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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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The First Book of Clement
1Clem
[1]Why do the Heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vayne thing [No book]
[2]The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed [No book]
[3]Let vs breake [say they] their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs [No book]
[4]He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision [No book]
[5]Then wyll he speake vnto them in his wrath: and he wyll astonie them with feare in his sore displeasure [No book]
[6][Saying] euen I haue annointed [him] my kyng: vpon my holy hyll of Sion [No book]
[7]I wyll declare the decree, God sayde vnto me: thou art my sonne, this day I haue begotten thee [No book]
[8]Desire of me, and I wyll geue thee the heathen for thyne inheritaunce: and the vttermost partes of the earth for thy possession [No book]
[9]Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron: and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell [No book]
[10]Wherfore be you nowe wel aduised O ye kinges: be you learned ye [that are] iudges of the earth [No book]
[11]Serue ye God in feare: and reioyce ye with a trembling [No book]
[12]Kisse ye the sonne lest that he be angrye, and [so] ye perishe [from] the way, if his wrath be neuer so litle kindled: blessed are all they that put their trust in hym [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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