 If thou knew not, O thou faireft among women, go thy way forth by the ftootsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents. 9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horfes in Pharaohs chariots. se Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. We will make the borders of gold, with ftuds of filver. 129 While the king fetteth at his table, my spikenard fendeth forth ffmell thereof. С НА Р. II. The mutual love of Chrift and bis ebureb. 8 The hope, 10 and calling of the church. 14 Cbrifts care of the church, 16 The profellion of the church, her faith and bope. Am the rofe of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys 2 As the lily among thorns, fo is my love among the daughters. 3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, fo is my beloved among the fons. I fat down under his fhadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my tafte. 4 He brought me to the banquetinghoufe, and his banner over me was love. 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am fick of love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. 7 I charge you, Oye daughters of Jerufalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye ftir not up, nor awake my love, till he pleafe. 8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he ftandeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, fhewing himself through the letters. 1 My beloved fpake, and faid unto me: Rife up, my love, my fair one, and come away. The churches bape Solomons Song. and victory. TT For lo, the winter is paft, the rain is B hold, thou art fair, my love, behold, over, and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of the finging of birds is come, & the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 13 The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arife, my love, my fair one, and come away. 14 O my deve, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the fecret places ofthe itairs, let me fee thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for fweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes that fpoil the vines: for our vines bave tender grapes. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lillies. 17 Until the day break, and the fhadows flee away: turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe, or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. CHAP. III. The church ber fight and victory in temptation: 6 The chur ab glorietb in Chrift. Y night on my bed I fought him whom Bmy out loveth: I fought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rife now, and go about the city, in the streets, and in the broad ways I will feek him whom my foul loveth: 1 fought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city, found me to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my foul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I paffed from them, but I found him whom my foul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mothers houfe, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 5 I charge you. Oye daughters of Jerufalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye ftir not up, nor awake wy love, till he pleafe. 6Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of fmoke, perfumed with myrrhe,and frankincenfe, with all powders of the merchant? Behold, his bed which is Solemons, threefcore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Ifrael. 8 They all hold fwords, being expert in war: every man bath his fword upon his thigh, becaufe of fear in the night. 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. To He made the pillars thereof of filver, the botton thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple; the midft thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerufelem. I Go forth, Oye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his efpoufals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. • CHA P. IV. 1 Chrift fetteth forth the graces of the arch: 8 Hesbewetb bis love to her. thou art fair, thou haft doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. 2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even thorn, which came up from the washing whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. 3 Thy lips are like a thread of fearlet, & thy fpeech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4 Thy neck is like the tower of David, builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all fhields of mighty men. 5 Thy two breafts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among lillies. 6 Until the day break, and the fhadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrhe, and to the hill of frankincense. 7 Thou art all fair, my love, there is no pot in thee. 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my fpoufe, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir, and Hermon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 9 Thou haft ravifhed my heart, my fifter, my poufes thou haft ravifhed my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck: 10 How fair is thy love, my fifter, my fpoule! how much better is thy love than wine! and the fmell of thine ointments than all spices! 11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the hony-comb: hony and milk are under thy tongue, and the fmell of thy garments is like the fmell of Lebanon. 12 A garden enelofed is my fifter, my fpoufe: a fpring fhut up,a fountain fealed. 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleafant fruits, camphire with fpikenard," 14 Spikenard and faffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincenfe, myrrhe and aloes, with all the chief fpices. 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and ftreams from lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind, and come thou fouth, blow upon my garden, that the fpices thereof may flow out let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. CHAP. V. Chrift awaketh the churchwith bis calling. 2 The church baving a taste ofChrifts love is fick of love:9 A defcription of Chrift by bis graces. Am come into my garden, my fifter, my fpoufe; I have gathered my myrrhe with my fpice, I have eaten my hony-comb with my hony, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. 2 I fleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, Saying, Open to me, my fifter, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. Chap. vi, vii. The cburebes love 31 have put off my coat, how fhall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how Thall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 5 rofe up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrhe, and my fingers with fweet fmelling myrrhe, upon the handles of the lock. 6 I opned to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my foul failed when he fpake: I fought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen that went about the city, found me, they fmote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me. 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerufalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am fick of love. 9 What is thy beloved more than anosber beloved, O thou faireft among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou doft fo charge us? le My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefeft among ten thousand. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly fet. 13 His cheeks are as a bed of fpices, as fweet flowers: his lips like lillies dropping fweet smelling myrrhe. 14 His hands are as gold rings fet with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with fapphires. 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, fet upon fockets of fine gold: his counteance is as Lebanon, excellent as cedars. 