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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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Epistle to the Laodiceans (Latin)
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[1] O ye that consult together, pronounce ye truely the thing that is iust? O ye sonnes of men iudge you according to equitie [No book]
[2]Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth [No book]
[3]The vngodly are straungers euen from their mothers wombe: assoone as they be borne, they go astray and speake a lye [No book]
[4](58:4a) They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares [No book]
[5](58:4b) and wyll not heare the voyce of charmers, though he be neuer so skilfull in charming [No book]
[6](58:5) Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God [No book]
[7](58:6) Let them be dissolued as into water, let them come to naught of them selues: and when they shoote their arrowes, let them be as broken [No book]
[8](58:7) Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne [No book]
[9](58:8) As a greene thorne [kindled with fyre, goeth out] before your pottes be made whot: euen so let a furious rage bring him to naught [No book]
[10](58:9) The righteous wyll reioyce when he seeth the vengeaunce: he wyll washe his foote steppes in the blood of the vngodly [No book]
[11](58:10) And euery man shall say, veryly there is a rewarde for the righteous: doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth [No book]
Source: studybible.org
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