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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
Bishop
The Second Book of Clement
2Clem
[1] (18:1a) I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength [No book]
[2](18:1b) God is my stony rocke & my fortresse, and my delyuerer: my Lorde, my castell in whom I wyll trust, my buckler, the horne of my saluation, & my refuge [No book]
[3](18:2) I wyll call vpon God, who is most worthy to be praysed: so I shall be safe from myne enemies [No book]
[4](18:3) The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare [No book]
[5](18:4) The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me [No book]
[6](18:5) But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God, and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde: he hearde my voyce out of his temple, and my crye came before his face, euen vnto his eares [No book]
[7](18:6) The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth [No book]
[8](18:7) In his anger a smoke ascended vp: and a fire out of his mouth dyd cosume, and euery cole therof dyd set a fire [No book]
[9](18:8) He bowed the heauens also, and he came downe: and it was darke vnder his feete [No book]
[10](18:9) He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde [No book]
[11](18:10) For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre [No book]
[12](18:11) His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng [No book]
[13](18:12) God also thundred out of heauen: and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde, haylestones, and coles of fire [No book]
[14](18:13) He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them [No book]
[15](18:14) And the bottomes of waters appeared, and the foundations of the rounde worlde were discouered at thy chidyng, O God: at the blast of the breath of thine anger [No book]
[16](18:15) He hath sent downe from aboue to fetch me: he hath taken me out of many waters [No book]
[17](18:16) He hath deliuered me from my strong enemie: and from them which hate me, for they were to stout for me [No book]
[18](18:17) They preuented me in the day of my trouble: but God was vnto me a sure stay [No book]
[19](18:18) He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie: he brought me foorth, because he had a fauour vnto me [No book]
[20](18:19) God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me [No book]
[21](18:20) Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God [No book]
[22](18:21) For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me [No book]
[23](18:22) And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse [No book]
[24](18:23) Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght [No book]
[25](18:24) With the holy thou wylt be holy: with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect [No book]
[26](18:25) With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde [No book]
[27](18:26) For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude [No book]
[28](18:27) Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght [No book]
[29](18:28) For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men: and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall [No book]
[30](18:29) The way of the Lorde is a perfect way, the worde of God is tryed in the fire: he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym [No book]
[31](18:30) For who is a Lorde besides God: or who hath any strength besides our Lorde [No book]
[32](18:31) It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne [No book]
[33](18:32) He hath made my feete lyke Hartes feete: and he hath set me vp on hygh [No book]
[34](18:33) He hath taught my handes to fyght: and myne armes to breake a bowe of steele [No book]
[35](18:34) Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased [No book]
[36](18:35) Thou hast made me roomth inough for to go on: so that my feete haue not slypt [No book]
[37](18:36) I haue pursued myne enemies and onertaken them: neither dyd I returne backe vntyll I had destroyed them [No book]
[38](18:37) I smote them downe, and they are not able to aryse: they haue taken such a fall vnder my feete [No book]
[39](18:38) Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me [No book]
[40](18:39) Thou hast geuen me myne enemies neckes: and I haue destroyed them that hated me [No book]
[41](18:40) They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them [No book]
[42](18:41) I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates [No book]
[43](18:42a) Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me [No book]
[44](18:42b) assoone as they hearde of me, they obeyed me [No book]
[45](18:43) Children of a straunger haue made a lie vnto me: the heartes of the children of a straunger hath fayled them, and they feared in their [strong] holdes [No book]
[46](18:44) God lyueth, and he [is] my strength most worthy of blisse: and the Lorde of my saluation ought to be magnified [No book]
[47](18:45) It is God that hath geuen me power to take auengeaunce: and he hath subdued the people vnder me [No book]
[48](18:46) It is he that is the aucthour of my deliuerie from myne enemies: and he hath set me vp aboue them that rose agaynst me, he hath ridde me from the wicked man [No book]
[49](18:47) For this cause I wyll acknowledge thee O God among the gentiles: and syng psalmes vnto thy name [No book]
[50](18:48) Who hath wonderfull oft deliuered his kyng: and he hath done mercifully vnto Dauid his annoynted, and vnto his seede for euermore [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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