16 His mouth is molt fweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerufalem. CHAP. VI. 1 The church profeffetb ber faith in Chrift. 4 Chrif sheweth the graces of the sburch 10 and his love towards ber. Chrift defcribed 8 There are three fcore queens, and fourfeore concubines, and virgins without number. 9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; fhe is the only one of her mother, the is the choice one of her that bare her: the daughters faw her, and bleffed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 10 Who is the that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear asthe fun, and terrible as an army with banners? II I went down into the garden of nuts to fee the fruits of the valley, and to fee whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. 12 Or ever I was aware, my foul made me like the chariots of Aminadib. 13 Return, return, O Shulamite, return, teturn, that we may look upon thee: what will ye fee in the Shulamite? as it were the company of two armies. HAP. VII. A further defeription of the church ber graces. 10 The cbureb profeffeth ber faith and defire. Ow How beautiful are thy feet with fhoes O princes daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning, workman. 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet.which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat, fet about with lillies. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory, thine eyes like the fish-pools in Hefhbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim thy nefe is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damafcus. 5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. 6 How fair and how pleafant art thou,O love, for delights! 7 This thy ftature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breafts to clusters of grapes. 8 I faid, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now alio thy breafts fhall be as clusters of W Hither is thy beloved gone, O thou the vine, and the smell of thy nofe like faireft among women? whither is thy beloved turned afide? that we may feek him with thee. 2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of fpices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 31 am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. 4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerufalem, terrible as an army with banners. 1 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a #ock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep, which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. 7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks apples; 9 And the roof of thy mouthlike the best wine, for my beloved, that goeth down fweetly, caufing the lips of thofe that are. afleep, to speak. 10 I am my beloveds, and his defire is towards me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field: let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us fee if the vine flouri fh, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. 13 The mandrakes give a fmell, and at our gates are all manner of pleafant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. CHAP. CHAP. VIII. The love of the church to Chrift. 6 The vebemency of love. 8 The calling of the Gentiles. 14The church prayeth for Chrifts coming. Loves vebemency. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the fubftance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 84 We have a little fifter, and she hath no breafts: what fhall we do for our fifter, in the day when the fhall be spoken for? That thou wert as my brother that fucked the breafts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kifs thee, yea, I should not be defpifed. If the be a wall, we will build upon her 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee a palace of filver and if the be a door, we into my mothers houfe: who would in- will enclose her with boards of cedar. ftruct me: I would cause thee to drink of fpiced wine, of the joice of my pomegra Date. 3 His left hand bould be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. Icharge you, O daughters of Jetufalem, that ye ftir not up, nor awake my love until he pleafe. 5(Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?) I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth, there the brought thee forth that bare thee. 6 Set me as a feal upon thine heart, as a feal upen thine arm: for love is ftrong as death, jealoufy is cruel as the grave the coals thereof are coals of fire, which bath a moft vehement fame. 10 I am a wall, and my breafts like towers: then was I in his eyes, as one that found favour. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamen, he let out the vineyard unto keepeis: every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of filver. 12 My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou, o Solomon, must have a thoufand, and thole that keep the fruit thereof, two hundred. 13 Thou that dwelleft in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: caufe me to hear it. 14 Make hatte, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of fpices. The BOOK of the Prophet ISAIAH. CHAP. I. Ifaiabscomplaint ofJudab. 10 Heupbraid etb their fervice.36 He exberteth to repen tanes, with promises and threatnings. T He vifion of Ifaiah the fon of Amoz, which he faw concerning Judah and Jerufalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hézekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth for the LORD hath fpoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled againit me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the afs his mafters erib; but Ifrael doth not know, my people doth not confider. 4 Ah finful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evil doers, children that are corrupters, they have forfaken the LORD, they have provoked the holy One of Ifrael unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why fhould ye be ftricken any more ye will revolt more and more; the whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the fole of the foot even unto the head: there is no found nefs in it; but wounds, and bruifes, and putrifying fores: they have not been clofed, neither bound up,neither melified with ointment. 7 Your country is defolate, your cities art burnt with fire: your land, ftrangers devour it in your prefence, and it is defolate as overthrown by ftrangers. 8 And the daughter of Zien is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of sucumbers, as a belieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very fmall remnant, we thould have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. To Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpofe is the multitude of your facrifices unto me? faith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed bealts, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts ? 13 Bring no more vain oblations, incense is an abomination unto me, the new moons and fabbaths, the calling of affemblies I cannot away with, it is iniquity, even the folemn meeting. 14 Your new moons, and your appointed feats my foul bateth: they are a trouble unto me, I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye fpread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not bear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wafh ye, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, ceafe to do evil, 17 Learn to do well, feek judgment, relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reafon together, faith the LORD: though your fins be asfcarlet,they fhall be aswhite asínow; thoughthey be red like crimson, they fhall be as wool. |