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| [1]Then shal the righteous stande in great boldenesse before the face of such as haue dealt extremely with them, and taken away their labours. |
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| [2]When they see it, they shalbe vexed with horrible feare, and shal wonder at his health so farre beyonde all that they loked for. |
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| [3]And chaungyng their opinion with gronyng for the redresse of mynde, they shall say: This is he whom we sometyme had in derision, annd iested vpon. |
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| [4]We fooles thought his lyfe very madnesse, & his ende to be without honour: |
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| [5]But lo howe he is counted among the children of God, and his portion is among the saintes. |
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| [6]Therfore haue we erred from the way of trueth, the lyght of ryghteousnesse hath not shined vnto vs, and the sunne of vnderstandyng rose not vp vpon vs. |
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| [7]We haue weeryed our selus in the way of wickednesse and destruction, yea we haue gone through tedious desertes: but as for the way of the Lorde, we haue not knowen it. |
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| [8]What good hath pride done vnto vs? or what profite hath the pompe of riches brought vs? |
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| [9]All those thynges are passed away like a shadowe, and as a poste that hasteth by: |
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| [10]As a ship that passeth ouer the waues of the water, which when it is gone by the trace therof can not be founde, neither the path of it in the fluddes: |
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| [11]Or as a birde that fleeth through in the ayre, and no man can see any token where she is flowen, but only heareth the noyse of her wynges beatyng the lyght wynde, partyng the ayre through the vehemencie of her goyng, and fleeth on shakyng her wynges, wheras afterwarde no token of her way can be founde: |
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| [12]Or lyke as when an arrowe is shot at a marke, it parteth the ayre which immediatly commeth together agayne, so that a man can not knowe where it went through: |
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| [13]Euen so we in lyke maner assoone as we were borne, began immediatly to drawe to our ende, and haue shewed no token of vertue, but are consumed in our owne wickednesse. |
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| [14]Such wordes they that haue sinned speake in the hell: |
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| [15]For the hope of the vngodly is lyke a drye thistle floure that is blowe away with the wynde, like a thinne scumme that is scattered abrode with the storme, lyke as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with the wynde, and as the remembraunce of a straunger that taryeth but a day and then departeth. |
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| [16]But the ryghteous shall lyue foreuermore, their rewarde also is with the Lorde, and the care for them is with the hyghest. |
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| [17]Therfore shall they receaue a glorious kyngdome, and a beautifull crowne of the Lordes hande: for with his ryght hande shall he couer them, and with his arme shall he defende them. |
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| [18]His ielosie also shall take on harnesse, and he shall arme the creature to be reuenged of his enemies. |
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| [19]He shall put on ryghteousnesse for a brestplate, and take vnfaigned iudgement in steade of an helmet. |
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| [20]The inuincible shielde of equitie shall he take. |
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| [21]His fierse wrath shall he sharpen for a sworde, and the whole compasse of the worlde shall fyght with hym agaynst the vnwise. |
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| [22]Then shall the thunder boltes go ryght out of the lyghtnynges, and come as out of the well bent bowe of the cloudes to the place appoynted, |
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| [23]And as from an angry caster of stones, there shall fall thicke hayles, and the water of the sea shalbe wroth agaynst them, & the fluddes shall runne roughly together. |
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| [24]Yea a mightie wynde shall stande vp agaynst them, and a storme shall scatter them abrode: Thus vnrighteous dealyng shall bryng all the lande to a wildernesse, and wickednesse shall ouerthrowe the royal seates of the mightie. |
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